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Brown rescinds Bill Cosby’s honorary degree

Brown University has rescinded Bill Cosby’s honorary degree awarded in 1985, the Brown Daily Herald reported. Brown has never before revoked an honorary degree.

Alumnus David Ray circulated a petition online pushing to revoke the degree due to sexual assault allegations put forth against Cosby by 35 women. Ray claimed that the goal of the Sept.

20 petition was to send a clear message that Brown will not tolerate sexual assault by anyone in the community.

The Board of Fellows, the body who decided to revoke Cosby’s degree, meets three times a semester, and this decision took place after their first meeting this year.

Brown Vice President for Communications Cass Cliatt stated that the petition was not a factor in the Board’s choice, and in fact the Board was not aware of its existence.

Fordham University and Marquette University have also rescinded Cosby’s honorary degrees.

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The UMatter campaign aimed at encouraging health safety on campus was launched last week.

UMatter initiative encourages action

By Olivia Wicki staff writer

The UMatter initiative, a University-wide health communication campaign aimed at enhancing bystander intervention, was launched at Campus Club on Friday.

The program aims to address three tenets of health and safety on campus: highrisk drinking, mental health distress and interpersonal

violence and abuse, according to its website.

The four key themes of the campaign are ‘Action Matters,’ ‘Respect Matters,’ ‘Connecting Matters’ and ‘Limit Matters,’ UMatter student fellow Adam Cellon ’17 explained.

“We were looking for an umbrella framework that could encompass some key higher risk areas and cultivate specific programming

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for each,” executive director of University Health Services John Kolligian said.

The campaign is directly partnered with Counseling and Psychological Services, Health Promotion and Prevention Service and Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources & Education office.

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Sandalwood incense sticks and holy books line shelves along the wall. A carpet decorated with camels and elephants leads to a golden shrine. “Namaste. My soul honors your soul,” begins the inscription on the whiteboard to the left of the doorway.

The University’s first Hindu prayer space opened in Green Hall 3-S-10 on Sunday. The room, meant to serve undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty members, will be available every day.

The space resides in Green Hall because the Hindu Life Program is part of the Office of Religious Life, which the building houses, Coordinator for Hindu Life Vineet Chander explained. He and Princeton Hindu Satsangam co-President Rishika Dewan ’16 said that the administration was very supportive throughout the process of establishing the room.

Princeton Hindu Satsangam, a student group dedicated to Hindu culture and practice, hosted a ceremony Sunday morning to celebrate both the room’s unveiling and Ganesh Chaturthi, a Hindu festival honoring the elephant-headed god Ganesha. Over 20 people attended the gathering, which included mantra chanting, prayers and food symbolizing an offering to God. Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel Alison Boden declined to comment.

Dewan noted that while the

University is a great place to be Hindu, PHS board members had learned of dissatisfaction among some students through casual conversation.

“A lot of them said, ‘You know, we have little temples in our rooms, or sometimes when we need to worship, we’ll kind of go to our rooms and look for that quiet space,’” Dewan said. “We thought, ‘Why not have a space for everyone on campus to create that environment where they feel safe, where they can reflect, worship, meditate and just use it however they want to use it?’”

In response to these concerns, Chander and Dewan led the initiative to establish a Hindu prayer space. PHS circulated surveys in March gauging student interest in having a Hindu prayer space. Meanwhile, Chander said he worked with his colleagues to determine the location for a pilot program, noting that the existence of a Muslim prayer room on campus encouraged them to explore the possibility of something analogous for the Hindu community.

To make the space accessible to as many people as possible, the decorations will remain open to what people want, Dewan said.

The initial setup includes a small temple with a likeness of the goddess of education, which would be fitting for the University as an educational institution. Books and musical instruments are on the sides of the room, and she hopes to introduce areas to sit and read, See PRAYER page 2

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David Thoreson talks Arctic climate change

By Annie Yang staff writer

In 2007, only 13 years after his first trip through the Northwest Passage, David Thoreson said he was stunned to see little to no ice along the water route, a sharp departure from the rough pack-ice that prevented him from passing through the Passage on his original attempt in 1994.

“We were absolutely shocked,” he said at a lecture on Monday.

An explorer, photographer and sailor from Iowa, Thoreson began sailing on glacial lakes that were the product of natural climate change in Iowa.

Sailing and photography became the vehicles by which he could explore the world, and he began sailing on the seas with his mentor Roger Swanson on the boat ‘Cloud Nine.’

The notion of climate change first struck Thoreson when he discovered the lake in his hometown had not frozen over the winter. At that moment, he decided to make his second attempt to travel through the Northwest Passage, hundreds of miles of sea along the coast of Greenland and westward along Canada.

While the crew became the first American team to successfully sail all 6,694 miles of Amundsen’s route through the Northwest Passage, the trip proved a hollow victory. There were almost no obstacles because the route had so little ice — a sure sign of global warming in such a short period.

Thoreson said he discovered that nearly 80 percent of ice in the polar ice caps had been lost in the last 20 to 25 years due to environmental issues.

“It was an unbelievably profound, life-changing experience for me in 2007,” he said,

citing the crossing as what compelled him to fight against climate change.

Moreover, as a photographer, he said he was frustrated by dark masses in his ice photographs. Increased aerosols distributed across the globe melted layers of ice that exposed dark carbon from a previous ice age, he said. This created a positive feedback loop, as dark ice absorbs more heat and melts faster, which ultimately exposes more dark ice and expedites the melting of Arctic ice, according to Thoreson.

For his first active attempt at raising awareness about climate change, Thoreson embarked on an Around the Americas Expedition, a 28,000 mile sailing voyage under Captain Mark Schrader of the Ocean Watch. The crew aimed to bring attention to issues in the seas and oceans surrounding North and South America, he said.

Thoreson’s journeys at sea began with a 1991 trip to Antarctica by way of Cape Horn, one of the roughest bodies of water, where he encountered many icebergs.

Soon after began Thoreson’s first hopes to travel through the Northwest Passage, he said.

On the 1994 voyage, the last stop for provisions was Baffin Bay in Greenland, before they headed west through Lancaster Sound across Canada. Unfortunately, he said, his expedition was icebound for about two weeks and could not continue the next 300-mile stretch.

Afraid that any delay would leave their ship frozen in the ice-pack, the team returned home at the end of August.

Thoreson said oil and gas exploration continues to be a contentious point in climate change.

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The Greek Minister of Culture and Athletics Aristides Baltas spoke in Wilson College on Monday.

Q&A: Aristides Baltas, Greek Minister of Culture and Athletics

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Greek Minister of Culture and Athletics and former Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs Aristides Baltas visited Wilson College on Monday to host a discussion of Greece’s political turmoil over the past months.

Before the lunchtime talk, Baltas sat down with The Daily Princetonian to speak on the arts, national identity from the classical era to the present and Greece’s economic reforms.

The Daily Princetonian: As Greek Minister of Culture and Athletics, what projects do you hope to implement in the coming months?

Aristides Baltas: The Ministry of Culture and Sports is a kind of ministry whose

function is, so to speak, assure that culture in Greece develops, and is supposed to care for the infrastructures of possibilities of artists to express themselves — of connecting, as it were, big productions as far as they are possible regarding financing, and connect them in ways that might be helpful for Greece with a more spontaneous initiative for younger people in all the various arts. Its function is not to, let’s say, direct the tastes of the country or anything like that. It’s not at all the kind of ministry which tries to impose this or that aesthetic ideal or school of artistic expression.

The projects, therefore, are related to the infrastructures that already exist.

There is no money to build

more. But on the other hand, there are enough of them already, in a way. And at the same time to ensure that the cultural heritage of Greece, which is again quite big and quite varied, because all ages have passed through Greece, leaving their marks, and … different aspects of this heritage [are] known to Greece and to tourists. And also, to create conditions under which modern art expression finds a way to open dialogue with the cultural heritage — tragedy, comedy, art, drama — because it’s our view that much of Western civilization in the different arts is in constant dialogue with this heritage.

In Greece, you have a possibility of, as it were, living the atmosphere of this past.

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The University’s first Hindu prayer space opened in Green Hall on Sunday afternoon.

200 students have indicated interest in Hindu events on campus PRAYER

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she added.

“We have a very diverse community on campus, and we want to make sure that no one feels alienated in any way. We want it to be as welcoming as possible,” Dewan noted.

Chander said he and other initiative leaders thought it was important to open the space as soon as possible, then let things develop organically, so there is no finalized schedule for activities yet.

“What I can say is we certainly plan to make the space available on a daily basis, both formally for more formal structured worship or guided meditation, but also informally for students to be able to be in the space for their own private devotionals or meditation, or just to take a moment to refocus and regroup and catch their breath, so to speak,” he said.

Chander added that those involved with Hindu life are also exploring weekly, monthly and holiday-based programming as potential options. PHS board members could lead several events throughout each week, Dewan said.

The project is being jointly funded by the Office of Religious Life, Hindu Life Program and PHS,

Chander explained. He declined to release a dollar amount, citing ongoing budget changes and a policy of keeping funding information among only the parties involved and University administrators.

Chander said he hopes the opening of the prayer space will inspire other colleges across the nation.

“I know there are a handful of other campuses that have parttime Hindu life coordinators and Hindu chaplains, and Princeton, as far as I know, is the only one and certainly the first to take the very bold and commendable step of making a Hindu life program a full-time program here,” he said.

“I see the prayer room as just continuing on that same trajectory of leading the way as far as serving the needs of and engaging with the Hindu community.”

In the Committee on Background and Opportunity III Report presented by the Undergraduate Student Government, 1.6 percent of surveyed undergraduates identified as Hindu in 2012. However, Dewan noted that nearly 200 students have attended PHS events and signed up for the organization’s email listserv, indicating significant interest in Hinduism at the University.

Vibhaa Sivaraman ’17, a PHS board member, said she feels excited to finally have a place on campus that reminds her of home and

allows her to connect with God, calm down, and reflect on herself.

Having visited a temple on a weekly basis and read religious books in her house’s prayer room every morning before college, Sivaraman said she created a small zone in her room to partially fulfill the incomplete aspect of her life at the University. The area contained objects typically used in worship, like pictures of God and special powder.

However, she noted that her zone always felt uncomfortable and she much prefers having a prayer space dedicated to religious purposes.

“We have very strict demarcations regarding a prayer room versus where we live and where we sleep and those kinds of things, and it’s very hard to achieve that demarcation when you’re on campus and you have to use your room for both needs,” Sivaraman explained.

After so many days praying alone in her dorm, Sivaraman said she looks forward to interacting with people from different cultures in the Hindu prayer room.

“Our backgrounds are very different and we have very different ways of worshipping God and identifying with religion,” she explained. “Doing it as a community means that we learn about each other’s traditions.”

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But in order to do it, you have to be aware of this past. So it’s a complicated set of tensions. On the one hand, you have the big and the small regarding infrastructures and the possibilities of artistic production, a kind of tension between, let’s say, the old and the new, what happens in Greece, what happens outside Greece, and how to open the issue both ways: on the one hand having Greek artistic and cultural production go abroad and confront what’s happening outside Greece, and on the other hand equally, or more importantly, have the borders open, so to speak, for what’s outside Greece to enter Greece and enter into dialogue with what’s happening in Greece. It’s all this vague at this stage.

DP: In light of the financial crisis and the lack of funding that you pointed out, how will your administration promote the arts and heritage of Greek culture?

AB: There are three ways.

One is let’s say, for whatever it’s worth, public support. On the other hand, there’s these rich people who support the arts in Greece as well, and as long as we have a good relation with them — in both ways, I mean not let them impose their views on what’s happening in Greece but at the same time recognize the generosity in what they have to offer. And the third possibility is we’re in the process of enhancing relations between the Greek state and other states in order to do common, as it were, productions at various levels in various forms. And through all these three channels, to create conditions where artistic and cultural production reproduces its own costs. If you have, let’s say, a successful performance, the success can pay back the cost of the production, and perhaps even give some surplus to invest in these kinds of ways to develop it more. And if the production is big and revenues comparable, what we gain will enhance younger artists, younger initiatives …

the big productions invested in places where it’s less possible for initiatives to develop the kind of productions that would pay back exactly what they have paid for opening the thing.

DP: Comparing the past to the present in terms of art and culture, ancient Greece was at the height of Western civilization. In your opinion, what are the major causes of the country’s fall from glory?

AB: This is a strange country from this point of view because on the one hand, everybody refers to ancient Greece, to ancient Greek drama, tragedy, comedy, et cetera. On the other hand, Greeks themselves feel that they inherit all this culture.

But at the same time, they’re a little bit distant from it.

And because over the last decades or even last hundreds of years or so, the dominant ideology was to make modern Greece bow to the older tradition without having the possibility to express itself independently, so to speak, of this heritage. But despite that, the more important Greek artists always show up by themselves, so to speak, open a dialogue in respect to this heritage. There’s a tension going. We have to take account of this heritage, but on the other hand, we are modern, I mean, we live in this modern world. We have to express ourselves in this modern world. There’s a kind of continuous tension between where we come from and what we’re doing today.

In all countries in the West, something like that happens … A second, bad aspect is that many of the previous governments have taken, so to speak, culture as something that can be sold to tourists. There’s a common phrase in Greek politics saying that ‘culture is the big industry of Greece.’ I don’t like this phrase. I just want to have culture and civilization as the bases of everyday life, the bases of what you do, how you understand yourself, how you understand your history. And once this is clearly understood, then the benefits from tourism come as a bonus, not the other way around, not to have instrumentalized the

ancient Greek heritage and the ancient Greek culture, not to talk like tourists, but to develop this kind of tension between our heritage and what’s happening today.

And there’s a bonus: tourists will come and understand better the country as it stands today.

DP: How has the government’s approach toward the Greek euro exit crisis evolved since the summer, and what do you see as the most promising developments for the future?

AB: Seven months ago, most of the effort of the government was spent in relation to the new deal with the European Union. … And the present situation is that we got a deal which is better than the one offered to us before the referendum, so it’s a big issue of how to on the one hand implement what we agreed upon, and on the other hand open up possibilities which on the one hand exist in this agreement, but also develop things in areas not touched by the agreement, to create possibilities of the country’s development despite the agreement and while implementing the agreement. So it’s a more complicated issue than in most countries under such an agreement. And we hope that in all aspects of Greek life, social, economic and cultural, we’ll be able, in the last three years during which the agreement exists, to try to overcome the bad aspects of the agreement by developing things which are not, I mean, prone to what the agreement tells us what we should be doing.

DP: How does your administration plan to increase public support for the reforms?

AB: The government got support right now. The elections prove it. And the big issue is to keep the support going by being on the one hand very sincere on what we have to do which is unpopular, and what we plan to do which solves those parts of the agreement. … The key issue is sincerity and not telling lies, not lying to make things look better. On the other hand, offer ideas which people identify with and develop on their own.

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cultures, caribou and bowhead whales’ migratory routes and the homes of many species are threatened by oil exploration.

Thoreson noted that in recent news, Shell’s oil exploratory wells in Arctic have come up dry, and they will begin dismantling.

“Migratory routes, for now,

are safe,” he noted.

Thoreson was the first American to sail the Northwest Passage in both directions, but with his 2007 journey, he noted that the Golden Age of Exploration had ended. A new era of the study of climate change is beginning, he added.

He concluded on an optimistic note, confident that scientists, students and civilians working together could address problems presented by climate

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“I didn’t sail out looking for climate change, it found me,” he said.

Thoreson spoke to a full McCormick Hall 101 at 7:30 p.m.

After the lecture, attendees were encouraged to sign a postcard to legislators to sponsor the Stop Arctic Ocean Drilling Act. The event was sponsored

by Forbes College, the Princeton Sailing Club, SURGE and the Alaska Wilderness League.

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Office Jacqueline DeitchStackhouse said the planning for the initiative began when she arrived at the University in 2011 and began to collaborate with Kathy Wagner, Health Educator at University Health Services, to conceive a new bystander intervention system.

Bystander intervention is a multi-step process that includes stages of identifying problematic situations, recognizing personal responsibility and taking action to intervene and therefore tasks individuals to prevent situations from escalating into dangerous behavior, DeitchStackhouse explained.

While other projects, such as the annual freshman orientation play that addresses sexual consent, were in place when she arrived, they sought to create a project that would pull these initiatives together to create a cohesive campuswide campaign, she said.

“Not only is [UMatter] giving us, as UHS, a brand for all the different outreach and education, but it’s also being honest about how connected everything is,” Cellon said, regarding UMatter’s significance in making visible the connections between different health-related initiatives on campus.

One of the challenges was deciding whether to teach individuals just intervention skills or to teach individuals intervention skills in conjunction with the issues these skills could address, Deitch-Stackhouse added.

Drawing upon inspiration from the UMatter initiative that originated at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh by Shelly Maxwell in 2012, they began to build a program

with facets unique to the University’s needs.

“We set out on an almost two-year development path to create our own UMatter initiative,” Dietch-Stackhouse said.

Dietch-Stackhouse explained that during the 201415 academic year undergraduate student leaders, faculty and staff, the student design agency as well as graduate students were targeted to form focus groups to inspire the initiative’s construction.

Stackhouse added that several surveys, including the “we speak” survey, were released last year to acquire baseline data to evaluate the efficacy of their UMatter goals.

“We wanted to ensure that we had a very comprehensive foundation of prevention programming,” she explained.

She noted that while the UMatter campaign is very focused on student outreach, its organizers are looking also to reach out to faculty and staff and to build entry points for them, saying that faculty and staff could also avail themselves of this information.

Deitch-Stackhouse said that the main medium for promulgating the message of the UMatter campaign is social media, adding that a number of UMatter student fellows have been working hard to put together the public information of the program. The student UFellows, she said, have mapped out the academic year and identified the times of year that are high-risk in terms of drinking or stress to prepare the release of messaging that will be meaningful for the community to receive at these high-risk times.

She also said that the UMatter initiative is looking to reward positive forms of bystander intervention,

such as students’ escorting each other to McCosh Health Center. UMatter is in the process of developing tools such as competitions, giveaways and coupons to reinforce bystander behavior, DeitchStackhouse said.

“Our goal is to create that healthier, safer campus community where people do live by that credo,” Stackhouse said. “This is not a SHARE initiative. It is by the community for the community.”

Kolligian explained that the initiative has received a lot of input from students and enthusiasm across the board and said that although projects like these sometimes do not get enough initial traction, that was not the case with this project.

He noted that the project has received a lot of initial funding from the Vice President for Campus Life and the Provost’s Office.

Kolligian added that as with any initiative there is the worry that early excitement might lose its initial appeal, but that he is confident in the ability of the various offices to evaluate the efficacy of the program’s outreach.

“It’s not going to be a static program,” he said.

More than 60 students attended the UMatter launch party at Campus Club. A number of students were excited at the prospect of the initiative but felt that they had not been told enough about the initiative at the launch party.

“I’m really excited that they are starting this initiative, because as a senior I’ve seen a lot of campus stuff and over the years there have been some controversies,” Melody Falter ’16, who attended the launch party, said. “It might take some time to launch and for people to hear about it, but I think this was a great start.”

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his past weekend my Facebook news feed blew up with photos of smiling girls in green or white — images from sorority bid day. Same thing happened last year, and the year before. I am not interested in participating in Greek life and so am not personally bothered by the online wall of ecstatic new pledges. However, I can’t help but think of all those who were rejected this year, or in past years, and how painful that visual reminder must be to those women.

Though I understand the urge to publicly share one’s new colors and excitement, I urge all those who are admitted to selective organizations to think twice before posting that pride publicly online. Even waiting 24 hours before posting might help. Though not posting or at least taking a short delay before posting will have little impact on your happiness, it might really make a difference for someone on the other end who didn’t have the same good fortune as you.

Granted, I understand why people post all these photos. When you get admitted to a selective organization, you’re ecstatic and want to share the news and your excitement. Plus, you spend the morning and following evening surrounded by other elated people, so it’s very easy to simply forget about all those who heard the opposite news.

However, there are quite a few people who hoped for the same happy outcome and didn’t get it. And while everyone is posting on your wall about how glad they are that you all are now “sisters,” those who are “outside the family” invariably will see all those posts. These inyour-face online reminders can’t help students get over this arbitrary rejection any quicker.

I know the “rejection is a part of life” argument. I agree that students need to learn from disappointment and grow from it. But can’t we show some empathy and tone down the excitement somewhat? Publically posting photos isn’t what should make someone who got in happy; presumably it is the actual admittance itself that makes people happy, not unintentionally rubbing it in everyone else’s face. (Let’s grant everyone this benefit of the doubt that they are not intentionally gloating.) The rejection lesson can be learned just as well, if not better, from a less arbitrary admission scheme.

This unnecessary action can have real potential consequences on others’ happiness. Rejection during rush can really affect people’s self esteem. For example, at Duke University this past January, a presentation to students about sorority recruitment included a sober reminder about students being able to visit the campus mental health counselors if needed.

Moreover, this emotional “piling on” applies to so many events beyond bid day photos. There are numerous selective organizations on campus, and for every single person who gets in, there are probably another three or four who don’t. Just think back to when we all were getting admitted to colleges during our senior year of high school. Many of us probably came from schools where many peers were applying to the same university.

It isn’t particularly encouraging to see other people posting acceptances nightly while you are still waiting to hear from colleges or if you have already been rejected from your first choice school. We usually are sensitive to our friends’ feelings in matters like this. But shouldn’t we also demonstrate some humility in general, knowing that other people are hurting? Injuring other women, even unintentionally, seems to be contrary to the concept of sisterhood that sororities espouse. Surely sisterhood and supporting other women can extend beyond the boundaries of the sorority.

Students have this debate practically annually when discussing bicker or pickups for various organizations. While pickups are a great way for people on the inside to celebrate, they make anyone who didn’t get in feel like crap. It’s especially tough when it splits roommates — and (when shaving cream used to be allowed) left the roommate to clean up while understandably, although incorrectly, feeling inadequate. To me this situation almost seems even more questionable when it comes to something as arbitrary as getting into a sorority, where admittance is even more capricious and not a sign of any real talent, skill or value whatsoever.

The scale seems to tip even more in favor of being considerate of those who didn’t get admitted because there really isn’t anything concrete to brag about or that sets you apart in this case. With no explicit requirements to meet to be accepted, the rejection could otherwise hit especially close and reinforce our basest insecurities.

Again, I’m not telling people not to be happy when they get into a selective group. Nor am I assuming that people are posting photos with the intention to make others feel badly – I assume it is just a manifestation of people’s joy. So go ahead and celebrate. Just please take a minute to think about those who aren’t celebrating with you before you publicly share your glee.

Perhaps a delay and/or moderation wouldn’t detract from your happiness, but it could be a big help to others.

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used to think that North Korea jokes were funny. I didn’t bother watching “The Interview,” but I definitely had a good laugh at all of the jokes about the country in other media like “Team America: World Police” and the TV show “Archer.” Yet, as I found out, what really makes us laugh about those jokes is that they make us uncomfortable, which I found out one day in Beijing this past summer.

My friends and I had decided on a whim to go to a Beijing outpost of the North Korean government — a stateowned North Korean restaurant. According to a Slate article by Sebastian Strangio, these restaurants are run by the North Korean government as a way of funneling foreign currency back to the country. Walking in, my friends and I nervously joked that it was probably the closest we could get to the “hermit kingdom” without being arrested for treason and that it might be best to imitate innocuous Canadians. We decided that we would avoid talking about any kind of world politics, lest we displease the restaurant hosts and be thrown out.

Walking in was like taking a trip back in time to the 1970s; there was even a disco ball hanging from the ceiling.

Plastic flowers and vines coated the walls. Yet, the restaurant was packed with Chinese people scrambling for the chance to take a selfie with the beautiful female servers, who were performing

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traditional North Korean dances and songs, including “The Reunification of North and South Korea is the Korean People’s Dream.”

The restaurant felt artificial, calculated to earn the most money possible for the North Korean state. The waitresses all spoke perfect Mandarin, but conversation with them simply felt fake. Any attempt to talk about North Korea with the waitresses was met with a terse, dogmatic answer that sounded like a propaganda release – “Life in North Korea is wonderful, end of story.” Yet, to any of the rather inebriated patrons, that was not an issue. They were just concerned with consuming more of the expensive food and drink at the restaurant.

Furthermore, you had the feeling of constantly being watched in the restaurant. At one point, in order to try to get us to consume more, the waitresses brought out a stamp album for us to look at and hopefully buy from them. One of my friends took out her iPhone to take a picture of a particularly amusing stamp, but then the waitresses quickly snatched the book away. In that moment, the atmosphere in our corner of the restaurant suddenly turned very cold. We paid the bill and quickly fled the restaurant’s mini surveillance state to run to a fried chicken restaurant down the street, owned by South Koreans.

I would like to draw attention to the immensely tragic setup of the restaurants themselves. The Slate article that I mentioned earlier describes how the waitresses at the restaurants are selected by the North Korean government

for their political loyalty, but in spite of that screening, several of the North Korean restaurants in China have actually closed after incidents in which the waitresses tried to defect to China and escape the reach of the North Korean state. It seemed like the waitresses’ everpresent robot-like smiles were forced, as if their lives depended on the job.

There came the horrifying realization after leaving the restaurant that the entire experience really wasn’t funny in the lighthearted way that many Americans talk about North Korea, as evidenced by movies like “The Interview.” There’s a conversation to be had here about these kinds of jokes. Going to and consuming at that restaurant quite literally had abetted one of the most monstrous regimes on the planet, as each restaurant is required to remit anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000 USD a year back to the North Korean government under penalty of repatriation. This is money that is then used to oppress the country’s population and fund a nuclear program that the country uses to threaten the entire region. Jokes about North Korea, which generally involve a certain degree of schadenfreude, are eminently tragic because of the 25 million people suffering under the tyranny of that regime.

This is a regime that I don’t want to support, let alone give monetary aid to.

I won’t go back to these restaurants. The food wasn’t very good anyway.

Nicholas Wu is a sophomore from Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. He can be reached at nmwu@princeton.edu.

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On the Legacy of Woodrow Wilson, a Racist Bigot Wilglory Tanjong guest columnist

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n June 17, 2015 during a weekly Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, nine black civilians were massacred by a gunman whose intentions were to begin a race war. In images that surfaced after the shooting, it became apparent that the gunman was markedly influenced by the flags of the Confederacy and the South African apartheid state. This subsequently sparked a national debate on the legacy and symbolism of the Confederate flag, ultimately leading to its removal from the South Carolina State Legislation grounds.

In a letter to a Princeton administrator, I inquired about the nature of our deep adulation for U.S. President and former president of Princeton, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, class of 1879. At the University, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs (a graduate school and academic department), Wilson Residential College and the Woodrow Wilson Café all bear the former president’s name. It is impossible to be a student at Princeton without being constantly confronted with Wilson’s legacy, or at least a counterfeit reproduction meticulously engineered by our University. Despite his extensive presence on campus, Wilson’s legacy — one distinctly rooted in racism and bigotry — is rarely discussed.

However, just as our nation reevaluated its bizarre attachment to the confederate flag, it is time for our University to reevaluate its blind veneration to its deeply racist demigod.

In my letter, I questioned our dedicated admiration of Wilson on campus, despite his overtly racist policies, ac-

tions and beliefs. I was told that Princeton honors Woodrow Wilson because of the contributions he made to higher education, America and the world. I was also reminded that Wilson did more to improve Princeton than anyone else through his creation of the precept system, improvements to the academic quality of faculty and students, the launch of the graduate school and the architectural design of Princeton’s campus.

The topic of morality is a difficult one because people aren’t altogether good, nor are they all together bad. However, Wilson’s legacy should not be treated as a zero-sum game. This response assumes that Wilson’s racist actions were minuscule despite the fact that he actively worked to destroy, hinder and thwart the communities of black and brown peoples in America. Additionally, for whom did he work to make Princeton a better place? As president of Princeton, Wilson certainly did not intend for black students to ever enroll at Princeton. Wilson said, “The whole temper and tradition of the place [Princeton] are such that no Negro has ever applied for admission, and it seems unlikely that the question will ever assume practical form.”

I told the administrator that Wilson is arguably the most racist U.S. and Princeton president, and the administrator agreed that Wilson was indeed racist.

They argued that he may have not been the most racist president in history because he had a plethora of competition, including George Washington who they mentioned has multiple institutions, a state and our capital that bear his name.

But should we continue to validate the honoring of Woodrow Wilson because other racist, slavery-endorsing presidents are still being honored? Shall we continue to subjugate, oppress and ignore the existence of our students of

color because the world does the same to them?

The administration concluded their response to me saying that an understanding of our past reveals that we owe a great deal to people who are deeply flawed and not many people can transcend the prejudices of the times they lived in. That we should assess ourselves with great humility because we, too, are flawed and it’s likely that we will also be guilty of sins or prejudices that to future generations who look back on our own legacies will be very obvious.

To be very clear, we owe nothing to people who are “deeply flawed.” In fact, these people still owe us. It was his “flaws” that allowed for the continuation of black subjugation, oppression and servitude, whether mental or physical, to persist. Referring to Woodrow Wilson’s racist character as a “flaw” belittles his oppressive nature. As if racism wasn’t the catalyst that sparked the four century long genocide waged against black people that endures to this day.

And as for our own actions and our own immoral doings — despite our great accomplishments and contributions, we must remain accountable for what we do, say, and the people we choose to be.

Administrators at Princeton University have consciously swept Wilson’s racist legacy under a burgeoning rug.

The Triangle play, performed during frosh week, which included a 6 minute scene revering Wilson, is indicative of how our university only shares a onesided narrative with its students when it comes to the racists they honor on campus. Students are taught about Wilson’s great accomplishments, but they are not taught that he was overtly racist. Princeton actively lies to students of color when they claim to work towards a more inclusive campus, yet they build, reinforce, sustain and renovate barriers

that contradict their so-called push for diversity and inclusiveness.

In our University’s active attempt to reverse our nation’s and University’s wrongdoings, to be emblematic of our nation’s diversity, to produce students who are to be “In the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations” we are failing if we don’t consider the aspects of our institution that contradicts our goals and beliefs.

When our university fails to stand up against or acknowledge the wrongdoings of a man who proudly branded himself a racist and segregationist, we all become complicit in the crimes committed against the humanity of black and brown peoples then and the manifestation of racism that continues today.

There is no in between.

So what does it mean to honor individuals and how do we show our appreciation while ensuring that we do not continue to exclude, hinder, pain and oppress our black and brown students?

We must first come to acknowledge that our past was white-centered, white-focused and plagued with white supremacist ideology. That Princeton was built for wealthy, white, cisgender, Christian males. That everyone who does not fit that definition was not meant to be here. That our campus culture still tells people who don’t align with that demographic that they still are not meant to be here.

We can’t continue to do the same old things, and expect new changes. We are not where we claim to be, we are not where we need to be, but getting there is certainly possible.

Wilglory Tanjong ’18 wrote this op-ed on behalf of Black Justice League and can be reached at wtanjong@princeton.edu. Edited

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particular, when looking towards their first Ivy League game this weekend, HolmesWinn had emphasized the importance of off-ball movement in the Tigers’ offensive game.

Caro pointed out that, this time around, the Tigers had off-ball movement on the top of their minds.

“I think the off-ball work allowed us to capitalize on a lot of our opportunities, and that was a product of people just doing their job,” Caro said. “When we played simple, it worked in

our favor in the end.”

The team will continue league play as they face off against the Yale Bulldogs (2-5, 0-1). The Tigers, if the Dartmouth game is any indication, are looking for their 11th consecutive league champs title.

Indeed, instrumental to earning those titles is the team’s cutting its teeth with top-ranked, out-of-conference foes. Though the Tigers are at the moment slightly below .500, they believe the improvements they’ve made from facing such tough teams will become clear when November and the postseason roll around.

“Playing tough competition so early serves as a test to see where our team is at the beginning of the season,” Gershoff said. “We expect to compete with the best, and these games allow us to see where we must improve in order to accomplish our goals.”

“I think playing such talented teams early in the season has helped us because it allowed us to see the best of the best teams and get an idea of the kind of competition we’ll see in November,” Caro said. “Playing them early in the season will give us the most time to improve and get better throughout the weeks.”

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The Tigers won one game of four in their matches against Dartmouth and Harvard in the 2014 season.

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the loss to Penn was tough, but motivating. We’re just

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McSherry turned goalscorer in the 77th minute as freshman Jeremy Colvin got his second assist of the season. McSherry took advantage of a great Colvin run and took a pass on the right flank before finding the net.

The Tigers could not prevent Binghamton from scoring, however, as an 81st minute free-kick from Bret Celeste sailed over all the Tigers’ defenders and senior goalkeeper Benjamin Hummel and into the back of the net.

This positive game was an important result for the Tigers as they prepared for a huge game against American Univer-

sity Tuesday night at Roberts Stadium at 7 p.m. This game will be televised live on ESPNU and the Tigers will hope to extend their unbeaten streak at home. A victory against American would provide the Tigers with great encouragement prior to their first Ivy League game in Hanover against Dartmouth this weekend.

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that much more inclined to work as hard as we can in practice to improve and ultimately we strive to win the league.”

The Tigers travel to New

England this upcoming weekend, as they face the Harvard Crimson (4-7 overall, 0-1 Ivy League) and the Dartmouth Big Green (4-6 overall, 1-0 Ivy League).

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Field hockey stomps Dartmouth 7-3 to open Ivy League play

By Miles Hinson sports editor

A road trip to Hanover this past weekend marked a successful start to the field hockey team’s quest for another NCAA bid. They hammered Dartmouth on Sunday, rolling to a 7-3 victory.

With this win, the Tigers (3-4 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) continued a streak of recent victories against Dartmouth’s team, this most recent game representing their fourth straight win against the Big Green (3-4, 0-1). Their goal total was also the highest it has been in two seasons. Their last 7-goal performance was coincidentally also in Hanover, where they defeated Dartmouth 7-1.

As the score indicates, Princeton jumped all over Dartmouth from early on.

First to draw blood in the game was freshman striker Sophia Tornetta, scoring just 18 seconds into the battle. The rookie has already established herself as a force on the team, ranking second so far in total points (4 goals and 4 assists).

However, continuing to lead this team with her ex-

cellent production is senior striker Maddie Copeland.

Heading into this game, she was just a week removed from her first career hat trick against American, spurring the Tigers to a 5-1 victory.

She was in just as sharp form this past weekend, following Tornetta’s goal by putting in two of her own, pushing Princeton out to a 3-0 lead.

Princeton ultimately ended the first with a 3-1 lead.

Entering the second half, Dartmouth initially indicated they weren’t going away quietly. They inched closer to Princeton, scoring just over 3 minutes in to cut the lead down to 1.

From there, however, the Tigers stomped out all forms of life in the Big Green. It was Copeland who sparked the Tigers’ great push, picking up one more goal to give herself her second career hat trick. Her efforts were followed by goals from freshman striker Elizabeth George, junior midfielder Cat Caro and Tornetta once more, this time from a penalty goal. The 4 unanswered goals were more than enough for the Tigers to leave Hanover with a 7-3 victory.

Despite the victory, the Tigers look to continue to tighten up certain aspects of the game, particularly on the defensive end. The three goals actually represent a high number for the Tigers in their Ivy League matches – they allowed an average of 1.3 goals per game against league foes last season, and shut Dartmouth out 4-0 in the teams’ previous matchup.

Senior goalie Anya Gershoff points out that the performance on both offense and defense will need to be stellar, especially as the Tigers return to their (typically tougher) out-of-conference opponents. “[There was] obvious need for defensive improvement,” Gershoff said. “Our goal is to dominate the Ivy League and we cannot concede three goals to a team like Dartmouth.”

The Tigers have shown improvement from last Tuesday’s loss to Maryland in terms of, as their head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn put it, “the little things that are going to give us higher quality opportunities.” In See FIELD HOCKEY page 5

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The field hockey team picked up right where they left off as the team to be feared in the Ivy League.

MEN’S SOCCER

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Women’s volleyball falls 1-3 to Penn, prep for upcoming double-header

By Miles Hinson sports editor

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The Tigers’ offense seems to have found its stride; their 3 goals against Binghamton is the most through their first give games this season.

Tigers defeat Binghamton on the road, prepare for no. 19 American

By Tom Pham associate sports editor

It was an excellent weekend for the men’s soccer team, as they traveled to defeat Binghamton University 3-1 this past Saturday.

After an excellent 2-1 victory over Boston University in their home opener, the men’s soccer team (3-2) looked to repeat their feat when they travelled

to the Bearcats Sports Complex at Binghamton (5-4) to face the New York side.

Binghamton tried to take charge of the game in the first half, dominating possession and pushing forward to try and claim the ever-important first goal of the game. However, as the game went on, the Tigers got themselves in the game and were in fact the more dangerous team, with senior forwards

Thomas Sanner and Brendan McSherry threatening the Binghamton goal multiple times, including a 25th minute chance that McSherry headed just wide of the goal.

However, the Tigers could not break the deadlock in the first half in a balanced game, and had to wait until past the hour mark until they could find the net. An excellent free-kick from McSherry gave Sanner a

chance to pounce home, and Sanner did not miss out to grab his third goal of the season.

Sanner doubled his tally only two minutes later, scoring another poacher’s goal after a beautiful pass from junior Greg Seifert. This goal pushed Sanner’s season total to four goals, his 23rd overall goal for the Tigers, placing him 13th in the all-time list.

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It was a tough opener to Ivy League play for the Princeton women’s volleyball team, as they fell to their nearby rivals, the Penn Quakers, in a Dillon Gymnasium showdown Friday night.

The Tigers (5-5 overall, 0-1 Ivy League) came into this match having every reason to be confident — they were coming off of a 3-0 performance in the Rutgers Tournament from the previous weekend. Moreover, they had dominated the Quakers (7-6 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) in their meetings last year, winning the matches 3-0 and 3-1.

Apparently ready to start afresh against the Tigers, Penn came out ready to go in the matchup. They started out on a 4-0 run and pushed the lead out to as far as 7.

While a 6-1 Tigers run cut the lead down to 2, it would be as close as they got as Penn went on to the 25-21 victory. Princeton, however, responded right back, tying up the match with a 25-19 victory of their own.

The opening of the third set was a back-and-forth affair, until Penn managed to break out to a 15-7 lead, and seemed on their way to a second victory as the score became 20-13. An 8-1 run brought Princeton level,

sparked primarily by senior right side hitter Kendall Peterkin and junior middle blocker Brittany Ptak. They were unable to make further progress — Penn outscored Princeton 4-1 in the final stages to put themselves up 2-1 in the match.

The final set was a heartbreaker for Princeton fans.

The Tigers led nearly the entirety of the set, and looked to be within striking distance of forcing the crucial fifth set as they went up 2216. The Quakers, however, would push the score to 23-21 soon after. While a kill from Ptak put the Tigers within a hair of victory at 24-21, the Quakers would score the final 5 points of the match, giving them their first win in Dillon Gymnasium since 2012. On the day, Peterkin led the offensive effort with 17 kills — senior libero Sarah Daschbach the defensive effort with 22 digs.

Despite the loss, the Tigers still have 13 more chances to battle their Ivy League opponents in order to propel themselves to an NCAA bid.

“Although we are intense during pre-season games, we have an added fire when playing Ivy League teams,” junior outside hitter Cara Mattaliano said.

“The league is really strong, and See VOLLEYBALL page 5

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