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Ramzie Fathy ’20 spent his first fall break in Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit, to learn about the refugee experience firsthand. He was part of a group of students to take part in Breakout Princeton, a Pace Center for Civic Engagement program of five student-led trips designed to engage participants with domestic social issues.

In addition to the Detroit trip, one trip explored how undocumented immigrants obtain adequate health care in Philadelphia; another learned about refugee resettlement in Buffalo, NY; another

explored how transgender New Yorkers navigated the healthcare system; another learned about the effects of the Great Recession in Boston.

Fathy explained that he was planning on writing a news article after the trip, but stopped himself.

“What’s another news story going to do?” he asked. “When we went to talk to the refugees, they were afraid we were going to be news reporters. And they don’t want another news story.”

According to Fathy, news articles about refugees and the reality he saw while on Breakout were completely different.

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Q&A

Q&A: College Republicans on Donald Trump

By Jessica Li head news editor

In classrooms and on social media, Trump’s unexpected victory has generated abundant conversations of fear and worry across campus. The Daily Princetonian sat down with two members of the College Republicans to discuss the outlook of the United States under Trump.

Paul Draper ‘18 is the president of College Republicans, the New Jersey Millenials for Cruz director, and the Executive Director of the New Jersey College Republicans. Connor Pfeiffer ‘18 was the Northeast Regional Campus Coordinator for Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign, former State Chairman of the High School Republicans of Texas, and an ex officio member of the Texas Republican Executive Committee. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.

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In an email to the University community, Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity Michele Minter reported the results of the second annual “We Speak” survey that was administered in 2015.

The reported results of misconduct were lower than last year’s “We Speak” survey, but they “still show that too many of our students have been victims of sexual misconduct,” the email stated.

While undergraduate women still experienced the highest rate of sexual misconduct at the University, they experienced fewer instances, according to the 2016 survey. 1 in 3 undergraduate women were victims of sexual misconduct in 2015 compared to 1 in 4 in the 2016 survey.

The email notes that the 2016 survey “was modified to improve

the clarity of questions and to explore some aspects of sexual misconduct in greater detail.” Nearly half of the undergraduate and graduate students took the survey, according to Title IX Administrator Regan Crotty.

According to an infographic made from survey results, “Undergraduates who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning were 2 times as likely to experience sexual misconduct than undergraduates who identify as heterosexual or straight.”

While the survey is anonymous, Crotty noted that they “assume that people are honest,” when analyzing the results of the survey.

In last year’s survey, over half of undergraduate women and 62 percent of undergraduate men who experienced sexual misconduct told someone about the behavior, while only 43 percent of graduate students told someone.

Daily Princetonian: Since Tuesday, there has been a lot of talk about what a Trump presidency would look like. Many students on this campus are frankly scared about what’s to come. What are your thoughts?

Connor Pfeiffer: A lot of the extreme things that Trump opposed, such as the Muslim Ban and the Wall, will be constrained

by Republicans in Congress. And even if he does get all the Republicans, he still needs 60 votes in the Senate, and he will have difficulties in getting that bipartisanship. Now the exception to that is reconciliation, which is a once per year measure to reduce budget deficits. The Republicans have already said that for the reconciliation process in 2017, they will use it to repeal Obamacare.

Obamacare will likely be

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LECTURE

Panel discusses IsraeliPalestinian conflict

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Additionally, both surveys report a large majority of students were aware of the resources available on campus. Nearly 80 percent of students were aware of resources last year, and in 2016, 88 percent of women and 85 percent of men “reported that they personally know where to go on campus to get help should they or a friend be sexually assaulted,” according to this year’s report.

“We are encouraged by the fact that more of our students are aware of resources,” Crotty said . “We are really happy that so many students participated.”

Minter’s email reported that of the students who responded, only 15 percent “experienced inappropriate sexual behavior during the last academic year, defined to include non-consensual sexual contact, stalking, sexual harassment, and/or an abusive intimate See SURVEY page 2

Senior columnist Nicholas Wu, columnist Jacquelyn Thorbjornson, and guest Gregory Kernisan weigh in on Trump’s triumph, and contributor Jared Shulkin writes on the University’s inferiority complex to rival Harvard.

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Two days after the U.S. presidential election, Amb. Daniel C. Kurtzer, U.S. ambassador to Israel from 2001-05 and U.S. ambassador to Egypt from 1997-2001, hosted a discussion of the U.S. election and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The panel that gathered to address this topic included Shai Feldman, the Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, and Khalil Shikaki, professor of political science and director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, Palestine.

The first to speak was Feldman, who began by describing a textbook that he coauthored with Shikaki and professor Abdel Monem Said Aly, a fellow leading scholar in

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the field of Middle East Studies. He explained that it was based on a class that all three of them co-taught. The book in question is titled Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East.

Feldman then went on to explain how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was affected by four different groupings — global and international policies, regional policies, domestic policies, and the policies of individual leaders.

“In my view, one must always consider what drives a leader,” Feldman said. He provided the audience with two possibilities: a leader driven by opportunity and one that perpetuates fear. Israel, he added, was created by leaders who were motivated by the former. However, he drew a parallel between the latter and See LECTURE page 3

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Underreporting still a potential issue for survey SURVEY relationship.”

“I think that it’s much more common than that,” Ellen Anshelevich ’19 stated. She added that the subject matter may have deterred students from participating.

“A lot of people may have just not responded. For something as serious as rape, maybe they just didn’t want to report it,” Anshelevich explained.

Vidur Beharry ’19 believes there might be a discrepancy between reality and the results as well. “Just looking at the statistics and the first half of the actual report, it seems like it understates what actually happens here and how often it happens,” he said . Beharry is also a SHARE peer.

On the impact of this understatement, Beharry described that the results make sexual misconduct appear to be less of an issue on campus than it actually it is… the fact that it says that 1 in 4 undergraduate women experience sexual

misconduct is pretty disturbing.”

Crotty described that, in addition to the high response rate, respondents left around 600 written comments.

“The comments were very varied people and were very supportive of the survey process and happy we’re doing it,” she said. “Most of the comments were comments that discussed training, [and were] supportive of training, supportive of further training.”

Crotty added that the the Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct will review the results of the “We Speak” survey over the course of the next months to see if there are “other steps we should be taking.” Crotty added that she hopes students will read the report despite its length and talk with people in the community about it.

She also expressed she hopes students will reach out to resources including the director of SHARE, the LGBT Center, the Women*s Center, the Carl A. Fields Center for Diversity and Inclusion, RCAs, and GSGs.

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“We don’t want your money. We don’t want your handouts. What we want is compassion,” he recalled a teenage Egyptian refugee telling him.

Fathy added that speaking to someone who went through the problems is quite different from reading an article.

“It’s that first hand experience that really makes a difference,” he explained.

Safa Syed ‘17, who led the Detroit trip — Resettling Refugees: Deconstructing a Complicated Narrative — along with Sarah Sakha ‘18, echoed Fathy’s realization.

“We don’t have any idea of what people go through until we hear it from them themselves,” she said.

“To actually hear someone’s experience is so different. I think that’s what made going to this space so important to us.”

Sakha is an associate opinion editor for the ‘Prince’.

Austin Addison ‘18, who led a trip to Boston with Miranda Bolef ‘18 to learn about the Great Recession’s causes and consequences, said that the most powerful thing about the trip for him was hearing people who were affected by the issues say that the issues are problems for them.

“It definitely humanized the experience… I’m not just reading this in a textbook,” he added. “A lot of the times we would be learning about this stuff and someone on the street would know all about it. They didn’t have to do any research; it’s just something that they’re living.

So it’s something that they know, intimately, and that’s a different experience than sitting in precept.”

Eliza Blades, the Pace Center’s Program Coordinator who serves as an adviser to the Breakout Princeton program, said that success of the program entails hearing these stories of civic engagement. “[Participants are seeing their dialogue with locals] as points of learning and expertise. Higher education isn’t the only place where you can gain knowledge about the world and about how to best approach these issues,” she said.

Syed noted that the 13 students on the refugee trip received many comments on the makeup of the participants: “gender, racial, ethnic, religious, major-wise: united around this one issue,” she added.

All trips reported similar levels of multifaceted diversity.

Four participants on the trip spoke Arabic, which facilitated communication with the refugees, Fathy noted.

“There’s been a lot of bigotry and hate going around this election season, but [it’s exciting to] see students really dialoguing with people of all different faiths, socioeconomic backgrounds and statuses,” Blades added.

Having your school blown up, watching your neighbors be shot, getting a delivery of your relative’s

cut-up body parts — these are some of the stories refugees told participants of the Detroit Breakout trip. After years of waiting, those who are allowed to enter the United States run into major difficulties. Resettlement agencies, for instance, give refugees a mere three month period to become selfsufficient.

“For those three months, they expect you to get enrolled in classes, social programs, to learn English,” Fathy explained.

Fathy, Syed, and Sakha all mentioned a 17-year-old Syrian refugee — originally from Iraq — who was struggling through the college process as a nonnative English speaker.

“We want to bring him to Princeton and let him speak and meet with people,” Fathy said, with the long-term goal of changing the University’s own admission process.

After identifying financial illiteracy as one of the causes of the Great Recession, Addison said that he wanted to educate his own community, University students.

“A lot of people don’t know how to buy a car, stay out of debt, or sign off for a mortgage,” he said.

He added that he wants to release a document to help with financial literacy “to make sure people aren’t being taken advantage of in the way we saw people being taking advantage of in Boston.”

Julie Chen ‘17, a participant on the Boston trip, described hearing about the vicious cycle that low-income individuals find themselves in.

“If they can’t pay off a debt, then they’ll have poor credit. And if they have poor credit, then they’ll have high interest rates,” she explained.

She said these interest rates makes it more difficult to pay off the debt.

Syed said that people at the University could help come up with solutions to several of these social problems.

“We have so many brilliant minds at [the University]. Someone can come up with something to address part of the issue and alleviate some of that pain,” she added.

Sakha said that she had become “jaded” after years of seeing a disinterest community.

“The busyness excuse is the plague,” Sakha explained.

She added that when the University does have discussions on social issues, the dialogue is “divisive and antagonistic.”

“We shouldn’t be debating the issue. We should be talking about the humans behind it. These are people, like us; these are students,” Sakha said.

There is another round of trips taking place this spring.

Three of the trips, which will be announced later this month, will be all-freshmen. Other trips include “Becoming American: Navigating Culture and Identity in Immigrant Enclaves,” in New York City, “Transforming Tulsa: Philanthropy as a Vehicle for Social Change,” in Oklahoma, and “Institutional Approaches to Urban Drug Policy,” in Washington, D.C.

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repealed in the summer. In terms of what the replacement looks like, there are a lot of different approaches being discussed now in the Republican Party.

Paul Draper: I would agree with that. I would note that even for things that he would only need a 52 Senate majority, if there are two senators in the Republican party who disagree with him, which is very likely, that’s all it takes to block him. And we know for sure there is already considerable discontent with Trump inside the Republican party from both moderate and conservative Senators.

DP: So let’s talk about the Muslim ban. Many students, Muslim and nonMuslim, are very concerned about it. What’s your take?

PD: So that’s not definitely not going to happen.

Even a Republican Congress would not let that through.

DP: So as conservatives, you both oppose this potential policy?

CP: Obviously I oppose it personally very strongly.

PD: I do too. I think it’s a bad policy. I’m almost certain it’s not going to happen.

CP: Well here is what it depends on: no way will this [policy] get through Congress. There are at least two Republicans who would oppose the Muslim ban, and I would hope there are way more than that.

The question is how much prosecutorial discretion the president has in terms of letting people into the country.

PD: But currently prosecutorial discretion only applies in instances of deportation and when it comes to illegal immigrants.

CP: Yes, but it’s a ques-

tion at this point. The other point is that after people became very concerned about a religious test – which would violate the first amendment of the Constitution – Trump reformed his policy to a ban on immigration from a list all the countries with terrorism concerns in his mind, and these countries are all predominantly Muslim countries. I still don’t think this is something he can do in practice. There will definitely be lawsuits if this happens.

PD: Yea, I don’t think he can just do it with every country with a predominantly Muslim population.

But if he designates specific countries like Syria and Afghanistan, he will get more traction and could get that through.

CP: This also gets into the question of executive power. The Republican party has been very critical of President Obama for his uses of executive power.

So how much leeway does Trump have to hypocritically then use executive action to pass things that Congress should have a say in? Would Republicans in Congress be critical of it?

Or would they fall in line?

DP: Let’s talk about immigration. Much of Trump’s rhetoric about eliminating visas, instituting a merit system, building a wall, and so on are very concerning and frightening to students on campus. What do you say to your peers on that note?

CP: The thing with the legal immigration system is that it’s very set in law.

So a lot of the things that Trump is saying will require Congress to change these laws. Now I know there’s a lot of support in Congress from both parties to increase the number of H1B Visas and high-skill worker visas. Trump has

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America’s newly elected president.

Shikaki began his portion of the lecture by discussing the fact that the Obama administration has maintained the status quo when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He added that “majorities of both Israelis and Palestinians continue to support a two state solution.” However, he noted that either side overwhelmingly distrusts the other.

“Everyone underestimates the other side’s willingness to compromise,” he said.

Shikaki also began to speculate on what he thought president-elect Trump would do once in office. He said that he thinks Trump is unlikely to make the situation worse although he did not rule out the possibility that he could.

The question and answer session was moderated by Amaney A. Jamal, the Edwards S. Sanford professor of politics, director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and director of the Workshop on Arab Political Development at Princeton University.

One audience question

pertained to Donald Trump’s pledge to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv. Both Feldman and Shikaki agreed that this would only serve to aggravate the situation in the region.

Another audience member noted that Shikaki and Feldman had not discussed the other major players in this conf lict, including Hamas and Iran.

“If you look at Israel and Hamas, Hamas protects Israel and Israel lets products go into Gaza,” Shikaki explained.

“Iran has very little control over this.”

The last audience question came from a local high school student. She asked about how the newly elected president and the majority Republican Senate would affect Americans of Middle-Eastern descent. Their response made reference to Trump’s authoritarian tendencies but was also somewhat deferential.

The lecture took place at 7:00 p.m. at Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium. It was sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice.

been wishy-washy on this issue like on many other issues. The other thing is that immigration is not a deficit issue, so he can’t use reconciliation and would need sixty votes, which means he would need the Democrats in the Senate.

So he would need to come up with some proposal that has both Democratic and Republican support. That will be difficult because the Democrats will insist that other items in immigration reform, like pathways to citizenship for illegal immigrations will be included. I don’t think his immigration policies will be nearly as extreme as he’s said in the primaries.

PD: Though for some of the most important policies like stopping DAPA and DACA, the deferred action programs, he can do on his own.

CP: That is going to end.

In fact, the Supreme Court in fact had already said it’s legally suspect.

PD: I think he will also be able to do simple things like ending catch-and-release for illegal immigrants who have committed crimes.

CP: Yes, he definitely has discretion to do that. He is probably going to tell the director of ICE to focus on deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records. There’s also the issue of sanctuary cities, of which Princeton is one. Congress could withhold funding to cities that do not cooperate with law enforcement, but that would require new legislation, and the Democrats will oppose it. To put it simply, Trump has said a lot of things in the primary that as a Republican, I disagree with completely. But he will be very constrained by the Congress.

DP: What about drastically limiting work visas for international students who need to work to sup-

port their education?

Would something like that happen?

CP: We should be handing out visas to international students when they get their diplomas. We should dramatically increase the number of high-skilled visas. Because if someone has studied in an American university and wants to work here, it would be stupid to not let them stay here. And a lot of Republicans feel the same way. Now Trump comes from a more nativist swing of the party that’s skeptical of immigrants. But he’s also a businessman who has worked with a lot of high-skilled immigrants. Is he going to let his pragmatic side take over now that the election is over? I don’t know. Republicans around the country, including probably us, didn’t expect Trump to win. So we have very little idea of what he is going to do in many areas until we see concrete plans.

DP: And in terms of social issues. What about concerns surrounding women’s reproductive health?

PD: That’s something they could put in the budget reconciliation.

CP: They could. But I don’t think they are going to use reconciliation on that.

PD: But if Congress puts a bill to defund Planned Parenthood, he would probably sign it.

CP: Well, Trump has been kind of supportive of Planned Parenthood. The federal government doesn’t have much of a role in abortion issues, it’s much more on the state level. The only issue that could affect abortion on a national level is the overturning of Roe v. Wade decision. However, because you have Roe, Casey, and now Hellerstedt, some of the most conservative members of the court

would not overturn that because of stare decisis [going by precedent].

CP: Yes, even if they got five justices on the Supreme Court who are ideologically conservative, for the reason of stare decisis, they still may not overturn it just out of respect for precedent.

DP: Where does this leave the Democratic party?

CP: The Democratic party is essentially at its weakest position right now since before the Second World War. Currently, in addition to House and Senate, 32 out of the 50 governors are Republican, and a half of all state legislatures are controlled by the Republican party. It will be very difficult for the Democratic Party to have a viable selection of candidates for 2018 and 2010. Republicans are expected to gain seats in 2018.

DP: So for everything that Trump has said, how can we have an open mind about his presidency?

CP: I’ve been fairly critical of Trump, but our system has its checks and balances. Trump will face opposition from the conservative Republican establishment and will be forced to be pragmatic and moderate. Again, what he can do will be largely constrained

by Congress.

PD: Media bias and the Democratic party have played a role in this election to generate fear. If you look at his policies closely, there’s not as much reason to be concerned, and we need conversation across party lines. The surest way to continue the divide is to close the conversation.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The system isn’t broken Gregory Kernisan ’19 guest contributor

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o the Editor:

The election of Donald Trump tapped into something that we, at a liberal-leaning institution of higher education, are simply not exposed to. Clearly something that fell flat here resonated across the rest of America, as close to half of U.S. voters chose to select him on their ballot.

The Americans that aren’t college educated are still Americans too, and their voices matter just as much as yours. The system isn’t broken; we just don’t like the outcome.

Gregory Kernisan ’19

Our blue orange bubble Jacquelyn Thorbjormsom columnist

Do-Hyeong Myeong ’17 editor-in-chief

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hose left in mouthgaping wonder at Donald Trump’s election win are still not understanding Trump’s support. We are asking “How did this happen?”, but the question is rhetorical — we are not really trying to understand what happened Tuesday night.

Instead we write off Trump supporters as, to use Hillary Clinton’s words, “deplorables” who are “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.” Some Trump supporters might be all of these things. But other Trump supporters are not any of these things. Nevertheless, that stigma has created bubbles of discourse that Princetonians have done nothing to dispel.

Liberal bubbles cannot be penetrated by people who hold opposing views, for their views are marked as bigoted

and dismissed with insults.

Bullying these people into silence is antithetical to the liberal value of inclusivity — and it was probably what caused them to hide their views from pollsters.

On election night a friend confided in me that he voted for Trump, but asked that I not tell anyone else and noted that he hadn’t told anyone here at Princeton. As students at a University that prides itself on inclusivity, we should abhor this sentiment.

Princeton should be a place that makes everyone feel comfortable expressing their ideas and opinions — for all voices, even those we disagree with, contribute to the discussion in invaluable ways.

If we are truly diverse, truly tolerant of all, truly accepting, we should embrace opposing views. We should embrace

the difficult conversations.

We should do all of this with respect, without dismissing political ideologies as “deplorable.”

Maybe if we had created an atmosphere that encouraged, supported, and valued all discourse and all difficult conversations — maybe if we had looked outside of our blue orange bubble and sought to understand Trump supporters, we wouldn’t have been so shellshocked on Tuesday night.

Maybe we could have woken up Wednesday morning with a better understanding of the 60 million Americans who voted for him — and maybe, just maybe, we would feel slightly better.

Jacquelyn Thorbjornson is a sophomore from South Thomaston, Maine. She can be reached at jot@ princeton.edu.

My election postmortem

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lot of work with the Asian American Students Association this election, registering voters and exit polling to make sure the community could exercise its right to vote. I’m eternally grateful for everyone, students and alumni included, who helped in that effort. AsianAmerican voter turnout broke records as my community finally brought its voice to bear at the ballot box. A record number of Asian-American women are now sitting in Congress, shattering glass and bamboo ceilings.

Now, it’s too late to think about what could have been.

We need to look forward.

Trump has been shockingly vague about his policy platform, but the few details that have emerged don’t look pretty. I fear for the safety of all the people in this country whom Trump has mocked and demeaned. I fear for the legitimization of bigotry and

vice president Craig Bloom ’88 secretary Betsy J. Minkin ’77 treasurer Douglas Widmann ’90 Gregory L. Diskant ’70 Richard P. Dzina, Jr. ’85 William R. Elfers ’71 Stephen Fuzesi ’00 Zachary A. Goldfarb ’05 John G. Horan ’74 Joshua Katz Rick Klein ’98 Kathleen Kiely ’77 James T. MacGregor ’66 Alexia Quadrani Michael E. Seger ’71 Annalyn Swan ’73 Richard W. Thaler, Jr. ’73

news editors Jessica Li ‘18 Shriya Sekhsaria ‘18 Christina Vosbikian ‘18 Annie Yang ‘18

photography editor Rachel Spady ‘18

Nicholas Wu is a Wilson School major from Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. He can be reached at nmwu@princeton.edu.

associate opinion editors Newby Parton ‘18 Sarah Sakha ‘18

opinion editor Jason Cloe ‘17 sports editor David Liu ‘18 street editor Harrison Blackman ‘17

video editor Elaine Romano ‘19 web editor Clement Lee ‘17 chief copy editors Grace Rehaut ‘18 Maya Wesby ‘18 design editor Crystal Wang ‘18

associate sports editors Nolan Liu ‘19 David Xin ‘19 associate street editor Danielle Taylor ‘18

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xenophobia. I fear for the integrity of the international system.

For those of us on this campus who are Americans, we have to remember that this is still our country. The last thing anyone should be thinking about now is how to move to Canada. The republic will survive, but there’s going to be much work to be done over the next four years. Let’s fight to protect marginalized communities, strive to preserve progressive programs, and do our damnedest to take back the White House in 2020.

Princeton’s inferiority complex towards Harvard ith the Princeton-Harvard football game not too long ago, Princeton received a visit from many Harvard students, alumni, student groups including the glee club, band, men and women’s soccer teams, field hockey team, and of course, the football team. It’s at this time of year that Princeton brings out its best insults and antics to prove its superiority over Harvard, or as I’ll argue, its “lack of inferiority.”

Earlier this academic year, Princeton students rejoiced at the newly updated U.S. News college rankings. An article in The Tab published recently after the reveal reads, “This marks the sixth year that Princeton has placed first (and beaten Harvard).”

Is being ranked higher than Harvard actually that important to Princeton students?

Is there something Princeton needs to prove to Harvard? We can comfortably admit that both Princeton and Harvard are

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half of the country that voted for Trump definitely isn’t stupid or misguided. There are a multitude of reasons to have voted for Trump, and liberals on campus need to be cognizant of that as we think about the election.

Perhaps we’re too distanced from whatever the “real America” is these days.

Perhaps we’re too cloistered in our ivory towers, or maybe we’ll have to settle for Tower Club’s tower. In any case, it’s all over now. The American people have spoken that they want Donald Trump as President. The fact remains that Clinton’s campaign made a major strategic error — there’s a significant part of the country that felt disaffected and left behind by the policy and cultural changes of the past eight years under President Obama.

I’m still incredibly proud of what was accomplished this election cycle. I did a

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probably dropped more f-bombs while watching results come in on Election Night than I’ve uttered in my 20 years of life so far. My apologies to everyone around me.

It was an incredibly frustrating night, and I’m still trying to process what happened and what comes next.

That said, living here in the Orange Bubble, it’s easy to forget the world outside of the massive sampling error that is Princeton University.

Our campus opinion polling last week showed that 80.5% of the student body was planning on or had already voted for Clinton. While it looks like Clinton might take the final lead in the popular vote count, it’s not nearly as much of a blowout lead as she had on this campus. We’re just not representative of the country as a whole, and that’s worth remembering when we talk about the election. The

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decidedly top-tier academic institutions, but there is no need for such a comparison or competition between the two (let alone one that reflects Princeton’s apparent inferiority complex).

Let’s take a look at how the weekend of Oct. 22 fared for Princeton’s rivalry with Harvard: the football team lost (2023 in overtime), the field hockey team lost (2-3 in overtime), the men’s soccer team lost (2-3), the women’s soccer team lost (0-1), the Harvard band stole Princeton’s balloons for all of the Ivy League to witness (thanks to the Ivy League Snapchat story), and the Princeton Glee Club childishly pelted Harvard Glee Club members and alumni with orange paper airplanes midsong. The abundance of Harvard insults leading up to the weekend of the 22nd was followed by speechlessness from the Princeton student body.

I’ll admit our glee club’s antics were the result of a century-long tradition, but with so much hype and anticipa-

tion leading into this weekend, Princeton athletics could have appeared just a bit more impressive to give this column justice. As evidenced by our teams’ unusually poor performances, we succumb to the pressure imposed by students, alumni, coaches, and families who possess the foolish mentality that Princeton’s worth needs to be “proven” to a school like Harvard.

Princeton seems to be lacking the international recognition Harvard prides itself upon, and I believe this is the sole reason for our mentality of perceived inferiority at the international level. By comparing ourselves to Harvard, we’re looking to prove that we, despite claims from others, are the superior institution. What we fail to realize is that by making these comparisons, we’re actually acknowledging Harvard’s preeminence. Through counterproductive comparisons of Princeton to Harvard, we reinforce Harvard’s elitism and global recognition. With-

out mention of Harvard’s supposed superiority, we produce a more effective claim at asserting Princeton’s true and, as a result, unquestioned elitism.

Harvard does draw attention.

Including Harvard’s name in the column title will undoubtedly attract more readers. We, as an institution, are working toward more expansive name recognition for Princeton, such that Harvard’s name shouldn’t need to be included in the title to attract readers. Princeton’s name should and can suffice; there’s nothing Princeton has to live up to. For sports, there’s always next year. For international recognition, we work independently — without help from comparisons to Harvard and Yale — to further develop our domestic and global prestige. So long as comparisons are made between Princeton and Harvard, Princeton will remain on the lower end.

Jared Shulkin is a freshman from Weston, FL. He can be reached at jshulkin@princeton.edu.

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Men’s soccer takes on Yale M. SOCCER Continued from page 6

against Cornell, where they defeated the Big Red by a score of 2-1. They followed up that performance with a thrilling 2-2 draw against the Penn Quakers — who were only a few points back of the Ivy League Title — this past weekend.

Over fall break, senior defender Greg Seifert scored two more goals to increase his total for the season to 11. He now has a two goal advantage over Alec Neumann for the scoring title, and looks to add some more goals before his playing career at Princeton comes to an end.

Seifert also leads the league in shots (57) and points (26).

Seifert is a big reason why the Tigers rank at the top of the Ivy League in most offensive categories. Currently the Tigers

lead the league in shots (207), points (97), goals (30), and assists (37). The Tigers will most likely close out the season leading all of the above categories as in most of them they lead by a large margin.

Princeton has league leaders in most of the offensive categories. Players such as freshman midfielder Ben Martin, senior defender Mark Romanowski, sophomore defender Sean McSherry, and junior midfielder Matthew Mangini all appear in the top 10 in categories such as goals, points, and assists.

The Tigers look to their offense in years to come to be the foundation for success. With many key contributors returning for one or more seasons, there is much optimism surrounding the Tigers as they will look to make a push for the Ivy League title next year.

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the only two title contenders remaining this season. If the Tigers manage to win either of the two upcoming games, at least a joint Ivy League title will be secured. If they win both games, Princeton will not only be guaranteed the position as sole champions, but will also receive a ticket to the NCAA this year.

This weekend, Princeton hosts Cornell and Columbia in what will likely be the two most important games of the season. Although the Tigers defeated both teams in 3-0 sweeps back in October, neither game will come as an easy win as the respective fourth and third place teams are both coming away with a win in their latest games.

The Big Red landed a 3-0 sweep against Dartmouth last week, and the Lions similarly took home a 3-1 victory against Harvard.

The Tigers, however, are still expected to play exceptionally well in these two games. Last weekend,

senior co-captain Cara Mattaliano scored 34 total kills, while freshmen duo Maggie O’Connell and Devon Peterkin scored 36 and 26, respectively. Throughout the season, Tigers have dominated the statistic charts in both kills and hitting percentage, and a single loss against the Bulldogs is unlikely to alter that trend. If the Tigers display the level of performance they have been demonstrating the entire season, a back-to-back Ivy League title could become a reality very soon.

A lot is at stake as the team prepares for their last games of the season, and for some — seniors Cara Mattaliano, Brittany Ptak, and Lauren Miller — this will be their last Ivy League game as Tigers.

A second crown to the title and a place in the NCAA will be a well-deserved career climax for the four years these three players have given to the team.

Friday’s game against Cornell will be played at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday’s will be at 5:00 p.m. Both games will be in Dillon Gym.

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FIELD HOCKEY

Tournament Bound!

By Grace Baylis contributor

On Sunday night the Princeton field hockey team received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament this weekend, where they will start their postseason campaign against nationally ranked No. 4 Penn State. The Tigers faced the Nittany Lions earlier in the season, losing 4-2, but were not outplayed, so this weekend should be a close matchup. Princeton has now successfully qualified for the tournament nine straight times and 21 times overall. However, this year the Tigers made the tournament in a less conventional way than usual. Princeton loss the Ivy League Championship to Harvard, therefore costing them the automatic bid into the tournament.

Penn State will be confident going into the game on Saturday, having just come out of beating Maryland in the Big 10 championship game last weekend, and holding a 6-4 overall postseason advantage against Princeton. However, this is the first year that none of the 2012 National Championship-winning Tigers remain in the squad; it may be a new era for the team to try and repeat the success that it has had in the past during the tournament. The Tigers have made the quarterfinals 14 times including last year, when the team beat Maryland in the first

round but was then beaten

by Syracuse, who went on to win their first NCAA Championship.

If the Tigers come out on top against Penn State, they will face either Michigan or Virginia in the second round.

Virginia qualified for the tournament by winning the ACC conference and Michigan by receiving an at-large bid. There is everything to play for, for a Princeton team that has seen an incredible amount of changes this season and has adapted well.

For Head Coach Carla Tagliente in her first season at Princeton, the tournament is a chance for her players to continue their season as long as possible and continue moving forward.

Along with making the tournament this week, five Tigers were honored by the Ivy League, including senior captain Cat Caro, who was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the year. Caro is ranked in the top 20 nationally in goals (0.93) and points (2.13) per game, and leads Princeton’s stats in both.

Along with Caro, junior Ryan McCarthy and freshman Maddie Bacskai were named first team All Ivy. Sophomore Sophia Tornetta received a second team All Ivy honor and sophomore Elise Wong picked up an Honorable All Ivy League mention. The Tigers closed their regular season ranked No. 14 in the final NFHCA Coaches poll and No. 13 in RPI.

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The Princeton field hockey team will look to make a run after obtaining an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

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M. SOCCER

Women’s volleyball chases Ivy League title

By Jay Lee contributor

Women’s volleyball approaches the eve of the season finale with a second consecutive Ivy League title at stake.

This weekend, the Princeton Tigers (11-1 Ivy League)

will play their final two games of the season in hopes of securing what has so far turned out to be an exceptionally successful season.

On top of an impressive and undefeated first half of the season, nine of the Tigers’ eleven victories this season were 3-0 sweeps. It was only

last weekend at New Haven where Princeton suffered their first defeat of the season in a nail-biting 2-3 game against second-place Yale (10-2).

With less than a week left to go, Princeton and Yale are See W. VOLLEYBALL page 5

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Men’s soccer will take on Yale in their final game of the season.

Men’s soccer looks to finish season strong against Ivy League rival

By Chris Murphy contributor

The men’s soccer team looks to end their season on a positive note this weekend. The Tigers take the field for the final time in the regular season this Saturday against Yale in New Haven. For the Tigers, they will look to extend a very impressive winning streak against the Bulldogs. Princeton has not lost to Yale since 2011 when they

were defeated 2-1 at home.

That puts the Tigers’ winning streak currently at four against the Bulldogs. A win this Saturday would give the senior class a clean sweep of Yale over their four years on the team.

The Tigers come into this weekend’s game having concluded a fall break week in which they earned four out of a possible six points. The Tigers opened fall break on the road See M. SOCCER page 5

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The women’s volleyball team will attempt to put the finishing touches on an incredible season.

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The Princeton field hockey team has qualified for the NCAA tournament 21 times in its history.

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