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President Eisgruber releases letter on COVID-19’s spread

By Albert Jiang Senior Writer

On Tuesday, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 wrote to the University community about the global spread of COVID-19, commonly referred to as coronavirus.

At 11:32 a.m. on March 3, Eisgruber released a letter on preparing for and mitigating impacts of the global epidemic. Eisgruber encouraged members of the community to employ basic health practices, including washing hands often and thoroughly. He outlined three major steps in combating the crisis: taking care of oneself, planning ahead, and staying informed.

The letter asked faculty and staff to stay home from work should they not feel well and asked students to contact McCosh Health Center if they need medical care. Eisgruber urged students who fall ill to forgo class and make alternate accommodations.

“Many of us try to ‘power through’ a cold or a fever,” he wrote. “So, let me be perfectly clear — the best thing you can do for yourself, your friends and your colleagues is to take care of yourself if you aren’t feeling well.”

Given that COVID-19’s impact on the University’s day-to-day operations continues to unfold, Eisgruber implored faculty

to “work with the Dean of Faculty’s office to identify strategies for continuing coursework under various scenarios” while administrative staff continue to refresh and review contingency plans.

Reaffirming the University’s commitment to its community amid inconveniences and disruptions, Eisgruber noted, “We are fortunate to have an excellent staff of experienced professionals across campus planning for, and responding to, the problems posed by [COVID-19].”

“Their job is not easy,” he added. “Our team is working tirelessly seven days a week to support the health and safety of our community in response to rapidly evolving circumstances and incomplete information. We are fortunate to have such outstanding and dedicated people working on our behalf.”

Eisgruber acknowledged disruptions to study abroad programs and international travel plans.

“I want to express my appreciation to those who have accommodated these changes or helped to support the people affected by them,” he wrote, adding, “we will all need to be ready to adapt our behavior and make some sacrifices in the months ahead.”

Specifically, the virus’s

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University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83.

spread has disrupted the Novogratz Bridge Year China program, several placements in the International Internship Program (IIP), and study abroad programs in Italy, China, and South Korea, among other events and enterprises.

“So far, the impacts of [COVID-19] on Princeton have been limited, but even limited impacts can cause real disruptions and inconveniences,” Eisgruber wrote. “Working together, I am confident that we will be able to navigate whatever lies ahead

and support one another through this difficult and uncertain time.”

The University website is updated with the latest relevant information and guidance. Additional information is available on the Emergency Management website.

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Physics professor emeritus Pierre After last year’s errors, U. promises to amend Adrien Piroué dies at age 88

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Prominent experimental particle physicist and long-time University faculty member Pierre Adrien Piroué died on Feb. 12 at the age of 88.

Piroué, the Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics, Emeritus, spent over six decades as a member of the physics department at the University and played a key role in many crucial experimental breakthroughs of high-energy physics throughout his career as a research physicist. Piroué

conducted experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, Fermi National Laboratory, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Piroué died at Princeton Medical Center after a brief illness on Wednesday, Feb. 12.

Piroué was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, just south of the SwissFrench border, on Sept. 18, 1931. According to Professor of Physics, Emeritus Kirk T. McDonald, Piroué once said that his father had emigrated to Switzerland from

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Pierre Adrien Piroué, on the left, with his wife, Marianne.

neighboring France to escape the carnage of World War I and avoid becoming “cannon fodder.”

After fulfilling his military service obligation and receiving undergraduate degrees in chemistry and physics from the University of Geneva, Piroué came to Princeton University for graduate studies in physics in 1956.

To his surprise, Piroué remained subject to the U.S. military draft despite already being married, according to the obituary published by the Department of Physics. To help him avoid the draft, the University arranged for Piroué to continue his graduate studies here but technically remain enrolled at the University of Geneva.

Piroué received his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Geneva in 1958 for the cosmic ray research he conducted under University physicist George T. Reynolds GS ’43, who was also responsible for recruiting numerous prominent physicists to the University, including Nobel laureates Riccardo Giacconi, James Cronin, and Val Fitch.

After receiving his doctorate, Piroué spent two See PIROUÉ page 2

room draw process

By Evelyn Doskoch Assistant News Editor

In the spring of 2019, randomization errors in the University room draw process sparked outrage across campus. A few students conducted ad hoc data analysis, revealing the scale of the flaw. Eventually, the University awarded 220 seniors $1,000 in compensation.

Now, the University has promised it won’t happen again.

According to Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss, a new system, to be put in place for 2020, will ensure proper randomization of draw times. This new system will ensure that larger groups have no advantage over smaller groups, and also eliminate similarities in draw times between 2018 and 2019, which were documented by Adam Chang ’20 and Yang Song ‘20 last year.

“The code that will be used to randomly assign draw times has been extensively tested within Housing and its efficacy has been confirmed by campus information technology part-

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ners,” Hotchkiss wrote in an email statement to The Daily Princetonian.

In April 2019, the University acknowledged that there were unintentional “similarities between the selection orders of the 2018 and 2019 upperclass draws,” meaning that many seniors who drew in the same group both years received draw times in the same order as they did in 2018. As a result, approximately 220 were awarded $1,000 deductions to their housing bills.

However, many students expressed other concerns about the draw.

Chang and Song performed statistical analysis of the room draw times, and found that, in addition to the draw-time sequence concern, draw-group size also correlated with draw time.

Larger groups, on average, received earlier draw times than smaller ones. This finding held true across all residential college draws, as well as the upperclass and independent draws.

“We had a hunch that individual students were being drawn,” Chang and Song See ROOM DRAW page 3

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years conducting research as a postdoctoral associate with Fitch, an acclaimed University physicist who received the 1980 Nobel Prize for his work in experimental particle physics.

In 1960, Piroué returned to Geneva to spend a year as a fellow at CERN, just six years after the founding of the organization.

Piroué would then return to the University to join the physics department as an instructor in 1961, and nine years later, he became a full professor.

Piroué soon became an expert in fast electronics and particle detectors, as well as a leader of the increasingly large teams of physicists working on the key experiments that would come to dominate the field.

Daniel R. Marlow, experimental particle physicist and the Evans Crawford 1911 Professor of Physics, explained how Piroué’s research became broadly inf luential in the 1970s.

“The field moved towards electronic detectors based on ionizations or light signals, but all of that information had to be recorded in a computer, and sitting between those detectors and the computer was a lot of electronics,” explained Marlow. “That was [Piroué]’s specialty. He led a team that

designed those electronics, and because we wanted to get a lot of data, these electronics had to be very fast.”

In sheer numbers, his career came a long way. For his first experiment, Piroué was effectively on his own. For his last, he worked with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and collaborated with more than 3,000 scientists.

Beginning in the 1990s, Piroué and his students began working at LHC on the world’s largest particle accelerator built primarily to prove or disprove the existence of the Higgs boson and the Higgs mechanism.

The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle that gives mass to other elementary particles.

The CMS experiment and the ATLAS experiment together confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson in 2012.

Theoretical physicists Peter Higgs and François Englert, who independently discovered the mechanism behind the existence of the Higgs boson, shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, which also recognized the work of a thousand-strong army of physicists – including Piroué – that spanned over half of a century.

Theoretical particle physicist and Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of

Technology Frank Wilczek GS ’74 discussed the impact Piroué had on the Department of Physics.

“He’s such a fixture of Princeton – he’s just a part of the landscape,” remarked Wilczek. “He really gave the department an international f lavor, too. Everything from his name, to his accent, to his participation in collaborations overseas really made the place feel really cosmopolitan.”

Piroué was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). He was also a member of the Swiss Physical Society (SPS), as well as the European Physical Society (EPS).

Having played the piano since he was a boy, Piroué developed and taught a popular freshman seminar, FRS 110: Sound, Music … and Physics, after transferring to emeritus status in 2001.

In addition to his love of music, Piroué was a skilled tennis player and skier. He is remembered by friends for his presence at tennis courts at the University and his enthusiasm for skiing in the Swiss Alps.

Piroué is survived by his wife of 65 years, Marianne; his son, Olivier; his daughters-in-law, Teresa and Beverly; and his two grandchildren, Amanda and Andrew.

He was predeceased by an older son, Nicolas.

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In both 2018 and 2019, room draw time randomization was conducted by CBORD, a New York-based software company. This year, according to Hotchkiss, the assignment of draw times will be performed by “an external group random value generator outside of the CBORD system,” which will be imported into CBORD. “We are confident that the implementation of the external group random value generator will address the random time assignment issues that were experienced during last year’s Room Draw,” Hotchkiss wrote to the ‘Prince.’

“Additionally, CBORD has committed resources to the University for this year’s Room Draw to provide a fast, coordinated response for any issues that may arise,” he added.

The University did not indicate whether money will be awarded to students in the event of another similar error.

Despite these assurances, some students are not entirely confident that this year’s draw will be free of controversy.

“I don’t think it’s enough to blame CBORD and use an ‘external group random value generator,’” Chang

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said. “You learn in COS126 how to randomly generate numbers, so I doubt CBORD screwed that up. It’s more likely that HRES [Housing and Real Estate] doesn’t know what to do with random numbers. If they get perfectly random numbers but use those numbers to randomly choose students (instead of groups), we’ll again see large groups drawn before small groups. Or if they use the same random number for each student in different draws, we’ll again see similar draw orders in different draws.”

“That’s not on CBORD, that’s because HRES doesn’t understand probability,” he added.

Reilly Bova ’20, who contacted Housing in 2019 with concerns about the randomization process, has a more optimistic view.

“I think characterizing these as changes would be incorrect,” Bova wrote in a statement to the ‘Prince.’ It was always the policy that draw group size does not affect draw time, and that a particular draw for a particular year has its own random order. The issue was that the room draw software was not properly tested to ensure it was developed to specification.”

“It is my hope that the University has learned from the room draw debacle,” Bova noted, “and will take precautions to audit and test administrative software before rolling it out into production.”

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You don’t have an internship — so what?

Brigitte Harbers

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magine this: it’s the beginning of March, spring semester is halfway over, and you don’t have an internship. You might as well drop out of school now, since no future employer will ever take you seriously with the lack of experience on your resume.

For sophomores and juniors, this panic may ring all too true. But for firstyear students, it might be beneficial to break down the anxiety over securing internships for the summer. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t really matter.

Admittedly, I am writing this from the perspective of an A.B. Molecular Biology student, but unless you’re on the Econ track with ambitions to run Goldman Sachs one day, I think you can trust my opinion on this subject.

My first — and arguably most important — piece of advice is to take a deep breath. The choice to take a summer off and give your brain a break is not only valid but should be widely

accepted. I decided to do so myself, and I could not be happier with my decision. While it might have not been a true “summer off,” since I chose to take summer courses, I didn’t apply for any career building opportunities. I simply focused on the present. Honestly, I wasn’t even worried that I had no plans for working, and if you don’t have an internship, you shouldn’t worry either. Let me explain why.

You’ve just spent a grueling year at Princeton, working your butt off for what may or may not have resulted in your definition of academic success.

You absolutely deserve a break, and you shouldn’t try to convince yourself otherwise. Summer marks the end of school, and it’s the perfect time to focus on friends, family, and most importantly, yourself. In fact, summer is arguably a necessary time for a mental check-in. As students at a demanding university with high expectations, we shouldn’t be manipulated into thinking that it’s a waste of time to recuperate and

explore interests outside our academic spheres.

I’m not saying that if you genuinely want to be an intern, you shouldn’t apply, but you don’t have to spend your summer working if you don’t really want to. Even if your parents or professors “strongly encourage” you to seek out internship opportunities, you’re the one who makes the decision in the end. Don’t forcibly chain yourself to a desk, especially when it’s probably more beneficial to take a mental break instead. Remember — as a freshman, you have three more years of academic pressure ahead, so don’t prematurely burn out just because you want to add a line to your resume. At the end of the day, your success at Princeton is both more impressive and will most likely help you when seeking out internships in subsequent summers.

When I say it doesn’t matter if you have an internship, I mean that no one will judge you for not having an internship between freshman and sophomore year. Not

everyone can be granted the opportunities they want, so you have to accept that sometimes, the universe has other plans.

You should embrace the free time you have. Who knows — it could be the last time you won’t spend a summer completely focused on another job that just builds on the stress of Princeton.

If you don’t have an internship, don’t panic.

Move on and look at it as an opportunity to expand out of the tunnel vision of the past nine months.

So take the summer off.

Revisit old hobbies, finally take that trip you’ve always wanted to go on, or simply enjoy staying at home. Most importantly, remember that your success in life is not dependent on those intern responsibilities you exaggerate on your resume.

Remind yourself what it is like to enjoy your life, and mentally prepare yourself for another year in orange and black.

Brigitte Harbers is a sophomore from New York, N.Y. She can be reached at bharbers@princeton.edu.

De rebus novis (on new change) Juan José López Haddad

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he Catholic Church needs change, and I say this as a devout Catholic. Ever since the 2013 election of Pope Francis — a pontiff many saw as a figure of change — traditionalism and conservatism have been on the rise, especially in America. Many eyes have turned towards the pages of the past. The number of parishes that now regularly celebrate the ancient Tridentine rite of the Mass in Latin is also on the rise. Many Catholics have taken a keen interest in scholastic, often outdated, Thomistic theology. And many believe the Church is under siege and in need of protectors that can save it from its corrupt ways.

Although these reversions to old ways may disillusion some Catholics, including me, I believe we should remain in the Church and act as a force of change. There are many areas in which the Church can progress toward the future, starting with the inclusion of women and married men in the priesthood.

There is nothing inherently wrong with keeping traditions. I admire the beauty of the sung Latin Mass, marvel at the rich vestments worn by bishops and priests, and find the works of Thomas Aquinas enlightening.

However, this new wave of traditionalist protection has not done the work it should do: exalting Christ and the Church that he founded.

Rather, it has been used to drive the Church backwards in time, beyond the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), straying away from love and compassion and toward hermeticism and condemnation. This move could ultimately cost the Church many of its faithful, and even its survival.

The majority of Catholics likely do not desire this conservatism. Most Catholics care little for the supposed glory days that preceded Vatican II, during which the Church was much less accessible and more hostile in its moral language.

Those who power the traditionalist efforts, while persistent and inf luential, are a minority. Their efforts to purify the Church are, in reality, drawing the faithful away from it. In recent times, church attendance has decreased dramatically, as well as the number of those who self-identify as Catholic.

Many Catholic defectors turn to other churches, like the Episcopal, Methodist, or Presbyterian congregations, or even abandon religion altogether. While these alternatives are compelling, seeing that the Catholic Church still holds outdated social notions on women and sexual minorities, I urge the faithful to remain. If we leave the Church, it will have no motivation to move forward.

Only by remaining in communion with Rome we will have the power to change Rome, and there is a very good place to start: the issue of the priesthood.

Much like church attendance, the number of priestly ordinations has been in sharp decline.

Fewer and fewer Catholic men choose to live a consecrated life as their vocation, largely because the requirements for priesthood are extremely limiting. Only male members of the Church can become priests, and those who do must make a vow of celibacy. This creates a limited pool of applicants that progressively dries up as the world embraces modernity.

Unless this is some sort of esoteric doomsday clock, the Church needs a solution: It must allow priests to marry and allow women to become priests.

These are two demographics that the Church

has repeatedly rejected, most recently with Pope Francis’ decision against ordaining married men to supply the Amazon with much-needed pastoral care.

Most bishops and prelates regard this matter as unchangeable and fundamental, but that isn’t the case.

The idea of priestly celibacy is not a dogma of the Church — it is merely a matter of canon law, largely based on tradition.

Priestly celibacy wasn’t formally encouraged in any region until the fourth century, and even then, many regions — most famously England — retained married priests until the 11th century, when the Gregorian Reforms cracked down on clerical marriage.

Furthermore, many, if not most, of the apostles of Jesus were married, and churches like the Eastern Orthodox Church, which is recognized as having valid apostolic succession, allow married men to be ordained. This is a matter of canon law that a synod of bishops, or even the Pope alone, can change at any moment.

The matter of the ordination of women is a bit complicated but largely similar.

There is no explicit canonical prohibition in the Bible for women to be ordained.

This present restriction is inherited from a largely patriarchal society, where women’s roles in social and religious life were limited because of cultural standards.

There is, in fact, biblical evidence for women participating in the ministry. Mary Magdalene, one of the disciples of Jesus, was the first to witness evidence of resurrection and convey the news to the rest of the Apostles. Mary, the mother of Jesus, is largely considered to be the first and wisest of the disciples, and even before the birth of Jesus is said to have performed rituals reserved to the priesthood, such as sanctifying or baptizing

John the Baptist while he was still in his mother’s womb.

There is even evidence of ordained women. Phoebe is called a deacon in Paul’s epistle to the Romans and was entrusted to the deliverance of this epistle from Corinth to Rome. There is some, yet significant, evidence that women had similar roles in the early medieval Church. However, as the Church grew in power within Europe, clerical positions were restricted to men. This is also an issue of canon law that the Pope has full authority to overturn.

Denying these changes in the admission to the priesthood makes life harder for existing priests, who are forced to move around from diocese to diocese. Refusing godly men and women an opportunity to participate will place remote regions like the Amazon in unofficial interdict, denying their faithful the spiritual and pastoral care that they need.

This piece is not an attempt at proselytism. My purpose is not to persuade the Pope, bishops, or even local priests. This is an appeal to the common, lay faithful like myself. Change seems impossible within the eternal walls of the Vatican, but it is not unheard of. Vatican II made the Church more accessible, more loving, and more forgiving. Only by raising the next generation of church leaders in this conviction will we achieve these much-needed reforms, and that starts with each of us vowing to remain in the Church. Pope Leo XIII, among others, opposed in his encyclical “Rerum Novarum” the tide of modern social change.

Well now it is time we pursue “rebus novis” — new change.

Juan José López Haddad is a sophomore from Caracas, Venezuela. He can be reached at jhaddad@princeton.edu

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Men’s swimming and diving takes home second place at Ivy League Championships, at 1231 points behind Harvard

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Princeton men’s swimming and diving finished in second place at the fourday Ivy League Championships in Providence, R.I. The Tigers started the competition with a night that propelled them near the top of the standings.

Princeton finished the first day tied for third with Brown with 104 points. Columbia was in second with 108 and Harvard University was in first with 120.

Two major events for the Tigers on the first day included the 800 freestyle relay and the 200 medley relay. The Tigers finished second in the 800 relay with 56 points. First-year Peyton Werner, junior Charles Leibson, sophomore Max Walther, and sophomore Raunak Khosla participated in this event and finished with a time of 6:24.08. Senior Derek Cox, senior Daniel Arris, Khosla, and Leibson finished the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:27.63, earning 48 points and coming in sixth place.

Day two was another big day for the Tigers. Khosla won the 200 individual medley for the second year in a row, and senior diver Charlie Minns set a new record in the one-meter diving event. The Tigers climbed to second place by the end of the day with 450 points. Harvard was first with 489.

Khosla earned the Tigers

their first title of the championships after winning the 200 IM with a time of 1:43.01, earning the victory and breaking the facility record. Leibson finished in 1:47.72 to take sixth and Cox finished seventh in 1:48.50.

Junior Levy Nathan placed third in the 500 freestyle in a time of 4:21.11, and first-year Nicholas Lim followed close behind, placing fourth in 4:21.55 seconds. In the 200 freestyle relay, the team of Cox, Khosla, Leibson, and Walther placed sixth with a time of 1:19.97 seconds.

Princeton performed very well in the one-meter diving event. Minns placed second with a score of 356.50, a new school record. Junior Colten Young finished third with an individual season-high score of 330.10 while first-year Griffin Brooks finished seventh with a score of 292.95.

Brooks was the only firstyear to make the A final in the one-meter dive at the meet by placing in the top eight.

The Tigers held on to their second place position at the end of the third day with 826 points.

Khosla won the 400 IM for the second year in a row, with a time of 3:41.75 seconds, setting a new school and facility record. In the 200 freestyle, Walther placed seventh in 1:36.57 seconds, with Leibson close behind at eighth in 1:37.61.

Cox came out on top in the 100 breaststroke, finishing in a time of 53.73

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Senior Charlie Minns was named High Point Diver of the Meet at the Ivy League Championships.

seconds. Junior Corey Lau finished third in 53.87 seconds. Cox, Lau, Lim, and Walther finished sixth in the 400 medley relay with a time of 3:14.59.

The Tigers had several high-place finishers in the 1,000 freestyle. First-year Dylan Porges grabbed second place in 8:57.68 while places seven through nine were claimed by Nathan (9:03.94), sophomore Brendan Firlie (9:05.40), and first-year John Ehling (9:05.42) respectively.

As a team, Princeton ended the meet on the final day in second place with 1,231 points, while Harvard University finished in first with 1,439.

Highlights from the fourth day include Porges winning the 1,650 freestyle, clocking in 15:07.07; Ehling finishing fifth with a time of 15:14.95; and Nathan finishing sixth in a time of 15:16.09. Cox finished first in the 200 breaststroke, touching the wall in 1:55.70, while Lau finished fifth in

1:58.56. In the 200 butterf ly, Khosla took another individual title with a time of 1:42.43. The Tigers finished fourth in the 400 freestyle relay after Walther, Khosla, Leibson, and Cox secured a time of 2:57.40. Khosla was honored as High Point Swimmer of the meet.

Young finished second in the three-meter diving competition with a score of 366.80 and Minns finished third with a score of 358.90.

Minns was named High Point Diver of the Meet.

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