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Petition urges U. affiliates sign statement U. trustees to denouncing Donald Trump denounce Christie’s endorsement

By Kevin Agostinelli contributor

By Maya Wesby staff writer

The Muslim Advocates for Social Justice & Individual Dignity started an online a petition Wednesday night calling for the University Board of Trustees to denounce New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s endorsement of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Christie is an ex officio member of the University Board of Trustees.

According to the circulated letter, Christie “has a responsibility to consider the effects of Trump’s politics on the wellbeing and futures of the students of this university.”

“Governor Christie’s support of Trump indicates approval of his vitriolic rhetoric, which has had violent consequences for the most vulnerable members of society,” the letter reads.

MASJID believes that silence from the trustees “implies See MASJID page 2

Six University faculty and alumni, along with twenty-six conservative Catholic leaders across the country, released a statement earlier this week in the National Review decrying the presidential candidacy of businessman Donald Trump.

University’s McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George and George Weigel, a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, are at the forefront of the movement.

George was unavailable for comment.

Trump’s campaign office did not respond to requests for comment.

“There is nothing in [Trump’s] campaign or his previous record that gives us grounds for confidence that he genuinely shares our commitments to the right to life, to religious freedom and the rights of conscience, to rebuilding the marriage culture or to subsidiarity and the principle of limited constitutional government,” the statement reads.

In the statement, the signatories also noted that Donald Trump is unqualified for the presidency on the basis of his vulgar political discourse, his strong advocacy of torture of terrorist suspects and their families and the signatories’ belief that “his appeals to racial and ethnic fears and prejudice are offensive to any genuinely Catholic sensi-

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bility.”

Stephen Barr GS ’78, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, said that as Catholic morality is rooted in human good, many of Donald Trump’s proposals and character — from his record of being pro-choice on abortion to his solution of mass deportation — lie in contrast to Catholic doctrine and are “inhuman.”

Barr added that Trump has demonstrated “a tendency to engage in ad hominem attacks, including mocking people’s physical handicaps and physical appearance, which shows a lack of basic decency.”

The signatories of the letter See STATEMENT page 2 LECTURE

Glaude, Taylor talk race and democracy

By Catherine Wang contributor

Akshay Mehra GS

Max Hirschberger GS

Bradley O’ Brien GS

New GSG to address housing, representation

By Annie Yang news editor

Mircea Davidescu GS, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was elected president of the Graduate Student Government, according to an election report by the GSG Election Committee.

Students who were newly elected to GSG also include vice president Akshay Mehra GS, treasurer Max Hirschberger GS and special events officer Bradley O’Brien GS. When Davidescu found out that he was elected president,

he said he felt “elated, excited and ready to hit the ground running.” He told the ‘Prince’ he was motivated to run for president by his desire to tangibly improve the lives of graduate students at the University.

“This includes getting a graduate student space, improving professional development and finding ways to break down the barriers separating students in different departments,” he said.

He also plans to make the campus welcoming to graduate students as a place to be community members, not just as a place to work. In order to achieve

this, he noted he plans to create a graduate student space.

“I am really interested in improving the professional development services [such as Career Services, Writing Center, the Keller Center and McGraw Center] for graduate students, who make up a sizable portion of the student population,” he added.

Mehra, a Ph.D. candidate in the Geosciences Department, noted that he had been stepping down as former GSG president and was very happy to have been elected vice president.

“One of the things I was still interested in doing was con-

tinuing some of the work I had started,” he said.

As vice president, Mehra said he would have a greater opportunity to promote full representation in GSG, as there are usually three or four departments that don’t have a representative at any time.

“One of the platforms I ran on was about diversity and inclusion, but in a broader sense, this idea that we really should be sharing with all sorts of students, not just the ones who have had a great time at Princeton or those that have had a See GSG page 3

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Ordinance introduced to create historic district

By Jessica Li news editor

advocate of the resolution.

“It’s a very important community because this is part of an area that contributed greatly to the town over time. It’s important for the community to remember what happened in the past and to honor that. You can’t honor something until you look at it,” Cherry added.

According to Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert, in recent years the neighborhood experienced prominent teardowns as developers erected structures that were visually out of character.

The campaign for the designation began around a year ago, explained Cherry.

According to a report by Wise Preservation Planning LLC, a firm commissioned by the Princeton Municipality, some researchers have argued that University students from the South brought slaves with them and left them in the town after graduation during the 18th and See DISTRICT page 2

Many U. affiliates have resided in Witherspoon-Jackson district.

The Princeton Council introduced an ordinance to designate a historic district in the Witherspoon-Jackson community this past Thursday during a Council meeting.

Many former and current employees of the University have lived in this neighborhood, University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan said.

The proposed historic district encompasses neighborhoods on both sides of Witherspoon Street, stretching from its intersection with Wiggins Street to a little past Birch Avenue. Though the demographics of the neighborhood have changed significantly, the neighborhood was once a de facto segregated residential community for African Americans, said Kip Cherry, a member of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization and

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Today on Campus

A petition signed by almost 300 students advocates for the retention of Professor Michael Barry, and columnist Lea Trusty reflects on the decisions she made during her academic career. PAGE 4

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“Black liberation” describes a world in which African-Americans can live in peace without the constant threat of social, economic and political woes, Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor said in a discussion on Thursday.

African American Studies Department Chair Eddie Glaude explained that throughout history, movements against racial inequality led by African-Americans in the U.S. has always been followed by calls for law and order or a radical backlash. He explained that black people are “socialized” into a value gap, citing his own childhood experiences, which he believes to be common experiences of black children in the U.S. The value gap is the root cause of underachievement and the wealth gap in this country, he said, and noted that white supremacy, by fusing itself, into the black conscience, perpetuates the value gap as well.

To close the value gap, Glaude said, we need to challenge the white fear that impacts our behavior. Firstly, there must be a revolution of values. Secondly, there needs to be a changing of racial stereotypes.

Finally, one must change fundamental constructions, such as the pillars of neoliberalism, narcissism and selfishness, which have historically restricted economic prosperity.

“We stand at the precipice,” Glaude said. “A revolution begins not with trying to elect the celebrity of Bernie Sanders, a revolution begins with our ability to see that this world can actually be different. That the most vulnerable, the most marginal, can be brought to the center.”

Taylor noted that a gap exists between equality before the law and actual freedom from oppression, duress, coercion or threat of harm. Historically, freedom in the United States See LECTURE page 3

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acknowledged that Trump does present an attractive option for those who are frustrated and disillusioned with the current state of affairs with the federal government. Even so, they maintain, Catholics and all Americans should support other Republican candidates who identify with Catholic social teaching much more than Donald Trump.

Barr noted that this does not necessarily have to mean support for candidates who hold religious beliefs specific to Catholics. Instead, “we are talking about beliefs that are Catholic because they are universal: belief in respect for others, in the value of innocent human life, in personal responsibility, in honest dealing and so forth,” he said.

Matthew Franck, director of the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution at the Witherspoon Institute, explained that

while Catholics may reasonably disagree about the responsibilities of the federal government regarding fiscal and social policy, they must recognize that Donald Trump is “completely untrustworthy” when it comes to the central moral concerns facing Catholics.

Frank explained that it is very hard to hear or see in anything Trump has said or done in his long business career that expresses the kind of devotion to moral principle that faithful Catholics ought to look for in a President.

Franck voiced his concerns that this presidential campaign may fail to yield a President that, in his view, supports and defends these values.

“One very real danger is the fate of religious liberty in a Supreme Court that is reshaped by a president who is hostile to the views that our church takes on that question.”

Jim Goodness, director of communications of the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., declined to

specifically address the Catholic leaders’ announcement, citing the Catholic Church’s doctrine of refraining from endorsing a political candidate.

Goodness, however, said that the Catholic Church has always urged Catholics to form their consciences based on faith and to tie that to public faith.

Other signatories of the letter affiliated with the University include Ryan Anderson ’04, William Simon senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation; Francis Beckwith, professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies at Baylor University, member of the James Madison Society and former research fellow in the James Madison Program in the University’s Department of Politics; and Gerard Bradley, professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame and a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute.

Anderson, Beckwith and Bradley did not respond to a request for comment as of press time.

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19th centuries. Though the origins of the African-American community are disputed, many settled along what’s known now as the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood.

With the creation of new buildings like Blair Hall, Buyers Hall, and Little Hall during the late 19th century, the University increased its employment of African-Americans living in the Witherspoon-Jackson district, the reported noted. Many residents worked as janitors, cooks, waiters, housekeepers and maintenance workers, particularly in the eating clubs.

“These were low-income jobs, which provided income but little means of increasing financial security for Princeton’s black population,” the report

read.

Pullan noted that the University is not taking a position on the historic designation issue.

Lempert noted that the introduction of the ordinance is the first of a three-step process to create the historic district.

Following the introduction of the ordinance, the proposal will be submitted to the city’s planning board for review. Subsequently, the board will make a recommendation to the city council, which will then hold a public hearing.

“This is not a yes vote to create the district, but just to pass the ordinance,” Lempert said.

According to Lempert, designating the neighborhood as a historical district will introduce regulations on the exterior appearance of buildings inside the zone. The goal of making the designation is to preserving the street scheme,

Lempert said.

Any changes to the exterior of buildings, from window replacements to creating home additions, must be done with prior notification to the Historical Preservation Office, Lempert added.

In face of potential regulations, some architects and developers have expressed opposition to the resolution, Cherry said.

However, commercial entities and various homes on the border of the currently included in the proposal may be removed from the historic district, Lempert noted. If so, these buildings will not be impacted by regulations that govern a historic district, she explained.

The neighborhood, if ultimately given the designation, will become the 20th historical district in Princeton.

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complicity” in Trump’s controversial statements, according to the letter.

As of Thursday, the petition has already gained close to 500 signatures after being out for less than a day, which speaks to how the University student body does not agree with Trump’s message, nor the endorsement of it, according to Robia Amjad ’18, president of MASJID. The group’s former president Farah Amjad ’16 added that the letter and petition will also go out to professors and administrators.

Zeena Mubarak ’17 noted that Christie’s endorsement of Trump stands in opposition to the ideologies of the University.

Mubarak is an columnist for The Daily Princetonian. “[Trump] is invested basically in creating an American society… dominated by able-bodied, heterosexual men and that doesn’t seem ideal,” Mubarak noted. “Princeton prides itself on creating a diverse community and allowing students [from a variety of backgrounds to] com[e] together on this campus, so there’s no way those two ideas can coexist.”

Farah Amjad explained that MASJID is a group for Muslim students to get involved in social justice issues and political advocacy and is separate from the non-political Muslim Students Association. The group was started by doing collaborative work with Students for Prison Education and Reform, the Princeton Committee on Palestine and the DREAM Team, according to Robia Amjad.

“This academic year we got more involved with doing our own initiatives,” she said.

The letter is part of these initiatives, as are giving support for refugees and holding vigils for victims of hate crimes, she added.

Mubarak noted that Christie stands out from other political figures because of his ties to the University and that the trustees play an important role in facilitating a University community.

“It didn’t seem right for someone who is supporting such racist and xenophobic statements to be in the position where he’s supposed to be in charge of fostering a community for diverse students. But instead he’s supporting someone who wants to have us wear IDs,” Amjad said.

Eric Fung ’18 said he believes that Christie is within his right to endorse the Trump campaign.

“Denouncing Christie’s endorsement would inherently make an endorsement for the

other candidates in the field.

Gov. Christie, here, is acting as an individual: he is supporting Trump.”

Fung added that other people in this country also support Trump.

“I’m not going to try to limit a person’s First Amendment rights because I disagree with him on a fundamental level… I think it is a waste of time to take some sort of legal action against Christie,” he said.

Fung added that disapproval of Christie’s endorsement should be expressed should Christie run for reelection, and in the meantime the trustees should stay neutral.

Mubarak noted that Christie’s endorsement of the Trump campaign is thus an endorsement of Trump’s controversial ideologies.

“It’s not simply an endorsement; he’s really adding to the hostile environment that has led to many hate crimes,” she said.

His endorsement of Trump is not just a statement; it actively supports an increase in crimes, according to Mubarak.

“It’s also striking that, because Gov. Christie is on our board, there has been no statement regarding his endorsement of Trump,” Farah Amjad said.

She added that the concerning lack of comment from the University and the trustees was a motivation for them to circulate the letter and petition.

Robia Amjad added that Trump’s recent comment, “I think Islam hates us,” in an interview with CNN adds to a portrait of a danger dichotomy that separates Muslims from Americans.

“It’s not just about denouncing Christie’s endorsement, but [the trustees] haven’t affirmed a sense of belonging of not only Muslims but also other minorities that have been singled out by Trump,” Farah Amjad said.

Paul Draper ’18, president of Princeton University College Republicans, said that the MASJID petition is inappropriate, and that for the University to favor or condemn a presidential candidate would go against its neutrality as an educational institution.

“That would be an overly political move, and we as students should not be pressuring the University leadership to do so,” he added.

According to The Washington Post, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson also plans to endorse Trump.

University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan referred comment to Robert Durkee ’69, vice president and secretary of the University.

Durkee was unavailable for request for comment.

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has been fraught with economic inequality and unchecked injustice, she said.

The U.S. has entered a new period of black protest, black radicalization and the birth of a new black left, she said.

Taylor also expressed that black expectations have not been met during the Obama administration.

There were three key moments during the presidency in which Obama’s response disappointed many members of the Black electorate, particularly Black millennials, Taylor noted. These three key moments were the execution of Troy Davis, the killing of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman’s subsequent acquittal.

The #BlackLivesMatter movement has pulled previously marginalized issues, such as mass incarceration, into the forefront, and yet, Taylor argued, a lot of the focus has been superficial, narrowing the struggle down to changing police treatment of African-Americans.

“What is it about a society

that produces a racist, brutal police force that is trained on black communities?” Taylor asked. “Not only what does that say about that particular police force, but what does that say about our society in general?”

The discussion was planned as a conversation between Taylor and Glaude mediated by African American Studies professor Imani Perry.

At the beginning of the lecture, co-owner of Labyrinth Books Dorothea Von Moltke announced that Perry had decided late in the afternoon to withdraw from participating. According to Von Moltke, Perry was afraid that her participation might deflect attention away from her colleagues’ works, in light of controversy surrounding her arrest in early February.

Perry pled guilty to speeding and driving this past Monday at the Princeton Municipal Court.

The conversation, titled “Eddie Glaude, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Imani Perry in Conversation — Race and Democracy in the U.S.: Black Thought in the Hour of Chaos,” took place in Labyrinth Books at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday.

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terrible time at Princeton, and getting them to have a voice in the GSG,” he said.

Mehra noted that one of his goals as vice president is to increase representation at the assembly, and to encourage unrepresented departments to send representatives to meetings.

“We’ve made some really big strides in [housing] last year, in terms of starting to interface with the administration and really pushing this point that, ‘Look, we don’t have enough housing and this demand hasn’t been met,’” he said.

Mehra added that in the next few weeks, the GSG is planning on sending a housing survey to all graduate students in order to address this issue.

Another goal is to push for an on-campus base for graduate students, Mehra noted. He added that it is important for GSG to bring up issues to students and rely upon them to voice opinions.

“If there’s a problem, we can a) publicize it, but b) also respond in a manner that is in mind with how graduate students feel. That’s something I really want to work on this year,” Mehra said.

He said that Davidescu had run on a similar platform and also has had familiarity with the administration. Mehra said it came down to recognizing which role would allow him to be most helpful in the GSG. “We’re trying to ensure that each administration isn’t starting from scratch every single time, so the more people who stay on, the better,” he said.

Davidescu noted that Mehra is a very motivated individual who wants to continue to be involved with GSG at the highest levels, and given the results of the presidential election, the best alternative was for him to

become the vice president.

“I am very excited that he chose to stay on board and excited about the entire new [executive] board in general, many of whom are seasoned advocates for graduate students,” he said.

Hirschberger, a Ph.D. candidate in the Physics Department, said that he was thrilled to find that the graduate student body trusts him to be their treasurer.

He had won by a landslide, winning 72.5 percent of the graduate student votes.

“I have only recently started attending GSG meetings, but I think by now I know Mircea, the new president, and the others well enough to be able to say that I am very much looking forward to working with them,” he said.

Hirschberger noted he worked as a student representative during his undergraduate years at Technical University Munich and enjoyed his experience.

Being a treasurer entails supporting the GSG assembly and the president, as well as taking some administrative work off their backs in order to help the GSG focus more on policy, he said.

“But there is room for shaping grad student life as well. For example, we financially support social hours and grad student groups on campus, and the treasurer [together with University administrators] gets to make decisions on how our funds are allocated,” Hirschberger said.

One of the biggest issues that graduate students continue to face is housing, he noted.

“As you may know, the University provides housing for some, but not all, graduate students,” he said.

According to Hirschberger, in recent years the University has added new housing, like the Lakeside Apartments, but they have also torn down housing, like the Butler Apartments.

“We absolutely need to lobby to increase the percentage of

grad students receiving housing from the University,” he said.

O’Brien said that although he was running uncontested, he was elated to hear that he had been elected as the student events officer.

“The daunting responsibility was, undoubtedly, overwhelming, but the thrill of now being able to plan and hopefully successfully execute the already wildly successful GSG parties has left me very excited,” he said.

One of the moments of greatest exaltation for him was discovering that his opponent had dropped out, he said.

“It was like a sudden weight had lifted as I realized, barring a majority disapproval, I had essentially won,” he added.

O’Brien, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, said that anyone who knows him well, or has met him in passing from great distance, knows that he loves parties.

He loves not just attending parties but holding parties as well, and he has experience planning parties from his undergraduate years at Lafayette College, as well as in his personal life. The transition to GSG SEO was the obvious next step for him, he added.

“In addition, the position of GSG SEO has been held by the MAE department for the last two years, first by Mike Hepler and most recently by Liz Davison, so any inhibitions I had because of unfamiliarity with the Princeton GSG were immediately alleviated,” he said.

He added that graduate students should be prepared to do more at GSG special events than just having some drinks.

“My plans begin and end with graduate students socializing in new and profound ways, with alcohol there simply to facilitate interactions,” he said.

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Retain Professor Barry: A petition

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ear President Eisgruber, University President, Dean Prentice, Dean of the Faculty, Professor Zaman, Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies, We, the Students, Graduate and Undergraduate, and Alumni of Princeton University, are writing to express our profound concern in regards to the rumors of the dismissal of Dr. Michael Barry from his functions in the Department of Near Eastern Studies.

In the least, the possibility of this action takes us by surprise. As his students and advisees, we know Dr. Barry to be a rigorous scholar who espouses a unique, interdisciplinary methodology in his courses on Islamic history and his seminars devoted to medieval Persian literature.

Signed, Aamir Zainulabadeen ’18 Abrar Choudhury ’16 Advait Chauhan ’17 Alexander Michael ’17 Alexandra Lanzafame ’17 Alexis Martirosian ’05 Ali Akram Hayat ’16 Alice Catanzaro ’17 Alicia Li ’16 Allan Marube ’16 Allegra Wiprud ’14 Amina Igeh Andrew Hanna ’16 Andrew Morgan ’19 Andrew Watrous ’09 Andrew Zhou ’18 Aneesh Rai ’17 Ankit Panda ’12 Ankit Sarkar ’17 Anna Novogratz ’18 Anna Stillman ’18 Ariana Mirzada ’18 Ariel Hsing ’17 Aryaman Jalota ’18 Asavari Sinha ’16 Asmod Karki ’16 Augustin S. Wambersie ’18 Austin O’Baker ’17 Avaneesh Narla ’17 Azza Cohen ’16 Baxter Ingram ’18 Benjamin C. Rosales ’12 Benjamin Lawton ’18 Bertha Wang ’18 Blakeley Harrison Lange ’18 Brett N. Harner ’17 Brian Degen ’18 Brian Ho Brianna Katherine Martin ’13 Brittany Ptak ’17 Brooke Smilen ’19 Bryant Switzer ’17 Cale Salih ’10 Caleb Gum ’18 Cara Mattaliano ’17 Catherine Ambler ’06

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Dr. Barry’s work has impacted our learning in Princeton in meaningful and lasting ways. His lectures about Afghanistan have bridged cultural gaps amongst students of diverse origins and invited them to find common ground in their thought and everyday lives. Others have started learning Persian influenced by his lectures on Sufism. For some of us, he is an advisor who provides critical feedback on our independent research. For others, he is a mentor whose generosity with his time and dedication have far exceeded the capacity of his professional obligations.

We, therefore, would like to know if there is truth to this rumor; and if there is, we ask that the University take the students’ wishes and interests into account. We wish to know the motivations behind such a decision. We would like to know if it

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was made in a unilateral or collective manner, and how this reflects upon the University, which prides itself on honesty, transparency and the diversity of ideas. We want to know if it was financially motivated; and if so, while we acknowledge that financial concerns are real, we would also like to reiterate that the calculus of intellectual growth should transcend short-term economic savings. We are confident that the non-economic benefits of keeping Dr. Barry far outweigh the cost of Princetonians not having the opportunity to learn from him.

We believe that as a University with tremendous resources devoted to undergraduate learning, we should be able to find a way to have Dr. Barry remain in our community.

Dr. Barry’s courses are one of the few in Princeton where we grasp fully

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how politics, sociology, philosophy, international relations and history all come together to shape the world in which we live. Currently, Dr. Barry’s classes have 286 enrolled students, in addition to the 127 taught in the previous semester. This speaks in itself to how much we value learning with Dr. Barry. We can confidently say that the material he presents teaches us not only about Sufism, Islam, and Afghanistan, but further invites us to question our own cultural assumptions and to think critically. We believe that this is a practice a liberal arts education holds dear.

We are future policymakers, who will have the responsibility of shaping the course of this nation and nations around the world. We are members of various faiths who enjoy reading Sufi poetries, and spreading the message of tolerance in a world

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increasingly filled with skepticism and misunderstanding. We pride ourselves on being an integral part of the University, alongside our tremendous faculty and staff, and want Dr. Barry to impart his wisdom, knowledge, and experience to as many generations of Princeton students as possible.

We wish to respectfully note that this letter is an entirely student-initiated endeavor, and that Dr. Barry played no role in its creation. Despite the expanding rumors of his dismissal, Dr. Barry’s high level of instruction has not lapsed or waned in the slightest.

We, the undersigned students, believe as a community that we owe it to ourselves to find a way to have Dr. Barry with us, not just for the next year, but for years to come.

Thank you for your attention.

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Paths through Princeton

y senior year of college has been filled with countless “what ifs.” As my time on this campus began to dwindle, I increasingly worried about everything I had accidentally forgone. Reminiscing with friends about the classes we’ve enjoyed, people whose paths we have crossed and our Princeton experiences as a whole — it becomes difficult not to question our decision-making these past three and a half years. It’s easy to wonder what I could have done differently, or, really, better.

What if I had majored in comparative literature after falling in love with that “Don Quixote” course?

What if I had pursued that summer opportunity in Washington, D.C.?

What if I had taken the time to get dinner with an acquaintance that I imagined could be something more?

I do not think there’s anything inherently wrong in reflecting and judging the choices that have shaped our paths. This is often a necessary, almost cathartic thing many people do. Still, the way I was scrutinizing my past was beginning to affect my present. I had suddenly become terrified that all the choices I’d been making were thoughtlessly misinformed. Worse, this fear was making me less confident in my ability to make choices concerning my life after Princeton.

At these thoughts, I remembered a passage from “The Bell Jar” in which

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Sylvia Plath’s semi-autobiographical character is facing a fig tree representative of her life. Each branch and its respective figs represented a different course her life could take.

They were all meaningful, all paths worthy of walking, but she struggled to take one because it meant losing all the others. Her inability to choose resulted in the loss of them all.

I became overwhelmed and decided to take a step back from everything.

I considered where I had been and all the places I could go. I allowed myself to look at my life, free from all the selfdoubt that had hit me so swiftly, free from those preconceived notions of what a Princeton post-graduate should look like.

My life before Princeton, like most, was mostly linear. I made the conscious decision to succeed, and there was a very clear picture of what that meant. My time at Princeton has been less so. There are friendships I decided to foster, concentrations and courses I decided to take, entirely new countries where I decided to live. Still, in the midst of all this, there were still well-traveled routes that I knew I could trust.

Finally, I looked at where my life could go after Princeton. I didn’t see a fig tree, but a wild mass of loops and twists. I could choose to travel

one, but it didn’t imply a direct path to a definitive end. It meant crossing paths with other curves. It revealed the possibility of being flung onto another path. It implied that having an ultimate goal in mind — even a superficially definitive one — did not guarantee it would remain.

I was both terrified and comforted.

Making decisions largely defines how we live, but there are also turns that are out of our control. Further, there is a very small likelihood that a single decision we make will determine everything to come.

Life is not one simple decision after the other, but a culmination of all our choices under a cloud of chaos. There is no right turn that leads straight to the career I am destined to have. There is not a bend in the road that I must follow to find my soul mate. There are few choices that are so simple and direct. More importantly, there is no specific office I must work in to find fulfillment or a single person I must meet to find my happiness, not counting myself.

More often than not, there is no right or wrong way to live — just different ways of life. Princeton has been proof. From where I am standing, Pablo Neruda-reading, tennis-playing Lea would have been happy. But I am also happy where I am standing.

Lea Trusty is a politics major from Saint Rose, La. She can be reached at ltrusty@ princeton.edu.

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at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track and Field Championships last weekend. Many members contributed to the win with standout performances, including sophomore Garrett O’Toole in the mile, senior Greg Caldwell in the 60-meter hurdles, junior Chris and sophomore Mitchel Charles in shot put, junior Ray Mennin in the 400 and freshman Charles Volker in the 60m dash.

Senior Luke Brahm shortly followed in second place in the 1,000m after sophomore Noah Kauppila came in first. Senior Jake Scinto also contributed significantly in the heptathlon, junior Xavier Bledsoe won the high jump with a personal record and sophomore Carrington Akosa earned the first place title in the 200m. Akosa was also named the Most Outstanding Track Per-

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Akosa acknowledges both the team’s excellent performance both last weekend and throughout the indoor season. “I won the 200m, and I felt really happy because it was my second time winning it. It was also at Cornell, so we had to beat Cornell, so it was all pretty good, so we’re just training for outdoor now,” he said. Akosa also expressed the team’s goals for the upcoming season. “We have great people on the track team, and we’re looking to do damage outdoors and hopefully go to nationals, especially since the end of the season was the best ever in history,” he noted.

Based on both their success on the track this indoor season and the unanimous naming of Fred Samara as the Ivy League Indoor Track and Field Men’s Head Coach of the Year, the Tigers indeed will prove to be a threat as they move to the outdoor track.

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lenge with four straight buckets.

The two teams would then once again reach a standstill with Penn keeping its distance as the clock began to run down. However, the Tigers were not ready for their season to end yet. With just under six minutes left on the clock, the Orange and Black would fire up the home crowd with an 11-4 run. The shift in momentum would also help the Princeton squad take a crucial lead late in the game, 56-55.

The Quakers remained calm and collected, however, firing back to fight off the Princeton run. In clutch time senior guard Michelle Miller managed to

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grab an offensive rebound and score another two points, bringing the game within one possession. But, after a Tiger foul and two more free throws, the game slipped out of reach. Penn or Princeton have now won the last seven Ivy titles, with the Quakers picking up their second crown this year.

While it was not the ending they were hoping for, the Tigers still have plenty to be proud of as they ref lect back on the season. Fans of Princeton basketball will be hoping on Monday that their team makes it into the postseason. Indeed, if their current season has been any indication, the Princeton squad still have plenty left to show.

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Women’s basketball drops tight game to Ivy League rival Penn

By David Xin associate sports editor

In what can only be described as heartbreaking, the women’s basketball team saw their 12-game winning-streak come to an end at the hands of Ivy League rival, Penn. In a 6260 win, the Quakers handed the Tigers their first loss at home in 25 games and clinched a spot in the NCAA tournament. Princeton will have to wait until Monday’s NCAA Selection Show for news of their postseason.

The Quakers would throw the first punch in the heated match-up. With nine straight points, Penn surged ahead of Princeton for an early lead, 14-8. The Tigers, however, would

claw their way back, showing the grit and determination behind 12 consecutive wins. The Princeton squad managed to take a short-lived 20-19 lead in the second quarter, but Penn quickly retook the lead on its next possession, and the two teams matched basket for basket.

The second half of the game saw larger swings as both Penn and Princeton took control of the game from period to period.

Again, it was the Quakers who struck first. Heading into the third quarter with a six-point lead, the Penn squad found their rhythm and extended the lead to its largest of the night, 3728. Soon after, the Tigers would respond to the chalSee W. BBALL page 5

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Track competes at ECAC championships

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Track wrapped up the indoor season at the ECAC championships.

With the exception of senior Cecilia Barowski, who will be competing at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Alabama this weekend, women’s track and field concluded their indoor season with a fourth place title at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships in Boston last Sunday, earned by the all-freshman relay team of Alie Fordyce, Brighid Leach, Jackie Berardo and Anna Jurew.

With a qualification time of 2:03.24 at the Princeton Invitational on Feb. 21, Barowski will race in the 800m race on Fri-

day, March 11 at the Birmingham CrossPlex at Samford University. This will be her first time competing at the NCAA Indoor Championships, though she competed in the NCAA Outdoor Championships in 2015.

This is also the first appearance for Princeton in this event.

Her teammates are proud of her accomplishment. “We are extremely excited to see how she does!” senior Taylor Morgan exclaimed.

Morgan is impressed with her team’s accomplishments this past indoor season and how they’ve prepared them for their upcoming outdoor season.

“Many of my teammates and I had a lot of personal success this past indoor, which I was

very pleased to see. As a team I think we have some solid base going into the outdoor season and outdoor Heps, which at this point is two months away,” she explained.

Morgan is looking to the spring season for both personal and collective of improvement.

“I hope both to continue improving personally as well as for my teammates to continue improving themselves,” Morgan said, “The idea is to raise up the standard of practice and competition in order to make each other the best athletes we can be.”

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Women’s water polo to face busy weekend at San Diego Invitational

By Alan Balson contributor

After a hugely successful visit to Harvard last week, the Princeton women’s water polo team (9-1 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) heads to the San Diego Invitational this weekend to face San Diego State, the University of California at San Diego and Chapman University.

This past weekend, the Tigers convincingly swept Iona College, Marist College and rivals Harvard in Cambridge despite dealing with injuries to several key contributors. Sophomore 2-meter Chelsea Johnson scored seven goals over the games to take home Collegiate Water Polo Association player of the week honors, and freshman utility Lindsey Kelleher scored eight to earn CWPA rookie of the week.

The emergence of these two has been one of the inspiring stories of the season so far and has helped keep Princeton from missing a beat despite all the

offensive firepower from last year’s team they lost to graduation.

The Tigers’ first opponent on Saturday, No. 20 San Diego State University (6-9), has struggled this season while playing a very tough schedule. However, with one-goal losses to No. 11 UC Santa Barbara and No. 2 UCLA, San Diego State’s record belies the strength of their team. Last season, Princeton prevailed over the Aztecs 6-4 in a tight, lowscoring matchup. The Tigers have not been in that type of contest so far this season, scoring more than 10 goals in all but one of their games, failing to reach that mark only in their sole loss to Bucknell University.

Therefore, Princeton will hope to find more success on offense in this contest, avoiding having to grind out a win in the way they did last year.

On Sunday afternoon, Princeton faces the No. 11 University of California, San Diego (13-6), their toughest opponent yet.

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Five of the Tritons’ six losses so far have come to opposition ranked in the top 10 nationally, and they have yet to lose to anyone ranked as low as the Tigers.

If Princeton is to pull the upset, they will need to slow down attacker Laurel Kistler, who leads the team with 44 points on the season. Sophomore utility Haley Wan, this year’s leading scorer for the Tigers, had a huge game with three goals and two assists in last year’s 10-9 win against San Diego and will be looking to repeat her performance on Sunday.

Princeton closes out the weekend facing unranked Chapman (3-7) in what should be its easiest matchup of the invitational.

Chapman lost earlier in the season to both California Baptist University and Villanova University, two teams Princeton defeated, and has yet to beat a ranked team. The Tigers will be unfamiliar with the team, as they didn’t face Chapman last year, but nevertheless should be able to overcome the Panthers.

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The women’s water polo team will take on top teams at San Diego.

Stat of the Day

8 goals This past weekend, freshman utility Lindsey Kelleher scored eight goals in water polo to earn CWPA rookie of the week honors.

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