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Farewell Friends

Kira Ivarsson :: Staff Photographer

Columnist Isabella Gomes exposes a discriminatory scholarship listing, while seniors Ben Dinovelli, Azza Cohen, Lea Trusty and Bennett McIntosh reflect on their time at the University.

Opinion :: 5-6

Class Day, Baccalaureate speakers call for commitments to diversify dialogues and opportunities for higher eduction; ‘Prince’ News section revisits notable events that happened during the Class of 2016’s time at the University.

News :: 2-4

Sports revisits some of the most notable victories the Tigers have achieved during the years 2012-16.

Sports :: 7-9

Photo spreads of Class Day 2016 and memories of the Class of 2016

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Class of 2016 April 2012

Tuesday May 31, 2016

September 2013 September 2012

Class of 2016 arrives at the University

Christopher Eisgruber ‘83 becomes President of the University

U. admits 2,095 students, or 7. 86 percent of the near-record 26,664 applicants for the Class of 2016.

November 2013

April 2014

Meningitis outbreak strikes campus

Class of 2016 declares majors; COS, WWS among the most popular concentrations

Men’s football team beats Yale and Harvard, wins Ivy League title. The campus celebrated with a bonfire.

Azza Cohen ‘16 elected as Picoult ’87 talks diversity, Young Alumni Trustee acceptance

By Hannah Waxman staff writer

By Caroline Lippman staff writer

“When somebody tells you no, you have two choices. You can stop in your tracks, or you can push forward,” said author Jodi Picoult ’87, the Class of 2016 Class Day speaker.

Picoult discussed her time at Princeton, from a challenging yet transformative creative writing class to her experience as a manager on the men’s crew team. She talked about overcoming adversity in her career as a novelist, noting the difficulty of being a female author while male authors received more frequent and more complimentary reviews.

She explained that she chose to write about thought-provoking topics inspired by her own life, such as one of her children’s health struggles that influenced her to write her bestselling novel, “My Sister’s Keeper”.

She also spoke about her upcoming novel, which discusses what it means to be white and some of the inherent privileges associated with race.

Picoult referenced the conversations about race and rights on Princeton’s campus this year, and stated that although such conversations may make some people uncomfortable, comfort is not an inalienable right.

She expressed the importance of fostering diversity and acceptance, noting that acceptance [to universities] does not guarantee inclusion.

“We are living in a time when the female presidential candidate is berated for not smiling enough and for yelling during her speeches. We are living in a time when the Black Lives Matter movement [advocates for] spaces to raise racial awareness at universities while the press tells them, ‘Stop complaining,’” she said.

Picoult urged those who face these struggles to continue to speak up, and offered that even those who have been privileged by money, race, gender or sexual orientation have a role to play. “Recognize your privilege and step up to the podium, but then pass the microphone to someone who has been marginalized,” she said.

Picoult offered advice to the graduating class in the form of an African proverb, which she quoted as saying, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

She told the graduating class to be kind and be grateful.

“Don’t just fall in love; stay in love. Adopt a dog,” she added.

The ceremony included remarks from Class Day chairs Azza Cohen ’16, Molly Stoneman ’16 and Daniel Toro ’16, as well as a welcoming address from University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83. Eisgruber noted that the Class of 2016 has gone

through many transitions, focusing his speech on the change in location of the Dinky Station and Wawa convenience store during the Class of 2016’s four years on campus.

The program also included remarks from class president Justin Ziegler ’16, a presentation of class prizes by Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, a presentation of athletic awards by Ford Family Director of Athletics Mollie Marcoux ’91 and an induction of honorary class members to the Class of 2016.

Among the award winners was Ziegler, who received the W. Sanderson Detwiler 1903 Prize to honor leadership and contributions to the Class of 2016. Ella Cheng ’16 received the Class of 1901 medal in recognition of her contributions to the University community, and Cohen received the Priscilla Glickman ’92 Memorial Prize in recognition of her work in community service and social justice.

The ceremony featured two other student speakers, Martina Fouquet ’16 and Anna Aronson ’16. This marked the first year in the University’s history when all three class day speakers were female.

Fouquet is a politics major with a certificate in creative writing. She discussed her initial impression of Princeton as “perfect”, but explained that its many imperfections make it a more human and special place, joking that Firestone Library reading rooms require University ID cards for entry because the University would not want visitors to see all of the Facebook and Netflix tabs open on students’ computers.

Citing Princeton’s amended motto, “Princeton in the nation’s service and in the service of humanity,” she said that the University is certainly a place full of humanity, with its members hailing from diverse backgrounds.

Aronson, a sociology major with a certificate in theater, introduced her speech by mentioning that she recently opened a Tinder account, and continued by describing the Princeton experience as a four-year-long first date with the university.

The Tinder account, she explained, was to prepare herself for the transition to life after college.

“Though we may feel butterflies about what lies ahead, our time at this University has given us the courage to ‘swipe right’ for our own passions and pursuits in the future.

A Ph.D. A family. A celebrity crush,” she said, making a joke that hers would be Eisgruber.

The ceremony was held for members of the Class of 2016 in the University Chapel on Monday, May 30, at 10:30 a.m.

Azza Cohen ’16 was elected Young Alumni Trustee, chosen out of three finalists vying for the position.

Cohen will join Tumi Akinlawon ’15, Brian Reilly ’14 and Kanwal Matharu ’13, and serve four years on the University’s Board of Trustees. She will be replacing Angela Groves ’12 who ends her term on June 30, 2016.

The positions were established in 1969 to include representatives of the undergraduate community at the University on the Board.

Cohen is a columnist for The Daily Princetonian.

“I was really surprised,” Cohen said. “It was very surreal to me, it still is, it hasn’t really settled in yet. I am especially excited because my sister just got into Princeton so I feel like I want to make it [Princeton] a better experience for her, keeping her in mind.”

During the election process, the candidates were not allowed to campaign, but rather were elected on the basis of their biographies. This, Cohen noted, contributes to the sense of honor and appreciation she feels for the students who voted her into the position.

She noted she is looking forward to working on several areas that are important to her in her new capacity as a member of the board. The first will be exploring ways to express her pas-

sion for international service, a passion that she cultivated during her time as a Bridge Year India student. Fellow board member Reilly also attended Bridge Year, so Cohen looks forward to working with him in that realm.

Cohen also spent much of her time as an undergraduate being involved in programming at the Pace Center and hopes to bring this experience to her role as a board member.

She added she regards her Princeton experience as one which will help her moving forward in this new role. “I think one of the skills I’ve gained is having tough but constructive conversations,” she said.

Her engagement with alumni in her capacity as a writer for the Prince has also prepared her well for the interactions she will have with board members, she explained. Particularly, stomaching the hate mail and negative responses she received after writing controversial opinion articles has prepared her for the potential of meeting fellow Board members with whom she might disagree, she said.

“I’m excited to learn from these people who, probably I disagree with a lot of them, but I also think the cool thing about being a Young Alumni Trustee is that you’ve just interacted with the University. I also hope to really advocate. I think that the Woodrow Wilson issue is not over,” she added.

As the term is four years long, she hopes to work to create a

greater sense of continuity to discussions such as those regarding Wilson’s legacy, as she feels there is a tendency for conversations to stop once the school year ends. She plans to engage with younger students to foster this progression.

Another goal she wishes to accomplish is to emphasize that the arts have a place at Princeton and that they are not merely regarded as a hobby. Cohen, an aspiring filmmaker who participated in the production of the documentary film “Specks of Dust,” felt that she needed to look for outside help to explore her interest in film but wished that she could have found more support within the University’s curriculum.

“I would hope to make the arts also more of the Princeton experience,” she said.

She added that she believes the Young Alumni Trustees to be a great addition to the Board. However, she noted, she hopes to try to include graduate students on the board so as to bridge the gap between this community and that of the undergraduates.

“I think that one of the things I’ve noticed at Princeton is the divide between graduate students and undergraduates, and that’s obviously not helpful,” she noted.

Cohen will attend graduate school at the National University of Ireland through the Mitchell Scholarship this coming fall.

Parting thoughts

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Freshmen year walking through the gates having alumni embrace me and realizing that I had joined a family!

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- Deana Davoudiasl

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It’s hard to decide on the best thing to write about Princeton. Just capitalize on the people - they are what makes this place run and what can make it achieve its absolute best. Relationships are key!

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- Maya Wahrman

A couple of tips from a graduating senior: 1) Your mental health comes first - handle that, find people who want to help, and if you can’t know that it doesn’t make you weak. You are brave. 2) Find professors who will be your advocaes - who will uplift your ideas and belive that you are meant to do great things even if you don’t in the moment.

3) Be bold and unapologetic - you have earned yourself the right to figure out what you can do and just how amazing you are.

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- Isabella Gomez

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November 2014 Black Lives Matter protests take place on campus; one of the largest demonstrations in recent U. history

October 2014

November 2015 June 2015 African American Studies becomes a concentration

New Wawa and Dinky station open

Faculty votes to end grade deflation

Neuroscience becomes a concentration

May 2016 December 2014 Ella Cheng ‘16 became the first female USG president since 2003

Kennedy ’77 calls seniors to advocate higher education

By Hannah Waxman staff writer

Becoming ambassadors of higher education and searching for solutions to issues confronting academia today are important missions for University graduates, said legal scholar Randall Kennedy ’77 at the 269th Baccalaureate ceremony on Sunday.

As the ceremony began, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 welcomed members of the Class of 2016 and remarked on the significance of the event.

“The baccalaureate service is intended to provide moments of reflection for members of Princeton’s graduating senior class, in between the revelry of Reunions and the celebrations of Class Day and Commencement,” Eisgruber said. He recalled the first recorded baccalaureate ceremony in 1760 when President Samuel Davies encouraged the eleven members of the graduating class to live for the public.

By engaging in public service at the Pace Center, participating in an international service project, serving within the University as a student leader, advocating for justice and equality as well as participating in research, the Class of 2016 has fulfilled the mission set forth by Davies, Eisgruber continued.

“At the heart of our community is the desire and the responsibility to make the world a better place,” Eisgruber said.

He subsequently introduced Kennedy, the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard University, to deliver the keynote address.

After graduating cum laude with an A.B. in History, as well as a Rhodes scholarship, Kennedy earned a J.D. at Yale University in 1982. Kennedy held several clerking jobs, most notably for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He

BJL organizes sit-in in Nassau Hall

also served two separate terms as a University trustee.

Kennedy’s speech encouraged members of the Class of 2016 to acknowledge the importance of and issues surrounding academia.

“I am exhilarated by the prospect of addressing a group that will undoubtedly shape our world significantly in the years ahead, the great Princeton Class of 2016,” Kennedy said.

He took a moment to appreciate the members of the class and their families who have taken out “second mortgages” in order to pay for their education.

He subsequently asked the crowd to direct their philanthropic ambitions towards academic institutions and to remain civically informed by voting, sharing ideas and contributing to the upkeep and independence of universities.

“In general, being an ambassador for higher education is to embrace opportunities to advance the best versions of collegiate and university life,” Kennedy added.

Kennedy said that universities provide the most far-reaching of settings for scholars to explore recondite subjects, bringing expertise to urgent problems and encourage grappling with timeless questions. The connections and interactions between universities, both public and private, play an important role in this development, he added.

However, Kennedy pointed out, there are several issues and problems facing institutions of higher education these days.

“Inefficiencies in the system of higher education do not stay put. They are infectious, posing dangers to the system as a whole. Colleges and universities face a rising loss in confidence regarding their worthiness,” Kennedy said.

This “worthiness” is typically defined by the market-

ability of the college’s merits.

Furthermore, he pointed to the increasing burdens of government regulation and mounting costs of tuition.

Kennedy further critiqued the increasing desire among colleges to achieve popularity, as evidenced by the frequent hiring of Hollywood celebrities to provide commencement addresses.

Princeton has been beneficial to its students by avoiding these societal pressures, he said.

Kennedy explained how Princeton’s strength lies in its inclusion of diverse individuals, groups and organizations that represent opposing points of view.

“Princeton invests in all of its students by making available to them scholars and artists of the first rank.

It bestows upon students a remarkable and admirable community, one that is more welcoming to more different sorts of people than ever before in its history,” Kennedy concluded.

Following Kennedy’s address, Dean Thames read a prayer of the people and Dean Boden read a prayer for Princeton.

Prior to Kennedy’s address, Avanthika Srinivasan ’16, Kujegi Camara ’16, Maya Wahrman ’16 and Alex Cuadrado ’16 read an excerpt from the Bhagavad Gita, a Qur’an surah, a psalm and a passage from the Bible, respectively. The students leading the service were selected because of their contributions to religious life during their time at Princeton, the program explained.

Audrey Berdahl-Baldwin ’16, Asmod Karki ’16 and Paarth Shah ’16 gave blessings after the keynote address, after which a Hebrew choral response was sung and Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne offered a benediction.

Class of 2016 in numbers

Members of Class of 2016 to recieve U. diploma

A Note of gratitute to emeritus faculty The Daily Princetonian would like to thank the following faculty members for their dedication throughout their time at the University.

Scott Burnham, Scheide Professor of Music History; Professor of Music.

Edward Champlin, Cotsen Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Classics Douglas Clark, Professor of Computer Science Ronald Comer, Lecturer with continuing appointment of Psychology John Cooper, Henry Putnam Professor of Philosophy Angus Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs; Professor of Economics and International Affairs Paul DiMaggio, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Robert A. Freidin, Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities John Richard Gott III, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences Abdellah Hammoudi, Professor of Anthropology Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Professor of History Kirk T. McDonald, Professor of Physics Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Princeton Environmental Institute Jerome Silbergeld, P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor in Chinese Art; Professor of Art and Archaeology P. Adams Sitney, Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts Szymon Suckewer, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Ronald Surtz, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures Robert Daniel Willig, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

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What these walls will remember Bennett McIntosh

senior columnist

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nd when these walls in dust are laid,

With reverence and awe Another throng shall breathe our song, In praise of Old Nassau

As soon as I leave Princeton, these centuries-old walls will forget me.

Well that’s not strictly true. There are two marks I have left, literally, on the walls of this campus. The first: thumbtack holes on dorm-room walls — the scars of attempts to make tiny people-lockers more livable. The second: the wall formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson mural. The face that watched me every morning at breakfast for my two years in the college will, partially as a result of actions of a committee I sat on, grin at others no more.

But the mural owes its removal more to the protesters who began the process of resistance and to whichever building services staff physically end it, and all involved were swept along by societal currents larger than any one of us. Like the newly blank wall, the thumbtack holes I left on my dorm-room walls are anonymous, unremarkable. I spent four years searching for an original identity on this campus, and the physical mark I leave will be small, mundane, and unoriginal.

And Princeton’s mark on me? In some ways, I feel unchanged: I never really learned how to “do” Princeton. I never achieved optimal productivity in that awkward hour-or-two gap between classes. I never found the ideal balance between my busy schedule and the relationships I built (and failed to build). I never went to bed when I said I would, and I never woke up without needing a few minutes, or hours, to gather courage to face the day ahead.

Yet, here I am, thesis and classes complete, a mere fortnight from my final exam. My fellow seniors and I may not feel like we know what we’re doing, but in two weeks we will have done it nonetheless.

And “it” is a four-year-long marathon effort that, when we arrived on campus, seemed as distant and incomprehensible as Charter was. So I must have changed somehow in the interim. As much as 17-yearold Bennett would have cringed to hear this, little of that change has come from classes or even vaunted extracurriculars.

I owe most of whom I’ve become to the people here — to four-year friends and to four-minute strangers.

My writing career was born of appreciative emails from random readers of The Daily Princetonian. My politics — hopefully more nuanced, empathetic and realistic than those of four years ago — are owed to protesters, Facebook friends-of-friends and ‘Prince’ commenters (I’ll even miss Shadrach Smith). We build our worldviews, ourselves, from conversations in the dining hall, at drunk meal, in crowded, comfy dorm rooms, gesturing with our forks or drinks, feeling grandiose, lying on the golf course feeling small.

When we sit together as a class for commencement, it will be the end not just of an academic marathon, but of a feeling of connection that ran through it with us. Marina Keegan, writing for the Yale Daily News the week she graduated college and I graduated high school, called it “the opposite of loneliness” in a column by the same name. It’s the sense that we’re all feeling our way through this together. Read her whole column, because she captures that feeling exquisitely, and once we graduate we will never feel that sentiment the same way we’ve felt it here.

Five days after graduating, Keegan died in a car accident.

Since her death, millions around the world have read her words, either online or in the eponymous posthumous anthology of her works. Keegan lives on not only in the memories of her friends and peers, but in the way her words touched the lives of multitudes. Though I pray we are all fortunate enough that graduation heralds the beginning of our lives rather than the end, we, too, will live on in the many ways — intentional, circumstantial, unknowable — that we have touched each others’ lives here.

Early Sunday morning, I locked myself out of my room. As I trudged through the 4:00 a.m. darkness to the Department of Public Safety, the silent walls of Spelman and Whitman seemed to hold their breath with anticipation, for something more than Sunday’s rain and the festivities heralded by Lawnparties stages and Reunions fences. We are on the brink of, well, everything. Princeton too — with its campus master plans and new generations of students — will continue to change without us. It’s not just that the University’s neo-gothic walls stand unperturbed by my four tumultuous years here, but that new buildings will rise until this campus becomes entirely unrecognizable to me, erasing completely my memories and fingerprints. Already the Arts and Transit District has moved the late-night beacon of Wawa. Eventually even Frick, that new glass-and-steel cathedral to science, and my second home, will fall.

After all that Princeton has done for me and to me, my legacy will be whatever people take from random conversations and columns I penned while stressed, sleep-deprived, or (at least once) drunk. When the cheap newsprint decays, these articles will exist on only as electromagnetic bits on the internet, and as tenuous connections in our minds. If these connections, passed down through generations of Princetonians and rippling out from the Orange Bubble with each graduating class, are the only mark I have left on this campus, I suppose that’s enough.

Bennett McIntosh is a chemistry major from Littleton, Colo.

He can be reached at bam2@princeton.edu.

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he managing board and the staff members of the Daily Princetonian would like to congratulate the members of the great Class of 2016 upon their graduation.

Thank you, seniors, for the tremendous contributions you made to the University community as scholars, activists, athletes and artists.

Most importantly,thank you for being our friends, role models, family, mentors and a great inspiration for us all. We would miss you dearly.

Congratulations again to to the Class of 2016, our friends, family and mentors; we wish you the best of luck as you walk out of FitzRandolph Gate into the wider world, and we are excited for all the great things that await you outside the gate.

Could I have done better?

Benjamin Dinovelli

opinion editor emeritus

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s I stood in the middle of the Wilson School’s Fountain of Freedom after submitting my senior thesis, I could not help but feel, hidden beneath the watery surface and among the cold stone tiles, a lurking sense of self-doubt.

Was this the best work that I could have turned in? Maybe I should have done more background research. Maybe I should have conducted a more complex statistical test.

Maybe I should have had one more friend read over my final draft before I turned it in.

During our four years here at Princeton, the senior thesis has been depicted as the “most valuable academic component of [our] Princeton experience,” the “culmination” of our path to “evolve as independent thinkers.” In essence, we have been told that the senior thesis is the best reflection of our academic selves. I knew I had tried, but it was hard to ignore my gut feeling that, just maybe, I should have tried a little bit harder.

In a similar manner, we have also been told that the rest of our lives will be defined by how we have spent our time here at Princeton. Princeton will follow us.

Not only literally through the alumni donation letters that will find our future mailboxes wherever we may go, but also through our future life choices that will be affected by how we have worked, played and interacted in these hallowed halls.

As we are about to turn the final page on this chapter of our lives, I have started to feel the same sense of doubt that I had felt in that fountain almost two months ago.

In terms of how I pursued my interests, handled my relationships or chose my career path, could I have done better?

For our senior theses, we eventually receive an answer to that question in the form of a grade. We will know if we did too much or too little. However, there is no grade or progress report that will tell us how well we lived our lives. Even at the end, God will not hand us comprehensive comments outside the Pearly Gates filled with compliments, critiques and room for improvement. Life is not pass/D/fail. We get no answer.

Nonetheless, stubborn and fickle, we try to get one. And in doing so, I fear that we will fall into the trap of the Cinderella shoe. We try to place our foot into a crystal shoe and lament if our foot is not a perfect fit. We take our own backgrounds and see how they match up against those of Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama and that guy who graduated two years ago and now works at McKinsey. If our life story thus far does not fit because we did the wrong summer internship, received the wrong grades or did not get into the right clubs, we feel like failures.

To be brutally honest, I am still so afraid this may be the case. The mature, “adult”

side of me wants to write that it is not. It wants to write that I have no regrets about my choices, to write that I will be content regardless of where I end up. Yet, I am truly afraid that I did not take full advantage of my time here. I am afraid of the missed opportunities. I am afraid that my best foot was not put forward. I am afraid that the next steps I am about to take could be better than they are.

They say that hindsight is 20-20, and at times it seems so clear. Yes, we have all made a few clear-cut mistakes along the way, but life is far too complex, too multifaceted for us to be so binary. If I have realized anything, it is that there is no crystal shoe for us to put our foot into — behind the façade, our past is just as blurry as our future.

A few weekends ago, I went home for Mother’s Day. Cleaning out my old room, I found a letter from my fifth-grade self to the future me about where I hoped to be.

I hoped for a lot back then. To become a great drawer (nope). To learn how to play the piano (nope). To go to the University of Connecticut (nope). To grow six feet tall (definitely nope).

And in reading this letter, I realized that my prior goals were radically different.

Back then, I could never have imagined ending up somewhere like Princeton, let alone having any of the amazing experiences that I have had these past four years, whether it be presenting my Junior Paper at the White House, dancing to Flo Rida live at the 25th Reunion tent or going to Walt Disney World for fall break with friends. It is easy to notice the downsides in the rearview mirror after seeing all the ground that has been covered, but it is much harder to remember the difficulty of getting to where we are now.

We worry, we doubt, we fear so much.

And despite all the exerted energy, our efforts will most likely be futile. We will all probably end up somewhere far from where we currently hope. And the prospects of that sound terrifying. Yet what we want later may be far different than what we hope for now. And the chance of achieving what we could not even imagine in the present is extremely exciting, making our possibilities truly limitless.

I wish I could write a letter to my fifthgrade self. If I could, I would let him know that despite all the road bumps, despite all the doubts, despite not achieving even a fraction of what I had hoped for back then, the journey ahead would surpass my wildest expectations. As my mother always used to say, it is the journey, not the destination, which you will appreciate.

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Benjamin Dinovelli is a Wilson School major from Mystic, Conn. He can be reached at bjd5@ princeton.edu.

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What I didn’t do at Princeton

Defining Princeton Lea Trusty

Azza Cohen

columnist

senior columnist

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any seniors spend their time, especially during the glorious month of May that came too fast or not fast enough, reminiscing on what we did at Princeton. We put our favorite classes, late-night conversations and funny roommate stories in our pockets to take with us wherever we go next. There are a million ways to do Princeton. Here is how I did it.

When I arrived on campus four years ago, I didn’t own a bike, which meant that I walked around campus and enjoyed its beauty. I did, however, own a scooter my freshman year. I soon realized a scooter is less than effective at navigating cobblestones.

I didn’t consider myself religious, so I felt conflicted about going to the Center for Jewish Life. I am immensely glad I overcame that feeling; it now feels just like home.

I didn’t go to the Princeton Writing Center until my senior year because I was nervous about criticism, but that was a ridiculous reason not to go. The fellows there are so helpful and kind. I never took a math class because I was still scarred from high school calculus. I really regret this decision because I am still atrocious at any kind of calculation.

I didn’t get accepted to the Program in Visual Arts, and it devastated me as a hopeful filmmaker. But I had a mentor who told me her favorite filmmaker was a history major, and I have continued to make films that excite me — as a history major myself.

I didn’t get an A in any of my favorite classes, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t collect all the jewels I was offered. Once, my professor emailed me after sending out our final grades to say that although I was not an A student, my joy for learning did not go unnoticed. This meant more to me than any transcript ever has.

I didn’t have tissues when I cried in a professor’s office hours, but he did. And his kindness gave me a million reasons to love this place.

I didn’t do the footnotes for my thesis until the night before it was due. Yes, it was

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stressful, but my roommate sat next to me from midnight to 5:35 a.m. on April 5 and we finished together.

I didn’t think I was brave enough to talk about my body on a stage, but after an incredible experience acting in The Vagina Monologues my sophomore year, I ended up directing the same show as a senior. It’s amazing where your fears can take you. I didn’t audition for Black Arts Company, but I wish I had at least tried.

There were darker times, too. I was told by a wise former opinion columnist not to read the comments section at the end of my columns. I didn’t take his advice, and I regret reading the sexist, anti-Semitic, allkinds-of-phobic vitriol every single time.

When I was homesick, I didn’t answer phone calls from my parents or siblings, but this isn’t the best way to cope. When I felt alone, I stopped writing in my journal. Princeton isn’t about pretending to be perfect but actually being brave enough to ask for a hand. I assure you, someone will extend theirs.

I didn’t tell my colleagues when a window fell on my head this August. When you get a concussion, you’re not exactly in the right mindset to diagnose yourself, but a very kind staff member of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement (where I was working) escorted me to University Health Services to make sure I was okay. I was not — I had suffered a concussion. My colleague helped me get my medicine, pack my things and go home.

I got a lot out of Princeton, and I will miss this place dearly. Princeton will knock you down, but Princeton will offer you two hands to pull you up. You’ll have more friends than you know and more advocates than you could ever imagine. I love Princeton because of how it caught me when I jumped. Every day at Princeton is a leap of faith, and you will fall many times — but I promise you will rise.

Azza Cohen is a history major from Highland Park, Ill. She can be reached at accohen@princeton.edu.

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hen I first stepped on Princeton’s campus four years ago, I could not imagine all the ways I would grow before walking out of FitzRandolph Gate again. My expectations were that of any incoming freshman: I would learn from professors who were experts in their field. I would become a better writer and critical thinker through my academic and extracurricular work. I would gain a new sense of direction concerning my professional interests and pursuits. I did not, however, want Princeton to change me fundamentally. Hundreds of miles away from my family, friends and the only home I had ever known, I feared what would happen if I let Old Nassau erode what had grounded my identity — my Louisiana roots, my Jamaican and Ethiopian culture and the people I had loved from all these places.

I refused to let attending Princeton define me.

As my time here comes slowly comes to an end, I am comforted by this thought of sameness. I’m still a bit too quirky, too easy-going. I still enjoy good books and warm summer days. It would be a lie, however, to say I’m leaving Princeton the same way I entered. To do so would discount the courses I’ve taken, the people I have met and the experiences that I have had. And while they have not defined me as a person, their influence is undeniable.

It is difficult to quantify change, especially because it often happens when we are least aware of it. But as I reflect on my time here, these changes reveal themselves in what seems to be the everyday, the most mundane of moments: giving a presentation in Spanish on the implications of globalization on human rights; writing for the ‘Prince’ every month on a broad range of themes, from the Syrian refugee crisis to campus voting; helping spearhead a new student group to address the challenges that low-income and firstgeneration students face.

These academic and extracurricular moments have made me a more confident,

determined person. Even so, they alone cannot account for the most fundamental experiences of university. In fact, many would argue that they are the least important. A presentation does not compare to holding my best friend in my arms as she mourned the loss of her aunt. My columns cannot compete with exploring the arches and alleyways of Barri Gòtic in Barcelona.

And as impactful as student organizations have been on my Princeton experience, being exposed to the work of black feminists like Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Davis and bell hooks have let me explore my own identity and, in a way, come into my blackness, womanhood and sexuality.

It is easy to understand why admitted student Lea would have been resistant to letting Princeton change her. As great and renowned as Princeton is, I understood that the space I was entering was not initially created for someone like me — a low-income, first-generation black woman with no prior connections to the university.

Yet as time progressed, I realized that the Princeton of prestige would not be the Princeton that changed me. The Princeton that would change me involved the invaluable female mentorship I received from my professors and advisors, the organizations into which I invested my time and energy, the trips I decided to take and the people I decided to love.

My experiences at Princeton are at once unique and universal. We each have different moments that change us, challenge us and cause us to diverge from the paths — and selves — we had originally imagined.

These four years would be futile without these transformations. Still, we define those transformative experiences. We seek them out. We mold them and, in turn, they mold us.

We should never fear that Princeton defines us — we define Princeton. For me, that has been the most gratifying experience of all.

Lea Trusty is a politics major from Saint Rose, La. She can be reached at ltrusty@princeton.edu.

University removes posting of discriminatory scholarship Isabella Gomez columnist

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he Office of International Programs at Princeton University posts lots of post-graduate fellowships.

54 to be exact. The fellowships provide potential opportunities for Princeton students to continue their education in the US or abroad in a wide range of topics, from studying the Senegalese language of Wolof to atmospheric sciences, oceanography or hydrology.

Until recently, there were 55 fellowships, but one, the Korean Government Scholarship, explicitly prohibits any students living with HIV from applying, and yesterday Princeton removed the scholarship from the OIP website.

The scholarship is intended for non-Korean citizens who want to pursue graduate study — either a doctoral or master’s degree — in the Republic of Korea, or South Korea. For students interested in the scholarship, the prohibition against being HIV positive is not immediately obvious. Following the hyperlink provided on the University’s website directs students to a page that says that the scholarship’s eligibility requirements are to “be in good health, both mentally and physically, to stay in Korea for a long period of time.” However, should a student decide to apply, they would find in the application materials the following stipulations: (1) students have to take an HIV test as part of the medical assessment, and (2) applicants who test positive for HIV or illicit drugs will be disqualified and their scholarships canceled.

This prohibition is unexpected, given that the Korean government has spoken out against such restrictions for a number of years. For example, in 2010, the Korean government pledged to remove all HIV travel restrictions on foreigners, telling the Human Rights Council that the Korean government reaffirmed its commitment to remove restrictions “as part of the effort to eliminate all forms of discrimination.”

In 2011, the Korean government joined in the 2011 United Nations General Assembly Political Declaration on HIV/ AIDS, which had a target to “[e]liminate HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence.” In 2012, the Korean Government spoke out against HIV restrictions at the International AIDS Conference in Washington.

In practice, the government hasn’t always lived up to these pledges. For example, in 2011 ROK’s Ministry of Justice instituted a policy that required drug and HIV testing for certain types of work visas, stating that Koreans needed “measures to deal with the threat [foreigners] posed to our society’s public order and our people’s health.”

When new diseases appear, it is not uncommon to blame foreigners. But it’s not good public health policy. For starters, it gives native Koreans a false sense of security that only other people are at risk of HIV transmission and that border control is a better means of HIV prevention than other public health approaches. It also stigmatizes the disease for Korean nationals. As Joseph Amon, Princeton lecturer and Vice President for Neglected Tropical Diseases at Helen Keller International notes, “the high levels of stigma caused by linking HIV and mandatory testing to foreigners has made many ethnic Koreans choose to forgo testing due to fear of prejudice.”

While many countries, including the US up until the Obama administration, maintained a travel ban on HIV positive travelers, this policy has long been considered ineffective and counterproductive from a public health standpoint. In 1987 the World Health Organization took the position that there was no justification for restrictions on travel for people living with HIV, and the United Nations High Commis-

sioner for Human Rights, UNAIDS and even UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon have spoken out against the practice.

“Perhaps a decade or more ago, many countries had restrictions on HIV positive travelers and applicants for programs on the basis that they would be a burden on the country or institution they were visiting as they would not be considered in good health to take advantage of the programs,” says Jimmy Kolker, assistant secretary for Global Affairs of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC in response to this investigation.

“However, now with antiretroviral therapies, being HIV positive should not factor in whether or not people should have access to benefits or whether there are restrictions on travel. Now we have so much evidence, that I can say with confidence that discrimination against HIV positive people is a fundamental question of rights over any justification medical or otherwise ­­and certainly cannot be made on the basis of a threat to people involved in the program or concerns over transmission.” As one of the signatories to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the government of the Republic of Korea has agreed to obligations to bar discrimination based on HIV status.

But despite the government’s pledges to the international community, discriminatory policies continue to exist against foreigners. Such was the 2015 case in which foreign teachers were required to take HIV tests — a policy that the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination considered racial discrimination in violation of international law. The arguments made then could be similarly applied to the violations against foreign students by the eligibility requirements of the Korean Government Scholarship.

When contacted by The Daily Princetonian and asked about their view of the eligibility criteria of the Korean Government Scholarship on its website, OIP removed the scholarship. Staff from the Office said that they had been unaware of such eligibility requirements within the scholarship guidelines. While the University may not be directly involved in offering programs such as this, hosting them on Princeton websites may violate U.S. laws, such as the American with Disabilities Act, protecting students from discrimination.

The Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, an earlier law protecting people with disabilities from discrimination, offer broad protections for U.S. students with disabilities, including those living with HIV. While these laws do not apply to the actions of the ROK, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services have been proactive in alerting schools to their affirmative duty to prevent such instances, including the promotion of discriminatory, harmful or humiliating “statements or conduct” targeting people with disabilities.

According to the Department of Education, disability harassment may include creating “a hostile environment by interfering with or denying a student’s participation in or receipt of benefits, services or opportunities in the institution’s program.” Promoting a scholarship that some Princeton students are ineligible to apply for may have negative impacts on these students and on their relationships with their Princeton advisers and fellow students, possibly compelling them to explain why they are not pursuing these opportunities or making them appear to be lacking ambition.

Similar to other universities’ stances on discriminatory

practices, Princeton’s official policy states, “[w]hen the University becomes aware that a member of the University community may have been subjected to or affected by discriminatory and/or harassing behavior, the University will take prompt action, including a review of the matter and, if necessary, an investigation and appropriate action to stop the discrimination and/or harassment.”

Unlike other scholarship programs which do not require HIV testing and merely indicate it as encouraged by the Republic of Korea for visiting travelers, such as the Fulbright program and the Teach and Learn in Korea program, in which Princeton students have participated according to Princeton’s Department in East Asian Studies, the Korean Government Scholarship explicitly infringes on the University’s policies and those of overseeing organizations with its mandatory testing requirement.

When asked about the University’s stance on discriminatory programs such as the Korean Government Scholarship, Director of Fellowship Advising Deirdre Moloney, Director of OIP Nancy Kanach and Vice Provost for International Affairs and Operations Anastasia Vrachnos reportedly considered several options including removing the posting, keeping the listing with disclaimers or taking an active position against discriminatory policies, before releasing the following official statement: “Princeton is committed to maintaining a community in which all members can participate fully and equally. Based on a review conducted by OIP and the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, a scholarship posting stating that HIV positive individuals are ineligible (without any reference to specific health-related reasons for such a restriction) contradicts our policies and commitment to non-discrimination. The posting has been removed.”

But this decision may have fallen short of the mark. As Amon states, “Princeton’s statement that they are removing the posting of the Korean Government Scholarship is the right decision. But suggesting that the problem is that the scholarship does not include specific health-related reasons misses the point. As the WHO, UNAIDS and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services all plainly state, there is no medical reason that justifies discrimination against people living with HIV from pursuing educational opportunities or traveling to another country.”

In the past two years, the University has confronted many issues regarding its stance on taking positions — whether it was enough to protect students, such as removing discriminatory policies from websites as in this case, or if they needed to politically engage as a public “spokes-body” against unjust practices. With student-advocated initiatives such as the campaigns to divest from fossil fuel companies in 2015, from West Bank and Gaza in 2014, from companies associated with the genocide in Darfur in 2006 and from apartheid South Africa in 1985, we can see the student body demanding that the University should practice the values it preaches. In order to live up to their non-discrimination policies, and promote a world that is inclusive, universities need to speak out against discrimination like the discriminatory policy embedded in the Korean Government Scholarship. This would be a particularly good step for a university that professes to be “in the nation’s service and in the service of humanity.”

Isabella Gomes is an ecology and evolutionary biology major from Irvine, Calif. She can be reached at igomes@princeton.edu.

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Tigers: Victories & Heroes Tigers attain perfect record, prepare for March Madness WOMEN’S BASKETBALL:: MARCH 12, 2015

By Miles Hinson sports editor emeritus

Hannah Montana once told me that nobody’s perfect. She clearly never met this Princeton women’s basketball team. They capped off what has been a season for the ages, defeating the Penn Quakers in Philadelphia on Tuesday to obtain a coveted undefeated status in the regular season.

The Tigers (30 — 0 overall, 14 — 0 Ivy League), despite winning by double digits, had one of their harder games of the season in this one. Penn (20 — 8, 11 — 3) came into this final game ranked No. 2 in the Ivy League. While they were out of contention for the league title, they could still look to play the role of spoiler and put a slight damper on an incredible season.

Both halves featured a tight struggle between the two. In the

first, the Tigers were unable to break away from their foe, never leading by more than seven points. As the buzzer sounded, they would head into the locker rooms up by just 5 points — a notable difference for a team who defeated their last two opponents by an average of 26 points.

The first part of the second half was just as intense a battle as the first. The Quakers would get off to a quick start, scoring four straight points to start the half and bring them to within one point. The Tigers, in turn, would respond with an 11 — 4, seeming just on the cusp of breaking away from the home team, as they had done in so many previous games.

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FOOTBALL:: NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Tigers rout Yale, clinch share of Ivy title

By Hillary Dodyk staff writer

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The Ivy League title that the Tigers clinched a share of on Saturday is Princeton’s 10th in program history.

The football team clinched a share of the Ivy League title and brought Princeton its second consecutive bonfire with a 59-23 victory over Yale Saturday.

A warm, sunny fall day brought with it the largest crowd Powers Field has seen in years, which started the day by honoring the members of the Class of 2014, who would be playing their last game at Princeton Stadium.

“The support was fantastic today, definitely the biggest crowd I’ve ever played in front of, which was awesome,” senior linebacker Phillip Bhaya said.

“Even having both sides filled with orange and black was great, and, as players, we feed off of that.”

The Tiger (8-1 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) offense struggled early, going three-and-out on the first two drives of the game. Junior quarterback Quinn Epperly did not complete a pass until the third drive of the game, midway through the first quarter.

Yale (5-4, 3-3) scored first, finding the end zone to take a 6-0 lead, but sophomore running back Dre Nelson broke a 42yard run for the first of his two touchdowns on the day on the next drive, giving the Tigers a 7-6 lead. They would never again trail in the game.

“I thought there were some really good adjustments throughout the season,” head coach Bob Surace ’90 said. “We’re going to pick on every mistake so we correct them.”

The contest was even early on. Epperly found junior wideout Connor Kelley in the end zone on the next drive to give the Tigers a 14-6 advantage, but the Bulldogs quickly cut the lead

back to one point with a touchdown of their own.

The Tigers only began to pull away after a botched onside kick

by Yale was fielded and returned 46 yards for a touchdown by junior cornerback Jakobi Johnson for a dramatic special teams contribution to the Tiger offensive effort.

“Just had to be ready for it,” Johnson said. “[The] ball popped up, and I saw an opportunity so I took it.”

Another Epperly touchdown — a short pass to sophomore running back DiAndre Atwater followed by a nice run and a dive into the end zone — and a field goal from sophomore kicker Nolan Bieck gave the Tigers a 31-16 lead going into halftime.

The field goal came after the Bulldogs blocked Bieck’s first attempt, but the play was nullified because Yale had called a timeout prior to the snap.

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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL:: NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Women’s volleyball takes down Cornell and Columbia, earns 15th Ivy League title

By Miles Hinson sports editor emeritus

About four weeks, ago, at the end of the first half of league play, senior right side hitter Kendall Peterkin said that her team was starting to get into their groove. Seven straight wins later, you might think Peterkin is a bit clairvoyant.

With wins over Cornell and Columbia on Friday and Saturday, respectively, the Tigers (15-8 overall, 10-4 Ivy League) have completed a perfect second half of league play, defeating all seven of their league competitors after a rocky 3-4 first half. With their successful weekend, they now hold a share with the Harvard Crimson of the Ivy League title, their 15th title in program history. All of this becomes more impressive when noting that the Tigers opened their first

three games of league play with three straight losses.

Team chemistry, now more than ever, has been crucial to fueling the Tigers’ run of success.

“It’s definitely the key that’s kept us on our run. We’ve really been able to connect a lot with our setters, the hitters especially,” Peterkin said. “I think we really focused on doing our individual jobs and letting everything come together, as long as we’re doing what we know we’re supposed to be doing, … focusing on ourselves and not on who we’re playing.”

The focus on treating every opponent the same was critical as Princeton faced Cornell in Ithaca on Friday. The Big Red (6-18, 2-12), though not a threat to overtake the Tigers in the league standings, certainly had the potential to end the Tigers’ hopes at taking a piece

of the league title.

“I think [when] playing Cornell and Columbia, who really had nothing to lose, those can be the more dangerous teams.

They’re just playing all out. …

[Against Columbia] we were all a little nervous,” Peterkin said. “It’s really inevitable that you’re going to think about the outcome of the game, which is not what we try to think about. … [But] the Ivy League Championship was definitely the big white elephant in the room.”

However nervous they may have been, the Tigers took care of business, taking down the Big Red 3-0. Peterkin herself was a force on the offensive end, as she and junior outside hitter Cara Mattaliano led the Tigers with 12 kills apiece on the day. The duo ranks second and third in the Ivy League respectively for kills per set, with 3.53 for Peterkin and 3.40

for Mattaliano. Cornell, moreover, was hardly able to keep up as Princeton went to win by scores of 25-17, 25-15 and 25-14.

The Lions (7-16, 5-9) were not much more successful.

The Tigers stormed into New York City Saturday evening and downed their foes 3-1. Columbia, however, made their matches far closer than their Ithacan counterparts, 25-16, 19-25, 29-27, and 26-24. On the game, Mattaliano led the team offensively and defensively with 21 kills and 25 digs. Senior libero Sarah Daschbach made a strong contribution as well with 20 digs.

With the back-to-back victories, the Tigers still have one more Ivy League battle to go — a showdown with the Crimson in Cambridge next weekend, to decide who makes the trip to the NCAA Tournament.

Going into the biggest game

of the year, Peterkin stressed the importance of not thinking too much about the NCAA Tournament itself, but rather make the game in front of them the greatest priority.

“I think we’re just going to take it one step at a time.

We’re going to look at it as just another game in the league,” Peterkin said. “We know Harvard, they know us. … As long as we continue to focus on what we’re doing and realize that it’s just another game, that if we win we can go from there … but for now, we’re just going to keep focus and practice and not stray too far away from what we’ve been doing.”

“I have a good feeling about this game [against] Harvard,” Peterkin added. “We’re still on our high. We have a lot of momentum and I think we can pull out the win. ”

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quite often with this team.

Princeton’s lead would remain around 12 points for the remainder of the game, and would finish with a victory of 55 — 42, their 4th smallest margin of victory in the regular season. The score is even more remarkable knowing that this Princeton squad has averaged 75.8 points a game in Ivy League play this season.

A look at the box score highlights how the Tigers had to earn every point they got. The Tigers have shot 49.3% from the field and 40.6% from the three point line in league play – they were held to 39.3% and 21.1% respectively in this game. They also had difficulty getting to the line

in the game, with only 4 free throw attempts for the entire team.

Of course, no Princeton women’s basketball game is without its bright spots. As has been the story all season, the Tigers’ rebounding effort was excellent, beating out Penn 42 — 34 on the boards. In particular, junior forwards Annie Tarakchian and Alex Wheatley cleaned the glass all night. Each finished with a double-double, with Tarakchian putting up 10 points and 12 boards, Wheatley 17 points and 12 boards. Wheatley would make her presence felt on defense, as she picked up two steals and swatted a season high four shots.

Senior guard Blake Dietrick would also shine in this one.

Despite a rough night shooting wise (35.7% on the day, compared

to 49.1% in league play), she still stuffed the stat sheet, putting up 11 points, 5 boards, and 7 assists on the game. Sophomore guard Vanessa Smith would also contribute to the victory, putting up 10 points on the game.

Perhaps the most impressive part of the victory was the Tigers’ ability to maintain their lead without much rest for the key players. Four of the five starters played for 35+ minutes – junior guard Michelle Miller played all 40 minutes of the contest.

With an astonishing regular season finished, the Tigers now set their eyes on the biggest prize of all – NCAA Championships. The Tiger’s seeding for the tournament (along with their overall bracket) will be revealed on Monday, March 16th.

MARCH 2, 2016

On Tap with Adam Bragg ’16

By David Liu sports editor

Reigning Ivy League Outdoor Pole Vault Champion Adam Bragg recently eclipsed an astonishing 5.65 meters. The feat snaps a previous 23year all-time Ivy League record and, more importantly, qualifies Bragg for the Olympic Trials. The Daily Princetonian sat down with Bragg to discuss his Princeton experience, graduation and professional life.

Daily Princetonian: What is the context and significance of your latest record-breaking jump?

Adam Bragg: The United States Olympic Committee sets a mark that determines entry into the Olympic Trials. On that day of February 12 at the Fastrack National Invitational, I jumped 5.65 [meters], which is the qualification mark. I was able to solidify my competition in the Olympic Trials.

DP: How do you even practice for such high stakes competi-

tions?

AB: I usually like to train at the heights you’re going to be competing at and it’s especially helpful that I’ve eclipsed such heights in practice. During practice it’s better to get the repetition.

DP: How did you get into pole vaulting and decide to pursue it professionally?

AB: I have a background in trampoline and I competed in that starting around the age of three to four years old, but by the time I was in the eighth grade I knew I wanted to compete collegiately in pole vault. So I started training with Victor Athletics in Southern California. I think as I’ve progressed in college it’s become more and more of a reality.

DP: Can you describe the transition from being a collegiate to professional athlete?

AB: I anticipate the transition is going to be dealing with a lot more available time. In college you have to worry about classes and thesis, especially senior year. I’m

looking forward to being able to relax and settle into a more fluid training schedule.

DP: How much do you feel like you are a student versus an athlete?

AB: Well, this spring it’s really ramping up on me on both sides because I have the deadline of the thesis coming up. I’d like to finish that up so I’m not stressing out about it so I can focus on the bigger competitions. I am also taking some classes I really enjoy this semester.

DP: What were the highest and lowest points of your Princeton career?

AB: The lowest points have to do with being so far away from home, not having any family on the East Coast. The highs are developing relationships with my teammates. It forced me to attach myself and get closer. Developing those relationship and having a group of lifelong friends are the things I’m most proud about.

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Tuesday May 31, 2016 MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING:: FEB. 28, 2016

Men’s Swimming and Diving Win 31st Ivy League Championship

By David Xin sports editor

How do you end a perfect season?

Men’s swimming answered this question by bringing home Princeton’s 31st Ivy League title – the squad’s seventh title in the last eight years. And they did so in record-breaking fashion.

While Princeton came home with the win, they trailed behind their rival, Harvard, for most of the meet. But that only made their victory that much sweeter.

Senior co-captain Teo D’Alessandro set the tone for the squad on day one with a remarkable performance in the 200IM. His time of 1:44.33 broke his own Princeton record while securing his third straight 200IM title. Fellow senior Marco Bove also had a strong showing, finishing second. The 1-2 would be crucial as the Tigers tried to close the cap between them and Harvard.

The Orange and Black also got impressive performances from the diving board, where junior Nathan Makarewicz claimed third. The Tigers grabbed second in the 200-freestyle relay.

The Princeton squad clinched enough points on the second day to keep pressure on the Crimson. A Princeton record-breaking performance from junior En-Wei HuVan Wright in the 100 Backstroke sparked a 1-2 finish.

Sophomore Alexander Lewis claimed second in the event.

Other notable swims include sophomore Corey Okubo’s second place finish in the 400IM and the team’s runner up finish in the 200 freestyle relay.

The Tigers kept up the momentum with a huge win in the 800-free relay. The four man squad of D’Alessandro, senior Sandy Bole, junior Julian Mackrel and sophomore Ben Schafer ended the second day by putting Princeton 52.5 points behind Harvard.

While the deficit was still significant, the Tigers were confident heading into the final day. Indeed, the Tigers had three more swimmers than Harvard competing on

Saturday. In addition, Princeton had managed to cut their deficit in half and had the momentum moving forward.

However, Harvard was not going to relinquish their lead without a fight. In fact, the Crimson pushed back to start the third day. They lead the Tigers by as much as 116.5 points at one point. Yet, the Tigers persevered as they always have throughout the season.

The comeback came throughout the day, as Princeton swimmers slowly chipped away at Harvard’s lead. Okubo claimed the top spot in the 200 back. Hu-Van Wright claimed his second win of the tournament by sharing the podium with Penn’s Eric Schultz. Bole took third in the event to further advance the Princeton cause.

However, the major turning point did not occur until the 200 fly. Although Harvard claimed first in the events, it would be the Tigers who came out on top overall. Indeed, Princeton managed to grab the second, third, sixth and eighth place finishes.

Suddenly, a win seemed manageable. After trailing Harvard for two and a half days, Princeton broke through and took the lead for the first time in the 19th event. From there, divers senior Noam Altman-Kurosaki and Makarewicz set Princeton up for the perfect finish. By claiming third and fifth respectively, the duo ensured that the Tigers would only need a top two finish to bring home the trophy.

But the Tigers would not settle for second. In an epic 400-freestyle relay, Princeton capped off its comeback with an Ivy League record time of 2:52.06. Needless to say, this sent the Princeton squad watching on the sidelines into an absolute frenzy.

After their first HYP win since 2012 and an undefeated season in the Ivy League, bringing home the Ivy League Championship was the storybook finish the Tigers were looking for. The fact that it was also a come-back story only made their victory sweeter.

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Bhaya also contributed to the scoring effort with a pick-six in his last game on Powers Field.

The score broke the Ivy League single-season scoring record set by Harvard in 2012, making this the highest-scoring offense in Tiger history. Epperly’s final touchdown of the day, a completion to senior wideout Roman Wilson, put the Tigers over the 400-point mark for the season.

“Obviously we didn’t have too much success in the beginning [four years ago], but we’ve come a long way. We stayed together as a group, and I’m so proud of my teammates, so humbled to be a part of this class,” Bhaya said. “To go out like this really is something special.”

Senior defensive lineman Greg Sotereanos, senior defensive back Elijah Mitchell and ju-

nior linebacker Mike Zeuli each added a sack. Freshman defensive back Dorian Williams led the team with 12 tackles.

The Tigers will finish their season at Dartmouth next Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Hanover. A win would earn them sole possession of the Ivy League title, as would a Harvard loss to Yale.

“We do not want to share this title in any way or form,” Epperly said after the game. “I think there’d be no better way to send these seniors out of a season like this, but that’s been the goal since day one — to win a championship — and I think it would leave a bitter taste in everyone’s mouth if we had to share that. So we’re going to enjoy tonight, but tomorrow we’re going to come ready to work and prepare to win.”

The 26th “Big Three” bonfire celebrating the sweep of both Harvard and Yale will take place Sunday night on Cannon Green.

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DP: How do you think you’ve changed since your freshman year?

AB: Princeton has allowed me to explore a lot of sides of myself and really solidify the type of person I want to become. My freshman year I was a little more adventurous, but now, as my Princeton career has moved forward, I’ve narrowed it to a list of things I’m really passionate about.

DP: Are there specific qualities Princeton developed in you?

AB: Princeton has so many opportunities that it encourages an N O V. 1 9 , 2 0 1 4

inquisitive mind. For example I came in as an engineer but now I’m a history major — it’s something I really enjoy. [History] wasn’t a subject I necessarily excelled in in high school, but as I took more classes here it really piqued my interest.

Now, I can explore history and pursue it more deeply.

DP: How do you plan on balancing pole vaulting with history after graduation?

AB: I think part of the professional athlete lifestyle is that you have a lot of free time. I am excited about pursuing some of these other interests that the thesis got in the way of. The free time is giving me opportunity.

DP: What’s on your bucket list

for the final three months of Princeton?

AB: I am geared into my goals now. The major things are finishing the thesis, doing well in classes and doing well in the outdoor season. I also want to enjoy the final few months surrounded with all of my friends.

DP: What have been your friend’s reactions to your success?

AB: The friends that are the closest with me — the ones I call brothers — definitely had the understanding it was just a matter of time. The other attention is exciting as well; it’s good to see the hard work I’ve put in finally paying off.

DP: What are you most looking forward to and fearful of after

graduation?

I probably share the fear of a lot of great athletes: not being able to reach the full potential I see myself reaching. But even more, I am excited about pushing myself to those limits. I’ve set my goals really high so if I can even come close I’ll have accomplished a lot.

DP: What advice would you give to younger, aspiring pole vaulters across the nation?

AB: For pole vaulters, the sport is a test of your own belief in yourself. It’s a fear-based event. In order to battle the fear you have to fill yourself with confidence. Not letting failures get in the way of your self-image is really important for pole vaulters. That lesson can

be learned by people in general.

Princeton has taught [me] that you will experience setbacks and when a challenge confronts you, the best way to react is with confidence and positivity.

DP: Any final words as you continue to build on your success?

AB: It would be nice to thank the people who have been supporting me: my family and friends, the coaching staff here, my club coach back home, BJ Vandrovec. All those people had such a positive impact on me and helped me to stay positive in the face of all those negative setbacks, which I did experience. But I’ve come through and grown a lot in the years and am now excited to continue into my professional career.

On Tap with Chris Perez ’16, wrestler

By Andrew Steele sports editor emeritus

Junior Chris Perez won 19 matches during his rookie campaign, leading all freshmen. Since then, injuries have kept the New York native almost entirely off the mat. In anticipation of what looks to be a promising season for the Tigers, The Daily Princetonian had the opportunity to sit down with the 141-pounder to discuss psychology, dodgeball and Hoagie Haven.

Daily Princetonian: Where are you from and what’s the best part about being from there?

Chris Perez: I am from Levittown, N.Y. It’s on the south shore of Long Island. The best part would be… we’re considered strong island, because everyone’s just so strong.

DP: What department are you concentrating in?

CP: I am a psychology major.

DP: How does that make you feel?

CP: It makes me feel like Superman. I can read everybody’s mind.

Is that what Superman does? Something along those lines.

DP: Could you then explain from a psychological standpoint your former teammate Garret Frey ’14?

CP: Gary… Where do I start? Gary has this delusional mindset regarding the world in which he is the ultimate ruler, and everyone else is his understudy in whatever field it may be. He is an expert on anything and everything.

DP: When did you start wrestling?

CP: I started wrestling in seventh grade.

DP: Wrestling’s a pretty painful endeavor on the whole. Why did you choose to stick with it instead of one of the more flashy sports?

CP: Well, number one, I was not blessed with any sort of size and/ or stature. My brothers got all that height, so they went to the sports where you could make the millions of dollars while I stuck to one where I could participate without being by far the smallest person on the court.

I’m also a little bit psychotic, which helps out a little bit.

DP: What has been the highlight of your wrestling career thus far?

CP: The highlight of my career was last year. We wrestled at Madison Square Garden. In our first match, we wrestled Drexel. I ended up pinning the kid, which helped us win the match.

DP: What role would you say you play on the team athletically?

CP: I think some guys look to me as a leader. As far as work ethic, I definitely work hard. Also, I can come in when guys are going through adversity. I’ve been through more injuries and more adversity than most people would like to have in their time here, but I’m coming in every day and working hard.

DP: What about socially?

CP: I think people know I like to go out and have a good time. There’s no real role on our team for social responsibilities, but I guess if people want to go out and there’s a guy to

call, I might be on that short list.

DP: On that note, what would say is the best part about being in your eating club, the Tiger Inn? CP: Overall, everybody loves everybody equally. Everyone is equal there, which makes me want to be a part of it. Everyone is always welcome there and always has a good time. As much as we have a reputation for being an “Animal House,” when things die down, you can always just sit down at a meal and talk to anybody about anything. It’s a fun environment.

DP: Playing for TI in the intramural dodgeball tournament last year, you employed a strategy that was at once devious and brilliant. Could you talk about what it was like to take home the title?

CP: First, I would like to put a name on my strategy: “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Rifle.” The rifle being my right arm. That was a lot of fun, considering I wasn’t planning on participating at all. I just ran into a bunch of water polo guys, and they said, “Hey, we need somebody to show up. Get a Hawaiian shirt on and let’s go.” I actually have played dodgeball quite a lot during my short time on Earth. I think I’ve perfected it. My small stature combined with my good throwing arm works out pretty well.

DP: Regarding “the rifle,” how much can you bicep curl?

CP: I’m not sure… give me a 60 pound dumbbell and I could probably throw it up a few times.

DP: On match day, do you have

any superstitions or rituals you go through?

CP: I used to be very superstitious, but then I tried to change everything up in matches I knew I would win.

So now I don’t really care at all what I do. When I go out there and don’t let anything mess with my mind and let my instincts take over, I usually end up doing better. I do usually listen to some music. Always the national anthem right before. I like to give everybody a smack of freedom.

DP: What are your goals for the season, individually and as a team?

CP: Individually, it’s get on the podium and be an All-American. As a team, I would love to win the Ivy League. Cornell’s been up there for about 15 straight years, and I’d love to be part of the team that knocks them off their pedestal.

DP: What’s the most bizarre or embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you on a wrestling mat?

CP: I lost once. Yeah, that was embarrassing. You hate to see that.

Besides that… It wasn’t particularly embarrassing, but I got kind of a bad look for it. I went to do a move on a kid and ended up dropping him on his head. I kind of looked like a jerk.

DP: Who would you say is your quirkiest teammate?

CP: There’s Kevin Moylan, but he’s currently out for the year. I mean, we’ve got a number of personalities on our team. Sophomore heavyweight Ray O’Donnell might be up there for that one. Let’s give Ray a little shout-out.

DP: If you could bring three things on a deserted island, what would they be?

CP: My mom. A lifetime supply of Hoagie Haven. And… let’s go with a boat.

DP: What’s your usual hoagie?

CP: I used to be a Sanchez guy. But I’ve recently made the transition to the Chicken Pachanga. Big fan. It’s got chicken, bacon, some sauce on there.

I’m not really sure what else is on it.

They throw some chips on it, some mozzarella sticks. Usually quenches my craving.

DP: What tattoos are you rocking at the moment?

CP: I currently have four. There’s one for my brothers on my ribs. I have my family crest on my back. I have a tribute to my dad on my chest. And I’ve got my boy Mickey Mouse on my bicep.

DP: If you could be a bender from Avatar: the Last Airbender, which of the four nations would you choose?

CP: I’d probably go fire. Last time I watched, they were pretty much running the show, and I like to be at the top.

DP: The signature “On Tap” question: if five of your fingers were drink dispensers, which drinks would they serve?

CP: I’m going to go with Blue Moon. Not Milwaukee’s Best. Corona.

Then Gatorade, Glacier Freeze. That’s the light blue one. Water. I’ve got to think about this… I definitely need chocolate milk. TruMoo chocolate milk, to be specific.

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IN THE SERVICE OF ALL NATIONS

Originally published on Nov. 12, 2015

In honor of Memorial Day, Street dedicates its issue to the Princeton community’s personal, intellectual and historical relationship with war. We spoke to four current students who have served or plan to serve in the military about their experiences there and how they’ve informed their times on campus.

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hen they were in the military, Max Kim ’16, Michael Liao ’17 and Ann Thompson GS began each day hours before the typical college student gets out of bed. Kim, who spent 25 months between his freshman and sophomore years in the Republic of Korea Air Force, would wake up at 6 a.m., report for roll call and go for a 30-minute jog before reporting to the logistics command office where he worked.

Liao, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years before starting at Princeton in 2013, generally rose at 5 or 6 a.m. for an hour of physical training with his unit — except when he was deployed to the field, in which case, he said, “you’re essentially on call 24 hours a day, and you just try to work in your sleep and chow schedule as you can.”

Thompson, who got out of the U.S. Army in August after four years as a military intelligence officer, had to be up in time for physical training at 6 or 6:30 a.m., followed by formation and an hour and a half of working out; on deployment in Afghanistan, she would be reading reports and setting the day’s agenda for herself and her soldiers by 7 a.m., seven days a week.

On training days, a senior cadet in Princeton’s Army ROTC battalion whom we spoke to (who asked that her name not be used as a precautionary conf lict-zone safety measure) is also starting training by 6:30 a.m. The cadet will be joining the Army after graduation; like Thompson, she hopes to be a military intelligence officer.

Just because the three veterans are no longer in active

service doesn’t mean they’ve left those early mornings behind, however. When asked how their military experiences have inf luenced their time on campus, all four students agreed that discipline has translated to skills that are important in an academically demanding environment like the University.

“Time management — that’s a challenge that every student has to face here, but you have a fair skill at it, having to deal with it in the military, especially if you’re a leader of troops,” Liao said. “You have to incorporate that, otherwise you’re going to flounder in the military.”

At the University, because of the “mental atrophy” from the five-year gap in his education, “sometimes I need to struggle more over subjects and assignments that may come more naturally to my peers,” Liao wrote in a post-interview follow-up email. “[B]ut I always try to compensate … by being proactive in working ahead whenever possible.”

Kim echoed Liao’s appreciation of time management skills, which Kim cultivated while in the ROK Air Force. “I wake up at 7 a.m., even now, and I go to the gym every morning,” he said. He also added that his two years in the ROK Air Force helped him become more “mentally and physically mature,” and he is more motivated in the classroom than he was in his freshman year.

The students have gained new perspective in other areas as well. In international relations and policy classes, “having a background in tactics and the military, and looking to the future as a military member — I think it gives me a unique perspective in the sense that

it really challenges me to ask questions and be really active about what the country’s doing, why it’s doing it,” the ROTC cadet said.

“I think the perspective part is big,” Thompson said. “Certain things just don’t really faze veterans in the same way.”

She added that the leadership experience she gained from positions that had her overseeing over 100 personnel and millions of dollars’ worth of equipment was invaluable.

“It’s almost ridiculous to say it, but I kind of despise the person I would have become if it weren’t for the military,” Liao said. “I think I would have had much less bias toward action, would have been much less decisive and assertive.”

These students’ reasons for joining the military are much more varied. For Kim, as for all South Korean men, military service in the ROK Armed Forces is a requirement for citizenship. Liao, on the other hand, signed up for the U.S. Marines — a choice of branch he made “because it seemed to be the toughest branch,” he said over email — and originally intended to attend college before serving. After his high school graduation, however, in part because of the ongoing “War on Terror” and in part because he “needed to take a sabbatical from academia,” he decided to go into the Marines first.

The senior cadet first thought about joining the military when, as a middle-schooler, she attended a cousin’s graduation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. “From that day on, I was like, ‘I’m going to go to West Point,’ ” she said — and she almost did. “I saw [the military] very much as an opportunity to have more of an effect with my talent,” she

added, “as a way of to do more than I could do by myself.”

Thompson, too, framed her decision to join the military as a way to make an impact.

“I wanted to serve in some way, especially during a time of war,” she said. “I felt like I’d had a lot of opportunities given to me by virtue of being an American citizen, as cheesy as that sounds. I wanted to give back in some small way, if I could.” When she began her undergraduate career at Stanford, she decided to give ROTC a try and ended up sticking with it all four years, commissioning in the Army after graduation.

The path forward also looks very different for these four students. Kim, an economics major, does not plan on returning to military service.

“In Korea, since everyone does military service, it’s not a profession that people pursue,” he said. “It’s a bit different compared to the American military, where if you’re a military veteran, or if you serve in the military, people respect you.”

Thompson, who is working toward her Master in Public Affairs at the Wilson School, is eager to explore other work in public service, perhaps in the U.S. Department of State.

When asked if he would return to the Marines, Liao was open to the possibility: “There are aspects of the job that are really terrible, and you swear you’re never going to go back, but then there’s other aspects like the brotherhood, [and] being compensated for being physically fit isn’t a bad deal either… I think the brain selectively remembers the good parts.” At the same time, as an electrical engineering major, he is also interested in moving to the Bay Area or to Texas

to work in computer architecture. The cadet, a Near Eastern Studies major who speaks Arabic, French, and some Persian, is commissioning in the Army; she hopes to eventually deploy to the Middle East.

Right now, Liao is the only undergraduate at Princeton who is a veteran of the U.S. military. Among graduate students, there’s still only a small population of veterans or active-duty officers, mostly concentrated in the Wilson School. Liao would like to see that change.

“A lot of people in the military [have] sort of established a glass ceiling for themselves, thinking, ‘Well, Princeton’s an Ivy League school, so that’s probably out of my league,’ or ‘My G.I. Bill’s not going to cover that,’ ” he said. “You’ve got to somehow motivate people in the service right now to look more at this school.”

Thompson agreed: “It’d be nice to see more veterans on campus, especially in the undergrad population. I think it’s valuable having the ROTC program here,” she said. “It fosters more engagement between cadets and civilians.”

The ROTC cadet, who has noticed she receives more attention when she walks around campus in uniform, echoed what Thompson said. Sometimes, she gets interesting remarks about the significance of being female in the military — but mostly, she said, “I see it as an opportunity to have a conversation with people, get to know people.”

“That’s one of the things I love about Princeton, the wide variety of people that are here, and getting to know all of them,” she said. “It’s almost an excuse to do so, so I think it’s a good thing.”

COURTESY OF THE MUDD LIBRARY’S HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION: CAMPUS LIFE SERIES, “WORLD WAR I SUMMER TRAINING CAMP” (1917)

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Class Day 2016 Kira Ivarsson :: Staff Photographer

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The Daily Princetonian photography editors searched through our archives and found photos of the members of the Class of 2016’s lives on campus.

We traced their experience at the University, starting with the Pre-Rade in 2012, continuing through the installation of President Eisgruber, the Meningitis outbreak, the opening of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, the brief Princeton Bananas craze, the Black Lives Matter protest and sit-in at Nassau Hall, and ending with graduation ceremonies.

The photos were taken by Daily Princetonian staff throughout the years 20122016.

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