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Three journalists discuss diversity in the media industry

Maya Wesby

The Daily Princetonian held a dynamic panel on Thursday to discuss the aspect of diversity, or lack thereof, in newsrooms and the media industry. The panel was moderated by Sarah Sakha ’18, who began the event by asking each of the panelists about their professional lives and general opinions on the issue of diversity in journalism. Sakha is an associate opinion editor for the ‘Prince’. Benét Wilson, who has hosted workshops and discussions on diversity, said that she is inspired to continue participating in events because of the students she meets and learning about their successes later on.

NEWS | 11/17/2016

U. community members protest to call for U. action protecting undocumented immigrants

U. community members protest to call for U. action protecting undocumented immigrants

Catherine Benedict

Hundred of University students, faculty, staff, and community members held a demonstration to call for the University to become a sanctuary campus for undocumented students, faculty, and staff.

NEWS | 11/17/2016

Christie begins appeals process against alleged Bridgegate involvement

Christie begins appeals process against alleged Bridgegate involvement

Zaynab Zaman

Governor Chris Christie has begun the appeals process regarding his involvement in the 2013 Bridgegate scandal.

NEWS | 11/17/2016

News & Notes: U. faculty members sign statement to support diversity, object discrimination

Hunter Campbell

Nearly three hundred members of the University's faculty released a statement “in support of diversity and against racism and discrimination” on Thursday.The statement was signed by 267 assistant, associate,or full professors and by 32 lecturers.

NEWS | 11/17/2016

Greenhouse discusses judicial-legislative relationship, changes in Supreme Court

Norman Xiong

Yale Law School lecturer Linda Greenhouse discussed the cyclical nature of the judicial-legislative relationship and the transition into a more scrutinous Supreme Court in a lecture on Thursday evening. Greenhouse focused the lecture around several federal courts’ recent decisions to invalidate three separate restrictive abortion and voting laws in Texas and North Carolina for deliberate human civil rights violations in order to reveal the increasingly rigorous standards of the judiciary.

NEWS | 11/17/2016

Novelist Stephen King and poet Eileen Myles deliver joint reading

Audrey Spensley

Renowned suspense novelist Stephen King and award-winning poet Eileen Myles gave a joint reading as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series 2016-2017.

NEWS | 11/16/2016

U. Students participate in rally against DAPL in New York City

Sarah Warman Hirschfield and Sharon Xiang

Fifty-eight University students gathered in New York City on Tuesday, Nov.

NEWS | 11/16/2016

Wilf discusses peace in Israel

Sarah Warman Hirschfield

Einat Wilf, former member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, spoke about the conditions for peace in Israel at the Center for Jewish Life on Nov.

NEWS | 11/16/2016

Art Museum Student Advisory Board opens new permanent coin collection

Charles Kyungchan Min

Members of the Princeton University Art Museum Student Advisory Board opened a permanent collection of ancient and medieval coins at the museum.

NEWS | 11/16/2016

Election Day: Where to go and what to do

Katherine Wang

With Election Day finally upon the United States, Americans across the nation are — and will be — lining up to cast their ballots throughout the day, or in the case of absentee voters, keeping their eyes peeled on the polls and heart rates up until the late hours of the night when results are finally announced. The Computer Science Building Lobby and Carl Icahn Laboratory are two voting locations on campus, and they will be open from 6 a.m until 8 p.m.

NEWS | 11/16/2016

News & Notes: Post-Election processing spaces this week

Marcia Brown

After the election, various organizations announced spaces and times for hosting post-election discussions.

NEWS | 11/15/2016

News & Notes: Eisgruber, Lempert discuss town-gown interests in public meeting

Shriya Sekhsaria

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert, and members of the Princeton Council met to discuss town-gown interests in the fourth annual public meeting between the town and the University. According to Eisgruber, the University and the town share several commitments including civil liberties, civil exchange, respect for all people, and the importance of education. The University and the town were recently involved in a lawsuit over properties the University owned that were tax-exempt under the University’s nonprofit status.

NEWS | 11/15/2016

Three U. individuals associated with Trump's transition team

Abhiram Karrupur

Three University affiliates have been associated with President-elect Donald Trump's White House transition team. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, an ex-officio trustee of the University, served as the head of the transition team until Nov.

NEWS | 11/15/2016

U. Students issue petition in call to action to protect undocumented students

Marcia Brown

The DREAM Team, an immigrant rights advocacy group on campus, issued an online petition on Monday in support of undocumented students on campus. The “Call to Action to Protect Undocumented Students at Princeton” asks signatories for their name – either individual or organization – class year, and if that individual is a student, a faculty member, or a staff member.

NEWS | 11/15/2016

News & Notes: Tarpley '66 sued for defamation by Melania Trump

Hunter Campbell

Author, journalist, and historian Webster Tarpley ’66 is currently engaged in libel suit with Melania Trump, wife of President-elect Donald Trump. Tarpley is being sued for claims made on his blog TARPLEY.net, where he claimed the Melania Trump allegedly had a nervous breakdown after her speech at the Republican convention was considered controversial. He further claimed that Melania Trump was not a model, but instead a “high end escort” in the article that led to the libel suit. The Daily Mail, a British tabloid, also made similar allegations about Melania Trump. On Sept.

NEWS | 11/14/2016

CPUC discusses We Speak results, updates from U. committees

Jessica Li

History professor Angela Creager, Chair of the Committee on Naming, opened Monday’s Council of the Princeton University Community meeting with an update on the committee’s work. Creager explained that the committee selected the atrium of Robertson Hall for naming in part because it is one of the nicest unnamed places on campus and because it could accommodate a plaque or another similar marker of recognition. She added that the committee selected West College for naming because it is an especially conspicuous building and because the original name referred not to a person but to its geographic placement relative to the former East College, which was demolished in 1896. Creager noted that the committee had received 150 naming suggestions within just a week of the submission form having been opened and said that she would like to see more suggestions.

NEWS | 11/14/2016

Fiske, Lamont, Kanbur discuss inequality in wake of presidential election

Norman Xiong

University psychology professor Susan Fiske, Harvard European studies and sociology professor Michèle Lamont, and Cornell economics professor Ravi Kanbur met in a panel discussion on the afternoon of Nov.

NEWS | 11/14/2016

U. professor eats bug on live television, discusses polling errors in 2016 election

Jessica Li

Professor of molecular biology and founder of the Princeton Election Consortium Samuel Wang devoured a bug Saturday during a live interview with CNN to make good on his promise in the event that president-elect Trump won over 240 electoral votes. Like polling and predictions industries across the country, Wang had made projections about the race that were nowhere near the eventual election outcomes.

NEWS | 11/14/2016

'Asian girls everywhere' poster campaign breaks silence about sexual racialization

Jessica Li

“Ni Hao pretty,” “you’re pretty for an Asian,” and “you’re the whitest Asian ever” are among the verbatim comments received by female Asian-American students in the University that will be displayed around campus later this week as a part of a poster campaign. According to Alis Yoo ’19, facilitator of the “Asian girls everywhere” poster campaign sponsored by the Asian American Students Association, the sixteen different samples of posters to be displayed around campus in the next few days represent the authentic experiences of University students in and outside of the classroom.

NEWS | 11/13/2016

USG discusses potential academic calendar updates, USG Labs

Jason Fu

The Undergraduate Student Government met with Deputy Dean of the College Elizabeth Colagiuri to discuss potential changes to the academic calendar and required coursework in their meeting on Sunday. Colagiuri is a member of the Task Force on General Education, which recently released a report outlining various recommendations that the report describes as being designed to provide students an education that “reflects both breadth and depth of study.” Among the recommended changes to current coursework are identifying tags that will exist in conjunction with current distribution areas.

NEWS | 11/13/2016

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