March 6, 2018

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Tuesday March 6, 2018 vol. CXLII no. 22

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Five U. students awarded Liman fellowship By Hannah Wang Contributor

The Princeton University Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) has named Miranda Bolef ’19, Ramzie Fathy ’20, Micah Herskind ’19, Benjamin Laufer ’19, and Rebekah Ninan ’19 as 2018 Arthur Liman Fellows in Public Interest Law. The fellowship provides students with stipends for eight to ten-week-long summer internships involving public interest law-related work, with the goal of serving underrepresented populations and causes. The program is named after Arthur J. Liman, a lawyer who was renowned throughout his career for his dedication to the public interest. According to the program’s website, up to five undergraduate fellows are selected each year based on their “demonstrated merit and…commitment to public service” through past and current activities. Bolef is a concentrator in comparative politics, a co-president of Students for Prison Education and Reform, and a former investigator at the D.C. Public Defender Service. She hopes to use her fellowship to “better understand the legal structures which undergird America’s vast political and economic inequalities in order to build systems which defend true

justice and dignity for all people.” “I applied for a Liman Fellowship because I believe that public interest law is a crucial way to protect the rights and interests of groups without the funds or organizational capacity to otherwise secure legal representation, and I believe that protection of everyone’s rights is a fundamental obligation in a democracy,” Bolef wrote in an email. This summer, Bolef plans to work for either an impact litigation firm focusing on criminal justice reform or for a progressive District Attorney’s office. After graduation, she hopes to attend law school and work towards creating more just political and economic institutions, especially the criminal justice system. Fathy is concentrating in the Wilson School. As a co-founder of the Princeton Advocates for Justice and a former recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in Criminal Justice, he aims to use the Liman Fellowship to further his work in public defense for immigrants and refugees by guiding them through the legal documentation necessary for applications for asylum. “As a Liman fellow, I would be able to work with and learn from the key leaders of the social justice movement who can teach me how to further advocate for issues See LIMAN page 2

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Dionne is a long-time op-ed columnist for the Washington Post.

Political analyst Dionne Jr. talks voter engagement By Isabel Ting Assistant News Editor

Political analyst E.J. Dionne Jr. spoke about the American electorate under Trump’s presidency on Monday, discussing key points from the book he co-authored, “One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet-Deported.” Dionne began by answering his own rhetorical question: “How did we get here?”

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He explained that for the past 30 to 40 years, Americans have developed a “contempt for government” and the electorate has “turned the word ‘politician’ into an epithet.” “When it comes to government, there’s a popular assumption that those who spend their lives mastering the arts of administration and policymaking must be up to no good,” Dionne said. According to Dionne, in the post-election debate, Democrats, progressives,

and liberals often mistakenly argued that America faced a choice between two strategies: to forget about identity politics, which concerns minority groups such as the Latinx and LGBTQ+ communities, or to forget about the white working class. Dionne said he rejects both strategies. “We need a new spirit of empathy in our nation that grasps the equities of our society in both class and See DIONNE page 2

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PPPL papers included in Department of Energy’s research milestones Contributor

IVY TRUONG :: CONTRIBUTOR

Milk & Cookies, which recently opened a store, sells 14 types of cookies.

Milk & Cookies delivery service opens store on Chambers Street By Ivy Truong Assistant News Editor

University students no longer have to wait for their cookies from Milk & Cookies to be delivered. They can now get their sugar fix from the company’s store, which opened on Feb. 27. “It’s been mind-boggling. People keep coming in and buying cookies,” owner Lauren Ariev Gellman said. Milk & Cookies opened up their new storefront at 14 Chambers St. Before then, they were delivery only, operating between 8 a.m. and 2 a.m. from Tuesday to Sunday. The current

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shop is also open every day except Monday, with varying hours. Gellman has planned to open up a brick-and-mortar shop ever since she began her delivery service in 2016. The service is popular among students at the University. Student groups often utilize the Milk & Cookies catering service for study breaks. But Gellman noted that being deliveryonly was never the final goal for Milk & Cookies. “We’ve been trying to get here,” she said. “It just took a little while.” According to Planet Princeton, the shop now

Members of the Honor System Review Committee discuss the status of Honor Code reform. Columnist Anika Yardi and guest contributor Aaron Tobert examine gun-control reform in the wake of the Parkland school shooting. See PAGE 5 for crossword.

stands at the site of a former nail salon. The store sells 14 types of cookies, including the traditional chocolate chip cookie, and have introduced a unique “London Foggy” cookie, which is f lavored with Earl Grey tea, according to Gellman. Milk & Cookies also sells beverages. Gellman said that the reaction to the store has been all-around positive, with many customers praising her decision to open a store in addition to the delivery service. The building has had a sign on its window See COOKIES page 3

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science included four papers from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in a collection of its most influential scientific papers of the past 40 years. The collection, entitled “40 Years of Research Milestones,” celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the DOE’s Office of Science. The Office of Science described itself in an official statement as “the nation’s largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences and the home of groundbreaking work in the biological and earth sciences.” “For 40 years, the Department of Energy Office of Science has been supporting basic research to tackle big questions,” James Van Dam, associate director of the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, said. The DOE’s Office of Science manages PPPL, a research institution focused on the physics of plasmas and fusion energy. PPPL is located on the University’s Forrestal Campus. Of the forty papers in “40 Years of Research Milestones,” two are PPPL studies. One is from research conducted at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, which collaborates with PPPL, and one is authored by Dr. Nat Fisch, professor of

Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Scott Denmark from the University of Illinois presents “Transmetalation in the Suzuki-Miyaura CrossCoupling Reaction” in Taylor Auditorium B02 in Frick Chemistry Laboratory.

astrophysical sciences at the University and associate director for academic affairs at PPPL. In 1978, Dr. Fisch drew on his doctoral dissertation to suggest the usage of radio frequency waves in order to maintain the electrical current that creates helical magnetic fields in plasma-storing tokamaks. Then, in 1989, the Princeton Beta Experiment at PPPL showed how to measure that same helical magnetic field by interpreting the photons emitted by atoms injected into the plasma. In 1990, physicists at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility discovered how to shear the flow of plasma in order to reduce turbulence and facilitate fusion. Finally, in 1994, PPPL used a mix of deuterium and tritium, two isotopes of hydrogen, to produce record amounts of fusion power. According to Van Dam, the papers were selected for their impact on science in general and are representative of the “world-class research supported by DOE.” In a press release, Dr. Michael Zarnstorff, deputy director of research at the PPPL, stated that the PPPL papers illustrate the progress made in fusion energy and plasma physics study in the DOE program.

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