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Hotovely lecture proceeds despite student protests

By Sarah Warman Hirschfield senior news writer

By Aviva Kohn contributor

The Center for Jewish Life announced the postponement of a talk with Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, on Sunday evening after drawing criticism from the Alliance of Jewish Progressives for “her racist, anti-Palestinian views.” On Monday, Rabbi Eitan Webb and Gitty Webb from the Scharf Family Chabad House at the University sent an email to the Jewish community announcing that it would host the speaker instead.

In an email to AJP and other members of the Jewish community, Rabbi Julie Roth, the CJL’s executive director, wrote that the program with Hotovely would be reviewed by the Israel Advisory Committee, an advisory board comprised of CJL Israel Fellow Lior Sharir and students tasked with determining best practices when student groups plan to host controversial programs.

Roth was not available for comment at the time of publication.

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Students gathered in Lewis Library on Monday, Nov. 6, to protest a talk by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, accusing her of being Islamophobic and promoting hatred against Palestinians.

Hotovely was originally going to be hosted by the Center for Jewish Life, but the CJL eventually cancelled her invitation after students protested that it violated the organization’s policy against sponsoring speakers that promote hatred or racism.

Many protesters felt that the CJL’s decision to cancel the talk validated their concerns, and were upset when Princeton Chabad decided to host Hotovely’s lecture. Hotovely

issued a statement denouncing the CJL’s decision not to host her as an infringement of students’ “fundamental academic freedom.”

The protesters, who included members of the Alliance of Jewish Progressives and the Princeton Committee on Palestine, stood outside the lecture hall, holding handmade signs with slogans including “I believe in Palestinian history — “why don’t you, MK?,” and “Israeli domination is not peace.” Many handed out slips of papers printed with a quote from a speech Hotovely made to Palestinian Members of Knesset earlier this year: “You are thieves of history. Your history books are empty, and you are trying to co-opt Jewish history and See PROTEST page 4

By Linh Nguyen contributor

Layoff notices were distributed to every member of Westminster Choir College’s full-time faculty on Nov. 1.

Westminster Choir College, Rider University’s musical branch that lies just a short walk from the University, has been facing a rough year. The layoffs, which will take effect on August 31, 2018, come after Rider University’s Board of Trustees decided to divest from the Choir College, as reported in March of this year. A new buyer of Westminster was announced by the Board in August 2017, but the buyer’s identity

U. launches Princeton and Slavery website

By Allie Spensley assistant news editor

By Isabel Ting contributor

From a 1766 slave sale that took place on campus to the fact that the University’s first nine presidents were slaveholders, the history of the University has been tied to the history of slavery since its beginning. The Princeton and Slavery Project, a large-scale academic and creative endeavor, has been established to explore how early University trustees, faculty, and students were connected to the institution of slavery.

The project comes as many universities are reckoning with pasts closely tied to slavery, such as Georgetown University, which in 1838 sold 272 slaves to save the institution.

Led by History professor Martha Sandweiss, the project’s findings have been published on a website that includes articles, videos, interactive maps and graphs, and hundreds of primary source documents.

The website will be supplemented by a range of campus events; a two-day academic symposium featuring Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison as keynote speaker, is scheduled for Nov. 1718, and McCarter Theatre

will present seven newly commissioned ten-minute plays inspired by the project on Nov. 18-19. On Nov. 16, the Princeton University Art Museum will host a conversation with Titus Kaphar, whose sculpture “Impressions of Liberty” will be temporarily displayed at the site of the 1766 slave auction on campus.

Sandweiss explained that the project is intended to shed light on the unearthed history of slavery and the University, not only by sharing academic research but also by approaching the topic through the creative arts.

“Historians are so good at unearthing these docu-

By Rose Gilbert senior writer

Trump nominates Jerome Powell ’75 as next Federal Reserve chairman

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On Thursday, Nov. 2, President Trump named Jerome Powell ’75 as his pick to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. If confirmed, Powell will begin his term in early 2018, succeeding Janet Yellen, who was herself nominated in October 2013 to replace former University economics professor Ben Bernanke.

The Federal Reserve is the

ments from the past and thinking about what happened, but historians have rules. They can’t make up what’s inside people’s heads,” Sandweiss said.

“I wanted creative people whose discipline doesn’t need footnotes to explore [this topic] in a more creative way. All those voices add up and make this a richer project and more interesting.”

When Sandweiss joined the University’s history department in 2009, she was surprised that the University had never organized an in-depth study of its connection to slavery, as a number of other universi-

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is still unknown and has been described only as an Asian for-profit education corporation.

In a letter to the Rider University community, Rider President Gregory G. Dell’Omo emphasized that although he expects Westminster’s new owners to continue the faculty’s employment, the details have not been finalized, and layoffs may be necessary if the purchase is not successful.

“In the event a transaction is not consummated, it may be necessary to transition to closure,” writes Dell’Omo. “This process would decrease the size of the student body, and thus create the

central bank for the United States, and Powell is currently one of four serving governors of the Federal Reserve system.

He presently sits on the Federal Open Market Committee, the body of the Federal Reserve that most directly controls U.S. monetary policy by setting the federal funds rate through open market operations, such as by buying and selling U.S. Treasury bonds, used to calculate borrowing and interest rates nationwide.

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Powell graduated from the Department of Politics, and is a former member of the advisory council for the University’s Bendheim Center for Finance. He earned a J.D. from Georgetown University prior to working as a lawyer, investment banker, and Treasury undersecretary, before being nominated in 2011 to the Fed by former President Barack Obama. In 2014, he was reconfirmed to his role as a Governor.

The University has launched a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s ending of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The U. filed the joint complaint on Nov. 3 in federal court in Washington, D.C., alongside Maria De La Cruz Perales Sanchez ‘18 and Microsoft.

The Trump administration had announced the end of DACA on Sept. 5, subject to action from Congress.

Yesterday, the administration said that they would not include the program in the current spending bill.

Former President Barack Obama established DACA by executive order in 2012.

It provides work authorization and relief from deportation for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

An estimated 17,400 immigrants in New Jersey are DACA recipients.

The joint complaint explains that terminating DACA “severely harms her and other DACA-enrolled

Today on Campus 9 a.m.: ARE WE HUMAN?, a collage of works by architects, designers, scientists, filmmakers, researchers, and think tanks reflecting the relation between “design” and “human,” will have its first exhibition in the US. School of Architecture.

young people” as well as employers who hire such beneficiaries. The U.’s announcement comes after U. President Christopher Eisgruber ‘83 voiced his support of DACA previously in open letters to congressional leaders and Trump. The U. faculty also issued a letter supporting DACA beneficiaries.

In a press release, Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith said that Microsoft was “deeply concerned” about the possibility of ending DACA. Smith added that changes to DACA would “drastically disrupt” the lives of roughly 800,000 Dreamers.

“Although undocumented, these young people grew up in the United States,” wrote Smith, adding that they “attended our schools, built careers and started businesses, bought houses, started families and became part of our communities.”

The lawsuit’s plaintiffs claim that DACA’s termination is a violation under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, “including its guarantee of equal protection under the law, as well as the administrative See DACA page 5

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the Tzipi Hotovely event tonight,” explained Rabbi Eitan Webb, director of the Chabad House, in an email. “As a firm believer that every person is entitled to speak, and that dissent and debate are meant to be done in person with even more speech and not by preventing speech, I am glad and honored to be [tonight’s] sponsor.”

He added that the decision to host Hotovely is not meant to express “anything negative about those who chose to rescind her invite.”

“We are came today in order to speak — to create dialogue,” Hotovely began, addressing a packed room. She asked the audience for their toughest questions. Writing them down, she promised to address them later and launched into her prepared remarks.

Tzipi Hotovely has been a member of the Israeli government, the Knesset, since 2009 and was made Foreign Minister in 2015. She was scheduled to visit Princeton on Monday, Nov. 6, as part of a larger tour of U.S. universities, which included NYU and Columbia.

The lectures were aimed to coincide with the release of government-sponsored pamphlets containing informa-

tion for pro-Israel activists on campus.

“The way to change things in the Middle East goes through this word: values,” said Hotovely. “The values [of Israel] are freedom. The values are sanctity of life. The values are democracy.” These values, she claimed, guide all the actions of the government and the people.

When pressed by a student about the disparity between Israeli and Palestinian deaths in recent years, she pointed to these principles. She explained the Israeli policy of minimizing civilian harm, yet made it clear that this policy does not apply to terrorists.

“We are very proud to fight

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terror organizations,” she responded, adding, “Hamas is a terrorist organization.” Additionally, she compared Israel to other countries in the Middle East.

“We are definitely in a horrible region, but Israel is not the country killing civilians,” she said, noting the thousands dead in Syria.

She also addressed the issue of apartheid in Israel. When a student asked about this issue, she joked that now she knew she was on a college campus.

“Israel is a democratic regime,” she asserted in response. “All Israeli citizens have equal rights.” She also mentioned that, “In Israel, every person has all the full political and civil rights that are accessible to [her] children.”

At the end of the discussion, Hotovely stated that she wanted to “see the first Palestinian Nobel Prize.” She left government booklets containing information after the lecture for any students who were interested.

These booklets outline the Israeli government’s stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: “Israel’s settlements are entirely legal, since Jerusalem and the West Bank were never under Palestinian Arab sovereignty. The Palestinian Authority actively encourages children to hate Jews and glorifies terrorists as role models.

The Israeli government, however, opposes violence and hate speech against everyone, including Palestinians,” one reporter summarized.

After the lecture, audience members remarked on the uniqueness of a talk in which people on both sides of the issues attended.

“It was powerful that in the end this [talk] did occur,” said Abraham Waserstein ’21.

“I feel so blessed that this was able to occur,” said Kirsten Keels ’21, agreeing. “It is a true statement of free speech and makes me want to know more about this issue.”

After the talk, Eitan Webb added that he was pleased with the flow of free speech represented by the talk.

“I am a big believer in free speech and when I heard that this event was not going to be able to take place, that disturbed me,” said Eitan Webb.

“When various people reached

out to me and asked if I would come in as a replacement, I was happy and honored to do that.”

The AJP objected to Hotovely’s visit to campus, arguing that the program is at odds with the CJL’s Israel Policy, which states, “The CJL will not...sponsor groups or speakers that…promote racism or hatred of any kind.” Hotovely is known for her outspoken stances on the West Bank Settlements. She said earlier this week to the Times of Israel that “Israel will not apologize for the building of life for 3,000 years since the Jewish people began their historic path in Judea and Samaria,” and she believes in a Greater Israel, one that also encompasses the West Bank.

In a letter of protest to the CJL that would have been published in the The Daily Princetonian, AJP argued that Hotovely’s past statements about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the settlements works against a peaceful solution. Speaking to Palestinian Members of Knesset, Hotovely said, “You are thieves of history. Your history books are empty, and you are trying to co-opt Jewish history and Islamicize it.”

AJP’s letter of protest in the ‘Prince’ includes an accusation: “the CJL’s Israel Policy has previously served as a thinly veiled method to exclude left-wing voices.” The letter goes on to cite examples of when the CJL “refused to co-sponsor” or “qualify” the sponsorship of left-of-center events, including feminist activist Penny Rosenwasser and Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan, suggesting the that the CJL has a double standard when it comes to hosting speakers. The CJL “must subject all political views on Israel to the same standard of scrutiny,” reads the AJP letter. “We firmly reject the CJL’s choice to host a racist speaker like Hotovely while it continues to quiet progressive voices.”

The program was advertised as a “discussion with students [and a] conversation to hear a different perspective on various issues facing Israel from a member of the Israeli government.” It took place on Nov. 6 at 5:30 p.m. in Lewis Library 138.

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ties founded in America’s early years have done so.

The results of such a study would be particularly interesting because the University is not only America’s fourth-oldest college but is also historically more national than other old schools, such as Harvard and Yale, which were largely regional.

“What happened here mattered because students came here from all across [the country] and then they went back home, so the ideas they learned here had a really large impact,” Sandweiss explained.

In 2013, Sandweiss began organizing upper-level history seminars designed to investigate slavery at the University and to expose students to the methodology of archival research.

Students in these seminars, along with other scholars and researchers involved in the project, determined that the University’s first land donor, Nathaniel FitzRandolph, was a slaveholder. They also found that donors connected to slavery provided funds for the construction of campus buildings and that the University’s seven founding trustees all owned slaves.

John Witherspoon, the University’s sixth president and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, not only owned slaves, but also intentionally increased the proportion of students from wealthy southern and Caribbean families, who often had ties to slavery. Moses Taylor Pyne, a northerner and prominent donor to the University, inherited a fortune from the slavery-dependent Cuban sugar industry.

The town of Princeton, which by the 1860s was home to a significant population of free blacks, saw violence break out over slavery. In 1843, a local citizen paid for the freedom of a fugitive slave after a student recognized him from his hometown’s plantation.

In 1864, a mob of 14 students severely beat a black man despite efforts from professor John Maclean Jr. to deter them.

Sandweiss explained that the project’s findings locate the town of Princeton and the University in a broader history of American slavery.

“The history of Princeton and slavery is the history of America writ small,” she said. “We are a place where liberty and slavery have been intertwined from the very start.”

The project received support from the Princeton Histories Fund, which promotes research on “aspects of Princeton’s history that have been forgotten, overlooked, subordinated or suppressed.” The creation of such a program was one of the recommended initiatives in an April 2016 report by the trustee committee that reviewed Woodrow Wilson’s legacy at the University; other recommendations included diversifying campus art and iconography. The prominence of Wilson’s legacy on campus was called into question in

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2015 by the Black Justice League, a student organization that held protests in part to advocate for the removal of the name of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, from the Wilson School and Wilson College.

Sandweiss emphasized that an important aspect of the project is its accessibility. She opted for a website to present her findings, rather than a book, in order to promote ongoing exploration of the vast amount of archival materials that the project studied. To bridge the project with the town, Sandweiss collaborated with local public schools to create high school lesson plans.

The project is also an attempt to connect the University’s past with its current community. One of Sandweiss’s freshman seminars approached this directly by asking students to film interviews with students and alumni who are descended from slaveholders, slaves, or both.

“Keeping stories like these secret does nobody a service,” Sandweiss said.

“We owe it to ourselves to understand where we came from.”

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Student protesters stood outside the entrance to the lecture hall in Lewis Library.

Islamicize it.” The protesters remained calm and largely silent, but there were four Public Safety officers in attendance, and protesters were frequently asked to move farther away from the entrance to the lecture hall to avoid blocking the hallway.

“Just hosting her is very insensitive to Palestinians and other Arabs who care about their cause,” said Diana Dayoub ’21, a member of the PCP. Dayoub stressed the importance of an “in-person” protest, adding that students “can’t be on the Security Council,” but they can have a voice on campus by showing up to protest.

“This is not a protest against her right to be here,” said AJP president Mikaela Gerwin ’19, “but against her beliefs and the hateful statements she has made against Palestinians.” Other protesters echoed this sentiment, and many held signs reading “MK Hotovely, I respectfully disagree,” indicating a concerted effort to create a courteous, but firm, protest.

“This is part of a larger conversation on free speech on

campus and across the country,” said AJP member Talya Nevins ’18, alluding to the contentious debate playing out on college campuses across the nation about whether protesting conservative speakers infringes on the right of free speech.

The group of protesters dispersed after the talk began, some choosing to attend the talk while others went home.

Benjamin Huang ’20, a member of the PCP, was one of the few who remained outside. Huang objected to Hotovely’s talk as a “propaganda tour,” and accused her of inciting “hatred, if not violence” against Arabs, but nonetheless stressed the importance of maintaining an open dialogue. He added that campus protests against conservative speakers have fallen under increased scrutiny and alluded to the violent protests against alt-right and white nationalist speakers at UC Berkeley.

“We want to have a discussion,” Huang said, adding that by “responding to her incivility with civility we hold the higher moral ground.” He said that it is important to show up, “even if it’s much more controversial in our current political environment.”

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Procedure Act,” the U. press release stated.

In addition to Microsoft, companies such as Univision Communications, Inc., Google, Spotify, and IBM Corporation have voiced support on the issue, according the press release.

DACA protects undocumented individuals who came to the United States as children from deportation

and enables them to continue their work or education here. As part of the program — and in order to remain protected —individuals were required to provide the Department of Homeland Security, under U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, with highly sensitive and personal information. Additionally, Dreamers, as DACA beneficiaries are known, were required to submit to a background check and pay a significant fee.

Since the government has

promised that it would not use the information provided by DACA recipients, if the program ends, Dreamers will be more vulnerable to deportation.

The U. contends that DACA’s termination will cause a “loss of critical members of its community,” according the press release. Additionally, Microsoft and its subsidiary LinkedIn have noted that they employ at least 45 DACA recipients in roles ranging from software engineers to financial analysts.

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need to concurrently reduce the size of the workforce.”

Dell’Omo expects that a final decision will be reached by the end of the 2017-2018 academic year in May 2018.

Current Westminster students have displayed frustration over the chaos that has ensued since the news of the pink slips was released. Corinne Berntsen, secretary for Westminster’s class of 2019 who was interviewed in previous ‘Prince’ coverage of Westminster, found the reaction to be more disturbing than the event itself.

“My observation, as a student, is that when it seems as if there is new or mixed information, an explosion of anxiety on campus is created,” said

Berntsen. “It is very important to support us no matter the distance, but as a student, my wish is that instead of enforcing negative energy that could possibly deter a buyer, it would be a better use of time putting positive energy towards the current students and campus.”

Additionally, Westminster alumni across the country have expressed their outrage at the abrupt announcement of the wide-scale faculty layoffs.

“Westminster is a true cultural treasure,” Suzanne Anderson, a member of Westminster Class of 1997, said. “What Rider’s president and the trustees are attempting to do is a slow motion crime in progress.”

In reaction to the layoff notices, union leaders held a news conference on Nov. 2 at 1:00 p.m. in Taylor Hall on the Westminster campus.

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#MeToo, but what about everybody else?

Amanda Sileo

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have posted #METOO, so now what? I have taken ownership of something that was done to me, something I have been continuously blamed for, so now what is going to change? Is something going to be done about the blatant rape culture in which we live, where victims get blamed, put on trial, and are afraid to come forward? Our rape culture is as much of an epidemic as the harassment and assaults themselves. It’s bad enough to suffer through something like this, but then to live with the shame society places on you is unnerving.

In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations, social media is asking victims and survivors to come forward, but what will this change?

Yes, one can argue it causes awareness, but aren’t the facts there? Hasn’t the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network told us for quite some time that every 98 seconds another person experiences sexual assault?

Is that not real enough for us? It took me awhile to come forward and say what happened to me and people were angry that I didn’t say something sooner. Those same people still blamed me in some way. I still carry some of that shame even though it is not rational. And when stories come out and the topic is “trending,” I remember that feeling. When someone like Mayim Bialik writes an oped for The New York Times explaining how to dress and act “appropriately,” I remember that feeling. Although, deep down I know no one has the right to touch me without my permission.

I am asking, now what are we going to do? I would say victims and survivors can go to support groups now to discuss what they’re feeling. However, if you’re in New Jersey, like I am, and you go to the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault website there are three groups listed in the entire state. One in Essex County and two in Middlesex County (one of which is a psychoeducation group). This is a problem and I’m sure it’s not just in New Jersey. Also, what about our college campuses? Are they going to do anything about this? With Betsy DeVos withdrawing Obama-era Title IX guidance, will they take a stand?

Under the administration in office we have to band together to make change.

We need leaders. I left a job working in film publicity in New York City to work at the YWCA Princeton to join the mission, eliminate

racism and empower women. With #METOO, now is the time to be empowering women. I plan to use my position to not only make my voice heard but be a leader to young women, a reason why I have applied to be on the YWCA Princeton NEXT GEN board. If you want to join me on this movement, visit our website for ways you can support our mission, locally and nationally.

We must enact the change we want to see; we cannot expect it to happen with a hashtag.

Amanda Sileo is the communications and marketing manager for YWCA Princeton. She graduated in 2011 with her BA in film from Pace University in New York City. She then worked in film publicity for Donna Daniels Public Relations, before recently securing her current position at the YWCA.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Alliance of Jewish Progressives commends CJL’s postponement of Hotovely talk

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n the evening of Nov. 5, in an email to students and members of the community who planned to attend an address by Tzipi Hotovely, a member of Israel’s Knesset, Rabbi Julie Roth, the executive director of the Center for Jewish Life, and the CJL Israel Fellow, Lior Sharir, announced they would be postponing Hotovely’s visit to the CJL pending further review by the Israel Advisory Committee.

The Israel Advisory Committee is a board composed of students and the Israel Fellow who convene to advise the executive director on whether proposed speakers about Israel align with the CJL’s Israel Policy. The Israel Policy states that “[t] he CJL will not … sponsor groups or speakers that, as a matter of policy or practice, foster an atmosphere of incivility, intend to harm

Israel, or promote racism or hatred of any kind.”

Ultimately, Chabad at Princeton picked up the sponsorship for the event, and Hotovely spoke to a full lecture hall of students — including many members of the Alliance of Jewish Progressives — as planned, but without CJL sponsorship.

AJP commends the CJL’s decision to postpone its

sponsorship of Hotovely’s talk until the event could be properly reviewed in accordance with the CJL’s sponsorship policy. It is our firm belief that, as long as the CJL has an Israel policy and an Israel Advisory Committee, the standards should be applied equally to event proposals from both rightand left-wing voices.

AJP is deeply committed to the realization of free speech on campus, and never intended to obstruct open discourse on campus. Rather, the initial statement AJP released, and continues to stand by, condemns Hotovely’s views in isolation and calls for an equitable vetting process in events the CJL considers to sponsor. AJP appreciated the opportunity to engage in respectful protest and a lively discussion with Hotovely, but wants to reaffirm that the CJL made the right decision in choosing not to sponsor Hotovely’s talk without proper scrutiny under its Israel policy.

With this decision the CJL showed its commitment to balanced discourse on campus. Thank you to the CJL staff. We hope to see this commitment endure.

Signed, The Alliance of Jewish Progressives

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o the Princeton community and administration,

Now more than ever, it’s time to take a stand for what we believe is right. You might have seen the news that the University, an undergraduate, and Microsoft filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its move to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an Obama-era program that provided relief from deportation and temporary work authorization for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Facing an administration actively working against immigrants’ rights, we need to do everything we can to support the undocumented population at Princeton and beyond.

On days like this, I’m proud to call to call myself a Princetonian. Princeton doesn’t often take stances on political issues, but the University’s DACA lawsuit, as well as its lobbying in Congress on behalf of undocumented students, demonstrates its commitment to our community.

I’m deeply appreciative to see the University take a stand for DACA students, who walk among us on campus as friends, classmates, and the leaders of tomorrow. The stakes could not be higher. Immigration is something that often sparks heated

debate among us. But we should all be able to agree that everyone deserves a fair chance at the American dream.

Acknowledging that I now speak from a position of natural-born citizenship, I will never be able to fully understand the lived experiences or the challenges faced by contemporary undocumented immigrants. But I can offer my empathy, my support, and a commitment to build a better future for my friends, classmates, and countless others.

So, I believe that we should still go further — we need to stand up for the individual rights and dignity of all undocumented people. The estimated 800,000 DACA recipients represent only a fraction of the 11.3 million undocumented people in the United States. There are 500,000 total undocumented immigrants in New Jersey, of which an estimated 17,400 are DACA recipients. And it is our obligation as those working in the service of humanity to stand in solidarity with all undocumented people.

A piece of documentation should not stand in the way of a person’s dreams. It’s on all of us to make undocumented people’s dreams a reality.

Nicholas Wu is the head opinion editor and a senior in the Wilson School from Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.

He can be reached at nmwu@ princeton.edu.

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } FIELD HOCKEY

Field hockey claims Ivy League Title, continues to NCAA tournament

By Claire Coughlin associate sports editor

The No. 14 Princeton women’s field hockey team (11-6 overall, 7-0 Ivy) has defeated Penn (9-8, 4-3) in 13 consecutive match ups, but the Tigers’ victory over the Quakers this past weekend held even larger significance: not only did the team continue its streak against an historic rival, but the Orange and Black also claimed their 25th Ivy League title. This victory is a channel to the team’s 22nd NCAA Tournament appearance, which will take place on Nov. 11 against No. 4 Virginia (15-4 overall, 5-1 ACC).

Saturday’s game at Ellen Vagelos Field in Philadelphia was all about one thing — shots. Princeton outshot Penn 13-4 and held the Quakers to just one attempt in the second half of play. While Penn had the first shot right off the bat, the Tigers were able to have the last laugh. The game started with Penn’s Alex Hoover putting Penn on the scoreboard off a corner shot in just the third minute of play. The Quakers tried again at the 10th minute, but Princeton sophomore goalie Grace Baylis used this opportunity to nab her first block of the game.

The Tigers had two attempted corners in a row at the 12th and 13th min-

utes, but both were unsuccessful. Going into the first half, the Tigers were behind at halftime for the first time since they played the UConn Huskies on Oct. 8. This only kept them motivated and ready to come out fighting in the second half.

Right from the get-go, freshman midfielder Clara Roth netted her sixth goal of the season for the Tigers.

She tied the game off an interception and dribbled along the baseline before letting it f ly past Penn’s goalie into the net. The Tigers played with their most aggressive offense yet in the second half, shooting 10 corners in just 35 minutes.

The game-winner came at the 47th minute of play, when sophomore midfielder Maddie Bacskai knocked the ball into the cage off of a def lection from junior striker Sophia Tornetta.

Bacskai was honored with not only a championship title, but also named Ivy League Player of the Week for her victorious goal.

Few teams can say they are used to clinching a spot in the NCAA tournament, but for the Princeton Tigers, it has simply become routine. Princeton has played in at least the NCAA play-in game every year since 2004 and went all the way to the Final Four last year.

Princeton has been seed-

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Maddie Bacskai had the game-winning goal on Saturday to lead her team to the Ivy League title.

ed third in the tournament, right behind the Virginia Cavaliers. These two teams have matched up 13 times total, three of which have been in the NCAA Tournament. The Cavaliers lead the series 7-6, but Princeton has the advantage of

having won NCAA quarterfinals last year.

Going into Saturday’s game, Princeton has four top-25 wins, taking down No. 22 Rutgers (Sept. 8), No. 10 Maryland (Sept. 19), No. 24 Boston University (Sept. 24), and No. 15 Har-

vard (Oct. 21). The combination of their winning record and their difficult schedule is evidence that the Tigers will be one of the strongest teams in this year’s tournament.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Women’s volleyball finds form, wins three straight in Ivy League

By David Xin head sports editor

After a tough loss against Yale that ended its ten-game home win-

ning streak, the women’s volleyball team has found its form again, winning its third straight game in the Ivy League. The Ti-

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Princeton’s wins against Colombia and Cornell brought the Tigers back into a first place tie with the Bulldogs.

Tweet of the Day “Our @NCAASoccer tournament game vs. @MUWSoccer is set for Friday, 7 p.m. at Roberts Stadium!”

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gers swept both Columbia and Cornell, two teams the Orange and Black had struggled against earlier in the season. The crucial wins this past weekend once again put Princeton level with Yale at the top of the Ivy League table.

The Tigers opened the weekend with a dominant performance against Columbia. Sophomore setter Jessie Harris paced the match with 38 assists and contributed to the Princeton offense with eight kills at a 0.727 hitting percentage. If their loss against the Bulldogs bothered them, the Tigers did not show it as they avenged their defeat earlier in the season. Other notable performances came from sophomore Maggie O’Connell and junior Caroline Sklaver, who led the offense with 12 and 10 kills, respectively.

The win was made even sweeter that evening when Harvard defeated the Bulldogs to bring Princeton back into first place in the Ancient Eight.

Not resting on their laurels, the Tigers returned

the next day with a similarly dominant performance over Cornell. Using its efficient offense, the well-oiled Princeton squad emphatically avenged another earlier conference loss. Sklaver and O’Connell once again led the offense with 11 and 10 kills, respectively.

The victory, along with a Bulldog sweep of Dartmouth, pushed the Tigers to stand level with Yale as they now head into their final weekend of Ivy League play.

Princeton will face Harvard and Dartmouth in the final two matches of the season. Two wins will guarantee a share of the Ivy League crown, while a loss will place the ball into Yale’s court. Undoubtedly, the Tigers will be looking to take charge as they hope to retain the Ivy League title and return to the NCAA championships.

The Tigers are certainly capable of another perfect weekend. Princeton defeated both Harvard and Dartmouth earlier in the season. However,

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Junior Gabi Forrest became the eighth Princeton Tiger in history to win the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships on Friday, Oct. 27.

the Tigers will now have to face both rivals without a home court advantage. The Crimson and Big Green have shown themselves to be dangerous adversaries. Indeed, Harvard recently beat Yale after rallying from a 2-1 hole. Princeton will need to carry its usual poise and efficiency if they want to grab two crucial wins.

Yale will face Columbia and Cornell to close conference play. The Lions and Big Red are the only team besides Yale to have defeated the Tigers and should prove to be a tough match for the Bulldogs, who are traveling.

With the title on the line, fans of Princeton volleyball with certainly not want to miss this weekend as the two-time defending champion Tigers look to complete a three-peat and earn the right to compete in the NCAA. The Tigers will begin weekend play against Harvard on Nov. 10 and close the regular season on Nov. 11 against Dartmouth.

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