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Campus responds to Hugin controversy

By Katja Stroke-Adolphe Contributor

Controversy arose this month over the statements University Trustee Bob Hugin ’76 made against the inclusion of women and gay students in eating clubs in 1976, while he served as president of Tiger Inn. The statements resurfaced in light of Hugin’s current campaign for U.S. Senate as a Republican against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.).

Students interviewed by The Daily Princetonian said they feel that the University should condemn Hugin’s statements more strongly and affirm a greater future commitment to LGBTQ+ and women’s rights.

In 1976, coordinators of the University’s then-Gay Alliance asked the University to include the phrase “sexual or affectional preference” in its official nondiscrimination policy. Afterward, students began throwing objects at the coordinators’ windows, breaking the windows four times, and their room was ultimately broken into and vandalized.

At the time, Hugin told The Home News that TI was circulating a petition that called for a student referendum for the Undergraduate Student Government to withdraw its support of the clause.

The articles quotes Hugin saying that if a TI member was discovered to be gay, “he wouldn’t last long.”

Hugin was also TI’s alumni president in 1992, when the club lost a lawsuit against Sal-

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: COURTESY OF HARSHINI ABBARAJU; COURTESY OF BOB HUGIN’S TWITTER (@BOBHUGIN); COURTESY OF DRAKE UNIVERSITY

U. trustee Bob Hugin (top right) is running against Bob Menendez (left) for U.S. Senate.

In 1992, when Sally Frank (bottom right) sued Tiger Inn for not admitting women, Hugin, who was TI’s alumni president at the time, fought against her.

ly Frank ’80, who fought for membership for women in TI. A TI statement accused plaintiff Frank of “politically correct fascism,” and Hugin argued that they were fighting to preserve “the right to determine our own membership.”

Hugin’s campaign disavowed his past statements in recent weeks, writing in a statement to the ‘Prince’ that Menendez is trying to “paint” him as something that he is not.

“It’s unfortunate that some-

one who has spent 25 years in Washington has nothing positive to campaign on and instead has to resort to political attacks like this,” Hugin wrote.

“I’m proud to say that my views are a lot different than they were 40 years ago. Personal growth should be seen as a strength, not a weakness.”

At a Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday, Sept. 24, President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 addressed concerns about Hugin, speaking posi-

tively about Hugin’s work as a Trustee. Eisgruber noted that past statements, which Hugin has himself disavowed, do not impact Hugin’s position on the Board of Trustees.

“I can assure you that he is a trustee of good standing, and we are very fortunate as a university to have him as a trustee here,” Eisgruber said at the meeting.

Assistant Vice President of Communications Dan Day and Vice President Bob Durkee ’69 deferred comment to Eisgru-

ber’s statements at the meeting.

Frank told the ‘Prince’ Thursday that she is more worried about Hugin’s becoming a U.S. Senator than about his position on the University Board of Trustees. She explained that she believes it will be harder for the University to roll back LGBTQ+ rights and women’s rights than it would be for Congress.

While Frank believes it is possible for people to change, she noted that Hugin was not a student, but instead an alumnus holding a “responsible position” of power when he made his comments against her lawsuit.

“There are a lot of issues that could go before the Senate, so people really need to carefully evaluate is this a sudden change, what has he done in between? How sincere can we take what he’s saying today?”

Frank questioned.

Frank’s message to Princeton students is to realize “the strength of a community that appreciates the differences that people bring, be that gender, sexual orientation, race, or religion.”

She said that this is not the perspective supported by national rhetoric, and that the offensive comments in Hugin’s past are at a significantly lower level than the serious offensive actions which are playing out at the national level.

Menendez’s campaign chairman Michael Soliman told Politico that Hugin’s support of See HUGIN page 2

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Penn’s Eng discusses ‘racial melancholia’ among Asian Americans

57 percent of students who rushed accepted to sororities

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On Sept. 27, University of Pennsylvania professor David L. Eng spoke about internally repressed and psychologically damaging racial and sexual discrimination within Asian-American communities.

Eng is a professor of English and graduate chair of the Department of English at Penn.

In the upcoming months,

Eng will release his book, “Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans,” which he coauthored with Dr. Shinhee Han, a psychotherapist at The New School. In the lecture, Eng highlighted key takeaways from the book.

Themes of his book include the phenomenon of “racial melancholia” — an estrangement from American culture surrounding See ENG page 4

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Columbia prof. Carl Hart dispels opioid crisis misconceptions

By Isabel Ting Assistant News Editor

Chair of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University Carl Hart said Thursday that U.S. society critically misunderstands drugs like opioids. The entire lecture hall was full, and overflow audience members sat in another room watching a livestream.

“Drug education in America is primarily miseduca-

tion,” Hart said. “The American public is constantly bombarded with lurid misinformation that isn’t designed to educate [but] to terrify.”

Audience members frequently responded with laughter to Hart’s unique judgements of society.

Hart explained that even though the public is concerned with the dangers of opioids and drug overdose, the statistics on drug overSee HART page 4

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New members of Kappa Alpha Theta pose for Bid Day pictures at Blair Arch.

By Benjamin Ball Staff Writer

After a busy and exciting sorority recruitment week last week, 57 percent of students who began the rush process received a bid from one of the University’s three sororities, and 53 percent of students who began the rush process chose to accept a bid and join a sorority.

On the final night, 65 students preferenced “Pi Phi” as their first choice, 57 preferenced “Theta” as their first choice, and 38 preferenced “Kappa” as their first choice.

According to Panhellenic Council President Emily Erdos ’19, this year’s rush resulted in 49

new bids to Kappa Alpha Theta, 50 new bids to Pi Beta Phi, and 47 new bids to Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Erdos is the Head Opinion Editor for The Daily Princetonian.

Sororities make cuts after every night of recruitment, with potential new members learning which “party sessions” they have been invited back to shortly before each night of recruitment begins. Of the girls who received invitations to Pi Phi’s final night of recruitment, 77 percent received bids from Pi Phi. Meanwhile, 86 percent of those selected to continue to Theta’s final party received bids from Theta, while Kappa’s postpreference night acceptance rate

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was 100 percent this fall.

All bids to “Theta” and “Pi Phi” were accepted, while 38 of the 47 bids to “Kappa” were accepted.

This year, for each sorority, there is a quota of 47 bids. Quota is determined annually by Panhellenic.

This is the first year that Kappa made the bid quota, offering 47 bids to rush participants.

Two-hundred-fifty-five undergraduate women participated in sorority recruitment this year, an unusually high number.

“I honestly didn’t realize how popular [rush] was,” Amy Watsky ’21, now a new member of Theta said. “I really was not nervous at all until I got there in Frist Campus Center and literally the entire hallway was filled with girls.”

According to Erdos, last year the number was 214, and the year before was below 200.

Edros and other sorority members interviewed said that the high interest in rushing speaks to the University’s need for a fourth sorority. Until Kappa’s membership reaches 124, however, another sorority can’t be added to the University community.

“It would be great if there was another sorority,” Angela Weng ’21, also a new member of Theta, said. “It’s great to have another option.”

Currently, Theta’s total membership sits at 138, Pi Phi’s at 146, and Kappa’s at 88.

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Supreme Court justices who oppose Roe v. Wade, in addition to Hugin’s having served as a delegate for President Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention, undermine Hugin’s claims to having changed his views on women’s rights.

But examined on its own, Hugin’s senate campaign platform supports same-sex marriage and equal opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community.

He has stated that he is prochoice and supports equal pay for equal work.

Despite Hugin’s politics, many Princetonians are calling for action to be taken against the Trustee for his past

expressions towards LGBTQ+ and female Princetonians.

Eve Niedergang GS ’89 called for the University to ask Hugin to resign as a Trustee in a letter to the editor published Sept.

20, 2018, by the ‘Prince.’

Niedergang spoke about how the University has been increasingly warm toward the communities that Hugin spoke out against. She said that, because of this, Hugin and the University’s goals are fundamentally at odds.

USG vice president Nate Lambert ’20, who is an advocate for LGBTQ+ issues, deferred comment to the ‘Prince’ on whether Hugin’s remarks warrant his removal from the Board of Trustees, but said that Hugin should still be held accountable — regardless of how long ago he made the

statements.

“I think it wouldn’t hurt if he perhaps gave a more direct apology to the current female students and LGBT students at Princeton,” Lambert said.

Lambert also noted that the current controversy is an important moment for eating club officers, suggesting that current officers should make statements telling bickerees that all students are welcome to bicker or join regardless of sexual orientation.

“I think that this presents a great opportunity for us as the current students at Princeton to reinforce the values that we have now and to make clear what those values and expectations are,” Lambert said.

He said that straight students in eating clubs should learn from this controversy

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on campus are recognized by the University, but they are nevertheless a big part of social life for many undergraduate students.

Rush is a mutual-selection process in which final bids are determined by both the preference of the student rushing and the sororities themselves.

On the first night of the sorority rush process, “potential new members” attend parties at all three sororities. The second night, girls are invited back and can attend all three sorority’s events. The third night girls are invited back again to attend up to two sorority events. That night, students list their preferences if they are invited back to more than one sorority.

“You get to meet a lot of peo-

ple in your class and a lot of upperclassmen and form connections. You know more people regardless of whether or not you join a sorority” Coco Wallace ’21, a new member of Pi Phi, said.

Of the original 255 registered, 176 were invited to and attended the final night of rush.

According to Erdos, she and the sororities recommend that students maximize their options on the final night. Even if there is only one sorority that the student is interested in, it is still advantageous to list another sorority in second place, Erdos explained.

Since there is no guarantee that a student gets a bid, putting only one sorority down, or “single-preferencing,” makes it less likely for one to become a quota addition, Erdos said.

Fourteen people this year “single-preferenced” on the final night and did not make any so-

rority’s respective cutoff, meaning they didn’t receive a bid.

Students reported that the rush experience did away with the stereotypes they had about sororities, and reported feeling welcomed by many upperclassmen. Before the rush process, students thought that sororities would be overly competitive and exclusive.

“Princeton’s rush destroyed some of the preconceived notions I had about sororities and rush that are perpetuated in the media,” Grace Chen ’21, a new member of Kappa, said.

Overall, members of the Class of 2020 and 2021 who joined sororities last week said they don’t know what’s in store, and that they just enjoyed the opportunity to meet new people. They said they look forward to furthering their new friendships in coming semesters.

and be mindful of the fears that LGBTQ+ students may have about bickering.

“When I was a sophomore I had a lot of trepidation about bickering because of my sexual orientation,” said Lambert. “I felt a fair amount of anxiety as to how much of myself I should express and reveal during bicker.”

Speaking to LGBTQ+ sophomores who plan to bicker, Lambert said, “Do not be afraid to be completely your authentic self.”

Lambert is member of Cap & Gown Club.

Devin Kilpatrick ’19 suggested that students might be more at ease if the Board of Trustees issued a statement condemning the views Hugin expressed in the past and supporting women and the LGBTQ+ community at the University.

“This is just one piece of the University’s past of discrimination, and Hugin’s words, just like any other past statements at the University, ought to be critically examined and disavowed,” Kilpatrick said.

According to Kilpatrick, with the possibility of the Supreme Court rescinding certain women and LGBTQ+ rights, it may be best for someone with a “proven record” to hold office.

Stephen Chao ’19, a student intern at the LGBT Center and an LGBT Peer Educator, expressed a similar desire to hold Hugin more accountable.

“What decisions is he making in a position of power and what decisions are trustees and alumni making, and is it creating a system that we want?” Chao asked. He added that for University students, “our power here is to hold people accountable.”

Chao said he wants to know how Hugin exercises his power as Trustee.

He pointed to the negative pressure alumni exercised through statements after Rev. Sue Anne Steffey Morrow performed the first same-sex marriage in the Princeton University Chapel in 1997, which led to a requirement for a separate registry for same-sex weddings until the legalization of same-sex marriages in New Jersey in 2013.

The bigger question of whether Hugin should resign also elicited strong opinions from members of the University community.

Haneul Ryoo ’20, member and former outreach chair of Princeton Students for Gender Equality and member of Cottage Club, told the ‘Prince’ that she thinks asking for Hugin’s resignation based on his prior views would “detract from Princeton’s values.”

Ryoo explained that she thinks that what people are doing now to support diversity and inclusivity is more important than their past.

“It is far more important to show a change of attitude and to act on that change,” Ryoo said.

Ryoo said that current eating club members she spoke with about Hugin feel the controversy is being too strongly projected onto current club communities.

“It seems really unfair that clubs are characterized by these stereotypes that come from incidents like Hugin, that no longer characterize the club, but are still fundamentally tied to the club,” Ryoo said.

She explained that TI is actively trying to foster an inclusive environment and ensure student safety.

Nine TI members did not respond to interview requests from the ‘Prince.’

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According to Hart, in 2016, heroin usage was linked to 15,000 deaths, and in the same year, 38,658 deaths were linked to guns and 37,000 deaths to automobile accidents. Hart pointed out that, although more deaths resulted from car accidents than from heroin usage, there are no bans on cars.

Hart added that suicide could also be an alternative cause of a drug-related death, but it is almost never considered.

Furthermore, people rarely die from the overdose of a single opioid, explained Hart. He said that more than 75 percent of heroin-related deaths are due to combined usage with other sedatives, such as alcohol, benzodiazepines, nerve pain medications, or anticonvulsants.

Most people who use opioids need “honest education,” explained Hart.

“People are not dying be-

cause of opioids,” wrote Hart in his 2017 article for Scientific American. “They are dying because of ignorance.”

Moreover, addiction to drugs is not as common as what the public believes.

Hart stated that 75 to 90 percent of drug users do not become addicted. Instead, Hart characterized many drug users as “respectable people” who “pay taxes,” “care about their communities,” and contribute to society.

He added that U.S. presidents Obama, Clinton, and George W. Bush all used illicit drugs in their youth.

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Members of the audience frequently laughed during Hart’s lecture.

According to Hart, another common misconception is that drug use is completely irrational. However, he pointed out that heroin, like alcohol, is used as a “social lubricant,” something that helps people feel more comfortable in social situations. Heroin can also be a pain reliever, induce euphoria, and improve sleep quality, said Hart.

To target drug usage in the United States, Hart pointed to four practical solutions: education about the effects of specific drug combinations; the set-up of free, anonymous drug-purity testing services; supervised consumption facilities; and the legalization of certain drugs.

Hart explained that Spain, the Netherlands, and Austria already offer drug purity testing services, which allow users to submit drug samples and receive a breakdown of the substance. The breakdown then allows users to understand what they are consuming and, thus, how much they should be consuming.

According to Hart, supervised consumption facilities would provide users with clean needles and on-call nurses in cases of overdose.

He also pointed to the possible success of legalization by referencing how Colorado’s legalization of marijuana in 2012 caused marijuana arrests to decrease dramatically.

However, current solu-

tions are misguided because “[they] allow us to avoid dealing with the real problems of the poor,” such as unemployment, poor housing, homelessness, substandard education, and low income, Hart explained.

“It’s a lot more simple to say, ‘I’m going to rid your community of heroin’ than it is to deal with the rest of these real issues,” said Hart.

Hart added that current drug solutions “allow us to target people that we don’t like without explicitly saying so.”

He explained that over 80 percent of those sentenced for usage of crack cocaine are black and that the opioid crisis “provides another opportunity to exert racism in drug law enforcement.”

“The drug problem has little to do with drugs,” Hart added. “It has everything to do with economic and political opportunity, the subjugation of despised groups, apathy — even contempt — toward [the] less fortunate.”

The lecture was a part of the Moffett Lecture Series, which aims to foster reflection about moral issues in public life. The series was made possible by a gift from the Whitehall Foundation in honor of James A. Moffett ’29.

The lecture was held on Sept. 27 at 4:30 p.m. in McCormick 101. An interdisciplinary workshop on drugs and addiction will follow on Sept. 28.

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Still, in the years after his early work on racial melancholia, Eng started to notice different behaviors in the students of his Asian-American literature and culture classes.

“More and more [of the students] started to come out, not as gay or lesbian, but as transnational adoptees,” Eng said. “But, the language that they used was language that was borrowed from queer studies.”

Eng explained that the world has transitioned from “Generation X” to current undergraduates of “Generation Z.” During Generation X, the majority of Asian American college students were second-generation immigrants, while today many students are first-generation immigrants.

According to Eng, many of these students are “parachute kids,” which are Asian students who attend inter-

national schools from a high school age or younger. In the final chapter of the book, Eng and Han focus specifically on gay parachute kids and the psychological stressors facing this group.

“You think it’s competitive to get into Princeton University, but Beijing University’s acceptance rate is one-tenth of 1 percent,” Eng said. “It’s a competitive Asian system that’s just off the charts.”

Children are sent away for a variety of reasons, not merely for academic reasons.

“Some kids are sent away because they’re different, because they’re gay, or because they don’t conform,” Eng said.

For instance, Eng read the case history of a student named Christopher, a gay college student in New York who was originally from Beijing. Christopher became one of Han’s patients after experiencing several severe panic attacks.

“While there was a bounty of anxiety in Christopher’s life, there was a deficit of spontaneity,” Eng wrote in his book.

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Eng and Han’s book, “Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation,” will be released in January 2019.

According to Eng, Christopher had not gone home in years, opting instead for internships in the financial sector.

Although Christopher had a boyfriend and was not ashamed of his sexuality, the couple would strictly schedule romantic encounters and consciously repress sexual appetites.

“He was an automaton,” Eng said. “Christopher believed that every problem could be solved rationally and intellectually.”

By analyzing Christopher’s case and parachute kids, Eng suggested that in a colorblind age, LGBTQ Asian-American students may face a form of unconscious suffering rather than

overt discrimination. He added that panic attacks and suppression are forms of “internal psychic assaults experienced by gay millenials as a form of self-discipline.”

The lecture was titled “(Gay) Panic Attack: Coming Out in a Colorblind Age.” It took place in East Pyne Hall on Sept. 27 at 4:30 p.m.

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On trustee Bob Hugin

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n 1992, University Trustee Bob Hugin ’76, then in his mid-30s, said that attempts to allow women to join his former eating club, Tiger Inn, amounted to “politically correct fascism.” The New Jersey Supreme Court had just mandated that the Princeton eating clubs accept female members, and Hugin actively opposed the decision. Hugin is now running as a Republican to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, and his remarks on co-ed eating club membership have resurfaced, raising questions about the history of discrimination — sexual and otherwise — at Princeton.

In 1979, Princeton undergraduate Sally Frank ’80 sued TI, Ivy Club, and Cottage Club for gender discrimination. These three clubs were the last holdouts in barring women from membership. A decade later, when Hugin made his remark as a member of TI’s alumni governance board, the club was no longer all-male.

While he was TI’s undergraduate president, Hugin told the Central Jersey Home News that gay

members “wouldn’t last long” if they were discovered by club members.

Hugin’s entry into politics has exposed these hateful and exclusionary comments. He had no choice but to address the statements after Bob Menendez, his Democratic opponent, brought them to the public’s attention.

Hugin expressed regret. “Everyone evolves over time,” he acknowledged. “I view many things differently today than I did 25 years ago. The Tiger Inn becoming co-ed was a very positive development…. The decision, made by the undergraduate members, to admit women back in the early ’90s was without question the right thing to do. Personally, I wish I had taken a leadership role in making it happen sooner.”

Despite these claims, we have not seen actions that would prove Hugin’s alleged evolution.

Hugin was a leader — but a leader in opposition to women’s membership. His past stances exemplified the University’s longstanding resistance to institutional equity and inclusion.

The Editorial Board does not deny Hugin’s right to change or refine his position on particular issues. Instead, we ask that Hugin prove his supposedly evolved views by releasing detailed policy proposals for the women he would like to represent. The Board asks that he apologize for his past remarks, not just lament his failure to support inclusion of women. And to eliminate any question over his suitability to serve as a University Trustee, Hugin must demonstrate in his actions what he has espoused with his words.

Until Hugin has proposed and led pro-women and pro-LGBTQ+ policies and initiatives, as a Trustee or Senate candidate, the Board will continue to doubt the sincerity of his change of heart.

The fight to make Princeton an inclusive institution has been protracted, ugly, and tumultuous. Even after women and minority students gained admission, they experienced hate and discrimination throughout their undergraduate experiences — including in the eating clubs, a hallmark of Princeton’s social

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life. Princeton needs trustees and leaders who are aware of this history, sensitive to those it has affected, and capable of effecting change.

President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 defended Hugin as a “terrific trustee for this University … somebody who is an extraordinary source of judgment and counsel on the board and an important ally on a number of different issues, including issues with respect to diversity.”

The Board calls on Hugin to prove he is the person Eisgruber believes him to be.

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The war on women escalates Madeleine Marr

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he Violence Against Women Act of 1994 was intended to support victims of domestic violence legally, financially, and culturally by raising awareness of the issue and strengthening the judicial response to violent crimes against women. Current amendments attempt to limit gun access to abusers, increase funding to rapeprevention programs, and offer eviction protection to victims of domestic abuse.

Despite its myriad benefits, Republicans don’t want to re-

authorize the bill.

Women, regardless of party, are dangerously close to losing another level of protection from the near-daily reminders that we aren’t safe in this country. The Violence Against Women Act will expire at the end of September, yet not a single Republican lawmaker has signed on to support a reauthorization package with amendments, and only 46 have signed a move to simply reauthorize the bill. Instead, they want to ignore the strengthening amendments on the f loor and simply extend the law until Dec. 7 within a stopgap spending bill, which would only delay the actual debate on reauthorizing the act.

The implications of failing to fully reauthorize this bill extend past current and future victims of domestic

violence — although, according to the CDC, this category encompasses a staggering one in three U.S. women. Violence against women acts in deeper ways, as it systematically denies women equal participation in society through fear and pseudo-protective measures that continue to push them into the private sphere.

Common warnings about how to “avoid” rape include avoiding being out late alone and remaining in well-lit spaces. But what are women who need to work late and take public transportation supposed to do? Take a chaperone? What about women who face violence in their well-lit homes? There is no real way to avoid violence, especially when politicians tacitly express their tolerance for it. And that is what

the failure to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act will symbolize — a return to an era where society considers domestic violence private business and victims must fend for themselves.

The fact that this issue, which has been gradually building in Congress since mid-summer, merits coverage of less than one article per day only emphasizes the apathy towards women’s health and safety this country is condoning. Adding further the contempt shown to Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, makes it impossible to avoid the conclusion that women are facing an assault on our rights to be equal citizens.

Although this advice has

been repeated billions of times, it serves as the only uplifting part of this article: Vote out the men — and women — in both parties who are allowing this law to die and who are legislating daily in ways that hurt women. Pressure the University to maintain its Title IX regulations regarding the adjudication of sexual assault cases. Support people who sacrifice their safety and privacy to reveal their stories of sexual and domestic assault. Only by taking action can we maintain the feminist progress of the past hundred years and ensure that those advances are not wrenched away.

Madeleine Marr is a sophomore from Newtown Square, Pa. She can be reached at mmarr@ princeton.edu.

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Yesterday’s print headline was for a mismatched article. The correct title for Rachel Kennedy’s article was “How safe should I feel on campus?”

PSAFE partners with the community to keep campus safe Paul Ominsky

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want to thank Rachel Kennedy for writing about her perception of safety on campus (How safe should I feel on campus?, Sept. 27, 2018).

The men and women of PSAFE work hard every day not only to create the perception of safety, but to make it real. In fact, Princ-

eton is frequently ranked as one of the nation’s safest campuses.

Most crimes on campus could easily be prevented. Unfortunately, members of the community sometimes feel so safe they don’t take simple precautions like locking an office or dorm room door, or they leave a phone or laptop unattended on a table in Frist Campus Center. Our most common crime is theft of unlocked bikes.

Did you know PSAFE patrols the campus by foot, bike, car, and golf cart every day? We try to visit each building every day, but the campus is large. PSAFE relies on the community to be a partner in creating the safe environment we all enjoy. It’s important for people to call us and let us know of any safety or security concern.

PSAFE provides crime prevention information through

in-person programming as well as our website. We also issue campus safety notices and emergency information as the need arises through the Princeton Telephone and Email Notification System. We issue these alerts to keep the community safe.

PSAFE’s mission is “community caretaking.” We are here for the community through services like transports to University

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Football faces Columbia in first Ivy League game of the season

By Owen Tedford Senior Writer

This Friday, Princeton football (2–0 overall, 0–0 Ivy) heads up the New Jersey Turnpike to New York City to take on Columbia (2–0, 0–0) at 6 p.m. in the Tigers’ first Ivy League game of the season. Since this is the first Ivy League game of the season for both teams, they’ll each be looking to get off to the right start in conference play.

For the Tigers, it’s all about the passing attack led by senior quarterback John Lovett.

Lovett, the 2016 Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, was sidelined last year with an injury and has returned this year with a vengeance.

Lovett is the College Football Performance Awards’ National Performer of the Week and was last week’s Ivy League Offensive Football Player of the Week, leading Princeton to victory over Monmouth with six total touchdowns — five passing, one rushing — throwing for 332 yards on 21 of 27 passes.

Lovett’s wingman so far this season, who also had a great season last year, is senior wide receiver Jesper Horsted. Last game against Monmouth, Horsted broke the Princeton record for career receiving touchdowns when he caught his third of the game to give him 20 in his

career. Horsted will also have a chance at a number of other career records this season, including catches and receiving yards. In order to break these records, he will need to average just fewer than seven catches per game and 106.5 yards per game. Horsted, though, isn’t Princeton’s only weapon, as senior running back Charlie Volker has been a beast in the ground game, rushing for 16 touchdowns in

the last nine games and having at least a touchdown in each game so far this season.

The Tigers’ potent offense will be matched by one of the top statistical defenses in the Football Championship Subdivision so far this year in Columbia. Two things that in particular stick out about the Lions’ defense is their rushing defense and their third down conversion defense. Through two games,

the Lions have only allowed 70 yards on the ground and have allowed their opponents only to convert on 28.6 percent of third downs. These two statistics have translated well in to keeping opponents off the board, with Columbia giving up an average of 19.5 points per game so far this season.

If you are unable to make the Friday night trip up to New York, there are a pletho-

ra of ways for Princeton fans to watch the game across the country. Under the Ivy League’s new television contract with ESPN, the game will be broadcasted live on ESPNU, and for those looking to stream the game it will be available on watchespn.com.

Locally, the game will be carried on 103.3 FM, which can also be listened to across the country through the TuneIn App.

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Pictured above is senior quarterback John Lovett.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Women’s volleyball to face Brown, Yale

By Alissa Selover Staff Writer

In the days to come, the women’s volleyball team has a tough schedule as it face Brown (7–4 overall, 0–1 conference) this evening, Sept.

28, and Yale (7–3 overall, 1–0 conference) tomorrow, Sept. 29. Last season, the Tigers beat Brown 3–0 both times that they played, and they went 2–1 against Yale in their three-game matchup throughout the season.

Brown has a strong team this season with senior outside hitter Sabrina Stillwell, who lead the Bears in kills with 235 during her junior season, as a strong offensive player. Another powerful offensive player is setter Bailie Salk, who led the team with 413 assists last year. Defensively, Brown lost libero Melissa Cairo to graduation, but the team has powerhouse Jacqueline Jacobs, a junior middle blocker with 109 blocks during her sophomore year in the front row.

Yale was a powerhouse during the 2017–18 season.

Having tied for best Ivy League conference record with Princeton, the Bulldogs ended up losing the match that determined the Ivy League NCAA team bid.

Coming off of a 2–1 record in matchups against Yale last season, the Tigers are hoping to start off strong.

Bulldogs Kathryn Attar and Kelley Wirth are both out-

side hitters that prove to be tough offensive threats.

Combined, they finished last season with nearly 500 kills. Yale also has libero Kate Swanson backing up its defense. Swanson current leads the Ivy League in digs per set, at 5.03.

In their past two games against Brown, the Tigers haven’t lost a set. During their first matchup last season, current junior outside and right side hitter Devon

Peterkin led the team with 14 kills, while current junior setter Jessie Harris had 33 assists and 13 digs.

Against the Bulldogs, the Tigers have put up a fierce fight during the three games they played last year.

During their first matchup at this time last year, current sophomore outside hitter Natasha Skov finished with 16 kills, while Harris finished this match with 49 assists.

The Tigers are coming into this weekend with trio Peterkin, junior right side hitter Maggie O’Connell, and sophomore middle blocker Clare Lenihan leading the offense. O’Connell leads the team in kills per set (3.37).

Princeton also added a new starter to the line-up, freshman libero Cameron Dames, who is averaging 5.7 digs per set and finished her Ivy League debut with 13 digs against Penn. Junior setter

and team captain Harris is leading the Ivy League in assists per set at 11.28, while Brown’s setter Kristin Sellers is second with 10.52.

The matchups this weekend will be competitive, tough, and exciting to watch. Both matches will be held in Dillon Gymnasium, with Brown at 7 p.m. tonight and Yale at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Both games will also be live streamed on the Ivy League Network.

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Devon Peterkin dives for the ball in a game against Penn.

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