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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 Maya Mukherjee '27, Twyla Colburn '27, Sheryl Xue '28 under the 149th 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: Arrest Warrant Obtained for Almagia ’73 ft. Kaitlynn Lee — Monday, Nov. 4
For The Daily Princetonian, I’m Maya Mukherjee. You’re listening to Daybreak.
Today, we cover an arrest warrant for a Princeton-educated art smuggler, recipients of the University’s top alumni awards, the drought in New Jersey and a record-breaking North Korean missile launch.
It’s Monday, November 4th.
Last year, a search authorized by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office found that the Princeton University Art Museum was in possession of stolen artifacts. Several of these were allegedly linked to Edoardo Almagia ‘73, a Rome-based art dealer, who has been investigated for smuggling for the past twenty years. Last week, prosecutors obtained an arrest warrant for Almagia. I sat down with News Contributor Kaitlynn Lee to find out more.
You can read more of Kaitlynn’s coverage at dailyprincetonian.com or at the link in our shownotes.
In campus news, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan [class of] ‘81 and David Card [graduate class of] *83, a professor emeritus of Economics at UC Berkeley, are set to receive Princeton’s top alumni awards. Kagan will receive the Woodrow Wilson Award for her embodiment of Wilson’s call to service in his 1896 speech, titled “Princeton in the Nation’s Service.” President Eisgruber characterized Kagan as a [quote] “blazing legal intellect [who] has played a distinctive role in American jurisprudence.” Card will receive the James Madison Medal, which is given to a graduate alum who has had an [quote] “outstanding record in public service.” Card’s work on how minimum wage affects employment rates won him the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics. Both Kagan and Card will receive their awards on Princeton’s Alumni Day, February 22nd.
In state news, September and October were the driest consecutive months for New Jersey in recorded history. Over this period, less than an inch of rain fell on average statewide. The median rainfall for both months has historically been above three inches. David Robinson, a New Jersey climatologist, said that the reason for the drought is likely due to the high pressure that began in late August, which produced clear air and dry skies, deflecting rain. Amid the ongoing dryness conditions, state officials have enacted restrictions prohibiting all fires not contained in an elevated stove to avoid forest fire outbreaks. Bill Donnelley, chief of the Forest Fire Service, said [quote] “I can’t recall a time when we faced such a prolonged period of dryness with no relief in sight.”
In international news, on Thursday, North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, which landed in the seas surrounding Japan. The missile stayed airborne for 87 minutes, a new record that puts any territory in the continental US within missile range. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un said of the launch that North Korea would continue to [quote] ”perfectly round off” the country’s nuclear response capabilities. Experts see the launch’s timing, which was just days before the US election, as strategic. Lee Sung-yoon, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said that the missile launch could strengthen Donald Trump’s argument that he is better at diplomatically managing autocrats. In October, Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs created an exhibit titled “Close Encounters: Facing the Bomb in a New Nuclear Age.” The exhibit aimed to bring attention to the threat and consequences of nuclear war in the current era.
Today, you can expect cloudy skies, with a high of 64 and a low of 50 degrees fahrenheit.
That’s all for Daybreak today.
Today’s episode was written by Elaha Alizada, Nigel Hu, 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 Maya Mukherjee. Have a wonderful day.
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