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Phil Murphy wins NJ governorship
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On Tuesday, New Jersey residents hit the polls to vote in the state elections. Within one minute of polling sites’ 8 p.m. closing, Democrat Phil Murphy was projected as the winner in the race for gov-
ernor. Murphy is a former Goldman Sachs executive, ambassador to Germany, and finance chairman of Democratic National Convention. Murphy received 56 percent of the vote with 1,165,001 ballots cast in his favor. GOP runner-up Kim Guadagno, the current lieu-
Ai-jen Poo talks DACA, domestic work, inequity staff writer
“At its heart and at its best, [domestic work] is about upholding the dignity and quality of life of others,” said Ai-jen Poo, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance in a lecture on Wednesday. “It’s the work that allows all other work to be done.” An award-winning activist, Poo was named a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant in 2014, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2013 and one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. She is visiting the Wilson School as this year’s Conor D. Reilly Distinguished Visitor. In her talk, Poo explained that because domestic workers are disproportionately women of color and immigrants, they encounter a wide range of inequalities, both on and off the job. Poo said that “the hierarchy of human value that
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that many of the students in attendance expected Murphy to win. “The first thing that was announced was Phil Murphy’s win, which was relatively expected,” Ninan said. “Even though [Whig-Clio] did have events around voter registration earlier in the
year, ultimately we didn’t get too much traction from New Jersey students particularly because I don’t think students felt as much of an urgency. There were several New Jersey students in the audience though who came See ELECTIONS page 2
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tenant governor of New Jersey, received 42 percent of the vote with 885,387 ballots cast in her favor. The Whig-Cliosophic Society hosted a watch party for the elections in the basement of Whig Hall. President Rebekah Ninan ’19, who organized the event, said
ranks and dehumanizes us” devalues domestic workers as a result of classism, racism, and a long-standing underappreciation of what is perceived as being “women’s work.” Poo explained that domestic workers are particularly aware of inequalities because they often work in wealthy homes and neighborhoods, helping to provide a standard of living they will likely never achieve for themselves. She recalled hearing stories from the people she works with about employers coming home with shoes that cost more than their monthly rent. Poo said that despite these vast inequalities, it is possible — and even necessary — to avoid dehumanizing employers while remaining “crystal clear” about the cruelty and exploitation that plague domestic and care work. Poo added that domestic and care work relies on human and emotional reSee AI-JEN POO page 5
Columnist Leora Eisenberg comments on the importance of friendships and guest contributor Iris Samuels reacts to the recent Hotovely discussion on campus. PAGE 6-7
Paradise Papers include U. By Sarah Warman Hirschfield senior writer
Princeton, along with hundreds of other U.S. colleges and universities such as Columbia, Stanford, Duke, and the University of Pennsylvania, has investments in offshore accounts where its endowment can grow with little or no taxation. On Sunday, Bermudabased law firm Appleby leaked the Paradise Papers, confidential documents re-
vealing information regarding these offshore accounts. “We use offshore vehicles only when necessary to gain access to specific managers,” said Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day in an email. While endowment earnings are usually tax-exempt, some colleges and universities invest in private equity and hedge funds, which employ borrowing tactics that expose them to tax consequences. “Tax exemption doesn’t
apply to unrelated business taxable income,” wrote Beth Bogan, a senior lecturer in economics at the University, in an email. In the 1990s, “private equity funds that buy direct ownership in businesses were obtaining high returns and university financial managers wanted to invest in them,” she added. To avoid taxes, schools can legally invest in so-called “blocker corporations,” offSee ENDOWMENT page 5
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U. honors prominent alumni By Allie Spensley and Kristin Qian
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The University will award its top alumni honors, the Woodrow Wilson Award and the James Madison Medal, to Charles Gibson ’65 and Daniel Mendelsohn GS ’94, respectively. The official award ceremony will take place on campus during Alumni Day on Feb. 24, where Gibson and Mendelsohn will also deliver
speeches. The Woodrow Wilson Award is conferred annually to an undergraduate alumna or alumnus whose career has exemplified Wilson’s idea of “Princeton in the Nation’s Service.” Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, served as a president of the University, governor of New Jersey, and President of the United States. Gibson earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the
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University. A television journalist with over 40 years of experience, Gibson has reported worldwide, notably as an ABC anchor, hosting “World News with Charles Gibson” from 2006 to 2009 and “Good Morning America” from 1987 to 2006. He covered the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and conflicts in Kosovo and the Middle East, and was awarded an Emmy for See ALUMNI page 3
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for the ceremonial aspect of seeing the election results come in, but for the most part no one was particularly surprised.” All 80 seats in the state General Assembly were also on the ballot. Princeton falls in the 16th Legislative District, where Andrew Zwicker and Roy Freiman, both Democrats, defeated Republican candidates Donna Simon and Mark Caliguire in one of the most hotly contested races in New Jersey. The 16th district has historically been held by Republicans, until last election when Zwicker, former head of science education at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, won by a mere 78 votes, thus splitting control of the district’s two Assembly seats. With last night’s win, the district will become Democratically held for the first time ever in its 42-year history. Along with the gubernatorial and legislative elections, all 40 seats in the state Senate were up for election. Democrats took the Senate majority, winning 25 of the 40 seats. In the 16th district, however, Republican incumbent Christopher “Kip” Bateman narrowly maintained his seat by winning 51% of the vote.
In Mercer County, Democrats swept the ballot. Democratic candidate John “Jack” Kemler earned his three-year term as Sheriff with 54,756 votes, more than double Republican candidate Charles Farina’s 23,776 votes. In the race for county freeholder, Democrats Lucylle Walter and John Cimino were elected over Republicans Jeff Hewitson and Michelle Noone. New Jersey residents also voted in favor of a ballot initiative that would allow the state to borrow $125 million to modernize and expand public libraries, along with with a ballot initiative that prevents lawmakers from diverting funds earmarked for environmental cleanups to balance the state budget. Some students who voted in the election said that they chose to do so in order to express their political opinions. Samuel Russell ’18 said that the election was a referendum on Trump. “We shouldn’t have been too surprised by the results because of his high unfavorability rating and polling indicating wide leads for Democrats,” Russell said. “I think it’s good to get your voice out there and actually cause some influence on what the government is doing,” said Nick Sum ’21, a first-time voter. “It makes the government listen to you and your voice if you vote.”
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Gibson spoke at Class Day in 2010 and was a University trustee.
Mendelsohn is an internationally renowned author and professor at Bard College.
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his Primetime Thursday investigation titled “Columbia Final Mission” on the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Throughout his career, Gibson has covered the White House and Congress, interviewed presidents and world leaders, and moderated presidential debates. Gibson has been awarded the National Journalism Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Paul White Award by the Radio Television Digital News Association. Gibson served two terms as a University trustee, from 2006 to 2015. He delivered the keynote address at Princeton’s Class Day in 2010. Mendelsohn received the James Madison Medal, which is awarded annually to an alumnus or alumna of the Graduate School who has achieved remarkable career accomplishments, contributed significantly to public service, or advanced the field of graduate education. The award was established by the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, which chose Madison as the namesake of the award because he is often cited as the University’s first graduate student. Mendelsohn studied classics at the University graduate school, receiving his M.A. in 1989 and his Ph.D. in 1994. While still in graduate school, Mendelsohn began writing for publications such as The New York Times and The Nation. After receiving his Ph.D., he moved to New York to write full time. He has since received international renown as an author, critic, translator, and memoirist. Mendelsohn’s most recent book, “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic,” was published in September 2017 and shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. His other memoirs include “The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity,” a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, and “The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million,” an international bestseller that described Mendelsohn’s search to discover the fate of relatives who died in the Holocaust. Mendelsohn is also the author of two essay collections about literature and the arts, “How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken” and “Waiting for Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture.” His scholarly works include “Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays” and translations of the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy. In 2005, Mendelsohn worked in the University’s Atelier program, staging a production of Euripides’ “The Trojan Wom-
en” with students and artists Maria Tucci and Allegra Kent. Mendelsohn is currently the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College and a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the American Philosophical Association. He is the recipient of numerous literary and scholarly awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship,
the PEN Harry Vursell Prize for Prose Style, and two Mellon Foundation awards. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski GS ’61, president of Peru, and Eric Schmidt ’76, former CEO
of Google and the current executive chairman of Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, were honored with the James Madison Medal and the Woodrow Wilson Award in May.
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Poo is a MacArthur “genius” and was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People.
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lationships, which make it even more saddening that it is such “vulnerable and undervalued” work. “The work itself is emotional,” said Poo, noting that this makes it difficult to assign it a monetary value. She added that there isn’t a “zero-sum tradeoff” between advocating for better wages and working conditions for domestic workers and acknowledging that their work is about “humanity and relationships,” which makes it hard to quantify. Poo sees domestic and care work as one of the few fields where workers cannot be replaced by AI or robots, making it an especially important job sector for an increasingly automatized future. She also stressed the importance of passing a “clean Dream Act” that doesn’t protect the rights of Dreamers only to criminalize and punish their families, and urged the audience to contact their representatives about supporting DACA. “You’re always somewhat vulnerable to deportation,”
she said. Poo added that American citizens can and should advocate for immigrant and undocumented communities and their rights, especially in the current divisive political climate. “We have to really show up and not allow ourselves to become numb,” she said. After Poo’s lecture, the audience asked questions on everything from Marxist feminism to the environment. Leyla Mocan GS, a firstyear graduate student studying public policy, said that the talk was a “refreshing” look at the future of work, adding that Poo’s “clearly really smart.” Joe Guarnacci, a frequent community auditor, praised Poo’s delivery as calm and charismatic, and said that he was struck by the extent of the average American’s complicity in the devaluation and exploitation of domestic workers. “It’s like if you know there’s a problem, by not acting, you’re just as guilty,” he said. The lecture, titled “Building Movements in the Age of Polarization,” took place on Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall.
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Liberals, learn to listen Iris Samuels
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am a Princeton student and an Israeli. I am proud of both these titles, despite the fact that neither Princeton, nor Israel, are perfect. Monday’s talk at Princeton by Tzipi Hotovely, an Israeli member of parliament, coincided with the launch of the Princeton & Slavery project. There isn’t much in common between the two occasions, other than the simple truth that both Israel and Princeton must reckon with legacies fraught with inequality and intolerance. On most days, it is easy for me to be angry at Israel. I spent two years of my life serving in its army, but Israeli politics leave me anxious about the future. I worry that Israel’s identity as a liberal democracy is at stake, and only the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside it — a far-f lung reality — can ensure Israel’s survival. But today, I am more disappointed in Princeton. When the Center for Jewish Life attempted to “indefinitely postpone” Hotovely’s speech, it gave in to the politics of divisiveness. During my time in the army, Israel held two national elections. Both times, I voted for a leftleaning party. Most of my friends voted for such parties as well. When the right-leaning Likud party won the highest number
of votes and was given the mandate to form a government, we were angry and frustrated. Sound familiar? Perhaps because the same thing happened in the United States in 2016, when liberal Americans were shocked by the election of Donald Trump. I disagree wholeheartedly with the views of the Likud party, as I disagree with Trump’s views. But I also disagree with the attempt to shut out these voices. When the Likud party won, I didn’t stop serving in my country’s army. When Trump won the American election, I didn’t f lee the United States. Both the Likud Party and Trump have been legitimized through the democratic system that Israel and the United States champion. If millions of people support these views, is it truly fair not to, at the very least, hear them out? Hotovely, a member of the Likud party and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, represents a growing portion of the Israeli population. In a recent poll, 53 percent of Israelis expressed support of a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians. But 54 percent of Israelis were against evacuating settlements in the West Bank, a step that would be necessary to create territorial continuity in a future Palestinian state. These numbers mean that Hotovely’s views, based on a religious Jewish percep-
tion of the Land of Israel, are not in the minority. Liberal Jews in the United States are caught between an instinct to protect the moral integrity of the Jewish nation and a fundamental misunderstanding of the very country they are trying to protect. When Israelis vote for the Likud party, they are doing so for various reasons. They are worried about the rising cost of living, they want job security, and, yes, some of them mistrust Arabs. It’s an awful truth that stems from generations of battles, from parents tired of sending their children to war, of buses and tunnels and rockets and spilled blood. It’s not a truth any nation should be proud of, but it is a reality. The American Jewish community in Princeton and beyond must realize that its current strategy of trying to marginalize the political right in Israel is futile. This serves only to embolden leaders like Hotovely and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu,who is also acting Foreign Minister, when they claim that America is filled with closed-minded “liberals.” I believe that the best strategy is to listen, to exercise empathy for the voters who gave Hotovely power, and to try, through hard-hitting questions, to challenge her views. By pushing to disinvite Hotovely, progressive Jews on Princeton’s campus are legitimizing
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the attempts on the opposite side of the political map to disinvite leaders of organizations such as Breaking the Silence, which is comprised of Israelis who shed light on the destructive nature of the continued military occupation of the West Bank. But more importantly, they are stopping themselves from fully understanding the political and religious realities of Israel. If the American Jewish community wants to exercise inf luence over Israel, the first step must be to appreciate its multifaceted, frustrating, and seemingly incomprehensible existence. I didn’t attend Hotovely’s talk because I am currently studying abroad. From my apartment in Paris, I followed the live coverage of the event and felt disheartened because this Member of Parliament, whose views strike me as somewhere between bigoted and shortsighted, is a representative of the country I served. I am proud of the students that filled the hall and asked Hotovely difficult questions. I wish I could have been one of them. But I felt disheartened because, yesterday, the “liberal” Jewish community to which I belong discouraged the simple act of listening. Iris Samuels is a junior in Politics and a former columnist for the ‘Prince’ from Zikhron Ya’Akov, Israel. She can be reached at isamuels@ princeton.edu.
The case for blind grading Ryan Born
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ext to memes, Netf lix, and alcohol, your typical Princeton student spends a lot of time thinking about their grades. Since we’re all so interested in our grades, we ought to be interested in the methodology of our professors and preceptors. One of the most important things in any evaluation is that the judgment be fair, and one of the ways to assure fairness in grading is to adopt blind grading. Blind grading is grading assignments without first identifying the author. This can be done using student ID numbers or by simply writing names on the very last page. Because blind grading reduces biases in grading and has several advantages over non-blind grading, it is a superior and fairer way of grading papers that professors at Princeton should consider adopting. In a 2014 article for Verdict, Vikram Amar argues that blind grading has several advantages. Firstly, it helps to remove both positive and negative biases toward individuals or groups, preventing teachers and preceptors from rewarding favorites and punishing troublemakers through their grading. It is also a way to eliminate a teacher’s positive expectations of a student: As David Gooblar relates in an article for ChronicleVitae, doing well on the first assignment often gives a student the benefit of the doubt in
future assignments. This means that a first assignment will make subpar work appear better in the future, and future grades become more lenient. This is clearly unfair. Work should be graded on its individual merits alone, not because a professor thinks a student will do better work than their peers. A student’s conduct in precept can also warp a grader’s perception of their work. Associate professor Desmond Jagmohan of Princeton’s politics department uses blind grading, as he feels papers ought be graded solely on the quality of the paper, and not from impressions gained in precept. We have precept grades for a reason, and these should not be doubly represented in our paper grades. Jagmohan understands that for some quiet students, papers are how they express some of the very best ideas. And the benefits of blind grading are not just for students, but also for teachers: Amar argues that blind grading increases credibility and protects teachers from accusation of bias. Gooblar outlines main potential disadvantage of blind grading. He argues that at the end of the day, he would rather be able to identify students’ work and chart their progress from assignment to assignment, give more feedback, tailor his grades to skills the students were working on, and continue office hours. But Gooblar need not worry, as essays can still be graded blind with the authors being
identified after grades have been recorded, allowing bias to be reduced whilst still tracking student’s progress. Another potential disadvantage is that small classes may make blind grading hard; after all, a teacher will likely be familiar with their students, right? Yet small classes are not necessarily a problem. Philosophy department chair Michael Smith recounts, “Though I only had a dozen or so students in my section, and though the students had talked with me about their essays before submitting them, I was constantly surprised when I discovered who had written which essay. I went from being a skeptic about the anonymization of essays to being a staunch advocate, even in very small classes.” Especially in discussion-based courses, it seems to me that the impact participation has can dramatically affect paper grades. As Princeton strives to be more socioeconomically and racially diverse, it makes sense to seek to reduce bias wherever possible. While I do not suggest that professors and preceptors here are biased, I do suggest that we live in a world where despite our best intentions, systemic biases may creep into grading. In general, blind grading strikes me as being fair as we increase our diversity on campus, and has advantages for students here and now as well as future students. Blind grading just seems more fair to students. As Jagmohan
notes, many students put forward their best ideas not in discussions (which can strike many as uncomfortable), but their papers. Smith said, “My sense is that students have more confidence in their grades when they know that their work was graded in ignorance of their identity. When you do blind grading, all there is to react to is the quality of the ideas.” On a pragmatic note, it is up to each professor to choose how they want to grade their classes. Princeton University is generally loath to undermine its professor’s autonomy, and no professor would undermine another’s. As Jagmohan argues, Princeton’s commitment to undergraduate teaching and mentoring cause professors to think about how fairness and justice apply to teaching and mentoring, and each professor knows the best for their own particular class. I have to agree. Each professor must decide for themselves. I hope that professors and students will see that blind grading is a convenient way to ensure fair grading, preventing the rewarding of favorites, those who turn in good work first, and those who speak well in precept, while being fair to those who can sometimes cause trouble, took some time to find their footing in a class, and those who are quiet in precept. Ryan Born is a junior in philosophy from Washington, Mich. He can be reached at rcborn@princeton.edu.
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Everything on the line against Yale this Homecoming weekend
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To say this weekend’s game against Yale is critical is not doing it enough justice. When the Tigers take the field for their Saturday matinee show-
down against the No. 1 Bulldogs, everything will be at stake. Currently, the No. 3 Tigers need to win a few games to claim a piece of the league title in one of the closest races in recent memory; a Yale win sinks the Tigers’
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hopes of the title. Adding to the stakes of this game is Princeton’s shot at the bonfire. Since Princeton’s dismantling of Harvard on national TV earlier this season, players and fans alike have had this game marked down as the
biggest of the year. Can the Tigers overcome multiple heartbreaking defeats and win their final home game of the season? On this Saturday’s homecoming, the need to win, the opportunity to secure the first bonfire in four
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