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Wednesday november 18, 2015 vol. cxxxix no. 106
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BEYOND THE BUBBLE
U. to continue study abroad programs in France
By Maya Wesby contributor
JASPER GEBHARDT :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Actress and transgender activist Laverne Cox spoke in Richardson Auditorium on Tuesday.
Cox discusses experience as transgender actress, activist
By Lorenzo Quiogue senior writer
The need for spaces for healing is one of the biggest needs of marginalized communities today, Laverne Cox said at a discussion on campus on Tuesday. Cox spoke as part of an event titled “Ain’t I A Woman,” an event that also included a conversation between Cox and Jill Dolan, the dean of the college at the University. Cox said she believes a large challenge that transgender women face is the point of view that people can only identify as
the gender they were assigned at birth. She added that the transgender community faces big problems today, noting that 41 percent of transgender Americans have attempted suicide, compared to only 2 percent of the rest of the population. Cox cited the work of Judith Butler, bell hooks and Simone de Beauvoir as feminist influences. She noted Judith Butler’s point that when Simone de Beauvoir said that one becomes a woman rather than being born a woman, nowhere was it said that the one who becomes a woman is necessarily female.
ACADEMICS
U. sees rise in graduate students from abroad By Nahrie Chung staff writer
Departments have seen a slow and steady rise in international — non-U.S. born and non-naturalized citizen — applicants and admissions since 2009 across doctoral, masters and non-degree graduate programs at the University, according to data made available by the University’s Graduate School. Over the years, a large portion of international students have gravitated toward programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields across the United States. There are similar trends at the national level, Rajika Bhandari, deputy vice president of
research and evaluation at the Institute for International Education, said. She added that engineering and business management degrees are most popular among international students in both graduate and undergraduate programs. China, India and South Korea are predominant countries in sending students to U.S. higher education institutions, with places like Saudi Arabia and Brazil easily jumping the ranks in the past decade, according to the IIE’s report. According to the Davis International Center’s annual reports, the international constituency of the graduate student body increased from See GRADUATE page 5
Cox spoke about the bullying she experienced as a child and explained that when her mother found out that she was being bullied, her mother asked her what she was doing to make her classmates bully her and why she wasn’t fighting back. “I started internalizing a tremendous amount of shame about that,” Cox explained. “I felt like it was my fault.” Cox said that she attempted suicide when she was in the sixth grade, because she was starting to be attracted to other boys and was afraid that she See COX page 4
The University’s study abroad programs in France will not be canceled in reaction to the Paris terrorist attacks Friday, Director of the Office of International Programs Nancy Kanach said. In the attacks, three teams of Islamic State members killed over 130 civilians and injured over 350 others at a concert hall, a stadium, bars and restaurants. Kanach said that the University’s response in keeping students safe was a prompt and effective one and added that no University students were harmed. OIP, the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life and the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Operations collaborated to make sure University students were safe, she said. “Together we responded and kept the University leadership up-to-date on what was happening,” she said. French and Italian departmental representative Efthymia Rentzou said noted that staff within the French and Italian department also stayed in touch with the five or six students in Paris whom
they personally knew after the attacks. She added that, as far as she knew, no student has ever felt unsafe enough that he or she withdrew from a study abroad program. “The risk level in France is, by all our security experts, not at the level that we would consider closing down programs. I’ve been monitoring what other schools are doing and what other programs are doing abroad. There’s, at this point, no plan to require people to come home or anything like that,” she said. Director of Study Abroad program Mell Bolen did not respond to a request for comment. Department representative for the Wilson School Christina Davis and Wilson School Associate Dean Nathan Scovronick did not respond to a request for comment. Comparative literature department chair Eileen Reeves did not respond to a request for comment. Kanach explained that OIP keeps track of where University students are overseas through the Concur tracking system, a tool used for monitoring student activity should students, for example, See PARIS page 3
LETTERPRESS
SUNNY HE :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Princeton University Letterpress held an open house on Tuesday for interested students.
LOCAL NEWS
Café, restaurant to open in Arts and Transit Neighborhood next year contributor
A café and restaurant are scheduled to open in 2016 and 2017, respectively, in the Arts and Transit Neighborhood near Forbes College, University Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appelget said. The restaurant will be opened at the same time as the
construction of a new facility associated with the Lewis Center for the Arts, Appelget said. The two buildings housing the café and restaurant have been a part of the Arts and Transit Project since it were first proposed in 2013, Appelget said. The Arts and Transit Project, which is slated for completion in 2017, has also in-
volved the relocation of the Wawa, the construction of a new Dinky station and the construction of new facilities associated with the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Department of Music. Appelget said that the Terra Momo Restaurant Group, which operates three restaurants in the Princeton area, was originally selected to operate the restaurant and café
but that the group has decided to step aside and not move forward in the project. “We had a mutually agreeable parting of ways,” Appelget explained. As a result, the University has reached out again to decide who the new café and restaurant operator will be, Appelget said. Co-owner of the Terra Momo group Carlo Momo de-
In Opinion
Today on Campus
Guest contributor Destiny Crockett responds to columnist Beni Snow’s column about the Christakises and freedom of thought, and columnist Lea Trusty argues that it is wrong for state governors to refuse to accept Syrian refugees. PAGE 6
4:30 p.m.: Brian Eugenio Herrera, author and assistant professor of theater, will facilitate a discussion on the experiences of people who identify as both Latinx and LGBTQA. Carl A. Fields Center.
clined to specify the reason behind the termination of the negotiation but said that he and the University could not agree on general terms. Momo added that the termination of the negotiation did not have anything to do with the difficulty of obtaining a liquor license, as the University had already purchased one. “Our negotiations were See CAFE page 2
WEATHER
By Claire Lee
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Cloudy with no chance of meatballs. chance of rain: 10 percent