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Friday April 7, 2017 vol. CXLI no. 38
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ON CAMPUS
Journalism course exposes students to trials of refugees
Wilson, Rockefeller college name new heads
By Rose Gilbert staff writer
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Jeremih will perform at the 2017 spring Lawnparties along with opener J.I.D on May 7.
Jeremih to headline Lawnparties By Marcia Brown head news editor
J.I.D will open for Jeremih at the 2017 Spring Lawnparties, as announced by the Undergraduate Student Government Social Committee on April 6 at 9:30 p.m. Branded LWNPRTYS MMXVII, the picks were premiered in a video made available to the student body. Chicago artist Jeremih is the 2015 iHeart Music Award winner, and is well-known for his hit single “Birthday Sex” and the more recent “Don’t Tell ’Em,” which was his third topten hit on the Billboard Hot 100. “I’m absolutely thrilled,” Social Committee Chair Lavinia Liang ’18 said. “We wanted an artist who can cover multiple genres, which I think our headliner does.” “We really wanted someone people can dance to and get excited about and get hyped about,” she added. J.I.D, who originally hails
from Atlanta, Ga., just signed with J. Cole’s Dreamville Records label in February. Additionally, the student artist choice is still up in the air, with applications for the student headliner competition called “Artist of the Year” closing tomorrow. Liang explained that general voting will take place next week, from April 10 to 14, with the winner being announced on April 17. The student headliner may perform on an alternate stage from Jeremih. Liang added that more information regarding student wristbands and guest tickets will also come out next week. The Social Committee will be staffing a table in Frist Campus Center starting tomorrow and running all through next week at which committee members will be raffling off Tshirts and signed Lawnparties posters. Merchandise such as shirts and stickers will go on sale next week.
ON CAMPUS
Former CIA director promotes “translucence” By Ruby Shao news editor emerita
Espionage defends liberty by promoting national security, former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden argued in a lecture on Thursday. “The secret pursuit of secret truth is not only compatible with, but essential to, American democracy,” he said. Hayden directed the CIA from 2006 to 2009, and he also directed the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005. As the principal deputy director of national intelligence, he represented the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the armed forces from 2005 to 2006. Hayden explained that espionage reduces fear. Fear causes people to tread on the rights, freedoms, and privacies of others, and eventually themselves. Therefore, security efforts deserve more credit. “American espionage is as old as the republic,” he noted, saluting President George Washington as the nation’s first spy-
master. The relationship between intelligence officials and any president of the United States fits a mold, Hayden said. Intelligence officials emphasize facts, deductive reasoning, pessimism, and the world as it is. Meanwhile, the president brings vision, inductive reasoning, optimism, and the world that Americans want. “The CIA exists only to make the President wiser and more effective. Period,” he said. According to Hayden, intelligence officials expected interactions to falter more than usual with President Trump, given the President’s known penchant for presuppositions. The President’s first security issue involved Russia’s interference in the United States presidential election. That problem grew when many Americans used the controversy over Trump’s victory to challenge his legitimacy as President-elect. It continues to wreak havoc even now, Hayden said. Hayden portrayed Russia as See HAYDEN page 3
In the summer of 2016, the University launched a new five-week course in which six students traveled to Greece to report on the refugee crisis from its front lines, working as foreign correspondents. On April 5, the students sat down with an audience to talk about their experience in this capacity. Over 30 people gathered in a meeting room in the Louis A. Simpson International Building to attend the panel discussion. Sandra Bermann, University professor of comparative literature and the head of Whitman College, started the event by discussing different “narratives of migration,” artistic and political, that the media presents to the public. She then introduced Joe Stephens, who is a Ferris Professor of Journalism in residence at the University and a veteran investigative journalist. Stephens said that while teaching journalism at the University, he noticed that the “Orange Bubble ... was not a good place to be an eyewitness to history.” This realization drove him to help create a new kind of course that would allow students to engage with journalism more practically and intensely than was possible in classes. He noted that, due to its recent financial collapse and the influx of refugees from Syria, Greece “immediately came to mind” as the site of this new program. Roughly a year before the program began, Stephens said he visited Lesbos, the Greek island closest to Turkey, to assess whether or not the island would be suitable and safe for a student trip. Stephens said that refugees had set up camps there in olive groves and on hillsides, supported by an unstructured but effective network of unaffiliated volunteers and NGO relief organizations. Stephens planned to have students live and work alongside the refugees and volunteers while telling their stories. However, by early 2016, the EU-Turkey deal, which mandated that some refugees in Lesbos be sent back to Tur-
key, had come into effect, derailing Stephen’s vision for the course. Refugees became increasingly confined to formal camps, surrounded by barbedwire fencing and guards, he said. In response to this sudden change, Stephens reorganized the course such that students would only stay in Lesbos for a week before moving on to Athens. He praised his students’ flexibility and composure in this, noting their ability to see through the “fog of the situation” to find a story worth telling. Not all of the students initially felt confident in their ability to find and report on a specific, significant narrative. Iris Samuels ’19 said she was “shocked and uncertain” when she first arrived in Greece. However, she said she quickly decided to focus on refugee children’s education in Greece. She presented the room with an image of an empty, fullystocked classroom in Greece, and she noted that although the United Nations had provided school supplies and furniture, the classroom remained unused when she visited — there was no teacher. Samuels, a former columnist for The Daily Princetonian, is also a recipient of the McAfee Award for independent journalism, which allowed her to travel to Turkey and Bulgaria and to continue reporting on the refugee crisis after the course ended. Hayley Roth ’17, who also focused on education in her investigation, said that she was “struck by the dichotomies” that existed between the Greece she saw as a tourist and the Greece she saw while speaking with refugees. Roth captured these dichotomies in photos, comparing the view of the Acropolis from her hotel to the abject conditions of the refugee camps. These weren’t the only tensions, Ally Malkovich ’17 explained. She noticed the tension caused by religious differences between largely Muslim refugees and overwhelmingly Greek Orthodox locals. She explained that there was another reality besides that of Greek hospitality, and she noted the rise of antiSee GREECE page 3
IMAGE BY IRIS SAMUELS
Students in the journalism class visited this makeshift refugee camp in the Port of Piraeus near Athens.
In Opinion
Today on Campus
The Editorial Board recommends policies for a better room draw experience, and Ryan Chavez defends an earlier column on the Rockville case. PAGE 4
2 p.m.: Yan Bennett of the Princeton U.S. China Coalition will give a talk “Legal Reform Under Xi Jinping” at 2 p.m. Friday, April 7, in East Pyne Hall, Room 010.
By Allie Spensley staff writer
Professor of Religion AnneMarie Luijendijk and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Clancy Rowley ’95 have been named the new heads of Wilson and Rockefeller Colleges. The professors were selected by Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, Senior Associate Dean of the College Claire Fowler, and Dean of the College Jill Dolan through an application process open to all full professors, Dolan wrote in an email. Luijendijk joined the University faculty in 2006 after receiving her doctorate from Harvard Divinity School. She specializes in the social history of early Christianity and is an associated faculty member in the Department of Classics and the Programs in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Hellenic Studies, Judaic Studies, and Medieval Studies. She also serves on Executive Committees in the Council of the Humanities, Iranian and Persian Studies, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, the Program in the Ancient World, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. Luijendijk said she has been interested in becoming a college head since she began teaching at the University. “I really enjoy engaging with Princeton students, and I like teaching in the classroom, but my philosophy of teaching is that teaching doesn’t only happen in the classroom,” Luijendijk said. “That really appeals to me, the opportunity to meet wonderful young people, and also to forge new and different connections between faculty and students, because we’re all in the business of learning and enjoying each other’s company.” Luijendijk said her experiences of traveling and dining with students have also contributed to her interest of becoming a college head. “I really believe in meals as places where wonderful conversations can take place,” she explained. “Once you know each other better, then you can know who to approach if you have a question about something. We’re about creating diversity and [about] knowing somebody’s story instead of just seeing them from a distance,” she said. Luijendijk anticipates that her first step as college head will be to “begin having conversations with the staff and with the students about what they think is important for the college.” She said that one aspect of Wilson College that appealed to her was the social activism at its roots. Wilson is the only residential college founded by students, inaugurated in the late 1950s as an alternative to exclusive eating clubs. “What I really like about Wilson is the history of social justice,” Luijendijk said. “That’s definitely a vision that I think is very important.” Luijendijk added she was looking forward to meeting students by inviting them to See HEADS page 2
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