The Princeton Tory /April 25, 2024
On April 24, 2024, National Review (NR) published an article announcing that, according to leaked documents, students planned to organize a “Gaza solidarity encampment” at Princeton. Pro-Palestinian protestors have set up similar encampments at universities across the country in recent weeks, most notably at Columbia University. After the NR piece was published, Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun […]
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Darius Gross /April 24, 2024
Lawdan Bazargan is an activist and former political prisoner from Iran who is organizing a push for Princeton to fire Seyed Hossein Mousavian, currently on staff at Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security. Mousavian is a former Iranian diplomat who has been accused of involvement in the assassinations of Iranian dissidents in Germany. Late […]
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Darius Gross /March 27, 2024
On Thursday, March 21, Princeton’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) hosted Norman Finkelstein GS ’87 for a lecture titled “On the Gaza Genocide.” The talk centered on a comparison between the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews and Israel’s ongoing operations against Hamas in Gaza. During the lecture, Finkelstein refused to condemn Hamas for perpetrating […]
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Darius Gross /March 4, 2024
On Tuesday, February 27, the Department of English, the Department of African American Studies, and the Princeton Committee on Palestine (PCP) co-hosted the annual Edward Said ‘57 Memorial Lecture. The lecture was delivered by Samah Jabr, a psychiatrist and head of the mental health unit of the Palestinian Ministry of Health. In her talk, Jabr […]
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Darius Gross /February 15, 2024
On Friday, February 9, Princeton’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organized a student walkout to protest Israel’s campaign in Gaza. The assembly joined in chants and cheered on speeches in support of a “free Palestine” from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea, support of Houthi piracy, and the end of the […]
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Zach Gardner /January 9, 2024
On Sunday, December 9, 2023, former Princeton Tory Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Orbuch ’25 was elected Publisher of the 40th Managing Board. She selected editor Benjamin Woodard ’25 to serve as Editor-in-Chief. Orbuch is excited to assume her new role, but she also understands the immense responsibility it entails, given the current campus climate. “We are living […]
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Santhosh Nadarajah /November 13, 2023
On Thursday, November 9, at 12:00 p.m., Princeton’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) hosted a “Walkout for Palestine” on Princeton’s campus. The protest was coordinated as part of a nationwide campus walkout, with demonstrations also occurring at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and elsewhere. At the event, Tory reporters were obstructed […]
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Darius Gross /November 8, 2023
On Friday, November 3, the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) Committee on Naming held a symposium entitled “Monuments, Memory, and the John Witherspoon Statue.” According to a poster advertising the event, it was held to “explore memorialization, monuments in American art history, and the university campus as a space and a community” in […]
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Darius Gross /October 26, 2023
On Wednesday, October 25, at 12:00 p.m., a group of Princeton graduate students organized a “Walkout in Solidarity with Palestine” to call for a ceasefire and “free Palestine” during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Gemma Sahwell and Aditi Rao, Princeton graduate students, guided the crowd of about 300 people in chants that ranged […]
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Darius Gross /September 1, 2023
Welcome to Princeton, Class of 2027! You have just entered one of the most outstanding places in the country. In this square mile in central New Jersey, you will meet bright, curious peers and superb scholars. You will make lifelong friends. You will push your intellect farther than it’s ever gone before. If you’re anything […]
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Ethan Hicks /June 30, 2023
On June 29th, the Supreme Court ruled against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, declaring it unconstitutional to consider race in college admissions decisions. Following the Court’s landmark 6-3 decision, University President Christopher Eisgruber released a statement to the Princeton community denouncing the case’s outcome. Eisgruber remarked that the opinion is “unwelcome and […]
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Ethan Hicks /May 15, 2023
With the increasing popularity of environmentalism and social activism across the nation, Princeton developed a Sustainability Action Plan, which expresses the University’s intention to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions and reduce water usage, among other “action items.” In 2022, the University’s Board of Trustees voted to dissociate from 90 companies in service of its […]
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