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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.
Postdocs’ steps towards a union ft. Miriam Waldvogel — Tuesday, Apr. 2
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For the Daily Princetonian, I’m Twyla Colburn. You’re listening to Daybreak.
Today, we cover a letter delivered to Nassau Hall by postdoctoral scholars regarding an anticipated union election, search warrants issued to Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr., a ruling allowing six-week abortion bans in Florida, and a data leak impacting over 70 million AT&T customers.
It’s Tuesday, April 2nd.
Yesterday, around 50 postdoctoral students delivered a letter to Nassau Hall calling on the University to remain impartial during an anticipated election among postdoctoral students to unionize. I sat down with news editor Miriam Waldvogel to learn more.
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You can read more at dailyprincetonian.com, or at the link in the show notes.
In local news, Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. and his attorney Ed Jacobs spoke to the press yesterday about search warrants issued to the mayor and his wife, Atlantic City Schools Superintendent Dr. La’Quetta Small late last week. Jacobs said that the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office had been investigating [quote] “a personal and emotional family matter within the Small household” for at least three months. Small also responded to several rumors that started after images of the search surfaced on Thursday. In response to a rumor that his daughter had been pregnant and that he had beaten her until she lost the pregnancy, Small said [quote] “My daughter is not pregnant. My daughter has never been pregnant.”
In national news, the Florida Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the State Constitution’s unique privacy protections do not provide protection for abortion. The state currently has a ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The new ruling will allow a ban on the procedure after just six weeks, signed by Governor Ron DeSantis last year, to go into effect by May 1st. However, at the same time as the ruling on the privacy clause was released, the justices also approved a state constitutional amendment to go on the ballot in November allowing voters to decide whether or not to guarantee the right to abortion [quote] “before viability,” which is generally around 24 weeks. In the past, many individuals from Southern states have traveled to Florida for abortions due to the fact that Florida’s policy was more relaxed than the surrounding states. This will no longer be the case when the new ban goes into effect. Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022, Princeton’s Student Health Plan added coverage for individuals to travel in order to access reproductive health care if [quote] “it is unavailable in-network within 100 miles of the patient’s home.”
In international news, AT&T recently announced a data leak that has impacted over 70 million current and past users. This data, which may include an individual's social security number, email address, date of birth, phone number and more, is now available both on the dark web as well as a public hacker forum. The company responded by resetting the passwords of 7.6 million active users this past Saturday and launching an investigation into the matter. This comes after AT&T originally denied that its systems were breached after a hacker claimed to have gained access to 73 million customer accounts three years ago.
Today, you can expect rain throughout the day, with a high of 48 and a low of 42 degrees Fahrenheit.
That’s all for Daybreak today.
Closer: Today’s episode was written by Yusuf Abdelnur and me, sound engineered by Theo Wells-Spackman, 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 Twyla Colburn. Have a wonderful day.
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