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Climate Strike to be held in Hinds Plaza

By Zachary Shevin Assistant News Editor

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The event will begin at 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 20 in Hinds Plaza, with speeches from various members of the community, including two Princeton High School students and several University undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, Rob Nixon, the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment, and Anne Clintock, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and a member of the Climate Futures Initiative Steering Committee, will speak at the event. After this set program,

the “Climate Strikers” will march through the town of Princeton, cross into campus adjacent to Firestone Library, and finish with closing statements on the North Lawn of Frist Campus Center.

Cohen-Shields began organizing the Princeton Climate Strike in early August. The main organizing team, she said, is “really just a collection of individuals,” including members of the University community and members of the wider town community.

The Climate Strike has also received support from organizations such as the Princeton

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18th century building Bainbridge House reopened as contemporary art gallery

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Bainbridge House reopened on September 14 as an art gallery. The building dates back to 1766.

By David Veldran Staff Writer

On Saturday, Sept. 14, the University formally reopened Bainbridge House, one of the oldest surviving buildings on Nassau Street, dating back to 1766, as an art gallery.

Over the past several months, a partnership between

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the University and the University Art Museum have supported the building’s preservation and restoration, preparing it to house art galleries and provide spaces for educational and community programs.

Now called Art@Bainbridge, the gallery will feature installations this year about the concept of shelter in relation

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to domesticity, belonging, and identity. Currently, Bainbridge features an exhibit by Jordan Nassar, a Palestinian-American artist.

“His work is super cool because he uses the traditional style of weaving but incorporates a contemporary color palette and landscapes,” said Sakura Price ’22, a student who works at the gallery’s welcome desk.

The community held a block party in honor of the reopening on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

According to the University Art Museum, the building, which dates back to 1766, retains nearly all of its original structure. Job Stockton, the cousin of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, designed it in the Georgian style, an English architectural style found widely in the American colonies and known for its symmetry.

The house, which sits at 158 Nassau St. near the intersection with Washington Rd., was originally a private residence for Mr. Stockton, but it played an important role in history when it lodged members of the Continental Congress in 1783.

At the time, Princeton was the provisional capital of the United States and the Congress met at Nassau Hall.

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Environmental Activism Coalition and the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, as well as local businesses, including Labyrinth Books, which hosted the first of two “poster-making parties” on Sunday. The second “poster party” took place in the basement of Murray-Dodge.

“Globally, I think we are seeing a big shift in that there is a lot more climate change activism happening now,” CohenShields said. “It hasn’t in the past because it’s felt very remote to people, but as people feel the impacts they’re more likely to go out and stand up.”

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Howard Sutphin, a chef in the dining hall shared between Rockefeller and Mathey Colleges, poses in front of a portrait that includes him.

Mario Moore exhibit of black U. workers opens

By Leo Vassallo Staff Writer

On Sept. 19, the Lewis Center for the Arts unveiled a new exhibit, “The Work of Several Lifetimes,“ by Mario Moore, a renowned artist and a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow. The featured works,

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the culmination of Moore’s year-long fellowship, render visible the black men and women working blue collar jobs at the University.

Moore is a guest lecturer in the University’s visual arts program. Born in DeSee ART page 2

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On the evening of Sept. 19, around 20 students gathered in the basement of MurrayDodge Hall to prepare for the Princeton Climate Strike on Sept. 20, turning used cardboard boxes into sustainable protest signs.

The Princeton Climate Strike is one of many Climate Strikes, occurring globally over the next week, intended to “disrupt business as usual” ahead of a United Nations Climate Action Summit on Monday, Sept. 23.

According to Fridays for Future, a climate action organization spearheaded by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, over 4,100 “Climate Strikes” are scheduled to occur over the next week. “Millions [of people will] walk out of their workplaces and homes to join young climate strikers on the streets and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels,” the Global Climate Strike website writes.

Organizers for Princeton’s Climate Strike, including both members of the University community and a number of town residents, will use their event to support Thunberg’s international push for energy reform, as well as to advocate for sustainability locally.

Naomi Cohen-Shields ’20, one of the event organizers, said the protest will allow students to contemplate actions the University and town could take to improve their sustainability, as well as larger-scale possibilities to reduce fossil-fuel consump-

The organizers have also received support from a number of faculty members, including the professors set to speak at the Climate Strike.

Additionally, approximately 80 faculty members from various departments and disciplines signed onto a letter stating that they “recognize that climate change poses a grave threat to the wellbeing of all inhabitants of the earth” and that we “as a nation as a state, as a University, and as individuals” are “responsible to take immediate and robust action.”

Sarah Brown ’22, another event organizer, said that she reached out to her academic advisor, Program in Science and Global Security Research Scientist and Co-Director Zia Mian, for assistance in engaging University faculty on the issue of climate change.

Mian, Brown said, recommended organizers draft a paragraph about climatechange-related support and circulate it among members of the University faculty. In addition to sharing the paragraph electronically, various students involved in the Climate Strike approached their professors to discuss the matter.

“We had an incredible, incredible response from all departments, which was the most shocking for me,” Brown said. “And we continue to have faculty asking how they can help, how they can get engaged.”

Brown said she saw the impacts of climate change firsthand while doing geoscience fieldwork in Bolivia last summer; since then, she has

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U. Strike one of over 4,000 to be held globally in coming week

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viewed climate change as a “social justice issue,” as the burdens of climate change will be felt disproportionately by disadvantaged communities, a sentiment also ex-

A student paints a poster warning that “We’re Running Out of Time.”

pressed in the faculty letter.

“I think, when faced with a problem as large-scale as climate change, we’re really going to need transformative [action],” Brown added. “As we kind of change the narrative that is told around climate change and around

the future, we’re building a movement of people who come together, can have hope together, and can rethink what is possible.”

Cohen-Shields said that while activism is “generally very quiet on Princeton’s campus,” she thinks that “there’s

definitely the potential for [the turnout] to be big.”

“The numbers look good,” she added. “It’s really hard to be sure, but we’ve got a couple different platforms where people can RSVP, and the RSVPs suggest four-to-five hundred people.” Realistically, Cohen-Shields said, she expects about half of those people, somewhere between 200 and 250, to show up.

One added bonus to a localized protest movement, unlike other single-location, large protests, Brown noted, is that the protest is in itself environmentally sustainable.

“We’re having people get together in a place that’s easy to get to without actually burning a lot of fossil fuels to get there,” she noted.

Additionally, Brown said, the localized nature of the Princeton Climate Strike will allow for ongoing conversation.

“We’re thinking about local action and coming together with the people you’re actually around to build action about climate change,” she said. “It’s not just this one day kind of thing. It’s your community working toward something.”

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troit, he attended the College for Creative Studies as an undergraduate and received a master’s from the Yale University School of Art. Moore’s work is displayed at the Detroit Institute of Art as well as the Studio Museum in New York City.

“We are so thrilled to have had Mario Moore here for a year as an art fellow, and we are so excited to have him teach a class this spring,” said Martha Friedman, the director of the program in visual arts. “The show is

magnificent.”

The exhibition’s opening attracted faculty as well as students.

Also present were the members of Princeton’s staff depicted in Moore’s portraits. Howard Sutphin, a chef who works in the Rockefeller-Mathey dining hall, could be spotted in an orange-striped tie, posing for pictures beside his likeness.

“This is absolutely wonderful. I mean, I’m just a regular person,” he said between greetings and camera f lashes. “You see that, I’ve got another one over there!”

Students at the exhibit found the portraits moving.

“It’s great to see the campus workers honored and respected for all they do for us,” Jessica Fielding ’21 said.

Yezekiel Williams ’21 was similarly enthusiastic.

“I like the positive light that is cast on deserving members of the Princeton community,” Williams said.

“There is a lot of warmth communicated through the bold colors used.”

Williams noted that the art “showcases the unspoken power of people of color on Princeton’s campus.”

“The Work of Several Lifetimes” will be on view at the Hurley Gallery, in the Lewis Arts complex, until Nov. 17.

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After Mr. Stockton’s death, the house was leased to Absalom Bainbridge, whose son William, the building’s namesake, became a hero in the War of 1812.

Acquired by the University in 1877, the building served stints as a dormitory and a library, being leased to the Princeton Public Library in 1910, according to a community newspaper. It was later occupied by the Historical Society of Princeton.

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Though the specific time and place has not been confirmed, Cohen-Shields said that the organizers plan on holding an open discussion on climate change on Saturday, following the Strike, during which community members may discuss possibilities for future action.

A number of organizers in other communities have planned climate strikes for both Sept. 20 and Sept. 27, the two dates promoted on the Global Climate Strike website. Though nothing is currently planned for Sept. 27 in Princeton, Cohen-Shields said that a second event is not out of the question, noting, “maybe something will come out of the Saturday discussion.”

Though event organizers stressed that climate issues are not a “one day kind of thing” and that the Strikes represent just one moment in a broader movement toward climate-change reform, Brown stressed the importance of showing up at this specific event.

“The whole world is coming together, and this is kind of a moment to unify and show that you care,” she said.

lease from the University Art Museum, the house “has been transformed into a compelling public venue.”

The gallery “will feature the work of contemporary artists in an intimate domestic setting.”

Price noted that most of the visitors thus far have been local Princetonians.

At the ribbon-cutting event last Saturday, President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 spoke on the occasion of the house’s reopening.

“Bainbridge House now takes on a new life,” he said, “bringing the transformative power of art to the community.”

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Housing Office works to improve, listen, and engage Dorian Johnson

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The Housing Office welcomes new and returning students to campus. We hope you had a productive summer and a great start to the new year!

We are mindful of the challenges that some students experienced at the end of the last academic year, and we look forward to the opportunities that the new academic year presents to deepen our work with and support of our students — opportunities to improve, opportunities to listen, and opportunities to engage.

Improving Over the summer we worked closely with the vendor for Housing’s management system to devise a plan to ensure the randomization error that occurred during last spring’s Room Draw process does not happen again. The error stemmed from improper communication between the system’s random number generator and the University’s Oracle databases. The fix for the error has been included in the system’s latest general release and will be tested this fall.

In addition, students were also concerned that larger group sizes were advantaged in Room Draw, and our vendor found the concern to be true.

After considering the various options for addressing this issue by the Spring 2020 Room Draw, we decided that an external group random value generator, to be determined in consultation with the Office of Information Technology, will be used to fully mitigate the group-size impact. This process will also be tested this fall.

Listening In direct response to the Room Draw issues that were encountered, our Housing Engagement team conducted listening sessions at the end of the academic year, and for students who resided in summer housing, and launched a Google Document in order to gather student feedback. The comments gathered will be used to consider ways to improve the student experience during the Spring 2020 Room Draw, to strengthen Housing’s overall communication with students, and to evaluate potential future changes to the Room Draw process.

We appreciate the input we’ve received thus far and welcome continued feedback through our Housing Engagement team.

To establish a more formal platform for gathering student feedback, the former Student Housing Advisory Group will be relaunched as the Under-

graduate Housing Advisory Board (UHAB). Similar to the structure already in place for graduate students, UHAB’s membership will consist of Housing administrative staff, students appointed by the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) and the residential colleges (nine in total), and at-large members chosen via application (six in total). Members will be expected to attend monthly meetings where student experience and policy issues would be discussed. Further, opportunities for UHAB collaboration with the Graduate Housing Advisory Board would be sought. Look for information soon on the UHAB relaunch and how you might become involved if interested.

Engaging Finally, by harnessing technology, we’re excited to launch two new platforms that will enable us to streamline housing inquiry management and to more broadly connect with students.

Undergraduate students with housing inquiries can use the email address askhousing@princeton.edu or visit the Service Now @ Princeton (SN@P) portal to manually create a ticket. Either method will create a SN@P ticket. Students will be automatically notified of responses from Hous-

ing staff that have been added to their ticket. Students will also be able to add comments by responding to the SN@P email. Graduate students have used the system for over a year, and the system has resulted in more efficient and effective responses to graduate housing inquiries.

In late August, we launched our Instagram account, @ Princeton_studenthousing.

With content that we hope will be informative and insightful, our goal for this account is that it will be yet another platform to connect with the undergraduate and graduate student communities, the wider University community, and beyond. Our Housing Engagement team oversees the account, and we encourage students to follow our handle and give us feedback on the information shared and on other features that might be developed.

As we embark on this new academic year, informed by the past, hopeful for positive results from our new initiatives, and aware that unanticipated challenges may arise, we stand ready to serve you and to ensure that you feel at home at Princeton.

Dorian Johnson is the Director of Housing at the University.

Faculty statement on climate change We, the undersigned faculty, recognize that climate change poses a grave threat to the wellbeing of all inhabitants of the earth. We believe that delaying mitigation and adaptation

measures will increase the intensity of the consequences beyond globally marked tipping points. These consequences result in unequal burdens; disadvantaged communities, near

and far, shoulder the most severe impacts of the globally changing climate. We recognize that our residency in one of the most powerful nations in the world, and one that dis-

proportionately contributes to this problem, leaves us —as a nation, as a state, as a University, and as individuals— responsible to take immediate and robust action.

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Football looks to continue offensive brilliance with new play-caller, playmakers

By Jack Graham Head Sports Editor

First-year offensive coordinator Andrew Aurich ’06 has some massive shoes to fill. He is replacing Sean Gleeson, who coached a Princeton offense that broke the Ivy League record with 470 points in 10 games in 2018. Gleeson then departed for the offensive coordinator position at Oklahoma State, a top program in a conference known for offensive innovation and sky-high scoring numbers.

Making things even tougher for new play-caller is how much tal-

ent he needs to replace. Two-time Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year John Lovett ’19 now plays for the Kansas City Chiefs, and his two favorite targets, receivers Jesper Horsted ’19 and Stephen Carlson ’19, also signed with NFL teams as free agents.

So one could understand the skepticism about Princeton’s chances to defend its Ivy League title following an unbeaten 2018 season. The Tigers finished third in the preseason media poll, behind Yale and Dartmouth. Aurich, however, isn’t worried about the pressure stemming from trying to

repeat perfection.

“I’m sure from the outside there’s pressure, but our guys understand that we’ve already moved on from 2018,” Aurich said. “We’re focusing on 2019 and the challenges it’s going to bring.”

But if there’s anyone who understands the magic behind one of college football’s most dominant offenses over the past few years, it’s Aurich, who played offensive line at Princeton from 2002–2005. He’s coached the offensive line since 2016, and has also coached the running backs and tight ends, helping him understand the offense from

several perspectives.

“I think I had a unique advantage versus other offensive line coaches who made the transition to offensive coordinator,” Aurich said. “Having worked in this offense for so long and coached multiple skill positions in the offense, I probably had a better understanding of the passing game than most offensive line coaches.

It just comes down to a change in responsibilities and workflow.”

He also has a track record of getting strong performances from relatively inexperienced players.

Last season, he coached an offen-

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Offensive coordinator Andrew Aurich ’06 before a game.

sive line with three new starters into a major strength for the team, with the unit consistently keeping pressure off the quarterback and creating holes for the running game.

This year, the offense will have to adjust to unproven players handling the ball. At quarterback, senior Kevin Davidson has one career start, albeit an impressive one, and sophomore Brevin White, who caused a stir by choosing Princeton over Alabama, could start to see snaps as well.

Horsted and Carlson combined for 1,730 of Princeton’s 2,413 receiving yards last season, so the Tigers will have to rely on younger options like junior Jacob Birmelin and sophomore Dylan Classi at receiver.

While this year’s offense will likely look a bit younger, there won’t be a shortage of talent. Princeton’s now-sophomore class was the top-ranked recruiting class in the entire FCS, and many of those players should start to see the field.

“We have a lot of players who are going to get their first real extended action,” Aurich said.

“There were a lot of guys who were extremely talented just waiting to get on the field, who happened to be behind some really great players. They’ve been practicing like guys who are hungry and going to take control of the role they’re going to have.”

And, of course, that talent will be supplemented by the offensive system that helped lead Princeton to three Ivy titles in six seasons. So in the 150th season of Princeton football, don’t be surprised to see the team put up impressive numbers on the Princeton Stadium scoreboard.

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Football to open title-defending campaign against Butler on Saturday

By Owen Tedford Senior Staff Writer

This Saturday, Princeton football (0–0) will have its home opener against Butler (1–2) as the second leg of a home-and-home between the 2018 and 2019 seasons. In last season’s matchup in Indiana, the Tigers dominated from the beginning, leading 17–0 at the end of the first quarter and 44–7 at the half.

Princeton’s top three offensive contributors — John Lovett ’19, Charlie Volker ’19, and Jesper Horsted ’19 — have all since graduated, and now the Tigers will look to this year’s seniors and other players to take a larger role. One of those players will be senior cocaptain Graham Adomitis, who was a first-team all-Ivy League selection last year in the tight end position. He has made a name for himself not only as a receiver but also as a blocker. Adomitis’s blocking talents were particularly highlighted last year, as he only caught 10 passes for 61 yards.

However, the year before, in his first season as a starter, he caught 20 passes for 173 yards and two touchdowns.

The story on the offense will be who starts at quarterback, as Lovett, a two-time Bushnell Cup Offensive Player of the Year winner, is with the Kansas City

Chiefs. Of the current players on the roster, only senior Kevin Davidson has started a game, which he did last year against Brown when Lovett was hurt. Davidson led Princeton to a 48–10 win, completing 26 of 39 passes for nearly 300 yards and four touchdowns.

Davidson would have large shoes to fill, as for the last three years Princeton has produced Ivy League Offensive Players of the Year from the quarterback position with Chad Kanoff ’18 winning the year between Lovett’s two wins.

Looking around the rest of the offense, beyond Adomitis, Princeton has strong returners at the running back position and offensive line. The Tigers have two strong upperclassmen at running back, junior Colin Eaddy and senior Ryan Quigley, who both had four touchdowns last year. Eaddy’s standout performance was his 266-yard game against Yale last season. Princeton returned two starters on the offensive line with its left tackle, sophomore Henry Byrd — someone who saw a lot of time last year in rotation. The two guard positions are looking to be filled and may be filled by rotation from several different returning players.

On defense, the Tigers are returning eight of 11 starters, in-

cluding three of four defensive linemen and all four defensive backs. Princeton’s defense was one of its strong points last season, allowing more than 14 points in only two games against Yale and Harvard. The defense allowed an average of only 297.3 yards per game last season compared with its offense average 536.8.

Lastly, Princeton is returning all of its starters in its spe-

cial teams unit, a group that was strong last season. The Tigers outpunted their opponents on net punt average. The field goal unit was also strong, making 58–61 point-after tries and eight of 11 field goals.

Princeton will start its conference play on Oct. 5 against Columbia at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium and will have one more non-conference game be-

tween then and the Butler game, facing Bucknell. One exciting event Princeton fans should have on their calendar is the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first game of football between Princeton and Rutgers, when Princeton travels to Yankee Stadium to take on Dartmouth on Nov. 9. Princeton was voted to finish third in the Ivy League preseason poll behind Yale and Dartmouth.

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