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Nolan McCarty to serve as interim SPIA Dean By Jasmyn Bednar News Contributor
Mark Watson will step down as interim Dean of Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), and Nolan McCarty — a SPIA and politics professor and former chair of the Department of Politics — will serve as the new interim dean. “I am honored that the President and Provost have entrusted me to lead the SPIA community,” McCarty wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian. “In the meantime, our search for
a new dean is actively underway.” McCarty served as acting SPIA Dean from 2007 to 2008 and as Associate Dean (now called Vice Dean) from 2005 to 2011. He is also on the committee tasked with proposing a permanent replacement. The 11-member committee will send the recommended finalists to President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83, who will appoint the new dean with approval from the Board of Trustees. After former Dean Cecilia Rouse left to serve in
the Biden administration as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), Watson began his third stint as acting dean on Jan. 4. He previously served in the position during the financial crisis in 2009 and for a brief period in 2020. “Both were unusually eventful times for the world, the US, Princeton, and the School,” Watson wrote in an email to the ‘Prince’ for a previous article. Regarding his most recent appointment, Watson wrote to the ‘Prince’ in JanSee NEWS for more
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The Princeton School of Public Policy and International Affairs (SPIA).
COVID-19
COVID-19 cluster identified, athletes to temporarily submit extra tests By Mesonma Anwasi News Staff Writer
Following the identification of a COVID-19 “cluster” on campus, select students are being required to submit a third weekly test.
This group of students — which includes all varsity student athletes — will submit tests on every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from March 22 through April 9. Other students will still be testing
twice weekly. In a message explaining the situation to affected students on March 19, the Global and Community Health and COVID-19 Testing Teams at University Health Services (UHS) de-
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A COVID-19 saliva test taken on campus.
scribed “a cluster of COVID-19 cases” and explained that the University would be requiring students “connected to that cluster” to submit more tests. Senior Associate Director of Athletics Allison Rich conveyed the information in a message to athletes on the same day. “All student-athletes will be required to submit a covid-19 test three times per week — Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,” she wrote. The University did not specify exactly how many COVID-19 cases the “cluster” consisted of. In a statement to The Daily Princetonian, Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss emphasized that the University will continue to “monitor for potential common sources of infection or clusters and take appropriate steps to mitigate the potential spread of COVID-19.” The University has administered over 10,000 COVID-19 tests during every week since the start of the
semester, including over 6,000 to undergraduates weekly. Since the start of the month, the University has reported 14 total positive tests among undergraduates, according to the COVID-19 Dashboard. Since March 15, the Monday prior to the announcement, just two undergraduates have received a positive test result. Still, COVID-19 cases are rising in the region, with New Jersey seeing the highest rate of positive cases per capita of any state last week. Hotchkiss urged continued compliance with public health guidance and University regulations. “All students should continue to adhere to the social contract and public health best practices,” he wrote. Students and other University members are also encouraged to “take any opportunity they may have to be vaccinated against Covid as they become eligible according to the state’s See NEWS for more
SPORTS
Moments in March: Bill Bradley ’65 led the Tigers to their only Final Four run in school history By Wilson Conn Contributor
Before Pete Carril, before Jadwin Gymnasium, even before Princeton had won multiple games in an NCAA tournament, there was Bill Bradley ’65. Bradley is far and away the best basketball player to ever don the Princeton jersey. His accolades are impressive; he was a threetime All-American, 1964 Team USA Olympic athlete, 1965 AP Player of the Year, and has a spot in the Basketball Hall of Fame. He is the only Princeton men’s basketball player to accomplish any of those feats. “With Bill, you [were] sort of in every game… you can almost play anybody, and if Bill [played] well, you [were] going to do well… and Bill rarely had an off
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night,” teammate Ed Hummer ’67 remembered in a 2015 conversation with the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Bradley’s skill and consistency on the court had a lot to do with his impressive work ethic. John McPhee ’53 documented Bradley’s practice habits extensively in his profile of the Princeton star, the book “A Sense of Where You Are.” As a child growing up in Crystal City, Mo., Bradley stayed up late at night shooting baskets in the driveway. In high school, he borrowed the keys to the school gym so that he could stick to his practice schedule: three and a half hours Sunday to Friday, and eight hours on Saturday. According to McPhee, Bradley began every college workout by taking a
Columnist Dillion Gallagher alerts us to the presence and intersectionality of structural issues behind the recent Atlanta shootings, and urges Princeton students to regard and tackle these problems as systemic concerns.
manner of different types of shots from varying distances, systematically moving around the court. Bradley would not move to the next spot without making 10/13 shots from the area he was currently shooting. “Many basketball players,” McPhee wrote, “could spend five years in a gym and not make ten out of thirteen left-handed hook shots, but that is part of Bradley’s routine.” The precision with which Bradley played the game was almost scientific. He broke down each type of shot into a series of motions, which he would practice and perfect constantly. He also had unbelievable spatial awareness, which inspired the name of McPhee’s book. McPhee wrote about one practice
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1965 BRIC-A-BRAC / PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, VIA PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY
The 1964–65 Princeton Men’s basketball team.
session in which Bradley traveled to Lawrenceville School and shot on their baskets. After starting his shooting poorly, Bradley said that the rim was about one and one-half inches below regulation height. McPhee measured the height of the hoop, and he
Staff writer Tiana Ruden reviews “On the Basis of Sex” in time for Women’s History Month, a biopic detailing former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early law career.
found the basket measured one and one-eighth inches below regulation. He was mystified. “People can’t and don’t know the extent to which he had this aura… and in many ways almost because he never sought it. But he
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Check out Paige Min’s Pokémon-inspired cartoon “Sorry, I Couldn’t Recognize You.“