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CNBC’s list of “colleges that pay off the most” lists U. second among private institutions

By Zach Shevin Assistant News Editor

The University was listed as second among private colleges and universities on CNBC Make It’s list of “the top 50 U.S. Colleges that pay off the most,” behind only Stanford University. The University was the only school in the state of New Jersey featured on the list, which included a total of 25 public and 25 private colleges.

The ranking was calculated by deriving the “true net cost” of the various universities via graduates’ expected annual earnings.

CNBC Make It listed the average annual net cost of attending the University for a family making between $48,001 and $75,000 as $4,557. This statistic, the website notes, was calculated using data from the Hechinger Report’s Tuition Tracker, which compiles data provided by the Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.

CNBC notes that this number represents “the true net cost” of attending the University, “including tuition, fees, books, supplies, and other expenses” and “after subtracting scholarships and grants.” The income bracket from $48,001 to $75,000, which contains the median U.S. household income, was chosen so as to reflect the most accurate cost for an average American.

The website lists the median salary for University alumni with zero to five years of experience as $72,700 and the median salary for alumni with over 10

years of experience as $141,300.

These numbers come from PayScale’s College Salary Report, which “compiles data from an ongoing, online compensation survey of 3.2 million college graduates.”

The website averages these two salaries, noting that doing so “gives greater weight to workers’ earnings in the years immediately after college, when individuals are most impacted by college costs and student debt.”

The University’s “salary average” came out to $107,000, the fourth largest average on the list, behind Stanford University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Seven of the eight universities in the Ivy League were listed in the top 25 private colleges. Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University ranked fifth, sixth, seventh, 13th, 17th, and 20th, respectively. Cornell University did not appear on CNBC Make It’s list.

Additionally, the average net costs of Harvard University, Yale University, and Columbia University for the selected income bracket were all greater than $6,000, and the average net costs of Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University were all greater than $10,000, compared to the University’s total net cost of $4,557.

The “U.S. Colleges that pay off the most” list was published on July 16.

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U.S. News ranks U. No. 1 in America

By Marissa Michaels Staff Writer

For the ninth year in a row, U.S. News and World Report declared Princeton the No. 1 national university in America, out of roughly 400.

Trailing behind the University is Harvard at No. 2. Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yale University all tied for the No. 3 spot. The University also came out on top for “Best Undergraduate Teaching” and “Best Value Schools.”

For some students, this ranking fostered pride.

“It’s exciting to know that there’s that image [of Princeton],” Sophie Goldman ’23 said.

The rankings are based on six factors: student outcomes, faculty resources, expert opinion, financial resources, student excellence, and alumni giving.

But there were also some categories where the University fell short of No. 1.

The University was ranked No. 12 in “Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs” and No. 186 in a brand new category, “Top Performers on Social Mobility,” which tracks the

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proportion of students who receive Pell Grants.

University spokesperson Ben Chang reported, however, that the University is “constantly striving to use a range of approaches and partnerships to attract, enroll, and support extraordinary students from a wide array of backgrounds.

“Earlier this year, Princeton University offered admission to 1,895 students for the Class of 2023 — of those, 18 percent were first-generation college students and 26 percent came from lowerincome backgrounds (as determined by eligibility for Pell grants),” Chang wrote in his statement to The Daily Princetonian.

“For example,” Chang explained, “Princeton is a member of the American Talent Initiative, a national effort to expand college access and opportunity for talented low- and moderate-income students… The Office of Admission works with community-based organizations and nonprofits, such as QuestBridge, Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) See US NEWS page 3

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Amid fears of recession, Powell emphasized this cut was a midcycle adjustment.

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell ’75 faces increasing scrutiny, political pressure following July rate cut

By Catherine Benedict Senior Writer

Jerome Powell ’75, the chair of the Federal Reserve, has come under an unprecedented amount of scrutiny in the past month as recession fears and trade tensions intensify in the midst of the country’s longest economic expansion. Although Powell has previously clashed with President Donald Trump, the chair has recently been subject to an avalanche of pressure and commentary that threaten to derail the Federal Reserve’s strongly held political independence.

On July 31, Powell announced

that the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets U.S. monetary policy, had voted to lower the central bank’s federal funds rate for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis.

While those rate cuts were employed to stimulate an economy in the throes of the worst national downturn since World War II, Powell justified the recent quarter-point rate cut as a move “intended to ensure against downside risks from weak global growth and trade tensions.”

The decrease in the target federal funds rate to a range of 2–2.25 percent lowered the cost of borrowing money, an attempt to encourage economic activity

and increase the inflation rate to the Fed’s target of 2 percent.

Noting the strength of the U.S. economy and near historically low unemployment levels, two Fed officials voted to keep rates unchanged.

During the news conference after the announcement, Powell stressed that this “insurance cut” was a “midcycle adjustment” and “not the beginning of a long series of rate cuts” typical in times of recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of decline in gross domestic product (GDP).

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A meeting of the Council of Princeton in 2017.

Death at Washington/Prospect intersection spurs calls for action

By Zach Shevin Assistant News Editor

A pedestrian fatality at the intersection of Washington Road and Prospect Avenue last month has increased the urgency of ongoing efforts to improve pedestrian safety in the town of Princeton.

At 10:30 a.m. on July 30, 68-year-old physician Michael Reiss was crossing the street at the intersection of Washington Road and Prospect Avenue when

he was hit by a Ford F350 pickup truck, according to a Princeton Police Department statement. Reiss was taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton for treatment and later moved to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia for further treatment. He died on August 1.

The driver of the vehicle, 42-year-old Antonio Pirone, was issued a summons for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, but all aspects of the crash

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remain under investigation, the press release notes. Pirone was stopped facing west at the traffic light on Prospect Avenue, attempted to make a left turn onto Washington Road when the light turned green, and failed to observe Reiss who was “approximately half way through the crosswalk” at the time of impact.

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interest rates to further boost the economy and thus aid his changes of being re-elected, Powell’s declaration went in direct conflict with his ambition.

The president has long heavily criticized what he sees as his own 2017 appointee’s overly conservative approach, repeatedly lambasting him through Twitter posts and media interviews.

Following the July 31 decision, Trump tweeted that “what the Market wanted to hear from Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve was that this was the beginning of a lengthy and aggressive ratecutting cycle … As usual, Powell let us down.”

Powell indirectly responded to Trump in an Aug. 23 speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole, WY. “Trade policy uncertainty seems to be playing a role in the global slowdown and in weak manufacturing and capital spending in the United States,” Powell said, a reference to Trump’s long-standing trade war with China.

He further explained that while monetary policy is an

important tool for supporting consumer spending, business investment, and public confidence, it cannot provide a “settled rulebook for international trade.”

The president interpreted these statements as a direct rebuke of his tariff policies, likening him to the Chinese president in a Tweet: “… My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?” In a statement to The Daily Princetonian, University economics professor and former Federal Reserve vice-chairman Alan Blinder ’67 wrote of the president’s tweet, “I think ‘unfortunate’ is an understatement” and called his criticisms “dead wrong.”

“Both his words and his recent nominees strongly suggest a desire to undermine the Federal Reserve, which was designed to be independent of politics — and is (at least so far),” he continued. “I can tell you who the biggest enemy of the United States is: Donald Trump.” Blinder also noted his personal relationship with Powell — “we’re definitely friends.”

In a February interview with the ‘Prince’, Blinder stressed that this presidential politicization

of the Fed is unprecedented in recent memory.

“Presidents since Bill Clinton have understood and respected the independence of the Fed,” Blinder said. “And even if they privately fumed about the Fed raising interest rates, as I saw Bill Clinton do, they didn’t go public with it. They respected the independence of the Fed.” Trump is not the only public figure to weigh in on Powell and the Fed recently. The previous four Fed chairs penned an Aug. 5 Wall Street Journal opinion piece arguing for the necessity of an independent central bank.

“We are united in the conviction that the Fed and its chair must be permitted to act independently and in the best interests of the economy, free of shortterm political pressures and, in particular, without the threat of removal or demotion of Fed leaders for political reasons,” affirmed the piece, signed by Paul Volcker ’49, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen.

University senior research scholar and former Federal Reserve Bank of New York president William Dudley took a different approach to the matter of Fed politicization in an Aug. 27 Bloomberg opinion piece. The

Fed should refuse to mitigate the negative economic effects of Trump’s trade war through further rate cuts, Dudley argued, writing that “if the goal of monetary policy is to achieve the best long-term economic outcome, then Fed officials should consider how their decisions will affect the political outcome in 2020.”

Dudley’s piece received nearly universal criticism from experts who feared it could fuel conspiracy theories that the Fed was working to undermine Trump, as well as a rare statement from the Fed that “political considerations play absolutely no role” in its decisions.

Dudley declined an interview request from the ‘Prince.’

Although U.S. inflation has increased since the July cut, trade tensions with China and worries of a “no deal” Brexit continue to negatively impact markets. As global economic growth appears to slow, many international central banks have cut rates, and the Fed is widely anticipated to follow in this trend.

Federal fund rate futures markets and many economists expect two more quarter-point rate cuts in 2019, the first of which is expected to be announced after

the Fed’s Sept. 17 and 18 meeting.

An additional assumption can be made: Powell will try to avoid additional time in the spotlight.

Described by Blinder as someone who thinks before he speaks, the media-averse Powell is likely not relishing the recent attention he has received. When asked for career counsel by a business school student, Powell reportedly recommended that he “keep his head down and work hard,” noting that “many otherwise competent people self-sabotage with poor behavior.”

A politics major at the University, Powell wrote his thesis on forces for political change in South Africa, then under apartheid. On June 26, he hosted University students and alumni at the Federal Reserve headquarters through the Princeton in Washington (PIW) program.

Elizabeth Bailey ’21, the student coordinator for PIW, said the visit was an unforgettable experience.

“It was exciting to get such a peek behind the curtain,” she said. “Chair Powell was happy to answer questions about everything from monetary policy to his time at Princeton. He came across as genuine, compassionate, and incredibly intelligent.”

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and strike the back of his head on the pavement,” the press release reports. According to an obituary published on the McCafferty Funeral Home website, Reiss died due to brain trauma.

Princeton Police Department Sergeant Frederick Williams said the case is now in the hands of the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, which will investigate the details of the accident before releasing its final report. Though vehicles are expected to yield to pedestrians at crosswalks, Williams said that Pirone is not necessarily at fault and noted that the Prosecutor’s Office must consider many factors, including where both pedestrian and vehicle were at the moment of collision and if and when the driver saw the pedestrian.

“When a pedestrian is in a crosswalk, if you ignore that, you’re violating the law. Now if you didn’t see that, that’s a different thing,” Williams said. “The investigations determine what factors were at play, what violations occurred, and how to proceed afterwards.”

Williams said that in his opinion, the driver in the recent case did not act in a malicious or negligent manner, saying, “it looks like a tragic situation.” However, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office investigation is ongoing, and Prosecutor’s Office Spokesperson Casey DeBlasio said that no updates on the investigation were available at the moment.

As of the date of publication, no criminal charges had been filed.

The intersection of Washington Road and Prospect Avenue has been the source of prior controversy. In a 2018 letter to the editor in the Daily Princetonian, Brian Zack ’72 referred to the intersection as “an accident, and possibly a death, waiting to happen.” In a statement to the ‘Prince’ after the most recent accident, Zack explained that he wrote the original letter because “it seemed — and seems — to me obvious that the current crossing signal arrangement at Washington Road and Prospect Avenue is

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dangerous.”

“We have all seen the confusion and near-misses,” his original letter notes.

One way to address the issue of safety, U.S. 1 founding editor Richard Rein ’69 wrote in a letter to the editor published in Town Topics, would be the implementation of a pedestrian-only signal phase, wherein all traffic would be stopped with red lights, and pedestrians could cross with green lights. Rein is a former Chairman of the Daily Princetonian.

Last June, the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) tested a pedestrian-only signal phase at the intersection of Washington Road and Nassau Street, the site of a 2017 incident in which a left-turning cement truck struck and killed 62-yearold pedestrian Leslie Goodrich Rubin.

In a statement to the ‘Prince,’ Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert wrote that although the town’s request for a pedestrian-only signal phase predated the 2017 incident, “the accident tragically illustrated the need for stronger safety measures.”

According to an NJDOT statement, the pedestrian-only signal phase gives vehicle in all directions red lights and allows pedestrians approximately 39 seconds to cross the intersection in any direction, including diagonally.

This phase is initiated 90 to 132 seconds after a pedestrian requests to cross by pushing a button on the existing traffic signal poles.

Lempert’s office reports that such a system results in “significant convenience and safety for pedestrians,” gives pedestrians “a very high feeling of safety,” and resolves “the turning vehicle/pedestrian conflict.” Under the signal phase, however, pedestrians must wait longer to receive a walk signal, as they can only cross during the pedestrianonly phase. In addition, vehicles have less time to pass through the intersection, since “the signal cycle must be split into five phases, four for drivers and one for pedestrians.” This cycle may also increase traffic.

For these reasons, Zack wrote

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in a statement to the ‘Prince,’ he views the current “test” as “a complete failure.” However, according to the minutes from the June meeting of the Mayor and Council of Princeton, the Council received over 100 survey responses about the test, and “almost all of them were really positive.”

The test was initially scheduled for two weeks in June, but it has since been extended and is still taking place. Lempert wrote that she does not believe the pedestrian-only signal phase has been made permanent. She added that the town has asked NJDOT “for the same treatment at other Nassau Street intersections, including Witherspoon and University Place.”

The minutes from the same Council of Princeton meeting note that Lempert characterized the test as “a huge victory for the town” and explained, “there is a wish list of more intersections where [the] Council would like to see that type of signal go in.”

In his letter to Town Topics, Rein advocated for adding the intersection of Washington Road and Prospect Avenue onto that “wish list.” He wrote that the implementation of a pedestrianonly signal phase there would be an “immediate improvement” after “the fifth serious accident involving pedestrians in less than five years, the second fatality in less than two years,” all of which occurred in “carefully marked pedestrian crossings.”

“Since Prospect Avenue meets Washington Road in a T intersection, there are only two phases of lights needed for motorists. A third phase could be added, halting all traffic on both roads and allowing pedestrians to cross either road, or go diagonally across the intersection,” Rein suggested, adding that pedestrians, particularly University students heading toward their eating clubs, “might welcome the chance to cross diagonally.”

Uchenna Ndukwe ’22, who said he witnessed a collision at the intersection last semester, agreed with Rein’s assessment, saying that while “having pedestrians and traffic moving at the same time in the same place” can be done, issues have arisen in the past, and that it is “probably better” to err on the side of caution.

“Obviously it’s going to be annoying for people who are driving to sit through,” he said in reference to the pedestrian-only-

phase idea, “but it’s clear that the system we have isn’t working, so I think if drivers are waiting a few extra seconds or a few extra minutes on their route, it’s probably better to have everyone safe.”

In her statement, Lempert wrote that the town is “currently working on corridor studies of Witherspoon Street and Hamilton-Wiggins” and that “Washington is also due for a similar review in the near future.” In regards to implementing any new measures at the intersection of Washington Road and Prospect Avenue, Lempert wrote that the town “would likely want to review and propose improvements for the entire corridor, and not just a single intersection.”

Additionally, she wrote that though pedestrian safety along Washington remains a concern, another NJDOT construction project, which will replace two bridges on Alexander Street, makes now an inopportune time to make changes on Washington.

“Alexander will be shut to all car traffic from November through April, and we anticipate heavier volumes on Washington and surrounding roads,” Lempert wrote. “It will be difficult to conduct proper testing of any signal change during this road closure.”

Though Zack disagrees with the idea that a pedestrian-only signal phase should be implemented, he still believes something should be done about the intersection. One potential way to alleviate the problem, he wrote, would be to make the “walk” signal automatic (so pedestrians would not have to press the button). The police department press release did not indicate whether the “walk” signal was on when Reiss was struck, but Zack wrote that making the signal automatic would reduce confusion at the intersection. If this change were to occur, turning cars would always “see that pedestrians have the right to cross,” and Zack believes they would “be more careful.”

Another letter to the editor in Town Topics following the July 30 incident calls for changes to how the town denotes crosswalks, saying that they need to be distinct and that “the pedestrian strip background must be uniform — not patterned — and it must be colored light to bright, white or yellow, [or] better yet chartreuse since it is the color theme Princeton uses at pedes-

trian crossways already.”

“I have no idea why the dangerous situation at Washington and Prospect has not been addressed,” Zack wrote to the ‘Prince.’ “I hope that the mayor and town council will look carefully at the situation, and make a case for improved safety to the state.”

Pedestrian safety on Washington Road has been a longstanding issue for Princeton residents and University students since before the initial installation of traffic lights at the Washington/Prospect intersection in 1975. Over the years, the town and University have attempted to alleviate the problem through various initiatives, including adding more crosswalks in the late 1990s, installing “flashing” crosswalks in the early 2000s, and building a pedestrian bridge (Streicker Bridge) in the late 2000s to, in the bridge’s donor’s words, “add an important element of safety to what is now a perilous crossing of Washington Road.”

The ‘Prince’ has reported on a number of University-studentinvolved injuries and fatalities on Washington Road over the past 15 years, including in 2002, when two University first-years were hit by a sedan at the crosswalk in front of Fine Hall; in 2005, when two students were struck by vehicles in a 30 minute span while crossing at different crosswalks; in 2009, when a University first-year was hit by a car while crossing on his bicycle; and in 2015, when a graduate student was hit while crossing near Ivy Lane. Prior to Reiss’ death, the cement-truck incident in 2017 was the most recent pedestrian fatality on the road.

Last semester, Ndukwe said he witnessed a near-miss unfold at Washington Road and Prospect Avenue on his way to the Engineering Quad for an evening lab.

While crossing the intersection, he said, a female student walking in front of him was nearly struck by a left-turning vehicle which stopped “inches from her leg.”

“At the time I thought it was just a careless driver,” he said, explaining how in that moment he could only see the “walk” signal, not the driver’s green light. “But I guess the driver did have a green light. Obviously the pedestrian still has right of way, but I can understand how it’s a little confusing.”

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and the Princeton University Preparatory Program, to encourage high-achieving, low-income students to apply to Princeton.”

In his email to the ‘Prince,‘ Chang wrote that a high ranking is far from the only goal for the University.

“Our work is guided by that principle of ‘impact’ — the transformative impact of the Princeton experience and the impact our community — from students to faculty to staff — has on the world around them. Our work is not driven by a desire to

achieve a certain ranking,” he wrote.

Goldman agreed that the rankings are not the University’s driving factors in enticing applicants.

“It was not on the top of my mind,” Goldman said.

“It wasn’t what I was looking at or using to make my decisions.”

The U.S. News list itself has come under fire by critics for weighing certain factors like alumni giving and standardized test scores too heavily.

Critics also claim that it is easy and advantageous for colleges to falsify or manipulate data used for the rankings.

In Forbes, Michael T. Nietzel, president emeritus

of Missouri State University, said, “It is too easy for schools to game the system and falsify data. Several of the U.S. News’s measures have become proxies for institutional wealth, and their relevance to academic quality is questionable.”

Goldman explained that it is possible to recognize the ranking might not be perfect while still appreciating everything that the University has to offer. Her approach: “Definitely taking it in stride and having the perspective that everything we have here is so great, but also being able to recognize how the numbers don’t mean everything.”

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Princeton’s excellence depends on the free exchange of ideas W. Rochelle Calhoun

Vice President for Campus Life

A great University like Princeton encourages its students to think differently.

Being a Princetonian means learning from worldclass faculty, diving deeply into the world’s biggest ideas and challenges, and sharing a campus with people from across society and around the world. Through those experiences, we expect that your ideas and assumptions will be challenged. In turn, we expect that you will challenge the ideas and assumptions of those around you.

This exchange is central to a university that is committed to excellence, and can only take place in an environment that protects free speech and the free expression of all views.

Free speech at Princeton includes the right to acts of peaceful dissent, protests in peaceable assembly, and orderly demonstrations. Such protests and demonstrations strengthen the fabric of our community by pushing all of us to consider different points of view and reconsider our own ideas.

We encourage students to engage in open dialogue, and disagreement, in ways that are respectful of all our community members and guided by principles of respectful discourse. Just as the University encourages and supports free speech, it recognizes the need to ensure the safety and functioning of the entire campus community. Both are necessary for the free flow of ideas that is at the core of our mission. Our role as University staff is to balance those priorities in a way that respects

and supports the rights of all on campus.

A few years ago, the University designated staff to empower and protect students’ rights to free speech and peaceful protest, while also safeguarding the rights of all faculty, students, staff, and visitors on campus. Staff are also resources for individual students and student groups, advising on University policies for organizing campus protests.

Last spring, when a group of students concerned about the handling of sexual misconduct issues held a protest outside of Nassau Hall, staff were there to support students’ free speech rights while also ensuring the safety of the campus community and the continued functioning of University operations.

As we begin another academic year at Princeton,

I ask students to consider what kind of community we want to be. I hope the answer is a community where questions can be asked — either of the University or each other — in spirit of a respectful discourse. On Sept. 25, the Undergraduate Student Government and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students will hold their annual social action lunch to bring together students and staff to discuss social activism, free expression, and campus protest policies. I invite students to attend the conversation around these important topics and to consider how we can all help make Princeton a place where free expression and civil discourse is supported.

W. Rochelle Calhoun is the Vice President for Campus Life at the University.

We can’t speak freely: Open Expression Monitors suppress campus free speech The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board On Friday, May 10, University-appointed “Open Expression Monitors” denied students involved in Princeton IX Now, which organized the recent Title IX-reform protests, the right to enter a reception to which “staff, faculty and community members” had been invited.

At the same time, other students entered the building freely.

Open Expression Monitors — namely, staff from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students (ODUS) — also supervised the Title IX-reform sit-in in front of Nassau Hall, which occurred for over a week, beginning on May 7.

For an institution that claims to protect open discourse and selected “Speak Freely” as its 2018 Pre-read, the fact that administrators double as “Open Expression

Monitors” should alarm every member of our community. In theory, Open Expression Monitors protect free speech and allow controversial speakers to safely visit campus. Although instated only months ago, they now impede student expression against the administration.

Open Expression Monitors betray a deceptive form of institutional-speech regulation.

Open Expression Monitors, employed by the institution whose policies fall under student scrutiny, are far from neutral supervisors.

University policy prohibits students from “prevent[ing], or willfully attempt[ing] to prevent, the orderly conduct of a University function or activity.” Despite their inherent conflict of interest, Open Expression Monitors are tasked with determining whether students have violated that policy — a decision that carries punitive conse-

quences.

The Editorial Board refrains from ideologically endorsing Princeton IX Now and neither condones nor condemns the methods employed by student protesters.

Certainly, University representatives should be present at student demonstrations, not least to register and relay their concerns.

Nonetheless, we find the title of “Open Expression Monitor” to be as oxymoronic as it is Orwellian. During the May 10 confrontation, Open Expression Monitors prevented students from expressing themselves. Yet, in the University’s own words, “debate or deliberation may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed.”

By positioning administrators, who are not tasked

to listen to protesters’ demands, but rather to monitor and restrict their lawful behavior, in close physical proximity to demonstrators, the University stifles the type of unfettered, unsettling free speech it claims to champion.

Board Chairs Chris Murphy ’20 Cy Watsky ’21 Board Members Samuel Aftel ’20 Arman Badrei ’22 Ariel Chen ’20 Rachel Kennedy ’21 Ethan Li ’22 Jonathan Ort ’21 Madeleine Marr ’21 recused herself from the writing of this editorial.

This piece was published in a previous edition of The Daily Princetonian last May.

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Women’s volleyball earns first wins of season at Maryland Invitational

By Alissa Selover Associate Sports Editor

Princeton’s women’s volleyball (2–4) traveled to College Park, Maryland to participate in the Maryland Invitational this past weekend. Princeton was one of four teams with George Mason (3–6), Arkansas (5–5), and Maryland (6–3) making up the rest.

With four of their five All-Ivy selections returning, including seniors Maggie O’Connell and Devon Peterkin, the Tigers were named the No. 1 team in the Ivy League preseason poll in front of the reigning Ivy League Champions, Yale.

Princeton stumbled out of the gate to open the 2019 season, starting 0–3 at the Rutgers Tournament on September 6–7 where they faced Rutgers (6–3), Towson (7–2), and Virginia (5–5).

Princeton finished the Maryland tournament 2–1 after beating both George Mason (25–22, 25–14, 25–16) and Arkansas (25–18, 25–21, 25–19) in quick 3–0 battles but ended their run with a 3–2 loss to Maryland (24–26, 25–23, 25–22, 20–25, 9–15).

George Mason managed to keep the Tigers fighting for the win in the first set, but the turning point of

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Elena Montgomery led Princeton in kills this weekend.

the second came after a 8–1 run by the Tigers, allowing them to jump ahead significantly. Another 8–2 run came in the third set to give the Tigers the final push that they needed to close out the match.

Sophomore outside hitter Elena Montgomery and Peterkin combined for a total

of 21 kills while senior setter Jessie Harris paced the Tigers with 37 assists and seven digs. Sophomore libero Cameron Dames led the squad in total digs, contributing 9 to the win.

While day two of the tournament was a split, Princeton came out strong against Arkansas to start

their day. Arkansas only saw one lead at 5–4 in the third set but Princeton came back quick on a 5–1 run to jump ahead. Montgomery recorded a doubledouble during the match with a team-best 13 kills and 15 digs. Dames contributed 17 digs, and Peterkin added 11 kills to the

win.

Up two sets to one, Maryland rallied out the 3–2 win against the Tigers in the third match of the weekend. The largest separation during the close victory of the first set for Maryland was only four points. A Maryland kill and Princeton attack error gave Maryland the first set victory.

After going back and forth and having many close-scores in the following sets, including multiple stand-still ties, Maryland walked away with the victory in five sets.

Montgomery carried the team in kills again with 23 while Peterkin followed behind with 17. Harris contributed 53 assists and 11 digs to the Tigers while Dames added 24 digs during the loss.

Dames and Montgomery were both named to the All-Tournament team.

The Tigers will host their home opener against No. 10 University of Oregon (2–3) on Sept. 17 at 7:00 p.m. The Ducks are No. 10 in the latest AVCA Coaches Poll, and all three of their losses have come from Top 10 teams.

The match will take place in Dillon Gymnasium in Princeton but can also be streamed on ESPN+.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Women’s soccer defeated 3–0 by Maryland

By Tom Salotti Associate Sports Editor

In its latest non-conference away game on Sunday, Princeton women’s soccer (2–3–1, 0–0 Ivy) fell to Maryland (4–2–2) 3–0. Maryland scored two goals in the first 17 minutes of the game, establishing a dominant lead that was extended in the second half. Sunday evening’s game was the first time the two teams met since 1995, and Maryland now leads the all-time record 3–1–1.

The Terps scored five minutes into the game with a goal from Alyssa Poarch, assisted by Jlon Flippens. Princeton got its first chance around 13 minutes, with a shot from first-year midfielder/forward Grace Sherman that didn’t find its mark. A minute later, junior defender Tatum Gee also had a shot on goal that went wide.

At 16:27 Maryland’s Poarch found the net again, bringing the Terps up 2–0 and scoring her fourth goal of the season.

With a little more than 10 minutes left in the first half, sophomore forward/ midfielder Amy Paternoster had a shot that went wide. The half finished with Maryland up 2–0.

Three minutes into the

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Princeton women’s soccer struggled on the road against Maryland, ultimately falling by three goals.

second half, Sherman had the first shot but it went wide. Freshman midfielder Marissa Hart followed up 30 seconds later for the Tigers with the team’s

first and only shot on target but it was saved by MD goalie Erin Seppi.

Sherman and junior midfielder Olivia Kane each hit another shot be-

fore Maryland scored the game’s third and final goal with 10 minutes remaining. A minute later another shot from Kane was blocked. Senior de-

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fender/midfielder Emily Hilliard-Arce had a valiant shot in the final seconds of the game, but it went wide.

Sherman led the team with shots at 3. Kamryn Loustau, a first-year midfielder/forward from Florida, started her first game with Princeton.

The Tigers had 10 shots total, with only one on target, compared to Maryland’s 13, with 10 on target.

Both teams had three corner kicks while Princeton also led the game in fouls — nine compared to the Terps’ seven.

Senior goalie Natalie Grossi, who earned second-team All-Ivy League honors last season, made seven saves against Maryland’s 10 shots on goal.

The keeper is one conference game away from tying the Ivy League record for shutouts at 29 — Grossi has kept a clean sheet for 28 games during her career.

Princeton will host its final nonconference matches at Roberts Stadium this week: Villanova (3–3–1) on Thursday and William and Mary (2–5–1) on Sunday. The defending Ivy League champions begin the Ivy League season on Sept. 28 with an away game against Yale.

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