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Marzouki encourages patience in assessing Tunisian revolution’s success

The Daily Princetonian

Marzouki encourages patience in assessing Tunisian revolution’s success

Angela Wang

Post-revolution turmoil in the Middle East is a natural effect of creating new democracies, not a sign that the Arab Spring was unsuccessful, Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki argued in a lecture about the challenges facing his country’s new democracy on Thursday afternoon. Observers of the Arab World should be patient before drawing conclusions about the success of the Arab Spring because revolutions take time to effect change, he noted. “Democracy is a process; it’s continuous experimentation,” Marzouki said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Princetonian before the lecture.

NEWS | 09/26/2013

News & Notes: Town looking into use of private schools, churches as emergency reception centers

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: Town looking into use of private schools, churches as emergency reception centers

Daily Princetonian Staff

A year after Hurricane Sandy, Princeton is negotiating the use of private schools and churches as reception centers in case of weather emergencies, the Princeton Packet reported. Two weeks ago, Emergency Management Director Robert Gregory wrote letters of request to private schools for use of their spaces.

NEWS | 09/26/2013
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Q&A: Jon Steinberg ’99, COO and president of BuzzFeed

The Daily Princetonian

Q&A: Jon Steinberg ’99, COO and president of BuzzFeed

Monica Chon

Before speaking on campus Tuesday, BuzzFeed COO and president Jon Steinberg ’99 sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss his memories from Princeton, his position at the helm of one of the Internet’s most popular media companies and advice for current Princetonians. The Daily Princetonian: When you wrote for the Opinion section of the ‘Prince,’ did you know that you would end up working at an online media company?

NEWS | 09/24/2013

Collins discusses major issues in women's rights, a vision that "changed overnight"

Gail Collins in a lecture at the Wilson School

Collins discusses major issues in women's rights, a vision that "changed overnight"

Carla Javier

The birth control pill, the economy of the 1970s and the civil rights movement were the three factors that made the boom of women’s rights between 1964 and 1972 possible, New York Times columnist and former editor of the Times’ editorial page Gail Collins said in a lecture on Tuesday.Discussing her 2009 book “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present,” Collins shared anecdotes from various women who were part of the women’s rights movement.“A vision about the way things should be that had existed for millennia, ever since the beginning of Western civilization, with women in the home taking care of kids while men were outside running the public world —that vision changed overnight,” Collins said.In 1960, women faced social pressure if they weren’t engaged by their junior year of college, Collins said, adding she believes this expectation existed because effective birth control was not available.Once the birth control pill became available to women, female applications to law and medical school soared, according to Collins.

NEWS | 09/24/2013

News & Notes: Prosecutor’s Office downgrades drug possession charge in ecstasy case

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: Prosecutor’s Office downgrades drug possession charge in ecstasy case

Marcelo Rochabrun

The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office has transferred the case of the freshman charged with drug possession back to the Princeton Municipal Court, Casey DeBlasio, a spokeswoman for the Prosecutor’s Office, said Tuesday.The Prosecutor's Office downgraded the charge againstJoseph Gauvreau '17 frompossession of controlled dangerous substances — the initial charge made by theUniversity’s Department of Public Safetyearlier this monthafter searching the student's Holder Hall room — to failure to dispose of CDS.The new charge is considered a disorderly persons offense under New Jersey law.The Municipal Court had originally elevated the case to the Prosecutor’s Office because of the nature of DPS's initial charges.DeBlasio also released a copy of the complaint against Gauvreau that indicates he was allegedly found with "Molly," a name for ecstasy usually found in powder or crystal form.

NEWS | 09/24/2013

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