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Dec 5, 2024 | 
dailyprincetonian.com | Bridget O'Neill |Miriam Waldvogel
University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 appeared on C-SPAN on Wednesday for a 30-minute segment as part of his role as the newly-elected chair for the board of the Association of American Universities (AAU), a group representing 70 top research universities. In a wide-ranging conversation, Eisgruber discussed the state of higher education, sharing his views on the boycott, divest, sanction (BDS) movement, the price of college, and the function of financial aid.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
dailyprincetonian.com | Annie Rupertus |Miriam Waldvogel
Referendum No. 5, which calls on the University to divest its endowment from companies involved in weapons manufacturing, will have formal opposition on the ballot when it goes to undergraduate voters at the beginning of next week.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
dailyprincetonian.com | Bridget O'Neill |Miriam Waldvogel
The Council of the Princeton University Committee (CPUC) met on Monday, Nov. 11, for its second meeting of the academic year. The University's endowment came under particular scrutiny, as the group discussed divestment from Israel and fossil fuel dissociation. The state of dialogue among students in the wake of the US presidential election marked another of the meeting’s major talking points.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
dailyprincetonian.com | Annie Rupertus |Eojin Park |Miriam Waldvogel
More than six months following the conclusion of Princeton’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” the 13 people arrested for occupying Clio Hall will have to wait at least another month for a trial date. During a brief zoom hearing Tuesday morning, defense attorney Aymen Aboushi requested a re-evaluation of a plea deal that would have allowed six of the protesters to plead guilty to a municipal noise ordinance.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
dailyprincetonian.com | Michelle Miao |Miriam Waldvogel
Two years after announcing that it would cut financial ties with certain segments of the fossil fuel industry, the University re-opened the door to research funded by those companies in an Oct. 3 letter to the faculty. “It’s not right for Princeton to promote sustainability initiatives when their research is being funded by the culprits [of the climate crisis],” said Raquel Rodriguez ’28, a member of Sunrise Princeton, at an Oct. 4 rally protesting the decision.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
dailyprincetonian.com | Miriam Waldvogel
An art installation on Wednesday, Oct. 8 sponsored by Tigers for Israel (TFI) and Chabad House on the Frist North Lawn, which was meant to draw awareness to the Israeli hostages held in Gaza and Hamas’ attacks on Oct.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
dailyprincetonian.com | Annie Rupertus |Nikki Han |Miriam Waldvogel
Several pro-Palestine student organizations held sparsely attended demonstrations on campus on the days leading up to Monday, Oct. 7, which marks one year since Hamas’s attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. About 15 people gathered in Firestone Plaza on the early afternoon of Oct. 7 to paint a large banner reading, “Glory to the martyrs, glory to the resistance” and read aloud the names and ages of Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military in the past year.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
dailyprincetonian.com | Sena Chang |Vitus Larrieu |Miriam Waldvogel
Over 200 members of the University community gathered on Monday, Oct. 7 for a memorial event marking one year since Hamas’s attack on Israel and commemorating the 101 hostages still held in Gaza. A second, smaller interfaith vigil the next day grieved “all those killed in the last year in the Middle East,” featuring prayers and poetry from multiple faiths and communities. The vigils showcased a broad range of reactions to the Oct.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
dailyprincetonian.com | Olivia Sanchez |Miriam Waldvogel
Plea deals for six of the 13 University affiliates arrested for occupying Clio Hall in April were rejected by Princeton Municipal Court Judge John McCarthy III ’69 on Tuesday. The seven other protesters have already opted to not take the deal and proceed to trial. The agreement, proposed by Municipal Prosecutor Christopher Koutsouris, would have entailed a guilty plea to a municipal noise ordinance, avoiding the current charge of defiant trespassing.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
dailyprincetonian.com | Olivia Sanchez |Miriam Waldvogel
After a series of court appearances over three months, the two graduate students arrested in the first moments of Princeton’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” pled guilty to a municipal noise ordinance on Tuesday. By accepting the deal offered by Municipal Prosecutor Christopher Koutsouris, they will each pay $33 in court fees. Judge John McCarthy III ’69 waived the accompanying $100 municipal noise ordinance fines for each person.
