Princeton Free Speech News & Commentary

Free speech coordinators monitor as students hold ‘die-in’ outside BP conference

Free speech coordinators monitor as students hold ‘die-in’ outside BP conference

May 08, 2023 1 min read

by Miriam Waldvogel and Jeannie Kim, Daily Princetonian

At a conference on Friday, May 5, executives from oil and gas companies British Petroleum (BP) and members of the University’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI), an academic research program within the High Meadows Environmental Institute, were met the sight of students lying on the Julius Romo Rabinowitz (JRR) atrium floor with their mouths duct-taped and eyes closed.

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Eisgruber lauds University's free speech climate, pitches free speech to progressives in student event

May 03, 2023 1 min read

by Janny Eng, Daily Princetonian

President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 is “very proud” of University students’ commitment to free speech, he said at an event hosted on Saturday by the Princeton Progressive Law Society.

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We should all be ashamed of what the Senior Survey shows

We should all be ashamed of what the Senior Survey shows

April 30, 2023 1 min read

by Matthew Wilson '24, Daily Princetonian

 

On April 22, the Daily Princetonian released the results of its highly anticipated annual Senior Survey. This year’s Senior Survey simply captures a snapshot of Princeton’s marred free speech culture. Those looking for the cause of the decay can find some answers in the many institutional failures that have taken place during my three years here: an accomplished professor’s highly politicized firing

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Commentary: Open Letter to Princeton Professor of History Martha A Sandweiss, director of the Princeton and Slavery Project

Commentary: Open Letter to Princeton Professor of History Martha A Sandweiss, director of the Princeton and Slavery Project

April 28, 2023 1 min read

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Commentary: Ronen Shoval’s position as a lecturer at Princeton is deeply concerning

Commentary: Ronen Shoval’s position as a lecturer at Princeton is deeply concerning

April 25, 2023 1 min read

by Eldar Shafir and Uri Hasson, Daily Princetonian

We write this to alert faculty, students, and the administration of the appointment of Ronen Shoval as Research Scholar and Lecturer in Politics, and to invite us to reflect on who we want to appoint to teach our students.

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THE PRINCETON & SLAVERY PROJECT MISLEADS ON WITHERSPOON; IT SHOULD BE CHALLENGED

THE PRINCETON & SLAVERY PROJECT MISLEADS ON WITHERSPOON; IT SHOULD BE CHALLENGED

April 25, 2023 3 min read

PFS Editorial

Much of the debate over the possible removal of the statue of John Witherspoon from the Princeton campus is based on information about Witherspoon’s involvement with slavery and the debate over abolition contained in the University’s Princeton & Slavery Project (the Project).

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