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Princeton Theological Seminary approves reparations

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Princeton Theological Seminary approves reparations

Omar Farah

This decision comes as an official response to a historical audit, commissioned in 2016, which examined the Seminary's connections to the institutions of American slavery. According to the Seminary’s official announcement, the trustees’ approval was unanimous.

NEWS | 10/20/2019

Q&A with Professor Emeritus James Peebles GS ’62, 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Q&A with Professor Emeritus James Peebles GS ’62, 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Emily Spalding

James Peebles GS ’62 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Oct. 8 “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.” Peebles sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss his career and the next great issue he is excited to research.

NEWS | 10/18/2019

Judge Amy Coney Barrett speaks at the University about US Constitution

Sandeep Mangat

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Professor at the Notre Dame Law School, opened her Oct. 17 talk on campus by arguing, “The story of the United States can’t be told without the Constitution.”

NEWS | 10/18/2019

Fields Fellows: Advocates for equity and diversity on campus

Fields Fellows: Advocates for equity and diversity on campus

Rachel Sturley

Twenty undergraduates are working with the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding to engage the University’s student body in critical conversations about equity and inclusion on campus.

NEWS | 10/17/2019

Activists demonstrate as Seminary trustees discuss reparations

Activists demonstrate as Seminary trustees discuss reparations

Omar Farah

On Wednesday, amid a backdrop of pronounced student activism, Princeton Theological Seminary’s trustee members met to discuss the potential of establishing a reparations fund. This meeting, following years of student activism on the matter, was the first of its kind and represents a climactic moment in this ongoing saga.

NEWS | 10/17/2019

Q&A with Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post columnist

Oliver Effron

On Thursday, Oct. 17, The Daily Princetonian sat down with Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin for an interview. Rubin, a Republican, is one of the foremost advocates of the Never Trump movement and has repeatedly denounced her former party in her columns and on MSNBC, where she is a frequent commentator.

NEWS | 10/17/2019

Jennifer Rubin talks democracy and resistance in the Trump era

Caitlin Limestahl

Rubin pointed to the impeachment proceedings, “vigorous” press coverage, and active courts for evidence of the system’s success.

NEWS | 10/16/2019

Students construct Lennon Wall for Hong Kong in Frist

Kanishkh Kanodia

On Monday, Oct. 7, the Davis International Center bulletin board in Frist Campus Center was transformed into the Lennon Wall, an eclectic display of solidarity with the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

NEWS | 10/16/2019

Marx hall, 36 University Place to be renamed

Marx hall, 36 University Place to be renamed

Evelyn Doskoch

The University said in an announcement on Wednesday that the new names “should not affect functions inside the spaces.”

NEWS | 10/16/2019

Sallie Kim ’86 threatens Betsy DeVos with jail in student loan debt case

Sallie Kim ’86 threatens Betsy DeVos with jail in student loan debt case

Marissa Michaels

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has found herself in trouble with Magistrate Judge and University alumna Sallie Kim ’86 of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

NEWS | 10/15/2019

Volunteer firefighter program celebrates 10-year anniversary

Volunteer firefighter program celebrates 10-year anniversary

Sruti Chitluri

In the 10 years of the program, the number of volunteers has grown and the program itself has evolved. Recently, the department has decided to transition into employing a combination of paid and volunteer firefighters.

NEWS | 10/15/2019

University’s new supercomputer, Traverse, to aid plasma physics and fusion research

University’s new supercomputer, Traverse, to aid plasma physics and fusion research

James Anderson

The addition joins six other computing clusters: Tiger, Dell, and Perseus, which are the largest and reserved primarily for faculty, as well as Nobel, Adroit, and Tigressdata, which are available to students.

NEWS | 10/15/2019

Q&A with Lt. General Roméo Dallaire, Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Rwanda

Q&A with Lt. General Roméo Dallaire, Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Rwanda

Rooya Rahin

Lt. General Romeo Dallaire was the Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Rwanda. He visited the University as part of the lecture series with the Woodrow Wilson School.

NEWS | 10/14/2019

Yovanovitch ’80 testifies to Congress in impeachment proceedings

Mindy Burton

Marie Yovanovitch ’80 has served as a Foreign Service Officer for the past 33 years encompassing six presidential administrations, four being Republican and two Democrat.

NEWS | 10/14/2019

New Jersey activists speak on fighting white supremacy at Whig-Clio event

New Jersey activists speak on fighting white supremacy at Whig-Clio event

Benjamin Ball

The Whig-Cliosophic society hosted a talk with Anthony Diaz, Lydia Thorton, an activist with the N.J. Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement; Alexis Miller, lead organizer of the Patterson, N.J., Black Lives Matter chapter and a law student at Rutgers University; and Antonne Henshaw, Vice President of Women Who Never Give Up, Inc., in the Whig Senate Chamber at 2 p.m. on Saturday. The talk was moderated by Writing Program professor Danelle Gutarra Cordero.

NEWS | 10/14/2019

ORL holds U.’s 4th annual Pumpkin Carving Event

Uchechi Ihenacho

On the Murray-Dodge lawn, pumpkins of varying sizes wearing painted and carved grins covered the campus ground beside their proud creators — immigrants, refugees, and University faculty and students.

NEWS | 10/14/2019

Princeton municipality institutes Indigenous Peoples’ Day to replace Columbus Day

Princeton municipality institutes Indigenous Peoples’ Day to replace Columbus Day

Hannah Wang

The resolution also acknowledges the land of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation on which the municipality was built, as well as the forced diaspora of other Native nations and indigenous peoples in the Americas at large.

NEWS | 10/13/2019

USG discusses new voting platform for upcoming election

Imaan Khasru

According to USG President Zarnab Virk ’20, the current voting platform used by USG — known as Helios — is outdated. She therefore called for a switch to a platform more up-to-date with today’s technological advancements. The new platform used will be Election Runner.

NEWS | 10/13/2019

Wax defends remarks on immigration, race at Whig-Clio talk

Wax defends remarks on immigration, race at Whig-Clio talk

Benjamin Ball

Wax gave this defense at an event, hosted by the Whig-Cliosophic Society, entitled “Speak Freely: A Conversation,” in which she and Keith Whittington, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at the University, talked about free speech on college campuses and related topics. The event took place in East Pyne 010, in front of a little more than a dozen audience members.

NEWS | 10/13/2019

George and West GS ’80 discuss open-minded intellectual inquiry

George and West GS ’80 discuss open-minded intellectual inquiry

Allan Shen

“Tonight’s discussion addresses a topic — truth-seeking — that resides at the heart of this university, and indeed, at the center of any research university worthy of the name,” said University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83.

NEWS | 10/13/2019

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