Dear President Schill, Provost Hagerty, Dean Mayo and Dean Randolph, “Northwestern deeply values the contributions that graduate students make to its research and teaching missions” — this is your purported stance toward graduate workers that you have reiterated time and again. Yet, upper-year graduate workers are currently being denied the ability to work and do.
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Emily Judd, Princeton Univeristy Library
Jan. 28, 2021 4:04 p.m.
Although the course Reading Toni Morrison was taught virtually this fall, students were given special digital access to the Toni Morrison papers in Princeton University Library s Special Collections to explore the Nobel Laureate and Princeton professor emerita s creative process.
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What is it like to pore over and even touch the handwriting of a world-renowned author on the lined notepaper on which she drafted her famous novels? What do you learn about the writing process from reading an author’s handwritten pen and pencil scribbles as she made changes to early drafts of work on typewritten pages? And what happens when access to those literary pages of gold is threatened by the pandemic?