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Q&A with Staffan de Mistura, former UN Special Envoy for Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon

Staffan de Mistura is a diplomat who has worked for the United Nations and the Italian government. During his 40 years with the United Nations, he was stationed in countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Lebanon, and he served as the UN’s Special Envoy on Syria from 2014 to 2018.

NEWS | 11/18/2019

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U. announces summer internships to count as academic credit, CPT possible for undergrads

International students may now apply for curricular practical training (CPT) in specific domestic internships, a program which would allow them to work in the United States over the summer. Previously, CPT was not available to undergraduate students as there were no undergraduate internship courses available for credit. 

NEWS | 11/18/2019

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USG affirms language of P/D/F and exam paper referendums, discusses past changes to the Honor System

Olivia Ott ’20, Academic Chair, and Ben Press ’20, U-Council Chair, discussed recent key changes to the Honor System in the past two years, including updates to the Honor Committee’s website, and additions of a dean on call and professional investigators to Honor Committee proceedings. 

NEWS | 11/18/2019

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U. professor holds town hall on gerrymandering with California's Citizen Redistricting Commission

“Civic engagement, to me, is the constant price we pay for freedom,” California commissioner Andrew Parvenu said. “Democracy needs to be inclusive and move towards the goal of one man, one woman, one vote, under districts we can proudly say are fair and as rationally drawn as possible.” 

NEWS | 11/17/2019

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Legacies of Service: John Hurley ’86 and George Hurley ’22

Ret. Captain John Hurley graduated from the University in 1986 as an ROTC Cadet, Chairman of The Daily Princetonian, and with a degree in history. He went on to serve as an artillery officer in South Korea and fought in the first Gulf War. After his army service, Hurley went to Stanford Business School. Today, Hurley runs Cavalry Asset Management, an investment firm based in San Francisco and Hong Kong. His son, Cadet Sergeant George Hurley, is a sophomore at the University. Also enrolled in the ROTC program, George intends to follow his father in pursuing a degree in history.

NEWS | 11/15/2019