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Anti-Semitic graffiti found on U. campus

By William Liu staff writer

Anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a restroom in the Friend Center on Wednesday, the first evening of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. According to Elan Sykes ’18, a member of Tigers f who authored a Facebook post about the incident, the graffiti was found in a bathroom by another student.

Sykes said that the graffiti was written in a toilet paper dispenser inside a bathroom stall. It contained negative commentaries alluding that Jews are “ruling the United States.”

The response Sykes received regarding his Facebook post has been overwhelmingly supportive, he said. Although the Jewish community on campus was shaken by the graffiti, the incident did not interfere with students’ attendance of memorial services on Holocaust Remembrance Day, he added.

Rabbi Julie Roth, director of the Center for Jewish Life, and Josh Roberts, president of the Center for Jewish Life student board, released a statement following the incident. According

to the statement, “Anti-Semitism is real, it exists around the world and in our own backyard.

We are disturbed by this incident and we are working with Department of Public Safety and the University to address the matter.”

“The CJL is committed to working together with other members of the Princeton community to combat all forms of hatred and bias,” the statement added.

However, shortly after publishing his post on Facebook, Sykes noticed a recent Yik Yak post that read, “I abhor antiSemitism, but what I don’t understand about right wing Jewish students is that they DON’T speak out against hate speech against other minorities. At least the ones posting these statuses.” The post appeared to have been written as a response to Elan’s Facebook posting.

Sykes explained that this post, which labels those who raise similar concerns as “right wing,” captures a social trend in dismissing anti-Semitism.

Contrary to the post’s assertion, Sykes said he identifies as politically liberal. Furthermore, any See GRAFFITI page 3

ACADEMICS

Study finds eating less beef crucial for climate

By Ruby Shao news editor emerita

Eating less beef is essential to ensuring a sustainable food supply in the coming decades, according to an April 20 working paper whose co-authors include University affiliates Timothy Searchinger and Xin Zhang.

“When you count the land use implications of meat diets, and above all beef, the greenhouse gas emissions are much, much, much higher than vegetarian or more vegetable-oriented diets,” said Searchinger, a research scholar in the Wilson School.

Searchinger serves as a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute, the global

research organization that released the report.

The paper probably offers today’s most detailed and accurate global analysis of actual diets and their greenhouse gas emissions and land use requirements, Searchinger said. It finds that reducing beef consumption is even more important than previous studies have shown, he added.

Without intervention, global demand for calories in 2050 will exceed the supply of calories, as measured in 2006, by 70 percent, the report states.

The researchers trace the “food gap” to projected demographic shifts. A population spike of 133 percent will mean See BEEF page 4

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CV of failures initiates conversations on success

By Rachel Glenn staff writer

Since Assistant Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Johannes Haushofer released a “CV of Failures” on his Twitter in late April, the document has sparked a discussion on success on University campus.

On April 23, Haushofer tweeted a link to a document in which he listed his failures, including six degree programs he did not get into, three academic positions and fellowships he did not get, nine awards and scholarships he did not receive, six paper rejections from academic journals and eight opportunities for research funding he did not attain.

Haushofer said that he aims

to continue to shed light on the invisibility of failures.

“I’m hoping that [my CV of Failures] will be a source of perspective at times when things aren’t going well, especially for students and my fellow young researchers,” he said.

According to Haushofer, he first wrote a CV of failures in 2011, shortly after a friend and colleague, Melanie Stefan, a lecturer at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, proposed the idea in an article in the academic journal Nature.

“A friend had had a professional setback and I wanted to show support, and this seemed like a good way of doing it. Because it seemed to be helpful, I have since done this with a

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Princeton Open Campus Coalition to consider registering as ODUS group

By Claire Lee staff writer

eton” in its name. Furthermore, he stated that he believes the group’s name is not in violation of University policies.

The term “student organization” is never clearly defined in “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities,” Zuckerman explained.

“Under ODUS’s own rules, we do not qualify as a student organization because ‘RRR’ says ‘student organizations’ rather than ‘students,’ he noted.

“We have never used the Princeton shield or attempted to financially profit off use of the word ‘Princeton,’” Zuckerman added.

Earlier this spring, Zuckerman, on behalf of the coalition, delivered a testimony about the state of free speech at the University to the House Ways and Means Committee in Washington, DC. Aleksandra Czulak ’17, Undergraduate Student Government president, declined to comment on whether POCC has violated University policies.

However, she noted that companies, alumni and fellowships who used or tried to use the Princeton name have run into controversies before.

She cited Section 1.4.11 of “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” which states that “no indi-

Students pursue relaxing hobbies, like weaving, during reading week.

Six months after its creation, the Princeton Open Campus Coalition is now considering recognition from the University as an officially registered student group, according to Thomas Dunne, deputy dean of Undergraduate Students.

According to Dunne, a campus student-run organization that uses “Princeton” in its group name needs to register with the University and be affiliated with the University. Dunne said that ODUS plans to clarify this policy over the summer.

Dunne noted that he discussed the registration process with members of POCC on Wednesday.

The POCC is a student group co-founded in November 2015 by Joshua Zuckerman ’16 and nine other individuals. According to a description on its Facebook page, the POCC’s goal is to protect the “diversity of thought and the right of all students to advance their academic and personal convictions in a manner free from intimidation.”

According to Zuckerman, since POCC’s birth, the administration has never objected to POCC’s use of the word “Princ-

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few other friends. The response was usually positive, and so I thought it could be useful to make it public,” he said.

Stefan’s article discussed the many failures scientists and researchers encounter throughout their careers and proposed the idea of creating an atypical Curriculum Vitae, one that would track failures instead of an ordinary one logging accomplishments. In her article, Stefan urged members of the academic world to create their own “CV of failures” where they would “log every unsuccessful application, refused grant proposal, and rejected paper.”

“Don’t dwell on it for hours, just keep a running, up-to-date tally,” Stefan said. “If you dare See FAILURES page 2

vidual or organization may use Princeton University’s name… or any marks that suggest Princeton University or any Princeton University organization, except to the extent such individual or organization has been authorized by the proper University officials or as permitted under trademark law.”

According to Dunne, registering an organization with ODUS comes with several benefits, such as inclusion in the activities fair and eligibility to reserve rooms on campus.

“I can’t really think of a reason why a group would not want to be registered with the University. I think it’s a very clear-end process that’s not particularly onerous,” Dunne said. “I’ve been here 16 years and I can’t think of instances where groups have actively spurned University recognition,” Dunne added.

However, Zuckerman noted that as POCC is a new student group, registering as an official student organization has not been a priority, especially as POCC does not want to receive any University funding.

In an interview with with the Daily Princetonian conducted before his meeting with Dunne on Wednesday, Zuckerman also See POCC page 2

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— and can afford to — make it public.”

After receiving positive responses from friends and colleagues, Haushofer decided to make his CV of failures available to the public. He added that he tried to include everything that would have gone on his regular CV if it had succeeded.

“Most of what I try fails, but these failures are often invisible while the successes are visible,” Haushofer wrote in the introduction to his CV. He added that this invisibility may have given others the impression that most things in his life have worked out for him.

Haushofer explained that the CV of failures is an attempt to provide some perspective to those who might feel that their failures are solely their own fault by showing them that there are additional, uncontrollable factors that contribute to events not going their way. He added that it may serve as a source of perspective for when times are not going well and that he hopes it will begin a discussion about some of the mental health issues facing college campuses.

“The world is stochastic, applications are crapshoots and selection committees and referees have bad days,” Haushofer explained in the introduction to his CV. Sophia Chen ’19 expressed her excitement and surprise upon reading about all the degree programs Haushofer did not get into, as it was something she

had never seen before.

“I had this preconceived notion that all Princeton professors are highly accomplished and successful in their fields, but Professor Haushofer showed that this is evidently not true, as he was not admitted to numerous graduate and Ph.D. programs,” Chen said.

Chen admits that it is common for many University students to feel pressure academically, socially and physically, causing them to be “blinded by their failures,” focusing on the moments where they have fallen short instead of appreciating the moments where they have achieved success.

Chen admitted that trying to cover up failures, while only focusing on successes, can be common on college campuses too. She explained that some Princeton students may only be aware of others’ successes, while they themselves are well aware of their own blend of successes and failures. Even so, when students do achieve success, they still may perceive it as multiple failures instead of one big success, she added.

According to Stefan, this mentality has a name in the world of psychology: impostor syndrome.

Stefan noted that the syndrome is defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist even in the face of information that indicates that the opposite is true. This refers to high-achieving individuals who have an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a continual fear of being exposed as a “fraud,” she added.

One of Stefan’s motivations for proposing her idea was to address impostor syndrome and the feelings of isolation and pressure that accompany it.

“I was thinking a lot about what happens when you fail in a world that acts as if failure didn’t exist,” she said. “On top of having failed, you also feel like you are the only one who has ever failed.”

Stefan proposed the idea of a CV of failures in the hopes that it would make the world of academia more open about failures and encourage youth to put their own setbacks into perspective. Stefan believes that a culture where all people are more transparent in speaking about their failures and setbacks would be a much healthier, welcoming environment for young and ambitious students and researchers than our current one.

Stefan came to this idea after being rejected from a fellowship application and learning on the same day that Ronaldinho, or Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, a professional Brazilian soccer player and winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 2004 and 2005, had not been selected for the Brazilian World Cup team in 2010.

Stefan admitted that she felt better about her own failure after learning that such a soccer sensation had failed in his own way too. However, it caused her to wonder why every failure in academia was hidden, while in the sports world, injuries, losses and other failures are typically made public. Stefan also stated in her article that the type of fellowship she applied for has

a success rate of only about 15 percent, meaning that only one in seven applications will result in a success.

“As scientists, we construct a narrative of success that renders our setbacks invisible both to ourselves and to others,” she wrote in her article. “Often, other scientists’ careers seem to be a constant, streamlined series of triumphs. Therefore, whenever we experience an individual failure, we feel alone and dejected.”

Stefan explained that measures aimed at changing the culture of academic campuses to one that is more accepting of failures would be helpful, and she has been told that people who have created their CV of failures have found perspective in the process of creating one.

She added that it should not be an exercise for a person to dwell on his or her failures, but instead should be an uplifting, inspiring and helpful personal exercise.

According to TJ Smith ’18, although the concept of CV of failures might help some students with impostor syndrome, these CVs only address official and academic failures, not the insecurities that come from internal or subjective failures.

“Many of these people may have a much shorter list of official failures, but are haunted much more by things like feeling that they don’t understand class material well enough, or feeling that they were only accepted to programs because they happen to be good at making a resume look good, not because they really deserve it,” Smith said.

A greater emphasis on healthy friendships and community gives students a place they can turn when dealing with mental health problems, Smith said.

“For issues like the impostor syndrome especially, the simple support of friends can go a long way toward resolving the problem, since they can offer honest affirmation that unknown counselors can not,” he said.

Sarah Sakha ’18, a co-chair of the Mental Health Initiative Board, deferred comment to Matt Błażejewski ’17, a member of Mental Health Initiative Board Sakha is an associate opinion editor for the Daily Princetonian.

“What surprises me is the degree of transparency clearly apparent in [Haushofer’s] CV and the extent to which it has sparked further conversation,” Błażejewski said.

The Mental Health Initiative Board works towards creating dialogue about mental health issues on campus, reducing the stigma associated with mental health disorders, creating a more inclusive and supportive campus environment and improving University policy regarding mental health. He is also a member of the Princeton Perspective Project, which addresses impostor syndrome and the need to emulate effortless perfection on campus.

“I think this CV is a great step towards cultivating an inclusive campus environment in which open dialogue on mental health issues is no longer stigmatized, but actively accepted and encouraged,” Błażejewski said.

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noted that there are also considerable costs to registering with ODUS. For instance, all official student groups must have a president and a treasurer, Zuckerman explained.

“We do not wish to restructure ourselves in this manner,” Zuckerman said.

After Wednesday’s meeting, Zuckerman said that Dunne had indicated ODUS’s willingness to compromise on the issue of having a president in the meeting.

“We would simply have a ‘representative’ or ‘contact person.’

Dean Dunne would not make an exception just for us; he indicated that he wanted to change policy so any organization could choose not to have a president.

We would be required to have a treasurer, but we’re fine with that,” Zuckerman said.

Zuckerman also said that the University Office of Trademark Licensing has not raised issues about the group’s name.

“I don’t want to speculate about what actions various University bureaucrats may or may not take in the hypothetical situation in which we don’t register as a student group,” Zuckerman said.

However, Zuckerman said that during the meeting, Dunne also mentioned that student groups are not allowed to cosponsor events with outside entities.

“This policy has not been clearly explained or seriously enforced; it’s uncertain whether unregistered student groups are outside entities,” Zuckerman said.

Zuckerman noted that the Black Justice League, which is not a registered student group, has co-sponsored an event with the Department of African American Studies, and POCC has also co-sponsored events with Whig-Clio.

“Registering will ensure that we will not violate the clarified policy,” Zuckerman said.

Zuckerman noted that the POCC has not reached any final decisions on registration.

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statement that seems to advocate against ethnically-based animosity but follows it with a negative commentary is insincere, he added.

“Whoever posted this is friends with me on Facebook but decided to post anonymously instead,” Sykes noted.

The post was rapidly downvoted on Yik Yak, according to Sykes.

In late March, a wave of anti-Semitic fliers emerged from printers across campus.

A white supremacist organization claimed responsibility for the incident. Following the incident, Michelle Minter, vice provost for institutional equity and diversity, issued a statement condemning the event.

“These flyers are offensive and contrary to the values of the University, which is committed

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to creating and maintaining an environment free from discrimination and harassment,” the statement read.

Sykes said that he wishes for the University to evaluate and respond to hate speech seriously to ensure a safe, secure environment for students of all backgrounds.

Responding to the incident, Sykes stated that the University’s Jewish community is a strong, tight, and welcoming group and has always felt like a home for him.

The Center for Jewish Life held a student-organized memorial service for Holocaust Remembrance Thursday night.

Participants shared perspectives and narratives relevant to the Holocaust and held a memorial candle lighting ceremony.

University Media Specialist Min Pullan and Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky did not respond to requests for comment as of press time.

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more mouths to feed. Furthermore, the average person will eat more calories, protein and animal-based products due to trends like urbanization, increasing household wealth and the commercialization of agriculture, according to the report.

Problematically, demand for beef will increase by 95 percent, compared to 79 percent for all animal-based food, between 2006 and 2050, the paper predicts.

Searchinger attributed beef’s popularity to its great taste and long history as a staple source of protein within many societies. He explained that the ease involved with raising cows might have led to the start of the trend.

Beef uses more land and fresh water and emits more greenhouse gases per unit of protein than any other common food during production, the report notes. Even relative to other livestock categories, beef requires 28 times more land per calorie consumed. If demand for beef continues to rise, natural forests and savannas could be destroyed, the report adds.

In the United States, the report found that nearly 90 percent of the land used and nearly 85 percent of the greenhouse gases emitted to feed the average person in 2009 came from animal-based food. Beef alone accounted for almost half of U.S. agricultural land use and emissions.

Cutting U.S. beef consumption per capita to reach the world average, a reduction of over 70 percent, would lower production-related land use and greenhouse gas emissions by about a third each.

If half of Americans became vegetarian, the per capita land use and greenhouse gas emissions from food production would decrease by about 50 percent.

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fessor Charles Godfray, who also directs the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and serves on the United Nations Committee on World Food Security, described the study as excellent and very important.

Mark Barthel, a partner at the sustainable advising company 3Keel, has translated environmental findings into action at the United Nations, international businesses and non-governmental organizations; according to him as well, the report was clear, well-written and wellevidenced. The report’s recommendations seem realistic in terms of targeting overconsumption, rather than demanding major dietary changes, he said.

Compared to past reports, Godfray said, the study includes minor differences in methodology and assumptions, but adds to a growing body of evidence that shows that people must shift their diets, especially by lowering animal-based consumption.

Godfray agreed with the conclusion that eating less beef represents the single most important step toward a more sustainable food system.

The paper marks one of several studies that quantifies the magnitude of the issue, providing statistical evidence that experts lacked several years ago, he added.

The GlobAgri-WRR model used in the report was a version of the GlobAgri model developed by the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Princeton University, the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique and WRI. Searchinger said GlobAgri, of which he was one of the two main developers, gained more biophysical detail than past models by excluding economic considerations.

Economic considerations, which measure the extent to which one person eating more causes another person to eat

less, would add too much complexity and uncertainty, and they are unnecessary for identifying which combinations of dietary changes and improvements in agriculture would produce a certain amount of food at an acceptable environmental cost, he said.

GlobAgri includes a nitrogen model mostly developed

by Zhang, then a postdoctoral research associate at the Wilson School and the Princeton Environmental Institute and now an assistant professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

Zhang described her model and data sets as the first of their kind to examine patterns of nitrogen fertilizer use by nation and by crop type over the past half-century. Nitrogen fertilizer is known for releasing the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide.

“By looking into the historical trends in the different countries, you can gain insights in terms of how the economic growth and food demand changes might affect the nitrogen use efficiency and the nitrogen loss to the environment,” Zhang said.

She added that she hopes to identify technologies, policies and socioeconomic opportunities that increase the efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer use, which currently enables crop production relied on by almost half of the world population.

The report focuses on the diets of certain groups especially.

“The people who should and need to hold down their meat consumption… and generally livestock product consumption are those who are eating far more than they could possibly need,” Searchinger said, referring to about two billion people in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa and the European Union.

He added that societies growing wealthier, like Chi-

na, should take special care to avoid overconsumption.

The key to shifting diets is not nagging people, but rather offering more attractive alternatives, Searchinger said.

For example, he is increasingly hopeful that cheaper, non-meat products that taste like meat will become mainstream, even in the next few years.

Up until now, most efforts to shift diets have depended on information and education campaigns, which have proven inadequate, according to the report. The researchers call for approaches that influence unconscious decisionmaking by presenting food choices differently.

Called the Shift Wheel, the paper’s plan for affecting consumer psychology is a sensible account based on what researchers know so far, Godfray said, using relatively good data despite some missing information.

“Policy has to be developed now. We just can’t say, ‘Well, we don’t have enough data,’ so we have to make optimal use of the data that we do have available,” Godfray said.

But he added that experts need to conduct experiments on individuals, groups and countries to test the effectiveness of each Shift Wheel strategy. Searchinger confirmed that WRI will soon start a project to work with companies to help investigate these options.

The report notes that insufficient data on what foods people buy poses a major obstacle to influencing choices.

Barthel said the other main challenge is convincing consumers that eating sustainably will serve their self-interest.

“Human nature is very selfabsorbed, so if you can find a really good way of communicating a new personal benefit to someone, they are far more likely to make a change in their diet,” he explained.

While the Shift Wheel only focuses on personal behavior

changes, Godfray suggested intervening by altering food prices in order to change consumer choices as well.

The study also recommends creating a dedicated funding mechanism for this project, as well as an initiative that would gather experts across many disciplines and sectors to focus on modifying people’s diets. Neither of these ideas has come to fruition yet.

However, Barthel noted there is already such an initiative. The United Nations Environment Programme 10-Year Framework of Programmes, he explained, includes a sustainable food systems program that contains dietary shift issues and gathers representatives of over a hundred countries, most major nongovernmental organizations, UN agencies, private sector companies and the other stakeholders that the report is seeking.

“What we need to do is coalesce a range of interests and actors around that program to make it more effective… rather than necessarily starting from scratch,” he said.

Titled “Shifting Diets for a Sustainable Food Future,” the paper marks the 11th and last installment of the “Creating a Sustainable Food Future” series, of which Searchinger is the technical director. His team will publish a final volume summarizing all the work, still using GlobAgri to explore options for a sustainable food future, in a few months.

Searchinger said the volume will try to answer the question, “What combinations of diet changes, improvements in yields, changes in meat production practices, changes in general agricultural practices… could be done so that we could produce all the food that the world needs in 2050, and do it without chopping down more forests and with an acceptable level of greenhouse gas emissions?”

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Improve communication about upperclassmen dining options

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or a vast majority of Princeton students, the transition from sophomore to junior year is marked by changes to living and dining plans. During the spring semester, sophomores must make challenging choices regarding their housing and dining options for the following year. Some sophomores solidify their junior-year dining plans following bicker and the spring eating club sign-in period in February. However, after the bicker and sign-in period, many sophomores are still unsure of their dining plans for the following year. This problem is not isolated to sophomores. Juniors who have spent a year taking meals in clubs, co-ops or residential colleges or as independents may be interested in pursuing alternate dining plans during their senior year. While there is an abundance of dining options available to undergraduates, the Editorial Board believes that rising juniors and seniors are at a distinct disadvantage when establishing or amending dining plans at the start of the fall semester since there is a lack of information on dining options and associated deadlines. As such, the Board calls on the rising junior and senior class governments, in collaboration with the Undergraduate Student Government and the Interclub Council, to compile and publicize information regarding dining options for rising juniors and seniors.

In the months leading up to spring bicker, the 2018 class council, USG and ICC made significant efforts to help sophomores navigate the process to join a club for their junior or senior years. Specifically, the Princeton Eating Clubs website maintained by the ICC offers all students valuable information related to clubs. This information covers club membership fees, details regarding bicker policies, availability of financial aid resources and a timeline of the spring bicker process. Additionally, the 2018 class council sent periodic emails to the class throughout the fall semester with information about sophomore-specific events at the clubs and infographics about the process to join a club. The Board applauds the 2018 class council and the ICC for these efforts and believes class councils and the ICC should replicate this sort of programing for rising juniors and seniors.

Specifically, the Board calls on the ICC to create a timeline for fall bicker and sign-in to be included on the Princeton Eating Clubs website. This timeline should include the same information as the spring club timeline: start and end dates to sign into clubs, deadlines to register for bicker and club-specific timelines for bicker. In addition to the creation of this timeline, the ICC should collaborate with the 2018 and 2017 class councils and USG to publish information about sign-in club capacities, how to be placed on wait lists

for sign-in clubs at capacity, what clubs are offering fall bicker, how to join coops or co-op wait lists and deadlines for amending or dropping University meal plans. Though some of this information is not available until the fall for logistical reasons, the Board advocates for the ICC to create a page on its website for the information at the end of the spring semester. With the implementation of a subscription feature, students may receive weekly updates throughout the summer as the information is compiled.

In closing, the Board believes it is incorrect to assume that rising juniors and seniors have finalized their upperclassmen dining choices after sophomore spring bicker and sign-in. We believe the proposed changes will simplify the decision-making process for rising juniors and seniors contemplating making changes to dining plans.

We also believe the changes may compel some students who wouldn’t otherwise consider joining clubs to do so. As such, making fall bicker and sign-in more transparent is an important step to making dining options more transparent and accessible for all undergraduates.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor and the Editor-in-Chief.

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What I didn’t do at Princeton Azza Cohen columnist

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any seniors spend their time, especially during the glorious month of May that came too fast or not fast enough, reminiscing on what we did at Princeton. We put our favorite classes, late-night conversations and funny roommate stories in our pockets to take with us wherever we go next. There are a million ways to do Princeton. Here is how I did it.

When I arrived on campus four years ago, I didn’t own a bike, which meant that I walked around campus and enjoyed its beauty. I did, however, own a scooter my freshman year. I soon realized a scooter is less than effective at navigating cobblestones.

I didn’t consider myself religious, so I felt conflicted about going to the Center for Jewish Life. I am immensely glad I overcame that feeling; it now feels just like home.

I didn’t go to the Princeton Writing Center until my senior year because I was nervous about criticism, but that was a ridiculous reason not to go. The fellows there are so helpful and kind. I never took a math class because I was still scarred from high school calculus. I really regret this decision because I am still atrocious at any kind of calculation.

I didn’t get accepted to the Program in Visual Arts, and it devastated me as a hopeful filmmaker. But I had a mentor who told me her favorite filmmaker

was a history major, and I have continued to make films that excite me — as a history major myself.

I didn’t get an A in any of my favorite classes, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t collect all the jewels I was offered. Once, my professor emailed me after sending out our final grades to say that although I was not an A student, my joy for learning did not go unnoticed. This meant more to me than any transcript ever has.

I didn’t have tissues when I cried in a professor’s office hours, but he did. And his kindness gave me a million reasons to love this place.

I didn’t do the footnotes for my thesis until the night before it was due. Yes, it was stressful, but my roommate sat next to me from midnight to 5:35 a.m. on April 5 and we finished together.

I didn’t think I was brave enough to talk about my body on a stage, but after an incredible experience acting in The Vagina Monologues my sophomore year, I ended up directing the same show as a senior. It’s amazing where your fears can take you. I didn’t audition for Black Arts Company, but I wish I had at least tried.

There were darker times, too. I was told by a wise former opinion columnist not to read the comments section at the end of my columns. I didn’t take his advice, and I regret reading the sexist, anti-Semitic,

all-kinds-of-phobic vitriol every single time.

When I was homesick, I didn’t answer phone calls from my parents or siblings, but this isn’t the best way to cope. When I felt alone, I stopped writing in my journal. Princeton isn’t about pretending to be perfect but actually being brave enough to ask for a hand. I assure you, someone will extend theirs.

I didn’t tell my colleagues when a window fell on my head this August. When you get a concussion, you’re not exactly in the right mindset to diagnose yourself, but a very kind staff member of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement (where I was working) escorted me to University Health Services to make sure I was okay. I was not — I had suffered a concussion. My colleague helped me get my medicine, pack my things and go home.

I got a lot out of Princeton, and I will miss this place dearly. Princeton will knock you down, but Princeton will offer you two hands to pull you up.

You’ll have more friends than you know and more advocates than you could ever imagine. I love Princeton because of how it caught me when I jumped.

Every day at Princeton is a leap of faith, and you will fall many times — but I promise you will rise.

Azza Cohen is a history major from Highland Park, Ill. She can be reached at accohen@princeton.edu.

What these walls will remember Bennett McIntosh

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nd when these walls in dust are laid, With reverence and awe Another throng shall breathe our song, In praise of Old Nassau

As soon as I leave Princeton, these centuries-old walls will forget me.

Well that’s not strictly true. There are two marks I have left, literally, on the walls of this campus. The first: thumbtack holes on dormroom walls — the scars of attempts to make tiny people-lockers more livable. The second: the wall formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson mural. The face that watched me every morning at breakfast for my two years in the college will, partially as a result of actions of a committee I sat on, grin at others no more.

But the mural owes its removal more to the protesters who began the process of resistance and to whichever building services staff physically end it, and all involved were swept along by societal currents larger than any one of us. Like the newly blank wall, the thumbtack holes I left on my dorm-room walls are anonymous, unremarkable. I spent four years searching for an original identity on this campus, and the physical mark I leave will be small, mundane, and unoriginal.

And Princeton’s mark on me? In some ways, I feel unchanged: I never really learned how to “do” Princeton. I never achieved optimal productivity in that awkward hour-or-two gap between classes. I never found the ideal balance between my busy schedule and the relationships I built (and failed to build). I never went to bed when I said I would, and I never woke up without needing a few minutes, or hours, to gather courage to face the day ahead.

Yet, here I am, thesis and classes complete, a mere fortnight from my final exam. My fellow seniors and I may not feel like we know what we’re

doing, but in two weeks we will have done it nonetheless. And “it” is a four-year-long marathon effort that, when we arrived on campus, seemed as distant and incomprehensible as Charter was. So I must have changed somehow in the interim. As much as 17-year-old Bennett would have cringed to hear this, little of that change has come from classes or even vaunted extracurriculars.

I owe most of whom I’ve become to the people here — to four-year friends and to four-minute strangers. My writing career was born of appreciative emails from random readers of The Daily Princetonian. My politics — hopefully more nuanced, empathetic and realistic than those of four years ago — are owed to protesters, Facebook friends-of-friends and ‘Prince’ commenters (I’ll even miss Shadrach Smith). We build our worldviews, ourselves, from conversations in the dining hall, at drunk meal, in crowded, comfy dorm rooms, gesturing with our forks or drinks, feeling grandiose, lying on the golf course feeling small.

When we sit together as a class for commencement, it will be the end not just of an academic marathon, but of a feeling of connection that ran through it with us. Marina Keegan, writing for the Yale Daily News the week she graduated college and I graduated high school, called it “the opposite of loneliness” in a column by the same name. It’s the sense that we’re all feeling our way through this together. Read her whole column, because she captures that feeling exquisitely, and once we graduate we will never feel that sentiment the same way we’ve felt it here.

Five days after graduating, Keegan died in a car accident.

Since her death, millions around the world have read her words, either online or in the eponymous posthumous anthology of her works.

Keegan lives on not only in the memories of her friends and peers, but in the way her words

touched the lives of multitudes. Though I pray we are all fortunate enough that graduation heralds the beginning of our lives rather than the end, we, too, will live on in the many ways — intentional, circumstantial, unknowable — that we have touched each others’ lives here.

Early Sunday morning, I locked myself out of my room. As I trudged through the 4:00 a.m. darkness to the Department of Public Safety, the silent walls of Spelman and Whitman seemed to hold their breath with anticipation, for something more than Sunday’s rain and the festivities heralded by Lawnparties stages and Reunions fences.

We are on the brink of, well, everything. Princeton too — with its campus master plans and new generations of students — will continue to change without us. It’s not just that the University’s neogothic walls stand unperturbed by my four tumultuous years here, but that new buildings will rise until this campus becomes entirely unrecognizable to me, erasing completely my memories and fingerprints. Already the Arts and Transit District has moved the late-night beacon of Wawa.

Eventually even Frick, that new glass-and-steel cathedral to science, and my second home, will fall.

After all that Princeton has done for me and to me, my legacy will be whatever people take from random conversations and columns I penned while stressed, sleep-deprived, or (at least once) drunk. When the cheap newsprint decays, these articles will exist on only as electromagnetic bits on the internet, and as tenuous connections in our minds. If these connections, passed down through generations of Princetonians and rippling out from the Orange Bubble with each graduating class, are the only mark I have left on this campus, I suppose that’s enough.

Bennett McIntosh is a chemistry major from Littleton, Colo. He can be reached at bam2@princeton.edu.

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Rounding out the short distance events will be the 400m hurdles. On the Princeton side, junior Greg Leeper and sophomore Spencer Long have been phenomenal for the Tigers this season. The two will face heavy competition from Cornell and Dartmouth.

Turning to the distance races, Princeton features a double punch in the duo of sophomore Garrett O’Toole and sophomore Noah Kauppila. Both performed in stellar fashion at the Larry Ellis Invitational two weeks ago.

Both runners will seek to run under 3:40.15, the best Ivy League time of the season.

Moving to the high jump, junior Xavier Bledsoe will have the chance to com-

plete a phenomenal season.

Bledsoe jumped just half an inch under seven feet at The College of New Jersey Invitational last weekend, priming himself for a title run at Heps.

Perhaps the most dominant event of the weekend for the Tiger will be the pole vault. Senior Adam Bragg and sophomore August Kiles lead all Ivy League pole vaulters this season. In fact, Bragg is the only vaulter in the league to have eclipsed 5.50 meters this season. The southern California native is on track to defend last year’s title and impress at his last Outdoor Heps.

Finally, Princeton will likely receive large point totals in the shot put behind junior Chris Cook and sophomore Mitchel Charles. The two lead all other throwers by nearly half a meter.

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24 in the NCAA Toughest Schedule Report.

The Princeton Tigers will be led in defense by their veteran team of junior goalkeeper Ellie DeGarmo, junior defender Madeline Rodriguez, senior defender Liz Bannantine and junior defender Amanda Leavell. DeGarmo was named Ivy League Defender of the Year with the best save percentage in the country at 55.7 percent and a low goals-

against average of 8.65.

Both Rodriguez and Bannantine were named AllIv y League players this year, as Rodriguez leads the team with 22 draw controls and 28 ground balls, while Bannantine sports an impressive 20 caused turnovers.

In the offense, the Tigers are led by All-Ivy League first team selection junior midfielder Olivia Hompe, who has scored an incredible 41 goals and 11 assists for 52 points. Sophomores Ellie McNulty and Colby Chanenchuk add to the formidable forward line-

up with 24 points apiece.

The Tigers return to home soil this week against Cornell, with the game set to start at 4 p.m. at Class of 1952 Stadium.

It is sure to be a thrilling matchup, considering that Princeton barely ousted the Big Red earlier this year and that both teams are coming into the game with similar results from the regular season.

The winner of this game will face either Penn or Harvard in the championship final, with an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on the line.

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Men’s track prepares to compete at outdoor Ivy League Heptagonals

By David Liu sports editor

Arguably the most anticipated meet of the season, the Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal will return to Princeton this weekend. After winning the title last year — and four of the last five such titles — the men’s track and field team will seek to fend off its Ivy League foes yet again this Saturday and Sunday.

The two-day event will begin on Saturday morning at Princeton’s Weaver Track.

Looking at the competition, Princeton will likely encounter the stiffest challenge against Cornell, whose team has shone in the past few years. Just last year, the Tigers only narrowly threw off the Big Red to claim the title.

Starting with the sprints,

Princeton’s greatest competition resides in the 100m, behind star sophomore Carrington Akosa. The secondranked Tiger is closely sandwiched between two Cornell sprinters in this season’s standings for the event. A victory from Akosa would further fuel the rivalry between Princeton and Cornell.

Competition in the sprints will continue into the relays with the 4x100m. This season, Cornell, Princeton and Brown have all run sub-41 second relays. The three will vie for the top spot on Sunday.

Similarly, junior Ray Mennin ranks second in the 400m with his 47.03 finish at the Florida Relays. Mennin will attempt to take down topranked 400m sprinter MarcAndre Alexandre of Yale.

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Top-ranked members of the men’s track team will take on spirited competition at the outdoor Heps.

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Women’s lacrosse to defend Ivy League title

By Helen Zhang staff writer

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The women’s lacrosse team will take on Cornell in their title defense.

The Princeton Tigers (114 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) look to become back-toback Iv y League Tournament champions this Friday, as they take on a spirited Cornell lineup in the Iv y League women’s lacrosse semifinals.

The match comes after the Tigers clinched their third Ivy League Title in consecutive years, with an impressive 8-3 win over Brown last week. Following this win in the final regular game of the season, the Tigers secured the title, which is shared with Penn, and will en-

ter the Ivy League Tournament seeded second, with Penn in first, Cornell in third and Harvard in fourth place.

Princeton triumphed with a tense 8-7 win against Cornell in April.

The Tigers have also won their last five matchups against Cornell, with Cornell’s last victory coming during the 2012 regular season in a 13-12 overtime game. The two foes have only met once before in the Iv y League Tournament, when Princeton defeated the Big Red 12-5 in the 2014 tournament semifinals.

Currently, the Tigers are ranked No. 12 in the

Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association poll and No. 11 in the Inside Lacrosse media poll. Meanwhile, Cornell finished the Iv y League season with a 5-2 record, and 11-4 record overall, earning them a ranking of No. 18 in the IWLCA coaches poll and No. 16 in the Inside Lacrosse media poll. Princeton is currently the highest-ranked Ivy League team in both the NCAA Rating Percentage Index and NCAA Toughest Schedule Report, placing eighth and 10th respectively, with the Big Red sitting at No. 14 in the NCAA’s RPI and No. See W. LAX page 7

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Women’s track to face top challengers at outdoor Heps

By Claire Coughlin staff writer

This weekend, Princeton will host the 2016 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championships for women’s track and field at Weaver Stadium. This meet will also mark Coach Peter Farrell’s last Iv y League Heptagonal Championship meet after 38 years.

Coach Farrell has been the head coach of women’s track and field and cross country since the program evolved from a club sport to a varsity sport in 1978.

Although he has overseen the entire program, Farrell has worked most closely with the distance runners.

During Farrell’s career, the Tigers achieved 27 Ivy League Heptagonal titles in track and have finished among the top 15 teams at the NCAA championship meet six times in the last 12 years in cross country.

Under Farrell’s watch, the track and field team has

produced more than 20 All-America athletes that have represented Princeton on a national level.

After last weekend’s successful performances at The College of New Jersey and at the Penn Relays, the team is hoping for many victories across all events.

Senior Cecilia Barowski, who recently qualified for the Olympic trials with a time of 2:02.62, is expected to win the 800m.

Sophomore Ashley Forte has the third fastest time in the League with a time of 2:07.81, while freshman Jackie Berardo is fifth with a time of 2:08.42. Forte was the runner-up in the event during indoor Heps.

These three runners, as well as junior Zoe Sims, all competed in the Penn Relays 4x800m last weekend and are hoping for first place after last year’s second. Another hopeful first-place winner is senior Emily de La Bruyere, who has the best time in the league in the 5k with

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a time of 16:04.19 at the Stanford Invitational. Junior pole vaulter Allison Harris set the Ivy League record just two weeks ago with a clearance of 4.15m and won the event indoors as well. Overall she has scored five times in the event, both indoors and outdoors, and is looking to continue her streak going into the weekend. She also won the Most Outstanding Field Performer of the Meet at Indoor Heps with a clearance of 14.19m.

She is followed by freshman Ellie Randolph with a clearance of 14.28m, senior multi-eventer Taylor Morgan with a clearance of 14.39m and sophomore Maia Craver with a clearance of 14.45m. The Tigers have also earned four spots in the top 11 of the 100m hurdles, led by Harris.

Running and field events begin on both Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m. and will be covered by the Ivy League Digital Network.

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The women’s track team will compete at Heptagonals this weekend.

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