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POCC opposes Alumni, faculty respond to BJL sit-in recent protests

By Christina Vosbikian senior writer

By Annie Yang senior writer

The recent sit-in protest led by the Black Justice League has resulted in divided opinions among alumni and faculty, with some praising the efforts and others denouncing them.

There has been opposition to the protest expressed not only in online social media forums, but also through a counter-petition with over 1,300 responses and an alumni petition with 35 supporters. There is still support for the protesters in the original petition with nearly 1,000 signatures.

On Friday, professors in the program of African American Studies wrote a faculty letter supporting the protesters. As of Monday, the letter had 95 signatures from faculty in many departments across disciplines.

The 12 original signatories of the faculty letter either declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment.

However, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences H. Vincent Poor GS ’77 said that not all departments were aware of or represented in the letter. He noted that he had not seen the petition, so it’s likely that other faculty members didn’t either.

He said that a number of departments from which faculty haven’t signed include economics, math and physics.

Many alumni also expressed mixed opinions on the goals and method of the protest.

Briallen Hopper GS ’10 said she is inspired by student protesters who force students, alumni and faculty alike to reckon with past and persistent

racism on campus.

“Whether or not his name is removed from its schools and buildings, Princeton needs to start being honest about how damaging Woodrow Wilson’s racial legacy has been,” she said.

According to Hopper, the matter is not simply that Wilson had racist views, but that he pursued an openly racist agenda. He was adamant about maintaining segregation at the University and reinstated segregation in U.S. federal offices at a time of widespread racist violence and powerful anti-racist protest, not unlike our time, she said.

“Unfortunately, most Princeton students don’t know that in living memory Princeton was a segregated university in a segregated town,” she added.

The history of hate, isolation See PROTEST page 2

A new student group called the Princeton Open Campus Coalition delivered a letter opposing the methods and demands of the Black Justice League protests to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 on Sunday night.

The letter requested a meeting with Eisgruber in his office to present arguments regarding the events of the past week.

“We are concerned mainly with the importance of preserving an intellectual culture in which all members of the Princeton community feel free to engage in civil discussion and to express their convictions without fear of being subjected to intimidation or abuse,” the students wrote. “Thanks to recent polls, surveys and petitions, we have reason to believe that our concerns are shared by

a majority of our fellow Princeton undergraduates.”

The letter was signed by the 10 members of POCC’s Legislative Committee: Allie Burton ’17 , Evan Draim ’16, Josh Freeman ’18, Sofia Gallo ’17, Solveig Gold ’17, Andy Loo ’16, Sebastian Marotta ’16, Devon Naftzger ’16, Beni Snow ’19 and Josh Zuckerman ’16.

Gold said that the group’s goal was to make sure that different viewpoints on the sit-in protest and protests in other universities were equally represented.

The other signatories declined to comment.

“This dialogue is necessary because many students have shared with us that they are afraid to state publicly their opinions on recent events for fear of being vilified, slandered and subjected to hatred, either by fellow students See POCC page 3

U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

CPUC meeting details U. reaction to protests

By Sarah Kim staff writer

The Council of the Princeton University Community discussed the recent sit-in protest and updates to strategic planning task forces at its monthly meeting on Monday.

“The CPUC was created in the 1960s, obviously a time of tumult and argument on campus for the purpose of having a forum in which faculty administrators, alumni and staff can come together in civil and respectful discussion,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said in light of the recent sit-in protest in his office in Nassau Hall. “I hope this forum will continue to be a place where that kind of conversa-

tion can occur.”

The CPUC Resources Committee plans to look into suggestions and concerns brought to the University administration, Eisgruber explained. A subcommittee under the resources committee will allow people to submit their views and will collect scholarly opinion from those who can speak to the facts, especially with regard to the legacy of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879. Members of this subcommittee will relay the progress and information to the University early in the spring semester.

“I’ve been giving updates on the strategic planning process for over a year, and my reason for continually bringing it back to you See CPUC page 3

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Students, faculty, administrators and community members attended the CPUC meeting on Monday.

ACADEMICS

STUDENT LIFE

Berdahl-Baldwin ’16, Hosie ’16, Low Latinx students create petition for support, representation ’16 awarded Marshall Scholarship Audrey Berdahl-Baldwin ’16, Duncan Hosie ’16 and Ryan Low ’16 have been awarded the Marshall Scholarship.

The scholarship funds two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom for up to 40 American college students.

Berdahl-Baldwin, a history major, said she is interested in public service.

“Long term, I hope to engage in prison reform,” she said. “I hope to work at a nonprofit that works inside prisons and eventually pursue a law degree to engage in policy work to affect change at a structural level.”

Berdahl-Baldwin said her involvement with the PACE Center for Civic Engagement as a member of the center’s council for civic values allowed her to be interested in

the juvenile justice system, which has deepened her commitment to the issue.

“One of the big experiences at Princeton for me was going on a Breakout trip as a freshman to look at juvenile justice in Texas, and that really deepened my commitment to engaging with the criminal justice system, both academically and professionally,” she said.

See MARSHALL page 3

COURTESY OF AUDREY BERDAHL-BALDWIN

COURTESY OF DUNCAN HOSIE

COURTESY OF RYAN LOW

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Audrey Berdahl-Baldwin ’16, Duncan Hosie ’16 and Ryan Low ’16 were named Marshall Scholars on Monday.

By Marcia Brown staff writer

A group of Latinx students formed to improve the experience of Latinx students on campus released a petition on Friday to increase support for and representation of Latinx students.

The petition has 517 signatures as of 7 p.m. on Monday.

Latinx is a term used to be more gender-neutral and inclusive of all gender identities, and is also the name of the group of students that have composed the petition and report.

Representatives from the group declined to comment.

Along with the petition, the group also released a report on the needs of the University Latinx community, based on the discussions at a Nov. 18 Latinx Town Hall where Latinx students identified the major challenges they face on campus.

“I think everything is important basically,” Mimi Orro

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Dean of the College Jill Dolan explains her views on the Black Justice League sit-in, columnist Nicholas Wu explains his feelings on people’s YikYak reactions, and several readers wrote letters to the editor about protests on campus. PAGE 4-5

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’18 said. “I mean not everything pertains to me per se, because I define myself as Latina but there are certain parts that have never personally affected me but you have to understand where they’re coming from and why it’s so important because this issue has never been addressed in the school’s history.”

Moreover, there are systemic issues on campus and there has never been a movement contributed, Orro said.

The report notes that the Hispanic/Latinx population in the student and faculty body, 9.2 percent and 2 percent respectively, is disproportionately low considering that Hispanic/Latinx population makes up for 17 percent of the U.S. population. The report calls for a retention plan for Hispanic/Latinx professors and to “emphasize the recruitment of senior faculty of color with tenure.”

The group articulates a call for at Latinx Studies program See LATINX page 3

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and betrayal continues to haunt every space in the town and every space on the campus.

“Too many Princetonians want to love Princeton with an uncomplicated love. The Black Justice League is teaching us that we need to foster a different kind of love for this institution,” she said. “They want us to cultivate a conscious, awakened, fiery kind of love that refuses to whitewash the past; that refuses to settle for less than justice and respect for everyone.”

Clarissa Hayward ’88, political science professor at Washington University in St. Louis and author of “How Americans Make Race,” noted that the nation was founded on slavery, racial segregation and white supremacy. If people do not want to publicly honor racists, it is necessary to change the names of several buildings, she said.

“Although in many cases we should continue to learn from the intellectual contributions of self-avowed racists — an example being Kant, whom I teach regularly — there is no reason we can’t continue to do that while no longer publicly honoring them,” she noted.

Ebony Slaughter-Johnson ’15 said that she saw BJL’s protests as expanding upon the active response to racialized police brutality at the University last fall. As racial injustice has become a greater part of the national dialogue, students have become inspired to localize that discussion within the University.

She was most fascinated by the responses to BJL protests, which she would characterize as ones of both downright anger and misunderstanding.

Slaughter-Johnson believes that the labeling of BJL’s goals as “radical” is misguided, as several peer institutions have implemented cultural diversity

training and affinity housing without controversy.

“As an African American student at Princeton, I was always aware of the covert racism hidden within microaggressive comments, but I never realized how quickly and easily those microaggressions could become overtly aggressive expressions of racism,” she said.

She noted that many comments posted by University students on social media, especially those telling unhappy students of color challenging the status quo to leave, were disturbing.

“During my four years at Princeton, I heard, understandably, about the extensive contributions Wilson made to the University, but not once were Wilson’s contributions to the racial hierarchy at Princeton and beyond mentioned in tandem, as they should have been,” she said.

When students of color see “Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,” she said it is with the understanding that the University is glorifying a man who was responsible for further entrenching the racial disparities within the country, which are felt to this day.

The awareness can be triggering, she added.

“As for the anger inspired by the renaming of the Woodrow Wilson School, renaming does not necessarily mean erasure,” she said. “I cannot speak for the Black Justice League, but I believe that the intent behind asking that the school be renamed is to have the University rethink its blind glorification of Woodrow Wilson.”

However, Darren Geist ’05, a Wilson School alumnus and winner of the Spirit of Princeton Award for human rights work, started an online alumni petition Sunday as a letter to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, disagreeing with his choice to sign the

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agreement with BJL protesters.

He said it was a difficult choice to oppose Eisgruber because he had been his mentor and thesis adviser. However, when it came to the school he still loves, he said he felt that he personally had to do something.

The petition, “Preserve Princeton’s Commitment to Academic Freedom, Pluralism and Civil Discourse,” was written in part because Geist said he believed that BJL’s position should be engaged head on and countered substantively, he explained.

“I think there’s an unfortunate tendency today to want to silence opposing voices rather than embrace free and open debate,” he said.

Geist added that he wanted students who oppose BJL’s demands and tactics to know that they have the full support of University alumni.

He noted a tendency at many universities today to shortchange discussion and debate with accusations of racism and bigotry, using intimidation and bullying rather than persuasion. He explained how after drafting and publicizing the petition, he was accused of wanting to keep “uppity” people in their place, implying racist motivations on his part. When counter-argument is immediately met with accusations of bigotry, free speech becomes much more difficult, Geist said.

On BJL’s sit-in protest, he noted that the approach seems to be at odds with the best in the civil rights movement. Instead, it seems more in line with radicalism as in Malcolm X’s approach, which tends to devalue dialogue and people of all colors working together toward the same end. Disagreement in tactics and goals is healthy, he added, but he believes BJL is on the wrong side of it.

“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would never have entertained the idea of saying that someone couldn’t understand his argument or that it was useless to debate and enter into conversation with those he wished to persuade,” he said. “He would have made the best argument possible, engaging anyone and everyone, and he would have won the day.”

Geist said he is no stranger to human rights work, having worked for UNICEF in Sierra Leone and also winning the Vanderbilt Medal for human rights work at NYU Law. As someone who cares about human and civil rights, he is

wary of any approach that looks like regression, as in the case of separate designated areas for marginalized people. King worked to end segregation, and this proposition seems to hurt the civil rights movement, he said.

He added that the goal is to make everyone safe everywhere, not to cut off certain areas at the exclusion of others. Students make an effort to include and respect classmates, and designation of a “safe space” implies that those excluded students necessarily pose a physical or emotional safety risk.

“By saying these safe spaces are unnecessary, Princeton students are affirming their commitment to making all of campus safe for everyone,” he said.

“It actually challenges each student to make Princeton a safe, welcoming environment rather than saying safety is found in separation and exclusion.”

Geist added that BJL does not speak for all or even most marginalized or victimized peoples, and it is troubling that Eisgruber partially adopted the perspective of the most vocal and disrespectful group that broke the University’s rules.

“Princeton should be teaching its students how to engage in respectful, constructive debate because they will need it when they become professionals,” he said. “Princeton is doing a disservice to its students by caving to such tactics.”

“I think the administration was wrong to accede to any demands during the BJL’s occupation of school property,” he said. “The school has effectively excused and encouraged students to violate the rules and thereby shortchange civil discourse.”

However, he said that the University is right to carefully weigh BJL’s concerns, where both sides of the argument can be heard. The petition letter was directed at Eisgruber in particular because he has stated that he will personally recommend some of BJL’s demands, including the designation of four rooms for particular minorities and the support for the removal of the Wilson mural in Wilcox dining hall.

“I disagree with his decision to throw his weight behind what we know to be controversial demands, prior to consulting the rest of the University community,” he said.

Although Geist said he disagrees with BJL’s proposals, he supports their right to make those arguments. Civil disobe-

dience is inappropriate when there are other means of recourse, he adds.

“Perhaps more importantly, I hope this petition reminds the University that the Princeton community is much larger than the students who occupied President Eisgruber’s office,” Geist said. “We hope that the administration thinks beyond the demands of these students and consider Princeton’s long and storied legacy of academic freedom, open discourse and respectful disagreement.”

Kernisan Gregory ’78, who had signed Geist’s petition, said he believed the protest was a display of petulance and immaturity that would not be tolerated in the ‘real world.’ He said he had attended Princeton to get an education rather than forcing others to make him feel comfortable, segregate himself with like-minded bigots, or revise history.

He said that he was not against the idea of protest as a means of effecting change, explaining that he was involved in the 1978 protest to make the University divest from South Africa, which was crucial in ending Apartheid and change lives across the globe. However, he said, the BJL protest had come from the students’ own narrow perception that they were being discriminated against.

“As a black student attending Princeton in the mid 70s, I can say with authority that you are marginalized only if you want to be,” Gregory said. “All this self-righteous victimization display is appalling and has no place in such a welcoming institution as Princeton.”

He added that while he did experience racism and discrimination during his time at the University, it was rare.

Mike Devine ’62 argued that “black” should not be in the name of any University organization — nor should “white,” “tall,” “bald,” “protestant,” “female,” “old,” or any other identifier that treats Princetonians as anything other than individuals. Although he said he has not met any of the protesters, he is sure that if he did, identifiers would not influence his opinion. “[The University] has gotten itself wrong-faced on this by failing to oppose — indeed, encouraging — the grouping of people on campus according to superficial and irrelevant characteristics; whatever happened to judging by ‘the content of character,’ and only that?” he asked.

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is to make sure that you’re aware that things are going on here and to alert you that there are opportunities to participate,” Eisgruber said.

According to Eisgruber, when a task force issues its report, the full document is posted on the strategic planning website. The public, including the campus community and the alumni community, has an opportunity to make comments to which the administration will reply.

These comments can be either recommendations or concerns, Eisgruber said, and they are a gesture to promote transparency.

Recommendations that require little to no mobilization may be implemented promptly.

“We are happy to have comments at any point. This strategic planning process is an ongoing conversation,” Eisgruber explained, referring to the service and civic engagement selfstudy that was posted earlier this month in particular.

Eisgruber said that more re-

ports and drafts will be published in the weeks ahead.

The Council also discussed the logistics of the priorities committee for the fiscal year 2017.

University Provost David Lee GS ’99 explained that the goal of priorities committee, a subcommittee of CPUC, is to review the operating budget of the university. This committee meets twice a week from mid-October through mid-February and is comprised of cabinet members, faculty members, graduate students, undergraduates students and staff.

“As we review budget of the university, we look at the budget as well as the process, and consider a number of policy variables that will have budgetary implications,” Lee said.

Lee explained that one variable is the faculty and staff salary.

“One of the important things that we benefit from is long-term endowment returns,” Lee said, noting that the University does see year-to-year swings. “In the past 30 years, we’ve enjoyed quite substantial and probably extranormal returns. We rely on very loyal and generous alumni donation.”

According to Lee, the committee maintains a healthy financial position through solid credit ratings, sufficient liquidity and a loyal alumni base, on top of longterm endowment returns.

Lee noted that about 60 percent of the undergraduate body is qualified for financial aid. He also discussed the absolute affordability of university education and the Stay Even Policy, which ensures that the student’s contribution remains unchanged despite fluctuations in tuition rates.

The subcommittee is interested in comparing the University with other institutions and accumulating data on student debt, Lee also noted. He said that only 18 percent of the student body graduates with any debt, and the debt burden per capita averages to $1,122. The accumulated debt over four years for the 18 percent is approximately $6,000.

Students also raised questions regarding the co-op petition and the need for transparency on University committees and their agendas. Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun assured that both points are on the agenda for discussion.

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She noted that her community work, as well as influence from many of her peers and professors, helped her to develop into the person she is now.

Hosie, a Wilson School major, said he plans to spend both years at the London School of Economics getting two master’s degrees, one in public policy and another in gender studies.

Hosie said that as a political activist, he was very involved in service works on and off campus and that he wrote regularly for media outlets.

“I write regularly for the Huffington Post, I’ve written articles that have been published in national newspapers, I’ve worked on a lot of political campaigns, and I won a minor fellowship from Yale Law School,” he said.

When asked about a defining moment in his University career, Hosie noted his mentorship of a gay teenager.

“Freshman year … I received an email from a gay teenager whose parents had kicked him out of the house,” he said.

“He lived in New York and he reached out for advice. Over the past four years, I’ve been a mentor to him. I’ve been able to see someone go from really oppressing their sexuality and hating it to now being open and accepting of themselves.”

Hosie added that he would be continuing his research in LGBT homelessness at LSE, and said that he plans to go to a law school after obtaining his master’s degree.

“I want to work as a public interest lawyer for marginalized and underserved Americans. Subsequently, I want to pursue a career in public policy and potentially look into running for public office,” he said.

Low, a history major pursuing a certificate in medieval studies, said that he plans to study at the University College London pursuing a joint J.D./ Ph.D program in legal history.

He explained the high quality of medieval history program in UCL made him apply to the scholarship.

Low said that his experience in political consulting and campaigning has given him a unique perspective on medieval history, which might have made him stand out among the applicants.

“My goal is to go into academia as a professor of legal history while staying active in electoral politics,” he said.

He also noted the historic importance of the Marshall Scholarship program.

“The Marshall Scholarship is a recognition from the British government to the American government for the American government’s participation in the Marshall Plan in funding the rebuilding of Britain after World War Two,” Low noted. “To be a part of that legacy, that special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom, is very exciting.”

The Marshall Scholarship application cycle for 2016-17 opens in spring 2016.

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or faculty,” the letter reads.

“Many who questioned the protest were labeled racist, and black students who expressed disagreement with the protesters were called ‘white sympathizers’ and were told they were ‘not black.’ ” The letter mentioned POCC’s two-pronged aim of first discussing the recently employed protest methods and, next, welcoming a fair debate about the protesters’ demands.

POCC opposes the removal of the legacy of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, from campus. They also raised concerns about the proposed distribution requirement, cultural competency training for faculty and having a “safe” space on campus.

“We are all members of the Princeton community. We

denounce the notion that our basic interactions with each other should be defined by demographic traits,” the signatories wrote to explain their disapproval of affinity housing for certain races.

Throughout the message, the writers emphasized that they will behave in a civil manner that they wish to maintain and reinforce as the norm on campus.

“Unlike their counterparts at other universities, Princeton undergraduates opposed to the curtailment of academic freedom refuse to remain silent out of fear of being slandered,” the students wrote. “We will not stop fighting for what we believe in.”

POCC aims to protect diversity of thought and the right of all students to advance their academic and personal convictions in a manner free from intimidation, according to the organization’s Facebook page.

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within the new American Studies department and mandatory cultural competency training for all faculty.

The petition also states that they too should have a cultural space in the Fields Center and student representatives alongside the Black Justice League in the General Education Task Force meeting Dec. 8.

Furthermore, because the experience of Latinx students frequently includes the difficulties of undocumented immigrants, the group wants to make the presence and experience of undocumented students more visible and create a resource center for them.

Such demands are similar to those of BJL articulated in their list of demands signed by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83.

Sri Nimmagadda ’18, who said he supports the petition, explained that he sees some of the issues of Latinx and African American students as similar.

“I know a lot of Latino students from come lower income backgrounds,” Nimmagadda said. “They face a lot of the challenges that African American members do in terms of being seen as people who got in because of reservations, rather than their actual merits, which is not very justified.”

Orro said she thinks that the Latinx population at the University is hidden because there is not a formal community. She noted academic discrimination is a difficult issue for Latinx students because few faculty members look like or share backgrounds with Latinx students.

Orro noted that there is little institutional support for Latinx students at the University and said that she thinks

the University needs to more explicitly support Latinx students like other universities such as Duke, which has “Latino Day” for admitted Latino students.

However, Nimmagadda said he was worried about the reactions on campus about the petition, noting that the reaction to the BJL was not entirely positive.

“I almost fear that this very legitimate cause is somewhat undercut because of the adverse reaction people have been having to the BJL,” Nimmagadda said. “It’s not justified, but it’s very possible.”

Nimmagadda said that some of the conservative students on campus see the group as another group complaining.

Yet he added that this could be an opportunity for the University.

“I think Princeton has the opportunity to be a real trailblazer in terms of like socioracial, culture, you know, if they choose to be progressive on this particular issue,” he said. “You’re not going to ever be comfortable, but that’s not the point. The point is that there are people hurting right now and that those people’s needs have to be met in a community where Princeton prides itself upon being inclusive and providing everything for its undergraduates.”

Orro said she hopes the petition will bring more than just administrative changes.

“I hope that everyone in the school is able to read the petition and actually understand where the Latinx community is coming from, and maybe if they don’t empathize how the Latinx community grew up, their culture, their background, their beliefs, they will be able to at least sympathize to the cause and be able to at least understand how we all have to be in solidarity to fix this problem,” Orro said.

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ere’s the thing: Ours is a campus with a long history and an infinite future that’s wrestling with the currents of the roiling present.

We’re part of the Ivy League, but Princeton is hardly an ivory tower. And although we like our “orange bubble,” it’s not really the protective skin we sometimes believe. Nor should it be. Everything we do at Princeton has some relationship to the world outside our doors. That relationship should be robust, as well as continually revised, reconsidered and renovated.

From the Black Justice League’s protest in Nassau Hall, to the Latinx activists’ town hall meeting, to the Princeton Open Campus Coalition and more, recent campus activism demonstrates our necessary connection to the world beyond. These positions represent a constellation of national political views. Even the form of our campus protests mirrors the style and tenor of those elsewhere.

We’ve grown rusty at speaking to one another with respect and listening with open hearts

and minds. Our ears ring in the echo chamber of social media.

We watch with voyeuristic thrill while politicians duke it out in a media spectacle that’s a poor substitute for real forums about ideas that matter.

Last week at Princeton felt reminiscent of the national discourse in some ways. Hearing student protesters shout down President Eisgruber shocked and embarrassed me. But in other moments, last week gave me hope that our community might in fact do better. During the time I spent at Nassau Hall, I saw students sitting on the atrium’s cold stone floor, working on their laptops and talking with one another. I watched some students facilitate small group discussions about racial justice.

I also watched a video made

by Azza Cohen ’16, in which she filmed a diverse range of students speaking about the protests, and one by Victoria Davidjohn ’19, for which she assembled 40 students to make art that would (in her words) “remind the campus … that we should keep love and community and hope at the forefront of our minds.” I encourage you to search out both of these moving videos.

Princeton is a community to which, in one way or another, we’re all placed in relation. I

find camaraderie and belonging in many places on campus and move through others where my own presence sits awkwardly with the majority. My identity markers and the different relationships to social power they entail influence my experience, but my beliefs also determine how and with whom I engage. I feel most like I belong at Princeton when I’m part of a community of intellectual respect and mutual care. That’s the affinity group I would select and the coalition of which I want to be a part.

The week’s conversations have left many of us tired and overwhelmed, confused or conflicted. Some of us are hurt and frustrated; some are excited and hopeful. My own experiences have left me weary but energized. I’m glad we’re having passionate, invested conversations about identity, history and speech. I appreciate the disagreements among us. I’m heartened by our potential for productive change in multiple directions.

I’m optimistic enough to think we’ve embarked on important, clarifying conversations, and that we will (we must) continue to talk more. Sharing and examining ideas is a necessary precursor to social change.

But please: let’s not let or-

thodoxy dictate how we speak.

Please, let’s not shout one another down, in person or online.

Please, let’s not roll our eyes or react derisively to one another’s speech. Please, let’s not judge one another according to narrow, sectarian, finally impossible definitions of authentic identity. Please, let’s not attack one another anonymously on YikYak or Facebook or in the comments section of this newspaper; anonymity only covers cowardice.

Please, let’s apply our impressive intellects and creative insights to figure out better questions to ask one another, and frame our responses in generative, compassionate, forward-thinking ways.

As a community, we might recall the transgender performer-activist Laverne Cox quoting Cornel West in her wonderful talk at Richardson Auditorium last Wednesday night: “Justice is what love looks like in public.”

Please, let’s continue looking for love, even as we feel the disparities in our own experiences of what it means to be fully human on this campus. I so want that for us all.

Jill Dolan Dean of the College Annan Professor of English Professor of Theatre

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Open letter to protesters at Princeton Joshua Blum

guest contributor

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ear Princeton Student Protesters: I hear congratulations are in order.

They’re not coming from me, but a part of me respects what you did. Another part does not.

But I’m not here to hate. I normally write escapist entertainment, after all, and try my best to avoid politics and social commentary. I just have a word of caution … and encouragement (of a kind).

Take what I have to say with a grain of salt, since I’m not the best alumnus out there, nor was I the greatest student. I didn’t take an interest in campus news or events when I was a student and still don’t, really. Almost all of the orange and black I now own was bought by my wife. I think I owned maybe one or two Princeton shirts by the time I graduated, and they were given to me by Outdoor Action. I never went to a football game. I didn’t like Prospect Street then and have since forgotten the names of most of the clubs. If someone held a gun to my head and asked me to sing the words to Old Nas-

sau, I’d probably get it confused with Auld Lang Syne. Oh, and I have made it a consistent point to recycle the annual giving letters that come in the mail.

Point being, despite these issues then and now, I look back and realize I had a good four years there. Make no mistake, the social scene left a lot to be desired, and I basically fit into none of it. There was, of course, elitism, racism, sexism and a lot of other unfair stuff.

But my friends and I did the best we could with the time we were given while trying to keep our heads above water enough to graduate. Then, things got easier in some ways, harder in many others. And I slowly came to realize that all those “-isms” that irritated me at Princeton were not much different from the “-isms” I found when I got out and looked around. Life is — as a black-leather-pantsed David Bowie said to a young Jennifer Connelly in the movie “Labyrinth” — unfair. Everyone learns about that bitter pill in elementary school, but … it never does get easier to take.

So when I heard about your protests on campus to get the administration to acknowledge that former U.S. President

Woodrow Wilson was a racist, that staff needs cultural competency training and that black students must have their own space on campus, I got where you were coming from and why you were passionate for change.

But let me say this. You can do better. You are capable of so much better. You got into Princeton, after all, and though family, teachers and friends helped you get there, you were the ones taking the tests, doing the interviews and filling out the applications that made it all happen.

Do yourself and those folks in your corner justice while you’re a student so you can do something worthwhile with what you learned once you leave. The fight is out there. There’s a big, bad world, as some of you already know well, and you’ll need your energy for whatever challenges you’ll face, day-in, dayout. There’s no graduation to the rest of life. Don’t let your finest hour be fighting the Man to get your own space on campus.

It’s kind of like punching the ref before the match even starts.

The University isn’t the enemy.

They have their issues, to be fair, but as much as they enjoy your 60K/year (or whatever astronomical sum it is now), they

ultimately want you to finish and look back on the experience fondly. Because then, of course, you might come back, give them money, or maybe even send your kids there. And that’s part of the reason they’re giving in now.

So, if you want to rebel against Mom and Dad, fair. But just remember what you are asking for, and that there are consequences now that are a bit more far reaching in adulthood than liberating the family car for the night or smoking a blunt in the bathroom. Asking for safety from prejudice and judgement is one thing. Asking for voluntary segregation is another. It’s a free country, and you can do what you want, but remember that the Civil Rights Movement and the philosophies that stemmed from it were hard won battles in a war that’ll probably never really be over. Maybe I’m just jaded, but it’s really hard to get people to coexist without them wanting to kill each other eventually. Look at all the issues we have in this country — in this world — because groups of people can’t get along. That’s why humanity needs your help, your continued, daily help, because there are some things Mom and Dad can’t fix, and

no amount of demanding will make things right. That’s not their job anymore. That’s yours, since you are the future.

So although I don’t agree with the President’s decision to have made these concessions, I’m not in your shoes, nor his, and what’s done is done. Now they have to be carried out. If you really, really feel strongly that the these concessions will make daily life at Princeton better for you, then be prepared to do the leg work to make these things a reality. If it really means that much to you, then you will find a way to goad yourselves, your peers and the administration along over the next months and (likely) years needed to fully implement these changes (for institutions, as I’m sure you know, change slowly).

And, if instead — just by coincidence, hypothetically speaking — you decide that your time is better spent working on your senior thesis, applying to graduate school, trying to find a job or doing any number of things necessary to get on with your life … that’s okay, too.

To paraphrase something Mr. Miyagi said to Daniel in “Karate Kid III” — “Daniel-san! Best karate still inside!”

Tuesday november 24, 2015

The Daily Princetonian

A plea for moderation and inclusivity

Nicholas Wu columnist

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ntrigued by rumors about inflammatory posts about the protests in Nassau Hall, I made the mistake of downloading YikYak again last week. Frankly, the conversation on YikYak and other social media about the protests disgusted me. Behind the veil of anonymity, the id of Princeton University came out in full force. Posts on social media of all kinds seemed to fall into one of two categories. One category unequivocally supported the protestors in Nassau Hall. Another category would unequivocally denounce them.

And the vitriol between the two sides effectively left no room in the middle for a conversation to be held.

The discourse that has come out of these protests has become

toxic. My colleague Marni Morse ’17 wrote last week about the need for Responsible Free Speech, and I entirely agree. There is a responsibility for respect, regardless of status. There is certainly a case to be made that both sides on the debate about the Nassau protests are guilty of discounting the opinion of the other as bigoted or closed-minded outright. Those opposing the protests would outright dismiss the other side as “coddled and spoiled;” conversely, many participating in the protests would call their opponents plain “racist.” This is not a way to open a constructive dialogue. In fact, the vitriol of the debate managed to alienate a large swath of the University population, particularly the Asian American population, judging by the poll results released last week

by Daniel Wilson ’18 and Joshua Tam ’18.

The bomb threat against the Black Justice League is indicative of how charged things became during the protests. Nothing, regardless of how disruptive and disrespectful in the eyes of those who oppose it, should ever be grounds for the threat of violence. The far end of the protestors’ ideological spectrum might have been too radical from my philosophical standpoint, but the extreme of those opposing the protestors truly terrified me.

Am I arguing that extreme speech about the protests needs to be banned? Absolutely not. My personal belief is that freedom of speech should be absolute.

Speech that would be considered hate speech should be protected; the same right that gives people the right to make hateful comments also allows others to criticize them. Hypothetically, the same ideological framework that could be used to censor an offen-

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

On behalf of several graduate organizations

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ear Students, On Nov. 18 Princeton University undergraduates, spearheaded by members of the Black Justice League, staged a walkout and a sit-in at Nassau Hall.

While there, students articulated several demands, including recognition of Woodrow Wilson’s racist legacy, renaming the Woodrow Wilson school and all affiliated buildings, instituting mandatory cultural competency training for faculty and students and the creation of an affinity space dedicated specifically to black students.

We write in support of the efforts of these undergraduate students. We recognize, celebrate and express the deepest respect for the courage and strength demonstrated by the undergraduate students fighting here at Princeton, and across the United States. We denounce attempts to delegitimize or minimize the concerns that have emerged as a result of the students’ protest on campus, especially threats to physically harm them. It is important to remember that, while a small fraction of the community may be directly impacted by institutional racial injustices, these imbalances are detrimental to the overall health of the entire community. The battle against racism must always be pressed because it is a battle that is always urgent.

To the administration, Board

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of Trustees, faculty and alumni: We urge you to recognize and respond to the pain of these students. Princeton must be a campus where we all feel included, whether we learn in its halls or lecture in its theaters, work in its dining facilities or public safety, or in any of the vital services that make this community possible.

While we admire the efforts the University has made in the last few years to make Princeton an institution that reflects the world we live in, it is clear that Princeton still largely remains an institution where people of color are often marginalized and silenced. This type of environment, without question, is antithetical to intellectual exchange and growth. This must change.

The young people spearheading this charge bear the greatest of burdens upon their shoulders.

We, the Black Graduate Caucus, Graduate Women of Color Caucus, Queer Graduate Caucus, Latino Graduate Student Association, Intersecting Queer Identities and the WWS Students and Alumni of Color graduate organizations step forward to share this burden.

To the students fighting to live, we say: You here.

You been here.

You ain’t leaving.

The fight is far from over.

We stand by you.

You are loved.

Black Graduate Caucus Board: Akil Word-Daniels, President Hadiya Jones, Treasurer Gabriel Moore, External Relations Delegate Chaya Crowder, External Relation Delegate Nyle Fort, Community Service Coordinator Graduate Women of Color Caucus Board: Megan Blanchard, President Colleen Campbell, Vice President Janeria Easley, Treasurer Alex Mayorga, Secretary Angela Dixon, Event Coordinator Kimberly Bain, Member Queer Graduate Caucus Board: Ariana Myers, President Sophia Nuñez, Vice President Latino Graduate Student Association Board: Jeremy Borjon, President Brandon Hunter, Vice President Elise Myers, Campus Community Outreach Chair Micaela Martinez-Bakker, Civic & Professional Engagement Chair Intersecting Queer Identities Board: Ezelle Sanford III, President Ray Thornton, Treasurer WWS Students and Alumni of Color (SAOC) Board: Karli Bryant, Co-Chair Renato Rocha, Co-Chair Tishina Okegbe, Member

A letter of support

n 1964, as University freshmen, we were told that Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, had been a leading Progressive, a proponent of “Democracy” and a champion of self-determination abroad. It is good to see students today challenging that picture (“Updated: Students ‘walkout and speakout,’ occupy Nassau Hall until demands of Black Justice League are met,” Nov. 18, 2015).

Wilson’s record was deplorable on the “race question.” He cut back federal appointments of African Americans; supported showings of the white-supremacist film “The Birth of a Nation” for himself, his Cabinet, Congress and the Supreme Court; stood by silently as segregation was formalized in the Post Office, Treasury, Interior, Bureau of Engraving and Printing and Navy; did nothing as almost two dozen segregation-supporting legislative attempts including exclusion of Black immigrants, segregation of streetcars and a ban on inter-racial marriages in the District of Columbia were introduced in the House and Senate; and declined to use any significant power of office to address lynching, segregation and disfranchisement (which marred the land) and the vicious

white supremacist attacks on 26 African American communities including Washington, D.C., Chicago and East St. Louis that occurred during his administration.

Under Wilson, the United States not only implemented the Espionage Act of 1917, the Sedition Act of 1918 and the Palmer Raids of 1919-1920, it also occupied Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Nicaragua and intervened in Panama, Honduras and Mexico. Nevertheless, Wilson ran for U.S. President in 1916 on a campaign slogan “he kept us out of war,” posed before the world as a champion of democracy and prated of “the rights of small nationalities,” of “self-determination” and of “the right of all who submit to authority to have a voice in their own government.” In addition to the awful horrors let loose on small countries prewar, in the postwar period he also helped to pave the way for partition, occupation and conquest in the Middle East and Africa and for future wars.

There were contemporaries of Wilson, people like the intellectual/activist Hubert Harrison, the founder of the first organization (the Liberty League) and first newspaper (“The Voice”) of the militant “New Negro Move-

ment,” who saw through the misleading portrait of Wilson so often found in the media and history books. Harrison understood that while lynching, segregation and disfranchisement marred this land, and while the United States brazenly attacked smaller countries, “Wilson’s protestations of democracy were lying protestations, consciously, and deliberately designed to deceive.” At the founding meeting of the Liberty League in June 1917, Harrison posed a direct challenge to Wilson who had claimed the United States was entering World War I in order to “Make the World Safe for Democracy.” Harrison’s mass meeting was called, as its organizational flyer headlined, to “Stop Lynching and Disfranchisement in the Land Which We Love and Make the South ‘Safe For Democracy.’” A month later Harrison led a second major Harlem rally to protest the white supremacist “pogrom” (his word) in East St. Louis, Ill. (15 miles from Ferguson, Mo.).

We are glad that the Black Justice League is raising some of these issues, opening the eyes of many and helping to point the way forward in the 21st century.

Jeffrey B. Perry ’68 Gene Bruskin ’68

sive comment could be used to censor the inoffensive comment.

Rather than create a campus censorship standard that would be impossible to enforce, it is better to allow criticism to flow freely, bringing more people into the debate.

What I think needs to be recognized by both sides of this debate, however, is that there needs to be a significant de-escalation in tensions. I participated in a type of debate in high school called policy debate, and one of the ways to win in that form of debate was to link your opponent’s policy proposal to the worst consequence imaginable — some kind of planetary extinction event, often some kind of nuclear war. Many debates thus became an exhausting race to the bottom. Extremism on any side in a debate makes it impossible to reach a reasoned solution. We need not raise the

barricades over every single inequity on campus. While the rhetoric about some of those inequities is hyperbolic, they are often proxies for larger grievances and need to be addressed in that context.

A larger coalition is required to achieve any lasting change on campus; therefore, the change that the BJL protests truly sought is impossible unless some of their extremism can be moderated and the support base expanded. I stand with the BJL against the vitriolic hatred they have received, but I still believe that their goals are too extreme.

I make a plea for moderation and inclusivity moving forward from the Occupy Nassau protests, lest our campus split into ugly factions.

Nicholas Wu is a sophomore from Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. He can be reached at nmwu@princeton.edu.

Tabula Rasa

Brandon Bark

guest contributor

I am pleased to hear that students finally decided it was time for Woodrow Wilson’s name to be expunged from our campus.

Now that it has been conclusively shown that this President of the United States and of Princeton supported — as did most of his contemporaries, undoubtedly — segregation, any other contribution he had as a national and world leader becomes of course immediately irrelevant.

To imagine that for all this time we thought our school of public policy was named after the man who, in the wake of the First World War, founded the League of Nations, supported global democracy (against many of his contemporaries), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, and supported women’s suffrage!

These so-called contributions do nothing to efface his racism: and so he should be effaced from our campus and our collective memory.

Some have argued that Wilson’s name heading a residential college and public policy institution does not mean that these institutions support every facet of Wilson’s political beliefs and practices. They have argued that it is possible, indeed advisable, for an institution, once created by its founders or named after a relevant figure in the field, to evolve past those founding values and figures while recalling their origins. How else would it be possible to establish a centuries-long institution if every new generation is to topple past figures who become offensive to the march of moral progress?

Against such conservatism I applaud the members of the Black Justice League who proclaimed that “we owe nothing to people who are deeply flawed.” The only way to cleanse institutions of their shameful past is to erase this past and its dismal accomplices. We must build new spaces and affix new names that proclaim our modern triumph once and for all over social ills which are offensive even to remember.

To that end the recent protests have not gone far enough. The landscape of the Princeton campus is a legacy of oppression. If we are to reclaim our University as a symbol of our enlightened contemporary values of the present, we must tear down all its markers of its benighted past.

Reminding us that white, male, Protestant dominance is the foundation of our University the statue of John Witherspoon, preaching from his pulpit, in the center of campus. Should we not replace him with a less alienating figure? In its stead I would suggest an image of Barack Obama (offensive to none but the most intolerant of Republicans) or a rainbow.

Notice the books below With-

erspoon’s pulpit: authored by Cicero, Newton, Locke and Hume.

Could we not have included at least one female or minority author here? Most heinous of all is that Cicero — a slave owner, for God’s sake — has been placed atop the three other authors: meanwhile, the Classics Department perpetuates the study of the violent and repressive cultures of Greece and Rome and of a core curriculum authored by old white male Europeans in the very center of campus, and Latin inscriptions are to be found ubiquitously. Let’s face it: Latin was the language first of the slave-owning, Christiancrucifying Romans, and then of the inveterate white male elite of Europe. Moreover, these inscriptions, oppressive to the rest of us, are meaningful only to the elite sector of the student body that had the leisure to study Latin. I would recommend that all these polarizing totems be replaced by quotations authored primarily by minorities, not in English — whose universality is directly linked to Anglo-Saxon violence and British imperialism — but in Esperanto, buttressed by a new mandatory course in Esperanto for the universal but diverse language requirement. Meanwhile the core curriculum must be abolished: it is too painful even to gloss over such authors.

I pass over Washington Road (a Native American-killer), Aaron Burr Hall (a murderer), the Rockefellers (fossil fuel tycoons) and even the highly offensive, undemocratic name of “Prince”-ton.

I call your attention instead to Nassau Hall, which is decorated with the plaque of every graduating class since its inception. I would recommend that the University develop labyrinthine layers of subcommittees to analyze in light of irrefutable modern scholarship which classes could be determined to be at odds with our present values. Those classes which fit the criteria should be exhumed to watch as their plaques are obliterated from Nassau Hall with a non-violent, nonphallic cannon ball.

My fear is that we will have to expunge all so-called “great” classes predating Woodstock, and probably even later. For, when we survey the cane-toting, slave-owning, brandy-swirling privileged white males whose songs we sing, whose names don our spaces, it is undoubtedly better if we have to erect a brand new campus free at last (thank God!) of its ugly past. The new structure should be designed by a minority woman, and white males should be obliged to use the backdoor. Buildings should be named after universally representative minority figures, and only provisionally: for example, “Barack Hussein Obama Library (unless new historical evidence shows he pulled out of Iraq too soon).”

CORRECTION Due to an editing error, the letter to the editor ‘From Brandon Bark ’13’ was misattributed. It was written by Jeffrey B. Perry ‘68 and Gene Bruskin ‘68. The corrected letter to the editor from Jeffrey B. Perry ‘68 and Gene Bruskin ‘68 and the guest column from Brandon Bark ’13 are published in this paper. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

Sports

Tuesday november 24, 2015

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Football ends season with loss in Hanover

By Miles Hinson sports editor

The Princeton football team, after a rollercoaster trip through Ivy League play this season, had their final game of 2015 this past Saturday, in which they lost 10-17 to the Dartmouth Big Green in Hanover, N.H. The Tigers, (5-5 overall, 2-5 Ivy League) entered Saturday afternoon hoping to play the role of spoilers, knowing that Dartmouth (9-1, 6-1) had been one of the league’s strongest teams so far, and was currently gunning for a guaranteed share of the Ivy League title. History, however, was not on their side going in — the Tigers hadn’t earned a win against their counterparts from Hanover since the 2009 season.

From the get-go, there were ample signs that the defensive performances of both teams would rule the day. Each side was successful in forcing turnovers early on — the Big Green forced a fumble from junior running back Joe Rhattigan

on the Tigers’ first drive. The men of the Orange and Black would return the favor, forcing a fumble on Dartmouth’s Brian Grove just three possessions later, with junior defensive back Brannon Jones picking up the recovery. Both sides would err once more in the early going, as Dartmouth quarterback Dalyn Williams found his pass picked off by Sam Huffman.

Princeton, however, would turn the ball right back after a fumble from senior running back DiAndre Atwater.

Indeed, the Tigers would get on the board first not due to a sustained drive, but from another Dartmouth error. A fumble on a kickoff return (and a subsequent recovery by the Tigers) set the Tigers up in great position (inside the Dartmouth 28 yard line) at the end of the first. Head coach Bob Surace ’90 capitalized on this field position by allowing Rhattigan and Atwater to pound the defense from the ground, with Atwater ultimately picking up the score to put the team ahead 7-0.

Princeton’s defense contin-

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Despite the loss to Dartmouth, the men’s football team finishes its fourth straight season at .500 or above.

ued to hold strong, as Williams would get hit four times in the course of the second quarter.

However, Princeton was unable to find the endzone again in their four drives on the quarter — their one opportunity to score, a field goal from senior kicker Nolan Bieck, didn’t find its way in.

Moreover, the Tigers would end the second quarter the same way the Big Green ended the first — losing the ball.

As the Tigers stood at the Dartmouth 9 yard line, junior quarterback Chad Kanoff was sacked and proceeded to fumble the ball. Dartmouth, despite being down seven at home, had momentum on its

side as the teams prepped for the third.

The Big Green would then capitalize on the turnover as they put up their first touchdown on the opening drive of the half. Princeton, however, responded with vigor, as Kanoff put together one of his stronger drives of the game, throwing four straight completions on route to the Tigers’ lone field goal of the game. A Tiger defense that was able to bring Williams down twice more in the quarter prevented Dartmouth from scoring in the entire third quarter.

For Princeton, however, an issue in Ivy League play has been maintaining leads going

into the fourth quarter, exhibited in the matchups against Yale and Brown. In the fourth, this demon would rear its ugly head: very little was going the Tigers’ way offensively, as they put up four consecutive 3-and-outs. The Big Green, on the other hand, put together the scores they needed late in the game, first coming off a field goal with just about five minutes to go. Two Dartmouth possessions later, the Big Green would score the touchdown to delight the home crowd and break Tiger hearts.

With the loss, Princeton finishes their second straight season at 5-5. It is the team’s fourth straight season at or above .500.

WRESTLING

W AT E R P O L O

Wrestling displays strong results at Navy Classic

Men’s water polo earns NCAA Tournament bid

By Jack Rogers

sports editor

senior writer

In its second tournament of the season and final tournament before heading to New York City this weekend, the wrestling team took home major hardware en route to its team victory at the Navy Classic on Saturday. After placing third in Annapolis, Md. in 2013 and second in 2014, the Tigers racked up 139 points to edge runner-up Kent State (130 points) and third place Wisconsin (101.5 points) in team competition.

The Tigers’ victory was comprised of huge performances across the lineup, which included four individual champions and ten overall place winners.

After falling in the finals of the Binghamton Open two weeks ago, junior 141-pounder Jordan Laster grabbed his first tournament victory of the season as he rolled through the competition before edging Navy’s Nicholas Gil by a 6-5 decision in the finals.

Sophomore Jonathan Schleifer, also a runner-up at the Binghamton Open, fought his way through nationally-ranked opponents to claim the 174-pound weight class. After grabbing a semifinal victory over No. 17 Jadaen Bernstein of Navy, a reigning Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) champion, Schleifer squared off against an even more formidable opponent in No. 4 Cody Walters of Ohio University in the finals. Schleifer edged Walters in a narrow 5-4 decision, and with the win he marked the highest-ranked victory for any

Princeton wrestler during head coach Chris Ayres’ near-decade at the helm of Princeton wrestling.

In his first competition of the season, senior 184-pounder Abram Ayala, No. 10 in the nation, continued the dominance he displayed all last season, as he rolled to victory by scoring 12 points in each of his quarterfinal, semifinal and final matches. Finally, junior captain Brett Harner won his second straight tournament by claiming victory at 197 pounds. Currently ranked No. 18 in the nation, Harner joined Schleifer in knocking off a Top-10 opponent, as he edged No. 7 Phil Wellington of Ohio University by a 3-2 score in the finals.

The four champions were joined by junior heavyweight Ray O’Donnell (3rd), freshman 125-pounder Pat D’Arcy (4th), senior 149-pounder Chris Perez (4th), sophomore 197-pounder Ian Baker (4th), sophomore

157-pounder Francesco Fabozzi (6th) and senior 165-pounder Judd Ziegler (6th) to give the Tigers double-digit place winners on the day, as well as plenty to be excited about in the weeks to come.

“Saturday was an awesome debut of our tournament team,” Schleifer said. “We finished first by winning many matches and placing double digit guys, as well as crowning four champions.”

With one of its biggest team performances in recent years, the Tigers appear primed and ready to take on nationallyranked opponents in New York City this coming weekend.

Princeton will face off against Hofstra and No. 7 Nebraska in the Grapple at the Garden on Sunday, and will then head over to the New York Athletic Club to take on No. 11 Illinois. While the Tigers have struggled against Nebraska and Illinois in recent seasons, Princeton’s start to the

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The wrestling team looked in impressive form at the Navy Classic.

Tweet of the Day “There’s a pregame outside my window jamming to Can’t Help Falling in Love with You by the A*Teens right now and I AM LOVING IT” kathleen mulligan (@ kathleenmully), princeton women’s swimming and diving

By Miles Hinson Just a year ago, the men of the Princeton water polo team found themselves heartbroken after a grueling loss to Brown to end the season, in the game that decided who would represent the CWPA in the NCAA Tournament. This time around, they found the sweet, sweet redemption for which they had waited so long.

Travelling to Cambridge, Massachusetts over the weekend, the No. 10 ranked Tigers (22-4 overall, 8-0 CWPA) earned the right to extend their season as they defeated all three of their opponents in the CWPA Championships. With the victory, they earn their first berth to the NCAA Tournament since the fall of 2011.

The team’s weekend opened on Friday night with a battle against long-time rival Bucknell (18-13, 4-4), whom they had defeated twice in tight matchups earlier in the season. The third time would not prove to be the charm for the Bisons, as their chance at a CWPA Championship title came to a halt that night in Cambridge, with the Tigers winning 11-7 on the day. Strong performances for the men from Nassau came from freshman utility Ryan Wilson and junior utility Jovan Jeremic, with three goals apiece on the game. Defensively, sophomore goalie Vojislav Mitrovic finished with 14 saves.

On the following day, the Tigers would battle against the hosts themselves, the No. 12 ranked Harvard Crimson

Stat of the Day

4 years The men’s water polo team earned its first NCAA bid in four years this weekend.

(21-10, 9-3). Unlike with the Bisons, the Tigers had had mixed results against the squad now in front of them — the most recent meeting between the two teams had resulted in a 6-12 loss at DeNunzio Pool. The Tigers, however, rose to the challenge on the road. Senior center Tommy Nelson found the back of the net four times on the day, and Mitrovic made a season best 20 saves that day as the Tigers downed Harvard 10-8.

Lastly, the Tigers found themselves facing Johns Hopkins (21-10, 4-4) as their final obstacle en route to their ultimate goal. The Blue Jays would give the Tigers a run for their money — after heading into halftime down 3-1, they scored two straight to get the game knotted up. During this crucial time for Princeton, Nelson would come through once again, scoring three straight goals for the Tigers, in which time the Blue Jays could muster just one. While Johns Hopkins managed to come back to make the score 6-5, freshman driver Matt Payne sealed the deal, pushing the Tigers out to 7.

Ultimately, Princeton would prevail 7-6 over the Blue Jays, a particularly poetic score given that the Tigers lost by the same score to Brown in the CWPA Championships last year, which cost them their NCAA bid.

With their season extended, Princeton will begin the NCAA Tournament on Thursday, Dec. 3, as they take on the University of San Diego in sunny Los Angeles.

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