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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
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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

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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

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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

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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

Michael Froman '85, co-creator of the TPP, discusses U.S. trade policy

Michael Froman, Assistant to the President and Dep. National Security Advisor for Int'l Economics, in his office at the EEOB, in Washington, May 1, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

Michael Froman '85, co-creator of the TPP, discusses U.S. trade policy

Allie Spensley

World trade policy can’t be advanced in the future without a stronger focus on workers displaced in an economically uncertain world, Michael B.G. Froman ’85, retired Ambassador and former U.S. Trade Representative under President Barack Obama, said in a lecture Thursday. The lecture responded to steps President Trump has made to change existing United States trade policy by withdrawing from the negotiation stage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

NEWS | 02/16/2017

Dillon Gymnasium celebrates seventieth anniversary

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Dillon Gymnasium celebrates seventieth anniversary

Alexander Stangl

The University’s Herbert Lowell Dillon Gymnasium, constructed in 1947 and home to renowned athletes such as Bill Bradley ‘65, gold-winning captain of the 1964 US Olympic basketball team and current US senator, celebrates its seventieth anniversary this year. Having recently undergone renovations, Dillon Gym has recently reopened all of its A-level facilities this year.

NEWS | 02/16/2017

State of the University letter highlights U.'s progress

State of the University letter highlights U.'s progress

Abhiram Karrupur

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 affirmed the University's responsibility to contribute impartial scholarship and durable truths to the world in his first annual State of the University letter. The idea for the letter came out of Eisgruber's conversations with members of the University community after the Board of Trustees released a strategic framework last year.

NEWS | 02/16/2017

USG President signs No Apologies Initiative, an effort to remove application fees for first-generation and low-income applications

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USG President signs No Apologies Initiative, an effort to remove application fees for first-generation and low-income applications

Marcia Brown

Undergraduate Student Government President Myesha Jemison ’18 signed on to the "No Apologies Initiative," a collaborative effort among student government leaders of Ivy League and similarly selective peer institutions to automatically remove application fees for first-generation and low-income applicants to their schools, according to a press release. The press release was penned by Viet Nguyen, Brown University Student Body President and the director of 1IvyG, an inter-Ivy first-generation college student network that provides resources to first-generation students and seeks to "improve ... campuses for all first-generation college students.” Melana Hammel ’18, co-chair of the Princeton Hidden Minority Council, also signed on to the initiative along with USG Vice President Daniel Qian ’19.

NEWS | 02/16/2017

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