December 18, 2024
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Abby Leibowitz
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: A month after Donald Trump’s reelection and the red wave that swept down-ballot elections in New Jersey and across the United States, public policy lecturer Lynda Dodd joined Amol Sinha, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Jersey, for a private presentation held at the Princeton Public Library on Dec. 15. They discussed New Jersey’s potential to build “firewalls of freedom” — safeguards based on actions that governors, attorney generals, and statewide officials can take locally to protect communities made vulnerable by potential Trump policies.
Indivisible Princeton, a local chapter of the organization Indivisible formed by Ezra Levin GS ’13 in 2017 in response to Trump’s first election, hosted the event as its ”relaunch meeting.”
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Michelle Miao and Nate Howard
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: Since Nov. 5, Princeton commentators from across the political spectrum have misrepresented progressive Kamala Harris supporters.
On one hand, columnist Julianna Lee ’25 wrote a well-intentioned but misinformed op-ed characterizing left-leaning students at Princeton in broad strokes as stuck inside the Orange Bubble and unwilling to engage with other perspectives. On the other hand, certain members of the leftist community have spent more time denigrating Democrats than working to fight fascism. On both of these counts, we would like to set the record straight.
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Peter Berkowitz
RealClear Politics
Excerpt: Most selective colleges and universities receive substantial federal funds – tens and even hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars a year for student aid and faculty research. Since Title VI contains no exceptions to its prohibition on raced-based discrimination, it also bars racism that is systemic. Thinking along these lines, in 2020, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos attempted to hold Princeton University accountable for the systemic racism it claimed was lodged there.
Entertaining and instructive as was her gambit, the Trump administration should not repeat it. That’s because systemic racism does not plague the nation’s colleges and universities, and government should not legitimize frivolous claims that it does.
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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.