Teresa Chen and Oliver Wu
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: Thai pro-democracy figures Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut and Kunthida Rungruengkiat GS spoke on Wednesday at the U.S. premiere of “Breaking the Cycle,” a documentary on the rise and suppression of Thailand’s modern reform movement.
The event was hosted by Thaigers, the Thai Students’ Association on campus and sponsored by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination. Directed by Aekaphong Saransate and Thankrit Duangmaneeporn, “Breaking the Cycle” traces the ascent of the pro-democracy Future Forward Party (FFP) and its founder Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit from the 2019 Thailand election through subsequent court-ordered dissolutions of both FFP and its successor, Move Forward.
Annabel Green '26
Philosophy Professor Jennifer A. Frey of the University of Tulsa delivered a lecture on October 21, 2025 titled “What is a University and How Can We Recover It?” as part of the James Madison Program’s Stuart Lecture Series on Institutional Corruption in America. Professor Frey explored the historical vocation of the university and the crisis facing the contemporary academy.
City Journal
Excerpt:
Princeton University, like all Ivy League schools, has sunk more deeply into administrative activism over recent years. The school maintains a robust Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy, with more than six DEI employees per 1,000 students. The school also displays several other activist commitments that distract it from its educational mission—most notably, Princeton’s decision to intervene in the Students for Fair Admissions case at the Supreme Court in favor of affirmative action.
Elizabeth Bogan
May 11, 2024
Rochelle Calhoun
It is so disappointing that cancel culture has penetrated Princeton’s faculty and staff. Expressing disagreement with Executive Vice President Rochelle Calhoun is part of free speech, but wanting to cancel her job by calling for her to leave her position is the usual nasty cancel culture of the left.
I spent 30 years as a member of Princeton’s faculty and without doubt Rochelle Calhoun is the finest administrator I knew. Rochelle always had the student’s best interest in mind and was fair to everyone. Princeton is so lucky to have her.
In addition, the petition says taking over buildings is a fine tradition. I strongly disagree. It was a miserable experience to be a graduate student at Columbia in the spring of 1968.