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Wednesday October 2, 2019 vol. CXLIII no. 80
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Activist Naomi Klein talks global climate justice imperative By Allie Spensley
News Editor Emeritus
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Canadian journalist Noami Klein is best known for her attacks on capitalism and globalization.
When Naomi Klein looks at the world today, she sees flames. There are three “fires” that the global community is facing, she told an audience at Richardson Auditorium on Tuesday, and they are increasingly converging. Klein gave introductory remarks before speaking with Assistant Professor of African American Studies KeeangaYamahtta Taylor about Klein’s new book, “On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal.” She is a Canadian journalist and activist widely known for her biting indictments of capitalism and globalization. The first “fire” that Klein identified is the central concern of her book: climate change. She cited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2018 report, which laid out both a plan and a deadline for global leaders to stave off
climate chaos. The plan, Klein said, was an “‘unprecedented transformation in virtually every aspect of society,’ in energy, in agriculture, in transportation, in building construction.” The deadline was twelve years, now down to eleven — what Klein described as a “very, very, very short window.” “Any of us who focus even tangentially on what we’re hearing from climate scientists knows that what we do or don’t do in the next handful of years will determine the lives and fates of hundreds of millions of people,” Klein said. The second “fire,” Klein said, is a political one. She pointed to the ascendancy of populist leaders in the U.S., Brazil, the Philippines, India, Australia, and Russia. In each of these countries, Klein said, politicians are defining national in-groups against a “sharply defined out-group, inside the respective countries and outside, on the borders …
the illegal, the illegitimate, the frightening other.” And these two fires — the “political and the planetary” — are linked, Klein added. “I think they are feeding each other,” she told the audience. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that at the very moment when the reality of climate breakdown ceases to be some future, abstract threat off in the indeterminate distance and becomes a lived reality, that at this very moment we have the global phenomenon of the rise of these strongmen figures, riling up hatred, turning populations against each other, using this fear and sense of scarcity.” Politicians like President Donald Trump and President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro are facilitating rather than fighting climate change, Klein said, from relaxed environmental regulation in the United States to wildfires rippling across the Amazon. Meanwhile, climate See KLEIN page 3
STUDENT LIFE
Lack of photos on Tigerbook not due to U. policy change By Zachary Shevin Assistant News Editor
Student photos have been unavailable on Tigerbook since Sept. 30. Tigerbook, an online directory of University students, was originally created by Hansen Qian ’16, Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen ’15, and Rohan Sharma ’14 for their capstone project in COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques. It currently allows for the viewing of students’ names, email addresses, majors, residential colleges, and, in some cases, campus mailing addresses or phone numbers. Only members of the University community can access the site, as it requires a login through the University’s Central Authentication Service. Prior to this year, Tigerbook also contained students’ residential colleges, dorm rooms,
roommates, hometowns, states, and countries. On Sept. 6, this information was removed from Tigerbook after the University “restricted directory information about students that may have been available to University community members.” The removal of photos, however, does not follow from any change in University policy, according to Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss. “The issue may be related to the transition of the College Facebooks to a new publishing platform,” Hotchkiss wrote in an email to the Daily Princetonian. “If Tigerbook’s developers reach out to the Office of Information Technology, staff there can talk with them about the issue and possible solutions.” Dr. Jérémie Lumbroso, the faculty member supervising the Tigerbook development team, explained that Tigerbook repack-
ages information provided by the University and sourced elsewhere. As a result, Tigerbook did not itself host the images. Instead, the photos had been on Roxen, “a Wordpress-like platform” that was taken down on Thursday. “This change was part of broader, much-needed, and amazing work undertaken by OIT, under the direction of George Kopf,” Lumbroso wrote in an email statement to The Daily Princetonian. He noted that such work aimed “to modernize our entire data infrastructure,” but that, “as a side effect of Roxen being taken down, Tigerbook lost access to the student photos. The developer on staff, Nick Schmeller, is working hard to fix this problem.” Lumbroso further wrote that Tigerbook received no advance notice from the University of the changes to hometown, dorm room, and photo information.
SCREENSHOT FROM TIGERBOOK
The Tigerbook profile of the Daily Princetonian’s Editor in Chief
“While over the years, there have been many friends of Tigerbook and student developers within Princeton campus (especially at OIT), it feels like Tigerbook is still a consistent afterthought, despite receiving traffic from an
overwhelming majority of undergraduates on campus,” he wrote. “This is probably part of a broader conversation about the legitimacy of student-developed apps used to streamline our campus experience.”
BEYOND THE BUBBLE
BEYOND THE BUBBLE
General Mark Milley ’80 sworn in as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Judge rules in favor of Harvard in admissionsdiscrimination suit
Staff Writer
General Mark Milley ’80 was sworn in as the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a ceremony on September 30. Milley will now hold the highest officer position in the United States military. Milley began his military career as a Reserve Officers’ Training Corp (ROTC) cadet during his time at the University. He was confirmed by the Senate in July and will now take over the role of President Trump’s most senior military adviser from General Joseph Dunford.
In Opinion
Milley received a bachelor of arts in politics from the University, served as an ROTC cadet, and played for the University hockey team. Since his time at the University, Milley has risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, serving as a four-star General before his appointment as Chairman. In his time as the 39th Chief of Staff of the Army, he led some of the largest counterterrorism efforts in U.S. history. During his swearing-in speech, he gave thanks to his classmates in college, as well as to the University’s hockey team. See MILLEY page 3
Columnist Claire Wayner argues the University’s #1 ranking doesn’t apply to all aspects of the University’s conduct, while columnist Braden Flax criticizes social norms that encourage civility over resistance. PAGE 6
By Mallory Williamson Senior Writer
On Monday, Sept. 30, Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled in favor of Harvard University in a civil-action lawsuit filed by Students for Fair Admissions, a group alleging that Harvard discriminates against AsianAmerican students in its admission process. The ruling holds that “the use of race benefits certain racial and ethnic groups that
would otherwise be underrepresented at Harvard and is therefore neither an illegitimate use of race or reflective of racial prejudice.” The decision follows months of media and public scrutiny of the Harvard admission process. Students for Fair Admissions argued that Harvard’s use of race in admissions is not in keeping with prior judicial allowances and that Harvard “discriminates against Asian-American applicants in the undergraduate admissions
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process to Harvard College in violation of Title VI.” In the suit, Harvard stressed that considering race in admissions furthers its mission “to create opportunities for interactions between students from different backgrounds and with different experiences to stimulate both academic and non-academic learning.” Harvard lawyers emphasized that race was never the sole factor in deciding the fate of a student’s application. Princeton and other elite See HARVARD page 2
WEATHER
By Rooya Rahin
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