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15 U.-affiliated historians sign letter supporting impeachment

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U. sues architecture firms for $10.7M over Andlinger Center construction

By Zachary Shevin Assistant News Editor

By Sam Kagan, Zachary Shevin, and Linh Nguyen Contributer, Assistant News Editor, and Associate NEws Editor

In 1998, University professor Sean Wilentz drafted a letter — signed by over 400 historians — opposing the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton. Twenty-one years later, Wilentz has penned another statement, which offers a very different message on impeaching a president.

On Monday, Dec. 16, over 750 historians collectively published an open letter supporting the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

According to The New York Times, Wilentz — the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History — worked with non-fiction writer Brenda Wineapple to draft the statement. Two days after the initial publication of the letter, the House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment against the President.

Of the original signatories, over 100 are affiliated with the Ivy League, and 13 are or have been professors at the University. By Tuesday evening — less than 24 hours after the letter’s initial publication — the names of 1,508 historians appeared on the letter, with two additional University professors signing on.

The list of signatories also includes many other public intellectuals including author See IMPEACHMENT page 2

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The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.

The University has filed a $10.7 million lawsuit against firms involved in the design and construction of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.

The Trustees of Princeton University are suing Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA), a New York-based firm that provided architectural services related to the Andlinger Center project, as well as Texas-based sub-consultants Jacobs Architects/ Engineers, Inc. and Jacobs Consultancy Inc — referred to collectively as “Jacobs Entities” in the suit. Tod Williams ’65 GS’67 received his Master of Fine Arts from the University.

The Trustees’s complaint alleges that members of the de-

sign team “failed to perform their professional design responsibilities in accordance with the prevailing standard of care, resulting in unnecessary and excessive additional costs and expensive project delays.”

The University is suing TWBTA and Jacobs Entities for professional negligence, as well as breach of contract between the University and TWBTA. The suit also lists a claim of “indemnification,” stating that TWBTA is contractually required to compensate the University for all costs relating to the design team’s negligence.

The complaint was filed on Dec. 10, and a summons was issued to the defendants that same day. At the time of pubSee LAWSUIT page 2

ON CAMPUS

Recently named Rhodes Scholars discuss their academic passions

By Paige Allen Staff Writer

Although Ananya Agustin Malhotra ’20 and Serena Alagappan ’20 come from different fields, the two recently named Rhodes Scholars have much in common when it comes to how they approach academia and the issues they care about.

In a joint interview with The Daily Princetonian, Malhotra and Alagappan discussed their shared interests in interdisciplinarity, narrative-based approaches to academia and oral history, and the opportunity provided by the Rhodes Scholarship to explore those passions further.

“Both of us [are] interested in stories and histories that are on the margins of traditionally accepted or embraced academic dis-

ciplines,” Alagappan said. “It just feels like this precious, precious thing to have a platform [the Rhodes Scholarship] that allows for people to pay attention to the work you care about.”

As a concentrator in Comparative Literature with certificates in European Cultural Studies and Creative Writing, Alagappan spends a lot of time reading, gathering, and telling stories. Growing up, Alagappan always loved literature, language, and thinking across cultures.

“I come from a bicultural family, so thinking about bridging differences between two cultures is kind of a big part of my life,” Alagappan said. “My mom was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, my father was raised in a traditional Hindu home. So there was a lot of that intrafamilial

thinking about how to find connections between disparate cultures, languages, and traditions.”

Alagappan has enjoyed the freedom to build her own curriculum through the Comparative Literature department. Through her independent work, she has analyzed Latin and mockery in James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and the connection between crowds and violence in Seneca, Gustave Le Bon, and Shirley Jackson.

Assistant professor of German Barbara Nagel — who taught Alagappan in the seminar “Denial, Disavowal, and the Problem of Knowing” in the fall 2018 and advised on Alagappan’s second junior paper — appreciates that Alagappan is “not conflict-averse: she has strong ethical convictions and an equally strong critical capacity, of which she makes use in

a passionate but always respectful manner.”

Alagappan’s senior thesis is a collection of braided essays focused on American Sign Language (ASL) poetry, Deaf theater, and cultural arts in the Deaf community. First exposed to signed language as a middle schooler in India when she visited a school for the Deaf and Blind, Alagappan says she originally struggled to teach herself from books.

“You can imagine trying to learn a tactile, visual, dynamic language from static, printed images is just very difficult,” she said.

A few years later, she encountered ASL poetry for the first time in New York City, where she lives.

After another hiatus from the lanSee RHODES page 3

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STUDENT LIFE

Professor Ari Waldman, New York Law School, delivers lecture on Data Privacy Discourse to COS126 Staff Writer

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Chitra Parikh ’21.

Chitra Parikh ’21 elected USG president, both proposed referenda pass

By Marissa Michaels Staff Writer

Chitra Parikh ’21 was elected to be the next Undergraduate Student Government (USG) president with 74 percent of the student body vote, according to an email announcement by USG sent on Friday morning. Both of the proposed referenda on the ballot passed with overwhelming percentage of the votes.

“I’m so honored and grateful to serve as USG President

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this upcoming year,” Parikh wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian. “I’m looking forward to working with an incredible team, and I can’t wait to get started!”

After serving as USG vice president this past year, Parikh ran on a platform based on reform to mental health, Title IX, sustainability, accessibility, and living conditions. During the campaigning cycle, Parikh participated in a presidential forum with fellow candidate David Es-

Senior columnist Liam O’Connor argues that demographics at the University exacerbate social grouping, while contributing columnist Elijah Benson argues that the University should follow the Princeton Theological Seminary in implementing reparations.

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terlit ’21 and sat down with the ‘Prince’ for a Q&A session.

“I’d like to congratulate Chitra on her win, and wish her the best of luck and success going forward,” Esterlit wrote in an email to the ‘Prince.’ “I do hope that Chitra and USG will pay some attention in the future to students’ economic concerns.

USG is only as powerless as it allows itself to be.”

Esterlit added that the proSee USG page 1

In an optional lecture delivered to students enrolled in COS 126: Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach, New York Law School Professor Ari Waldman discussed how engineers typically view data privacy and where he believes that conversation can be improved.

Waldman, a professor of law and director of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School and affiliate fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, discussed privacy issues in the technology industry and answered student questions during the 40-minute talk on Nov. 12. Students present at the talk said they saw value in bringing this discussion up early in their computer science education.

The talk was delivered in conjugation with a series of COS 126 guest lectures.

Waldman began his lecture by walking through a previously written Daily Princetonian article on concerns related to Tigerbook in 2017 to display different interpretations of the definition of privacy.

Tigerbook is an online directory of University undergraduates, originally created as a

Today on Campus 9 a.m.: A new exhibition examines the Library’s Public Policy Papers collection as it relates to 20th-century American women have always been involved in public policy.

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capstone project for COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques.

Waldman pointed out that based on the quotes included in the Tigerbook-related article, there were two major definitions of privacy, either focused on unauthorized access or confidentiality.

Waldman then defined “discourse” as how language is used to communicate power and spoke about how differences in the way different people define this discourse may open opportunities to misuse data.

Catering to an audience of COS 126 students, Waldman discussed the role of different privacy discourses in light of technology, where engineers and software developers have the power to decide if and how data is tracked and stored.

Relating back to the article, Waldman pointed out that the original mission of Tigerbook, according to one of its creators, was more focused on the optimization of efficiency and use, and not privacy.

He called this lack of concern for privacy a “discourse and education problem.”

Waldman went on to use the examples of Uber and Snapchat to show real companies acting See COS page 1

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lication, TWBTA and Jacobs Entities had not responded to requests for comment.

In a statement to The Daily Princetonian, University Deputy Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss called the University’s decision to sue the firms “unusual but necessary.”

“The University seeks to recover addition[al] costs it incurred due to extensive changes and delays those companies caused in the construction of the Andlinger Center,” he wrote. “As detailed in the

complaint, TWBTA and Jacobs failed to meet their obligations in the construction of the Center, and the University is asserting claims for breach of contract and negligence, among others.”

In 2008, Gerhard Andlinger ’52 donated $100 million to finance the construction of the eponymous Center, which opened to much fanfare in May 2016.

According to the complaint, the University contracted TWBTA to perform design services for the Andlinger Center project in February 2009.

Construction began in 2012 and was “substantially completed”

in January 2016. This completion came approximately 10 months behind schedule, and the complaint alleges that at least five months of that delay are attributable to the actions of TWBTA and Jacobs Entities.

According to the complaint, TWBTA and Jacobs Entities issued approximately 87 Architect’s Supplemental Instructions (ASI) between June 2012 and June 2017. An ASI constitutes “a formal notice issued from an architect to address and resolve minor, non-contractual, issues that might arise during the construction process.”

In the Andlinger Center

project, the ASIs led to the issuance of 462 design-related Change Order Requests (COR).

The complaint states that 438 of the CORs related to the design team’s “errors and omissions,” 17 to 3D modeling software, known as Building Information Modeling (BIM), and seven to design-team-caused delays.

The University calculated damages of $3.4 million in “errors and omissions costs,” $1,363,951 in “additional BIM costs,” and at least $6 million from design-team-caused delays — amounting to over $10.7 million total in costs.

The suit calls for the design team to compensate the Uni-

versity for these costs, in addition to “attorneys’ fees and costs, pre-judgment and postjudgment interest at the highest rate permitted by applicable New Jersey law, and such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper.”

Judge Brian Martinotti and Magistrate Judge Lois Goodman will preside over the case at the New Jersey District Court in Trenton, N.J. Attorney Jeffrey Pollock has appeared in court on behalf of the University trustees, and Sarah Biser — a lawyer specializing in construction law — has been designated trial counsel for the University.

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President Donald Trump and the nine current University professors who initially signed a letter calling for his impeachment.

Robert Caro ’57 and filmmaker Ken Burns.

The group released the letter just two days before the anticipated congressional vote on articles of impeachment against Trump, whose actions the historians describe as “a clear and present danger to the Constitution.” The letter asserts that if President Trump’s misconduct does not constitute grounds for impeachment, almost nothing could.

“President Trump’s numerous and flagrant abuses of power are precisely what the Framers had in mind as grounds for impeaching and removing a president,” the statement notes. “We therefore strongly urge the House of Representatives to impeach the President.”

Upon initial publication, nine current University history department faculty members signed the letter, including Wilentz. The other eight names listed were Doris Stevens Professor in Women’s Studies Regina Kunzel, Edwards Professor of American History Tera Hunter, professors Margot Canaday, Martha Sandweiss, and Kevin Kruse, associate professor Beth LewWilliams, and assistant professors Rhae Lynn Barnes and Michael Blaakman. Additionally, four University professors with emeritus status — Hendrik Hartog, Nell Painter, Anson Rabinbach, and former

ternational Affairs Kim Lane — added their names to a letter calling Trump’s conduct “clearly impeachable under our Constitution.”

Though an advocate for Trump’s impeachment, Wilentz was a staunch critic of those who advocated for impeaching Clinton. In the same year that he drafted the anti-impeachment petition, Wilentz argued against impeachment before the House Judiciary Committee.

During his testimony, he said that any representative who voted in favor of impeachment without being absolutely convinced that Clinton’s crimes were impeachable would “earn the condemnation of history.”

“It is no exaggeration to say that upon this impeachment inquiry, as upon all presidential impeachment inquiries, hinges the fate of our Ameri-

democracy since the Confederate secession.”

On Wednesday, Dec. 18, both articles of impeachment against Trump passed — the first with 230 votes in favor and the second with 229.

Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman — the representative for Princeton’s congressional district — had publicly supported the articles, tweeting that Congress has “an urgency to act,” and voted “yes” on both articles of impeachment.

The six University alumni serving in the House of Representatives voted along party lines. Democrats John Sarbanes ’84, Terri Sewell ’86, Raja Krishnamoorthi ’95, and Derek Kilmer ’96 voted in favor of both articles of impeachment, while Republicans Mike Gallagher ’06 and Ken Buck ’81 voted against both.

As of 7 p.m. on Dec. 17, the

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Referring to the letter as “a kind of petition to the public,” Wilentz told the Times that it “is a form that historians and others have used over the decades to express collective opinions.”

Seven months ago, over 1,000 former federal prosecutors used the same form to publish an open letter stating that “the overwhelming weight of professional judgment would come down in favor of prosecution for the conduct outlined in the Mueller [’66] Report.”

In September, over 300 national security professionals signed a statement calling Trump’s conduct surrounding American relations with Ukraine “serious enough to merit impeachment proceedings.”

Earlier this month, over 850 legal scholars — including University Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and In-

can political institutions,” he added then. “As a historian, it is clear to me the impeachment of President Clinton would do … great damage to those institutions and to the rule of law, much greater damage than the crimes of which President Clinton has been accused.”

This defense that impeachment sets a “dangerous precedent” for the future and could damage U.S. political institutions has also been employed

by Trump’s defenders. Wilentz, however, believes there are significant differences between the two situations.

“The Clinton impeachment bears the least resemblance to the Trump crisis,” he wrote in an op-ed in Rolling Stone.

“With a single telephone call, Donald Trump betrayed the presidency in ways almost unimaginable until that moment … Trump’s offenses represent the greatest threat to American

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Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel — had signed on.

On Tuesday, Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs Martin Flaherty and Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion and religion department chair Judith Weisenfeld added their names to the letter.

“President Trump has attempted to subvert the [C] onstitution and fundamental structures of American law,” Lew-Williams wrote in a statement to The Daily Princetonian. “It’s part of my job as a historian to make clear that this merits impeachment.

Now I hope Congress will also do its job.”

Echoing the text of the letter, Kruse wrote to the ‘Prince’ that “if this case does not warrant impeachment, virtually nothing does.”

“During the House impeachment hearings, several Republican members made statements about both the founders’ intent regarding impeachment and the details of previous instances of presidential impeachment that simply don’t square with the historical record,” Kruse wrote. “In signing the statement with my fellow historians, I wanted to set the record straight and to offer our own sense of the lessons history actually provides here.”

Canaday deferred comment to Wilentz, who — along with Kunzel and Hunter — did not respond to the ‘Prince’ by the time of publication. historians’ letter has 1,508 total signatories listed online.

The end of the letter links to a Google Form for historians who wish to add their names.

Prior to President Trump being impeached, Hunter, Kruse, and Lew-Williams took to Twitter to encourage more academics to become involved. Lew-Williams tweeted on Monday that it is “not too late” for others to sign on.

“I’m one of the 750+ historians that signed a statement urging the House to impeach @realDonaldTrump,” Hunter noted on Twitter Monday evening. “I encourage my fellow historians to add their names.”

“Less than a day later, this statement has now been signed by 1500+ historians,” Kruse tweeted Tuesday evening.

This story was initially published on Dec. 17 and was last updated on Jan. 5.

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guage, she came to the University and met Colin Lualdi ’17, the founder of the Princeton University American Sign Language Club, who helped Alagappan reconnect with ASL. Lecturer in the Humanities Council and the Program in Linguistics Noah Buchholz emphasized the role Alagappan has played in the formation of the University’s ASL program. Alagappan has served as president of the University’s ASL club for more than three years. She taught elementary ASL at Princeton’s Cotsen Children’s Library for children ages nine through 12 and coordinated events for both Deaf and hearing audiences.

Since the University began offering ASL in 2018, Alagappan has taken every ASL course offered and helped push the University to offer four levels of the language.

Alagappan has even translated a short book of poetry from English into ASL, a task Buchholz says only one or two of his former ASL students have been able to accomplish.

“I cannot emphasize enough how much I truly enjoy working with her as her ASL teacher and one of her advisors for her thesis project,” Buchholz wrote in a statement to the ‘Prince.’ “I especially appreciate her sharp literary eyes, which brilliantly capture many nuances in ASL stories and poems discussed in class.”

While Alagappan has appreciated the opportunity to study ASL deeply as one of her languages through Comparative Literature, alongside French and Latin, she hopes the University will respond to the growth of ASL courses by endowing the program and allowing ASL to count toward the foreign language requirement.

“I believe anyone who has been gifted with the opportunity to study this language would hope to see ASL become eligible for the foreign language requirement at Princeton,“ Alagappan said.

“What is more, I imagine upperlevel ASL courses offered in translation, poetics, and Deaf history.”

Alagappan aims for her senior thesis essays to “serve as points of entry for the hearing world to embrace the communicative potential of the entire human form, both in art and in everyday language.”

In addition to being president of the ASL Club, Alagappan is a member of the Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows, a selective group bringing juniors and seniors together for monthly dinners and humanistic inquiry; an undergraduate liaison for the Department of Comparative Literature; a volunteer with Homefront, a nonprofit committed to helping homeless families become selfsufficient; and the editor-in-chief of The Nassau Weekly.

She is a published author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and has interned at O, The Oprah Magazine. During the summer of 2019, she worked as an oral history intern and writer at the Religion and Resettlement Project through the Office of Religious Life. She received a Peter B. Lewis Grant in 2018 for an independent creative writing project on literary pilgrimage and a John McPhee ’53 Award for projects in independent journalism last summer.

Malhotra shares Alagappan’s love of narratives and interdisciplinarity. She also identified her experiences growing up as shaping her academic path.

“I grew up in a predominantly white and conservative county in Georgia called Forsyth County before moving to Atlanta during

my junior year of high school,” Malhotra said. “I grew up in a bicultural and interfaith household where my mom was Catholic from the Philippines and my dad was Indian and Hindu. There was no one else that looked like us, and my only understanding of community was transnational.”

Growing up in a household where three languages were spoken surrounded by otherwise predominantly white, southern, and conservative communities, Malhotra was always conscious of a wider world beyond her town that would be “full of beauty as well as pain and trauma.”

Malhotra took her desire to study the world and channeled it into her concentration within the Wilson School and her certificates in French and European Cultural studies, though she admits that she would also have been happy in Comparative Literature with Alagappan.

“I have this similar love of literature, language, and the ways that it opens up worlds for us when they’re not present around us,” Malhotra said. “For me, the question of where history, politics, culture, and literature come together is kind of what motivated me to approach my study of the world from extremely different angles.”

Malhotra’s transdisciplinary studies focus on histories of trauma and postcolonial studies.

During her junior year, Malhotra’s independent work focused on how America’s history of colonialism manifests through the relationship between President Donald Trump and Phillippine President Rodrigo Duterte and how the impacts of Haiti’s encounters with French colonialism and U.S. imperialism manifest in the peacekeeping project of the United Nations since the 1990s.

Her senior thesis aims to explore the collective remembrance of the nuclear age in the United States by looking at the Manhattan Project National Historical Park and Trinity Testing Site as sites of memory, or lieux de mémoire.

Particularly, Malhotra seeks to focus on “the nuclear victimization, suffering, and marginalization of communities around the bomb” and how public history and policy has embedded “political, social, and ecological silences into the nuclear narrative.”

Dr. Zia Mian, Research Scientist and Co-Director of the Program in Science and Global Security within the Wilson School, advises Malhotra on her senior thesis.

He wrote in a statement to the ‘Prince’: “Ananya is an outstanding next-generation scholar with a keen critical sensibility, great curiosity and creativity, and a humanist compass that she applies to understanding and changing our world for the better.”

Outside of the classroom, Malhotra is president of the SHARE (Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising Resources and Education) Peer Program. Dr. Avina Ross, the Associate Director of the SHARE Office, worked closely with Ananya through the SHARE Peer Program, “watching her grow into a confident student advocate, leader and visionary who puts vision into practice for results.”

“Her diplomacy skills, empathy, decision-making and capacities to mentor new SHARE Peers have truly impressed me and been strong assets to the program,” Ross wrote to the ‘Prince.’ “I’ve learned from Ananya as well, such as about the power and effective impact of softer student leadership styles at Princeton.”

Malhotra is also a co-founder of the Office of Religious Life’s UN Women Faith and Gender Justice Fellowship, a founding officer of Princeton Students for Gender Equality, a member of Princeton

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Ananya Agustin Malhotra ’20 (left) and Serena Alagappan ’20 (right).

Filipino Community, and an undergraduate fellow at Princeton’s Liechtenstein Institute on SelfDetermination’s Project on Gender in the Global Community and Program on Religion, Diplomacy and International Relations.

Additionally, she is a fellow of the European Union Program at the Wilson School, a member of the Behrman Society of Undergraduate Fellows, and a Humanities Council mentor for first-year students.

Malhotra conducted research in Rome in fall 2018, served as a legal research intern at the European Roma Rights Centre in Budapest in summer 2018, and worked on gender equality initiatives as the faith and youth engagement intern in the Civil Society and Peace & Security Divisions at UN Women in New York.

Malhotra’s friends highlight her compassion and authenticity.

“As a friend, Ananya is extremely empathetic and makes others feel heard in a way that I have found to be quite rare,” said Gabriela Rivera ’20, Malhotra’s roommate, in a statement to the ‘Prince.’ “She is always sharing her observations, reflections and criticisms of the world, demonstrating her love for learning while naturally engaging others in important conversations. Her care for people and dedication to the work she does makes me confident that she will do something incredibly meaningful with this

opportunity.”

Shafaq Khan ’21, another friend of Malhotra, agreed.

“Ananya’s humility is a marked feature of her personality, one that perennially inspires those around her,” Khan wrote in a statement.

“She is thoughtful, compassionate, and determined. She is authentic and has challenged the most basic notions of elitism at Princeton. I am excited for her to continue this practice of disrupting institutions during her time at Oxford.”

As Rhodes Scholars, Malhotra and Alagappan will join 30 other recipients from the United States in participating in two to three years of graduate study at Oxford funded by the scholarship beginning in September 2020.

Both Malhotra and Alagappan plan to continue working in interdisciplinary ways. Alagappan plans to pursue an M.Sc. in Social Anthropology and an M.St. in World Literatures in English.

Malhotra originally planned to pursue the two-year M.Phil. in international relations but could also see herself studying Global and Imperial History or Intellectual History.

“I’m figuring out if I need to choose a discipline in my approach to the world or if I’m just going to continue kind of doing my own thing,” Malhotra said with a laugh.

Alagappan agreed; she would become a scholar of “interdisci-

plinary studies” if the field existed.

“I think that interdisciplinary work is really fruitful and actually vital to having productive conversations with all members of society. I think the collaborative nature of this kind of humanistic study cultivates empathy,” Alagappan said.

Alagappan ultimately plans to become an author of creative nonfiction, using the patient and nuanced skill set of a modern anthropologist to listen to people’s stories and develop a co-created narrative with them without viewing them as simply a source from which to extract information.

After Oxford, Malhotra aspires to study international law, human rights law, and international political thought and history through a joint J.D./Ph.D. program.

Both recipients are incredibly grateful for the platform the Rhodes Scholarship provides as a chance to bring light to the issues they are passionate about.

“It feels like an indescribable opportunity to feel like maybe it’s not just me that cares about these things,” Malhotra said. “An embodied approach to academia, stories, human histories, people at the center of everything that we purport to be studying, thinking about, theorizing about — they matter. It does feel really shocking and amazing and exhilarating that the world might care.”

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cess of campaigning itself was very meaningful to him.

“I knew no one on campus before I started this campaign, so going from zero name-recognition to 600 votes is extremely gratifying,“ Esterlit wrote. “Every single one of these votes was turned out through our

grassroots efforts and door to door campaigning. I would like to thank each and every one of these voters for believing in our mission.”

Andres Larrieu ’22 will be vice president after serving as a class senator this year.

The first referendum, which calls for students to be able to remove their PDF until the end of the term, passed overwhelmingly with 80 percent of votes and

the second referendum calling for a sustainability chair passed with 83 percent of votes.

Rachel Hazan ’21 will serve as Treasurer and Sophie Torres ’21 will be Social Chair. Christal Angel Ng ’22 will be chair of the Campus and Community Affairs Committee.

Christian Potter ’22 scored a victory as Academics Chair after Shaffin Siddiqui ’22 was disqualified for campaign violations. By

a slight majority of 52 percent, Aaron Leung ’23 is now Undergraduate Life Chair.

About 43 percent of undergraduate students voted in the executive committee and referendum election, indicating a five percent increase from last year’s USG winter election.

The 2023 USG class senator elections were the most contested, seeing narrow victories.

Julio Cezar ’23 was elected with

23 percent of votes and Ryan Cho ’23 was elected with 17 percent of votes, just one percent more than the following opponent.

The 2023 class senator election received a total of 1,146 votes.

Turquoise Brewington ’22 will be the next 2022 class senator.

Elections were held from noon on Dec. 9 until noon on Dec. 11.

This story is breaking and will be updated as more information becomes available.

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negligently in how they handle privacy. Waldman described his discussions with engineers and computer scientists on their experience with privacy issues while designing.

“In very few cases, it’s this nefarious plot to ignore privacy issues that came up — most of the time it just never came up in the process,” he said.

He credited the problem to engineers and computer scientists coming out of highly ranked technology programs thinking about privacy in a very narrowminded way, focused on secrecy and security.

Waldman believes that the issue comes from engineers integrating their own definitions of privacy into their products and that the problem requires thinking about the different ways people think about privacy.

According to Waldman, academics and researchers such as himself look at privacy with a broader definition. He mentioned that privacy can include autonomy, trust, intimacy, and social value.

He stated that incorporating a broader definition of privacy

discourse into products will lead to more robust privacy protections and allow for a better system in spotting privacy-related issues.

Waldman used the example of revenge pornography to support the need for broader definitions of privacy discourse. In this case, if privacy discourse was solely focused on the aspect of “consent,” victims of revenge porn would have little rights, according to Waldman, because they consented to the photos being taken in the first place.

He then went to claim that if privacy discourse was defined based more on intimacy, revenge porn victims would have more rights because naked photos are inherently an intimate thing regardless of consent.

“Different definitions of privacy come with a different power dynamic,” he said “They allow for different types of opportunities to reclaim or not reclaim your privacy.”

Waldman pointed out that at the level of business, CEO and chief privacy officers often look at privacy from the eye of compliance, which severely narrows down the way in which privacy is looked at.

He closed his talk by saying that if developers focus solely

on optimization and efficiency during the process, and leave privacy to the end, it will often be ignored.

Waldman then answered questions from the students who attended the lecture.

In his responses, he used Venmo as an example to claim that companies often make their terms of service difficult to understand or ways of opting out of certain forms of data collection more difficult to discourage users from trying to protect their own privacy.

He encouraged students to make privacy a part of their product and company missions.

Waldman pointed out that the elimination of “friction” that comes from aggregating data into one system makes it easier to have privacy issues.

Students who attended the lecture said they saw importance in bringing these points up earlier in their educations.

“Addressing these questions earlier than later in our computer science education reminds engineers to incorporate privacy into their ‘list of things to think about’ before the data is inappropriately used or managed,” Hien Pham ’23, who is intending on concentrating in computer science, wrote in an email to The

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Dr. Jérémie Lumbroso, a professor of COS 126, faculty adviser for the developers of Tigerbook, and organizer of the talk, expressed his hopes to see more conversations related to privacy discourse in his department and others in an email to the ‘Prince.’

“I believe it’s important to engage undergraduates early in

both the promise, and responsibility of building technology … they are going to be the creators and the users of tomorrow,” Lumbroso wrote. “As creators, they need to have enough discernment to build products that are not going to jeopardize our established society and public discourse.”

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Schwieger’s 27 leads men’s basketball over Penn to open Ivy MEN’S BASKETBALL

By Ben Burns Contributor

On Saturday, Jan. 4, junior guard Ryan Schwieger had 27 points, sophomore guard Jaelin Llewellyn had 18 points and 14 rebounds, and junior center Richmond Aririguzoh put up 15 points and 10 boards as Princeton (5–8, 1–0 Ivy League) opened Ivy League play with a 78–64 win at Penn (7–5, 0–1). The Tigers were in control throughout, as they never trailed. For the Quakers, Jordan Dingle lead the way with 21 points, and Devon Goodman chipped in 16 points, five boards, and seven assists.

Princeton started strong, jumping out to a double digit lead just 9:12 into the game.

Penn would close the gap to four with 3:48 to go in the half, but a 10–2 run to close the half

would put the Tigers up 39–27 at the break. Schwieger played a huge run during that run, scoring seven of the Tigers’ ten points for a total of 16 in the first half.

The second half was closer than the first, but the Quakers were unable to close the gap. The Tigers got two quick layups out of the gate from Aririguzoh and sophomore guard Ethan Wright to get the lead up to 16. The teams would trade baskets for the majority of the second half until the Tigers put together a 14–3 run, capped off by first-year forward Tosan Evbuomwan’s layup with 6:37 left, to extend the lead to 21. The run essentially put the game out of reach for Penn, who would close the gap to 14 by the final buzzer, but it was too little, too late. The Tigers held on to start off the Ivy League season

on a high note.

The major difference in this game was scoring efficiency, as Princeton significantly outshot Penn from the field. The Tigers were able to convert 53.7 percent of their field goal attempts, while the Quakers only shot 36.6 percent. Princeton has rebounded from its 1–7 start to the season, winning four of its last five games.

Schwieger has been a catalyst in those five games, averaging 17 points a game, and his 27 points against Penn represented a career high.

Princeton has now won three consecutive games against Penn, dating back to last season. The Tigers will look to extend that streak to four as they face the Quakers Friday at home in their final meeting of the regular season.

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Ryan Schwieger’s scoring helped Princeton beat Penn at the Palestra.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Women’s basketball finishes non-conference play with eight-game winning streak, national ranking

By Jack Graham Head Sports Editor

In the first season of head coach Carla Berube’s tenure, Princeton women’s basketball has put together an impressive non-conference resume.

The Tigers have won 12 of their first 13 games, good for the 24th best RPI in the country. Princeton is also ranked No. 24 in the USA Today/WBCA Coaches’ poll, the first time the Tigers have been ranked in a national poll since 2015.

Princeton is currently on a eight-game winning streak following the team’s sole loss to Iowa in November. The Tigers won each of the four games they played over winter break by double digits.

On Dec. 14, junior guard Carlie Littlefield scored 25 points, and senior forward Bella Alarie scored 23 to help Princeton beat Penn State 72–55 at home. Princeton followed that win with a successful road trip to the Midwest, with a 68–33 over Missouri on Dec. 18 followed by a 66–50 win over St. Louis on Dec. 20.

Princeton’s most recent win was a Dec. 29 domination of New Hampshire, in which the Tigers outscored New Hampshire 24–3 in the first quarter and ultimately won 77–37. Alarie led Princeton in scoring in that game with 18 points in 21 minutes, and Princeton held New Hampshire to just 23.5 percent shooting from the field.

The Tigers have been dominant on defense, holding opponents to 49.7 points per game on the season and 43.9 points per game during their eight-game winning streak.

Princeton’s opponents have shot just 34.2 percent from the field and 27.8 percent from three, and the Tigers have forced 19 turnovers per game.

Several of Princeton’s wins came without Alarie, the twotime Ivy League Player of the Year, who was sidelined with lower-body injuries on two different occasions during the non-conference schedule.

Despite the injuries, Alarie has remained effective, leading Princeton in points per game with 16.9 and rebounds

per game with 8.4 in her nine games played.

Princeton has received

other important contributions throughout its roster.

Littlefield has continued to

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Carlie Littlefield and Princeton women’s basketball have gained national recognition for their play this season.

improve after being named to the All-Ivy first team last season, as she’s scored 15.6 points per game on 47.6 percent shooting to go along with 3.3 assists and 2.3 steals per game. Sophomore guard Julia Cunningham has become a regular in the starting lineup and has scored 9.8 points per game, and first-year forward Ellie Mitchell has provided valuable minutes down low, especially with Alarie injured.

The strong showing during non-conference play will put Princeton into a position to contend for an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament should they fail to win the Ivy League’s automatic bid. Given the quality of competition in this year’s Ivy League, that could come in handy. Penn boasts a 10–1 record, with its only loss against Duke, and Yale is 10–3 with a win over a UNC team led by former Princeton head coach Courtney Banghart.

Princeton will open its Ivy League schedule Saturday, Jan. 11, against Penn at the Palestra before it begins a threeweek break for finals.

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How to find friends at Princeton Liam O’Connor

Senior Columnist

Few things worry first-years more than the fear of not making friends in college — and for good reason. Harvard researchers found in 2017 that nearly half of first years felt that their peers had larger friend groups than themselves. A 2018 national survey of 88,000 students across 140 institutions confirmed that two thirds “felt very lonely” within the past 12 months.

Princeton’s demographics complicate — if not worsen — this anxiety. With 13 high schools sending enough people here to fill McCosh 50, it may be hard for first-years who can’t rely on prior friendships to fit into Old Nassau’s clubby social life. Orientation week is crammed full of activities to stir the pot. After those first few weeks, however, a once-united incoming class fractures into isolation.

A project titled “How to Be Important at Princeton” by Heide Baron ’20, Annie Xie ’20, and Julia Yu ’19 sheds new light on this process. I chipped in by giving them the eating clubs’ membership rosters.

They did the rest. Here’s how it worked: they tracked majors, teammates, roommates, hometowns, dining choices, and residential colleges. Each group was assigned a varying amount of weight based on its size.

Then, they mapped relationships between groups — such as majors and roommates.

Their research reveals many of the networks that define Princetonians’ sophomore and junior years and highlights the need for more freewheeling social mixers beyond Orientation.

“In the whole student population, there’s definitely communities that have connections in themselves and are very tight,” Xie told me. She admitted that the study had missing links — hobby-based club members, class attendance, and zee groups, to name a few. Nonathletes often form networks within these assigned groups, so athletics receive a disproportionate amount of attention.

But their intuitive results were still striking for the groups that were studied. They likely wouldn’t be too different for those that weren’t included.

AB computer science concentrators from heavily represented New Jersey towns who were members of eating clubs, co-ops, and varsity athletic teams were the most socially connected students, according to their “Betweenness Centrality” algorithm. This finding is to be expected, considering that my own analysis of the Residential College Facebook found that New Jersey was the most common home state — with the municipality of Princeton alone sending 130 students. On the other hand, international students from poorly represented countries who weren’t affiliated with any major groups were the most socially isolated.

Bicker eating club members generally showed higher levels of interconnectedness on “the Street” than their sign-in classmates, though they also had a greater number of members

to form networks. Students in Cottage frequently roomed with friends in Ivy and Cannon. The T.I.-Ivy-Cap chain was the second strongest.

Football fed into Cannon and Cottage. The latter took men’s ice hockey and men’s soccer as well. Men and women lightweight rowers went to Cloister, but the heavyweight men’s team chose Ivy. Men’s lacrosse players were tied to the men’s football team, while the women’s track and swimming teams were closely associated. Social science departments — specifically politics, history, and economics — were the most prevalent majors among varsity athletes.

Students in economics, history, computer science, and operations research and financial engineering formed a tight cluster. Small science and humanities departments stayed on the fringe.

Social sorting isn’t necessarily negative in itself, because it’s a sign that people are forming long-term friendships. But there’s a growing demand for the kind of first-year opportunities to freely meet fellow students outside of the current — sometimes stuffy — networks.

Plenty of posts from Tiger Confessions++, real talk Princeton, TigerCuff, and the now-defunct app Friendsy provide proof of that.

Residential colleges could take a cue from Oxford by holding “formal halls” several times each semester. Students dress formally to attend these regularly scheduled, candle-lit dinners, in which they converse with classmates over food that’s a cut above the daily dining hall

grub. They’re wildly popular, selling out within the minute that tickets become available.

The Graduate College already hosts a variation of this tradition, called “high table.”

Student leaders have a key role to play as well. Class governments could spend their money on dinners that send randomly matched groups to meals at restaurants on Nassau Street instead of offering mass grab-and-go study breaks. Similarly, USG should once again pick up its project to pair seniors with first-years for college advice — but this time open it up to Tigers of all classes.

The first and last years of Princeton are dynamic. Students rush to introduce themselves to their new peers and then rush to meet more of them before waving goodbye. But the middle years are stagnant.

While eating clubs do bring sophomores into new communities, they tend to solidify pre-existing social structures, and 41 percent of upperclassstudents don’t belong to them anyways.

One of the best aspects of Princeton is its people. Few places have so many amazing musical prodigies, seasoned athletes, and bona fide geniuses all living together in the same place. Let’s meet up outside of frosh week and Reunions.

(Read the group’s full report or see their shorter PowerPoint presentation on my Google Drive.)

Liam O’Connor is a senior geosciences concentrator from Wyoming, Del. He can be reached at lpo@princeton.edu.

Reparations now Elijah Benson

Contributing Columnist

Last year, Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS) committed $28 million to pay reparations for its complicity in the institutions of American slavery. PTS’ steps include offering scholarships, fellowships, and resources to the descendants of those affected by its actions, as well as inhabitants of West African nations impacted by the slave trade.

Our own university should follow suit with an even bigger commitment. While others have proposed the idea of reparations in this paper, the Seminary’s recent decision gives new context — and urgency — to the issue.

Now that Princeton has a model for reparations, reparations must be one of the University’s main initiatives.

I’m not going to argue for reparations in general. We are beyond that; the University knows why dealing with its past is a worthwhile and just cause (as evidenced by the Princeton and Slavery Project). And now is as good a time as any to do so.

PTS shares more than a town with the University; it shares

a community. Students at the Seminary can take one class per semester here, with full access to our libraries. We share knowledge, resources, and a troubling historical connection to slavery. While both the University and PTS have acknowledged this disturbing past, the University has yet to take substantive action.

Furthermore, PTS has an endowment of just under $1 billion. In comparison, the University’s is upwards of $26 billion. As PTS goes through with its reparations plan and sets aside almost 3 percent of its endowment, this gives the University a chance to implement something similar, but at a larger scale.

If a similar percentage were taken out of the University’s endowment, that would mean $780 million dedicated to reparations. We would then have a truly meaningful fund of reparations, at only a fraction of our total endowment. This should happen, and this should happen now.

The University prides itself with leveraging one of the largest endowments in the country — and the political power it carries — to the benefit of its students. What is keeping them

from implementing a plan for reparations?

The University has taken steps to enact real change for just causes in other arenas.

Princeton’s financial aid is among the best in the country, and most students graduated with no debt, because of Princeton’s ability to generously disburse grants and other aid.

The University has been at the forefront of supporting DACA, which has been under attack from the current presidential administration.

In a similar fashion, the administration can take a step towards implementing effective policies to help enrich its students and overall improve the University. Princeton owned up to its past with the Princeton and Slavery project. While acknowledging this past, the University should make an effort to help those directly affected by it.

Reparations are the next logical step in the evolution of the University’s reputation of supporting initiatives that promote economic and racial justice. Princeton can once again be a leader of an important initiative by not only being one of the first to implement a plan for reparations, but also by making

such a big contribution in the form of almost a billion dollars.

With the case for reparations being talked about around the country now more than ever, the University can actually call itself a leader in acknowledging the past and dedicating resources toward reaching racial equality and equity, not only on college campuses, but also for institutions in the country as a whole. Georgetown University’s students have already started an initiative for reparations, though their plan raises less than $500,000 towards the cause and is funded by an increase in tuition.

Princeton can set a precedent for other universities by diverting a portion of its endowment towards reparations. On top of simply being the right thing to do, Princeton can show that the institution not only speaks about trying to change, but is actually taking steps in that direction. Reparations would be a true call in the nation’s service and the service of humanity.

Elijah Benson is a sophomore from Newark, N.J. He can be reached at ebenson@princeton. edu.

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