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Over 300 faculty members sign diversity statement

By Simone Downs staff writer

The “Faculty statement released in support for diversity at Princeton University” has signatures from 289 assistant, associate, and full Professors, and 40 Lecturers.

The statement was made to “firmly emphasize our belief that all members of our community deserve to be treated with empathy and respect,” and outlines the faculty’s desire to stand behind the University’s “steadfast commitment to embrace people of all ethnicities, religions, nationalities, genders, and identities, and our equally fundamental commitment to foster the free and vigorous exchange of ideas.”

The statement was released on Nov. 17 and continues to garner support. Carlos Brody, Wilbur H. Gantz III ‘59 Professor in Neuroscience and Professor of Molecular

Biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, along with Andrew Leifer, Assistant Professor of Physics and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, produced this statement.

“The biggest thing was meeting students that were worried because there are reports of hate crimes and a lot of uncertainty as to changes that could happen we don’t know,” said Brody, explaining why they decided to circulate the petition.

“We wanted these students to know that the faculty cares about them, that we care about every individual in our community regardless of gender, identity, ethnicity, or religion,” Brody said.

“So we thought that gathering signatures for people to say this personally was a thing that might be valuable.”

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Eisgruber signs petition in support of DACA

By Jessica Li head news editor

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 is one of over 100 college and university presidents who signed a statement calling for the continuation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in light of the recent presidential election.

The statement asserts that the signatories are prepared to meet with policymakers of the next administration to discuss reasons for upholding DACA, which protects eligible undocumented students from being placed in removal proceedings

and grants them employment authorizations. The signatories also called upon business, civic, religious, and nonprofit sectors to do the same.

“Since the advent of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012, we have seen the critical benefits of this program for our students, and the highly positive impacts on our institutions and communities,” the statement reads.

“DACA beneficiaries on our campuses have been exemplary student scholars and student leaders, working across campus and in the community,” the statement continues.

In a statement emailed to the Daily Princetonian, Eisgruber noted that the University, like many other colleges and universities, has been a longtime supporter of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

“We believe that the students assisted by the program make valuable contributions to this campus and this country, and that the program deserves bipartisan support,” he wrote.

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ACADEMICS

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Q&A: Alia Malek, reporter and lawyer

By Emily Spalding staff writer

Alia Malek is a journalist, author, and civil rights lawyer. Her writing has appeared in a slew of publications including The New York Times and McSweeney’s, among many others. She is the author of the narrative nonfiction novel “A Country Called Amreeka: US History Re-Told Through Arab American Lives” and will release her second book in February 2017. Malek is a former senior writer for Al Jazeera America and was recently awarded the Hiett Prize in the Humanities.

Daily Princetonian: How have your personal identity and background shaped your professional life? Are the stories you choose to cover at all influenced by your previous experiences in the workplace and/or family life?

Alia Malek: The fact is that I come from an ethnic/racial

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group that has been the subject of much journalism about being participants, and the creators of the journalism made me always feel critical and sensitive to how people are covered in the media.

And, you know, where people do come from particular racialized ethnic groups, the coverage of one story affects everybody.The way that works is — I started off as a lawyer — I started off wanting to work on effects of prejudice and stereotypes ... which I think does stand in part from bad media, whether it’s journalism or pop culture. And after 9/11, I felt like that problem was so big that maybe I needed to — well, I didn’t make the change then, but I started to think that there really needed to be a much more concerted effort to participate in storytelling and journalism and media creation. Eventually, after six years of law I did go to See MALEK page 1

Senior columnist Sam Parsons evaluates both sides of the debate over illegal immigrant extradition in light of President-elect Trump’s campaign promises, and guest contributor Sophie Moullin suggests that the issue of Princeton graduate student unionization is not equivalent to similar efforts occurring elsewhere. PAGE 4

By Sarah Hirschfield staff writer

Elizabeth Sell ‘17 was selected as one of the twelve George J. Mitchell Scholars nationwide in the 2018 class for the program, according to the US-Ireland Alliance.

The goal of the scholarship “is to provide tomorrow’s leaders with an understanding about, an interest in, and an affinity for the island of Ireland,” according to its website.

Sell, concentrating in chemistry, is a medical technician with the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad, and a Diversity Peer Educator. She previously worked as a research assistant at the Children’s National Medical Center. “[The University] taught me that in order to be a leader in medicine I have to be constantly and critically engaging with greater social issues in my communities, both on campus and off campus,” she wrote in an email.

Sell has also worked as an undergraduate preceptor for organic chemistry, led a

breakout trip to New York City to explore issues related to access to healthcare for the trans community, and conducted an international service trip to Ghana to explore the problem of electronic waste at Agbogbloshie, the center of industrial e-waste, with a $20,000 grant.

Sell noted, “these trips allowed me to put post-heroic leadership and design thinking strategies into action in service-oriented experiences.”

This last year has been formative for Sell, as they realized how gender plays an influential role in the American healthcare system.

“American medicine was originally designed for the [cisgendered], heterosexual white male patient, and this continues to present challenges to patient-focused and holistic patient care,” she wrote, citing the misdiagnosis of heart attacks in women as an example of how studying only male patients can be detrimental.

“The emergence of gender studies as an academic discipline played a signifi-

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cant role in advancing this research area, and consequently thousands of lives have been saved as a result of the new AHA guidelines,” she said.

Chemistry professor Martin Semmelhack said that as a student in organic chemistry, Sell “stood out in the large organic class as someone who was doing well, no problems with the material, but still came to the office hour/ review sessions.” “[Sell] impressed as someone looking for the complete answer and with a lot of interest,” he added. “I was really pleased when [Sell] was one of the first to volunteer as a precept TA for this semester.”

Sell intends to become a physician and will study Gender, Sexuality, and Culture at University College Dublin in September with the scholarship, which allows recipients to spend a year of post-graduate study in Ireland.

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[journalism] school at Columbia and took that path, and that’s why I wrote—really, that’s a big part of why I wrote—”A Country Called Amreeka,” which is my first book, to reinsert the stories that have been missing from the American narrative of who we are as a country and society. The book goes all the way back to the late 1800s for a brief, very meticulous reinsertion into history and even into very contemporary history … So that’s how it’s shaped what I’ve done. You know, it has pushed me to create this book that I always wanted when I was growing up, and then I hope for folks who might be feeling like that, the way I felt when I was a kid, that they also now can find this book … But I don’t only cover Arab people. I also write about all kinds of other people.

I just thinkthat with sensitivity to the fact that you can have a lot of power by creating knowledge about a people has meant that — I have always asked myself when I’m about to cover anybody—am I making sure I keep the balance of when to … internalize about how to look at people from certain communities.

DP: Your website describes your work as focusing on “the people whose lives are affected by the events making headlines.”

With the introduction of an array of alternative news sources, whether on social media or television, the way we receive and filter our news has altered drastically over the last few years. With this notion of information being readily accessible at our fingertips, what is the place of longform reporting and storytelling in today’s world? Why is it important to you to highlight the

person behind the news headline?

AM: Well, I mean, is it accessible? Yes, it’s out there, but I think it’s already sort of — there’s so much evidence of confirmation bias and stuff. So, is it readily accessible? Sure. Are people accessing these other sources? I don’t think so. And the thing I love about long-form journalism — I mean we touched on this a little bit. [Al Jazeera] Plus has these videos or tweets, they might be tippy, they might be just for the moment, but I’m much more interested in longevity. Even a magazine article doesn’t really last much longer than the week that it’s out. I just won this prize down in Dallas and when I got down there, everybody had read and had been given a copy of Amreeka, which, for me, now is already an older work … still, there’s a resonance to it even today. And I think that’s something that you can’t [achieve with] a tweet [that] isn’t going to be resonant past five minutes … or the 24-hour news cycle in which it gets highlighted. So the point of long-form also is that long-form allows you to storytell. It can’t necessarily storytell in one tweet. Sure, could you do a Twitter storm and you kind of tell a story? Yes, I think that’s true that you can, but for now, for me, being able to take a reader into the skin of another person — right, because that’s what I’m always thinking to do.

And I don’t see my role as doing PR for people. I write about really complicated and flawed folks, because everybody is complicated and flawed. And I just think that in long-form, you know, you have the canvas to be able to do that. A book doesn’t necessarily come with the same sort of branding as from the right or

from the left.

DP: Your site also explains that with your writing, you aim to “move us past narratives we have grown accustomed to about people we often see as ‘other.’”

How do you hope your work will influence the future of how we perceive those who are different from us?

AM: I’ve gotten feedback from Amreeka for a lot of the stuff that’s like — people just say ‘I thought I knew that and I didn’t realize that fully.’ I believe in the power of the narrative...I know that’s cheesy, but I do think that narrative is really strong because when it’s done right, and the way I try to do it, like, it’s not polemical, it’s not argumentative.

It’s just sort of like, “hey, this is the experience that this person lived.” And it’s kind of hard to deny people those things, because if you tell people that growing up Arab-American and being subject to a lot of racism and prejudice as well, they have no reason to believe you. But if you take someone into your life … just let them speak for themselves … I think it tends to have the potential to be transformative, much more than, like, yelling at somebody or lecturing another person.

DP: As a child of Syrian immigrant parents and a female, what kinds of challenges have you faced as a journalist? Have more obstacles emerged over the years, or do you find that the industry is better adapting to its time?

AM: Well, I think the reason that it’s adapting is … each person’s opinion is different, right?

That in itself might open up more opportunities. But also, I think people have realized, after 9/11, people discovered ArabAmericans, and I think they realized that the information

that was out there was not particularly well-formed. I think the fact that we want to have more reliable information and stories has helped open the door for more diverse people to begin reporting. I don’t really want to dwell on my own personal experience. I mean, I ultimately still come from a position of a lot of privilege and have been able to … you know, there’s many more tales of harrowing prejudice than my own experience. But as for going forward, of course I’m worried. It doesn’t help that the President-elect is coming from a rhetorical place that … brings out our society’s best. You know, I really feel bad for those kids who are not cosmopolitan and are going to be the brunt of a lot of bullying or discrimination from their teachers. And we’re seeing all of this already, but I think this makes it even more important that there is good storytelling out there so that, you know, people look as people as their fellow Americans, or just fellow people. There’s a role for journalism in society to play as storytelling. I mean journalism to some extent, but even more I think it’s time [that] we need great TV shows and movies, because the reality is a lot more.

People sometimes dehumanize people much more in those formats, I think, than in journalism … People pick and choose their sources of information. I don’t think people who are of certain kinds of positions are going to all of the sudden [change] … but it’s as neutral enough ground.

DP: Immediately after the presidential election earlier this month, protests broke out around the country to speak out against Donald Trump’s policies on a slew of topics, including immigration. On Nov. 16, Trump’s

team announced they are entertaining the idea of implementing a Muslim registration system for Muslim immigrants in the States. These are merely a few examples of our increasingly divided and heated political and social climates. In your opinion, what is the media’s role in discussing contentious issues such as the Muslim registry? How might citizens and journalists alike effectively use the media as a platform to combat or promote polemic policies?

AM: Well, it’s not just the media’s responsibility. But, I think, as much as they do want to fight the precedent of the Japanese internment, let’s see stories about what that meant for the U.S. You know, let’s hear from those who might still be alive or from their grandchildren. People who are long-time part of the United States are all of the sudden deprived of their businesses and their money and their assets. I’d want to hear from the. In terms of the media, [they] opted to cover the helicopter landings of Trump much more than they did go in-depth exploration with his policies. There needs to be [a] documentary, it can’t just be like a news bulletin… there needs to be in-depth reporting of what that means. You have to challenge these assertions. We need to bring truth back into this, the narrative, because there are objective facts. The media not only needs to do its job, but it also needs to figure out how to access people who are not getting its information. That’s what I think the media really needs to be about right now. How are we going to have these conversations outside of their bubble, and how are they going to have that more with the real cross sections of society?

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der theory and queer theory into conversation with epidemiological patient data, allowing me to make much wider claims about how gender influences patient outcomes.

I hope to be a voice against misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia in the American Medical Association upon my return to the United States,” Sell wrote.

The Mitchell Scholarship program was created in 2001

by Trina Vargo, the founder of the US-Ireland Alliance, a nonpartisan nonprofit created to build the US-Ireland relationship.

Recipients were chosen based on their academic distinction, leadership, and service, according to US-Ireland Alliance’s press release.

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support for DACA coming not only from the higher education community but also from other sectors of society,” he continued.

In an email released to undergraduate and graduate students last week, Vice President for Campus Life Rochelle Calhoun also noted that the University will do everything possible to protect students’ legal rights.

As of 5:00 p.m. on Nov. 21, with the exception of Cornell’s Hunter E. Rawlings III, the presidents of all Ivy League institutions have signed onto the statement.

The statement follows a series of student-led efforts in colleges across the country calling for sanctuary campuses and increased protection of undocumented students. Last week, hundreds of students and community members gathered in front of Nassau Hall to express solidarity with

undocumented students and their families. The Princeton DREAM team, which organized the walkout, also spearheaded a petition that had garnered over 1,500 signatures as of Monday.

The demonstrations are a direct response to Presidentelect Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric calling for the deportation of all undocumented immigrants as well as the immediate suspension of president Obama’s two executive programs, namely DACA and DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans). Trump has also called for building a wall on the border between Mexico and the United States.

Last week, Trump stated during an interview with CBS that he will prioritize the deportation of 2-3 million undocumented immigrants with criminal records. Trump also tapped Jeff Sessions (R, Ala.), a DACA opponent, as attorney general last Friday.

The town of Princeton is a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants.

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tion, it’s a statement of our values and a pledge that everyone who signs it is pledging to be outspoken in defense of these values,” Brody added.

Brody said that they tried to write the petition in a nonpartisan fashion so that it would appeal to everyone.

“We think that in stating what is something that Eisgruber has touched on, it’s important to say this isn’t the president alone defending these positions, it’s all of us, all of the faculty,” Brody said.

The statement’s authors hope that students will get more involved and might be inspired to create something similar of their own.

The petition has circulated over email among faculty members, so it’s not clear how many have seen the petition. It has spread throughout the faculty at the University, with the number of signees growing.

The faculty members who signed the petition have been pleased to see a message of positivity, said Elizabeth Harman, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor

of Philosophy.

“I think, as someone who teaches classes on ethics, what is really clear to me is that there are important conversations about what our values are as a country and whether we as a country are able to understand the racism, sexism, homophobia, bigotry, and prejudice against the disabled that still exists in our country. And it’s clear that there is still a lot of work to be done to really confront these things, and it’s a time that we really need to be having conversations about what we owe to each other and what morality requires from us.” said Harman in support of this statement’s release. She signed the statement after it was sent to her by several of her colleagues.

Marc Fleurbaey, Robert E. Kuenne Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies and Professor of Public Affairs, another signatory of this statement, affirmed the need for this message.

“It’s important for the faculty and students to show that they’re ready to stand for these values.

Many people are anxious now so it’s important to reassure them that there is solidarity around them,” said Fleurbaey.

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s a continuation of our series on the Task Force on General Education’s November 14 report, the Board will comment on the second recommendation regarding the foreign language requirement. The task force recommends requiring all A.B. students to take a foreign language class “regardless of any existing proficiency.”

This proposal would mean that students who have already met the University’s standards of proficiency, whether by achieving a sufficient score on a standardized test or by taking the University’s placement exam, would have to take one course at a higher level in their known language or begin an entirely new language. While the Board agrees with the many benefits gained from A.B. language instruction, we do not believe that the marginal benefit of mandating an extra class outweighs the limitations it places on students.

The report reasons that the foreign language requirements have more value than just learning a new language because they expose students to different cultures and broaden students’ international scope.

Learning a foreign language expands the bounds of education through the presentation of new cultures, a deeper understanding of language mechanisms, and critical thinking.

We agree with the reasoning behind this recommendation; however, the Board believes that those who have already reached a high level of proficiency, such that they have earned a 5 on an AP exam, a 760 or higher on an SAT II language test, a 7 on a high-level IB exam, or

an A on the British A-level exam, will have already sufficiently gained the cultural benefits from their previous foreign language experiences or education. Some students who place out are native speakers, who were likely immersed in a different culture at home, with language as just one part of their thorough cultural exposure. Others have had extensive foreign language education that has taught them concepts beyond grammar and the technicalities of language, allowing them to excel on standardized tests.

There are even high school students considering attending Princeton and our peer institutions who take advanced language classes for the exact purpose of placing out of languages in college and having more flexibility with class choice. In both cases, these students have clearly acquired the skills and cultural intellect needed that one or two extra classes at Princeton would be of little or no marginal benefit. .

Such low gain would also come at a steep cost. A.B. students are only required to take 31 classes at Princeton.

Between the existing 10 distribution requirements and the many required classes for concentrations and certificates, students have very little room left in their academic program to explore new interests. The Board believes that mandating that at least one of these few electives be a language course imposes a high marginal cost on all students. For reasons explained above, we do not expect the marginal benefit to students who have already attained a high degree of

language proficiency would exceed the marginal cost of this recommendation.

Moreover, there is nothing currently limiting students who would like to pursue learning more languages or a more advanced level of a language. Those who are already interested in foreign language instruction will seek out those opportunities to learn more. The Board encourages students to continue their language instruction, and we encourage the University to strengthen its efforts to encourage students to pursue language courses without mandating that they do.

Academic Advisers, PAAs, and RCAs could expound more on students’ choices if they have achieved sufficient proficiency, such as better publicizing heritage tracks for native speakers or foreign language programs such as the Humanities Research Center, which contains an extensive amount of independent language study materials, and language tables at each Residential College.

Finally, the Board draws a meaningful distinction between the requirement of taking a foreign language past proficiency and the 10 distribution requirements in Princeton’s general education program. As the Spanish and Portuguese department says, “language knowledge is a set of skills,” and there are many welldefined and unambiguous ways of testing that a student has attained proficiency in that skill. By contrast, the distribution requirements’ purpose is to expose Princeton students, in a contentneutral way, to a range of

ways of thinking and ensure students take a well-rounded academic program. We believe Princeton can maintain a set of rigorous but flexible general education requirements without mandating that all A.B. students continue language skill instruction in college past the point of the most important benefits.

Though we understand that the cultural advantages to which the University is trying to expose all A.B. students are part of the current trend in higher education and among Princeton’s peer institutions, the Board maintains that those worldly insights have already been satisfied if a student has met the required proficiency, and that it is therefore unnecessary to require those students to fulfill this requirement.

Connor Pfeiffer ‘18 recused himself from the writing of the editorial.

Jacob Berman ‘20, Sergio Leos ‘17, William Pugh ‘20, and Jack Whelan ‘19 abstained from the writing of this editorial.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor, and the Editorin-Chief.

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ver the weeks that Harvard’s dining workers were on strike, some Princeton graduate students decided they wanted the opportunity to threaten to do so, too. A small group is seeking unionization, and it is the threat of strikes – the deployment of “economic weapons,” as labor law puts it – that gives them their negotiating power. But if Princeton graduate students were to strike, it could only be for a small portion of their time, and could only cover a small fraction of the financial support they receive from the University.

Graduate students’ worker status pertains only to teaching and paid research assistance, as per the recent National Labor Review Board decision following the case at Columbia. At Princeton, research assistance, primarily in the science labs, is usually indivisible from work towards one’s own dissertation, and teaching requirements are minimal. Even in the very rare case that a student’s costs are fully supported through teaching assistance for four years (the first year is a fellowship), over a five-year program a graduate student will spend on average less than 10 hours per week on qualifying work.

Ten hours of work a week sounds like one of the bad “gigs” in the new economy, including those offered to rising numbers of adjuncts. But Princeton graduate students receive, for five years guaranteed, a 12-month

stipend of $31K (on average across departments), which is annually upgraded in line with housing costs and the policies of other Ivy institutions. This is double the poverty line, even accounting for higher costs of living in Princeton. It is not far from the annual $35K, covering the summer, that Harvard finally conceded to its full-time dining staff; staff who, unlike graduate students, do not have an additional $45K spent on their training and development.

On top of the stipend is a benefits package that rivals those offered by the top employers in America. Families receive up to six months of fully paid parental leave (12 weeks plus a term), with potential for an unpaid leave of absence, up to $5000 per pre-school child to pay for any form of childcare, and other services. It is a dream family policy, one which even Bernie Sanders might consider too ambitious.

Add to this subsidized housing for most students who want it, free local transit, an excellent healthcare package, conference travel, research funding, and confidential harassment services and robust sexual assault procedures, and it becomes clear that Princeton graduate students have a high degree of economic security compared with most workers around their age, and indeed most people training for similar professional credentials, such as MDs. Why does the University provide this economic security to its graduate students – on top of a degree of autonomy over their research and time greater than even tenured faculty at many universities receive? It is not

because the University is getting up to 10 hours work assistance out of them a week. If the administration decided not to use grad students for teaching or research assistance – if it wanted to break a strike – it could surely find good enough assistants or adjuncts for less than the nearly half a million dollars it invests in each graduate student. Nor is it because students have bargained through a third party. It is because students have successfully voiced their needs and concerns through the Graduate Student Government, including its minority caucuses – and the Graduate School has, with scant exceptions, listened and responded.

Princeton ultimately operates as an academic institution and not a company. Because of this, graduate students are not among the many exploited workers, but are in fact relatively protected and have had their voices heard. Independent of both state-political and profit requirements, Princeton is free, in a way fewer and fewer universities are, from having to apply a narrow economism to its activities. Unionization would replace successful, ongoing democratic and direct student engagement with an adversarial, contractual, majoritarian and bureaucratic approach. It would replace an academic ethos and mission with an industrial production model; precisely the move in higher education that students and faculty seek to resist. It would, as the substantive dissent in the NLRB ruling discusses, see the lecture hall as a factory floor.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES president Thomas E. Weber ’89 vice president Craig Bloom ’88 secretary Betsy J. Minkin ’77 treasurer Douglas J. Widmann ’90 Gregory L. Diskant ’70 Richard P. Dzina, Jr. ’85 William R. Elfers ’71 Stephen Fuzesi ’00 Zachary A. Goldfarb ’05 John G. Horan ’74 Joshua Katz Rick Klein ’98 Kathleen Kiely ’77 James T. MacGregor ’66 Alexia Quadrani Michael E. Seger ’71 Annalyn Swan ’73 Richard W. Thaler, Jr. ’73

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Graduate student unioniozation is not a class struggle guest columnist

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not easy – it can be an anxietyridden, exhausting and lonely process. Too often the Lego Grad Student comic rings painfully true. We can and should work for more support – whether that’s in improving housing, advising, mental health, diversity and women’s services, or parties. But we are far better off doing so through existing forms of student representation, confidential reporting and direct means of addressing individual cases than through a union, whose authority to negotiate on any of the above issues is legally uncertain. And doing so through a dialogue based on shared scholarly values, rather than through claims based on our sellable value-add and economic contributions, would preserve the spirit of the graduate student-University relationship’s original intellectual purpose.

Undeniably, some Princeton graduate students are struggling, but ours is not a class struggle. We belie solidarity with the true workers – the dining workers, the adjuncts, and even students in public institutions – when we claim our situation is equivalent.

For graduate students at elite institutions, the case against unionization is not the usual, union-busting “right to work” argument. It is about protecting the right – which even in academia is an increasingly rare privilege – not to be a worker.

Sophie Moullin GS is in the program of Sociology and Social Policy, and comes from Sheffield, England. She can be reached at smoullin@princeton.edu.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: SOLICITATIONS FOR THE PYNE PRIZE I write to solicit nominations for the Pyne Prize, the highest general distinction the University confers upon an undergraduate, which will be awarded on Alumni Day, Saturday, February 25, 2017.

In thinking about nomination, I would ask that you consider the following description: M. Taylor Pyne Honor Prize.

A prize awarded annually to the senior who has manifested in outstanding fashion the following qualifications: excellence in scholarship, character, and effective support of the best interests of Princeton University. Founded in 1921 in remembrance of the life and character of M. Taylor Pyne, Class of 1877, Trustee of Princeton 1885-1921, by his cousin, Mrs. May Taylor Moulton Hanrahan, the prize is the highest general distinction the University confers upon an undergraduate. The prize consists of the income from this fund up to the prevailing comprehensive fee for one academic year.

The prize winner will be selected by the President of the University, the Deans of the College and of Undergraduate Students, and the Secretary of the University. We are eager to receive letters of nomination from members of the University community. Please send letters to pyneprize@princeton.edu by Monday, January 9, 2017.

Signed, Kathleen Deignan Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students

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aría José Solórzano ’20 couldn’t go home for fall break and doesn’t plan to go home for Thanksgiving. She wanted to — especially because her grandmother was visiting from El Salvador — but tickets from Newark to Los Angeles are out of her family’s budget. “I’ve been pretty homesick since the summer,” she said. “Going back home would be a way to be around people who really love me.”

Solórzano is one of many students who will be without their families during Thanksgiving break for financial reasons. So am I. Princeton has become my home for the school year because I cannot afford to return to my home in Oregon.

The University should take two steps to improve low-income students’ experience during break periods. First, it should provide additional funding for students on financial aid so that they can return home more than twice a year.

Second, it should ensure that first-year students know about alternative break trips before applications are due.

I’m grateful that the University gives me generous financial aid. Without it, I could not be here. But for students who receive aid, only two round trips are covered. That means we can go back for winter recess and summer break — but not fall recess, Thanksgiving recess, spring recess, or intersession. The University should expect that students will want to spend some of these breaks with their families, and calculate the cost of attendance — and its financial aid — accordingly.

Until that happens, students like Solórzano will continue to find themselves secluded on campus with nothing to do. Combine that with an absence of friends and family, and you have a recipe for depression.

Fortunately, there are other ways to spend break. The Pace Center, for example, sponsors alternative break trips, for which I am once again deeply grateful.

But I did not learn about breakout trips until after application deadlines had passed. The University should do more to publicize these trips and other break opportunities, particularly to freshmen. RCAs should be instructed to explain break opportunities to their zees. Whereas emails that contain this information often find themselves in a junk folder, RCAs can have in-person conversations to ensure the information will reach all their students. Freshmen, especially those who cannot return home during the breaks, would find themselves knowing what happens during breaks and when to apply. That way, no students will have to spend their first break alone.

The Pace Center has already taken a great step in the right direction.

After missing the deadline to apply for breakout trips, I asked the Center if it organized local volunteer opportunities for students staying on campus for break. They said they didn’t — but, as a result of my inquiry, started such a program for fall break.

Alexandra Zalewski ’20, who stayed on campus during break, participated in the pilot program as a volunteer tutor.

“I found out more about the community outside the Orange Bubble,” she said. “It gives you the opportunity to explore.”

In short, the University should not forget about students who do not have the financial ability to return home during the breaks. It should expand financial aid so that students can return home more than twice a year — or, at the least, establish a committee that would listen to low-income students and consider this expansion. Moreover, the phenomenal volunteering that takes place during the breaks should be strengthened and publicized in a foolproof way. These two policies would make the University a happier place to be during break. The University should remember that there are students like Solórzano while assigning the amount of each financial aid package.

Mason Cox is a freshman from Albany, Oregon. He can be reached at mwcox@ princeton.edu.

Undocumented immigration: seeking a pragmatic center

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ince his unexpected victory in the election, Presidentelect Trump’s policy platform has been shifting erratically.

It may be the case that Mr. Trump expertly adopted an effective façade during his campaign that he is now shedding in favour of a more realistic, presidential demeanour. Conversely, he may simply have had no understanding of the tangible restrictions and pressures that a president faces in office. Regardless of the forces behind the newfound malleability in Mr. Trump’s policy platform, some of the changes being made are welcomed.

Mr. Trump’s stance on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a pertinent example. Whereas his campaign included repeated pledges to repeal the ACA, or Obamacare, Trump now acknowledges, with the help of suggestions from Obama himself, that the policy contains valuable clauses such as coverage for prior conditions and inclusion in family plans for those under 26. Mr. Trump’s shift in stance on the ACA suggests a certain degree of moderation and a desire, or at least willingness, to be pragmatic. In the same CBS interview that discussed the ACA, Trump expressed respect for the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage equality, backed down on his undemocratic mission to “lock [Hilary Clinton] up”, and explicitly told his supporters, when the interviewer mentioned acts of violence, to “stop it,” a stark contrast from the sentiment he expressed at his campaign rallies.

Reflecting back over the past year, Trump broke from the conservatism preached by Republicans such as Ted Cruz ’92, and endorsed the right of trans people to use the facilities of their choice. He acknowledged the extremism of a total ban on immigration by Muslim people, and instead suggested extreme vetting for high-risk countries (certainly not a moderate alternative, but an improvement). He shifted from abolishing the federal minimum wage, to upholding it, to increasing it.

In general, Trump’s willingness to reconsider his policy stances, despite their often questionable, absurd, and even prejudicial starting points, presents a glimmer of hope that we may face four years of a flawed, yet moderate pragmatist. A glimmer.

There is, however, an area of the President-elect’s platform that, whilst also evolving, is far from anything that could be called rational. This area is immigration, specifically undocumented immigration, a topic on which Mr. Trump’s policies seem to be wavering wildly in search of a defensible stance, taking on blatantly condemnable forms, unable to find a pragmatic center.

In his campaign, Trump often suggested that he would aim to remove America’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.

Such a policy, however it would look like in practice, would be hugely detrimental to the United States. Not only would it involve tearing apart communities and uprooting families, it would punch the American economy in the metaphorical guts. Since his victory, President-elect Trump has reformed this proposition. Last Sunday, in his interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Trump suggested that he would exclusively aim to deport undocumented immigrants with criminal records, of which he suggested there are between 2 and 3 million in the

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United States. Whilst the distinction between law-abiding and criminal undocumented immigrants might seem substantial, it is small in comparison to another distinction that Trump’s policies still fail to observe: the distinction between retroactive and nonretroactive immigration policy.

Immigrating to the United States is a privilege, one that is highly sought by many people around the world. It is, by no means, a right. That is to say, foreigners, like myself, obviously do not have the right to move to the United States without the permission of American citizens and that of the U.S. government. Those who disregard the U.S. government’s right and responsibility to regulate immigration assume the right to live in the United States. This is in contrast to the 4.4 million people who acknowledge and await the privilege.

I do not believe that I overstep by saying that to overstay my F-1 visa, or to have entered the United States without a visa in the first the place, is wrong. Immigrating to America is a privilege, and nobody has the right to do so without permission.

However, it is one thing to assert this stance and prevent undocumented immigration, and another thing entirely to legislate and instantaneously seek to uproot those who have already found a place in the United States. This is where the distinction between retroactive and non-retroactive policy becomes critically important. Preventing future undocumented immigration is different to rounding up and deporting undocumented immigrants, especially considering that, as the Center for Immigration Studies reports, over 66% of adult undocumented immigrants have been in the US for over a decade.

Trump fails to acknowledge this distinction, and whilst toning down his policies from targeting 11 million to 3 million criminal undocumented immigrants may seem like a pragmatic concession, it still misses the fact that retroactive immigration policies will harm families, create fear in certain minority groups that include many U.S. citizens, and harm the American economy.

Paul Ryan, the Republican House Speaker, disagrees with the new President’s inclination to focus on rectifying past transgressions.

Ryan says that he had expected Trump to focus on “securing the border,” rather than on rounding up undocumented immigrants.

Granted, securing the border does focus on preventing future undocumented immigration rather than on retrospectively attacking those who are already here.

Such rhetoric centred around the idea of America’s southern border oversteps the only defensible stance in controlling immigration, which is that nobody has the right to immigrate without permission.

Instead, while potentially motivated by this principle, the action ultimately inspires a prejudicial, Mexico-centric view of the issue of undocumented immigration. Indeed, progressive commentators in this debate raise a strong point in questioning the motives of Americans who are exclusively concerned, even obsessed, with undocumented immigration by Mexican citizens alone. The Pew Research Center reports that only 52 percent of undocumented immigrants

come from Mexico, leaving half of America’s 11 million undocumented immigrants as citizens of other countries. To place a disproportionate emphasis on undocumented immigration as a solely Mexican issue sends an ulterior message to America’s Chicano and Latinx peoples as a disgraceful affront on a substantial, welcome, and valuable demographic of American society.

It is for this reason that the other side of President-elect Trump’s immigration platform, the infamous ‘wall,’ is still far from the pragmatic center. Conservatives must understand that liberals do not oppose the wall because they believe that people do have a right to immigrate without permission.

They oppose the wall because it is a concentrated symbol of prejudice and ignorance. It is impossible to justify on pragmatic grounds. Its physical effectiveness in preventing border crossings is questionable. Its economic cost would likely rival the cost of income support for the American’s supposedly losing their jobs. Finally, only half of undocumented immigrants come from the country on the other side of the proposed wall, and it is a clear minority of recent undocumented immigrants that enter via the southern border anyway.

In 2012, the vast majority entered legally, but overstayed their visas.

Yet just as there is a call on conservatives to think critically, liberals must also understand that conservatives do not necessarily support a wall because they are racist xenophobes, but rather because they want America to assert its right to control which of the many people hoping to immigrate can do so. This is a justifiable stance. The control that those concerned with this principle advocate for is all but completely lacking at present. Indeed, the Department of Homeland Security states that 99% of undocumented immigrants who overstay their visas are never addressed by the federal government, and many of those who enter without a visa are never identified at all.

However, it is extremely important that this control is not exercised with prejudice, as Mr. Trump risks doing with a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border and his Islamophobic proposition of a blanket ban on Muslim immigrants, He need only look to the United States’ current system, of random lottery as the measure for green card allocation, enrolment for F-1 visas, qualification for H1-B visas, and UNHCR recognition for refugee status, to see an example of an objective, non-discriminatory system from which to model.

President-elect Trump ought to attempt to refine his views further, to identify and focus on the logical, defensible principle that has been misconstrued to inspire such dangerous, offensive, and ineffective policies. I would suggest that the principle in question is that the U.S. government, as a proxy of the American people, has the sovereign right to control who will live in America. How Mr. Trump interprets this principle, how he exercises this control, and whether he upholds the historic vision of a strong yet fair America will be the measure of his success in finding moderate ground within a polarized electorate.

Sam Parsons is a sophomore from Wangaratta, Australia. He can be reached at samueljp@princeton.edu.

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in the game. Freshman Sean Duncan, who has netted 45 goals this season, was named the CWPC AllAmerican rookie of the year. Payne’s 52 assists almost netted another season record, and the sophomore was named to the all-conference first team. Mitrovic and Duncan were joined by junior attack Jordan Colina and sophomore utility Ryan Wilson in the All-American second team.

The Crimson, however, came into the 2016 season an extremely strong team as well. Led by its firstteam NWPC seniors Joey Colton and Dan Stevens, Harvard had one of the best seasons in program history, finishing 22-6 and 8-3 in conference play and earning a national ranking of No. 11, one above the Tigers. Both teams seemed quite evenly matched coming into the tournament: before Saturday’s game, Harvard and Princeton had each won one game against each other this season.

Saturday’s game was an exciting, seesaw affair. The Crimson struck first and furiously in the pool, at

one point holding a 7-4 lead, the largest margin any team would hold during the game. A furious comeback spearheaded by Payne, who would score 6 goals in the game, brought the Tigers to 8-7 by halftime. The third quarter was another flurry of furious offense and superb goalie play by Mitrovic, with the score held at 11-10. In the final quarter, it seemed that the resilient Tigers might eke out a win, when sophomore driver Michael Swart and Duncan scored two in a row to bring the Tigers to 12-11.

Harvard responded ruthlessly and decisively, however, with Harvard star senior Colton tying the score and finally breaking the backs of the Tigers with a coup de grace with 54 seconds on the clock.

Despite the heartbreak, the Tigers would rebound quickly to score a strong 18-13 victory over No. 20 St. Francis College, earning a third place finish in the tournament, while Harvard would go on to defeat Brown and clinch a position in the NCAA tournament. Despite the loss and disappointment, the Tigers have continuously impressed fans with their resolve, determination, and grit in the face of adversity.

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Women’s basketball looks to get back on track after rough opening

By Chris Murphy contributor

Sometimes, the best way to get a team back on track is to get right back to work. That is exactly what the women’s basketball team prepares to do this Thanksgiving week.

The Tigers dropped a heartbreaker this Saturday, Nov. 19, to the University of Dayton in overtime at Jadwin Gymnasium by a score of 62 - 56. Princeton led at the half thanks to a surge late in the second quarter led by freshman guard Bella Alarie who scored five straight points. Senior guard Vanessa Smith later added three more points, all free throws, to push the lead up to 10 just before the half. A layup by Dayton in the final few seconds cut the lead to eight.

However, Dayton did not back down. The Flyers began a frenzy of their own late in the third quarter. The Flyers turned a double digit deficit into a two point lead by the time the third quarter had ended. From there, the game went back and forth as the two heavyweights battled it out to see who would emerge victorious.

Sophomore guard Jordan Muhammad scored, tying the game with less than a minute to go and sending the Tiger crowd into a frenzy. Neither team could find a bucket in the waning seconds, and the game went into overtime.

Sophomore guard Caroline Davis scored a three-pointer for the Tigers early in the overtime session, but Dayton launched another furious attack — this time an 8-1 run — to put themselves up 59-56 in the final 30 seconds of the game. Dayton would connect on three free throws to ice the game as Princeton missed its final two three-point attempts.

Alarie led the Tigers with 11 points, adding to 11 rebounds for her first double-double of the season. Sophomore guard Sydney Jordan also added 10 points to the Tigers after shooting a magnificent 71% from the field. Junior forward Leslie Robinson contributed 12 rebounds for Princeton, breaking her career high for the second straight week.

The Tigers opened the season with some tough games, and it is showing. Princeton lost their first three games and have detracted slightly from

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their lofty goals this season.

However, the women know that it only takes one game to get into a rhythm and recapture the winning mojo, and they hope to accomplish that this week.

The Tigers will have three games over the next week, one of their biggest workloads this

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Women’s hockey splits difficult pair of matches

By Claire Coughlin staff writer

On the night of Friday, September 18th at Hobey Baker Rink, the Princeton Women’s Ice Hockey team (5-4-1, 3-4-1 ECAC) broke Colgate’s 13-game winning streak.

The Tigers kept the Raiders on their toes for the first 15 minutes of the game, making many shot attempts and keeping the puck on their offensive side for a majority of the time. The team connected well and seemed to finally begin to turn their shot attempts into points on the board. The first goal came off of an unassisted breakaway from freshman forward Carly Bullock, giving Princeton an early lead at 4:35 of the first period. Senior forward Molly

Contini scored the next goal and sophomore forward Karlie Lund netted back-to-back shots to give Princeton a 4-0 lead in the second period. The Tigers kept the ball rolling, with shots from senior forward Cassidy Tucker and freshman forward Claire Thompson as well as a completion of a hat trick.

Colgate’s two goals came from Olivia Zafuto in the second and Annika Zalewski off of a power play at the very end, but both were not enough to defeat the Tigers’ momentum.

However, Friday’s level of success was not quite achieved on Saturday afternoon, as the team fell to Cornell at Hobey Baker once again in a 2-1 loss. Cornell freshman forward Grace Graham opened the game with a goal in

just the first five minutes of play off of an assist from behind the net from senior Kaitlin Doering. The Tigers responded with another goal from Carly Bullock assisted by Lund. Unfortunately, this would be the first and only goal for the Tigers against Cornell’s goalie Paula Voorheis, who made a total of 38 saves in the game. Pippy Gerace got the puck out from the boards in front of the Princeton bench, skated into the zone, and lofted a backhanded shot past junior goaltender Alysia DaSilva to give Cornell a 2-1 lead for the win.

For their next match-up, Princeton visits Boston University for two non-conference games the following weekend, Nov. 25 and 26.

season. They start the week with a trip to the University of Delaware to battle the Blue Hens on Tuesday. Then they return home for a Black Friday showdown against Rutgers.

Following that is a longer road trip to Baltimore to face University of Maryland, Baltimore County on Sunday to conclude

the week. Princeton will look to hopefully even their record as the non-conference schedule inches closer toward the midway point of the season. As the Tigers close out November, they will look for their young core to continue developing and for the team to begin winning these close contests.

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Men’s water polo team drops match against Harvard to finish third

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Water polo battled to a third-place conference finish this weekend.

By Michael Gao staff writer

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The women’s hockey team had a big win over Colgate before falling just shot against Cornell.

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Hosting the Northeast Water Polo Conference tournament in DeNunzio this weekend, the No. 12 Tigers looked to win their second consecutive Collegiate Water Polo Association conference title and qualify for their second NCAA championship tournament in a row. Ultimately, despite a hardfought struggle against Ivy League rival Harvard, these aspirations would be lost in a tough 14-13 loss to the Crimson.

The Tigers entered the campaign on a strong note. Despite a rash of injuries and some tough heartbreakers in the season’s opening in-

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13 games The women’s hockey team snapped Colgate’s 13-game win streak this weekend.

vitational tournaments, like a triple overtime 12-11 defeat at the hands of UC Santa Barbara, they rallied to produce a strong regular season, going 8-2, including an impressive 4-1 run at the end of the season that was finally ended after a 13-9 loss at Brown.

Despite significant losses to graduation and injury, a supposedly inexperienced and untested Princeton team fought well all season. With a dynamic offense spearheaded by prolific scorer sophomore driver Matt Payne and a stingy defense led by All-American goalie Vojislav Mitrovic, the team’s sole problem seemed to be a lack of focus during non-scoring moments See M. WOPO page 7

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