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Students travel to NYC to partipate in DAPL rally

By Sharon Xiang contributor

Sarah Hirschfield contributor

Fifty-eight University students gathered in New York City on Tuesday, Nov. 15, to participate in a rally against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The purpose of the rally was to express solidarity with members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose only water source is threatened by the pipeline.

“We cannot afford to be complacent in the country’s politics when the livelihood of so

many people is at stake, nor condone the devastating impact on the climate caused by our continued reliance on fossil fuels,” Emily Chen ’17, one of the main organizers of the Princeton protesters, wrote on the Facebook event.

The rally, which took place in front of the offices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in New York City, was part of a series of events planned around the country as part of a “Day of Action” in opposition to the pipeline. The rally was co-sponsored by Natives See DAPL page 2

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Stephen King, Eileen Myles deliver reading

Ancient coin exhibition opens at U. Art Museum

By Audrey Spensley contributor

Renowned suspense novelist Stephen King and awardwinning poet Eileen Myles gave a joint reading at 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 16, as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series 2016-2017. The writers were introduced by professor of creative writing Emeritus Joyce Carol Oates and professor of creative writing Susan Wheeler respectively.

“We invited both of these writers because they do something in their genres that no one else does,” Michael Dickman, a lecturer in the Creative Writing department, said. “They read on the same day by happenstance in their schedules, but it was a great combination.”

Dickman aided in organizing the talk.

Myles read a selection of her older works as well as an excerpt from her current project “Afterglow.” King followed with two excerpts from his upcoming novel Sleeping Beauties, which he co-wrote with his son Owen King.

“To tell a really good story is what is most important to me,” King said. “I think writers decide what they really think

by codifying their thoughts in words.”

“It’s very interesting to see an author speak in person. With athletes or actors you directly see the person doing their work, but when an author creates art I have a bond with that art piece and not necessarily the actual person,” Jacob Sweetow ’20 said.

“It was cool to bridge that gap and unveil the real Stephen King.”

“It was really awesome seeing Tracy K. Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, and Eileen Myles in the same room,” said Destiny Salter ’20.

Salter also noted that the difference between the various speakers contributed to her enthusiasm for the event.

“What struck me is the number of people at the reading today, and that’s what we want for every reading in the series,” Dickman added. “Whether you know them or not, the other writers in the series are just as dynamic and exciting.”

The next reading in the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series will consist of University student readings and will take place on Dec. 14, at 5 p.m. in the Chancellor Green Rotunda.

By Charles Min Associate news editor

Members of the Princeton University Art Museum Student Advisory Board opened a permanent collection of ancient and medieval coins at the museum.

The collection emphasizes the importance of numismatics and reflects the University’s extensive collection of coins, Dr. Alan Stahl, the University curator of numismatics, said.

The SAB consists of students dedicated to promoting student involvement at the museum. Three

undergraduate students, Daniel Elkind ’17, Constantin Weickart ’17, and Hannah Baumann ’18 led the effort to create a more extensive gallery of coins at the library.

“I got interested in coins through courses in Late Antiquity, and basically all my professors used coins in their lectures,” Weickart said. “I saw how important coins are not only as objects but also as historical sources. Princeton has one the best coin collections in the world.”

The University possesses over 110,000 coins in its collection, including coins, tokens, paper money, metals, and decorations,

according to Stahl. This means the University has the largest coin collection of any university in the country.

The proposal to have more coins on permanent display was brought up in early 2015 by Elkind, Weickart, and Baumann. They brought the proposal to Stahl, and the suggestion was followed by yearlong, back-and-forth work with the art museum to bring the proposal to fruition, according to Weickart.

“We went back to Dr. Stahl and formulated the list of coins that we wanted to use. We decided on what See COIN page 3

PHOTO COURTESY OF HANNAH BAUMANN

Three members of the Student Advisory Council posed in front of the new coin exhibition.

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Einat Wilf discusses peace in Israel, Middle Eastern politics contributor

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Columnist Max Grear calls on the Princeton administration and community to support undocumented students, and contributing columnist Annie Lu comments on fostering a more welcoming culture on campus. PAGE 4

Einat Wilf, former member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, spoke about the conditions for peace in Israel at the Center for Jewish Life on Nov. 16.

Wilf served in the 18th Knesset, as a Lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces, and as foreign policy advisor to Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres. She is a senior fellow with the Jewish People Policy Institute and the author of four books on Israel.

Wilf started the talk by describing herself as a “devout atheist and liberal,” and went on to discuss her early political life as a member of the Labor Party and a supporter of

the two-state solution.

She described the 1990s as a “time of euphoria,” noting a sharp contrast to the 2000s, which was marked by violence against civilians. Wilf stated that, while the media called the period one of “moral collapse,” she would instead characterize it as “moral clarity for the left.”

“All systems of morality say to choose your survival over others,” Wilf explained.

She added that she has “no moral qualms about choosing [her] people, [her] survival.”

Wilf described her former view of peace as a matter of territory and resettlement.

She said she later realized that it was a “far deeper and serious conflict,” one that involved the Palestinians’ fail-

Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Admiral Michael Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Jacob Shapiro, professor of politics and international affairs will discuss national security priorities for the next administration in McCosh Hall, Room 50.

ure to acknowledge that the Jewish people have a claim to the land.

There is no symmetry in the Palestinian and Israeli characterizations of “moderate,” she noted, politically moderate herself. She explained that, on one hand, Israeli moderates recognize the mutual claims to land, while on the other hand, Palestinian moderates deny the Jewish claim to land.

“The Jewish people and the Arab Palestinians are both indigenous to Israel and Palestine. Both have the right to return and settle,” Wilf said, “but they are two different peoples. If they agree for the causes of justice and peace, they will divide the state and See LECTURE page 3

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at Princeton, Green Princeton, The Princeton Progressives, Princeton Committee on Palestine, and Princeton Social Sustainability.

Green Princeton members reached out to people in-person, discovering it was the most effective way to gather participants, according to another organizer Dan Sturm ’19.

He added that ten out of the almost sixty participants came from the same co-opt.

Funding for the event was obtained from an alumni group called the Princeton Progressives, enabling students to travel via charter bus and train without paying out-ofpocket, Sturm noted. He added that Green Princeton tried to get funding from the Office of Sustainability, but was unable to do so because of the event’s political affiliation.

The rally itself was large and loud, Sturm said. Throughout the event, participants engaged in call-and-response chants.

Sturm explained that there was a conscious effort to avoid using the word “protest,” noting that the word has “connotations of being violent or not peaceful.” Instead, he thinks “Rally” or “solidarity event” are more appropriate terms to use.

Additionally, a variety of speakers from multiple organizations spoke at the rally about issues surrounding the pipeline.

Hannah Tandy ’18, a participant in the rally, noted that speakers discussed “problems

in general such as another pipeline that’s trying to be built on the Hudson River,” as well as, “the racial issues regarding this Standing Rock Pipeline where they could have built near a different city, but instead they chose to go through Native American land,” she added.

As the talks concluded, some protesters chose to participate in civil disobedience.

“About half of the group started walking into the streets before the police eventually stopped them. I think about 39 of those members were arrested -- nobody from Princeton but the people who did do the civil disobedience act had that possibility happen,” Tandy noted.

Despite those events, Chen believes that the rally was a success.

“There were 2000 people there peacefully protesting, making sure our voices were heard and to support the water protectors,” Chen explained.

“And in terms of that, we were successful because we were able to add our voices to and strengthen the awareness of the current issue with the Dakota Access Pipeline,” she said.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold further discussions on whether to grant an easement for the pipeline crossing in order to study its effects on the local water supply, according to the Army’s news release on Nov. 14.

There was previously a protest on campus Oct. 10 regarding DAPL.

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were some of the narratives we wanted to show, what were some of the images we wanted to compare,” said Baumann. “We were in charge of writing the label and content.

Even though they’re so short, they are so difficult because they have to contain within it so much information.”

The coins were obtained through several different sources.

Many of the coins have been donated by alumni to both the museum and Firestone Library while other coins have been purchased by the University for scholarly purposes, according to Stahl.

The Art Museum only displayed a handful of Byzantine coins in its collection, Weickart said. The new exhibit will showcase a wideranging collection of ancient and medieval coins from the 6th century BCE to 1400 AD. “[The coin collection] is there primarily for educational use. A lot of classes visit the coin collection during the course of the year,” Stahl said. “Students come to do research for term papers or get images of coins to use in presentations.”

Stahl added that the exhibit is also open to outside scholars for their research, especially since the

coin collection will not be part of the rotating exhibit hall but part of the permanent display.

“As a classics major, I want to get people excited about the ancient world, not just the literature, but also how multifaceted and interdisciplinary the study of classics can be,” Baumann said.

Elkind said that there are several things that viewers of the exhibit can take away from it, including the unique aesthetic value offered by the coin collection.

Elkind is a member of the Editorial Board of the Daily Princetonian. “[The coins] are really nice.

They’re like sculptures and a genuine work of art. Some of them display the most impressive example of portraiture,” he said.

Elkind added that the historical value of these coins are extensive.

He explained that many emperors, like Heraclius in the 7th century, used coins as a way to stabilize imperial succession and assert dominion over people.

Baumann said that the next goal for her is to promote the new exhibit and to spread word about the new coin exhibit.

“It’s unbelievable how one object could have so much historic importance. It’s utterly fascinating how much history can be in one single object,” Weickart said.

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will allow minority people to live in each others’ land.”

Wilf said she believes peace will come when both sides acknowledge the mutual and equal right to the land, a process that “might take a century,” she stated. She also included her opinion that, if either side insists that its right is superior, there will be no peace.

Following her talk, Wilf took a number of questions from the audience.

Gabriel Swagel ‘20 asked about the settlement situation. Wilf said that the consensus is that there should be a land swap, whereby the settlers would move to live with their respective group.

She noted that a better option would be to keep the settlers where they are; it would be more economical, and there is a social benefit of having minorities in a given society, according to Wilf.

Wilf then raised the question of Zionism. “It is about sovereignty,” she said, “the fact that we govern ourselves, self determination, at no one’s mercy. We come to Israel

to be masters of our fate, not slaves to the land.”

She said that she embraces this secular and humanist idea, and she rejects the Messianic view that Zionism is about the land.

Another student asked about the Palestinians’ goals.

Wilf referred to an analysis of a British foreign minister, who she said referred to the situation in Israel as an irreconcilable conflict because the Israelis wanted a Jewish state, and the Palestinians wanted to prevent this.

“Arabs have had many opportunities to end the occupations—to have a state,” she said. “Occupations are humiliating and ugly. Every day they have opportunity to end this, but they don’t want humiliation of acknowledging that Jews will be an equal sovereignty next door. That choice speaks to their priorities.”

Wilf said that the Palestinians held the notion that Israel is temporary. “Why are movements on campuses called ‘Justice for Palestine?’

Why not ‘peace?’ Because from their perspective, the injustice to be corrected is Jewish sovereignty.”

Another student asked

if the Palestinians would change their mindset. Wilf said she thought so, but it will take time.

“It’s a matter of history and power relations. Jews are cognizant of their status as minority. Their decisions reflect this.”

Wilf said that Israel would have peace when both sides reached “mutual exhaustion” with their respective philosophies. For the Jews, this was the idea that they will drive the Palestinians away; for the Arabs, the idea that the Jews will leave.

Elizabeth Lilly ‘20, who came to the talk, said she found that “the complexity of her viewpoint and that worldview doesn’t perfectly fit into one political faction” to be the most interesting aspect of the talk.

The talk, entitled “A Condition for Peace: What do we mean when we speak of the Jewish State?” took place at Wilf Hall in the Center for Jewish Life at 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 16. It was sponsored by Tigers for Israel.

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Dear administration: protect undocumented people now or change motto Max Grear

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here is no debating it: we are in a time of crisis, and complacency is deadly. This moment, more than any other we can remember, requires immediate action “in the nation’s service and the service of humanity.”

Students can sign the DREAM Team’s petition calling on the University to protect undocumented people, and participate in the walk-out and gathering in front of Nassau Hall happening today (Thursday, Nov. 17).

Administrators, meanwhile, should also make good on the promise of the University’s motto by implementing the DREAM Team’s recommendations outlined below and in the online petition.

Undocumented students, workers, and residents in the Princeton community both on and off campus currently face direct threats to their lives and communities. Thanks to the election of Donald Trump, proponents of the ugliest forms of outright racism and nativism are now empowered to raid homes, separate families, and indefinitely lock people up in abusive detention centers without access to medical care, legal counsel, or family contact. Trump has made clear that he intends to make good on his promise to deport or incarcerate up to three million undocumented immigrants.

As his inauguration looms, the individuals and communities already most vulnerable to structural and interpersonal violence — refugees from war-

zones, undocumented queer and trans people, Latinx families, black and brown migrants — are now thrust into a situation of far greater precariousness and danger.

Every one of us in the University community needs to immediately acknowledge the urgency of resisting Trump’s immigration policies in every possible way. The optimistic responses to Trump’s victory have invariably come from those who by virtue of their race, gender, class, or citizenship status are safe from the violence advocated by Trump and his supporters. “He’ll tone it down now that he’s President,” they say, or “there are checks in place.” Such responses are not only naïvely out of touch but also legitimately dangerous, particularly for undocumented people living in the US, given Trump’s executive authority on matters of immigration.

With or without the support of the Republican-controlled Congress, Trump can immediately unilaterally direct the Department of Homeland Security to ramp up deportations. And all it would take to hire more Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is the support of a Congress in the hands of his own party — a course of action hardly necessary for mass deportations given that the number of ICE agents more than doubled from 2,710 to 6,338 just between 2003 and 2012 under Bush and Obama.

Furthermore, Trump’s claim that he will target “criminals” only reflects the sheer intensity of his willfully ignorant racism. This is a man who charac-

terized a group of people — who are statistically far less likely than the US-born population to commit crimes — as “criminals, drug drealers, rapists.”

Virtues like truth or trustworthiness matter little to him.

Many believe that he is “almost certain” to revoke the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a power that lies completely in his own hands, thus jeopardizing the lives and futures of young people seeking education and employment.

In response to such a crisis, complacency is deadly. The incoming presidency immediately and deeply threatens marginalized groups across our society, from Muslims to women to LGBT individuals to people of color to poor communities, and consequently there are countless battles to be waged by all members of society. However, the task of helping to protect undocumented people is a collective duty in which the University as an institution is uniquely well-equipped to participate, because there are a number of concrete steps that the University can immediately take that would significantly contribute to this cause. The Princeton DREAM Team has already outlined the specific actions that the University should take in their online petition.

First, the Princeton administration should declare the University a sanctuary campus for undocumented students and residents by refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, and proclaim the Princeton University Chapel a sanctuary church. Next, the University should discontinue misclassifying undocumented

students as international students and remove the international tax for them. Finally, the University should provide resources to undocumented students, including hiring an employee in the Davis Center to serve undocumented students and students of undocumented or mixed-status families, starting a Dean’s Fund to cover the costs of reapplying for DACA/ DAPA, and expediting changes to the University Office of Admission website on behalf of undocumented students.

Alejandra Rincon ’18, codirector of the DREAM Team and collaborator on the petition along with Maria Perales ’18 and Arlene Gamio ‘18, explained to me that the petition and walkout are efforts to “emphasize that Princeton advocate for the families of students that are affected” and that “this movement is for all the undocumented people who are scared of the uncertainty right now.”

Sign the petition and participate in the walk-out happening today at 5 p.m. (Thursday, Nov. 17) to stand in solidarity with our peers, community members and undocumented people across the country.

We will soon learn whether our community’s adage is sincere or not. As the DREAM Team’s petition states: “We cannot be bystanders in the face of discrimination and hate when we pride ourselves as being ‘in the nation’s service and in the service of all humanity.’ We call for action.”

Max Grear ’18 is a Spanish and Portuguese major from Wakefield, R.I. He can be reached at mgrear@ princeton.edu.

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For the love of humanity Annie Lu

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his past spring, Princeton’s informal motto was changed from “Princeton in the nation’s service and in the service of all nations” to “Princeton in the nation’s service and the service of humanity.” It highlighted for me the notion that the University seeks to serve everyone, plain and simple, rather than defining everyone by “nations,” “races,” “sexes,” or any variety of arbitrary categorizations.

The idea of categorization though, the idea that we’re defined by our race, gender, or sexual orientation, seems to be a very recent phenomenon and not necessarily intentional. Originally, talking about these differences was meant to spark conversation about how we could recognize and accept our inherent differences or foster tolerance in a society where deviations from the norm are taboo. But it seems that as these differences

become further ingrained into our minds, it’s become harder to think of ourselves as the common race that is “humanity,” and easier to fit ourselves into societally-defined categorizations of people. We learn that we ought to acknowledge differences, and we do, but it’s difficult to go beyond acknowledgement. We do not know how to truly involve people who are different in our lives because nowadays they just seem so… different.

I grew up in suburban Mississippi, where people are friendly but we didn’t talk about differences much. I do remember though that neighbors would often strike up conversations with my dad about the difficulties of mowing the lawn on hot Sunday afternoons, or how the local waterpark was being shut down — people bonded over communal matters, local sports, and the ups and downs of everyday life experiences. Even though we were an Asian family in a white suburb, southern hospitality dictated that you treat everyone the same, that

you make sure they feel truly welcomed into the community, truly belonging to and having a part in it. The criteria for evaluation was simple: all humans deserve the same love as any other person, so you give it to them regardless of who they are. Real love looks at the needs of the receiver, not the desires of the giver; in fact, it actively looks for, and does not passively avoid, encounters with the needy.

At Princeton, however, we’re a bit more selective with whom we give our love to. We’re hesitant to reach out to people we don’t know on campus, who tend, more often than our friends, to be people from very different backgrounds. Perhaps we don’t believe in the importance of investing in people whom we don’t have established relationships with.

Perhaps we’re a bit mercenary and realize that we can’t gain personally from small acts of kindness towards people whom we will never see again, or from informal, sporadic deeds of kindness that can’t go on a resume. Nevertheless, we talk

a lot about the ideas of acceptance and inclusion but very little about the idea of love. Isn’t love what motivates us to include someone in our lives? And it’s by relating to others as humans that we’re able to foster a love for them. It’s by empathizing with their struggles and realizing that even if they are quite different from us, they are still very similar, part of our common race.

We’ve done a good job of bringing attention to the diversity problem, but we haven’t done as well with actually creating a more welcoming culture for everyone or motivating the larger campus community to do so. So I propose a two-fold solution.

One, let’s focus more on communal love. We ought to realize that we can and should care for people with whom we have little context for interaction, even if we’re not good friends with them. Sometimes it’s the small things we do for people we don’t really know that matter most, because it’s those acts that make them feel they belong to the larger community rather than simply to

a select group of friends. Two, let’s regain sight of a common humanity, the things that bring us together rather than push us apart. It’ll help us develop greater empathy for the people around us, which subsequently motivates us to be more loving towards them.

There’s sort of a beauty in all this talk about the diversity that we’ve all forgotten, a beauty that motivates us to think more deeply and strive harder to be better to and for others.

It’s the beauty of being able to see in someone else so different a bit of yourself and of realizing that showing love to them is in essence showing love to yourself. It’s not karma, but rather a self-giving that leads to reciprocity because it touches the hearts of others and reminds them as well of the beauty, joy, and irony of love — a thing we can’t do for ourselves but can do for each other.

Even if it’s in the smallest of ways.

Annie Lu is a Computer Science major from Brandon, Mississippi. She can be reached at daol@princeton.edu.

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Field Hockey prepares for Final Four Rachel Spady:: Photo Editor and David Liu:: Sports Editor

Just two upsets separate the 2016 Princeton field hockey team and its second national championship in over a decade.

First up in the Tiger’s crusade will be the University of Delaware, whom Princeton will face in Norfolk, Va. this Friday. A win would advance the Tigers to the highest level of collegiate field hockey play, while a loss would conclude a historic season.

The matchup between the Tigers and Blue Hens is unexpected, to say the least. Both teams upset major national powerhouses – No. 5 Penn State for Princeton and No. 1 Duke for Delaware – to reach the semifinals of the tournament. At the same time, the two are not unfamiliar foes, as Princeton routed Delaware by a score of 4-2 just this September. Since then, the Blue Hens have transformed into an offensive force to be reckoned with; sophomore midfielder Greta Nauck leads the nation in goals per game at 1.35 while the Blue Hens as a whole, rank third in scoring per game. On the other side, Princeton’s defense has been stifling for opponents this season; in the first two rounds of the tournament, Princeton limited its opponents to just three goals, combined.

Should the Tigers repeat their success earlier this season, Princeton will play either No. 4 UNC or No. 6 Univ. of Connecticut for the NCAA title. In either case, the Tigers have more than proved themselves this season. Coming into this year, many questioned whether the Tigers would be able to maintain their success; under a new coach, Carla Tagliente, and a young core, the 2016 Final Four Tigers contrast starkly with the 2013 championship team that featured three future Olympians. In spite of this, the Tigers persevered and exceeded all expectations. A win on Friday would put an exclamation mark on an already brilliant season.

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ART ATTACK

In line with this week’s theme of art in the Princeton community, STREET contributor Jianing Zhao ‘20 leads with a profile article on the woman who painted Eisgruber’s portrait.

A Portrait of the Artist: Princeton Resident Olga Sweet JIANING ZHAO Contributor ‘20

Since its advent in the 19th century, photography has become increasingly prevalent in people’s daily lives, pushing traditional modes of representation such as portraiture into relative obscurity.

However, the world’s interest in the latter art form has not diminished, according to Moscow-born painter Olga Sweet who currently lives in the town of Princeton. She has recently done a portrait of President Obama that was presented in the White House; her other clients include President Carter, Nacho Figueras (the renowned polo player and Ralph Lauren model), and Princeton University’s President Christopher Eisgruber.

“My love for portraiture comes from my fascination with human beings — our happiness, sadness, drive to succeed, and feelings of failure, fairness, and love,” Sweet said.

Sweet is particularly drawn to people’s faces, and sees them as snapshots of individuals’ lives. Unlike traditional portraits that often

depict aristocrats or royals who had the financial means to be patrons, Sweet’s portraits do not distinguish the socioeconomic status of their subjects. She wants to portray not only the accomplished, but also the ordinary, believing that there are interesting and unusual aspects to be discovered in each individual. She tries to make all her portraits — whether of Presidents or studio models — equally full of life, feelings, and desires.

According to Sweet, before she paints, her first step is to find out what she wants to say about this person through the portrait, which requires getting to know her subject to some degree. Sometimes she accesses this knowledge simply by looking into a person’s eyes.

Sweet noted that “without speaking you can know a lot about a person.” She said that she could spend hours painting a person without exchanging any words, but really feeling a strong sense of connection with them.

In some ways, our bodies — their perception and expression — are more powerful mediums of communication than spoken languages, according to Sweet. She adds

A photograph of the artist herself posing for the camera

that in the studio bodies change over time — since human models cannot remain stationary for a prolonged period of time. Therefore, artists need to be sensitive about human form and movement, when depicting it in their paintings.

The models themselves are not the only source of change; the artist puts her feelings into what she sees, and alters her perception subtly to convey her ideas (i.e. what she wants to say about the subject of her painting, as aforementioned).

According to Sweet, this is the main distinction between portraits and photography. While photography captures life as it is, she frequently manipulates colors, focal points, and proportions, as well as elongates distances and creates different backgrounds.

Rejoicing in this freedom to change what she wants in order to express her impression of the subject, Sweet also warned that one must be careful when doing so; there needs to be a line, albeit often blurred, between the painter’s subjective experience and the objective physicality of the subject.

Sweet recalled another of her most memorable paintings — that of President Eisgruber. “When we first moved to Princeton, my 17-year-old son challenged me to depict President Eisgruber,” she narrates, “my son was very impressed with his speech, its eloquence, depth, and passion.”

At that time, I had just completed my portrait of Dr. Frances Fergusson, the President Emerita of Vassar College, so my son suggested, ‘why not paint another university President?’” Sweet was initially hesitant about this idea, yet after hearing one of President Eisgruber’s speeches, she found herself “astonished and fascinated”b y him.

She perceived the vivacity and modernity of his mind, and strived to make his portrait as bright, deep, and contemporary as she saw him, by using vivid colors and contemporary approaches to painting.

Though she has never met President Eisgruber one-on-one, Sweet has listened to a multitude of his speeches, and thinks of him as a remarkable character. “I would very much like to learn what President Eisgruber thinks of my portraits of him,” Sweet repeatedly said.

When asked about the most important skill in producing a good portrait (her secret to success, so to speak), she pointed again towards

Olga Sweet’s portrait of Christopher Eisgruber, President of the University COURTESY OF OLGA SWEET

her ability to capture a person quickly and deeply. “I get a sense of their personality by simply looking into their eyes and listening to what they say,” Sweet remarked.

Technical skills are indispensable, but what is even more crucial is to be observant, and to see a person for what he or she really is.

As she later acknowledges, there are multiple different sides to each individual; “an incarcerated person can also be a great tennis player, or a tender mother…” She says that her job as a painter is to choose what parts of a person to highlight.

Sweet is also devoted to humanitarian endeavors, as she says, “giving back has always been important to me.” Many of her portraits have been auctioned at the benefits of the New York Junior League, South-

ampton Hospital, the American Red Cross of Greenwich, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and various other nonprofit organizations. Currently, she is looking forward to participating in a project that aims to give Princeton a more diverse iconography (under a committee that was formed on the recommendation of the Wilson Legacy Review Committee).

Sweet remarked that many portraits on campus lack diversity, and she hopes to better portray underrepresented groups of people at Princeton and beyond. As a mode of representation, portraits help describe and define notions of identity; by looking into the eyes of a portrait we can have the same ‘Sweet’ recognition of the beauty of another person.

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An Insider’s Look at Visual Arts Program’s ‘Open Studio’ HEATHER GRACE Contributor ‘18

On the Tuesday afternoon of Nov. 15, Princeton students, faculty, and community members gathered at the Lewis Center for the Arts for the Visual Arts program’s annual Open Studio event.

Dating back to 2005, the event features the work of juniors and seniors in the Visual Arts program, including both studio art majors and certificate students.

The event began with a viewing of the junior studios on the fourth floor of the Lewis Center: a large, sun-lit loft that is partitioned into cubicle-like work spaces. Artists were stationed in their studios while faculty members, parents, and friends roamed freely, engaging in conversations about color use, site-specific installations, and the

politics of graphic design. Through the creation of this open environment, students had access to perspectives from people other than the peers, professors, and advisers with whom they normally discuss their work in a classroom setting. As Visual Arts Lecturer Eve Aschheim explained, the Open Studio event was started “as a way to celebrate the students’ work” by creating “an atmosphere of exchange,” so as “to encourage the faculty to engage directly with the artists and their work as it was being made.”

In the second half of the event, crowds headed to the semi-private studio room on the second floor of the building, which were reserved for senior exhibitions. Greeted with more free food and friendly faces, students and faculty happily exchanged stories of artistic struggles and accomplishments throughout these first

few months of the fall semester, while contributing advice on how to proceed with various projects.

Comprised of less than 40 students, the Visual Arts program is relatively small, determined by a selective application process in the spring of students’ sophomore years. The department’s size, in combination with the junior and senior seminar classes,

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close-quarter work spaces, regular advising, group critiques and studio visits, allows students to form close connections and to co-experience the development of their own artistic practices.

Within the department, students are enrolled in either the junior or senior seminar. Currently, juniors are studying “Issues in Contemporary Art” with

Assistant Professor Deana Lawson while seniors are taking the class “Exhibition Issues and Methods” taught

by Visual Arts Lecturer Pam Lins. Students have 24/7 access to studio spaces in the building, which were opened for this event to the University community and the public in order to facilitate discussion of student work, which ranged from photography series to painted portraits to bubble gum sculptures.

As a junior in the Visual Arts program, I had the opportunity to participate in the event. Though it can be intimidating to invite others into your private working space (especially in the midst of incomplete projects), I found that the informal environment at the Open Studio event made for a celebratory mood and really contributed to a shared sense of community within the Visual Arts program and the Lewis Center as a whole.

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Q&A: Women*s Center Bechdel Film Club with Teresa Lopez and Tess Jacobson TJ: We moved the tables out of the Women*s Center room and put the large bean bag chairs in. We turned down all the lights and it was a really nice, cozy atmosphere to watch a movie in. We had Chinese food, which was really good. And during the movie, I think everyone was really into the movie because it was quiet and people weren’t talking.

TIL: It’s also nice to be watching a movie surrounded by people because you feel people reacting in different ways or in the same way, which is important and powerful when you’re in discussion later because you know how people have felt… This movie specifically touched a lot on the questions of race, gender, class, family, social status — and we talked about so many things.

CATHERINE WANG Street Editor ‘19

Sophomores Teresa Irigoyen-Lopez and Tess Jacobson, both of whom work at the Women*s Center, started Princeton’s own Bechdel Film Club this year to give students the opportunity to watch and discuss films that pass the Bechdel Test. The test itself was originally created in 1985 by Alison Bechdel and serves to highlight the underrepresentation of women in film. The ‘Prince’ sat down with the two co-founders to talk to them about their club and what it means to them.

The Daily Princetonian: Could you tell us a little bit about what this club is about and what made you guys decide to start it?

Tess Jacobson: We were both on the student staff at the Women*s Center and part of our job responsibilities is to help out with programming. We were both interested in starting a Bechdel Film Club.

Teresa Irigoyen-Lopez: Last year we knew each other, because we’re roommates. When I had my interview [to work at the Women*s Center], I proposed the idea. And when we both got the job we decided to do it together.

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DP: What are the requirements of the Bechdel Test?

TIL: For the movie to pass the test it has to have two women in the movie that talk to each other about anything — but men. Another extra requirement is that they [the women] both have to have names. The idea behind it is that — at least how I see it — is that movies that are generally shown, especially through initiatives on our campus, are not very — TJ: The groups that screen movies don’t often think about representation in the movie. There are a lot of groups that will screen a movie but not have a chance to talk about it in a non-academic setting… we thought it would be really fun to be able to have a conversation about a movie that’s not for class.

TIL: Also [we did this] to just watch

movies that you enjoy. Because I feel like a lot of people who are conscious of the lack of representation in the media and different spaces — they find it hard to enjoy watching movies or reading books. You cannot ignore the sexism in them — why is it harder for people who consciously think about feminism to enjoy watching a film?

TJ: Our goal is more than just showing movies that pass the Bechdel test, because the Bechdel test is meant to highlight gender inequality in film more so than it is meant to rate a movie on how feminist it is.

TIL: Also, the idea is that this test comes from from a Bechdel comic strip from 1985... On the comic these two women have this conversation where one of them says, “I don’t like going to movies because they only show women

that talk about men.” So it wasn’t even created as a test and it’s not a perfect test. We are not using it as a perfect test, but a springboard to have deeper discussions on gender inequality.

DP: Why did you choose “Girlhood” for the first showing?

TIL: None of us had watched the film before. We came up with a long list of movies that we saw or heard about that we thought might be a good idea. We chose this one because we had been Googling to see what would be a good movie for a Bechdel Film Club. This is a pretty recent movie which we thought might be a more accessible movie for people who are here for the first time.

TJ: It raises questions about the things that we want to talk about like race, gender, and class.

TIL: In general, a movie passing the test doesn’t mean that it touches these questions — TJ: — or even that it represents feminism. Because there can be a really misogynistic movie in which two women talk about something that’s not a man.

TIL: We wanted the first movie to be a feminist movie that talked to issues that we thought people might be interested in. We might show movies later on that pass the test but aren’t necessary feminist.

DP: How did the first showing go overall?

TIL: About 9-10 people showed up and stayed for the whole time. So ten of us stayed for the discussion afterwards which we thought went really well — it was an hour long discussion.

DP: Can you give an example of a movie that people see as feminist but doesn’t pass the Bechdel Test?

TJ: Only about half of movies pass the test, like the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy doesn’t pass the test. And you’re surprised to hear all these movies don’t pass the test, but as soon as you think about the individual movie — like you think about Lord of the Rings — you say to yourself ‘I can’t picture two female characters about something that’s not men.’

DP: Looking forward, what are your plans for the club?

TIL: The next one [showing] is happening the Saturday after Thanksgiving... it’s not supposed to be a closed club where the same people come every week. Whoever wants to come any week can come because it’s a different movie and a different discussion.

TJ: It’s a nice study break — it really doesn’t take up that much time. It started at seven because people came for dinner, and people were leaving around ten.

Future movies the Bechdel Film Club is considering showing: a Spanish movie, “On the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown,” and a Saudi Arabian movie, “Wadjda.”

Princeton University Art Museum: A Tour Guide’s Introduction to the Collections

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ESIN YUNUSOGLU Contributor ‘19

Most Princeton students wou ld say that they have been to the Princeton Un iversit y A r t Mu seum (PUA M) at least once in thei r Princeton career. A lthough some students are in itial ly attracted to events held in the museum, such as the Nassau Sampler and the an nua l St udent Adv isor y Board (SA B) Ga la, than ks to the large selection of free food, most w i l l adm it that free food is even better wh i le su r rou nded by worldrenow n ar t work. It takes many students a wh i le to realize that the mu seu m is indeed, ‘legit,’ wh ich they often indicate by saying: “we have a real Monet! ” However, beyond its dut y as a venue for events, the museum holds a lot of mean ing to the Princeton com mun it y.

In addition to cu ltu ral gatherings, the museum is home to a va luable col lection of ar t works from ancient scu lptu res to contemporar y paintings. Last year, I took a fresh man sem inar in the A rt Museum and realized that going to museu m was one of the easiest ways to poke a hole in the Orange Bubble ever y once in a wh i le. It is a peacefu l space where one can con nect w ith the imaginations of other people from di fferent times and places.

PUA M offers the oppor t u n it y for the students to become tou r g uides and I decided to apply. Ever y year, 10-12 students get a weeklong train ing du ring intersession,

and are taught how to give tou rs of h igh lighted art pieces to v isitors th roughout the year.

In my train ing I learned that, in fact, PUA M actual ly has not just one, but th ree Monet pieces on ex h ibition, as wel l as many other art works from other famous artists such as Caravaggio Van Gogh, Cezan ne, Fitz Hen r y Lane, A ndy Warhol, and Jasper Joh ns. These art works are either on permanent loan from private col lections, or donated by Pr i nceton a lu m n i, such as A l fred H. Barr, the f irst director of the Museum of Modern A rt (MoM A) .

A lthough th is rich col lection of Eu ropean and A merican art is recogn ized to be h igh ly impressive, it is easy to overlook the ancient art that is ex h ibited in the lower level gal leries. PUA M also hosts a large col lection of Roman Mosaics, Mayan A rt, and Asian A rt, and boasts a Ch inese tomb guardians col lection more complete than the Met’s. When I f irst v isited these lower gal leries du ring my training to, I felt deeply sorr y that th is amazing and impressive col lection is always dow nstairs, h idden away from the v isitors that just strol l around the museum.

A nother tou r g u ide, Hud son Cooke’19 also said: “I wanted to get more involved w ith whatever art-related groups there were on campus and that’s why I applied to be a tou r guide. It has met my ex pectations, I feel like I gained a better understanding of how museums function on a bu reaucratic level.”

Th is is on ly one of the many

ways students and the Princeton com mu n it y can actively engage w ith the museum. Caroline Harris, Associate Director of Education, listed the A n nual “Gratitude Gala” for sen iors and their thesis adv isors, Sen ior Wine Night among activ ities that the A rt Museum is happy to host.

Harris also mentioned the importance of art h istor y precepts that take place in the museu m, say ing “one of ou r main objectives is to ser ve a diversit y of Un iversit y classes from across disciplines.

Last year, we had 392 precepts v isits that ser ved 4,089 students (some of those are repeat v isits, we have 1,383 un ique student v isitors on those v isits) . The students represented 38 departments & programs, 93 cou rses, and we engaged w ith 79 professors & preceptors.

Finding ways to con nect the collections to the issues of interest to facu lt y and students is real ly at the heart of what we do.”

Du ring my (nearly) one and a ha l f years at Princeton, I have felt that the museum is so accessible to the ex tent that I can literal ly sit in front of a 17th centu r y painting and do my homework.

I have also appreciated how the museum adm in istration is open to students using the space as a dy nam ic, ex perimental venue. For ex ample, I performed in a dance senior thesis that took place in the A rt Museum, wh ich al lowed me to simu ltaneously ex perience a momentar y and permanent art form.

Veron ica Wh ite, the Cu rator of Academ ic Prog ram s, descr ibed the most rewarding aspect of her job to be the fact that her “work involves engaging w ith so many d i fferent st udents in front of original works of art.” She said, “I continual ly ex perience the un if ying effect that a work of art has on a group of people and the way that it encou rages empathy for different cu ltu res and inv ites diverse inter pretations.”

PUA M’s per manent col lection, and the special ex h ibitions have an im mense potentia l to foster conversation, soothe and inspire.

Cu r rent specia l ex h ibition s are : “Remember Me : Shakespeare and His Legacy”, in col laboration w ith the Rare Books Col lection of the Un iversit y, and “Contempora r y Stories : Rev isiting South Asian Narratives.”

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Stripped Down to Sweet Simplicity: Looking at the Making of Once

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ANDIE AYALA Street Editor ‘19

“I actually saw Once alone on a student rush ticket, just on a random day when I happened to be in New York City,” Sam Gravitte ’17 said.

It was spring of his junior year, and he had fallen in love with the Tonyaward winning Broadway show.

“He called me, and I was abroad in London,” Maddie Meyers ‘17 noted.

“He said, ‘we should do Once together.’ I said, ‘that’s a great idea, cast somebody who can play the piano, I’m not the person you should be talking to about this.’”

Gravitte was a self-taught tab, YouTube guitar player; Meyers had never touched a piano, and Gravitte proposed that they both perform Once as part of their creative senior thesis. When she agreed, they got in contact with Graham Phillips ’16, who had previously been in an original Broadway production and starred in films as well as TV shows.

They asked him to direct the play that Gravitte and Meyers would be

college production, and we may even be the first production off Broadway.

It took a lot of courage for Graham, Sam, and Maddie to commit themselves to do something that had only ever been done on a Broadway stage.”

And yet — last Friday, tickets for Once were sold-out and the first ever non-professional production of the musical Once was performed in McCarter Theater. The original executive producer of the show, Robert Cole (who also managed Death of a Salesman, and produced The Crucible and Lucky Guy), called Phillips at 4 p.m. on the opening night and asked for tickets to the show, saying that he would be coming to Princeton to watch it. Later that night, backstage, he told the actors that it had been incredible for him to see the first iteration of the show re-visioned, saying that they were “spreading the gospel of Once.”

Gravitte commented that while Meyers and he had proposed to do the show, it was really Phillips who set the vision for how it would be performed. Phillips had never directed an on-stage production be-

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the leading actors of, as part of their creative senior thesis.

Once was originally a 2007 film by the Irish writer and director John Carney, and was adapted as a musical performance in 2011. In 2012, Once became somewhat of a sensation, winning eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical. According to Phillips, the plot begins with a typical boy meets girl, girl meets boy relationship between an Irish man and a Czech woman. He notes that while the play doesn’t quite leave audience members with the “happily-ever-after” they expect, it does give us a sense that it was still all worth it.

“I think it was a very ambitious thing for them to do,” noted Vince di Mura, the musical director of the Lewis Center. “I think we are the first

fore, and saw the position as an opportunity to take risks as a director with minimized pressure for failure.

Phillips “is incredibly good at recognizing people’s strengths and weaknesses and trying to communicate what he wants to see from them,” Maddie noted. She added, “he is incredibly humble, very generous, very committed, and really made this show his whole life — because he wanted to, not because he had to.”

According to Phillips, one of the greatest challenges he faced — apart from getting a bunch of Princeton students in the same room together — was integrating the scene transitions into the piece. He explained that this seemingly minor aspect of the play took up to 20-30% of the whole rehearsal process, because he could only use the people who were

not playing instruments to move the set.

“It was difficult for me at times to not let all of the minutia of directing to get in the way of the simple poetic core of the story,” Phillips explained.

Maddie noted that the show took on a special significance after the elections, “I think people just want to sit in a show and have another world presented to them.”

At the last second, on Wednesday night, Phillips explained that he decided to change some of the Irish and Czech songs in their pre-show to American folk songs such as ‘Blowing in the Wind’ and ‘This Land is Your Land.’ “I think that the show forces a reflection of all that is good in the midst of uncertain times,” he commented.

Ross Barron ’17, who plays the role of the piano storeowner Billy, said that the characters are very personable, yet relatively simple. “It doesn’t try to be super dramatic,” he noted, “which gives them more air to be human.” Barron added that the show turns male heroism on its head, because the leading male character is actually the damsel in distress.

Vince di Mura, who has worked at the University for 29 years, doubled as the musical director and father of the leading male character in the musical. While he had only previously acted twice before he said, “playing the role of the father of a budding musician wasn’t a stretch,” because his actual son, who is currently touring the US with a major class band, used to play him his recordings and ask him what he thought.

“In fact, in the second act when I do the scene when I’m listening to the recording, I swear, I look at Sam and I see my own son,” di Mura commented.

According to di Mura, oftentimes Broadway shows have a style of country music, but with a theater sensibility. However, he noted, “this is not theater sensibility. There is a great deal of authenticity in this musical — and that is refreshing, to be perfectly honest with you.”

Elisa Steele ‘17, who plays a “sassy Czech woman” in the show, said that this was her first musical since she was a child. “I was really excited by the prospect of pulling out my violin again, because that’s something that I did through the senior year of high school and then never really touched again,” she explained.

Steele is on the track team, as well as on Shere Khan with Gravitte and Meyers, and said that she decided to audition for the play when she heard that her oldest college friends would be putting it on.

All of the people interviewed emphasized the talent of the cast that they worked with, who all participate as the pit orchestra on-stage.

Gravitte noted that there were some members of the cast who had never been in a musical before, but who were playing three or four instruments while singing, dancing, and acting.

“My head is still spinning from the fact that it came together at the 11th hour,” Phillips noted. But he added, “the fact that everyone had a good time doing it is a testament to how invested everyone was, and how the show has a magical ability to bring together people from all facets of life.”

Once will be showing in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday this week.

Spaces on Campus: Dillon Gym Robert von der Schmidt Contributor‘20

And that was it. I was in the fifth grade, and our team had just been eliminated from the 4th — 5th grade playoffs in Princeton’s local basketball league. With my duffle bag hanging heavily from my shoulder and my feet dragging across the floor of Dillon Gym, I followed my mom outside. At least, when you lose in

it, we did it all. Any and every kind of “crazy shot” has been attempted (although perhaps not fully completed) during the Saturday morning games for kids between 5th and 9th grade, coached and managed by Princeton University student coaches.

At Dillon, kids were allowed to play basketball the way they wanted to — which was boldly. The atmosphere was so energetic and entertaining, that we often weren’t overcome with a bad case of the nerves

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youth sports — you get the consolation prize of a play date with your friends.

As we approached the front of the gym, however, a riveting playoff game in the 6th — 7th grade league was still going on. A very tall (as far as twelve-year olds go), 5’11” kid was standing at the foul line.

His team was down by three at the end of the first overtime, but he had just been fouled on a missed buzzer beater three-point shot, leaving him with a chance to send the game into another overtime. This was the kind of stuff that basketball dreams were made of.

With the same expressionless, but focused, stare you might find on Tim Duncan, this kid took one dribble, a short breath, and sunk his first shot with ease. Some of the kids watching smiled and looked around at their friends, nodding to one another. The second shot was a little slower. Two or three dribbles. A deep breath. He shoots. Rim. A couple bounces. Everyone holds their breath. Two for two.

A few more people had gathered around by this point. Tim Duncan stood there, sizing up the basket for a long moment. Another breath. His final dribble. His hands slid into a shooting grip. The final free throw of a second chance. Swish. Everyone went wild — their cheers echoing through the expanse of good old Dillon gym.

The Dillon Youth Basketball League gave me, and the friends I grew up with, some truly phenomenal memories in this place. We would try all kinds of moves in Dillon; One-on-One Matchups for Hail Mary Threes, Coast to Coast Drives, Reverse Lay Ups — if you can name

— the fear of failure — that can plague youth tournaments when the environment is too serious. As I recall, we would still practice as a team and work on our skills, but the undergraduate coaches would give us kids just enough freedom to really spread our wings and shine (or at least believe that we could). It was here in this place, in Dillon Gym, where I grew to really like basketball and where I first met a lot of other kids living in Princeton.

As I got older, the significance of this space changed for me. When I was in high school, the YMCA in Princeton closed down temporarily for repairs and they struck a deal with the University so that their members could play at Dillon.

Sometimes I’d join pick-up games with football players, but I was pretty obnoxious and competitive and probably bugged them more than I enjoyed playing the game. I would often times look over at the pick-up games played by college students, who seemed to have the same passion for basketball, the same creativity in their play, as we did when we were kids playing in the Saturday league at the gym.

Now that I go to school here, Dillon has become a safe haven. When problem sets and papers feel like a weight on my shoulder — I can shrug that feeling off for thirty minutes by heading over to Dillon to catch a pick-up game.

I’ve realized that it’s not just 12-year-old kids or college students who come to Dillon, but also professors, graduate students, faculty, and anyone who understands that there is something truly magical about the daring, competitive, unadulterated love for the game.

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FALL FASHION PHOTOS AND DESCRIPTIONS BY JANETTE LU Contributor ‘20

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we enter the twilight stages of fall, coats, hats, knits, boots, and patterned scarves are yet again broken out of our closets. This year, Princeton student’s distinctive earth-toned east coast fashion features the increased prominence of bomber jackets, rapper x sneaker company collaborations, and monochromatic statement coats, as well as the continuation of the well-loved “shoelace” choker trend. Here’s to dealing with the crippling cold and the hottest style.

1. Jhor van der Horst ‘19 Van der Horst embodies cozy East Coast fashion with a button-up under a grey sweater, knitted olive cardigan, and plaid scarf.

2. MC Otani ‘20 Otani streamlines her monochromatic look with an open front draped cardigan from Zara Japan.

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5. Henry Zheng ‘19

Lu pairs a beige trench coat with ripped denim, platform boots, and a statement black and white scarf from Zara.

4. Elizabeth Yu ‘19 Yu also incorporates street style into her outfit by pairing a denim jacket from Zara with FENTY Puma x Rihanna suede creepers.

Get some 2016 fall style inspiration from your fellow classmates!

Zheng incorporates urban street style into his look with an embroidered olive bomber from Undercover and a pair of Kendrick Lamar x Reebok Red Blue Ventilators.

6. Juliet Wolf GS (firstyear grad student) Wolf puts a twist on the old and the modern by pairing a vintage cap with a chic black trench coat.

She accessories with a circle scarf, a thin gold chain, and a lapel pin from Diagonal Press.

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