November 10, 2016

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STUDENT LIFE & LOCAL NEWS

U. centers offer post-election processing space

By Emily Spalding

By Charles Min associate news editor

Audrey Spensley contributor

The Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding and the Office of Religious Life offered post-election processing spaces for students in response to the victory of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. Presidential election on Wednesday.

The Women*s Center and the LGBT Center are also providing spaces similar to one that Field Center offered for undergraduate and graduate students on Thursday and Friday at noon respectively.

The Field Center’s event, ti-

tled “Post 2016 Elections: Finding Community at the Centers,” brought together undergraduate and graduate students in need of discussing and sharing their concerns about the election and the future of the country.

“I honestly have no words to describe the emotions I’m feeling,” said one student who attended the event, “What will happen to all my immigrant friends and family that will face the threat of deportation every second of Trump’s tenure?”

Another student expressed concerns for how this election’s demonstration of “white-lash” has left her afraid and distrustful of white Americans.

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STUDENT LIFE

Unidad Latina en Acción protest Trump contributor

Over 150 people gathered in front of Nassau Hall the night of Nov. 9 to support the Unidad Latina en Acción NJ protest against new President-elect Donald Trump.

Featuring speeches, chants, and a campus-wide march, the event united a diverse range of students and residents of the area who connected over their shared trepidations for Trump’s forthcoming presidency.

Jorge Torres, event organizer and executive director of Unidad Latina en Acción NJ, a nonprofit that fights and advocates for the rights of immigrants, explained that the goal of the event was to tell the community to be engaged in a national movement that is “against hate

and against racism.”

He noted that while the night was successful, he believes there is ample room “to work harder with the students,” and to “start making those conversations, [making] this political environment,” adding that “if it doesn’t start [with] us, it’s going to be harder to make changes.”

Torres explained that the results of the election are not necessarily indicative of the Princeton community.

“People are coming outside, are coming on the streets. I think it is more important than what you see in the polls,” he stated. He offered a sense of hope for the future, explaining that while “this can shake us as a community… it can move us forward as one.”

The event started with a slew of passionate speeches

highlighting concerns over Trump’s stances on topics including women’s rights, immigration, minorities, and race in America. Speakers shared personal narratives as well as pieces of creative expression.

Participants held signs with phrases written on them including “No hate, no racism, no Trump” while calling out “love trumps hate,” and “hey hey, ho ho, Trump’s got to go.”

The protest moved throughout campus, starting on Nassau Street in front of the Fitzrandolph Gates and culminating in a march through Frist Campus Center.

Yousef Elzalabany ’20 attended the protest as a way to show his solidarity with minorities, noting that the best way to deal with the current situation is by remaining enSee PROTEST page 3

U. students call for optimism after election

By Jessica Li head news editor

Samuel Oh contributor

College Democrats and Republicans, affinity group members, and other University students expressed their opinions on the landmark election on Tuesday that saw Donald Trump voted in as the 45th President of the United States in a jaw-dropping election.

Amanda Glatt ’19, president of the College Democrats, expressed devastation, fear, and shock at the election results.

“My reaction is one… of disbelief that so many Americans are motivated by anger, uncertainty, and hatred,” Glatt said.

Glatt said that she expected Hillary to beat Trump in a close race on faith that “optimism and hope for a better

country would win out over fear and hatred.”

Expressing resignation at the results, Glatt further noted that Trump’s election was part of a historical trend that matched similar expressions of fear across the world.

“This is a fear not unique to the United States, but common across the world, as demonstrated by the rise of nationalistic, populist, anti-immigrant movements in Eastern Europe, for example, as well as Brexit,” she said. “The election of Trump, in many ways, seems inevitable to me as a result of the historical and social trends that I discussed.”

Glatt said that she believed the election showcased something more than the candidates themselves.

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Over 150 students holding signs marched throughout the campus in protest against President-elect Donald Trump.

LECTURE

Chen ’09, Jawaid ’10 discuss inclusion in campus iconography contributor

Isometric Studio partners Andy Chen ’09 and Waqas Jawaid ’10 discussed their recent graphic design projects in conjunction with the University and their effects toward inclusion and belonging in a lecture on Nov. 9.

Chen and Jawaid are members of the Advisory Group to the Princeton Campus Iconography Committee.

Chen and Jawaid were tasked by the University with graphically redesigning several virtual and physical spaces around the University. The lecture focused on their design work for the University’s Council of the Humanities, the Women*s Center, the LGBT Center, and the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.

The redesigned Fields Center features several spaces that

represent values such as hope, love, and equality. In modifying the spaces, Chen noted that a primary goal for the renovation was to create spaces that not only projected images of safety and comfort for students, but actually elicited these feelings when in use.

“There were questions about this idea of comfort, right?”

Chen explained. “So, a lot of students said, ‘Well, I want a place that I feel like home in,’ and this was often misinterpreted as, ‘I want a place that looks like a home.’ These are two very different things.”

The sense of belonging that Chen and Jawaid strived to foster in their graphic redesign of the Fields Center served as a unifying theme for their work on the Women*s Center and the LGBT Center as well, they noted.

“If you look at the history, you see that women were admitted [to the University] but they

were excluded from prestigious fellowships like the Rhodes Scholarship on the left [of the screen],” Chen explained. “And the stuff on the right is what was in The Daily Princetonian [at the time] about women: you had images or words that were related to gardening or arts, because those were safe.”

In designing the space for the Women*s Center, Chen and Jawaid worked to expose narratives of discrimination against women throughout the University’s history both in long-held traditions like the bicker process and informal, everyday experiences of women.

Similar goals motivated their work on the LGBT Center, as well as the desire to move away from oversimplified portrayals of the LGBT community towards more inclusive and diverse representations.

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In Opinion

Today on Campus

Contributing columnist comments on the unexpected marginalization of certain groups in the election, and contributing columnist Leora Eisenberg issues a call to action in the aftermath. PAGE 4

4:30 p.m.: Joseph Sassoon, associate Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, will discuss the politics and political Economy of the Arab World.

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torical trend. Trump won because of white turnout, because of racial and populist fear, and until we confront this fact, we cannot move forward,” she said.

Glatt is a former copy editor at The Daily Princetonian.

On the Republican side, Paul Draper ’18, president of College Republicans, expressed happiness and satisfaction at the election results. Though Draper did not expect any particular result, he expressed confidence that Trump would outperform Clinton in the election.

“I think Trump’s anti-establishment theme connected well with voters across the country,” Draper said. “People are fed up with crony capitalism, corruption, and political incompetence, and they feel unrepresented by current leadership in Washington,” he added.

Draper further expressed hope that conservative reform would follow in the wake of Trump’s victory.

“Donald Trump’s election will definitely bring a lot of changes to Washington. His leadership will hopefully be a shift away from the establishment politics that have disappointed so many Americans,” Draper noted. “In terms of policy, he’s laid out a number of strong proposals.”

Draper described the policies he hoped Trump would implement as President, including drafting immigration reform, replacing of Obamacare with a better competition-based system, lifting regulations for small businesses, and appointing a Supreme Court Justice who more strictly abides by the Constitution.

Both Glatt and Draper explained the need by the American people to move forward in the face of the election results.

Glatt expressed the need to move forward and make differences across all facets of society.

“We do not have to wait for midterm elections in two years to fight back against what Trump and a Republican Congress and Supreme Court may push forward in legislation and court decisions,” she said. “The determined reaction I have met among many of my friends and family to keep fighting for change gives me hope.”

“Many people have made very vitriolic statements against Donald Trump and his supporters.” Draper observed.

“This is obviously indicative of serious divides in the electorate, but I hope that people can be respectful and open-minded in the weeks and months to come.

“We should all follow the example of President-elect Trump, Secretary Clinton, and President Obama, who have reacted to the results with grace and have urged us to come together as Americans,” he said.

Casey Chow ’19 said that the decision, regardless of how it has affected people, is the final decision.

“I’ve accepted the fact that he won; no amount of practical election fraud, rigging, voter suppression could have made the results what they were without the support Trump had in the first place,” Chow noted.

In an email addressed to members of the Princeton Asian American Student Association, co-president Edric Huang ’18 stated that as someone who’s easily stereotyped as the “silent minority,” it’s unsettling to read about Trump’s “silent” supporters.

“When I first read those headlines, I thought I was reading about Asian-Americans, and even when I knew I wasn’t, I experienced a sick pride in knowing that the silent have been recognized. But I know they aren’t silent as much as we haven’t made the effort to listen — to the disenfranchised, to the disgruntled, to those who’ve come to harbor hate,” he said.

He continued by saying that for too long, Asian-Americans have failed to come together and concretely say: We have a shared experience.

“It’s about time we surprise this campus and country with how loud and vocal we are,” he said.

Students took their reactions to social media as well.

Soraya Morales Nuñez ’18, a DREAMer, stated that despite her disappointment, she is not in despair.

“100% unapologetic for my brown skin, my rolling R’s, my compromised legal status, and my humanity. I have so much love in every inch of my body and that will never change, no matter how many blows are dealt to my community and me,” she wrote on Facebook.

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“The problem that they relate to us is that ‘gay’ is two white men and a rainbow flag,” Chen noted. “And there exists our discourse around ‘Why are all the covers of these mainstream magazines all white men?’”

Chen and Jawaid also said they wanted to address physical issues with the planned space for the LGBT Center, notably the fact that the entrance to the Center features a threshold.

“Why do you have to cross a threshold to be inside the center?” Chen asked. “It is a moment of outing the moment you cross that threshold.”

To this end, Chen explained how they deconstructed the rainbow flag to create a series of color gradients for a campuswide poster campaign. As part of the campaign, Chen and Jawaid collected personal narratives from students and anonymously combined them with student portraits to share the LGBT experience with the community.

Photography was also a large part of Chen and Jawaid’s redesign of the Council of the Humanities’ branding. In an effort to leave behind the stereotypical images of the humanities, Chen

and Jawaid used both candid and staged photos of University humanities professors to provide a more accurate portrayal of the Council.

“Visual representations of the humanities and academia across the board tend to be cliché and ethnocentric,” Jawaid said. “Images of academic departments and programs focused on academic tourism, a lot of pointing at objects, and stock representations of one-dimensional, diverse characters, often supporting characters.”

Chen and Jawaid’s work on the Council also featured overlays of the image of the book from the University crest onto brochures and posters and a more contemporary and dynamic typeface.

The talk drew a sizable audience consisting of University students, affiliates, and listeners from outside the University community.

The lecture, part of the Princeton Iconography event, was held at 4:30 p.m. in McCormick 101. It was sponsored by the Princeton Campus Iconography Committee of the Office of the Executive Vice President as an extension of the Trustee Committee on Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy at Princeton.

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gaged and respectful.

“I don’t think we should oppose him being President. The election’s over, he’s going to President. But we need to mobilize. We need to make sure that anything that is discriminatory attempting to be passed by him is obstructed,” he said.

Elzalabany said that he believes the most important thing to consider now is that “we need to heal the nation by having compassion and tolerance for one another, and that’s something that’s missing on both sides of the aisle right now.”

William Grear ’20 views the protest as a way to communicate frustrations and concerns people are experiencing now.

“To have people protesting in forms like this and disrupting public society, it has to

send a message to [Trump] and to his administration that the things that they do will be met with backlash.”

He explained the choice of the language at rallies as well, stating the importance of remembering “certain things that are yelled at the protest like ‘Dump Trump,’ these are rallying cries. They are not literally saying, you know, dump Trump right now, do whatever we can to make sure he doesn’t take office. These represent the feelings and emotions of a lot of people.”

Another organizer, Alesia Yunga, stressed the importance of community moving forward after the election.

“I love everybody. I don’t know why Donald Trump wants to divide the people…

We can work together… we want peace. We want to work out dreams,” Yunga said.

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“After seeing the exit polls, after seeing how whites, college-educated or not, voted for Trump keeps me at odds with the kind of America I was familiar with all my life,” she said.

Topics of conversation ranged from coping mechanisms for fear of the political consequences of Trump’s victory, and to the ways those disappointed by the election results can become involved and find hope.

The Office of Religious Life hosted a similar event titled “A Time of Prayer and Community” to bring University students, faculty, and affiliates alongside residents of Princeton to discuss the unexpected result. Attendees were given the opportunity to share their personal stories and reactions to the political upset, light candles, and sing psalms.

“I think it’s really important to come together as a community and to be in a place where we can feel together,” Dean of the College Jill Dolan said.

Second-year Princeton Theological Seminary student and Office of Religious life intern Hector Herrera, who helped organize the event, echoed Dolan’s appreciation for the creation of such a space.

“It feels really good to have a space on campus where the community and students are able to breathe, in some sense.

The social-political climate set particular expectations and those expectations were kind of shaken,” Herrera said. “Devastating news is always hard to bear and having a space to kind

of grief is really important.”

The space was meant for students and other members of the community to come together and find solace amidst all that is going on in American politics, Ana Alonso GS said.

“People have this space where they can share their feelings with other people and just feel that they are supported, and that their voices are heard among all this hate,” she said.

“It’s important just for people to feel this support and know that they’re not alone.”

At one point, the event was interrupted by the chants of students outside participating in an anti-Trump rally. The words “Love trumps hate” echoed throughout the room.

“I feel this event provided a meeting space for people to release some pent-up toxins that have probably been building up since the onset of the election, but particularly after last night’s results,” second-year Princeton Theological Seminary student and Office of Religious life intern Barbara Florvil, one of the event’s organizers, said.

“It was also a space to believe in the possibility of true unity.”

The event was sponsored by the Office of Religious Life and was held at 6 p.m. in MurrayDodge Hall.

Student groups such as Princeton Rise Up and Princeton Students for Gender Equality also organized events Wednesday night to provide students with space to reflect upon the election results and share their support for other members of the University community.

Editor’s Note: Students who commented about the Field Center event were granted anonymity for privacy reasons.

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Stronger Together

Marni Morse

senior columnist

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uesday night, I had the pleasure of returning to my room to face vandalism for the second time that day. In the morning, my roommate had written “Vote” on our whiteboard outside our door. No partisan message, just a little friendly reminder. We like to leave positive messages for each other and passersby. When I stopped by earlier after lunch, someone — either because of politics or some misguided notion of humor — added “Trump” to our sign.

I erased it and replaced it with some feminist Clinton slogans. I was originally happy to have a nonpartisan reminder that morning but, if someone wanted to make it political, I figured it should at least reflect the preferences of my roommate and me. I added “#We’re with her” and “Let’s make herstory” and went on to my afternoon classes in my Hillary-style pantsuit, a little peeved but not too discouraged.

I decided to turn in before the 2:30 a.m. announcement. It was clearly going to be a long night, and with nothing more I could do after months of volunteering on the campaign, I figured it would be healthiest to turn in and face the news in the morning.

But when I returned that night to go to bed, I discovered that someone had erased the proClinton phrases on the board — our board, not communal hall whiteboard but something we clearly put up for our own room.

I lost it. The anxiety growing under my skin bubbled to the surface. Next to the whiteboard, I taped an angry note with words that aren’t fit to print. Then I crawled into bed and cried for reasons I still quite put into words, falling asleep before the election was called.

In the morning, I woke up to a New York Times news alert and social media feeds filled with disappointment. The United States had democratically elected a man who, among so many other despicable qualities and policies, is accused of and boasts about committing sexual assault. As a woman passionate about gender equality, women’s leadership, and ending sexual violence; as someone dedicated to the Clinton campaign and ready to make history; and, quite frankly, as a human being, I didn’t know how to process this. I still don’t. I felt for my friends and anyone who feels that this result puts their safety and their loved ones’ safety at risk, acknowledging that I am not the person this outcome will affect the most.

I didn’t leave my room Wednesday morning. I sat and sobbed and I still have the tissues all over my floor to prove it. When I absolutely had to get up for class, I put on my “Dare to say the F-word: Feminism” t-shirt and my “A woman belongs in the House and the Senate” sweatshirt to make myself feel stronger. Still crying, I left my room.

After hearing the election results, I had expected that the vandal would have torn

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down my angry note or left some snide comment. To my surprise, it was still there, and people had left supportive notes beside it. I have no idea whether the vandal is a Trump supporter or a misguided prankster unable to fathom the negative impact that a Trump presidency will have on so many people.

But I know that the love and kindness others anonymously left gave me the support I needed Wednesday morning.

So thank you to the people who left those supportive messages. Thank you to the friends and family who have texted me to see if I am doing okay. Thank you to the unknown student who said she liked my sweatshirt as I tearfully walked to class. Thank you to the students in class who came up to me as I tried to hold back tears and said they were there for me and happy to listen. Thank you to the student who hugged me and sat next to me so I would not be alone. Thank you to the students who were also sniffling through class and who shared pained and knowing looks. Thank you to my professors who understood how much this election meant to me and reached out. Thank you for your love and support as we process these election results and move forward. I needed the reminder that love trumps hate, the current message on the whiteboard. We truly are stronger together.

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Marni Morse is a politics major from Washington, DC. She can be reached at mlmorse@princeton.edu.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

associate opinion editors Newby Parton ’18 Sarah Sakha ’18

Conceding privilege Ryan Chavez

contributing columnist

Terence Zhao

guest columnist

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esterday morning, Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama made public statements regarding Donald Trump’s impending presidency.

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton sold the rest of us down the river.

Conceding and even promising to work with a Trump presidency flies in the face of what purported values Democrats claim to have. Enabling Trump and the Republican Party to enact their platform and having a reaction of anything less than unequivocal calls for massive obstruction and political resistance was not enough.

Far too much is at stake for the people in this country subject to the racism and hate legitimized by Trump’s campaign. Too many people who just had the validity of their existences and identities in this country rebuked do not have the easy option of acquiescing to the system.

Simply put, the meek concession of Hillary Clinton reeks of her and many of her most fervent supporters’ overwhelming privilege.

Hillary Clinton and her straight, white, middle-class supporters will be just fine in the next four years. They are not the ones Donald Trump labeled as rapists and criminals. They are not the immigrants and refugees whose futures are directly in jeopardy. They have the option to wait and see the Trump presidency with “an open mind.” The rest of us, however, will just have to find out and suffer the consequences.

The words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his

“Letter From Birmingham Jail” come to mind in a time like this: “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom…”

Yesterday, Hillary was the typical white moderate. Instead of doing what she needed to as a self-labeled progressive, she followed the sensibilities of what she “should” do, according to the rules of Washington. Clinton sold out minorities, the LGBTQA community, and everyone now at risk.

This is not to say we should give up on a peaceful transfer of power. To be clear, the peaceful transition of power is, as Hillary called it, one of the “cherished” parts of American democracy.

However, that insistence on peaceful transition is, in many ways, also a cop-out. Democracy does not exist simply for democracy’s sake. It’s a means to an end: democracy exists to serve as protection for the rights of people, and those rights are so incredibly fragile. Tens of millions of Americans are now under threat as a result of this Trump victory, and that risk is worth a fight. If our democratic system can’t even protect our own fellow citizens, then what is the point of preserving its integrity? What use is it?

With the concession of victory to Donald

Trump, the incredible struggles faced over the last half century to make progress in America have been thrown into the fire. She has given Trump the authority he needs to turn back the clock. He can fill a Supreme Court with ideologues who do not believe in the concept of a woman’s right to choose, the right of two members of the same sex to marry, and desire to kill affirmative action. Clinton has helped Trump make America an even more dangerous place for minorities and people of color.

If Clinton will not be the voice to oppose enabled bigotry, then the people must be. It is now clear that the fight to maintain the gains made in modernity for the rights of individuals and the protection of minorities must be fought for every day. The left must double down on beating Republicans in local, state, and federal races.

Moreover, we must profoundly change the nature of the Democratic Party. The centrist ideology of Clinton has shown itself to be as much a failure as her campaign. Minorities must no longer be just another counted-on voting block for the likes of the Clintons. Minorities and disadvantaged groups must drive the agenda leftwards and take a page out of the Republican playbook. The Democrats in Congress must radicalize their stances and tactics to counter the ability of those in power to get anything done.

Gridlock and obstruction may be the only way to stop what could become truly tragic events under the presidential regime of Donald Trump.

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here is something we can do, but it is only within ourselves.

Protesting against that which we cannot control only breeds anger; such action wastes energy, time, and effort.

Trump’s election is an unwanted fact. We can do with this fact what we will — do we mope? Do we wallow in tears and half-eaten tubs of ice cream? I’ll admit that on the night of the election, I ate three brownies and three health bars in pajamas and flip-flops, pale-faced, unable to face reality as it stood. I kept refreshing The New York Times’ Electoral College-checker in the hopes of being given a reason to eat a celebratory brownie rather than a conciliatory one. I had no such luck.

Part of every single one of

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Collective Responsibility

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us has good reason to want to sulk in a lonely, unsuspecting corner, just as I did last night.

It only makes sense that when a candidate wholly unfit for the presidency is elected to the office that we find ourselves at a loss both for words and action.

This state of self-pity must end right now. If we allow our sorrow to dictate our actions for the next day, the next week, or the next year, then we send a message to the rest of the word that we have accepted the results of the election and are allowing them to affect our productivity, self-esteem, and faith in the world.

We should wake up in the morning with a new sense of purpose filling the space of our former battle. Not every day do we have the chance to improve ourselves with the knowledge that our self-improvement

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Ryan Chavez is a sophomore at Princeton University and can be reached at rdchavez@princeton.edu.

Terence Zhao is a sophomore at Stanford University and can be reached at zhao@stanford.edu.

On living life fully for the next four years

contributing columnist

associate sports editors Nolan Liu ’19 David Xin ’19

stands as a direct challenge to the President that our generation did not elect. We should dress beautifully, we should speak artfully, and we should educate ourselves on the topics that President-elect Trump cannot even fathom. We must seek to find solace in the process of betterment that only we can begin.

Other nations may lose faith in America because of Trump, but the burden is on us to ensure that they do not do so because of our own disenchantment. I urge all of us, as a community, to engage and encourage each other to live our lives fully and with meaning so that our America remains ours.

Leora Eisenberg is a freshman from Eagan, MN. She can be reached at leorae@princeton.edu.

Max Grear

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here was a time when progressiveminded people had the luxury of worrying that our leaders wouldn’t fulfill their promises. Now, we fear that the campaign promises may, and likely will, become a reality. Soon, the people who have continued to support a proto-fascist demagogue may realize their mistake, but it’ll be too late.

Conservatives and Republicans who declined to support Trump may come to understand that he merely represents the logical outcome of their own xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, and racism. Smug liberals may

realize how truly far out of touch their self-assured assumptions were all along. Progressives might understand the damage that’s been done to the left’s credibility, having spent the final weeks of an unspeakably disturbing campaign season wasting their energy on building an opposition movement to a hypothetical Clinton administration, on the doorstep of a complete right-wing takeover.

But in the meantime, we all need to get to work.

Max Grear ’18 is a Spanish and Portuguese major from Wakefield, R.I. He can be reached at mgrear@ princeton.edu.

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Why “Stronger Together” was insincere Bhaskar Roberts

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no longer feel safe in America. I’m terrified not only of the laws that a far-right Congress will pass, but also of our country’s widespread and powerful intolerance. The voters rejected Hillary Clinton’s message that we’re “stronger together” in favor of a platform of xenophobia, sexism, and not-too-subtle white supremacy. The central conflict of the election seems to have been between hatred of other groups and unity across differences, and the public chose hatred.

But I think that paints too generous of a picture for the Democrats because they, or I should say we, are not the party of true unity. We claim to welcome a diverse range of people, but let’s face it: “diverse” has come to mean women and minorities. In our noble effort to give them a voice, we have devalued the voices of white people and men. And it’s not racist or intolerant of them to push back.

To be clear, the ideology of Donald Trump’s most radical (and visible) supporters is evil. But what

about his quieter, possibly more moderate supporters, the silent majority that pollsters didn’t expect to vote for him? I can imagine how the Democrats’ message might appear unwelcoming to them.

During the early days of the campaign, American politician Madeleine Albright said it was feminists’ duty to vote for Hillary Clinton because she was a woman. That is to say that feminist voters should favor her because she’s female. And in preparing to celebrate Hillary Clinton’s historic victory, some of my Democrat friends told me they were sick of men in the White House.

And I get it. I really wanted a female president. I wanted her to inspire girls and shatter stereotypes about female leaders. But sexism in favor of women is still sexism, just as racism in favor of minorities is still racism. Whites and men are not wrong for voting against that.

Bhaskar Roberts is a sophomore from Buffalo, NY. He can be reached at bhaskarr@princeton.edu

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Strong field hockey team braces for NCAAs Courtesy of GoPrincetonTigers.com For the twelfth consecutive year, the Princeton Field Hockey team (10-7 overall, 5-2 Ivy League) prepares yet again for the highly anticipated NCAA tournament. On Saturday, No. 5 powerhouse Penn State (17-2 overall) will host Princeton for the first round. Unlike previous years, however, the Tigers took a more precarious path to the tournament: via a clutch at-large bid.

Prior to the team’s first year under new head coach Carla Tagliente, Princeton had won 11 consecutive Ivy League championships, gaining automatic qualification to the end-of-season tournament. But, after narrowly falling to both Cornell and No. 20 Harvard late this season, the Tigers relied on a 6-1 regular-season-finale victory over Penn to edge them into the tournament.

Against Penn State, the Tigers will rely on the talent of its five All-Ivy players, including senior Offensive Player of the Year Cat Caro. Historically, the Tigers have struggled to advance beyond the second round, but then again, this team has already shown what it can accomplish when put to the test.

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