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In Opinion Bennett McIntosh criticizes The Princeton Tory’s list of the 10 worst classes at Princeton, and Marni Morse discusses the recent Dartmouth sexual assault case. PAGE 4
Today on Campus 12 p.m.: The European Politics and Society Program will host a lecture on “The Mediatization of Politics: Political Themes in Contemporary Scandinavian Film and Television.” The lecture will be given by University of Copenhagen professor, Ib Bondebjerg. 219 Aaron Burr Hall.
The Archives
April 14, 1978 The People’s Front for the Liberation of Southern Africa led over 200 students in a sit-in at Nassau Hall calling for the divestiture of University stock in companies operating in South Africa.
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7 awarded Guggenheim Fellowships By Anna Windemuth staff writer
Faculty members Mung Chiang, Emily Thompson, Serguei Oushakine, Claire Vaye Watkins, Meghan O’Rourke, Andrew Cole and Devin Fore were among the 178 winners chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants to receive fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim Fellowships recognize accomplishments and propositions in academics, the arts or the sciences. Winners receive grants to further their work in time blocks lasting between six and 12 months. Although recipients can spend their grant as they choose, they have to submit a report outlining their accomplishments once the fellowship concludes. Applicants are assessed in groups according to their fields and examined by assigned experts whose final evaluations are forwarded to the selection committee, the foundation’s website explains. “All of us at the foundation are thrilled with the
2014 Guggenheim fellows,” Director of Development and Public Relations at the Guggenheim Foundation Robert Hatter said, adding that the variety of academic backgrounds represented through Guggenheim fellows makes the fellowship particularly unique. Oushakine, a member of the anthropology department, will be on sabbatical next year and plans to research the cultural development of former Soviet satellite states such as Belarus and Kyrgyzstan. “I’m interested in how … they’re dealing with their sovereignty, how they’re trying to link their historical past and how people in these places are trying to reimagine recent history, how they’re trying to reinvent new, independent cultures,” Oushakine explained. Oushakine also challenges the artistic nature of texts and tries to connect them to more general cultural practices, Philip Gleissner GS explained. “He has a very broad overview of the field and he constantly generates new ideas See AWARD page 2
PRIDE ALLIANCE SOCIAL
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The Princeton Pride Alliance hosted its annual Ice Cream Social in Frist Campus Center on Friday.
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News & Notes U. signs intellectual property rights commercialization agreement
The University signed an IP commercialization agreement with a UK-based intellectual rights commercialization company, IP Group PLC, on Wednesday. The company specializes in the commercialization of intellectual property rights developed at research universities around the world. The agreement will help develop “early stage” opportunities based on intellectual property developed at Princeton that IP Group will now have access to with this new agreement. The agreement has a pilot phase of 18 months and will cover a variety of subjects, including materials, clean technology, medical sciences, human sciences, information technology, electronics, communications and robotics. According to the IP Group website, John F. Ritter, the University’s Director of Office of Technology Licensing, said, “We are excited to be one of the first US universities to partner with IP Group. The collaboration will increase the potential for great companies to emerge from the innovative research at Princeton.” 5 U. affiliates named in Top 30 Thinkers Under 30 list The Pacific Standard named E. Glen Weyl ’07, Alisha Holland ’07, Eugene See NOTES page 3
Admiral and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael G. Mullen will be returning as a guest professor to Princeton this coming fall. He will be teaching the seminar WWS 318: U.S. Military and National and International Diplomacy, which he first taught in the fall of 2012. Mullen held the post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2007 to 2011 and was involved in overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before coming to the Wilson School for the first time in 2012, he also oversaw the operation to assassinate Osama bin Laden. Mullen said that he is looking forward to returning to the University because he has a passion for educa-
tion and enjoyed interacting with students at the University. He added that he was unfortunately not available to teach this year because of family commitments. “Part of the reason I was so excited to come in the first place, and am equally excited to return is because it gives me a chance to interact with young people and also to some degree impart my experience … in real world events that were very complex and very serious,” Mullen said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. Vice Dean of the Wilson School Keith Wailoo noted that the positive responses of students who took the course in fall 2012 motivated the decision to invite Mullen to return. “And it’s not every day that you can take a course from a decision
STUDENT LIFE
maker like Admiral Mullen,” Wailoo added. “We are very lucky to have any of his time.” The course he is teaching, Mullen explained, studies preeminent American diplomats stretching back to Benjamin Franklin but also examines historical US military endeavors to determine what lessons can be learned from them. However, Mullen also placed the topic of his course in a larger context, explaining that his broader concern is the detachment of the military from the American people. He noted that the military makes up less than 1 percent of the American population and that the American people were limitedly involved or affected by the recent wars. “I am a big believer that we have to work hard to create a better un-
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Tiger Admirers USG defends choice taken off Facebook to donate proceeds By Ray Mennin contributor
Tiger Admirers, a Facebook page that allowed University students to express love, affection and secret crushes for other members of the University anonymously, was recently removed from Facebook because it was found to be in violation of the website’s policies. The page’s format was that of an ordinary Facebook user, and students would submit poems, YouTube links and confessions to the Tiger Admirers inbox as if they were instant messaging a friend. The administrator of the page, whose identity has been maintained anonymous, would then post these messages as statuses so that University students who were friends of the page could view the posts on their news feed. “Reinstate Tiger Admirers,” a Facebook page created to gather support for Tiger Admirers’ return, explained that Tiger Admirers was shut down because it violated section IV part I of Facebook’s Statements of Rights and Responsibilities. “You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission,” the policy reads. As Tiger Admirers was a user profile rather than a fan page, it was in violation of this rule. The page explained that Tiger Admirers was originally created as a user profile rather than a fan page because its See ADMIRERS page 2
derstanding between the American people and our men and women in uniform,” Mullen said. “And that’s a two way street.” Former Princeton ROTC member and current Second Lieutenant in the US Army Zachary Beecher ’13 took Mullen’s class when it was first offered and said that the experience was exceptional. He explained that Mullen brought both an incredible amount of professional experience in pivotal moments of US military history and also invited distinguished guests to speak to the class regarding the creation of national security policy. The final project for the class, Beecher noted, was to identify and analyze key studies of US military diplomatic power, and the findings See ADMIRAL page 2
NIGHT MARKET
from Lawnparties By Durva Trivedi staff writer
USG social chair Logan Roth ’15 defended the committee’s decision to donate proceeds from Spring Lawnparties at the Senate meeting on Sunday. Responding to an audience member’s question, Roth replied that “that specific charity was chosen by a team of people on the social committee, and we chose it because it was local, education-based, and we though they did very good work.” He cited TEAM Charter Schools’ high matriculation rates and work in extremely impoverished areas as examples of the “good work” they provide. “I understand it’s somewhat politically controversial but I’ve said this before, I didn’t think it would be sensational, but this is a pilot year,” Roth said. “I’m so happy that students actually care. My worry was that students wouldn’t care, so next fall, I’m happy to take student input.” U-Council Chair Elan Kugelmass ’14 reiterated that no student funds will go to this charity, and that students who choose to buy merchandise will be knowingly supporting TEAM Charter See MEETING page 3
JOYCE LEE :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
The Night Market on Friday in East Pyne featured a number of clubs in a celebration of the Taiwanese night market culture.