The Daily Princetonian: April 21, 2023

South campus construction continues as Poe Field to be closed ‘more than a year’

By Madeleine LeBeau Senior News Writer

For residents of the southern part of Princeton’s campus, the campus construction is unlikely to subside any time soon.

The University announced that the opening of Hobson College (on the site of the former First College) will be pushed back to 2027 from its originally scheduled 2026 opening date. Further, the University announced that Poe Field, a popular gathering spot for students, will be under construction starting after Reunions 2023 and is expected to take “more than a year.”

Some students and student groups have expressed concerns regarding the timing and scope of the projects.

The Poe Field project, which will put Poe Field under renovation for at least three semesters, is part of the University’s goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2046.

In an email to The Daily Princetonian regarding the Poe Field project, University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss wrote, “the construction will include a previously ap-

proved underground storm-water detention system required to support the storm-water design for the current University Health Services project (due to be completed by winter 2025), and for the upcoming Schmidt Hall project (anticipated start of summer 2025).”

Some club sports teams are concerned about the closure of Poe Field. The club Ultimate Frisbee team uses Poe Field as a practice location and considers the central location of Poe Field as a benefit during recruitment.

“A big chunk of our incoming class every year is people who have never played Ultimate before,” says Alex Baroody ’23, one of the captains of Princeton Ultimate Frisbee. With construction on Poe Field, Baroody says that it will be “a lot harder for us to get new people to join our club … Just having those pickup games be visible brought a lot of our team to the game of Ultimate.”

Hotchkiss noted that it “is not feasible” to only have construction on Poe Field over the summer, and that “it is less impactful to complete the construction consecutively in one phase in-

stead of breaking it up over multiple summers or stages.”

He added that the University “understand[s] that this work will impact many groups on campus who currently use Poe Field, as well as students and staff who will live in the dorms that surround Poe Field this summer and the next academic year.” He stated that the University will “provide regular updates regarding the construction and related impact, but also provide information on alternate temporary locations for club, pickup sports, and other recreation.”

Many students living in the new colleges cross Poe Field to get to the rest of campus. Zach Lee ’26, the Communications Lead for Yeh College Council, is concerned that with the construction of Poe Field, students of the nearby residential colleges are losing an “integral location” where they have been able to “relax, picnic, and play sports.”

Lee is a contributing News and podcast writer for the ‘Prince.’

“The construction on Poe Field will definitely make this

USG selects college circuit regular Waka Flocka Flame for Lawnparties headliner

By Nandini Krishnan Staff News Writer

Spring 2023 Lawnparties will feature Waka Flocka Flame as its headliner with Skeez as a supporting act, according to a series of Instagram posts from the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Social Committee on April 13.

Notably, Waka Flocka Flame has previously been a part of Lawnparties, performing at Colonial Club in Sept. 2018. USG social chair Avi Attar ’25 stated that “this fact did not weigh heavily on the decision,” though he added that “upperclassmen

involved in the process have expressed their excitement that it feels full-circle.”

Waka Flocka Flame is a Georgia-raised rapper best known for his 2010 hit “No Hands” featuring Roscoe Dash & Wale, which peaked at 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. His other hits include “O Let’s Do It,” “Grove St. Party,” and “Round of Applause.” Per his Spotify page, where he has more than 5,000,000 monthly listeners, Waka Flocka Flame is an “early influencer of Trap music, inspiring many artists of today with his extensive mixtape catalog consisting of over 30 projects.”

In April of the same year as his performance at Princeton, he performed at Lafayette College, and in October, he performed at both Hamilton College and at Louisiana State University, followed by performances at both Bates College and the University of Chicago in November 2018. In 2019, he performed at Lindenwood University in February, the University of Arizona in August, and at the University of Houston in November. His performance at Shenandoah University in April 2019 was canceled due to his involvement in a shootout. In April 2022, he performed at

NJ Gov.

Murphy just signed a revolutionary campaign finance law. It’s bad news for Princeton students.

By Preston Ferraiuolo | Contributing Columnist

State legislators in Trenton were busy before leaving for their April break. They passed a controversial bill changing New Jersey’s campaign finance laws, which Democratic Governor Phil Murphy signed into law without the usual fanfare of a press conference. Intense opposition to the paradoxically named “Elections Transparency Act” united the far left and far right of Jersey politics, and for good reason: it is the antithesis of good government, undermining the interests of New Jersey residents. Endangering the Dinky bidding process, it has specific harms for Princeton students.

First, the bill removes some of New Jersey’s regulations restricting “pay-to-play” politics. Under the new law, businesses seeking government contracts are no longer prohibited from contributing to party committees, which fund many of New Jersey’s elections. Thus, the bill weakens protections created to ensure a fair and competitive process for awarding government contracts to businesses.

Second, it doubles the contribution limits for most races, allowing individuals and companies to contribute double to political candidates or groups in

Members of the Class of 2025 celebrate declaration day, interest shows for linguistics major

By Bridget O’Neill Assistant News Editor

On declaration day last Friday, the scorching 84 degrees meant sweater weather for sophomore students. In accordance with tradition, members of the Class of 2025 swarmed north campus, donning USG-subsidized class sweaters.

The festivities came shortly before the deadline for sophomores pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (AB) degree to declare their major via TigerHub, Monday, April 17 at 5 p.m. Students pursuing degrees in Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) students declare in

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April of their first year. With numbers of concentrators yet to be publicly available, questions remain as to whether the trends visible last year will continue, for example increasing numbers of student majoring in engineering disciplines. The Class of 2025 was the first class to be admitted during the COVID-19 pandemic and thus may strike a unique profile. A group of six independent concentrators pursuing linguistics, not currently offered as a major, signified significant interest in the field, Students celebrating were invited to take photos with their

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challenging for students to continue in the future or may even possibly stop these activities for good until construction has cleared,” Lee said.

With the opening of Hobson delayed, construction will last longer at the site just

north of Poe Field. According to Hotchkiss, this delay is a result of the fact that “several of the First College dorms that encompass the Hobson site were used as temporary housing assignments during the fall semester when movein for a portion of Yeh and NCW residents was delayed.” Accordingly, construction did not begin on schedule.

Hotchkiss confirmed that all “housing or impacted buildings [will be] notified [of construction] and asked to send messages to residents or building occupants that will be directly impacted.”

Residents of Scully Hall will live between the Poe field construction and the ongoing construction of Hobson College. Hannah Even ’25, a future resi-

dent of Scully Hall, was “not excited about” being surrounded by construction and the early start time of construction noise, particularly on the weekends.

According to Hotchkiss, campus construction will begin at “7 a.m. during weekdays and 8 a.m. on Saturdays.”

Despite the delay in opening Hobson, the University does not expect any delay in its imple-

mentation of the four-year expansion plan to increase Princeton’s undergraduate student body by 500 students. Hotchkiss noted that “the introduction of NCW and Yeh provides the swing space” that is needed to stay on target with the expansion of the student body.

Madeleine Lebeau is a senior News writer for the ‘Prince’

Sophomore: “After declaring, you’re kind of like, ‘Is this the right path for me?’”

chosen department’s banner on Cannon Green. The festivities were coupled with Rita’s Italian Ice truck and professional photographers.

For many students, declaration day was a mix of emotions. Sibetter Vasquez ’25, declaring in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), shared her nerves around making such a decision with lasting impact, telling The Daily Princetonian that she was both excited and “a bit nervous.”

“I think after declaring you’re kind of like, ‘Is this the right path for me?’” she said.

Ariana Di Landro ’25, majoring in Ecology and Evolutionary Biol-

ogy (EEB), added to this sentiment of mixed emotions. “It feels like it was definitely something that we were waiting for, but at the same time … it feels too fast, too soon.”

The process of electing a major is complicated for some, with many students choosing a different major from their original plans during their first year.

Kok Wei Pua ’25, majoring in Computer Science (COS), originally thought he would major in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, but after exploring and taking classes in the COS department spring of his first year he could “see [himself] doing that for the next three to four years.”

Pua is a business associate for The Daily Princetonian.

Venezia Garza ’25, majoring in Anthropology via the medical an-

thropology track, shared a similar experience with a class that drew her into her future major. Not even knowing what medical anthropology was when entering Princeton, Garza said her medical anthropology class in her first year spring made her fall in love with the framework, as it “[allows] me to think about medicine and patients and patient care,” something she says will prepare her for her future in medical school. Others shared internal battles — often between two majors of interest. Kimberly Cross ’25 said she was deciding between African American Studies (AAS) and Politics throughout her time at Princeton before ultimately deciding to major in AAS only a few days before declaration day celebrations. Her decision came after she real-

ized that she “wanted to do race and public policy.” The AAS department “gave [her] the freedom to do that and pursue race as a focal point rather than just an afterthought,” she said.

The AAS department has recently seen one of the largest rises in declarations, with declarations between the class of 2023 and 2024 increasing by 58.1 percent.

Nicholas Urbati ’25, who like many was debating between Politics and SPIA, chose Politics because of its more flexible course requirements, saying SPIA has “far too many requirements.”

Vasquez had a larger jump, switching from aspirations to major in a STEM field to majoring in SPIA. She cited her aspirations of “helping others in a more community-based way” as the reason for the switch. For those in larger major, such as COS and SPIA, declaring their major comes with both caution and unique opportunity.

Pua shared optimism for the “flexibility and resources” of COS, saying he feels “very supported.” Still, he recommends that prospective COS majors be proactive due to the department’s size, saying that he reaches out to his advisors every semester.

Vasquez is excited by SPIA’s size as it evokes collaboration, saying that she’s excited to meet other students in her major, “getting to know their paths and their interests and just getting together to hopefully make the world a better place.”

A new wave of independent majors has also emerged with six sophomores declaring independent study in linguistics. While linguistics is currently offered as a certificate, it is not an official major, though the new wave of interest might signify that it could become a major in the future.

Gillian Rosenberg ’25 shared the process she underwent to declare, saying she had to meet with a faculty advisor who would “oversee and talk through” her plan. She then had to list her “reasons for pursuing independent study, why [she] believed this course of study could not be fulfilled in a different department, and what classes [she] plan[s] to take” which was then sent to and approved by the dean of her college.

She said this process was far simpler than other independent declarations, saying the “Linguistics program at Princeton feels like a [major] in a department,” and that linguistics even had a banner on Declaration Day.

Allison Thomas ’25, who also declared her independent study in Linguistics, added that the process was “surprisingly pretty easy” with the only difference from typical majors being an early declaration date, as linguistic majors had to submit their proposal in the fall of sophomore year to get necessary approvals from advisors and department administrators.

Susquehanna University, and in August of the same year, he performed at both Eastern Kentucky University and at Queen’s College. The next month, he gave a concert at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, followed by a performance at both Northern Illinois University and Oklahoma State University in October and a concert at North Carolina State University in November. Last month, he also gave a free performance at Ferris State University in Michigan.

Prior to his first Lawnparties performance, Waka Flocka Flame also performed at Brown University in April 2015 and at the University of North Florida in Oct. 2016.

The 2023 Lawnparties show will take place on the Frist North Lawn on Sunday, April 30, the weekend after the last day of classes. The event will also feature student opener Ziff & Griff.

Prior to 2022, Lawnparties headliner concerts took place in the backyard of Quadrangle Club, but due to ongoing construction, the venue was changed to the Frist North Lawn last spring.

Attar wrote in a message to The Daily Princetonian that “the artist was selected through a collaborative process involving mainly USG and ODUS [the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students].” Fall 2022 Lawnparties were headlined by indie

rock band Hippo Campus and Spring 2022 Lawnparties by rapper Flo Milli.

Attar also told the ‘Prince’ that there will be new changes to the event this year, including “DJing at the [SPIA] fountain, a new banner for photos, TigerTale pins, the inclusion of a supporting act, food during the headlining performance, and more.”

Skeez, the supporting act, hails from Omaha, Neb., and according to his Spotify artist page, loves “sports (and sports gambling), sandals, and his homies.”

Student openers Griffin Maxwell Brooks ’23 and Adam Ziff ’23, collectively known by stage name Ziff & Griff, wrote in a message to the ‘Prince’ that they are “both very grateful for the opportunity and super excited to perform.”

“Our musical stylings range from disco and house to pop and hyperpop, and we’re ready to dish up a memorable set that feels fresh and exciting, especially for Princeton. We want people to come ready to dance and let loose, even if they don’t immediately recognize the music we play,” they added.

Tickets will be available for graduate students and students’ guests from April 17th until noon on April 28th.

The headliner’s management did not respond to a request for comment from the ‘Prince’ by the time of publication.

Nandini Krishnan is a staff

for the ‘Prince.’

Bridget O’Neill is an assistant News editor at the ‘Prince.’

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Students pose behind banners on Declaration Day.

Ziff and Griff: We are “both very grateful for the opportunity and super excited to perform.”

U.: “Impacted buildings [will be] notified [of construction] and asked to send messages to residents”

Giberson ’23 pleads not guilty to six violations of U.S. Code in connection to Capitol riot

By Eden Teshome & Julian Hartman-Sigall Senior

Contributor & Assistant

Editor

Larry Giberson ’23 pleaded not guilty in his arraignment hearing at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. Giberson, who called into the arraignment hearing from campus, was arrested on March 14 for his alleged involvement in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. He was indicted by a grand jury on six violations of the U.S. code on April 5. Giberson has previously confirmed to the FBI that he was the individual identified in the photographs of him at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

During the arraignment, Giberson was read the six violations of the U.S. Code that he has been indicted by grand jury for, including civil disorder, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, and impeding passage through the Capitol Grounds.

Assistant United States Attorney Stephen Rancourt represented the U.S. government in the trial. Attorney Charles Burnham represented Giberson. Judge Carl J. Nichols presided.

Updating Judge Nichols, Rancourt said that discovery, which involves the materials and evidence the prosecution plans to use in its case against the defendant, will be provided

Amid unionization uncertainty, Princeton Graduate Students United took on broader activism

to Burnham by next Wednesday at the latest.

Rancourt requested to schedule a status conference in 60 days. During these 60 days, the prosecution and the defense will attempt to negotiate a plea deal. At the status conference in June, they will decide whether or not they will proceed to trial.

Rancourt said at the hearing that he has been working on Giberson’s case since last fall.

According to the DOJ, images and videos from Jan. 6 show Giberson and a group of rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6 coordinating a “‘heave-ho’ pushing effort” in an attempt to weave their way into the Capitol. At the tunnel, one Capitol police officer was dragged into the crowd. The DOJ states Giberson started chanting “Drag them out!” and cheered as weapons and pepper spray were used on Capitol police officers in the tunnel.

Burnham declined to comment on Giberson’s plea of not guilty.

12 minutes after the hearing, Giberson was present in his ten-person seminar on religious existentialism at 1:30 p.m.

Eden Teshome is head Podcast editor and a senior News contributor for the ‘Prince.’

Julian Hartman-Sigall is an assistant News editor at the ‘Prince.’

By Bridget O’Neill & Francisco Arciniega Assistant News Editor & News Contributor

Over the last few weeks, Princeton Graduate Students United (PGSU) has been collecting signatures from students in the hopes of unionizing with United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. While eyes on the group have been high over the last semester, this is not the first time PGSU has pushed for unionization since its inception in Fall 2016. With court rulings first allowing unionization in 2016, then reversing that decision in 2019 and reinstating it in 2021, PGSU has looked beyond the goal of unionization. PGSU has taken positions on campus issues frequently in the past, which has elicited criticism at times. Especially since the pandemic, the union has focused on issues more specific to graduate students, but their broader activism continued. The Daily Princetonian looks back at PGSU’s history, mapping out its initiatives and controversies over the years.

PGSU’s inception

After the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) ruled in August 2016 that graduate students are considered employees and therefore have the right to unionize, graduate students at Princeton began meeting immediately to decide whether or not they wanted a union. On Oct. 18 of the same year, 162 University graduate students gathered in McCosh 62 and voted by a 77 percent margin for PGSU to seek affiliation with the American Federation of Teachers, a national union specializing in education, over another option, which sought recognition with the Service Employees International Union, a generalized union that currently represents service workers at the University.

From its early days, PGSU took positions on campus issues. In September 2017, PGSU criticized the University for stressing “diverse perspectives” when it came to “issues such as climate change, white nationalism, the rights of transgendered [sic] people and immigrants” as part of an open letter signed by mostly left-wing groups on campus. The open letter called on the University to instead “unequivocally condemn climate change denialism, white nationalism, gendered violence, and antiimmigrant hatred.”

In May 2019, PGSU backed undergraduate students protesting the University’s “negligent” response to Title IX allegations writing in the ‘Prince’ that the University “is not a tax-advantaged hedge fund with a side business in issuing diplomas and greening its lawns. It serves at the pleasure of its human base of students, teachers, researchers, or workers. The needs of this constituency are its only imperatives.”

PGSU’s stances elicited some controversy. Brandon Hunter, who was a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology when PGSU formed in 2016, said that the PGSU took stances that failed to accurately represent individuals in the organization. Hunter cited this as a foundational problem, saying, “The labor movement can only succeed if it is as inclusive as possible.” However, Hunter added that he thinks the organization has improved on being more graduate student-oriented over time, telling the ‘Prince,’ “I think maybe one of the things that the organization has learned is maybe to focus on more graduate student-oriented issues.”

In 2017, Hunter published an op-ed in the ‘Prince’ detailing his disdain for the structural issues of the organization, saying he was removed after receiving comments that he had created an “unsafe organizing space.” Hunter claims he was never given an opportunity to confront his accuser or tell his side of the story, as there was no established process for this within the organization. Hunter told the ‘Prince’ that he believes this lack of structure is antithetical to what a union should be, saying a union should have “due process … and do its best to preserve harmony in the workplace rather than just firing people willy-nilly.” When asked about Hunter’s experience, PGSU organizers Elisa Purschke and Harry Fetsch said that although they were not yet at Princeton in 2017, they are looking to fix systemic issues like this, once they are recognized as an official union.

Unionization setback and refocus on COVID-19

In September 2019, the NLRB reversed its 2016 decision, ruling that students who work for compensation are not employees, meaning attempts at unionization would have to pause.

In 2020, PGSU’s focus shifted sharply to advocate for graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, PGSU created an online petition that received 352 student signatures asking for University aid for COVID-19 related issues, including continued pay, healthcare coverage, and transportation costs.

The petition was updated a month later to say that “some of these demands have been met.”

In April 2020, PGSU circulated a petition calling on the University to “STOP THE CLOCK” and lengthen all graduate student fellowships, benefits, enrollment statuses, time-to-degree deadlines, and international student support — such as I-20 and DS2019 forms — by a year, as many students faced research delays and hiring freezes due to COVID-19. The petition received nearly 800

signatures.

In July 2021, as campus restrictions were lifted, members of PGSU sent an open letter to several administrators, voicing their concerns over the University’s decision to stop offering telehealth and teletherapy to students on the Student Health Plan. They stated that the pandemic was “not yet over” and this decision would have “real financial and medical consequences for graduate workers.”

PGSU joined with the Disability Collective (DisCo) in January 2022, becoming a prominent supporter of remote options as COVID-19 surged again. PGSU cited the impact on vulnerable students and staff during the spring semester of 2022, teaming up with DisCo to create a petition which garnered over 363 signatures the day it was posted.

PGSU’s activism on other topics also did not stop entirely. In 2021, PGSU launched a campaign alongside Princeton Students for Title IX Reform to raise awareness about the sexual misconduct accusations against former classics professor Joshua Katz.

Recent organizing

In March 2021, the NLRB reversed its 2019 decision, once again allowing graduate students who are paid to teach or research to form unions. In an interview with the ‘Prince,’ Purschke and Fetsch said this was the beginning of a new era for the organization.

“The general conditions for labor organizing in higher education changed, and there was, again, a prospect for us to actually file for an election,” Purschke told the ‘Prince.’

“Now we have a card campaign where we have a really well-defined goal. We’re going to hold an election and we’re going to form a union,” Purschke continued.

“One thing that we’ll do once we’re recognized on campus is that we’ll come up with a Constitution draft bylaws that we will democratically vote on. The larger this organization gets and the farther we get through our campaign,” Fetsch said, “the more we’re going to have chances to formalize our procedures.”

According to the organizers, the sheer size of the movement is giving them confidence that the issues they stand under will be seen through, despite these doubts.

“I think it’s a pretty exciting moment where we have a majority of support for the organization so we want to make it happen. We’re trying to get to a really strong super majority, so we can go to the bargaining table with a compelling majority,” Purschke said.

Bridget O’Neill is an assistant News editor at the ‘Prince.’

Francisco Arciniega is a News contributor for the ‘Prince.’

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Professor Eddie Glaude GS ’97 to step down as AAS department chair in time of departmental transition

he said.

Glaude said.

Professor Eddie Glaude GS ’97 will step down as chair of the Department of African American Studies (AAS). He has held the role since AAS was converted from a certificate program to a department in the summer of 2015.

“It’s just time,” Glaude said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. “It’s time for a new leader, younger energy.”

Glaude’s announcement comes at a time of change in the AAS department. Next year, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who was a professor of AAS at Princeton for seven years before taking a position at Northwestern University in 2022, will be returning to the department. Additionally, Professor Imani Perry will be joining faculty in Harvard University’s African American Studies Department. Perry and Taylor did not respond to requests for an interview.

Glaude, Perry, and Taylor are three of the most prominent professors affiliated with the AAS department. Taylor got a Macarthur “Genius” Grant in 2021, and Perry is a columnist for The Atlantic.

Glaude will remain at the University and shared plans to return “full time” to research and carry out other responsibilities, including “trying to help the nation imagine itself differently when it comes to race matters,”

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Glaude’s replacement as department chair has yet to be determined and will be selected by the Dean of the Faculty, Gene Jarrett ’97.

In recent years, Glaude’s classes have included AAS 230: The Fire This Time — Reading James Baldwin, which focuses on James Baldwin, and AAS 201: African American Studies and the Philosophy of Race. He has also overseen the independent work of several AAS majors.

Kiara Gilbert ’21 spoke to her experience with the department under Glaude’s leadership. Gilbert had Glaude as her junior paper and senior thesis advisor.

“As a student, as a scholar, as a Black student, as an FLI [first-generation, low-income] student, it was everything that I needed for it to be,” she said. “I know that AAS is going to be going on to … continuously better and bigger things.”

Glaude has also been present for a number of crucial moments for AAS at the University. He received a Ph.D. in religion from the University and joined the faculty in 2002 in the Department of Religion.

At the time, AAS at Princeton looked very different. The program was established in 1969 as a certificate program. In the 1980s, however, the program made several high-profile appointments, including John Jemmott, Toni Morrison, Cornel West, and Nell Painter, all of whom helped shape the program.

“It was just an extraordinary time,”

However, as a certificate program instead of a department, AAS did not have the authority to hire its own faculty.

“You had to go to other departments and try to convince them to hire folks,” said Glaude. “We didn’t have the ability to reconstitute ourselves in a way that reflected the complexity, the intellectual gravity of the field.”

The program eventually began to advance administratively in 2006, when it became the Center for African American Studies, a move that allowed it to double the size of its faculty. Glaude was named chair in 2009.

In 2015, the Board of Trustees voted

to make AAS a University department, allowing it to become a concentration (now referred to as a major). This move came relatively late compared to some of the University’s peer institutions: Harvard’s first class of AAS concentrators graduated in 1972, and AAS became a department at Yale in 2000.

The University’s first class of AAS concentrators, composed of 10 students, graduated in 2018. From this class through 2020, a total 22 students have graduated with a concentration in African American Studies. This is in addition to the 1,121 students who have received certificates in AAS from 1972–2020.

Currently, the department is home

to six full-time professors and eight jointly-appointed faculty members. In addition, according to Glaude, “all except one,” have received tenure.

Glaude expressed hope for an expansion of the department’s faculty in years to come. He highlighted Caribbean studies, performance studies, and environmental policy as potential areas for growth.

Miriam Waldvogel is an assistant News editor for the ‘Prince.’

Luis Guaman is a News contributor for the ‘Prince.’

Kelly Kim is a News contributor for the ‘Prince.’

In quick transition, U. to phase out certificates for minors within two years

By Nandini Krishnan Staff News Writer

In April 2022, the faculty approved a proposal to change the University’s longstanding terminology of “concentrations” to “majors” and to create a new “minors” program. With the first class of students

who can earn minors about to enter their junior year, the Office of the Dean of College (ODOC) and Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Academics Committee released a new list of nine minors in an email on Friday, April 14.

As part of Princeton’s transition from certificates to minors, mem-

bers of the Class of 2025 and onward will be able to enroll in minors.

According to administrators, minors are set to replace certificates entirely within two years. The speed of the conversion to minors is a new development, as the University previously implied that students would be able to earn a com-

bination of minors and certificates for “several years.”

Administrators said that the benefits to students of the minor program include that minors don’t have to be interdisciplinary, leading to more minors, and that the nomenclature may be better understood off campus. Students will face a cap of two minors, as opposed to the previously unlimited number of certificates. Minors, like certificates, will continue to appear on transcripts after students graduate, but will have greater restrictions on double-counting courses for a student’s major and a minor.

The currently approved list of minors includes History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Values and Public Life; Materials Science and Engineering; East Asian Studies; East Asian Studies: Chinese Language, Korean Language, or Japanese Language; Classics; Quantitative Economics; English; and History. Four of the nine currently approved minors are based on previously established certificate programs, whereas five are newly established minors.

There are also eight potential minors currently under review by faculty and 19 currently under review by The Committee on the Course of Study (COCS). The full list of minors under review was included in the April 14 email.

The list of approved minors will likely increase after the COCS meetings on April 19 and a faculty vote on May 15. Updates will be disseminated through USG communications.

The existing certificate program is set to be phased out within two years, and any class that matriculates while certificates exist will still be eligible to choose a minor or certificate. The Academics Committee also plans to create an advising website before next semester that will have resources available for students to navigate the transition and the new program.

In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Associate Dean of the College Rebekah Peeples said, “I think one of the biggest benefits to students is that departments can now offer a minor.” Certificates, she noted, needed to be interdisciplinary, “which meant that a student who took five courses in English and really wanted to have that represented as a coherent body of coursework on their transcript wasn’t able to do so.”

Associate Dean for Academic

Advising Cecily Swanson said that she hopes that “students themselves will find a greater sense of community when they participate in a minor” given the “more defined parameters” and structure to minors.

She added, “The shift in nomenclature, from certificate and concentration to minor and major, I think will be enormously helpful to students as they take their degrees out into the world.”

Academics Committee member Vivian Bui ’26 wrote in a statement to the ‘Prince’ that “the minors initiative is a necessary transition in order to reward Princeton students’ hard work in a way that aligns with the majority of colleges across the nation.”

Guidelines for the minors rollout state that students may complete up to two minors, while students are currently eligible to pursue as many certificates as possible. Swanson said that the “guidelines are based on what’s happening in the real world with students.” She wrote, in an email to the ‘Prince,’ that, for the Class of 2022, 40 percent of students did not earn a certificate at all. “Among those who did earn a certificate, the vast majority earned only one. Very few students earned more than two,” she said.

Peeples stated that these guidelines would also help “dial back the social pressure around potentially pursuing multiple certificates.” Swanson also encouraged students with concerns to reach out to their deans during this transitional period.

“The inclusion of minors into our curriculum is another step into our desire to adapt to students’ academic needs,” wrote USG Academics Chair Srista Tripathi ’25 in an email to the ‘Prince.’

She added, “The Academics Committee truly wants to allow students to engage in the type of learning that suits them best, and this transition represents our commitment to allowing student voices to be included. Going forward, the hope is that students will be able to take advantage of these new opportunities in new, distinct paths of study.”

Nandini Krishnan is a staff News writer for the ‘Prince’ who usually covers the USG.

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Princeton is the winningest team in modern Ivy League history. Here are the numbers.

By Andrew Bosworth Data Contributor

This March, the Princeton men’s and women’s basketball teams both secured the Ivy League titles. This is the fourth time in program history that both teams have won in the same year.

Princeton’s basketball dominance in the Ivy League this year is not an outlier. The Daily Princetonian analyzed over 1,400 Ivy League championships over the past 50 years, beginning in 1974, when the Ivy League began hosting championships for women’s sports. Women began competing in several sports after Yale and Princeton began admitting women in 1969 with the other Ivy League schools following over the next decade.

There have been 156 ties for titles in the past 50 years, when the champion is based on a team’s record and not a tournament, such as in football. Of these, there have been 30 threeway ties and four four-way ties. Each counts as a full title.

Our analysis didn’t account for non-Ivy League sponsored sports such as women’s lightweight rowing, men’s volleyball, women’s water polo, and men’s water polo.

Princeton has won the most Ivy League championships since 1974. Dartmouth and Brown are the only schools with more women’s titles than men’s. Despite having the second-fewest total titles, Brown ranks fourth for women’s titles, after Princeton, Harvard, and Penn. Columbia has the highest ratio of men’s to women’s titles at 3.2:1, while Brown has the smallest, at 0.6 men’s titles per women’s title.

Cornell University’s ranking changed most dramatically in the League between 2000 and 2023. Cornell began the 2000–2001 academic year with 73 Ivy League titles since 1974, the seventh most in the league. They currently hold 182 titles, the fourth most in the league.

Princeton and Harvard are consistently at the top of the cumulative counts each year, with Princeton remaining ahead of Harvard every year following the second year of this analysis. Princeton currently leads

the Ivy League with 27% of the total titles. Brown, with 6.8% of total titles, and Columbia, with 6% of total titles, currently trail the League.

Princeton is the only school to have won titles in all 21 sports, as well as the only school to have won a championship in all 17 men’s sports and all 16 women’s sports.

Men’s swimming and diving has seen the least diversity of championship winners, with Harvard winning 48.2% of titles and Princeton winning 44.6% of titles. Yale, Cornell, and Columbia have taken the remaining 7.2% of titles, with Columbia winning the most of these schools with 3.6% of titles.

Among the 33 men’s and women’s sports, Princeton holds the most or second most titles, with 10/17 men’s sports and 14/16 women’s sports. The only women’s sports in which Princeton trails are soccer, with 19.6% of titles, behind Brown’s 29.4% and Harvard’s 25.5% and ice hockey, with 16% to Harvard’s 24% and Cornell’s 30% of titles.

For combined men’s and women’s sports titles, Columbia has yet to win a title in nine sports, Brown and Dartmouth in five sports, Penn in two, and Harvard and Yale in one.

Harvard’s best sport is women’s squash, winning 64.1% of Ivy League titles and Cornell’s best performing sport is men’s wrestling with 60.8% of titles. Princeton does best in women’s field hockey, winning 51.0% of titles and Columbia’s best sport is men’s fencing, securing 38.5% of League championships. Penn’s best sport is men’s basketball and Dartmouth’s is men’s cross-country. The best performing sport for Yale is women’s golf and Brown’s is women’s soccer.

The next championship will be for men’s and women’s golf, taking place April 21–23, followed by men’s and women’s lacrosse tournaments on May 5 and May 7. Princeton leads the League in men’s golf titles since 1974; Harvard leads in women’s golf titles. Cornell currently has the most men’s lacrosse titles in the past 50 years and Princeton leads in women’s titles.

Andrew Bosworth is a Data contributor for the ‘Prince’.

Poll: Masheke holds healthy lead as race for Young Alumni Trustee enters final stretch

By Ryan Konarska Assistant Data Editor

Nine days before voting begins, Mutemwa Masheke ’23 leads his competitors Mayu Takeuchi ’23 and Caroline Kirby ’23 in the race for Young Alumni Trustee according to a The Daily Princetonian poll. The poll was open from April 16 to April 21 with a response rate of 11.6 percent. Over the past three years, turnout for the election have been 19 percent, 18 percent and 23.67 percent.

50.9 percent of poll respondents indicated support for Masheke, an 18-point lead over the second-place candidate, Takeuchi, who had 32.7 percent support. Kirby came in third place with 16.4 percent support.

Kirby had the highest level of name recognition in our poll, with over 84 percent of respondents saying they had heard of her. 73.6 percent had heard of Takeuchi, and 63.6 had heard of Masheke. Similarly, 12.7 percent of respondents characterized themselves as “Friends” or “Close Friends” with Kirby, higher than Masheke at 11.8 percent and Takeuchi at 7.3 percent. While more respondents had heard of Takeuchi than Masheke, more respondents marked Masheke as a friend or close friend.

Masheke’s advantage comes from large leads among Princeton students. Masheke led the poll in the Classes of 2024 and 2023, the two classes currently enrolled. Takeuchi received the most support among the Class of 2022. Voters from the Class of 2021 were tied between Masheke and Takeuchi. Takeuchi served as Undergraduate Student Government president

while members of the Class of 2022 were in their senior Spring, possibly explaining her higher support among this group. Kirby’s strongest class was the Class of 2022, where she obtained 25 percent support.

Takeuchi’s advantage among recently graduated alums only takes her so far, however, given that 75.4 percent of respondents are currently enrolled students. There was also a significant gender gap among respondents, with nearly twice the number of female respondents than male respondents.

Masheke won both maleand female-identifying voters in our poll but by different margins. While Masheke held a 17-point lead over Takeuchi among female voters, he won male voters by less than six points over Takeuchi. Kirby performed more strongly among female voters, winning 18.8 percent of females versus 14.3 percent of males.

The ‘Prince’ also asked poll respondents whether they were part of an eating club, co-op, or were an independent or on the University dining plan. Masheke led in five out of the 11 eating clubs — Cap and Gown, Charter, Ivy, Tiger Inn, and Tower — while Kirby led in two: Cannon Dial Elm and Cottage. The only eating club Takeuchi carried was Colonial Club. Three eating clubs were evenly split: Cloister Inn voters were tied between Kirby and Takeuchi, Quadrangle respondents between Takeuchi and Masheke, and Terrace voters between Kirby and Masheke.

Two co-ops, 2 Dickinson and Brown, saw tied levels of support between Masheke and Takeuchi, while Masheke won the International Food Co-op.

Masheke also won a slight majority of students on the dining hall meal plan and over 70 percent of independent students. Of the 41 students in our poll who were not part of an eating club, just one indicated support for Kirby.

Varsity student athletes are approximately 18 percent of the Princeton student body, representing a key constituency in a University-wide election. 15.4 percent of respondents were varsity athletes. Kirby performed strongly among this group, winning 47 percent. Masheke won about 41 percent of the athletes in our poll, while Takeuchi won less than 12 percent. Kirby’s support among athletes may explain her support in Cannon and Cottage, two clubs that are known for their large presence of varsity athletes.

Another key group on campus is international students, about 12 percent of the student body, roughly matched by 13.6 percent of respondents. Masheke dominated among this group, winning 80 percent

of international students in the poll. Takeuchi won 13 percent of international students, while Kirby obtained less than seven percent support among this group. Masheke is the only international student in the runoff election and has highlighted his advocacy for international students in his profile.

Finally, the ‘Prince’ asked potential voters how committed they are toward their preferred candidates. Masheke had the most solid support, with 87.5 percent of his voters saying they are not at all likely or unlikely to change their vote. This statistic was 72.2 percent for Kirby and 61.1 percent for Takeuchi. Overall, voters were very certain in their preferences, with less than five percent saying their vote was likely or very likely to change before voting.

The Classes of 2021 through 2024 are eligible to vote in the runoff election, which will take place from April 25 to May 17. The winner will be announced at the Alumni Coun-

cil Meeting on Friday, May 26.

Methodology

The ‘Prince’ conducted its Young Alumni Trustee poll by selecting a cluster sample of members of the Classes of 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. The clusters were based on the top five most common last initials of Princeton students. The alphabetical first half of students with these last initials were selected. In total, the poll was emailed to 948 students and alumni, resulting in a response rate of 11.6 percent. The sample used is not a perfect representation of the eligible voting population for this election as the Classes of 2023 and 2024 and women are overrepresented. However, the ‘Prince’ decided not to weigh this poll, believing this composition is indicative of the levels of turnout among groups in the runoff election.

Ryan Konarska is an assistant Data editor for the ‘Prince.’

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‘Who does Maria Ressa think she is?’: Students react to pre-read announcement

By Liana Slomka, Spencer Bauman & Sophia Varughese Head Humor Editors & Associate Humor Editor

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional.

President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 recently announced his choice of pre-read for the Class of 2027: “How to Stand Up to a Dictator,” Maria Ressa ’86’s autobiography. Ressa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her work investigat-

ing human rights abuses and authoritarianism in the Philippines.

Current students had immediately strong opinions about the announcement of the book they had never read and were never going to be forced to. The Daily PrintsAnything asked students for their reactions to this announcement.

“What gives her the right to tell me how to stand up to a dictator? I stand up to my dad when he’s being a d*ck all the time,” said Mikaeleigh McCosh

’26. “She co-founded Rappler?

Well, I write a lifestyle blog about the barbaric politics of Brooklyn private high schools. Who the f*ck does she think she is?”

Mathey College RCA Zeke Roupe ’24 said, “I’m just a bit worried by the concept of welcoming in a group of firstyears to my hall who are not primed to be scared of the people they’re told are in charge. The undergraduate social system only works if the new kids are scared of us at first. I just

worry what might happen with a whole new class that doesn’t know their place.”

“I can’t believe they would make first-years read this nonsense,” said Ida Noe ’24. When asked to clarify what in Ressa’s autobiography was nonsense, she said, “Oh, that’s what the book is? I guess that’s fine. I didn’t watch the video they posted.”

Abe Liszt ’24 added their dissatisfaction, pointing out the inherent ableism of Ressa’s work. They added, “What about the students who can’t stand up? They should be able to confront dictatorship as well, shouldn’t they?”

Liszt also admitted they hadn’t watched the video.

Jordana Salami ’26 said, “How will this new class be able to adjust to life at Princeton if they don’t know how frequently the river changes? What if they think it never does?”

Liana Slomka is a co-head Humor editor, and a senior whose pre-read was the only book she read in college.

Spencer Bauman is also a co-head Humor editor, and a sophomore whose pre-read was the only book he read ever.

Sophia Varughese is an associate Humor editor, who’s never read a book. She plans to concentrate in English.

Princeton student makes it big on the Hill

By Liana Slomka Head Humor Editor

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional.

Although it has been uncommon in recent years for Princeton students to go into public service following graduation, it was recently announced that one current Princeton student has already made his voice heard within the walls of Congress.

Joining the ranks of two alumni currently serving in the Senate and six in the House of Representatives, the student made a name for himself and for the University by expressing his desire to take the duties of the legislative branch into his own hands in January 2021.

University spokesperson Paul Ittiks said, “We are thrilled to see a member of our community speaking up for his beliefs, and even more excited to see a Princeton undergrad who truly believes his voice matters and that he is working in the nation’s service.”

“It’s refreshing to see that someone who has gone through a Princeton education still thinks he can make a difference,” School of Public and International Affairs professor Dee Sillusioned said. “With so many graduates opting for careers in finance and academia, this is a nice reminder that

some people still care about the workings of our nation’s government.”

Inspired by the student’s leadership, pushing of boundaries, and passion for change, Princeton Internships in Civic Service (PICS) announced they

will begin connecting students with opportunities in public speaking and riot coordination.

PICS Director Kommu Nity said, “We’re doing this because we want to, and because we thought hard about it. Not because we feel like we have to. We

don’t give in to mob mentality.”

Liana Slomka is a head Humor editor and a senior studying ecology and evolutionary biology. She’s looking for a job and feels her resume is lacking, but at least she’s never been indicted by a grand jury.

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Maria Ressa ’86 visited The Daily Princetonian’s newsroom in 2019.

the state. More crucially, it also changes the enforcement of campaign finance violations, overhauling the Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC), New Jersey’s chief electoral regulatory and compliance body. Under the new law, the statute of limitations for campaign finance violations drops from 10 years to just two years, a drastically shorter time period for state investigators to bring a case against suspected violators than most other states. This brief time frame allows campaign finance violators to walk away free because it often takes investigators more than two years to uncover violations.

And it’s not just the contents of the new law that are a problem. Its most controversial provisions were negotiated as amendments behind

campaign finance laws

closed doors, lacking public transparency, and its complete contents weren’t publicized until after the governor signed it. And it gets worse: it just so happens that this new law helps Governor Murphy out of three complaints filed with the ELEC earlier this year against Democratic Party-affiliated groups in New Jersey. These groups have connections to the governor and his political allies, but with the passage of this new law, the three accusations fall outside the new statute of limitations. With the stroke of his pen, Governor Murphy ended these investigations.

Furthermore, the socalled “Elections Transparency Act” removes the requirement for the governor to seek approval from the New Jersey Senate when appointing members of the ELEC’s board, making the board a new inside game. After the bill passed, the three ELEC commissioners resigned

in protest, giving the governor a blank canvas to appoint his own investigators. With the passage of this new law, Governor Murphy removed current allegations against him and now possesses the power to handpick the people charged with investigating him. How is this accountability?

The new law is detrimental because it permits politicians to act without accountability. As we work towards becoming a more equitable nation, campaign finance regulation ensures that political power is more evenly distributed rather than held by a few who can afford to sway those in government. But beyond the broad, moral claims against the law, it also causes specific and practical harm to residents of New Jersey, including Princeton students. Trenton influences many aspects of our lives at Princeton, from environmental regulations to public safety policies. One

example of the state government’s influence on student life is the Princeton Branch of NJTransit, the Dinky. As reported in the ‘Prince,’ NJTransit is about to embark on a multiyear process of redeveloping the Dinky. As a state-owned public corporation, NJTransit is ultimately accountable to Governor Murphy. Removing the restrictions on pay-to-play means that if a contractor donates enough to the Murphy campaign, the scales could be flipped in their favor when evaluating bids on the Dinky rehabilitation contract.

Considering that the Dinky project might be worth tens of millions of dollars, the lack of pay-to-play regulations incentivizes companies to influence their chances of securing this project through campaign donations, removing the need to deliver a successful and effective Dinky rehabilitation and thus hampering the quality of transit afforded to Princ-

eton students. This bill moves New Jersey in the wrong direction. Strong campaign finance laws ensure strong government and effective policy; this new law incentivizes worse government work. We should hold Governor Murphy, as governor of New Jersey, as well an exofficio member of Princeton’s Board of Trustees, to a high standard of accountability. Princeton is watching Trenton officials, including Governor Murphy, change the laws to benefit their own goals over the interests of the state of New Jersey. With some claiming Governor Murphy has his sights on the White House, New Jerseyans and Princeton students deserve better from their elected officials.

Preston Ferraiuolo is a firstyear from Brooklyn, N.Y., intending to major in the School of Public and International Affairs. He can be reached at prestonf@princeton.edu

Room draw is unclear and its punishments too harsh

Last week brought warm weather and an explosion of flowers at Princeton. However, the hottest topic of conversation was not the seasonal shift. Instead, since mid-March, much of the student body’s attention was focused on room draw: the stressful and complex process where rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors pick their room for the upcoming year. Room draw is opaque, and the University has not provided enough reminders — nor adequate and accessible guidance about the process — especially about the group-selection aspect.

The room draw process seems intentionally nebulous. It lacks an easy, thorough explainer guide, leaving myriad unanswered questions for students, especially first-years going through the process for the first time. Is there an advantage to drawing with a

group? Are there drawbacks? Is a draw group’s time determined as a group or by the best draw time among its individual members? If one or more members of a group fail to accept a draw group’s invitation, does everyone else need to form a new group? Are draw times really random?

The University provides an online guide that unfortunately doesn’t satisfactorily answer any of these questions. For example, neither the “Apply as a Group” nor “Apply as an Individual” sections of the guide cover the possible advantages or drawbacks of either. Further, the “Post Room Draw” section of the guide is not clear on how students on the waitlist are assigned to their rooms. In fact, it appears incomplete, saying, “Sophomore wait listed students will be assigned to their Residential Colleges by (TBA).”

Another avenue for answering questions, the residential college room draw Q&A sessions are often

inconvenient to attend because of class and extracurricular commitments. There seems to be, then, no broadly communicated way to access necessary room draw information.

And not understanding the process comes with high penalties. For example, if one member of a draw group forgets to submit their application on time, every group member is then ineligible for regular room draw. Depending on the size of the group, this could put one to seven other people’s housing up in the air because of the innocent mistake of just one person. This is an easy mistake to make — no reminder emails were sent out by Housing at any time between the announcement that the regular room draw application had opened and the day it closed. Princeton Housing’s policy of invalidating every member of a draw group’s applications when one member fails to apply by the deadline feels like a disproportionate punishment for an understand-

able oversight.

Currently, individual residential colleges seem to be responsible for reminding their respective students about the draw deadline.

Mathey students received a second heads-up, for example, while Forbes residents did not. While most of us do our best to stay on top of our emails, it would not have been entirely impossible to miss that first email and subsequently, the deadline.

Princeton can do much better in sending reminders about deadlines and applications, including those for accessible housing and other accomodations. This is an easy fix that the University should implement when it comes to the general room draw.

But no amount of reminders can make someone fill out a form, and no draw group can force one of its members to do it either. As adults, we should be held responsible for our own behavior — not the behavior of those in our draw group.

People who have abided by the rules of room draw and

turned forms in on time should not be left up the creek without a paddle because someone else made an individual oversight. It should not be on the draw group to bear the consequences of one person’s honest mistake and it is disappointing that the rest of the group is left floundering, not knowing if they will be able to live with their preferred roommates at all.

After the normal room draw period, the process becomes even more opaque: anyone who missed the deadline — and every one of their group members who may have submitted on time – is left to apply for the waitlist, which involves being randomly assigned to one of the rooms left over after everyone has picked theirs during the standard draw time. But it is unclear who makes these assignments: maybe Housing, or a student’s Dean of Student Life (DSL)? I met with both a representative from Housing and my own DSL for a personal room draw issue, and it was still unclear who was actually in charge of placing students in rooms off of the waiting list.

Housing should send more reminder emails, publish a more thorough set of answers to possible questions, and include the consequences of failing to apply on time. Princeton should also change the way they punish groups that do miss the deadline to avoid distressing situations like the one many students have found themselves in this year. The consequence from the University ought to match the mistake — and one person’s lapse of memory should not mean months of anxiety for an entire group of students.

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ensure strong government and effective policy; this new law incentivizes worse government work.”

Contributing Columnist Anna Ferris is a freshman from Pittsburgh, Pa. who intends to concentrate in English. She can be reached at annaferris@princeton.edu.

Anna Ferris

Contributing Columnist

Reactions: What’s your Princeton pre-read?

Each year, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 announces the annual pre-read, which incoming first-years read prior to matriculation. The pre-read is an introduction to Princeton’s intellectual environment and contains themes intended to provoke reflection and conversation among students. This year’s book for the Class of 2027 is Maria Ressa ’86’s “How to Stand Up to a Dictator.”

We asked our columnists about the books that they would assign for Princeton’s next pre-read.

Winners Take all: The eliTe Charade of Changing The World by AnAnd

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By Eleanor Clemans-Cope, Associate Opinion Editor

As a Princeton student, you’ve probably been told that your smarts, education, and ambition can help you make the world a better place. You often hear slogans like “Want to change the world? Start a business” and hear companies’ insistence that through consulting, you can improve lives. These are slogans that promise not only social impact, but also immense personal wealth in the field of consulting. But what if this work actually perpetuates and strengthens the systems of inequality and poverty that you hoped to change?

If you’re one of the many Princeton students considering a career in consulting, or if you’re just seeking to understand the motivations of the world’s most powerful organizations, “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World” is a mustread. Written by Anand Giridharadas, this book offers a searing critique of the role of elites and corporations in contemporary society. He exposes corporate social responsibility and billionaire philanthropy as a way for elites to “help out” while preserving their position and avoiding fundamental changes to the systems that made them so rich and others so poor.

As Giridharadas says, “This book is an attempt to understand the connection between… elites’ social concern and predation, between the extraordinary helping and the extraordinary hoarding, between the milking — and perhaps abetting — of an unjust status quo and the attempts by the milkers to repair a small part of it.”

Associate Opinion Editor Eleanor Clemans-Cope (she/her) is a first-year from Rockville, Md. She can be reached on Twitter at @eleanorjcc or by email at eleanor. cc@princeton.edu.

exCellenT sheep: The MiseduCaTion of The aMeriCan eliTe by WilliAm deresieWicz

“Excellent Sheep,” William Deresiewicz argues that elite schools like Princeton leave students rudderless, without the capacity to wrestle with big questions such as “What makes a meaningful life?” or to self-reflect well enough to break from the mindless pursuit of prestige. Elite schools overwhelmingly select for those able to function within the constricting demands of the college admissions rat race: students who score highly and neurotically fear failure. Princeton and the elite professional system use this fear to drive students towards pursuing traditionally prestigious careers such as consulting or banking.

As admitted students of the Class of 2027, you have, almost by definition, experienced little but success. You are thus conditioned to view striving for anything less than perfection as a waste of your considerable talent. The cost of falling short can seem like an existential threat. However, merely striving for perfection without considering what you’re striving for does not make a meaningful or especially worthwhile life. At its best, Princeton is an opportunity to step back from the world and consider how you want to make your mark. Before you arrive, think about what (besides a degree and a lucrative job offer) you hope to get from your four years here. Perhaps with reflection, we can avoid becoming merely excellent sheep.

Contributing Columnist Thomas Buckley can be reached at thomas.buckley@ princeton.edu.

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BaBel: an arCane hisTory by r.F.

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By Lucia Wetherill, Community Opinion Editor

While Princeton pre-reads are often non-fiction, I’d like to assign a work of fiction: R.F. Kuang’s “Babel: An Arcane History.” Set in 19th-century Oxford University’s Royal Institute of Translation (nicknamed “Babel”), the book explores the study of language and translation — more specifically, the British Empire’s ability to harness the magic of translation through enchanted silver bars, and the use of this magic to strengthen and expand the empire. Robin Swift is brought from China as a boy, trained in languages, and eventually enrolled at Babel. Quickly realizing his own role in furthering British colonialism, Robin struggles to navigate the politics and dangers of student rebellion, and faces the inevitable question: Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?

The book weaves themes of colonialism, complicity, privilege, and resistance into a stunning historical fantasy. As students of a powerful institution like Princeton, it’s worth asking: What systems of power and oppression do we — even unintentionally — contribute to?

Community Opinion Editor Lucia Wetherill is a sophomore from Newtown, PA. She can be reached at lw2158@princeton.edu.

The iMperaTive of inTegraTion by elizAbeth Anderson

tion measures, including affirmative action, are not enough to repair the extensive damage caused to racialized minorities and other disadvantaged groups. Anderson instead gives concrete examples of how racial integration can be achieved in our current society, and explains how this would “build a better democracy.” This book is a valuable read for any Princetonian, especially given the University’s status as a global institution. The book provides a valuable perspective into the role of social and racial integration in making intellectual pursuit more thorough, well-rounded, and based on the pursuit of fairness.

Emilly Santos is a sophomore from London, England. Emilly can be reached at emilly.santos@princeton.edu or on Instagram @emillllysantoss.

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Man by FrAncis FuKuyAmA

By Vincent Jiang, Contributing Columnist

welfare, and of upward mobility. It is easy, coming to an elite IvyLeague institution like Princeton, to overlook or disparage this region of America. I hope that reading this book will be an eye-opening experience for many as they encounter a section of America that is often dealt with negatively by mainstream media, to understand their perspective, and think critically about how their concerns could translate to effective policy making. Beyond Appalachia, however, this book prompts questions relevant to every conscious citizen. What are the successes and failures of our system of government? How important is family, religion, and culture in a child’s upbringing? What are the costs and benefits of upward mobility? How can we be more compassionate, charitable, and hopeful in a world that may often seem as if it is beyond repair?

Julianna Lee is a sophomore and prospective politics major from Demarest, N.J. She can be reached by email at yl34@ princeton.edu.

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By Alex Norbrook, Contributing Columnist

Don’t let the title of Malm’s book give you the wrong impression: I’m not suggesting that the Class of 2027 should grab pitchforks, torches, and dynamite and sprint toward the nearest oil pipeline. But the book’s provocative message questions our beliefs about advocacy in a valuable, if sometimes uncomfortable, way.

By Emilly Santos, Contributing Columnist

Given the growing polarization within American politics and contrasting opinions about racial inequality in the United States, social integration — the process by which separate societal groups become unified through various processes — is more important than ever. The diversification of workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, police forces, among other aspects of society, is imperative to the goal of approaching a more equitable and just reality. Measures that aid social integration in colleges and higher-education institutions, including but not limited to affirmative action measures, are being challenged, raising the question of whether diverse student bodies and institutional measures aimed at remedying historical inequalities are necessary.

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Thomas Buckley, Contributing Columnist

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If I could assign the Princeton preread, I would recommend C.S. Lewis’s “Out of the Silent Planet.” It is a science fiction novel that tells the story of Dr. Elwin Ransom, a philologist (someone who studies languages) who is kidnapped by two unscrupulous men and taken to Mars, also known as Malacandra. Once on Mars, Ransom discovers a world of intelligent, alien beings and must navigate their culture and society to try to prevent his captors from causing harm to Earth. The novel combines elements of science, theology, and philosophy, and raises important questions about humanity’s relationship to the natural world, the ethics of colonization and imperialism, and the nature of good and evil. By engaging with these themes, students can develop their moral reasoning and reflect on their own values and beliefs. This novel would encourage incoming Princeton students to think about what morality and moral obligation mean for them in the context of the university’s motto, “Princeton in the nation’s service and the service of humanity.”

Prince Takano is a junior from Los Angeles majoring in politics. He can be

Elizabeth Anderson’s “The Imperative of Integration” discusses the importance of social and racial integration in various realms of global society, focusing on the United States in discussions of specific examples. Anderson suggests that desegrega-

I would assign Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History and the Last Man” (1992) as the Princeton pre-read. His powerful argument that liberal democracy will remain as the world ideology for the foreseeable future, over any of its alternatives, has spurred endless debates since its publication and would surely provoke more lively intellectual discussion among incoming first-year students. Following China’s rise in relative power and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many were quick to declare that Fukuyama’s thesis was overturned, but the weaknesses exposed in those authoritarian states over the past year have only strengthened his argument. Conversations in the opening days of Princeton about the advance of democracy, civil and human rights, and freedoms of expression abroad would set the tone for the next four years and inspire students to better embody the University’s informal motto, “in the nation’s service and the service of humanity.”

Vincent Jiang is a sophomore from Long Valley, N.J. He can be reached by email at vincentjiang@princeton.edu and on Twitter at @vincent_vjiang.

hillBilly elegy by J.d. VAnce

By Julianna Lee, Columnist

I suggest “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance as the Princeton pre-read. “Hillbilly Elegy” is Vance’s memoir as he recounts the story of growing up in Appalachia in a dysfunctional household in a post-industrial city left behind by industry and the government. Vance beats a lot of odds to make it to Ohio State and to Yale Law School, and he is clear, compassionate, and brutally honest in his assessment of the history and culture of his region and of American society. The book explores themes including the meaning of family, the role of government and

Malm challenges the now-entrenched belief that nonviolent civil disobedience in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the only way to make change. He calls on the reader not to limit the horizon of protest to “climate pacifism” and nonviolence — in fact, he argues that nonviolent protest won’t bring about the drastic action required to prevent catastrophic climate change. Instead, he suggests we up the ante by considering strategies like sabotaging fossil fuel infrastructure and argues for this change of tactic by citing a long history of violent struggle for justice including the destruction of fossil fuel infrastructure in South Africa and Nigeria.

Malm’s argument ultimately falls short — as an organizing tactic, violence is risky and hard to control; it often fails and causes backlash that worsens the situation. But his book still provokes a much-needed conversation that breaks out of traditional discussions about protest tactics and opens up a space to rethink what we deem acceptable when fighting for change.

Contributing columnist Alex Norbrook (he/him) is a first-year from Baltimore, Md. He can be reached at alexnorbrook@ princeton.edu.

Rejection is common at Princeton – and that’s a good thing

Kelsey Ji Senior Columnist

At Princeton, we don’t only learn in the classroom, we also learn life skills — like how to deal with rejection. And that’s just as important as anything we learn in our courses.

Three years ago, when I was accepted to Princeton, I was met with congratulations everywhere. Almost everyone believed that once I had “Princeton University” on my resume, I would be set for life and my future would be rid of all obstacles. Due to these influences, I came to believe it as well.

That is until reality proved me wrong. For me, and many others, rejection is common at Princeton.

To an extent, one can document the Princeton experience as a timeline of rejections. See for yourselves whether this sounds familiar:

In your freshman year, you apply for several investing or debating clubs. A few of them invite you to a round or two of interviews, but

eventually, and unexpectedly, you’re either ghosted or rejected. But that’s alright, there’s still sophomore year, so you shake it off and try your luck come next fall. Yet again, you’re surprised by another round of rejections. This is not going so well, is it?

You also find that, career-oriented clubs aside, arts clubs like dance companies and a cappella groups are almost all audition-only. Soon enough, sophomore spring comes around the corner and reminds everyone that it is Bicker season. For many, it suffices to summarize the entire episode with one simple word: rejection, of course.

At this point, it may seem like anything you had shown interest in and thought you were qualified for has rejected you. You laugh it all off in front of your friends, but the defeat you feel with each rejection doesn’t make you stronger, you think. Instead, it has given you overbearing doubt about your abilities.

While you may have thought that this was just due to the competitive nature of Princeton’s clubs, the curse

of rejection latches onto you even as you apply for internships. The repetitive failure shatters your confidence again and again. Clicking the “submit” button on applications makes you wonder whether you are just inflicting more pain on yourself.

You imagine that spending so much time going through rounds of interviews might only result in a “Thank you very much for your interest in … ” email a week later. And it does.

And just like this, you get rejected by countless internship programs in your freshman, sophomore, and junior year to the point where it affects your mental and physical health.

Yet when you look around at your friend group, the people hanging out at your eating club, and the people in your classes, many seem to be breezing through life and handling everything with effortless perfection!

Perhaps different parts of this story ring true for different people, or perhaps you might be among the lucky few for whom these experiences sound utterly foreign. Most Princeton students come in as high achievers and little Einsteins from

their own high schools only to face rejections here in frequencies and at magnitudes probably unknown to them in their prior environments.

While there are resources like precepts, office hours, and the McGraw Center available to help students overcome the academic learning curve, there are few resources that are available to guide students through the learning curve of handling rejections, the feeling of not meeting others’ expectations, and the feeling of letting oneself down.

One method that can be implemented by the University to target handling rejections is to enroll students in a course similar to the “Junior Academic Integrity Course” or “ClassPath” that normalizes rejections and teaches students how to handle them and how to support each other. In fact, the mutual understanding that ought to be established among members of the Princeton community is that there is no shame in getting rejected because everyone will face rejection. Perhaps, those who have never been rejected simply do not challenge themselves

enough.

Princeton, or even student groups, could also help lessen stress about the job and graduate school search by setting up walls of rejections where students can print out and pin their rejection letters the same way some high schools set up walls of rejections for college applications. With or without names crossed out, the greater the number of rejection letters that get posted, the more the effortless perfection facade will crack.

Sometimes, I still look back on my own Princeton rejection stories with a sense of shame and dejection. But I also look forward to the day when I can look at each one of my rejections, view them as my badges of honor and rites of passage, and realize that I gave my best shot.

Kelsey Ji is a junior from Cambridge, Mass. majoring in Operations Research and Financial Engineering. She can be reached at xingej@princeton.edu.

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‘King of the Yees’: Using humor to embrace the Asian-American identity

By Russell Fan | Assistant Prospect Editor

A set of rose-red doors adorned with golden, circular door knockers stood at the center of the stage in Berlind Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center. Its imposing grandeur greeted and intrigued theatergoers at the Saturday show of “King of the Yees” by playwright Lauren Yee.

As it turns out, these doors were the entrance to the Yee Fung Toy Family Association, a Chinese-American men’s club headed by the titular figure Larry Yee. This establishment is the foreground for the story of an Asian-American family trying to reconcile cultural misunderstandings and generational differences. The show transversed a typical storyline of adventure, conflict, and epiphany by consistently interweaving in humor and references to relevant issues involving the Asian-American community.

The performance opened with a comedic bit between the characters, namely the protagonist Lauren Yee, her father Larry Yee, and the narrators, where their chaotic dynamic was infused with tropes of the struggle with the Chinese-American identity, a profound internal conflict for Lauren. As the child of first and secondgeneration Chinese immigrants, that underlying theme of the play’s introduction resonated with me.

What began as a comedy that instilled a light-hearted mood turned out to be very effective in captivating the audience’s attention with its meaningful emotional undertones. As the play transitioned into a more personal, melancholic scene that highlighted the tension in Lauren Yee and her father’s relationship, the audience was further drawn into the plot.

Act 1 came to a dramatic close when blue spotlights encircled the characters of anonymous newscasters, who read out the monologue of Larry Yee’s disappearance. With this news, the stage lighting shied into a soft, cerulean blue hue, quickly fading into darkness to signal intermission.

Processing everything I had just seen from the first half of the show, I was amazed

at how creative and exciting the stage design was. The fog seeping out of the red doors towards the conclusion of Act 1 was a nice touch to establish the mysterious circumstances in which Larry Yee’s character disappeared.

The use of the gong and drums made for powerful, dramatic sound effects, especially for scenes when the narrators and characters said the name of a secretive gangster known as “Shrimp Boy.” Every time this nickname was said out loud, a loud pound of the gong and a brief flash of the lights arose. Although this achieved the goal of establishing the fear and forbidden nature of referencing the gangster, the flashing lights felt a bit overwhelming and over-the-top, as they were constantly used throughout the play.

This one element which didn’t quite work for me was more than made up for by the lively, full-bodied voices of all the actors and actresses as they projected their lines. Their speech carried varied intonations, easily transitioning between smooth, sassy, and even gruff tones. This not only gave their characters an unpredictably intriguing aura, but also contributed to the strong sense of humor that remained a prevalent theme throughout the entire performance.

For Act 2, Lauren Yee discovers that she must go on a journey to find her missing father. She embarks on a magical expedition throughout Chinatown — where the boundary between reality and fantasy is blurred — to find the information and items she needs to rescue Larry Yee before it’s too late for him.

In this part of the play, magenta lighting was used for many scenes, especially those involving mystical characters like the Oracle, an elderly, prophetic trio who provides Lauren with much-needed information to save her father, and the long-bearded healer, who utilizes acupuncture and chiropractic to provide Lauren the ability to speak Chinese. It was interesting that the pink-purple lighting was utilized for these moments, as the gentle vibrancy of that color fittingly connoted the magical realism that was applied to various aspects of

Chinese culture in the play, such as the lion dance and Sichuan opera.

Even more clever was the creative playfulness of the production. Actors sat among the audience before coming onto stage, ran down the aisle during a transition scene, and appeared on different parts of the balcony above and behind the seats. This kept the audience immersed and engaged with the play, as they turned their heads in many different directions to keep up with everything.

Comedic components were continually incorporated in seemingly grave moments or monologues, making the scenes more enjoyable while portraying messages regarding the status of the Asian-American community — for instance, their portrayal in the media, stereotypes, visibility, and more.

When Lauren finally managed to gather all the things she needed to reconnect with Larry, her reunion with her father was heart-felt, as they both acknowledged a newfound understanding of each other. Though her journey to get there involved her developing an appreciation of her Chinese heritage, her reconciliation with her father allowed Lauren to truly embrace her identity as not only an Asian-American but a Yee as well, bridging the gap of generational differences, cultural rejection, and identity denial.

To symbolize the clarity and pride that Lauren gained from her Asian-American identity, the final scene consisted of the characters coming onto the stage with paper lanterns in hand. As the lights dimmed a second time, signaling the end of the play, a series of scarlet globes glowed across the stage with streams of warm-colored paper lanterns hanging in the backdrop.

The lanterns faintly illuminated Berlind Theatre just as they had illuminated the consciousness of identity for Lauren Yee, daughter of the King of the Yees.

Russell Fan is an assistant editor for The Prospect at the ‘Prince.’ He can be reached at rf4125@ princeton.edu, or on Instagram @russell__fan.

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Becoming a leader: Naval ROTC reflections, Part Two

By Lea Casano-Boris, Abigail McRea & William Suringa | Guest Contributors

This story is the continuation of a piece that ran in the April 14 issue.

Another commonality that unites many of us is the existence of a role model who embodies the traits which inspire us to become Naval officers. Below, Suringa and Casano-Boris talk about their, their families, and the people who inspired them to serve.

William Suringa’s story:

My NROTC journey began 10 years ago in my grandfather’s crammed, dusty study. While typing in his squeaky leather chair, he told stories about living on Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa. He described the SR-71 Blackbird taking off from the runway and shooting straight up, and talked about his missions intercepting North Vietnamese aircraft communications. Instead of paying attention, I fidgeted with the many aircraft models on his desk. But subconsciously, I absorbed his shared experiences and developed an appreciation for military life. In my senior year of high school, I realized this appreciation by applying to NROTC.

NROTC has provided a rigorous structure to my Princeton experience as a fourth-class (first-year) Midshipman. With ROTC in the mix, I spend more time organizing and planning my schedule — with training early tomorrow morning, do I need to nap after the chemistry lecture to be awake to do my problem set tonight? When am I going to shine my boots for uniform inspections tomorrow? Such questions swirl around the minds of all ROTC students, adding another layer of consideration to each of our day-to-day decisions.

While it may sound cliché, NROTC provides an excellent leadership opportunity. So far, I have found a culture of stepping up: “If I don’t do it, who will?” Students in NROTC step up to challenges and do not hesitate to take charge of their fellow students. When someone asks for volunteers, most of the Midshipmen in the Rutgers/Princeton NROTC Unit would volunteer themselves without hesitation.

Accountability is another facet of military culture that I have experienced so far. The military has a unique definition of accountability. For example, when a Midshipman “gets accountability,” this means that they not only ensure everyone is present and has the necessary gear, but also has been prepared for the event in the days prior. However, it also equates to truly taking responsibility for your peers. This culture exists in how NROTC students talk to each other; when one Midshipman makes a mistake, other Midshipmen — regardless of age or experience — have the responsibility to correct and help them. While this may seem harsh initially, it demonstrates that Midshipmen account for and support each other in matters both big and small.

While life as an NROTC Midshipman makes Princeton an even busier place, I am especially thankful for the friends the program has

helped me meet and for the support that these friends have given me.

Lea Casano-Boris’s story:

Honorable, dutiful, courageous, virtuous, selfless — these are words we all aspire to typify. In our youth, we are told stories of superheroes and protagonists who effortlessly personify these traits, but instructions for personally attaining them are much more ob

scure.

My grandfather, Peter J. Casano, is the first authentic precedent of military life I had in my family. At 18 years old, he enlisted in the United States Navy during the Korean conflict, and thereafter, he served as a Newark, N.J. Emergency Bureau Police Officer for 25 years. A reserved, humble man, he never shares his stories voluntarily, but once they start flowing, the entire room goes still. Not once have I seen him lose his temper, speak poorly about someone, eat before everyone is served, or leave a stone unturned. His chivalry is effortless and effervescent, a product of years of putting the needs of family, neighbors, friends, and community before himself.

Upon applying for college, my twin brother and I mutually decided we wanted to join the Navy — not only to learn how to fit the bill of the words I listed above, but to honor the legacy of a man who dedicated his life to serving. Celebrating his 90th birthday this month, my grandfather attends the gym relentlessly in hopes of preserving his health so he can be our first salute when we commission in 2025. He is my “why.” Happiness, sadness, fear, anger — these are all quotidian emotions, but motivation is much harder to come by. Having the opportunity to be a member of the Princeton/Rutgers NROTC Unit affords me motivation daily as I

embark on this journey alongside my brother, dedicated Midshipman friends, family, and supportive university.

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As a senior in the program, my story echoes those that my peers shared above. I have a role model in my dad, who served in the Royal Air Force, and in my grandfather, who landed in the first wave on Sword Beach during D-Day in 1944. Their stories made joining the military a natural option for me ever since I was young. As a naturally shy person set to join the Marine Corps on graduation day, the journey to get to this point has been difficult and at times painful. However, it has also shown me the most profound and caring mentorship, and taught me about challenge, acceptance of limits, and growth. Looking forward, it is unclear what life in the Marine Corps will bring, but participating in the NROTC program here at Princeton has helped me reach a point where I feel emotionally and mentally ready to adapt to whatever lies ahead.

Though NROTC is difficult, it is a defining part of our current career aspirations and, through early wakeups and extra military considerations, shapes our everyday lives in a way unlike any other extracurricular. We’re thankful to be part of the program and wait in anticipation for what the future will bring.

Abigail McRea ’23 is an Electrical Engineering major from San Diego, Calif.

Lea Casano-Boris ’25 is a Molecular Biology major from Chatham, N.J.

William Suringa ’26 is from McLean, Va. and plans on pursuing Molecular Biology at Princeton alongside Naval ROTC.

Ariadne Defends Her Theseus

By Sydney Peng | Head Cartoon Editor Emeritus

JON ORT / THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN ROTC cadets at morning training.

The Prospect 11 Weekly Event Roundup

By Regina Roberts, Assistant Prospect Editor

“Something Dead That Doesn’t Know It’s Dead”

Topaz Winters ‘23

Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St.

Weekdays, April 24 – May 5, 2023, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

In this art exhibit by visual arts senior Topaz Winters, analogue photographs explore the themes of femininity, mental illness, race, and the body. Following the story of a ghost, the photographs are described by the Lewis Center for the Arts website as an exploration of “what it means to be haunted and still search for wholeness.” This exhibition is unticketed and open to the public.

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Lola Bean Constantino ’23

Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St.

Weekdays, April 24 – May 5, 2023, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

This multimedia presentation that showcases both visual art and electronic surroundsound music features photographs by senior Lola Bean Constantino. The exhibit includes a mixture of vocals, original compositions, and dialogue fragments from films. This event is unticketed and open to the public.

“How to Write a Song: Concert of New Songs”

Students enrolled in “How to Write a Song”

Frist Theatre

“Tularosa: An American Dreamtime”

Kamara Thomas

Richardson Auditorium

April 25, 7:30 p.m.

Led by songwriter Kamara Thomas, a 2022–24 Princeton Arts Fellow, this multidisciplinary musical performance combines music, theater, ritual, and archetypal visual elements to explore American cultural identity through the mythology of the American West. Thomas’s work is site-specific and will interact with elements of Richardson Auditorium. This event is free and tickets can be found on University Ticketing.

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April 25th, 2023, 4:30 p.m. This performance is a result of students’ work throughout the spring semester as a part of the Princeton Atelier course “How to Write a Song” taught by Tony Award winning composer Stew and Bridget Kearney of Lake Street Dive. In the course, students formed songwriting teams and composed music inspired by various emotional themes. This concert is free and unticketed.

“UNTAPPED”

TapCats

Frist Theatre

April 20 to April 22, 8 p.m.

Princeton’s only tap dance company, TapCats, presents their spring performance: UNTAPPED. In this performance, they will be dancing to non-traditional tap dancing songs like musical theater pieces. Tickets can be purchased on University Ticketing.

“La Gran Cumbia Espectacular”

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Kaelani Burja ’23

Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts complex

April 21–22 and April 27–28, 8 p.m.

Cumbia is a Colombian rhythm, dance, and music genre with African and Indigenous roots that is an integral part of Latin American culture in many countries. This show introduces the audience to cumbia folklórica colombiana (traditional Colombian folk dance), cumbia wepa, and cumbia tejana. Audience members can learn to dance cumbia with the performers or simply enjoy the show from their seats. This event is free and unticketed.

“DRIFT”

diSiac Dance Company

Hamilton Murray Theater

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April 20, 8 p.m. and April 21 and April 22, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.

As stated on their website, diSiac is the “acclaimed contemporary and hip hop dance company.” Their spring performance, Drift, draws on the imagery of late night drives and fast moving cars. Tickets are available on University Tickets. Students may buy it for free via Passport to the Arts.

“To All the Babies I’ve Killed Before: A Love/Hate Letter to Storytelling”

Jenni Lawson ‘23

Donald G. Drapkin Studio, Lewis Arts complex April 21, 7:30 p.m. and April 22, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

This musical comedy performance explores the traditional theater-writing and making process through the lens of femininity, queerness, and neurodivergence. This musical asks questions surrounding the intersection of comedy, structure, and catharsis. This event is free and unticketed.

Screening of “Happening (L’événement)”

Princeton French Film Festival

McCosh Hall 10

April 23, 2023, 6:30 p.m.

The first edition of the Princeton French Film Festival presents the film award nominee “Happening,”or “L’événement” in French, in its original language with English subtitles. “Happening” follows the story of Anne, a student who unexpectedly finds out she is pregnant. After the screening, there will be a discussion and Q&A with Princeton graduate students Sophia Millman and Clément Génibrèdes. Tickets are free and can be reserved on EventBrite.

End of Semester Showings in Dance

Ellie’s Studio and Murphy Studio

Hearst Theater at Lewis Arts complex April 26 at 3 p.m., April 27 at 1 p.m., and May 1 at 3 p.m.

The showcase features dance performances and new choreography developed during spring semester dance courses. The April 26 performance features students in “Introduction to Hip-Hop Dance” and “Introduction to Breaking” with Lecturer in Dance Raphael Xavier. The April 27 performance features students in “Introduction to Contemporary Dance” with Davalois Fearon, a visiting lecturer in the department. The final performance, on May 1, will be led by Lecturer in Dance Dyane Harvey-Salaam. This event is free and unticketed.

Thinking from Black Part II — The Practicing Refusal Collective

Dionne Brand, Francoise Vergès, Canisia Lubrin, Christina Sharpe, and Tina Campt

CoLab, Lewis Arts complex

April 27, 7 p.m.

In this conversation, Dionne Brand, Francoise Vergès, Canisia Lubrin, Christina Sharpe, and Tina Campt will discuss their collective publication: “Think/ing from Black: A Lexicon”. The book explores the words, terms, and practices inherent in Black life, reflecting on the languages and experiences that center around freedom. The discussion and the book center around all of the Black Diaspora and the historical cultural aspects that influence and interact with modernity. This event is free and unticketed.

PSAFE aims to connect with students through ‘community caretaking canine’

By Sejal Goud Associate Features Editor

“I wanted to be a canine officer — your traditional go-on-patrol with a dog,” said Detective Sergeant Al Flanders, who leads Princeton Public Safety’s detective bureau. “I knew that that narrative wouldn’t fit Princeton — a PSAFE officer [having] a big, ferocious dog walking around. So I thought, how am I going to get a dog into my work?”

So began Flanders’ efforts to subvert the narrative of canine officers and integrate a service dog into PSAFE.

Flanders eventually formed a partnership to bring Coach, a Laborador Retriever raised by prisoners, to campus through an initiative that trains dogs for police departments to act as a bridge with the community. The initiative has reached multiple college campuses, where a community bridge may be helpful. According to a CivicScience poll, only 43 percent of Americans 18-24 were ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ likely to trust the police, the lowest of any age group. Thus far, Flanders has found success with Coach, noting the positive response on campus.

A partnership between Yale’s Public Safety and Puppies Behind Bars (PBB) in September 2020 inspired Flanders to propose that Princeton adopt a dog via a similar process. PBB supports incarcerated individuals who meet a selection criteria in prisons across New Jersey and New York to raise working dogs for individual handlers. The dogs these prisoners raised have come to Princeton, but also served in other roles including explosive detection.

Such a program, Flanders believed, could “break the ice [among] our community, students, faculty, [and] staff, with all the stuff that’s going on with the bad image of police.”

After three months of research, Flanders submitted a proposal for a “community caretaking canine” to his supervisors at the University, along with an application to PBB. With University approval and acceptance by PBB, Flanders attended a training camp in Westchester County, N.Y. in August 2021. While in New York, Flanders had his first interaction with the female prisoners raising the dogs.

“So I’m a police officer and here I am walking into an all-female prison. Completely out of [my] comfort zone. So I walk in and within the first 10 minutes, I kind of got the vibe these women [puppy raisers] will do anything for me. They really care so much about my ideas and plans on what I want to do with this dog.”

Over the next several days, participants in the camp spent time with multiple dogs on site, including spending time together during daytime exercises and overnight. Ultimately, Flanders found his match — Coach, a black Labrador Retriever with orange eyes.

“It was completely emotional,” Flanders reflected, speaking about his experience and the trainers’ who have been raising the puppies since 8 weeks of age.

“We’re going in there to take these dogs from [the raisers], but they under-

stood the need for that.”

Gilbert Molina III, runs the PBB program at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, where Coach and Flanders had their graduation. Molina said his experience as a puppy raiser between 2006 and 2010 while sentenced at the Otisville Correctional Facility gave him experience with the “emotional rollercoaster” that many of the people he trains face as the puppies leave the facilities.

“I don’t care what raiser it is. When you’re with that doggy for almost two years and raising him, you become attached. There’s no way around that,” Molina said. “If you’re a dog person, you’re going to love that dog, that dog is going to love you. And when the dog goes to graduate, it is hard. I don’t care, you could be a killer, and you will be watery-eye[d]. If not, you will cry in private.”

Just as Flanders observed, Molina explained that PBB puppy raisers soon overcome the initial sadness and that many are driven to raise new puppies because of their commitment to the organization’s goals.

According to PBB’s founder and president Gloria Gilbert Stoga, these organizational goals are constantly pivoting according to national needs. While PBB started by raising guide dogs for visually impaired individuals, the program transitioned to prepare explosives detection canines in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and would later train dogs to support the physical and emotional needs of military veterans and first responders.

“As America pulled out of conflicts [in Iraq and Afghanistan], George Floyd was murdered. The response, not only in Manhattan, but across cities around the country, was so much antagonism and hatred between communities and police. And I just said to myself, maybe there’s something we can do to help mitigate this mistrust that communities felt towards police and vice versa.”

Gilbert Stoga recognized a need to pivot once again, adding, “A Labrador Retriever could act as a bridge between police and the communities they serve. So I started focusing on [the idea of donating] dogs to police departments, and it was a huge uphill battle.”

PBB’s first police pairing took place in August 2019 with a department in Groton, Conn., and subsequent placements with NYPD helped build momentum for the program. Brown and Harvard have since joined Yale and Princeton in having PBB facility dogs support community relations with their police departments.

At Princeton, Coach’s debut was on move-in day for the Class of 2025. Flanders explained that despite the nerves and pressure he felt, positive feedback reaffirmed his choice to propose bringing Coach to campus.

Flanders remembered being so overwhelmed by a student who told him that he made her day. “[It was] probably one of the most exciting days of her life, leaving her family and venturing on to this cool thing,

Princeton University, and my dog made her day. Like how crazy is that?” he said.

Multiple students approached Flanders that day expressing the comfort Coach brought them, giving Flanders confidence that the new PSAFE partnership would work.

Gilbert Stoga shared her thoughts on the success of the partnership, saying, “I think that the presence of Coach does two things. One, it lowers the stress level in general. And two, it makes Princeton University [Public Safety] more accessible to people who otherwise maybe wouldn’t want to go up and talk to a cop.” She also emphasized the benefits of PBB dogs having been raised by inmates in high-stress environments.

Flanders echoed Gilbert Stoga’s assessment, noting that PSAFE is “big on community policing, community caretaking.” He noted that Coach “is probably the most popular person in our department by far,” adding that “mental health is key here. If my dog can change your thoughts for 10 minutes out of your busy day, that’s a win.”

Part of Coach’s appeal stems from the fact that her express purpose is to provide community support, rather than to perform other functions such as drug sniffing. So far, Flanders notes that he has not had any negative experiences with Coach.

“Before, I would be walking through campus and no one would say ‘hi’ to me, even if I was [in] full Public Safety uniform. Now when I walk with her, they want to stop, they want to engage in a conversation. It’s a start of a relationship with Public Safety.”

In addition to daily community walks and visit requests from groups like sports teams and zee groups, Coach provides comfort to students in crisis at the infirmary.

Flanders recalled a conversation with a campus doctor, in which the doctor told him that a girl changed her mind about leaving Princeton because Flanders and his dog came to visit her. “I was like, holy cow. It works,” Flanders remembered reacting.

Coach has also opened avenues for collaboration between PSAFE and other established campus organizations, noted Liz Erickson, who directs the Office of Disability Services and AccessAbility Center at Princeton. The AccessAbility Center has hosted therapy and seeing eye dog programming since it opened in 2017, with student fellows organizing these events during the periods leading up to midterms and final exams.

While Erickson says she was not aware of plans to bring Coach to campus until after the fact, she is a supporter of Flanders’ work.

“The Office of Disability Services has a connection with Public Safety for different reasons, but we really did not collaborate with Public Safety on any events at the Accessibility Center before Coach came to campus,” Erickson explained.

“[Having Coach] complements what we’re doing. It gives a different type of opportunity for students. We’re always happy to have different options for students to engage with animals. Part of the value is giving Officer Flanders and Coach the opportunity to meet with students in an

organized way and for them to understand that we have Coach on campus and why we have Coach on campus. It’s always a learning experience for students,” Erickson continued.

As a self-proclaimed dog-lover, Carrie Geisler ’25 has attended several study breaks with Coach, including at the AccessAbility Center. In the future, Geisler said she hopes to see opportunities for drop-in visiting hours with Coach.

“I think it’s really great. I think animals are really good for mental health to help you destress, calm down. [To] just take a few minutes and pet a really cute dog is always good for taking a break.”

Geisler said that she has not had many interactions with PSAFE and so could not comment on any changes as a result of Coach. Still, she noted, “I feel like [Coach is] very beloved by the campus community and everyone that knows of her. It’s always great when they have these [study breaks].”

Coach’s presence continues to expand, with 2,445 followers and counting on her Instagram account, run by Flanders’ 15-year-old daughter. In recent months, PSAFE has started giving out Coach merchandise, and both Coach and Flanders were announced as honorary members of the Class of 1962.

Regardless of future initiatives, including the possibility of having more dogs join the PSAFE team, Flanders shared that Coach has already exceeded his expectations. “She’s fulfilled everything that I could ever imagine.”

Sejal Goud is the associate Features editor for the ‘Prince.’

‘You’re not you when you’re hangry’: Michael Kim ’23 toys with FreeFood listserv

By Vitus Larrieu Guest Features Contributor

To a large extent, Princeton runs on email listservs. And sometimes, they can get a bit quirky.

Princeton FreeFood is an email listserv operated by USG to provide students around campus with real time updates on where free food, typically leftover from student or University events, is located. At 4,574 members, it is the sixth largest listserv operated on the University network. The free food listserv is a critical resource for students not on a meal plan, and an occasional delight for many others.

FreeFood is open to anyone with a University email address. Occasionally, the free food is the entertainment it provides.

On Aug. 25, 2022, Michael Kim ’23, a senior in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department (EEB) from Andover, Mass., made his first appearance on the FreeFood listserv. He was about to become an integral part of the FreeFood community. “Hi guy s I would like to be add to the free (no $$$) food list servev [sic],” Kim wrote. Since then, Kim has written to the listserv 63 times. Kim has become a fixture through his curious prose, mischievous photo attachments, and occasional defenses of the listserv’s integrity. He spoke with The Daily Princetonian on his thoughts on conditionally free food and trolling.

The free food listserv became an issue of campus concern recently after an officer of the dance group Más Flow, used the group to offer free Junbi boba. But it turned out there were strings attached. The Junbi was only free if readers bought a ticket to the upcoming Más Flow show. Five hours later, Kim responded,

asking posters not to post food that was not truly free.

“My heart is broken and my appetite is in shamblès,” Kim wrote with possibly ironic despair. In a followup, Kim articulated his full philosophy of free food. “I must protest that something conditionally free is not the same as being actually free,” he wrote. “If we were to accept conditionally free as being actually free, then all food would be free, on the condition that one steals the food instead of paying for it,” he continued.

Other members of the free food listserv disagreed. Diego Solorio ’24, who in his emails referred to himself as Dicky Duck, claimed to be the Artistic Director of the performance group Little Rascals. There is no evidence that there is any performance group on campus by that name. He claimed in an email to the listserv that food available with the purchase of tickets available on Passport to the Arts should be eligible to be promoted on the free food listserv. Passport to the Arts allows eligible undergraduate students to see two student performances for free per year.

The issue was not an isolated incident. The free food listserv has been sporadically used for student groups to advertise their events (or in one case, app), usually with, in Kim’s terms, conditionally free food attached.

Kim’s simple plea caught the ear of the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) President. Two weeks later, USG President Stephen Daniels ’24 clarified the listserv’s rules in an email. Daniels re-emphasized that spam was not allowed and that all food posted had to be actually, with “no strings attached to getting the food,” according to the email.

Solorio, along with another student who refers to himself by Rickey Rat, also claiming to be affiliated with the dubious Little Rascals group, wrote to the ‘Prince,’ “While we understand the need for clear guidelines and expectations for the FreeFood listserv, we believe that the USG should have made this decision more transparently and with input from FreeFood listserv members.”

Daniels said that the change in the guidelines “were a response to a significant amount of student feedback.”

Kim was ready with a rejoinder, noting that Daniels’s announcement did not advertise any free food.

Kim also speculated that by creating rules in the first place, Daniels was making all food conditionally free.

Of course, when it comes to sending emails that do not include actually free food, Kim is a prime offender. When crafting his emails, Kim notes that they are “more of a spontaneous bit of fun,” though it is “definitely become more than a one-off thing.”

He adds that there is “no broader mission” to his emails, but that he hopes his “emails bring some enjoyment to a campus culture that can sometimes be oppressively academically rigorous.”

Some posts mimic the style of typical posts in

the listserv, such as one where Kim posts a single grain of rice for the taking in “woodrow wilson no wait hobson dining hall,” a reference to the former name of the former First College’s namesake and the future presence of Hobson College’s dining hall in the same location.

Other posts deviate from the FreeFood format, such as a post where Kim wishes the listserv a Happy New Year and encourages FreeFood recipients to create “SMART Goals,” with “SMART” standing for “specific, measurable, achievable, ranch dressing, and time-based.” Kim’s prose often dips into the partially coherent, and the use of strange fonts and bold colors — reminiscent of a website from the ’90s — is an integral part of every Kim free food post.

Some other members of the free food listserv praised Kim’s contributions. Solorio and Rat wrote in an email to the ‘Prince’ that they “appreciate” Kim’s silly posts and affirm that “his emails provide a muchneeded light hearted and entertaining atmosphere for our hard working and often sleep deprived students and faculty.”

However, Kim is not without his detractors. Throughout many of his email chains, there are several students who have spoken out against his spam, including graduate student Zachary Dulberg who asked Kim to “kindly stfu” in November 2022 and Trang Ngo ’25 who wrote “stop, merry christmas!” in a December 2022 email, both in response to initial emails sent by Kim.

In response to criticism of his posts, Kim said, “You’re not you when you’re hangry.” Kim went on to apologize, saying, “for any nuisance my emails cause, and I acknowledge that the people who don’t enjoy my emails as much have been for the most part very patient with me.”

Vitus Larrieu is a guest features contributor and an assistant Podcast editor for the ‘Prince.’

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A photoshopped post by Michael Kim in the FreeFood listserv.

Lightning fast times at the Larry Ellis Invitational

By Zoë Scheske Sports Contributor

This weekend, the Princeton men’s and women’s track and field teams competed on home ground for the last time this season.

Despite thunderstorms on Saturday that cut multiple events short, the Tigers showcased some exciting results at Weaver Stadium as they near the Ivy League Championships.

“We would have seen many more impressive performances on Saturday if the meet had not been canceled,” head coach Michelle Eisenreich told The Daily Princetonian. “We are really looking forward to a great opportunity to compete at UVA this weekend.”

The Tigers thrived on the field, demonstrating notable depth in men’s pole vault — notably, senior vaulter Sondre Guttormsen beat his own meet record from 2022 to score the first place, achieving a height of 5.81 meters, followed by his brother, senior vaulter Simen Guttormsen in third and first-year vaulter Nick Molloy in fourth.

“5.81 is my best season opener ever which is very promising for the rest of the season, and I’m excited for the weeks and months leading up to the NCAA final in June,” Sondre Guttormsen told the ‘Prince.’

The Tigers also managed to top the rankings

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in long jump and shot put. In men’s long jump, sophomore jumper Philip Kastner took another win for the team with a distance of 6.91 meters. In shot put, first-year Casey Helm took first with a 17.55-meter shot, while first-year Joe Licata in third and sophomore Tyler Konopka in fourth.

On the women’s side, the team saw a win from sophomore Madeleine Wood, who high-jumped 1.77 meters, and an impressive allTiger podium in the triple jump, where first-year Georgina Scoot, senior Tia Rozario, and first-year Alexandra Kelly dominated, placing first, second, and third, respectively. This performance followed Kelly and Rozario’s second and third places in the long jump the previous day.

“The energy on the team is great,“ Eisenreich added. “They are confident and ready for some big marks the second half of the season.”

On the track, both the Princeton men and women won their respective 4x100m relay events. Standout individual performances included senior India Weir’s second-place finish in the women’s 3000m steeplechase with sophomore Lexi Allen placing fourth behind her and another second place for the team from junior Margaret Liebich in Friday’s 1500m. Senior Ari -

anna Smith had a thirdplace time of 14.12 seconds in round one of the 100m hurdles on Saturday before the events had to be put to a halt in the midst of the storm.

As for the men, in Friday’s 1500m event, the Princeton team had three athletes in the top six positions, with junior Duncan Miller placing closely third with a time of 3:41.22, just 1.8 seconds behind the winner who beat the meet record from 2015. Another strong performance in the same event on Saturday

had junior Sebastian Fisher in third, after an extremely competitive race that separated him from the winner by just 0.23 seconds. Saturday’s 110m hurdles started off with a promising first round that placed three athletes in the top five positions, with first-year Gregory Foster finishing in second after posting a time of 14.23. However, the finals did not take place due to the cancellations.

After a weekend of dramatic weather and encouraging performances, both teams now look onward to

the UVA Challenge meet in Charlottesville beginning Friday, April 21 as they prepare for the Ivy League Championships in just under three weeks.

Sondre Guttormsen added, “The mindset going into Ivy’s and the NCAA championships is to keep up the good work and improve week by week to hopefully break more records and win more titles.”

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Softball wins 2 of 3 against Cornell, ties Harvard for first place in the Ivy Conference

By Sarina Sheth Sports Contributor

This past weekend, Princeton softball (19–15 overall, 12–3 Ivy League) won two crucial games in a three-game series against Cornell (11–20, 4–8). After splitting a pair of games on Saturday afternoon, the Tigers won on Sunday, which was enough to tie the Harvard Crimson (21–12–1, 12–3) for first place in the Ivy League.

The Tigers traveled to Ithaca this past weekend with high stakes. Following their three-game sweep against Columbia (13–9, 8–7), the reigning Ivy League Champions were firmly in the race for another Ivy League title.

Princeton had an explosive offensive display in the opening game, putting up nine consecutive runs over the fourth and fifth innings. Senior catcher Adrienne Chang’s single brought in the Tigers’ first run in the fourth, followed up by another two runs from junior second baseman Cate Bade, who put the Tigers up 3–0 with her first career home run.

The Tigers continued building their offensive momentum in the fifth inning, scoring six runs on six hits and a walk to extend Princeton’s lead to 9–0.

The Cornell Big Red came out swinging in the bottom of the seventh in -

ning, with a major offensive rally, headlined by a three-run homerun that cut the Tiger’s lead to one. However, with the tying run on first base and the game-winning run at the plate, the Tigers were able to force a ground out and come away with the win.

Senior pitcher Alexis Laudenslager earned the victory on the mound, and sophomore pitcher Meghan Harrington pitched the final inning in relief.

Princeton’s narrow win in the first game was followed by yet another thriller later that afternoon. A bases-loaded double from Chang in the first inning allowed Princeton to take an early two-run lead. The game was far from onesided, as Princeton and Cornell exchanged spots for the lead throughout the game before entering the final inning with a 10–5 Big Red advantage.

Princeton threatened Cornell’s lead in the top of the seventh, recording four runs on two walks, two hits, and an error. Sophomore pinch hitter Lauren Pappert came up big for the Tigers with a two-out, two-run single that cut the deficit down to just one run. However, the Tigers ultimately came up short, and the Big Red closed out the game with a 10–9 win.

After splitting Saturday’s doubleheader, the Tigers dropped to second place, half a game behind

Harvard. Going into Sunday’s final game against the Big Red, Princeton sought to win the series and tie the Crimson for first place. Laudenslager shined on the mound during Sunday’s game, tying her career high with 13 strikeouts. She allowed just two earned runs on eight hits and two walks throughout all seven innings.

The Tigers’ offense supported Laudenslager with a great showing at the plate. Sophomore first baseman Sophia Marsalo led off the third inning with a double and sophomore outfielder Lauren Sablone drove her

in with a sacrifice fly to even the score at 1–1. Hits from senior outfielder Serena Starks and first-year infielder Julia Dumais allowed the Tigers to pick up two more runs to extend Princeton’s lead to 3–1.

Both Princeton and Cornell would each tack on two more runs in the fifth and sixth innings, but ultimately, the Tigers would come away with a 5–3 victory.

The Tigers will face the Harvard Crimson in a three-game series next weekend at home. This series is a crucial one for both teams, as the winner will take control of first

place in the Ivy League, along with the hosting duties for the Ivy League tournament.

“We’re really looking forward to playing Harvard this weekend,” Chang wrote to The Daily Princetonian. “All of the pieces are starting to come together, and our best game is still ahead of us. Harvard is always great competition, but we are excited for the opportunity to play them on our home field and make a statement in the league.”

Sarina Sheth is a Sports contributor for the ‘Prince.’

Scheske is a contributor to the Sports section at the ‘Prince.’

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The Tigers managed to win both of their respective 4x100 relay events on Saturday.

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Women’s lacrosse defeats Brown 20–16 amid weather delays

By Evelyn Walsh Staff Sports Writer

Women’s lacrosse (6–6 overall, 3–1 Ivy League) took the field on Saturday at noon to face the Brown Bears (5–7, 2–3), not knowing that a multi-day event was underway. After a few prolonged stoppages for severe lightning, the Tigers came out on top nearly a day later, defeating the Bears 20–16.

Brown was able to find their way through the Tigers’ defense within the first minute of play, but Princeton was eager to respond. Two minutes later, with Princeton up a player, senior attacker Kate Mulham took a decisive feed from junior midfielder Kari Buonanno and drove through the Brown defenders for her first goal of the game.

First-year attacker Jami MacDonald then shot a behindthe-back goal for the Tigers to give them the lead, 2–1. With the game’s momentum on their side, the Buonanno-Mulham duo found another chance to score, doubling the Princeton advantage.

But the Bears were not ready for the Tigers to pull away just yet and soon evened the game at three. Junior attacker Grace Tauckus then scored off of a free position before Brown responded with two more goals.

With three minutes left in the first quarter, sophomore attacker McKenzie Blake, an offensive powerhouse for the team this season, scored her first of the day with an assist from Mulham to tie the game 5–5. Brown then netted one more in the first quarter to give them a one-goal advantage

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heading into the second period.

The Tigers were able to outscore the Bears for the next two quarters by significant margins. First-year midfielder Abigail Roberts opened the second quarter for the Tigers after a tactical pass from senior attacker Meghan Curran. Blake followed up Roberts to take back the lead for Princeton, 7–6.

Brown could only get one past the Tigers before Princeton came back with four more, with the Tiger defense playing tightly. First-year goalkeeper Amelia Hughes had 11 saves for the day.

“I think the defense executed the game plan that our coaches created to the best of our abilities and backed each other up to make defensive stops,” Hughes

told The Daily Princetonian. Mulham scored two more, her third and fourth of the game, and Tauckus added one more to her tally. With a minute left in the quarter, first-year midfielder Haven Dora scored her first-ever collegiate goal after a free position to take the Tigers into the second half up 11–8.

After a two-hour weather delay, the Tigers returned to play, with momentum still completely in their hands. Princeton opened the second half with four straight goals.

Tauckus picked it back up for the Princeton offense, sending one in after an impressive pass from MacDonald. Not long after, Buonanno got her first goal

of the day after being a playmaker for the Tigers in the first half. After a big check by the Bears’ defense, Princeton was up a player and junior midfielder Samantha DeVito capitalized on her free position, scoring for the Tigers. A strong feed from Dora to Tauckus landed the Tigers’ fourth of the run.

With 8:41 left in the third quarter and Princeton up 15–8, both teams retreated to the locker room for a rain delay and did not return to the field until Sunday at noon. Coaching from the Brown team over the delay saw the Bears come out strong on the second day, netting three goals. Princeton answered with two more goals off of free positions to finish the third, in-

cluding one more for Buonanno and Mulham’s fifth and final goal of the game.

“The rain delays forced all of us to remain focused for a longer period of time. It was difficult because we started to go on a run,” Hughes told the ‘Prince.’ Princeton was up six going into the final quarter. Just as the period got going, Blake fed to MacDonald a minute into play to extend the Tigers’ lead to seven. The Bears tried to claw back to no avail. The Tigers would ultimately cruise to a 20–16 win.

Roar like a tiger, sting like a yellow jacket: Connor Scaglione ’22 transfers to play at Georgia Tech

By Ava Seigel Sports Contributor

After receiving offers from programs such as the University of Houston, UMass, and Stony Brook, senior offensive liner Connor Scaglione officially committed to play for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jack-

ets earlier this week. Scaglione was a three-year starter as a Tiger and is now going to play his final NCAA season on the offensive line in Atlanta, Georgia.

After five years in New Jersey, this is a big move for Scaglione, but, it’s one he’s certainly excited for. He is “most

looking forward to playing in a new state, specifically playing in the heart of Atlanta every weekend,” he wrote to The Daily Princetonian. “It will be very special to represent a new school with an entirely different fan base,” he added. As a first-year, Scaglione was a valuable member of the

undefeated football squad that won the Ivy Championship in 2018.

After missing the 2020 season due to Covid-19, he started in all 10 games of 2021, supporting an offense that led the Ivy League in scoring, was second in passing offense and passing efficiency, and ranked

third in total offense.

In his senior season, Scaglione was an essential team leader, starting on an offensive line that again led the Ivy League in passing and was second in scoring. His skills did not go unnoticed, as he was awarded the Phil Steele FourthTeam All-Ivy and an Honorable Mention All-Ivy in 2022.

Now, as a graduate transfer student, Scaglione will be joining a Tech team that had a forgettable season in 2022. The Yellow Jackets went 5–7 overall (4–4 Atlantic Coast Conference), due in large part to challenges with their offensive line. This spring, the Yellow Jackets started making big changes, including bringing on new offensive line coach Geep Wade and adding valuable recruits to the roster such as lineman Jordan Brown, a transfer from UNC Charlotte, and Scaglione.

Scaglione will remember his time with the Tigers as he takes this next step. “I think Princeton football has equipped me with the tools to become a leader and contributor on any team in college football,” he wrote to the ‘Prince.’ “[Princeton] produces hard-working, eager, and humble alumni that can accomplish so much.”

He said he is “excited for the challenge,“ and hopes to represent Princeton well in the ACC next year.

Evelyn Walsh is a staff writer for the Sports section at the ‘Prince.’

Ava Seigel is a contributor to the Sports section at the ‘Prince.’

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Senior attacker Kate Mulham scored five goals in the victory against Brown.

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Scaglione received offers from the University of Houston, UMass, Stony Brook, and Georgia Tech.