My Petition for the Feb. 19 Meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community
Calls upon the CPUC to issue a show cause order to the CPUC Judicial Committee for its failure to act on complaints, and seeks other CPUC actions.
I have made petition to the CPUC for action at its February 19 regularly scheduled public meeting:
Below is the introduction to the January 26 petition:
In his December 13, 2023 reply to U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill regarding her concerns about rising antisemitism on campuses post-10/7, Princeton President Eisgruber assured her regarding harassment, “[W]e take every complaint seriously.”
On December 18, I filed a complaint before the CPUC Judicial Committee in response to antisemitic harassment that violates of Princeton’s rules against such misuse of the University’s IT resources.
That complaint was filed over six weeks ago. The Judicial Committee has taken no action on it, nor on a separate October 31 complaint. The latter complaint addresses whether the University will uphold its mission for the pursuit of truth and dissemination of knowledge. The December complaint addresses the protection of an environment within the Princeton community conducive to the fulfillment of the University’s mission. The following two paragraphs close the December complaint:
45. This Complaint follows a separate October 31, 2023 filing with the CPUC Judicial Committe that also seeks (among other measures) enforcement of the Acceptable Use Policy and Guidelines for Compliance. The Judicial Committee has yet to proceed with this separate case. Moreover, it has offered no substantive explanation for its continuing delay to act.
46. The Princeton University community deserves timely action by the Judicial Committee on this Complaint and the October 31 filing. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Princeton faces a crisis of transparency and accountability by its leadership. This crisis entails scandal potentially far greater than the plagiarism charges that enveloped the now former president of Harvard. This petition calls for the Council of the Princeton University Community to guard Princeton’s ostensible guardians.