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The world moves fast. Daybreak keeps you up-to-date.
Enjoy everything you need to know to stay informed — on campus and off — in this digestible, efficient podcast. Daybreak is produced by Vitus Larrieu '26, Isabel Jacobson '25, and Eden Teshome '25 under the 147th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian. The theme music was composed and performed by Ed Horan, and the cover art is by Mark Dodici.
Title: PGSU announces an election ft. Miriam Waldvogel — Monday, Apr. 15
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For the Daily Princetonian, I’m Theo Wells-Spackman. You’re listening to Daybreak.
Today, we cover the graduate student union’s intention to hold an election, a film created by Nuclear Princeton, the Anti-Defamation League’s campus antisemitism report card, and the possible extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
It’s Monday, April 15th.
I sat down with associate news editor Miriam Waldvogel to learn more about new updates from the graduate student union as they move toward an election.
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You can read more of our coverage at dailyprincetonian.com, or at the link in our shownotes.
In campus news, a film produced by Nuclear Princeton was featured on Rocky Mountain PBS last Friday. Nuclear Princeton is an undergraduate organization dedicated to exploring ways in which nuclear science sanctioned by the University has affected underrepresented and Indigenous communities. The film was created in collaboration with Twiddle Productions, a Hawaiian multimedia studio, and has been screened a number of times in the last two years. Now, it’s available for free in its entirety on YouTube at the link in our show notes. Nuclear Princeton has been in other local news this week, as Ella Weber ’25, who was awarded a Truman Scholarship for public service last week, is a research fellow with the organization. She is a Udall Undergraduate Scholar in Tribal Policy, and is part of SPIA’s Science and Global Security program. With this scholarship, Weber will attend the University of North Dakota School of Law.
In national news, the Anti-Defamation League released a report on campus antisemitism in the United States on Thursday. A number of Universities were given failing or near-failing grades on their support of Jewish communities on campus. Princeton received an “F,” with the ADL’s report citing an ongoing Title VI investigation by the Federal Department of Education and the absence of a dedicated advisory council to address antisemitism. Some leaders of Jewish campus organizations have pushed back against the ADL’s characterizations. Rabbi Gil Steinlauf of the Princeton Center for Jewish Life called the “F” grade [quote] “misleading.” Adam Lehman, the CEO of Hillel (an international Jewish organization with chapters on many campuses), said that [quote] “We do not believe it is constructive or accurate to try to assign grades to schools as a means of assessing the totality of Jewish student experience at those campuses.”
In international news, the U.S. Department of Justice is nearing the end of protracted negotiations surrounding the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The government of Australia, Assange’s home country, asked last week that the U.S. reach a plea deal with the defendant that would allow him to return home. Assange is currently imprisoned in the U.K., where courts have demanded assurances by tomorrow from their U.S. counterparts that Assange will be afforded free-speech protections analogous to those of a U.S. citizen. Princeton History professor Julian Zelizer has been outspoken regarding Assange in the past, as the conversation about what constitutes freedom of press has become more urgent. In a 2019 radio appearance, Zelizer was critical of Assange, saying [quote] “WikiLeaks is different than a newspaper or even a television network… it was directly giving these sensitive documents — without any kind of analysis or filter — to the public.”
Today, you can expect sunny skies, with a high of 77 and a low of 54 degrees fahrenheit.
That’s all for Daybreak today.
Today’s episode was written by me, sound engineered by Maya Mukherjee, and produced under the 148th managing board of the ‘Prince.’ Our theme was composed by Ed Horan, Class of ’22. For the Daily Princetonian, I’m Theo Wells-Spackman. Have a wonderful day.
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