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ACADEMICS

U. task force talks general education

By Maya Wesby staff writer

Colagiuri noted that the Task Force hopes to give a report on its findings to the University administration by next fall.

“At a high level, ideally, what should every Princeton student take away from their education? And then we started to turn to, more practically, what would that look like? How might we best do that?” Colagiuri said.

She noted that students who attended the conversations were very engaged and passionate about the topics at hand.

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Whitman College had a festive “Come Home for the Holidays” themed dinner on Tuesday night.

The University’s Task Force on General Education held three discussions with students last week about concerns regarding distribution requirements.

Elizabeth Colagiuri, Deputy Dean of the College and member of the Task Force on General Education, said the discussions were centered on the goals of an undergraduate education at the University and what core values and lessons students should be equipped with by the time they graduate.

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Number of low income students has increased at U.

Cruz ’92, Christie talk terrorism in final debate

By Drew Brazer

President Barack Obama has done an inadequate job combating the ISIS terrorist threat and if they were to be elected president, they would be much more effective, both Texas Senator Ted Cruz ’92 and New Jersey governor Chris Christie argued in a Tuesday republican debate focused on the terrorist threat.

“If I am President, we will hunt down and kill the terrorists,” Cruz said.

Christie said that the basic responsibility of the President is to protect its people and that Obama has not been doing that.

Christie is an ex officio trustee of the University.

Cruz also said that Obama and Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have not been sufficiently willing to fight against terrorism. Cruz added that the problem with the Obama administration is not a lack of competence, but an excess of political

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While the proportion of lowincome high school graduates enrolling in two- and four-year institutions has experienced a significant drop since the economic downturn of 2008, the University’s low-income student enrollment has increased over the past seven years.

According to U.S. Census Bureau data, the percentage of students from low-income families enrolling in higher education immediately after graduating from high school has declined from 56 percent of graduates to just 46 percent since 2008. The report added that this data signifies that, in short, low-income students today are much less likely to enroll in college immediately following high school than they were seven years ago.

In a report called “Where Have All the Low-Income Students

Gone?”, The American Council on Education said that the national findings are indeed surprising given increased national and institutional efforts to increase low-income post-secondary school participation since 2008.

The American Council on Education has also indicated that the dramatic decline in enrollment among low-income students in two- and four-year colleges and universities transpired despite massive increases in federal and institutional financial aid.

Grant aid from federal, state, private and institutional sources increased by roughly 50 percent after adjusting for inflation, from $82 billion in the 2008-09 academic year to $123 billion in the 2013-14 academic year, as detailed in the College Board’s 2014 “Trends in Student Aid” report.

The net price of college since 2008 has fallen significantly at two-year institutions and increased only by 21 percent at four-

year institutions, the report said.

These figures do not seem to correlate with the demonstrated decline in low-income undergraduate enrollment.

The American Council on Education proposed several theories to explain this issue, including the ideas that the rapid price increases in college tuition may have led low-income students to think that college is out of reach financially. Other theories were that students may believe that the economic value of higher education has declined and that low-income students have begun to enter the workforce at a higher overall rate than those from higher-income families due to the economic recovery.

The Federal Pell Grant Program provides need-based grants to lowincome undergraduates and certain post-baccalaureate students with the goal of promoting access to post-secondary education, acSee INCOME page 3

By Paul Phillips news editor

correctness.

Cruz said he disagreed with opponent Donald Trump about banning all Muslim refugees to the United States, explaining that he has instead introduced legislation to suspend all refugees from countries with a strong ISIS or Al-Qaeda presence for three years. Trump’s idea, he said, does not sufficiently focus on the problem.

“It’s not a war on faith, it’s a war on a political and theocratic ideology that seeks to murder us,” Cruz said.

Cruz added that he does not support complete amnesty for Syrian refugees, and that he opposed an amnesty plan for the refugees supported by a bipartisan “Gang of Eight,” including presidential competitor and Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

Cruz also said that as President, he would use air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS, and that Obama, who is currently instigating 10 to 20 attacks a day against ISIS, is not doing See DEBATE page 2

ACADEMICS

Psychology department creates 3 labs staff writer

The psychology department at the University opened three new research laboratories in computational neuroscience, social neuroscience and developmental psychology in the past two years.

Two of the labs, the Princeton Baby Lab and the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab, were created at the beginning of this academic year.

The Princeton Baby Lab is a joint initiative created by psychology professors Casey LewWilliams and Lauren Emberson.

“I primarily study language in the first years of life, and she primarily studies perception in the first years of life, but all with the focus on understanding how learning gets off the ground in the first place,” Lew-Williams explained.

Lew-Williams noted an increasing desire in the psychology

department to have the perspective of developmental researchers to better understand the origins of how adults process information in memory, attention and social interaction led the University to hire experts in the field.

Psychology department chair Elizabeth Gould deferred comment to assistant chair Nicholas Turk-Browne. Turk-Browne declined to comment.

Lew-Williams lab’s projects focus primarily on the basic science side of learning but also focuses on more translational, or applied projects, he noted. His research projects include how infants break into language in the first place, combining sounds and syllables into words and sentences and coming to understand and produce these structures, he said.

“We always have our eye on what our finding might mean for a particular population that is at risk — for example, children in

poverty, or children born prematurely, or children with a developmental disorder of some kind,” Lew-Williams said.

Emberson said her projects focus on memory and perception in babies and the interrelation of these two elements. She explained that her lab combines behavioral methods, such as camera and eye trackers, with neuroimaging technologies, such as near-infrared spectroscopy.

Another new lab, the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab, seeks to answer important social questions by drawing from disciplines including neuroscience, social psychology, behavioral economics and machine learning, according to psychology professor Diana Tamir, who created and runs the lab.

Some of the lab’s main research questions include how people bridge the subjective world they See LABS page 3

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The psychology department added 3 new labs this year.

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Cruz ’92: we need to decide if “regime change is a good idea” DEBATE

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enough. When asked if he were willing to bomb the civilian population in cities where ISIS has a strong presence, Cruz said that he would carpet bomb the areas where ISIS is, not the entire city.

He added that in removing dictators such as Muammar Qaddafi, the U.S. government got distracted from keeping the country safe. While these dictators were undoubtedly bad men,

he said, they were also assisting the United States in keeping Islamic terrorists out.

“What we need to decide is whether or not regime change is a good idea,” Cruz said.

When asked about his support for the USA Freedom Act, which modified the Patriot Act by imposing new limits on the collection of telecommunication metadata, Cruz noted that the act in fact also strengthened tools of law enforcement to go after terrorists, as it expanded government surveillance from land

lines to other forms of communication such as Internet phones.

While the older legislation covered only 20 to 30 percent of communications, the new legislation covers almost 100 percent, Cruz noted.

Christie criticized Clinton, saying that she would respond to terrorism in exactly the same way that Obama has, and he criticized his opponents in the Senate, saying that legislators in the Senate do not make executive decisions or face responsibility for the executive decisions that

are made. As governor, he said, he was responsible for legislation that was passed, making him a better candidate to fight terrorism.

“Let’s talk about how we do this, not about which bill, which one these guys like more,” Christie said. “The American people don’t care about that.”

He also explained that as President, he would institute a nofly zone over Syria, and if Russia flew a plane into this no-fly zone he would have that plane shot down. When opponent Ken-

tucky Senator Rand Paul referred to Christie’s plan as reckless and a recipe for disaster, Christie said that the people who are reckless are those in the White House who are allowing civilians to die as a result of ISIS. The debate, which took place at 8:30 p.m. EST in Las Vegas, Nev., was moderated by CNN political anchor Wolf Blitzer, along with CNN reporter Dana Bash and conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. The debate was sponsored by CNN and the Salem Media Group.

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Government president Ella Cheng ’16 said that discussions focused on pass/D/fail policies, reforming the academic calendar, certificate programs, how classes are categorized by distribution area and intangible topics such as how courses may be too rigorous or too lacking.

Issues regarding distribution and departmental requirements were only a small part of the talks, Cheng noted.

Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily

Princetonian.

She said the discussions were broad and that the Task Force said they would later create focus groups on more targeted areas of the curriculum.

Michael Cox ’17, USG Campus and Community Affairs committee chair, said that faculty members were receptive to student opinions during the discussions, adding that the discussions raised questions on what students should be getting out of classes in general.

“Is this the best environment we have for us to be able to do well?” he said. “Are

[faculty] doing what they’re supposed to be doing for us right now, or is it part of just, like, a box-checking?”

He said the University has the resources to best decide which decisions and reforms to make, and added that the current academic climate is in need of change.

Cheng said she also believes that the University curriculum should be reformed.

“It should have happened probably a long time ago, but academic change here happens very slowly and deliberately, so I’m glad they’re doing this now. I just hope that

they will consistently collect student feedback throughout the process,” she said, adding that she has been fighting for a student representative in the Task Force to advance faculty-student interaction throughout its work.

Cheng explained that moderators took notes on student opinions by asking what students believe would make an ideal Princeton education.

They then discussed how the University can make these ideals possible, she said.

Colagiuri added that opinions and input from students will be integrated with the Task Force’s ongoing work,

adding that it is important for the committee to hear from the students because they are the ones who experience the general education system and have opinions on how what works and what doesn’t.

“We’re not at the point now to say what the recommendations will be, because it’s still early days in the Task Force’s work,” she said. “I think it is clear we would like to have more conversations with students moving into the spring term,” she said.

She explained that the Task Force will continue to receive student and faculty input throughout the academic year and will study the University’s general education history and the distribution requirements at other universities. This way, the Task Force will gain a holistic sense of what an undergraduate education was like in the past, how it it is in the present state and how it should be modified for the future, she said.

Cheng said she believes that the curriculum needs to be pedagogically effective so that students are challenged, but not to the point where it threatens overall mental health and happiness on campus. She explained that students’ mental health and happiness on campus is strongly correlated with their academic performance because they all enter the University as diligent and motivated students.

“The truth is that not all of us can succeed in the same metrics like we did in high school,” she said. “All of us are coming from such different backgrounds but expected to perform equally well on the same base here, and I just find that kind of absurd.”

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New labs place emphasis on undergraduate student involvement LABS

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live in with their social world and how people, who are inherently constrained to their own limited perspectives, accomplish things in a social world, Tamir explained. She added that the lab uses a variety of behavioral experiments, functional neuroimaging and linguistic analyses and machine learning via social media to gather data.

Meghan Meyer, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab, noted that one of its main research projects is the study of imagination expertise from the neuroscience perspective.

The lab is scanning highly successful writers, artists, actors, politicians and leaders to analyze their brains in the process of imagining different scenarios, Meyer said.

“The approach we’re taking [is] to look at people who have expertise in their ability to imagine things or their ability to think about people’s minds,” Tamir said.

Both the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab and the Baby Lab place an emphasis in undergraduate student involvement.

Tamir’s lab is marked by collaboration with all researchers, including undergraduate students, at a variety of expertise levels, Meyer said, explaining that the undergraduates attend lab meetings, contribute ideas and get feedback from postdoctoral fellows, Tamir and their peers.

“I think that’s really unique, not necessarily just to this lab, but to Princeton,” Meyer added.

Both Lew-Williams and Emberson noted the many opportunities for undergraduates to research and learn in their lab.

They explained that students in their lab benefit from thorough involvement in a project from start to finish, inclusion in lab meetings and exposure to a diverse array of methods, from behavioral experiments to coding and data analysis.

Julie Kwong ’16, a senior thesis student in the Baby Lab, said that her experience has been immensely valuable as a foundation for research experience. Alissa Wagner ’16, another senior thesis student in the Baby Lab focusing on math learning in children, noted the “amazing” atmosphere of the lab and its interaction with the community.

The department also hired psychology professor Jonathan Pillow, who in 2014 created the Pillow Lab, a computational neuroscience and machine learning lab. As the capacity to record more neurons and collect more data grows, there is an increasing

need for statistical methods to process and analyze this information, Pillow said.

“One key aspect of our lab is that it’s highly interdisciplinary, highly collaborative. We don’t collect our own data at all,” he said.

Instead, the group collaborates with other research groups or labs, especially those at the University, to analyze the data they collect using innovative methods, Pillow said.

Katherine Lee ’17, an undergraduate researcher in the Pillow Lab, said the lab is particularly well-designed for research, both physically and mentally, providing organization, collaboration and support.

“We have weekly lab meetings to read other articles that we might not have [heard] about and hear about what everyone else in the group is working on, which is really neat and also helps with

collaboration a lot because you know who to ask to answer your questions — you know who has done similar work in the past,” she added.

Pillow added that the lab is unique in that it acts as a link at the interface between machine learning and neuroscience.

“We understand the kind of mathematical and statistical techniques that are used to model data, but we also understand neuroscience literature. We’re ultimately neuroscientists who want to figure out how the brain works,” Pillow added.

He also noted that the use of machine learning to extract more information from data or to process bigger data sets is a revolution changing many different sciences, and that the study of psychology is at a critical time because the ability to collect data from brains is advancing faster than it ever has before.

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cording to the U.S. Department of Education.

Low-income undergraduate student enrollment has increased over the past seven years at the University according to data provided by University spokesman Martin Mbugua showing that the percentage of Pell Grant recipients per class year rose from 7.2 percent for the Class of 2008 to 18 percent for the Class of 2018. According to the Undergraduate Admissions website, approximately 60 percent of enrolled students receive financial aid.

Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid Robin Moscato said that it is the University’s stated mission to increase the overall economic diversity in its student body and to increase its percentage of Pell Grant recipients in the en-

rollment each year. She added that the Financial Aid Office engages in a variety of low-income outreach programs through travel, internet resources, mailings and numerous other initiatives.

According to Moscato, Undergraduate Admissions works with community based organizations such as Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America and QuestBridge to increase the University’s enrollment of low-income undergraduates.

“Our financial aid program is one of the best in the country, and it is available to current undergraduate students for all four years,” Moscato said. “We are actively involved in helping to support low-income students all throughout their time here at Princeton.”

However, Melana Hammel ’18, a low-income student from Barnegat, N.J. who serves as the social chair of Princeton’s Hidden

Minority Council, said that many low-income high school students are not fully aware of the resources provided by upper-level institutions like Princeton.

“There is definitely a lack of information to underprivileged students everywhere regarding the financial aid resources at these top institutions,” she said.

As a low-income student, Hammel also described the false suppositions many people have made about her when they learn that she is an undergraduate at Princeton.

Because many people seem to associate the University with wealth, she said, those who do not know her often assume that Hammel comes from a well-to-do family.

“There is definitely an assumption of privilege,” Hammel said.

“People won’t know that I am lowincome or that I am first generation unless I decide to bring attention to it.”

Sophie Wheeler ’19, who is from

West Hartford, Conn. and who applied to the University through QuestBridge, said that she chose the University over other schools because of all the schools she got into, the University gave her the most generous financial aid. She added that she thinks low-income students perceive the Ivy League as being “out of their league,” and that if more people knew about the University’s financial aid package there would be more of an incentive to apply.

Wheeler said that she has had a positive experience with the Financial Aid Office, noting that they have been responsive in getting back to her and have increased her scholarship several times. She also said that she has not categorized herself as “lowincome” during her time at the University, but added that she does face concerns her peers do not face such as not exceeding her budget at late meal.

Hammel said that throughout high school, she was reluctant to share her low-income student identity with her peers, the majority of whom came from middleclass families. While she had similar concerns upon enrolling in the University, she said she no longer feels the same pressure to conceal her identity as a low-income student.

However, this pressure to hide her low-income status has been replaced by an increased pressure for academic success, she said. Hammel said that unlike many of her peers, she feels a responsibility to succeed in her studies that is rooted in providing for the future wellbeing of her mother and father.

“After all of the sacrifices my parents have made for me, I want to be able to repay them with a happy retirement,” she said.

News editor Paul Phillips contributed reporting.

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complex. As someone who is a little short of stature, he has to appear bulked up and hyped up and gets to get in everyone’s face, to be they guy that leads everyone. He is a leader on the team; he plays a very important position. But he’s the guy who will yell at you and get in your face if you mess up.

MW: Socially, I’m the social chair. Well, Jack makes running a little easier on everyone else. We don’t start until everyone else is done; we get a little bit of a longer break with Jack out there. But yeah, he’s a lock, he’s a big man, and when you need to hit somebody, Jack is your guy.

JJ: Socially, I add levity and wit.

MW: And he’s nice to all the freshmen.

DP: Tell me about each other’s hidden talents or obsessions.

JJ: Weber’s the best singer I’ve ever heard.

MW: It’s not funny! People aren’t going to know that isn’t true, they’re just going to think that I’m a great singer — JJ: [interrupting] Hey, I’m just helping you out with the ladies. He used to play guitar back in the day. He stopped because he doesn’t know how to sing. But he can play the guitar. Other things…he’s obsessed with Justin Bieber, but who isn’t? I am too.

MW: He’s so hot right now.

JJ: He also loves Irish and Scottish folk songs.

MW: I don’t know if this counts, but Janko drinks three large coffees a day.

JJ: When I had money, I drank coffee. I’ve been living on $1.98 for the past two weeks so I haven’t for a while.

MW: He’s been thriving on $1.98.

JJ: I have been thriving. Max is obsessed with naps, also.

I don’t know how he does it.

At any given hour, he and our roommate Ian will be napping on our couches.

MW: You know what you can say about Jankowski? He hasn’t seen any movies or TV shows.

JJ: No, I’ve seen good movies, quality movies, but I’ve never seen Superbad or Stepbrothers.

MW: Or Spongebob! Didn’t watch SpongeBob. JJ: Yeah, I didn’t watch dumb cartoons growing up! But I watched Jeopardy! and the news.

MW: You just called SpongeBob dumb. All her readers are going to hate you now.

JJ: I’ve seen all the Academy Award-winning movies!

DP: Describe the other’s ideal date.

JJ: Weber’s ideal date is a cute redheaded girl, camping and a couple beers.

MW: Based off experience, Janko’s ideal date would be doing anything, then spending all night talking.

JJ: No, being serious, Weber’s ideal date is a nice dinner with bottle of wine — MW: With a bottle of wine, and then sleep afterwards, in the same spot. That’s probably it.

JJ: Mine is probably sushi, and then a movie.

MW: No one actually has to be present for it. Just me and a bottle of wine.

JJ: Our ideal dates are probably myself and Max, hanging out on the couch and listening to Scottish music while sharing a bottle of wine.

That’s probably our ideal dates. You can quote me on that. And him.

DP: What are each other’s spirit animals?

MW: Janko’s is a polar bear.

JJ: Weber’s is probably an arctic fox. Maybe not arctic. Just a fox. I’m definitely a polar bear, the one bear that likes the taste of human f lesh. That’s me. That is scientifically proven.

DP: What would be the titles of each other’s autobiographies?

JJ: I fell asleep while my pre-workout was kicking in.

Or napping in there somewhere? Max Weber: a study of how sleep and pre-workout gets you through life.

Mine would probably be Janko: Ripped Trousers Every Night.

MW: No, it would be My Tonsils are Too Damn Big. JJ: That’s true.

DP: Okay, Max. Imagine Jack has been stranded on a deserted island for 10 years and you finally find a way to rescue him. When you get to the island, how does he look, and what has he been doing for the last 10 years?

JJ: My facial hair length hasn’t changed.

MW: No, it’s the same. I don’t think he would survive. He’s too pale and that doesn’t do well near the equator, where I assume this deserted island is.

JJ: I would for sure survive!

MW: He would burn up and die.

JJ: I would find shade under a palm tree and find a lovely mermaid.

MW: It doesn’t work that way. You would get skin cancer and die. Well, that took a heavy turn.

JJ: What do I look like? I’d probably be jacked and tan.

MW: You would probably be skinny. What are you, doing crossfit in your free time?

Have you seen castaway?

You’d probably look something like him.

DP: And Jack, the same for you, finding Max after 10 years.

MW: I’d be doing crossfit in my free time.

JJ: Yeah, he’d be yoked. He would be making his own pre-workout out of palm tree leaves and rocks. Doing crunches and pushups all the time, but he’d also be napping all the time so he would have missed four or five ships that went past his island because he would have been napping the entire time. And when I got there, only facial hair he has is just on his chin and it’s seven really long hairs.

MW: Seven more than you!

JJ: And he wanted to get a man bun but he never actually got to that length, disappointing him just so slightly because he wants it so bad.

DP: And for the typical on tap question, if the four fingers and thumb on one of your hands were drink dispensers, which drinks would they dispense?

[Both look intently at their hands for a few seconds before responding, wiggling their fingers in front of their faces.]

JJ: That would be sick. Water, Diet Coke, coffee, oh juice!

No, I don’t need juice. Gin, to go with the soda, and then sangria, because I’m a fruity kind of guy.

MW: Okay. Water, coffee, you know, sangria isn’t bad if you’re on that deserted island.

JJ: That’s what I was picturing. Sucking on my pinky, which has sangria. You would have pre-workout mix.

MW: No, uh, I’ll go with Augustiner, whiskey and Gatorade. I think I have to go Gatorade. No. Subbing out Gatorade for milk.

JJ: I forgot about milk! It’s gotta be whole milk though.

Skim milk is basically water.

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Princeton a lead that it was unsuccessful in retaking in the final match of the day.

With the battle against Navy in the books, the Tigers can head into winter break and rest until Tuesday Dec. 29. Once their reprieve from wrestling comes to an end, they will return to the mats in Evanston, Ill. to compete in the Midland Championships.

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Men’s basketball prepares for Liberty

By Miles Hinson sports editor

After an encouraging victory against Lipscomb University down in Nashville, Tenn., the men’s basketball team looks to continue its newfound momentum as it takes on Liberty University back at Jadwin Gymnasium on Thursday night.

The Tigers (5-2) broke a twogame slide this past Saturday with their victory over the Bisons via stellar play from three of their upperclassman players.

Junior guard Spencer Weisz and junior forwards Henry Caruso and Pete Miller all came to play in their last outing, with all three posting a double-double en route to a convincing 78-64 Tigers victory.

“Everyone is fitting into their own role on the team and what is expected of them,” Weisz said. “Each game, we just want

to come out with high energy and try to fulfill those roles the best we can.”

Along with the rest of the team, Weisz will look to stay hot against an opponent with whom the Tigers have found success in recent years. In the teams’ two meetings in the past two years, Princeton has come out on top each time.

Indeed, with their recent record, the Flames (3-8 overall, 0-2 Big South) have looked less than stellar. They will enter Jadwin this week having lost their last seven straight contests and are currently tied for last in their conference.

Indeed, the Tigers head into this contest with a host of weapons to rely on as they start wrapping up the semester.

Weisz, Caruso and Miller have shown this season that their stellar performances against Lipscomb were no fluke, and

they all have established themselves as focal points in the Tiger rotation. Caruso, in particular, has really stepped up from last year. After averaging under seven points and just over one rebound a game in the 2014-15 campaign, he now boasts 17.0 points and just under eight boards. He leads the team and currently ranks second in the Ivy League in scoring.

Moreover, the Orange and Black have found a young weapon in the form of freshman guard Devin Cannady. The rookie has been third on the team in scoring this season, putting up 10 points a game for the Tigers. He has also been one of the team’s leading sharpshooters, as he’s averaged a shade above 40 percent from downtown on the season.

Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. The game can be viewed via the Ivy League Digital Network.

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The men’s basketball team will face off against Liberty on Thursday.

WRESTLING

Tight battle ends in loss for Tigers at Dillon

By Miles Hinson sports editor

This past Friday, the men of Princeton wrestling played host to Navy, a team against whom the Tigers have found little success in decades past.

Despite a valiant fight that was filled twists and turns, the Orange and Black came away unsuccessful in a tight loss to the Midshipmen.

The Tigers were looking to head into winter break on a high note after splitting last weekend’s matches — a victory over Northwestern and a loss to Lehigh on the mats of Dillon Gymnasium. This past weekend, they hoped to be the ones to deal Navy their first loss of the year.

Indeed, the Tigers opened this one looking ready to make a stand on their home

turf. Freshman Pat D’Arcy was the one to get it going for the Tigers, as he earned a 6-0 victory in the 125 to kick off the day. From there, however, Navy totally changed the tide — four straight losses for the Tigers pointed to Navy’s running away with this one early.

It speaks to the fortitude of this Tiger team, then, that they managed to make a comeback to tie things up in the match. Senior Abram Ayala, senior Judd Ziegler and sophomore Jonathan Schleifer were all there to help bring the Tigers back in the match and hold the edge over the visitors.

Nav y, however, came right back. Princeton’s Brett Harner found himself in a pin courtesy of Navy’s Michael Woulfe, which ultimately cost See WRESTLING page 5

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On Friday, the wrestling team hosted Navy, falling to the longtime rival at the end of the day in a tight loss.

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On Tap With ... Jack Jankowski and Max Weber

By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

Junior lock Jack Jankowski and junior scrum-half Max Weber are a force of nature to be reckoned with, both on and off of the Rugby field.

Roommates in their time off, these two gentlemen sat down with The Daily Princetonian to talk about Rugby, Justin Bieber and their ideal dates.

Juniors Jack Jankowski and Max Weber sat down with The Daily Princetonian.

Daily Princetonian: Where are you from and what’s the best part about being from there?

Max Weber: Baltimore; I guess crabcakes and football.

Jack Jankowski: Not Baltimore, just “Bal-more.”

I’m from the little town of Wilton, Connecticut, and I guess the best thing about Wilton is…nothing. It’s a

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small, lovely town, and the people are catty and know everything about you. No, our sports teams, our high school sports teams and our feeder program. Our feeder program was sick. Because I was there.

DP: What are you studying?

JJ: I’m studying at the Woodrow Wilson School, which is international and public affairs, with a focus on Middle Eastern studies.

MW: I’m studying economics, assuming I get my prospectus in, and I’m looking at a finance certificate as well as a German certificate.

JJ: Sellout.

MW: Absolutely.

DP: What’s the funniest or most embarrassing thing that’s happened to one of you guys, on or off the field?

3 double-doubles Three Tigers, Spencer Weisz, Henry Caruso and Pete Miller, posted double-doubles in their last outing.

JJ: Most embarrassing thing that’s happened to Weber?

MW: No, no, you’re not doing this.

JJ: Actually I can’t think of any. But I rip my pants all the time. I ripped them at formals this past weekend. But maybe when Weber tries to kick the ball and it doesn’t go off the field, that’s pretty embarrassing. Because he sucks.

Oh, also Weber’s a huge peacock, he struts around with his shirt off all the time. At every Rugby practice, Weber will be the only one with his shirt off. He loves showing off his body.

DP: How would you describe each other’s roles on the team, athletically and socially?

JJ: So Weber is the classic Napoleon man, has a little See ON TAP page 5

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Oops, I skipped it again: disordered eating at Princeton Prianka Misra columnist

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have seen them throughout my college years. In fact, I have been one of them in the past.

College roommates, friends, voices overheard in the dining hall: “This is my first meal today,” or “I forgot to eat.”

My mother would ask, “How could you forget something that you have to do to survive?”

But it’s more common than you’d think and less acknowledged than it should be. Disordered eating includes fasting or chronic restrained eating, skipping meals, restrictive dieting, binge eating, self-induced vomiting, unbalanced eating (i.e. restricting a major food group such as fats or carbohydrates) and using diet pills.

Although some of these are more drastic than others, it is important to note that “skipping meals” is included in this.

While I can safely say that many students don’t make it out of bed in time to grab breakfast in the dining halls or eating clubs, it is incredibly important to make time between classes to have lunch. For the most part, skipping meals has less to do with

wanting to appear thin than with an inability to prioritize a routine that should clearly take precedence in our lives. And while students might not take pride in skipping meals, they don’t feel compelled enough to stop this harmful practice.

To me, “forgetting to eat” should not exist. Even in the midst of a busy schedule, students should not be pushed to the point that they forget one of the basic necessities for survival.

A number of changes can help combat disordered eating at Princeton.

Firstly, classes and precepts should not be scheduled to begin between the hours of 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. When students have classes during this time, they are often faced with no other option but to skip lunch. Moving these classes to later in the day — perhaps even at 7:30 p.m. — prevents students from having to do this. While an increased number of evening classes might force students to eat dinner earlier (at around 5 or 6 p.m.

— a time when they definitely would not have class), they would not have to skip lunch altogether as they currently have to if they have class at both 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Whether or

not skipping meals is intentional, our class schedules should not facilitate it.

Second, it is not enough for us to shine a light on eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. We must address issues like disordered eating before they become larger, more sustained problems. To do this, we need to create a campus culture around healthy eating. The USG’s UMatter campaign needs to advocate for nutritious lifestyles and discourage students from skipping meals. While the campaign attempts to address high-risk behaviors including offensive comments, atypical or withdrawn behavior, controlling behavior in a relationship and high-risk drinking, it does not address periodic avoidance or restriction of meals. Part of its tagline of “actively caring for yourself and others” should include making sure your friends are well-fed and aren’t letting schoolwork get in the way of eating regularly. It might be difficult to come up with intervention techniques that peers can use to prevent their friends from skipping meals, but we could develop social media campaigns and arrange more study breaks to raise awareness of this issue.

Finally, the University should

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administer another survey on eating disorders that includes questions about disordered eating. According to its 2004 survey, over half of respondents reported feeling overweight — even though this is nowhere near the population of Princeton students who actually fall into this category. But 2004 was 11 years ago. We need an updated campus-wide survey to better understand the issue of disordered eating and what factors lead to it. We might find other issues that Princeton has routinely tried to raise awareness of — stress, academic pressures and lack of time devoted to oneself — are inextricably linked to this problem.

But the first step, above all, is acknowledging that disordered eating is a problem. Students shouldn’t feel that “forgetting to eat” is as benign as forgetting their proxes in their rooms. It’s more like forgetting to breathe, sleep or blink — all of which would cause extreme harm to your body. If we put our bodies first, our minds, grades and social lives will thank us later.

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Prianka Misra is a Wilson School major from Castro Valley, Calif.

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More than just rhetoric: Anti-Muslim sentiment endangers lives

ur employers ask us, “Before we hire you, we want to know — what are your views on women’s rights, given you’re in the Muslim Students Association?”

Our classmates ask us, “As a Muslim, how do you feel about ISIS?” Our parents ask us, “You haven’t been associating with MSA a lot, have you?”

This is the “us vs. them” rhetoric that has defined our experience of coming of age as Muslim-Americans in the post 9/11 era. The conflict between our Muslim-ness and American-ness is not one that we have created but one that has been imposed upon us. We have to be “Muslim” before we get to be considered “American.”

This presupposed conflict between our Muslim-ness and American-ness has been exploited yet again. Presidential candidate Donald Trump recently called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering into the United States.” For Muslims already in America, Trump proposed an imposition of special identification cards. Trump’s ratings in the polls have risen since.

But it’s not just Trump who

has created these divisions. Our own governor Chris Christie said he would not even accept a five-year-old Syrian refugee.

The child’s presumed ‘dangerous’ Muslim identity precedes his or her need for help. These statements about refugees stem from a view that Muslim refugees will threaten American lives, and such rhetoric is a clear representation of the sway Islamophobia has over political officials. This suspicion toward Muslims is not just rhetoric to us. It translates into tangible actions that threaten our physical and emotional well-being. It impairs our ability to work, sleep and function, but we continue to function in order to claim our own narratives and identities.

This dichotomy of “Muslimness” and “American-ness” is far from the ideal, and no one is more conscious of that than we Muslims who have been raised and educated with American political values yet have witnessed something entirely different in the real world.

The values of religious freedom and tolerance have the potential to make this country a safe haven for immigrants, and it is indeed the reason that many Muslims from other countries have come to the United States.

While there has always been a gap between this ideal of tolerance and reality, it has been encouraging for all Americans to see noticeable progress in the cause of civil rights and diversity in the past century.

However, these trademark and, when they were penned, landmark ideals of religious freedom and tolerance have been shockingly and discouragingly undermined in recent months and years by the Islamophobic rhetoric of the very people whom we expect to defend these ideals: potential elected officials. This subversion and distortion of American political doctrine represent to all Americans a pernicious and inexcusable threat to the security of this nation’s people and morals. This has already played out in opportunity barriers, xenophobic immigration policies and numerous hate crimes.

Just in the last few months, a mosque in southern California was set on fire while people were inside, a store owner was beaten by a man who was on a mission to “kill Muslims” and there were many accounts of school girls harassed because they were wearing the headscarf. We shouldn’t have to warn our parents to stay safe, and it’s

painful to not be able to suggest how.

Christie’s rejection of refugees hinges on the attempt to “put the safety and security of the American people first,” but what about us? This unbroken pattern of anti-Islamic sentiment and actions directly threatens us. We too are Americans, so what about our safety?

We are scared. As MuslimAmerican students at Princeton University, we call upon the University administration, faculty and students to recognize that we too are affected by the hate, violence and mistrust being perpetrated toward Muslims and other marginalized communities across the United States. We hope that our University community can model the kind of empathy and protection that Muslims in America need now, as our sense of security and belonging is under constant threat.

Muslim Students Association Alliance of Jewish Progressives Arab Society of Princeton South Asian Students Association Princeton Hindu Satsangam Sikhs of Princeton Latino Graduate Student Association Princeton Asian American Students Association Executive Board Students for Prison Education and Reform: Princeton Princeton College Democrats Queer Graduate Caucus The Princeton Progressive Princeton DREAM Team Princeton for Bernie Sanders

Signed,

Princeton Committee on Palestine

Muslim Advocates for Social Justice and Individual Dignity

Center for Jewish Life Social Justice Committee

The following student groups stand in solidarity:

Christians for the Common Good

Religious Life Council

A Collective of Latinx Students Black Graduate Caucus