The Daily Princetonian
Tuesday October 16, 2018
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Kagan ’81 became her synagogue’s first ever bat mitzvah JUSTICES Continued from page 1
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CLAIRE SILBERMAN :: DAILY PRINCETONIAN CONTRIBUTOR
Dalin and Krauss lectured on the long history of Jewish justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
on account of his religion. The “scrupulously honest” Justice Cardozo “was a progressive in terms of policy, but in terms of jurisprudence, he was always someone who believed in the restraining rule of the court,” said Krauss. To this day, Cardozo’s writings on tort law are still cited in Supreme Court decisions. The third Jewish justice, Felix Frankfurter’s legacy is tainted by his “virtual silence during World War II,” according to Dalin’s book. Upon receiving proof of the Final Solution, Frankfurter ignored it and never urged Franklin Roosevelt to attack Auschwitz. The next Jewish Supreme Court justice, Justice Arthur Goldberg, had his time on
the bench cut short when President Lyndon Johnson asked him to resign in order to make room for for his close friend and political ally Abe Fortas. After Fortas was eventually caught up in a financial scandal, he resigned in disgrace. It then took 24 more years before there was another Jewish justice. According to Dalin, the self more recently described “allergic to discrimination” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg developed the field of gender law and became the first female law professor to gain tenure at Columbia University. In 2003, when the first day of the court’s session was scheduled to fall on Yom Kippur, she and fellow Jewish justice, Justice Stephen Breyer, successfully lobbied to change the date. The most recent Jewish justice, Justice Elena Kagan ’81, advocated for herself in
the face of discrimination early in her life. According to Dalin, girls in the Orthodox tradition typically did not have bat mitzvahs. However, Kagan persevered and had the first bat mitzvah in her synagogue. “They did not allow her to have her bat mitzvah on Saturday morning, she had to do it on a Friday night. She could only read from the prophets, she could not read from the Torah,” Krauss said. “This was a young girl who insisted on equal rights.” Students and community members alike enjoyed the lecture. “I thought it was terrific,” said Sarel Anbar ’20. “It was funny and informative. I learned a lot about the history of the Jewish Justices.” The lecture took place at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Library.
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Leach: Qualifying for nationals is totally within our grasp CROSS COUNTRY Continued from page 6
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ing of No. 29 and regional ranking of No. 3. Despite its success, women’s cross country remained relatively untested before Friday. HYP and the Loyola Lakefront Invitational featured soft fields; with the Penn State Open, Princeton
entered the fray against some tough competition. The race marked the first time that the team’s runners raced against chief regional and rankings-level competitors. Four nationally ranked teams lined up against Princeton on Friday: No. 14 Michigan State, No. 19 Penn State, No. 26 Georgia Tech, and No. 27 Utah. Daunting as that was, the team had a plan: to stray
Rodriguez shines for Princeton men’s tennis TENNIS
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Rodriguez and Ryan Seggerman, and first-year Karl Poling had byes in the first round. In the doubles bracket, the sophomore team of Rodriguez and Seggerman had a bye. Princeton played brilliantly Saturday, with wins across the board for the singles and doubles competitors. All six remaining Princeton players won their respective matches. Seggerman, Rodriguez, Duo, Poling, Roberts, and Peters advanced through the singles round of 64. Meanwhile, both of Princeton’s remaining doubles teams advanced past the round of 16 with two wins. Sunday’s schedule included two rounds of singles matches and the doubles quarterfinals. Rodriguez was Princeton’s only singles player who won both matches on Sunday, and he advanced to the quarterfinals. However, the competi-
tion continued to grow more difficult, and Princeton’s match results reflected this difficulty. In the round of 32, Duo fell to Harvard’s Andy Zhou, and Roberts lost to Penn’s Kyle Mautner. Poling was incapacitated due to illness and unfortunately could not play. Seggerman and Peters both won their first matches but lost to Columbia’s Jackie Tang and Dartmouth’s Charlie Broom respectively in the round of 16. Both matches were extremely close. In doubles, Princeton’s team of Barki and Duo lost to top-seeded Jack Lin and William Matheson from Columbia. Princeton’s Rodriguez and Seggerman defeated Penn’s Kyle Mautner and Dmitry Shatalin 8–6, advancing to the semifinals. On Monday, Rodriguez and Seggerman lost to Columbia’s Lin and Matheson, the national No. 8 team that defeated Barki and Duo on Sunday. Lin and Matheson won 6–4, 6–4.
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Sophomore Davey Rodriguez was the only Tiger remaining during Monday’s action.
from the typical Tiger strategy. “We tend to be a team that races from the back,” Leach said. “But we needed to make sure that we gave ourselves a chance to be up with the best of the competition. We needed to be assertive and brave, to look at everyone else on the line and to know we’re just as good as they are.” It paid off. Princeton
knocked off 27 Utah and beat Dartmouth, Brown, Penn, and Cornell to finish fourth overall. With Penn State over, the team now faces an intense and critical series of meets. Princeton will host Ivy League Championships (commonly called Heps or Heptagonals) on campus on Oct. 27. Then come midAtlantic regionals — run
on the same course as this weekend’s race — followed by NCAA Nationals, pending qualification. Friday’s performance inspired the team; they are optimistic about the postseason competition fast approaching. “This is a really exciting time,” said Leach. “We’re the fittest and strongest we’ve ever been. Qualifying for nationals is totally within our grasp.”