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Eisgruber releases State of the University

By David Veldran staff writer

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University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ‘83.

source (TIGER), which “will use geothermal wells to reduce the University’s need to purchase energy” and help the University achieve its goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2046, its 300th anniversary.

He also described plans to rebuild the University Art Museum to “heighten its visibility, expand the range of works that it can display, and invite participatory engagement

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from our campus and the surrounding community.” This project is expected to start by January 2021, when the main museum building will be officially closed to visitors.

Other planned projects will provide a new home for the environmental sciences, a suite of engineering buildings, and a new institute in bioengineering. Additionally, Guyot Hall will be renovated and renamed Eric and Wendy

Schmidt Hall and house the Department of Computer Science.

In the letter, Eisgruber also recounted the story captured in a recent Princeton Alumni Weekly article about Oswald Veblen, a mathematician who taught for nearly 50 years at the University and the Institute for Advanced Study. Eisgruber stressed Veblen’s efforts towards inclusion, from “rescuing Jewish scholars

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ICC announces new partnership between SHARE, the Street

By Sam Kagan Assistant News Editor

On Thursday, Jan. 16, Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources, & Education (SHARE) and the Interclub Council (ICC) announced the creation of the SHARE Council for Eating Clubs (SCEC).

The group will comprise one SHARE peer from each club. In clubs with no members who are SHARE peers, a liaison will be appointed to work with the SHARE office.

Former SHARE Vice President of External Development Matthew Merrigan ’20, a SHARE peer and member of Ivy Club, will serve as chair of the body.

“The purpose of the SCEC is to foster relationship building between SHARE and the eating clubs,” the ICC statement noted, “and improve consistency of SHARE trainings within the clubs, with the overall goal of keeping the Street safe.”

At present, SHARE interacts with both eating clubs and other extracurricular organizations through the External Development skills group. Under the new system, SHARE will continue to engage with the latter through the skills group, while the SCEC will work with the clubs.

“Anyone, whether or not you’re a member of a club, should feel comfortable in club spaces — at least with regard to SHARE,” Merrigan said. “I think [the SCEC] is really important in ensuring

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that everybody feels safe and welcome in [the] clubs.”

With the advent of the SCEC, SHARE Director Jackie DeitchStackhouse hopes the group’s messaging and initiatives on Prospect Avenue will become stronger. She explained that the SCEC represents “a culmination of conversations, attempts, and a real good-faith effort to enhance the supports within eating clubs.”

“I’ve been here for eight years now, and I think over the years the relationships have really gotten stronger,” she added. “I see the SCEC as an example of that. It’s not the only example of all the good work that’s happening, but it’s a really significant example.”

In the current setup, SHARE peers serve as points of contact for their respective extracurriculars and clubs, communicating with SHARE on behalf of their groups. SHARE holds four major programming events at each club, and SHARE peers act as resources when potential interpersonal conflicts arise.

Additionally, Deitch-Stackhouse pointed out that the option of talking with a SHARE peer — rather than going directly to the SHARE office — may increase the likelihood that students seek assistance.

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Senior columnist Zach Sippy urges us to heed Dr. Vanessa Tyson ‘98, contributing columnist Khadijah Anwar advocates for menstrual equity, and senior columnist Liam O’Connor reports on the demographic data of the eating clubs.

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Yovanovitch ’80 retires from U.S. State Department

By Omar Farah staff writer

Oseguerra Serra is concentrating in politics and pursuing a certificate in global health and health policy. According to a University statement, Oseguerra Serra is going to pursue a master of philosophy in development studies while at Oxford.

Elzalabany was named a Sachs Global Scholar, which will fund one to two years of study outside of the United States.

He is majoring in Near Eastern Studies and pursuing certificates in creative writing and humanistic studies. According to the statement, Elzalabany “proposes to spend the first year of his Sachs Global Scholarship studying Sufism in Cairo and Istanbul, and aims to spend the second year pursuing a master’s degree in Islamic intellectual

After almost 35 years in the foreign service, former Ukrainian Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch ’80, a key witness during the House impeachment inquiry and a pivotal figure in the Senate’s ongoing trial, has retired from the U.S. State Department. Her exit comes after weeks of hostile impeachment proceedings, which have given rise to fresh allegations regarding her firing.

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton and Lev Parnas, an associate of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have both shed light on the Trump Administration’s alleged misconduct in releasing Yovanovitch last May. Most prominent in recent disclosures is Parnas’ allegation that Yovanovitch might have been under surveillance during her tenure in Ukraine.

This charge stems from text messages that Parnas handed over to Congress during the House impeachment hearings in December.

The messages, which have not yet been verified by any official investigation, indicate

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Students awarded Sachs Scholarship

By Caitlin Limestahl Assistant News Editor

Gabriela Oseguera Serra ’20, Yousef Elzalabany ’20, and Matteo Parisi of the University of Oxford have been named the recipients of the 2019 Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of the University’s most prestigious honors.

The Sachs Scholarship allows recipients to travel, study, work around the world, and further their research that will benefit the public. Because Sachs attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, the scholarship allows a graduate from Oxford to study for a year at Princeton.

Oseguerra Serra was named a Sachs Scholar at Oxford’s Worcester College, an award that will allow her to study there for two years.

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In his fourth annual letter to the University community, President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 discussed upcoming construction projects that will improve facilities and expand the undergraduate student body.

According to Eisgruber, new construction projects, from laboratories to student residences, will further the University’s goal of inclusion. He described two new residential colleges to be built south of Poe Field, which are expected to be ready for the 2022-23 academic year. These residential colleges will allow the University’s undergraduate class to expand by 10 percent and temporarily replace Wilson College dormitories undergoing renovations.

To meet the needs of an expanded student body, Dillon Gymnasium will be expanded and partially renovated, and University Health Services will be improved and expanded to include a building attached to a renovated Eno Hall, Eisgruber wrote.

According to Eisgruber, the University will break ground on additional projects in the next 15 months: a new soccer practice field, the new Myslik Field and Roberts Stadium, a parking garage, and a geothermal energy plant, Thermally Integrated Geo-Exchange Re-

from persecution” abroad to drawing more diverse scholars to Princeton.

Veblen was instrumental in the founding of the Institute for Advanced Study, which at the time was more inclusive than the University, welcoming people such as the female mathematician Emmy Noether and black mathematician William Claytor. He also made many contributions to the original Fine Hall, now Jones Hall, by helping it become “perhaps the world’s most extraordinary gathering place for mathematicians and theoretical physicists,” Eisgruber wrote.

Eisgruber urged the University community to learn from Veblen’s work.

“Our University and our country succeed best when they are open to honest, hardworking people from all backgrounds, regardless of status or national origin,” Eisgruber wrote.

Eisgruber also identified a few current trends, such as rise in anti-Semitism, the Trump administration’s restriction of immigration, and tensions between the U.S. and China, as antithetical to the academic inclusion and openness originally envisioned by Veblen. He drew a parallel between the experiences of the refugees Veblen aided and the participants of the Deferred

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fice hope to alleviate this problem.

Under the SCEC, clubs without SHARE peers will be assigned one. Along with a club officer appointed to represent their club in the SCEC, the designated peer will coordinate between the club and SHARE. According to the ICC release, “The new SCEC offers a platform for the coordination of these liaisons in a more permanent, collaborative structure, with the goal of improving interclub dialogue and cooperation for SHARE-related initiatives.”

“It’s really great to just have a resource that is in your club, ideally, and is able to provide all the knowledge needed and all the advice needed,” ICC

President and former Cloister Inn President Meghan Slattery ’20 said. “It’s really just putting the conversation in the hands of the students who are best trained to [facilitate] and partnering with them.”

Deitch-Stackhouse said Merrigan began recognizing the absence of SHARE peers across the Street while he was serving as SHARE’s Vice President for External Development.

“Because that role has such a strong connection with overseeing the liaisons to the eating clubs, he was recognizing a gap — that there were some breakdowns,” Deitch-Stackhouse said. “And so I think it was by his direct observations and lived experience that he said, ‘We need to do something more.’”

By Slattery’s account, clubpartnered SHARE peers have and will continue to maintain an open dialogue about club

culture. They will also act as consultants to ensure that parties and “nights out” adhere to safety guidelines.

The peers may assist in the event that club officers or members witness or are confronted with inappropriate interpersonal conduct.

Slattery, who noted her admiration for the students who volunteer to be SHARE peers, is proud of the collaboration between the ICC and SHARE. “I emphasize the importance of having SHARE peer representation in the eating clubs.

We really feel that having a regular standing body where SHARE peers within clubs meet will encourage members of other clubs to apply to be SHARE peers,” she said.

“They’re such an important resource in the community and, in a perfect world, we’d have a bunch of SHARE peers in every single eating club.”

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history at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.”

“I’m incredibly grateful for the mentors, friends, and communities on campus who have supported me throughout my time at Princeton and encouraged me to pursue my interests even as they changed and evolved across the years,” Elzalabany wrote in an email to the Daily Princetonian.

He attributes much of his success and interest in Islamic

history to the Muslim community at the University.

“I definitely would not have imagined pursuing anything along these lines when I first matriculated, and it would not have been possible to broaden my horizons and discover my interest in Islamic history without having a loving Muslim community on campus as my foundation,“ Elzalabany said.

Parisi was named the Sachs Scholar at Princeton, which will allow him to study at the Princeton Graduate School for a year.

Parisi is in his third year of PhD studies in mathematics at

Oxford’s Worcester College. He has a master’s degree in theoretical and mathematical physics and a Bachelor of Science in physics.

Parisi hopes to work with University faculty members whose research interests complement his own. He has published several papers on the amplituhedron, a relatively new geometric structure.

“The Scholarship, for me, is an instance of freedom: the possibility to be, to learn, to discover, to change. While I will miss Oxford, I am looking forward to embracing this new experience,” he wrote in an email to the ‘Prince.’

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Oseguera Serra ’20 will be pursuing a Master of Philosophy in Development Studies as a Sachs Scholar.

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Parisi will be studying as a visiting graduate student at the University under the Sachs Scholarship.

Elzalabany ’20 was named a Sachs Global Scholar.

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that Connecticut congressional candidate Robert F. Hyde was surveilling the ambassador through electronic and physical means.

Investigations surrounding the matter have been opened by both Ukraine’s Ministry Of The Interior and the State Department.

U.S. legislators and the public have not yet been notified of any progress or conclusions reached by the State Department. Several Democratic Senators, immersed in the fast-paced impeachment trial, have begun asking questions of the State Department, as well as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, about the status and timeline of the investigation.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has called for the State Department to brief Congress on the findings of their investigation. A letter sent to Pompeo and signed by 22 Democratic senators demands “an immediate and complete accounting of these troubling allegations.”

At one point, the lawmakers go so far as to accuse Pompeo’s State Department of “a disturbing and cavalier lack of seriousness regarding the protection of our diplomats.”

According to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel, Bolton told him about serious concerns regarding the administration’s firing of Yovanovitch.

“He strongly implied that something improper had occurred around her removal as our top diplomat in Kyiv,” Engel wrote in a statement on Jan. 29.

After the Senate voted on Friday, Jan. 31 not to hear evidence from new witnesses, information regarding the charges of surveillance and misconduct will not be a part of the formal impeachment deliberations that will culminate in a vote this Wednesday, regardless of the outcome of the State Department investigation.

Many take Friday’s vote as an indication that the Senate will likely acquit the President.

In any case, the inquiries will not affect Yovanovitch’s future in the State Department, as she has now officially left the agency.

In the administrations of

Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, Yovanovitch built a career of nonpartisan service.

From her first posting in Mogadishu, Somalia, to her ambassadorships in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and, finally, Ukraine, Yovanovitch was known for her competence and temperament. In a recent Associated Press report, former Ukrainian Ambassador John Herbst, her colleague and predecessor, described Yovanovitch as “a topnotch diplomat, careful, meticulous, [and] whip smart.”

Yovanovitch’s retirement follows the departure of many other career diplomats who found themselves embroiled in the events underlying President Trump’s impeachment, including former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker, former Ukrainian Ambassador William Taylor, and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State Michael McKinley.

Since her dismissal in May, Yovanovitch has been working for the Institute For The Study Of Diplomacy at Georgetown KHARKIV INVESTMENT FORUM / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS University. She has remained on Yovanovitch served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2016 to 2019. the State Department’s payroll.

Yovanovitch has yet to announce her next move.

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Eisgruber: New residential colleges will expand U. class by 10 percent Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, one of whom the University, along with Microsoft, represented in the Supreme Court.

Noting the success of this past semester’s “Thrive: Empowering and Celebrating Princeton’s Black Alumni” conference, Eisgruber pledged to “continue our efforts to ensure that every member of our campus community is respected and capable of participating fully in the life of the University.”

Expanding on the theme of inclusivity, Eisgruber emphasized the potential of these new construction projects to strengthen the bonds between members of the Princeton community and make research and study at the University more accessible.

“Most importantly,” he wrote, “the new buildings will aim to stimulate the kind

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of creativity and engagement that are essential to Princeton’s mission and that were on Oswald Veblen’s mind when he planned Fine Hall, and shaped this University’s future so profoundly, ninety years ago.”

Reminding readers of next academic year’s new calendar, which includes a start date before Labor Day and fall semester final examinations before winter break, Eisgruber noted that the calendar change will allow for an optional twoweek Wintersession “designed for innovative, non-graded learning and growth opportunities.”

The letter will be the basis of an annual Town Hall meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC), which will take place on Monday, Feb. 10 in the Multipurpose Room on the B level of Frist Campus Center.

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Period products, please Khadijah Anwar

Contributing Columnist

We approach 2020 and women across the world still have to beg for access to basic menstrual health and hygiene products. As men continue to define what constitutes the human body and its needs, the fact that menstruation is a basic human function that half the world’s population experiences every month is completely drowned out during conversations about the body.

Thirty-three states still consider menstrual management products non-essential items, meaning that these products are denied the sales tax exemption that is granted to other “essential” items, which apparently include doughnuts, pretzels, and Fruit Rollups in America.

Let’s note that male contraceptives are usually tax-free, while women continue to pay a sales tax on tampons and sanitary pads. Moreover, women tend to pay a disproportionately higher amount for most body management products, from shampoo to razors. For example, a five-pack of Schick Hydro Silk women’s razors consistently costs around three dollars more than a pack of Schick’s male razors.

It is true that free market

process may justify certain pricing differences, such as women’s hair products costing more than men’s, as women tend to value hair treatment products more. However, to price items like razors differently is a discriminatory practice that imposes an economic burden on women — this is especially unfair when you consider that the social norm that women have to be cleanshaven at all times is a standard originating in patriarchy to begin with.

The world needs to stop taxing women for their womanhood.

In much of the world, menstruation is treated as far worse than an unnecessary economic demand. It is treated as a crime. In rural India, for example, women are ostracized from family life while on their period and told to sleep and eat outside their homes for days. Meanwhile, they still have to walk to the faroff communal bathrooms or sometimes just into the open fields to care for their bodies; these locations are not conducive to proper period management at best and are grounds for assault at worst.

While the menstruation movement has been successful in pushing the Indian government to construct many

new toilets all across India, men remain empowered to determine women’s access to proper menstrual hygiene.

Men decide where toilets are constructed and are also often in charge of the access point in makeshift pharmacies in rural India, where products are requested at a counter rather than out for display. As a result, many women shy away from asking for pads and instead use old rags out of ideas of modesty and shame.

Villages in South Asia are not the only places where women rely on men to physically provide them with menstrual resources. Many prisons in America do not provide female prisoners with any menstrual products. These women are often forced to either bleed into their underwear; in many recorded instances, they have been forced to sleep with male guards just in exchange for the provision of menstrual products every month.

In fact, even outside prisons, few public bathrooms provide tampons or pads for free, and many don’t provide them at all. The Princeton campus, too, used to have empty pad and tampon dispensers that required quarters until just this year, when the campus commendably moved towards the provision of free

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menstrual products in most public bathrooms and began to consistently restock dispensers.

The necessity for menstrual products is often overlooked despite the fact that they are basic toiletries that every woman will uncontrollably need every single month. This extends beyond just economic negotiations regarding what items are essential and thus tax-free, as well as beyond the logistical planning of public bathrooms. Menstrual-product access must also be a discussion of which items should be accessible as a basic human right.

Women are humans, too, yet our basic biology doesn’t seem to be a factor when society defines human rights of health and hygiene. It is critical that we acknowledge the essentialness of menstrual products and work to lift discriminatory taxes and increase accessibility for women across the world.

Khadijah Anwar is a sophomore from Dubai, UAE. She can be reached at kanwar@princeton.edu.

This opinion piece was originally published on November 18, 2019.

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Still in Solidarity with Dr. Tyson ‘98 Zachariah Sippy

Senior Columnist

In February 2019, Dr. Vanessa Tyson ’98 publicly came forward accusing Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault. More than 150 University students and community members signed a letter standing with her in solidarity and calling for Fairfax’s resignation. Sadly, one year later, Fairfax is still in office.

It’s hard to overstate the controversy that engulfed Virginia’s constitutional officers last winter. It began with the publication of blackface and KKK costume images from Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D) medical school yearbook.

Almost instantly, members of Northam’s party demanded his resignation. This included a majority of the Democratic State Legislative Caucus and other prominent political figures, amounting to nearly all of the Commonwealth’s senators and congressmen.

During the scandal, Northam apologized and admitted that he was pictured in the photos, only to change his mind, recalling a separate occasion when he did do blackface. For a moment, it looked as if Northam would be forced to leave office, and Fairfax would assume the role. This is

what prompted Dr. Tyson, and later, Meredith Watson, to go public with their allegations that Fairfax had assaulted them.

It is likely that Northam could not have stayed in office if the two men in line to succeed him were not also embroiled in scandals (State Attorney General Mark Herring also admitted to doing blackface). Virginia Democrats tempered their calls for resignation when they realized that if all three men were removed from office, the Republican Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates would inherit the governorship. As a result, Northam, Fairfax, and Herring held onto their offices.

Despite these scandals, Virginia Democrats managed to gain control of the House of Delegates and Senate last November. They moved swiftly to pass a plethora of progressive reforms, including protecting abortion access, signing the Equal Rights Amendment, and adopting gun control measures. However, no action has been taken regarding Northam, Fairfax, or Herring, despite the fact that Democrats now control the speakership.

Especially in the case of Fairfax, the failure of state Democrats to take action is

damning. Fairfax described one of his accusers as a “bitch” and blamed one of his political rivals for fabricating the allegations. Then he sued CBS News for interviewing Tyson and Watson, claiming it amounted to defamation, for a claim of $400 million.

The Washington Post Editorial Board, Watson, and Tyson have all called for hearings of the state legislature under oath so that a formal fact-finding process can ensue. Fairfax, on the other hand, opposes the General Assembly taking any action, and they seem to have ceded to his request.

While there may not be sufficient evidence for Fairfax to be prosecuted, let alone convicted in a court of law, there is cause for the Virginia General Assembly to grant Tyson and Watson the chance to be heard. Democrats have the power to hold these hearings.

A year ago, many of them were prepared to call for his resignation. Today, they seem to no longer care.

Given all that’s been said about the “unforgiving nature” of the #MeToo movement and “cancel culture,” comparatively little attention has focused on the forgetful nature of the body politic, with regards to sexual assault allegations. The Fairfax saga

is just one story that fits into a larger pattern. More than twenty women have raised credible allegations of sexual harassment and assault committed by President Trump, but this is barely discussed, despite Trump’s all-consuming effect on the media. Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas are regular topics of debate as well, but allegations of their sexual harassment and assault frequently go without mention.

A year ago, when I signed onto the public letter, I was confident that Fairfax would be forced to resign. Today, not only does he remain lieutenant governor, but he also plans to run for the governorship in 2021. The lack of hearings ought to bring shame upon the members of the Virginia House of Delegates and State Senate, while the fact that Fairfax is still plotting a gubernatorial campaign should bring shame on the rest of us.

This year, collective amnesia seems to have triumphed; going forward, we must resolve to better remember.

Zachariah Sippy is a sophomore from Lexington, Ky. He can be reached at zsippy@Princeton. edu.

The Other Side of Paradise Liam O’Connor

Senior Columnist

Two years ago, Leila Clark ’18 proposed a referendum that would require the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) to create a committee with the Interclub Council (ICC) that would collect demographics of eating clubs’ memberships.

It passed with 69 percent of votes.

In the wake of the referendum’s approval, USG dragged its feet, and the ICC claimed this information would threaten individuals’ privacy if it were made public. Meanwhile, the administration — who had this data the entire time — kept quiet.

Over the course of six months, I conducted an empirical investigation into the demographic composition of Princeton’s eating clubs’ members.

I utilized publically accessible information to estimate patterns of income, gender, major,

varsity status, hometown and home state.

The findings show that people join clubs that have members similar to themselves.

Ivy is indeed the most international club. Colonial is mostly engineers and science majors.

Cottage has the highest percent of athletes, with Cannon a close second.

Through Tigerbook, I found members’ hometowns and then pulled such locations’ median incomes from U.S. Census data.

Bicker club members who live in the United States are from

towns with median household incomes that are $2,832 greater than those of sign-in club members.

Athletes tend to follow other athletes. Three clubs — Cottage, Cloister, and Cannon — have 75 percent of all varsity athletes on the Street.

Of the international students in eating clubs, 73 percent are in Bicker clubs.

Students from public schools are a minority in at least one eating club’s class. Fifty-eight percent of Tiger Inn’s Class of 2019 attended an independent

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } day, independent boarding, or religiously affiliated school, according to a newsletter from this past spring. In contrast, 41 percent of Princeton’s Class of 2019 attended these types of schools. The median cost of TI members’ private secondary education is $36,685 per year.

Compared to all undergraduates, students concentrating in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and those in Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) programs are overrepresented in sign-in clubs. Sixty-five percent of signin members study STEM and 35 percent are engineers.

School-wide, 50 percent of undergraduates study STEM, and 26 percent are engineers.

STEM concentrators are significantly underrepresented in the three oldest eating clubs.

Only 24 percent of Ivy, 26 percent of Cottage, and 39 percent of TI study STEM subjects.

In 1967, The Harvard Crimson’s reporter at Princeton wrote, “there is a high proportion of math and science men in the bottom clubs” compared to the “top clubs.” At that time, he considered Charter, Cloister, Terrace, and Quadrangle to be the bottom, and Ivy, TI, and Cottage to be three of the clubs at the top.

Fifty-one years later, that observation still holds true despite the University’s admission of women and an increasing number of STEM students.

Implications The controversy surrounding this issue doesn’t make sense.

Before Stanford University’s eating clubs closed, they had been reporting their members’ demographics since the 1960s.

Princeton is behind the curve by a half century.

Everyone should be aware of eating clubs’ demographics because they impact students.

First, they can influence school policy. Currently, all juniors and seniors on financial aid receive a $2,000 boost each year to help pay for upperclass dining options.

Although this policy is helpful, many students still fall into an awkward financial doughnut hole: They come from families that don’t make enough money to easily stroke a $10,000 (or even $3,000) check to an eating club but also don’t demonstrate enough need to receive full financial aid, which would cover their bills.

Concrete data that’s published each year would show the effectiveness of administrators’ initiatives and tell officers if they should cut costs to make their clubs more accessible.

Second, the Street’s divisions could greatly impact students’ futures. Earlier this year, Kevin Carey wrote in The New York Times, saying “eating clubs are where many upper-income marriages begin.” His column demonstrated that Ivy League students — including Princetonians – of lower socioeconomic status are less likely to get married than their affluent peers.

But beyond marriage, membership in an eating club may provide different prospects in members’ careers, networks, earnings, charity, levels of tolerance, and more. Students could have very different futures depending upon the demographics of the eating club that they join.

Ultimately, we — Princeton students — are responsible for the Street’s stratification. We are the ones who judge others based on superficial traits, segregate ourselves by socioeconomic status, and create hierarchies of social prestige.

The student body needs to look in the mirror and understand how it segregates itself.

Interclub Council and University Responses My investigation also uncovered administrators’ previously unknown practice of sharing demographic data with eating club presidents.

In a statement and interview, ICC chair Hannah Paynter ’19

said the University provides eating club graduate boards and undergraduate presidents with “confidential information” on club demographics.

Paynter said the ICC requested the data after meeting with Princeton’s Executive Director for Planning and Administration Christopher Burkmar ’00.

Burkmar deferred comment to the Office of Communications.

University spokesperson Ben Chang confirmed in an email that administrators share aggregate demographic data with the eating club presidents and graduate boards.

“This practice, which began last year, helps the clubs better understand the demographics of their members and supports recommendations of the 2017-18 Task Force on the Relationship between the University and the Eating Clubs,” he wrote.

The University regularly reviews demographic data, “to develop initiatives, enhance programs, and review student engagement.”

He said data is classified as “Confidential” under the University Information Security Policy. This level permits the sharing of confidential Information when, “necessary to meet the University’s legitimate business needs.”

Chang affirmed that the University did not violate any federal laws or disclose data on individual students.

“We thought that we were trailblazing by trying to get that kind of data because it’s private,” Paynter said. Although she acknowledged that the presidents would eventually inform undergraduates of this development, she remains opposed to making the data available to them.

Paynter noted that the ICC has already formed partnerships with the Princeton Latinos y Amigos, Freshman Scholars Institute, and Scholars Institute Fellows Program.

In reference to stereotypes, Paynter said, “I think the most frustrating thing is that the clubs are already putting forth these concerted efforts to change their make-ups and ensure no one feels unwelcome”.

All Clubs

Overall, eating club members hail from towns that collectively have a median household income of $76,543 and an average of $86,103.

For reference, the median household income in the United States is $61,372, according to the U.S. Census.

An estimated 54 percent of all eating club members are male and 46 percent are female.

Slightly less than 30 percent are varsity athletes. Twelve percent are from abroad. Nearly half concentrate in STEM subjects.

About a quarter are pursuing a BSE degree.

For all undergraduates, the University reports that 51 percent are male and 49 percent are female. Thirteen percent are international students, 18 percent are varsity athletes. There are no major differences in the gender ratios between selective and non-selective clubs.

Ivy Club (est. 1879)

Members come from towns with a median household income of $76,082 and an average of $85,188. Twenty-nine percent have hometown household incomes over $100,000. Thirty-six percent of hometown household incomes are below the U.S. median.

It is critical to keep in mind what I will call the “city effect”; large cities have a wide range of incomes, meaning that the incomes of families in the upper income range will be imprecisely represented by the median for the city overall. Given the reasonable assumption that Princeton students are generally pulled from the wealthier echelons of their hometowns, this analysis likely underestimates the family incomes of students from major

cities.

Students from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington, D.C. comprise 22 percent of Ivy’s American membership.

Males and females are split 5050. International students are 28 percent of the club. Of Ivy’s international students, 45 percent are from the United Kingdom, and 30 percent are from London alone.

Thirty-three percent of Ivy members are varsity athletes.

One quarter concentrate in STEM subjects, and 13 percent are engineers. Slightly more than 40 percent are Wilson School, history, economics, and politics (WHEP) concentrators.

Ivy president Mimi Asom ’19 did not respond to a request for comment.

Cottage Club (est. 1886)

Like Ivy, Cottage’s income estimate is also probably an underestimate. Twenty-three percent of American members of Cottage reside in cities with a population over 300,000.

Cottage members come from towns that have a median household income $75,260 and an average of $87,494. Thirty-four percent have hometown household incomes above $100,000. Fortyone percent have hometown household incomes below the U.S. median.

Males are 58 percent of the club, and 43 percent are female.

International students compose 14 percent of members, of whom 54 percent are Canadian.

Seventy-eight percent are varsity athletes.

Twenty-six percent study STEM subjects, but only 12 percent are engineers. Fifty-five percent are WHEP concentrators.

Cottage president Casey Swezey ’19 did not respond to a request for comment.

Tiger Inn (est. 1890)

TI members come from towns that have a median household income of $77,680 and an average of $88,533. More than 33 percent had hometown household incomes above $100,000. Thirty-eight percent had hometown household incomes below the U.S. median.

Half of members are male, and half are female. Almost 7 percent are international students. Twenty-nine percent are varsity athletes.

About 40 percent study STEM subjects, and 23 percent are engineers.

TI president Maggie McCallister ’19 did not respond to a request for comment.

Cap & Gown Club (est. 1891)

Cap and Gown members come from towns that have a median household income of $75,313 and a mean of $82,943. Thirty-one percent have hometown household incomes above $100,000.

Thirty-seven percent have hometown household incomes below the U.S. median.

Fifty-nine percent are male, and 41 percent are female.

Around 12 percent are international students. Eight percent are varsity athletes.

Fifty-three percent of members study STEM subjects, and 31 percent are engineers.

Cap president RJ Hernandez ’19 did not follow up on a request for comment.

Colonial Club (est. 1891)

Colonial members come from towns that have a median household income of $81,458 and an average of $87,809. Thirty percent have hometown household incomes over $100,000. Thirtytwo percent have hometown household incomes below the U.S. median.

Fifty-nine percent are male, and 41 percent are female. Onetenth are international students, of whom 33 percent are Canadian. Less than 1 percent are varsity athletes.

Three-quarters of members study STEM subjects. About half are engineers.

Outgoing Colonial president Kimberly Peterson ’19 did not

follow up on a request for comment.

Cannon Dial Elm Club (est.

1896; re-opened 2011)

Cannon Dial Elm members come from towns that have a median household income of $77,680 and an average of $88,948.

Thirty-seven percent have hometown household incomes above $100,000. Thirty-six percent have hometown household incomes below the U.S. median.

The split between males and females is 47 percent and 53 percent, respectively. Eight percent are international students, of whom 63 percent are Canadian.

More than three-quarters are varsity athletes.

More than one-third study STEM subjects, and 16 percent are engineers. Forty percent are WHEP concentrators.

Cannon president Julia Haney ’19 did not follow up on a request for comment.

Charter Club (est. 1901)

Charter members come from towns that have a median household income of $69,626 and an average of $82,426. A quarter have hometown household incomes over $100,000. Thirty-five percent have hometown household incomes below the U.S. median.

Sixty-five percent are male, and 35 percent are female. Four percent are international students. One member is a varsity athlete.

Eighty-eight percent study STEM, and 65 percent are engineers.

Outgoing Charter president Conor O’Brien ’19 did not follow up on a request for comment.

Quadrangle Club (est. 1901)

Quadrangle members come from towns that have a median household income of $71,830 and an average of $81,256. Twentynine percent have hometown household incomes above $100,000. Forty-two percent have hometown incomes below the U.S. median.

Fifty-three percent are male, and 47 percent are female. Fourteen percent come from abroad.

Seventy percent study STEM subjects. One-third are engineers.

Outgoing Quadrangle president Sarah Spergel ’19 did not follow up on a request for comment.

Tower Club (est. 1902)

Tower members come from towns that have a median household income of $83,205 and an average of $89,256. Forty-five percent have hometown household incomes over $100,000.

Forty-three percent have hometown household incomes below the U.S. median.

Fifty-three percent are male, and 47 percent are female. Seventeen percent are international students, of whom 66 percent hailed from South or East Asian countries. Three-and-a-half percent are varsity athletes.

Sixty-one percent study STEM subjects, and 35 percent are engineers. Twenty-seven percent are WHEP concentrators.

Tower president and ICC cochair Rachel Macaulay ’19 declined to comment.

Terrace Club (est. 1904)

Terrace members come from towns that have a median household income $68,304 and an average of $81,352. Twenty-three percent have hometown household incomes over $100,000. Thirtysix percent have hometown household incomes below the U.S. median.

Fifty-one percent are male, and 49 percent are female. Thirteen percent are international students. Two percent are varsity athletes.

Fifty percent study STEM subjects. Nineteen percent are engineers.

Outgoing Terrace president Elizabeth Yu ’19 did not respond to a request for comment.

Cloister Club (est. 1912; reopened 1977)

Cloister members come from towns that have a median household income of $83,958 and an average of $87,390. Thirty-nine percent have hometown household incomes over $100,000.

Thirty-five percent have hometown household incomes below the U.S. median.

Males are 60 percent of the club, and females are 40 percent.

Seven percent are international students, of whom over half are from the United Kingdom.

Athletes are 64 percent of club members.

Fifty-seven percent study STEM subjects, and one-third are engineers.

“One of Cloister’s main recruitment goals this past year was to expand recruitment to non-varsity athletes,” outgoing Cloister president and ICC chair Hannah Paynter said in an interview. She explained that the club used to be smaller and hovered around consisting of 70 percent varsity athletes before it grew this year.

“I am happy to see that you found that number go down,” said Paynter, “because we found that too.”

Methodology

I obtained the eating clubs’ membership rosters from the University’s meal exchange website. Paynter confirmed the list is accurate.

Tigerbook — a student-produced and student-maintained database service to which only University undergraduates have access — provided members’ concentrations, hometowns, and profile pictures.

I used the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data on area median household incomes (AMI) of American eating club members’ hometowns to estimate their socioeconomic levels. This proxy is most accurate when confined to a small, specific area, but of course, some members’ hometowns were listed as big cities, such as Philadelphia.

The New York Times found from anonymous tax records that Princeton students have average family incomes of $186,100.

None of my income estimates came close to that of the Times’s values, so using the AMI probably significantly underestimates club members’ household incomes.

The Princeton athletics website provided rosters of all varsity teams to determine whether students were athletes.

I defined STEM concentrations as fields of study that the Office of the Dean of the Faculty grouped into the Natural Sciences and Engineering and Applied Science academic divisions.

A spring 2017 TI newsletter included a list of names and high schools for the newly accepted members of the Class of 2019.

Some private schools have day costs and higher boarding costs.

In such cases, I used the boarding cost in calculations.

I inferred members’ gender by their name and appearance. My crude method was, well, crude.

It skipped over transgender, gender non-conforming, and other individuals who identify differently than their facial appearance normatively suggests.

Twitter also guesses users’ gender based on their profile information. My investigation’s gender estimates may be off by a few percentage points — though likely not by any huge margin. If this method is accurate enough for Twitter, then it is for my purposes as well.

I estimated the clubs’ racial demographics by last name and appearance. I will not release the specific results at this time because they suffer from my own biases and the same pitfalls as the gender estimates.

Liam O’Connor is a senior geosciences major from Wyoming, Del. He can be reached at lpo@ princeton.edu.

This opinion piece was originally published on December 13, 2018.

Tuesday February 4, 2020

Sports

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Princeton wrestling sweeps Ivy League opponents, Brown and Harvard, in opening of Ivy League competition

By Josephine de La Bruyère Associate Sports Editor

Here’s how head wrestling coach Chris Ayres would describe his season’s first half: “hard.”

The list of no. 16 Princeton wrestling’s opponents over December and January reads like a who’s-who of dynastic programs: no. 7 Lehigh, no.

9 Oklahoma State, no. 1 Iowa, no. 25 Rider, no. 17 University of North Carolina, no. 6 North Carolina State.

“Contrary to popular belief,” said Ayres earlier this year when asked about that lineup, “I do not hate my team.”

Here’s how Ayres would describe his season’s second half: “well, less hard.”

Princeton wrestling opened its Ivy League season last weekend with faceoffs against Harvard and Brown.

Those two squads were the team’s first unranked rivals of the season; before the end of the month, the Tigers will face three more.

In both Cambridge and Providence, the team secured 17-point wins: 27–12 and 29– 10, respectively. Though convincing, the margins pale in comparison to the Tigers’ December 23-point routing of no. 25 Rider, a stronger team than either Ivy one.

The Harvard match began as most Princeton matches do: with domination from 125-pound no. 3 sophomore

Patrick Glory, who logged his eighth fall of the season to finish off Harvard’s Nolan Hellickson in just one minute 38 seconds.

Senior 133-pound Ty Agaisse nabbed a 10–8 victory. Losses by sophomores Marshall Keller at 141 and Josh Breeding standing in for senior captain Mike D’Angelo at 149 handed Harvard two straight wins.

Next up was no. 5 sophomore superstar Quincy Monday at 157, facing Harvard’s unranked Hunter Ladnier.

But expecting a drubbing, the crowd got a battle instead. Monday scrapped his way to a meager 9–8 decision.

And Harvard’s no. 17 Philip Conigliaro got the better of no. 23 sophomore Grant Cuomo, who’d clawed his way to his first national ranking just two weeks earlier. Harvard had three wins; Princeton did too. It seemed almost a match between equals.

Senior 174-pound Kevin Parker, sophomore 184-pound Travis Stefanik, and junior 197-pound no. 3 Pat Brucki all put Princeton points on the board with a 15–0, 3:47 tech fall, a 16–6 major decision, and a 1:41 fall, respectively. All three wrestlers faced unranked opponents. And first-year, unranked heavyweight Aidan Connor put up a valiant fight against Harvard’s no.

10 Yaraslau Slavikouski, lim-

iting him to an 11–4 decision.

The match was over. Princeton was victorious, if not quite dominant. South the Tigers traveled, to Rhode Island and a squad of entirely unranked athletes.

The meet started at 141 with Keller. He gave up another match, this time 8–3 to Brown’s unranked James Pawelski. Breeding proved consistent in defeat as well, suffering a 7–3 loss to Brown’s unranked 149-pounder. And first-year Jack Lang stepped in for Monday at 157 to make his dual debut; a 12–3 major decision loss made the score

9–0 for Brown.

Cuomo turned the tide at 165, logging a fall at 2:59 to improve to a 1–1 record on the weekend. And from there, it was over for the Bears. Parker earned a 16–7 major decision, Stefanik a 13–3 one. Brucki trounced Brown’s Nino Bastianelli 14–5.

Conner earned his first collegiate major with a 12–0 shutdown of Brown’s Thomas Mukai. Glory trounced his opponent 10–1. And closing out the day at 133, Agaisse ended the major decision streak but kept the victory one going with a 6–3 win.

The Tigers’ core three — Glory, Monday, and Brucki — were still its core three.

In Cuomo’s match against Consigliaro — the only really anticipated tossup of the weekend — he’d come up short. Keller had faltered. In place of D’Angelo, Breeding had too.

But Princeton, the highestranked Ivy in the nation, was still 2–0 in the League. Two more Ivy matches remain, both this weekend. The Tigers will take on Columbia in Jadwin Gym on Saturday and no. 17 Cornell on Sunday.

BEVERLY SCHAEFER, GOPRINCETONTIGERS

Sophomore Grant Cuomo.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Princeton women’s hockey goes 3-0 against Quinnipiac, Yale, and Brown; still ranked second in ECAC standings

By Owen Tedford Senior Writer

Last week, the No. 6 women’s hockey team (17–4–1, 12–3–1 ECAC) entered the final push of its season with three road games in five days, played against Quinnipiac (15–10–3, 7–7–2), Yale (13–10–0, 10–6–0), and Brown (3–18–2, 2–13–1).

Princeton swept all three games, winning by a combined 9–4 to maintain its position at second in the ECAC standings.

Senior forward Carly Bullock was a key spark for the Tigers, clinching six points (four goals, two assists) across the three games. She scored all four of her goals against Princeton’s two Ivy League opponents, with a pair against each. Bullock’s four goals moved her to a career total of 83, the seventh highest number in Princeton’s history.

On Tuesday, against Quinnipiac, the Tigers’ three goals all came in the first period. Junior forward Annie MacDonald, assisted by junior forward Shannon Griffin, scored the first goal just over five minutes into the game. Less than four minutes later, sophomore forward Maggie Connors, assisted by Bullock, extended Princeton’s lead to 2–0. The Tigers’ last goal came on the power-play, with less than three minutes to go, when senior defender Claire Thompson scored with assists from Connors and Bullock.

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Junior goalie Rachel McQuigge made 23 saves on 25 shots. She maintained a shutout until nine minutes left in the third period — Quinnipiac’s last goal came in the last seconds of the game to make the final 3–2.

On Friday, Princeton headed back to New Haven, this time to face Yale. Bullock scored both Princeton goals, with the first coming on a breakaway in the first period, assisted by sophomore forward Sarah Fillier and MacDonald. Then, in the closing of the second period, Bullock tipped in a shot

by Fillier, with Connors setting up Fillier’s shot.

Senior goalie Stephanie Neatby got the win for Princeton with 19 shots on 20 saves.

The Bulldogs’ one goal came about halfway through the third period. Neither they nor the Tigers were able to score the rest of the way, leaving the final score 2–1.

In Princeton’s last game of the week against Brown, the Tigers jumped out to a 3–1 lead at the end of the first period. Less than a minute into the game, Brown made the first goal, but Princeton scored the next three goals with two from Bullock and the last from senior defender Sylvie Wallin. Then, after a scoreless second period, Connors scored to stretch the Princeton lead to 4–1.

MacDonald, Connors, Fillier, and junior forward Sharon

“A four-goal, six-point week delivers Carly Bullock @ecachockey Player of the Week honors for the second time in a month!”

Princeton Hockey (@PWIH), Women’s Ice Hockey

Frankel all had one assist on Saturday.

The Tigers’ third goalie, sophomore Cassie Reale, picked up the win against Brown with 18 saves on 19 shots, her third start and win of the season.

Princeton has six games left in the regular season before the

ECAC conference tournament.

The Tigers have already guaranteed themselves a playoff position as one of the top eight teams. Now their goals are to qualify for a home quarterfinal by finishing in the top four and to have home-ice throughout the tournament if the team fin-

ishes first. Four of Princeton’s last six games will be against the bottom five teams of the league.

The Tigers’ next two games are against Rensselaer (0–27–1, 0–16–0) on Friday at 6 p.m. and Union (5–18–5, 5–8–3) at 3 p.m. on Saturday.

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Mariah Keopple ‘22 sets up Carly Bullock ’20 as Sylvie Wallin ’20 looks on.

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