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Maria Ressa ’86, named 2020 Baccalaureate speaker

By Allan Shen staff writer

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Tiger Tots: Annabel and Rosemarie Luijendijk By Rachel Sturley contributor

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The Daily Princetonian’s Josephine de La Bruyère and Rachel Sturley with Rosemarie Luijendijk (left) and Annabel Luijendijk (right). BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Q&A with Sean Shaw ’00, ex-nominee for Attorney General of Florida By Zachary Shevin assistant news writer

University Politics department alumnus Sean Shaw ’00 served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2016 to 2018, before running for attorney general of the state. Earlier this year, Shaw publicly endorsed South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 Presidential bid, arguably becoming Buttigieg’s highest-profile African American supporter. The Daily Princetonian spoke to Shaw about his career in politics, his 2018 nomination for Attorney General of Florida, and why he believes in Buttigieg. The Daily Princetonian: Your father served on the Florida Supreme Court for 20 years, serving as Chief Justice for two. In what ways did your upbringing influence your career path? Sean Shaw: Well, I mean, certainly, I was going to be someone that was focused on the law, being a lawyer, but it also opened up my eyes to how much good you could do by being a public servant. Right? … How much you could do for your community, your state, your country by being a public servant. So even though I went

away to Princeton from Florida, I always knew I was going to go back to my hometown and home state and somehow get into public service to give back. But those, those are two things that certainly rubbed off on me. I wanted to be a lawyer since the time I can remember, anyone asked me what I wanted to do. And then I wanted to be some sort of, kind of, public servant when I got older. DP: And how did your time at Princeton prepare you for politics and public service? SS: I’ll tell you what. Certainly when you’re in college, you’re going from kind of being a teenager, to being a young adult, and to being an adult. I mean, it’s a really formative age… You’re learning social skills, you’re gaining friends, it’s crystallizing in your mind. Like, you know, when you’re in high school, “hey, I’ve always wanted to be x,” and then you get to college, and you’re kind of a little bit more mature and you understand what it might take to get to be x… more grad school and, and all that kind of stuff. And so I was certainly just See SHAW page 4

AnneMarie Luijendijk is a Professor of Religion and the Head of Wilson College. A papyrologist and scholar of New Testament and Early Christianity, she is the author of two books: Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri (Harvard University Press, 2008), and Forbidden Oracles?: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary (Mohr Siebeck, 2014). Professor Luijendijk enjoys singing in a choir, walking, riding her (Dutch) bicycle, doing yoga, caring

for her many houseplants (including papyrus plants) and f lowers. She also likes to cook and talk and laugh with friends. She has nothing on her identical twin six-year-old daughters, Annabel and Rosemarie — themselves bicyclists, singers, and the self-proclaimed authors of more books than she. The Daily Princetonian interviewed Annabel and Rosemarie about hobbies, career aspirations, their mom’s job, and the Wilson dining hall. The Daily Princetonian: What grade are you in? See TOTS page 2

By Katie Tam and Hannah Wang senior writers

A report released on Oct. 23 by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found 31 contaminants in the town’s water between 2012 and 2017, including some known to cause cancer, hormonal disruptions, nervous system damage, and other health problems. The study was approached with skepticism by both New Jersey American Water and University professors and administrators. The report contains results from a survey of almost 50,000 local utilities across the country and identified more than 270 contaminants nationwide. Although levels of these contaminants adhere to the federal legal limits set by the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the report claims that these limits may be outdated and do not reflect the latest research. In addition, over 160 contaminants discovered are currently unregulated by the EPA, which has not updated its list of such potentially harmful substances in more than 20 years. New Jersey American Water, which supplies Princeton’s drinking water, stood behind their water quality record in a statement to Patch. They went on to state that they were aware of the contaminants reported by EWG, and that most are disinSee WATER page 3

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Matchmaking service TigerCuff pairs 126 students By Mindy Burton PHOTO CREDIT: ZACHARY SHEVIN / THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN

An advertisement for the Art Museum exhibition, featuring Master of the Greenville Tondo’s piece, entitled “Saint Sebastian.”

New art museum exhibit showcases works on illness and healing By Naomi Hess staff writer

82 items grace the walls of the Princeton University Art Museum as part of the new exhibit, States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing. The exhibit opened on Nov. 2, 2019, and it will close on Feb. 2, 2020. Laura Giles — the Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings — and Veronica White — Curator of Academic Programs — served as the co-curators of the exhibit. Giles and White were in-

spired to create the exhibit by students and faculty in classes such as ANT 235: Medical Humanities and SLA 368: Literature and Medicine. “We started gathering works that addressed a range of topics related to different states of health,” White wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian. “We were thinking about some of the questions that we found really interesting, like: how have artists grappled with the concept of disease and how have they made it concrete through different types See MUSEUM page 5

In Opinion

Today on Campus

Senior columnist Leora Eisenberg contrasts her postgraduate aspirations with normative expectations, and contributing columnist Anna McGee examines the generational divide amid the “OK, boomer” controversy.

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U. professors dispute report on Princeton water

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Laeo Crnkovic-Rubsamen ’23 and Charlotte Merchant ’23 met on move-in day in the same zee group in Walker Hall. Their relationship changed after both decided to try out student-produced matchmaking service TigerCuff. Created by Ronnie Kihonge ’22 to aid in what he saw as a loneliness problem on campus, TigerCuff was originally advertised in an email to students on Nov. 6. “I think that people are lonely on campus so it’s creating a platform for people to be able to meet other people,” Kihonge said. “It’s a way that brings people together that can actually help people.” Interested participants completed a form with questions about their personality and had the opportunity to go on a date with their match to local restaurants and receive a discount. Using a matching algorithm made by one of Kihonge’s friends, 126 students were paired based on similarities in their anSee CUFF page 3

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Maria Ressa dicusses her experience as a journalist in the Philippines.

Maria Ressa ’86, an acclaimed journalist and 2018 Time Magazine Person of the Year, has been announced as the Class of 2020 Baccalaureate speaker, according to an email sent out to the members of the 2020 graduating class by their class government. The annual Baccalaureate service will take place on Sunday, May 31, at 2 p.m. Traditionally, the service features music, interfaith blessings, and a notable guest speaker and “offers a moment of reflection” for graduating students.

Ressa was selected by the Committee on Honorary Degrees and approved by the Board of Trustees. According to a statement by the Office of Communications, the invitation letter Ressa received included, “Your record of civic leadership makes you a superb role model for our students, and throughout your career you have demonstrated values of humanity, community engagement and social responsibility that we hope our students will exemplify in their lives.” Ressa graduated from the University with a bachelor’s de-

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(in unison) Annabel and Rosemarie: First grade. DP: And is first grade better or worse than kindergarten? Annabel: Um … it’s so easy. You’re just counting up the numbers you already know! Like, counting to ten is this week. But I already know that. Second grade is challenging. My friend who is older told me. DP: What’s your favorite class in school? Annabel: Gym. Because it’s fun games and stuff. Rosemarie: I like art because I learn better how to draw self-portraits. DP: What sports do you guys play? (in unison) Annabel and Rosemarie: Soccer. Annabel: We like to watch football, but not play. We like the Patriots. Number 12, Tom Brady! We also like the Eagles’ number 17, and the Giants’ number 80. We like all the same players. We went to see the Princeton Women’s Soccer, but they lost. Rosemarie: My sister is more into sports than me, because I like art. But I’m also a little into sports. DP: What positions do you play in soccer? Annabel: Goalie. Rosemarie: I play offense. I like to be the one that scores. Annabel: We play every Monday and Saturday and sometimes in the day with my dad and brother. Sometimes only with my dad, sometimes only with my brother, and sometimes only with my sister. DP: Have you scored a goal ever? Rosemarie: Yes. Especially on her. Annabel: But I block most of them! DP: If you could have a pet, what would you have? Annabel: A dog! I would name it Charlotte. I want a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Rosemarie: And I want a Bichon Frise. DP: How old are your brothers? (in unison) Annabel and Rosemarie: 14 and 19. DP: Who do you like better? Annabel: The 19. 14 tickles! DP: Can you tell us what your mom’s job is? Rosemarie: The head of Wilson College! And she teaches religion. Annabel: I knew that too. DP: Do you want to do what your mom does when you grow up? Rosemarie: No. Just gym and art. Annabel: I want to be a

gym teacher. Rosemarie: And I want to be an art teacher. Before that I wanted to be a firstgrade teacher, and before that I wanted to be a vet. DP: Do you guys come to eat at Wilson a lot? Rosemarie: Yes. My favorite food here is the cheeseburgers. I also love ice cream. DP: What’s your favorite ice cream f lavor? (in unison) Annabel and Rosemarie: Mint chocolate chip! DP: What do you guys disagree about? Annabel: If I put cereal in my ice cream, my sister doesn’t like it. I like to do that here. Rosemarie: And I hate it. DP: Do you like being twins? Annabel: I like being a twin. Rosemarie: Me, too. People can’t normally tell us apart, but we’re different. We just give it away because we tell them. DP: Do you have friends who are students here now? Rosemarie: Yes. Samantha [Lee ’22], Caren [Ju ’22], and Sarah [Essig ’22]. I don’t really know first years yet. Oh wait, Sam [Wright ’21], number 51! (Shows drawing.) I draw him because I like football, and Sam plays football. DP: What’s your favorite place on campus? Annabel: My house. Or maybe Wilson College. DP: What do you like better — orange or black? Annabel: Orange, orange, orange! My favorite color is orange. Rosemarie: I also like orange but mostly pink. DP: Do you guys like to read? Annabel: Yeah, but writing is my favorite. I’m going to have a writing party in my class. I have six stories I’m writing. One is about Christmas, one is about my bed, one is about the day I went to the airport, and one is the day before I was going to decorate my house. Rosemarie: I just started a story today, but I do not know the title yet. But I planned my story already. One of my books was twenty pages — about swimming lessons. DP: Your mom writes books too, right? Whose are better? Rosemarie: Mine. She doesn’t have pictures! DP: Do you guys do any other activities? Rosemarie: Swimming, and piano, and singing in a group. We sing … I don’t really know. My favorite song is “I saw the tree by the riverside.” And then, in unison, they sang it.

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gree in English and certificates in theater and dance, after which she returned to her native Philippines to study journalism at the University of the Philippines Diliman as a Fulbright Scholar. Ressa has worked as a journalist in Asia for almost 30 years, with past roles including CNN’s bureau chief in Manila and Jakarta. In 2011, Ressa co-founded and became the CEO of the Philippine journalism start-up Rappler, through which she has continuously criticized Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and created a platform for comprehensive reporting on Duterte’s war on drugs and its subsequent death toll. Due to Ressa’s reporting efforts, the Philippine government has charged her and Rappler for tax evasion and arrested her on multiple occasions. These

charges have been described as politically motivated by Ressa and journalists around the world. In December of 2018, Time Magazine selected Ressa, along with a cohort of other persecuted or killed journalists collectively named as “the Guardians,” as 2018 Person of the Year. In April, Ressa sat down with The Daily Princetonian for a Q&A on her experiences with being a journalist in a repressive state. In addition to being named the Time Magazine Person of the Year, Ressa is also the recipient of numerous honors for her work in journalism, including the Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, the Knight International Journalism Award of the International Center for Journalists, and the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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fectants or at levels far below the standards set by drinking water guidelines. “At New Jersey American Water, we take water quality and safety very seriously,” the statement read. “Our treatment processes ensure our systems meet or surpass all current EPA and NJ DEP standards for safe drinking water, and we continually sample our water to ensure compliance.” At the University, drinking water quality is monitored by the Office of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local guidelines. The standards used by EWG raise some doubt from both EHS and other University professors. “The EWG often cites scientific studies that are questionable — either not peer-reviewed or not repeatable — or emphasizes outlier data,” Robin M. Izzo, Executive Director of EHS, wrote in a statement to The Daily Princetonian. “For this reason, Princeton University EHS does not use their thresholds as a guide,” she added. Instead, they use recommendations from the World Health Organization, the EPA, and other countries as guidelines. Catherine Peters, Chair and Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, also expressed her concerns about the study. “In the Patch article, there are some claims that seem dubious, and I am unsure of the veracity of the claims and whether they can be substantiated,” Peters wrote in an email to the ‘Prince’. Peters also added that although it is important to safeguard human health and raise environmental concerns when appropriate, there are also dangers associated with environmental alarmism. “Misrepresentation of environmental risks has serious consequences for public welfare,” she wrote. NJ American Water-Raritan served 615,430 people during the time the study was conducted, including the University. The company monitors its water quality routinely, and issues an annual report for all its customers. Peter Jaffé, the William L. Knapp ’47 Professor of Civil Engineering, explained that the current EPA standards regulate drinking water so that no more than one additional person per 100,000 develop cancer from carcinogenic contaminants. “It is true that, because of limitations on how to do these large toxicological studies, the EPA focuses on common contaminants, and there could be some exogenous contaminant that rarely ap-

pears and is not regulated,” Jaffé added. “But there is already a long list of contaminants that the EPA does regulate, contaminants that are much more likely to occur in industrial or household usage.” “The vast majority of water quality tests conducted by EHS over the years have found drinking to be within thresholds set by the Environmental Protection Agency,” Izzo, wrote in a statement to the ‘Prince.’ As technology improves, the ability to measure even trace contaminants increases, as well as efforts to remove them. However, removal procedures can themselves introduce by-products, and the EPA and other regulators must weigh the costs and benefits of any treatment procedure. The reported contaminants include poly-fluorinated substances (PFAs), arsenic, and chemicals derived from pesticides or runoff from fertilized farmland. Some of these are on the EPA Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List and exceed the standards of the EWG for contaminant levels in drinking water. Jaffé pointed out, however, that the EWG set their standards significantly lower than those of the EPA without fully justifying them. “[The EWG] claims that the EPA numbers are outdated, and I cannot comment on that — some numbers have not changed in a long time, while others have changed and become smaller,” Jaffé said. “But you have to look at risk holistically; it’s no use looking at one particular contaminant and trying to bring its risk to zero.” Lead is a particular area for concern in New Jersey due to the age of water delivery systems. The University conducts surveys for lead in drinking water every five years on campus and every three years for the University NOW Day Nursery, a daycare center. Tests for lead content are also regularly conducted in response to concern from the community. The most recent campus-wide survey was done in August and September of 2016. EHS staff collected 77 samples from drinking water fountains, water-bottle filling stations, and faucets across campus, including residential halls, athletic facilities, and academic and administrative buildings. Concentration of lead in all samples was found to be under the EPA Action Level of 15ug/L. According to the EHS statement, the taste of drinking water may vary across campus depending on what is used to treat the water and the plumbing, construction, and maintenance activities occurring in the area. “EHS works with Facilities to prevent and respond to concerns regarding drinking water such as these,” the statement read.

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Laeo Crnkovic-Rubsamen ’23 and Charlotte Merchant ’23 prepare to leave Walker Hall for their TigerCuff date at La Mezzaluna.

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swers to the application, which included would-you-rather and personality-type questions. “The matching was done by an algorithm made by a COS friend who[m] I was working with,” Kihonge explained. “It matched people based on the answers of the questions we came up with.” Both Crnkovic-Rubsamen and Merchant said they signed up for TigerCuff as a joke. When they received their matches, they realized they knew each other from living on the same hall and decided to try a date, with the benefit of at least getting a discount on a nice meal. On Nov. 10, they left Wilson College and walked to La Mezzaluna on Witherspoon Street, where they enjoyed dinner and conversation. “We picked La Mezzaluna because it was more like a sit-

down kind of thing,” Merchant said. “I think there’s definitely a difference between going on a date where you’re sitting down for a meal together and it’s going to take some time so obviously you want to fill the silence with conversation versus going to a smoothie place.” At dinner, the conversation ranged from life at home, in New York for Crnkovic-Rubsamen and Tennessee for Merchant, to a shared intended concentration in computer science to what they want to do with their lives after their time at the University. As the date continued, they began to recognize similarities they had not seen before, including being adventurous, hoping to find a winter snuggle buddy through TigerCuff, and having similar eating habits, with CrnkovicRubsamen being pescatarian and Merchant growing up in a “plant-based family” big on vegetarianism. “A lot of our answers lined up,”

Crnkovic-Rubsamen said. “She’s very free-spirited, doesn’t really care what other people say,” he added. “She’s cool, very cool.” At La Mezzaluna, the pair enjoyed a scrumptious dinner at a 25 percent discount — 15 from TigerCuff and 10 from The Daily Princetonian — of fried calamari and pumpkin ravioli as appetizers and branzino with lobster risotto and pasta with tomato sauce and Italian eggplant as a main course. Crnkovic-Rubsamen and Merchant split the bill. “We went and ate some good food, felt bad, well not felt bad because I mean the food here is great, but just like ‘mmm, this fried calamari is so good, what are those other people at Wilson eating?’” Merchant said. Embed Code <iframe width=”560” height=”315” src=”https:// w w w.y o u t u b e .c o m / e m b e d / IzZ5xMTbNSg?start=183” frameborder=”0” allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen></iframe> They went on a second date on Nov. 17 to the University Art Museum and Playa Bowls. Both Crnkovic-Rubsamen and Merchant rated the date a five out of five with “good banter, conversation, and content,” according to Merchant. Crnkovic-Rubsamen encouraged more students to get involved. A second round of TigerCuff was done after some students missed the first deadline, said Kihonge, but he has no plans for further matches. “I can’t believe not everyone did it,” Crnkovic-Rubsamen said. “Even if they don’t know the person, they should just reach out and get the discounted meal. It’s so fun.”

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olina on Mayor Pete’s behalf, why do you think that is? SS: I believe it is a function of name ID at this point. At least when I was in South Carolina, it was a function of no one knew who he was… He’s running against a former Vice President and two [six] United States Senators. I mean, he’s a mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He is not as well known as these other people, so that’s going to be something that he’s going to work on and get better as we go… But listen. I’m here to tell you every candidate that’s not named Joe Biden, I think, has a long way to go in trying to garner their share of the African American vote. So I would look at everybody’s numbers through the lens of “they all got to do better”… You know? Mayor Pete is certainly speaking to issues that are important not only to African Americans, but important to people that understand climate change is an issue, people that understand that we need to protect our unions, people who understand the middle class is getting squeezed. He’s speaking to all these sectors. And the plans — the “Douglass Plan” — that I’ve seen to specifically address the long, long racial wealth inequities that have hurt the African American community in this country. It’s the most expansive plan I’ve ever seen to address some of those historical inequities, not just the symptoms but the causes. So you know, he needs to get that plan out and make sure people know about it, make sure we get his name ID up, and fight like heck. This is gonna be hard. It’s much different when you’re the front runner, so as soon as he became the front runner in Iowa, and is doing well in New Hampshire, I think the knives are out. And this is a primary, so that’s going to happen, so we just gotta keep working at it.

forgiven for them? Because everyone doesn’t need their debt forgiven. Some people are okay paying it; some people are not. And so I think Mayor Pete’s plans are pragmatic and don’t go down the road that some of these other plans would go. And while some other plans may sound good, when you start attaching price tags to some of these plans, you’re getting into deep water really fast. And so I think Mayor Pete is going to be able to make the case that he has the most pragmatic plans to get done what most Democrats want to get done in a realistic manner that may even be attractive to some of our people on the other side. DP: In February, you launched a progressive advocacy organization called “People Over Profits.” So what has this group done thus far? SS: Well, the group is really an extension of the theme that is sort of propelled my entire political career … I’ve been someone that’s always been for the people and not big corporations. I’ve always stood up for the little guy and the little gal against big bullies, corporate bullies, and I do that as a lawyer and I do that as a politician as well. And so we have certainly helped with the Amendment 4 implementation here in Florida. And Amendment 4 is the constitutional amendment that was passed to automatically restore the rights of returning citizens here in Florida … Under most felonies, you will now have your rights automatically restored to vote here in Florida, which is a really big deal. So we’ve gotten involved and tried to organize some lawyers around that to make sure people are aware and they could follow the right paperwork to get the rights restored. We’ve been involved recently here with ... an effort to deregulate the energy market here in Florida. That’s something I think is not a good idea for consumers. It’ll raise rates and hurt the average consumer. And so we’ve been involved in efforts to stand up against that and beat that thing down, too. We’ve also been involved in some healthcare issues where insurance companies are engaged in billing practices that hurt the average consumer. And so we’ve been involved in trying to raise awareness around that. As you can see, the common theme is, I’m a guy that stands up for consumers, really, in any kind of relationship. Whether it’s energy, whether it’s insurance, whether it’s medical, I’m always someone that’s been on the side of consumers versus the big people. DP: Do you have anything else you’d want to add, whether about your endorsement of Mayor Pete, your own political career, or your time here at Princeton? SS: Well, I’m coming to reunions … This will be my 20th — I graduated in 2000 — so I will be at Reunions for my 20th year and have a great time I’m sure. And, as for my political career … I’m helping Mayor Pete right now. And when this cycle is over, we’ll see, but right now that’s the main thing I’m doing.

Shaw: Buttigieg is the kind of person I want as president

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maturing, not only personally but socially… I joined the fraternity that I’m in now: Omega Psi Phi. I joined that while I was in college. I was a member of TI [the Tiger Inn] when I was at Princeton, and so certainly, I was involved in campus activities… I was the president of the black mental awareness group, I want to say my junior year, and so some of those things certainly gave me a sense of maybe being a leader and being involved, and some of the things I do now. DP: In 2018, you were the Florida Democratic Party’s first African-American nominee for Attorney General. And the first African-American nominee for governor of Florida from a major party, Andrew Gillum, who spoke with the ‘Prince’ the other week, was also on that ballot. What do you think having both your names on that ballot in 2018 meant for Florida politics? SS: I think it shows that we’ve come a long way. I think the fact that it didn’t happen until 2018 tells you we’ve got a long way to go as well… The night that I won the primary, I didn’t really think about it until someone had actually mentioned it to me, and I kind of thought about it, about my father, and thought about the history there. But I think it shows where Florida has come from… I think it also shows you we got a long way to go. I was unsuccessful. Andrew was unsuccessful. You know, our Democratic US Senator, who was an incumbent, lost. So if you’re a Democrat in Florida, I think it shows some progress, but I think it also shows we’ve got a long way to go to win some of these races, but it certainly shows progress in a good way. DP: Though you were unopposed in the general election for District 16 State Representative in 2016, you narrowly defeated Walter Smith in the primary. What was that race like, and how did it compare to your failed primary bid in 2014? SS: My race in 2016 was much more, I’ll say, community, grassroots based. In 2014, that race was just a really ugly, nasty primary, and it was very expensive. I hadn’t lived in Tampa for four years at that point, so my ties to the community were a little bit

tenuous, and so I didn’t end up being successful… But by the time the next race had come, I kind of established myself in the community, particularly in the grassroots community, and they were much more accepting the second time around… I stayed involved in the community, even though I lost in 2014. I didn’t expect to run in 2016. I didn’t expect that seat to be open, but the incumbent who beat me ran for something else, so it was an open seat, and I ran for it. And I think people respected the fact that I remained involved in the community even though I had lost, and so they honored me with that position in 2016. But … it was a much, I’ll say, nicer race in 2016. Much less negativity, but it was still very hard fought — I barely won — but I had a much stronger connection to community the second time around. DP: You’ve endorsed South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg for President. So out of the crowded 2020 field, why is he your candidate? SS: You know, it’s real easy. Mayor Pete’s the one that makes me feel the best about this country. When I heard him speak, he’s the one that gave me goosebumps, and I learned more about him, and I realized that that was the kind of person that I wanted to be president… He’s about the opposite of President Trump in almost every imaginable way, whether that is, you know, intelligence, whether that is service and the armed forces, whether that is just having a wonderful moral compass. And Mayor Pete is someone who I think also represents generational change, not just you know who the next President of the United States is going to be. Mayor Pete, the youngest of the front-runners by far, I think he represents certainly turning over up the torch in a certain sense. One of his sayings is to “the win the era,” and I totally believe that, so I endorsed him a while ago. I have, you know, done some surrogate things around the country for him. I plan on continuing to do that because I believe in him. DP: Buttigieg is polling well in Iowa, leading the pack in multiple statewide polls, but his numbers in the South, specifically South Carolina, and even more specifically among black voters in South Carolina are particularly low… As someone who has been to South Car-

DP: In June, a 54-year-old black man was shot and killed by a white South Bend police officer with his body camera turned off. And in the aftermath, Buttigieg said the South Bend P.D. remains disproportionately white because he “couldn’t get it done.” How do you think Mayor Pete handled the aftermath of that situation, and why do you think he’ll be able to “get it done” as President? SS: One, I want to make sure we understand that he made that admission on the stage during a presidential debate. And he made it knowing that he was going to get whacked about it, knowing that he was going to open himself up to people taking shots at him. I’m a politician; I know, that’s a hard thing to do to say, “I didn’t get it done. My bad,” and so I give a major props for doing that. But obviously, if you didn’t get the job done, then there’s some doing that needs to be done with regards to doing better in the department, making sure the department is more diverse and, you know, you’ve got to work at that. He’s got ... to make sure he’s working at that. All of the candidates have blemishes, and, this is not, we’re not running for who

we’re going to worship on Sunday. People are running to be the President of the United States, and so we have to look at everyone’s record and who fits us best, who makes us feel the best, who we think we can beat Donald Trump — there’s a lot, a lot of things that go into that. But I remain convinced, and the more time that goes by remain even more convinced, that Mayor Pete is the right person to follow the travesty that we have in there now. DP: And you mentioned sort of thinking about who can beat Donald Trump. Many voters have said “electability” and ability to beat Trump will be one of the biggest factors in their decision-making come primary season. Do you think Buttigieg is electable, and what makes him more electable than some of the other top contenders? SS: I certainly think he’s electable. And he’s electable, I think, because he is someone that appeals to, in my opinion, the broadest range of voters, whether [or not] that is in the Democratic primary — I think it may also appeal to disaffected Republicans, who may be willing to admit in the booth that maybe they made a little mistake when they voted for the person that’s in there now. So I think he appeals to the widest range of voters, and you’ve just got to prove that… When I was going around and talking to people, it’s hard to find someone who just doesn’t like Mayor Pete. You can find people that don’t know him. You can find people that may have policy disagreements, that may like other candidates more, but it’s hard to find someone that has a very negative feeling about Mayor Pete. And I think that’s, one, because he appeals to the broadest range of voters. But I think second, and it’s one of the reasons I liked him so much, he includes optimism, and he exudes positivity, and that’s what people want right now. You turn on your TV now, and all you see and all you hear is negativity, not just from one side, but from both sides. And I get it. But he certainly, the reason I was drawn to him, [he] was so positive, and was so moving, and was so touching as to how he might be able to put this country on a better path. That’s why I went with him, and I kind of think that’s what’s gonna appeal to a broad range of voters as we go forward. DP: When you say that you think Mayor Pete appeals to such a broad range of voters, what about him specifically allows him to bring in voters from that broad range? SS: Well, I’ll use this healthcare plan for one. You know, it’s ‘Medicare for those who want it.’ That is not as far as some of the other people have proposed, and it’s not as expensive as the price tag that’s been put on some other health care plans. And when you’re talking trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars, that is a problem for some people. It’s a problem for me … It’s things like that. It’s his solutions to even the college debt. You know, forgiving debt for everyone is one thing, and that’s hugely expensive. Are we forgiving debt for those that needed to be

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of objects? How have various cultures approached illness and healing in different ways?” “There are also connecting threads throughout the exhibition that speak to the universal theme of human capacity and human resilience and hope,” she continued. The art museum permanently acquired five new works by artists such as Ruth Cuthand and Mario Moore for its collection. “That was one of the great pleasures...to be able to acquire works not only to fill in blanks, but to enhance the show and also enhance the collections of, in this case, modern and contemporary art prints and drawings and photographs,” Giles said. Cuthand, a contemporary indigenous artist, created a series of works portraying

diseases that were particularly devastating to the indigenous population. On display at the museum is a piece made of beads that depicts typhoid fever. Moore created a drawing called Stay Woke with silverpoint on prepared paper, a medium traditionally used by Renaissance-era artists. His work focuses on his identity as a black man, as well as his recovery from brain surgery. The exhibit is organized into four distinct sections: Confronting Contagion, States of Mind, Worlds of Care, and Birthing Narratives. Confronting Contagion focuses on the bubonic plague, AIDS, and other infectious diseases; States of Mind showcases the variety of ways artists depict mental illnesses; Worlds of Care depicts the spaces and objects associated with care and treatment; and Birthing Narrative displays pieces associated with pregnancy and childbirth. The organization of the ex-

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hibit emphasizes cross-cultural interactions. “In Confronting Contagion, we grouped works by disease, but other sections of the exhibition are not chronological and include numerous transhistorical and transcultural juxtapositions,” White wrote. “We became very interested in placing works from very different cultures and different time periods in conversation with one another.” Examples of these interactions include a Yoruba twins figurine used by a woman who experienced the loss of one or both twins placed next to a 15th century birthing tray, a painting by Edvard Munch of his sister dying from tuberculosis juxtaposed with photographs from World War I of soldiers and prisoners of war in a Swiss sanatorium, and an Etruscan votive uterus compared to an 18th-century midwife book. Giles and White involved faculty from a variety of disciplines as they created the exhibit. They held two faculty advisory panels, invited faculty members to write wall panels connecting their research to the themes of the exhibit, and hosted a symposium with faculty speakers. Natalie Prizel, Lecturer in the Council of Humanities, English and Humanistic Studies, and Haarlow-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows 2018-2021 Cohort, studies the intersection of disability, literature, and art. She participated in an advisory panel and wrote a wall panel for the exhibit. Prizel expressed her appreciation for the wide variety of artwork included in the exhibit. “On a very basic level, I think it really highlights the collection that this museum has in ways that people don’t get to see, because it’s not focused around one artist or one period,” Prizel said. “It’s really a mix.” White and Giles emphasized that most of the exhibit comes from the museum’s own collection. “I want to qualify that of the 82 works in the show, there is one private loan, but most of

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them are from the museum’s rich and encyclopedic collections, as well as a remarkable group of 18 treasures — books, prints, photographs, posters and an Ethiopic magic scroll — lent by the Princeton University Library,” Giles wrote in an email to the ‘Prince.’ Prizel connected the exhibit to her own work by thinking about how bodies are portrayed in culture. “I also think that the exhibit helps us think about bodies in cultural terms, and that’s really central to what I do,” she said. “I think that thinking critically about embodiment, and how embodiment is inf licted through various kinds of cultural forms, gives us a much richer understanding of health, illness, the body in general.” White hopes that visitors leave the museum with a greater understanding of experiences related to illness and suffering. “The exhibition is a ref lection on human capacity and on universal questions about suffering, hope, and human experiences,” White wrote. Giles described a meaning-

ful experience she had when leading a group around the exhibit. After viewing the section in the exhibit about AIDS, which includes Latin American anti-AIDS posters and a piece by Deborah Bell depicting AIDS in South Africa, one woman expressed that she needed the reminder that AIDS was a global phenomenon. “That really, to me, that was what the show is all about, is illuminating people, and I think there are many areas in the show that do just that,” Giles said. States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing was supported by the Malcolm J. Goldstein, Class of 1947, Fund; the Frances E. and Elias Wolf, Class of 1920, Fund; and by J. Bryan King, Class of 1993. Additional support was provided by the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, the Gillett G. Griffin Art of the Ancient Americas Fund, and by Princeton University’s Humanities Council, Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Council on Science and Technology, Department of Molec-

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‘Ok, boomer’ isn’t exacerbating the generational divide

Anna McGee

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The Washington Post recently published an article entitled “The problem with ‘OK, boomer,’” in which author Holly Scott argues that historically, using generational divides to gain solidarity for change distracts in important ways from the real issues at hand. Scott points out how the youth activism of the ’60s ran into largely insurmountable obstacles, as the media focused more on generational tensions emphasized by the activism than the real divides against which the activists wished to fight. The real divides in the ’60s, Scott claims, were about power — “who had it and who did not.” What Scott sorely misses in her analogy of youth activism in the ’60s and youth activism now is that today, generational lines dramatically delineate the haves and the have-nots. “OK, boomer” isn’t exacerbating the gen-

erational divide in a way that misnames the target of youth angst. Rather, it highlights that those behind the systematic problems affecting young people and those greatly distanced in age from the youth are often one and the same. Boomers, in general, have power. Young people, in general, do not. Those who are young and generate power and attention for the causes young people care about, such as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Greta Thunberg, and the Parkland activists, are discriminated against and discredited for their youth. In a rapidly aging society, marginalization of young people facing serious problems — problems about which older generations do not care about to the same degree as youth — through adultistic practices is fiercely and immediately wrong. The “OK, boomer” clapback isn’t some sort of distracting ageist movement, but rather

a collective voice reminding older generations to realize that they have to allow room to think about problems beyond the next 20-30 years. In a time when critical issues most strongly affect the youngest generations, that the three leading Democratic candidates, not to mention the incumbent, in the 2020 presidential election would all be in their 70s by the start of their would-be term. That is what’s not OK, boomer. Our current president holds the record for oldest age at the start of presidency, with the previous record of 69 having been set by Ronald Reagan. And indeed, Trump, born in 1946, is a boomer. In the U.S. context, Americans born between 1946 and 1964, the sustained period of national growth that followed World War II, are boomers. Boomers make up roughly 22.6 percent of the current U.S. population but, even as many “retire in droves,” they continue to hold 53.9 percent

of seats in the House of Representatives, and 84 percent of the Senate. Seven of the nine Supreme Court justices are boomer age or older. Even University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 — who has resisted near-continuous calls by the student body for divestment from the fossil fuel industry — is a boomer. It’s not ageist against boomers to detect something problematic here. Rather, it’s ageist against younger generations to ignore it. Though I believe older generations should be given high levels of respect, that respect does not have to be synonymous with high positions of power. To address new and future problems, younger generations must be more than “future leaders.” We must be today’s. Anna McGee is a sophomore from Paducah, Ky. She can be reached at amcgee@princeton. edu.

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Our many paths Leora Eisenberg

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For the last few weeks, I’ve been watching my friends in tech and finance find out what they’ll be doing next year. From jobs at Amazon and Google to the Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey, they’re preparing themselves to be scattered across the country. Meanwhile, I sit and wait for my fellowship results to crawl into my inbox, anywhere between March and May. The wait is horrible, and I feel like a failure in the interim. This isn’t unique to senior year: along with many other non-STEM, non-finance, non-consulting friends, I have spent many spring months in the past waiting on results — often negative ones — that decided my summer. But now, as they decide my future, it feels more pressing. And even though I’m happy for my friends who have jobs and internships, I do sometimes feel a twinge of inadequacy. Why is it that they find out

so much earlier? Does the fact that I don’t have a job or internship offer yet mean that I’m a failure? The answer is no. And what I’m trying to keep in mind is that it’s not just about certain people getting fellowships and internships and others not: it’s about everyone’s life going according to one’s own path and timeframe. If I were in tech or finance, I might know right around now what I’ll be doing next year — but I’m not in those fields. And I have no desire to be. So even if I did want the security of knowing I’ll have a job at Google in December, I wouldn’t actually want the job at Google. It’s not worth comparing myself to my Silicon Valley friends: we have different aspirations and job opportunities, which also means that we have different timelines for senior year and, of course, life more generally. Realizing this difference can go far beyond the job/internship search: it extends into rejection from these

positions as well. Two years ago, well into March, I was rejected from every single internship I applied to, as all my friends racked up acceptances. It looked like I was going to bum around at home that summer until I was accepted to the one fellowship I needed — one that gave me funding to spend my summer interning at an NGO in Kazakhstan, which moved me further along in my professional and academic career than anything else I would have done. Before I received it, though, I would have done nearly anything to be accepted to just about anything, even if it wasn’t really for me, just to keep up with the proverbial pack. But whenever I felt too caught up in that moment, I’d have to step back and realize that the “pack” has interests and goals vastly different from mine, and that their early acceptance means a commitment to those goals — ones that I don’t share. Still now, it’s becoming increasingly stressful to

watch everyone gain acceptance to things, while I have to wait until the end of my senior year to receive news from my dream fellowship. I’m so happy for my friends — and I just want to be as secure as they do. But then I remind myself: if I wanted to know as early as they do, I’d have to be a COS major, which I’m not. And that’s fine. While it’s incredibly frustrating to see seemingly everyone get job offers (and the security that comes along with it), it would be far more frustrating to be applying to jobs in fields that aren’t relevant to our interests or skill sets. So, remind yourself that your friends already have internships and jobs because they’re majoring in different things — the things that you probably wouldn’t want to work on for the rest of your life, or at least the next few years. Leora Eisenberg is a senior from Eagan, M.N. She can be reached at leorae@princeton.edu.

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This past weekend, the No. 8/8 women’s hockey team (9– 2–0 overall, 7–2–0 ECAC) hosted No. 5/5 Clarkson (10–2–4, 3–1–2 ECAC) on Friday night in Princeton’s annual Black Out Baker game and Saint Lawrence (5–6–3, 1–3–1 ECAC) on Saturday afternoon. The Tigers swept the weekend, defeating the Golden Knights 2–1 and the Saints 6–2. On Friday, in front of a rowdy crowd, Princeton used two goals from sophomore forward Sarah Fillier to defeat Clarkson. Fillier’s first goal came in the final minute of the first period, after she generated a turnover in the Golden Knights’ defensive zone. This goal was important for the Tigers to get after dominating territory and possession in the first period. Princeton had outshot Clarkson 19–5 in the first period. The second period was much more even, but Fillier still netted a second goal, after a shot from senior forward Carly Bullock rebounded off the pads of the Golden Knights’ goalie.

Junior goalie Rachel McQuigge was unable to keep the shutout when her sister Brooke McQuigge scored for Clarkson to make it a one-goal game with 14 minutes left in the third period. McQuigge and the Tigers held the rest of the way dominating again on offense outshooting Clarkson 13–4 for the final stretch of the game to finish the game with a 2–1 victory. On Saturday, Princeton came out looking a little sloppy after a high-energy game the night before and played to a scoreless first period against Saint Lawrence where Princeton had only four shots. The Tigers came out of the second intermission looking like a different team where they scored three goals on four shots forcing the Saints to change goalies less than four minutes into the second period. These three goals came from Bullock, junior forward Sharon Frankel, and sophomore forward Maggie Connors. Fillier extended the Princeton lead to 4–0 when she scored against Saint Lawrence’s new goalie. The Saints were able to force a goal across

during a power-play before the end of the second period to head to the third down 4–1. In the third period, Bullock and Frankel each scored again along with one more from Saint Lawrence to make the final score 6–2. Senior goalie Stephanie Neatby was great in goal for the Tigers making 22 saves on 24 shots. Princeton’s sweep this weekend put them on top of the ECAC standings heading into the Thanksgiving break. Fillier’s performance also earned her second ECAC Player of the Week award in two weeks. The Tigers have 14 points leading No.3/3 Cornell (7–0–1, 5–0–1 ECAC) by three and Harvard (5–2–0, 5–0–0 ECAC) by four. Princeton will resume ECAC play on Dec. 6 when they host the Big Red and then will face Colgate on Dec. 7. A win over Cornell will go a long way for Princeton to try to defend its Ivy League title and move closer to an ECAC title. In the Ivy League, Princeton is tied for third with Yale at 1–2, while Harvard leads the way at 4–0 and Cornell is close behind at 3–0.

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high fifth-year Ryan Pomrinca. At 157 pounds, No. 9 sophomore Quincy Monday would square up against No. 10 Josh Humphreys. 165 and 184 pounds saw two other unmatched faceoffs, between sophomore Grant Cuomo and Lehigh’s Brian Meyer and sophomore Travis Stefanik and Lehigh’s Chris Weiler. As expected, Glory emerged — well — glorious with a 5–3 overtime victory over Paetzell. As expected, Pierson’s opponent got the better of him with an 11–5 win. One decision for Princeton; one for Lehigh. The score stood at 3–3. Keller and Pomrinca took the mat. The first period passed without score or spectacle. “We’re hungry!” yelled a fan from the sidelines. An escape ten seconds into the second period sated the crowd’s appetite and put Keller up 1–0. With 1:30 left on the clock, Pomrinca matched him. As time wound down, Keller chased his opponent round and round the mat. Pomrinca’s “very hard to score on,” said Ayres. “We needed a stall call.” With 45 seconds to go, Princeton got it. A challenge from Lehigh’s corner proved futile; Keller claimed a 2–1 decision. “He just did a phenomenal job,” said Ayres. “He’s my pick for MVP of the meet, for sure.” 6–3, Princeton. An unsurprising 6–5 win from D’Angelo’s bumped the Tigers up 9–3. And then, on a Saturday, it was time for Monday. Lehigh’s Humphreys had bested Monday twice before — at last year’s dual, where he’d walked away with a 5–4 victory, and at last year’s EIWA Championships, where Humphreys earned gold to Monday’s bronze. Here was a shot at redemption. For two periods, it seemed

that Monday would waste it. Notorious for his talent on top, Humphreys spent much of the first five minutes riding Princeton’s wrestler. An early Lehigh takedown put two points on the scoreboard; a call for locked hands made it 2–1 for Monday; Humphreys jumped out again to start the final period with a 3–1 lead. And then, suddenly, Monday hit a headlock. With back points, the tide turned in seconds — Princeton claimed an 8–6 win. “He just found a way to win,” said Ayres. “The match played into right what Josh Humphries wanted, and then Quincy just did it — found a way to win. Incredible.” 12–3, Tigers. Cuomo’s match at 165 added another three points for the Orange and Black; a foreseen loss by Kevin Parker made the tally 15–7. Stuck in a third-period scramble, Stefanik dropped his match 11–4. “He’s one of the best wrestlers in the country,” said Ayres. “He just got caught.” Lehigh trailed 15–10. Out strolled Brucki. “Boy do I feel good when I see him rolling out from behind the curtain,” said Ayres. “He’s a professional.” He acted like one, securing a 7–4 decision. Princeton was up 18–10. Even in the face of Conners’ anticipated loss by major decision, team victory was secured; Daft Punk’s “One More Time” blasted over the speakers. “This feels excellent,“ said Ayres, ever-concise. In two weeks, wrestling will face the nation’s other seventhranked team: Oklahoma State. Two days later, at home, the team will take on no. 2 Iowa. A week of Thanksgiving break stands between the Tigers and their preparatory practices. How does Ayres hope they’ll spend it? “They should rest,“ he said. “They should train, and they should rest, and they should eat — but not too much.”

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Princeton runners compete Men’s water polo in NCAA Championships falls in NWPC Championship By Jesse Brewer and Emily Philippides staff writer s

This past Saturday, two Tigers representing the men’s and women’s cross country teams took part in the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. Facing brutally cold and rainy conditions on a mud-soaked grass course, senior Conor Lundy and junior Melia Chittenden battled against the fiercest competition from across the country. Both Tigers, along with first-year Camren Fischer, received an auto-bid to Nationals after a phenomenal race at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional held at Lehigh University, including a first-place finish by Fischer, with a time of 29:58.8. Following close behind him at Regionals, Lundy finished sixth overall with a time of 30:05.9. In the women’s race, Chittenden finished eighth overall with a time of 20:28.7. Representing Princeton on the national stage, Chittenden made her second appearance at the NCAA Championships this past weekend after placing 147th in Wisconsin last year with a time of 21:25.4 over 6K. With a series of strong races under her belt, including a sixth-place First-Team All-Ivy League performance at the Heptagonal Championships earlier in the month and an eighth-place finish at Regionals, Chittenden was confident going into the national championships and “grateful for the opportunity to have represented the team this year.” Melia improved upon her performance from last year, placing 120th with a time of 21:23.4. Even though the results were not quite what she was looking for, Chittenden

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was “happy for having improved” upon her 2018 finish, saying she “learned a lot from [the] experience, and it definitely left [me] excited to keep racing throughout indoor and outdoor.” Reflecting on the season as a whole, Melia believes it was “overall a huge step forward and a learning experience for everyone” that the Tigers can use to “propel the team forward through indoors and outdoors and into the next cross season.” With amazing improvements among team members over the past year and strong performances from this year’s first-year competitors, Chittenden is excited to be part of “such a young team with so much potential.” In his fourth appearance at the NCAA Championships, Lundy finished 70th, with a time of 31:41.0 over 10K, improving on his 101st finish at last year’s NCAA Championships. “The weather made the course incredibly wet and muddy, making for interesting race tactics,” says Lundy. “I

was happy with how I moved up throughout the race. I was hoping for a little bit better finish, but I’m content with how I competed and closed out the season.” In discussing goals for his final indoor and outdoor track and field seasons, Lundy hopes to “become an Ivy League Champion in the 5K and qualify for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in the 5K as well.” Unfortunately, Fischer, the third Princeton student to qualify for this year’s national championships, did not participate in the meet after learning only several days beforehand of a likely stress fracture in his femur. Fischer refrained from competing “in hopes of recovering sooner.” With several weeks before the start of the indoor season, the Tigers will now reflect upon their performances from the 2019 cross country season as they prepare for the competition in the months to come.

Princeton’s men’s water polo team (16–15, 7–3 NWPC) played two strong games at the Northeast Water Polo Conference championship tournament. With last year’s conference win, the Tigers have received five conference titles and were hoping to win back-to-back conference championships for the first time in Princeton history. After the No. 19 Brown Bears beat Iona College on Friday, Princeton was scheduled to play them on Saturday, Nov. 23. The game remained close throughout the first quarter, which ended 3–3. In the second quarter, the Tigers scored the first three goals and ended the first half with a 6–4 lead. In the second half, the Tigers’ momentum continued to pick up. The Tigers scored six of the first seven goals in the third quarter, and remained ahead by about six goals for the rest of the game. The final score was 16–10. First-year utility Joan Coloma scored four goals, and nine other Princeton players also contributed goals to the win.

Princeton’s win allowed the team to advance to the championship match against Harvard. Emotions ran high going into the match, as this was the third consecutive NWPC title game between the Tigers and the Crimson. The game remained close until the final buzzer. In the second quarter, the Tigers led 4–2. However, by the end of the first half, Harvard had taken a 5–4 lead after scoring three consecutive goals. The game continued to be a backand-forth affair. The Tigers were up 7–6 early in the fourth quarter after junior utility Casey Conrad scored. Nevertheless, Harvard came back and scored two more goals. With 2:20 remaining on the clock, Harvard was leading 8–7 and managed to hold off the Tigers for the rest of the game, winning the NWPC Championship. Despite the loss, sophomore attacker Keller Maloney and firstyear attacker Yurian Quinones once again emerged as leaders, both scoring twice. Sophomore goalie Billy Motherway was an asset on the defensive end, with 14 saves to hold off the Crimson until the last few minutes.

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Casey Conrad and Princeton fell by one goal to the Crimson.

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No. 14 wrestling upsets No. 7 Lehigh for second consecutive year By Josephine de La Bruyere Features Editor

On Nov. 30, 2018 on the road, the unranked underdogs of Princeton wrestling took down a powerhouse: the No. 8 Mountain Hawks. It was a victory notable at once for its drama and its scale. First-year Patrick Glory, junior Matthew Kolodzik, and junior Kevin Parker logged stunning 17–2, 17—1, and 23–8 victories. Those bonus points edged Princeton to what head coach Christopher Ayres called the “biggest win in program history.” The Tigers’ first triumph over Lehigh since 1968 and their first topten triumph this century, the 21–19 win electrified the wrestling world, earned Princeton some begrudging respect — “well, that just happened,” read one headline — and catapulted the team to a national ranking. Since then, a question has plagued the Tigers, their fans, and their adversaries: could Princeton do it again?

Answer: yes. On Saturday Nov. 23, in Jadwin Gymnasium, No. 14 Princeton wrestling faced No. 7 Lehigh once more. This time — methodically, meticulously — the Tigers took down an equal. Missing was the frenzy of last November; missing were its upsets and drubbings. Princeton did not need to rely on the spectacular for this victory. Slow, steady, grunt work proved enough for an 18–14 win. Save maybe for the parents of the wrestlers on the mats, the meet’s spectators left with their fingernails intact. “Last year we were jumping around hugging each other,” said Ayres in one of his Coaches Corners. This year? “It’s business as usual.” Heading into the meet, the Tigers’ game plan was clear. No. 5 sophomore Patrick Glory would face Lehigh’s No. 12 Brandon Paetzell at 125 pounds; No. 12 senior captain Mike D’Angelo would face the unranked Jimmy Hoffman at

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Sophomore Quincy Monday, with Lehigh’s Josh Humphreys in a headlock.

149; No. 2 junior captain Patrick Brucki would face No. 16 Jake Jakobsen at 197. There was little chance Princeton would ever lose those matches. Unranked freshman Sean Pierson would make his 133-pound debut against Le-

high’s No. 19 Nick Farro; unranked senior Kevin Parker would make his 174-pound debut against Lehigh’s No. 2 Jordan Keller; unranked true freshman heavyweight Aidan Connor would make his collegiate dual debut against No. 6 Jordan Wood.

Damage control, more than winning, was the objective there. The meat of the dual, then, came down to four matches. At 141 pounds, unranked sophomore Marshall Keller would face the unranked LeSee WRESTLING page 7

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