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Payton ’17, Teehan ’17 receive 2016 Truman Scholarship

By Maya Wesby staff writer

Briana Payton ‘17

Daniel Teehan ‘17

Briana Payton ’17 and Daniel Teehan ’17 received the 2016 Truman Scholarship.

The Harry S.Truman Scholarship Foundation gives scholarships of up to $30,000 towards graduate school and further aid for career training programs and internship opportunities.

This year, scholarships went to 54 students from 47 colleges and universities from around the country and were selected based on “academic success and leadership accomplishments, as well as their likelihood of becoming public service leaders,” according to the Foundation’s press release.

Payton noted that the Foundation’s mission of inspiring fu-

ture leaders resonated with her.

“Being someone who is interested in making a change in society, is passionate about seeing social change and who has always been passionate about social change — but not coming from a family of Congress people or people who have Ph.D.s in policy — if I really want to learn how to navigate the different structures that I’m hoping to change, I could really benefit from being a part of a community of students who have similar goals and similar experience,” she said.

Payton is a sociology concentrator with certificates in African American Studies, American Studies and Spanish Language and Culture. She has served as president of the See TRUMAN page 3

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Seven U. faculty elected into American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Q&A: Hida Viloria, Latinx Intersex activist and writer

By Betty Liu staff writer

Seven University professors have been named as Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the most prestigious honor societies in the nation.

Those professors are Brandice Canes-Wrone, professor in public and international affairs, politics and public affairs and vice dean of the Wilson School; Jill Dolan, dean of the college and professor of English and theater; Denis Feeney, professor of Latin and classics and chair of the Council of the Humanities; Joanne Gowa, professor of politics; John Ikenberry, professor of politics and inter-

national affairs; János Kollár, professor of science and mathematics; and Kim Lane Scheppele, professor of sociology and international affairs The professors were chosen from a variety of disciplines “in recognition of their contributions to their respective fields.” According to the Academy’s website, 213 members were elected this year.

176 of these members were elected Fellows and 37 as Foreign Honorary Members. “[The] Academy has elected leading ‘thinkers and doers’ from each generation, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century, See ACADEMY page 3

By Rachel Glenn contributor

Hida Viloria, a Latinx intersex writer and activist, gave a lecture titled “‘Sex’ is Complicated: Intersectionality and Intersex Human Rights, Identity, and Discourse” on Thursday. S/he is also the author of “Born Both,” which will be published in 2017.

Viloria sat down with The Daily Princetonian immediately following the lecture to talk about he/r lifelong work as an intersex advocate.

The Daily Princetonian: To start off, you were talking about

how many intersex infants are subject to surgeries to change their identity to become either male or female. Could you tell me a little bit more about this surgery, what indicators make doctors and parents decide to do it, and your thoughts on parents deciding to do it?

Hida Viloria: Sure. Typically, ambiguous genitalia are the first thing that will tip off a parent. There are other ways to detect certain variations in utero as well, but if a baby is born with the body, and it will be a phallus, which is the gender-neutral term. So, either a clitoris that is

considered too large or a penis that is considered too small — this sets off the alarms. “How do we gender this child? How do we sex this child, more specifically?” Sex of the baby has immediate gender implications, right? That’s why in first world countries, where sexism isn’t as strong, it’s considered okay to make the baby a female.

But in third world countries, where sexism is stronger, we find that they actually do procedures to try to raise the baby as male. So that happens. And, typically, I feel that parents are See VILORIA page 2

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Intersex, Latinx activist Hida Viloria speaks about gender, social constructs

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No construction planned on Springdale Golf Course contributor

Princeton University will not be expanding its campus across Lake Carnegie or the Springdale Golf Course to accommodate the planned increase in the size of the undergraduate student body, according to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83.

The University currently plans to gradually expand the size of its undergraduate student body by 500 students, according to a 24-page Strategic Planning framework released by the University in early February. Plans highlighted in the framework included adding 125 more students per class, reinstating a small transfer admissions program and constructing a seventh residential college to accommodate these increases in the student population.

This initial announcement created concerns in the Princeton community about

where the seventh residential college might be built. However, in an interview with Princeton Alumni Weekly, Eisgruber noted that he had ruled out the possibility of expanding off-campus.

“We do not have to move across the lake nor do we have to think about the golf course,” Eisgruber said. “We are able to work on what we think of as our traditional campus while also preserving a lot of green spaces that exist within that campus.”

The potential location of this residential college is, then, still undetermined.

Eisgruber declined to provide further comments to the Daily Princetonian, saying that the University is still in the early stages of discussing how to provide the additional housing, dining and other spaces that will be needed.

“There is nothing I can add at this early point to what is in the published framework document,” he said.

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Hida Viloria, the first intersex individual to deliver a lecture at the University, spoke on Thursday.

By Rachel Glenn contributor

Hida Viloria, founder and executive director of Intersex Campaign for Equality, said in a lecture on Thursday that s/he wants to encourage society to “challenge the binary” by thinking about sex and gender and recognizing the intersex community.

Viloria is an intersex, gender fluid writer and activist who uses the gender pronouns s/he

and he/r.

Born in May 1968, Viloria is the author of a memoir to be released in March 2017, called “Born Both,” and is an advocate of equal rights for intersex and nonbinary individuals. Viloria has appeared on Oprah, BBC and Al Jazeera; starred in intersex films such as “Gendernauts”, “One in 2000” and “Intersexion”; and advocated for equal rights in the American Journal of Bioethics and on CNN. com.

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Viloria recounted he/r experience in 1987 of having to drop out of college and move back to New York after he/r parents stopped paying he/r tuition when s/he was “outed” by he/r older brother, who is gay. At this juncture, Viloria began working at the first lesbian/gay nonprofit organization in the country, where s/he said s/he encountered men who said they were not gay and did not want to be labeled but were See LECTURE page 2

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very vulnerable after birth. I know this from knowing many parents now as I’ve gotten older. They are tired. They’ve been nervous. It’s scary to give birth in general, and that moment when it’s done is that moment they’ve been waiting for nine months. So, if they’re presented with something negative at that time, it has a really, stronger than usual, impact.

And language has such a strong impact. A simple change in language on how an intersex birth is presented could make all the difference. I feel that all a doctor would need to say is, “You have a healthy baby. They are born with a variance in sex characteristics.” And the parents would go, “What do you mean, a variance in sex characteristics?” “Well, their genitals have a variance. It’s common.

It’s as common as having red hair. There are many different options.”

We’ve found that adults can grow up very healthy and normal with genital variance. I personally would not recommend the surgery, but just knowing the way that medicine is right now, and even with the advent of surgeries becoming more popular because of the trans community, I feel that people would want to present that option more. And so you could say, “There is the possibility of altering the genitals. However,

there are very serious health risks involved. We recommend not doing that because you don’t know, nobody knows, what gender their child is going to grow up. We recommend letting them grow up with the body they have. They appear to be more male than female.” And so, I just feel like it could easily be presented in a way that would calm parents down rather than create chaos and worry and fears about their future. So I think that’s really what happens to parents.

If a doctor says there is something wrong with them, and from what I’ve heard from all the parents I speak to, who are being told there is something wrong with their child, they’re not doctors, they don’t know.

And unlike my family, where my father was a doctor so they had to be very honest with him, and he also had his own medical knowledge to know what would be best for me, most parents are completely dependent on their doctors’ opinions. Most people, actually, especially people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, don’t even get second opinions.

So they are really completely vulnerable to whatever the doctor recommends, and I’ve heard so many stories of parents whose gut told them not to do it, but they were slowly convinced to do it and so I think that’s really what happens. I think that as parents become more educated, we are going to see a steep decline. We already see a steep decline in circumcision which

has none of the extreme negative health impacts and that’s already about 50-50 apparently, according to some recent reports, in terms of people not circumcising anymore. It’s just about education that that happened. So I think the same thing would happen but I think we really need visibility because if there is not an adult, visible intersex community, parents will feel like, what can their child grow up to be? I think that’s probably the biggest obstacle for parents. It used to be the biggest obstacle for parents of gay and lesbian children. There just wasn’t a way to be an open gay or lesbian person, so if their child was gay or lesbian it was like, we have to hide that. We are now facing that same kind of treatment.”

DP: So in the media and today’s society, the terms “intersex” and “genderqueer” are often used almost interchangeably.

How would you relate these two terms?

HV: Well I think there’s a huge connection between the genderqueer community and the intersex community. I actually personally don’t see them connected as often as I would like, but I just think it’s important to constantly be clear and I think that when things are presented clearly, people are actually able to understand them. For example, people are able to grasp the difference between trans and LGB people even though they’re part of the same acronym. We’ve been able to easily understand

that there are different issues involved.

So I think in the same way people can understand that intersex means you are born with certain physical characteristics and your gender identity will develop into whatever it develops into. Genderqueer means specifically that it doesn’t necessitate being intersex.

DP: What would you say that your sexuality has taught you about your life thus far?

HV: Wow, [laughs] that’s a big-time question. How do I give you a concise answer…well, I can think of a few things… my sexuality has taught me that people are actually a lot more open-minded and accepting than we often portray them to be. Bottom line. I’ve had almost no negative reactions to my very noticeably ambiguous genitalia.

And in fact, I would say that it’s enhanced my sex life. And my long-term friends of many decades wouldn’t have said the same. They’ve actually told me before I met my partner that my biggest problem was that too many people were attracted to me. Because being intersex meant for me — and obviously not all intersex people — but because of my androgynous gender presentation, I would have men and women and all sorts of people attracted to me. And I’m very open-minded, so it became very difficult for me to choose.

So what I would honestly say is that people just fall in love with people. The best thing is if the person they fall in love with can enjoy sexual relations with them. So that’s not going to happen if the person has had their sexual capacity diminished.

DP: What do you believe that you need to be best supported in this society, and in addition to that, in what ways can Princeton specifically and other Universities address “interphobia” and other connected forms of discrimination?

HV: I think we need additional materials and dialogue to be

constantly utilized. I know that it’s harder, but we see for example a lot of Scandinavian countries that have had a lot of progress with issues of sexism and homophobia. But people that I know from these countries argue that it’s easier because it’s such a homogenous society. Until recently they have not been dealing with too many issues of ethnic diversity, so in a way they can just focus on this one issue.

So it is easier to be a homogenous culture, but I would argue it’s a less rich culture than one that embraces diversity. And I think that humans are intelligent enough to really embrace and acknowledge all humans. I don’t think we have to erase certain identities.

DP: So, I’m aware that you’re the author of “Born Both,” to be released in 2017. Would you be able to explain just a little of what your book is about?

HV: It’s mainly about my journey to embrace an identity that isn’t supposed to exist and I wasn’t supposed to be.

And throughout that journey there’s a lot that gets revealed about sexuality, about gender identity, about how people from marginalized communities can exist in a very healthy and successful way. And that’s the short of it. I’m very excited for it to come out!

DP: Absolutely, that is so exciting! So do you have any other comments that you would like students to know?

HV: Sure, I guess to reiterate what I said in the lecture, I would like students to make sure to mention intersex people every time they talk about sex and gender. I don’t think the words “male” or “female” or “man” or “woman” should ever be uttered without including intersex people in that conversation. And I think just by simply doing that, students can be involved in changing the world and helping societies currently most oppressed in visible communities.

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“just men who happened to love other men.”

S/he said the intersex population in today’s society is facing the same struggles now as the lesbian and gay community in previous times when it was not as accepted to identify as gay or lesbian.

“We were once acknowledged, but then lost, became invisible,” Viloria said.

In the ’70s, Viloria stated, the gay and lesbian community was labeled as having psychological disorders, a problem which s/he said the intersex community is still facing.

Viloria described he/r own father as homophobic and h/ er childhood household, which placed a great emphasis on gender roles, as sexist. S/he described memories of he/r mother asking he/r to remember to wear lipstick as s/he was heading out the door for a night and memories of family and friends not recognizing he/r because of a more masculine appearance while picking he/r up from the airport after being gone for a while. Viloria stated that s/ he was perceived as a man for four years by everyone s/he knew.

Viloria additionally recounted experiences of going through airport security and the discomfort s/he faced during pat downs and body scans, where s/he had to be classified as a certain gender.

“I knew since I was 5 that I liked women,” Viloria stated, as s/ he begun describing he/r journey in figuring out he/r sexuality.

Growing up before terms like “intersex” would have been defined on the internet, Viloria did not have any knowledge about intersex individuals or what they were. S/he described reading the book “Herculine Barbin,” a recounting of a French intersex

individual who was treated as a female at birth but who later changed to being identified as a male after receiving a physical examination. Viloria said she identified closely with this character, before knowing about intersex persons, and was disappointed to hear that the character ultimately committed suicide after being tried in court for gender fraud and found as male.

Viloria experimented with both female and male sides of life before ultimately deciding that s/ he did not want to have to choose to be either one.

“Why am I trying to fit into a certain role? I really feel both.

I’m really just comfortable being masculine and feminine,” Viloria explained. She noted that these feelings developed for her after having learned a lot about gender relationships and the difficulties of being a man and a woman.

Viloria’s birth certificate and driver’s license say female, but s/he advocates for a third option on these documents, including passports.

Viloria stated that there are 60 known intersex variations, which s/he hopes can be recognized better in the future. S/he also believes in adding an “I” for “intersex” to the existing “LGBT” organization name.

“We do actually need to talk about [this]. We can’t escape it,” Viloria said. “Accepting us really does promote acceptance. I believe that if intersex people had been accepted from the beginning, homophobia and transphobia wouldn’t even exist.”

The lecture, entitled, “‘Sex’ is Complicated: Intersectionality and Intersex Human Rights, Identity, and Discourse” was held in Frist 302 at 4:30 p.m. and was sponsored by the Princeton BTGALA with support from the LGBT Center.

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Princeton University Gospel Ensemble, vice president of the Black Student Union, a founding member of the Black Justice League and a team leader of Princeton Faith and Action.

She is also a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and has led the Brooklyn College Awareness breakout trip.

“In order to affect the kind of change that I want, I need a better, more intricate understanding of the systems at play,” she said, adding that she hopes to use the scholarship to pursue a master’s degree that will allow her to work with nonprofits while being an advocate for large-scale, systemic change in urban communities.

Teehan said he applied because the Foundation aligned well with his future plans, which revolved around public service in addition to graduate school.

“The plan as of now is to spend some time after I graduate working, hopefully working abroad in the Middle East. And then come back and go to grad school, probably for journalism,” he said.

Teehan is a founder of Project Solidarity, is involved with Students for Prison Education and Reform and has volunteered with the Petey Greene Program.

He is also one of the editors-inchief of The Princeton Progressive and is an Orange Key Tour guide.

Payton and Teehan said that they received help with their application process through University Fellowship Advising.

Hanna Lee, associate director of Fellowship Advising and faculty representative for the Truman Scholarship Foundation,

did not respond to a request for comment.

Payton accredits her scholarship win to her strong religious faith and spiritual guidance, and advises that younger students embrace their community and resources around them rather than tackling projects alone. She added that students should also be themselves when interviewing with the Foundation, and to be unafraid of vulnerability.

“I was honest about the fact that I don’t have it all figured out, which is really why I wanted the scholarship because I wanted a community that can help me to get where I’m going when I honestly don’t know how to get there,” she said.

Teehan noted that applying for scholarships, such as the one through the Truman Foundation, should align with interests and passions that students already have.

“When it comes down to scholarships and fellowships and whatnot, it’s really just seeing whether the sort of espoused values of the scholarship match what are already your interests, and not trying to match your interests to a specific scholarship when it comes to writing the application,” he said. “People who are interested in public service know that they’re interested in public service.”

“They value authenticity,” she added. “Yes, be confident.

Yes, come up with a plan. Yes, think about what you imagine your future to look like.”

Payton added that honesty and passion was something that the Foundation valued when selecting scholarship winners.

“But at the end of the day just be honest about who you are and where you’re at… they’re in it to walk on this journey with us,” she said.

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Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth, and Margaret Mead and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the twentieth,” the website noted.

The Academy did not respond to requests for comment.

As of now, it is still unclear what the new nominees will be required to do as part of their new positions.

“At the moment, I don’t have a very clear idea of what my actual responsibilities will be, but I’m hoping to find out,” Feeny said.

Feeney is a scholar of Latin literature and Roman culture and has written extensively on these subjects, he said. He added that he has published two books dealing with Roman literature and religion, one book about the origins of Latin literature and another about Roman constructions

of time.

Dolan said that it is likely that she and the other Fellows will find out more about their tasks after the induction ceremony this fall.

She said she was nominated for her work in the humanities, particularly in the field of feminist performance criticism.

“My sense of why people are nominated to and then elected to the Academy is on the basis of their body of work,” she said.

According to Dolan, the Academy website mentions academic contributions over the course of a career as one of the main criteria for selection. She added that she felt flattered to have been elected to the academy for that reason.

“I feel personally gratified that the work has been noticed and also really gratified for the field, because performance studies and theater studies and feminist studies still deserve that kind of at-

tention,” she said.

Scheppele said she was nominated under the law section. Scheppele noted that she received her Ph.D. in sociology but has also worked in political science and law.

The majority of her work has been in comparative law and international law, but she has also been involved in other disciplines, she explained.

“I was completely delighted and completely surprised, because a lot of my work has been outside the U.S. and since this the American Academy, they don’t always recognize scholars whose work is primarily outside the U.S.,” Scheppele said.

Kollár said he was elected for the mathematics section.

He added that his main area of interest is algebraic geometry.

“It’s a nice acknowledgement of my past work,” he said.

Canes-Wrone, Ikenberry and Gowa were unavailable for comment.

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University Architect Ron McCoy GS ’80 did not respond to requests for comment.

In an interview with the Packet Media Group, Jenny Crumiller, Princeton councilwoman and municipal planning board member, noted her positive reaction to Eisgruber’s statements, explaining that she had initially been concerned about possibly University expansion onto the Springdale Golf Course.

Crumiller added that this

is only the current situation, since the municipal planning board has many more zoning issues to deal with. According to her, it is possible that the town will rezone the golf course, just “not in the immediate future.”

Crumiller and Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert did not respond to requests for comment.

Although Eisgruber has ruled out immediate expansion, he added that he is considering possibilities about what may eventually happen across Lake Carnegie in the future.

Many have long assumed

that that space will be used for parking and athletics, Eisgruber noted. However, he sees potential for other potentially multipurpose developments there.

“Is it possible that things that might go on over there would be mixed-use in character and contribute in some ways to the innovation ecosystem that is important to our teaching and research mission?” he asked.

Jill Dolan, dean of the college, and Angela Hodgeman, manager of undergraduate housing, did not respond to requests for comment.

Opinion

Friday april 22, 2016

How should we measure success?

Lea Trusty

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wo of my girlfriends and I often tease our other friends in the economics and ORFE departments, letting them know that they may have to take us in in the future. Undoubtedly, their lucrative jobs would be enough to support us as we worked at our respective nonprofits and paid off debt from graduate school. Like all good jokes, this one has a modicum of truth to it. As my friends and I have begun to accept jobs and fellowships for the upcoming year, that hypothetical discrepancy of earnings has become a reality.

I couldn’t say I was disappointed with the fellowship that I accepted. Just the opposite: I called all my family and friends back home, excited to share the news, but when my roommates and I realized that some of our friends would be making double, even triple our salaries, I could not help but wonder if I had made the right choices, both academically and professionally.

More than anything else, I was disappointed to be asking myself these questions. The root of my concerns was not whether my earnings would be enough to live comfortably. Instead, I worried that my salary did not resemble what it should as a Princeton graduate.

I have never been explicitly pressured to pursue a career based on its starting salary. From a young age, my parents have encouraged me to follow my dreams. Like most, these interests have transformed over time and continue to do so — from law and education policy to immigration and journalism. Despite this diversity, none of my professional interests have been in particularly high-paying fields.

While committing myself to service after graduation may not have the highest payoff financially, my time at Princeton has shown how invaluable these experiences are in other ways.

As a part of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement and advocacy groups such as the Princeton Hidden Minority Council, I have made civic engagement a cornerstone of my undergraduate career.

Still, the reality remains that money is not only a marker of success, but also the most common measurement of achievement. Capitalism demands this. Princeton itself is an institution of wealth and prestige, which are crucial factors in its ability to rein in thousands of applications every year. The University works to provide students with several post-graduate career options, but most campus talks, networking events and TigerTreks focus on internships and jobs in technology, finance or consulting — all popular fields with an indecipherable blend of status, power and wealth.

I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong in pursuing these particular fields. Some people are genuinely interested in matters such as programming and private equity. There are also students who are not truly invested in these professions but enter them anyway. Some people from wealthy backgrounds may feel pressure to maintain their financial status quo. Students from low-income backgrounds may go into lucrative fields in order to provide financial security for themselves and their families. For better or for worse, money is more important for some than others.

That is not to say that money doesn’t matter to everyone. It does, and it should. Money provides us with a sense of security. It gives us the ability to buy necessities as well as material desires. Perhaps most importantly, money provides us with agency. But there are also things that money cannot do. It cannot measure the value of my experiences at Princeton. It does not reflect my level of commitment here or in whatever profession I ultimately pursue. It will not define my happiness — which I think is a better way to measure my success. I cannot honestly say money is the last thing on my mind. But I am fortunate enough to say it is not the first.

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Against Divestment from Private Prisons

uring the Spring Undergraduate Student Government elections this week, students voted on, among other ballot items, a referendum calling on the University and the Princeton Investment Corporation to “divest from corporations that draw profit from incarceration, drug control and immigrant deportation policies.” The Board has consistently argued against divestment of the University’s endowment. Although the referendum did not meet the minimum voting requirement of one-third the student body, the Board urges the University to reject future petitions to divest unless there is substantial consensus and more conclusive evidence. In addition, we believe there are several problems with the proposal.

Specifically, Students for Prison Education and Reform and advocates of the referendum conflate issues surrounding the criminal justice system with issues surrounding private prisons. Finally, we believe SPEAR presents inconclusive evidence on the merits or harms of governmental entities employing private companies to incarcerate or detain people.

Divestment should only be reserved for issues that garner substantial consensus among members of the University community. The University’s endowment is largely funded by alumni donations and serves as its primary source of revenue. It implicitly represents the entire Princeton community.

As a result, the neutrality of the endowment should be maintained, and its investment practices should not be politicized. Political issues related to America’s criminal justice system are controversial, and divesting from certain corporations involved in the prison system would imprudently take a position that lacks substantial consensus within the University community. This harms the University’s commitment to free and open academic discourse since the institution itself would be taking a public position on a political issue that might garner debate on-campus among students, guest speakers, or faculty members. Student referenda are also poor measures of support in the University community for a proposition. Less than one-third of undergraduates voted in this referendum, and the lack of an organized opposition campaign to this first-time referendum resulted in largely one-sided public advocacy. For these reasons, we continue to oppose efforts to divest Princeton’s endowment unless substantial consensus is demonstrated.

Besides our objections to divestment in general, we also believe there are several issues with the private prisons divestment proposal itself. First, operating private prisons is a separate issue of justice from the issues conventionally associated with American incarceration policy. Government definitions of crime, mandatory minimums and guidelines for policing are separate policy challenges from private prisons. While the Board acknowledges that the American criminal justice system is not perfect and still suffers from issues related to systemic racism and discrimination, prisons and incarceration are an integral part of any justice system.

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Government entities around the country have chosen, for a myriad of reasons, to employ private companies to either run prisons or provide the services necessary to run them. This choice should be viewed separately from the policies determining why people are incarcerated. This divestment proposal attempts to address mass incarceration, but it targets the wrong aspects of the criminal justice system. There are also problems with SPEAR’s charge that lobbying by private prison companies causes particular harms.

Lobbying is not unique to private prisons since the same incentives can exist for public sector prison unions. For example, the California Prison Guards Union has extensively lobbied for prison expansions. Thus the link between lobbying by these corporations and changes in federal or state laws is unclear.

Many policy justifications exist for changing sentencing rules and policies such as bed quotas, and regardless of whether those justifications are correct, SPEAR does not provide evidence that these policies were implemented because of lobbying.

Secondly, there is not conclusive evidence that private prisons are more harmful than public prisons. While SPEAR cites several concerning examples of behavior by private prison companies in its referendum fact sheet, they provide little evidence of issues unique to private prisons. Additionally, studies examining the effectiveness and quality of private prisons and how they compare to government-run prisons are inconclusive. As Sasha Volokh wrote in The Washington Post, “there isn’t much basis for strong empirical statements about public or private prisons” based on available evidence. The lack of significant evidence of systemic problems with the concept of private prisons and detention centers undermines the moral and pragmatic claims made by proponents of the referendum. We are not arguing that there is not a legitimate policy debate about whether private entities should run prisons; however, insufficient evidence of harms critically undermines arguments for divesting from these companies.

During the past two academic years, there have been several divestment proposals tied to various political causes. The Board has consistently opposed these efforts because of our position that divestment should only occur in the most extreme of circumstances and when proposals are backed by substantial consensus among the Princeton community. Good examples of this include when the University divested from companies tied to apartheid in South Africa and the genocide in Darfur. We acknowledge that there are significant problems with the nation’s criminal justice system; however, divestment from private prisons is not the correct response.

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L’Chaim! To Life - Celebrating 100 Years of Jewish Life at Princeton

This past weekend, I was one of 850 plus alums to attend a conference on campus titled “L’Chaim!: Celebrating 100 Years of Jewish Life at Princeton.” For myself, and for many other attendees, this conference was healing, therapeutic and the antidote to what we experienced as students. Personally, I was from Brooklyn, and before Princeton, saying I was Jewish was as ordinary as saying I had hazel eyes or brown hair. After a few months on campus, I found myself lowering my voice when I said I was Jew-

ish. Where did that come from?, I wondered. As I thought about it, the reactions I got made me self-conscious about something that prior to Princeton was just part of the fabric of my life.

I want to thank the current students for sharing the campus with aplomb with so many people during the regular semester for three days. I don’t remember there being any outside conferences when I was a student — at least, not one this large. Nor could I have imagined that such a conference would take place in the

future. I am so grateful to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, to everyone who worked so hard to bring this to fruition, and to the current student body for sharing their Princeton home with all of us.

Enjoy the rest of the semester!

With gratitude, Emily Lewis Penn ’77

Friday april 22, 2016

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Lake Carnegie as well for their second-to-last race of the regular season. Coming off perhaps their biggest win of the year, a 3.5-second upset of rival Yale, the Tigers will look to keep their three-race unbeaten streak alive against Dartmouth, Penn, and Bucknell University on Saturday. As it proved against the Bulldogs, the Princeton squad can outpace any team in the country, but it must avoid a role reversal this weekend as the visiting boats try to upset the Tigers. Princeton has traditionally dominated the Big Green and the Quakers, winning last year’s version of this race by over 12 seconds, so it would be a

shame for the team to slip up this late in the season.

Having beaten two of their three biggest competitors (Yale and Harvard) for the Ivy League Championship, and having only lost to the third (Brown) by a narrow margin, Princeton has a real chance to claim the title two weeks from Sunday and can’t afford any blow to its confidence and rhythm in the meantime.

With both squads coming off a week of rest and facing relatively weak opponents, the overarchingly successful narrative of their respective seasons so far seems unlikely to change on Saturday. Nevertheless, with championships looming, this weekend’s races represent one more challenge to overcome in the teams’ push for postseason success.

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have both ended with onegoal margins. Last year, Princeton defeated Harvard 14-13, stifling a last minute Crimson comeback. Saturday’s game will force the Tigers to defend last year’s victory.

However, any comparison to last year must be taken lightly, as Princeton will not have the luxury of playing All-Ivy selectees Mike MacDonald ’15 and Kip Orban ’15 , who, combined, scored five of Princeton’s 14 goals. Instead, the Tigers will bring as starters senior attackman Ryan Ambler, sophomore goalie Tyler Blaisdell, junior attack-

man Sean Connors, junior attackman Gavin McBride and junior defenseman Bear Goldstein.

On the other side of the field, the Crimson will be led by senior attackman Devin Dwyer and sophomore attackman Morgan Cheek. Dwyer currently ranks second in the Ivy League with an average of 4.92 points per game.

Cheek follows behind Dwyer at No. 5. Looking more closely at Cheek, the sophomore earned three goals against Princeton the last time the two teams faced each other.

A win for the Tigers would give Princeton a final boost

of confidence to close out the season. Princeton has already won two consecutive games; an additional victory would not only extend the streak to the longest of the season but also advance the Tigers to No. 4 in the Ivy League.

Furthermore, a victory over Harvard would allow the Tigers to come home and host Cornell with full momentum to close out the season. It would show Princeton’s ability to still compete despite losing a head coach and two super stars in Orban and MacDonald. All in all, Saturday puts the Tigers’ rivalry and resilience on the line.

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Men’s lacrosse to face crucial test in weekend road trip against Harvard

By David Liu sports editor

Men’s lacrosse (4-7 overall, 1-3 Ivy League) will travel to Cambridge on Saturday to take on the Harvard Crimson (6-6, 2-2) in the penultimate game of the season. Both teams have muddled through mixed results this season, with Harvard holding onto No. 4 and Princeton No. 5 in the Ivy League. Saturday’s game will give both teams a chance for a final push.

For the first time in four weeks, the Tigers will compete away from the comforts of home Sherrerd Field at the Class of 1952 Stadium. For the majority of April, Princeton launched a successful home campaign against Stony Brook University, Lehigh University and Dartmouth.

The Orange and Black won

two of the three games, outscoring their opponents 3022, cumulatively.

Harvard, on the other hand, has had a roller coaster season. The Crimson soared to a 4-0 season start, including three overtime victories and an incredible 14-9 upset over No. 4 Duke University.

Since then, luck has reversed for Harvard. The Crimson fell into the depths of a fourgame losing streak through March.

Overall, tight games have plagued the Crimson. In fact, Harvard’s games have finished with an average margin of 2.5 goals. Most recently, the Crimson fell in a close 13-14 battle against higher-ranked Penn.

Speaking of tight games, the two previous meetings between these two teams See M. LACROSSE page 5

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Men’s lacrosse looks to continue its recent upswing as it travels to Cambridge to face Harvard.

WOMEN’S CREW

Women’s crew teams take on Ivy league foes

By Alan Balson contributor

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The women’s crew teams look to continue their strong performances.

With one and two dual meets respectively remaining for Princeton women’s lightweight and open crew rowing teams before the end-of-season championship races, these last weeks play a crucial role in establishing momentum and confidence just before the most important races of the year. Both teams are ranked in the top 10 nationally and have enjoyed excellent seasons so far, and as a result they will be hoping to avoid upsets in the lead-up to the championships.

The lightweight team is three weeks removed from

their last dual meet race, with a day of racing fours at the Knecht Cup and a weekend off coming between now and a disappointing third-place finish at the San Diego Crew Classic. In California, Princeton lost to the two top-ranked teams in the country, Stanford and Boston University, and while their performance in the latter race was encouraging, a win their next time out would help put that defeat in the past. This Saturday Princeton hosts Georgetown University on Lake Carnegie for the Class of 2006 Cup in their last dual meet of the season. The Tigers have retained the cup for nine straight years since

its inauguration in 2007 and have no reason to believe that this time around should turn out differently.

Having beaten the Hoyas by over 19 seconds last year in Washington, DC, the Princeton squad will be a fan favorite on home water this weekend. After facing Georgetown, Princeton will travel to Massachusetts the following weekend to compete in the Eastern Sprints, where the team took third last season and will be hoping to make the podium again this year.

After the lightweight team completes their races, the women’s open crew squad will be in action on See W. CREW page 5

MEN’S CREW

Men’s crew teams look to continue strong performances

By Nolan Liu associate sports editor

The men’s lightweight and heavyweight crew teams will face tough challenges this weekend, with the lightweight team team taking on Penn and Georgetown University for the WoodHammond Trophy at Lake Carnegie this weekend and its heavyweight counterparts matching up against Cornell and Yale in the Carnegie Cup, also at home.

The lightweight squad has seen success in the past few weeks, defeating University of Delaware and Dartmouth two weeks ago before pulling off a stunning victory over No. 1 Cornell last weekend. The Tigers completed their race in 6.03.7, 3.5 seconds ahead of the powerful Big Red, and have now established themselves as a top power at this point in their season.

Now the Tigers will take on the Penn Quakers, who have thus far in their season suffered losses to fellow Ivy teams Cornell, Harvard,

Yale and Columbia, as well as the Georgetown Hoyas, who edged out the College of the Holy Cross before falling in their meet against United States Naval Academy in the past two weeks.

The Tigers, who entered their meet against Cornell ranked fourth in the nation and whose history of performances indicates the possibility of even higher placement, will look to solidify their status as one of the nation’s preeminent teams with a sweep of this Saturday’s competition.

Meanwhile, the heavyweight squad will head into its matchup against Cornell and Yale following a series of imposing victories.

Princeton scored victories over Columbia and Penn in the Child’s Cup two weeks ago, and just this past weekend added a victory over Harvard to claim an unprecedented repeat victory of the Compton Cup. The Tigers have gone undefeated in their spring meets thus far, and victories over another two Ivies would further add

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to an already impressive season.

Cornell has proven an able contender over the course of the spring season and is currently ranked No. 8 in the country. Nevertheless, the Big Red has dropped its race against Harvard, losing by a time of almost five seconds, and should prove a surmountable foe for Princeton’s undefeated squad.

Yale has also shown itself to be a significant threat, thrashing Penn and Columbia at the Blackwell Cup this past weekend with a 15-second margin of victory.

The Elis have also defeated fellow Ivy League teams Dartmouth and Brown and topped Harvard at the Head of the Charles in the fall for the first time in school history.

Against these formidable opponents, both crew teams will attempt to continue their streaks of success. The heavyweights will kick off competition on Lake Carnegie at 7 a.m. Saturday, followed by the lightweight team at 11 a.m.

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The light and heavyweight crew teams will take on top opponents.

Stat of the Day

6.03.7 The men’s lightweight crew team beat No. 1-ranked Cornell with a time of 6.03.7.

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