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Tuesday November 15, 2016 vol. cxl no. 101
{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } LECTURE
U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S
Harvard, Cornell, and U. professors discuss inequality
By Jessica Li
contributor
University psychology professor Susan Fiske, Harvard European studies and sociology professor Michèle Lamont, and Cornell economics professor Ravi Kanbur met in a panel discussion on the afternoon of Nov. 14 to discuss inequality in the world and the impact of inequality on the recent presidential election. Lamont was formerly in the University’s Sociology department. Fiske, Lamont, and Kanbur focused the panel on the interplay of factors such as policy, ethnic boundaries, and
emotions and their effects on inequality. Each of the professors also delivered their insights regarding Trump’s victory in the presidential election. Kanbur opened the discussion by explaining that inequality has increased by every standard measure in every area of the world as a result of the driving forces of technological change and globalization. “No matter how you measure it, inequality is rising in these countries, in the US, and in Western Europe,” Kanbur said. “Actually, inequality is also rising as it is dimensionally measured See LECTURE page 2
BEYOND THE BUBBLE
U. professor eats bug on CNN over election By Jessica Li head news editor
Professor of molecular biology and founder of the Princeton Election Consortium Samuel Wang devoured a bug Saturday during a live interview with CNN to make good on his promise in the event that president-elect Trump won over 240 electoral votes. Like polling and predictions industries across the country, Wang had made projections about the race that were nowhere near the eventual election outcomes. The Princeton Election Consortium website gave democratic nominee Hillary Clinton a 99 percent chance of winning. In a previous interview with the ‘Prince,’ Wang even stated that the question of the 2016 election was not about the presidency, but about control over the Senate.
head news editor
History professor Angela Creager, Chair of the Committee on Naming, opened Monday’s Council of the Princeton University Community meeting with an update on the committee’s work. Creager explained that the committee selected the atrium of Robertson Hall for naming in part because it is one of the nicest unnamed places on campus and because it could accommodate a plaque or another similar marker of recognition. She added that the committee selected West College for naming because it is an especially conspicuous building and because the original name referred not to a person but to its geographic placement rela-
tive to the former East College, which was demolished in 1896. Creager noted that the committee had received 150 naming suggestions within just a week of the submission form having been opened and said that she would like to see more suggestions. She added that the committee will deliberate over the winter and present its naming recommendations to the Board of Trustees as early as the spring. Regan Crotty ’00, the University’s Title IX coordinator, presented the results of the We Speak sexual misconduct survey for the 2015-16 academic year. Crotty said that 83 percent of students reported that they know where to find help, which is up from 68 percent in 2015, and that the percentage of graduate women who
are aware of the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education office had increased to 85 percent from 60 percent last year. However, she noted that it is premature to make predictions about long-term trends based off of only two years worth of data. Women were two to five times more likely to report experiencing various forms of inappropriate sexual behavior than men, and LGBT students were up to three times more likely to report experiencing inappropriate sexual behavior than heterosexual students, Crotty noted, adding that sophomores were also twice as likely as seniors to report experiencing sexual misconduct. Crotty pointed to an online See CPUC page 3
NASSAU HALL
But Wang would like to avoid a mistake of this scale, he said in a statement released to the ‘Prince.’ For the most part, Wang had based his predictions off of state polls, which he believes to be adequate in surveying voter opinion. The method of relying on and borrowing from a variety of state polls practiced by major poll aggregators such as FiveThirtyEight and The Upshot, he explained. However, this election proved an exception, as state polls understated the Republican-Democrat margin by 4 percentage points in the presidential race. The disparity of nation-wide predictions in the Senate was higher: most polls underestimated the divide by 6 percent, with a margin of error of 2 to 3 percent. Wang then suggested that See BUG page 3
SUNNY HE :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
News & Notes
ART MUSEUM
Tarpley ‘66 sued for defamation by Melania Trump
GEMMA ZHANG :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Author, journalist, and historian Webster Tarpley ’66 is currently engaged in libel suit with Melania Trump, wife of President-elect Donald Trump. Tarpley is being sued for claims made on his blog TARPLEY.net, where he claimed the Melania Trump allegedly had a nervous breakdown after her speech at the Republican convention was considered controversial. He further claimed that Melania Trump was not a model, but instead a “high end escort” in the article that led to the libel suit. The Daily Mail, a British tabloid, also made similar allegations about Melania Trump. On Sept. 1, Melania Trump sued Tarpley, along with the Daily
In Opinion
Today on Campus
Columnist Luke Gamble reaffirms what it means to be American regardless of the presidency, and guest contributor Mark Esposito suggests other, economic ways of voting and voicing opinions. PAGE 4
12:30 p.m.: Bioethics professor Peter Singer will give a lecture as part of the Geosciences/PEI Department Seminars entitled “The Suffering of Wild Animals: Should we do anything about it?” Guyot Hall Lecture Hall 10.
Mail, for defamation. The lawyers for Melania Trump claimed that Tarpley “acted with reckless disregard for the truth.” They also claimed that he presented a series of untrue claims as fact. Both the Daily Mail and Tarpley posted retractions after Melania Trump’s lawyers got involved. In his retraction, Tarpley said that “the briefing in question was not diligent in factchecking or maintaining a healthy distance between innuendo and fact.” However, in a statement, Tarpley disputed the claim made by the lawyers. He claimed the lawsuit is “ a blatant attempt to intimidate not only me, but journalists of all stripes, into remaining silent with regard to public figures” in the statement.
WEATHER
By Norman Xiong
CPUC reports on We Speak results, housing
HIGH
55˚
LOW
34˚
AM showers. chance of rain:
50 percent