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Independent students seek improvements in living conditions

Spelman

Independent students seek improvements in living conditions

Kevin Agostinelli

“It’s kind of perverse that cooking for yourself, something any 21- or 22-year-old should be capable of, is the exception rather than the rule at Princeton,” McIntosh said. “I don't know if that's the work-hard-play-hard culture or what, but independent life never felt like it was part of the ‘Princeton Experience,’ whatever that's supposed to be.”

NEWS | 02/23/2017

Speaker advocates for friendly U.S.-Russia relations under Trump administration

Trump US-Russian relations talk

Speaker advocates for friendly U.S.-Russia relations under Trump administration

Samuel Oh

“Contact with Russians have become suspect in some way, and efforts to work with the Russians to find solutions in our differences have been construed as selling out to the Russians," Graham said. "It is particularly dispiriting for people like me who have engaged in this relationship for well over 25 to 30 years.”

NEWS | 02/23/2017
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Eisgruber '83 Discusses Annual Letter at CPUC

Eisgruber '83 Discusses Annual Letter at CPUC

Audrey Spensley

“In the case of this executive order on immigration, I have spent much of my life as a scholar of religious freedom, and it mattered to me that this order was, in my judgment, a threat to religious freedom and a betrayal of principles that define this polity and should define this polity, and I thought I was able to speak to that,” he said. “I was also able to speak to it on the basis of my personal experience as the child of immigrants to this country.”

NEWS | 02/20/2017

U.-funded expert explains 'vaccine court'

U.-funded expert explains 'vaccine court'

Samvida Venkatesh

In response to an audience question on whether the government was being unethical in forcing children to be given vaccines that could harm their bodies, Kirkland explained that any vaccines approved for use must go through a rigorous approval process mandated by the FDA and were deemed to be safe in clinical trials run on tens of thousands of children. She agreed with an audience member who noted in response that the diseases that the vaccines were preventing children against, such as measles, pertussis and whooping cough, were themselves incredibly harmful and often caused death.

NEWS | 02/20/2017

U. affiliates contribute to C-SPAN historians’ survey of presidential leadership

The Daily Princetonian

U. affiliates contribute to C-SPAN historians’ survey of presidential leadership

Daily Princetonian Staff

C-SPAN released its third annual survey by historians of presidential leadership. The survey polled 91 historians, include three University historians, to rank the “43 former occupants of the White House on ten attributes of leadership,” according to a press release from Media Relations Specialist Robin Newton. University affiliates who participated include Politics Professor emeritus Fred Greenstein, author and Edwards Professor of American History, emeritus Nell Irvin Painter, and George Henry Davis 1866 Professor of American History, and Professor of History Sean Wilentz.

NEWS | 02/20/2017

USG discusses student group recognitions, position appointments

The Daily Princetonian

USG discusses student group recognitions, position appointments

Jason Fu

In their first weekly meeting of the second semester, the Undergraduate Student Government discussed new position appointments and student group recognitions on Feb. 19. The Student Group Recognition Committee’s Chair Aaron Sobel ’19 presented newly recognized student groups, a distinction that grants groups access to an email listserv and deems them legitimate. As legitimate student groups, they are eligible for funding from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

NEWS | 02/20/2017

PEI hosts conference on relationship between climate and consumption

The Daily Princetonian

PEI hosts conference on relationship between climate and consumption

Jackson Artis

Caring about sustainability does not imply action. It's not enough that people care about sustainability because sometimes caring doesn't catalyze them into action, according to Richard Waite GS ’79, who presented on how to make eating habits more sustainable at the Feb. 17 conference on "Changing Climate, Changing Appetites.”

NEWS | 02/19/2017

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