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Hate-Free Princeton rally combats hate speech

By Samuel Garfinkle and Abhiram Karuppur staff writer and associate news editor

After anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, and racist flyers were found posted around campus last week, Princeton Advocates for Justice and a coalition of graduate students held a Rally for a Hate-Free Princeton today in protest.

The flyers had been found taped to Stanhope Hall, the Center for Jewish Life, MurrayDodge Hall, and East Pyne.

The rally was held in Firestone Plaza, and began with 10 minutes of silent protest. This was followed by testimonies and teach-ins by student leaders, and well as a 10-minute teach-in by professor of psychology Elizabeth Levy Paluck.

Following the rally, participants hung signs around campus, containing messages such as “Hate will not be tolerated here. We stand together.” and

“Diversity Makes Princeton Great.”

Approximately 80 participants attended the rally, and numerous student groups indicated their support for the rally, including Young Democratic Socialists of Princeton, Princeton Citizen Scientists, Black Graduate Caucus, Center for Jewish Life, and MASJID. At the rally, Nicholas Wu ’18 led chants of “We stand with you” in a message to people of color, Jewish people, Muslims, the LGBTQ community, the Latinx community, the AsianAmerican and Pacific Islander community, Blacks, women, the disabled, and people of all marginalized communities.

Wu is an associate opinion editor for The Daily Princetonian.

Jessica Sarriot GS, a student in the Wilson School who was one of the organizers of the rally, said that the initial idea for the rally came after the election. After the Day of Action

held in March, Sarriot reached out to leaders of other student groups in order to gauge support for the idea of a rally.

“We posted out to them, ‘We want to do something to speak against the hate speech that came out, are you interested?’” she said. “There was great resonance.”

Mariella Castaldi GS, an MPA student at the Wilson School who was also an organizer, explained that one of her classmates said that as white students, it’s easy to see another email about hate speech and say “that sucks” and move on to the next thing. She added that this rally was a way to recognize that this response is not the experience of people who are targeted by the violent speech.

“We really just wanted to make a public showing that countered the narrative, given that we didn’t see anything going on strong discouraging See RALLY page 2

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About 80 students attended the Rally for a Hate-Free Princeton in response to the racist flyers found around campus last week.

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“Faces of Fitness” initiative targets hypermasculinity

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Energy Heatmap shows U. buildings’ energy usage

By Ariel Chen science contributor

According to Princeton Energy Heatmap, the buildings with the highest energy use on campus are Frist Campus Center, Guyot Hall, Jadwin Hall, and Frick Chemistry Laboratory.

Princeton Energy Heatmap has been implemented as a tool to gauge energy consumption since it was founded in 2015 -- and is constantly updated live.

When website co-founder Annie Lu ’17 was a sophomore, she took COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques, a class that spends six weeks working on projects in groups of three or four people. Lu and her group members, Adam Gallagher ’16 and Joshua Bocarsly ’15, decided to create a map that provides a visual representation of energy use in buildings on campus.

According to Lu, the Office of Sustainability had expressed to the course instructor, Professor Brian Kernighan GS ’69, that it had data for energy levels in University buildings that wasn’t being stored anywhere or utilized for any purpose. The Office communicated to Kernighan that they wanted some map or way to visualize this data.

The Office of Sustainability did not respond to request for comment by the time of publication.

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To address this need, Lu’s group created the Princeton Energy Heatmap. Kernighan noted that, by doing this, the group indeed provided a valuable service.

“It was a really well-done project that addressed a very important topic — good work all around,” he said.

Gallagher graduated from the University with a degree in computer science and is now a software engineer at Applied Predictive Technologies, while Bocarsly ’15 graduated with a degree in chemistry and a certificate in materials science and engineering. Bocarsly is presently a graduate student in UC Santa Barbara’s Ph.D. program in materials science.

Gallagher did not respond to request for comment by the time of publication.

“We got our idea [for the energy heat map] from the list of ideas on the course webpage,” Lu explained.

Bocarsly explained that the group was attracted by the idea of making something interactive and live. “[We] liked the idea that we could use our time to create an app that would serve a good cause and wouldn’t die at the end of the COS 333 class,” he said.

As part of the project, Bocarsly explained that his group set up a database to save data as it is generated, and set up an API to make it

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accessible to our app and anyone else who wants to use it.

“We hope that this database will become a rich dataset for researchers who aim to study how energy is used and how energy use can be minimized,” he said. He also noted that he hopes that some people see their building’s live energy use and think more consciously about how they could use less power.

The Heatmap displays each building on campus in a color that represents the amount of energy that it is currently using. When a user clicks on a building, a sidebar pops up with a graph that tracks energy use in that building over time. The graph has options for displaying trends over the past days, weeks, or months.

Though the data on energy use had been available on the Office of Sustainability’s site before Heatmap’s launch, the information had been presented in a manner that made it difficult to analyze because the University did not provide any bases for comparison.

“The energy-level data was all being thrown into this XML file, which is basically a list of numbers that wasn’t being stored anywhere,” Lu explained. “[The energy use numbers] were being taken from energy meters, were being taken and put in this file and thrown away, so we wanted See HEATMAP page 3

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Handley GS ’03 discusses African economic crisis

By Norman Xiong staff writer

University College World Politics Fellow Antoinette Handley GS ’03 discussed the dichotomous responses of businesses to societal crises in Africa in a seminar on Wednesday afternoon.

Handley identified two key categories of African businesses’ responses to national crises in the context of the HIV/AIDS crisis in eastern and southern Africa, as well as the political turmoil and violence that plagued Kenya and South Africa at the end of the 20th century.

“What emerges from my case studies is striking, and contradicts a lot of our conventional expectations,” Handley noted. “Business can in fact be a key responder, sometimes even responding in advance of the state.”

According to Handley, these responses by business come in two forms: constructive and destructive. Constructive responses are those that both help the business resolve issues it faces as a result of the ongoing crisis, and also align with the broader goals of society of addressing the causes and effects of the crisis. Destructive responses are those that primar-

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ily benefit only the business, thus very clearly defining the business’ self-interest in the short-term.

“In particular, I’m interested in what I call a constructive response,” Handley said. “Namely, a response that not only helps the firm itself solve the issues specific to its workplace or its business operations, but actually does what we’ve talked about, which is to contribute to the broader societal attempts to resolve the situation.”

The responses of businesses to crises were also influenced by how the government of each state responded as well, Handley argued.

She cited a two-by-two matrix of actor responses used in game theory to demonstrate her point, setting constructive and destructive business responses on one axis against adequate and inadequate state responses on the other axis.

In the context of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic in Africa, Handley pointed to business responses in Botswana and South Africa as constructive responses to adequate and inadequate state responses, respectively. In these nations, businesses responded constructively to the epidemic in a variety of ways, from providing free antiretroviral drugs to their See HANDLEY page 3

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The Princeton Energy Heatmap is a tool gauging the energy consumption of buildings on campus.

The Faces of Fitness Initiative took place from Friday to Monday, seeking to encourage gym-goers to think about the presence and effects of hypermasculinity in the gym environment.

Posters pertaining to this theme were displayed inside the Stephens Fitness Center. The posters contained quotes about hypermasculinity from students accompanied by their pictures; titles included “Strength is NOT Masculine,” “Let’s

Challenge Hypermasculinity,” and “There’s No Gender in Physical Exercise.”

Additionally, a station was set up in the Fitness Center where students could anonymously fill out a survey to both share their ideas about hypermasculinity in the gym setting and give feedback on the initiative.

The initiative was a pilot program conceived by Kesin Ryan Dehejia ’20, Cydney Kim ’17, and Tyler Valicenti ’18. It was started as an assignment for EGR 200, an entrepreneurship class

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this type of thing [hate speech] from the University,” she said.

Paluck said that she was invited to the rally after some of her students, who are organizers of the rally, asked her to attend and conduct a teach-in.

“I was really happy to respond and to be here and I’m very proud of them for putting this together,” she said.

Paluck explained that her teach-in was about three ideas: community, influence, and attention. For community, she spoke about why the opinions of the community matter for perpetrating hate speech and hate crimes.

“Usually people who do perpetrate hate speech and hate crime feel supported in some way by their community,” she said. “The next question is, how do we fight that impression that they have support in the community?”

Paluck explained that this is where influence comes into play. She noted that influential people in the community are well-positioned to delegiti-

mize violence, and she used her teach-in to show students how to find those influential people in the community.

“Encourage them, support them, validate them,” Paluck said. “We also have the influence to do that.”

The attention piece involves gathering the attention of the community on anti-hate speech and anti-hate acts, in order to spread the perception that the community is against these actions.

Sarriot said that moving forward, it is up to all members of the community to speak out actively if they see anything “marginally problematic.”

She added that white students should not be passive in the face of hate speech.

“A lot of it is sort of within eating clubs, within dining halls, within classes, being really proactively building a culture that doesn’t allow for hate speech,” she said. “That’s also why we want to amplify the work that student organizations are already doing here.”

She added that students need to be more proactive on organizing on many different fronts.

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called “Creativity, Innovation, and Design” that all three are taking.

“The topic of this class is gender inequality on campus, … and we narrowed in on a specific place on campus and a specific way in which we can help address this problem or respond to it in some way,” Kim said.

After interviewing 20 students from all four class years on gender inequality on campus, they decided on the topic of hypermasculinity, she added.

Valicenti explained two main objectives of the initiative.

“One, to bring awareness

to the issue of hypermasculinity, and two, to form solidarity around hypermasculinity, so that people who experience hypermasculinity and feel uncomfortable because of it can know that other people feel the same way.”

Kim said that the group received feedback from 77 students and that 65 percent were in favor of the initiative.

Valicenti said that some guys said, ‘Oh I hate this, it needs to be taken down.

Grunting’s fine, we should be able to grunt.’ He noted that the group’s findings reaffirmed their hypothesis that there needs to be more awareness on campus regarding the issue of hypermasculinity.

“Our vision is that eventually we’ll tackle hypermasculinity not just within Stephens Fitness Center, but hopefully also within other spaces where there is hypermasculine behavior that makes other people uncomfortable,” Dehejia said.

The trio’s project, beyond the pilot program, will be called “Our Space,” indicating that certain spaces that are dominated by hypermasculinity will have to be reclaimed by everyone, according to Dehejia. As part of their class, the group will

present their project idea to a panel of representatives from groups including the Women*s Center, the Men’s Allied Voices for a Respectful & Inclusive Community Project, and the LGBT Center on Tuesday, May 2.

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infected workers to instituting workplace sexual safety initiatives and community projects.

This stands in contrast to the destructive responses of business in Kenya and Uganda, where businesses fired infected workers or forced them to continue working without sick leave.

“At the less constructive end of the continuum were all those firms that simply fired HIV-positive workers and sent them home to die,” Handley observed.

In the political turmoil example, constructive responses were found in South Africa, where key business leaders and business associations agitated for political reform, proactive endeavors, and peace initiatives. On the destructive response side in Kenya, businesses did little to address the ongoing political violence; instead, outside actors such as churches or international organizations were the ones instituting peace initiatives and working towards reforms.

Handley explained the discrepancy in overall constructive responses to crisis by South African and Botswanan businesses and destructive responses by Ugandan and Kenyan businesses by pointing to the business landscape in each nation. South Africa and Botswana share a much more developed business landscape, with large firms, strong business as-

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to build a database to store this information in and visualize this data.”

Lu’s group had some professional help tackling this project.

“We worked with a company, WattVision, that is really into energy and partners with the Office of Sustainability. [WattVision] gave us some advice on how to approach this,” said Lu. WattVision did not respond to request for comment by the time of publication.

Lu noted that Heatmap’s graphs showing past energy use were sparse at first. She explained that, for the first few months after the website’s launch, the data on the site was limited since the group had just begun its data storage.

These gaps in data have filled out over the lifetime of the project, now allowing users to see clear trends and identify periods of time in which energy consumption is especially high on campus or specific buildings.

Though Heatmap provides lots of helpful information, Lu believes that the site is underutilized.

“Right now, it’s just something used for display, and you can go online and figure out energy levels of buildings, to see trends and things like that. I don’t think it’s actually been used for anything,” she said.

Lu believes the project has a lot more potential.

“There are different ways people could use [Heatmap]. Maybe, if Facilities people knew about which buildings were using a lot of energy, then they might be able to pinpoint those buildings to try and find ways to conserve energy in those buildings.”

University Facilities did not respond to request for comment by the time of publication.

The Princeton Energy Heatmap can be accessed at fac220lheatmap.princeton.edu.

This year’s COS 333 projects will be presented May 8 through 10 in Friend 006. Additional information can be found at cs.princeton. edu/courses/archive/spring17/ cos333/groups17.html.

sociations, and large mining and financial sectors. However, Kenyan and Ugandan businesses are small and entrepreneurial, with fragmented business associations and economies focused around agriculture and services.

According to Handley, business and class divisions overlapped in South Africa and Botswana, with large businesses mostly controlled by wealthy whites who were viewed as outsiders. Businesses, then, had a strong motivation to respond constructively to crisis, lest they be identified as exploiters of local labor.

“Part of my argument here is that it became increasingly critical for business to begin to demonstrate the way its interests were not aligned with apartheid, but were instead consonant with the interests of the majority of South Africans, that they were on the same side,” Handley added.

This stands in contrast to the business landscape of Kenya and Uganda, where business was not controlled by white foreigners, but was primarily entrepreneurial and run out of people’s homes. In these situations, businesses was not viewed as “others,” and therefore had nothing to prove.

“The results is a social environment in which there was much less

popular antipathy towards business,” Handley said. “Business as a consequence had no urgent imperative to begin to demonstrate or perform a way in which its interests were allied with those of ordinary Kenyans.”

Handley concluded her talk by making it clear that how businesses use their power is greatly intertwined with how it defines its own interests, and that those

interests aren’t fixed. What might define a business’s interests in the short term may change in the long term, and it is the long-term interests that lead to constructive responses within society.

Handley received her Ph.D. in politics from the University in 2003. Prior that, she received degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Natal in South Africa. She is currently an

associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

The talk took place on Wednesday, April 26, at 4:30 p.m. in Corwin 127. It was sponsored by the Wilson School and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies as part of the Democracy and Development Seminar Series.

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Letter to the Editor: Workers’ message to students Christina Augustine and Russell Weiss-Irwin guest contributors

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s campus dining staff, we work hard every day to make students feel at home away from their homes. We take a lot of pride in our work and enjoy our jobs in many ways. University students are generally polite, interesting to talk to, and a pleasure to serve.

We know that they are under a lot of stress as they study for exams and write papers, and we’re glad to be able to brighten their day with broad smiles and tasty, nourishing meals. We are proud to support University students both physically and emotionally.

However, we don’t always feel respected by the University itself. When a snowstorm hit this past winter, essential

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sity wanted us to wake up early and do good work, they should have had us sleeping in beds in private rooms.

Managers, alternatively, were given hotel rooms to stay in.

Furthermore, the University arbitrarily declared that the storm was over at 5 p.m., right when many campus dining workers who serve during late meal begin their shifts. Those workers, who had to drive through a storm to get to work and drive on dark, icy roads to get home — or worse, rely on New Jersey Transit buses — were paid as if they were working just another shift. This is totally unfair.

We are committed and loyal to the University, but the treatment during the storm shows that the University is not committed and loyal to us. Without our work, the University could not run.

Without our service, students would not have the

quality of life that they do.

We very much appreciated that students were concerned about us and that The Daily Princetonian wrote about our treatment during the storm. We were impressed by the words of appreciation that we received from students after the snowstorm.

The cards they sent us meant so much. We also admire the courage and thoughtfulness of the students who are organizing a march on Thursday to ask that the University pay nighttime workers double time for the hours worked on the days of the snowstorms this year and to never house workers in such poor conditions again. We are here for the students every day and we are glad to see that the students are here for us.

Christiana Augustine and Russell Weiss-Irwin, Campus Dining employees and shop stewards of SEIU Local 175.

Why I didn’t attend Preview

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campus dining staff — those of us who are required to come to work even when the campus is shut down — who didn’t want to drive through the storm were offered the opportunity to come to campus the night before. That was good, but the conditions workers found when we arrived were not.

One of our biggest concerns centers around our privacy. Princeton University is a very prestigious, wealthy institution, but when it put both male and female workers overnight in one big room without so much as dividers between cots, we didn’t feel like we were being treated with respect or dignity. It’s clear that the University administration put no thought into the workers’ overnight conditions.

There is also the issue that our coworkers were offered cots to sleep on. Who sleeps well on a cot? If the Univer-

hen I was choosing colleges five years ago, I consciously decided not to attend Princeton Preview. I had both the free time and the means to attend, and I needed to learn more about Princeton as I was still very much debating which college to attend. I was the perfect candidate to attend, but I opted out because I didn’t believe that Preview could give me the experience I needed to make the right college decision. I wanted to get the best information I could get: a real sense of what my four years would be like. And to me, that sense cannot be gained by attending Princeton Preview or equivalent events at other colleges.

Princeton Preview and similar events geared towards prospective students - such as college tours and admission sessions - are intended to persuade high school students that they want to apply and come to Princeton, or whatever the host school is. That’s understandable. But, given that goal, universities plan these events to portray the institution in the best light possible. Days are packed with back-to-back events intended to show prospective students just how fun, exciting, and

interesting Princeton is and how much it has to offer.

Although seeing a college at its best is useful, it is also misleading. Students should learn about regular life at Princeton before making their decision about which college to attend. Experiencing a typical day, as opposed to a Preview day, is incredibly important, because it is much more representative of what life will actually be like over the next four years.

I had an older sister who applied to colleges before me, so I had the foresight to put Preview into context. I knew that Preview wouldn’t give sufficient insight to help an indecisive 18-year-old me make my college decision. So instead of Preview, I chose to seek out an experience of a typical day at college. I visited my potential schools on regular days, when they weren’t expecting admitted students. I stayed with students I knew from my high school, attended classes with them, and went to their extracurricular activities. Often, if they didn’t share my interests, they happily pointed me to their friends who did. When they studied, I did my high school homework.

My friends would typically try to show and tell me all the amazing things about the school. For example, at Princeton I was taken to Murray-Dodge Hall for cookies, which honestly may have

been what sealed the deal.

Yet I also got an authentic sense of what college life is actually like at Princeton and other schools, experiencing both the pros and the cons. I don’t think that Preview allows for this, as students are shuff led from event to event and spend more time with other unaware prospective students than with current students.

I believe that the University has a moral responsibility to portray itself honestly to prospective students, so that they can make the best choice for their own lives.

The University should aim for what is best for prospective students, not for itself.

However, I also understand why universities don’t choose to offer individual visits to everyone. Schools have an interest in achieving high application and yield rates, so they want to paint the college in the best light, albeit not the most accurate. Individual visits would also be a logistical and financial nightmare.

Consequently, many schools will only pay for students to travel to the official event.

I was fortunate enough to live on the East Coast and largely be looking at schools that were fairly nearby and thus could coordinate and pay for my own transportation. I also had peers at many of the schools I was looking at who could host me. Some schools organize individual

visits and arrange hosts, but not all do, so if you do not know someone, it can be hard to access the campus.

In the face of these difficulties, having one coordinated Preview is certainly better than having no opportunity to visit at all. Preview does offer the benefit of meeting potential classmates, which is only possible at events where many prospective students gather on campus at one time. But meeting other students is not as important as seeing what a typical day is like on campus. At college, friendships are not so class-centric, nor do I think classes differ greatly, so prospective students can get a general sense of what their future peers may be like just by meeting current students on a regular day.

In the end, for those who can organize an alternative visit, I would highly recommend doing so. Preview is certainly better than nothing, but experiencing Princeton in all its glory and its grime on a regular day is invaluable. I’d be happy to host, although I’ll be graduating this spring! But I am sure other students would be just as willing.

Marni Morse is a politics major from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@ princeton.edu.

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Throw yourself in Ryan Dukeman

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s Princeton prepares to welcome the Class of 2021, the latest in a perennial series of the increasingly diverse, well-qualified cohorts, current students — even us post-thesis seniors long removed from the days of admitted-student lanyards and peer academic advising — will be sought out to provide lessons learned and parting words of wisdom to those about to replace us on this campus. This is a question I’ve recently been facing a lot at home as well, as my sister prepares to enter her freshman year at Boston College. And while I hope to save my final thoughts for my soon-to-be final column, in the few weeks left before college decision day, there’s one message I hope the incoming class, at Princeton and elsewhere, will take to heart:

Throw yourself in, with reckless abandon.

When you arrive in September, likely reeking from OA, you’ll almost immediately be inundated by opportunities to join new clubs and build on the interests and accomplishments that got you here. You’ll walk in a nervous group through crowded aisles in Dillon Gymnasium, dodging club officers with candy enticing you to join their listservs. In the next few weeks, you, like the rest of us, will discover that in many contexts, “no prior experience needed” is just a meaningless string of syllables put in order. Because of this sorting, many of you may, as I did freshman year, end up pursuing many of the same activities that you excelled in during high school, which may have helped get you a spot at Princeton.

To be sure, there is nothing wrong with deepening one’s interest and ability in previous passions. The chance to

do so here alongside some of the most talented people in their fields has been one of the great blessings of these four years. So by all means, dive deeper into the things that truly give you joy, that challenge and stimulate you, and that allow you to work with people you admire.

But consciously carve out space, especially in freshman fall and again during freshman spring club signups, to cast a wide net in the search for new passions and hobbies, most meaningfully those that will never end up on your résumé and that resemble nothing else in your portfolio of interests.

Join a club, or start your own, that serves to help you relieve stress or gain the deeper fulfillment that comes from serving others. Even if it ends up being for just an hour a week, you’ll thank yourself for doing it during the many times here when you’ll feel the mounting stress is inescapable. It isn’t, but only if

you make it not so.

As Max Grear wrote last week, part of the Princeton experience, for better or worse, is that your academic, social, and even professional life while here will be oriented around the institution itself. You will almost certainly live on campus, engage almost exclusively with campus-based organizations, and interact almost exclusively with other Princeton affiliates. In part, this reality has been a joy — I can fully attest to the bond of a deeply common experience shared between close friends exists more strongly here than at peer schools where the boundaries between campus and city are more f luidly integrated. However, it was at times suffocating — junior year here was the hardest of my life in overwhelming part because there was no physical place or emotional peer group to escape to when a sense of comparative failure came to dominate my ex-

perience.

Rededicating myself to pursuits having nothing to do with prestige or accomplishment — Princeton will never write a news story about me or fête me at a reception — has been a tremendously important way of overcoming that suffocation this year, and I only wish I had done so sooner.

So, while the information overload of a campus activities list numbering over 300 groups can seem to beg you to just default to what you already know, make every effort you can, as early as you can, to find new meaning and excitement in passions you have not yet discovered.

Beyond the satisfaction it will bring you early on, it can make all the difference in a pinch down the line.

Ryan Dukeman is a Wilson School major from Westwood, Mass. He can be reached at rdukeman@princeton.edu.

On time management: A letter to prefrosh Marissa Rosenberg-Carlson contributing columnist

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hen I came to Preview in 2014, a senior told me that she found it exceedingly difficult to manage her time here. She told me that the more quickly I learned time management skills, the better off I would be. I wish she had explained why it was so hard. It has taken me three years to understand exactly how we students get in over our heads, and how we can pull ourselves out. In an effort to save you some time, I will elaborate on the lesson I am still learning: how to take care of myself.

At Princeton, it is common for one person to lead multiple lives. I could fill my schedule with academics if I

thoroughly completed all the work for my four classes. I could fill it entirely with rehearsals and voice lessons if I thoroughly practiced all my music. I could work on my junior paper morning to night.

I could spend all day getting to know people at my eating club. I could forgo school altogether and just focus on the lobbying organization for which I work. Instead, I stretch myself across all these things, am expected to prioritize each one, and end up doing none of them wholeheartedly.

A lot of us derive twisted pleasure from pretending to be superhuman. I don’t mean that to be cynical. I think we remain awestruck by the privilege of being here. We fear that our undergraduate tenure is passing too quickly and that we will leave too many

stones unturned. I didn’t get a spring break this year. I instead chose to take a journalism class that brought me on a reporting trip to Paris. We interviewed people and wrote every day. I was exhilarated.

It was wonderful. I also barely slept. Three weeks later, my adrenaline is depleting, my mind is perpetually foggy, and I race against time for the chance to reflect.

Your most formative college moments will come when the wave of obligations crashes so hard over your head that it fully inundates you.

You’ll wonder how you got so far under, and you’ll experiment with ways to pull yourself out. A couple weeks ago I found myself there. I was so paralyzed by the number of tasks at hand that I couldn’t complete any of them. I wandered aimlessly for hours

between my eating club and Frist Campus Center trying to recuperate even a scrap of ambition. I never succeeded. In spite of myself, I chose to let it go. I hopped in the car with my friends, cranked up the radio, and went out to dinner.

It takes enormous strength of character to convince yourself that living off adrenaline is not noble. There’s no Princeton award designated for those who lead the most balanced life. You have to be so sure of what’s best for you that when someone asks you to take on another project, you simply say, “I don’t want to do that.” You have to be comfortable enough in your achievements to not take advantage of every opportunity. You have to pry yourself away from commitments in order to spend time with your friends, without moralizing

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your decision.

The term “time management” doesn’t account for the labor that goes into it, just as the diplomatic term “conflict management” euphemizes the challenge of mediating national interests at war with each other. It’s not really about learning to juggle activities. It’s a more holistic process through which I settle myself among my commitments and against my anxieties. It involves carving out time for sleep even where the time doesn’t seem to exist, and being strangely militant about having dance parties on Friday nights. This is radical self-care. Life at Princeton isn’t sustainable without it.

Marissa Rosenberg-Carlson is a Near Eastern Studies major from San Francisco, Calif. She can be reached at myr@princeton.edu.

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Lions beat Tigers in baseball

By Owen Tedford staff writer

Last weekend, the baseball team had a tough time, getting swept at Clarke Field against Columbia (14-21, 9-7 Ivy). In the two games on Friday, Princeton (9-26-1, 5-11) kept the games close. losing 6-4 in game one and 5-4 in game two. The Tigers were unlucky to not convert more hits into runs in game two, where they outhit the Lions 13-8. In particular, strong pitching proved a key to Princeton’s success in game two with senior pitcher Chad Powers striking out a season — best seven batters in seven innings work. Senior infielder Cody Phillips had a strong showing in these two games as well, with two hits in the first game and a career-high four hits in the second game, batting a total of 6-7 on the day. Three of these hits were doubles, including the double that led to game one’s opening score. In addition, Phillips scored three of the Tigers’ eight runs, one in the first game and two in the second.

On Saturday, Princeton and Columbia took to the field again, but the weather was not on their side. Getting rained out in the top of the fifth inning, games three and four of the weekend were postponed until Sunday. These games were not as close as the first two in the series, with the Lions winning 15-2 in game three and 21-5 in game four.

Princeton could find no way to stop the Columbia floodgates who had 22 hits in game four and scored in every in-

ning after the fourth.

This weekend, the Tigers will host Cornell in a doubleheader on Friday at Clarke Field with first pitches scheduled for noon in game one and 2:30 p.m. in game two. These are the last home games for Princeton this year, so the seniors will be honored before the first game. The senior class will play an important role in ending their Princeton careers on a winning note. In particular, the reliable bat of senior outfielder Nick Hernandez will be crucial. He currently leads the Tigers’ offense in RBI (22), slugging percentage (.466), and extra-base hits (11).

After these two games, Princeton will travel to Ithaca on Sunday to face the Big Red in another doubleheader at Hoy Field. This will be Cornell’s senior day, as these are its last home games of the year.

These will also be the Tigers last two games of the season, and while they are no longer able to qualify for Ivy League championship, a sweep of the Big Red this weekend would prevent the Tigers from finishing in last place in the Lou Gehrig Division. Freshman infielder David Harding will be key to this effort as he leads the team in batting average at .337 for the season, and .388 in the Ivy League season putting him among the top ten of the conference.

For those who are unable to make it to Clarke Field this Friday or up to Ithaca on Sunday, all four of these games will be available for streaming from the Ivy League Digital Network.

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The baseball team faced rain delays and four losses in their series against Cornell last weekend.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Tigers fight for share of Ivy League title

By Claire Coughlin associate sports editor

The Princeton Women’s Lacrosse Team (11-3, 5-1 Ivy) caused Cornell (10-4, 5-1 Ivy) to drop its first Ivy League challenge of the season last Saturday afternoon, triumphing in a 12-

11 double overtime win on Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, NY. The win gives the Tigers, the Big Red, and the Penn Quakers even records in the Ivy League and the chance for any one of them to clinch the Ivy League Title.

Princeton came out strong

in the first half, ending it with a 6-3 lead. Goals came from sophomore attack Allie Rogers, freshman midfielder Tess D’Orsi, junior attack Colby Chanenchuk, and a hat trick from senior midfielder Olivia Hompe.

Kathryn Hallett opened the second half with a goal right off the bat, but the Big Red responded with 5-1 run to tie the game 8-8 at 11:21. Sophomore midfielder Elizabeth George put Princeton back on the board, but Cornell responded with three straight goals that gave them their

first lead of the game. Despite the fact that Cornell goalie Renee Poullott was having an incredible game, D’Orsi scored her 34th goal of the season at 2:37. Then, with three seconds left into the game, senior midfielder Anna Doherty sent a Hail Mary pass 40 yards across the field to Olivia Hompe who took it to the goal and tied the game.

The game went into overtime and despite seven shots on goal by the Tigers, both teams remained scoreless. In the second overtime,

Hompe tried once again to put the Tigers at an advantage, but was double teamed.

She was forced toss the ball to Chanenchuk, who completed the game with a hat trick by scoring the game winner for the Tigers.

The next time the Tigers play will be this coming Saturday at the Class of 1952 Stadium against Columbia at 1 p.m. This will be Princeton’s regular-season finale and a chance for the Tigers to win a share of the Ivy League Title.

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The Princeton Women’s Lacrosse Team clinched a win on Saturday against Cornell in double overtime.

Tweet of the Day “Despite two girls forgetting their ID’s, we are finally on our way to Bloomington! #GoTigers♀️#pwwp17” Princeton water polo (@Pwaterpolo)

Stat of the Day

No. 9 The Princeton Tigers were selected as the No. 9 team in the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Varsity Poll.

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