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STUDENT LIFE

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USG announces 2023 Class Council election

Princeton Theological Seminary approves reparations

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Climate Action Town Hall projects U. goal for 2046

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Ted Borer, manager of the University Energy Plant, announced that the University plans to reduce total carbon footprint to net zero by 2046.

The University first launched their sustainability plan in 2008, followed by a 2017 follow-up plan which addressed campus goals until 2026.

The 2019 action plan, announced in the Climate Action Town Hall forum, projected the long-term plan of the sustainability office. Earlier in the year, on Earth Day, the University launched a sustainability plan.

The town hall meeting is one result of the plan.

A three-minute video with narration by Borer guided readers through changes in the campus, measuring physical changes, tracks of carbon footprint, and research equipment. Since the University has expanded in size, new construction yields higher carbon footprint. Borer called for early action and cited the 2019 action plan as one possible solution.

The University plans to build a geoexchange system that uses heat stored underground to cool the campus during winter. According to Borer, the University can fully accomplish that task with current investments, although he noted that requesting

permission to do so will delay plans.

Research has shown that maintenance of old systems supersedes the implementation of new systems, Borer continued.

Once sustainable practices within the environmental department are iterated, other departments and schools will follow.

Borer added that the University can practice actions that are scalable and repeatable. Operational practices, research, and teaching all contribute to possibilities from which to explore sustainable policies.

The problem lies in implementing climate neutrality practices with little disruption

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The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) held its weekly meeting in Lewis Library Room 138.

USG considers sustainability resolution, moving Fall Lawnparties to Monday During their weekly meeting on Sunday, Oct. 20, the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) discussed future Lawnparties, as well as a proposal to adopt sustainability as an official priority.

Social chair Heavyn Jennings ’20 discussed how the upcoming academic calendar change affects the date of Fall Lawnparties. Lawnparties during the fall semester are traditionally held on the first weekend of classes, but will fall on Labor Day

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weekend for the next two years. Because Labor Day weekend is three days, Lawnparties may change from Sunday to Monday.

“The Social Committee is deciding to move Lawnparties to Monday, so [that] the weekend can end on a high note and so that people can have the opportunity to go home,” Jennings said.

Jennings also explained that moving Lawnparties to Monday would give students the chance to finish up homework. Staffing, security, and cost are not majorly affected by this change.

Senior columnist Leora Eisenberg cautions against calling anything “easy,” and guest contributor Esther Levy condemns Norman Finkelstein’s anti-Semitic rhetoric and her peers’ complicity in such rhetoric.

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Local organizations gather for Period Rally in Hinds Plaza

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to campus life, said Borer. Currently the University manages a solar field 25 football fields in size, which he said helps the campus avoid about 3000 metric tons of carbon dioxide.

When asked if they were aware of the solar field, the majority of the older community members, and few undergraduates, present at the town hall raised their hands. Among the 60 attendees, approximately 10 percent were students.

“As individuals, we can do things. As a campus community, we can do things. And because we are higher ed, we can also work with the surrounding

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USG discussed concerns that the new Lawnparties date could create incompatibilities with schedules for undergraduate athletic teams.

Jennings said she would discuss this concern with the Social Committee.

Claire Wayner ’22, a member of the Sustainability Task Force, briefly discussed adding a resolution to the USG charter establishing sustainability as a priority. USG vice president Chitra Parikh ’21 asSee USG page 2

On Saturday, Oct. 19, several local organizations teamed up with Period, a national nonprofit founded by Nadya Okamoto and dedicated to ending period poverty and stigma, to host a rally, part of the first-ever National Period Day. Nationally, organizers held more than 60 coordinated rallies, across 50 states and four countries.

The Princeton rally was held from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Hinds Plaza, with around 100 community members present.

The event was coordinated by lead organizers Annabelle Jin, a junior in high school and co-president and founder of the chapter of Period at Moorestown High School; Tanvi Koduru, a sophomore in college and the chapter leader and founder of Period at Rowan University; and Chai Kim, a senior in high school and co-president of Period at Moorestown.

Jin began the rally with a story about a personal experience with period stigma when a friend who unexpectedly got her period “bled through her pants because she didn’t want to tell her male teacher that she had an emergency.”

“Periods are a social justice issue. It is not just a bodily flu-

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id,” Jin said in her speech. “The truth is, National Period Day in and of itself is historical. Never before in the history of the nation has there been a coordinated effort with rallies in all 50 states focused on addressing the issues of period poverty and period stigma.”

Gil Gordon, the project coordinator of the Princeton Period Project, also delivered remarks, addressing what it means to be a non-menstruator in the period movement.

“If this were a man’s issue and we were dealing with a shortage of condoms, you’d see a bucket on every street corner,” said Gordon, whose organization has distributed more than 60,000 period products in the last year.

Julie Sullivan-Crowley, the Director of Operations of the Princeton chapter of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), spoke about the financial burden of period products.

“YWCA’s mission is to eliminate racism and empower women,” Sullivan-Crowley wrote in an email to the ‘Prince.’ “Period poverty and tampon tax are an inequitable barrier to the economic stability of women, girls and those who menstruate. We provide free menstruation product for those in need See RALLY page 3

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On Oct. 18, Princeton Theological Seminary announced its plans to finance reparations, making it the second theological institution in the nation, after Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va., to do so.

The decision, unanimously approved by the Seminary’s trustees, comes as an official response to a historical audit, commissioned in 2016, which examined the Seminary’s historical participation in the institutions of American slavery.

Since the report was commissioned, Princeton Theological Seminary has witnessed significant student activism, particularly by the Seminary’s Association of Black Seminarians (ABS), whose members have called for the Seminary to approve and disburse reparations.

Last week saw renewed student pressure for the trustees to consider measures proposed in a public petition, which the ABS released earlier this year.

The petition garnered more than 650 signatures.

With an expected annual expenditure of more than one million dollars, the Seminary’s fund is the largest of its kind.

In comparison, Virginia Theological Seminary has allocated 1.7 million dollars to its reparations program.

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Fatinah Albeez ’23, Melissa Chun ’23, Jafar Howe ’23, Taryn Sebba ’23, and Sophie Singletary ’23 (listed in alphabetical order) will represent the Class of 2023 on the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Class Council. The results of the class-wide election, held last week, were sent in an email on Friday, Oct. 18.

Albeez’s platform largely centered around inclusivity, communication, and accessibility for constituents.

“It was really important to me that members of our class feel like they be-

long at Princeton,” Albeez said. “I want to meet as many people as possible and make their experience really memorable because these next four years are supposed to be some of the best of our lives.”

In an effort to make activities more inclusive, Albeez plans to organize more study breaks and class events that are comfortable for introverts and accessible to athletes. She also hopes to increase the availability of more cultural and ethnic foods, because she thinks “food represents home.”

Albeez said that genuine conversation was a big part of her campaign, and

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she hopes that will continue throughout her term on the Class Council.

“I want people to come talk to me and express what they want to see happen at Princeton,” Albeez noted. “If they want to see something change, come talk to me, and we’ll work to make their vision for the first year a reality.”

Albeez, from Troy, Mich., plans to study chemical and biological engineering.

Chun’s main goal as a Class Council representative is to give power to the students, whether that be giving them the opportunity to design their own gear, providing anonymous feedback forms, or supporting the inclusion of subcommittees to represent a wider range of students.

“Five of us can’t plan for everyone,” Chun said after explaining her support for subcommittees.

Chun has already looked into the possibility of one popular campaign promise of many candidates:

dogs at study breaks.

“I did call a bunch of animal shelters nearby, and one said it was a possibility,” Chun said.

Chun is not only planning how to connect the Class of 2023 this year, but she is also hoping to extend that connection beyond graduation.

“In the future, I hope to foster unity not just for our four years of undergrad, but beyond,” Chun said. “[I hope to] create a class identity, not only while we’re here at Princeton, but [also] when we come back.”

Chun, from Oswego, N.Y., intends to concentrate in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Sebba said that more than anything, she wants to represent and interface with the people who make up the Class of 2023.

“Above everything else, I really wanted to be a voice for people’s votes,” Sebba said. “I’m all about clear and effective communication. You can reach me almost 24/7 via social medias, my Princeton email,

or you can knock on my door in Whitman. I want to be there for people.”

Sebba hopes for more study breaks centered around events and not just food, and more surveys to gauge what people want.

She also plans on creating a campuswide calendar and an alumni mentorship program.

“USG has the means of connecting us with our grandparent class, and I think that is so special,” Sebba said. “I recognize that there is a lack of opportunities for freshman in ways of career-building, so I’m hoping that through a mentorship program, it can get people excited for Princeton and their future careers.”

Additionally, Sebba aims to keep her Class informed about how USG is using their resources to benefit students.

“Each class council has a budget of $75,000 to spend per year, and I think it’s so important that everyone has a voice in how that money gets spent, whether it’s on better gear or on better study breaks,” Seb-

ba explained. “That’s a lot of money, and you all deserve to know where it’s being spent.”

Sebba, from Fort Collins, Colo., is studying in the Wilson School.

Singletary summed up her campaign in three alliterative phrases: “splendid social shindigs,” “lit Lawnparties lineup,” and “good-looking group gear.”

She plans to organize “social events that unite our grade,” particularly ones that are scheduled after sports practices have concluded for the evening.

In the spring, she hopes to get a wider variety of performers for Lawnparties.

She also hopes to design fresh class gear.

One issue for which Singletary plans to advocate is revolving f lavors of ice cream in the dining hall.

“Ice cream is huge, and each dining hall having consistent f lavors, particularly the coffee ice cream, always stocked up is great,” Singletary said.

“I was also thinking of this initiative of ‘[getting] to know the staff and faculty here at the school,’”

Singletary continued. “So coffee dates, essentially, between the students and members of the faculty or staff. [It’s] a good way to bridge the student body with the adults [who] work here.”

Singletary participated in the Bridge Year Program, spending last year in Senegal. She hopes to use her international experiences to establish connections with members of the Class of 2023.

“I think we have a particularly diverse grade and student body, and I think having lived elsewhere and met new people [who] are vastly different from my own experience and background ... There is a lot to learn from them and vice versa,” Singletary said.

Singletary, from Jacksonville, Fla., is also a prospective concentrator in the Wilson School.

Howe was unavailable for interview.

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Theological Seminary has set aside 27.6 million dollars of its endowment. In total, the Seminary supports an endowment of approximately one billion dollars.

The Seminary has released a detailed plan, which extends to 2024, for the fund. The Seminary has affirmed that it intends to support continued action beyond that date.

For now, the Seminary’s “action plan” includes, among other items, plans to finance 30 new scholarships for the descendants of slaves, the hiring of a full-time director for the Center for Black Church Studies, and numerous building name changes to highlight im-

portant African-American figures.

In a press release, the Seminary quoted Dean of Student Life John White as having said, “The report was an act of confession.”

The Seminary further framed the religious basis for its reparations through a video series created to contextualize the decision.

“Our faith tradition calls us to repentance after making confession,” the final video of the series states. Repentance, it goes on to explain, “is meaningful and lasting change.”

A committee has been commissioned by the Board of Trustees to regularly report on the progress of these reparations.

Despite the trustees’ una-

nimity in reaching the decision, Nicholas Young, president of the ABS, argued that the Seminary’s plan does not meet the demands outlined by students.

Young says that the demands of ABS were never fully articulated to the board, and specifically takes issue with the proportion of the endowment dedicated to reparations.

“I feel it is a start, but not what we asked for,” Young said.

In the coming weeks, the ABS will pursue formal negotiations with the Seminary to express its thoughts on how to move forward.

“I cannot say that, as an institution, that the Seminary has failed to try to repent,” Young said. “All I can say is that I want it to try harder.”

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Tom Nyquist, Executive Director of Engineering and Campus Energy, presenting on the sustainability action plan.

community on shared objectives,” Office of Sustainability director Shana Weber said.

“The Sustainability Action Plan is really meant to serve as a platform for action,” Weber said.

“It encapsulates a lot of the work we have done in the past decade and what we can do next.”

The next presenter, Tom Nyquist, Executive Director of Engineering and Campus Energy, focused on “Advocacy, advocacy, advocacy.”

Nyquist discussed strategies to tighten buildings, convert

steam to hot water, increase the use of on-campus renewable energy, and purchase off-campus renewable energy. The final solutions, he said, lie in the hands of student advocates and responsible voters.

“As students, your lives will be affected by climate change if we as a society don’t do something now,” said Nyquist said.

“We have 55 weeks to get our act together because the next election has a potential great turning point. If we get politicians in there that believe us, we can make a lot of progress.”

Immediate results for the University include reducing energy

by one-third, creating five-year average paybacks on energy projects, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions levels to 1990s levels by 2020.

If a student perpetually sees energy waste — such as empty rooms with running air-conditioning or open dorm windows when the heat is turned on — the University encourages them to notify the facilities’ control center at cscs@princeton.edu to help reduce carbon footprint to zero.

Borer’s announcement came at the Climate Action Town Hall in Guyot Hall on Friday afternoon.

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serted that creating such a resolution could provide a framework to integrate sustainability into the USG constitution.

“We want to make a statement that the USG prioritizes sustainably and wants to incorporate it

into its future,” Wayner said.

During the president’s report, USG president Zarnab Virk ’20 discussed peer tutoring as a replacement for music lessons lost through budget cuts, as well as creating gear design by the end of fall break.

According to Virk, the firstyear advisory project, which was mentioned at a previous meeting

this month, had over 200 first-year respondents, prompting USG to reach out to juniors as advisors.

This program was initially designed to pair first-year and senior students, but only around 60 seniors responded. Matches will be made during fall break.

The meeting was open to the public and held at 8 p.m. Lewis Library Room 138.

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at all of our locations in Mercer County and support the end to the tampon tax in all states.”

Other speakers included Linda Willimer of I Support the Girls North/Central Jersey, who spoke about her organization’s efforts to provide period products, bras, and underwear; Kayleigh Rhatigan and Leila Moustafa, interns for the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, who spoke about insufficient and weaponized access to period products in prisons; Caitlin Bradley of HiTOPS, who advocated for expanding preconceived notions about who menstruates to include “all genders, shapes, sizes and expressions;” and Hailey Parikh, an activist featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary “Period. End of Sentence,” who discussed her experience with period stigma growing up in India.

“The very mission of our Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice is to represent marginalized communities, but indeed never to speak for anyone, but to speak with everyone,” wrote Robt Seda-Schreiber, Chief Activist of the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, in an email to The Daily Princetonian. “This important rally organized by such inspirational young women was an ideal opportunity for such [and] we were honored to be of some small service on this day.”

The rally’s calls to action — delivered by Anjali Mehrotra, President of National Organization for Women New Jersey;

Sharanya Pogaku, a high school senior who founded Period Kid Packing Parties; Niyati Bantval, an outreach coordinator for the event; and Zhamilya Bilyalova, another outreach coordinator — included sharing ways that community members may participate, addressing the stigma, and supporting New Jersey legislation NJ S3645/A3868.

The legislation would require menstrual products in 50 percent of bathrooms in New Jersey public schools where 40 percent of the student population lives below the federal poverty line.

For the activists at the rally, while the legislation is a step in the right direction, an ideal bill would require products in all bathrooms in all districts.

“We believe that period products should be provided in all schools because setting economic standards or requirements for this would mean that students suffering from period poverty in districts that don’t meet the requirement would not be able to get the benefits of it,” Jin told the ‘Prince.’

In addition, the activists argued that the language included in the bill, namely the term “feminine hygiene,” implies that only women get periods, dismissing the experience of menstruators who may identify otherwise (such as members of the trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer communities) and that the term “hygiene” suggests that periods are dirty or shameful.

Throughout the rally, social media coordinator Bridget Hoyt led chants with calls and responses like, “Menstrual products are a right / step right up

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and join the fight” and “Hey, hey, ho, ho / period poverty’s got to go.” Organizers of the rally wore red and white shirts reading “we are the menstrual movement,” and rally participants held signs with messages like “menstrual hygiene is a right, not a privilege” and “anything you can do, I can do bleeding.”

Eliana Cohen-Orth ’21 attended the rally because she was “very excited to hear that such an important and underappreciated issue was receiving national attention.”

“I went to the rally to show my support, and to learn more about the movement,” CohenOrth wrote in a message to the ‘Prince.’

Preeti Iyer ’20, who has been leading the Menstrual Product Task Force at the University for the past two-and-a-half years, spoke at the rally and shared her experience with successfully pressing the University to install Aunt Flow menstrual products across campus.

Iyer told the ‘Prince’ that she was asked to speak at the rally to provide “engagement with the University.”

“The rally’s focus and the demographics and the base of everyone that came was really off-campus; it was a rally focused on the New Jersey broader community,” Iyer said. “It was just a good chance to have some University projects interfacing with the local community to have that broader awareness and recognition for how we fit into the Princeton/New Jersey ecosystem overall.”

Koduru, a sophomore at Rowan University, founded

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her chapter of Period in May after her university repeatedly refused to restock menstrual products, leaving menstrual products available in only one bathroom on campus. She told the ‘Prince’ how thrilled she was to see young women of color at the helm of this movement.

“I’m such a big advocate for Gen Z and pushing Gen Z forward and making sure that they have a space and a seat on the table to speak their opinions and their voice because it matters, and it’s what’s going to matter in a couple years when they’re the ones running the world,” Koduru said. “Seeing not just Gen Z there, but Gen Z women

of color … It was just so surreal for me to see them there. Who I am was being represented by people beyond just me and a few other people. There was a big mass of representation of my culture and my identity.”

The co-hosts of the event were Planned Parenthood, Womanspace, the Community Food Bank of New Jersey, the YWCA of Princeton, the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, National Organization for Women of New Jersey, Princeton HiTOPS, I Support the Girls of Central and South New Jersey, Girl Up, Kali, and the Essex County LGBT Reaching Adolescents in Need Foundation.

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Easy for you to say Leora Eisenberg

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I really don’t like math.

It’s absolutely terrifying: as soon as an Excel spreadsheet opens, the tears appear. I’ve cried in front of professors about it, and it never becomes less mortifying. I’ve tried to deal with my math phobia over the years by going to tutoring, asking friends for help, going to therapy, and spending hours banging my head against a wall. But more often than not, at the end of the day, I’m still really scared of math.

As a Princeton student, I find it almost jarring to be so scared of (and so bad at) a subject. Most of us came to college with straight A’s.

We’d never been “bad” at something before, and the first B is a shock to everyone. But in my case, the mere prospect of a B isn’t what is terrifying — it truly is the notion of failing a class.

I see my GPA f lash before my very eyes every time I enter my QR class. A dear friend offered to help me with my homework — but 20 minutes in, I was hav-

ing something resembling a panic attack. He couldn’t understand why I was so upset. “I feel like you’ve just seen me stripped of my dignity,” I responded.

“I feel like you’ve just seen me be bad at math.”

This “math panic,” as I’ve called it, has given me great insight into how others struggle with other subjects. Things that come to me naturally — learning languages and writing essays, for example — are what many on campus struggle with. I confided to my friend that I’d rather write a 10-page paper than do a single problem set. He couldn’t believe his ears: he’d rather do 10 problem sets than a single paper.

“I’m so bad at papers,” he said. “They terrify me.” It turns out that his Literature and the Arts (LA) distribution requirement was the hardest class he’d ever taken.

This was, in a way, reassuring: my friend isn’t dumb. Writing papers just isn’t his strength. What’s “easy” for me is hard for him — and the same is true in reverse. Math just isn’t my strength.

When he confided in me regarding how much he struggled to write papers, it hit me that “easy” is a relative term. This is, in

part, the beauty of distribution requirements: they remind us that we aren’t good at everything, and that each student on this campus has a distinct set of strengths. The requirements are an exercise in humility. But, by the same token, these requirements can send some of us into cycles of self-loathing and anxiety, especially when the tutors, preceptors, and friends who try to help us dismiss the assignments we find so difficult as “easy.”

Over the summer, some friends on a hiking trip kept telling me how “easy” the climb would be; I was winded and nauseated by the time we reached the top. I’m perhaps as unathletic as they come: my friends joke about how rarely I go to the gym. But they’re athletic — so the hike was relatively easy for them. The more they said how “easy” it was, the worse I felt. I was near tears almost the whole way down because I felt as if they didn’t understand just how much I was struggling. What was easy for them wasn’t easy for me — hiking, in this case — but it easily could have been a Quantitive Reasoning class, an LA distribution requirement, or a writing

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We’re all intelligent human beings here. Everyone has something they find easy. But that doesn’t mean that it’s easy to someone else. Any time that someone tells me how simple math is, I am brought back to all of the panic attacks I’ve had when faced with a series of numbers.

“If it’s so easy,” I think, “does that mean that I’m dumb?” No, it doesn’t. It means that math is not my strength. I’m confident that most people who meet me don’t think I’m stupid — so why would they assume I’d find math “hard?”

Pay attention to your words. What do you call easy? And who are the people around you? Consider that they might not be as good at math, languages, or hiking as you — and that they might, in fact, consider these things very hard. Everyone on campus — and in the world, actually — is best suited to different endeavors. But it doesn’t mean that all endeavors are easy, or that these people are dumb.

Leora Eisenberg is a senior from Eagan, M.N. She can be reached at leorae@princeton. edu.

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A response to anti-Semitism Esther Levy

Guest Contributor

According to Norman Finklestein, I am one of the “Jewish students who allegedly were pained” by his remarks at the “Fighting for Justice: From Gaza to Ferguson” panel on Oct. 10. I am pained by the vile things he espoused, and I am pained that, instead of engaging critically on the Israeli-Palestinean conflict and intersectional solidarity, Finklestein was invited to do what he does best: express anti-Semitism.

This isn’t a matter of prolonging or dragging out a story. It’s about standing up against discrimination, even if that discrimination manifests itself in a way that is uncomfortable for us to talk about. His words at the panel and his dismissal of them in his op-ed are anti-Semitic (as was articulated in MarieRose Sheinerman and Caitlin Limestahl’s article). The fact that he was able to get the last word is horrific.

To Finkelstein: thank you for reiterating and adding to your history of anti-Semitic claims for those who may have missed them. Thank you for cushioning anti-Semitic claims within other anti-Semitic claims, as if that buffering would justify them.

Thank you for assuming that all Jewish students on this campus are one monolith, sharing the same feelings and reactions. No member of any minority group can speak for everyone. So I write now, neither as a representative of all Jews nor even all Jews on campus, but rather as an individual with my own thoughts and emotions.

I do not call Norman Finkelstein an anti-Semite lightly.

Examining his words at the panel and what he’s written and said on past occasions, alongside the United States Department of State’s definition of anti-Semitism, does not leave room for any other interpretation.

Some examples of antiSemitism as listed by the State

Department are: “Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust;” “Using the symbols and images associated with classic [anti-Semitism] (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis;” “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis;” and “Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.” I think Finkelstein is guilty on all these counts.

Finkelstein claims that Jewish students are calling him anti-Semitic to distract from having difficult and important conversations about Palestine and “Gaza’s martyrdom.” How dare he claim this when he was the one who used this panel on intersectional alliance as a platform for his anti-Semitism? How dare Finkelstein be upset at The Daily Princetonian’s coverage — how dare he expect anything less than coverage of the anti-Semitism that took place

last week? I am not looking to hide anything or distract from anything. I invite critical and complex conversations about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

However, I am not in favor of conversations that whitewash and oversimplify the complexities of Israel-Palestine by painting Israel or Palestine as an evil aggressor.

I think we are smarter than that, and I think both Israelis and Palestinians deserve more than that — more than unfairly minimizing a complex and nuanced conflict. I am against inviting people with a history of unapologetic anti-Semitism to speak of this topic. As Jacob Katz ’23 put it, “This is an important debate, and it deserves more respect than a denial of facts and antiSemitism.”

Finkelstein writes that “[the ‘Prince’] apparently couldn’t find a single audience member who appreciated them [his comments], even as my intervention evoked loud applause.” I’m not quite sure how

to track these people down, so I call out to you, the members of the Princeton community who appreciated and applauded Finkelstein: what are your thoughts? Please share them with me. Please write in, drop me a line, shoot me a message, let me know why you clapped.

Did you wake up that morning thinking you would be complicit in an anti-Semitic attack, or did it just happen (whatever that means)?

Why did you snicker? Why did you clap? Why did you sit idly by as Finkelstein said harmful and hurtful antiSemitic things, targeting the Jewish students at the panel and Judaism at large? Why didn’t you care?

Finkelstein writes that “the ‘Prince’ is supposed to prioritize the interests of the Princeton community.” I would hope that calling out anti-Semitism counts as one of those interests.

Esther Levy is a sophomore from Brooklyn, N.Y. She can be reached at edlevy@princeton.

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Fifty-one first-half points propel Princeton football to win over Brown

By Jack Graham

Head Sports Editor

Princeton football (5–0, 2–0 Ivy) used an offensive explosion to thrash Brown (1–4, 0–2) Saturday in Providence.

The Tigers recorded 51 points and 426 yards — and that was just the first half.

Senior quarterback Kevin Davidson finished with 379 yards passing and five touchdowns, junior receiver Jacob Birmelin caught 12 passes for 186 yards, and senior running back Ryan Quigley ran for three touchdowns as Princeton beat Brown 65–22, extending its unbeaten streak to 15 games.

Princeton’s 65 points were just one shy of the team’s modern-era record for points scored in a single game. The Tigers also finished the game with 634 yards of total offense, 11 fewer than the program record.

Brown’s first-year head coach James Perry spent seven years as Princeton’s offensive coordinator, and the parallels between the two teams’ offensive systems were evident. Brown used multiquarterback sets, wasted little time between plays, and was aggressive with fourth-

down conversion attempts.

Early in the game, it looked like quarterback EJ Perry and the Brown offense had a chance to keep pace with Princeton. The Bears scored the first touchdown of the game, and after Princeton responded with 17 unanswered points, Brown scored another touchdown to make the game 17–12.

But as the first half progressed, Brown’s mistakes started to pile up, and Princeton was able to rack up points against an outmatched Brown defense. Early in the second quarter, Perry dropped a sure touchdown on a fourth-andgoal trick play, and Princeton drove 95 yards, capped off by a 28-yard touchdown pass from Davidson to Birmelin to make the score 24–12.

Sophomore defensive back Christian Brown intercepted Perry on the next drive, and Princeton scored another touchdown, with Quigley punching it in from the one-yard line. Perry threw his first touchdown pass of the game to make the score 31–19 with 6:48 to play in the second quarter, but Princeton managed to score three touchdowns in the final three minutes to take a 51–19

lead into halftime.

Princeton was on pace to hit triple-digit points, but the Tigers slowed the game down considerably in the second half, coasting to the 65–22 win.

The Princeton offensive line dominated all game, as Princeton rushed 46 times for 255 yards, and Davidson completed 27 of 35 passes without taking a sack. Princeton’s defense recorded five sacks and forced three turnovers.

With the win, Princeton moved to a perfect 5–0 on the season and 2–0 in Ivy League play. Possibly the only thing not impressive about Princeton’s 2019 campaign has been the quality of the teams it has beaten, as Princeton’s first five opponents have a combined 4–25 record. That will change next weekend, as the Tigers return to New Jersey for the Homecoming game against Harvard, which improved to 4–1 on the season Saturday afternoon.

NOTES Junior running back Colin Eaddy missed the game with an injury sustained last week against Lafayette.

Senior running back Ryan Quigley left the field in the

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Ryan Quigley ran for three first-half touchdowns in Princeton’s win over Brown.

second quarter with an injury, though he would later return.

Senior defensive lineman Samuel Wright tied his career best after picking up his fourth sack of the season against Brown. First-year

defensive back Daiveon Carrington recorded his first career interception late in the game.

Princeton has now scored in the first quarter of its last 29 games, a streak dating back to October 2016.

Players of the Week

Men’s soccer vs. Columbia: W 2–1 Men’s soccer notched a crucial win on Saturday at home vs. Columbia. The Tigers were up 2–0 by the end of the first half, with goals from junior defender Richard Wolf — his first at Princeton — and junior midfielder and forward Kevin O’Toole. Columbia was able to sneak one past senior keeper Jacob Schachner in the 79th minute, but a save from the goalie in the 85th minute stopped the Lions from tying the game, and Princeton won 2–1. The team, now 1–1–1, will take on Harvard next weekend in Cambridge. At this point, every game is a must-win for the team if it is to win a repeat Ivy League title this season.

Women’s soccer vs. Columbia: T 1–1 (2 OT) Senior forward Abby Givens opened the scoring in the 21st minute with an assist from junior midfielder Olivia Kane in Saturday’s game against Columbia at Roberts Stadium. After Columbia scored, right after the second half began, the two teams battled it out — through the end of regulation and two overtime periods — only to draw 1–1 at the final whistle. This was the Tigers’ fourth overtime game of the season. Now sitting at 1–2–1, Princeton heads to Harvard next Saturday for their third-to-last game of the regular season.

Field hockey @ Brown, Boston University: W 6–0, W 3–1 No. 8 Princeton field hockey (10–4, 4–0 Ivy) extended its winning streak to seven games this Sunday with a 6–0 win at Brown and a 3–1 win at BU. Princeton started extremely quickly, scoring its first goal 90 seconds into the game and scoring four goals in the first nine minutes. Junior striker Clara Roth scored three goals to pick up a hat trick, and sophomore striker Ali McCarthy added another two goals. Against BU, Roth scored twice, and first-year midfielder Sammy Popper scored once; Princeton didn’t allow a goal until late in the fourth quarter of the 3–1 win.

Clara Roth, field hockey (2021): Roth put up a hat trick to lead Princeton past Brown on Saturday and scored another two goals in Princeton’s win over Boston University on Sunday.

Men’s water polo @ No. 16 Fordham: L 11–10 No. 16 Fordham put an end to No. 18 Princeton men’s water polo (10–10, 4–1 NWPC) four-game winning streak in an 11–10 thriller on Saturday. The Rams took control of the contest from the beginning, netting the game’s first three goals. Things fell apart for the Tigers from there; by eight minutes in, they’d tied the score, but Fordham never let them accumulate more than a one-point lead. Princeton trailed 5–6 at halftime and maintained a one-point deficit for much of the second half. They never mustered up the offensive strength to push past Fordham’s tight defense. Sophomore attacker Keller Maloney led scoring with five goals; he and the rest of Princeton’s squad will have the chance to redeem themselves in a matchup at the unranked San Jose State next weekend.

Women’s volleyball @ Harvard, Dartmouth: W 3–0, W 3–0 Princeton women’s volleyball (10–6, 6–1 Ivy) went 2–0 on the road this weekend after sweeping both Harvard and Dartmouth in 3–0 matches. Senior outside hitter Natasha Skov had a total of 27 kills this weekend with senior outside and right side hitter Devon Peterkin and senior right side hitter Maggie O’Connell right behind her at 20 kills each. Senior setter Jessie Harris led the offense with 82 assists over the two matches, and sophomore libero Cameron Dames added 33 digs. Princeton is currently on a four-game winning streak, with three of those matches being 3–0 sweeps.

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Jacob Birmelin, football (2021): Birmelin caught 12 passes for 186 yards and two touchdowns in Princeton’s 65–22 win over Brown.

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Princeton field hockey has now won seven consecutive games.