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USG election results announced

By Betty Liu staff writer

Election results for the Undergraduate Student Government Spring 2016 Elections and Referenda were released Friday afternoon in an email sent by USG President Aleksandra Czulak ’17 to the student body.

Pritika Mehra ’18, Jacqueline Pan ’19, Pooja Patel ’18, Lucas Ramos ’19, Miranda Rosen ’18, Ellie Shannon ’17 and Wendy Zhao ’19 were elected as UCouncilors.

The applications for the remaining three positions will be released at the end of April.

The newly-elected class presidents are Andrew Sun ’17, Brandon McGhee ’18 and Chris Umanzor ’19. Their vicepresidents are Nathan Suek ’17, Anyssa Chebbi ’18 and Susan Liu ’19.

“It just makes me happy that members of the Class of 2019 saw the work we have done for the past year,” said Umanzor.

For next year, Umanzor plans on building on existing, popular programs from this year such as ’19 on Nassau and

the Professor Dinner Series.

He said he also plans on creating new avenues to help sophomores navigate the transition to junior year.

“When you leave sophomore year to go to junior year, you’re facing a lot of new obstacles. You have to know a little more about housing, a little more about dining options both of which can be really confusing. I’d like to create some kind of way to facilitate that transition to make it a little bit easier.”

Umanzor said.

McGhee said he is humbled and honored by the results.

For the upcoming year, McGhee said he plans on increasing networking opportunities between the Class of 2018 and other Princeton Alumni.

“I want there to be opportunities for mentorship, opportunities for perhaps internships, and also keep them connected to what is going on with us on campus” McGhee said.

McGhee also plans on focusing on creating more study breaks to engage with the Class of 2018.

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STUDENT LIFE

USG Senate discusses transportation, elections

By Katherine Oh senior writer

The Undergraduate Student Government Senate discussed campus transportation and the results of the USG spring elections during its Apr. 24 meeting.

Kim Jackson, director of Transportation & Parking Services, discussed some recent developments in campus transportation, including the on-demand bus service and the Zagster bikeshare program.

“We are super sustainable at Princeton and hope that we continue to move in that direction,” Jackson explained.

According to Jackson, a

smartphone app for bus reservation will become available this week. Student can use the app to call a bus to a certain location on campus at any given time. The app asks the students for the number of people in the party.

Jackson explained that the app will show users their anticipated wait time and give a notification when the bus arrives.

“That should be seamless,” Jackson said, noting that cancelling or changing reservations on the app will be very convenient.

In addition, Jackson noted that the Zagster bike-share program will continue to expand over the summer.

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(Left to right) Beverly Nguyen ‘16, Naimah Hakim ‘16, Jack Mazzulo ‘16, Yonathan Benyamini ‘16, Olivia Robbins ‘16, Lawrence Liu ‘16, Ian McGeary ‘16, Cameron Bell ‘16.

Eight students win 2016 Spirit of Princeton award

By Andie Ayala staff writer

Eight students received the 2016 Spirit of Princeton Award awarded by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

The awardees are Cameron Bell ’16, Yonathan Benyamini ’16, Naimah Hakim ’16, Lawrence Liu ’16, Jack Mazzulo ’16, Ian McGeary ’16, Beverly Nguyen ’16 and Olivia Robbins ’16.

The award recognizes a select group of undergraduate students who have made positive contributions to various facets of the University, including in the arts, community service, student organizations, residential living, religious life and athletic endeavors.

All undergraduate students were eligible for the Spirit of Princeton award and could have been nominated by faculty members, alumni, staff and fellow students in the Princeton community. The nominations were reviewed and final winners selected by a committee comprised of administrators and undergraduate students.

Kathleen Deignan, Dean of Undergraduate Students, explained that the purpose of the award was to identify students who have had “extraordinary commitment and selfless dedication” and who have “made substantial contributions to Princeton’s residential, social and extracurricular life.”

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LEAD panel discusses Panel role of race in policy, law discusses women’s soccer

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Tuck-Ponder added that as a black woman, when she entered public office, she saw everything through the lens of race and gender.

“My identity was front and center for me because it wasn’t front and center for anyone else,” she said.

Burke, who worked with youth trafficked from China to labor in restaurants, also noted the importance of language to empowering these immigrants.

Instead of just getting them a Green Card, she suggested having conversations with these youth about how to appear in court and teaching them the law.

Panelist Simran Jeet Singh, Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity University, highlighted the importance of language and spoke about finding people in the middle ground and making personal connections when implementing policy changes.

He said that boundaries of identity often keep people from interacting with each other, but telling stories was a very powerful way to humanize others, as demonstrated by online pages like Humans of New York.

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Students celebrated the weekend by cooking breakfast food.

Engaging with disenfranchised people before advocating for them is essential to policymaking, said Michele Tuck-Ponder, Associate Director at the University’s Office of Career Services and former mayor of Princeton, at a Leadership Education and Diversity Summit panel discussion on Friday.

Lauren Burke, Executive Director and co-founder of Atlas: DIY, noted the importance of peer-to-peer education when working with undocumented immigrant communities and other marginalized groups.

“It is ridiculous for me, a privileged and educated white woman, to tell a 17-year old black kid what to do when he’s stopped and frisked by the cops,” she said.

She stated that 98 percent of non-profit executive boards in the country didn’t even have representatives from the constituency the organization serves. She added that she had attended several meetings with a roomful of “white citizens” who, among themselves, spoke of the best way to work with undocumented immigrants and people of color.

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who coordinated the selection process, noted that there were over a hundred nominations for the award this year.

“The selection committee had a difficult time in making these selections, as we had quite a few very compelling nominations.

We are immensely grateful for all the work student organization leaders make to daily life at Princeton,” he said.

Deignan noted that the the winners will be recognized at a dinner in May with University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun and the heads of all the Campus Life offices.

Bell, a history major from Newport News, Va., served on See SPIRIT page 2

By Kevin Agostinelli contributor

Julie Foudy and Kristine Lilly, former captains of the U.S. women’s national soccer team (USWNT) and members of the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame, saluted the spirit of teamwork and discussed the recent surge in the popularity of the USWNT in a panel on Thursday.

As two-time Olympic Medalists and two-time World Cup champions, both Foudy and Lilly are two of the most decorated women’s soccer players and U.S. soccer players of all time.

Lilly began the panel by providing an insider’s look into the national team’s famed run to become 1999 Women’s World Cup Champions on home soil. In the finals, the U.S. defeated China in a penalty kick shootout in front of 90,000 fans at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

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the Black History Month Planning Committee and the Special Task Force on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Additionally, she has been an intern through the Princeton Internships for Civic Service program for two years and taught at the Epiphany School in Boston and the North Star Academy in Newark.

Bell said that she knew that she had been nominated as her friend had informed her beforehand. However, she said she did not know when she would hear back from ODUS or what the award really entailed.

Benyamini is a Operations Research and Financial Engineering major from Roslyn, N.Y. He is an residential college advisor, a member of the Bhangra dance group, and the part of the OIP Advisory Board.

Benyamini said that winning the award was bittersweet, since

there were other students who contributed to this campus and often fell under the radar.

Hakim is an anthropology major from Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. She is the University Council Chair for USG, a co-chair for the USG Mental Health Initiative Board, a vocalist for Glee Club, a dancer in the Naacho Dance Company, and a member of the Black Justice League.

Hakim added that while this award is great, in that it acknowledges community building apart from academic achievement, it’s important to keep in mind the people who put in long hours who are not recognized in this way, but who are still entirely deserving.

She said that she believes her personal recognition is an honor in itself, but also a reflection and testament to the wonderful teams she has been a part of at Princeton.

“I’m taken aback just by the fact that somebody even took their time to write a nomination

letter. Princeton’s been such an incredible place for me, so it’s really humbling to be a part of the recognition,” she said.

Liu, a Woodrow Wilson School concentrator from Plano, Texas, is a volunteer in the Petey Greene program, a teaching initiative for currently incarcerated individuals. Liu interned at the US embassy in Beijing and researched challenges in China’s current legal system.

“It was definitely a big surprise and very humbling that I got the email earlier this week,” Liu said. “I thought that all the people who had gotten [the award] before were all incredible Princetonians, and that there was no chance that I would be honored in that way.”

“I think a lot of students are really involved with a lot of different things on campus and often times we do it just because it’s what we love to do. But I think it’s a really great idea to recognize the different things that people do, and I’m really

glad that it exists,” added Liu. Mazzulo is molecular biology major from Matthews, N.C. He is a senior staff photographer for the Daily Princetonian, and does volunteer work with the community of Trenton for El Centro and the Emergency Room at the University Medical Center at Princeton, as well as being an RCA for Butler College.

Mazzulo commented, “The interactions with people and experiences with groups that I’ve had while at Princeton have been invaluable to me, and it is heartwarming to know that they have meant something to other people as well. “ McGreary, a Ecology and Evolutionary Biology concentrator from New Brunswick, N.J., is an Executive Director of the Water & Beverage Student Agency. He is also a first defensive liner on the varsity men’s football team and was previously the president of Cannon Dial Elm Club, where he was also the student manager for the fifth reunion in 2015.

He noted that the award highlights the students who aren’t just talented academically, but who also “have passions and talents outside of the classroom, whether that be in terms of community service, athletics, religious life, or any of the other activities we have on campus.”

Nguyen is a molecular biology major from Davis, Calif..

Nguyen had spent a summer in Kakamega, Kenya, working with an NGO to provide accessibility to higher standard healthcare for local residents. Nguyen had also been a member of the women’s swimming and diving varsity team for four years and captain for the past two.

According to her, the team taught her how to “be a part of something bigger than myself, and it helped me to grow as a person.”

She added that the most meaningful relationships she made while at the University were also a result of being on the swim team.

Robbins is an English major from Wilmette, Ill.. Robbins codirected the Vagina Monologues and has served for two years as the co-president of the Women’s Mentorship Program. She has also served as the co-chair of the Pace Center for Civic Values board. “[The Monologues allowed me to] bring together different parts of the campus; both faculty, staff and students, and especially people who would never have come to this kind of show,” she said.

Robbins noted that several of her mentors had won this award in the past few years.

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The elected treasurers include Caroline Snowden ’17, Yash Patel ’18 and Nicole Kalhorn ’19. Elected secretaries include Nusrat Ahmed ’17, Kevin Liu ’18 and Carly Bonnet ’19. Social chairs are Ariel Hsing ’17, Adnan Sachee ’18 and Chelsea Ng ’19.

Two referenda were also voted on during the election cycle under new rules approved in the fall, which required a turnout of at least one-third of undergraduate students, or approximately 1,754 students, according to the email.

The referendum to form a task force regarding disciplinary reforms at the University, proposed by Justin Ziegler ’16, failed to meet the turnout threshold. The referendum that the University should divest from corporations that draw profit from incarceration, drug control and immigrant deportation policies, proposed by Students for Prison Education

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and Reform also failed to meet the turnout threshold, also according to the email.

Czulak added that a town hall meeting will be held later in the semester to discuss the changes to the referendum rules and how it impacted the results of this election cycle.

Ziegler noted that though the referendum did not pass the vote threshold, the vote totals were 1160 for yes and 50 for no.

“I think that is a very compelling popular mandate, that the student body wants some change.” Ziegler said.

He also pointed out that this type of voting threshold was just enacted a couple months ago and that he did not know of any other referendum that has met this voting threshold.

Daniel Teehan ’17, a student co-leader of the divestment referendum, declined to comment.

The current policy for voting is that students can vote for each issue item-by-item.

For a referendum to pass, at least one third of the student body must vote on a referendum and it must win by a 50% majority.

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Jackson, along with several USG members, is looking at locations that would be most useful for students.

“I knew it would be successful, I did not know it would be as successful as it is,” Jackson said. “We will be adding over the summer to increase the number of bikes

and the number of stations.”

Jackson added that there is now a full-time employee for the program to move the bikes as quickly as possible to ensure that there are enough bikes at each location at any given time.

Additionally, Jackson noted a decline in the number of registered cars on campus.

Over the past five years, fewer and fewer students have been registering their cars

for legitimate reasons, Jackson said. Currently, there are approximately 330 students who have registered their cars on campus, she added.

Aleksandra Czulak ’17, USG president, noted that there were no run-off elections during this cycle and that the two referenda did not meet the participation threshold for a vote.

Jeremy Burton ’18, vice president of USG, reported

the election results, which were announced last Friday through an email sent to the student body. He explained that both voter turnout and the number of candidates applying for a position decreased this year.

He explained that a referendum has to have support from a third of the student body to be put to a vote.

According to Burton, about 1,600 students voted for the divestment referendum sponsored by SPEAR, while about 1,200 voted for the Honor Committee referendum submitted by Justin

Ziegler ’16.

“I think we should consider lowering the threshold, since the total voter turnout is less than one-third,” Class of 2019 senator Andrew Ma ’19 said, further noting that if a student did not want the referendum to pass, they would simply choose not to vote.

Naimah Hakim ’16, UCouncilor, noted that she was concerned that students were unable to vote as voting closed at noon.

Students may have more time to vote during the evening, she added.

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groups only after instances of extreme violence against a large group of the minority community.

Speaking about the petition to track hate-crimes against the Sikh community, a phenomenon that rose sharply after the 9/11 attacks, he said that despite multiple op-eds in newspapers like the New York Times, policymakers took no notice of the issue until the massacre at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. in 2012.

“We realized, after that incident, that each time there is a large act of violence against a community, you get to ask the government for one thing, because the media spotlight is on you, and you’ve got to use it,” he said.

Tuck-Ponder added that the intent of the law, even when honorable, was frequently lost when implemented.

“Who can use a bathroom, who can get an abortion – all these decisions are being made by, frankly, people who aren’t

that smart,” she said.

Burke sympathized, saying that law was a fallacy, with laws still drenched in patriarchy and inaccessible to many sections of the population.

“We’ve created a system that we pretend has something to do with objective truth, and it doesn’t,” she said.

All the panelists agreed that entering public service was still a privilege in the United States — it is a career option only for the wealthy.

“I can handle earning only $50,000 a year, because if anything happens to me, I can always fall back on my parents’ couch, but this simply is not an option for most people,” Burke said about the need to pay those in the non-profit sector more.

The panel, entitled “Race and Ethnicity in Law and Policy”, took place in Lewis Library 138 and was moderated by Ross Donovan ’16, who was part of the 2016 LEAD Summit. The panel was sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Government, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, Office of the Vice President for Campus Life and Office of the Provost.

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paralleled unity that the team possessed.

“Winning was great, yes, but that we held strong together and how close we were to each other really outshone what we did on the field,” Lilly said.

Lilly scored 130 goals in her 23 years of playing for the USWNT, from 1987 to 2010, as an attacking midfielder and forward and captained the national team from 2005 to 2007. Lilly’s 352 match appearances in an international game currently stands as the highest total the highest total in the history of the sport – for both men and women.

Lilly noted much of her success and the success of the USWNT over the years to the “team-first mentality” that encompassed the women’s national team at the 1999 World Cup. “That’s what stands out for me during my time [with the U.S. women’s national team] – that really what made our teams so special was the strength of our leaders and our head coaching staff to represent something bigger than ourselves.,” Lilly said.

Foudy credits the immense success of the U.S. hosting the 1999 World Cup as a major turning point in American women’s soccer.

“This group of women [from the 1999 team] learned … the power of what the team brings when the odds are stacked against you and no one believes in your dream,” Foudy said.

Foudy featured prominently as a midfielder for the women’s national team from 1987 to 2004, scoring 45 goals in 272 international appearances while serving as co-captain starting in 1991 and then captain from 2000 until her retirement in 2004.

Foudy said that she applauds the efforts of U.S. Soccer at that time to go against FIFA’s calls to “play it safe” for the World Cup and relegate the women’s games to tiny stadiums that would guarantee sell-out matches.

Instead, Foudy said that U.S. Soccer decided to go big and set the games for the largest stadiums in the country, but remarked that no one could have guessed just how successful the World Cup turned out to be.

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ing us we were crazy,” Foudy said.

Foudy shared a heartwarming story of the women’s trip to the stadium for their opening game.

“We’re driving into the stadium on the first day in a total traffic jam and thinking, ‘What’s going on, this is a Saturday afternoon, this is so strange, and then we look around and it’s like “Go USA!” I love Mia [Hamm]! I love Lill [Kristine Lilly]… and we suddenly realized that we were the cause of the traffic jam!” Foudy said. “And that’s when we realized that [the World Cup] was going to be bigger than anyone thought.”

Both Foudy and Lilly happily acknowledged that they have not strayed far from the soccer field since their retirement.

Since her retirement, Foudy has been a mainstay on ESPN as a feature reporter and lead television voice for U.S. Soccer and World Cup coverage. Additionally, Foudy is the co-founder of the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy, a six-day summer sports camp that enables girls ages 12-18 to develop as athletes and as strong leaders, according to its website.

Lilly is the director of the Kristine Lilly Soccer Academy and co-directs the Team First Soccer Academy with former USWNT teammates.

“My camp philosophy is to provide a technical and tactical environment for players to learn and hone their skills,” Lilly noted on her official website.

“I strongly believe that basic skills are the foundation for every player to become something more.”

Both Foudy and Lilly personally met with the Princeton women’s soccer team and extended congratulations to the team during the panel for the its great success this past fall.

Last season, Princeton women’s soccer captured the Ivy League title and beat Boston College by four goals in the opening round of the NCAA tournament before bowing out to USC in the Round of 32.

The soccer players’ talk, as part of the Jake McCandless ’51 Princeton Varsity Club Speaker Series, was sponsored by the Princeton Varsity Club and took place in McCosh 50 at 7:30 p.m.

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Reform USG referendum policies

ast week, USG held its spring elections. They gave students the opportunity to vote on U-Councilors, class government positions and referenda on divesting from private prisons and creating a task force on disciplinary reforms. Neither referendum met the one-third turnout threshold required for the results to be considered, and voter turnout across all elections was low with participation rates between about 30% and 40% for each class in class elections. As a result, the Board calls on USG to reform its referendum policies by informing students of the referendum proposal deadline earlier, extending the referendum campaign time to two weeks and clarifying campaign opportunities for opposition groups and individuals. The Board believes these reforms will help USG promote informed voting and encourage voter participation.

Last week’s elections were the first to occur since USG reformed its referendum policies last winter. The new referendum process entails students proposing referenda to the USG by filling out a proposal form, the USG then evaluating referendum proposals to ensure clear and neutral wording and students campaigning for, or against, referenda one week before voting begins.

One-third of the student body must vote on the referenda in order for the votes to count.

Though some of these reforms made important improvements in the process, USG should make further changes to the referendum process to improve the effectiveness of the process. This election, students were not informed of the referendum proposal deadline until ten days prior, in a Mar. 4th USG email. We believe it would be beneficial for students to be informed of the deadline two or three weeks prior and encourage USG to do so during future elections. This would

provide students, particularly underclassmen unfamiliar with the process and upperclassmen who are busy with independent work, time to organize and submit a referendum proposal. USG should also advertize the referendum process better through residential college listservs and campus-wide emails. Once a referendum proposal is accepted, advocates and opponents should be given two weeks to campaign, as opposed to the current one week.

USG also states that the Institutional Research Office must approve the referenda and check it for “neutral wording and clarity.” However, it remains unclear what standards are used in the approval process and, because of this, the Board urges USG to be more transparent about this process. This will ensure that students properly understand how their referenda are being evaluated. A longer campaign period for approved referenda will allow for a more robust campus discussion of the issue in question and better inform students prior to voting. Finally, rules regarding opposition groups and individual campaigning should be clarified.

Currently, USG’s referendum policies refer only to policies regarding formal opposition groups, perhaps leaving students uncertain of what actions they may take as individuals separate from the formal opposition or sponsoring groups. In order to promote maximum student involvement and thus increased interest and voting in referenda, the Board suggests USG clearly advertise and even encourage that, even in the absence of a formal opposition group, students may continue to campaign in opposition to referenda through individual actions such as sending a personal email to a listserv.

When it comes to actually voting in these elections, several changes to the process

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could have improved its efficiency and effectiveness. First, the three separate ballots (one for each referendum and one for class officer elections) should have been integrated into one. With the three ballot system, students had to log in each time they wanted to access a new ballot, something that potentially decreased the number of votes cast because logging in multiple times is frustrating and time consuming. Though the Board recognizes that USG likely made this choice to make it easier for students to abstain, we believe that a better solution would be an “abstain” button for referenda on the integrated ballot. We also encourage that the pro/con statements issued by the groups formally advocating or opposing a particular measure be put directly on the ballot. Since they could only be accessed by copy/pasting a Google Docs link, it is unlikely that a high number of students looked at them. By putting the statements directly on the ballot, USG would be encouraging informed voting by helping students easily view both sides of the issue.

USG has done substantial work in the last year to reform the referendum process.

However, we believe that they must continue to improve this process to ensure that the system is as accessible and effective as possible. Furthermore, we believe that overhauling the voting system is necessary if USG wants to promote voter participation and informed voting.

Paul Draper ‘18 recused himself from the writing of this editorial.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor and the Editor-in-Chief.

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hat do modern evangelical Christians and animal cruelty groups have in common? They both pass out a great number of leaflets in hopes of persuading people to adopt a different way of thinking. The former tries to change people’s religious beliefs, while the latter aims to convince people that the existing methods of animal treatment are inhumane and detrimental to society.

Leafleting is a tested marketing strategy that yields an approximately 1% response rate. The logic is that if a flyer can get a person to visit the local supermarket, it must also be able to change a person’s key core beliefs. Leaflets aim to “inform,” regardless of whether it is “God’s word” they contain or facts on factory farming. I have yet to encounter religious leaflets on the Princeton campus, but I’ve had at least three Vegan Outreach pamphlets thrust into my hands as I’ve rushed past Frist Campus Center on my way to class.

As someone who believes in the goals of Vegan Outreach as an organization, I flip through the pictures of desolate pigs behind bars and malformed chickens in battery cages, feeling all the outrage that I’m meant to feel. I can’t help but agree that conditions need to change for the poor animals. If I could, I would convert to vegetarianism all over again. But my own bias makes it hard for me to comment on how effective the leaflets truly are.

When I’ve been handed slips of papers forecasting the end of the world and promising redemption, I’ve only scoffed. Therefore, it makes sense to me that the people around me would treat the Vegan Outreach leaflets I now consider to be incredibly factual and informative with that same disdain.

I heard the following comments right after a whole group of people walked by Frist and picked up (or, in one case, didn’t pick up) a leaflet: “Why are they trying so hard to appeal to emotions?

Like animal suffering, we all get it.”

“Why don’t they focus on the real issues? Like how factory farming is causing global warming?”

“The animal cruelty person asked me if I liked animals

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and handed me the pamphlet. I smiled, said yes, and handed back the leaflet.”

Reactions were negative because people don’t like being told that what they are doing is wrong. They feel attacked and they jump immediately to their own defense.

Certainly, the leaflets contain factual information, but they also contain messages meant to evoke guilt. A picture of a purple, scalded chicken with the headline “An Agonizing Death” is meant to make people question their eating choices.

The overwhelming response is to ignore or to disparage the animal activists for wasting their time worrying about cruelty towards animals when there are much bigger fish to fry. Still, the people who pass out leaflets anticipate this response. In fact, the philosophy of organizations like Vegan Outreach is not to maximize conversions of the passersby to vegetarianism, but rather to get just enough people to convert so that some proportion of animals can be saved. Their favorite statistic is “50 animals … spared for every 100 booklets.” This translates to about two in every 100 people who will be even slightly swayed by the booklets.

It is easy to ridicule these activists for not juxtaposing the opportunity cost of leafleting (time, money, transportation, etc.) with the number of converts, but their philosophy uses animals saved as a measurement of gains.

Historically, leaflets have been used to promote social issues and to inform the public. Animal cruelty is a current social issue that activist organizations are addressing. There are truly some horrible facts about factory farming and some great benefits of going vegetarian that aren’t widely known. Outreach organizations want to make this information available, while also swaying people towards vegetarianism or veganism.

Our own campus has been very receptive to animal

activist student organizations like PAWS, which have advocated for more meatless options in the dining halls.

The current abundance of vegan and vegetarian options is a direct result of student demand. Along the way, student organizations have also tried to educate fellow students about the effects of factory farming and to promote a decrease in meat-consumption. Publicity promoting “meatless Mondays” has been absorbed into the Princeton culture.

Still, strangers handing out didactic leaflets in front of the Frist Campus Center can seem aggressive, and the negative reactions to their leaflets have far outweighed the positive reactions.

That does not mean Vegan Outreach’s activities are futile. They are bringing a debate to our campus about animal cruelty and its implications. The leaflets spark conversations in our student body. These organizations are trying to address an economic externality in our society –the suffering of animals and the harms to the environment aren’t neatly minimized by the invisible hand of the market. Part of the reason why people aren’t doing more to protect animals or combat the effects of factory farming on our environment is that we all assume that someone else will fix the broken system.

As students of an institution of higher learning, we are responsible for fixing the chinks in our society. It’s easy to get caught up in the herd mentality that urges us to sit back while someone else works on addressing these issues. But how will we figure out what we need to fix if we feel threatened by a leaflet?

Consider just taking the leaflet and perusing it, without immediately writing it off. Maybe reading such pamphlets will leave us more informed and equipped to enact some social change or, at the very least, they will leave us more amused. Thanks to some informative leaflets, I won’t be completely shocked when hell rises and zombies walk the Earth.

Bhaamati Borkhetaria is a freshman from Jersey City, New Jersey.

She can be reached at bhaamati@princeton.edu.

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Monday april 24, 2016

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torically owned this competition and continued the trend this year, posting an 11-second victory in the firstvarsity race in difficult conditions.

Perhaps even more impressive was Princeton’s overall ascendency in the lower boats as well, with the second and third boats winning their respective races and the fourth, fifth and sixth boats all coming in ahead of the fourth boats for the Quakers and the Hoyas. Having asserted themselves as a favorite to claim top spots at the Eastern Sprints and IRA Championships with last week’s win over Cornell, the team showed no signs of a letdown against a somewhat-

less-challenging group of opponents. However, Princeton will have little time to rest on its laurels, as firstranked Yale and fifth-ranked Harvard come to town next weekend for the Goldthwait and Vogel Cups. Victory in those races will cement the Tigers’ status as the team to beat, not only in the Ivy League, but in the country.

Both men’s rowing teams have enjoyed hugely successful seasons and are, despite setbacks such as the one suffered by the heavyweights on Saturday, both legitimate national title contenders.

The teams’ respective ability to maintain or reestablish momentum in their last dual meet will go a long way toward determining their results in what should be an exciting and potentially gratifying end to the season.

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claimed second place in the 1500m with a personal record of 3:41.85.

On Day 2, Harris had a recordbreaking finish in the pole vault.

The Tigers also dominated the 800m. Having qualified for the Olympic trials with a previous time of 2:02.62, Barowski finished at 2:06.99 after 2:03.05 in Day 1.

Sophomore Ashley Forte, freshman Jackie Berardo and junior Zoe Sims followed in third, fourth and fifth place.

Meghan McMullin was second in the 400m hurdles, while freshman Ellie Randolph and sophomore Maia Craver were third and fourth in the 100m hurdles.

Junior Elisa Steele took 12th in the 400m with a personal record of 55.80, and also performed well in the 200m.

Senior Birdie Hutton took 18th in the 1500m, and sophomore Christina Walter finished in 16th in the 100m.

Brielle placed fourth in the discus, while sophomore Kennedy O’Dell claimed ninth place in the same event and eighth place in the shot put.

At 5.36, senior Sara Ronde had the best jump for the women’s team, while freshman Nnenna Ibe was ninth in the high jump.

Freshman Carly Bonnet, sophomore Mattie Baron, sophomore Christina Walter and junior Zoe Sims completed the 4x400m relay, the final event of the day, at 3:53.51 to take third in Section 1.

The men also came out strong on Day 2. Sophomore Carrington Akosa won the 200m out of 48 sprinters with a personal record of 21.25 and finished in sixth in the 100m, while sophomore Mitchel Charles placed second in the discus.

With the relay team of freshman Charles Volker, freshman Josh Billington, senior Daniel McCord and Akosa, the Tigers took second place in the 4x100m at 40.62.

McCord, junior Jabari Johnson, sophomore Joshua Freeman and junior Ray Mennin pulled out another second place finish for the Tigers in 4x400m with an overall time of 3:14.54. Mennin also took eighth in the 400m.

Freshman Franklin Aririguzoh and sophomore Jared Lee finished in tenth and 13th place in the 800m, while sophomore Zachary Albright placed fourth in the

1500m.

Senior Greg Caldwell earned an impressive third-place finish in the 110m hurdles at 14.36. Junior Greg Leeper took sixth place in the 400m hurdles and was followed shortly by sophomore Spencer Long and freshman Christian Fryer-Davis.

Senior Jake Scinto leapt to third place in the long jump, and junior Xavier Bledsoe finished in fourth in the high jump.

Mitchel Charles also placed second in the discus and fifth in the shot put.

Though both the women’s and men’s teams have had an eventful season so far, McCord has stated that the teams’ ultimate goal is to take first in the Ivy League Championship and to send athletes to the NCAA national championship.

“Our goals this year are the same as they are every year. We aim to winning an outdoor Ivy League Championship. After we accomplish that goal, the next step is to qualify as many athletes as possible for the NCAA national championship in Eugene, Ore. I’ve been once before in my Princeton career and there’s nothing better than competing at the highest level of the sport.”

Monday april 24, 2016

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } TRACK AND FIELD

Men’s and Women’s Track continues strong performance at Larry Ellis Invitational

By Miranda Hasty staff writer

It was an eventful weekend for men and women’s track at the Larry Ellis Invitational, held at Princeton’s Weaver Stadium.

Junior Allison Harris broke the Ivy League pole vault record, clearing 4.15 m. The previous record of 4.11m was set nearly 12 years ago

by Princeton’s Chelo Canino at the 2004 NCAA East Regionals. Harris had also set the Ivy League indoor record in Feb. at Penn State’s Sykes & Sabock Challenge Cup with a height of 4.20m.

On the first day, senior Cecilia Barowski won the Elite 800m with a time of 2:03.05, the highest of 80 competitors. Sophomore Ashley Forte came in 13th, followed shortly by freshman Jackie Berardo in 15th.

Senior Emily de La Bruyere finished with the best collegiate time and a personal record of 10:06.26

to take fourth place in the steeplechase. Junior Alexandra Markovich finished in ninth.

Junior Katie Hanss and sophomores Melinda Renuart and Delaney Miller all set personal records in the 1500 m. With a time of 4:22.63, Hanss finished in third.

Sophomore Kennedy O’Dell was fifth in the hammer throw, while senior Brielle Rowe finished in ninth.

Junior Ariel Becker, senior Kathryn Fluehr and junior Amanda Chang also performed impressively in the javelin, 5k and 10k, respectively.

There were three top-three finishes on the men’s side after Day 1.

Freshman Adam Kelly was second in the hammer throw.

Sophomore August Kiles took third in the pole vault after clearing 5.20 m, while junior Ben Gaylord tied for sixth.

Sophomore Garrett O’Toole See TRACK & FIELD page 7

KATHERINE TOBEASON :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Both men’s and women’s team continue strong performance as they prepare for Ivy Championships.

MEN’S CREW

Men’s Heavyweight Crew finishes second behind Bulldogs

By Alan Balson Staff Writer

YASH HUIGOL :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Crew tries to keep its mometum as the regulars season closes.

The Princeton men’s heav y weight and lightweight rowing teams each competed in their secondto-last dual meet of the year this weekend as the regular season winds down and the championships approach.

With both teams notching their biggest wins of the season so far the previous week, this weekend’s races were a chance to keep that momentum going, a task that the two squads took on with varying degrees of success.

The third-ranked heavyweight team faced secondranked Yale and Cornell in New Haven for the Carnegie

Cup, and they fell just short of upsetting one of their fiercest rivals and suffered their first loss of the season. In a tight first-varsity race, the Bulldogs were able to outpace the Tigers by just over two seconds, with the Big Red finishing another three seconds behind, in third.

Despite the loss, the narrow margins will serve as an encouraging sign of Princeton’s chances to finish ahead of Yale at the Eastern Sprints and IRA Championships next month and establish the team as a real threat to win both titles.

Furthermore, aside from the second-place finish in the first-varsity race, Princ-

eton claimed first place in the second, third, fourth and fifth varsity slots, highlighting the team’s depth across the board. With a competitive Brown squad coming to New Jersey next weekend in the last dual meet of the season, Princeton will look to put this weekend’s disappointment behind them and end the year on a high note.

The second-ranked lightweight team followed up a huge win over top-ranked and undefeated Cornell last weekend with a dominant performance at home on Lake Carnegie against Georgetown and Penn to retain the Wood-Hammond Cup. The Tigers have hisSee M.CREW page 7

MEN’S LACROSSE

Tigers fall out of Ivy Tournament contention with loss to Harvard

By David Xin Asoociate Sports Editor

While the men’s lacrosse team put up a good fight, its efforts came up short against Harvard this weekend in Cambridge. Facing a tough opponent, the Tigers managed to keep the game close for most of the match, but the Crimson managed to pull away late in the game.

Eventually, Harvard would seal a critical win, 16-12, in front of their home crowd.

The Crimson started the game on an emphatic note, scoring just eight seconds after the game started. Despite Harvard’s fast start, the Tigers managed to keep their poise and continued playing their game. Indeed, the teams would exchange, shot for shot, as Princeton found a response for each goal the Crimson netted. Despite their usual persistant effort, the Tigers never managed to clinch the lead.

The Tigers were led by junior attack Gavin McBride, who found the back of the net four times during the

game and tied the match at seven goals apiece. However, once again, the Crimson would take a tenuous lead, 8-7. The two teams would then reach a standstill, with neither squad able to beat the goalie for over ten minutes of gameplay.

Unfortunately, it would be the Crimson who found their rhythm and broke the deadlock. Led by Harvard’s Will Walker, who netted six goals, the Crimson would net three goals to end the quarter.

They then added two more to their tally to begin the fourth quarter. Suddenly, the Tigers found themselves in a five-point hole.

While the Tigers would rally, scoring five goals in the final eight minutes of the match, it came too late to change the momentum of the game as the Crimson claimed a critical win, in spite of a spirited Princeton performance. Harvard outshot Princeton 45-30 during the game.

The loss drops the Orange and Black to fifth place in the Ivy League standings at 1-4.

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However, more importantly, the win helped the Crimson clinch a spot in the Ivy Tournament as one of the top four teams in the Ancient Eight.

Indeed, with Princeton’s loss to Harvard this weekend, both the Tigers and Big Red have fallen out of post-season contention. The field is now set with Brown, Yale, Penn and Harvard securing spots in the Ivy League Tournament.

While the Tigers were undoubtedly looking to keep their season alive, they have much to be proud of as they look back on the year.

The Princeton squad will still have a chance to end the season with a win when they conclude the year with a match-up against the Big Red, who currently stand tied with the Tigers at fifth place.

Although it will not be the ending they were hoping for, the Tiger’s next match against Cornell should be an exciting one between evenly matched opponents. Indeed, Princeton’s season closer will not be one to miss.

YICHENG SUN :: SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The Tigers will conclude the season with a home game against Cornell.

Stat of the Day

4.15 meters Junior Allison Harris set the new Ivy League pole vault record by clearing 4.15 meters.

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