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“International terrorism is a lesser threat to America than homegrown violent extremism,” said Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst, at a public lecture Thursday. Bergen, a seasoned foreign policy and security expert who even interviewed Osama Bin Laden, shared with the audience a few concerns he had about the future of international terrorism. Particularly, he noted concerns about the threat of terror troops using armed drones, which could
be used in a potential attack against U.S. embassies which lack defenses against drone strikes. In addition, Bergen stated the incidence of international terror attacks on U.S. soil post-9/11 was much lower than predicted. He cited increases in U.S. security measures, intelligence, and offenses against foreign terror groups as having significantly decreased the ability of terrorists abroad to successfully attack U.S. soil. “The prognosis for ISIS is not good,” he said. “The problem we have is baSee JIHAD page 2
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Princeton Internships in Civic Service launched a new endowment called the Leave Your Legacy campaign, a separate initiative from its original endowment established within Princeton University Investment Company, which manages the University’s larger endowment. The original PICS endowment was based largely on donations from the Class of 1969 after its 25th Reunion. Typically, classes give substantial gifts to celebrate
their 25th reunions, according to Jeri Schaefer, executive director of PICS. Previously, University alumni making financial contributions to PICS would have to do so through the PRINCO, as dictated at the time of PICS’s establishment. “For a variety of reasons, when people made gifts to that fund, they were not recognized by the University as a gift to the University. They were gifts to PICS, which is a separate legal organization,” Leave Your Legacy Campaign Chair Bob Axelrod ’69 explained. “We felt that, as we are now approaching people for
five-, six-, and perhaps even seven-figure gifts, [contributors] would want to have those gifts be recognized by the University.” Leave Your Legacy is a new alumni-based endowment fund intended to enable PICS to expand its program offerings, encouraging alumni from all classes to contribute, Axelrod noted. The private phase of the campaign began on Jan. 1, 2016, and the public phase commences today. The new endowment will help respond to the growing number of applicants to PICS. On average, the program receives 550 applications for See PICS page 2
U. removes dumpsters to improve aesthetics
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Trash bags are awaiting collection outside rather than in dumpsters, starting this academic year. The dumpsters were removed to improve visual aesthetics of the campus, according to University sources. The new system applies to residential and academic buildings west of Washington Road. To prepare, the University has been removing dumpsters there since July 2015, plus dumpster enclosures and cans since June 2016. Coordinating Architect Daniel Casey said he spearheaded the project in close collaboration with the Office of the University Architect and Building Services. Facilities Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Grounds Department have been handling
Murray-Dodge Café reopens in its original location
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the construction. “We wanted to enhance the pedestrian experience on campus and also to improve the campus landscape. The big noisy trash trucks and the dumpster enclosures were conflicting with those ideas,” Casey said, noting that discussions began in 2008. He added that the dumpster enclosures marred courtyards and other outdoor spaces despite being shielded by concrete floors and high fences. The trucks also damaged roads and curbs while polluting the air, according to Office of Sustainability Director Shana Weber. Casey noticed the issue as soon as he came to the University. However, without afSee TRASH page 3
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After a full year of renovations, the Murray-Dodge Café, dubbed Princeton’s hole-in-the-wall space, has resumed its cookie-baking. The Café, located in the basement of Murray-Dodge Hall adjacent from the University Art Museum, was moved to the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding on Prospect Avenue during the past year due to construction. Since then, the sub-floor has been lowered, a few chalkboards have been removed, and handicap-accessible bathrooms have been added. Previously, the entire building of Murray-Dodge Hall, which dates to 1900, did not meet some fire code regulations and was not fully accessible to the handicapped. Murray-Dodge Café man-
ager Leea Driskell did not respond to requests for comment. “I can’t even find a space. I don’t have any memory of it being used so much, but it’s now immediately full from 3 p.m. on,” Princeton Evangelical Fellowship (PEF) staff member Anna Megill ’06 said. PEF offices are located on the third floor of MurrayDodge. The new aesthetic and spaciousness are notable factors in the increased appeal of the Café. “They really made it nicer… they cleaned it up a bit,” Megill explained. “I think it’s nice; it’s less falling apart,” said Samantha Newman ’18, who said she has been using the quarters intermittently since her freshman year. Newman, a member of the University’s Alcohol Initiative Board, which helps fund the Murray-Dodge Café, said See CAFE page 3
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sically homegrown: American citizens,” Bergen said, citing data that four-fifths of the 360 people “involved in Jihadist terrorist crimes” were American citizens or legal residents. Among the individuals involved in such acts, Bergen said he found that “there is often some personal grievance or set of grievances” the person simply cannot let go of and that “the idea of trying to become a hero” is also often a motivating factor. Bergen also spoke about “five big drivers that are going to produce the son of ISIS or grandson of ISIS.” These five big drivers included: the massive wave of Arab immigration to Europe, the lack of Muslim integration in Europe, the rise of ultranationalist parties in Europe, and the clash of Sunni and Shia forces as well as rivaling Arab governments, he explained. Bergen said he does not see these five issues being solved
anytime soon, yet he did have a few suggestions for the next commander-in-chief. Bergen stated that there should be a focus on counteracting jihadi propaganda both with technology, by using the electronic DNA system used to find and remove child porn, and with real life stories, by enlisting ISIS defectors to share their true experiences. During the question-andanswer session, audience members asked Bergen about his opinions pertaining to the refugee crisis and current US immigration policy. Bergen reiterated his belief that “American citizens are the problem” in the case of homegrown terrorism. Bergen is vice president of a think tank called New America and author of many books including his most recent, The United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists. The lecture, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, took place in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m.
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140 internships. “We are serving about a third of the interest and, really, a third of our potential. We would like to significantly increase the number of internships for undergraduates,” Axelrod said. According to the 2015 Annual Report, internship stipends account for 78 percent of the program’s total expenses. “In many cities, the $450 individual stipend provided [per week] is enough to cover all expenses,” said Student Advisory Council chair and two-time intern Carlos Sotelo ’17. “In others, like New York City, that doesn’t go all the way.” “That would be in areas of grassroots, social service organizations, and artsrelated organizations that don’t have much in the way of their own funding support,” Axelrod explained. Although PICS has seen increased interest, its limited financial resources have kept the program small. The Leave Your Legacy campaign is attempting to change that. “There is a larger demand than supply of available internships,” Sotelo said. “We can use more financial support to meet this demand.” In June, PICS partnered with the Office of Career Services to further assist students in fitting service into their eventual career paths.
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“PICS is at an interesting, pivotal moment in its growth,” Shirley Wu ’15 said. Wu is a two-time PICS intern, young alumni trustee, and founding member of SAC. “Alongside the evolution of PICS’s internship opportunities and programming, you have an evolution in how it is being recognized and supported financially.” Additionally, the founding class of ’69 hopes the Leave Your Legacy campaign will encourage financial contributions from other classes. By involving alumni of all ages in the organization, the class hopes to create a more lasting impact. “There has been a major shift to diversify the board,” PICS Board Chair Chuck Freyer ’69 said. “We began with only members of the class of ’69 and now include members of 10 graduating classes spanning an age difference of 40 years.” The extension of PICS also addresses a modernization concern regarding alumni-student mentorships. As the number of ’69 graduates leaving the workplace climbs, board members hope to modernize PICS for the next generation of students by connecting them with younger alumni. “There is an alumni partner for every intern, and usually, from the student’s perspective, students learn a lot more if that alum is
still actively working in some sort of a professional capacity,” Wu said. “This is why the program is in particular need of support and volunteers from more recent alumni classes, as opposed to the Class of 1969, which is largely approaching retirement.” Broadening the economic foundation and welcoming all alumni to participate as both financiers and partners can help guarantee PICS’s future sustainability, according to Axelrod. “Donors see [PICS] as an extension of the University’s commitment to service,” Freyer said. “They want their gifts to go towards PICS, but they would also like recognition by the University.” A model instituted by the Class of 1955, expansion of the program in such a way allows “alumni of any class year [to] donate to this campaign and say, ‘This is going to be money that I give to PICS as part of its endowment to support its operation going forward,’” Wu said. The new endowment will follow the basic principles of the old: PICS will only spend the account earnings, leaving the principal untouched.
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with [them];” citing the statistic that only one in four Americans had experienced a major political disagreement with a member of their family in the past year. He said that too often, “we segregate ourselves into like-minded communities.” Rather, Peralta talked about his ongoing fight to establish permanent residency. Since his graduation, he said he has obtained numerous visas — an H-1B to complete a research project at the University following his graduate studies at Oxford, an F1 to complete a Ph.D. at Stanford, a oneyear work extension to teach at Columbia — and so on, a process only complicated by his 2015 marriage to Missy Szladek, which has necessitated waiting in a backedup applicant pool for his residency to finally be approved. Peralta said that the “jargon [of the immigration paperwork] becomes internalized,” making it even more difficult to understand the process from the outside. Peralta said it’s difficult to speak about the immigrant experience and that it is “hard to give expression of the many complexities of [the United States] system,” which he also described as “traumatic” and “unjust.” He said it’s important that those who experienced the process don’t develop “amnesia” about the difficulties they have faced, as “it is attention to details that matter” in helping the “one-dimensional” nature of contemporary immigration discourse to evolve, even though, as he admitted, some experiences are “difficult to relive.” Peralta said he is also acutely aware of the “technologies of denigration” used to dehumanize and silence immigrant voices. Toward the end of his address, he spoke of the previous morning, when he had fielded an early call from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in which he had been instructed to “stop talking and only answer yes or no” to the questions he was posed. He added that he thinks there has always been a connection be-
tween his own story and those of the Greeks and Romans. He first became enamored with them in the library of a homeless shelter where he stayed, and now through the University’s classics department. In the spring semester, he hopes to further connect the concerns of citizenship and identity he presented in Undocumented with a course on citizenship in the Classical world, which will be open to undergraduates. After Peralta’s address, John Heilner, chair of the Immigration Committee of the Princeton Human Services Commission,invited attendees to support the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund (LALDEF), which is a local organization that works with undocumented immigrants in Central New Jersey. Heilner invited attendees to sign up for volunteer positions with the organization, which seeks to “fill gaps that undocumented people . . . have trouble filling,” from resources for LGBT immigrants to domestic violence counselors to reputable lawyers who will assist with the immigration process. Although the organization is based in Trenton, they have an active Princeton branch, providing support to twenty unaccompanied immigrants who currently attend Princeton High School, according to Heilner. LALDEF actively focuses on education through “Futuro” a program that offers college counseling to immigrant students in Mercer County. Throughout his speech, Peralta noted the many identities people assign him, including “Black man,” “Hispanic man,” “undocumented immigrant,” and “Classicist.” When asked if he felt like an American, he said that he considered himself obligated to serve the community in which he lives, but that he finds it “hard to be part of a community that [continually] excludes [him].” Instead, he said he considers himself a “global citizen,” remarking that, although he recognizes the value of his various identities, he “[doesn’t] want one label to confine [him].”
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fordable alternatives, nothing changed for a long time, he said. As he and his colleagues introduced aesthetic improvements to the walkways and landscapes, the dumpsters stood out more and more as obstacles to restoration. Casey, the head of the landscape master plan, pushed for a solution. He drew inspiration from his 25 years living in Manhattan, where people threw trash bags into a chute in their apartment. A mini-compactor packaged the garbage several times a week, then once a week a building employee put the waste on the sidewalk to be picked up by a trash truck within an hour or two. The approach of smaller vehicles picking up recycling and garbage around campus has succeeded on other campuses, Weber noted. At the University, the project leaders divided campus into three zones – east of Washington Road, west of Washington Road, and north of Ivy Lane. Four or five years ago, a pilot launched in the east of Washington Road. Building Services staff collected trash using special carts, each with a device that lifted garbage cans and tipped their contents into a hopper. The workers deposited the trash at a compactor site. Having abandoned dumpsters in the first trial, Casey and his colleagues moved onto zone two, which included the academic and residential buildings west of Washington Road. They started building a waste transfer station to serve as the sole contact point in zone two at the southern tip for garbage trucks. Meanwhile, members identified 16 dumpster sites that intruded on the environment. “What can we do to collect garbage [in] a different way so that we can maybe use smaller vehicles, take it to a central place instead of having these big blots on the landscape all over?” Casey said they asked themselves. A transition program from July 2015 onward featured Building Services replacing the dumpsters with 96-gallon blue garbage cans to be collected by carts, which carried the contents to garbage trucks waiting
in Lot 20. In March 2016, the Office of Design and Construction finished installing a compactor pad at the waste transfer station. Four compactors became operational by late May. Right after graduation in June, staff started removing dumpster enclosures and cans, as well as restoring dumpster sites, to make trash bags directly collectible. Casey noted that the garbage trucks need not even enter campus anymore. Instead, they collect garbage from the waste transfer station at the outskirts about once a week, sparing the community from odors and noise. Ideally, Casey said, the trash bags in zone two would stay outside for only one hour in the early morning before pickup by Building Services. He identified janitors as responsible for placing the bags outside at the appropriate time. However, Logan Sander ’18, president of the International Food Co-op in Laughlin Hall, said student groups often put waste outside toward the end of the day before sunset, when many pedestrians can see the bags. “We have to take the trash out in the afternoon by ourselves, so it has to sit out there for a while. But I guess around most of the areas that don’t have a place like a co-op, it would make it look better because we don’t have dumpsters, and they drive the trash away every morning,” she said. For example, in her dormitory, 1901 Hall, students place their waste bins in the halls every day, then the custodians move the bags to the courtyard just minutes before a cart removes the pile. Nevertheless, she remained skeptical. “Is a pile of trash bags really more appealing than having a dumpster?” Casey said that to his knowledge, not much information about the switch had reached the public. Sander found administrators’ failure to communicate about the new system strange. “They didn’t tell us anything about how to get rid of the trash or what to do about it. We just noticed there wasn’t a dumpster there,” she said. When she called Facilities, an employee told her the University had decided to remove dumpsters because they were
an eyesore. She received white bags for trash and blue bags for recycling. Building Services Director Regan Winston explained that as of last week, every building is using the color distinction so that passersby know the University is treating recyclables differently from trash. “Obviously we can only control so much, if at all, what people put into these containers,” Winston said. He added that another office will devise a way to inform the University community that if at all contaminated, an item must go into the white rather than blue bags. Other students said they had never heard of the new trash collection system. Scully Hall dorm assistant Vanessa Smith ’17 did notice a huge pile of trash bags while walking around Rockefeller and Mathey Colleges this year, but without any context thought it might be laundry. She said that there were downsides to the previous arrangement. “I found the dumpsters to be incredibly unsightly during move-in and also during big going out weekends, like homecoming or Lawnparties and stuff like that … where there was a lot of trash, I felt like it wasn’t taken care of well,” she said, attributing the issue to students more so than the administration. However, she disapproved of the dumpster removal project. “If you just have trash out until it gets picked up at whatever point, that leaves it vulnerable for reckless drunk students, rodents, and things like that … I’d rather have smelly, ugly bins than raccoons walking me home at night,” she said, noting she has seen more raccoons in the past three weeks than in her past three years at the University. Trash bags sitting outside for a couple of hours should pose no problems, even if they contain food from several days earlier. If left overnight, the bags could attract raccoons and other creatures, but the schedule precludes that situation, Weber said. Winston said Building Services had received no complaints about animals as of Wednesday. “We haven’t really communicated or developed plans to communicate to the commu-
nity on how we’re going to address the issue with rodents or any kinds of other animals getting into the trash. If that starts happening, we’re going to have to change something,” Winston said. Brown Hall dormitory assistant Selam Zenebe-Gete ’18 said she had not perceived any change in the number of dumpsters or trash bags on campus. She preferred dumpsters to trash bags, though the choice mattered little to her, she added. She explained that she expected the change to affect maintenance workers more than anyone else. “People are probably going to keep doing what’s most convenient for their schedules when it comes to trash disposal and collection,” Zenebe-Gete said. She noted that students typically have other priorities. Smith predicted that students would be too irresponsible to put their trash outside. Many of the 300 residents she oversees do not even put their trash in the hall, she added. Weber said she is curious about how the community can take advantage of such changes to establish a more sustainable culture. She said she would love to survey students about whether seeing trash bags outside increases their awareness of their personal choices or frustrates them. Weber noted that recycling and trash patterns in dormitories and office buildings form a small slice of the University’s waste output, but are the easiest to influence via programming. “You have to make sure the staff are trained in how the program works behind the scenes, but then you also have to train the users of the bins. How do you do that effectively?” she asked. To find out if the elimination of garbage trucks moving through campus produces a smaller carbon footprint despite the increase in the number of carts, the Office of Sustainability would need to conduct tests, Weber added. “We’re constantly investigating…‘Given the options we have, what’s the best choice if we want to be responsible from a sustainability perspective?’ Oftentimes we run into these questions where the answer isn’t immediately obvious, and that can turn into a really
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she enjoys the new facility for more than just its pleasing aesthetics. “I like the idea of an open, really chill atmosphere where people can just come and eat cookies and not feel pressured to drink, a great time around the table with friends. The new environment contributes to that,” she said. The Murray-Dodge Café is also drawing new customers. “I’m a frosh, so this is totally new. I heard that what they did was lower the floor which I don’t quite understand, but it looks nice. I like that it’s this student run, for the students kind of place, with cookies. I like the whole
feel of the place, that sort of not-so-polished aesthetic,” Tajin Rogers ’20 said. The Café is one of Roger’s top two study spots on campus, he said. Beyond Café facilities, Murray-Dodge Hall itself has seen a great deal of change as well. The hallways have been widened, staircases have been added, bathrooms have been expanded, and an elevator now runs from the basement to the third floor, Megill said. The Café offers students a variety of free cookie flavors, including cinnamon almond chocolate chip, Nutella, Earl Grey, and oatmeal raisin, as well as tea to match every Sunday through Saturday. cookies are gluten-free for Sundays and vegan for Wednesdays.
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terrific student project, or an analysis project within the Office of Sustainability, or with another partner on campus,” she explained. Winston said that he perhaps would not have instituted the dumpster removal project, but was giving it a chance. He noted that since he just started his job in August, he must observe the changes his predecessors implemented before trying to change them. He praised the program for beautifying campus and eliminating trash trucks. On the downside, he noted that it costs Building Services more time and labor, though such challenges may well be resolved. Winston explained that Dillon Gymnasium staff already complained about the trash bags around the building when it opened at 6:30 a.m. and at events after hours. Building Services reacted by adding 96-gallon trash cans to a hidden spot in the area, a solution that might extend to other facilities if needed. Winston said that while it was too early to tell how the project would evolve, he felt at some point administrators might need to revisit the project. They may not necessarily return the dumpsters, but could revamp the plan to address concerns. “We’ll just keep an open mind and tackle the issues as they come, if they come,” Winston said, noting that he is hoping for the best. According to Casey, buildings with loading docks, like Firestone Library and Frist Campus Center, will retain their dumpsters because they conceal garbage trucks. However, all other dumpsters in zone two will disappear. He said the team had hoped to finish removal this fall, but fell behind due to a high volume of summer projects. Casey said restoration in zone two will continue this fall and winter. Zone three will probably rely on the existing compactors in the Engineering Quadrangle and zone one. He anticipated that in a possibly subtle way, the dumpster removal project would bring big improvements to life on campus.
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P-Safe gun access is a serious problem
ust last month, a black child playing in Columbus, Ohio was executed by police. As black members of the University community continue to struggle with the traumatic aftermath of such a particularly disturbing act of violence, those of us who are their peers should ask ourselves: could such a tragedy happen on our own campus? How safe would a black child be playing in our community? Last October, the University Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced a new policy that would enable DPS officers to access rifles in order to respond to “an active shooter or someone brandishing a firearm” on campus. At the time, some students expressed concern about this decision on the grounds that it was made without input from the University community and that it would not contribute positively to campus safety. There was little real controversy around this news, however — while some affirmatively supported the new policy, most seemed to shrug off its significance as if content to believe that “nothing ever happens in Princeton.” This dictum is a hugely dangerous misconception. Not only is the DPS policy on firearms unjustified in the name of public safety, but there is also a real, non-negligible risk that an encounter could go wrong and result in the killing of a harmless person. In 2013, former University President Shirley Tilghman argued that guns have no place on Princeton’s campus and that the University has “in place a number of measures that will ensure that if there is a risk … police can rapidly have the appropriate response without having our own police officers armed.” Despite calls to place armed officers in school environments, evidence suggests that such action does not improve public safety. Furthermore, it is impossible to discount the significance of race in potentially deadly encounters, especially on a campus environment of pervasive anti-blackness. It is far from inconceivable that a tragedy like the police killings of Tyre King or Tamir Rice (whose wrongful deaths were deemed justified because they were playing with toy guns) could occur in our own community. In the case of an active shooter, the Princeton Police Department should provide an armed response. P-Safe officers could possibly respond more quickly, but then again,
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armed guards at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech did not prevent mass shootings. The small trade-off in armed response time is clearly worthwhile when one considers the frequency of harmless incidents that could go wrong under the current DPS policy. A wrongful shooting by a P-Safe officer would not only cause death or injury but would also irreparably shake any possible sense of confidence in the people who are supposed to protect us and who also regularly knock on our bedroom doors, frequently demanding entry into students’ most personal spaces. A look through the digital record of DPS Daily Crime Logs illuminates past encounters that under current policy could have merited an armed response by P-Safe officers. Due to the nature of these records, such a glimpse requires going several years back — prior to the academic year of 2009-10, reports included a detailed description of each incident. During the 2008-09 school year alone, there were reported sightings of individuals who appeared to be armed, when in fact in one incident two students had a toy gun and in the other a student possessed an “imitation firearm” (which could easily have been a relic, stage prop or innocently-painted Airsoft gun). In the past, there have also been reports of encounters with a summer film camper with a tripod that looked like a rifle and a child with a toy gun. This past May there was a report of a Weapons Law Violation, which could have entailed a similar incident of an “imitation gun.” The Daily Crime Logs also illustrate the frequency with which emergency responses are mobilized in harmless situations; since the DPS policy allowing access to firearms was announced, there have been 13 incidents reported of False Public Alarm. This term is defined under New Jersey Law as “the report or warning of an impending fire, explosion, bombing, crime, catastrophe or emergency.” Many of us are privileged enough to believe that the University community is generally safe enough and free of social tensions. We would like to believe, therefore, that PSafe officers would only need to use firearms in true emergencies. For white staff, faculty, administrators, and students like myself, it
is easy to think of police violence as a distant issue far removed from our quiet enclave and friendly officers. But many members of our community, particularly black students (as well as black faculty, staff, and administrators) are not afforded this sense of security. I have heard from black students who frequently feel unsafe even doing simple, everyday activities like driving in town or running across campus to avoid being late to an appointment. I have also heard students speak about experiencing or witnessing mistreatment of black individuals by DPS officers, such as the intense harassment that Brittney Winters Mmutle ’09 experienced at the hands of P-Safe officers. Far from isolated incidents, events like this one reflect the pervasive presence of anti-blackness in the University community. The University is not detached from the current nation-wide situation of anti-black violence by law enforcement, a status quo that is difficult to describe except in degrees of horror. So far, between the years of 2015 and 2016, a total of 1,706 people have been killed by police, of whom nearly a quarter were black — meaning that black people have been overrepresented in the number of victims of police shootings by a factor of two (Hispanic people were also overrepresented, and Native Americans make up the group of individuals most likely to be killed by police). In 2014, ProPublica reported that black men were 21 times more likely than white peers to be killed by police. And yet statistics alone cannot convey the depth of the trauma inflicted by such violence — we must remember the names of individuals like Tyre King and Tamir Rice. It is important to acknowledge that regardless of how “nice” we deem our officers on campus, the combination of systemic racism, individual bias, lethal force, and chance encounter is always dangerous. We must always pacify law enforcement bodies as much as possible in order to minimize recourse to deadly action, whether across the nation or within our own community. We must abolish P-Safe’s access to guns.
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he 2026 Campus Plan, released on September 19, calls for the construction of a seventh residential college to accommodate an expected 10 percent increase in the student body. Expanding the University has its pros and cons, but I’ll leave that for another column or another columnist — I’m here to discuss the absurd and infantilizing residential college system. The University has decided that freshmen and sophomores are not capable of deciding where they want to live and what they want to eat. Instead, they are required to live in a college and purchase a meal plan. This is ridiculous. I’m not opposed to students wanting these things. I probably would have chosen them for my freshman year, but I am against the requirement to participate, especially for sophomores. Last year, I had the opportunity to attend a dinner with former University President Shirley Tilghman. She spoke fondly of how maturing it was to go off to college, live in an apartment, and be responsible for her own dining needs. But President Tilghman’s college experience is forbidden for Princeton students. The University believes that we can’t be trusted to live on our own and prepare our own food until junior year. Unfortunately, the residential college system is baked into the day to day operations of the University. Scholarships, student events, and advising are all tied into the current system. But this is not the only way. There could be the same six residential colleges and then a seventh option of underclass independents that would have its own director of student life and advising system. This would allow nonresidential college students to still take part in the “Princeton experience” that the administration so values. The land allotted for the new residential college should be used to create the equivalent of upperclass housing, but for freshmen and sophomores. Students who do not wish to participate in the dining halls should be able to go independent as soon as they wish. Further, they should be able to live off
campus. More than 98 percent of Princeton undergraduates live on campus, an absurdly high proportion compared to other universities. The residential college system works to keep people from leaving. Having virtually all students in dorms creates the problem where, if Princeton doesn’t offer an appropriate dorm for you, then you just lose. Spelman Hall, the dorm most similar to an apartment building, has space for only half of the students who request to live there. Yet the University feels that residential colleges are what need to be expanded. A freshman or a sophomore has many reasons to avoid residential college life. First, it’s expensive. While Princeton has generous financial aid, there is a large segment of the student body that can pay but doesn’t necessarily want to. Cooking your own food is significantly cheaper. It’s also more flexible. I routinely want to eat dinner much later than 8 p.m., but late meal gets old fast. I’m not going to buy groceries and cook for myself since I already have to pay for the meal plan. Why should I pay twice? Students who prefer a particular diet have similar complaints. Last year, the New Jersey legislature considered a bill that would have banned universities from requiring that students have a meal plan. The bill singled out just one college as an exception: Princeton. The bill ultimately failed in the state senate, but the desire for such a law shows that I am not alone in feeling that universities should not concern themselves with where students live and eat. The University should be in the business of furthering knowledge through research and education. I fail to see how mandating where we live falls into the equation. We’re Princeton students, not children. Let us live how we want. Beni Snow is a sophomore from Newton, Mass. He can be reached at bsnow@princeton.edu.
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Women’s volleyball vs. Dartmouth Sylvie Thode:: Contributing Photographer The Princeton women’s volleyball team (9-3, 3-0 Ivy) extended their win streak to seven games and defeated their third in-conference opponent when they swept Dartmouth last Saturday, winning their three sets 25-18, 25-16, and 25-19. The win moves Princeton to tied for first in the Ivy League, a spot that the Tigers will attempt to maintain when they take on Columbia this weekend. Last year, the Tigers went 10-4 in the Ivy League to snag a share of the conference title, and they will look to repeat their success with continued strong play throughout this season.
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7 games The women’s volleyball team has won their last seven games, including three Ivy League matchups.
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