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Tuesday april 19, 2016 vol. cxxxix no. 50
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U. to archive records of activism By Jessica Li news editor
Princeton University Archives acquisitioned records from 15 different student organizations after a week-long campaign to collect documents on campus activism, said Jarrett Drake, a digital archivist at the University Archives. The initiative was spearheaded by Chase Hommeyer ’19, a student worker at the archives. Hommeyer explained that the project, which took place between April 7 and 15, was inspired by the notion that there is an absence of activism on campus. “I think there’s this perception that Princeton students don’t act. People from outside [the University] don’t perceive Princeton as active on any issues,” she said. However, Hommeyer noted that she felt the protests that occurred across campus last November were more in line with “Princetonian” values, such as being in the nation’s service. “I thought it was important that we don’t remain closed-mind when looking back and that we think about these protests with more respect,” she said. Last semester, the protests by the Black Justice League drew
a wide array of responses from students. The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board authored an op-ed arguing against renaming the Wilson school. Hommeyer further noted that traditionally, University archives have only preserved official documents, such as records pertinent to the Board of Trustees and the administration. However, recently, more forward-thinking archivists have observed the importance of documenting student events, an aspect previously neglected, she said. As a part of the campaign to garner student participation, Hommeyer wrote nine different emails delivered to listservs that drew attention to the history of campus activism in the last century. In one email, Hommeyer wrote that in April 1970, “2,500 Princeton students gathered in the Chapel to protest war escalation. [And] almost 200 students turned in their draft cards in protest.” Hommeyer worked with Drake to process the documents that were collected, she said. Drake explained that during the acquisition period, the archives received photographs, email exSee ARCHIVES page 3
BEYOND THE BUBBLE
STUDENT LIFE
JAKE SCINTO :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Thousands of students gathered at TruckFest on Saturday, making it one of the most popular events of the year.
Annual TruckFest raises around $33,000 for charity By Hannah Waxman staff writer
Approximately 5,000 students and community members f locked to Prospect Avenue this past Saturday to attend TruckFest, an annual event hosted by University eating clubs and organized by the Community Service Inter-Club Council in conjunction with the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. CSICC co-chairs Cason Crane ’17 and Rachel Margulies ’16 noted that earnings from this year’s event came out to $9,000 more than the earnings from last year. Judging by ticket sales,
Margulies estimated that this year’s profit was around $33,000. Final calculations as to this year’s exact profit have not been completed as of press time. The proceeds from the event will go to Meals on Wheels of Mercer County and Send Hunger Packing Princeton, a collaboration between the Princeton Human Services Commission, the Mercer Street Friends Food Bank and Princeton Public Schools. This initiative works to provide meals for schoolchildren in the Princeton community over the weekends when students cannot receive food at
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school. The total income from ticket sales was $56,000, according to Crane. The revenue partly goes towards paying the food trucks and covering other costs for the Pace Center and the Princeton Prospect Foundation, Margulies explained. The approximate cost of the event is upward of $20,000, Crane said. This was the first year that the event also had University sponsorship, Crane noted. The University provided funding, allowing for 50 percent more trucks than had previously been invited See TRUCKFEST page 2 LECTURE
UMCPP, PHS sued for alleged Soyinka medical record breach discusses staff writer
BING LI :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
A woman campaigns for immigrant rights outside the Supreme Court.
U. affiliates file amicus brief supporting DAPA By Marcia Brown staff writer
Seven University faculty, alumni, and affiliates have filed amicus briefs in support of the plaintiffs in United States v. Texas, a Supreme Court case argued on Monday examining the constitutionality of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program. DAPA, a program announced by United States President Barack Obama in 2014, defers deportation or removal proceedings for undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States since 2010 and who have children who are American citizens or green-card holders. In December 2014, Texas, along with 25 other states challenged the constitutionality of DAPA in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, citing
states’ rights and limitations to the federal government’s scope. Subsequently, in February 2015, the presiding judge issued an injunction that prevented the program from going into effect. Douglas Massey GS ’78, the Henry G. Bryant professor of sociology and public affairs at the Wilson School, has joined 12 scholars at other institutions in filing an amicus brief in support of DAPA. In the brief, the authors noted that an increased number of authorized workers will bring multiple benefits, including a more leveled “playing field for law-abiding businesses,” increased Social Security and tax revenue and a growing GDP. “Work authorization for individuals granted deferred action pursuant to the DHS Memorandum would be unlikely to adversely imSee DAPA page 2
An HIV-infected hospital employee whose medical records were allegedly breached by a coworker recently sued the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro and its parent company Princeton Healthcare System for privacy violations and workplace discrimination. UMCPP provides medical services not available to University members at McCosh Health Center, such as alcohol detoxification and intensive care. UMCPP was formerly sponsored in part by the University. The plaintiff in the case, who has been employed as a housekeeping aide at the UMCPP since approximately 1988, filed the complaint in early April in Mercer County Superior Court, naming the UMCPP and its parent company PHS as defendants. According to the complaint, the plaintiff was hospitalized in May 2013 in PHS, during which time several documents were created with references to her HIV positive status. In April 2014, the plaintiff received a letter from a Compliance and Privacy Officer in PHS stating that one of her colleagues, who was unidentified in the correspondence, had ac-
cessed her medical records on August 2013, according to the complaint. The letter also referenced a subsequent investigation with “appropriate action” being taken against the colleague. The plaintiff’s complaint mentions that it is uncertain why PHS decided to notify the plaintiff of the breach months after the incident. The brief further stated that the plaintiff alleged that “upon learning of the accessing of her HIV-related records, the Plaintiff was caused to suffer severe emotional distress and embarrassment at work.” “The Plaintiff has seen and heard co-workers gossiping about her and her HIV status, and has been treated with hostility from her co-workers and superiors from the time she became aware of the unlawful disclosure to the present, inclusive of nitpicking and being forced to perform duties outside of her job description,” the brief alleged. This sequence of events constitutes a violation of the New Jersey AIDS Assistance Act, according to the brief. The plaintiff did not respond to requests for comment. Amy Stutzke, the plaintiff’s attorney, did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson at Princeton See HIV page 3
In Opinion
Today on Campus
Contributor Victoria Gruenberg reflects on overcommitment, and FIRE Director of Litigation Catherine Sevcenko claims the University’s speech policies threaten students’ rights. PAGE 4
5:30 p.m.: Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate, will deliver the Toni Morrison Lecture titled “Sweet are the Uses of Diversity.” McCosh Hall, Room 10
trees as metaphor
By Catherine Wang contributor
Trees have played an intimate and even dynamic role in the development of human history, especially on the African continent, said Wole Soyinka in a lecture on Monday. Soyinka, who is from Nigeria, became the first African Nobel laureate when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. His written work tells stories of democracy, government, religion and tensions around tradition and progress. Soyinka traced the significance of trees in human history, claiming that it is possible that it was under trees that our ancestors discovered a sense of security and community. The other possible option would have been caves. However, Soyinka claimed that caves are static and removed from the possibility of change. They have long been the residence of “some of the most vicious monsters in stories,” from antiquity to the See LECTURE page 3
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