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Class of 2024 applicant pool is U.’s 2nd-largest ever

By Zachary Shevin Head News Editor

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The class of 2024 applicant pool saw a 30-applicant increase from last year.

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The University received 32,838 applications for admission into the Class of 2024, a slight increase from the 32,808 large Class of 2023 applicant pool. This represents the second-largest applicant pool in University history.

“We continue to be impressed by the talent present in the firstyear applicant pool,” Dean of Admission Karen Richardson wrote in a statement to The Daily Princetonian. “Once again the admission office will have to make difficult decisions as we build Princeton’s great Class of 2024.”

The 32,838 applicants do not include transfer applications, which are due on March 1. The number of applicants is also subject to revision as applications are processed, according to University Deputy Spokesperson Mike Hotchkiss.

Applicants to the classes of 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 all previously set new records for applicant pool size. The 27,290 applicants to the Class of 2019 broke a previously-held record of 27,189.

The number of applicants to the Class of 2020 increased to 29,313, a number that rose to 31,056 for the Class of 2021 and to 35,386 for the Class of 2022 — the largest applicant pool in University history.

Though representing a 30-applicant increase from last year’s pool, the total number of applicants this year is still 7.2 percent lower than the number of students who applied to the Class of 2022.

The Office of Communications did not provide statistics as to how many of the 32,838 total Class of 2024 applicants applied through Single-Choice Early Action (SCEA). The University, however, did disclose in December that they accepted 791 SCEA applicants to the Class of 2024.

According to Hotchkiss, the target class size for the Class of 2024 is 1,308, a number that includes transfer students. Last March, the University accepted 1,895 students to the Class of 2023 — a 5.77 percent acceptance rate — and 1,343 total students enrolled.

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Graduate students demonstrate as WWS faculty deliberate on diversity requirement Staff Writer

On the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 25, graduate students from the Woodrow Wilson School (WWS) gathered in Wallace Hall to voice their support for a pilot program, in which they would take a new, half-term distribution requirement centered around questions of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). As the students demonstrated, a council of faculty deliberated the issue in an adjacent room.

The council has yet to release the status of its deliberations, including whether it has reached a decision.

In addition to undergraduate

degrees, the Woodrow Wilson School offers Masters degrees in Public Administration and Public Policy, as well as PhD’s of Philosophy in Public Affairs.

The idea for the pilot program arose in early 2019 out of a WWS DEI standing committee, comprised of faculty, students, and administrators. The program would require students to complete one half-term course related to diversity and inclusion from a list pre-authorized by administrators.

The proposal takes inspiration from the newly announced Culture and Difference distribution requirement for undergraduate students, which will See WWS page 2

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Students petition to change Center for International Security Studies logo

By Sam Kagan Assistant News Editor

The logo of the University’s Center for International Security Studies (CISS) depicts a world map cast as an orange oval. The image features a clear outline of six world continents, prominently displaying North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, as one might expect.

Upon further examination, however, the map does not depict the entire world. CISS’s emblem doesn’t include island nations such as New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Madagascar, Japan,

In Opinion

and Indonesia. According to Tan Shanker ’20, that’s an issue.

“Lots of people I spoke to are saddened by this,” he said. “It might not be the biggest issue on campus, but … people are upset, and it’s not that big of a deal to fix it.”

Shanker is leading an initiative to modify the logo. Through Google Forms, the New Zealand citizen has garnered over 335 signatures of support, at least 315 of which come from undergraduates.

“We strongly believe that this abhorrent omission fosters a noninclusive and isolating environSee CISS page 3

Richard Ma argues that despite recent criticism from President Trump, the “Parasite” Oscar triumph represents a step forward for America, and Kate Lee urges the University to sponsor more student events, thus eliminating the cost barrier that prevents them from being enjoyed by everyone.

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Marthe Cohn sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss her life story and how it impacts her political views today.

Q&A with Marthe Cohn, French spy and Holocaust survivor

By Marie-Rose Sheinerman Associate News and Features Editor

Marthe Cohn is a 99-year-old Holocaust survivor born to an Orthodox Jewish family in a small town on the German border of France. After her sister was sent to Auschwitz, she joined the intelligence service of the First French Army in November of 1944.

Posing as a German nurse searching for her missing fiancée, she obtained and relayed critical information to the Allied forces. In 1956, while working as a nurse in Paris, she met her husband, Major L. Cohn.

Three years later, she moved to the United States with him, where she lives to this day.

In 2002, she was awarded the Legion of Honor, the highest French order of merit. She is the author of “Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany” and will be giving a talk on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. in McCosh 50.

Today on Campus

Cohn sat down with The Daily Princetonian on Wednesday, Feb. 28 to discuss her life story, how it informs her political views today, and the importance of preserving Holocaust memory.

This interview transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and concision.

The Daily Princetonian: I wanted to start our conversation in the same way you start your book, which is with this quote from Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: “Each of our deeds, even those as small as the flapping of a butterfly’s wings, has great consequences.” I was wondering if you could talk about an example of how that has manifested in your life?

Marthe Cohn: You never know when you do something what [will be the] consequences of your actions. You have no idea.

When I found out in Germany some very important informa-

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tion, I had no idea that the German government would one day reward me with the highest award of Germany because they felt that my information had shortened the war, and I saved a lot of German lives. I helped them get rid of the Nazis … which is unbelievable. The president of Germany, Mr. [Frank-Walter] Steinmeier, and his wife invited my husband and I for tea in their castle in Berlin last year. So, you see, you never never know.

DP: In your book, you talk about how the same person can be “a coward one minute and brave the next.”

MC: You can only find out when you are doing the walk. You have no idea of your own reaction until you did it. When I was offered the job, I had no idea that I could do it … but I accepted. I was trained and I did it … It’s very simple.

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commence with the Class of 2024 this fall.

According to video footage obtained by The Daily Princetonian, the hall was evenly lined with upwards of 50 students, who held up white signs in support of the pilot program. Student representatives, faculty, and administrators walked by to enter the room where the council was deliberating.

“I would say that it was among the most meaningful moments I have had while here at Princeton, seeing my classmates proudly demonstrating student support,” said Emily Apple, a graduate student at WWS studying domestic policy.

Student activism calling for increased emphasis on issues of diversity and inclusion is not new at the WWS. Since its inception in 2017, much of the pressure for reform has come from a group named Students For Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED).

SEED remains a heavy driving force in the campaign to adopt the DEI pilot program.

In an email to the ‘Prince,’ Vice-Dean of WWS Miguel Centeno wrote, “The first step is for the WWS faculty council to consider the proposal. The council can either decide it needs more time and information to consider or it can vote it out of committee for the full faculty to consider.”

He clarified neither where in the process the committee lies nor its leaning at this time.

Centeno did, however, confirm that the question before the committee is “whether a course focused on diversity and public policy should be mandatory” (emphasis in original). He underscored that the school currently offers numerous courses focused on “public policy and divided societies.”

Francisco Diez, a member of SEED and a WWS graduate student focusing in economics and public policy, told the ‘Prince’ that adopting the DEI distribution requirement would not only serve as an important indicator of the Wilson School’s commitment to diversity, but also constitutes an academic necessity for a program that seeks to teach public policy.

“I think it would be a mistake, a professional mistake, if students were not given an understanding of the distributional effects that their policies will necessarily have,” he said.

“I think some of the largest mistakes that have been made on the part of the policy makers in the last 40, 50 years,” he added, “have in large part been

due to willful ignorance of policies’ distributional effects.”

Many students agree. According to an online poll conducted by the Woodrow Wilson Action Committee, the initiative has strong support from the graduate student body, with 75 percent of students in support.

Support varies, though, given a breakdown by different demographics and fields of study.

Among WWS students studying international relations, international development, and domestic policy, support was relatively consistent at 74 percent, 86 percent, and 84 percent, respectively.

Support among economics and public policy students, however, dipped to 48 percent, with 43 percent actively opposing the measure.

Additionally, the proposal garnered considerable support among students of color, LGBTQ+ students, and students with disabilities, as well as lowincome students and female students.

Though all graduate students interviewed by the ‘Prince’ endorsed the potential change, several outlined the concerns they had heard articulated by some of their peers. Some students remain skeptical about the change, wondering how relevant the requirement is to their field of study or worry about its potential ideological bias.

Responding to concerns regarding a potential ideological bias in the policy, Diez said, “There is a concern that this would be at the exclusion of ideological diversity, but there is an understanding that courses that would pass the requirement have focuses on how you bridge divides across ideological diversity as well.”

According to sources privy to the internal deliberations of the faculty council, questions along these lines were prevalent in early conversations around the issue. To these sources, this indicated that some voting parties may have serious concerns about the policy.

Though WWS graduate students are currently engaged in discussions specifically surrounding the distribution requirement, domestic policy student Clarke Wheeler sees student activism surrounding DEI as ongoing.

“Across the board, people are trying to think of ways to even beyond the vote express student support for and accountability to students regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” she said.

The ‘Prince’ will be actively following updates around WWS’ decision as more information becomes available.

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Revealing the truth, one news story at a time.

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ment on campus that makes me and many others feel out of place,” the digital petition reads. “It is ironic that the Center for ‘International’ Security Studies cannot accurately represent the global world and omits over 700 million people’s homes from their logo.”

The petition, authored by Shanker and the Princeton New Zealand Club, goes on to claim the support of a number of regional organizations on campus, including students from Great Britain, Vietnam, the Caribbean, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Norway, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Sri Lanka.

“I just think [CISS doesn’t] take the issue seriously,” Shanker elaborated. “I think they just don’t think this is an issue, and I’d just like to talk to them about it.”

G. John Ikenberry and Aaron L. Friedberg, the co-directors of CISS and two professors of politics and international affairs, emphasized the extent to which they view the Center’s logo as aesthetic, rather than factual, in a statement to The Daily Princetonian.

“The CISS logo is an artistic image of the globe rather than a world map … and … does not include a

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lot of places,” the two wrote. “We certainly did not intend to give offense to any of those whose home countries or places of origin are not represented.”

“While we appreciate having this matter called to our attention, we do not have any plans at present to change the CISS image,” Ikenberry and Friedberg added.

In an initial message from Shanker asking about the possibility of a logo change, Carlton Haelig and Bailey Scott, the director and deputy director, respectively, of the CISS’s Strategic Education Initiative, echoed a similar sentiment.

In his correspondence with the organization, Shanker argued that “with 12 undergraduate students, over 20 graduate students, and several faculty hailing from our nation, we would like to think that New Zealand thoughts, culture, and life should be welcomed on campus.”

In the same email, he described the image issue as one “that has been plaguing the Princeton New Zealand community.”

During an interview with the ‘Prince,’ Shanker noted that, while he took up the mantle of petitioning CISS because of his New Zealand roots, he’s campaigning on behalf of all nations excluded by the image.

Vivien Huang ’22, a resident of Auckland, New Zealand, and a signatory of the petition, sees the cause as significant.

“It is really important to not erase that part of the world,” she said. “What makes a place like Princeton … [so] awesome … [is] that you get to interact with all these different international communities and people — you have to recognize the distinct identities.”

The petition emphasizes the notion of recognition.

“Imagine having to walk past this logo everyday, feeling unwanted and irrelevant while simply going to class,” the document reads. “[Imagine h]aving your family visit campus from across the world and explaining to them how your home country is not important enough to be featured on one of Princeton’s logos. [Imagine b]eing made fun of because your entire nationalistic identity can be invalidated based on an oversight that the department refuses to fix.”

Signatories to the petition hail from nations beyond those excluded. Originally from Pakistan and currently a resident of the United Arab Emirates, Khadijah Anwar ’22 emphasized the need for geographic parity.

“If [CISS claims] … to be a body that is fostering discussion of in-

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Banner featuring the Center for International Security Studies logo.

ternational issues on campus, then every part of the world should be fully acknowledged and included in the map,” Anwar said. “For certain islands to just be omitted altogether from something that is supposed to be an international representation — I just think that that’s inherently unfair.”

Seeking further support in his endeavor, Shanker reached out to the New Zealand Embassy in Washington, D.C., via email. The Embassy confirmed in a response that his message “ha[d] been forwarded to the Public Affairs offi-

cer” but made no further comment on the matter.

At the time of publication, the Embassy had not responded to a request for comment.

This isn’t the first time Shanker has advocated for the inclusion of his home country in University geography. During his first year on campus, he successfully lobbied Mathey College to change a map in favor of one that included New Zealand. “[It] bummed me out to see that everyday,” Shanker noted.

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moment from the war that required the greatest moral courage?

MC: When I was crossing from Switzerland into Germany, I didn’t think I could do it. It took me a very long time to overcome the fear; I was completely paralyzed by fear. I felt very sorry for myself. I felt that nobody could oblige me to do it. It took me at least three hours to overcome that fear. It became later and later, and suddenly I remembered something, which made me get up, take my little suitcase, and walk.

DP: What did you remember?

MC: I remembered the French captain of intelligence … he had a noble name with a “de”... He was an excellent officer and a perfectionist, and he could not accept if the missions he had organized were not successful. Thirteen times I tried to cross the pond in Alsace, and I was not successful. Every time he said that I had done something wrong because I had cold feet … he would say that publicly. I had huge fights with him in front of Colonel [GeorgesRegis] Bouvet … and every time I proved that I was not responsible.

The more I defended myself, the more he hated me. When I was lying there, suddenly I remembered that if I don’t do it this time, he will be right. So I got up and walked ...

You cannot accept [being] called a coward, and he called me a coward. Colonel Bouvet would tell me every time that I was right, and I should not accept being insulted; I should not accept being told that I was wrong.

DP: Was there ever a time when you were spying in Germany when you came very close to being found out?

MC: Many times … I’ll give you one example. When I arrived in Singen, when I crossed from Switzerland into Germany …

I went to a woman’s house. She opened the door; it was already very late because I had waited so long to cross. It was about 10 p.m. when I arrived at her house; she was already in a robe and nightgown.

When I told her who sent me, she was extremely hospitable and gave me a room; she even gave me some food because I had had no dinner that night … The next morning I got up and went into the kitchen, and I saw immediately that she was in a very bad mood … She said to me, “I did not sleep all night. I was very worried because I noticed that your stockings were completely torn.” I had fallen because there were craters between where I crossed into Germany and Singen because Singen had been bombarded by the Allies …

Then she looked me straight in the eyes, and she said, “Fraulein, are you a spy?” I bent over a little, stretched out my arms, and I started laughing immediately.

I said, “Do I look like a spy?” She started laughing, too, and said, “No.” We became best friends, and she saved my life …

DP: What do you see as the importance, especially for young students, of hearing your story?

MC: Because they all have very short memories, and they don’t know enough about the Shoah.

If they don’t know about what happened in the past, they cannot prepare for the future. Impossible.

DP: I wanted to talk more about preserving Holocaust memory. As I’m sure you know, there was a survey recently that showed 41 percent of Americans don’t know what Auschwitz is.

What do you think needs to be done about that?

MC: We are going to disappear in a very short time — the survivors. But the museums don’t do a good enough job. They have to do much more to contact the schools and let them know what happened. But in detail, not just a little story. It has to be known.

Right now, it’s extremely danger-

ous, here in America, too ...

DP: I was wondering if you could talk about how your life experiences affect the way that you think about the global refugee crisis today.

MC: I never knew how to understand Hebrew, but now, since about two or three years ago, I belong to a reform synagogue — every day I receive commentaries on the Torah and I read them every day. So now I suddenly understand what the Torah means.

That was a problem with my mother, who was an extremely good mother, and she understood all of our needs. But the day I was 12 years old, I told her, “I want to learn the Torah, because I don’t want to pray anymore in Hebrew if I don’t understand what I’m saying. It’s hypocritical to do that, because I’m talking to God, but I don’t know what I’m telling him.” My mother answered, “It’s only for the boys.” That was the only time she did not answer the right answer. I refused to pray in Hebrew from that day on. I still pray in French ...

[In terms of refugees], I go back to the Torah. The Torah teaches to love the stranger as your brother.

That I agree with. But you have to be very careful to accept only the people you should accept. But not what the government now [is doing] — that’s atrocious.

DP: So, I wanted to ask you a bit about the government now — MC: Okay, I will tell you immediately what I think. Trump does not help Israel for the love of the Jews — he does it for the evangelists, that’s it. If you don’t understand that, you don’t understand what’s going on. Even today … he attacked Ruth [Bader Ginsburg] and [Sonia] Sotomayor … He has no right to attack them, but he does it, and he repeats it, and repeats that lie, and repeats that lie, until people believe it.

That’s propaganda … Most people, most Jews, don’t understand that. But I know propaganda … because I followed it as a teenager and I remember it because I have a very good memory.

You have to be very careful with [Trump] because he has no love for anybody but himself.

None. Not for the Jews … He’s taken advantage of the problem of [Israeli Prime Minister] Bibi [Netanyahu].

DP: Some people have compared the Trump administration right now to the early days of Hitler and the Third Reich.

As someone who lived through those days, do you think that’s a fair comparison?

MC: Absolutely true. Look, his troops never think, they just believe everything he does and says, and they have no idea what’s going on. They just follow him … exactly like the troops followed Hitler in the early days.

DP: Another issue that was controversial recently was when Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez said that Trump’s “migrant detention centers” on the southern border are “concentration camps.” What do you think of the use of that language?

MC: They are not concentration camps, but they are very bad camps — very, very bad camps.

Separating children from parents is something that should not be allowed for anybody … We are supposed to love [the migrants].

It may be difficult to love them, but at least you should be right with them and not do wrong things to them.

DP: Do you think the United States should be accepting more refugees and migrants?

MC: We should be accepting at least as many as we accepted before. Now, we don’t accept even a tenth. He wants only white people, intelligent people, and people with money. That’s not an answer.

DP: One last question: what do you think young people should do to live a meaningful life?

MC: Be engaged and do not accept any order that your conscience cannot approve of. These are the two [pieces of] advice I give children. If they follow this advice, they will be okay.

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‘Parasite’ at the Oscars and its implications for America Richard Ma

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By the way, how bad

were the Academy Awards this year?”

At a campaign event this past Thursday, President Trump took a minute to bash the Korean film “Parasite,” this year’s Best Picture. “What the hell was that?” Trump asked, claiming economic tensions with South Korea as an appropriate override to meritocracy and seeking a return to movies in the mold of “Gone With the Wind” as ideal award winners.

Trump’s comments are not surprising — they’re only the latest in a long line of provocative comments straddling the line between nationalism and xenophobia. Next to his actions along the United States-Mexico border, his travel bans, and his countless tweets, Trump’s squalling about “Parasite” seems tame. At the end of the day, it’s just a movie, one might scoff, but the fact that the sitting President of the United States incorporated it into his repertoire of tasteless jabs is demonstrative of its power.

With his comments, no matter how glib, Trump sought to expose a vein of frustration stemming from the feeling that, with the

victory of a Korean film, an American film was robbed — that after four years of rebuilding America to some mythical and fictional greatness, the labors of Trump and his supporters are being undermined by the seeping of anti-American, left-wing forces into even the most American of symbols: Hollywood.

Four years ago, Trump was elected to a cacophony of negativity, successfully playing on the fear that America had fallen from greatness. His hopes for reelection now lie in convincing enough Americans that any change in the Oval Office will bring back those “dark times” when our elected officials were paragons of upstanding citizens, or at least had the shame to pretend to be. In part, his tactics have involved drawing an equivalency between the victories of people of color and the defeat of white America. And thus, when director Bong Joon-ho brought together the lips of two Oscar statuettes, Trump knew that he could find in this moment of triumph a loss for America.

In recent years, the Oscars have been criticized on numerous occasions for lack of gender and racial representation — a fate it once again failed to escape this

year — but it has also been stunningly myopic in its treatment of international and multicultural filmmaking. In nearly a century of Oscars, “Parasite” is the first and only non-English film to win Best Picture. It is only the 11th foreign language film to even be nominated. And no matter how Trump attempts to paint it, “Parasite” is not only a win for Koreans, but a win for the American ideal of a community that finds strength in welcoming diversity in thought.

In elementary school, we were told stories of hopeful immigrants gazing upon New York for the first time.

We were told liberty was not just a rusting statue but an active testament to American exceptionalism. This was a f lawed sentiment, but, as children, we found power in the stories of peoples from across the world bringing their cultures and dreams into one place. The entertainment industry, however, has long played catchup to this ideal. The Oscar for Best Picture is not named the Best American Picture, and yet it nearly always fails to consider nonAmerican films.

When the Oscars highlight, almost exclusively, stories told through American eyes and portrayed by

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very week, new posters paper the

bulletin boards and light posts. They advertise dance and improv shows, orchestra and glee club concerts. Performing arts groups across campus put on different plays, musicals, dances, and concerts each semester, with one show often overlapping with another.

For a student looking for weekend activity or entertainment, the number of events can feel overwhelming. However, they can also feel inspiring and incredible; the sheer diversity of talent across all artistic fields speaks to the creative potential of our student body. As I walk by bulletin boards, even when I’m late to class, I have often stopped when a promo poster caught my eye. Yet, recently, the first place my eyes go is not the date or description of the event: it’s the cost. The demand of students’ personal funds in order to attend student group performances hinders our creative community.

The student events ticketing system confused me from day one. I wasn’t sure how many free tickets I had as a first-year or which ones counted as “Student Events”

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Richard Ma is a sophomore from Kirksville, Miss. He can be reached at richardma@princeton.edu.

Art truly for everyone: make student events free or “Tiger Tickets.” I always found it odd that student groups had to ask for payment for their shows, but as long as I could use another free ticket, I didn’t worry too much. It was only a few weeks ago, when an attempt to get a free ticket for a friend’s dance show failed, that I realized I’d run out. I suddenly began to question the worth of the event: how much could or would I pay?

Then I began to question: why aren’t all student group events free?

Currently, the ticketing policy is as follows: “Undergraduate students are given eight electronic vouchers to be used to access free tickets each academic year. Six vouchers can be used for select University sponsored events (e.g., Princeton University Orchestra, Lewis Center events, and PUC) and select McCarter events. Two vouchers can be used for student performing group events.” This policy severely limits students’ abilities to both promote and fully appreciate arts on campus in several troubling ways.

First, it alienates students who cannot afford to pay for events they would like to attend. With only two non-University sponsored event vouchers per year, lower-income students are inherently left out of most of the audiences. While the

societal reality may be that most audiences of cultural and artistic performances tend to be wealthy, students at Princeton should not have to feel excluded from appreciating their peers’ talents.

The costs also keep students from exploring new avenues and experiences; though costs ranging from five to 15 dollars may not seem like much, they can prove a barrier for students who cannot afford to spend that money on a show they don’t know will be worth it. Therefore, these students will tend to stick to art they are familiar with, leading to a lack of cultural and creative mixing in our community.

The costs do not solely inhibit the audiences of student-organized events.

Performance groups themselves feel the pressure to increase turnout while depending on ticket revenue for future events. If Princeton sponsored a greater variety of groups, the need for external revenue would decrease. When potential audience members are forced to pick and choose the events they will attend for free, the tendency is to attend performances by groups they see as universally “popular” and “established.” Newer or perhaps more niche student organizations must overcome the cost barrier when convincing students to at-

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American actors, they fail to consider the vastness of perspectives in our world.

In failing this, they miss the opportunity to widen our thinking and to combat the toxic isolationism that Trump caters to. They allow to fester the mindset that Trump seeks to exploit — that America is a place intended for a narrow definition of people, and that we are perpetually in a zerosum game with people from other nations.

How bad were the Academy Awards this year? Rather than perpetuate previous failures, the Oscars took a step forward. This year’s win is a reaffirmation of the values we were taught as children and a timely refutation of Trumpian politics.

Other cultures, their people, and their lifeworks deserve a place in American society, as they always should have. And despite our current president’s best efforts, this place will endure and grow until one day, “Parasite” and its Oscar win will not be remarkable for being an anomaly, but rather for merit alone.

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tend their shows, leading to a difficulty in changing the status quo of esteemed groups on campus.

In encouraging a truly open and vibrant creative environment on campus, the administration should subsidize student performing group events for all current students. At a place like Princeton, where we continue to explore different avenues and gain a variety of experiences, we should not be limited in appreciating the cultural work of our peers. I should not have to consider my ability to pay to see a friend in a show on which they worked for weeks.

The costs of supporting performance group events would not be small, but it is absolutely worth it to ensure equal access to art and culture. It is a matter of prioritization by the administration: all student athletic events are free, so why should artistic ones be any different? I only hope that Princeton can set an example of what can happen when artistic conversations are open to everyone — what level of creativity, talent, and support we can achieve.

Kate Lee is a first-year from Austin, Texas. She can be reached at k.lee@ princeton.edu.

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Women’s hockey sweeps Brown and Yale to end their regular season

By Owen Tedford and Chris Murphy Staff Writer and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

This past weekend, the No. 6 women’s hockey team (22–5–1, 17–4–1 ECAC) played its last weekend of the regular season hosting to Ivy League foes, Brown (3–23–3, 2–18–2) and Yale (16–13–0, 13– 9–0). Princeton ended the regular season with a sweep before the ECAC Tournament begins.

On Friday against the Bears, Princeton scored first with senior defender Sylvie Wallin scoring with less than seven minutes left in the first period. Wallin was set up by her defense partner, sophomore defender Mariah Keopple, who found Wallin in the slot where she finished off the power-play goal.

Then, just after the start of the second period, sophomore forward Maggie Connors jumped on a rebound from a shot by senior defender Claire Thompson to extend the Tigers’ lead to 2–0. Brown scored next, but not long after senior forward Carly Bullock began what would be a weekend of scoring with a shot from right in front. This would be Bullock’s first of three goals on the day, giving her a natural hat-trick and

helping Princeton defeat the Bears 5–1. This was Bullock’s third career hat-trick.

Thompson also had a threeassist game, the second of her career.

Saturday afternoon on Senior Day, the Tigers did their seniors proud in defeating the Bulldogs 5–1. Yale scored first, but this only woke up Princeton, who responded with five straight goals to put away the Bulldogs.

Sophomore forward Sarah Fillier scored first for the Tigers on a breakaway started by Bullock. Fillier scored again in the second period to give the Tigers a lead that Bullock would then extend with her first goal of the day. Bullock scored her fifth and final goal of the weekend off a rebound from a shot by first-year defender Kate Monihan. To finish off the Princeton scoring for the weekend, junior forward Shannon Griffin scored on a puck the Yale goalie could not find.

Saturday was special for several milestones that the Tigers reached. Bullock scored the 150th point of her career, the ninth player in Princeton program history to reach that number. Senior goalie Stephanie Neatby, who won both games for Princeton, got her 41st win, tying her for fourth in

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Princeton women’s hockey seniors. From left to right: Stephanie Neatby, Mackenzie Ebel, Carly Bullock, Claire Thompson, and Sylvie Wallin.

career wins with Roxanne Gaudiel ’06. Finally, the team tied its program season-high win total of 22 set in the 2015–16 season. In addition, the team held a ceremony recognizing its five seniors: forward Mackenzie Ebel, Bullock, Thompson, Wallin, and Neatby after

the game against Yale. This group has been a part of two trips to the ECAC semifinals so far and a trip to the NCAA Quarterfinals last season. They are among the winningest classes in Princeton history with 76 wins, including three 20-win seasons.

This weekend, Princeton hosts No. 10 Quinnipiac (19–12–3, 11–9–2) in the ECAC quarterfinals. The games will be on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 3 p.m., with Sunday’s game only being played if neither team has won two games yet.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Women’s basketball takes down Penn

By Alissa Selover Head Sports Editor

Having secured 18 wins in a row, a Top 25 National ranking, and its ticket to the Ivy League Tournament, the No. 21 Princeton women’s basketball team is showing nothing less of the desire to win this season.

The Tigers have only lost one game this season, in a heartbreaking overtime battle with the Iowa Hawkeyes. Since then, they have turned to their nationally ranked defense and to senior captain and two-time Ivy League Player of the Year Bella Alarie to lead them on an 18-game winning streak that started on Nov. 24, 2019.

The Tigers faced Penn on Tuesday, a rare non-weekend game for the Ivy League.

While winning their 18th game in a row and continuing their undefeated streak in the Ivy League was an exciting night for Princeton, that wasn’t the only news for Princeton women’s basketball.

The week started with Alarie being named the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) National Player of the Week on Monday. Alarie contributed 21 points, two rebounds, seven assists, and two blocks in the victory over the Quakers.

First-year forward Ellie Mitchel trailed behind Alarie with 13 points, eight rebounds, and six steals.

Mitchell’s six steals put her tied for second all-time steals in a single game by a first-year.

The first quarter was big for the Tigers. Along with carrying a 53.3 shooting percentage, their defense only allowed the Quakers to score eight points.They finished on a 14–2 run to end the first quarter with a 21–8 lead.

Princeton took advantage of the second quarter, which didn’t look good for the Quakers. The Tigers expanded their lead to 21 points to head into the break with a 34–13 score.

Penn rallied back in the third quarter, outscoring the Tigers 18–17, but that didn’t stop Princeton from extending its lead to 29 points with five minutes left to play. The quarter ended with the Tigers up 51–31.

The Tigers didn’t let their 20-point lead at the end of the fourth quarter stop them from extending it even more. While Penn came out with the first basket in the fourth quarter, dropping the lead to 18 points, the Tigers did not let the Quakers come within 20 points for the remainder of the game.

The Tigers defeated Penn 80–44 to extend their winning streak.

The 18-game winning streak from the Tigers is the third-longest streak in the country. They are training behind No. 1 South Carolina’s 21-game winning streak

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Senior captain Bella Alarie against Penn.

and No. 2 Baylor’s 19-game winning streak.

The Tigers will face Brown and Yale this weekend.

Last time the Tigers faced the Brown Bears, Princeton secured the victory 85–48.

Junior guard Carlie Littlefield had 19 points while

Alarie added 16. Both added nine rebounds.

The last time the Bulldogs and Tigers met, however, was more of an offensive battle for the Tigers. While they rallied for the victory 55–39, the Bulldogs were registering baskets to keep

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Yale’s team also shut down Alarie, only allowing her nine points the entire game.

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