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STUDENT LIFE

U. admits 18.6 percent Cen ’16, Ude ’16 are Sachs Scholars of early applicants for Class of 2020

By Paul Phillips news editor

By Jessica Li senior writer

The University admitted 785 students from a pool of 4,229 candidates for the class of 2020 through the singlechoice early action program, representing the largest number of early-admits in the University’s recent history, according to University Dean of Admissions Janet Rapelye.

This figure represents an 18.6 percent acceptance rate.

767 students had been admitted last December early action for the Class of 2019, and 714 students had been admitted through early action for the Class of 2018.

The University’s undergraduate admission office mailed notification letters to students today, and the deci-

sions were available to applicants via secure online access around 3 p.m. EST. Rapelye noted that this year represents the first time that the University admitted more women than men. Fifty-one percent of the early admits are women and 49 percent are men.

“We are very pleased with the diversity of this group,” Rapelye said.

According to Rapelye, the admitted students come from 33 countries and all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia except Kentucky, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. Eleven percent of the admitted students are international students and 42 percent of the admitted students are U.S. students from diverse backgrounds.

In addition, Rapelye said, 56 percent of the students who were admitted attended public schools, and 13 percent are the first in their families to attend college. Sixteen percent of the admitted students are sons or daughters of University alumni, while 21 percent of the admitted students said that they intended to major in engineering.

Though some families have not completed their financial aid applications, Rapelye explained that she expects the final admit pool to demonstrate financial needs comparable to those from past years. Around 60 percent of University students receive need-based grant, and grants are on average above $40,000 each year.

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Sarah Cen ’16 and Ogemdi Ude ’16 have been named the recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship.

Cen, who is majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering, will pursue a master’s in engineering science as a Sachs Scholar at Worcester College, Oxford, while Ude, who is majoring in English, will spend a year as a Sachs Global Scholar studying Indigenous Australian physical theater in Melbourne, Australia.

Cen is a former staff writer and web editor for the Daily Princetonian.

Matthew Stewart ’85, an adviser for the Sachs Scholarship, said that the Sachs Scholarship at Worcester College is intended for two years of graduate study and a degree at Worcester College, while the Global Scholarship was STUDENT LIFE

MASJID launches antiIslamophobia campaign

By Marcia Brown staff writer

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Students enjoy food provided by various Asian cultural groups on campus in the basement of Dod Hall.

intended as an option for students to spend a year abroad and devise a learning project of their own that might not fit into formal categories of pursuing a degree.

Stewart explained that former Sachs Scholars and friends of the association conduct the interviews and read the applications for the Sachs Scholarship. The application consists of a research proposal along with resumes, transcripts and letters of recommendation, and the selection committees look for people they think are committed to putting their talents toward the public good, Stewart said.

Cen said that she plans to work with information engineering professor Paul Newman in the mobile robotics group, adding that she will both present a thesis and take classes and attend seminars along the way. She said that her current plan after her two years See SACHS page 2

A campus-wide anti-Islamophobia campaign by the student group Muslim Advocates for Social Justice and Individual Dignity will begin soon.

MASJID, which formed last year in response to anti-Muslim sentiment at the University and across the country, announced the campaign at an open town hall meeting last Friday.

Around 20 people attended the meeting, according to Farah Amjad ’16, one of the founders of MASJID. At the town hall, Muslim students and other allies gathered to discuss issues of Islamophobia in the media, internationally and on campus.

In a post in the Princeton Muslim Students Association Facebook group, the town hall was described as a call to action to counter Islamophobic actions, especially in the context of other social justice movements, and

to encourage diversity and tolerance. The meeting discussions yielded committees for the campaign, including ones that would run an op-ed with a petition and raise awareness through graphics, according to an email sent out after the meeting.

The group’s outreach will include campus, community and educational efforts such as postering of Yik Yak posts after the Paris attacks. Campaigners also plan to coordinate a day on which Muslims on campus will wear IDs in response to presidential candidate Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim comments calling for Muslims around the country to wear IDs. The group will also put together a photo series relating to Islamophobia and marginalization. In addition, the campaign will look to involve engaging influential people on campus, such as University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, seeking responses to recent See CAMPAIGN page 2

LECTURE

Panel discusses free speech, discrimination on campus senior writer

The relationship between the issue of free speech and the issue of combating discrimination is a complicated one, panelists said in a discussion hosted

by The Daily Princetonian on Wednesday.

The panel featured Joanna Anyanwu ’15 GS from the Black Justice League, Samantha Harris ’99 of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Joshua Leifer ’17 from The Princeton Progressive and Peter Singer, professor in the Center for Human Values.

Harris initiated the conversation by noting that increasing calls of censorship from students are detrimental to unlearning prejudice.

“In many ways, the highly visible student protests around

the country are a sign of the robustness of free speech around the country,” she said, adding that she is disappointed to see student protestors issue demands that undermined the same rights that made free speech possible.

Singer said he agreed with Harris, and that if we prohibit alternative viewpoints, the truth will simply become a matter of dogma instead of a living truth that we constantly have to think about.

“The danger that we face today is that we are all going to agree on something or won’t have contrary opinions expressed because they seem too politically incorrect to be expressed,” Singer said.

Leifer, however, noted that controversies over the limits of “free speech” are not at the See PANEL page 2

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Samantha Harris ’99, Peter Singer, Joshua Leifer ’17 and Joanna Anyanwu ‘15 GS spoke in a panel on Wednesday.

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We take a look at the ‘Prince’ archives on the history of arts at Princeton, senior writer Kristen Coke takes us down an ‘unfamiliar street’ in Tokyo and senior writer Danielle Taylor writes a letter to Santa. PAGE S1-S4

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events on campus.

On Tuesday, MASJID members published an op-ed in The Daily Princetonian which expressed that they are oppressed and marginalized, especially in the current political climate. In addition, the authors addressed the intersectionality of identity as Muslims and the struggle to be considered American, writing, “We have to be ‘Muslim’ before we can be considered ‘American.’ ” The op-ed, intended to raise awareness and help kick off the campaign, was signed by MASJID with 20 groups standing in solidarity with MASJID. These groups range in identity, focusing around political, religious and social justice issues.

Farah Amjad explained that when she and Yasin Hegazy ’15 co-founded MASJID, the group’s focus was on co-sponsoring events and collaborating with other social justice organizations on campus to determine what members supported and what MASJID’s identity would become.

Last year, MASJID was part of the divestment campaign.

In addition, the group hosted a benefit dinner for the Muslim holiday Eid-al-Adha, sending the proceeds to Helping Hands, an organization that aids refugees. Moreover, Robia Amjad ’18, Farah Amjad’s sister, said that she thinks there was a need for a space to discuss these issues among Muslims and that MASJID provides that political forum.

Farah Amjad said that there was a need for a way for Muslim students to make a positive impact politically and on social justice issues through their faith.

“As a new organization, we are just figuring things out, and we’re just very encouraged by the amount of support and enthusiasm from Muslim and non-Muslim [communities] on campus,” Farah Amjad said.

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Chaplain Sohaib Sultan, who said that he acts as an informal adviser for the student-run MASJID when members come to him with questions, expressed similar views.

“I think that historically, the Muslim Students Association was the sole student organization that represented student voices, but they made a commitment from their founding to be apolitical and that limited the mobilization [of] what students could engage in through the MSA,” Sultan said.

Solmaz Jumakuliyeva ’19, who is Muslim but not part of MASJID, said that she thinks there is definitely room for improvement regarding attitudes about Muslim identities on campus.

“It’s funny to see how people treat you before you’re Muslim and after ... the small invisible and intangible transition from one attitude to another,” Jumakuliyeva said. “It’s not that direct.

It’s just small actions, small things that you see, how people talk, how people look at you.”

She noted that Islam is tolerated on this campus but not accepted, in that while people acknowledge others’ freedom to follow whatever religion they choose, they do not fully embrace the ideal. She noted that Muslims are a minority on campus and there is no mosque on campus, only a prayer room in Green Hall that is kind of small compared to the Center for Jewish Life.

Syed said that prejudices show in the ways that people often ask her about her faith, and that Islamophobia was very evident after the Paris attacks on Yik Yak, where students posted negative and disturbing Yaks.

MASJID is establishing itself in the context of other social justice movements on campus, such as the Black Justice League’s sit-in of Eisgruber’s office and the LatinX petition, Sultan said, adding that he thinks college is a time when students learn to mobilize and be community organizers. Both groups have ally

networks to help support their movements.

“It’s really important that we unite our forces,” Syed said. “It’s just a fact of our humanity and compassion and caring about other people’s lives. At this time, things are converging because we can see more often when injustice is happening.”

Luisa Banchoff ‘17, who recently founded Christians for the Common Good, a religious group with similar themes to those of MASJID, also noted that the most effective movements have many allies.

“I strongly believe there’s a moral obligation to at least listen and be aware what’s going on as a Christian,” she explained.

When Banchoff learned that MASJID was holding the town hall meeting right next to her organization’s meeting, she canceled her gathering, encouraging Christians for the Common Good members to instead join the MASJID meeting. Banchoff said she hopes MASJID will be able to highlight that even at the University, which can be seen as such a tolerant, enlightened place, there is prejudice and stereotyping.

“Even raising awareness about Muslim identity and strengthening interfaith dialogue and friendship and forms relationships with different faiths... that itself is a success,” Banchoff said.

Overall, Robia Amjad said that MASJID has to be thinking about the larger Muslim community abroad especially in the case of drones, war and the refugee crisis. As for the experience of Muslim students at the University, Jumakuliyeva said that there is work to be done.

“I don’t think you should be stamped by your identity, in a negative way as if what we’re doing is wrong,” Jumakuliyeva said.

“You can think your religion is the best but you can’t think that everybody else is stupid or inferior... We’re all human kind. We don’t have to classify them to accept that they are human.”

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at Oxford is to join a doctoral program, either in the United Kingdom or in the United States, and do research in robotics or intelligence systems.

“It’s clear to me that she presents a very striking combination of a gifted engineering talent with a serious concern for the social and public implications of the technology she wants to develop,” Stewart said.

Cen explained that she applied to the scholarship because the lab she plans on working with is one of the leading laboratories and

leading researchers in mobile autonomy and because the opportunity to live at Oxford will be eye-opening.

“Getting a more global perspective will inform me in my research and also really help me grow as a person,” Cen said.

Ude said that she applied for the Sachs Scholarship because she was not necessarily interested in going into a normal job after graduation and wanted to spend a year focusing on her independent research.

She explained that she will spend her year abroad at the University of Melbourne shadowing different musical theater performers and directors while using the university library to do indigenous or

performance studies research.

“I’ll be learning in terms of observing others work and also doing my own academic research,” Ude said.

She added that she will also be taking dance classes and workshopping a play, and she is especially interested in the relationship between African-American theater and indigenous performance.

Stewart, who interviewed Ude as part of the Sachs application, said that he was struck by her passion for her intended project and her passion to make unusual things happen by working with other people to put on interesting performances and explore new areas.

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core of ongoing debates. Rather, addressing questions of racism should be the centerpiece of discussion, he said.

He noted that people only bring up free speech when their agenda is being challenged, and that no disciplinary actions were taken against students for exercising free speech.

Citing research on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s staff members, Leifer also challenged the mission of FIRE and expressed skepticism over its apolitical position. In response, Harris noted that FIRE encompasses a team representing a diverse array of viewpoints and firmly opposes the suppression of student speech.

On similar premises, Anyanwu stated that philosophical conversations about free speech must be rooted in historical context. Anyanwu explained that the principle of free speech taken as a broad value can translate to silencing minorities and preserving the status quo of racism.

“I understand free speech is of importance, but that, for me, is not divorced from the history of this country and who has historically enjoyed this right,” Anyanwu said.

Anyanwu further noted that the media has been extremely complicit in institutionalized violence against black people. She explained that crime

and antisocial behavior has distorted public perception of black people, stating that products of post-mortem media violence are often hyperconsumed and exploited for profit, which goes back to an American tradition of lynching. Additionally, Anyanwu said, media on the University’s campus has failed to be impartial and has often lacked journalistic integrity when covering inequality faced by black students.

“I think the media in this campus has failed tremendously in covering black pain,” she said.

Members of the audience raised questions about the panelists’ knowledge of the history of black students and black student protests, the misrepresentation of minorities in mainstream media and the delayed acceptance of cultural competency trainings.

In response to a question from the audience, Singer noted that he would not know about the racist history of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, if not for the BJL. However, he added, disagreement should not equal prohibition. Singer added that, as a Jewish person, he does not oppose the rights of those who deny the Holocaust.

“Obviously, theoretical discussions about free speech are important, but we have to ask ourselves why is it that when protests of racism come up, the question of free speech is raised,” Singer said.

The panel took place at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh 10.

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“The committee worked very hard in putting together this class. It is always a challenge for us because even with taking more students, we couldn’t include all of the qualified applicants,” she said.

Rapelye said that for the majority of candidates who were deferred, the foremost priority is to maintain their high academic performances.

“We will look very carefully at their senior grades and senior performance. We will

give them a very thorough read again,” Rapelye said.

She added that the University looks forward to welcoming admitted students to campus and to re-reading the applications of the students who have been deferred.

The early admit rate was 19.9 percent in 2014, compared with 18.5 percent in 2013, 18.3 percent in 2012 and 21.1 percent in 2011.

Students admitted through early action will be invited to Tiger Tuesday, an orientation event that will take place next February. All admitted students have until May 1 to respond to their offer.

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The “right to offend” goes both ways

vol. cxxxix

Will Rivitz

senior columnist

Anna Mazarakis ’16 editor-in-chief

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES president Richard W. Thaler, Jr. ’73 vice presidents John G. Horan ’74 Thomas E. Weber ’89 secretary Betsy L. Minkin ’77 treasurer Michael E. Seger ’71 Craig Bloom ’88 Gregory L. Diskant ’70 Richard P. Dzina, Jr. ’85 William R. Elfers ’71 Stephen Fuzesi ’00 Zachary A. Goldfarb ’05 Kathy Keily ’77 Joshua Katz Rick Klein ’98 James T. MacGregor ’66 Betsy J. Minkin ’77 Alexia Quadrani Jerry Raymond ’73 Randall Rothenberg ’78 Annalyn Swan ’73 Douglas Widmann ’90

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f you’ve flipped open a copy of this paper to the Opinion section sometime in the past month, you’ve probably seen somebody discussing (and, in most cases, ardently defending) the so-called “right to offend.” It’s been invoked most frequently in the aftermath of the Black Justice League’s recent sit-in in Nassau Hall, and in response to protests at Columbia and Yale. It’s also been examined multiple times with respect to a more general framework of what it means to be in college in 2015.

Though ideas vary from column to column, a general consensus from those in opposition to the protests sweeping college campuses is this: Free speech is valuable; we have a right to say whatever we want, even if it is offensive; and curtailing purportedly offensive speech is unethical and unconstitutional.

Funnily enough, I’m not sure many people — on all sides of the discourse — disagree with that statement. It’s especially telling that the BJL itself, in an open letter published on Medium, supports this notion, too. The members of BJL argue that “freedom of speech is a mark of civil life and should

be vigorously defended,” that they “are extremely conscious of the fact that freedom of expression and association made possible the actions of Nov. 18 and are significant vehicles through which [they] will propel meaningful change on this campus.” In short, they argue that free speech is to be supported, wielded as a tool for an effective democracy on campus as well as a means by which historically marginalized students can speak their minds honestly.

Here’s the thing: students are allowed to say whatever they want with no legal repercussions, no matter how offensive, as long as it falls within the reasonable standards of what constitutes free speech — if it’s not libelous and doesn’t threaten violence, it’s protected under the First Amendment. If somebody posts an arguably racist status on Facebook, they aren’t hauled off to jail or banned from campus. Arguing that free speech is in danger, in this respect, is silly. The whole point of having a robust campus dialogue is that if somebody treads on the toes of others, whether intentionally or otherwise, they can maintain their place and status.

However, this “right to offend” goes both ways. By the exact same token, if somebody says something offensive, others can respond in any way that they legally see fit.

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ompared to the job search my classmates and I face, the sophomore stress over where to eat next year may seem a bit trivial. However, with the focus this campus puts on eating options, you could think students were choosing majors or jobs instead of menus. Eating clubs are such a central part of life at the University that the everyday words repurposed to describe the clubs — Bicker, hosing, discussions — all seem to have gained undeserved capital and significance in day-to-day life in the Bubble.

Eating clubs, however, are not the only option. I still remember one hot summer day four years ago, when an Orange Key tour guide reassured my tour group we would have choices beyond the clubs. Nearly a third of upperclassmen are not in a club, he explained. Eating in the residential colleges, co-ops or being independent were also options. What’s more, my guide added, financial aid is there for you either way, giving every upperclassman on aid a lump sum regardless of his or her eating choice. Satisfied, I applied and eventually matriculated.

And here I am, four years later, having only once set foot in a Bicker club. Today, I have close friends spread across many clubs, though I myself have been a member of none. The process was hardly smooth — for students who, for whatever reason, do not wish to

the BJL’s protests at the University are allowed to voice their dissatisfaction with any facet of the organization’s work — but those students must also allow those who disagree with them to respond through the very same means protected by the very same First Amendment.

When students claim that supporters of the BJL have savagely brutalized their viewpoints and that these students feel that they are unable to speak their minds about the events on this campus, they are quite frankly wrong — nobody is arguing for the total shuttering of any viewpoint on this campus. Those who are arguing that free speech on campuses nationwide is under attack are conflating protected speech with repercussion-free speech. To talk loudly and publicly without being willing to receive any backlash is something that cannot, will not, and should not ever be protected under any form of government.

Students at the University should have the “right to offend” — but they must also recognize that any response to that offensive speech, no matter how hurtful or offensive to them, is also a fundamental right.

Will Rivitz is a sophomore from Brookline, Mass. He can be reached at wrivitz@princeton.edu.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

On the recent Letter from MASJID We, members of the Princeton Affiliated Chaplains, are concerned and appalled by any attempt to limit individuals’ entry into the United States because of their religious identity. We know that the religious freedom of every person in this country is tied to — and guaranteed by — the religious freedom of all. We cannot be persuaded for any reason to exclude or penalize any community.

The United States is, and will remain, a place of liberty and equal rights because people of faith, conscience and good will stand in solidarity with any who are marginalized. We stand in stron-

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Though I disagree with the admittedly seldom-used tactic of stopping discussion in its tracks by dropping the word “racist,” those few people who would do such a thing are perfectly within their rights to do so. Just as students on one side of campus are allowed to say whatever they want, no matter how offensive, students on the other can react by saying whatever they want, no matter how purportedly hurtful or vicious.

If we are to vociferously champion free speech as a necessary institution in America, we must accept that this concept of “free speech” must apply to everyone.

Students and faculty have the “right to offend,” but if they are to employ that right, they must be willing to endure whatever backlash they experience as a result of their remarks or actions.

To put things into countrywide context: Erika Christakis at Yale was perfectly within her right to send an email supporting the notion of offensive Halloween costumes, but the students were also perfectly within their rights to protest the hurt they felt she caused. Duke students opposed to reading the “pornographic” graphic novel “Fun Home” should voice their concerns, but they also must be willing to allow those who disagree with their views speak up.

And, yes, those in opposition to

gest solidarity with the campus and broader Muslim community against bigotry in any form, and in support of inclusion, respect and safety.

Alison Boden, Office of Religious Life Vineet Chander, Office of Religious Life Peter French, Episcopal Church at Princeton Bryan Page, Aquinas Institute Bill Neely, Unitarian Universalist Princeton Julie Roth, Center for Jewish Life Sohaib Sultan, Office of Religious Life Eitan Webb, Chabad Matt Weiner, Office of Religious Life Tara Woodard-Lehman, Princeton Presbyterians

Princeton breeds dependence join an eating club, the social climate, campus landscape and University policy conspire to alienate and torment us.

Drawing for a coveted quad in Spelman Halls during sophomore spring, my roommates and I knew our chances were slim.

Even though we were all independent, the point system for Spelman draw gave many senior draw groups with eating club members a higher priority than us. Were it not for the benevolence of four independent seniors who allowed us to join their group, we would likely not have found a room in Spelman. For at least one of my roommates, such a failure would have been the final straw forcing him to give up independence.

However, even once in Spelman, our troubles continued. My roommates and I were joined for meals by other independents, who were driven from their overcrowded and under-maintained dorm kitchens in Scully Hall and the slums. (Admittedly, our kitchen was not much cleaner, but at least it was our own private mess.)

But neither my roommates, our guests nor myself owned a car.

Shopping became a constant ordeal of coordinating with friends with cars or placing ourselves at the whim of food delivery services for which “no specific time can be requested.”

The residential college system was conceived not just as an alternative to the clubs, but as a means of combatting a fragmented campus social scene. Perhaps this is occasionally true, but too often, it only further fragments

our social lives. I have seen far too many friends who wished to stay in the residential college system for financial or other reasons feel socially obligated to join eating clubs, under threat of drifting slowly away from friends and other University social orbits. As an independent student last year, I felt the same pull.

This effect builds its own vicious cycle. One night last week, three separate sophomores told me, unprompted, that they would rather not join a club, but saw no viable alternatives from a social or time management standpoint.

After joining clubs, all too many have complained that the atmosphere is superficial, cliquey and unsuitable to the community in which they wish to live.

Co-ops, like my own 2 Dickinson St. Co-op, help alleviate the social and time management issues, but are chronically oversubscribed. Worse, for much of the campus community, they are barely visible. Ask any conscientious freshmen, and they can likely name all the eating clubs. In comparison, I have known some seniors to be completely unaware of the location, workings or even concept of the co-ops.

That said, the Undergraduate Student Government has made great strides in increasing the visibility of co-ops and other alternative options this year. The recently-updated Independent Student Guide provides wonderful support for students outside the eating club system. However, the guide’s perspectives page still provides some bleak anecdotes

about housing and timing difficulties. We have miles to go before we sleep.

Much would be gained by establishing another co-op, as the Editorial Board recently advocated. Preferably, this would be another house like 2-D, which provides for a larger and more cohesive community. While obtaining or building such a space might be expensive, the demand justifies this and more. Based on 2-D’s current waitlist (to say nothing of the other co-ops), four entirely new co-ops could be filled instantly.

However, simply building or designating more co-ops isn’t enough. Some students are better served by living in apartmentstyle housing. Reforming Spelman draw to give more weight to independent students is one solution, but risks further social fragmentation by splitting up independent and non-independent draw groups. A better solution would be more apartment-style housing, including timesaving 20th-century technology such as microwaves and dishwashers (standard outside the Bubble) and common social spaces to build community.

Can we build all this extra housing? Yes. Plans to build a seventh residential college have been tossed around since the beginning of the tenure of University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, and just this week Eisgruber discussed plans for expanding the student body with the Princeton council. With this talk of possible expansion and increased scrutiny of residential communities

following demands for affinity housing, we should not simply build more of the same. Instead, we should strive for a combination of affinity housing, independent-friendly housing and cooperatives too.

Until that happy day, there are immediate measures that can be undertaken. Stocking some cheap staples — canned or frozen produce, rice, flour, sugar, tofu and frozen meat — at the U-Store would allow independent students to prepare inexpensive, healthy and quick meals. Our current options are trekking off to far-off groceries in borrowed cars or inconvenient buses, or frequenting expensive specialty Nassau Street stores. Additionally, allowing independent upperclassmen to park in Lot 20 rather than the Graduate College lot would increase flexibility and convenience for students who regularly use such parking.

To prevent these new options from creating further fragmentation, eating clubs should allow meal exchanges with co-ops, even if not on a one-to-one basis as Terrace Club does with 2-D. Eating clubs are not, as other columns may have implied, an unmitigated evil. But neither should students be forced into them. I hope this community can respond to the needs of all of its members, so that all can find their place in the tapestry of a campus, which is, after all, our home.

Bennett McIntosh is a chemistry major from Littleton, Colo. He can be reached at bam2@princeton.edu.

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by Jasper Gebhardt :: Staff Photographer Just this week, the women’s hockey team received recognition for its incredible performances of late, sweeping the ECAC Weekly Honors.

The Tigers (11-4-1) have swept their last six games, the longest winning streak for the team since the 2010-11 season. Notable performers include senior forward Jaimie McDonell, who led the league in scoring last week, freshman forward Karlie Lund, who was named Rookie of the Week for the third time this season and senior goalie Kimberly Newell, Goaltender of the Week after playing over 700 minutes so far this season while giving up only 18 goals.

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This week, Street Editors LIN KING, JENNIFER SHYUE and HARRISON BLACKMAN take a look back on the history of arts at Princeton through the ‘Prince’ archives, including a salty column by an 1882-era arts advocate and the opening of McCarter Theatre. Key takeaway: Jimmy Stewart ‘32 was a sneaky guy.

FEB. 3, 1882

An anonymous column published in the ‘Prince’ lamenting the University’s neglect of the arts in favor of athletics and arguing for the establishment of an “Arts Course.”

MAY 13, 1892

Article delineating the progress of construction on Alexander Hall, home to Richardson Auditoirum.

NOV. 10, 1928

FEB. 21, 1930

SEP. 23, 1940

NOV. 8, 1993

APR. 4, 1969

FEB. 6, 2006

The “Photographic Weekly” shows McCarter Theatre under construction in 1928.

Movie star Jimmy Stewart ’32 sneaks onto campus “in the guise of a furniture mover” and helps a freshman move into Campbell Hall before attending opening exercises.

The English department creates the predecessor of the Program of Creative Writing.

DEC. 14, 1920

Publicizing the “very little known” “Le Theatre Intime,” which was founded the year before. Only 12 actors acted in its first season.

McCarter Theatre opens with ceremony featuring U. President Hibben and Triangle officers in 1930.

NOV. 10, 1928

Glee Club and the newlyfounded Nassoons open Houseparties festivities.

Creative writing professor Toni Morrison founds the Princeton Atelier Program to allow for instruction of interdisciplinary work in writing, theater, dance and music.

Peter Lewis ‘55 gives $101 million to Lewis Center of the Arts, begins a new era.

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THIS SIDE OF BRIDGE YEAR ANDIE AYALA Staff Writer

“This Side of” is a series of personal essays in which Street writers discuss the various other roles they take on campus and how these experiences have shaped their time at Princeton. ridge Year Program, noun.

A University-sponsored nine-month program that gives incoming freshmen the opportunity to travel and live in a foreign country, speak the local language and engage in commu-

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nity-based service work.

To be a Bridge Year alumnus is to be a conscious and thoughtful witness in this world. It is to undergo the nine-month initiation process of feeling hopelessly lost, radically amazed, incredibly frustrated and acutely aware of the world at one point or another. It is to be the type of unreasonable, adventureseeking, passionate student who would defer her freshman year at Princeton to travel to a

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foreign country and speak an unfamiliar language with six strangers for nine months.

To be honest, after spending nine months in a culturally rich and vibrant country where it was so easy to assume a childlike approach to the world and feel like every moment was discovered and experienced for the first time, arriving at Princeton and having to face the reality of work and hectic schedules isn’t all that easy.

There’s the lingering sense of a longing for unrestricted escapades, for spontaneous dance parties in the plaza and political conversations with host relatives.

There’s the burden of assuming the responsibility of somehow digging deep into the Princeton experience, to represent the wonderful, aff licted people you once knew. There’s the wandering mind that will think about the way that it felt to climb that mountain with the panoramic

view for the first time, how you cried when you reached the top for the last time. There’s the fear that this world will never look like the same place you once knew it to be, but the understanding that coming back to a place is never the same as leaving it in the first place.

Becoming a Bridge Year alumnus is like joining an all-consuming friendship and therapy group that doubles as a service-oriented, religious eating club. If there’s anything we tell ourselves, it’s that Bridge Year is a family — made evident in the way that every email sent is addressed “Hey Fam!” and every meeting is called a “family dinner.” Being a part of the Bridge Year community is like having 140 brothers and sisters with whom you can feel comfortable talking about anything from diarrhea to classes for next semester to how love works.

Bridge Year alumni are the kind of inquisitive people who want to major in anthropology or geosciences with certificates in regional studies, who volunteer with the Petey Greene Program or Students for Prison Education and Re-

form, who join vegetarian co-ops and spend a semester abroad in Cuba. They are the voracious kind of people who feel the urge to go on random hikes once in a while, attend as many cultural celebrations as possible and find reasons to leave the country every so often. They are some of the oldest members of their grade, the kids who feel the need to talk in a foreign language when intoxicated.

At times, Bridge Year is like this magnificent, far-away dream that feels like it never happened if it weren’t for the Indian food feasts, the Chinese classes, the parties with Spanish language music, the African dance performances and the niches of Bridge Year alumni that you find yourself gravitating to again and again. It’s not simply the copout interesting fact you give at orientations, or an answer to the question of what community you are part of on campus.

Bridge Year isn’t just another student group united together by common interest; it is this metaphysical, unshakeable identity that explains so much of yourself, yet in some regards, hardly explains enough.

UNFAMILIAR STREET

Takeshita Street, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan KRISTEN COKE Senior Writer

“Unfamiliar Street” is a travel series in which we introduce you to streets from all around the world, far from the well-trod gravel of Prospect Avenue. rchitect Toshiko Mori once said, “More than any other city, Tokyo demonstrates that ‘city’ is a verb and not a noun.” I was able to see for myself what she was talking about when I took a trip to Tokyo over fall break. Upon arriving in Tokyo, I could feel a steady pulse that suggested that this city was very much alive. As I moved closer into the Shibuya district, this pulse became a steady energetic rhythm further encouraged by the fast-paced lifestyle that defined the megalopolis. Nowhere was this more evident than in Harajuku, and at the epicenter of it all, Takeshita Street.

Takeshita Street is very representative of the fusion of tradition and modernity that permeates culture in Japan. A huge, decorated arch indicates that you have reached the entrance to the pedestrian-only, cobblestone street. The arch borrows inspiration from the impressive gate entries to the many Buddhist temples that adorn Japan. The bright, decorative images attached to the arch are indicative of the pervasive culture of cute that dominates in modern-day Japanese society.

Once you make your way through these proverbial gates, if you are still looking up, to your left you will see a pagoda-style building,

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clearly a relic from Takeshita Street’s past. To your right, you will see a shiny, angular structure that is home to many modish shops and restaurants.

Once you fix your eyes on what is in front of you, you can see into a gaggle of tourists, locals and store owners. Take a couple steps and to your left you will see a McDonald’s where, as if in an auction, a McDonald’s worker bids people to come and buy food. The fact that this well-known food conglomerate needs to beg people to eat in its establishment is evidence enough that there must be many more interesting food options in the area. And there are. Two shops down from the McDonald’s you will find one of many ice cream and crêpe shops that dot the street. There is an exotic range of flavors and options, representative of the cosmopolitanism that dominates this area. You can choose a matcha ice cream and sweet potato crepe pairing or a banana and blueberry crepe with fudge chocolate filling.

If you are able to tear yourself away from there without buying one (I was not as disciplined and have the matcha ice cream stain to prove it), you can continue up the path to then be confronted with the unique clothing boutiques that define the street and Harajuku style. It is in these stores where the creativity and innovation that are distinctive to Japanese fashion become clearly evident. Walk into the bright

pink shop with laser lights for bodysuits made of bright feathers and polka dots. Look to your left through the silk curtain to find dinosaur-patterned prom dresses.

The hole-in-a-wall a couple paces down has sky-high velvet boots and anime character backpacks.

While you are enveloped in this enclave of experimental couture, you might take a second to notice that the people who are cooing and encouraging you to come into their stores are themselves one of a kind. With their brightly dyed, avant-garde haircuts, colored contacts, piercings over every inch of their bodies and impossibly cool outfits, they looked like the proper characters for the magical realist land I was sure I had stepped into.

I was struck by the internationalism of the street hustlers who encourage you to walk away

from the street to check out their multitude of fine goods. Nowhere else in Japan had I seen as many immigrants, and I was impressed by their ability to switch between multiple languages depending upon their assessment of their potential customer’s native tongue. I allowed myself a tactile engagement with the merchandise on the street. I float in and out of almost every store, pausing to allow my fingers to linger on and feel all of the different pieces, and run my hand down menus to try to figure out what gastronomic experiences the restaurants promised.

What I love about Takeshita Street is how unabashedly comfortable it is with itself. As an amateur fashion enthusiast, I couldn’t help but be thrilled at the ways in which people are free to experi-

ment on this street. Risks are being taken. Daring choices are being made. New ideas are being had and realized. And within that exists a freedom that allowed me, even as a foreigner, to feel like I could be (and wear) whatever I wanted. However odd the ensemble created might be, I knew I would not be considered a standout, but a contributor to a movement of people who do (and dress) for themselves, without caring what the world deems acceptable. Once I had pushed my way through to the other end of the street, which led back to a busy road laden with monochromatic, shiny skyscrapers, I couldn’t help but turn around and feel a sense of longing and wistfulness for the wonderful world that I had the privilege of being part of, even if only for a moment, on Takeshita Street.

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A PRINCETONIAN’S LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS DANIELLE TAYLOR Senior Writer

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ear Santa,

Listen, Nick, we both know I have not exactly earned a spot on the Nice List this year. I’ve broken some promises, like when I said I would attend every class. Or when I said my GPA would be a 4.0. Or when I said I would be going to med school. I mean, you’re definitely not a morning person, given your schedule, so you’ll have to excuse my tardiness to 8:30 a.m. class. Anyway, here’s the list — I’m not asking for too much, so I’m sure we can

work something out.

1. Let’s talk about family. Family is great, and I love them, really, but they’re always asking questions.

“How’s school?” “What’re you majoring in again?” “Do you like it at Princeton?” “Have you found any nice boys?”

“How’s school?” I need it to stop. Please. For every question asked by an aunt I haven’t met since I was a fetus, the topic must be restricted to harmless stuff that won’t make me cringe. Examples: “How’s your dog?” “Isn’t the weather nice?” “How are you

so smart?” “How’s your dog?”

See? It’s very simple.

2. Same as #1. Only with anyone from a high school asking me how I got into Princeton, and how he or she can get in too. I really don’t know. I’m just trying to live my life to eventually escape Princeton with a degree.

3. Now, about breaks. As benign autocrat of the North Pole, you rule the winter, and you know how much joy this time brings, so you have to admit that summer getting all that vacation time isn’t fair. Do you really want stu-

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dents working up until the edge, and then barely having any time to enjoy their winter break — I mean, worship you?

You are Father Christmas and should demand more respect — definitely more than two weeks of Santa-worship. All I’m suggesting is that you make summer break a week or two shorter and winter break like five weeks longer so we can celebrate you. Because you’re worth it. It would benefit both of us. Trust me.

4. Finals need to be before break. Because really, the stress of not starting to study for exams or write your Dean’s Date assignment really gets to you — I mean, me. And I don’t want to break down and start crying at dessert over my Yule log. Not this year. Not like last time.

5. I demand that there be separate paths for bikers. The sidewalk isn’t big enough for the two of us (me and a biker), and I’m not trying to kick the bucket after being struck by a biker. But then again, if I’m hit we’re going to court.

And you’re going to pay my tuition.

6. Grade inf lation. Now that official def lation has gone the

way of the dodo, it’s time to make sure that grade inf lation gets its just desserts as well. But only if other schools (Yale) who shall not be named (Harvard) don’t have it either. You’re all about fairness, aren’t you?

7. My preceptor’s phone number. Don’t ask questions.

8. Thicker walls. You know why.

9. The Heath bar cheesecake in Wu dining hall. Where did it go? As a fellow food lover, I know you’ll understand where I’m coming from. How would you feel if Mrs. Claus stopped baking cookies out of nowhere with no explanation?

Yeah, that’s what I thought.

See Santa, I told you it wouldn’t be too difficult. I’m really not asking for much, and some of these things are truly for the greater good — don’t you agree, “Saint” Nick?

Oh, and one last thing. I heard this Christmas might get pretty foggy. You wouldn’t want anything to happen to Rudolph, your favorite reindeer, now would you?

You’ve been warned.

Merry Christmas!

—Danielle A. Taylor

Q&A: Matthew Romer ’18

PRINT LEADER FROM PRINCETON 3D PRINTING Interviewed by

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Princeton 3D Printing is a student organization that aims to make 3D printing technology available to the Princeton community. To learn more about this fascinating technology and organization, Street sat down with Matthew Romer ’18, a ‘Print Leader’ in the club.

P rincetonian : Can you tell me a little bit of background about 3D Printing aily

Club?

Matthew Romer ’18: 3D Printing Club is a few years old; actually, I don’t know the exact number. It kind of went through two phases. There was an initial phase of just trying to get 3D printers on campus, and that was done by people who were seniors last year, so who just graduated, who really fought for getting access to this technology. They got

printers set up in Rockefeller College and in Forbes College, but my sense is that ... they didn’t quite figure out how to turn that into a more serious club with a lot of outreach, with a lot of activity. Last year, they were kind of heading out, and so there were a lot of freshmen who were interested in taking over… basically, pretty much the entire officer corps is class of 2018. And with that, we had a huge boom in membership; we’re doing a lot of activities, we’re getting a lot more use out of the printers.

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Our mission is to bring the technology of 3D printing to as many people as we can. We want to show as many people how to 3D print [as possible], we want to make it accessible to people, and we’re also all in this club because we want to do our own projects and do our own work with 3D printing. It’s about teaching others and making others better at this technology and using this technology.

DP: How many students are in the club?

MR: There are over 100 on the listserv, in general. There are be- The MakerBot Replicator 2, one of the tween 20 and 30 print leaders, and a few officers on cations, so people are interested top of that. So I would say 30 in printing neural structures, or very core members, and sort of a [they] want to learn the techlarge, general membership. It’s a nology because they are interstructure that works fairly well. ested in later on working on cells DP: When do you all meet? or biotechnology. We’ve seen MR: So actually as a club, we people who just want to do art don’t have any kind of meeting projects with it. And we’ve seen structure. The club works to people across the science and maintain the printers, to keep engineering background. But I the printers going. Everyone is would say, yeah, there’s certainly always printing their own per- a strong correlation. sonal projects, printing projDP: Can you explain what ects for members who want to print leaders do? print things but don’t know MR: Print leaders are people how to print, and then the way who are fully trained on the we organize ourselves is just printers. They’re fully trained we send emails, people come on both how to print but also up with group projects, people how to maintain the printers, come up with outreach events how to fix problems when they and we organize around those. arise. The idea is that the print It’s a very free-flowing club; leaders are kind of intermediit’s a very dynamic club. We aries between members and don’t have kind of every week anyone in the public and the we sit down together and have actual printing — for a long a meeting, but we’re always do- time we had a system in which ing a lot of stuff. anyone could just print [after DP: What is the academic a one hour training system]. background of students in the There was some friction with club? the residential colleges on that.

MR: I would say the core Rocky and Forbes have printmembership is engineers, and ers, and so they were worried I think, as you would probably that … too many people were expect, we have really strong ties getting access [to the printers]. with the mechanical and aero- The print leader system was space engineering department, created to pacify the colleges, just because that’s the group to but also to build a corps of rewhich the technology is most ally expert people who could relevant. There’s a surprising be the teachers. There’s no test breadth to the members … a lot to be a print leader; we arrange of people seem to be interested training sessions if you want to in biology and bio-focused appli- be one, and that’s all you have

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3D printers used on campus. to do.

DP: Does the club host events?

MR: We do a lot of things.

The biggest kind of general event we do is something called a “Printing Party.”

That’s usually held as a study break; the idea is we’ll come up with some kind of interesting thing to print. We’ll get funding from [Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students], we’ll get food and we’ll just invite people from our listserv and often the people from the residential college that we’re in. People can come, they can watch the print happen, they can get some food, they can get a study break and it’s a great time to tell people what we’re doing and introduce people to this new technology and show everyone what’s up.

We also do more focused projects and more focused events.

So what I’m really excited about and what’s coming up – it’s contingent on getting some funding locked down. We’re planning over Intersession to hold a course. The course will be to build a 3D printer from scratch.

And so, that seems like it’s going to be an awesome thing, and I’ve been helping to plan that for several weeks now, and if it comes through, it’ll be a really cool thing to do. That’s the kind of project we get really excited about.

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GO ‘NUTZ’ WITH PUB Everyone knows about the dance of the sugar plum fairy, but you’ve never seen it like this. Tonight, walk down to Frist at 7 or 9 p.m. to see Princeton University Ballet’s production of “Nutz,” a holiday-themed show that excerpts “The Nutcracker” and adds a few contemporary works. Photos courtesy of Vincent Po.

Thursday december 17, 2015

STREET’S

TOP TEN The Princeton Song

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Nomad Pizza roasting on an open fire

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Jeff Nunokawa nipping at your nose Yuletide carols being sung by Tigertones

And townies dressed up like it’s winter And so, I’m offering this

Simple phrase, to undergrads from 1746 to 2016

Although it’s been said

Many times, many grades “Merry Princeton, to you”

CAMPUS PICKS EVENT PRINCETON WINTER MARKET Princeton Public Library Thursday, 11 a.m.

It’s the first Princeton Winter Market of the year!

Anytime from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., head on up to the Princeton Public Library on Witherspoon Street for a holiday cheer-filled take on Princeton’s beloved farmer’s market. There will be more than 15 vendors on site, including the student favorite Terhune Orchards and other enticing independent sellers including Nicola’s Pasta Fresca, check Nutty Novelties, Picklelicious, WildFlour Bakery/ Cafe and many more. For more information, check out princetonfarmersmarket.com.

MUSIC PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SINFONIA WINTER 2015 CONCERT Richardson Auditorium Thursday, 7:30 p.m.

There’s nothing more old-timey festive than a proper orchestral sendoff to the holidays. Join Sinfonia tomorrow evening for a beautiful set conducted by Ruth Ochs GS. Pieces include “Hansel and Gretel Overture” by Humperdinck, “Jupiter” from The Planets by Holst, Symphony No. 2 in B Minor by Borodin and the world premiere of “Serenade Amoresque”

by Elliot Chang ’16. In addition, there will be a special performance by the Sinfonia Flute Choir, directed by Jayn Rosenfeld.

MUSIC HOLIDAY ARCH SING 1879 Arch Thursday, 10 p.m.

HEADLINERS AND HEADSHAKERS headlines you didn’t read this week DAILY PRINCETONIAN STAFF USG DISCUSSES WAYS TO

APATHY DURING ELECTIONS

TO LEAVE U. SPOKESPERSON MBUGUA IN FEBRUARY, U. FOR CARNEGIE MELLON DECLINES TO COMMENT

Princeton files plan for 446 units of affordable housing, wait, something will be affordable in Princeton?

U. Architect McCoy GS ’80 discusses furniture shopping, countless trips to IKEA with U-Haul trailers

Study finds plants are smart, strategic and ready for world domination

U. to launch Star Warsrelated initiatives with Jedi Foundation

DECREASE STUDENT VOTER

It’s the last Thursday of the year, which means it’s the last arch sing of the year. Join the Footnotes, the Nassoons, the TigerTones, the Tigerlilies, the Tigressions, the Wildcats, the Katzenjammers and Roaring 20 for some holiday cheer. Whether it’s on your way out for one last night of 2015 debauchery or a cozy way to unwind, don’t miss out on these beautiful voices celebrating the most wonderful time of the year. (Besides, it’s pretty much guaranteed that this will be the warmest weather for a holiday arch sing of all time, so enjoy it while you can!)

EVENT ADTHIS PRESENTS “BRAND YOURSELF: WEAR YOUR IDENTITY ON YOUR SLEEVE” Frist TV Lounge Thursday, 10:30 p.m.

AdThis is known for its myriad professional advancing events, but even they have to wind down for the end of the year. Come chill with AdThis tomorrow evening at the Frist TV Lounge, where it will host a sweatshirtmaking party with colors and patches. Take it as a more customized and permanent way to “brand yourself” than temporary tattoos, but just as fun. Everything is completely free — sweatshirts, decorations and pizzas are all on AdThis. Pizza, I say!