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Wednesday November 20, 2019 vol. CXLIII no. 108
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U . A F FA I R S
Professor emeritus Jameson Doig dies at 86
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Barack and Michelle Obama ’85 received the first and second most votes respectively.
Obamas win 55.7% of Student Speaker Initiative vote By David Veldran On Monday, Nov. 19, Tyler Eddy ’21 announced the election results from the “trial program” of his Student Speaker Initiative, which aims to host two speakers at the University. The two potential speakers who received the most votes were Barack Obama (462 votes), and Michelle Obama ’85 (323 votes), who together accounted for more than 50 percent of the vote. The other nominated speakers included Shakira, Danny DeVito, and Ben Shapiro. According to Eddy, there were over 1,400 votes submitted, reaching over a quarter of the student body. In his announcement, Eddy wrote, “The next step is to officially present Michelle and
Barack Obama as speakers to the university as the student choices for the trial program. I’ll be sure to keep you all up to date as the discussion proceeds.” Some students had reservations about both the selection process and the initiative more generally. In an email replying to Eddy’s announcement on a residential college listserv, Samantha Goerger ‘20 questioned whether Barack or Michelle Obama would agree to speak, noting that “Michelle doesn’t speak at Ivies, she’s stated this very publicly and wrote it in her memoir.” Goerger is a former head design editor for the Daily Princetonian. Goerger also questioned the voting process. “Furthermore, by not using rank-choice vot-
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Professor emeritus Jameson Doig.
By Neti Linzer Contributor
Jameson Doig GS ’58, ’61, a professor emeritus of political and public policy, died on Oct.19, 2019 at the age of 86. Professor Doig, called “Jim” by his colleagues, joined the University faculty as an assistant professor of politics at the Woodrow Wilson School (WWS) in 1961, became a full professor in 1970, and taught in the WWS until he retired in 2004. In addition to teaching, he served as the chair of the Politics Department and twice as the director of the Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Programs. Born on June 12, 1933, in Oakland, Calif., Doig received his B.A. in philosophy from Dartmouth College before serving for three years as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He then continued his education at the University, where he completed an M.P.A in 1958 and a Ph.D. in Politics in 1961. Stanley Katz, President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, is one of the only remaining WWS professors who worked with and knew Professor Doig well. He met him when he first began teaching at the WWS in 1981 and considered Doig a close friend. “Technically, his field was American politics,” Katz said. “Realistically, he was interested in what I would call ‘the administrative state,’ particularly its administration in urban regions. To that end, one of Doig’s most acclaimed works is his ‘Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority,’ a comprehensive history of a central institution in New York’s transportation infrastructure.” Doig’s scholarship was distinctive because he took the time to get to know the people on the ground. “He was widely respected as a scholar with his feet on the ground, he actually knew what was happening, and he got to
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know a lot of the people who were responsible for administration,” Katz said. Katz also got to see a more personal side of Doig. The two of them would bring their children to the same public swimming pool, and while their kids were splashing around in the water, they would enjoy the opportunity to speak. “Jim was very much the father who took the kids to the pool. He was a terrific father, deeply devoted to the children,” said Katz. Doig’s wife Joan worked in the Human Resources office at the University, and the couple lived in Princeton with their daughter, Rachel, and sons Stephen and Sean. “Jim knew exactly who he was, and that turns out to be unusual — not that many people do,” said Katz. Doig passed on his unique approach to his students as well. David Gould ’68, the former chairman of the New York State Ethics Commission, explained that he ended up in Professor Doig’s first WWS seminar by mistake. Like many of his fellow students, Gould had signed up for a seminar on the Populist Era, a “trendy left-wing subject taught by a well known and greatly admired professor.” Due to overflow in that seminar, however, he was assigned instead to Doig’s seminar on police departments — an unknown professor and a significantly less fashionable topic. “The Police Seminar turned out to be the most electrifying, edifying, and important educational experience I ever had, a view shared by every one of my co-conferees. Another shared view was that, no thanks to us, we had landed in the lap of the best professor any of us had ever experienced,” Gould said in a speech delivered after Doig’s retireSee DOIG page 2
Columnist Emma Treadway encourages students to make casual conversation with strangers, and columnist Claire Wayner criticizes Tigerbook’s recent changes. PAGE 6/7
Marie Yovanovitch ’80 testifies before Congress
Eddy subsequently defended the process against students’ criticism, asking students to consider, “If the list was entirely comprised of people that you liked and wanted to see on campus, would you still have [the] issues with the program that you do?” He also said that, although it is inevitable that some nominated figures would reject the offer to speak, it is ultimately best to select the speakers with See SPEAKER page 3
By Julia Ilhardt Contributor
On Friday, Nov. 15, Marie Yovanovitch ’80 testified before the House Intelligence Committee as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Yovanovitch was the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine until May 2019, and she spoke to the committee about corruption, national values, and the attack on her character extensively. Trump abruptly fired Yovanovitch from her diplomatic post following a series of targeted allegations by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani. Later investigations revealed that the Trump administration was working to oust Yovanovitch since mid-2018. “When our anti-corruption efforts got in the way of a desire for profit or power, Ukrainians who preferred to play by the old, corrupt rules sought to remove me,” Yovanovitch said in her opening statement. “What continues to amaze me is that they found Americans willing to partner with them and, working together, they apparently succeeded in orchestrating the removal of a See YOVANOVITCH page 4
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Edith Murray has worked in Campus Dining for two decades.
‘That’s love’: Sitting down with Edith from the CJL By Ben Angarone Contributor
In the 20 years she’s been employed at Campus Dining, Edith Murray has swiped cards, worked in the kitchen, washed dishes, forged bonds with frequent diners at the Center for Jewish Life (CJL), and baked cookies. She’s famous for her welcoming presence and for her strong connections with students, which persist even after graduation, when alums meet with Edith during Reunions. Edith immigrated to the
Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: The Plight of the Uyghurs: Mass Internment in Western China Maeder Hall/ Maeder Auditorium, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
United States 40-odd years ago from Jamaica. She had family in the New Jersey area — a brother up by the Poconos, a sister in East Orange near Newark, various nieces and nephews scattered around the state. Her cousin was a manager in Campus Dining; when a slot opened, she applied, got the job, and started work at Princeton. Edith herself lives in Hamilton, N.J. — near a Walmart and a Save-a-Lot — just over 10 miles from Princeton. See EDITH page 3
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ing,” she wrote, “this vote is exceptionally flawed and could result in having a top 2 that are extremely unpopular/divisive … Announcing any of these speakers as the ‘undergraduate choice’ is, therefore, unrepresentative and unethical.”
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