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… she’s baaaaack.

Although I suppose she was never quite here to begin with — last time was sort of messy. Regardless, human rights advocate Nonie Darwish will be speaking at Princeton this Wednesday, March 24th at 4:30 in Whig Hall Senate Chamber. The event, titled “Human, Minority, and Women’s Rights Under Islamic Law,” is sponsored by Whig-Clio, The Tory, and The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)– and it’s bound to spark some campus controversy, given her (short) track record here.

Why the sudden change in heart? According to Whig-Clio:

Our policy on Ms. Darwish’s visit to campus is the same as it was last semester: so long as another campus group is willing to sign off on the legitimacy of Ms. Darwish’s beliefs, Whig-Clio is happy to throw its full institutional support and resources behind her visit. As such, when Tigers for Israel revoked its invitation last semester, Whig-Clio followed suit. Now that the Tory is willing to sponsor the event, Whig-Clio is more than willing to sign on.

In a joint press release, both groups noted that equally controversial speakers have been invited in the past, and that Darwish’s views by no means reflect their own. It’s fair to say that she’ll receive a less-than-warm welcome from many students, but the sponsors hope that those “who disagree with Darwish’s views will participate constructively in the event by asking thoughtful questions during the Q&A period following the lecture.”

We haven’t seen a Whig-Clio event this heated since, well, yeah. This should be interesting.

Mar 21, 2010

Nonie Darwish Redux

By Giri Nathan

Posted in Goings On Also tagged controversy, human rights, Islam, Nonie Darwish, take two, the Tory Leave a comment

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[Update 2/7/10: Here's a write-up of the event in the PAW --BKN]

For the first time since 2006, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel– architect of the ever-popular grade deflation policy– will be gracing the Whig-Clio Senate Debate to defend her brainchild. Hordes of deflatees await their chance to duke it out in a public forum.

Whig Hall Senate Chamber is about to get heated.

And I, your humble Giri Nathan, will be your eyes and ears. Behold.

8:35 PM

100+ students have packed into the chamber like so many dour, grade-deflated sardines. Some of said sardines are attired in snazzy suits. These are the debaters. The battle has yet to begin.

Dec 16, 2009

LIVE BLOGGING: Duking it out with Dean Malkiel, Whig-Clio style

By Giri Nathan

Posted in Goings On Also tagged anger, Dean Malkiel, Debate, grade deflation, Nancy Malkiel, sadness 4 Comments

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Princeton’s American Whig-Cliosophic Society awarded Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and sustainable development professor Jeffrey Sachs the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service tonight.

Sachs, who also serves as a special adviser to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon told the audience that rich nations need to remember that they have a responsibility to aid developing countries, as well as the less fortunate. It’s easy to ignore addressing poverty, Sachs said, and we do it. All of us. Even you. And especially Ronald Reagan and his “welfare queens,” a mocking phrase that launched us into what Sachs called a “war on the poor,” as opposed to “the war on poverty.”

“We need a change of ideas in this country. And I think we got the best hope of that…but we also have absolutely no assurance of fundamental change. We’re still stuck in some very very deep ideas in this country. We still have not come to the notion that we have to take care of each other and that’s a collective and political responsibility, not just a moral and individual responsibility.”

May 5, 2009

Jeffrey Sachs: Everybody hates the poors

By Angela Wu

Posted in Goings On Also tagged Environment, Jeffrey Sachs, lecture, poverty, sustainable development Leave a comment