October 19, 2016

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Campus faces internet outage By Catherine Benedict contributor

The campus internet network unexpectedly failed, leaving community members unable to access the network for over 12 hours on Oct. 13-14. According to the Office of Information Technology’s website, the unscheduled outage started Thursday at 2:35 p.m. and was finally resolved on Friday, Oct. 14, at 3:42 a.m.

Wh ile students colloquially deemed the outage as a WiFi issue, the Internet failure was actually unrelated to the wireless internet network. “The University experienced two interruptions Thursday to campus internet service. They were related to the failure of a component in one of the devices that connects Princeton to the internet. The issue was not directly related to the WiFi See OUTAGE page 3

BLACK LIVES MATTER

COCO CHOU :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

On Tuesday, Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Michael Brown, Sr. and Shaun King discussed race, police violence, and activism at Carl A. Fields Center.

Q&A

Q&A: Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers By Catherine Benedict contributor

On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, co-creators, co-writers, and co-directors of new TBS mystery-comedy television show ‘Search Party,’ premiering Nov. 21, visited the University for a pre-screening of the pilot. The Daily Princetonian sat down with the pair, whose previous credits include directing the feature film ‘Fort Tilden’ and writing credits on the shows ‘Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp’ and ‘Mozart In The Jungle,’ and TBS publicist Angela Char to discuss feeling lost after college and the current television landscape. The Daily Princetonian: What inspired the show ‘Search Party?’ Sarah-Violet Bliss: We made a movie together called ‘Fort Tilden,’ and after that we were deciding what we wanted to do, and we knew that we had wanted to work in television and were trying to figure out what the right project would be for that. Michael Showalter was our teacher at New York University

[where the pair met in graduate school], and we met with him and he said he wanted to work with us. We all started figuring out what that would be. Once we got connected with [production company] Jax Media, which Michael introduced us to because he’s worked with them a lot before, we came up with the idea of a mystery comedy, which was kind of in the same world as our movie, but had a genre element to it, which was really exciting for everyone. We wrote the pilot and Jax financed us, and then we pitched the pilot and that’s how it all came to be. DP: You’re at Princeton for the pre-screening. Are you trying to appeal to a college audience? What’s the marketing strategy? SVB: We’re definitely trying to appeal to college kids based on the release of the show. The week of Thanksgiving, two episodes will run per night for five days. The idea is that college kids will be home and bingewatch it, and then the marathon will be repeated over Christmas. All 10 episodes will also be reSee Q&A page 2

LECTURE

CATHERINE BENEDICT :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

NEWS & NOTES

Singer, George discuss Harvard graduate students plan to “Ethics in the Real World” vote on unionization next month staff writer

On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, and Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and professor of Politics, engaged in a discussion focused mostly on Singer’s new book, “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter.” The discussion took place in the bottom level of Labyrinth Books. Singer’s book consists mostly of op-ed pieces that he has written for various newspapers over the past 15 years. “What I’ve done for this book is to select some of those columns that seem to me to still have continuing relevance, some of them needed a bit of updating, and I have a paragraph or two at the bottom to update,” said Singer. He then sorted them into categories, according to themes he has been interested in,

such as animal rights and the sanctity of life. Dorothea Dix, owner of Labyrinth Books, says the book “is a bit like bite-sized candy.” “You think you’ll keep it around, and just read a few here and there, but before you know it, you’ve finished the pack of essays,” she added. Regarding Singer’s book, George said, “I assure you, that you will learn as I did, from his arguments and the good example he sets of reason and discourse.” Singer and George have been known to disagree on many issues, ranging from religion to the ethics of infanticide. While Singer approaches issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective, George is a conservative Christian thinker. However, throughout their professional careers, both have been known to engage in intellectual debates with each other, according to George. “It’s not that I agree with the See TALK page 3

By Sarah Hirschfield contributor

Harvard University graduate students reached an agreement with Harvard University to hold an election next month on whether or not working graduate students and undergraduate teaching fellows should unionize, according to The Harvard Crimson. “Graduate and undergraduate Teaching Fellows — teaching assistants, teaching fellows, course assistants,” may vote in the secret ballot election, according to the Stipulated Election Agreement. Undergraduate students serving as research assistants are excluded. The group of pro-union graduate students, Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW), presented a petition to the National Labor Relations Board, which ruled this summer that private universities must recognize student assistant unions, according to the Crimson. The Harvard administration has been historically opposed to

graduate student unionization. Harvard University President Drew Faust has repeatedly argued that a union of graduate students would change the relationship between students and Harvard from one based on academics to one based in labor, according to the Crimson. Harvard University is now required to allow its graduate students to engage in collective bargaining, according to the Crimson. Princeton University took a similar stance against unionization earlier this year when it filed a joint amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board opposing a case calling for the unionization of graduate students . The University “disagrees with the notion underlying the NLRB decision that a graduate student who is engaged in research or teaching in a given semester is transformed during that semester from a student into an employee,” according to the Graduate School’s frequently asked questions page. However, in a town hall meet-

In Opinion

Today on Campus

Columnist Marni Morse reiterates ways to get politically involved, and contributing columnist Jack Bryan values the Humanities. PAGE 4

12 p.m.: Program in Latin American Studies will feature Professor of History at Duke University, John French, in a PLAS lunch lecture titled “House of Cards: Explaining Brazil’s Unfolding Political Crisis.” Aaron Burr 216.

ing on Oct. 13, more than sixty University graduate students gathered to discuss unionization. Students discussed the benefits and drawbacks of the two organizations — the American Federation of Teachers and the Service Employees International Union — that have reached out to graduate students with offers to help their campaign to negotiate a contract with the University, should they decide to unionize. A vote took place on Oct. 18 to decide which organization the graduate students would partner with in future negotiations with the University. Such negotiations will ultimately decide whether or not a union will form. According to the aforementioned frequently asked questions page, graduate students would only be considered employees for the purposes of National Labor Relations Act, and not under other laws, such as the Fair Labor Standards Act or ones governing immigration.

WEATHER

By Betty Liu

HIGH

83˚

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Partly cloudy chance of rain:

10 percent


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