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After 24 hours, Princeton sit-in for Gaza persists

First night of the McCosh Courtyard sit-in.

Calvin grover / the daily princetonian.

The sit-in in solidarity with Gaza on Princeton’s McCosh Courtyard has entered its second day. Student demonstrators remained on the courtyard undisturbed through Thursday night into Friday morning.

Princeton students began the sit-in early Thursday morning, after planning documents leaked on Wednesday indicated that students were preparing for an encampment. No student organization is officially sponsoring the sit-in. 

As the sun rose over McCosh Hall on Thursday, protesters began to set up tents, in line with the tent encampments set up at Columbia and other universities across the country. The tents were taken down within just six minutes following a warning from PSAFE and the arrest of two graduate students, all within the first ten minutes of activity.

The action followed a Wednesday email from Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun cautioning that “[a]ny individual involved in an encampment, occupation, or other unlawful disruptive conduct who refuses to stop after a warning will be arrested and immediately barred from campus.”

The two students arrested on Thursday morning have been barred from campus but not from their University-owned housing, according to a statement sent to the ‘Prince’ by University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss.

To maintain compliance with University policy, organizers have shifted away from the encampment style maintained at other universities to a strategy of taking shifts to stay awake. The Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students (ODUS) forbids sleeping “in outdoor space of any kind.” 

“Morale is good. We’ve had a large number of campers at every single point in the night.” Aditi Rao GS, an organizer for the sit-in, told the ‘Prince’ in the early hours of Friday morning.

During daylight hours, Thursday, McCosh Courtyard transformed into the “Popular University for Gaza” referring to a movement organized by the national wing of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which aims to “counter the bias of the educational system while building the movement for Palestinian liberation.” 

A number of speakers, including students, faculty, and alumni, addressed the crowd throughout the day, and two professors held class on the courtyard. Demonstrators encouraged passersby to join chanting, “this is where class is today.”

Protestors remained in the courtyard as night fell and temperatures dropped to temperatures hovering around freezing, sitting on blankets and lawn chairs. Just after 2 a.m., a Public Safety (PSafe) officer pulled an organizer aside about a portion of Princeton’s “Forms of Expression” policy that reads “Sleeping in outdoor space of any kind is prohibited,” prompting the organizer to wake up a small number of protesters who appeared to be sleeping. 

“That did not lessen anybody’s spirits,” Rao added. “We’re going strong here this morning and we're almost at 24 hours.”

Approximately 60 people remained in the courtyard deep into the night. Around 3:15 a.m., around 15 more people arrived in small groups, while others left to take their sleep shift.

About a dozen Muslim students began a night prayer, Tahajjud, at around 4:15 a.m. as dawn broke over Dickinson Hall.

Rao said that organizers had not received any communication from the University beyond interactions with PSafe officers, and said there was a bargaining team in place “trying to negotiate our way to divestment.”

Facilities workers began scrubbing chalk reading “Divest Now” on the side of Dickinson Hall around 6:30 a.m.

Friday is the last day of classes for the spring semester.

Correction: The article has been updated to reflect the correct name of the prayer observed by Muslim students at 4:15 a.m.

Miriam Waldvogel is an associate News editor and the investigations editor for the ‘Prince.’ She is from Stockton, Calif. and often covers campus activism and University accountability.

Victoria Davies is an assistant News editor for the ‘Prince,’ who covers University operations.

Meghana Veldhuis is an assistant News editor for the ‘Prince.’ She is from Bergen County, N.J. and typically covers faculty and graduate students. 

This story is breaking and will be updated as further information becomes available.

Please send any corrections to corrections[at]dailyprincetonian.com.

USG holds eleventh-hour emergency meeting, statement on Lawnparties to come

With day four of the sit-in beginning, USG had yet to officially gather to discuss the demonstration. The ‘Prince’ spoke to non-voting attendees and USG Senate members, some of whom expressed frustration at the lack of action, and others who chalked the night’s events up to the execution of procedure.

Day four of ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ at Princeton

Sunday marks day four of the Princeton sit-in in solidarity with Gaza. Lawnparties activities are set to take place — follow for live updates.

Faculty, students, and community members speak out in support for two arrested grad students

145 faculty and postdoctoral researchers sent a letter to top University administrators, calling for “the immediate and full reinstatement” of Achinthya Sivalingam GS and Hassan Sayed GS, the two graduate students arrested early Thursday morning at the beginning of the Gaza solidarity sit-in.

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Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital

An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper

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In the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old metropolis was reinvented to embody the greatness of Stalinist society. Moscow Monumental explores how the quintessential architectural works of the late Stalin era fundamentally reshaped daily life in the Soviet capital. Drawing on a wealth of original archival research, Katherine Zubovich examines the decisions and actions of Soviet elites—from top leaders to master architects—and describes the experiences of ordinary Muscovites who found their lives uprooted by the ambitious skyscraper project. She shows how the Stalin-era quest for monumentalism was rooted in the Soviet Union’s engagement with Western trends in architecture and planning, and how the skyscrapers required the creation of a vast and complex infrastructure. As laborers flooded into the city, authorities evicted and rehoused tens of thousands of city residents living on the plots selected for development. When completed in the mid-1950s, these seven ornate neoclassical buildings served as elite apartment complexes, luxury hotels, and ministry and university headquarters. Moscow Monumental tells a story that is both local and broadly transnational, taking readers from the streets of interwar Moscow and New York to the marble-clad halls of the bombastic postwar structures that continue to define the Russian capital today.

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• Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
• Shortlisted for the Best Book in Cultural Studies Prize, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
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"Impressive detail"—Anthony Paletta, Literary Review

"Zubovich has done stellar work in the city’s archives, uncovering a trove of letters and petitions from ordinary Soviet citizens. . . This is a book which delves into the very human tensions created by a society forced into transition, and the effects on a city undergoing a seismic political, cultural, and architectural change."—Jennifer Eremeeva, The Moscow Times

"A superb, sweeping account of the realization of a magnificent group of skyscrapers. Grounded in meticulous archival research, and highly readable, it will appeal to specialists and general readers alike interested in topics as wide ranging as Soviet-US relations, architecture, intellectuals, and everyday life under Stalin."—Christine Varga-Harris, American Historical Review

"Russian and Soviet urban history has expanded and developed greatly in the last two decades by drawing attention to the built environment, lived experience, and aesthetic choices and meanings of buildings. In Katherine Zubovich’s Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital we have an example of some of the best trends in recent years. "—Karl Qualls, Russian Review

"Drawing on extensive archival research, the book delineates an arc from early conceptualization of Moscow as the capital of Soviet Russia to infighting leading to the demise of monumentality as a dominant force in Soviet architecture during the 1950s. ... Recommended."— Choice

"Well researched and lucidly written, Moscow Monumental is a welcome contribution to the field of urban history. It will be a good addition to the reading lists for university courses on Russian social and cultural his­tory. It will also be much appreciated by lovers of Russian history outside academe."—Elena V. Baraban, Ab Imperio Quarterly ​​​​​​​

"A monumental story, pun intended. . . .Readers will find this highly refreshing."—Heather D. DeHaan, Contemporary European History

"Zubovich gives us what the archives (and page limits) allow: a rich and thoughtful story of the ambition and contradiction that characterized the Soviet effort to create a lived utopia."—Diane P. Koenker, Journal of Modern History

" Moscow Monumental is a significant study of one of the most important building campaigns of the early Cold War and the impact it had on the urban life of the Soviet capital."—Richard Anderson, University of Edinburgh

"Zubovich offers unrivaled insight into how Stalin's skyscrapers have shaped Soviet memory and identity while shedding new light on the era in which they were born—one where global monumentalism brought us Rockefeller Center and the Golden Gate Bridge. Engagingly written and well documented in photographs, Moscow Monumental is a must-read for urban historians and all scholars of the Soviet era."—Heather D. DeHaan, author of Stalinist City Planning: Professionals, Performance, and Power

" Moscow Monumental is a richly researched and expertly crafted book that casts the Stalin era in a new light. Zubovich has written the first history of Moscow's skyscrapers, greatly enhancing our understanding of these monumental buildings and their role in Soviet history."—Steven E. Harris, author of Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin

"This elegantly written, highly readable, and intellectually engaging work offers a deeper understanding of the multifaceted nature of Stalinism and the legacy of these distinctive Stalinist skyscrapers. Historians and students of every stripe will benefit from Zubovich's exhaustive research and balanced analysis."—Cynthia A. Ruder, author of Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space

" Moscow Monumental shows how the design, construction, and representation of Stalinist skyscrapers reshaped the urbanism of postwar Moscow. By tracing professional and personal trajectories of Soviet architects, politicians, and elite occupants, but also construction workers, displaced inhabitants, forced laborers, and archaeologists, Katherine Zubovich offers a fascinating view of Moscow from above and from the shadows of the vysotki ."—Łukasz Stanek, author of Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War

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