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Panel discusses Woodrow Wilson’s legacy on race

By Annie Yang news editor

Former University and United States president Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, is often noted for his domestic and international achievements, but was a divisive figure, Cecilia Rouse, dean of the Wilson School, said in a panel on Friday.

“He alienated many while denying the others the fullness of their humanity on racial grounds,” she said.

Under his watch, the University remained a bastion of white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism, and on a national level, segregated the Federal Civil Service, which closed a pathway for the advancement for AfricanAmericans, she added.

Panelist Chad Williams GS ’04, associate professor and chair of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University, said there is a bigger conversation to be had about how we think about history and the place of black people in this country’s history.

He said that as a student, he understood the dissonance that

had animated the BJL protest: the feeling of being “at” Princeton, but not “of” Princeton.

“Having this conversation is very important. It’s essential and speaks much more to Woodrow Wilson,” he said.

The understanding of Woodrow Wilson, one that is held by many historians, presents an ideal of democracy and of potential that is truly beautiful, he said. At the same time, this understanding is truly terrible, he noted.

“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it,” Williams said, quoting James Baldwin.

The behaviors of Wilson as president and commanderin-chief, in terms of AfricanAmerican rights, was egregious, he said.

“When we think of the role of the presidency, and of Woodrow Wilson specifically, it’s not about judging him by 2016 standards, but as a president,” he said.

His management styles as president were also deeply problematic, he said.

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STUDENT LIFE

Third annual TruckFest to feature 15 food trucks

By Catherine Wang contributor

The third annual TruckFest, hosted by the Community Service Inter-Club Council, in conjunction with the Pace Council for Civic Values, will host 15 food trucks and will donate a majority of its proceeds to two local charities, Meals on Wheels and Send Hunger Packing, according to CS-ICC press chair Jennifer Peng ’17.

TruckFest will take place on Prospect Street from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 16.

The CS-ICC consists of all of the community service representatives from each of the eleven eating clubs, according to Cason Crane ’17, a co-chair of the CS-ICC. The committee was created last year to specifically coordinate and execute community service initiatives,

such as TruckFest and Trick or Feet 5k/10k Run, Crane added.

The three co-chairs, Crane, Jennifer Liu ’16 and Rachel Margulies ’16, have split the responsibilities of organizing TruckFest, which is the largest event of the year for the CSICC, according to Crane. Planning for TruckFest started in October, with Crane in charge of sponsorship, Liu in charge of communications and publicity and Margulies in charge of the food trucks.

Margulies said she and six other members of the truck food committee have emailed over 150 trucks since October, including ones as far away as Washington D.C. Margulies noted that during the selection process for trucks, the committee gives preference to those located closer to Princeton.

“We try and start our search from Princeton outwards, so if we

know that one is based in Princeton or is opening a store in Princeton in the near future, we prefer them over another one, because those trucks are more inclined to support the area,” she said.

Margulies said that the committee had fifteen trucks by last Friday that agreed to participate.

Barring any potential last-minute changes, Margulies says there should be four or five dessert trucks and ten or eleven savory trucks. A large variety of food will be available for tasting, including Korean fusion, tacos, scrambled egg sandwiches, Italian ice, burger sliders, waffles and ice cream, crepes, New Orleans food and barbecue.

Students can buy food at TruckFest by purchasing tickets as they enter, according to Margulies.

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STUDENT LIFE

USG discusses bathroom code change, upcoming elections and referenda senior writer

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A farmer, ecologist and journalist, Yandik seeks to serve his community.

Will Yandik ’00: A grassroots man

By Abhiram Karuppur staff writer

If elected to Congress this fall, William Yandik ’00 may be one of the only farmers to serve in the House of Representatives.

Yandik is currently running as a Democratic candidate in New York’s 19th Congressional District. The district includes the lower Hudson Valley and the Catskills region, and includes the towns of Woodstock, Kinderhook and Livingston.

Yandik said that throughout his career, he has always returned to his home town instead of taking up a lucrative job elsewhere because of his love for his community. He added that he recognizes the challenges that upstate New York faces and

wants to help address these issues in Congress.

“Upstate New York exports young people and the economy has been a challenge,” Yandik said. “But I’ve got skin in this game, since this is where my family has been for four generations.”

Mark Cornwall ’00, who was Yandik’s roommate junior and senior years, said that Yandik has always been a passionate advocate for the communities that he cares about and highlighted Yandik’s farmer’s pragmatism and strong expertise in environmental issues.

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The Undergraduate Student Government Senate discussed bathroom codes and the upcoming USG elections during its weekly meeting on Apr. 10.

Jenny Zhang ’18, University Student Life Committee chair, said that dormitory bathroom locks will be keypad SALTO locks rather than regular SALTO locks, as was announced in the Feb. 28 meeting. Zhang explained that these are programmed to grant access via a PUID card or PIN code.

“This directly addresses the guest issue. You don’t have to be with them 24/7, you can just give them a PIN … if you’re a student, you can use your prox,” Zhang said.

The PINs will be hallway-specific, Zhang added.

In a previous survey, a higher proportion of female students had voted for some sort of bathroom protection and only about 10 percent of the male student population had also preferred a bathroom code, said Zhang.

Aleksandra Czulak ’17, USG president, added that students and parents alike are concerned when they believe that safety is at stake, as was seen when the GirlCode iPhone application was available last year.

When asked whether students had expressed a concern specifically

about male students or male outsiders entering bathrooms, Zhang said that the bathroom code survey that was released by USG had not included a question about what was considered a security concern among female students who had wanted to keep bathroom locks.

“I don’t feel comfortable voting right now,” Class of 2017 senator Cailin Hong ’17 said. “I think the survey has not given a clear picture.”

Deliberations about the keypad SALTO locks are still ongoing, said Czulak.

Lavinia Liang ’18, U-Councilor, said that there was more than an insignificant minority of students had wanted bathroom security.

“I don’t think this is a case in which the status quo can be maintained,” she said.

The resolution did not pass at this meeting, but the discussion will continue, according to Czulak and Jeremy Burton ’18, USG vice president.

Sung Won Chang ’18, chief elections manager, said that USG held open houses for candidates interested in running for a position in the upcoming elections last week. These positions included U-Councilor and class council positions.

Czulak had announced the elections in a school-wide email last Sunday.

“Some red flags were that the people running [for the elected posi-

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4:30 p.m.: General Ann E. Dunwoody, the first woman in military history to become a four-star general, will give a lecture. Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.

tions] are mostly class government officers,” Chang noted.

He said he expects many of the elections to be uncontested. Chang added that only a handful of people are running for U-Councilor and that there might not be an election held for those positions if no more people apply.

Czulak noted that USG members always try to reach out to student groups to encourage people to run.

“That’s something we should institutionalize for every election,” Czulak said, regarding outreach for elections.

Chang said the main problem is that there is a perceived law of incumbency.

“I think that problem is bigger for the spring elections,” he added.

According to Chang, this is the first time in USG election history that the USG elections and referenda voting will take place at the same time.

Both referenda, one about divestment from private prisons and another calling for a review of disciplinary measures against academic integrity violations, met the 10% of student body requirement as more than 526 students signed respective petitions, Chang explained. However, he noted that each referendum must have an opposition party.

Chang said that only one student has preliminarily expressed opposition to the second referendum so far.

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“How do we reckon with the history of the time period, the Wilson era, which is one of the most devastating in this country’s history when it comes to African American rights — the nadir?” He asked.

This history of systematic exclusion and segregation is still present, he said. While these discussions provide greater insight, it is also important to ask whether or not this is enough, Williams added.

Eric Yellin GS ’07, an associate professor of history and American studies at the University of Richmond, said that Woodrow Wilson’s segregation of the federal government was mentioned in one line in his textbook.

“What did it mean in the lives of the people who were segregated? What did it mean to have a color line drawn across your career, your city, your workplace?” he asked.

He said that we often think about this as a problem of spatial arrangement, that Wilson was an ordinary racist.

“We build buildings to Presidents and famous leaders,” Yellin said.

What Wilson did was attack African-Americans by ending careers and making workplaces inhospitable, Yellin added.

African-Americans were not allowed to achieve, to obtain positions in high offices as a result, he said.

“Wilson claimed to be a progressive — he ran in 1912 and said he had the best of hopes for everyone, including African-Americans — so he had to justify this administration’s actions, and that’s where I think we get a bigger problem,” he said.

The problem is that this was considered progressive and in the best interests of all Americans, to separate out AfricanAmericans because they are a problem, he said. Yellin added that this bureaucratic justification has been seen in history time and time again.

“The question of whether this could ever happen, and happen with a successful outcome, Wilson puts on the table, and it requires an erasure of 30 years of African-Americans serving the nation at all levels of the federal government,” he said.

In 1912, there were 400 middle class, white-collar AfricanAmerican men and women working in the federal government with white people working under them.

“To get up and claim that there was friction, when there was no extent record of white people in any broad record objecting to this position, involves writing black people out of the progressive vision,” he said.

Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Rutgers University, said Africans-Americans in that era had to contend with a nation that had erased their legacy of emancipation, which Wilson perpetuated.

“When we talk about reckoning, what does this really look like? This is the long tradition of protest that have continued across American campuses,” she said.

She added that this protest tradition is important in how we think about Wilson. During Wilson’s presidency, many African-Americans supported Wilson and were severely disappointed by his administration.

“Why do we care about this particular name? One is because we link this to the very real realities for American Americans on the ground,” Lawrence-Sanders said.

She said that the protests that occurred across college campuses aren’t just about the name itself, but about what’s happening to the individual students and what they see as wrong. Lawrence-Sanders added that historically, AfricanAmericans have never really been given a voice in decisions.

“We don’t see the equal attention paid to the African-American or Native-American history that we do see now,” she said.

In the naming of the Woodrow Wilson School building in 1935, African- American students and faculty were never involved in the deliberations.

“What are we going to do with this commemorative landscape?” Lawrence-Sanders asked.

A. Scott Berg ’71, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Wilson and a member of the Trustee Committee on Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy, said he would speak on behalf of the era that Woodrow Wilson had lived in.

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on this campus and at home, and reading 650 statements on Woodrow Wilson, hearing lots of people testify about Woodrow Wilson before us, and I was often alarmed to hear this misinformation,” he said.

He added that even in the New York Times, the way that Woodrow Wilson has been discussed is often misleading and over-extrapolates.

“I’ve heard that Woodrow Wilson was a great misogynist,” he said.

Unlike Wilson’s portrayal in the New York Times as a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan, Berg said he believes that this is an incorrect characterization.

“I don’t think he was a hater, that he is a bigot; yes, he was a racist,” he said.

Wilson’s first contact with an African-American student was through a letter, Berg said.

“This campus existed for 160 years before it had to deal with an African American,” he said.

Wilson had advised the student not to come to the campus because he understood that it would be difficult for to student to integrate himself into the heavily Southern, racist environment, Berg noted.

“As a result of that, this has been blown up into ‘Wilson has barred blacks from attending Princeton,’” he added.

There are two points left out in the argument about what Wilson did, he said. He hid behind his Postmaster and his Attorney General, who were Southern bigots, Berg said.

When Woodrow Wilson was president-elect, a steady flow of Southerns had approached him, telling him that his progressive agenda was never going to pass if the integration of his government continued, he added.

“Woodrow Wilson was genuinely a centrist in his day,” he said.

Berg said many members of the Congress and House of Representatives at the time were proud members of the Ku Klux Klan, and the law of the land was Plessy v. Ferguson. Congressmen had asked Wilson to fire all of the black members of the civil service, but Wilson did not, he added.

“During his presidency, Wilson kept the race conversation going,” he said.

Berg said that the appointment of Louis Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court was extremely controversial. In another instance, as University president, Wilson wanted to appoint an individual who was Unitarian, but the Board of Trustees adamantly disagreed, he said.

Berg said he believed that Wilson tried to ignore the “race problem,” as it wasn’t on his agenda.

“If you look at the Democratic platform on which he ran on in 1912, you will see not a word about Civil Rights,” he said.

This was a recurring theme throughout history, as even the supposedly progressive and socialist Eugene Debs told demeaning “darky” jokes of the time.

At the same time, Berg said that Wilson should have opened up racial divides after World War I, in which many African-Americans had given

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“He did nothing,” he said.

Yellin argued that Washington, DC wasn’t segregated because it was controlled by Congress, and there were enough Northerners who had rejected the idea that the nations capitol should be segregated. However, there seemed to be an ulterior motive, as the Northerners realized that firing all black civil service workers would mean that there is no one to take the menial jobs, he said.

“Segregation is how do you make people feel less, and available for work,” he said.

Williams added that it took African-Americans to drive the race conversation and forcing Wilson to have meetings in the White House. This fact is critical to how we assess Wilson’s legacy, he added.

“In what way do we include and exclude African-Americans in this discussion?” He asked.

Williams questioned why Wilson would appoint a Jewish individual but neglect to include African-Americans.

“We see how the race question, as it was termed at the time, was something that African Americans were deeply engaged in, but moving beyond seeing themselves as a problem,” he said.

Although Wilson was not a member of the Ku Klux Klan, he is still considered a white supremacist, Williams said.

Wilson had a vision of a nation where African-Americans were not seen as full citizens, and to a degree, as people. During that time, African-Americans were subject to violence inflicted on them, including babies thrown into burning buildings and lynchings, but Wilson made no response, he said.

“How would Wilson have responded if it had been another group of people?” he asked.

Williams noted that Woodrow Wilson’s failures to address concerns, and neglect of racial terror and race riots across the country, were galvanizing for African Americans.

“Maybe we should be thanking Woodrow Wilson for creating the modern Civil Rights Movement,” he said.

Lawrence-Sanders noted that Wilson often looked at AfricanAmericans in a paternalistic way by assuming that they were not capable of keeping up with the academic rigors at Princeton.

“This all goes back to this idea of not seeing AfricanAmericans as full citizens, and actually not as his constituents,” she said, adding that Wilson assumed that AfricanAmericans were not prepared to be full voters and political leaders in the country, and certainly not full citizens.

“Wilson wasn’t a Vardaman, he wasn’t this virulent caricature of a racist, so we want to try and excuse him from the real damage that his policies and legacy did,” she said.

The panel, entitled “Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy on Race,” took place at 4:30 p.m. on Friday in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. The event was followed by a Q&A and reception in the Bernstein Gallery. The panel was co-sponsored with the Seely G. Mudd Manuscript Library.

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a fair, each item of the food truck menus will cost a certain number of tickets, she added. Prices are determined individually by truck vendors.

The event is one of the largest to take place on the University’s campus, Crane noted. According to him, TruckFest has had between four and five thousand attendees for each of the past two years, whereas Lawnparties typically has three thousand attendees.

One of the major initiatives this year is to make it very clear to all participants that the event is a fundraiser for charity. To emphasize this, the CS-ICC changed the slogan to “good food, good cause,” according to Margulies.

“We’ve raised a total of $40,000 in the first year and $45,000 last year. $20,000 and $25,000, respec-

tively, have gone to charity. This year, we’re hoping to raise $50,000 and send $30,000 to charity,” said Crane.

Although food trucks participating in TruckFest will be paid, this event is still a fundraiser for charity, according to Margulies.

“The trucks are actually doing this event at a loss; they will lose money by coming to this event, which means they really care about this cause. For them to come to an event like this, they would otherwise earn two or three thousand dollars, and we’re only paying them $750,” said Margulies.

As a result, the CS-ICC is working to make this event valuable to the food trucks in other ways, she added. The Council has really pushed the event on social media, featuring participating food trucks daily on the official Facebook page. University’s chapter of Spoon University, an online food

magazine for college students, has even volunteered to give each truck a focus article, according to Margulies.

Margulies also explained that there’s a possibility for a future partnership between residential college dining halls and the top three most popular trucks. If a contract is realized, the dining halls will import food items from the truck vendors periodically.

If residential colleges do form a contract, then the event would be even more profitable for the participating food trucks, Margulies added.

“That means that they will host the food truck at a study break for their students, so we’re really grateful that the resident colleges are supporting the event so much,” Liu said.

TruckFest is sponsored by the Princeton Prospect Foundation, a 501(c)(3) that works with the eating clubs, the University, and others.

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or angry, and he gets along well with people of all different backgrounds.”

Yandik said that the Univer-

sity’s motto, which emphasizes serving the nation, also applies to serving the local community. Yandik explained that he

has always used his education to serve his local community and that the next step was to serve in Congress in order to benefit his community.

William Howarth, professor emeritus of English, said that Yandik is generous and thoughtful and embraces difficult problems.

“He is exactly the kind of person who should be in government,” Howarth said. “He will represent all of his constituents fairly and he understands everyday problems.”

Yandik attended Hudson High School in Hudson, N.Y., and graduated as the valedictorian in 1996. In high school, he was interested in American history and politics and enjoyed birding. When he visited the University, he was impressed with the campus and the unique precept system.

“I liked how the campus was divorced from larger cities,” Yandik said. “It was a true collegiate experience, as it was possible to interact with students on a social and intellectual level.”

Yandik was joined the University in the fall of 1996. Coming from a rural high school, he was impressed by the intellectual level of his peers.

“It was really quite refreshing to study with so many talented and motivated young people,” he said.

Brian White ’00, who was Yandik’s roommate during his freshman year, said that Yandik had a great sense of humor and was well-grounded. White noted that his farming background was unique.

“He was very much in touch with his roots in upstate New York,” White said. “He really took advantage of all the opportunities at Princeton to reflect on where he came from and where that place was going.

While on campus, Yandik became involved with the WhigCliosophic Society and the Princeton Model Congress. He also served as a campus tour guide with Orange Key. Helen Marrow ’00 noted that Yandik has always embraced people of all socioeconomic and political backgrounds on campus and was able to connect with everyone with his humor.

Marrow added that he adored political history and would incorporate this interest in the University’s famous individuals into his tours.

“Will loved to connect, even at that time, with people who were

his elders,” Marrow said. “He would dress up like Woodrow Wilson and use a walking cane to give these really ornate tours.”

After taking Professor John McPhee ’53’s class, “The Literature of Fact,” Yandik became interested in journalism. Since the University does not offer a journalism major, he decided to major in English. Yandik’s senior thesis was untraditional in its focus on an environmental issue. He explained that near his home, General Electric had polluted the Hudson River with polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) in the 1960s, and he was interested in how GE and the environmental groups were using the English language to convince the public whether action should be taken to clean the river.

“At the time, General Electric and various environmental groups were using public relations and the spoken and written word to advocate for and against the cleanup of the Hudson River,” Yandik said.

Howarth, who advised Yandik’s senior thesis, explained that Yandik focused on the cultural, economic and scientific aspects of topic, and during meetings they would discuss ways to describe or explain themes and characters.

“In my fifty years at Princeton, I’ve taught thousands of bright young people, but Will was a rare student, born for a life of learning and public service,” Howarth said.

Yandik graduated from the University in 2000, and subsequently joined the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) as a freelance writer, while also working part-time on his family farm in Hudson, N.Y. After his work with the NTHP, Yandik wrote freelance pieces for the Wall Street Journal and other smaller environmental publications. He began writing a book on the Hudson River, which was ultimately not published. Currently, he serves as the regional state news reporter for AARP, covering issues related to senior citizens living in New York.

Yandik explained that while he was writing pieces related to the environment, he started to become more interested about the science behind ecology and the environment. To further pursue his interest in the science, he became a field ecologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. As a field ecologist, Yandik measured the concentration of PCB in the Hudson River and documented its effect on the local wildlife.

He had met a group from Wisconsin working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and through them, decided to work at the Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center in La Crosse, Wis. While he was in Wisconsin, Yandik took classes at the University of Wisconsin, and earned a second undergraduate degree in biology. He was fascinated with not only the science itself, but also the means of communicating the science to the general public.

“I became hooked with the interplay between the hard science and communicating the hard science using some of the skills I had used as a journalist,” Yandik said.

He decided to pursue a graduate degree and attended Brown University’s Center for Environmental Science, where he received a master’s degree in environmental studies. Yandik then won a two-year Switzer Fellowship, funded by the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation’s Science Links Program, where he received funding to study and co-author a public policy guide called Carbon and Communities. The report detailed how small and medium-sized towns in the Northeast could reduce their impact on the environment by analyzing current models of carbon levels.

“The report enabled local governments to have a quick and easy understanding of their local carbon budget and what they could do to reduce their carbon budget,” Yandik said.

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helping tend to and harvest the crops. He explained that the farm is very important to him and that thanks to local technological development, he was able to pursue his freelance journalism interests while working on the farm at the same time.

“The story of my career really started when we got high speed internet in my rural community,” he said. “I no longer had to choose between a professional career in the city and the farm in a community that I loved.”

In 2009, after finishing his fellowship, Yandik returned to the farm full-time. He explained that the farm produces fruits and vegetables from July to November, and that the farm has been in his family since 1915. He continues to author freelance pieces and does some consulting on environmental issues. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia-Greene Community College, where he teaches the introductory biology courses and human biology. Yandik explained that he enjoys teaching in the community college, because there are students of all ages, education levels and backgrounds.

“As an instructor, it’s so gratifying to go through four or five months and see the improvement that’s possible in a community college setting,” he said.

Yandik’s first foray into elected office was in 2011, when he decided to run as a Democrat for the Livingston, N.Y., Town Council. He explained that he was motivated to run after observing the lack of competitive races, since the town was predominantly Republican.

“There were no Democrats willing to run,” Yandik said. “It just irked my sense of civics that there was no choice at the ballot.”

Yandik noted that unlike in other states, New York’s municipalities have more say over the course the community takes.

Because of the importance of the council’s function, he decided to run for the Town Council, and became the third Democrat ever elected since the town was incorporated. He explained that throughout the election, and his time on the council, he learned how to work with non-Democrats to pass bipartisan solutions to problems.

Yandik noted that this skill is extremely important in the current Congressional race, since New York’s 19th District is a swing district and candidates must appeal to people from both sides of the aisle in order to win.

“I learned how to appeal to a very broad electorate even in a small town of 3,600 people,” he said. “I learned how to build personal relationships with my fellow council members and still managed to get what I call progressive wins.”

Yandik explained that while on the council, he helped pass a ban on fracking within Livingston and made it easier to install solar panels. He also authored legislation to support the local historic resources and researched and wrote grants to obtain more funding. One of his most notable accomplishments was in blocking the construction of a transmission line that would have run through the district.

He was able to pass this legislation by earning his colleagues’ trust and understanding their individual motivations for serving on the council. For example, he was able to earn support for his environmental proposals by connecting the agricultural backgrounds of the other council members with his own environmental background.

“Through this groundwork, we could start to talk about policy and talk about the common ground we shared in these policies,” Yandik said.

Yandik said that his core policy platform includes expanding broadband access in his district and explained that, without it, he and others in the district would have been unable to sustain a career and remain in the community. He also highlighted his proposal to redirect federal funds for home and communitybased services for the elderly, a

The Daily Princetonian large segment of the district’s population. He wants to help promote tourism to the Catskill region, and wants the farmers of the district to have better access to the nation’s largest domestic food market, New York City.

“We have good land and good water here,” Yandik said. “What we don’t have is more federal investment in developing the packaging and distribution facilities to get that produce to New York City markets, where it can fetch a good price.”

Yandik also added that many of his policies appeal to people on both sides of the aisle, such as improving local infrastructure and transmission facilities.

He plans to build more personal relationships with members of Congress and his constituents in order to implement his policies.

Yandik noted that he is better suited to represent the 19th District than his current primary opponent, Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University, Zephyr Teachout, who recently moved into the district. He noted that according to current data, he has a better likelihood of winning in November and has the ability to win the voters in the district who have no party affiliation.

Yandik said he loves his district because it’s a beautiful place to get outside. In his spare time, Yandik spends time hunting and fishing and maintaining the family farm.

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A modest proposition for prefrosh*

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Luke Gamble contributor

*This piece is satirical.

I

t’s always puzzled me why commencement speeches are given at graduation. How can a speech literally called “the beginning” be given at the end of our time at college? After this threecentury-long oversight was brought to the attention of President Eisgruber ’83, he did what he always does: he sent a long and unclear email revealing nothing, but assuring us that some people met, feelings were discussed and at the end they sang kumbaya, and though nothing has changed, we all feel better.

But seriously, the establishment has met for extensive discussion, time and time again, and this column sums up some of the most pressing advice for young Tigers visiting during Preview.

During frosh week, make sure to sign up for everything you can. If you don’t show interest after the first week, you probably will never receive a listserv email notifying you of such valuable opportunities to fill so much of your free time. If you don’t start writing immediately for “Business Today” and rise in the ranks of the Entrepreneur Club, despite your best efforts, you’ll never be able to convince an interviewer of your deep and sincere interest in IPOs, PEEs and POOs. You’ll have plenty of time for fun, so make sure to use your freshman year padding your résumé with even more activities that make you die on the inside.

After all, you spent your whole life trying to get here, why stop to enjoy this moment when you can start making plans for what comes next?

As far as classes go, if you have an A- in a class after midterms, definitely drop it.

You’ve never gotten a B in your life, and it’s definitely not worth the risk. Also, never

sign up for a creative writing or art class.

The professors know nothing and will just preach on and on about the soul and such useless matter. Make sure to go to lecture.

It won’t help you learn anything, but it’ll make your grades much better. Stay away from the professors though. They are always on the hunt to affirm you in your beliefs and undermine your confidence in your ability to tread water here.

Additionally, make sure to not miss out on the experience of copying a few lines of someone’s code in COS 126. The Computer Science department is not very strict about plagiarism rules, and it’s amazing what a few lines of code can do in accelerating your progress towards graduation.

Always remember, you didn’t come here to learn serve this or any nation. We finally got rid of that concept when we removed the demagogue’s name from the school of International Relations and Public Policy.

Sign up for the laundry service. It’s super convenient and nothing ever gets lost.

Not including the two or three hours of schoolwork you do everyday, your social life will define your time at Princeton.

Sadly, the “Princeton network” really only amounts to the six or seven close friends you maintain in between three classes (remember you dropped Microeconomics because you got an A- on the midterm), your “Business Today” articles, your attempts to change the world by putting up fliers for a speaker who’s actually changing the world and your four daily hours of Netflix. If you don’t finish all of “Game of Thrones” by the end of freshman fall, you aren’t trying hard enough.

If you are struggling, not sleeping as much as you did during the summer, are stressed out or have in any way felt “triggered,” you are definitely not

experiencing some sort of mental illness.

It’s not Princeton, it’s you. If this happens, be sure to not tell anyone. Definitely don’t go to your RCA, Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS), McCosh, Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE) or a peer health advisor. Instead, resort to hours of brooding alone in your room and any other form of escapism or catharsis.

Speaking of drugs and alcohol, this brings me to the most important component of your social life – establishing dominance over, and using, upperclassmen.

The Golden Rule is that you should never seek their counsel or show any form of subservience, except for on Prospect Avenue. That senior Alpha Zeta Zeta frat star who got you a Tiger Village pass? You owe him big favors. Make sure to stick that rule in your head and never let it slip out.

In public, be sure to obsess over what people think about you. Be certain everyone knows you are always studying and have only slept ten hours the previous four nights. To paraphrase the late David Foster Wallace, you will become way more concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how often they do. As often as you think about yourself, remember that others think about you even more. You are the center of all that is happening and the more that you act this way, the more upperclassmen will love you.

Lastly, remember that the first step towards social success is to forget everything you’ve heard about Ivy League preppiness. According to the illustrious Taj eating club’s vice president, Crocs are the only shoes which exude self-respect.

Luke Gamble is a sophomore from Eagle, Idaho. He can be reached at ljgamble@princeton.edu.

Deez Nuts in the White House Bhaamati Borkhetar

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ast year, when the candidates for president were still beginning to line up, a very popular candidate emerged in the North Carolina, Iowa and Minnesota polls.

He polled at about 9 percent. I am, of course, talking about Deez Nuts.

Most likely, “supporters” of Deez Nuts did not believe that he would make a good president. Instead, he merely presented a way for the people of the country to engage in satire. Joke candidates have popped up many times in the past to fill this desire of the people to voice their discontent with the political system. Popular sentiment rails against cookie-cutter candidates and the inefficiency of their policies.

Even more than that, it is a lack of political efficacy that drives people to vote for joke candidates. Their vote, they feel, will hardly matter — so they might as well go with the most entertaining candidate.

Donald Trump has far surpassed the entertainment value of Deez Nuts. He has become the feature of every reputable news station and the subject of every other New York Times op-ed. Every thing he says is comparable in ridiculousness only to what he says next. A proposal to build a Mexico-funded wall to keep out alleged Mexican rapists has been followed by a proposal to ban all Muslims from entering this country.

These proposals, by themselves, are not entirely ridiculous. They are entirely

in line with the institutional racism and sexism that permeates right-wing American politics. Conservatives like Chris Christie and Ben Carson have even endorsed Trump and his racist, xenophobic, sexist views by extension.

What really makes Trump ridiculous is how he expresses his views in halfformed sentences, with little thought about policy implementation. One day, he supports hypothetically punishing women who have illegal abortions; the next, he recants and recruits his wife to campaign with him to disprove claims he is a misogynist. He is the epitome of a satirical candidate and the best part is that he doesn’t even know it.

“But Trump is racist!” cries the GOP, “and sexist! He doesn’t stand for the Republican Party!” Of course he does. He’s only taking the GOP’s views and unintentionally turning them into satire. He doesn’t try to oppose the conservative right. He’s too busy making it ridiculous.

People are tapping into this satire and, once again, it is filling the space of political critique in American society.

People don’t know what “change” they want to see in the political system, but they know they want a way to voice frustration. Voting for Donald Trump fulfills the same desire that voting for Deez Nuts does — the desire to have a voice.

This desire has evolved along with this election. Trump has ceased to be only a joke. He is the Republican frontrunner. As it stands now, he is

beating contenders Ted Cruz ’92 and John Kasich by a significant margin.

Deez Nuts — or rather, Donald Trump — has become a legitimate candidate.

What could once be only read as satire is now the reality of our presidential primary.

Apart from the obvious danger that Trump might have access to an army next winter, there is another great danger that Trump is posing to this country. He is reshaping what is, and is not, acceptable for a presidential candidate. After all, if an endorsement from the the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan hasn’t disqualified Trump as a candidate, what possibly can? If the country is willing to overlook such a fact, what can we say about the future of presidential elections?

The risk is that Trump will become the standard against which other candidates are compared. Trump’s exaggerated flaws have become a means of excusing other candidates. In an appearance on The Daily Show, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said he supports Ted Cruz for president on the basis that “he’s not completely crazy” and “that he’s not Trump.” But just because Trump is the epitome of a bad leader doesn’t mean that candidates only marginally less terrible should be elected. When picking the President of the United States, the most powerful person in the world, we should have good candidates to pick from — not simply an evil and a lesser evil.

This is a lesson for the elections to

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come. A profound dissatisfaction toward the political system shouldn’t create a monster candidate who obscures the unsuitability of others. By Senator Graham’s logic, we might even justify Kanye West as president. After all, for all his eccentricities, West has never — even in the hypothetical — suggested that he would like to date his daughter.

With the primaries putting a silly caricature of a man closer and closer to the Republican nomination, people need to avoid politicians with halfbaked policies and intolerant views.

Otherwise, dissatisfaction with the government will continue and end with incarnations of Deez Nuts in the Oval Office — or a candidate only a little better.

Bhaamati Borkhetaria is a freshman from Jersey City, New Jersey. She can be reached at bhaamati@princeton.edu.

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Mitchel Charles and junior Jared Bell earned the top three titles, respectively.

The women also didn’t fail to impress, winning four events on Sunday.

With junior Elisa Steele at 25.78, sophomore Ashley Reed at 27.29, junior Allison Harris at 27.32, and freshman Allison Glossinger at 27.58, the Tigers cleanly swept the top four places in the 200m.

Steele also finished in second in the 400m at 57.08, while sophomore Ashley Forte, junior Zoe Sims, and sophomore Quinn Parker followed in third, fifth and sixth.

Sophomore Melinda Renuart won the 1500m at 4:39.17 on Day 2, while Saturday’s winner Katie Hanss took first in the 800m at 2:15.63.

Freshman Shea Copeland finished in fifth in the 100m, and freshman Carly Bonnet

and sophomore Madelyn Baron took first and second place in the 400m hurdle.

Clearing 1.70m (5-7) on her first attempt, senior Taylor Morgan won the high jump, while her teammates Kerry Krause and Frances Lodge finished in third and fourth. Morgan also competed in the shot put, coming in second.

Harris claimed first again in the pole vault, and the Tigers took the second to sixth place titles in the long jump.

Junior Alex Lanzafame leapt to 11.18m (36-8.25) in the triple jump.

“I hope both to continue improving personally as well as for my teammates to continue improving themselves,” Morgan stated earlier on in the season. “The idea is to raise up the standard of practice and competition in order to make each other the best athletes we can be,” he continued, a goal that the team has undoubtedly accomplished itself this past weekend.

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The third-ranked men’s heavyweight team travelled to Teaneck, N.J., on Saturday to face Penn and Columbia for the Childs Cup. The Tigers have dominated the competition in recent years and this time around proved no different, as Princeton notched a commanding 10-second victory over the Quakers, with Columbia finishing a distant third. With the win, Princeton remains undefeated on the year as they gear up to face their two strongest Ivy League opponents, Yale and Cornell, in the next two weeks.

In a departure from the usual dual meet format, the

women’s lightweight team participated in a series of four races in nearby West Windsor, N.J. The first boat entered a race with openweight boats and, despite the disadvantage, still managed to take an impressive third place, losing out to Boston College and North Carolina, but finishing before Drexel, Kansas and Alabama. In addition to that strong race by the first four competing above their weight class, the Tigers’ second boat also took third in the lightweight A final and the novice boat won their race by a slim two-second margin. The team gets the next weekend off from racing, before facing a beatable Georgetown squad in their final dual-meet of the season.

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Men’s and women’s track won numerous events this weekend.

Both the men’s and women’s track teams performed impressively on day one of the Sam Howell Invitational held in Weaver Stadium this past Saturday and Sunday.

Senior Kathryn Fluehr finished in first place in the 10k with a personal record of 34:29.59. Senior Brett Kelly finished with a time of 30:48.07 and took 8th. Junior Jack Leahey placed 11th with 30:50.55.

Junior Zoe Sims placed third in the 800m at 2:11.44, followed by Jackie Berardo in fifth with a personal record of 2:13.45 and freshman Anna Jurew at 2:14.76.

At a personal record time of 4:33.29, junior Katie Hanss finished in third in the 1500m behind two unattached runners. Freshman Steven Sum took fifth for the men.

Junior Ally Markovich was also the top collegiate athlete behind two unattached runners in the steeplechase. Markovich achieved a personal record with a time of 10:42.14.

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Men’s volleyball suffers loss to George Mason in three tough sets

By David Xin

associate sports editor

This Saturday, the men’s volleyball team traveled to Fairfax, Va., to face EIVA conference rivals George Mason.

Despite a strong effort from the Princeton squad, the Tigers fell to the George Mason Patriots in three sets.

The Tigers knew heading into the match that they would be facing an uphill battle. Indeed, the Patriots, who have been experiencing a recent boost in form, had won their last four games before defeating the Tigers.

This is the longest winning streak under their current head coach, Jay Hosack.

Sophomore outside hitter Kendall Ratter started the Princeton effort on the right foot with a kill to take the first point. However, George Mason quickly returned the favor, and the two teams battled it out, point for point.

The momentum would shift toward the Tigers later in the game as they opened their biggest lead of the night, 1712, forcing a Patriot timeout.

Princeton managed to maintain a one-point advantage, 25-24, heading into the end of the match. But two Princeton errors gave the match to the Patriots, who won the set 27-25.

This loss would be the Tigers’ best opportunity to claim a set against George Mason. The Patriots started the second set with three straight points and opened a seven-point lead, 18-11, during the middle of the match.

Yet, the Tigers would continue fighting, starting a 5-2 run. However, Mason’s Paco Velez would ice the set for the Patriots with crucial kills down the stretch.

The Princeton squad would once again fight tooth-andnail in the third set. While Mason maintained the lead throughout the match, the Tigers placed heavy pressure on the Patriots, cutting the Mason lead to one point.

Led by senior outside hitter Devin Stearns, who led all players with 15 kills, the Tigers forced themselves back into the game.

However, the Mason squad remained composed and weathered the storm to open a five-point lead. Although the Tigers would bring the game back to within two, the Patriots would get the last laugh by winning the set and the game with a 25-21 victory.

The Tigers, who have struggled as of late, will end the regular season with two road games next Friday and Saturday. The Princeton squad will undoubtedly be looking to snap their recent losing streak and end the season with a much-needed win.

Their next road match against Harvard would be an opportune moment for the Tigers to seize a game against their only Ivy rival in the EIVA. Their next game against the Crimson also provides the Tigers with the perfect opportunity to take revenge after losing at home to Harvard during their first encounter. Princeton will then travel to Connecticut to close the season against Sacred Heart.

While it has not always been the season the Tigers envisioned, these last two game should provide plenty of excitement as Princeton looks to end their season on a high note.

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eton, unattached competitor Megan Curham won the 5k at 16:14.85. Senior Kathryn Little finished at 17:23.01, the best time for the Tigers. Senior Sam Berger came in 12th place with a time of 14:38.06.

The Tigers also claimed the first and second place titles in the hammer throw after sophomore Kennedy O’Dell threw to 51.77m (169-10) on her final throw and senior Brielle Rowe reached 50.75m (166-6) on her third throw. O’Dell and Rowe were the only female athletes to surpass the 50-meter mark.

On the men’s side, freshman Adam Kelly took first place at 66.37m.

Rowe and O’Dell also earned the second and fourth place titles, respectively, in the discus.

While Rowe reached 44.68m (146-7) on her fourth attempt, O’Dell threw to 41.20m (135-2) on her final throw. Sophomore Mitchel Charles came in first in this event at 51.71m (169-8) on his final attempt. Junior Jared Bell came in second at 50.92. Charles and Bell were the only two athletes to surpass 50 meters.

Junior Ariel Becker finished

in fifth place in the javelin toss at 36.80m (120-9) on her final throw.

Senior Adam Bragg came in first in the pole vault at 5.40m (17-8.50). Sophomore August Kiles finished in second at 5.15m after his first attempt.

The men went on to win all five events they entered on day two.

Freshman Josh Billington won the 100m at 11.05 and was followed shortly by junior Brent Albertson to 11.14 in second place.

The Tigers also took the first and second place titles in the 400m hurdles with sophomore Spencer Long’s finish at 56.11 and junior Greg Leeper’s finish at 56.43.

Finishing with a time of 50.51, sophomore Josh Freeman won the 400m. Freshman Cole Bransford clocked at 50.86 to come in second. The pair was shortly followed by sophomore Brennan O’Connor in fourth and senior Travis McHugh in fifth.

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Crew teams see successful weekend of competition

By Alan Balson contributor

All four Princeton crew teams had successful outings this weekend, with both men’s squads and women’s openweight scoring dual meet victories while women’s lightweight competed at the Knecht Cup Regatta in a series of over four races. Braving winter-like conditions on various bodies of water in New Jersey and New York, the teams overcame both the weather and their competitors in what was, perhaps, their best collective performance of the season so far. With only a few weeks remaining in the dual-meet season, all four teams are hitting their stride at the right time as the championships approach.

In a race that was moved forward to Friday in anticipation of inclement weather, the No. 9 overall openweight women’s team put on an impressive display in upstate New York against rivals Cornell and Harvard to keep the Class of 1975 Cup. The Tigers outpaced the No. 17 Crimson by over nine seconds, with the Big Red coming in third behind them. The win over Harvard will be especially encouraging for Princeton, as the Crimson will be one of Princeton’s stiffest competitors at the Ivy League Championships, along with Yale and reigning champions Brown.

In addition to victory in the top boat, the team also exhibited excellent depth, with the Second Varsity Eight, Varsity Four and Varsity Four B all

winning their races as well.

On Saturday, fourth-ranked men’s lightweight faced off against Dartmouth and Delaware on Lake Carnegie in their first home race of the season.

The Tigers took care of business against both teams, narrowly edging out the Blue Hens by a three-second margin, with the Big Green crossing the line six seconds later.

Princeton was also able to win in the second, third, fourth and fifth boats, sweeping the field in what was a triumphant day overall. With defending national champions Columbia coming to Lake Carnegie next weekend, Princeton will be glad to have avoided being upset this weekend as they look to assert themselves into the nation’s elite.

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Men’s crew scored a string of victories against various Ivy League teams over this past weekend.

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3 seconds Men’s lightweight crew defeated Deleware by three seconds in their race on Saturday.

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