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Whig-Clio marks 250th anniversary as home for campus political groups

Whig-Clio marks 250th anniversary as home for campus political groups

Olivia Wicki

Whig-Clio’s trajectory has been marked within the past few years by its decreasing centralization and its increasing support, as an overarching political organization for different political groups on campus, Whig-Clio president Cydney Kim ’17 said.“When Whig-Clio first started 250 years ago, or even in the late 20th century, it was actually one of the few political organizations on campus; there weren’t as many political groups as we see today,” Kim explained.The 250th anniversary of Whig-Clio was celebrated with a gala in Washington, D.C.

NEWS | 11/30/2015

USG Eating Club Accessibility Report recommends transparency of events, costs, other dining options

Kristin Qian

The Undergraduate Student Government released the Eating Club Accessibility Report last week, which has proposed several recommendations regarding transparency of events, eating club costs in relation to financial aid and information about eating clubs and other dining options.The motivation for the project was to understand how eating clubs relate to other entities, in terms of their social, dining and financial aspects, Aleksandra Czulak ’17, one of the project leaders and USG Vice President, said.Czulak said that the project started last fall when Shawon Jackson ’15 was USG president.A survey was sent out to students in the December 2014 in conjunction with town hall meetings, and another survey was sent out in the spring of 2015, she said.USG used the data from a 2010 University Task Force on the eating clubs and the new information collected from the 2014-2015 surveys to understand why they were seeing the same issues and if there was anything that could be done, she explained.“Eating clubs aren’t just an eating club entity; they affect many different parts of your life on campus,” Czulak said.Although around 70 percent of students are involved in eating clubs, the survey revealed differences in age and year affected how students related and engaged with eating clubs, Czulak explained.

NEWS | 11/30/2015

Strauss brings wealth of entrepreneurial, policy knowledge to Wilson school

Abhiram Karuppur

On top of advising governments on public policy issues around the world and writing numerous opinion pieces for The Huffington Post, Business Insider and Salon, visiting professor Steven Strauss played a key role in the growth of New York City's technology and entrepreneurship scene.“I’m pleased with the work I’ve done.

NEWS | 11/30/2015

Czulak ’17, Wu ’17 to enter run-off election for USG presidency

Caroline Lippman

A run-off election for the Undergraduate Student Government presidency will be held between Aleksandra Czulak ’17 and Simon Wu ’17, according to an email to the student body from outgoing USG president Ella Cheng ’16. Cheng is a former staff writer for the Daily Princetonian. Chief Elections Manager Sung Won Chang ’18 said the candidates will need to adhere to the same rules and regulations as in the primary election. The candidates will have a few days to campaign before voting officially begins onMonday, Nov.

NEWS | 11/27/2015

Petition circulated for student’s future readmission to U. after incarceration for drug offenses

Andie Ayala

A petition has been circulating through University email listservs asking students to support a student's readmission into the University after his prison sentence as of last week.The University’s Department of Public SafetyarrestedJulian Edgrenin January for drug possession and distribution, after he was found to have picked up a package from the campus mailroom that contained seven grams of ecstasy.

NEWS | 11/24/2015

N.J. Supreme Court rejects appeal to halt Institute for Advanced Society construction

Annie Yang

The Institute for Advanced Study’s planned housing development on Maxwell Field was allowed to proceed after New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Lee Solomon declined to place the Princeton Battlefield Society'smotion for a stay of construction on an emergency basis on Nov.

NEWS | 11/24/2015

Survey finds mostly negative student opinions on BJL sit-in, protests

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Asurveyon student opinion in the Black Justice League’s sit-in protest found that the majority of respondents had negative views on the impact of the protest, according to Daniel Wilson ’18, the survey’s creator. The survey, titled “What Princeton Thinks of the Black Justice League,” was open from10 a.m.on Thursdayto1 a.m.on Saturday.The survey had 948 respondents, which is roughly 18 percent of the University’s undergraduate population, Wilson noted. Wilson said that one of the notable results is that regardless of race, the majority of respondents had a relatively negative opinion on how the walkout has impacted the campus.

NEWS | 11/24/2015

Berdahl-Baldwin ’16, Hosie ’16, Low ’16 named Marshall Scholars

Christopher Umanzor

Audrey Berdahl-Baldwin ’16, Duncan Hosie ’16 and Ryan Low ’16 have been awarded the Marshall Scholarship.The scholarship funds two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom for up to 40 American college students.Berdahl-Baldwin, a history major, said she is interested in public service.“Long term, I hope to engage in prison reform,” she said.

NEWS | 11/23/2015

Eisgruber ’83 details strategic planning process in response to protests

Sarah Kim

The Council of the Princeton University Community discussed the recent sit-in protest and updates to strategic planning task forces at its monthly meeting on Monday.“The CPUC was created in the 1960s, obviously a time of tumult and argument on campus for the purpose of having a forum in which faculty administrators, alumni and staff can come together in civil and respectful discussion,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said in light of the recent sit-in protest in his office in Nassau Hall.

NEWS | 11/23/2015

Alumni, faculty respond to BJL sit-in

Annie Yang

The recent sit-in protest led by the Black Justice Leaguehas resulted in divided opinions among alumni and faculty, with some praising the efforts and others denouncing them.There has been opposition to the protest expressed not only in online social media forums, but also through a counter-petition with over 1,300 responses and an alumni petition with 35 supporters.There is still support for the protesters in theoriginal petition with nearly 1,000 signatures.On Friday, professors in the program of African American Studies wrote a faculty lettersupporting the protesters.

NEWS | 11/23/2015

Latinx students create petition

Marcia Brown

A group of Latinx students formed to improve the experience of Latinx students on campus released a petition on Friday to increase support for and representation of Latinx students.The petition has 517 signatures as of 7 p.m.

NEWS | 11/23/2015

Princeton Open Campus Coalition opposes BJL protests in letter to Eisgruber ’83

Christina Vosbikian

A new student group called the Princeton Open Campus Coalition delivered a letter opposing the methods and demands of the Black Justice League protests to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 on Sunday night.The letter requested a meeting with Eisgruber in his office to present arguments regarding the events of the past week.“We are concerned mainly with the importance of preserving an intellectual culture in which all members of the Princeton community feel free to engage in civil discussion and to express their convictions without fear of being subjected to intimidation or abuse,” the students wrote.

NEWS | 11/23/2015

Eisgruber ’83 sends email about racial climate on campus

Daily Princetonian Staff

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 emailed University students and alumni on Sunday in response to recent demands to improve the racial climate on campus. Eisgruber said he acknowledges the distress, pain and frustration students of color feel from a campus climate they find unwelcoming or uncaring. He explained that he asked the University Board of Trustees to develop a process to consider the issue of thelegacy ofWoodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, at the University.

NEWS | 11/22/2015

2 of 4 chair positions in upcoming USG elections uncontested

Andrew Brazer Drew

Two of the four chair positions for the upcoming Undergraduate Student Government elections are uncontested.The candidates running for Campus and Community Affairs committee chair and University Student Life Committee chair are unopposed.Three candidates will be competing for the position of academics committee chair, and two candidates will be contending for the position of social committee chair.Of the four positionslast year, only USLC chair and social committee chair were contested, while the candidate for the academics committee chair ran unopposed and there were no candidates for the Community Affairs Committee Chair.Patrick Flanigan ’18, Shannon Osaka ’17 and David Landeta ’19 are contenders in the race for the academics committee chair.Flanigan is a peer academic advisor, a McGraw tutor and serves as a member of the McGraw Advisory Council.

NEWS | 11/22/2015

USG hosts meeting discussing recent BJL sit-in, minority groups on campus

Katherine Oh

The Undergraduate Student Government senate convened for a closed meeting on Nov. 21 in light of the recent Black Justice League walk-out and sit-in in Nassau Hall. The meeting replaced the senate's weekly meeting. The discussion came just a few days after a 32-hour-long sit-in protestby several members of the BJL in the office of University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83.

NEWS | 11/22/2015

Clifton ’15, Lu ’16, Platt ’16 and Soltas ’16 awarded Rhodes Scholarships

Paul Phillips

Katherine Clifton ’15,Richard Lu ’16, Cameron Platt ’16 andEvan Soltas ’16 were selected as recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship Class of 2016, the organization announced Saturday. The Rhodes Scholarship is a postgraduate award that enables students to study for two years at the University of Oxford.

NEWS | 11/22/2015

USG debate sees candidates discuss mental health issues, P/D/F options

Samvida Venkatesh

The main issues addressed by the presidential candidates at the Undergraduate Student Governmentpresidential and vice presidential debate on Sunday includedensuring the USGis a unified voice representing all student groups, making the pass/D/fail option rescindable and providing better facilities for student mental health.Presidential candidate Aleksandra Czulak ’17 emphasized the importance of collaboration, action and results.

NEWS | 11/22/2015

Faculty petition supports BJL protestors

Do-Hyeong Myeong

Fifty-four faculty members signed afaculty letterin support of student protests,drafted by twelve faculty members affiliated with the program in African American Studies andpublished onlineon Friday. The letter, addressed to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, Dean of the College Jill Dolan, members of the University Board of Trustees and other senior administrators, notes that “there is a palpable sense that … students of color, particularly black students, all too often find themselves on the margins of this University.” The letter adds that the undersigned faculty members stand in solidarity with the student protestors. The letter urges the University administrators to take a “different, bolder, more comprehensive kind of action” to address “core problems” such as the racial climate on campus, and calls for a meeting of the faculty dedicated to the issue of faculty diversity. The signatories come from a number of departments and programs across the arts and humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. No faculty member from theSchool of Engineering and Applied Scienceor the School of Architecture signed the letter. Politics professor Robert George noted that his name was put into the letter without his consent, via a Facebook post publishedonFridayaround 7 p.m. "In what is the most underhanded tactic I have encountered in thirty-one years in academic life, my name was fraudulently added to a petition supporting student protestors at Princeton," he wrote.

NEWS | 11/21/2015

Paris terrorist attacks placed in global context at multidisciplinary roundtable

Ruby Shao

Al Qaeda and the Islamic State demonstrate genius in accumulating local grievances to fuel global panic, Wilson School and sociology professor Kim Lane Scheppele, who has written about terrorism in Moscow, told a packed room during a Friday panel. She said the recent string of bombings in Mali, Paris and Beirut began with the Russian plane crash in Egypt on Oct.

NEWS | 11/21/2015

BJL sit-in countered by petition opposing their demands

Nahrie Chung

An online petition to counter demands made by Black Justice League protesters has gained over 800 signatures since launching on Thursday afternoon, as of Saturday at 1 p.m. Drafted by Josh Zuckerman ’16 and Evan Draim ’16, the petition calls upon the University to promote “increased dialogue and the creation of a process that properly considers the input of all students and faculty, not merely those who are the loudest.” Draim is a former Editorial Board member for The Daily Princetonian. The petition followed a 32-hour-long sit-in protest by several members of the newly formed BJL in the office of University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83.

NEWS | 11/21/2015

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