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Mayor praises NJ Immigrant Trust Directive, condemns Justice Department lawsuit

By Zack Shevin Head News Editor

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Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert.

Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert decried a new lawsuit by the Trump administration against a New Jersey policy limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities and emphasized that Princeton’s policy has not changed.

“There’s an effort to instill fear in people, and it’s understandable why people are afraid. In part, creating confusion can lead to fear,” she said. “We try to be as clear as possible about what our policies are.”

On Feb. 10, the U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy, and Attorney General Gurbir Grewal over the state’s Immigrant Trust Directive.

Enacted in 2018, the directive limits how much state, county, and local law enforcement officers can assist federal immigration authorities. Grewal

has explained these rules were “designed to draw a clear distinction between local police and federal civil immigration authorities, ensuring that victims and witnesses feel safe reporting crimes to New Jersey’s law enforcement officers.”

The lawsuit questions the directive’s constitutionality.

“According to the complaint filed today, on multiple occasions last year, New Jersey officials failed to provide information regarding the release dates of aliens who had been charged with or convicted of crimes,” notes a Justice Department press release. “New Jersey’s decision to obstruct federal immigration enforcement by refusing to provide such information is unlawful under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.”

Lempert, in an interview with The Daily Princetonian, called the Justice Department’s See LAWSUIT page 2

ON CAMPUS

Q&A with Jennifer Hirsch ’88, medical anthropologist who studies campus culture

By Marie-Rose Sheinerman Associate News and Features Editor

Jennifer Hirsch ’88 is a Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the author of Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus. Hirsch sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss sexual assault, alcohol, and campus culture.

The following interview transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and concision.

The Daily Princetonian: A brief question we like to start off with when interviewing alumni is ... do you have a favorite Princeton memory?

Jennifer Hirsch ’88: I look back on when Christine Stansell ’71 was my thesis advisor,

and she … well, there were three of us who were her advisees … she used to bring us in together to give us feedback on our thesis drafts … and I adore Chris, we’re still very close, she was a wonderful and generous teacher, and I think that she really thought that that was for us to benefit for hearing the feedback that we all got ... but it was terrifying! I have many wonderful, frolicking Princeton memories, but that’s just my hot take of one thing I remember from my time on campus.

DP: What do you think of institutions who have decided to ban Greek life all together and refocus their students’ social environments on other spaces, like Williams and Middlebury?

Do you think that’s a positive step?

JH: There are a lot of things

that institutions can do to provide a welcoming and sort of homey feeling for students who don’t want to get involved in Greek life. If you think about what Greek life offers in terms of spaces where students can host parties and live together … It’s like a house. Everybody wants a home. So I think [that] thinking about campus design and living space design such that students who don’t want that kind of experience can find another that they do want [is important] ... It’s a problem when all the nicest spaces on campus are controlled by wealthy white upper class students who are mostly men in many contexts … The answer to it is not necessarily to take those spaces away, but it’s rather to create other spaces.

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ON CAMPUS

PLAS hosts discussion on Latin American politics, protests Assistant News Editor

When Jonathan Aguirre GS and other students in the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) realized how little campus conversation was dedicated to Latin American political issues, they set out to change that.

“One thing I realized as I shared those messages with friends in other regions is that they had no idea those issues were occurring,” said Aguirre. “We realized we needed to bring forth information, bring a discussion.”

To fulfill that goal, on Monday Feb. 24, PLAS held a roundtable discussion titled “Latin America Today: Upheavals and Repression, Part II” — the second part in a two-part seminar

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series on Latin American politics. The first seminar was held on Dec. 4, 2019.

The discussion was moderated by sociology and international affairs professor Miguel Centeno. Three graduate students spoke as panelists: Amy Williams Navarro GS, a secondyear MPA at the Woodrow Wilson School, Maria José Urzúa GS, a Ph.D. candidate in politics, and Sebastián Rojas Cabal GS, a doctoral student in sociology.

About 35 members of the University community were in attendance, including undergraduates, graduate students, and professors.

During the panel, the speakers discussed current political issues in Latin America, with a focus on addressing current protest movements in Puerto

Columnist Braden Flax argues that Michael Bloomberg’s verbal evasion reveals our tendency to self-absolve through language, while guest contributor Anna Wolcke criticizes the University’s absorption of Pink House.

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Rico, Mexico, and Columbia.

Navarro presented on the topic of Puerto Rican independence and the mass protests of the summer of 2019, which led to the resignation of former Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló. She addressed the economic issues in Puerto Rico and the humanitarian crises of the hurricanes, which “made salient the mismanagement and incompetent leadership of [Puerto Rico] for so long.”

She stated that the protests, which brought 600,000 people into the streets, were “no easy feat for an island of 3 million [residents].”

She also spoke about the crises of trust on the island after Hurricane Maria and the government’s original estimation of 64 hurricane-related deaths.

“Anyone who was working

on the ground, who lived on the island … knew that this number was wrong,” Navarro said. “The government finally commissioned an independent study that found that the estimated hurricane-related deaths were actually closer to 2975.”

Towards the end of her presentation, Navarro shared her thoughts on what to expect in Puerto Rico in the coming years.

“My takeaways for this moving forward is that I think we’re at the beginning of a new political paradigm for Puerto Rico,” she said.

She discussed how historically dominant parties in Puerto Rico are seeing their numbers drop as independent candidates and grassroots movements are beginning to

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take the stage in Puerto Rico’s politics.

Urzúa then presented on protests and politics in Mexico, her home country, looking at the “promises and reality” of the election of Mexican President Andrés Obrador.

She described the expectations surrounding Obrador’s candidacy, his leftist ideals, and his policy stance on three sets of issues: economic and social policy, peace and security issues, and Republican austerity measures in the Mexican government. She also discussed corruption in the Mexican government.

“I would argue that social movements are the only effective opposition against the AMLO government today,” UrSee PLAS page 4

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decision to sue “frustrating” and “totally counterproductive to what’s good for safe communities and effective law enforcement.”

“It’s important that people feel comfortable coming to the police,” she said. “You need that trust, and you need people to understand that if you’re the victim of a crime or the witness of a crime, your immigration status is immaterial.”

According to Lempert, Princeton had a similar policy in place years before Grewal’s directive, which superseded the town’s policy.

Princeton Police Chief Nicholas Sutter said the “spirit” of the policy remained the same.

Sutter, who has worked in Princeton for 25 years, said he has worked on the issue of immigration for the majority of his career, long before it came to dominate the national con-

versation.

“We have proven through our actions that we’re here to help everyone regardless of their country of origin or immigration status,” Sutter said in an interview with the ‘Prince’. “I think we’ve proven that over and over again.”

One major portion of the directive criticized in the suit requires people in local custody to be notified if Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency, issues a detainer for them — a written request that local authorities hold them for an additional 48 hours to provide federal immigration authorities time to decide whether or not to take the individual into custody.

However, Lempert and Sutter explained that this doesn’t really apply to Princeton. The mayor noted that while Princeton does have a “holding cell,” the Police Department cannot keep people there for over a day, and Sutter said they “just don’t get ICE detainers.”

Lempert’s main concern is that the lawsuit may undermine the bonds of trust that the local government has established with immigrants in Princeton.

“It’s important not just for police work, but for the community we want to have, where all residents who are here feel like the government is working for them,” she said. “And when the federal government makes that harder for us to do at a local level, it’s distressing.”

Coinciding with other Trump administration attacks on various so-called “sanctuary” policies, some view the lawsuit as a way for the administration to play to its base during an election year. Grewal called the move an “election year stunt,” and Murphy referred to the suit as an “attempt to vilify our immigrant communities for the sake of election year politics.”

Lempert agreed, saying she thinks the move is “part of a larger effort to go after

immigrants and to divide the country.” She views the original directive as an effective law enforcement mechanism and thinks the opposition is coming from federal officials without a good sense of how local law enforcement operates.

“I think that’s why you see local police departments, local police chiefs, they were all very supportive of the Attorney General when he came out with this directive,” Lempert said. “Because they’re the people who are on the ground day-to-day.”

Kunal Parker, a historian of U.S. immigration and citizenship law and a fellow at the Princeton Program in Law and Public Affairs, said it is important to view this case in relation to past immigrationrelated disputes. He explained that the process of “line-drawing” between federal immigration power and state power has been essentially ongoing since the end of the Civil War. But according to Parker, the

Trump administration has recently pushed the line further into what might once have been seen straightforwardly as areas of state authority, claiming fuller and more unimpeded power over immigration issues.

While a great deal of jurisprudence on the issue of immigration exists, Parker said it is unclear how this case will play out in the courts.

“There is a lot of constitutional law,“ he noted. “It’s not exactly clear how the court will use that law to decide this issue.”

If the suit is successful, Lempert said, she would need more information before knowing exactly what the town would do. Princeton would likely try to maintain its current policy to the greatest extent possible, while still abiding by state and federal law, she said.

Lempert emphasized that the lawsuit is only just starting, and Princeton’s policy has not changed.

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DP: I remember you bringing up last year at your talk how one unintended consequence of the minimum legal drinking age is that access to alcohol on campus is controlled by upperclassmen, which gives them additional power. In light of that, do you think that colleges should not enforce underage drinking laws on campus?

JH: Certainly there are ways to take, what we call in Public Health, a “harm reduction approach,” which is acknowledging that people are going to engage in a behavior that you find troubling and thinking about ways that it can be made safer.

In relation to sexual assault, it’s important to remember that a substantial portion of sexual assaults happen in contexts that are not associated with alcohol ... White students drink more than students of color, and particularly black students. So if we only focus on alcohol as a way into sexual assault prevention, what we do is we basically obscure the assault experiences of black women.

In our ethnographic research, every single black woman that we spoke with had experienced unwanted sexual touching. Every single one. For many of them, they described it in a way that was like, “Yes, of course. This does not even bear going into because it’s just part of being a black woman in the world.” So I think that for us what that really underlines is that ... you need to ground sexual assault research in racial justice work.

I can’t even believe I need to say this, but we can’t be doing sexual assault prevention in the year 2020 without really thinking about power. So power means addressing racial inequality on campus, it means addressing gender inequalities on campus, it means thinking about the power when a freshman is in a room late at night with a senior, and then thinking about that power in a different way if the room is his room.

And what about if the room is his room in a building that’s controlled by his friends?

DP: How did your research find whiteness playing into drinking culture on campuses?

JH: Heavy drinking is a prac-

tice of white male privilege in a way that people don’t necessarily think about ... It’s just part of “being college,” but it’s not part of being college for everyone.

It’s part of “being college” for students who have the resources to pay for the alcohol, or to join the institution that can pay for the alcohol, and are not worried about ending up dead in an interaction with police … and who are also typically not afraid of being sexually assaulted because they think as men, that’s not something that happens. So there are all kinds of ways in which the risks of drinking are unequally allocated so that men, and in particular white men, on campus see a greater social risk in not drinking.

DP: In your research, what did you find as the main reasons that people drink on campus?

JH: There’s drinking to manage anxiety ... We talked in the book about how there’s a logic to pregaming. People drink to manage their anxiety about being in a party environment, parties are not always super fun. They also drink to manage their anxiety around sex.

One young woman in the book described drinking before sex is like having novocaine before going to the dentist. Then sometimes students drink because they’re sad.

DP: In terms of actions that can be taken on campus, what do you think is the most effective for preventing sexual assault?

JH: I mean, I don’t know what’s most effective because we haven’t done the research to test any of our ideas ... I really do think about what can be done to modify the environment, so that freshmen can host parties with their friends, so they don’t end up drinking on the street, so that women can host parties where they manage the alcohol so they don’t have to suck up to some senior guy to get the vodka instead of the shitty beer, right? And a place for minority communities, whether it’s LGBT students or students of color, not just programming space, but actually party space ... Party space that is controlled by minority groups, to me, that would be like the biggest takeaway.

Then I think the other thing in terms of programming is we

heard so much anxiety from students about being good at sex, and you’re not going to get good at sex from watching porn ... that’s only gonna make you feel more awful. So I think [that] thinking about sex positive programming [would be effective] … A real need among young people is to have sex that is pleasurable, that doesn’t just reproduce the campus orgasm gap.

DP: How do you think we can take active steps to make these social and party environments more inclusive for queer students specifically?

JH: Listening to student leaders. On every campus, student leaders will tell you what they need. So I think lifting up those voices and understanding that again this goes back to what I was saying about black women and diversity inclusion, like understanding the ways in which sexual assault prevention has to be tied in to the broader question of citizenship on campus, not just sexual citizenship, but all citizenship.

Building a campus where people feel respected ... that’s part of where we need to go with sexual assault prevention.

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zua said. AMLO is an acronym of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s initials.

Cabal’s role during the roundtable investigated indepth what led Colombian citizens to protest in November 2019.

“The emergence of the ‘cacerolazos’ changed the tenor of the protests from something top-down to something more bottom-up and organic,” he said.

A cacerolazo is a form of protest started in Colombia after the installation of curfews in certain regions, where people would bang on pots and pans out of their windows in protest.

Cabal also dived into the reasons for the protests, including tax reforms which “increased the tax burden on the poor,” and a rise in unemployment rates. He stated that the protests signal an era of “postpeace protests,” following the signing of a peace deal between Colombia and Venezuela in 2016.

“Against the backdrop of war, it was a lot easier to stigmatize social protests,” Cabal said. “The peace process … motivated people to go to the streets a lot more vigorously.”

After the presentations concluded, Centeno provided commentary giving an overview of Latin American politics in regions not discussed by the graduate students.

“What’s amazing to me in Puerto Rico is that there isn’t a revolution going on … if that was going on in Massachusetts, you can be sure there would be national attention — the President wouldn’t be

throwing paper towels,” Centeno said, referring to October 2017 when President Donald Trump threw paper towels at a crowd of Puerto Ricans during his visit after Hurricane Maria.

He also described the general feelings towards the government in Latin America, which the professor called a “loss of faith.”

“It’s that sense of hopelessness that characterizes Latin America now. It’s a period of deep disenchantment,” Centeno said. “The real problem in Latin America and for the leadership is getting people to believe something again.”

Attendees asked questions to the panelists regarding Puerto Rican statehood, protests under the Mexican Nieto government, and the United States’ involvement in Latin America.

The questions sparked conversations regarding all aspects of Latin American politics, including the place of Latin American youth in the political sphere.

“I also think that hope is in the youth and I think we should go beyond thinking of states in Latin America as failures or successes,” said Alonso Burgos GS, a graduate student in Comparative Literature who attended the talk. tions surrounding Obrador’s candidacy, his leftist ideals, and his policy stance on three sets of issues: economic and social policy, peace and security issues, and Republican austerity measures in the Mexican government. She also discussed corruption in the Mexican government.

“I would argue that social movements are the only effective opposition against the AMLO government today,” Urzua said. AMLO is an acronym

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of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s initials.

Cabal’s role during the roundtable investigated in-depth what led Colombian citizens to protest in November 2019.

“The emergence of the ‘cacerolazos’ changed the tenor of the protests from something top-down to something more bottom-up and organic,” he said.

A cacerolazo is a form of protest started in Colombia after the installation of curfews in certain regions, where people would bang on pots and pans out of their windows in protest.

Cabal also dived into the reasons for the protests, including tax reforms which “increased the tax burden on the poor,” and a rise in unemployment rates.

He stated that the protests signal an era of “post-peace protests,” following the signing of a peace deal between Colombia and Venezuela in 2016.

“Against the backdrop of

war, it was a lot easier to stigmatize social protests,” Cabal said. “The peace process … motivated people to go to the streets a lot more vigorously.”

After the presentations concluded, Centeno provided commentary giving an overview of Latin American politics in regions not discussed by the graduate students.

“What’s amazing to me in Puerto Rico is that there isn’t a revolution going on … if that was going on in Massachusetts, you can be sure there would be national attention — the President wouldn’t be throwing paper towels,” Centeno said, referring to October 2017 when President Donald Trump threw paper towels at a crowd of Puerto Ricans during his visit after Hurricane Maria.

He also described the general feelings towards the government in Latin America, which the professor called a “loss of faith.”

“It’s that sense of hopelessness that characterizes Latin America now. It’s a period of deep disenchantment,” Centeno said. “The real problem in Latin America and for the leadership is getting people to believe something again.”

Attendees asked questions to the panelists regarding Puerto Rican statehood, protests under the Mexican Nieto government, and the United States’ involvement in Latin America.

The questions sparked conversations regarding all aspects of Latin American politics, including the place of Latin American youth in the political sphere.

“I also think that hope is in the youth and I think we should go beyond thinking of states in Latin America as failures or successes,” said Alonso Burgos GS, a graduate student in Comparative Literature who attended the talk.

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Braden Flax Columnist

Last week, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg participated for the first time in a Democratic Party debate.

When asked about his racist policing policies, he disingenuously reflected that the way in which stop-and-frisk “turned out” was non-ideal.

Yet, as Elizabeth Warren pointed out to his face, this evasion is somewhat of a throw-away line. Bloomberg’s use of the passive voice proved to be as ineffective as it was ill-motivated. But Bloomberg’s rhetoric on the debate stage is mirrored in the lives of people here at Princeton and in the wider world in general.

Words are useful tools. As a writer, I see this simultaneously as a burden and a relief. When we try to explain and justify things to ourselves and others, we use words; they illuminate our most intimate feelings. Yet, they also take away part of what they afford; they provide euphe-

mistic cushioning that saves us from the weight of harsh truths. For example, we tend to self-absolve when we use phrases such as, “I’m sorry you felt that way.” Like Bloomberg, we can shroud our behaviors and evade our responsibilities with cheap tricks of rhetoric.

But the passive voice — Bloomberg’s verbal technique of choice — is not always illegitimately deployed. It is at least descriptively accurate. No one should deny, after all, that how stop-and-frisk “turned out” was quite horrific. The objection is not that Bloomberg is incorrect, but that his statement reduces the point to triviality, absolving him of blame for something that just happened to occur during the period of his mayoral tenure. However, Bloomberg’s racist policing is situated in a national context of similar transgressions. This context does not negate Bloomberg’s abuse of language — committed with the intent of masking a more extreme abuse of a few years ago — but it ought to be considered.

Fortunately, our interpersonal slights tend not to rise to the level of a Bloomberg. Clearing such a low bar,

though, does not negate the point. Given the tension in the anonymous posts of Princeton students, there is consistently much to be addressed. Hardly anyone alive has as much cause for remorse as the CEO of a well-oiled stop-and-frisk machine. We have less to regret, but if Bloomberg’s performance on a televised stage is any clue, we are quite a bit better at using language to fool people, most particularly ourselves.

Sometimes, euphemism is necessary, safeguarding us from reality until we are prepared to confront it. The passive voice represents a truth in itself: even when we screw up, there is often an external context that explains our behavior. But limiting ourselves to this revelation that we are not the only agents in reality does not mean that we have no hand in it.

To those whom we’ve wronged, the use of the passive voice seems like nonsense; we must take care not to sell our own selves short, for the sake of accountability and selfworth alike. There are points at which the way we discuss destructive behavior, whether of ourselves or others, be-

comes the abuse — as opposed to the use — of the language that should represent a tool for validation and resolution.

Often, I view myself first and foremost as someone who engages in politics. It may seem that I’ve attempted to fuse personal musings with social analysis, and this is the case to an extent. But my analogy is not flawless. Social discord stems from this context, which cannot be improved through our use of language alone, and we should not hold ourselves personally responsible for this tension.

But as we seek political conclusions, we can and should live better socially. Like Antonio Gramsci before me, I have a pessimism of the intellect and an optimism of the will; in other words, political awareness tells me there is no hope for one such as Bloomberg, while social experience inspires me to favor constructive interactions on campus and beyond.

These will be necessary for the intellect to be brought into agreement with the will.

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

Save Pink House: We need to create more affordable eating options instead of shutting them down Anna Wolcke

Guest Contributor

Princeton says it stands for sustainability. It says it stands for diversity and inclusion. And it says it stands for affordable eating options available for all students, regardless of their socioeconomic background.

Pink House embodies these values. Four years ago, University students founded the Pink House: Social Sustainability Project, which grew to involve a food-share centered on providing affordable, plant-based eating. For me, the Pink House kitchen has become a home, a place where I am able to bond with peers over delicious meals and shared values, a place where members can learn from each other about mindfulness and sustainability. Now the University is making the house available to Forbes College students only, kicking out a vast portion of the student body and most likely ending the food-share.

The imminent demise of Pink House is just the latest attempt by the University to undermine the formation of student-initiated food-share communities.

The last time the University approved the formation of a new co-op was three years ago. It is an open secret that the administration refuses to approve any new alternative dining options in hopes of getting more students on the meal plan. The latest student proposal to turn the financially struggling Charter Club into a co-op was turned down by alumni.

For years, Princeton students have been demanding more affordable eating options on campus. Currently, there are over 300 students waiting to join one of the campus’ five co-ops or the food-share in Pink House.

Closing Pink House only means one thing: fewer students will have access to affordable eating next year.

The difference in cost is striking. The unlimited dining hall meal plan costs more than $7000 a year. Members of the Pink House food-share pay less than $600. Yes, the unlimited

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Members of Pink House enjoy a meal together.

meal plan provides three meals a day plus late meal. Pink House provides dinner and the ingredients to make breakfast and lunch. But even the dining hall’s Block 105 plan, which provides eight to nine meals a week and is thus comparable to what Pink House provides, costs $2850.

These figures demonstrate that the food-share system makes eating significantly more affordable for upperclassmen than any meal plan ever could. By closing Pink House and its food-share, the University is unfairly targeting lowerincome students who often cannot afford the high fees needed for an eating club or dining hall plan, and instead find a home in a food-share that teaches them how to be self-sufficient — a skill that we rarely learn while at Princeton.

By ending the Pink House project, the University is further making a statement against unequivocally inclusive communities on campus. The Pink House food-share operates in only one room, the kitchen of 99 Alexander Street, with one big table at which members share their meals. It is literally impossible to sit apart from others or avoid meeting every member of the food-share. At dinner, the kitchen buzzes with the energy

of members and guests that have found their way to Pink House after spending their day in all different parts of campus.

We never close our doors to anyone.

When Pink House was founded as a Forbes College project by sustainability-oriented students in 2016, it was created as a space for open discussion about social justice and environmental consciousness. Positioned between Forbes and the wider campus community, it was meant to foster a sense of collective responsibility among Princeton students. Through its collaboration with the Gardening Project, its support of local farmers, and its organization of programming such as nature walks, pickling events, and mending workshops, it serves as a successful ambassador of sustainability on campus. Closing Pink House to non-Forbes students is an attempt to obliterate the food-share and its sustainability-driven mission.

No other place on campus is comparable to Pink House.

What comes closest is Mathey College’s Edwards Collective.

But the collective allows anyone to join who is interested in its mission to foster creativity on campus, regardless of a student’s residential college affili-

ation. By excluding non-Forbesians from Pink House, Forbes College is excessively exclusive to the rest of the student community.

About 24 students regularly eat at Pink House, often inviting the broader student and faculty community to join. In less than four months, there will be no more delicious food awaiting them and no more smell of fresh vegan banana bread greeting them at the door. The chairs around the large table will be empty and there will be no more lively discussions about sustainable living and cooking. And — most importantly — there will be one less community on campus brought together over shared values, an interest in environmentalism, and a need for a home.

It’s time for us to start the conversation with University administrators about the urgent need for more co-ops and affordable eating options on campus in order to preserve and create the kinds of inclusive, welcoming communities we want to be part of at Princeton.

Anna Wolcke is a senior from Münster, Germany. She can be reached at awolcke@princeton. edu.

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Wrestling bests Rutgers for first B1G-Ivy Trophy since 1990

By Josephine de La Bruyère Associate Sports Editor

Before Princeton wrestling’s faceoff against Rutgers University last February, head coach Chris Ayres made a bold claim: the Scarlet Knights’ no.

2 ranked 149-pounder, Anthony Ashnault, would not score a single point against the Tigers’ no. 1 ranked, then-junior Matthew Kolodzik.

Not quite.

Kolodzik’s 10–2 blowout loss paved the way for his fourspot slide down the rankings, for Ashnault’s March national title, and for widespread, wrestling-world ridicule of Ayres. And Kolodzik’s fall proved the deciding factor in Princeton’s 19–18 loss to its instate rival, extending Rutgers’ series win streak to 23 years.

Say what you will about Princeton wrestling. This, no one can dispute: it’s a team gifted with an enviable narrative arc.

Princeton took on Rutgers once again last Sunday in Jadwin Gymnasium. Like last year, both teams boasted earlier-season victories over Lehigh and Rider Universities; the meet’s winner would claim both the B1G-Ivy trophy and the title of New Jersey champion. Like last year, both squads walked away from the day with five wins under their belts. Like last year, just one match separated the winner from the loser. And like last year, it all came down to Kolodzik.

To him — a senior now, and ranked fourth — his electric, first-period pin of Rutgers’ Gerard Angelo was “fun,“ “exciting,“ and “nice.” To Ayres?

It was “redemption.”

Either way, it led the no. 14 Tigers to an 18–15 victory over the no. 20 Scarlet Knights.

Princeton’s last win over Rutgers came in 1990; its last Rutgers-Lehigh sweep was during the 1982–83 season. Ayres’ team has hit a dizzying number of milestones in the past three weeks alone: its first Ivy League title since 1986, its first triumph over Cornell since 1986, its first EIWA sweep in decades. Has the thrill gotten old for him?

“No way.”

No. 3 sophomore Patrick Glory started the action off with a 10–5 decision over Rutgers’ 20th-ranked Nicolas Aguilar. He didn’t know it yet, but was starting a trend; save Kolodzik’s pin, every bout in the dual would end with a regular decision.

Unranked first-year Sean Pierson represented the Orange and Black at 133 pounds, taking on Rutgers’ formidable no. 10 Sammy Alvarez. For the first four minutes of competition, Alvarez drove the action.

But with 0:56 left in the second period, Pierson logged an escape. And 52 seconds later, he turned a turn-attempt by Alvarez into a takedown of his opponent, clawing his way to just a 4–3 deficit at the start of the third. Two hard-earned points in the final period gave him a 5–4 advantage as the clock wound down; Princeton’s bench got to its feet, but an Alvarez takedown with 1:06 on the clock crushed their dreams of an upset.

Sophomore Marshall Keller extended his losing streak to nine matches with a 5–2 defeat

by Rutgers’ Zach Firestone at 141. The Scarlet Knights led 6–3. Onto the mat strolled Kolodzik.

Victory took him one minute, nine seconds. He slammed his way to an early takedown, muscled it into a pin. Then up he sprung, to

flex and scream and clap and point one finger, victorious, at Ayres.

“Winning,” said Kolodzik, “is the most fun part of this sport. If we’re going to put ourselves through this, why

tied it up 2–2. A Princeton escape edged the score to 3–2.

The clock wound down in the third, and it seemed that Stefanik’s advantage would stand. It was enough for a victory.

the next seven minutes essentially on one leg, falling to Pagano but limiting Rutgers’ wrestler to a 10–9 victory.

Princeton: 18. Rutgers: 9.

Bouts left: heavyweight.

First-year Aiden Conner

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Wrestling poses with the B1G-Ivy trophy.

not celebrate at the end?”

His pin jump-started a three-bout win streak. No. 4 sophomore Quincy Monday picked up an 8–5 victory at 157. No. 23 sophomore Grant Cuomo held off Rutgers’ feisty Brett Donner for an 8–7 win at 165. First-year Nate Dugan broke ranks with a 6–1 loss at 174. Team score, Princeton: 15.

Team score, Rutgers: 9.

Up next was no. 25 184-pound sophomore Travis Stefanik. Hero of last month’s Cornell victory, he hadn’t lost (or won by anything less than a major decision) since that meet. None of his recent victories, though, came against ranked opponents — and he was to face Rutgers’ no. 13 Billy Janzer.

A slow-moving first period ended 2–1 for Stefanik.

Janzer’s second-period escape

But it wasn’t enough, apparently, for him. With less than a second to go, Stefanik put Janzer on his back — for two points, a takedown, and a resounding roar from the home crowd.

“I live for the big moments,” he said. “I like that. It gives me a little extra edge.”

He jogged off the mat, to his teammates; Glory placed an imaginary crown on his head.

The Tigers led 18–6. Victory for the Scarlet Knights seemed improbable, but take it from Stefanik: “Anything can happen in a wrestling match.”

Junior captain no. 3 Pat Brucki faced no. 19 Jordan Pagano at 197. The match seemed a dead lock for Brucki, but just seconds in he fell — clutching his knee, spouting expletives — to the ground. He wrestled

had one job: don’t lose by fall.

He didn’t. Rutgers’ Matthew Correnti bested him 6–3, but it didn’t matter. A win was a win; a win was history.

“This is a special team,” said Ayres. “I’m really proud of these guys. These guys have been through a lot. They’re tough. They’re just tough kids.”

They’ll get a two-week break from toughness before heading to Lehigh, for this year’s EIWA Championships. For three consecutive years, the Tigers have finished third behind Cornell and Lehigh, respectively. Princeton’s squad boasts wins over both of those teams this season. Ayres’ take?

“We’re in a nice spot.”

WOMEN’S SWIM AND DIVE

Women’s Swimming and Diving shatters records en route to Ivy League title

By Ben Burns Contributor

Providence, R.I. wasn’t ready for Princeton women’s swimming and diving this year, as the Tigers dominated the competition to win their 23rd Ivy League Championship — a league-best record.

Princeton finished with 1,569 points during a competition that saw multiple Tigers break school, league, and pool records across a span of four days.

Harvard placed second with 1,462 points, while Yale came in third with 1,139.5 points.

Day one started strong for the Tigers, who grabbed second place in both the 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays. In the 200 medley, senior Elaine Zhou, senior Christie Chong, senior Gianna Garcia, and first-year Nicole Venema broke the Princeton record with a time of 1:37.86. In the 800 free, the all-first-year team of Addison Smith, Ellie Marquardt, Amelia Liu, and Venema also broke a school record with a time of 7:08.58.

At the end of day one, Princeton sat second overall with 112 points, behind only Harvard with 128.

Day two built off the momentum of the first day. In the first event, Marquardt got off to a scorching start by setting school, conference, and pool records in the 500 freestyle, touching the wall with a

time of 4:36.37. Princeton also took fourth (Junior Courtney Tseng, 4:45.74) and fifth (Smith, 4:46.00) in the event, with all three times earning NCAA B cut times.

The record breaking continued in the 200 Individual Medley, as senior Christie Chong took second place with a school record time of 1:57.89, good for the NCAA B cut. In the 50 free, Venema took first with a time of 22.41, while Liu was runner up at 22.48.

Next was the 200 freestyle relay, which saw Venema, Liu, first-year Christina Bradley, and first-year Sarah Grinalds break another school record with a time of 1:29.76. Finally, in the 1-meter diving, junior Sine Scribbick finished second with 289.75 points, while senior Mimi Lin took third with a score of 275.90. With day two wrapped up, Princeton maintained second place with 508 points, nearly closing the gap on Harvard, with 510 points.

Day three saw the Tigers continue their rise. The 1,000 freestyle was a major success for the Tigers, as Marquardt broke a pool record with a time of 9:34.71, which was also the second-fastest time in school history. First-year Elizabeth Boeckman finished third in the event at 9:48.15, the thirdfastest in school history. Venema continued her impressive run at the championships in the 200 freestyle, taking first

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place with a time of 1:45.31, a new school record. Her time was also good enough for an NCAA B cut, which will allow her to qualify for the NCAA Division I championship.

Princeton then took second

wall at 1:00.98 for third place, good enough for an NCAA B cut time. In the 400-medley relay, Garcia, Chong, Bradley, and Grinalds placed second with a time of 3:37.80. By the end of day three, Princeton

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Women’s swimming and diving participating in the Ivy League champion tradition: jumping into the pool as a team.

(Smith, 4:14.28) and third (Junior Regan Barney, 4:14.53) in the 400 IM, with both swimmers earning NCAA B cuts.

In the 100 Butterfly, the Tigers had three top-five finishers, with Bradley placing second (52.75, third-fastest time in school history), Zhou fourth (53.50), and Garcia fifth (53.79). Chong, in the 100-breaststroke, touched the

had overtaken Harvard 1,020 to 964, with Yale sitting a distant third with 745.5 points.

Princeton hung on day four to clinch the title. In the 1,650 freestyle, Marquardt continued her dominance, winning her third title of the championships with a time of 16:06.96, a pool record and second-fastest in school history and good enough for an

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19 Senior women’s basketball star Bella Alarie was named Ivy League player of the week for the 19th time in her career.

NCAA B cut. Boeckman finished fourth with a time of 16:26.29, fourth in school history, also good enough for an NCAA B cut. In the 200 backstroke, first-year Emily Trieu took eighth with a time of 1:59.70.

In the 100 freestyle, Venema again impressed, touching the wall in first place at 48:55, good for the second-fastest time in school history. In the 200 breaststroke, senior Janet Zhao placed second with a time of 2:12.67 seconds, good for second in school history.

In the 3-meter diving final, senior Katrin Lewis placed fifth with 306.00 points, while Lin took seventh with 295.80. In the B final of the same event, Scribbick took home first with 301.50 points. Finally, in the 400-freestyle relay, Venema, Marquardt, Liu, and Bradley finished second with a time of 3:17.11 seconds, sealing the victory for the Tigers.

The meet ended with Lin named the Career High-Point Diving Champion, while Marquardt and Venema were two of the three High-Point Swimmers of the meet with 96 points.

Overall, the Tigers broke six school records, three pool records, and a conference record during the championships — an unprecedented overall performance.

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