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University admits most diverse class of graduate students in history

By Claire Silberman Associate News Editor

The University’s Graduate School’s latest admissions cycle welcomed “the most diverse group of incoming graduate students to Princeton,” according to a Sept. 12 University press release.

The class of graduate students comes from 277 undergraduate institutions. Fortytwo percent are international students, hailing from almost 50 countries. The countries with the highest representations are the United States, China, Canada, India, Korea, the UK, Germany, Italy, France, and Turkey.

The University’s press release reported that 43% of the class identify as minorities.

According to annual data last finalized on June 15, of the incoming U.S. citizens and permanent residents, 50.4% self identify as white, 17.4% identify as Asian, 12.7% identify as Hispanic/Latino, 7.1% identify as Black/African American, 6.6% Unknown, and 5.5% identified as multiracial. Forty-two percent of the incoming class identifies as women, and 58% as men. Twenty-eight percent identify as low-income or firstgeneration college students.

“The Graduate School benefits from a diverse student body — as does the whole of the Princeton community — because it is critical to our mission: To make a difference in the world through teaching and research of unsurpassed quality with a pervasive commitment to service,” University Spokesperson Ben Chang

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“We must admit the talent necessary to achieve that mission, and that talent comes from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences from across the country and around the world.”

The efforts to increase diversity were led by Dean SarahJane Leslie and Associate Dean Renita Miller.

One program that aims to facilitate the transition to Princeton is the Grad Scholars Program (GSP). GSP combines monthly seminars and mentor-

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ship with a Grad School dean or staff member “to enhance and support academic, social, and community building during their initial graduate school experience,” Chang said.

The Grad School also features Diversity Fellows — older Graduate Students tasked with fostering community through social events and recruitment efforts. Furthermore, Student Affinity Groups, such as the Black Graduate Caucus, Graduate Women of Color Caucus, Latino Graduate Student As-

sociation, First Generation Low-Income Grads, Intersecting Queer Identities, Graduate Women in Science and Engineering and Queer Graduate Caucus, seek to provide community for historically disadvantaged students.

“I think that it’s wonderful that Princeton is making strides to increase its diversity at the graduate level. There is still so much more work to be done though,” said Gabe Borelli, a third year politics graduate student. “Women, people of

color, LGTBQ folks, and other groups have been historically marginalized in academia, and until you see them seriously shaping discourse — both in the classroom at institutions like Princeton and in established research in their respective fields — at even greater levels, you’re missing out on key perspectives and experiences that are critical to fully understanding many of the phenomena that academics are attempting to comprehend.”

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McCosh 50 renovations After renovations, Tiger Tea modernize infrastructure Room opens in Firestone Library Staff Writer

The University began renovations on McCosh 50, the largest lecture hall on campus, during the summer of 2019. This was the first phase of a two-part plan, which is expected to be completed during the summer of 2020.

McCosh 50 houses 445 seats. The space is regularly used for larger undergraduate lectures, and to host public presentations and lectures from renowned guest speakers and faculty members.

Facilities hopes to improve the visual, auditory, and environmental conditions for those who attend lectures in the hall.

“Princeton students can expect a much improved and updated classroom experience in McCosh 50. The space will be more comfortable for students, and technology upgrades will accommodate the latest teaching tools,” Project Manager Mark Vicente wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian.

The renovation is intended to preserve the historic architectural design and character of McCosh 50, while still providing needed updates to improve learning

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conditions.

Phase one was designed to deliver new wood ceiling panels to improve sound quality, perform HVAC (Heating Ventilation & Air Conditioning) work, and add new lighting, paints, and finishes.

The second phase of the renovation project will include the addition of padded seats, a video wall, AV system, new chalkboards, and accessibility improvements.

Each addition to the space has a particular goal in mind.

Improved acoustics, for example, will allow for better communication among professors and students.

Added lighting and an improved AV system will allow for students to better see their work and presentations being displayed via projector. New seating will allow for a more comfortable learning experience.

New flooring will be implemented to prevent distractions caused by the squeaky floorboards currently present in the hall.

Installments focused on accessibility to be made over the summer of 2020 will include additional wheelchair seating locations, a new

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The University has reopened the Tiger Tea Room, a venue for students to congregate and caffeinate within Firestone Library.

The Tiger Tea Room, which officially opened its doors on Sept. 9, offers coffee, tea, and an assortment of baked

goods for students without ever having to leave the confines of Firestone Library.

A number of students interviewed by The Daily Princetonian in the Tea Room said that the location was “by far” the best feature of the new establishment.

“It’s very convenient since it’s in the library, and I’m a big coffee drinker, so I feel like it’s good to have a place to get

coffee near where I’m studying,” Abigail Goldberg-Zelizer ’23 said. “This is just my first week here, but I’ve already done most of my studying in Firestone.”

A number of first years, who have been on campus for less than a month, said the inclusion of the Tea Room would help establish Firestone Library as a second home.

“It fits the sort of ideal or

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imagery of living in the library,” Rui-Jie Fang ’23 said.

Fang added that he would love if his meal plan could pay for purchases made in the Tiger Tea Room, but “it would probably be too much of a thing to request.”

A number of students said they became aware of the Tiger Tea Room because of last year’s construction, which they noticed as they passed through Firestone. First years largely either stumbled upon the room or had friends recommend it to them.

“We ordered coffee and it was really, really good,” Emily Chavarria ’22. “It seems like a place that’s going to be a

staple for studying.”

The Tiger Tea Room also offers an “Afternoon Tea Service.” Available by reservation to faculty, staff, and students, the service includes “egg salad tea sandwiches, cucumber cream cheese and dill tea sandwiches, scones, fruit tarts, palmier, tea or Frenchpress coffee, clotted cream, strawberry jam, and orange marmalade.”

The Tiger Tea Room comes after a 10-year renovation of Firestone, which concluded last spring with the opening of the refurbished Trustee Reading Room. Over the last five years, as the renovations continued towards completion, Firestone saw an almost 63-percent increase in visits from students and other patrons.

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Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant ramp to provide stage access, and an upgraded assistive listening system.

Students, some of whom

have called for McCosh’s seats to be upgraded, were excited upon learning of the renovation project.

Claudia Rabih ’22 called the renovation “a good idea.”

“While the building is historical, the lecture hall is pretty musty and outdated.

It’s always hot, which is distracting during class,” she

said.

“The lecture hall has always been a source of complaint,” added Emily Yu ’22, “Especially the small desk sizes — the minor annoyances that really get in the way of class. It’s really great they’re renovating the room.”

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Remember it before it’s gone Chris Murphy

Editor-In-Chief

Nearly a month has passed since first-years moved onto campus to start their careers as Princetonians. For all of us, the arrival of the school year coincides with the disappearance of most of our free time, and very rarely do you hear students on campus complaining about how they have nothing to do. Yet through the constant running around, all of the lectures, readings, problem sets and extracurricular activities, we sometimes lose sight of the other things around us: those memories that may not mean much now, but before we know it, will become the most important part of our college experiences.

Seniors like myself are ex-

pected to balance the future with the past, to be excited for the next phase in our lives while remembering the best of the past four years. More often than not, however, seniors spend more time worrying about the former than enjoying the latter. Jobs, theses, and graduating take up so much of our minds that we forget to embrace everything that comes in between now and then.

For me, the most enlightening experience of this year came just a few days ago at the Triangle Show. As two students came onstage to sing “Old Folks Home,” a rush of nostalgic joy came back to me, and though I had not heard the song in nearly a year, I remembered all of the words like I had just heard them yesterday.

By the end, all of my friends around me — all seniors them-

selves — were holding hands, singing along, and embracing a memory that we will all probably have for the rest of our lives. At the same time, we also felt bittersweet, knowing that it could have been the last time we ever heard the song as undergraduates.

Why did it take three years for us to appreciate the show for what it’s worth? Perhaps more importantly, how many memories like that have we missed as a result of worrying about everything else?

As Princetonians, everyone is rightfully concerned about their future careers. However, sometimes I believe that everyone is a bit too overly concerned about the road ahead.

Some of the best advice that I have received as a Princetonian is affirmation that everything is going to be alright. You will

finish that class successfully.

You will turn in a thesis. You will end up with a job that can lead you to your future career.

Navigating Princeton sometimes feels like you are trying to juggle ten balls at once.

Sometimes, one of those balls drops, but is that the end of the world? Keeping some perspective and taking time to enjoy the memories of Princeton is one of the best remedies to counter the tribulations ahead.

Embracing the best of times, and remembering that some of these moments will last you a lifetime, makes that sixth class or that upcoming assignment seem a little less worth the stress that goes into it.

Chris Murphy is a senior from Jackson, NJ. He can be reached at cjm10@princeton.edu.

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The hard stuff Samuel Aftel

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I have been listening to Lil Wayne since I was in the fifth grade. But it wasn’t until one lonely summer night, after I stumbled upon a compelling piece on Vice, that I discovered the best track he’s ever produced: “I Feel Like Dying.”

The song, leaked online in 2007, piercingly narrates the orgasmic highs and apocalyptic lows of drug addiction — the highs that always make the lows worth it, and the lows that always make the highs worthless: the glorious, vicious paradox of hardcore chemical alteration.

If the context of its time is accounted for, the song is nothing short of revolutionary. In 2007, rappers generally weren’t mentioning Xanax or Codeine or other depres-

sants, as Wayne did in “I Feel Like Dying,” and through the track, Wayne inaugurated a form of hip-hop that was okay with melancholic, de-masculinized vulnerability.

Hence, as the Vice piece argues, “I Feel Like Dying” may have singlehandedly fostered the age of emo rap, a product of Soundcloud and other relatively underground internet platforms. Some of the biggest names in music over the last several years — Lil Peep (who died of an overdose in 2017 at 21), Lil Xan, Post Malone, Mac Miller (who, in 2018 died of an overdose at 26), and XXXTentacion (who was murdered in June 2018 at 20), to name several — emerged from this dark, moody genre. These sad-boy rappers captured the grisly intrapersonal, and interpersonal, violence of emotional poverty and its psychosocial neighbors — nihilistic depression, suicidality, drug abuse, loneliness, and other afflictions of contemporary American life.

This genre goes beyond hip-hop. The series “Euphoria,” for example, is perhaps emo rap for premium cable.

The show, whose first season aired on HBO this summer, is ostensibly about drugs, but, really, it’s concerned with the traumas of Gen Z — roughly, those of us born between 1997 and 2012. In “Euphoria,” the stupefaction of getting stoned serves as a pathway toward purifying intimacy in an increasingly depersonalized sociological landscape.

The show follows the escapades of 17-year-old Rue (emotively played by Zendaya) and her mostly high-school-aged peers. Upon entering her junior year, Rue, who has struggled with mental illness since her childhood, is fresh off a stint in rehab after she overdosed several months before, and she’s eager to start using again. Rue’s difficult childhood — the premature death of her father and her experimentation with OxyContin at 13 — likely contributed to her

teenage struggles.

To its credit, the show is not overly concerned with the socioemotional dynamics of drug abuse, rather, it wants us to see Rue as someone oppressed by not necessarily her neurochemistry or the legacy of the past, but by the demoralizing psychosocial metaphysics of the moment — the numbingly lifeless sterility of the present tense. Drugs, for Rue, are simply an escape from a world that’s deprived her of what she really wants.

As Doreen St. Félix incisively put it in The New Yorker, “her chemical cravings work in service of a spiritual one.”

The intensifying depressiveness of mainstream American culture correlates with the psychological situation on the ground. Amid a rising national suicide rate that has approached epidemic levels, the unyielding opioid crisis, increasing rates of depression and anxiety for adolescents, and a generalized feeling of relational loneli-

ness and social disempowerment, it’s relatively easy to discern why we overidentify with sad-boy rappers and characters like Rue. Princeton’s no stranger to this emotional crisis. Of course, by many metrics we are blessed beyond calculation — winners of the fundamentally inequitable lottery of life and statistically likely to find professional success and stability. But existential crises know no boundaries.

So many of us are in pain, I can sense it. So many of us are struggling. So many of us need a hug, a shoulder to cry on, someone to talk to, or just someone to hear them.

But it’s funny: as I walk around campus each day, even during my weakest moments, I can’t escape feeling something bordering on hope for us all.

Samuel Aftel is a senior from East Northport, N.Y. He can be reached at saftel@princeton. edu.

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Once a Tiger: Margaret Bertasi ‘14

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World rowing champion Margaret Bertasi ‘14 (left).

By Jo de La Bruyere Assistant Sports Editor

Margaret Bertasi ’14 doesn’t want to hear about her size.

The five-foot-nine, first team All-Ivy League honoree helped Princeton women’s open weight rowing to 2013 and 2014 Ivy League titles.

She’s represented the United States as a member of five separate national teams. She just returned a world champion from Linz-Ottensheim, Austria.

How did she become one of the Shea Rowing Center’s brightest stars?

Because head women’s open weight coach Lori Dauphiny recruits for “heart, not height.”

Bertasi, who calls herself a “huge winter-sports woman,” grew up a dedicated ski racer. Her family’s 2006 move to London left her with a notable lack of skiable mountains; she found herself in the market for a new sport, and followed her elder sister to the boathouse.

Her first, 2009 appearance on the United States junior national team — and subsequent third-place finish — made Bertasi realize that crew was more than just something she loved. It provided her with a world of possibility. She started sending messages to college coaches — and started getting identical messages back.

“A lot of them told me I’d fit in better as a lightweight,” she said. “A lot of them told me I’d have to put on

15 pounds or they wouldn’t even look at me.”

It didn’t faze her.

“There were no weight classes in England or on the junior national team,” she said. “I was rowing well against women who were a lot bigger than me. I figured if I could do that on the national level in England and the international level in the United States, I could do it in college. And plus,” — she laughed — “I wanted the competition.”

She found it at Princeton, where Bertasi’s teammates dwarfed and outweighed her. On the water, she lacked some of their leverage and length. On the erg, she couldn’t compete with their scores. She was, in her own words, “never a superstar.”

Still, she never gave up.

And that, to head coach Dauphiny, is what was so remarkable about her.

“It takes time for me to get to know the studentathletes,” she said, “but right from the start I could definitely sense Margie’s willpower. She worked away and fought really hard until she was in the first boat, making a real impact on the fastest boat in the boathouse. She’s fierce, determined, fearless.”

Each year in the boathouse, Bertasi accomplished more and more. But each year on campus, she felt a growing sense of dread.

“Literally everyone I knew,” she said (echoing Clare Gallagher ’14), “was going the New York City banking route. I really felt the pressure to do it

too — I went to all the information sessions, all the oneon-one stuff on campus. But I could just feel that my heart wasn’t in it.”

Banking was off the table.

And in the absence of an invitation to try out for the Under-23 National Team — her height had, again, proved a barrier — professional rowing was too. So Bertasi, a history concentrator with certificates in environmental studies and energy technology, accepted a sustainability consulting job in Singapore.

Come graduation, she readied herself to bid farewell to three staples of her Princeton Athletics career: Wall Street, the water, and the West.

Not so fast.

With two months to kill before her job started, Bertasi got bored quickly. She decided that, invitation or not, she was showing up to training camp. She raced her way to a spot at the Varese, Italy U-23 world rowing championships, where the result — first in the B final, seventh overall — was “unfortunate.”

For the second time, Bertasi hung up her rowing hat.

She moved to Singapore in the fall of 2014 and immersed herself fully in the professional world.

But something kept nagging at her: come the 2016 Olympics, she’d watch scores of her teammates and her longtime opponents represent their countries. And if they performed well, she’d always wonder if she could have, too. Would she regret not trying?

Short answer: yes.

So she quit her job, packed her bags, and traded in Singapore for New Milford, Connecticut, to train full-time.

At her first race back, the Elite National Championship, Bertasi placed third.

The two women who beat her were both — naturally — larger than her. They also both trained in Southern California.

“If these people were faster than me,” she said, “I needed to train with them every day.”

She repacked her bags and relocated — first to Southern California, then to Oakland, then to Boston. She set her sights on the Olympics; on making sure that come 2020, she can watch with no regrets.

A 2017 stint at the heavyweight quad selection camp didn’t pan out. Neither did her time at the heavyweight doubles selection camp. No matter the city or the situation, Bertasi found herself facing the same challenges she always had.

“Every time,” she said, “I was basically told my erg wasn’t fast enough. And I realized that will always be the case for me. There will always be a woman who is taller and stronger than me.

No matter how hard I work, there will always be reasons not to have me in a heavyweight boat.”

So last spring, for the first time, Bertasi gave up.

She quit rowing completely, vowing to simply work out like a “normal person.”

And within a week, she started noticing something strange: pounds were slipping off. She, who had sat in the 150-pound range during her professional career, was veering closer and closer to lightweight (sub-130-pound) territory.

“Why not?”

So began Bertasi’s second act — one that, in just the past year, has seen her place fourth at nationals, earn a spot on the United States national team, and, evidently, win a world championship in the lightweight double.

Her hopeful next stop: Tokyo, and then a return to the professional world.

“I almost didn’t let myself do this,“ she said. “When I made the decision to switch from a conventional path to an unconventional one, I was caught up with what my peers would think of me. Rowing isn’t a spectator sport. There’s no money in it; it’s not a life of glory. But I’m doing what I love.”

Bertasi knows that her path isn’t an option for most Princeton students. But she wants to stress that the underlying theme of it is.

“The unconventional option isn’t always the right one,” she said. “But I wish that more students were comfortable doing what they’re excited and happy about. That’s all that matters. It’s taken me a really long time to realize that.”

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