Founded 1876 daily since 1892 online since 1998
Thursday December 8, 2016 vol. cxl no. 114
{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } LECTURE
Younger talks feminism, causes for equality By Samvida Venkatesh senior writer
Challenging and changing the narrative around the word “feminism” is key to moving toward an equitable society, said activist Teresa C. Younger in a lecture on gender, power, and equality. Younger, who is the president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, said that a poll conducted by her organization revealed that only 16 percent of people labeled themselves as feminist, yet 94 percent of people believed that everyone had the right to equal opportunities. “Nearly every group I spoke to — black women, lesbian women, men — didn’t want to label themselves feminist, because they weren’t being invited to the table,” she explained. She noted that seeing this made the Ms. Foundation for Women define feminism as the “social, politi-
cal, and economical equality of all genders.” Younger added that moving toward a post-feminist society first required moving away from a post-patriarchal era. Again, she explained that she used caution to define patriarchy before dismantling it, claiming that it was a vague and misunderstood word. “The textbook defines patriarchy as the systematic consolidation of the majority of power in the world by white men, and exclusion from power is based on identities of race, sexual orientation, religion, and often immigration status,” she said. Claiming to be an activist rather than an academic, Younger urged students to devote themselves to public service. “Students ask what they can do, and I tell them to get involved in municipal, county, and state level See FEMINISM page 2
RAINY DAY
U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S
KIRSTEN TRAUDT :: CONTIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Facutly and staff will start moving into the complex on Thursday, Dec. 15.
U. finishes renovation of 20 Washington Road By Kirsten Traudt staff writer
The University completed an extensive renovation of the 20 Washington Road, which will provide a new home to ten academic departments and five international programs. The building was formerly used to house the Frick Chemistry Laboratory. The building will bring the whole economics department, which has long been housed in separate buildings, under one roof. It will also house a number of learning and research centers for
many departments, including the Wilson School, the Bendheim Center for Finance, the International Economics Section, the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, the Industrial Relations Section, the Education Research Section, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the JulisRabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance, and the Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy. The international programs moving into the building are the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Davis International Center,
the Office of International Programs, the Council for International Teaching and Research, and the Princeton in Asia, Princeton in Africa, and Princeton in Latin America programs. Faculty and staff affiliated with these departments will begin moving into the 200,000 square foot complex, which includes the Louis A. Simpson International Building and the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, between Thursday, Dec. 15, and Wednesday, Dec. 21. The buildings, located just off Nassau Street, augment See BUILDING page 2
LECTURE
News & Notes Argue receives nomination for Grammy award By Charles Min associate news editor
Darcy James Argue, conductor of the Princeton University Creative Large Ensemble, was nominated for a Grammy award. His album, tilted “Real Enemies,” was named a finalist in the “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” category. Argue is a Canadian-native jazz composer who attended McGill University and later attended the New England Conservatory to study composition. He currently resides in Brookyln, NY. His album “Real Enemies” was recorded by his ensemble Secret Society, which he started in 2005
and whose first album “Infernal Machines” was nominated both for the Grammy award for “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” in 2011 and the Juno award for “Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year” in 2010. “Real Enemies” has received critical acclaim, being called “an oddball masterpiece” and “creepy fun soulful shiversome stuff” by critic Fred Kaplan. At the University, Argue leads the Creative Large Ensemble, which made its debut last Saturday at Richard Auditorium, where they performed music by Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Mary Lou Williams, and other modern artists.
Leonard, Rosen, Schambra talk on illiberalism, the progressive era By Sarah Hirschfield staff writer
Thomas Leonard, a research scholar at the The Council of the Humanities and a lecturer in economics, led a discussion on his new book on illiberalism during the Progressive Era, eugenics, and the presidential election. The discussion was held in conjunction with Christine Rosen, senior editor at The New Atlantis, and William Schambra, senior fellow at Hudson Institute. Leonard began by setting the historical stage, noting that the progressives permanently altered the course of American economic and public life. From the late 19th century through World War I, there was a vigorous national debate on where and how the government should respond to economic crises, according to Leonard, and the progressives were able to institutionalize their views, even on race and heredity. He moved on to discuss why he characterizes the progressives as “illiberal reformers” in his book. In contrast to liberals
in the late 19th Century, who were “committed to individual freedom... free soil, free labor, free trade,” progressives were “close-minded, intolerant, and bigoted,” Leonard said. “Progressives called this laissez-faire, said it was unjust, and led a crusade to dismantle it,” he said, adding that they were dismissive of individual liberty in the process. The progressives promoted racial science and eugenics, he said. Woodrow Wilson himself advocated the reestablishment of Jim Crow and segregation. “They portrayed themselves as unbiased technocratic elite that served the public,” Leonard explained, “but they were public moralists. They preached... a social gospel.” Leonard noted that we find some of the progressives’ ideas repugnant, but not all were. Even the bad ideas are significant because they were most likely considered good ideas at one point. “We will look barbarous in our views 100 years from now, I promise. Progressives thought they had it right, and they thought they were the best and
In Opinion
Today on Campus
Columnist Daehee Lee reflects on a shared feeling of community among international students in the wake of political crises, and Senior Columnist Beni Snow offers a critique of the current USG voting system.. PAGE 5
8 p.m.: Princeton University Rock Ensemble will present its winter show “The Way Home. Frist Campus Center Performance Theatre.
the brightest.” The progressives made the world we live in, he said, not metaphorically, but literally. They turned economics and other social sciences into academic institutions, invented think tanks, and created new professions such as muckrakers, social workers, and management consultants. “Americans can’t understand ourselves and our place in the world without understanding its authors,” he said. These authors were mostly white, middle class, and Protestant, and wanted to redeem America and the world through economic and social reform. “There was a moral and intellectual dissatisfaction of the suffering of others,” Leonard said, but progressives “romanticized a brotherhood they would never consider joining.” He went on to explain what the progressives looked like in practice. “Progressives got their economics from Germany,” he said, “and that was historicism. The way the world works See ILLIBERAL page 3
WEATHER
IRIS SAMUELS :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
HIGH
46˚
LOW
26˚
Cloudy. chance of rain:
0 percent