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U. AFFAIRS

Dean of College Dolan to step down at end of 2023–2024 academic year

By Miriam Waldvogel Assistant News Editor

Dean of the College Jill Dolan will step down on June 30, 2024, the end of the 2023–24 academic year, the University announced

Thursday. She plans to take a two-year sabbatical and then retire from the faculty, where she serves as a professor of English and theater, in 2026. Dolan is one See DOLAN page 2

COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE

Jill Dolan, Princeton’s dean of the college.

Opinion

IN TOWN

Princeton Mayor Mark Freda sued for alleged involvement in deadly car crash

By Lia Opperman & Ryan Konarska Associate News Editor & Staff News Writer

Mark Freda spends his days as the mayor of Princeton and the President of the Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad. Now, he’s a defendant in a car crash lawsuit.

On Nov. 7, 2021, Freda was involved in a high-speed chase that resulted in two fatalities. The crash occurred when 15-year-old driver Damajia Jenay “Majia” Horner — while operating a stolen car — crashed into 61-year-old Jodi Marcou, a Rutgers administrator. They were traveling along Route 27 (Princeton-Kingston Road, known as Nassau Street) near Lake

Carnegie. The drivers of both cars passed away, according to court documents.

The family of the Rutgers official, Jodi Marcou, filed a lawsuit alleging that Freda bears some responsibility in the crash.

The suit was originally filed in Middlesex County in June 2022, though Freda was not added to the suit until July 2023.

As a member of the emergency services squad in the Princeton area, Freda activated his blue light on his vehicle and pursued the stolen vehicle, the suit alleges. Court documents filed by Marcou’s family further allege that Freda had no authority to activate his blue light to pursue the stolen vehicle. The suit states that Freda should have reasonably known that

activating his blue light “would initiate, engage, cause and/or result in a dangerous response … with the vehicle being operated by [the] defendant.”

The lawsuit claims that Freda’s actions in engaging in a high-speed chase with the stolen vehicle “were in direct conflict with the policies and procedures of the Municipality [of] Princeton, the Princeton Police Department, and the Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad.”

Marcou’s lawyer, Nicholas J. Leonardis, told NJ.com that he could not comment on many details, but said their investigation of the incident shows Freda had “significant involvement in the matter.”

Freda was elected in 2020 with 99.23 percent of the vote with no opponents. In a 2021 interview with the ‘Prince,’ Freda listed his top priorities as balancing the role of mayor with his other responsibilities and increasing the transparency and openness of city government.

The lawsuit is currently a civil action complaint in the Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division in Middlesex County.

Freda’s lawyers did not respond to a request for comment.

Lia Opperman is an associate News editor for the ‘Prince.’

Ryan Konarska is an associate Data editor and staff News writer for the ‘Prince.’

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NEWS

Hazing is shrouded in secrecy. Now is the time to start the conversation.

Anna Izyumova

Guest Contributor

The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author’s views alone.

Content Warning: This piece includes graphic descriptions of bodily harm.

In December 2022, 27 Princeton students were charged and later found responsible for violations of the University hazing policy that occurred during a fraternity initiation. The three students who organized the events had their degrees withheld or were placed on a twoyear suspension. The 24 students who attended the events received suspensions and disciplinary probations.

The following spring semester started with my roommate return-

A year after Caterpillar, the Class of 2023 spreads their wings

by Associate News Editor Annie Rupertus

LinkedIn-ing Princeton alumni, new and old

by Assistant Data Editor Andrew Bosworth

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HUMOR

Breaking: Lawnparties headliners are NOT the real Chainsmokers, but impersonators

by Associate Humor Editor Sophia Varughese First Last PAGE 7

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ing from winter break and asking me, “Did you hear what happened with [the fraternity in question]?

I’ve heard rumors that they were suspended for hazing.” In the following weeks, seemingly every upperclass student seemed to form an opinion of the incident based on the various rumors they had encountered. Some were shocked to learn that fraternity hazing existed at Princeton. Others argued that the fraternity did nothing beyond normal pledging activities, and that other fraternities have done worse.

I was certain that, in typical fashion, Princeton would issue a statement about the incident, and that the Daily Princetonian would soon be flooded with opinion pieces discussing hazing on campus and the administration’s handling

OPINION

Princeton must install air conditioning as temperatures rise

by Community Opinion Editor Lucia Wetherill PAGE 11

SPORTS

Men’s water polo continues dominant season start, going 5–0 during the Princeton Invitational

by Associate Sports Editor Hayk Yengibaryan PAGE 12

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of the best-recognized administrators among students and one of the most accessible members of the administration.

Jennifer Rexford, the University Provost, will lead a search committee for a new Dean of the College. The goal is for the search to be concluded by “next summer,” according to a University press release. Rexford, former chair of the Computer Science Department, was appointed as the Provost last

fall.

Dolan’s departure marks the latest high-profile turnover in University administration since the move of former provost Deborah Prentice to the University of Cambridge. She is the fifth Cabinet member to resign in the past year, which has also seen the departure or planned departure of many administrators focused on student life, including Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan and Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students Tom Dunne. Other recent changes include the appointments of Peter

Schiffer as Dean of Research and Katie Callow-Wright as executive vice president.

This also comes amid leadership change at many of Princeton’s peer institutions, including new or departing presidents at Yale, Harvard, M.I.T., and Stanford.

“It’s been an enormously rich and exciting experience to be part of the multi-pronged effort of overseeing the undergraduate academic experience at Princeton,” Dolan said in an announcement posted on the University’s website.

As Dean of the College, Dolan was the senior administrator overseeing undergraduate affairs, including the curriculum, residential college system, admission, and financial aid. She served as a point of contact for undergraduates for many of the University’s most consequential and emotional announcements, from updates about COVID-19 to the deaths of multiple students.

“I want students to know that the administration has a lot of good will and they really want to do the right thing and be as transparent as possible,” Dolan told the

‘Prince’ in 2015.

Dolan joined the University in 2008 as a professor in the English department and the Lewis Center of the Arts. Her research focuses on contemporary American feminism and queer theater and performance, including her blog The Feminist Spectator.

The previous Dean of the College, Valerie Smith, served four years, from 2011 until 2015. She left Princeton to serve as the president of Swarthmore College.

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

STUDENT LIFE

Lack of lightning lets Loud Luxury liven up Lawnparties

By Ryan Konarska & Annie Rupertus Staff News Writer & Associate News Editor

For the third semester in a row, Lawnparties were marked by cloudy skies and sporadic rain. The student opener’s set was canceled due to the forecast and the concert schedule was moved up an hour the day of, but students still turned out for a full day of partying to celebrate the start of the semester.

Thunderstorms began in the morning, but the precipitation halted in the early afternoon, leaving enough time for a relatively rain-free day of festivities, including photos at the fountain in front of Robertson Hall, parties on Prospect Avenue, and a headlining performance by EDM duo Loud Luxury.

Leading up to the main event in the late afternoon, various eating clubs hosted their own musical acts, including Crash Adams at Colonial Club, TREK at Tiger Inn, ZUEZUE at Cottage Club, Club Eat at Quadrangle Club, and Kaleena Zanders at Ivy Club. Strawberry Milk, the student band that opened for Spring 2022 Lawnparties headliner Flo Milli, played Tower Club. Terrace Club’s act also featured students in the classes of 2023 and 2024, with lead singer Kate Short ’23 taking center stage.

Zusha, a Hasidic folk/soul band from New York whose debut EP achieved No. 9 status on Billboard’s World Albums chart, performed under a tent at the Chabad BBQ in front of Bendheim House. The artist’s appearance was co-sponsored by the Alcohol Initiative, Gitty Webb, co-director of the Chabad House told The Daily Princetonian.

Cap and Gown Club hosted Emei, an artist with almost 1.5 million monthly Spotify listeners who gained internet fame in 2022 for her viral TikTok hit “Late to the Party.” She told a large crowd at Cap that she’d always wanted to play a show at the University because she was born at Princeton Medical Center.

The University also sponsored free food at various locations near the headliner stage. Nomad Pizza was stationed in the back of Campus Club, Rita’s Italian Ice in the front, and Taco Bell was in front of the Bendheim Center for Finance.

Weatherboy, the student rock band that was slated as the concert’s opener, also stayed home. According to an email to the student body from the Undergraduate Student Government at 9:45 p.m. on the eve of the event, their set was canceled

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“due to uncertainties with the weather.”

“I’m very disappointed that the student performers are not performing today,” Chloe Long ’26 said in an interview with the ‘Prince.’ “I think that Princeton might just be a little bit cursed,” she added, referring to the rain, “but we’ll have a good time regardless.”

Sunday’s high temperature of 78 degrees fell exactly in line with fall Lawnparties’ average temperature since 2006.

The temperature was cooler than previous years, however, with fall 2022 and 2023’s high temperatures being the lowest since fall 2014.

Lawnparties this year saw rain in the morning, but conditions cleared by noon.

Rain on Lawnparties day is a relatively new phenomenon. It has only rained during the Lawnparties headliner four times in Princeton history, with three of these

rain events occuring in the last four years.

It did not rain during a fall Lawnparties until Fall 2022, when Hippo Campus performed, and it has rained during spring lawnparties on only three occasions — 2009, 2019, and 2023.

While concertgoers avoided rain in the afternoon, the evening saw torrential rain envelop the campus. Cannon Dial Elm Club, which had planned to hold a Lawnparties afterparty on its front lawn at 8 p.m., was forced to cancel its event.

“In an unexpected change of events, we have decided that we will be CLOSED tonight due to the storms outside so we can no longer have this event,” Cannon officers wrote in an email to the student body over Hoagie Mail.

Loud Luxury still had a supporting act — Pheelz, a producer who went onstage shortly after 3 p.m. He played the Jay-Z

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classic “Empire State of Mind,” subbing out the words ‘New York’ for ‘Princeton.’ [can we mention the scramble of timeline change here (email from USG)] Loud Luxury took the stage at about 4 p.m. The duo remixed a number of crowd favorites, including Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” and their own hit, “Body.”

Loud Luxury is Lawnparties’ first foray into dance music. Previously, most Lawnparties acts have been hip-hop or rap artists. Of the five lawnparties held since the COVID-19 pandemic, three have been hiphop or rap artists.

Loud Luxury is the 11th-most popular artist to have performed at Lawnparties when measured by Spotify monthly listeners. Rihanna is by far the most popular act to have performed at Lawnparties, more than doubling the monthly listener count of the next most popular artist, Ja-

son Derulo.

Although certain elements of the Lawnparties schedule were shifted due to weather, many concertgoers still spoke positively about their experience.

“Lawnparties is the glue that holds the student body together,” Stephen Bartell ’25 said.

Lawnparties was held on Sept. 10 on the Frist North Lawn.

Annie Rupertus is an associate News editor for the ‘Prince.’

Ryan Konarska is an associate Data editor and staff News writer for the ‘Prince.’

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BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Princeton Gerrymandering Fans run out did not manipulate data, before distribution Project says NJ commission begins amid intense heat wave

By Isa Yip & Annie Rupertus

Head News Editor & Associate News Editor

By Julian Hartman-Sigall & Lia Opperman

Assistant News Editor & Associate News Editor

In a week where temperatures hit a sweltering 95 degrees, Housing Operations announced that it would give out fans to students, many of whom live in dorms without air conditioning. On Sept.

7, students flocked to Blair Courtyard to pick up their fans. The pick-ups were not scheduled to begin until 10:30 a.m., yet by 10:10 a.m., all the fans were gone.

“The demand for fans was very high, and 800 were distributed within 40 minutes of arriving on campus this morning,” University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss said in a statement to The Daily Princetonian.

Temperatures on campus have exceeded 90 degrees every day since classes began on Tuesday. Such heat poses a particular problem for undergraduates living in older buildings such as Rockefeller College, Mathey College, and much of upperclass housing which do not have air conditioning. Over half of campus does not have air conditioning.

Extreme heat can also disproportionately affect students with disabilities.

“We are currently exploring opportunities to obtain more fans,” Hotchkiss added. “The Housing Office will soon distribute a communication that will provide an opportunity for students to sign up if they are interested in obtaining a fan.”

In the aftermath, multiple students alleged that students who live in air-conditioned

dorms obtained fans for themselves or that students took multiple. Students were told to bring a University ID, but according to students, the University was not checking IDs, nor how many fans students were taking.

The ‘Prince’ was unable to confirm that fans were taken by students living in air-conditioned dormitories.

In an email, Housing Operations emphasized to “[p]lease only get a fan if you are in an un airconditioned dormitory.”

Kevin Go ’25 attempted to get a fan at 10:30 a.m. when none were available. He told the ‘Prince’, “Of course I am grateful that they were giving out fans in the first place, but wish they had thought things through a little bit more first.”

Last year, a program run by the Undergraduate Student Government had students sign up to request a fan, and there had been an extensive waitlist.

In the past weeks, temperatures in Princeton have been unusually high. The National Weather Service referred to the heat wave as creating “dangerously hot conditions” and, accordingly, issued a heat advisory for all or parts of 15 counties in New Jersey, including Mercer County.

Throughout the past decade, first-years have had to move in to Princeton under sweltering temperatures. This year marks the third highest move-in temperature since 2013. 2013 and 2016 both hit 92 degrees.

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

Lia Opperman is an associate News editor for the ‘Prince.’

R ipple E ffect

By Bryan Boyd

Assistant Puzzles Editor

Heavy lines indicate areas called rooms.

Fill the cells of each room with the digits 1 to n, where n is the number of cells in the room. If two identical numbers are in the same row or column, at least that number of cells must separate them.

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In Feb. 2022, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission (NJRC) chose a fresh legislative map in what was lauded as a historic bipartisan vote.

As an advisor to both the commission’s chair and its sole nonpartisan member, Professor Sam Wang was instrumental in the decision, but some Republicans later criticized the map, saying that Wang manipulated data to better serve Democratic interests.

A Sept. 6 report by the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation (SCI), however, found that the allegations of data manipulation were without merit.

The findings confirm the results of Princeton’s 2022 investigation, which also found no evidence of research misconduct by Wang, who serves as director of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project (PGP).

After a lawsuit filed by some state Republicans was dismissed in court in Feb. 2022, the New Jersey Globe reported in April 2022 that anony-

mous sources connected to PGP believed Wang had manipulated data to favor Democrats.

In response to allegations suggesting “impropriety in the development of the final map,” the New Jersey SCI launched an investigation into complaints “that [NJRC] failed to provide equal and fair representation to the state’s voting public.”

One year after the University closed its investigation, the SCI ultimately concluded that there was “there was no merit to the unspecified claims that data gathered and relied upon by the redistricting commission was improperly manipulated.”

However, the SCI also found that the current process for redistricting lacks guidance for “effective, transparent, uniform and trustworthy operation of the commission.” This included the lack of guidance regarding the responsibilities or the scope of the Congressional Redistricting Commission’s chair.

Wang praised the findings in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), writing that the report “highlight[s] the need for open pro-

cesses, fairness standards and data transparency” in New Jersey redistricting.

He also noted that PGP contributed to a 2019 report that recommended a number of changes to increase “transparency, accountability, and representation” in the legislative apportionment process, and wrote that he is in favor of “full implementation” of already-existing laws mandating transparency for voting data.

Sources in the ‘Globe’ also accused Wang of creating a hostile workplace environment and of having a Title IX allegation against him. The University has not directly addressed these allegations, but a University spokesperson said in Aug. 2022 denied the existence of any Title IX allegation and stated that Princeton had officially closed all internal investigations regarding Wang.

Isa Yip is a head News editor for the ‘Prince.’

Annie Rupertus is an associate News editor for the ‘Prince.’

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STUDENT LIFE

Late meal is now just ‘meal’ as hours expand

By Rebecca Cunningham Assistant News Editor

Princeton Campus Dining has extended late meal hours to include standard lunch times, raised the late meal allowance, and begun piloting a new mobile ordering system.

The extended lunch hours, which span 11 a.m. to 4p.m. on weekdays, differs by three hours from the 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. schedule used in the 2022–2023 school year. Late dinner hours of 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. have not changed.

Campus Dining originally introduced late meal as an initiative to provide underclassman students with additional dining opportunities beyond normal times.

According to the Campus Dining website, the office recognizes that “students may be unable to dine during regular dining hall hours. Therefore, students with meal plans are entitled to use their plan to purchase late lunches Monday to Friday and late dinner Monday to Thursday at the Food Gallery at Frist.”

Now, however, late meal hours overlap with lunch hours, meaning that students may eat lunch in the Frist Gallery instead of one

of the four dining halls associated with the residential colleges. The implications of this change could lead to a reduction in dining hall crowds at lunch.

Will Zhou ’26 often chooses late meal over residential college dining options due to advantages that late meal provides, such as its central location and grab-and-go options.

“I welcome the change for sure,” he said in an interview with the ‘Prince.’ “Especially for lunch, you can come to Frist and leave quickly, which is quite convenient.”

Isabel Liu ’26 also expressed her preference for late meal, noting the difference in food offerings. “There are a lot of stations at late meal, such as their Asian Bar, which I prefer,” she said.

The university requires all underclassmen to purchase the unlimited meal plan, which automatically includes a late meal allowance. Starting this semester, the amount allotted has increased from nine dollars to nine dollars and 50 cents to match inflation, which remains consistent with a previous allotment increase last fall. However, any meal purchased at the Grill Station, Taco Bar, Asian Bar, and

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Grill station at the Frist Food Gallery.

Pizza Station — even though their advertised price is over $9.50 — can be bought by students for late meal with no additional charge, according to a sign posted in the late meal area.

Also new to late meal, Campus Dining has implemented an online ordering platform,

TigerDash, for the grill’s lunch and dinner options.

The system allows students to purchase menu items ahead of time and avoid waiting in lines. Choices include beef, chicken, vegetarian, quesadillas, and sides.

While the system may lower wait times in the line at

the Frist grill, students must order 30 minutes ahead to ensure that their order has been processed when they arrive to pick up their purchase.

Rebecca Cunningham is an assistant News editor for the ‘Prince.’

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BEYOND THE BUBBLE

A year after Caterpillar, the Class of 2023 spreads their wings

By Annie Rupertus Associate News Editor

“A pervasive commitment to serve the nation and the world” is one of just a few characteristics highlighted in the first sentence of Princeton University’s mission statement. Indeed, from U.S. presidents to senators to Supreme Court justices, Princeton alumni have occupied some of the highest offices of leadership and political power since the University’s founding.

Princeton students have countless opportunities to get involved in activism, student government, and political societies on campus. For some, these high-visibility experiences may lay the groundwork for future careers in government or public service. For others, they may serve as stepping stones to often lucrative jobs in the private sector.

Among some notable groups, including graduating Undergraduate Student Government (USG) presidents, the latter is more common.

The Daily Princetonian took a look at a few of these campus leaders from the just-graduated Class of 2023, hoping to catch a glimpse of what may be in store for young alumni as they enter public life. The Class of 2023 included major political figures on campus whose influence spanned multiple spheres. These figures were all key actors in campus advocacy as students and come from a variety of places on the political spectrum; the selection is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather a sampling of just a few of the voices most involved in advocacy at Princeton over the past four years.

A particularly memorable flash point for campus activists came with March 2022’s “Caterpillar referendum.” Sponsored by the Princeton Committee on Palestine (PCP), the goal of the referendum was to pressure the University to boycott Caterpillar, a construction equipment company whose machinery PCP said was being used to demolish Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip.

Then-PCP President Eric Periman ’23 argued that “This is not a company that should be allowed to build our new Art Museum, nor our new Lake Campus Development Project, nor our new Engineering Quadrangle. It is not a company that should have their machinery strewn across our campus for students, visitors, alumni, and staff to see each and every day.”

On campus, Periman was also awarded Princeton’s Liman Fellowship for public interest legal work, and he co-organized a demonstration outside of the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) protesting against Princeton’s summer programs in the State of Israel.

On the opposite side of the referendum debate, then-USG Treasurer and outspoken campus conservative Adam Hoffman ’23 fought avidly against efforts to boycott Caterpillar. In initial meetings, he suggested that the boycott measure might lead to a rise in antisemitic attacks on campus, and he took issue with the referendum for its seeming alignment with the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to “pressure Israel to comply with international law” via economic tactics.

The referendum eventually passed

but Hoffman joined an appeal after initial election results, arguing that the election had been run unfairly. The appeal asked the Senate to include abstentions in the overall vote count — which an elections official had mistakenly informed opposition members they would be — nullify the results of the election, or hold a revote. The appeal was later upheld, with USG deciding to compromise by writing a position paper explaining the circumstances surrounding the vote.

The referendum became an apt representation of Princeton’s internal political climate. Specifically, though there was plenty of public sparring — in USG meetings and in the pages of this paper — the student body at large was not necessarily as engaged as the public conversation suggested they were. Thenstudent body President Mayu Takeuchi ’23 reflected on this in an interview with the ‘Prince.’

“I wouldn’t consider Princeton a political campus,” she said, explaining that although there were certain student groups and communities that showed “deep levels of engagement” with the issue, voter turnout overall among students was not particularly high, even for a referendum that garnered attention from national media and political organizations.

So what became of the two clashing figures at the center of the Caterpillar debate?

Periman wrote at the time that “Caterpillar has shown time and time again that they are perfectly comfortable remaining complicit in heinous and violent acts.” He has taken on a role as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm that has been criticized in the past for its complicity in the illegal activities of some of its most controversial government and corporate clients.

“Following Princeton I will be moving to Washington D.C. in August to begin work as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company focusing in their Public Sector practice. I am deeply excited to see where this chapter leads me!” Periman wrote in a LinkedIn post earlier in the year.

McKinsey & Company’s clients include Saudi Arabia’s autocratic leadership, which obtained information about dissidents driving negative perception of its economic policies from a report the consulting firm prepared. The individuals mentioned in the report were subsequently arrested and a Twitter (now known as X) account was shut down.

In 2019, McKinsey was also cited in a lawsuit to have advised Purdue Pharma on how the company could boost sales of opioids, despite being aware of their addictive potential and the deaths that had resulted from their usage.

Periman did not respond to a request for comment for this piece.

McKinsey is known to actively seek Princeton students for employment opportunities and has a dedicated recruiting team — composed of a number of University alumni — tasked with tapping graduates.

Hoffman on the other hand found work for Ron Desantis’s 2024 presiden-

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Members of the Class of 2023 walk into the Chapel with their graduation attire in preparation for Baccalaureate. tial campaign, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) files reviewed by the ‘Prince.’ Campaign filings currently available on the FEC website that show disbursements through the end of June indicate that, at least up until that point, Hoffman was making just over $1,000 per week for his work in an unnamed role.

Hoffman was no stranger to the political limelight even on campus. From making arguments about free speech on college campuses in the pages of The New York Times, to moderating an event with Senator Ted Cruz ’92 (R-TX) — for whom he interned in 2016 — to holding an officer position in Tigers for Israel, Hoffman was one of his class’s most active conservative leaders.

As editor-in-chief of the conservative publication The Princeton Tory, he coorganized an event with Abigail Shrier, an anti-trans author. He was the only USG member to vote ‘no’ on sponsoring a referendum to increase gender-neutral bathrooms on campus. Near the end of his term in USG, he proposed a referendum on defining and combating antisemitism that ultimately failed after a debate over the chosen definition’s treatment of Israel.

Despite his political involvement on campus, Hoffman’s work with the DeSantis campaign represents a pivot from a younger Hoffman’s attitude towards political engagement: “There’s something in politics which is toxic to me and repulsive, and I want to stay out of the fray,” he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in 2020 as part of a feature that characterized him as a uniter of Democrats and Republicans.

For Takeuchi — arguably one of the most recognizable public figures given her role as USG president — graduation has taken her on a different route, as she’s taken on a role as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. As president, Takeuchi, a student in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), advocated for sustainability on campus and rose through the ranks of USG. Prior to being elected, she co-organized a conference on environmental policy in the era of COVID-19, served as a Bogle Fellow working on environmental justice initiatives in New Jersey, and spoke to students in support of fossil fuel divestment.

In an interview with the ‘Prince,’ Takeuchi discussed how she’s learned to emphasize lived experiences in policy discussions, both in her work in USG and at Brookings.

“That’s why I chose to take this position at Brookings Metro and work on the applied research team,” Takeuchi said — because it gives her the opportunity to both research proven policies and work directly with leaders in the cities where those policies may be implemented.

Takeuchi’s career choice is rare

among graduating USG presidents — among the last 10, she is the only one to have gone on to work for a think tank.

Half have taken jobs with consulting or finance firms.

According to Takeuchi, one of the most significant policy initiatives of her tenure played out in USG’s efforts to enhance mental health resources on campus. In an extensive 2022 report, a team that included Takeuchi and other USG representatives published a number of recommendations towards this goal, resulting in the establishment of a 24/7 Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) hotline and progress towards a number of other benchmarks for mental health care.

Other prominent campus activists were among the small but relatively vocal conservative community on campus — in a ‘Prince’ survey, only 9.4 percent of the Class of 2023 self-identified as ‘somewhat conservative’ or ‘very conservative.’

Myles McKnight ’23 often appeared in campus news, especially in relation to conservative politics and discussions of free speech. He served as president of Princeton Open Campus Coalition (POCC), a campus organization focused on free speech and institutional neutrality.

In 2022, McKnight addressed firstyear students as part of an event on free expression during their orientation.

Like Hoffman, McKnight was also involved in the opposition to the Caterpillar referendum, and he co-wrote a letter criticizing a SPIA dean’s statements on the 2022 Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, saying that the statements violated institutional neutrality.

McKnight’s investment in issues of free speech persists following graduation, as he’s taken on a full-time position working as a “Public Discourse Fellow” at the Witherspoon Institute, a Princeton-based think tank founded by notable conservative professor Robert P. George. He will speak at an event titled “Free Speech Rights of Students” on Sept. 12 as a part of that role. McKnight is also working has a research assistant for George.

McKnight’s co-author for that letter, Abigail Anthony ’23, served as president of Princeton’s Federalist Society chapter and vice president of POCC, as well as being a member of multiple other conservative and political organizations. During her time at Princeton, Anthony also published a number of opinion pieces in national media outlets, including USA Today and the National Review, a conservative magazine.

In a statement to the ‘Prince,’ Anthony shared that she would be attending Oxford University while also continuing to work part-time for the National Review.

“I was overjoyed to witness the growth of conservative activity on campus,” Anthony wrote of her time at Princeton. “The average number of at-

tendees for the Federalist Society events grew from 10 to 50 during my four years as a student, meanwhile organizations like the Network of Enlightened Women were founded.”

Some others in the Class of 2023 opted to found their own advocacy groups, instead of focusing on more established political societies. Jennifer Lee ’23 took this route, founding the nonprofit Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative (AADI) in 2021 with the goal of “amplify[ing] disabled Asian American voices and [providing] the next generation of disabled Asian Americans with the tools, resources, and infrastructure to thrive in a world that has not historically always welcomed them.”

Lee worked with USG on disability issues and also served as co-president of Princeton’s Asian American Student Association (AASA). In 2021, she spoke at a Stop Asian Hate rally and vigil as part of a widespread movement responding to acts of violence against Asians and Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, Lee works at the Center for American Progress, a liberal policy research and advocacy group, with plans to attend Harvard Law School in 2025.

Takeuchi provided reflections on campus conversations around social and political issues on campus, noting that the Class of 2023 was the last before the COVID-19 pandemic to have an inperson orientation.

“The most important thing when it comes to service and navigating these political conversations is actually being able to see the other person as a full person and learning to respect and empathize with where they’re coming from,” Takeuchi told the ‘Prince,’ recounting how many of the campus leaders she engaged in political discussions with while at Princeton were often initially classmates she had built relationships with in non-political contexts. After four years at Princeton, she said, “I have been frustrated with the lack of that level of empathy and conversation on campus, because I think a lot of conversations are siloed.”

“I want Princeton to be a place that keeps bringing together people of different backgrounds and different perspectives and different experiences,” she said.

In a statement to the ‘Prince,’ Lee reflected on the role of activism on Princeton’s campus. “As long as we’re thinking critically about how we’re leaving this campus (and world) better than we found it,” she wrote, “I trust that every undergraduate has the potential to be an advocate as it pertains to their talents, interests, and capacities.”

Annie Rupertus is an associate News editor for the ‘Prince.’

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The Daily Princetonian

Friday September 15, 2023

LinkedIn-ing Princeton alumni, new and old

By Andrew Bosworth Assistant Data Editor

Princeton boasts over 97,000 living alumni and over 8,700 current undergraduate and graduate students. Nearly 90,000 profiles appear in the alumni tab for Princeton on the social network LinkedIn, which would indicate that over 84 percent of these people hold accounts, if all of the accounts on this tab are students or alumni. We looked at the LinkedIn accounts of these users to see in what fields they work, which companies employ them, and where they reside. While surveys show many recent graduates go into finance and consulting, the most common fields for the users were business development, education, and research.

Only 6,441 users, 6 percent of the total, reported ending their affiliation with Princeton more than 50 years ago, indicating the majority of Princeton LinkedIn users could be valuable networking resources to current students.

Princeton alumni in New York, California, and New Jersey account for over 47 percent of all alumni on LinkedIn. This is more than the number of students who reported living in these states before they came to Princeton.

Only 36 percent of the Class of 2026 were from New York, California, and New Jersey.

The high percentage aligns with the membership data reported by Princeton alumni associations in these regions. The Princeton Association of New York City (PANYC), the NYC alumni association, boasts 10,205 members.

The Princeton Club of South California is the third largest alumni region after the Princeton area, with 3,940 members.

LinkedIn launched in May of 2003, and over 60 percent of Princeton alumni on LinkedIn graduated after its founding. 1957 is the first year in which over 100 LinkedIn members ended their affiliation with Princeton, possibly indicating they members of the Class of 1957. 1989 is the first graduating class that lists over 1000 alumni on LinkedIn. A significant drop of new alumni occurred between 2020 and 2021, possibly due to many students taking a leave of absence from the University due to COVID-19.

According to The Daily Princetonian’s Senior Survey for the Class of 2023, 19 percent of the Class of 2023 planned to attend graduate school or enter academia. Of the remaining 72 percent, the most common career paths were finance, consulting and software engineering. About nine percent of 2023 graduates were undecided on their career path according to our survey.

Some professions are popular among younger alumni but less so among the

broader alumni population. Consulting, for example, is a top five career field in both the 2022 and 2023 Senior Survey, but is the 11th most prominent over all Princeton alumni. Medicine and public service are also fields that many students report on the Senior Surveys, but are otherwise not as popular among alumni.

Our analysis shows that among Princeton alumni and students on LinkedIn, business development, education, and research are the most popular lines of work. This data is likely skewed by research done during undergraduate years.

According to the University’s Health Professions Advising (HPA) office, 83 percent of medical school applicants from Princeton between 2018 and 2022 were accepted into at least one U.S. or Canadian medical school, totaling 559 students. These figures align with the Senior Survey results from both 2022 and 2023, but LinkedIn data shows a far lower percentage of alumni in the medical field, of around 3900 alumni in Healthcare Services, 4.3 percent of all LinkedIn alumni, compared to over 10 percent of the most recent class years.

Princeton University is the largest employer of alumni and students, with close to 3 percent of all alumni and students having worked for the University at one point in their career, as a student or as alumni. Many of the other common employers are major technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta, and several are consulting companies like McKinsey & Company and Boston Consulting Group. The ‘Prince’ is the tenth most common employer, with 0.18 percent of alumni and students listing the publication as an employer, with nearly every listing from a current student or graduate in the past three years.

A large number of alumni are in fields of business, research and finance. The second largest career field, education, is similarly ref lected across the alumni LinkedIn pages of all other Ivy League institutions except for Cornell University, where Operations is the second largest career field then followed by education.

The most common university where Princeton alumni have been employed is Princeton itself by far, followed by Columbia, Penn, and Stanford. Mirroring the location data of alumni, most alumni employed by universities work at schools in the coastal regions of the country. The most common university for alumni employment not on either U.S. coast is the University of Chicago, the 15th most popular school for alumni employment. Massachusetts Institute of Technology has employed over 130 alumni, but within the research field, not education.

Harvard Medical School is the only

hospital and medical school that is a common alumni employer within the education field. Other common healthcare systems include Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and University of California, San Francisco.

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the most recent year for which data from the Registrar is available, the most common concentration was Computer Science. Combined with Computational Science, a LinkedIn major option

most closely related to Computer Science, Computer Science accounts for the majors of over 10 percent of both the 2021-2022 upperclass student population and all Princeton alumni on LinkedIn. Princeton alumni represent a diverse population, spread across the United States and the world, and spanning many career fields and companies.

Andrew Bosworth is an assistant Data editor for the ‘Prince’.

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Housing Services hides box fans around campus in an egg hunt-style competition

By Spencer Bauman Head Humor Editor

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional.

Following the disastrous fan distribution this morning that left many students empty-handed, Housing Services announced they have hidden fans around campus for students to find in an egg huntstyle competition.

An email from Housing Services sent to all undergraduates contained riddles hinting at locations where the fans can be found. The email ended with “may the odds be ever in your favor,” a nod to the upcoming release of the new “Hunger Games” film. Students have already dropped their problem sets and assigned readings in the spirit of competition to search for the fans.

The fan distribution was scheduled to commence at 10:30 a.m., but by 11 a.m. multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing students using lab notebooks, Crocs sandals, and Wintersession tote bags as weapons against fellow students in a desperate attempt to obtain a fan, evoking haunting memories of the Fyre Festival documentary.

Noah Cee, a representative from Housing Services, told The Daily PrintsAnything, “We are looking forward to watching undergraduates scramble around campus looking for fans. They are NOT on the roof!”

Cee continued, “We will be checking to make sure participat-

ing students are only those living in non-air-conditioned dorms.”

Hunter Phan ’24, a sweaty undergraduate participating in the fan hunt, explained that he was asked by a Housing Services representative to “pinky swear” that he lived in Brown Hall.

Phan was seen carrying three

large box fans into Addy Hall in New College West.

Spencer Bauman is the head Humor editor and a member of the Class of 2025. He has already found all the fans and will be selling them on the orange and black market.

MARK DODICI / THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN

The courtyard in front of Blair Hall hosts groups of visitors on a recent Sunday afternoon.

Breaking: Lawnparties headliners are NOT the real Chainsmokers, but impersonators

By Sophia Varughese Associate Humor Editor

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional.

On Sunday, Sept. 3, the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) sent an email to the student body announcing the performance lineup for Lawnparties. This email includ-

ed a photo of two generic-looking white millennials advertised as the event’s headliners. Although campus initially rejoiced at the news that The Chainsmokers would be headlining the event, recent investigative efforts by The Daily PrintsAnything have found that these two men are in fact Chainsmokers impersonators, not The Chainsmokers themselves.

According to multiple online

sources, these two men have been traveling the country pretending to be The Chainsmokers, producing nearly identical-sounding music, as well as acting in the same douchebag manner integral to The Chainsmokers’ image.

“Are you sure they’re not the real Chainsmokers? But they have the same botched jawlines and stupid hair,” Christine Singh ’27 said. “Is that just what all white guy musi-

cians look like?”

“We wanted to get a big name this year after last fall’s Hipposomething debacle, but we found frugality to be important,” USG member Douglas Wilson ’25 said.

“Why pay sticker when you can get the same exact thing for a quarter of the price?”

When asked what she thought about the headliners, Greta Martinez ’26 said, “Remember when The Chainsmokers said in a Billboard interview that their penises measure 17.34 inches when put together?

Do you think their, like, penises had to, like, … touch to figure that out?”

These impersonators seem to have been very punctilious with their disguises, with one of them even changing their name to Andrew to match that of Andrew Taggart, who is believed to be 12 of the 17.34 inches that comprise The Chainsmokers duo. Although the true identities of this year’s headliners remain unknown, students across campus continue to appear very excited for their day of getting violently wasted at breakfast, subsisting solely on Taco Bell, and wearing the same TJ Maxx sundress as everyone else.

Sophia Varughese is an associate Humor editor and a member of the class of 2026. She f***ing hates the Chainsmokers.

KATHERINE DAILEY / THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN

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By Simon Marotte Head Puzzles Editor

ACROSS 1 What you might do with a crush 6 Do the backstroke, say 10 Way, way away 13 Like some functions 15 Potential Starbucks order 16 Pub purchase 17 Spaces people go into only to get out 19 Tiny complaint 20 “James and the Giant Peach” author 21 Lobster bisque, for one 22 Affliction said to be caused by worry 24 Spud 26 In my opinion, we shouldn’t 27 Supplemental purchases 30 Do a little better than 31 It often has a chair 32 Romantic gamble 36 CPR specialist, briefly 37 Formal shoes 38 Neither’s partner 39 Psychics may read them 42 One working on a line, perhaps?

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48 Like suspicious eyes 50 Impression, Sunrise artist

51 Shoe that may hold Jibbitz 52 Large gulp 56 Educated Guess singer DiFranco 57 Start of Princeton ... or a feature of the circled frosh programs in this puzzle’s grid 60 Atlanta-based channel 61 Bat mitzvah, e.g.

62 Ancient Greece city-state 63 Droop 64 Put the pedal to the metal 65 Feature of some skirts

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Humanities courses can solve Princeton’s civic service problem Abigail Rabieh

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hile researching theory on aesthetic appreciation and artistic analysis in preparation for a trip to Greece with the Western Humanities Sequence last fall, I read a few chapters from a 2015 dissertation in English on romantic hellenism. When I searched for the author’s email in order to thank him for his scholarship, I expected to find him on the faculty page of a University website. Instead, I found his LinkedIn, where it turned out he had followed up his Ph.D with a stint in consulting and was currently working as a research analyst.

This discovery was saddening. It felt to me time that someone who had written such a fascinating work on the ways in which humanity experiences its own temporality should be on some elevated career path, not in the muck of consulting. It was the same sadness which runs through the veins of many idealistic Princetonians today. We feel, righteously, that the life of a Princetonian should be heroic: uplifting the downtrodden and solving the most pressing injustices of our time. Yet few alumni seem to be living up to the task.

Current students love bandying about Princeton’s motto — “In the nation’s service and the service of humanity” — to pass judgment on alumni who seem to be pursuing careers which seem to be anything but. The fact that 38% of graduates, the most in any one field, from 2016 – 2022 are currently working in the business sector (an industry including Finance, Consulting, General Business, and Entrepreneurship) reinforces our sense of moral superiority over previous classes. After all, if we are the #1 University in the nation, should we not have the #1 impact for good?

The solution to the crisis of apparent apathy and moral ambivalence lies not in forcing alumni into a career that has been certified as good for humanity, but in instructing Princetonians on how to identify such opportunities. Moreover, it is to teach in a way that leads to an internalization of why it is good to pursue paths that have a benefit to humanity as a whole. In other words: to study what it means to be human. The real crisis in saving humanity is Princeton’s devaluation of humanities majors as compared to more pre-professional fields.

Humanistic education begs students to seek truth in the world around them: to utilize a variety of forms of investigation — literary, philosophic, artistic, and more — to understand the human experience. Such a process can begin to help students understand how to be human, and how they can individually make choices that increase goodness and justice in their life — so long as they can come up with a definition for these terms and identify that such are the ends to which they should strive.

In this manner of education, students are imbued with a stronger sense of their role in a greater human community, which helps them to pursue a postgraduate path in the service of others. Yet in a world where education is increasingly seen as nothing more than a certification on the path to financial and professional stability, humanistic values are wont to fall by the wayside.

College degrees are currently being reduced to nothing but a status symbol, demonstrating that a graduate possesses a certain level of technical skill. As a result of this process, students become

much less likely to use that degree in any other way than a technical manner.

This vision of education’s purpose is already affecting the type of education being offered. West Virginia University (WVU)’s recently released a plan to discontinue 32 majors from their flagship campus, including the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, as well as to downsize the faculty in several departments, such as English.

Explaining his decision, the President cited the need to “provide modern ways of delivering content” that students “find meaningful and relevant.” Viewing education as nothing more than “content” reduces the student to simply a consumer of education, rather than an active thinker, investigator, and ultimately, participant in their own selfprogress.

This is a national trend: America has seen a massive decline in interest in the humanities over the course of this century. From 2012 to 2020, the annual total of humanities majors awarded fell 16%.

As of 2020, less than 10% of all bachelor’s degrees conferred came from humanities departments. In Nathan Heller’s New Yorker article from last February entitled “the End of the English Major,” he suggests that the vast majority of Americans no longer understand the value of these fields.

Heller argues that students in the past pursued education via the liberal arts to achieve a “cultivation of the mind,” citing Lionel Trilling, who described the basic belief in this sort of learning as the idea that “certain good things happen if we read literature.” Yet today, he provides a myriad examples of students who cannot identify such a reward. A Harvard student told Heller that the subjectivity of grading within the humanities inherently lowers its value, as a student could take a humanities course and “easily walk away with an A or A-minus and not learn anything.”

Another student noted that one feels as if they are “not really going anywhere” in their humanistic studies, since the “skills are very difficult to demonstrate.”

When students do not take courses in the humanities, they miss out on studying works which ask how to determine what it means to be good, and why you should pursue the good. In a climate in which students don’t have the basic ability of interrogating these questions, how could a university expect its students to go forth and creatively serve their nation and humanity at large? Service cannot be reduced to post-graduation careers, but it can be predicted from the quality and type of an education itself.

There is no single career from which you can automatically do good, and there are few careers which make such a task impossible. The fact is that one can do good from almost anywhere — whether that be in finance, business, engineering, government, or the nonprofit sector — if you have the capacity to lead your life with a commitment to others at its core. When a student receives a purely technical and content-based education that does not engage their critical thinking and learning skills, they are going to be hard-pressed to answer the difficult questions that lead to such a prioritization.

So why are students shying away from the humanities? In part because the University is encouraging them.

Heller described the climate at Harvard as follows: “In a quantitative society for which optimization — getting the most output from your input — has become

a self-evident good, universities prize actions that shift numbers, and preprofessionalism lends itself to traceable change.”

Princeton seems to be going in the same direction: For the past 7 years, President Christopher L. Eisgruber has been pushing the message that the future of Princeton lies within the growth of engineering. In the 2016 strategic framework, the Board of Trustees wrote that a “great liberal arts university requires a great engineering school,” and that “fields related to information science… will require special attention.”

Many construction projects around campus are visual evidence of this focus, as “a massive construction project will update buildings built a half-century ago,” and will move the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in Eisgruber’s words, “from the periphery into the core of the University.”

This makes clear to students where Eisgruber thinks the future lies. While promoting engineering does not necessarily mean that the humanities should fall by the wayside, there is a special excitement that University leadership gives to SEAS which the humanities sorely lacks. The 2016 plan emphasizes that growth in engineering is partly in response to the rising student interest in the field: “Over the past decade, the number of students concentrating in computer science has tripled, and the enrollment in computer science courses has quadrupled.”

This necessitates a decrease in interest for the humanities — if the University simply follows the path of students desire, what’s to stop an axing of humanities resources similar to that at WVU? We are left with nothing but a weak commitment to humanistic study, with Princeton acknowledging its “special responsibility to exercise visible leadership in the arts and humanities by nurturing such scholarship on its own campus and helping to raise its standing throughout the world,” without any mention of how to accomplish this hefty task.

A university plays a very specific and time-bound role in a student’s life. It educates us — for the most part — during a time when we are transitioning to independent adulthood, making decisions about who we are and what we want to be. Yet it is not meant to help us make that choice forever. Who we are when we leave college is not who we are going to be in 10 or 20 years. Expecting a university to send its alumni directly into a career that has an immediate and clear impact on the good of the world around them is a far too expansive understanding of a university’s role, and a far too limited understanding of how good can be accomplished. We must rather expect that it produces students that understand the importance of making decisions that positively affect the world in meaningful ways and know something about how to do so.

The Princeton strategic framework says that “a Princeton education should shape the whole person,” enhancing “the quality and humanity of our nation and our world.” We must maintain our commitment to this mission, and to our mission statement, by focusing on and uplifting the humanities core which can educate us in how to accomplish these.

Abigail Rabieh is a junior in the history department from Cambridge, Mass. She is the head Opinion editor at the ‘Prince’ .

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of the case. As time went on, however, it became clear that there would be no

public acknowledgment of what seemed to be one of the biggest student incidents to occur in my time at Princeton.

A student who was familiar with the fraternity involved in the recent incident, but who was not a member, alleged that fraternity practices included burning each other with cigarettes, cutting each other, and pouring hot sauce on the wounds. They were granted anonymity to protect their privacy.

As I later discovered, New Jersey recently adopted a new antihazing law to increase transparency surrounding hazing. Yet, the only time Princeton publicly commented on the incident was in its legally mandatory report of hazing violations. Princeton reported it as “events where new members … were made to participate in physically and emotionally demeaning and/or dangerous conduct that placed the new members at a substantial risk of physical injury and other harms, and which resulted in physical injury to some new members.”

A combination of haphazard adherence, lack of awareness, and perverse incentives for University administrators means that hazing remains shrouded in secrecy on Princeton’s campus and beyond — and students suffer the consequences.

What exactly is hazing?

Hazing generally refers to any initiation process for new members, especially that of fraternities and sororities. However, safe and non-degrading initiations do not legally constitute hazing. New Jersey law defines hazing as knowingly or recklessly inducing someone to engage in activities that violate the law, risk their physical or emotional health, involve physical, emotional, mental, or sexual abuse, or could likely result in bodily injury, regardless of the consent of the parties.

Examples of hazing, according to University policy, include acts that could result in physical, psychological, or emotional deprivation or harm, ingestion of any undesirable substance such as alcohol, food, or drugs, participation in sexual rituals or assaults, and participation in illegal activities.

The New Jersey anti-hazing law mandating Princeton to publish this report was passed, in part, to help fight the secrecy surrounding hazing. Yet, few questions surrounding the recent fraternity story have been answered.

Anti-hazing law: A step in the right direction In 2017, the death of Timothy Piazza, a New Jersey resident studying at Penn State, sent shockwaves through communities across both states. At a fraternity hazing event, Piazza drank heavily and fell down the stairs, losing

consciousness and rupturing a spleen. His fraternity brothers were reluctant to call for help for over 12 hours, after which doctors were unable to save him.

Piazza’s death led New Jersey to adopt its new anti-hazing law in August 2021, known as the “Timothy J. Piazza Anti Hazing Law” (S84/2093). It became one of the strictest in the country and was widely praised by hazing prevention advocates for its clear definition of hazing, the harsh penalties it listed, and the University reporting requirements it mandated.

However, despite the enactment of this law, hazing-related accidents continued, as evidenced by an incident that occurred at Rutgers University in March 2022.

Armand Runte, a freshman at Rutgers, suffered a skull fracture during a fraternity hazing event and experienced a prolonged delay in receiving medical help. Runte accused Rutgers of intentionally neglecting to address the issue of hazing at the university.

Furthermore, to increase transparency surrounding hazing, the law mandated that New Jersey universities must publicly disclose hazing incidents on a biannual basis, and must retrospectively disclose all incidents that have occurred since 2017.

In an investigation analyzing hazing violation reports for universities in New Jersey, the ‘Prince’ found reports for only 10 out of 25 public and private universities, including Princeton, reflecting an adherence rate of 40 percent.

The investigation also reveals that among the universities that have complied, hazing cases are likely vastly underreported, and the descriptions of the violations are often vague. Additionally, in a survey of student opinions on hazing at Princeton, the vast majority of surveyed students report being unaware that Princeton publishes reports in the first place.

Hazing reports do exist for some universities, but they often reveal very little The reports that do exist paint a dark picture of hazing in New Jersey, showing that events have involved beatings, strandings in remote locations, and have led to physical injuries.

The Piazza law requires universities to include details such as the date of the violation, a general description, investigation findings, imposed penalties, and the resolution date in their hazing reports. However, universities have considerable freedom in deciding the level of detail they disclose.

The majority of reports are incredibly vague. Rutgers, for example, concisely reported Runte’s story of suffering severe brain damage as “Abuse/Endangerment/ Hazing.”

Transparency from universities can impact students’ decisions to join particular organizations. In an interview, David Bianchi, an attorney who helped write Florida’s anti-hazing law, said that “universities should be required to publish this data because there is no other place for parents of college

students to get the information …

If you don’t place this data in one central location, there is no place for either prospective fraternity pledges or the parents to get the information.”

Additionally, according to a New Jersey attorney specializing in hazing cases, who wished to remain anonymous, the scale of the problem is likely to be much larger than what is revealed by the reports.

“I recall in the past few years we probably had about 200 people reach out about what I would call hazing cases … and that’s just us.

I mean, we’re obviously on the larger side, but we’re not the only firm,” he said in an interview with me. The attorney estimated that 2,000 to 3,000 people a year reach out to attorneys with hazing cases in New Jersey.

On a national scale, the National Study of Student Hazing found that 95 percent of students who experience hazing do not report the incidents to campus officials.

Moreover, many cases that universities do become aware of are not made public.

Bianchi said that universities often conduct a secret disciplinary process, claiming student privacy as justification. He also pointed out that universities have their own incentive to be secretive: in order to protect their reputation and avoid bad press.

At Princeton, the penalties for hazing are determined internally by the Committee on Discipline (COD), which is responsible for handling “serious non-academic misconduct; [and] for assessing reported violations.”

Hazing extends beyond fraternities and sororities. The National Study of Student Hazing found that athletic teams experience hazing incidents at a higher rate than Greek organizations. Accordingly, the New Jersey anti-hazing law mandates that universities report hazing violations across all types of student organizations, not solely within Greek life.

However, in response to our questions, some universities claimed that their Greek Life Chapter Status page or Greek Life Disciplinary History report satisfies the reporting requirement — which, of course, overlooks hazing incidents that occur outside of fraternities and sororities.

In my opinion, students cannot be reasonably expected to make informed decisions about joining student groups without access to detailed information on past incidents. It is especially true for Greek life, where pledging can last for months and typically intensifies as time passes. In my conversations with fraternity members for this article, some have expressed that if they knew what pledging would entail, they would not have joined in the first place. If a student does not mind the first few months of pledging but later discovers that activities are crossing the line into abuse, it might already be too late to drop out without substantial social ramifications.

Students and even some administrators aren’t aware that hazing reports exist I sent out a survey to Butler, Forbes, Mathey, and Whitman residential colleges at Princeton.

Responses from 60 students reveal that 96 percent of students aren’t aware that hazing reports exist or are legally required, and none have ever tried to look up Princeton’s hazing reports.

The lack of awareness is not confined to students. A Greek life coordinator at a New Jersey public university that has not published a hazing report spoke to me about their experience.

“Personally, I wasn’t familiar with the report — I’m gonna be honest. So when I saw your email, I was like, ‘I know down South [in South Carolina, a state they previously worked in] we did this. I wasn’t familiar that in New Jersey we were doing this,’” the coordinator said. “[It’s] funny because ... when I came to this institution [in New Jersey] … I asked my supervisor … ‘Hey, do you think it’s a benefit if we start posting [the report] on our website because, you know, we post like our 5-star chapters, our chapters that aren’t doing well … but not incidents,’” the coordinator said. “At the time, I was told no because there wasn’t an actual law for it.” The coordinator started to work at the university after the law was passed.

Typically, the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education (OSHE) is responsible for implementing New Jersey laws connected to postsecondary education. However, when asked to comment on whether it enforces NJ Rev Stat § 18A:3-27.4, the law requiring universities to publish violations, OSHE responded in a statement, “[A]s written, this is a law that is implemented and enforced at the local level, and OSHE does not have a role in this area.”

When probed for further comments, OSHE responded that any criminal aspects of hazing incidents are enforced directly by prosecutors, and “institutions [themselves] enforce non-criminal aspects … Higher education in New Jersey is a highly-autonomous system and the law is a reflection of that. For OSHE to enforce it, the law would need to specifically empower that and it does not.”

In the coordinator’s view, other universities might not comply because they do not have employees specializing in Greek life coordination. “A lot of the schools that you mentioned — it was probably the same thing that happened before I got here. It was people who weren’t necessarily in that area when they had to do the legwork for fraternity and sorority life. So they might not have been privy to the policy,” he said.

Princeton students’ opinions on hazing remain mixed, despite 1/5 of seniors participating in Greek Life The University does not recognize fraternities and sororities because “they do not add in posi-

tive ways to the overall residential experience on the campus,” according to Rights, Rules, and Responsibilities 2.2.8. They are not permitted to use University resources or participate in University-sponsored events.

Nevertheless, according to the 2023 Daily Princetonian senior survey, 20.3 percent of seniors had been or still are a part of Greek life during their time at Princeton.

The objective of tightening hazing laws and mandating reports was to foster a shift in students’ attitudes towards hazing and diminish its prevalence on campus.

Dr. Elizabeth Allan, one of the authors of the National Study of Student Hazing, wrote in an email, “Requiring institutions to clearly communicate hazing incidents allows for greater accountability, opportunities to develop trust and strengthen relationships (e.g. incentivizing reporting of hazing, knowing that the institution is going to take the proper steps for investigating organizations/hazing incidents, and clearly reporting the findings/sanctions), creating transparency for students and their family members to help them make informed decisions while they are considering joining a group.”

Princeton student survey responses conveyed a variety of opinions on hazing and anti-hazing laws. Responses ranged from acknowledging the necessity and importance of hazing laws to advocating for their abolition.

In my opinion, hazing is not an inherent attribute of Greek life, sports teams, or student clubs.

All these groups bring incredible value to students by building communities and forging lifelong friendships. Camaraderie can be built without creating trauma for students to bond over. Student leaders have the intelligence, compassion, and creativity it takes to build a community based on constructive — rather than destructive —experiences for its members.

The current generation of Princeton students has the power to define the social culture that continues into the future. Princeton students should openly discuss and determine which initiation activities add value to participants and which initiation activities are toxic and, therefore, should be considered unacceptable.

Hazing thrives in the shadows, and universities must recognize the impact that their lack of transparency has on students’ decisions to join certain groups — and, consequently, the experiences the students go through. Students must hold universities to this high standard of transparency, recognizing that universities will always have an incentive to protect their own reputation. Both sides should keep each other accountable.

It is time for hazing to stop being an open secret.

Anna Izyumova is a member of Class of 2023.

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Princeton must install air conditioning as temperatures rise Lucia Wetherill

Community Opinion Editor

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s I sat in my new room, move-in debris strewn around me, I checked the weather.

My eyes widened when I saw the high temperature estimates — 92 degrees, 93 degrees, 94 degrees, 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Not for the first time, I looked at my alreadyoverworked fans and wished that my room had air conditioning.

Many Princetonians experience a lack of air conditioning at some point during their time living on campus. Students lucky enough to have it — such as those living in the new colleges — are often the subject of envy. The Univer-

sity has seemed content to let this inequality of housing persist, despite the fact that non-air-conditioned housing costs the same as air-conditioned housing. Students without air conditioning are simply left to buy fans and hope for the best.

Yet the temperatures this week are higher than what is deemed safe for non-air-conditioned spaces. After this summer’s heat waves, experts have noted that as temperatures exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit, fans fail to protect against heat-related conditions like heatstroke and heat exhaustion. One expert, University of Texas Southwestern internal medicine professor Craig Crandall, stated that “if you don’t have

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air conditioning, you should be planning to go elsewhere long before temperatures reach 90 degrees.” Yet most students don’t have anywhere else to go, and must simply “stick it out” until temperatures decrease. They may be able to leave their rooms during the day, but the nights remain uncomfortably hot.

Not only does the lack of air conditioning harm students, disrupting sleep and occasionally making their rooms uninhabitable, but the lack of temperature and air control poses a more significant issue amid the growing climate crisis. Princeton must begin proactively updating its older residential colleges and buildings before worsening climate conditions make the change absolutely necessary.

While we already feel the effects of the temperature rise (as evidenced by this week’s heat surge and this summer’s heat waves), skyrocketing temperatures will only grow in the coming decades.

In the present, we may be able to “stick it out” for a few weeks, but future Princetonians will battle far greater heat waves.

Global temperatures have been on the rise for years. The past eight years (2015–2022) have been the hottest on record globally due to the growing presence of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere. These temperatures will likely only continue to rise: By 2100, the average U.S. temperature is projected to increase by any-

where from 3 degrees to 12 degrees Fahrenheit.

It’s not just the heat, either.

There have been increasing air quality issues as climate change fuels wildfires across North America. In early June 2023, the smoke from Canadian wildfires settled over much of the East Coast and Midwest. Princeton experienced incredibly poor air quality — on June 7, for example, the air quality index (AQI) in Mercer County reached 467. An AQI of over 300 is considered to be hazardous. In July 2023, wildfires once again caused air quality to plummet in many U.S. cities.

As wildfire seasons get more severe, such incidents become more likely to happen during the school year; increasingly destructive fires could start coming earlier in May or later in October. The main way to protect against poor air quality is to remain indoors and keep central air conditioning running — something that most of Princeton’s residential buildings are ill-equipped for. If Princeton experienced the air quality issues that it did this summer when all of its students were on campus, a significant portion of the student population would be exposed to hazardous air.

A week or two of high temperatures may be uncomfortable but ultimately bearable in the short term. In the long term, however, the effects of climate change pose a real threat to students living in non-air-conditioned buildings.

I’m certainly not advocating for immediate and simultaneous construction on all residential buildings. As we’ve seen from the multiple parallel construction activities in the past few years, students suffer when there are too many simultaneous projects on campus. If Princeton acknowledges the problem now, it can begin gradually renovating buildings — and potentially include these renovations in its net-zero planning — rather than scrambling for less sustainable and more taxing solutions as the situation worsens.

The cost of this endeavor would be undoubtedly high, as it’s more challenging to add air conditioning to older buildings. It may only be feasible to install window units or ductless mini-split air conditioners until the buildings themselves are rebuilt, even if central air conditioning is a more comprehensive solution. Ultimately, whichever path it chooses, Princeton has the money, and the well-being of its students is worth the cost.

Unfortunately, this is the reality we live in — without strong action, the impacts of climate change will only grow. Princeton must be cognizant of these changes and prioritize the health and safety of its students, sooner rather than later.

Lucia Wetherill is the Community Opinion editor at the ‘Prince’. from Newtown, PA.

On activism: How the ’27 Pre-read falls flat Jordan Fraser Angel Guest Contributor

The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author’s views alone.

I

was disappointed to be disappointed by this year’s Pre-read, “How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for our Future,” by Maria Ressa ‘86. The book has its merits — Ressa, an investigative journalist targeted by the Philippines’ illiberal government, demonstrates her character, intelligence, and skill throughout the memoirmanifesto. A co-founder of the digital news company Rappler and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, she is an excellent and courageous journalist and a fierce voice for democracy and against misinformation. And yet, I found her book profoundly unfulfilling.

It feels cruel to say this, especially because the book is mostly this remarkable journalist’s autobiography. The adversity she faces and the courage she displays in her struggle against autocracy are evident. Although I admire Ressa as a person, I cannot set aside her book’s ambiguous portrayal of activism or the effects this portrayal might have on Princeton students.

Unfortunately, the book’s narrative is one of ineffective activism, which fails to become greater than the sum of its parts.

Ressa’s efforts are passionate and virtuous, but ultimately read as tragedies. Even when Ressa’s activism is unsuccessful, it is still framed as powerful. This stance clouds activism’s meaning and dilutes its significance.

In “How to Stand Up to a Dictator,” Ressa shares her tactics: hashtag campaigns, think tank studies, fundraising, meetings with Facebook, participation in conferences, online workshops, international coalitions, speeches, her ‘Ten-Point Plan to Address the Information Crisis.’ However, while Ressa is rightfully proud of her efforts, they weren’t successful in the Philippines; although they maintained her relevance, they didn’t propel her to victory.

Activism is more than the execution of laudable, yet ineffective, processes. At best, this presents activism as lofty initiatives exchanged in a bubble of do-gooders. At worst, the reader will take away that activism does not work — which is tragic, because little else can resist tyranny; to quote Frederick Douglass, “Power concedes nothing without demand.”

Ressa writes, “I want to make sure that I have done all I can. We will not duck. We will not hide.”

But activism does not consist of all-out do-gooding; instead, it should be practiced as specific actions targeted to affect specific change. Ressa often frames activism normatively rather than substantively. To be clear, activism should embody moral goods. But, while these goods create a frame-

work for action, their promotion is not the end itself. In her narrative, Ressa frequently refers back to the lessons ingrained in her worldview during her childhood and adolescence, such as embracing fear, standing up to bullies.

Of Princeton, she writes that “the strict code of honor simplified the world for me and helped me make quick decisions.” Adherence to these principles validate her actions throughout her narrative, such as when she refuses to jump bail while abroad in order to “not become a criminal to fight a criminal.” However, Ressa’s emphasis on moral victories rather than tangible ones causes the virtue inherent in activism to risk being mistaken for its center.

Painfully, a passage about Ressa’s reaction to her friend Twink’s battle with cancer describes the attitude that I take issue with in the context of activism: “Despite all that, I assumed that her strength of will would ultimately prevail over the disease. I suppose that’s a fundamental belief I should reexamine: that you can shape the world you live in with your mind.”

Ressa makes the same assumption with the disease that pervades her politics: that the laws which are displeasing to an autocrat, namely freedom of the press and the right to a fair trial, will ultimately prevail to enshrine democracy in perpituity. But this blind faith in inevitable progress lulls people into a false sense of security. This is

the essential mistake: Activists are not the prophets of a natural direction, of a human flourishing that evolves as inexorably as gravity falls. Activism implies the imperative of active efforts to continuously construct a more just world, so it’s critical that we do not take neither its efforts nor its successes for granted.

Commending Ressa’s qualities and recognizing the importance of her fight can and must co-exist with a broader critique of the

theme of activism — especially on Princeton’s campus, which suffers from a dearth of effective activism. While Maria Ressa has a valuable story to tell, a Pre-read that conflates ineffective and meaningful activism risks disillusioning its readers.

Ressa tells us how to stand up to a dictator. But how do you win against one?

Jordan Fraser Angel is a first-year intending to major in Politics.

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MEN’S WATER POLO

Men’s water polo continues dominant season start, going 5–0 during the Princeton Invitational

By Hayk Yengibaryan Associate Sports Editor

Men’s water polo (7–0 overall, 0–0 Northeast Water Polo Conference) returned to DeNunzio Pool this weekend as they hosted the Princeton Invitational Tournament. 11 teams from across the nation traveled to New Jersey to play at DeNunzio Pool, including five teams ranked in the top 20. The Tigers remained undefeated, going 5–0 and bringing their season record to 7–0. This is the Tigers best start to the season since 2017 when they also began 7–0 before dropping a match to No. 4 University of California — Los Angeles (UCLA).

Defense shines against No. 15 Cal Baptist The first game of the weekend was against the No. 16 Cal Baptist Lancers (4–4, 0–0 West Coast Conference). The defense shined for the Tigers, as they held the Lancers to just seven goals. Princeton has not let any of its seven opponents on the season score double digit goals. Ever since head coach Dustin Litvak was hired in 2018, the players have bought into his defensive system incredibly well. Rival coaches have often called Litvak one of the best in the country.

The Lancers did score the first goal of the contest, but Princeton would respond right away scoring five unanswered to take a commanding 5–1 lead.

After two goals by the Lancers to cut the Tiger lead to two, junior utility Roko Pozaric would score on a five meter to give Princeton a 6–3 lead. Right before halftime, junior defender Vladan Mitrovic would score an amazing goal from distance to make it 7–3.

The third period was all Tigers as they outscored the Lancers 7–1 to take a comfortable 14–4 lead. The Tiger defense seemed to be everywhere, limiting the Lancers offense. Pozaric would score his third of the game, marking his second

hat-trick of the season. Sophomore utility JP Ohl would also score two in the third to pace the Tigers.

Ohl is a contributing Sports writer for the ‘Prince.’

The fourth quarter was not very exciting for fans as both teams limited each other on offense. Senior center George Caras would pick up his second straight hat trick. Princeton would hold Cal Baptist to four goals with about two minutes left. However, the Lancers would get three consolation goals to end the contest 15–7 in Princeton’s favor.

Strong second half helps pace Tigers to convincing victory over Wagner The second game of the weekend came early Saturday morning against the Wagner Seahawks (5–3, 1–0 Mid Atlantic Water Polo Conference). It took some time for the Tigers to settle into the matchup as they missed some opportunities to take a comfortable lead in the first half.

Sophomore utility Logan McCarroll would score the Tigers third goal of the first period to give them an early 3–1 lead.

Junior attacker Gavin Molloy and Caras were the two other Tiger goal-scorers in the first.

The Seahawks would keep things interesting in the second quarter. With just over three minutes remaining in the first half, they cut the lead to 4–3. Mitrovic and junior utility Mason Killion would score to make it 6–3 heading into the halftime break.

The Tigers would break away in the third quarter. Mitrovic would seal his hat trick while McCarroll and Pozaric would each score as well to make it 12–5 heading into the fourth quarter.

The fourth quarter was highlighted by a goal from first-year utility Finn LeSieur. LeSieur is coming off an impressive senior season for Newport Harbor High School that saw him win the CIF Southern Section Open Division Championship. In the summer, he helped lead Newport’s

club team to the Junior Olympics title, winning MVP of the tournament. LeSieur will surely be a big contributor to Litvak’s squad this season.

Litvak spoke very highly of his four first-year recruits.

“We have an exceptional class of firstyears. Not only are they performing well in games, but they are also having a large impact on our culture,” Litvak told the Daily Princetonian. “Tiggy [Tigran Sennett] is extremely athletic, talented, and natural in the water. Finn and Will [Swart] are two of the smartest, most hard working, competitive athletes I’ve ever coached. They are so mature and disciplined for their age, it really is inspiring.

They remind me of when I got to coach Paul Reynolds at UCLA in terms of their approach to everything they do.”

Towards the end of the game, sophomore utility Luke Johnston would score two goals. Johnston, who was an important contributor to last year’s squad, has been slowly reintegrating himself into the lineup while recovering from an injury.

The game would end with a 17–5 Princeton victory as they held Wagner scoreless in the fourth.

Pozaric stars in yet another ranked win over Santa Clara Pozaric’s resume speaks for itself. In his first two seasons with the Tigers, the junior from Zagreb, Croatia had 135 goals, 80 assists, and 92 steals with 73 ejections drawn. He certainly showed why he was one of the best players in the nation Saturday night when he scored five goals in a win over the No. 19 ranked Santa Clara Broncos (4–2, 0–0 West Coast Conference).

The Broncos put the pressure early on taking a 1–0 just a couple minutes into the contest. Holding the Tigers scoreless for over five minutes, the Broncos were holding their own on Saturday night in front of a sold out crowd at DeNunzio Pool.

However, Mitrovic would score from

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Sophomore utility JP Ohl had five goals and 14 assists during the Princeton Invitational.

the top of the key to tie things up before Pozaric would score back to back goals to give Princeton a 3–1 lead.

The first half of the second quarter was a scoreless affair as both teams struggled to get good looks offensively. With just under four minutes remaining, Pozaric would get his first half hat trick after a truly sensational finish. The Tigers and Broncos would exchange goals with senior attacker Yurian Quinones scoring to make it 5–2 at the break.

In the third period, the Broncos were still somewhat holding on. Pozaric would score his fourth of the game early in the third after a beautiful pass from Quinones. After Santa Clara beat Temkin in the goal, Killion would score to make it 7–3. Pozaric would find his fifth goal of the game late in the third period. Five is the second highest Pozaric has scored in his Princeton career.

The fourth quarter was finally the breakaway that Litvak and his coaching staff were looking for. The Tigers were paced by Mitrovic in the fourth quarter who would score two of the six Tiger goals en route to a 15–7 win over Santa Clara.

Last year, the Tigers struggled against Santa Clara during the Princeton Invitational, winning 9–8. Later in the season during their now annual trip to California, they would beat them 16–8. The Tigers comfortable early season win over the Broncos shows the true potential of this squad heading into a year with many high expectations for the squad.

SportsCenter Top 10 as Mitrovic shows off his skillset in a comfortable win vs. Chapman As many of their friends prepared for Lawnparties, the Tigers did what they do best — scored a lot of goals. Like they have done all season, the squad would score double digit goals in a comfortable 17–8 win versus Division Three opponent Chapman (0–4 overall, 0–0 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference).

McCarroll would get the party started for Litvak’s squad with an easy finish from the center position. After the Tigers would score a couple more, Mitrovic would score an incredible goal with under a minute left. After a Quinones lob inside, Mitrovic would spin and score, leaving no hope for the Broncos goalkeeper. The goal would make the Sports Center Daily Top 10.

“Vladan [Mitrovic] is one of the best players in college water polo on both ends of the pool. He came back in tremendous physical shape and has had a great start,” Litvak told the ‘Prince’. “Just like his first two years, we expect him to get better and better as the season goes along. As well as he played last year, he will be the first to tell you that he is capable of more when he is in peak shape.”

The second period showed the fighting spirit of the Panthers who would keep score with the Tigers, with each side scoring four each. First-year attacker William Swart would score in the second while Mitrovic would complete a first half hat trick.

The second half would be all Princeton with the Panthers running out of gas in their oxygen tank. The game would be out of reach for Chapman early on during the third period as the Tigers would score four straight to start the half. The highlight of the second half was Caras securing his hat trick and Mitrovic tying his career high with four goals for the Tigers.

“I consider this just as an expected

byproduct of consistent work since my [firstyear],” Mitrovic told the ‘Prince’. “I do not think or feel too much right now as it is very early in the season, but I want to express my gratitude to the coaching staff and my teammates for their support, which has brought me to this position.”

Kovács shines with 15 saves to keep Fordham at bay during a 15–9 win.

If you keep up with East Coast water polo, you know the rivalry between the Fordham Rams (4–3, 0–0 MAWPC) and the Princeton Tigers. The two sides have played four times in the past two seasons, with the Tigers winning all four matchups by only one goal — yes, you read that correctly.

The Rams would be looking for revenge after the Tigers ended their season in 2021 and 2022. Unfortunately for the Rams, they will have to wait until at least November to get revenge on Princeton.

After Princeton conceded the first goal of the game, Mitrovic, Quinones, and Killion all scored to make it 3–1 Tigers. The second quarter would be frustrating for the Rams. A stellar performance by firstyear goalie Kristof Kovács would deny the Rams on multiple occasions. Kovács, a Hungarian junior national team goalie, was one of the four recruits for Litvak.

Goals by Mitrovic, Pozaric, and McCarroll would make it 6–2 Princeton at half.

In a very physical second half that saw two Rams rolled from the game, the Tigers would stay disciplined and hold their first-half lead throughout the second half.

Swart would score his first of the contest with Ohl and McCarroll contributing to make it 9–5 after 24 minutes.

In the fourth quarter, Princeton would wave goodbye to any potential comeback

by Fordham, ripping away six goals.

Vladan would cap off a 15 goal weekend.

Senior captain and attacker Pierce Maloney would score two goals in the fourth to seal the 5–0 weekend for Princeton.

“While they aren’t always the first to get credit for our success, they are a driving force in the way we practice and a big reason why the freshmen are ready to perform well so early in the season,” Litvak said when referring to Maloney and his other captains, Quinones, Rottenberg, and Roose.

For its seven straight game, Princeton would hold its opponent to single digits with the help of Kovács who had 15 crucial saves in his best game yet.

“We are extremely fortunate to have two of the best goalies [Temkin and Kovács] in college water polo,” Litvak said. “Both have proven themselves to be among the best in their respective countries in their age groups. It makes for very competitive practices and will undoubtedly help our shooting as well as they are very tough to score on.”

The Tigers return to the pool on Saturday, September 16 as they take a road trip south to Pennsylvania to play in the Bucknell Invite. The Tigers will play Air Force (5–3, 0–0 WCC) at 11:20 AM EST and host Bucknell (2–5, 0–0 MAWPC) at 3:20 PM EST. With a win, the Tigers would be looking at their best start to a season since 2004 when they started 10–0.

Litvak put it best: “We are a very deep team this year, and, if the guys keep training as hard as they have so far, I really can’t tell you what our ceiling is, but I’m excited.”

Hayk Yengibaryan is an associate editor for the Sports section at the ‘Prince.’