Racism is alive and well in America’s criminal justice system, said Dr. Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated Central Park Five, as he conversed with Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. *97 before a crowd of well over 400 students and community members who squeezed into a 350-seat auditorium in McCosh Hall Nov. 20. “This wasn’t an anomaly: This is business as usual,” said Salaam, speaking of his experience as one of five black and Latino boys between the ages of 14 and 16 who were wrongfully convicted in 1990 of the rape and assault of a jogger in New York’s…

The University’s legal case to support protections for young undocumented immigrants was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, where justices in the court’s conservative majority remained skeptical. But Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber ’83 remained confident after the hearing on the case. “The arguments that we heard in the courtroom today were about the importance of the government speaking plainly and honestly in a straightforward way, so that people can hold it accountable for the decisions that it makes, particularly when it affects thousands of people,” Eisgruber said. Princeton joined Microsoft and María Perales Sánchez ’18 in November 2017 in…