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Exhibit on Woodrow Wilson’s legacy relocated to Frist Campus Center

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The exhibit titled “In the Nation’s Service? Woodrow Wilson Revisited” will be moved to the Frist Campus Center for its first stop as a part of a campus tour.

This exhibit, which displays both the positive and negative aspects of the legacy of Woodrow Wilson, class of 1879, was created in April 2016 by a partnership between Mudd Library and the Wilson School. It was previously housed in the Bernstein Gallery in the basement of the Wilson School.

The material of the exhibit will be the same after the move, according to Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day. Day said that the decision to relocate the exhibit was made by administrators of the Wilson School and other University officials.

“They decided that it was well worth extending the exhibit’s

run in other locations on campus to give as many members of the University as possible an opportunity to see it in person,” he explained.

The exhibit will be displayed in Frist Campus Center through the end of the month. The exhibit will then be moved to Chancellor Green, and then to 701 Carnegie Center. Other locations are being planned, according to Day. According to Day, the original home of the exhibit in Bernstein Gallery is a permanent space for rotating exhibitions.

The online exhibit will continue to be available, Day added.

Students reacted positively to the relocation of the exhibit.

Maya Aronoff ’19 said that she thought moving the exhibit to Frist is a very positive step.

“When the exhibit was in the basement of Robertson, only a portion of the student body was likely to come across it, whereas Frist is more centralized and the See EXHIBIT page 5

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The exhibit reexamining the legacy of Woodrow Wilson, class of 1879, has been relocated to Frist Campus Center.

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Q&A: Hallie Jackson, NBC News political correspondent

Q&A: Kristen Welker, NBC White House correspondent

By Maya Wesby senior writer

By Maya Wesby senior writer

Hallie Jackson is an NBC News correspondent who has followed the 2016 Republican presidential campaign from the primaries up through Election Day. She is currently on the road covering the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, and hosts the 1:00 p.m. hour on MSNBC. Jackson sat down with the Daily Princetonian to talk about the importance of this election, Trump’s proposed policies, and the evolving image of the Republican Party.

The Daily Princetonian: If one has never cared about

politics, why should they vote in this election?

Hallie Jackson: Well, because why should you vote in any election? To make your voice heard. If you don’t like something about the way the government runs on a local level, state level, or federal level, this is your opportunity. You always hear, ‘You can’t complain if you don’t vote,’ so getting out the vote is super important.

DP: In your experience covering Republican campaigns this year, but particularly Donald Trump, what would you say are the main issues or values in the See JACKSON page 4

CHAPEL

Kristen Welker is the White House correspondent for NBC News. While she has extensively covered President Barack Obama and his administration, Welker has also been following Secretary of the State Hillary Clinton for years. Welker sat down with the Daily Princetonian to talk about Clinton’s platform, email controversies, and the impact of voters for third-party candidates.

The Daily Princetonian: What has been your experience covering this election season?

Kristen Welker: It’s hard to boil it down to one experience because there have been so many twists and turns. I covered 2012, and this is by far

the most extraordinary election season I think any of us could have ever imagined. I have been with Hillary Clinton from the very beginning, and I think from the moment that email controversy broke we all realized this was not going to be an ordinary race. The fact that Donald Trump — a political outsider — won the [Republican] nomination, and the fact that he is now close in the polls days before Election Day and there have been so many controversies on both sides, from the primary until now. It just makes it one of the most unique races in modern history, I think. But it has been exciting, exhilarating, non-stop, and I think that there is something unique about covering the first

woman to win the nomination of a major party. So that, in and of itself, from my perspective, has made it incredibly unique and compelling.

DP: In your opinion, why should people — particularly young people — go vote?

KW: I think it’s so important that everyone who’s eligible to vote lets their voice be heard. There is so much at stake in this election and in every election, everything from the economy, to who will be the next Supreme Court justice, the way that we want to approach taxes and healthcare.

And people fought and died for the right to vote, so I think that in and of itself is an important reason to go and vote. But See WELKER page 2

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OIT issues 10 phishing alerts in the past week, tells students to not click links contributor

tion issued by OIT. The emails were sent from a variety of addresses, including some with .edu tags and others from government administrations. The emails also vary in nature, ranging from ones claiming the user’s email capacity had been exceeded to warnings that the user’s email is about to expire.

Most of the phishing attempts also were designed to mimic University IT and help desk emails. One such email contained the subject title “Technology Update,” and asked students to re-validate their campus login and email by inputting their current password.

Other emails requested users to update their Microsoft Outlook and Office clients.

One other email, with the title “IRS Special Notice,” had

On a sunny autumn day, the University chapel held Sunday service.

In the past two weeks, many University students have reported through residential college listservs and to the Office of Information Technology about having received phishing emails attempting to steal recipients’ sensitive information, such as their NetID and passwords. This has led OIT to issue 10 alerts regarding different phishing attempts in the past week, according to the OIT website.

All of the emails tagged in the alerts provide links to outside forms where users are prompted to enter personal information.

Once the attackers have access to the information, they can also use the stolen email account to propagate more phishing attempts, according to informa-

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asked for recipients’ Social Security number and their IP PIN number. The email also stated that there has been suspicious activity detected that pertains to the recipient, and that the recipient will be given a new SSN. In response to student concerns, OIT also issued a separate alert, asserting that one of the emails sent by OIT informing students about an upcoming internet update was not, in fact, another phishing attempt.

A representative from OIT did not respond to a request for comment as of press time.

Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day stated that, “OIT is aware of these phishing attempts, which arrive in a steady stream over the course of each year, and the University takes them seriousSee OIT page 6

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beyond that, it impacts all of our lives, particularly young people, and it’s about participating in our democracy. So I would just encourage everyone who’s eligible to vote to go and vote, particularly young people, because they’re just starting out. And I know that you all are dealing with things like college work and college debt, thinking about your first job and your career. All of those issues are being talked about and debated in this election. And so I think it’s vitally important that young people go vote.

DP: What would you say are Hillary Clinton’s primary policy issues in her campaign?

KW: I have been covering her since day one, and she started her campaign talking about criminal justice reform. She has talked a lot about healthcare, how she wants to improve the healthcare system.

She’s talked a lot about how she wants to make life and work easier and fairer for working women. Donald Trump has also laid out his own policy proposals for critical issues. And I think those are the issues that are defining this election in many ways, but obviously there’re the large issues, is-

sues like immigration, where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are on completely opposite ends of the spectrum …

National security — they have two completely different visions. And so, I think this race to some extent has taken on a different shape because of the debate that we’re having about things like immigration and citizenship, and who should be let into the country to live here and who should be allowed to visit, on who we are as a nation.

And so I think that her issues started out as one thing, and they sort of morphed into and evolved into a whole host of new topics that I think even she probably couldn’t have anticipated she would be focused on at this point.

DP: Are there any reasons to believe that Secretary Clinton’s most recent email controversy will affect her in the coming days?

KW: It’s hard to tell. The polls are definitely getting tighter, there’s no doubt about that. Her campaign would argue that the polls are getting tighter because polls get tighter when you get closer to Election Day. It is also true, though, that she had a pretty significant lead both nationally and in a number of battleground states prior to the [James] Comey announcement.

So it’s hard to think that it’s not

impacting people, and I’ve been out there on the campaign trail talking to people who some say it’s ridiculous and that it’s not going to impact her at all, and then some who say it is making it tougher for them to make a decision about who to vote for. Is it going to impact her supporters? No. Is it going to change the minds of Trump supporters? No. I think it could impact those undecided voters.

The question remains, though, how many voters were still undecided at the time the Comey announcement came out?

DP: As the polls tighten as we get closer to Election Day, to what extent does the Democratic Party have a strong hold on swing states?

KW: I think they have a firm hold on a number of the swing states. Pennsylvania, for example, I was there earlier today and while Secretary Clinton still has a lead, it is narrowing.

A state like New Hampshire is all tied up, she shows a very strong lead in New Hampshire.

Florida is going to be very close.

Virginia, I think is going to be close. She has a lead, but I think it’s a marginal lead, and I think that’s what makes the race so competitive and what makes everyone say ‘We don’t know how it’s going to turn out.’ A couple of weeks ago, a lot of people were thinking she

would win on Election Day, and now there’s much more uncertainty about that.

DP: To what extent might the population of “Bernie or Bust” people or those that favor third party candidates take away votes from the Democratic or Republican parties?

KW: Well, polls show that a majority of Bernie Sanders supporters were planning to vote for Hillary Clinton. The question is will that actually bear out on Election Day. And that is a critical question, because a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters are younger, millennial voters. Are they going to actually go to the polls and vote, or will some of them say they’re so fed up with the system and stay home? There will be some who decide to stay home and not go vote, there will be some who vote for Trump. If our polls are accurate, many of them, if not most of them, will vote for Hillary Clinton. But again, that’s one of the great unknowns. We just don’t know, ultimately, how that will play out on Election Day, and that’s going to be one of the key indicators that we’re watching early on in the night — how are the younger, Bernie Sanders supporters trending, and that might give us a window into how she does in some of these critical swing states.

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party’s platform?

HJ: I think for Donald Trump specifically, the messaging and policies that the campaign pushed the most are on immigration and national security, and to a different degree economic security. Those are the areas where he, frankly, rose to prominence during the primaries, and that is how he ended up as the Republican nominee. And even in the general [election], you see him continue those themes, and that has been a focus for him throughout this campaign. In the closing days here, as we head into the final stretch, you’re seeing him trying to make more of an argument against Hillary Clinton, which, frankly, is something that Republican operatives that I speak to wish he had been doing a little earlier in his campaign. He could have been going after Hillary Clinton and Democrats overall on, for example, the Affordable Care Act, on that policy, and the premium rates that some consumers will see next year. So I think you’re seeing sort of a dual-pronged strategy from him now as we head into this last week, but overall the themes and the core issues that have pushed him to where he is remain the same.

DP: As we head into the final days, to what extent does Trump have a strong hold on the swing states?

HJ: I think what we have to do is look at the numbers and the polling of where they are in certain swing states, although polls have tightened certainly in maybe the last week — in the last six or seven days — he

still faces an uphill battle in certain swing states like Pennsylvania, which is a place he’s trying to play — it’s a bluer-leaning battleground this year. He’s doing okay in Ohio, you see him sort of neck-in-neck in Ohio, they’re very close in Florida, North Carolina’s going to be really important — those are the big three. But the issue is, even if he wins all the states that Republicans typically win and those tossups, he still needs to scale what we call “Clinton’s blue wall,” the Democrat’s blue wall — those Rust Belt states that he’s been wanting to go after for months. I think of a place like Michigan — it’s becoming increasingly clear that that is an important state on both sides; Hillary Clinton is there Friday, Donald Trump has been there.

And that’s something on Tuesday night as I’m held up here in 30 Rock working with the anchors, I’m going to be looking to those really specific states, because that’s going to tell us a lot about how this election plays out.

DP: In terms of the image of the Party, with Trump representing Republicans, to what extent might there unfortunately be a split between “old guard” Republicans and what many are calling the “alt-right?”

HJ: Let me talk about the split within the party more generally, because when we wake up on November 9 we are going to be talking about — no matter who wins the presidency, regardless if it’s Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton — the GOP has gone through a real existential crisis in this last year.

We have seen a real divide between Republicans who had a different vision for the party, what you might

call the “older guard,” and the more populist wing of Trump supporters within the party, including some folks who are inside the beltway who have shifted over to Donald Trump’s camp. And so I think reconciling that, regardless if it’s a President Trump in White House, regardless if it’s a President Clinton in the White House, reconciling that is going to be a challenge for somebody like House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has been in the center of this for six to eight months; it really illuminated how he has had to step around the topic.

I’m thinking of, for example, when Speaker Ryan told his Congress that he does not support the nominee, I’m thinking of when he dragged his feet a little bit in endorsing somebody in the first place. Those are not things that we see in a presidential election, that is not typical, that is not normal.

And to me, when I wake up November 9, that’s the story — in addition to who’s in the White House or who will be in the White House — that’s the story I’m looking at, and I think that’s the story we’re going to be covering for months if not years to come.

DP: Going off that, how might Republican leaders like Paul Ryan help to change the image of the Republican Party post-Trump, or even under a Trump administration?

HJ: Let me go back to 2012, when the Republican National Committee came out — and a lot of people called it an autopsy report, a little bit of a postmortem — after Mitt Romney’s campaign, and they talked about wanting to bring in more diverse voices. They wanted to increase the number of women and their involve-

ment in the party, AfricanAmericans, Latino voters, etc. So I think that you are seeing some who believe that in order for the Republican Party to grow and not shrink, you’ve got to ref lect the changing demographics that are happening in the United States. And so I think that, regardless of what happens after November 8, how do Republican leaders gather that unity, how do they try to come up with that message? It is going to depend on who’s in the White House, it is going to depend on the effect of Donald Trump whether he is President or not. That said, I don’t think Donald Trump is going to disappear, even if he loses. And if he wins, he’s going to have real inf luence over the party obviously as the President.

The side-storyline of that is who controls the Senate.

Everyone’s talking about the presidential ticket, but if it is a Republican President and if the Senate f lips … it’s unlikely that would happen but you never know.

So many of these questions will start to be answered the morning after the election.

DP: What advice do you have for young Republican voters who want to vote for the first time, but whose ideals don’t necessarily align with Trump?

HJ: Interesting question.

As a journalist, I’m not so much in the business of giving voting advice. It’s more my job to just tell the story, and to tell the truth and begin to give people context and perspective. And to me that’s the most important thing. To any voter, a young voter, older voter, whatever, the most important advice I would give is to get informed. And that’s where I come in.

DP: Going off of that, what would you say to individuals who are choosing to abstain from voting this election?

HJ: I think people are going to make the choices they’re going to make, and my job is to just make sure they have the information that they want and they need. And so I think that, particularly when there’s been so much interest in the presidential race, there’s a lot of great stories to be told and great stories to be consumed.

DP: Is there anything else you would like to add in your experience covering this campaign?

HJ: I would say being on the frontlines of history has been, personally, an incredible experience. And it’s fascinating to just be there, out on the road for the last year and a half. I would say that you will see it all culminate on Tuesday night when we have every single resource at NBC News focused entirely on politics. We have our 30 Rock group that’s kind of like our team — that’s Tom [Brokaw], Chuck [Todd], Lester [Holt], and Savannah [Guthrie] — I’ll be handling exit polling, and I think that that is going to be our nine hours of coverage. That is what you’re going to see — everything come to a head and everything culminate.

And we’re going to wake up on Wednesday morning starting with all of our shows, The Today Show, etc., and that’s like the new beginning of the next marathon. So for me it’s just a really exciting time, and it’s all coming to a close here.

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dialogue surrounding Woodrow Wilson’s legacy can be expanded to include everyone on campus,” she explained.

Aronoff added that the exhibit is important and goes a long way towards acknowledging the complicated history of the University and the nation as a whole.

According to Aronoff, the exhibit should not be treated as an end-all be-all solution for the controversy surrounding the major named after Woodrow Wilson, or racism on our campus as a whole.

“The exhibit is a step towards positive change and an addition to the important work students and faculty have already done and will continue to do, in order to fight for a more honest and welcoming university,” she said.

Ramzie Fathy ’20 said that placing the exhibit in Frist is “fitting” due to the Center’s popularity in between various classes throughout the day along with McGraw tutoring sessions at night.

“I don’t think I could think of a better location,” Fathy added.

“In my opinion, the message as a whole is nothing short of informative and a benefit to the Princeton community.”

Liam O’Connor ’20 said that moving the exhibit to Frist will definitely elevate its profile.

“This exhibit helps us understand his complexity as a hu-

man being and how we should evaluate his legacy,” O’ Connor added, “Woodrow Wilson is a fascinating historical figure because of his strange dichotomy. He was a visionary leader for the University who transformed it into a premiere academic institution and led the country through a difficult period as the president. However, he was also very racist, even for that time. “ Fathy noted that he disagrees with the view that the ultimate recommendations about the Wilson School is a loss to groups who pushed for it to be renamed.

“The goal was to shed light on the racist legacy of Woodrow Wilson, and the exhibit does just that. The goal was to make this school stop commemorating a man who once thought segregation was a benefit to society, and I think this is a big step towards accomplishing that goal,” Fathy said.

The exhibit was created after a campus-wide debate on the extent to which Wilson’s legacy should be commemorated following last November’s protests and sit-ins led by the Black Justice League.

Recently, a medallion with the inscription of the University’s updated informal motto, which was modified as a result of the protests, was also installed on front campus.

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Day noted that the Office of Communications is currently unable to comment on the number of students affected by the attacks or their origin.

The University has experienced similar events in the past.

In March 2012, approximately 1,000 to 2,000 phishing emails were sent from a University WebMail account asking students to confirm their NetID and passwords. The students were redirected to a fraudulent

version of the University website, which included a URL and graphics that mimicked those used by Princeton. After investigation, it was discovered that the 2012 attack was conducted by a Brazilian phishing domain.

The OIT website advises students who receive suspicious emails to avoid responding with personal information or clicking on links and attachments.

Any student that believes they have received a phishing email should immediately report it the OIT Help Desk at helpdesk@ princeton.edu or by calling 8-HELP.

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No such thing as Safe and comfortable housing for a free lunch everyone Kyle Berlin

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spend much of my time at Princeton going to events. Lectures, performances, panels — you name it, I’m there. I say to myself: Free cultural and educational events, better take advantage! Maybe they’ll make me a better person, somehow!

But I’ve begun to worry that free events, intended to inspire thought, can actually do the opposite, inculcating a culture of thoughtlessness about how we spend and consume.

Consider this. At every event, it’s me, the random old people who also go to all these things, and something else: food and drink. Plastic platters of cookies, plastic goblets of wine, plastic bottles of water. There are plastic bowls filled with salad, plastic trays of meats and cheeses, plastic packets of dressing within plastic containers with plastic lids, plastic forks and spoons and knives. The event is a plastic affair.

These things are free, too. There for the taking.

Or, at least, they seem to be.

In fact, depending on the size and fanciness of the event, the sponsoring department has probably paid at least $500 for the spread — and often much more. This is just for the food. Usually, the presenters are also compensated, fed, and accommodated. This can easily run into the thousands of dollars. The presenters likely came on a plane or a train. That costs even more, surpassing the mere monetary. If they flew to Princeton from, say, California, where I’m from, they emitted about 1.5 tons of carbon in a single round-trip, nearly reaching the annual carbon limit of two tons each of us can afford to emit in order to mitigate the effects of climate change.

That is not free.

It is in our (superficial) interest to believe that the things we take are free. Studies prove that we get psychological pleasure out of receiving things if we don’t have to immediately exchange money for them. Princeton wants us to believe that things are free, which is why they bill activities fees up-front: the more that things seem free, the more we feel indebted to the place, in awe of its bounty, and the more likely we are to donate money to the University, and feel compelled to perpetuate the stupefying penumbra of plenty, to continue the cycle of faux free-dom.

But free-dom is not free; there really is no such thing as a free lunch. To pretend otherwise is to delude ourselves, to give into the fantasy that some places and people and actions — some events — are free from responsibility. It is to take without thinking, to consume without consideration. Cost is measured in more than money.

Consider — truly consider — the things that you get for “free” here. Consider the scope of them, how they make you feel, where they come from, where their constituent parts come from, how they were delivered and served, how they were produced, with what, by whom, how much those people were paid, what they looked like, how they were treated, what the environmental impact was, what injustices were perpetrated, what that money could have done.

You will realize that this is a near impossible task, to consider this all at once, even for something as apparently benign as a free T-shirt.

But near impossibility cannot be a barrier to trying. If it were, we’d never have made any progress over the course of history.

True consideration of what we do on this campus, as an institution — what we call are — leaves us facing unseemly ironies. The several thousand dollars spent organizing a fancy charity dinner that raised several hundred dollars could have been more effective donating the money outright. An environmental conference flying in scholars from across the globe probably would have been better for the environment if it had never happened. A panel on sustainable food practices might just waste a bunch of food.

I know it’s unlikely that these things will change anytime soon, and I’m not proposing a campus where every event and item has a price tag. But I do want to advocate for reflection about these and other ironies, excesses, and hypocrisies.

I hope that reflection can inspire a radical rethinking — an aspirational imagination — of new ways to be, in harmony with our values, ourselves, and our world.

Perhaps what concerns me most about Princeton’s “free” things is the culture of thoughtlessness that is created by being surrounded by constant, careless consumption. It is a hollow culture that threatens to stick for life. Waste becomes normalized. Excess becomes everyday practice. We become numb.

I love free stuff (particularly the cookies) as much as the next person. But I wonder what all that’s “free” is costing us.

Kyle Berlin is a junior and can be reached at kmberlin@ princeton.edu

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When I think about how much housing has impacted my experiences here in ways that others have not had to deal with, it just reminds me that this space wasn’t intended for a student like me. I feel less welcome and less affirmed. And no student should feel that way.”

This testimony from a trans Princeton student clearly demonstrates the particular issues that current University housing policies present for queer, trans, and non-binary students and highlights the need for truly accessible, gender-inclusive living spaces. As the current system stands, there are only a handful of options available to individuals in need of gender-neutral housing — including a box to indicate interest on the matriculation form for incoming first-year students, contact with a residential college Director of Student Life, and plain old luck when it comes to room draw — but access is not guaranteed.* The limited avenues available for pursuing such housing typically place the onus on queer and non-binary students to secure the basic, everyday conditions for safety and comfort that their peers take for granted.

This process forces many LGBTQA students — individuals often the most vulnerable to harassment and assault — to navigate a housing system that may not even recognize their gender identities. Many students would benefit hugely from access to gender-neutral housing, including queer and trans students, as well as cisgendered individuals whose closest friends identify with another gender.

The housing system places a special burden on first-year and sophomore students, given that the vast majority of gender-inclusive living spaces are only available to junors and seniors. Rockefeller College still does not have any gender-neutral rooms, while Wilson, Forbes, and Mathey each only have a few.

Housing Services’ “n+1” rule greatly limits the number of rooms available for mixedgender groups because it stipulates that a living space only qualifies as gender-neutral housing if the space has one more discrete room than the number of inhabitants. Only a relatively small number of rooms on campus meet this requirement.

Lily Gellman ’17, a leader in efforts to increase access to gender-neutral housing, spoke with me about the current status of dialogue among students and administrators regarding the potential for change. While University administration appears to be open to working on improving the system, support among the student body for expanding gender-neutral housing is critical. The University Student Life Committee is voting soon on a proposal to make any room designed for multiple roommates available to mixed-gender draw groups, essentially advocating that Housing Services eliminate the “n+1” rule.

As the system currently stands, students seeking gender-neutral rooms are not given preference over their peers, so these individuals must depend entirely on draw times and room availability in order to secure inclusive housing. The only avenue available to first-years and sophomores entails contacting a residential college’s Director of Student Life or Housing Services, an option that comes with no guarantee of securing inclusive housing. Plus, it establishes an unfair and potentially intimidating expectation for students to divulge what may be intensely

private information about their gender and/ or sexual identity to complete strangers in positions of power. This is especially true for incoming first-year students, who are unfamiliar with University administrative structures and have no control over roommate arrangements.

Juniors and seniors, however, are not in the clear. In an anonymous guest column published in the ‘Prince’ last spring, the writer explains the particular difficulties that room draw poses for non-binary juniors and seniors. For example, the writer’s draw group with two male friends did not qualify for gender-neutral housing, since Housing and Real Estate Services categorizes draw groups as mixed-gender by the assigned-at-birth sexes of the group members provided by the Office of the Registrar.

Many students need gender-neutral rooms in order to feel safe and at home, inhabiting spaces where they can develop intimate friendships and relationships without fear of judgment, harassment, or worse. Such safe living spaces are especially important for queer students excluded from heteronormative dating and hookup cultures and who feel uncomfortable or unsafe in less private social spaces, where they may face implicit or explicit judgment or harassment from their peers. Five years ago, Rutgers began offering gender-neutral housing after a gay freshman student was filmed, publicly humiliated, and bullied to the point of tragedy. Questions had risen at the time about whether the student had requested a room assignment.

As illustrated by the Editorial Board’s 2009 dissent, critics of gender-neutral housing often base their opposition on the heteronormative assumption that the primary effect of such a policy would be to allow heterosexual couples to room together. This argument only undermines the well-being of students in need of gender-inclusive livings spaces (not to mention that such a moralizing position ignores the fact that students are adults capable of making relationship decisions).

In any case, there are now 207 universities that now offer some form of gender-neutral housing and messy (heterosexual) roommate breakups have not yet precipitated societal collapse.

Expanded access to gender-neutral housing would hugely benefit many students, whether they be queer or trans people in need of basic conditions that ensure personal safety and freedom from harassment or, more broadly, individuals who feel most comfortable around people who identify with different genders — whether they be queer, straight, non-binary, cisgender, trans, etc.

Students interested in reading testimonies or contributing a credited or anonymous comment or testimony of their own in support may visit www.betterprinceton.org. Students can also directly contact the University Student Life Council Chair Jenny Zhang to voice their support for the USLC proposal to expand the number of gender-neutral rooms.

Daniel Kim ’17

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140TH MANAGING BOARD managing editor Caroline Congdon ’17 news editors Jessica Li ’18 Shriya Sekhsaria ’18 opinion editor Jason Choe ’17 sports editor David Liu ’18 street editors Andie Ayala ‘19 Catherine Wang ‘19 photography editor Rachel Spady ’18 video editor Elaine Romano ’19 web editor Clement Lee ’17 chief copy editors Omkar Shende ’18 Maya Wesby ’18 design editor Crystal Wang ’18 associate news editors Charles Min ’17 Marcia Brown ‘19 Claire Lee ‘19 associate opinion editors Newby Parton ’18 Sarah Sakha ’18 associate sports editors Nolan Liu ’19 David Xin ’19 associate photography editors Ahmed Akhtar ’17 Atakan Baltaci ’19 Mariachiara Ficarelli ’19 associate chief copy editors Megan Laubach ’18 Samuel Garfinkle ‘19 associate design editor Jessica Zhou ’19 editorial board chair Cydney Kim ’17 cartoons editor Rita Fang ’17 Blog editor Michael Zhang ’17

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* The terms “gender-neutral housing,” “gender-inclusive housing,” and “gender-affirmative housing” may be used interchangeably.

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

The conundrum of being busy at Princeton

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have stopped saying I’m busy.

I am busy though. I just do not say the words “I’m busy” or “too busy” because that is a condition. Let’s be honest: if you are busy now, you will still be busy tomorrow with something else. This is Princeton. If you blow of a friend because you are too busy, then next time, you will still be too busy.

Instead, I have made a very conscious decision to tell people what I am busy with. It seems like a small change, but it makes a world of difference. I am not “busy”; I have a problem set due tomorrow. That means that tomorrow, I can hang out or go for that run or just do nothing. There is a lot of value in doing nothing, especially at a place like Princeton.

It also forces me to share what I am spending my time on. If I am constantly telling people that I have a problem set or an essay or reading, then maybe my friends will say to me, “Beni, you’re focusing too much on academics. You need to relax a little.”

It also makes me cognizant of

Beni Snow

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how I choose to spend my time. I have started turning down opportunities not because I do not have the time, but because that is not how I want to spend my time. Yes, that visiting lecturer does seem interesting, but maybe it will make my day just a little too packed. I do not need to be scheduled down to the last minute.

Princeton is a busy time, but we are our own worst enemies when it comes to filling that time. We have to remember that taking a few hours off to sit outside and read a book not for any class is important as well. To the freshmen reading this (and maybe other years as well) remember: you are here. You already got accepted.

You do not need to join 146 extracurriculars, and you should not. You cannot do anything well if you spread yourself so thin. You have only so many hours in a day, so chose wisely.

Maybe we try to fill in our days since

it gives us meaning. I think this is related to a more general societal problem: most of what people do is unnecessary.

Very few of us produce food. Very few of us will create shelter for people. I am not saying that most modern jobs are useless, but they are far from essential.

The world will keep spinning without college graduates just fine. So we make every minor commitment essential.

We pack things in so that we don’t have to realize that in the scheme of things, the degrees we are all working so hard to get are not essential in the same way that having a successful harvest was for our ancestors. Do we spend time on important things, or do we view things as important because we spend time on them?

It is okay to say no to something not because you are too busy, but because there are other things you would rather do. And if what you would rather do is nothing at all, that’s fine too.

Beni Snow is a sophomore from Newton, Mass.

He can be reached at bsnow@princeton.edu.

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Princeton’s 14-game winning streak Football keeps Ivy hopes comes to an end at Yale, Tigers remain alive with two vital wins atop Ivy League with win against Brown FOOTBALL Continued from page 10

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match against Brown. If the Tigers were disappointed at losing their 14-game winning streak and suffering their first Ivy League loss, they certainly did not show it. Despite the disappointing defeat, the Tigers quickly rebounded to emphatically sweep the Bears 3-0. The win would prove to be crucial as the Bulldogs beat Penn to keep pressure on the first-place Princeton squad.

The Tigers claimed the first set against Brown comfortably, 25-16. However, the Bears would show their resilience with a surge in the second set. The Princeton squad managed to keep their poise and rally for the crucial set, beating Brown 26-24. The team then finished the match with a strong performance in the third and final set as they cruised to a 25-14 victory.

With two games left in the season, the Tigers will be looking to close Ivy League

play on a strong note. Princeton will host their two remaining opponents, Cornell and Columbia, this Friday and Saturday respectively.

Two wins here will secure the Tigers an outright Ivy League title and their first bid for the NCAA since 2007.

With the Ivy League title and NCAA bid on the line, these next games will surely not be ones to miss. The Tigers continue their season at home on Friday against Cornell.

Princeton struck right off the bat. A blocked punt on Penn’s first possession was picked up by freshman returner Jeremiah Tyler, who took it back 14 yards for the Tiger’s first touchdown. Meanwhile, the Princeton defense had another huge game — senior defensive back Dorian Williams and senior defensive lineman Henry Schlossberg both had eight tackles, and the Tigers as a unit forced two turnovers and held Penn to just 6-for-13 on third down conversions. Offensively, the Tigers also performed to perfection: Lovett rushed for Princ-

eton’s second touchdown midway through the second quarter and passed to senior wide receiver James Frusciante for Princeton’s third score, while senior running back Joe Rhattigan tacked on the Tigers’ final touchdown with a 12yard run. Penn found no way to respond, and the game ended with an emphatic 28-0 Princeton victory in the Tigers’ first shutout in over four years.

With this dominant pair of wins, the Tigers now stand in second place in the Ivy League behind only undefeated Harvard. Princeton will look to continue their hunt for the title next week as they travel to Yale.

Sports

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Strong performance this weekend as Princeton dominates Cornell and Penn

By Nolan Liu associate sports editor

Over fall break, the Princeton football team scored two crucial victories to keep themselves firmly in the chase for the Ivy League title. The Tigers (6-2, 4-1 Ivy) routed Cornell before shutting out powerhouse Penn in a pair of huge games.

Princeton took on Cornell on the heels of a heartbreaking overtime loss to Harvard, but the Tigers didn’t let the previous week’s defeat faze them. Princeton scored early and often. Junior quarterback John Lovett rushed for one touchdown and passed for another to put the Tigers up 14-0 by the end of the first quarter. He continued to serve as the engine for the Princeton offense by tacking on two more through the air and a second on the ground in the second. The Big Red were absolutely stifled by the Tiger defense, and by the time Princeton went up 35-0 at the half the contest was

all but over. However, the Tigers would tack on three more touchdowns in the second half — including a 95-yard bomb from Lovett to senior wide receiver Isaiah Barnes.

The final result of the drubbing was Princeton 56, Cornell 7.

Although Lovett either passed for, rushed, or caught seven of Princeton’s eight touchdowns, he was far from the only notable performer on the Tiger offense. Senior quarterback Chad Kanoff went 17for-23 for 198 yards and one touchdown pass of his own, while freshman running back Ryan Quigley led the Tigers on the ground with 102 yards on nine carries.

Fresh off this commanding victory, Princeton hosted then-undefeated Penn (5-3, 4-1 Ivy). The Quakers had won their last 10 Ivy League games coming into the matchup, but the Tigers would end their dominance with a decisive performance.

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Tigers shutout Penn 28-0 to end their 10-game winning streak and tighten the Ivy League title race.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Tigers splits weekend, sweep Brown after falling to Yale

By David Xin associate sports editor

STEPHEN CRAIG :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Tigers hold top spot in the Ivy League with two games left.

The women’s volleyball team split their games this Friday and Saturday, winning their match against Brown after a heart-breaking loss against Yale. The results this weekend keep the Tigers (11-1 Ivy League) at the top of the Ivy League Conference, but the race tightens as Yale inches to within one game of the Orange and Black.

Although the Tigers swept the Bulldogs in three sets in their last game, this match proved to be a hotly contested meet-up. Both teams would trade blow for blow until the final set.

The Princeton squad start-

ed the game with their usual poise, claiming the first set.

However, Yale quickly rebounded to win the second set comfortably. The Orange and Black quickly responded by claiming the third set and putting the pressure on the Bulldogs.

The fourth set proved to be pivotal as both side fought tooth and nail. This was also probably the Tiger’s best opportunity to clinch the game as they went up 24-23, a point away from claiming another win.

However, the bulldogs would narrowly edge out their rivals, 26-24, to tie up the game and force the match to continue. Despite a strong start from Yale in the fifth

set, the Tigers would once again show their resilience closing the gap to 10-9. But the Bulldogs would then take four of the next five points to seal the game.

In spite of the disappointing result, the Princeton squad put up a strong performance overall. Senior co-captain Cara Mattaliano posted a career-high 24 kills.

In addition, she also added 19 digs, two aces, and a block.

Other notable performances came from freshmen Maggie O’Connell and Devon Peterkin who contributed 21 and 12 kills respectively to the Princeton effort.

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FIELD HOCKEY

Field Hockey handles Quakers, clinches NCAA At-large Bid

By David Liu sports editor

Late Sunday night, the NCAA selection committee awarded the Princeton field hockey team (10-7 overall, 5-2 Ivy) an At-Large bid to the postseason tournament. Following two unusual losses to Cornell and No. 20 Harvard late in the season, a clutch Senior-Day victory over rival Penn (11-6, 4-3) this past Saturday saved the Tigers from missing the NCAA tournament for the first time in 12 years.

Pressure mounted on the Tigers heading into the last match of the regular season.

After losing to both Harvard and Cornell by a score of 3-2 in the prior two weeks, the Tigers knew that Saturday was a mustwin situation — the Tigers had not lost two consecutive Ivy matches in over a decade. Tied for second place in Ivy League rankings, Penn and Princeton both understood that the winner would emerge as a likely NCAA At-Large candidate.

To handle the high stakes, senior captain Cat Caro said, “We just focused on our basics

and playing simple hockey. We wanted to just stay composed and really focus for the entire 70 minutes. I think helping us stay composed was we all were staying positive and backing each other.”

Speaking of positive support, many of the team’s parents and friends attended Saturday’s match as part of a Senior Day occasion. At the end of this season, the Tigers will graduate a small senior class consisting of striker Cat Caro, midfielder Ellen Dobrijevic, and back Hailey Reeves.

In perfect timing, it was the team’s seniors that led the Tigers to victory over Penn. Scoring the first goal of the game, Dobrijevic gave the Orange and Black an early lead of an assist from sophomore striker Sophia Tornetta five minutes into the match.

Penn would score its lone goal of the match a few minutes later but, thereafter, the Tigers unleashed an offensive onslaught. Junior Rachel Park, freshman Maddie Bacskai, junior Ryan McCarthy, Dobrijevic, and Caro all scored after the lone Penn goal to over-

Tweet of the Day “There we go, boys!! Shutout vs. an undefeated team? You earn that with how you train. Keep it up!”

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whelm the Quakers. In addition, Princeton displayed brilliant defense by limiting Penn to just five shots compared to the Tiger’s 18. The combined effort of the team successfully nudged Princeton into NCAA contention, per Sunday’s announcement.

Looking ahead, Princeton will face a mighty foe in No. 4 Penn State (17-2 overall) for the first round of the tournament.

Penn State will host Princeton on Nov. 12 at 11:30 a.m. The winner of the match will then compete against the University of Virginia or Michigan.

Heading into the tournament, the Tigers are fully aware of the challenges to come in the NCAA tournament. Having played a difficult out of conference schedule earlier this year that featured the likes of No. 5 North Carolina, No. 3 Maryland, and No. 1 Duke, Princeton is no stranger to the country’s most elite programs. Caro explained that, “We [the Tigers] have played so many tough opponents this season so when facing them for a second time or similar caliber opponents, we know what to expect.”

VINCENT PO :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Tigers win At-large bid to the NCAA tournament after a victory over Penn.

Stat of the Day

28-0 Princeton Football beat Penn 28-0 for their first shutout in over four years.

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