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Today on Campus 6 p.m.: 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Mario Vargas Llosa discusses his career as a novelist. McCosh 50.
The Archives
Nov. 5, 1968 Faculty approves coeducation study by large majority.
On the Blog Amy Garland reviews the new album by Arcade Fire, ‘Reflektor.’
BEYOND THE BUBBLE
Sotomayor ’76, Rawlings GS ’70 awarded alumni medals
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
By Jasmine Wang contributor
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 and Association of American Universities President Hunter Rawlings III GS ’70 will be presented with the University’s top alumni honors at Alumni Day on Feb. 22, the University announced Monday. Sotomayor will be given the Woodrow Wilson Award and Rawlings will be awarded the James Madison Medal. The Wilson Award is given by the Wilson School each year in honor of former University President Woodrow Wilson, class of 1879, who famously advocated the slogan, “Princeton in the nation’s service.” Last year, the award was presented to former Indiana Governor and current Purdue University President Mitch Daniels ’71. Sotomayor, a Bronx, N.Y. native, graduated from the University summa cum laude with a degree in history before attending Yale
SONIA SOTOMAYOR ’76 Supreme Court Justice
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The Latino Graduate Student Association is showing a Day of the Dead exhibit in Frist Campus Center. HUNTER RAWLINGS III GS ’70 Association of American Universities President
Law School. After passing the bar in 1980, she began her legal career as an assistant district attorney in New York City. In 1984, Sotomayor transitioned into private practice, working for Pavia & Harcourt, but was also active in various other organizations, including the New York City Campaign Finance Board and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. See SOTOMAYOR page 5
By the Numbers
BEYOND THE BUBBLE
Campaign donations from U. community favor Buono
By Hannah Schoen staff writer
Faculty, adm i n i st rators, staff and researchers affiliated with the University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory gave largely to New Jersey State Sen. Barbara Buono during the state gubernatorial campaign, which
turer in civil and environmental engineering Robert Harris, each of whom gave $1,000. Golden’s wife, Carol, donated an additional $8,000 to Buono’s campaign. Lewis-Sigler Institute software developer Laurie Kramer and physics professor emeritus Chiara Nappi donated $600 and $500 to Buono’s campaign, respectively. As of late October, Buono’s campaign had raised $2.8 million, spending $2.5 million, while See U. DONORS page 4
PROFILE
From working class kid to “creme de la creme”: Odo ’61 GS ’75
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The number of University faculty, staff and administrators who donated to Chris Christie’s and Barbara Buono’s campaigns.
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News & Notes Princeton Theological Seminary installs new president M. Craig Barnes
princeton theological seminary installed its seventh president, Dr. M. Craig Barnes, on Oct. 23, Town Topics reported. Barnes is a professor of pastoral ministry. The installation ceremony took place in the University Chapel and included delegates from institutions of higher learning all over the world. University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 delivered an address to welcome Barnes into his new office. “While the Seminary and University have distinct missions, at the core of both of our institutions is a commitment to examining questions that help us understand, support and strengthen our society. As fellow Princeton citizens and intellectual partners, we should continue to encourage the scholarly collaborations that have benefited both institutions for the past two centuries,” Eisgruber said. Barnes, 57, has previously taught at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He has worked as a pastor in Pittsburgh, Pa.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Madison, Wis.; and at the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.
will end with the general election on Tuesday. As of late September, donors employed by Princeton University had given $4,100 to Buono’s campaign and $1,000 to current Gov. Chris Christie’s campaign, according to the New Jersey’s campaign finance database. Buono’s top University donors were Princeton University Investment Company President Andrew Golden, computer science professor Andrew Appel and visiting lec-
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Franklin Odo teaches AMS 354: Asian Americans and Public History/Memory.
hen franklin odo ’61 GS ’75 bickered the Ivy Club, he alluded to the beaches in his native Hawaii and hinted that he had surfed its waves. He got into Ivy but had never really surfed. To impress the club members, Odo said in an interview, he had exoticized his background as a working-class student. At the time, Odo was one of a handful of minority students, and he soon made it a personal challenge to try to fit in with the white students, who were the absolute majority. Odo has since become one of the most prominent scholars devoted to understanding the Asian American experience. He has also aggressively promoted the creation of Asian American Studies programs at institutions throughout the United States. While Odo was teaching at Princeton in 1995, 17 students staged a protest at Nassau Hall
demanding an increase in Asian American Studies courses, a protest that has become iconic among the students and alumni who have lobbied for the creation of a program for decades. Seven of the student protesters were enrolled in Odo’s class. Odo has been a visiting lecturer at a number of universities. His presence has frequently coincided with student protests demanding the creation of Asian American studies, including protests at Columbia, Cal State Long Beach, UCLA, and San Francisco State. He is currently back at Princeton where, earlier this year, the Asian American Students Association and Asian American Studies Committee submitted a formal proposal for the creation of an Asian American Studies certificate program by fall 2015, exactly 20 years after the release of a similar report by the Asian American Student Task Force. This is the latest in a decades-long effort by Princeton students and alumni to establish a formal program. In response to the report, then-
University Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 — now University President — said that the willingness of individual faculty members to teach additional courses was necessary for such a program. This fall, Odo is on campus teaching the only Asian American Studies course offered this term. Although Odo is arguably one of the most influential scholars in the movement for Asian American Studies at American universities, his trajectory was far from evident when he left his working-class household in Hawaii for Princeton in 1957. As one of the few minority students on campus at the time, Odo did not come with any intention to study his Asian American background, but both chance and the racial climate around him motivated his efforts to build the field both as a scholar and public employee. From working class kid to ‘creme de la creme’ Odo grew up in Hawaii in a See ODO page 2
ACADEMICS
Education reform movement misguided, argues Ravitch By Sheila Sisimit contributor
The movement to reform the American education system is realizing the opposite of what it intends to do, Diane Ravitch, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education from 1991-93 and New York University research professor, argued in a lecture on Monday evening. The lecture focused on Ravitch’s new book, “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools,” in which she takes
issue with several commonlyheld ideas regarding public and private schools. Ravitch said that reformers who advocate cutting budgets, closing schools and firing teachers and staff aren’t aware of the consequences of these changes. “The so-called reform movement is failing. Nothing that it does works,” Ravitch said. Reformers think that it would be a good idea to get rid of public schools, but in reality, they are not as big of a problem as they believe, Ravitch said. See LECTURE page 3
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Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch speaks to a packed auditorium in McCosh 50.
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working-class household. His parents ran a small grocery store and began a small vegetable farm during World War II. Growing up, he said he had always expected to attend the University of Hawaii. His public high school, Kaimuki High School, “was not a wonderful school,” Odo said. But in the class ahead of Odo, one boy went to Harvard. “I said, ‘Boy, that’s really interesting. I’d never thought about that,’” he said. The following year, Odo applied to Harvard, Princeton and the University of Hawaii, expecting to attend his hometown school. “My parents had no money … but Princeton gave me just enough money to make it work,” he explained. Odo was one of the few minority students on campus at the time. He explained that he then understood that the logical next step was to “fit in with a whole bunch of white guys.” Eventually, he came to think of fitting in as a challenge. He bickered Ivy, which he saw as “the apex” of the Princeton experience. “If I can eat with these guys, I can eat with anybody,” he explained of his thinking at the time, describing Ivy members’ reputation as “the creme de la creme.” At the beginning of his Princeton career, he said he did not think too much about his identity as an Asian American. But when he bickered Ivy, he said he romanticized his background to get in. For example, he alluded to surfing back in Hawaii, even though he didn’t surf. He said he disapproves now of the way he portrayed himself, but he still had a good time as a member. Fellow Ivy alumnus Frank Deford ’61 described the club as consisting of two groups, a very “New England preppy” group
and a group of more unusual guys, himself included. Deford said he thought Odo was the first Asian American in Ivy, at least as far as he knew. Deford is a former chairman of The Daily Princetonian. Jim Adams ’61, Odo’s teammate on varsity fencing, noted his surprise that Odo received an invitation to join Ivy since he considered Odo to be very different from the typical Ivy member. “It just seemed that he would not be a good fit with the rest of the Ivy people,” Adams said. “I once asked him how he managed to get to join Ivy, but he assured me that he had no idea.” Deford said that Odo “was just very, very well-liked.” He added that, after a while, he and his fellow Ivy members “didn’t see an Asian American, just a guy named Frank Odo.” Indeed, Deford credited Odo’s popularity with paving the way for other Asian Americans to join Ivy. Although Deford is officially part of the class of 1961, he actually graduated in 1962 after taking a gap year. Deford recalled Ivy taking in another Asian American after Odo graduated in 1961. “Nobody said, ‘Well gee, I don’t know, he’s an Asian American,’” Deford recalled. “And I think that a lot of that had to do with the fact that Frank Odo had already been there.” But Odo recalled a few instances on campus when he was called out for his race. In particular, Odo recalled an incident on one of his first days of class, when an upperclassman approached him and asked him if he was in a particular professor’s class. “I said, ‘No. Why?’” Odo recalled. “He said, ‘Because he gives Jap quizzes,’” a racially charged euphemism for “sneak attacks,” or pop quizzes. Odo also said that he was “sure there were lots of folks running around who were Ivy legacies who said, ‘What the fuck is that guy doing here?’” While Odo said he does not hold any grudges, his relationship with his identity as an Asian American was complicated.
As his time at Princeton progressed, Odo became more aware of his identity. A summer trip he took between his sophomore and junior years was the first time he considered studying his heritage, Odo said. He went with a group of students to Italy, where he noticed that maybe seven out of the 10 young people in that group were Italian-Americans. The trip made him realize that it was okay for Italian Americans to be interested in their own heritage, Odo explained. He wondered why he personally had not gone to Japan or China. After his trip to Italy, he started studying Chinese at Princeton. After writing a junior paper on American imperialism, Odo wrote his senior thesis on a labor union in Hawaii. When he left Princeton, though, he still didn’t know that he wanted to pursue a career in Asian American Studies. “I thought I would go to law school or something, because that’s what you do when you don’t know what you want to do,” he said. In his last year at Princeton, Odo learned of the National Defense of Education Act, a foreign language training fellowship that allowed him to go to Harvard for two years and receive a Masters Degree in East Asian Studies while also teaching Chinese there. Accidental academic, budding activist Over the next 20 years, Odo transformed from a young scholar in a nascent field to an academic giant, leading the charge to institutionalize Asian American Studies. Though he was unsure about staying in academia, Odo returned to Princeton in 1963 to study for a Ph.D in Japanese history. “And by that time, you’re sort of committed,” Odo said of his path to academia. “It sort of was a half-assed way of falling into it.” From 1968-70, while still working on his dissertation, Odo taught at Occidental College in
southern California. Meanwhile, he became increasingly involved in the anti-war, civil rights and black power movements. Odo said that he was drawn to the anti-war movement because of its racially conscious undertones and that this led him to his involvement in the civil rights movement. He and his wife participated in a number of rallies, demonstrations and hunger strikes in Los Angeles. “By ’69, ’70, I was beginning to think, ‘I don’t know what’s going on in the world,’” Odo said, describing the Vietnam War and the American military. “There were these massacres — women, children, the whole thing. It didn’t seem right to me, especially since they looked like me.” It was the anti-war movement that brought Odo from East Asian studies to Asian American Studies. As Odo observed the racial tension in the political atmosphere throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he realized his years of education could not explain the chaotic events around him, from the racism taught to American troops in southeast Asia to assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. “All these cities were burning. People were being assassinated … and I’m thinking, ‘I’ve had a hell of a good education, as good of an education as the United States has to offer, and I have no clue what’s going on,” Odo said. From his efforts to find an explanation through the study of class and race, Odo developed an interest in Asian American Studies. “The resistance to Asian American Studies was … profound,” Odo said of the riots that occurred throughout academia that strove to bring Asian American programming to the curricula. “Universities weren’t ready for it.” As Odo traveled and taught at a number of universities, including UCLA, Cal State Long Beach and the University of Hawaii, he continually attempted to institutionalize Asian American Studies. Everywhere he went, Odo said he had to think about how to advance Asian American Studies by identifying potential allies as well as those who were fearful or angry about introducing such a program. Despite the controversy the reforms he supported provoked, Asian American Studies and ethnic studies programs thrived at the California schools where Odo taught. Starting in 1997, Odo began to work for public institutions such as the Smithsonian, the National Park Service and the Library of Congress, spending less time in academia. He noted that such agencies were becoming increasingly aware of the growing Asian American demographic and the importance of understanding this swing vote in presidential elections as well as local and regional politics. At the Smithsonian, where he worked from 1997 to 2010, Odo brought attention to the Asian American culture and movements he had studied. Smithsonian program assistant Krista Aniel, who worked with Odo when he served as the director for the Asian Pacific American Program, noted that his academic background clearly carried over into his work at the Smithsonian. As director, Odo fundraised and provided scholarly content for a number of programs including Asian American and Latino American heritage initiatives, educational resources for teachers and public outreach programs. Odo’s work outside of academia helped make Asian American Studies a more public force, said University of Maryland Director of Asian American Studies Janelle Wong. Ronald Kim ’96, a former student of Odo’s from 1995, said he saw Odo as one in a special group of young radical Japanese-Americans from Hawaii who played an important role in establishing Asian American Studies as a field in the continental United States. The push for Asian American Studies has not been an isolated effort, Wong said, explaining it as part of a larger movement to study race and ethnicity in the United States. Asian American Studies is moving to become more comparative across ethnic and racial groups as a window into larger race relations and how
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Student negotiators and protesters, some of whom were Odo’s students, gather outside Nassau Hall during the 1995 sit-in protests.
the Asian American experience is shaped by, and also has shaped, the experience of other groups in the United States, Wong said. Currently, Odo is also publicizing his most recent book, “Voices from the Canefields,” which focuses on JapaneseAmerican folk songs in Hawaii and the revelations they offer about gender relations and working conditions for Japanese immigrants in Hawaii during the plantation period. Aniel said the book included several decades of work and thus presented a very comprehensive look at the experience of Japanese-Americans. “We’ll get there, in time.” Odo has come back to Princeton twice, first in 1995 and again this year. Both times, he has taught courses on Asian American Studies. When Odo first returned in February 1995 to teach a general Asian American history class, students were already advocating for an Asian American Studies program, but Odo’s class was the first to cover its subject matter. That year, 17 students occupied Nassau Hall to protest in favor of the creation of Asian American and Latino American Studies programs. Although Odo said he had nothing to do with the movement, he noted that seven of the 17 students were in his seminar. Although Odo said he did not see his class as directly responsible for the protest, he noted that there must be some overlap between students interested in his class and students interested in such a program. “They must have thought the subject matter was worth something, since they were agitating for more classes,” Odo said. “Aside from that, they were very scrupulous about not letting me in on any of their planning.” Kim, who was also involved in the protest, said Odo influenced students by getting them thinking about history, their personal identities and the structure of the curriculum and of the University. “There’s something about Professor Odo and the way he inspired a few students and really got them thinking, and not just thinking, but also in terms of what they could do, and that’s not something easy to do in Princeton in the early ’90s, when there wasn’t that much activism going on,” Kim said. Odo’s history class showed students how past movements had preceded and succeeded, according to April Chou ’96, who served as president of the Asian American Students’ Association and was also a member of Odo’s class and the Nassau Hall protest. She credited Odo with helping students connect their personal experiences to previous movements in history. Odo’s influence on student movements for Asian American Studies extended beyond the University. The year before he taught at Princeton, Odo was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a school Kim characterized as a very preprofessional environment where students don’t tend to protest. During Odo’s time at Penn, the administration began to realize that students were interested in Asian American Studies,
and a program was established in 1996, Kim said. After teaching at the University, Odo taught history courses at Columbia, and during that time, Columbia saw a large student protest for Asian American and Latino Studies, a widely-publicized demonstration that was covered by The New York Times. Odo noted that after the Nassau Hall protest at Princeton, the students involved in the protest claimed that they had extracted a promise from the president that the University would provide resources to create an Asian American Studies program. At the time of the protest, the provost disputed protesters’ claims that they held a letter from the administration promising that their demands would be met, instead asserting that the note the University delivered to protesters outlined numerous steps the University had already taken toward expanding course offerings in Asian American and Latino American Studies. “Well, it never did,” Odo said. “So, periodically I’d support students and alumni who were trying to get the University to live up to its promise.” Odo returned to the University in 2013 to teach Asian Americans and Public History/Memory, after his work at the Smithsonian caught the attention of the history department, according to history professor Dirk Hartog. Kim said he wasn’t sure students or the current University administration realized how fortunate they were to have Odo back at Princeton teaching an Asian American Studies class, because Odo is committed to a fair representation of Asian American Studies in Princeton’s curriculum. “He’s coming up from Washington D.C. — that’s not that close. He did it because he really cares; he cares about the field, obviously, but he really cares about Princeton,” Kim said. After the Asian American Students Association formed in 1971, Asian American students met with University President Harold Shapiro GS ’64 in 1988 to ask for an Asian American Studies program. From 1992-93, the Asian American Student Task Force published a 14-page report requesting an Asian American Studies program. Since the 1995 protest, University professors submitted a proposal for an Asian American studies program in 2008, supported by an alumni petition, and in 2011 AASA formed a committee dedicate to the establishment of an Asian American Studies program. “The process of bringing Asian American Studies to Princeton has been such a protracted affair, a bit of a marathon,” Chou said. As for Asian American Studies at Princeton, the administration is “starting to get it,” Odo said. “It’s something that I think needs to be addressed, and not swept under the rug.” Though he said he knows that the field is not prominent at many universities, Odo remains hopeful about the future of Asian American Studies. “People don’t think that the subject matter is valid,” he said. “But I think we’ll get there, in time.”
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Test scores and graduation rates are at their highest points in history, while dropout rates are at the lowest that they’ve been, she added. She argued that reformers are not focusing on the real issues: poverty and segregation. “The promise of American education is equality of educational opportunity,” Ravitch explained. In order to improve the performance of black and Hispanic students, she advocates placing a greater focus on creating smaller class sizes, greater economic opportunities and desegregating schools. Ravitch added that reformers are destroying the teaching profession. She cited a statistic that half the teachers in America have less than a year of experience. She also criticized the movement to evaluate and, in some cases, pay teachers based on students’ test scores.
“You can’t identify great teachers by student test scores,” Ravitch said, arguing that such test results are invalid and unstable. Throughout her lecture, she emphasized that too great a focus is placed on test scores. According to Ravitch, test scores are only accurate representations of the achievement gap that exists between kids who have more advantages growing up as opposed to those who do not. She called the United States the most overtested nation in the world. “The purpose of education should not be to raise test scores,” Ravitch said, arguing instead that the purpose ought to be to enable students to make wise decisions as adults. Ravitch denounced a practice she calls “deselection,” which she defined as the idea that the more teachers who are fired, the better the schools will be. Ravitch argued that schools should instead hire teachers carefully and then support and respect their employees.
Ravitch also refuted the idea, which she attributed to many members of the reform community, that private schools perform better than public schools. Rather, Ravitch said that private schools focus solely on “risk management.” “If you have a portfolio, you get rid of the losers,” she explained. For reformers, this means closing schools and getting rid of the struggling students. In reality, Ravitch argued, children start life with different advantages and disadvantages. “The achievement gap exists before the first day of school. It starts at home where kids are exposed to different opportunities, vocabulary and learning experiences,” Ravitch said, arguing that it is important to level the playing field for entering students in order to improve their performance. The lecture took place in McCosh 50 and was sponsored by the Walter E. Edge Lecture Series.
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Eight University employees donated to the gubernatorial campaign. The majority of workers supported gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono, who received more than 12 times the donations of Chris Christie.
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Christie’s had raised $13.2 million, spending $9.2 million, NJ.com reported. Both candidates opted to accept public funds and have them matched by the state. Kramer, who gave to Buono’s campaign last December, said that she and her husband decided to donate because they are Democrats and because they know Buono personally through Buono’s husband, Martin Gizzi. “She’s one of the nicest people I know, and I think she would be a much better governor [than Christie],” Kramer said. “She wouldn’t be campaigning for the presidency as I think Christie’s going to do for the next several years. She cares more about the middle class than Christie does.” Kramer added that she and her husband “were not fond” of Christie. “We don’t think he’s the man he pretends to be.” Chiara Nappi explained that she has donated to many Democratic candidates over time, including
candidates for local and national office. When asked if there was anything in particular that struck her about Buono, Nappi noted that Buono “had the guts to run against Christie.” Nappi explained that she favors Buono and other Democratic candidates because of their views on increasing the minimum wage and promoting policies that support the working class. “I believe that people have rights. People who work should make a living and be able to live in a dignified way [off] of their wages. I believe they are entitled to health care,” she said. “All these kind of things that Republicans don’t support, I support it. For me, Christie is on the wrong side of the divide between the good people and the bad people.” Though employees of the University have historically donated to Democratic candidates, including President Barack Obama and Representative Rush Holt, some affiliated with the PPPL gave to Christie’s reelection effort. PPPL Deputy Director for Operations Adam Cohen and PPPL staff
accountant Helen Wojtenko each donated $500 to Christie’s campaign. Cohen said that though he is a Democrat, he thinks that Christie has “been a very good governor for the state.” He explained that he particularly approved of Christie’s response to Hurricane Sandy. “I think that going forward, someone who cares that much about the state of New Jersey and is open to ideas about how to implement specific things that he wants to pursue is the type of governor that we want,” he explained. Cohen, who donated in April, said that he has not given to the campaign since then because he feels that the campaign is drawing on other sources of revenue. “[Christie] clearly has a whole war chest of funds coming in, and everything I hear is that he’s far and away the leader in terms of the campaign,” Cohen explained. “I’m predicting him to win by a landslide.” Christie leads Buono in the race by 19 points, according to a poll taken between Oct. 24 and Oct. 30 by Fairleigh Dickinson.
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From 1992-98, Sotomayor served as the United States District Court Justice of the Southern District of New York, after nomination by President George H. W. Bush. She then served on U.S. Second District Court of Appeals until 2009, when she became the first Latina woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. “She really exemplifies the Woodrow Wilson School Award, as a Princeton alumna who has devoted herself to public service. In fact, she personifies public service with her work first as a lawyer in New York and now in the Supreme Court,” Wilson School Dean Cecilia Rouse said. Sotomayor, one of thre-
Princeton alumni currently serving on the Supreme Court, returned to campus in May 2011 as part of the ‘She Roars’ conference celebrating women alumnae,
“She was one of the most dedicated, hardworking students that I’ve ever encountered.” Joseph Schubert ’74
and spoke on women’s leadership potential. Joseph Schubert ’74, who was a friend of Sotomayor’s while at the University, said
Sotomayor’s excellent work ethic set her apart from her peers and that her friends knew she would achieve great things. “I would say that her determination and desire to succeed were two very outstanding characteristics that I observed with her. She was one of the most dedicated, hardworking students that I’ve ever encountered,” Schubert said. “I don’t think any of us expected that she would aspire to Supreme Court Justice, but it makes sense, given the fact that she just had that sheer drive and ability to leverage connections, and it worked out very well for her.” Sotomayor broke racial barriers even as an undergraduate, according to Margarita Rosa ’74, who, as a junior, became friends with a freshman Sotomayor when
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she persuaded Sotomayor to join Accion Puertorriquena, a Puerto Rican cultural organization on campus. Rosa recalled the pride she felt when Sotomayor received the Pyne Prize, the University’s highest undergraduate academic honor, upon graduation. “That was a very exciting and moving moment as her friend and as another Latina from that generation, because we were not necessarily, nor is anyone else for that matter, the recipient of that type of prize too often. It was really very significant not only for her. I think that she’s always understood that these awards were not always significant just for her as an individual, but also as a member of a larger community.” The James Madison Medal is named after the fourth president of the United
States, who graduated from the University in 1771. The award is presented each year by the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni to any alumnus or alumna of the Graduate School whose career demonstrates a deep commitment to public service and graduate education. Rawlings grew up in Norfolk, Va., and attended Haverford College. After earning a Ph.D. in classics from the University in 1970, Rawlings spent his next 18 years on the faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He spent seven years as president of the University of Iowa before becoming the 10th president of Cornell University from 1995 to 2003. He resumed the position for a short time from 2005 to 2006 and continues to teach undergraduate classics courses there.
Rawlings is a member of the Ivy Council of Presidents and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He became president of the AAU in 2011. Rawlings spoke at the inauguration of University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 in September, criticizing education reforms that place too much emphasis on metrics. Rawlings said the award was especially meaningful because he is a “real student” of James Madison. “I’m a Virginian and have a great admiration for his career and particularly for his contributions to American government, particularly to the Constitution itself and the Bill of Rights, and to very important principles such as the separation of church of state,” Rawlings noted.
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Is ‘12 Years a Slave’ relevant? Probably
uring fall break, I saw Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” in one of the few theaters in the country where it was playing. I had read reviews praising the movie as a modern masterpiece. Many critics and fans regard it as the frontrunner for Best Picture. However, I was most interested in examining the historical relevance of the film. There have been many artistic explorations of slavery (e.g., Alex Haley’s “Roots” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” among others). What would distinguish this film from any of its predecessors? “12 Years a Slave” is a beautifully crafted movie. McQueen’s third feature length is a skillful adaptation of the autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free man from New York who was kidnapped in 1841, sold into slavery and held in bondage for 12 years on Louisiania plantations. While it will please arthouse patrons with its soft color palettes, triumphant score and convincing performances, it is still a fundamentally brutal film that will incite pity, wrath and melancholia. I believed the film was worthy of an important discussion, but I could not decide why. After two days of reflection, I still could not articulate the entire range of my reactions. I was both pleased by the film’s masterful execution and discontented with its inability to express new ideas. I tried to understand what, if anything, I had learned from the experience. I concluded that the film’s success is not in its capacity to inform a nation about its shameful past (yes, slavery is bad — we know). Neither does the film explore a rich intellectual landscape that will challenge historical academicians. Indeed, the film emphasizes the familiar experiences of African-American slaves (I do, however, commend screenwriter John Ridley for including two underrepresented historically-based character types: the white indentured servant and the black plantation mistress). But, the film’s success is contingent upon its emotive capacity. The fact that the film summons such visceral reactions and encourages the kind of reflectiveness that led me to write this article is a testament to its achievement. By virtue of its excellent craftsmanship, the film invites the audience to revisit it, thereby allowing the viewer to repeatedly experience emotional responses (horror, sympathy, hope) that are distinctly connected to the slavery narrative. In other words, the film is most valuable not because of its intellectual novelty, but because it successfully encourages the recollection of an important, scarred past. With this film, McQueen argues for the endurance of this particular narrative. He reminds us that humanity, though it tends to change its ethical and moral perspectives, is still capable of atrocious actions, just as it is still able to overcome them. There is a sort of timelessness to the slavery narrative because of its exceptional themes of debased repression and impossible persistence. The consequences of slavery were influential in Princeton’s history as well. In his essay, “Princeton and the Controversies Over Slavery,” University professor Sean Wilentz examines Princeton’s role in the antebellum debates between abolitionists and their opponents. As the intellectual center of the American Presbyterian Church, Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) was, by most standards, conservative in its stance on slavery. Wilentz notes that Princeton “was not so much proslavery as it was opposed to radical antislavery,” which became evident in the creation of the American Colonization Society, founded by Princeton graduate Robert Finley in 1816. The society sought to remove emancipated blacks to Africa, helping found the colony of Liberia. Given the severity of the slavery debate, it is interesting that in the 1850s, approximately one-sixth of Princeton’s population was black. Although racial relations were not always stable, white and black Presbyterians worshiped in the same building well into the nineteenth century. In 1840, however, black members of the First Presbyterian Church were relocated to a separate space. This community of expelled blacks would create Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, which still stands as a symbol of both black solidarity and racial disunity. The release of “12 Years a Slave” in 2013 is not ill-timed. In our own environment, we can still see vestiges of the most contested debate in American history. I am not a film historian. I do not know the extent to which McQueen’s effort will endure. But even if we have been exposed to slavery narratives before, we have seen few that are as excellently composed as this one. And that, I think, is why McQueen created it. Regardless of the historical facts, this is a film about a real man’s emotional journey. McQueen draws this story from the well of history and reminds us that it is still there and always will be. Like the undeniable effects of slavery on current racial relations, we cannot ignore it. Nor should we. The act of remembrance is justifiable in itself because it validates our past and confirms the ethical transformations that have guided us to our present.
Opinion
Tuesday november 5, 2013
A waste of a good time Isabella Gomes columnist
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n her Oct. 1 column, “The cult of exclusivity,” Katherine Zhao discusses how the Princeton experience can often feel like “getting hit by a long string of rejections.” She laments that Princeton’s culture has the habit of excluding students from the exact extracurricular activities they had once thought they had excelled at in high school. If we think about it, this culture prevails even in the academic sphere of Princeton students’ lives. While walking out of Frick Chemistry Laboratory after having finished an organic chemistry lab, I saw a friend of mine huddled over her laptop, looking fairly morose and a bit beaten up. She started venting about how she had bombed her physics midterm, subsequently decided to drop the course and was now deliberating whether or not it would be worth it for her to continue being an engineer. Watching her feel as though she had failed at what she had originally set out to do at Princeton, I began to question the unforgiving nature of Princeton’s education system and the system of other similarly rigorous universities. Prerequisites, such as PHY 103: General Physics I, should be more like introductory or skill-teaching courses that allow us to venture off and explore the myriad of departmentals and electives the University has to offer. However, for many majors, they become checkpoints of “go” or “no go” — determinants for whether or not the student believes he will be able to succeed in the department based on his own performance and in comparison with his peers due to grade deflation.
But it really shouldn’t be this way. If a student is in love with a department and sincerely hopes to join it, then prerequisite classes should not convince the student that the department will be too overwhelming and therefore undesirable. After all, even though Princeton is a challenge, it’s such a shame when the level of difficulty of prerequisite classes dissuades the student from delving beyond the preliminary and studying what he is truly interested in. The truth is that every major has its challenges — that one class that nearly everyone stresses over and pulls all-nighters for just to survive. But students shouldn’t feel completely deterred from a department, and a class should never make a student feel as if he has to give up altogether because he is not matching up to his classmates. Regardless of how the University perceives itself, number 1 status and all, it should still acknowledge that its students won’t constantly be at the top of their game in every class — and it’s not the end of the world if this happens. Having written columns on mental health on campus and what students have experienced after making the difficult decision to withdraw for a year due to academic struggles, I realized that Princeton doesn’t really give students a second chance should they run into problems with workload and class performance. With so many limitations, even the pass/D/fail option could hardly be considered a second chance either, especially as it cannot be used for classes in one’s major. I’m not saying we should expect less of ourselves or that it’s okay to downplay unsatisfactory grades. However, I do think that there should be a greater emphasis on the value of learning and internalizing information — even if it takes time or repetition — rather than on
one’s success relative to others. For example, as a student who regrettably tanked the first time she took the first semester of organic chemistry, I didn’t feel as though others would understand my desire to try it again during my sophomore spring. My thinking was that I didn’t want to walk away from the class having learned nothing, or rather having learned that I didn’t have it in me to understand the material. Considering that our time at Princeton is so limited and valuable, I wasn’t okay with the possibility that I might leave Princeton having wasted a class. And looking back, I realize that it was right of me to think this way — that I was appreciating the extraordinary opportunity to be educated by exceptional professors in challenging courses. But no one else, at that time, had assured me that it was legitimate and acceptable for me to ask for a second chance. Princeton can do this so simply by changing its culture and reformatting the expectations that students force upon themselves, such as by bringing up the fact that it’s okay to drop a class and take it again when we feel more ready, saying that the typical paths of study are recommended but not required (especially considering that no student here is really “typical”) and recognizing that a failed grade on an exam doesn’t equate to being a failure. Our time at Princeton shouldn’t be about realizing everything that we don’t or can’t do. It should be about taking advantage of new opportunities and shaping what we do based on what we now know about ourselves. Because if it’s not that, then it’s just a waste of what could have potentially been a really good time. Isabella Gomes is a sophomore from Irvine, Calif. She can be reached at igomes@princeton.edu.
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Doing college right Jiyoon Kim
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few weeks ago, one of my favorite high school teachers sent a message via Facebook to several of my friends in Boston demanding that they “stop hanging out” with one another, emphasizing her sincerity with all-caps text and more exclamation points than a humanities teacher should ever use. The unwritten message was that in spending time with one another, my friends weren’t embracing the full college experience; time spent keeping in touch with old friends from high school was time not spent establishing new relationships within their respective universities throughout Boston. I sat idly as three of those friends chattered away at our reunion in a small burger restaurant in Davis Square. They told their stories as one, adding an anecdote about a person who was mentioned or bulking up a story with another version of the same happening. They had shared experiences, as students of city schools can. I was out of place with my isolated stories of Princeton. The smell of burgers settled into my hair as they babbled on.
I couldn’t contribute to the stories of people everyone knew — I’ve had only brief encounters with the few students from my high school who are at Princeton — but I didn’t have any particularly thrilling stories about new friends and experiences to make up for it. It dawned upon me that in a single week, I had run into more friends in the city of Boston than I have made in the two months I’ve been at quaint little Princeton. I still don’t quite feel settled into my room in Bloomberg Hall, but it took me less than a week to feel at home in my boyfriend’s triple dorm room. As I set to work choosing which whimsically named burger to order, I wondered whether I was “doing college wrong.” Advice to incoming freshmen often includes some version of the notion that college is a fresh beginning, a departure from life in high school toward a greater world of academic and personal growth. Childhood memories and high school friends are great, but we have to move on. Holding on to what was means missing out on what is. I never imagined I would struggle to “move on” the way I have since I left home. In anticipation of my new, bound-to-be fabulous life at the extraordinary place that is Princeton,
I packaged my memories of high school — friends, home, Tokyo — into a pretty hypothetical box and tucked it away into the far recesses of my consciousness. I was ready to face college head-on and determined to build a new life grander and more fulfilling than anything I had experienced before. But I couldn’t commit. I’ve been neither here nor there, neither fully engaged in my relationships and activities at Princeton nor committed to staying connected to my old friends. Every day I woke up convinced that today was the day I would start to be more present, more connected, and every day I went to bed resolved to do better tomorrow. I found myself in no man’s land, and until my visit to Boston, I didn’t realize that this awkward gray area I’ve found myself in is a construct of my own interpretation of how I should be “doing college.” “Moving on” implies letting go. It suggests that we leave something behind. In order to successfully move forward, we can’t ever look back. But how can we see how we’ve gotten to where we are if we don’t remember where we’ve been? We shouldn’t feel compelled to move on. It’s okay — better, even — for us to simply move along,
following the current of experiences that then become memories. I had to see for myself how new friends can intermingle with old ones, how new experiences add to, rather than replace, old memories and how life isn’t a collection of disjointed stages dictated by how the educational institution is designed. As I lay in my boyfriend’s bed stuffed to the brim with burger and frozen yogurt, responding simultaneously to worried texts asking whether I made it safely past the post-World Series Championship craze on my way home and curious texts asking what everyone was up to over fall break, I had an epiphany: I had been wasting away what should have been the most stimulating two months of my life so far fixated on pursuing the “right” college experience, when really I should not have been worrying about that in the first place. “Doing college right” isn’t about the college experience itself; such a narrow focus undermines the worth of what we gain. It’s about discovering how that experience falls into place in the broader timeline of experiences throughout your life. Jiyoon Kim is a freshman from Tokyo, Japan. She can be reached at ljkim@ princeton.edu.
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Tuesday november 05, 2013
Freshman Curham finishes 4th overall as women come in 4th at Heps
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The men’s soccer team takes on American in its final non-conference game of the season tonight.
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said. “We weren’t going to accept anything other than a win [that night], and every person on our team contributed to that win.” The week was capped off with Saturday’s game against Cornell, which doubled as a send-off for the senior class. The Tigers sent their seniors off in style with a shutout of the Big Red, preventing even a single shot on goal. Princeton outshot Cornell 21-6, with 13 shots on goal. Freshman forward Tyler Lussi, who leads the team in goals, netted her eighth of the season against Cornell, making her the highest-scoring Princeton freshman since 2000. The success of the past two games made this week a good one for the Tigers. “I think this past week has been the best week for us so
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far this season,” Kergides said. “We got a great win on the road up at Colgate to set the tone coming into this weekend, and we practiced hard all week to prepare for [Sunday’s] game. We just really want to end this season on a high note to give the team some positive momentum as they head into the spring season.” The seniors had many shining moments. Senior midfielder/forward Erika Hoglund had the first goal of the game off an assist from Kergides and went on to assist junior midfielder/forward Lauren Lazo for the Tigers’ third goal of the game. Kergides had another assist that night, as both she and senior midfielder/defender Gabriella Guzman set up the final goal, a header by junior midfielder Jessica Haley. “Lining up to take the corner, I made eye contact with Gabby, and I just knew that I
was going to find her head,” Kergides said. “Gabby and I have been playing soccer together since we were 13 years old, and it was just awesome to make that connection and that play together to give us our final goal in our last game at home. It definitely was a special moment for us.” With a senior night victory under their belts, the Tigers will play their last game of the season at Penn on Friday. “I couldn’t have asked for a better way to end our career at Roberts Stadium,” Kergides said. “It was exactly what our team needed — getting our first Ivy League win — and it was awesome that we were able to do that on our senior night too. The win meant a lot to the team; we were finally rewarded for all the hard work that we have been doing all season.”
runners continued to puswh the pace. Keeping a close eye on each other, Princeton’s and Columbia’s top runners hung back in a charged chase pack. The battle began in earnest over the final kilometers, and the field began to splinter as the push for the finish began. “By about 5K, there was a clear front group, which was a couple of us and a couple of Columbia guys,” senior Tyler Udland said. “After 6K, Columbia threw down a big move, and [senior co-captain] Chris [Bendtsen] and I struggled to stay with it. We let them get away and put a few seconds on us.” Redeeming himself after a poor race last year, Korolev made a push and tore away from the badly fading pair of Bleday and Geoghegan, finishing in a meet-record time of 23:28.2. Following Korolev, the top three Columbia runners delivered a crushing blow to Princeton’s hopes as they maintained their breakaway and placed second, fourth and fifth. “As a team, we were kind of counting on getting to 2K or 1K-to-go and having that kick, and moving up and passing people the last part of the race,” Arroyo Yamin said. “But we got to 6K, and we just didn’t react. We didn’t move up the way we wanted to. Columbia ran away with it.” Kicking hard behind the Columbia runners, Udland and Bendtsen fell short of catching up, as Udland finished sixth, two seconds behind the third Lion in 23:48.6, and Bendtsen seventh at 23:49.7. Arroyo Yamin and juniors Sam Pons and Matt McDonald rounded out the Tigers’ top five, finishing closely after in places 12, 15 and 16, respectively. Overall, the Tigers had an impressive 16.7-second one through five spread and a 23:57.2 team average time, but it was not enough, and they fell 48-56 to Columbia. “Heps wasn’t the result we wanted, but it wasn’t like we ran a terrible race. Columbia ran a great race,” Udland said. “Moving forward, we just have to pick our heads up and keep going. Fitness-
wise, we’re still where we want to be at this point. We have to go to regionals, take care of business and be there at nationals.” Racing after the men as the day turned unseasonably warm, the Princeton women struggled to find their rhythm. With Dartmouth’s Abbey D’Agostino, the topranked runner in the NCAA, taking the race out fast, the field was strung out from the gun as most runners were dragged out faster than their race plans for the 6K race. “We had a certain pace to go out at, and virtually the entire team was ahead of that pace. When they got to the mile mark and saw their time, panic might have set in,” head coach Peter Farrell said. “We had a bad day, not across the board, but we had a bad day. I think it was a combination of nerves, the heat and a little bit of panic.”
“We were right there; we were right in contact ... We just focused on the blue jerseys.” Alejandro Arroyo Yamin ’14
Leading Princeton, freshman Megan Curham was unfazed as she continued her outstanding freshman cross country campaign. Running aggressively, she got off the line and stuck her nose in with the front pack. Keeping close behind, junior captain Emily De La Bruyere kept Curham in sight as the two went through the mile in around 5:15. Head and shoulders above the rest of the field, D’Agostino quickly dismantled the competition and was alone with a 20-second lead by three miles. AllAmericans Waverly Neer of Columbia and Rachel Sorna of Cornell formed a chase pack, with Curham doggedly keeping up. Fighting in a pack of Dartmouth and Cornell runners, De La Bruyere
was a few seconds behind, covering fifth place. “Going into the last mile, that’s when it got really hard, and I had to tell myself to just give it everything I had so I didn’t have any regrets,” Curham said. “I tried to maintain my ground and keep on chasing the girls ahead of me. I wasn’t sure if I could catch them, but I tried to stick as close as I could and not let anyone pass me.” Driving over the final mile and through the finish line, D’Agostino ran away with the individual crown in a meet-record time of 19:40.8, leading her team to victory. Neer and Sorna came in next, with Curham taking fourth in 20:26.1. Feeling the burn of the hot early pace, De La Bruyere faded over the last kilometer to place 10th. As several of the Tigers’ top runners wilted in the heat, sophomore Kathryn Fluehr stepped up to take third for the team in 18th place overall, while junior Lindsay Eysenbach took 26th. Sophomore Kathryn Little was the fifth runner for Princeton across the finish, taking 37th. Overall, Dartmouth secured the victory with 38 points, Cornell had 66, Harvard followed with 73 and Princeton had 95. While fourth place was not the result the Princeton women were looking for, they have a shot at redemption at the NCAA Regional Championships on Nov. 15. “When Princeton beat [defending champion] UCLA in basketball in the opening round of the [1996] NCAA championship, [Princeton head coach] Pete Carril said, ‘We can play them 100 times and win only one game, but that was tonight. We play them tomorrow, they’d probably beat us,’” Farrell said. “The point is, Saturday wasn’t us. It can’t be us. You just have to bounce back.” Looking forward to regionals, the Tigers are preparing for a shot to qualify for nationals. While qualifying with at-large bids based on regular-season performances is a possibility, both the men and the women are seeking top-two team finishes to advance. At nationals, the Tigers will have second chances at defeating their Ivy League rivals.
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Tough day at Heps as men finish 2nd By Adam Fisch senior writer
For the cross country teams, the Ivy League Championships are always one of the toughest meets of the season. Full of history and tradition, the race for the Heps crown is always a fierce and close battle. Tensions were high for the men on the starting line Saturday, as perennial second-placer No. 10 Columbia was poised to mount an attack on the No. 15 Tigers — the defending champions. The women’s race was also stacked, with several of the teams nationally ranked, led by No. 11 Dartmouth. Despite placing six runners in the top 20, the Tiger men finally fell to the surging Lions, ending Princeton’s three-year title streak. On the women’s side, the No. 23 Tigers had a rough day, as they ran to fourth place. Dartmouth took first, followed by Cornell and Harvard. “Obviously the expectation was to win,” senior co-captain Alejandro Arroyo Yamin said. “We were all working hard, workouts were going fantastic and we were going into the race con-
fident, but sure, knowing that it would be tough. Columbia is a great team, Harvard and Dartmouth have runners that are up there, but we wanted to four-peat.” From the moment the gun went off for the championship men’s 8K race on West Windsor Fields, the match between the Lions and Tigers was nail-bitingly close. By the early stages of the race, the main lead pack was a heavy mix of blue and orange. Keeping the pace honest from the start, Dartmouth’s John Bleday and Will Geoghegan forged ahead with prerace favorite Maksim Korolev of Harvard. With Korolev hitting the first mile in four minutes, 44 seconds, the race was close and tightly packed. “We had a weak start and were buried in the pack at the beginning, but we quickly worked our way up,” Arroyo Yamin said. “We were right there; we were right in contact. The Harvard kid and the Dartmouth kids took off — they usually do that — but we just focused on the blue jerseys.” Breaking away to a slight lead over the next few miles, Korolev and the Dartmouth See X-COUNTRY page 7
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The Tigers went into Heps with a three-year title streak but left the meet having finished second after Columbia won the meet by a narrow margin. WOMEN’S SOCCER
Princeton wins first Ivy match By Crissy Carano senior writer
The weekend ended on a high note for the women’s soccer team, as it dominated the senior night game against Cornell with a 4-0 win at Roberts Stadium. The penultimate game for the Tigers (7-5-4 overall, 1-4-1 Ivy League) was the last home game for the seniors, as well as their first Ivy win this season. The Tigers played three games over the course of fall break. The first game, on Saturday, Oct. 26 against leagueleading Harvard (11-3-2, 6-0), resulted
in a 4-0 Tiger loss. Though Princeton had nine shots on goal, the Crimson’s goalkeeping kept Princeton from converting even one. Meanwhile, the Crimson piled up the goals in the first half and tacked on a fourth score in the final period. Princeton was on the road again the following Tuesday, playing Colgate in Hamilton, N.Y. The Tigers fared better against the Raiders (10-6-1, 6-2-1 Patriot League), winning 3-1 and finishing 3-0 against Patriot League opponents. Once again, the team shot frequently, taking a season-high 32 total shots and
11 shots on goal. Freshman goalkeeper Hannah Winner started for the first time in her college career, after getting her first minutes of play in the Harvard game. The victory against Colgate put the Tigers on track for Saturday’s game against Cornell (7-7-1, 1-5), a team Princeton has consistently been able to beat. “The balls just haven’t been bouncing our way this year, but we never gave up and [Saturday night] we realized that we had nothing to lose, so we just went out there determined to get that win,” senior defender Kacie Kergides See W.SOCCER page 7
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With three games left in the season, several teams could still win the Ivy League title. It all depends on Princeton, however, as the Tigers have surged back to relevance and now control their own destiny. Here’s how the Ancient Eight looks as we get set for an exciting end to the 2013 football season: Princeton (6-1 overall, 4-0 Ivy League): Just two years after finishing 1-9, the Tigers find themselves on top of the Ivy League and need only two more wins to secure at least a share of the championship and three to do so outright. Junior quarterback Quinn Epperly has earned three straight Ivy League Player of the Week awards and shows no sign of slowing down in what has been one of the best seasons of any quarterback in Princeton history. Meanwhile, the defense held Cornell to just 13 points (seven of Cornell’s points were scored by their defense) and pressured Cornell senior quarterback Jeff Mathews all day Saturday. The Tigers will need to bring that kind of pressure next weekend as they travel to Philadelphia to take on Penn — a win would put the Tigers one game closer to the title while a loss would land them in a two- or potentially three-way tie at the top of the league.
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Harvard (6-1, 3-1): The Crimson rallied back from a demoralizing defeat two weeks ago to overcome Dartmouth last weekend, thanks largely to a 146-yard game from freshman running back Paul Stanton. Though it needs Princeton to lose in order to have a shot at winning the league, Harvard has a good shot at winning out. Expect Harvard to roll over Columbia next Saturday on the way to the biggest game it has left on its schedule: a showdown with Penn in Cambridge on Nov. 16.
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Penn (4-3, 3-1): The Quakers dropped the ball in Providence last weekend, getting blanked and falling out of a tie for first in the league. That loss makes next weekend’s matchup against Princeton huge: If senior quarterback Billy Ragone wants to lead his team to a second straight championship, they will have to win out, and that means putting up a lot of points against the Tigers.
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Brown (5-2, 2-2): The Bears’ 27-0 thumping of the Quakers last weekend may turn out to have spoiled the Quakers’ hopes for back-to-back Ivy championships. Brown has not been mathematically eliminated from title contention but only a bizarre set of circumstances would result in the Bears reaching the top of the league. Still, the Bears can be proud of a season in which they have put up over 40 points in four separate games.
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Yale (4-3, 2-2): After a shockingly good start, the Bulldogs have cooled off. Though they snapped a three-game losing streak with a huge win over Columbia on Saturday, Yale has a tough slate ahead. Regardless of whether or not the Bulldogs can finish with a winning record, it has been a great year for junior tailback Tyler Varga, whose outstanding rushing has earned him his own page on Yale football’s website.
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Dartmouth (3-4, 2-2): The Big Green nearly pulled off what might have been the biggest upset of the Ivy season last weekend, coming within three points of handing Harvard its second straight loss. Thanks in part to a fumble return by junior defensive back Stephen Dazzo, the Big Green put up 14 points in the third quarter to tie the Crimson but let up a field goal in the final period. Still, the fact that Dartmouth held Conner Hempel to 135 passing yards spells trouble for the Big Green’s next opponent, Cornell.
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Cornell (1-6, 0-4): It’s been a disappointing season for the Big Red and especially senior quarterback Jeff Mathews. Mathews leads the league with 330.9 passing yards per game despite playing behind an offensive line that allowed Princeton to rack up seven sacks last weekend. As rumors swirl about Mathews’ chances in the NFL Draft, Cornell will have a chance to finish with a respectable Ivy record as it faces Dartmouth and Columbia in the coming weeks. Columbia (0-7, 0-4): The Lions are all but guaranteed a winless season after losing 53-12 to the Bulldogs on Saturday, as their remaining opponents are Harvard, Cornell and Brown. Unfortunately for Columbia, finishing last in the league does not give a team a better shot at young prospects as it does in the NFL, and a lot will have to change in New York for the program to be turned around.
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