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Mazin ’92 wins Golden Globe

By Paige Allen Staff Writer

he told me to put that one in my pocket and show it to the doctors at the hospital,” he said.

“Little did I know the doctor would just shove it back into my mouth several hours later.”

At Princeton Medical Center, Spencer found out that he had suffered a broken nose, cheekbone, and upper jaw, a sprained arm, and chipped teeth.

The complaint, filed on Dec. 2, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, names the University, Mercer County, and the Municipality of Princeton as defendants. Spencer is suing for See BIKE page 2

Craig Mazin ’92 was honored with a Golden Globe Award on Sunday evening as creator, writer, and executive producer of “Chernobyl,” the 2019 miniseries produced by HBO in association with Sky UK. “Chernobyl” was nominated for four awards and won two. In addition to winning “best television limited series or motion picture made for television,” the miniseries’ actor Stellan Skarsgård was awarded “best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television.”

Originally instituted in 1944, the Golden Globes are awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize distinguished achievements in the film industry. Tonight, Golden Globes are awarded in 25 categories, 14 for motion pictures and 11 for television.

“Chernobyl is an international story filmed by an international crew with an international cast, so it was very meaningful to receive this award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,“ Mazin wrote in a statement to The Daily Princetonian.

“We hope the show continues to be seen and continues to challenge people to seek and value the truth.”

Originally premiering in May 2019, the miniseries dramatizes the events surrounding the 1986 nuclear disaster in which the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the north of the Ukrainian SSR exploded. It is largely based on the recollections of locals affected by the incident

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The sewer grate in question prior to repair.

Sophomore sues U. for sewer grate incident

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Gilbert Spencer ’22 ended his first fall semester in a bike crash. Now, he’s suing.

The personal injury lawsuit, filed last month, charges the University, the Municipality of Princeton, and Mercer County with negligence over the fall 2018 incident. On Dec. 10, 2018, Spencer rode his bicycle over a poorly maintained sewer grate, which flung him off, resulting in “severe and permanent injuries.”

According to Spencer’s lawyers, none of the defendants have claimed responsibility

for the grate, despite its being repaired shortly after the accident.

A week before last year’s winter break, Spencer was biking outside of Frist Campus Center when he hit a massive pothole, adjacent to the sewer grate.

“I was launched off my bike and landed face first on the pavement,” he explained. “A lot of blood was pouring out from my face.”

Bystanders rushed to his aid, handing him napkins. Traffic on Washington Road came to a stop. Someone called 9-1-1.

Spencer found his tooth on the ground.

“When a police officer came,

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as gathered in the book “Voices from Chernobyl” by Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian Nobel laureate .

According to HBO’s website, in writing the miniseries, Mazin also consulted a wide variety of books, government reports from the Soviet Union, primary source accounts of the disaster, and his own interviews with nuclear scientists and Soviet citizens.

About “Chernobyl” and the events it depicts, Mazin has tweeted, “The lesson of Chernobyl isn’t that modern nuclear power is dangerous. The lesson is that lying, arrogance and suppression of criticism is dangerous.”

“Chernobyl” cast members Jared Harris and Emily Watson were nominated for “best performance by an actor in a limited series or a motion picture made for television” and “best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for TV,” respectively.

Mazin is also known for writing “Identity Thief,” the second and third of the trilogy of “Hangover” movies, “Superhero Movie,” and “The Huntsman: Winter’s War.” He also cohosts a podcast, “Scriptnotes,” with screenwriter John August.

Mazin graduated magna cum laude from the University with a concentration in Psychology.

As a first-year student, Mazin was roommates with Senator and former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz ’92 and garnered attention in 2016 for publicly criticizing Cruz on Twitter.

The 77th annual Golden Globe Awards aired on Sunday, Jan. 5, at 8 p.m. The ceremony was held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, C.A.

Cats and ‘The integrity of 10 men’: dogs for the life of Paul Volcker ’49 Tigers: ESAs on campus

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Eliot’s letters were opened to researchers on Jan. 2.

T.S. Eliot’s letters opened in U. library after 50 years

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On Jan. 2, a collection of 1,131 letters written by renowned poet and Nobel Laureate Thomas Stearns Eliot, better known as T.S. Eliot, opened for research at Firestone Library. Eliot sent the letters, drafted between 1932 and 1947, to Emily Hale, his muse and lover.

In the week prior to the letters’ release, associate professor of English Joshua Kotin

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said they were “already generating excitement on campus.”

“Students who have been fascinated by ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ (1915) and ‘The Waste Land’ (1922) are now asking questions about Eliot himself,” he said in a press release.

Hale donated the letters to Princeton in November 1956.

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Contributing columnist Kate Liu highlights the role political labels play in truth-seeking and guest contributors of students, faculty, and staff voice support for student protestors in India.

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Scarlet is precocious. At just 12 years old, she’s four months into her first year at the University.

She has curly, sandy-colored hair, loves her roommate, K Stiefel ’20, and lives in the Pink House at 99 Alexander Street.

Scarlet also has four legs, loves to play catch, and serves as Stiefel’s emotional support animal (ESA).

Scarlet provides Stiefel with unconditional love and helps to structure their day. The responsibility of caring for an animal means Stiefel has to care for themself, whether that means going for a midday walk or taking a break from work to give Scarlet some attention.

Scarlet and Stiefel aren’t the only interspecies roommates on campus. The Office of Disability Services approves ESAs for select students in order to “mitigate the impact of the disability which can help the student to better navigate their academic and social settings,” Director Liz Erickson wrote in an email. The number of campus ESAs is unclear; approved students someSee ANIMALS page 4

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Farrell ’09 qualifies for Jeopardy! tournament

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Despite having her eightday winning streak broken on Tuesday night, Jeopardy! champion Karen Farrell ’09 is one step closer to competing in the show’s next Tournament of Champions (TOC).

Farrell, who earned an A.B. degree in Politics from the University and now

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works as a political consultant, quickly emerged as a strong Jeopardy! contestant. In her first appearance on Dec. 26, 2019, she entered the Final Jeopardy! round with a lock game, or “runaway,” and managed to take home $17,200 in the process. Eight games later, she walked away with over $150,000 in winnings.

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WEATHER

By Mindy Burton

Paul A. Volcker ’49, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, died last month at the age of 92.

Volcker served under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, and led the effort to suppress inflation throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s. On Sunday, Dec. 8, he passed away from complications of prostate cancer in his New York home, according to his daughter, Janice Zima. “[Volcker] came to repre-

sent independence,” said Ben S. Bernanke, the 14th Chair of the Federal Reserve and former chair of the University’s economics department. “He personified the idea of doing something politically unpopular but economically necessary.”

Paul Adolf Volcker, Jr. was born in Cape May, N.J., on Labor Day, Sept. 5, 1927. His mother, Alma, was the Vassar College Class of 1913 valedictorian. Volcker described her as “approachable, understanding, and a patient mediator of

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negligence, claiming the defendants failed to take reasonable steps to maintain the grate system and to prevent harm to people using the roadway.

“We were forced to file against multiple people because no one has admitted to us who is responsible for the maintenance of this road,” said Derek Layser, who is representing Spencer in court, along with Brett Kaminsky.

“I initially believed it was Mercer County’s road and did the tort notice to them, but they’re claiming it’s not their road,” he explained. “Princeton Borough says it’s not their road.

So we had to file suit to, frankly, get the lawyers involved and see who’s going to admit that it is their property.”

Although no one has come forward to claim ownership of the property, the road was repaired within a week of Spencer’s accident. New asphalt was placed around the grate and the

area smoothed out so that future cyclists would not tumble.

“No one has admitted to repairing the road,” Layser said.

“That’s why we had to file suit.”

The complaint states that Spencer is seeking relief from damages including medical treatment, permanent scarring, numerous dental procedures, serious disfigurement, severe injuries, future medical expenses, emotional distress, missed class and school work, and loss of life’s pleasures.

According to court documentation, the complaint was mailed to the defendants on Dec. 15, 2019. Mercer County Director of Communications Julie Wilmot declined to comment on the matter, and the town of Princeton did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication. According to University spokesperson Ben Chang, the University has not been served with the suit as of Jan. 6, 2020.

“The University has not been served with the complaint and therefore is not in a position to comment on it,” Chang wrote in a statement to The Daily

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A year after the accident, and after a year’s worth of dental work to repair his teeth, Spencer is back to normal life.

Thinking back to last year, he remarked that the timing of the accident was unfortunate.

“I was definitely super sad and probably depressed for a while after my accident just because it happened so early while I was at Princeton,” he said. “I didn’t think I had a close group of friends, even though a ton of people did end up stepping up to help me out in a time I really needed it.”

Spencer said he is thankful for the support he received on campus.

“All the bystanders who helped were great, and the doctors and nurses at the hospital were attentive and gave me good quality care,” he said.

“The University staff did a good job in helping me academically.”

So, does Spencer ride his bike around campus anymore?

Sometimes.

“Certainly much less than I used to,” he said.

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nation” to the University.

The letters, which were not to be opened until 50 years after Eliot and Hale’s deaths, were formerly among the most well-known sealed literary archives in the world.

Prior to the opening of the letters, scholars were uncertain about the extent of Eliot’s relationship with Hale, which occurred while Eliot was married to Vivienne Haigh-Wood.

In a statement accompanying the letters, Eliot gave some context.

“I never at any time had any sexual relations with Emily Hale,” he wrote. “Upon the death of Vivienne in the winter of 1947, I suddenly realised that I was not in love with Emily Hale. Gradually I came to see that I had been in love only with a memory, with the memory of the experience of having been in love with her in my youth.”

Although Eliot’s statement asserts that his feelings for Hale were ambivalent, his letters tell a more straightforward story.

University of Missouri Professor Frances Dickey read the letters when they were released on Thursday, according to The Washington Post.

“In the first two letters,” Dickey said in the interview, “He basically confesses his love for Emily Hale and tells her that she’s the great love of his life, that he’s been writing for her all of these years.”

Dickey added that the letters also revealed places in Eliot’s poetry where he paid tribute to Hale.

For instance, scholars had previously theorized that the “hyacinth lines” in “The Waste Land” alluded to one of his personal relationships. This was confirmed by one of Eliot’s letters to Hale, in which he told her to reread the lines: “You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;/‘They called me the hyacinth girl.’/—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,/Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not/ Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither/Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,/Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Oed’ und leer das Meer.”

The relationship between

Eliot’s personal life and poetry is one reason why Kotin wants to take his students to Firestone Library to study the letters.

“The visit will be an incredible opportunity to test the importance of Eliot’s famous claim about poetry and personality. ‘Poetry,’ he wrote in ‘The Tradition and the Individual Talent’ (1919), ‘is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.’

The letters will, I hope, allow students to judge how effectively Eliot escaped his own personality,” Kotin said in the University statement.

In addition to seeing how his personality informed his poetry, some people believe that the letters might show how Eliot’s poetry reflects his conversion to the Anglican church and his search for meaning in a war-torn world.

William Speers ’79, who wrote his thesis on Eliot’s work, noted that the poet wrote his letters during difficult periods of his life.

“Eliot was in a really brutal marriage. His wife had huge nervous breakdowns. He had breakdowns,” Speers said. “I think part of what may be seen in these letters is somebody who was definitely searching and was struggling and trying to find some meaning to the world around him.”

Eliot’s letters to Hale were more personal and reflective than other correspondences he maintained.

“A friend once wrote that ‘Tom was more human’ in America than he was in England, and Emily Hale was an important part of this mode of being. He was also, it seems, rather afraid of being human, and perhaps we shall learn something more about this from the letters, as well as about many interesting literary matters,” said Michael Wood, the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, in the University statement.

Though the letters may shed insight into how Eliot thought of Hale, her responses will remain unknown.

Eliot wrote in an addendum to his statement, dated Sept. 30, 1963, “The letters to me from Emily Hale have been destroyed by a colleague at my request.”

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Ann Webb ‘22 smiles with her emotional support cat Scout.

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times opt to leave their animals at home.

“I literally cannot express enough how helpful it’s been to have him,” said Ann Webb ’22, who lives with Scout, her sevenmonth-old feline ESA. “It’s so nice to have that source of joy and love and comfort that you just know is going to be there anytime.”

Most students with ESAs have either a dog or a cat, and students are free to live in any dormitory building on campus, provided that any roommates also agree to having an ESA. To qualify for an ESA, a student has simply to provide a letter from a therapist or other medical professional that describes how they would benefit from the opportunity.

If the Office of Disability Services approves the request, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students requires proof of the animal’s vaccinations and sets out the requirements and responsibilities of having an animal on campus. For instance, ESAs are not allowed in public University buildings or spaces. Students must return to their rooms throughout the day to provide their animals with adequate care and attention.

For both Stiefel and Webb, the application process proved simple and straightforward. The task of caring for an animal on campus can prove less so.

Students with dogs, like Stiefel, visit their rooms as many as five times a day to walk their animals.

“It can be difficult to make sure they’re getting all the love and attention they need,” Webb said.

“It’s just something that each student has to work through and figure out, like divvying up their time and making sure they’re making time for the animal in the same way the animal is making time for them.”

For Webb, caring for Scout has been simplified by having three other roommates. When Webb is busy with extracurriculars, knowing that Scout has companionship puts her mind at ease.

Scout has full roam of the two bedrooms and common room of Webb’s quad. Friendly and affectionate, he often jumps up into beds — any beds — at night to cuddle, and he is well-known among Webb’s friends.

“I remember at the beginning

of the year, sometimes I would just forget that we had a cat living in the room, and I just woke up with a warm body next to me,” said Rayyan Sarker ’22, Webb’s roommate. “Every day I wake up, and I get re-surprised that, in a college dorm, I have the opportunity to spend time with another animal.”

Scout’s presence has had a tangible impact not just on Webb, but also on her roommates. He provides a homey atmosphere — the residents of the quad enjoy relaxing with him in the evenings and taking him for walks when the weather is warm — and a sense of excitement.

“It’s funny because people will, like, knock on our door and be, like, ‘Oh, I just came to hang out with the cat,’” Webb said. “He’s famous. He definitely gets tons of love and affection.”

“Sometimes it’s so easy to forget … [that] we’re always so busy running around, doing things on campus, and a lot of the time coming back to our room just meant going to bed,” she explained.

“It’s nice to have someone else or something else that we all can sit with [and] play with, and it makes our room more lively in general when he’s running around.”

Having an ESA on campus is a new experience for both Stiefel and Webb this year. Both of them have noticed positive changes in their lives.

For Webb, the support Scout brings helps her navigate anxiety and any other mental health concerns, making it easier for her to function.

“I think it’s something that creates more equity for students who have disabilities or any kind of mental illness — to have this support system is incredibly, incredibly helpful,” she said.

The responsibility of caring for Scarlet means Stiefel commits to being back in their room at 10:30 p.m. and taking more breaks — a healthy necessity for both of them. But as much as Stiefel takes care of Scarlet, they insist that Scarlet takes care of them.

“When I’m really stressed out or I’m having a bad day emotionally,” said Stiefel, “I can just hang out with her for a little bit, especially given that sometimes I have trouble interacting with people.

Having a dog where there’s no expectation of having to be social but I can still get that nice contact.

That oxytocin flowing has been amazing.”

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childhood squabbles” in his memoir, “Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government.”

His father, Paul Sr., was the oldest son of German immigrants and a city manager for Cape May, and later Teaneck, NJ. Volcker’s father exerted profound influence over his son’s career as a public servant.

While serving as city manager during the Great Depression, Volcker Sr. volunteered to reduce his annual salary of $8,000 by $2,000.

His success in Teaneck was well-known: the FBI identified Teaneck as the lowest-crime town in the nation in 1945, and the U.S. Army selected Teaneck as a model town to educate residents of occupied countries about democratic practices after WWII. “As I look back, there’s no doubt that my father’s prominent position in local government had a huge impact on the way I view life and the world,” Volcker wrote in his memoir.

Volcker, known to family members as “Buddy,” was the quiet only son among four children. He had three older sisters: Ruth, Louise, and Virginia — a fourth sister passed away during infancy. In July of 1945, after graduating from Teaneck High School, Volcker entered the University and studied among veterans of WWII, with whom he celebrated Japan’s 1945 surrender with a bonfire on Cannon Green.

Despite his father’s worries that he would be unable to compete among better-prepared students at the University, Volcker excelled academically. Standing at 6’7’’, he was a shoo-in for the varsity basketball team.

Volcker decided to study in the Woodrow Wilson School, then known as the School of Public and International Affairs, where he would return as a faculty member decades later. Volcker enrolled in numerous economics courses while he was at the University, including two taught by eminent Austrian liberal school of economics scholars, Oskar Morgenstern and Friedrich A. Lutz.

Graduating with highest honors in 1949, Volcker wrote a seven-chapter, roughly 250page senior thesis titled “The Problems of Federal Reserve Policy Since World War II,” in which he examined the postWWII policies of the U.S. Federal Reserve System and the state of the U.S. economy at the time.

Volcker’s conclusion was clear: the combined wartime policies of the Department of Treasury and the Federal Reserve had produced a dangerously high level of inflation, and the Federal Reserve needed to shrink the size of the money supply to combat it.

“A swollen money supply presented a grave inflationary

threat to the economy. There was a need to bring this money supply under control if the disastrous effects of a sharp price rise were to be avoided,” Volcker wrote near the end of Chapter II. In the final chapter of his thesis, Volcker concluded that the Federal Reserve’s actions to curtail the money supply or the use of bank credit were bound to be ineffective because large amounts of marketable government securities remained outside the Federal Reserve Banks.

“From this standpoint,” wrote Volcker, “Federal Reserve policy has been largely a failure.”

Volcker later studied at the Littauer School of Public Administration at Harvard University, now the John F. Kennedy School of Government, receiving a master’s degree in political economy. He then attended the London School of Economics on a Rotary Club scholarship.

Volcker returned to New York from the United Kingdom in 1952, having missed the opportunity to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II ’22. Still, Stevenson inspired Volcker immensely, and caused him to register as a member of the Democratic party.

Volcker met Barbara Bahnson through his former college roommate Donald Maloney ’49 in 1952, and the couple married in September of 1954. They had a daughter, Janice, born in 1955, and a son, James, born in 1958.

Their marriage lasted over four decades, until Barbara died in June of 1998, having fought a lifelong battle against diabetes.

The same year he met Barbara, Volcker joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a junior economist and moved near his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1957, he joined Chase Manhattan Bank as a research economist.

Five years later, Volcker entered the U.S. Department of Treasury as the director of the newly created Office of Financial Analysis under then-Treasury Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs Robert V. Roosa, who had been Volcker’s mentor since his first job at the New York Federal Reserve.

In less than two years, Volcker would be named as Deputy Undersecretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs, and by 1969 he was the Undersecretary himself.

In September 1974, he was named as a senior fellow at the University, but his absence from public service was shortlived. About a year later, he became the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

In 1979, Volcker was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to become the 12th Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, after the previous chair, G. William Miller, was nominated to become Secretary of Treasury.

The Senate unanimously con-

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firmed Volcker’s nomination, and he was sworn in on Aug. 6.

Volcker took office amid a time of economic turmoil. The United States were suffering from severe inflation, about which Volcker had warned in his senior thesis three decades prior. Exacerbated by the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s and the Federal Reserve’s loose monetary policy, monthly inflation had reached above 1 percent, and the annual rate of inflation in 1979 rose to 13.3 percent, a level unseen since President Harry Truman removed wartime controls in 1946.

Hence began the crusade against inflation that would come to define Volcker’s tenure as Federal Reserve Chairman.

Volcker soon announced a series of policies aimed at reducing the size of the money supply, quickly driving up interest rates in the process.

By December of 1980, prime lending rates had ascended to a record-setting 21.5 percent, while the rate of unemployment climbed to a high of 10.8 percent in November of 1982. Volcker had almost single-handedly sent the United States into the worst recession since the Great Depression. In his war on inflation, he might have cost President Carter the chance for re-election.

Volcker’s policies triggered protests as farmers on tractors blockaded a building of the Federal Reserve, while car dealers sent to the Federal Reserve the keys of cars they could not sell. One man nearly reached the boardroom of the Federal Reserve with a sawed-off shotgun before being tackled by a security guard.

But in the end, Volcker prevailed.

The rate of inflation had dropped below four percent by the end of his first term as Federal Reserve Chairman.

“I would describe [Volcker] as having the integrity and will of 10 men,” said Alan S. Blinder ’67, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and former Vice Chairman of

the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

“The tenure of Paul Volcker running the Fed enormously raised the prestige and respect of the institution,” he added.

After handing a letter of resignation to President Reagan, Volcker concluded his tenure as Federal Reserve Chairman in 1987, upon which he agreed to serve as chairman of the National Commission on the Public Service. In his resignation letter, he conveyed his continued trust in the Federal Reserve, an institution that was and still is profoundly shaped by his rectitude and competence.

“I believe the nation will continue to be well served by a strong Federal Reserve system — a system firmly dedicated to fostering economic and financial strength and stability and able to bring to that effort a combination of sound and independent professional judgment and continuity beyond any partisan considerations,” he wrote.

In March of 1988, Volcker returned to the University as the first Frederick H. Schultz ’51 Professor of International Economic Policy, a professorship named after the Federal Reserve vice chairman who served alongside Volcker from 1979 to 1982. Volcker also joined James D. Wolfensohn Inc. as chairman and later became CEO after the firm was renamed Wolfensohn & Company in 1995.

In the decades following his departure from the Federal Reserve, Volcker repeatedly assumed leadership positions in international organizations.

Volcker led the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons, more commonly known as the “Volcker Commission,” which investigated the dormant accounts in Swiss banks that held assets belonging to victims of the Holocaust. The Volcker Commission released a report in December of 1999 and eventually reached a settlement that saw nearly $1.29 billion in total distributions.

In 2004, the United Nations unanimously passed a resolution, selecting Volcker to lead an independent panel to investigate possible corruption and wrongdoing in the U.N. Oil-forFood Programme for Iraq.

In February of 2009, President Barack Obama selected Volcker to lead the newly created President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB) during the financial crisis. Volcker became an acerbic critic of the financial industry, which had undergone years of deregulation prior to the recession.

Volcker advocated for increased regulation and the breakingup of large investment banks.

A critical component of the Dodd-Frank Act, named the “Volcker Rule,” stipulated that U.S. banks are not allowed to engage in speculative investments that are not meant to benefit their customers.

By the time the board dissolved in February of 2011, Volcker’s lengthy and storied career in public service had spanned the administration of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama.

During his retirement, Volcker was deeply involved with teaching and mentoring students in the Wilson School, and repeatedly attempted to push the school to increase the resources it devoted towards training professional public servants. Volcker’s intention of cultivating public servants for an effective government led him to launch the Volcker Alliance in 2013.

“He was refreshingly blunt.

He said what he thought, whether you were going to like it or not,” said Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80, Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Emeritus, and former Dean of the Wilson School.

“He really did represent an ideal of public service that he took very seriously in his lifestyle as well as his career,” she added. “It really is as if a giant tree has fallen in the forest.”

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ered about our champion Karen is that she’s good,” host Alex Trebek said on the show.

This pattern continued as Farrell demonstrated her knowledge and skill with the buzzer over the following days. She averaged 22 correct responses per game, and entered Final Jeopardy! with a runaway in over half of her games.

“It’s just that second of realizing what the scores are, and going, ‘Wait, did this really just happen?’

And then frantically making sure you did the math right for Final Jeopardy! so

you don’t make a big mistake,” Farrell said in a promotional video.

Jeopardy! contestants automatically qualify for the TOC upon winning five consecutive games. Farrell, having easily surpassed this requirement, is guaranteed a spot in the next tournament. She is currently ranked third-highest on the Jeopardy! TOC Eligibility Tracker among all players from the current season, behind only 11-day winner Jason Zuffranieri and eightday champ Jennifer Quail.

“Honestly, it just felt like something I was always meant to do. Being part of the whole world of Jeopardy!, something I’ve been watching my whole life,”

Farrell said in an interview after her win.

Farrell’s ninth and final game aired on Tuesday, Jan. 7, and pitted the then-eightday champion against newcomers Lisa Warne-Magro and David Xia. WarneMagro, however, built an early lead in the first round of play, and despite neither her nor Farrell answering correctly in Final Jeopardy!, eked out a victory.

Farrell has tentative plans for spending her $159,603 in winnings.

“I have a new daughter. So I’m probably going to put a little bit of it away for her education, maybe buy her a few toys and do some traveling,” she noted during the interview.

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Kate Liu

Contributing Columnist

In December, President Eisgruber reflected on “The Spirit of Truth-Seeking” in Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW), writing, “The pursuit of knowledge and the maintenance of a free and democratic society require the cultivation and practice of the virtues of intellectual humility, openness of mind, and, above all, love of truth.”

Despite this lofty goal, something is changing about the way we speak of one another.

Pro-choice. Anti-Trump.

Pro-Hong Kong. Anti-Gun Control. Red. Blue. This is how we label our peers. This is how we gossip about others, and how we also label ourselves.

This rhetoric of labeling individuals by their opinions is pervasive not only throughout Princeton but also beyond

FitzRandolph Gate.

As our political climate grows increasingly polarized, the language we use has followed suit. We characterize our peers by confining them into fixed categories. Whether they be political or social issues, such labels can often define us well into the future.

Some may think labels help express their stance on an issue about which they are passionate.

I believe that the harm done by labels often outweighs any potential good.

When we casually fling around labels such as “prolife” or “pro-choice,” we feed into a dangerous assumption: that our peers fall into one of two plausible categories, and they will always remain within them. In this climate, there’s little room for development; there are few opportunities to reform and reshape one’s views.

By labeling ourselves, we

fail to fully consider other perspectives and open our minds to change. We also close ourselves off to other people, as labeling people can also lead us to refuse interactions with those on the other side — and even to ostracize them.

We self-separate into factions by labeling ourselves as such, creating inherent divisions within the student body.

The echo-chambers we create by sequestering ourselves as either “pro-gun control” or “pro-Second Amendment” often preclude us from hearing a diversity of opinions. Not only do we restrict ourselves and others, but in legitimizing such a false dichotomy, we fail to realize that there exists such a profound spectrum of opinions.

Sometimes, I wonder if we have lost all faith in the humility, open-mindedness, and love for truth that Eisgruber wrote of in PAW. By sticking

to our labels, we pride ourselves on our stance alone. We close our minds off to other possibilities. We forgo the pursuit of truth.

The University prides itself on being a liberal arts institution, but our inclination to bracket people into different labels creates a contrary consequence. Labels impede the spirit of truth-seeking, polarizing our community into two adverse camps.

So the next time you are about to apply a label to someone else — or even yourself — take a moment to consider the implications. Take a moment to consider the assumptions you may be promoting, the divisiveness you may be creating, and the attitudes you may be solidifying. Perhaps it’s worth keeping an open mind.

Kate Liu is a first-year from Princeton, N.J. She can be reached at kateliu@princeton.edu.

Statement of solidarity: Open letter to the government of India Guest Contributors We, the undersigned students, alumni, and affiliates of Princeton University, recognize, respect, and stand in solidarity with the peaceful protests by students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University against the passing of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of 2019. Further, we stand with the peaceful protests occurring across the country and condemn the use of force by the police forces as well as the imposition of Section 144, suspension of public transit, and mobile and internet services.

The foundation of independent India rests upon a legacy of secularism and freedoms of religion, expression, and dissent. The CAA and the acts of the Indian state and police apparatus in silencing protests against it violate these rights and pose a threat to their future in India. The CAA offers citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Christians, and Parsis from India’s neighboring states (namely Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh) who are facing, and in the past have faced, religious persecution. The Act specifically fails to mention Muslims, other religious minorities, and other neighboring states, such as Sri Lanka, in its language. The language of the CAA suggests that Muslims do not face persecution at the hands of the aforementioned states. However, the systematic state persecution

of Ahmadis in Pakistan, as well as of the Rohingyas in Myanmar, points to the contrary.

When viewed alongside plans for the expansion of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), this threatens to reshape Indian citizenship along communal lines. While proponents of the CAA have argued that it will not affect Indian citizens, senior leadership of the government itself has suggested that the CAA and NRC must be viewed in conjunction. If so, it will require the entire population of the country to prove their citizenship. If the CAA and NRC are not repealed, and state actors carrying out violence at universities and protests are not held responsible, we will be setting a dangerous legal precedent for further religious discrimination and a precedent for further impunity.

We believe these events are a gross violation of the spirit of the Indian Constitution, specifically Article 14 and Article 19, which clearly outlines secular ideals, as well as the idea of India as a society of free speech. In addition to being an assault on the secular ideals of the nation, the possibility of a collective rollout of the CAA and the nationwide NRC will significantly disadvantage economically marginalized communities, as well as those belonging to the various other minority groups, including but not limited to SC/ST/OBC and LGBTQ+, of the country.

Understanding the intersec-

tionality of economic, social, and political marginalization of communities in the country is fundamental to why we oppose the CAA and NRC. The use of violent means by the state and police to suppress peaceful protests against this act, specifically by university students, will unravel the democratic ethos of our nation. Obstacles to protests, including the imposition of Section 144 of the Criminal Penal Code, police detentions, metro station lockdowns, and suspensions of mobile internet service in the capital, deny citizens’ rights to peacefully express objections. State-sponsored use of violence against students in Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University, as well as against protests in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, and Tripura is a gross violation of free speech.

Damaging the secular fabric as well as the central tenets of a functioning democracy will endanger the constitutional morality of the country. We also condemn the spread of disinformation through social media, by politicians and political parties, aimed at discrediting legitimate protests and the demands of protestors. The use of divisive rhetoric and erroneous connection of the protestors to particular religions or parties is polarizing the nation further, creating an atmosphere of hate and fear.

In light of the concerns mentioned above, we put forth

the following demands to the Government of India: An immediate repeal of the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 and a prevention of a nationwide rollout of the National Register of Citizens. All future attempts at dividing the nation on sectarian lines must be curtailed in order to protect the morality and the basic fabric of the Indian Constitution.

An independent investigation into the excesses committed by the police forces across the country in order to prevent any and all instances of impunity, either in the present or in the future.

An immediate repeal of Section 144, as well as the internet shutdowns, communication blockades, and curfews in various parts of the country, especially in Assam and Jammu and Kashmir.

Protection of citizens’ rights to free speech and expression, to protest, and to dissent, all guaranteed rights in the Indian Constitution and fundamental to the ethos of democratic debate. Grant interim protection to student protestors from various universities so they can exercise their right to protest peacefully, without fear of police crackdown.

This letter was written by Kamya Yadav ’21, Arya Goel ’20, Aparna Shankar ’21, Kanishkh Kanodia ’23, and Ashira Shirali ’22, as well as others who wish to remain anonymous. A full list of signatories can be found at dailyprincetonian.com.

Statement of solidarity with student protests in India Guest Contributors We, a group of South Asian graduate students at Princeton University, stand in solidarity, without hesitation or reservation, with the students of Jamia Millia Islamia, Aligarh Muslim University, and all other institutions who are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

This proposed act would

give Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christian migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan a faster path to Indian citizenship, a privilege neither afforded to Muslims from those countries nor to minorities from countries excluded by the Act. Impunity and citizenship based upon religion are against the Indian Constitution. We oppose any threat to secular India.

We strongly condemn the use of police force and police brutality against students exercising their right to protest and demonstrate against the CAA. We demand an immediate end to all of the brutal violence being unleashed against students.

This violence is illegal, and those involved in sanctioning such violence must be held accountable.

As we hope for this violence to come to an end and

for justice to be achieved, we stand in solidarity and lend all our support to the students fighting fearlessly in the streets.

Aditi Bhowmick, Meghana Mungikar, Fatima Khan, Shalini Sharma, Mayank Sarika, Disha Sharma, Pooja Ramamurthi, Spogmay Ahmed, Harshita Rallabhandi, Sujata Rajpurohit, Yashna Gungadurdoss, Jatin Batra, Liza Paudel, Malini Nambiar

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } WRESTLING

Wrestling routs Rider, places 5th at Midlands

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Sophomore Patrick Glory became Princeton’s third-ever Midlands Champion.

By Josephine de La Bruyére assistant sports editor

Sitting in his Jadwin Gym office almost precisely a year ago, head wrestling coach Chris Ayres explained his team’s depth problem.

“We have three phenomenal wrestlers,” he said. “And then there’s a lower tier — three or four guys — who are close to that level. If they can make the jump, they’ll turn our team from good to incredible.”

Those three wrestlers were the then-first-year, 125-pound Patrick Glory, the then-sophomore, 197-pound Patrick Brucki, and the then-junior, 149-pound Matthew Kolodzik. The only Princeton wrestlers to make it past the NCAA Tournament’s first day of competition, they finished their seasons fifth, fourth, and fifth in the country, respectively. The face of Princeton wrestling, they earned scores of University firsts, appeared on posters and calendars and banners in formidable v-formation.

And Ayres — if not Glory, Brucki, and Kolodzik themselves — spent nine months hoping that the chasm between the team’s top three athletes and its next 26 would narrow.

It’s a new season for the Tigers. Some things have changed.

No. 3 Glory is a sophomore; no. 3 Brucki is a junior; Kolodzik is on a year off. Last year’s 174-pound starter, Travis Stefanik, and its 184-pound starter, Kevin Parker, have traded weight classes.

Senior captain no. 14 Mike D’Angelo is back from a year off and doing his best to fill a Kolodzik-sized hole at 149. Ayres has a few more wins under his belt; his team sits a few spots higher in the national rankings.

Heading into a new decade, no, 12 Princeton wrestling didn’t pump the brakes. In the past three weeks, Tiger wrestling earned NCAA Team of the Week honors for routing no.

25 Rider University 25–9 and placed fifth, the highest of any Ivy League Program, at the grueling 35-team Ken Kraft Midlands Championship.

That meet and those matches have underscored the team’s aggressive, offensive, electric style of wrestling — the team’s passion, its verve, its ability to put on a show.

That meet and those matches have underscored something else as well. Princeton wrestling is still a team fronted by three superstars, if different ones.

At Midlands — where last year Brucki and Kolodzik became Princeton’s first- and second-ever champions — Glory, Brucki, and 157-pound sophomore Quincy Monday were the only three Tigers to earn podium spots. Glory became the University’s third-ever champion. Brucki and Monday both placed third.

Glory says he’s happy. He says he’s lucky; he says he knows this is a luxury. He also says he wishes it might have been harder. Only two wrestlers — Iowa’s Spencer Lee and the University of Virginia’s Jack Mueller — sit above him in the national rankings. Both of them dropped out of Midlands competition before

he could face them.

“I 100 percent wish I’d been able to face those guys,” he said.

“Being a champion feels great, obviously, but I want to get my hands on the guys I’ll be facing in the postseason.”

Against Rider, no. 7 Monday did what he normally does: electrified the stands with a 13–7 upset, this time of Rider’s no. 6 Jesse Dellavecchia. But he fell in Midlands’ round of 16 to Army’s Markus Hartman in the round of 16. To earn a podium position, he’d have to win a daunting six straight matches.

He did.

From Ayres: “If Quincy wrestles at NCAAs like he wrestled in the wrestle-backs, he can be a national champion.”

As for Brucki, who did two spots worse than he did last year but avenged an earlier-season defeat with a 10–5 victory over Iowa’s no. 2 Jacob Warner: “He’s a little tight out there,“ said Ayres, “but he beat Jacob Warner about as bad as you can beat Jacob Warner. If he can just be himself and wrestle to his ability, he should be the national champion.”

Three superstars, then a chasm.

Princeton’s next-highestplacing wrestler — and the only other one to make it to the second day of competition — was 174-pound Nate Dugan.

This was just his second taste of collegiate competition; his first was a single, losing match at the Nov. 3 Princeton Open.

Stefanik, now a junior and weighing in at 184 pounds, had seemed well on his way to making Ayres’s jump just a month ago during Princeton’s grueling Oklahoma State-University of Iowa series. The formerly unranked Stefanik clawed his way to a no. 18 national ranking with back-to-back victories against Oklahoma’s Anthony Montalvo and Iowa’s no. 10 Nelson Brands.

“The consistency with Travis,” said Ayres after that match, “is getting there.”

Then, suddenly, it wasn’t.

Facing Rider’s unranked George Walton, Stefanik faltered. Walton pinned him to strip him of his national ranking and put Rider’s first six points on the scoreboard. Seeded sixth at Midlands ten days later, Stefanik fell 5–3 to Iowa’s Abe Assad in the round of 16. He won his first consolation match, then dropped the second one 6–4.

“He sort of bailed,” Ayres said.

“He didn’t wrestle well. He was just missing something. We’ve talked to him a lot; it’s about pushing the right buttons as a coach. We’ve hit the right buttons with other guys, and we’re just trying to figure out Travis.

It’s tough. I think Travis is trying to figure out Travis.”

The three weeks brought with them a slew of other disappointments: captain D’Angelo’s Midlands first-round loss by fall, and junior captain Ty Agaisse’s 3–2 heartbreak loss against Rider.

But there were bright spots, too. Against Rider, first-year heavyweight Aiden Conner recorded his first victory of the season; 174-pound Parker pulled off a 9–8 victory; 165-pound sophomore Grant Cuomo and 141-pound sophomore Marshall Keller piled on bonus points to Princeton’s score.

Ten weeks and as many matches remain before the Minneapolis, Minnesota NCAA Tournament. Princeton wrestling has time — and its work cut out for it.

“Marshall, Parker, Stefanik,” said Ayres. “We need a breakthrough.”

Its wrestlers will have the opportunity to pull one off this weekend, when the team travels to North Carolina for a daunting series against no. 17 University North Carolina and no. 6 North Carolina State.

“Those teams are tough,” Ayres said. “It’ll be close. There’s a lot of nervousness as a coach.”

“Oh yeah,” Glory said. “This is gonna be fun.”

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Tigers to face Dartmouth, Harvard

By Owen Tedford

Senior Staff Writer

This coming weekend, the No. 7 women’s hockey team (13–4–0, 8–3–0 ECAC) returns to ECAC play when it travels up north to take on two Ivy League opponents, Dartmouth (5–7–3, 2–4–3) on Friday and No. 9 Harvard (10–4– 0, 9–0–0) on Saturday. When these teams met earlier this year in Princeton, the Tigers defeated Dartmouth 2–1 on a late goal and lost to Harvard 6–2, after the Crimson got out to an early 3–0 start before Princeton got on the board.

Historically, this has been a tough road trip for the Tigers, although they swept a year ago, the first time since 2009. Then-first-year forwards Sarah Fillier and Maggie Connors were instrumental last year, with Fillier netting three goals and Connors scoring four goals.

Fillier and Connors, two of Princeton’s top three point-scorers with 32 and 23 points, respectively, have both excelled this year.

Connors is tied with senior forward Carly Bullock at 23

points. Along with forward Sharon Frankel and senior defender Claire Thompson, they are the only five players with double-digit points on the season.

Fillier’s play most recently won her one of three NCAA Stars of the Week, after the Tigers’ sweep of Saint Anselm last weekend. Fillier had a seven-point weekend with four goals and three assists over the two-game series. Connors also had a hat trick during the series.

Princeton’s series against Saint Anselm saw a few other noteworthy moments for the Tigers, including firstyear Emma Kee’s first career goal, sophomore goalie Cassie Reale’s first shutout, sophomore Kayla Fillier’s first career goal, first-year Daniella Calabrese’s first career point, and sophomore Chloe Harvey’s first career multi-point game. Senior goalie Stephanie Neatby’s win on Saturday moved her in to fifth all-time in Princeton history, five wins behind Roxanne Gaudiel ’06.

Prior to the series against Saint Anselm, Princeton split a non-conference series

against No. 5 Ohio State (11– 5–4) in Las Vegas. The Tigers won the first game 4–2, with two goals from Connors and one from Thompson and sophomore defender Mariah Keopple each. Neatby was in net for Princeton, making 31 saves.

The Buckeyes won the second game 5–2 with both Ti-

ger goals coming from firstyear Annie Kuehl. Neatby was again in goal for Princeton. Connors and Keuhl’s performances won them ECAC awards for Player and Rookie of the Week, respectively.

The Tigers’ games this weekend will be important in ECAC and Ivy League

standings. Harvard leads Princeton by two points in the ECAC and 15 points in the Ivy League. These two games will also be the Tigers’ last two games before they take a break for finals until their game on Jan. 28 at Quinnipiac. This weekend’s games will be available for streaming on ESPN+.

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