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Conceptual plan to revamp campus parking, tear down observatory

By James Anderson & Sophie Li staff writers

On Thursday, Jan. 9, University representatives presented to the Princeton Planning Board a conceptual plan for East Campus construction.

The East Campus Plan is part of the University’s 2026 Campus Plan. The plan aims to foster a supportive environment for learning, living, and teaching, and to improve campus sustainability while preserving the University’s “distinctive sense of place,” according to the Campus Plan Principles.

East Campus refers to the 141acre area bounded by Western Way to the north, Faculty Road to the south, Broadmead Street to the east, and Princeton Stadium to the west. The plan would affect 33 acres and introduce a five-level parking garage, a geoexchange heating and cooling

facility, a soccer stadium, a practice field, and buildings for engineering and environmental studies.

The plan also calls for tearing down FitzRandolph Observatory, which was built in 1934.

“The observatory became obsolete long ago and has since been used for storage,” Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian.

Princeton Municipal Planning Director Michael La Place said during the meeting that he hopes it will be preserved.

Suggestions at the meeting to preserve the observatory included relocating it or reusing the stonework as part of the soccer stadium.

“It is possible that the University may choose to relocate that somewhere else or find a use for it on the site,” said Louise Wilson, a member of the Plan-

ning Board.

The Elementary Particles Lab West and East, east of Jadwin Gymnasium, would also both be demolished according to the presented plan.

According to Hotchkiss, the Finney/Campbell Field would remain. Clarke Field and Strubing Field would also remain, although they are each marked a “longer-term opportunity site” in the Campus Plan.

The plan also introduces a 48-foot, 1,567-space parking garage, which would replace the 702-space Lot 21. In addition, other surface parking lots — including Cannon Lot and Lots 4, 5, 14, 25, and 26 — are to be removed, yielding a net of 176 additional parking spaces.

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COURTESY OF THE EAST CAMPUS PLAN MUNICIPAL CONCEPT REVIEW PRESENTATION

A diagram of East Campus from the municipal concept review presentation

STUDENT LIFE

New art exhibit features Hugh Hayden’s works

By Zoya Gauhar Senior Writer

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Gallery 2 is entitled “America.”

On Jan. 18, the University Art Museum opened a new art installment, entitled “Creation Myths,” at the recently renovated Bainbridge House, located on 158 Nassau Street.

The installment, composed of four pieces by contemporary artist Hugh Hayden, is set to be displayed until June 7, 2020.

Hayden, a native of Dallas, Texas, seeks to comment on the history of Bainbridge House through a narrative composed of a series of distinctive but linked pieces.

This is his first solo installment in a museum.

The installment includes four unique galleries: a kitchen, a dining room, a study, and a classroom.

James Steward h70, the Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director of the Art Museum, described the curatorial ap-

proach for the installment in an email to The Daily Princetonian.

“In many respects, curatorially, the project began with considering Bainbridge House’s origins as a house, with rooms that would have fulfilled now long-lost functions,” he wrote.

Upon entry, Gallery 1 represents the kitchen component of the installment. It displays a series of cast iron skillets, hung on a rack. Each skillet contains an imprint of an African mask, borrowed from the University’s own African art collection.

Gallery 2, the dining room, contains a single kitchen table with four chairs seated around it. The piece, entitled “America,” is made up of sculpted mesquite. Hayden chose to add visible spikes protruding throughout the furniture.

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U . A F FA I R S

Austrian foreign minister discusses post-Brexit EU

Ordinance requires genderneutral bathroom signage

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When Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Schallenberg visited the University on Thursday, he spoke on a breadth of crises faced by the European Union.

On Feb. 6, Schallenberg visited the University after arriving from a morning event with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. He had lunch with members of the faculty and student body. He discussed the European Union’s lack of agency, Eastern Europe’s authoritarian backsliding and brain drain, and a general realization that the Western model of shared values was not being adopted by most of the rest of the postCold War world. Schallenberg

also addressed Eastern Europe’s relationship with China, Russia, and Great Britain, which officially left the European Union last week.

“Europe is surrounded by a ring of fire — the failed Arab Spring post-revolutionary states in the south; to the east, Russia and Turkey are going their own way, while China is a rising power,” Schallenberg explained.

As concerning as the situation may appear at first glance, Schallenberg noted that history shouldn’t be forgotten. Multilateralism and international diplomacy are increasingly viewed as being in a crisis, though there have been dozens of other crises in the past. The current U.S.European relationship endured the Cold War and its multitude See LISD page 3

By Shamma Pepper Fox staff writer

A Princeton municipal ordinance that went into effect last month mandates inclusive, gender-neutral signage on most single-occupancy bathrooms.

The regulation applies to all single-occupancy bathrooms that are accessible to the public, including “restaurants, shops, offices, hotels, theatres [and] salons.” The regulation excludes certain bathrooms that must remain single-gender to comply with the state’s plumbing code.

The council originally passed the resolution in July, but it allowed businesses a 180day grace period to redesignate their facilities. As of Jan. 6,

the council instructed health inspectors and municipal construction staff to enforce compliance and to respond to public complaints of noncompliance.

However, the businesses and institutions contacted by The Daily Princetonian already designate most single-occupancy bathrooms as gender-neutral.

The University has sought to expand accessibility to genderneutral bathrooms since 2014, “prior to the passage of the local ordinance,” according to Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss.

The University has around 250 gender-inclusive bathrooms on campus and requires that “single room, lockable” bathrooms be included in ev-

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Today on Campus

Columnist Braden Flax discusses liberal politicians’ distrust of Trump, and contributing columnist Brent Kibbey urges the Administration to stop using the Whig-Clio for administrative purposes.

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ery “new building and major renovation.”

Eric Anglero, the program coordinator for the University’s LGBT Center, confirmed the University’s commitment to gender-inclusive spaces. He explained that “having an inclusive space creates a level of equity that was not there before.”

Since 2014, student activists and other staff of the LGBT Center have worked to expand inclusive facilities on campus and to communicate to students where they can take advantage of those bathrooms and shower facilities.

The LGBT Center’s website hosts a digital map that locates gender-inclusive bathrooms and showers on campus.

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ponent of the installment.

Hayden plays on the idea of an old-fashioned claw-grabber game, but instead fills it with cotton.

For the final gallery, Hayden chose to display a classroom, composed of a group of wooden chairs tangled with plywood. He titles this piece “Brier Patch (A, B, C, D).”

According to a pamphlet provided to visitors, in designing the display, Hayden wanted to comment on the politics associated with materials and therefore paid close attention to the materials used for the gallery pieces.

The skillets used in Gallery 1 are a mix of old and new skillets, some of which predate the Civil War. The dining set in Gallery 2 is made up of mesquite that Hayden harvested at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Gallery 3 intentionally used raw cotton to fill the crane machine, and Gallery 4 is composed of used Christmas trees from Park Ave-

nue, an affluent part of the United States, as explained

by Hayden in the exhibition pamphlet.

“Creation Myths” is the second installment to be part of Art@Bainbridge since it opened its doors last year.

The first installment featured works from Jordan Nassar, a Palestinian-American artist.

The building itself dates back to 1766 and shares a closely linked history with the University.

Seward mentioned the University Art Museum’s goal in highlighting this history in his email.

“We made the decision that, in the first year, we would draw on and draw out that history, including its domestic past and its relationship to slaveholding since the house was built by a family that owned slaves,” he wrote.

“But we may shift our focus in subsequent years.”

Museum associates working at the exhibition have expressed intrigue for the installation, including Emma Coley ’20, who works as a welcome desk attendant for the

exhibit.

“These pieces invite an interpretation about domestic life … Things that you recognize from home — but all of them are made strange in some way, and I think that the more time you spend with [them] the more strange these objects become and the more questions they invite,” Coley said.

Sakura Price ’22, also a welcome desk attendant, echoed the enthusiasm on display in visitor reactions.

“Some people are interested in the craftsmanship of the work itself and Hayden’s process,” she said. “Others are interested in how it relates to a domestic space, which is made more evident by Bainbridge House itself.”

Hayden will be delivering a talk with Professor of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies Chika Okeke-Agulu on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 5:30 p.m. in McCosh Hall 50. He is set to discuss the process and installment of “Creation Myths.”

Hayden was unable to respond to request for comment by the time of publication.

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“High Cotton,” housed in Gallery 3 of the Bainbridge House.

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as much as a reorganization of parking on campus,” La Place said.

The garage would have two points of entrance and exit, at the northeast and southwest corners, as well as an exit at the southeast corner. A new road would fork north from Faculty Road, west of the garage, while Stadium Drive, the pedestrian walkway on the eastern perimeter of the stadium, would be widened into a public road.

The garage would also feature solar panels on its roof. It would include a generous number of Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations and be arranged for autonomous cars to easily drop off riders and park themselves.

University Architect Ron McCoy, predicting a shift away from car use, said the first level could also be converted into office space.

A combination of existing and newly-planted trees would screen the garage on two sides.

With only a parking garage, tailgating behind cars would be illegal. According to the American Tailgater Association, tailgating originated during the 1869 Princeton-Rutgers game, with visitors grilling food at the “tail end” of horses.

“It will be a tough tradition to break entirely,” Wilson said.

However, McCoy pointed out that most tailgating now occurs in tents set up on nearby fields. Planning Board Council President David Cohen said that the new parking garage would “accelerate the transition” from individual tailgating to larger group gatherings.

Multiple residents at the meeting said the new parking structure would increase traffic, especially during rush hour, on Harrison Street and in neighboring residential areas.

Cohen said this may not be the case.

“Almost all of the cars that will park in the garage already currently park in the general area, and so it’s hard to say how much of a traffic impact the garage will have,” he said.

Cohen said he spoke with University officials who expressed the belief that having traffic in that area of campus consolidated in one spot will make things easier for alternative transportation support.

“For instance, having more and better Tiger Transit, service to the garage, and possibly … a bike rental station.”

Representatives at the board meeting said the University will conduct a traffic impact assessment.

East of the garage, the plan calls for a “Thermally Integrated Geo-Exchange Resource” (TIGER). It would use wells about 600-800 feet deep and a water circulation system to harness the ground’s heat-storing ability. TIGER is part of the University’s goal to phase out all steam heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems by 2036, besides bringing it nearer to its pledge of carbon neutrality by 2046.

The building housing TI-

GER’s pumps would also include space for field maintenance equipment.

TIGER will require two cylindrical tanks 80 feet in height and diameter, which several residents have said will mar the campus’s image. Louise Wilson of the Planning Board said the tanks would “extend above the tree line and be visible from quite a distance.”

“You would come down Washington Road and see those tanks, not gothic buildings,” said William O. Baker ’39 Professor of Computer Science Robert Sedgewick.

Princeton resident Martin Schneiderman suggested placing the tanks in East Basin, a depressed field to the east, while resident Karen Aurup suggested burying the tanks at least partially. McCoy said the excavation cost would be prohibitive because of rocky soil.

Sedgewick pointed out that the tanks could be adjacent to Jadwin Gymnasium, which goes down six levels.

“The University is going to give that some thought ... if they could be shorter structures … or designed in such a way that they wouldn’t be as visible,” La Place said.

Another suggestion raised by Cohen was to split the two 80by-80 tanks into four smaller 60-by-60 tanks.

McCoy said that TIGER would be integrated with the heating and cooling systems for the two additional residential colleges, but that transitioning the entire University to geothermal HVAC will require building at least two additional plants. Resident Shah Bender pointed out this could implicate installing more giant tanks in the future.

The East Campus Plan also includes six new buildings for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as well as environmental studies in the area north of Ivy Lane and south of the eating clubs. These would require demolishing 5 Ivy Lane and the Ferris Thompson Apartments, and would leave the Friend Center, the Computer Science building, and the entire Engineering Quadrangle vacant.

“We’re still early in the design of these projects,” McCoy said. “It should not be seen as a master plan … it’s really to test capacity and give ourselves a flexible framework for testing projects.”

Each component of the East Campus Plan will form separate site plan applications, but the timing has not yet been decided, according to Christopher DeGrezia of the law firm Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath.

“The University is working on their site plan application currently, and I believe they’re planning to have it by the end of the spring, and heading into the summer,” Cohen said. “I would expect it won’t be before the planning board until the fall.”

Cohen said the Site Plan Review Advisory Board would first review the proposal and that the Environmental Commission and Planning Board would have to approve it.

“The plan is anticipated to be realized over 10 years,” Hotchkiss said.

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of heightened tensions, from the Suez Crisis to the collapse of communism.

Schallenberg noted that the future seems better than what most people might expect. Many international institutions and mechanisms are working out to a large degree. Most importantly, he said, even countries engaging in troublesome behavior now seem to feel a need to justify actions in accordance with the U.N. Charter and international law.

“I would not be a diplomat if I did not think we could improve the world,” he said.

Schallenberg noted one major concern with the present arrangement: the Western ideas and way of life — the shared values of the United States and Europe — are increasingly under threat, he said.

According to Schallenberg, in the early 2000s, everything was going Europe’s way, and nations adopted Europe’s commitments to equality, education, and good governance. Today, Russia and Turkey have distanced themselves from this commitment, while China proposes an entirely alternate solution that does not respect these trans-Atlantic values.

“There has been a brutal awakening in the past few years within the European Union member

states,” Schallenberg said. “Our way of life is not as attractive as we thought it would be.”

On the subject of the European Union’s role in world affairs, Schallenberg explained the unique position that the European Union holds.

“It is a payer, not a player,” he said.

In essence, while European states contribute massive amounts of money to developing and improving the world, they do not leverage it effectively enough in geopolitics to ensure that their projects are brought to fruition, according to Schallenberg.

Schallenberg said that Europe needs to focus on what it wants to do and where it wants to achieve this.

On the subject of Russia, Schallenberg emphasized that Europe “needs to have very clear expectations in resolving the Ukraine crisis.”

“We can never compromise on Crimea as that would negate rule of law,“ he said.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs also pointed out that Russia and the European Union both need each other economically, and said that the present strategy of sanctions has been largely ineffective, while also difficult to remove and maneuver away from.

More broadly in Eastern Europe, Schallenberg noted that a solution is critically needed for

the ongoing “brain drain” — where young people are moving from Eastern Europe to work and live in Western Europe, where they feel that they can find a future.

Meanwhile, he said, domestic politics in Eastern Europe are backsliding towards authoritarianism because of the perceived failure of the “promised golden future.”

The Foreign Minister also spoke on Brexit, expressing both disappointment and hope for the future.

“Brexit is a lose-lose situation. But not a single other country has since left the European Union,” he said. “This suggests that the EU is more resilient than we tend to believe”.

During the lunch, Schallenberg also addressed China, a rising power that has courted several of the eastern European Union members with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for economic development. However, the European Union has largely not responded with a united front to Chinese efforts, according to Schallenberg. He recommended that the approach to BRI be recalibrated and engage the entire European Union.

The lunch event, entitled “Europe and the World: A Post-Brexit Assessment,” was sponsored by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination. The event was held in 019 Bendheim Hall at noon.

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The town officially passed the ordinance in July 2019.

Off campus, many businesses, including PJ’s Pancakes and Diesel and Duke, responded to requests for comment by explaining that they, too, have already installed gender-neutral bathrooms.

Nevertheless, the municipality’s ordinance stressed that requiring gender-neutral facilities will “benefit the entire community.” They ensure the “dignity and freedom from discrimination” of gender nonconforming and transgender people, as well as aiding families and “people with disabilities who rely upon personal care assistance,” the ordinance notes.

The ordinance, initially introduced at a Princeton Council meeting in June 2019, was adopted on July 8, 2019.

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The facts aren’t everything Braden Flax Columnist

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t’s easy to chortle dismissively at the verbal incompetence of Donald Trump. From his slurred words to his haphazard rants, he perfectly embodies the ineptness and bombast that liberal institutions have come to associate not only with him, but more generally with a lack of proper credentials and senatorial composure.

For the guardians of respectability in academia and the media, Trump’s misanthropic temperament and compulsive dishonesty are his greatest faults. But these vices do not have the significance that a mainstream discourse of civic normality desperately tries to ascribe to them. Furthermore, the people given a platform to berate Trump should hesitate to throw stones, residing as they do, not only in a glass house, but indeed in one that is on the verge of tipping over and shattering.

The authority imbued by credentials from esteemed institutions is not the only thing under assault by a cultural strain that mistakenly casts Trump as its champion of the alienated.

Facts themselves, we are told, are under attack and in need of the most hyper and vigilant rhetorical defense.

This presupposes, of course, that reality is uniquely bi-

ased in favor of liberalism; even when the facts are “on the side” of Trump’s liberal detractors, this mindset remains disturbing.

It is perfectly true that Trump regularly makes things up, and he is indifferent to the truth at best.

But the elevation of factchecking to the status of an intellectual deity does the public discourse no favors.

This is, first and foremost, because of the selective character and inherent bias of fact-checking agencies. Imagine that you support or are in some sense sympathetic to a particular point of view, and the most prominent person seeming to advocate it is daily assigned “Pinocchio” by some pointy-headed nitpick. It’s not just that there is such a thing as a contested fact; the recent caucuses in Iowa alone are evidence of that.

This is a question, even more so, of narrative and emphasis. Sure, maybe my guy got a number or two wrong, but is that really what we’re focusing on here, when the entire discourse on an issue such as healthcare has been based on outright falsification?

The pedantic wiles of evasive technocrats are cold comfort, even when contrasted with the harsh toxicity of Donald Trump. The reliance on technicalities in the heat of political conf lict comes up short from strategic and substantive per-

spectives alike.

But the liberal fetish for itemized facts is questionable not only by virtue of neglecting their context. It is additionally betrayed by the very elite who rely on them and preach their unambiguous merits. It is no less absurd to say that Sanders inadequately supported Clinton in 2016 than it is to say that Trump’s inauguration crowd was the largest of its historic kind. Yet liberals regularly indulge the former fantasy and demean the latter one; they are guided more by ideology than by any disinterested devotion to fact. They tend to have no real, existential stake in the matter; others cannot say the same. The construct of democratic civility illustrates this point nicely.

When Trump recently dubbed Michael Bloomberg “Mini Mike,” this was, of course, hilarious. I myself am likely shorter than Bloomberg, yet I can recognize the difference between Trump’s mockery of his wealthier opponent and his more vicious attacks on less well-connected adversaries. Bloomberg exemplifies the decadence of the ruling class more so than his equally childlike tormentor. Perhaps standing on a box, though, will help him stand up to Trump. Will he be standing on a box? Of course not; this is fiction created by Trump. And yes, I’m perfectly comfortable

referencing it, regardless.

Deal with it.

There are some who would argue that, in the context of our media environment, facts and poise are goods in themselves. This is not wholly wrong. But the height of virtue and professionalism is not exemplified by a couple of oligarchs treating one another with artificial respect in order to convince the nation of our collective ethical altitude. Moreover, it is the very institutions that claim to espouse the exposure of truth that tend to degrade and distort it, much to the disservice of the social system that relies on them.

I recall that about a year and a half ago, I sat across the table in Robertson Hall from a friend who coined the phrase “Voxification of American culture.” I responded, of course, with the mirth that this wonderful critique deserved. Facts, I do not deny, have their place and usefulness. But the liberals who are repudiated by a disillusioned public do not get to lay claim to them perpetually, and even where they’re right, they’d be welladvised to check their pretentious attitude — if not for the sake of Trump, then for the persuasion of those who regard him in a positive light.

Braden Flax is a junior from Merrick, N.Y. He can be reached at bf lax@princeton.edu.

Take back Clio Hall Brent Kibbey

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efore the Revolutionary War, the American Whig Society and — a year later — the Cliosophic Society formed in the attic of Nassau Hall. Together they formed the center of extracurricular life at Princeton. After some time, they got their own marble buildings, paid for by society graduates and other generous donors so that these two societies could have their own space.

A lot has changed since then, as the eating club system took up some of the energy previously seen in the two groups, and as they merged to become the American Whig-Cliosophic Society. In this, they transferred the ownership of the Society’s property to the University, with the understanding that it would be maintained for Whig-Clio’s use under the oversight of a new Board of Trustees.

Today, despite the intention that Clio Hall be used for Whig-Clio, we see the society residing solely in Whig Hall, with no ability to use Clio. I believe it is time Whig-Clio takes back

Clio Hall.

Why do this? This hall, which now houses the Graduate College’s administrative offices, was built with graduate donations — not for the University, but for the Cliosophic Society, according to “Nurseries of Letters and Republicanism: A Brief History of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society and its Predecessors, 1765-1941” by J. Jefferson Looney.

It was used for almost half a century until it became expedient for the old Societies to join together in 1928. When the official merger occurred in April 1941, both halls were set aside, according to agreements between Princeton and the organization located in Mudd Library, for “undergraduate activities in the fields of public speaking, debate, conferences on public affairs, literature, and journalism.”

Months later, the new Board of Trustees, appointed by the president of the University, amended the agreements of the merger in order to give the University better access to the halls. This was just the first step. In 1983, they took this a step further and allowed

for Clio Hall to be used for any purpose the University wished, as long as a rent payment was made to the Society’s funds.

Today, there are many uses for Clio Hall, both for Whig-Clio and the other uses originally specified.

Literary organizations such as the Nassau Literary Review, which was originally a part of Whig-Clio, could be housed there. Political interest groups across the political spectrum could use this space, as they have no space of their own, and interest in them would increase should they have that space. The collegiate debate subsidiaries of Whig-Clio could also use that space.

The now small Whig and Clio parties, no longer what they used to be, could take up this space and regain the strength that the original merger wished they would maintain.

There is no reason that this shouldn’t happen; there is no reason we should allow this hall to be misused. It should not be used for the Graduate Administration, and the University has the resources to relocate them.

Imagine if Whig and Clio were eating clubs. That’s

Guest Columnist

To the Editor: In my interview with your reporter, James Anderson, I misspoke on one matter. As spelled out in the article I wrote in The Atlantic, my objection to the 1619 Project’s handling of the American Revolution is that it asserts, first, that Britain was deeply

conflicted in 1776 over its connection to slavery; second, that there were also at that time rising calls in London against the Atlantic slave trade; and third, that closing the trade would have upended the colonial economy, North and South. Entirely on the basis of these three statements, the project’s lead essay asserts that protecting slavery was a primary reason why the Americans

declared their independence. But all three statements are false. While talking with Mr. Anderson, I unfortunately let the word “government” slip in, which was a mistake. I stand by what I wrote in The Atlantic, and note that, in her conversation with your reporter, Nikole Hannah-Jones asserted that, at the time of the American Revolution, “there was a pre-existing

Jonathan Ort ’21

BOARD OF TRUSTEES president Thomas E. Weber ’89 vice president Craig Bloom ’88 secretary Betsy L. Minkin ’77 treasurer Douglas Widmann ’90 trustees Francesca Barber David Baumgarten ’06 Kathleen Crown Gabriel Debenedetti ’12 Stephen Fuzesi ’00 Zachary A. Goldfarb ’05 Michael Grabell ’03 John G. Horan ’74 Joshua Katz Rick Klein ’98 James T. MacGregor ’66 Alexia Quadrani Marcelo Rochabrun ’15 Kavita Saini ’09 Richard W. Thaler, Jr. ’73 Abigail Williams ’14 trustees emeriti Gregory L. Diskant ’70 William R. Elfers ’71 Kathleen Kiely ’77 Jerry Raymond ’73 Michael E. Seger ’71 Annalyn Swan ’73 trustees ex officio Jonathan Ort ’21

144TH MANAGING BOARD managing editors Benjamin Ball ’21 Elizabeth Parker ’21 Ivy Truong ’21 Cy Watsky ’21 Sections listed in alphabetical order.

what they used to be like, with the same student commitment and community. Would it be right for an eating club that was entrusted to Princeton for its preservation, oversight, and maintenance to be subsequently turned into office space for the University? Imagine if this were your club, if you are in one.

Would it be right for Tower, Ivy, Cloister, or any other club? No, it would not be.

As such, I call on all relevant parties to call on Princeton University and the Board of Trustees of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society to amend their agreement back to its original state and intention, so that Clio Hall may be used

by Whig-Clio and other related groups. This need not happen immediately, as there must be time to relocate the Graduate Administration, but it must happen if Whig-Clio is truly to be the center of political life on campus — in both of its halls, as they were built to be.

Brent Kibbey is a junior in the Woodrow Wilson School from Portland, Tennessee. He can be reached at bkibbey@ princeton.edu.

Letter to the editor Sean Wilentz

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abolitionist movement in Britain.” That assertion is just as false as her earlier claim about mounting British protests against the Atlantic slave trade in 1776. I regret my mistake and hope that this letter clarifies matters.

Sincerely yours, Sean Wilentz George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History

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Tigers looks to extend 11-game win streak against Columbia, Cornell

By Isaac Goldston Contributor

After a pair of convincing victories against Harvard and Dartmouth last week, women’s basketball (15–1, 3–0 Ivy League) welcomes Cornell (9–7, 2–2 Ivy) and Columbia (11–6, 2–2 Ivy) to Jadwin Gymnasium this weekend.

The Tigers are on an 11game win streak and currently sit a win behind Yale (14–3, 4–0 Ivy League), who sits at the top of the Ivy League standings. They hope to continue the excellent start to Carla Berube’s tenure as the head coach and cement their position as Yale’s closest rival in the Ivy League.

The Tigers come into the contests with Cornell and Columbia with the best scoring defense in the nation and the most steals (10.5) and block shots (5.5) per game in the Ivy League. They will be particularly keen to maintain their momentum this weekend, as they have a key showdown with Yale the fol-

lowing week.

Princeton will first play a Cornell team that is coming off a disappointing loss against Yale, in which they led by 14 points at the half before proceeding to allow Yale to hit 70 percent of their threes in the second half on their way to a 67–74 defeat.

But Princeton will be wary, as Cornell boasts the sixthand seventh-highest scorers in Ivy competition this season: senior guard Samantha Widmann and senior center Laura Bagwell-Katalinich.

Princeton then will take on a Columbia team that is fresh off a victory against Brown and are led by reigning Rookie of the Year sophomore forward Sienna Durr and first-year guard Abbey Hsu, who was just named Rookie of the Week for the third time this season.

Hsu is a particularly dangerous three-point shooter who currently ranks second in the Ivy League in terms of three-point field goal percentage, shooting 41.9 percent from deep.

The Tigers will be buoyed

by the announcement this week that senior forward Bella Alarie was named a Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Semi-finalist. Alarie is putting together an astonishing season, averaging 17.8 points

per game and 8.4 rebounds per game (second and third in the Ivy League, respectively), while also leading the Ivy League in blocks and free throw percentages.

Alarie is not only putting up spectacular individual

numbers but is also doing so in the context of an incredibly successful season for the Tigers.

Princeton will play Cornell on Friday with a 6 p.m. start before taking on Columbia on Saturday at 5 p.m.

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WRESTLING

Wrestling to face Columbia, Cornell No. 9 Tigers ranked 11 spots above 17-time defending Ivy champs Cornell

By Jo de La Bruyère Associate Sports Editor

Cornell wrestling has a dynasty. Princeton wrestling has a dream. On Sunday in Jadwin Gymnasium, one will

fall — or fall short.

No. 20 Big Red wrestling boasts 88 straight Ivy League wins. Its 17 consecutive Ivy League titles add up to the longest streak in any sport by any school in the Ivy League.

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Only Penn State and Oklahoma State have produced more all-time NCAA Champions.

“Since the second I took over this program,” said Princeton head coach Chris Ayres in an interview last year, “I have been thinking about beating Cornell.”

This year, though, when that quote was played back to him: “Listen. It’s not just about beating one team — it’s about what we can achieve. It’s about the Princeton wrestling program. We deserve this. Our alumni deserve something like this.”

And a crucial reminder: “But first things first, we have to take care of Columbia.”

No. 9 Princeton wrestling will continue its Ivy League season with home matches against Columbia University on Saturday and Cornell on Sunday. Ranked atop the league, the Tigers boast a 2–0 Ivy record. Unless this weekend sees a colossal upset — Columbia’s squad is unranked, Cornell’s squad 11 spots below Princeton’s — that undefeated streak will continue. But

Ayres is still nervous.

His anxiety has precedent.

Last year, a Princeton team with three top-10 wrestlers walked away from an unranked Columbia team with a meager 20–16 victory. Ayres is eager to avoid that kind of embarrassment again.

“A team like Columbia has tremendous talent,” he said.

“Any one of their guys could pop through, make a jump, at any time. We can’t let them.

We have to do our job. Our goal is to be exciting.”

Any Friday excitement, though, will likely pale in comparison to Saturday’s.

Ayres may be playing down his fervor of last year, but he’ll admit this much: “To act like this is just another dual? That’s just not realistic.”

For the first time in decades, Princeton sits above Cornell in the national rankings. Last year, Princeton’s wrestlers cited “instinct” and “gut feeling” in their assertions that the Tigers could take down the Big Red. This year, they have numbers on their side.

Princeton’s trio of super-

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stars all enjoy top-five rankings: no. 3, 125-pound sophomore Patrick Glory; no. 4, 157-pound sophomore Quincy Monday; and no. 3 197-pound junior Patrick Brucki. And wrestlers at 165, 174, and 184 have dipped in and out of the national leaderboards for the entirety of the season; here is a chance for no. 23 sophomore Grant Cuomo, sophomore Travis Stefanik, and senior Kevin Parker to prove themselves. The Tigers have a secret weapon, too: the surprise return of 149-pound junior Matthew Kolodzik, back from an abridged year off.

Cornell has just two responses to that roster: no. 5 133-pound Chas Tucker, and no. 4 197-pound Ben Darmstadt.

Still, it won’t be an easy fight. Both teams are known for distinctive — and similar — styles of wrestling: aggressive, gritty, dramatic.

“If our 10 guys go out there and do what they can do,” Ayres said, “we’re going to come through. This could be our time. And no matter what happens? You’re going to get an entertaining dual.”

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Once a tiger: Ellen DeVoe ’86

By Patrycja Pajdak Features Staff Writer

“I’ve retired.”

That’s how Ellen DeVoe ’86 ends our interview. But DeVoe, a professor at the Boston University School of Social Work, hasn’t actually left her job. She’s referring to a different kind of retirement.

Though she’s 34 years removed from Princeton’s campus, DeVoe’s accolades still loom large in Jadwin Gymnasium. She still holds the record for most single-game blocks (nine) in the history of Princeton women’s basketball. She still has claim to the program’s second-highest single-game field goals (17), second-most career rebounds (942), second-most career blocks (157), second-highest career rebound average (9.7), third-most single-game points (38), and sixth-most career field goals (548). And the list goes on.

But in three decades, DeVoe has gone from an on-court superstar to a sideline fanatic; she leaves it to her son, sophomore guard Ethan Wright, to carry on her legacy.

DeVoe grew up in Indianapolis, Ind. — basketball country. The sport filled arenas and attracted huge crowds; the Hoosiers occupied a godlike role in the state’s imagination. DeVoe also had a family connection to the game.

Her father, John Devoe ’56, and uncles Charles ’52 and Stephen ’57, had all played for Princeton’s team. After his time at the University, her father had gone on to co-found the American Basketball Association and become president of the Indiana Pacers.

But DeVoe’s interest in basketball wasn’t immediate. There was, she says, very little opportunity for elementary and middle school girls to participate in organized sports when she was growing up.

But the older she got, the harder DeVoe — who stood over six feet tall in the hallways of her Jesuit high school — found it to hide from both her family’s legacy and from her school’s coach, a former Pacer who’d known her father.

“He said I had basketball in my blood,” she said. “So that got me started.”

He was right. Before her senior year of high school, DeVoe made it onto the national high school All-American list, sending up a flare to college recruiters nationwide. Letters flooded her mailbox; opportunities poured in. A majority of them went ignored.

“I was more focused on getting an education than being in the NBA,” DeVoe said.

A regular application — nothing, she stresses, like the formalized recruitment process of today’s NCAA — started her journey to Princeton.

The University’s foci aligned neatly with hers; the education it promised was impressive.

The basketball? Not so much.

“The ’80s were difficult for women in athletics,” DeVoe said. “We had fewer resources, the coaching was quite different, and the program wasn’t as excellent as today.”

New Jersey’s basketball scene proved a far cry from Indiana’s. Founded only in 1971, the Princeton women’s team was sparse on fans, overlooked by the athletics department, and neglected by everyone in between. DeVoe still recalls times when the women’s squad was booted from courts they’d booked so the men’s team could take over. The football training facility, the nexus of Princeton athletics, was largely off-limits to women. DeVoe was one of the first allowed inside, but only because a blown-out knee meant she needed some rehabilitation equipment.

In the face of adversity, DeVoe dominated. By the time she graduated, she was a fouryear letterwinner, a two-year captain, a first-team All-Ivy honoree, a two-time secondteam honoree, and Princeton’s second-highest career scorer, with 1290 points.

DeVoe’s take: “At the time, there weren’t many records to break.”

But there is no shortage of records for Princeton women’s basketball now. And superstar senior captain Bella Alarie has spent her past four

years doing an admirable job of smashing them, including five of DeVoe’s. What’s it like for her to watch her name sink on the program leaderboard?

“It was thrilling to make history,” she said. “Now I’m thrilled to be supporting Bella.”

DeVoe didn’t just leave the University as a basketball champion. She graduated with a degree in history and as part of the first cohort of the Women’s Studies program.

Interested in social justice issues, she wanted to make a difference; she moved to Colorado to work in a shelter for abused and neglected young children.

She went on to receive her Masters in Clinical Social Work & Mental Health from the University of Denver and her Ph.D. in Social Work and Psychology from the University of Michigan. During a postdoctoral fellowship in New Hampshire, in which she

studied Family Violence Research Training, she met her husband, Don Wright.

Basketball had been fun during those undergraduate years — fun while it lasted.

But for DeVoe, the sport had faded out of her life.

With the birth of her first child, Ethan, it came back.

The son of a Division I basketball star and a Division I rower (Don Wright rowed for Yale), Ethan Wright had brains, height, and athleticism. He was drawn to basketball almost immediately — with, he insists, no maternal pressure.

“She put it in my hands,” Wright said. “It was up to me what I wanted to do. She said, ‘If you want to do this, I can help, but you’ll have to do it yourself.’”

DeVoe took Wright under her wing, coaching him from his baby league at the YMCA in kindergarten until high school. She coached her daughter, Abigail, too, until

she entered high school this past year.

When it came time to make a college decision, DeVoe took a hands-off approach, allowing Wright to navigate his 15 recruitment offers to make the decision for himself.

“It was nice to have the family connection, but that wasn’t my top reason for choosing Princeton,” he said.

How does Wright — who’s clawed his way this season to a starting position — feel about the history his mother made on their shared home court?

“I don’t try to compare myself to her,” he said. “She had an unbelievable career. I’m very proud of that, but I’m doing my own thing.”

Both of his parents rarely miss his games. Whether they live-stream online or make the journey from Boston to Princeton, they are always there watching, DeVoe cheering from the sidelines.

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