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Wednesday February 7, 2018 vol. CXLII no. 3
{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } STUDENT LIFE
Six SINSI internship recipients announced By Isabel Ting Contributor
The Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative Internship Program selected six Class of 2019 students to participate in its public service program this summer. Michael Asparrin, Mikaela Gerwin, Julia Herrle, Tylor-Maria Johnson, Aaron Sobel, and Sophie Troyka were selected as the newest SINSI interns. The SINSI Internship Program funds six 8- to 10-week summer internships with the federal government, granting students exposure to public service either domestically or abroad. Students can receive up to $500 per week to cover their living and travel expenses during the unpaid internship. While this year’s interns are all juniors, the internships are open to all Princeton undergraduates in their sophomore or junior years. In addition to receiving funding, the interns receive guidance from the SINSI directors in selecting internships and bypassing security clearances or background checks. The directors also serve as mentors throughout the internship. Past internships have included positions at the White House; U.S. Embassies; Departments of Treasury, State, Education, Energy, Justice; and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Asparrin, from Ewing, N.J., interned at the nonprofit organization Make the Road New Jersey in summer 2017 through the Princ-
eton Internships in Civic Service program, where he worked with working-class and low-income immigrants in Elizabeth, N.J. On campus, Asparrin is concentrating in the Wilson School, focusing on conflict and cooperation, and pursuing certificates in History and the Practice of Diplomacy and Spanish Language and Culture. He is also the chair of the Association of Latinx Activism and Service, serves on the Princeton Latinos y Amigos executive board, and is a student representative on the Priorities Committee in the Office of the Provost. Gerwin, from New York, N.Y., interned with Boston Healthcare for the Homeless during the summer of 2016, where she worked with doctors and case managers to ensure that homeless individuals received primary care and housing services. Before coming to Princeton, Gerwin spent a gap year in Peru teaching English and working on community health programs. In spring of 2018, she will study abroad at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. On campus, Gerwin is a history concentrator, pursuing a certificate in Global Health and Health Policy. She has served as a student leader at the Center for Jewish Life, a weekly ESL teacher at El Centro in Trenton, and a peer academic adviser in Forbes College, among other leadership positions. Herrle, from Wexford, Pa., conducted research on the effects of See SINSI page 3
STUDENT LIFE
ON CAMPUS
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A Mexican school teacher messaged Feinberg, “‘Coco’ reminds us to keep positive in hard times.”
Feinberg talks Pixar art, ‘Coco’ By Ivy Truong Contributor
Officially, Danielle Feinberg is the Director of Photography for Lighting at Pixar Animation Studios. Unofficially, she helps bring imagined worlds to life. Feinberg started her career at Pixar in 1997 when she worked on “A Bug’s Life.” Since then, she has worked on multiple feature films, such as “Toy Story 2,” “Ratatouille,” “Monsters, Inc.,” “WALLE,” and “Brave.” Her most recent film, “Coco,” was released this fall. She also mentors girls to try to get them interested in coding. In a lecture on Wednes-
day entitled “The Art and Science of Pixar,” Feinberg discussed the intersection of art and technology in computeranimated films. Feinberg shared clips and animations in films that she has worked on, attempting to show the complexity and the care that go into each film. For instance, the care it took to create the detailed landscape and setting in “Brave” required the creation of new technology that would display the details of the vegetation in the most efficient way possible for the computer to render. “Normally what happens is you do something that’s much more compli-
cated than pressing a button,” Feinberg explained. Though each film is reliant on innovative technology and software, Feinberg emphasized that heart is just as important. “It wouldn’t be a Pixar movie without imbuing the whole thing with heart,” she said. In one example, Feinberg explained what it took to “humanize” the robot in WALL-E. Her team found it hard to depict emotion in WALL-E’s “binocular” eyes, which were animated as finely detailed camera lenses. “We’re trying to make a movie where we’re trying to convince you guys as an audience that this See PIXAR page 2
U . A F FA I R S
Students walk out University establishes partnership after professor says with BioLabs start-up project N-word in lecture Contributor
By Claire Thornton Head News Editor
Several students walked out of an anthropology lecture Tuesday afternoon when a professor allegedly asked a question in which he used the word “n****r,” according to several students in the class. Another student said he intends to drop the class due to the professor’s remarks. Recordings of the incident were also provided to the ‘Prince.’ According to students, during lecture for the course ANT 212: Cultural Freedoms, anthropology professor Lawrence Rosen asked students, “What is worse, a white man punching a black man, or a white man calling a black man a n****r?” The lecture focused on the topic of oppressive symbolism. “He was describing what is acceptable as free speech and what is not,” explained Devyn Holliday ’18 in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. According to students,
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Rosen allegedly said the word “n****r” twice more as part of discussions after his original question. Rosen was unavailable for comment at the time of publication. “All the black students were looking at each other, as if asking whether he actually said that,” said Destiny Salter ’20. There were about six black students in the lecture, Holliday said. According to Holliday, E Jeremijenko-Conley ’20, who identifies as white, responded to Rosen by saying, “I’m not comfortable with a white professor using the N-word.” Holliday told the ‘Prince’ that Malachi Byrd ’19 allegedly asked Rosen, “So are you just going to keep using the N-word?” According to Salter, Rosen allegedly responded, “Yes, if I think it’s necessary.” After this, Byrd walked out of lecture. Later on, three more students also walked out, according to Jeremijenko-Conley. Byrd did not respond to See LECTURE page 5
Contributing columnist Liam O’Connor warns peers about the dangers of posting photos of debauchery on social media, in this week of eating club initiations. PAGE 6
The University has partnered with BioLabs — a national network of shared labs and office facilities — to open a business incubator for science startups on the James Forrestal Campus, less than three miles away from the main campus. Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs will be a 31,000 square-foot-facility that can hold up to 25 startups and contains 68 lab benches, private offices, and hot desks. The business incubator and coworking space are part of an effort by the University to support innovation and research. “We believe entrepreneurship enhances our capacity for societal service and global leadership,” said Paul LaMarche, vice provost for space programming and planning. Co-founder and CEO of BioLabs Johannes Fruehauf explained that coworking spaces attract people who are inspired to develop their idea into something that affects the world with tangible benefits. “These centers act as
catalysts,” Fruehauf continued. “At the very least, they are locations for people to get together who are inspired and who want to create something with the findings that they developed.” Because of costs of labs and permits, development of these companies is usually expensive, Fruehauf explained. BioLabs’ model relies on sharing space and lab facilities among dozens of users. “The coworking model can reduce science startup costs by a factor of 10 and accelerate the timeline for setting up a lab facility by six to nine months,” Fruehauf said. BioLabs’ primary goal, however, is only to get the start-up off the ground. The intention, according to Fruehauf, is to prioritize the project’s start and maximize the startup’s chances for success. Therefore, the start-ups would be more likely to stay in the area. Once they prove the science behind their idea, most start-ups at BioLabs eventually raise more money and “outgrow” BioLabs, Fruehauf explained. According to one case study based on a BioLabs
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location in Cambridge, many of the start-ups launched ended up within four miles of the center. Fruehauf and Nishta Rao, site director for the location in Princeton, attribute this success to the variety of resources offered to the start-ups that can make staying near a BioLabs location very attractive. “You don’t need to put the handcuffs on,” Fruehauf said. “You just have to make it easy and logical for them to stay, and then they will stay.” Working at BioLabs will not only provide access to necessary technology and lab space but will also help cultivate connections between entrepreneurs and start-ups, building a network of mentors and advisers. Entrepreneurs and start-ups can receive help to meet with lawyers and learn more about intellectual property and patent law. “When we say coworking space and state-of-theart resources, that’s really just the first layer,” Rao said. In addition to Cambridge and Princeton, the company also has centers See BIOLABS page 4
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