“I started Workshop No. 1 because there wasn’t a venue on campus where people could reflect on how to build more fulfilling lives,” Gewirtz said.
In the annual protest against solitary confinement, students stood in an outlined box smaller than their dorm rooms, persisting day and night to demonstrate a reality that, for many, does not end when the sun comes up.
“In the past, we noticed a lot of instances of people choosing to go to service academies rather than coming to Princeton,” said Cadet First Lieutenant Caleb Visser ’20. Recently, that has changed drastically.
Three photographers trekked to the midst of the Sandinista conflict in Nicaragua, to the most violent years of the Iraq War, and to the home of a fatally ill man and his wife in China for their work.
Around 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 12, a student in a Cottage Club sweatshirt handed a Wawa cashier his ID. “We only accept American IDs,” said the cashier. The student, irate, stormed out. He was trying to buy a Juul pod.
During the latest iteration of the weekly Asian American Studies lecture series, Berkeley School of Law professor Leti Volpp ’86 examined the Trump administration’s travel ban on Muslim-majority countries and discussed inherent Islamophobia concealed in the rhetoric surrounding “honor killings.”
On Friday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m., Latin American flags adorned the walls of the Center for Jewish Life. Information sheets detailing the different countries and their Jewish communities adorned the dining hall tables, and about 300 people filled the CJL to attend the first Latinx Shabbat.
Members of Forbes Building Services have repeatedly found water bottles filled with human urine in trash cans near the residential college. On Friday, Oct. 12, Weiner wrote an email to Forbes students describing the issue as a “major health and safety concern.”
This winter, a Japan-based café chain called Shiru Café has plans to bring free refreshments, coupled with some controversy, to students at the University. Shiru serves coffee and pastries, but, unlike other cafés, asks students to pay with personal information instead of cash.
With midterm elections approaching, New Jersey is still using technology which leaves voting results vulnerable to hacks. At a panel Wednesday evening about election security, computer science professor Andrew Appel highlighted the fact that New Jersey and four other states exclusively use computer-based ballots, a method which makes detecting hacks and recounting votes impossible.
The last major renovation to Nassau Hall occurred in 1960, when the roof was last replaced. The new roof is anticipated to last at least 75 years.
On Tuesday, the Program in Law and Public Affairs hosted a lecture on the Supreme Court and the media. The panel featured Jess Bravin, an award-winning Supreme Court correspondent for The Wall Street Journal; Marcia Coyle, Chief Washington Correspondent for The National Law Journal; and Jed Shugerman, historian and professor at the Fordham University School of Law.
According to O’Toole, sanctions are just another tool of diplomacy that can be used against nations or individuals. When the United States imposes economic sanctions on an individual or company, U.S. citizens and companies cannot conduct business with the sanctioned entity.
Less than one week after the end of the celebration of women in She Roars, two University alumnae were named the recipients of the University’s most prestigious awards for alumni. President of Davidson College Carol Quillen GS ’91 and President of Ariel Investments Mellody Hobson ’91 received the James Madison Medal and the Woodrow Wilson Award, respectively.
Symptoms of HFMD include fever, reduced appetite, sore throat and a feeling of being unwell. According to the email, a few days after the fever, those symptoms can be followed by painful sores in the mouth and a skin rash with red spots or blisters on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
“We want to be a part of the campus community, to see our friends, but also we’re obviously married,” Matthew Kritz ’18 said.
The talk, moderated by McCormick Professor Robert P. George, covered the lives and legacies of the Supreme Court justices with connections to the Jewish faith and tradition. Currently, one third of the justices on the Supreme Court are Jewish, but that has not always been the case.
On Monday, Oct. 15, Western and Princeton sociology professor Matthew Desmond spoke about this humanistic approach that Western took in his book. In his earlier works, Western had a stronger focus on statistical analysis.
Sophomore Niko Fotopoulos and other researchers were the first undergraduate team to do research over the summer at the Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs for their startup, Blackwell. Blackwell is a biotechnology company that develops new devices to help advance the fields of surgery and medicine. The company was created in Fotopoulous’s freshman year and strives to make improvements in ligament repair procedures.
She will succeed Bob Durkee ’69, who will retire after serving the University for nearly 50 years. Parker’s current position will be merged with that of the vice president and secretary — which Durkee has held since 2004 — due to the overlapping nature of both jobs’ responsibilities.
