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Cara McCollum ’15 injured in car accident

By Myrial Holbrook staff writer

Cara McCollum ’15, Miss New Jersey 2013, is in critical condition at Cooper Health System after a car crash Monday night, according to The Press of Atlantic City.

The Cooper Health System declined to comment, per the McCollum family’s wishes.

McCollum was traveling north on Route 55 when her car spun off the road and hit

a tree at mile marker 38.4 before hitting two other trees and coming to a stop on the embankment, according to NJ.com.

Her airbag deployed in the crash, and she was not wearing a seatbelt, a report from New Jersey State Police report said.

McCollum was transported to Cooper Health Systems from the scene of the accident.

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Cara McCollum ‘15 is the first University student to be crowned Miss New Jersey since 1999.

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Academics Committee to administer calendar survey

Office of Sustainability hires Reunions interns

By Caroline Lippman staff writer

The Academics Committee of the University Student Government is currently designing a survey to assess opinions on potential changes to the current academic calendar, according to former Academics Committee Chair Ramie Fathy ’16.

The survey will be administered in early March to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as University faculty. According to Fathy, the survey will be sent via

email through Qualtrics and administered by the Office of Institutional Research. The Academics Committee will then help to analyze the results.

Shannon Osaka ’17, Academics Committee Chair, said that the survey will focus on three aspects of the calendar: the timing of final exams in the winter, the length of Intersession and the length of the semester.

“The main question on which a lot of the calendar changes hinge is, do you want finals before winter break?

The second question about Intersession is dependent on that question, and the third question about semester length is not dependent,” she explained.

As far as how long will it take to instate the changes, Deputy Dean of the College Elizabeth Colagiuri explained that committee members don’t have an estimate of an exact time, but that there will need to be a fairly long lead time because academic calendars are set years in advance.

Colagiuri explained that See CALENDAR page 2

ACADEMICS

By Marcia Brown staff writer

The Office of Sustainability chose three interns for the spring semester to design and implement projects to make Reunions more sustainable, according to Director of the Office of Sustainability Shana Weber.

Internship applications were solicited through an email circulated mostly within sustainability groups at the University. Weber said that members of the Office met with all students who expressed interest and then asked the students to return with proposals for ideas brought up in the meeting.

According to Weber, the Office looked for candidates who demonstrated problem-solving abilities, well-organized thinking, clarity around purpose as well as initiative and teamwork. Proposals included both singular and group projects, according to Weber.

Weber added that six to seven students applied. Three freshmen were chosen as interns, according to Lisa Nicolaison, program coordinator for the Office of Sustainability.

“I’m from a really green liberal town and it’s what I grew up doing,” intern Erin Mooz ’19 said. “I pulled recyclable items out of the trash, and I feel like See SUSTAINABILITY page 5

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Stephen Kotkin, professor of history, is among the longest staying professors at the University.

Stephen Kotkin: Scholar of Soviet history and an encouraging mentor

By Andrea Ayala staff writer

Known for his exhaustive and rigorous HIS 362 class on the Soviet Empire, Stephen Kotkin is a history professor who holds a joint appointment at the Wilson School.

Kotkin is also one of the University’s longest staying professors, having taught at the University for a total of 27 years.

Kotkin said that his en-

thusiasm for Soviet history developed from a “strange, unexpected turn of events.”

Kotkin explained that his great interest growing up had always been science and math. He noted that his academic career at the University of Rochester, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, almost ended with him being a premed student. However, after fainting in the hospital during a molecular biology

fieldwork class, he graduated from the University of Rochester in with a B.A. in English, and went on to earn his M.A in history in 1983 from the same school .

Kotkin explained that his love for history was prompted by the array of exceptionally good professors he had in his time at the University of Rochester, and later on, when he was getting his PhD in History at the University See KOTKIN page 3

The classroom is a microcosm of the nation and is a space to rehearse democracy and thus conversations about who participates in the classroom should be encouraged, Dean of the College Jill Dolan noted in a panel discussion on the gender politics of the classrooms on Tuesday.

Panelist Marni Morse ’17 noted that both students and professors play key roles in maintaining a respectful environment in the classroom while still promoting lively discussions. She noted an example of a professor who alternated between using ‘he’ and ‘she’ examples in lecture, a small change that she only noticed because every other class she was in used the standard male pronouns.

Morse is a columnist for the Daily Princetonian.

Other professors, like Panelist Miguel Centeno, a professor in the sociology department, noted similar points about classroom environments often following patterns of traditional norms.

Centeno said that often, academic readings assume a straight white male world.

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He noted that it is faculty’s responsibility not only to work to diversify the classroom, but also to ensure that classrooms are safe spaces for everyone to express their opinions.

“When a student says or does something marginally outrageous, the professor needs to call it out without humiliating anyone in the classroom,” Centano said, speaking to the careful balance that needs to be struck to maintain classrooms as safe spaces for all students.

“Professors think ‘Oh no, unpacking that statement will take thirty minutes and I don’t have the time for that’ and shove uncomfortable discussion s to a side,” panelist Angelina Sylvain GS of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute added.

Instead, she said, professors should seize these as valuable learning opportunities and prioritize such discussions on issues that minority students face in a classroom.

There is a right way to be inclusive, explained Jennifer Rexford ’91, Chair of the Computer Science Department, giving the example of a professor in her departSee LECTURE page 5

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once the Committee reaches the point of actually making recommendations of what a new calendar should look like, they will have to start working through the Faculty Committee on Classrooms and Schedule and the General Education Task Force before it is passed to a full-faculty vote.

Osaka said that members of the Academics Committee are working with the Office of the Dean of the College, and through this collaboration they decided to frame the survey as a collection of trade-off questions.

Jonathan Balkind, a thirdyear graduate student working on the Committee, explained that the purpose of the survey is to inform the faculty about what different members of the University would prefer in a calendar, since the faculty will ultimately make the decision.

“The idea is that we figure out the trade-offs, what’s important to people, and then we can craft a calendar to put forward to the faculty,” he said, “Our input is shaping what gets put to the faculty and helping the administra-

tors do that.”

Fathy explained that he has been wanting to work on a survey like this ever since he joined the Academics Committee but, because of other projects and the changes in the office of the Dean of the College, the Committee was not able to get started drafting a survey with administrators until this fall.

“It comes up as an impediment to student mental health: the lack of an opportunity to really take a break over the winter holiday period, with finals and end-of-term work hanging over everyone’s head when they come back,” Colagiuri added.

Fathy said that the most important aspect of the project is figuring out what people want in the calendar. “If they don’t want any changes at all, that’s something we’ll be arguing for. It all depends on the results of the survey,” he said.

Osaka explained that if there is no change to the length of the twelve-week teaching period, there would be no change to length of reading period and finals, but the University would begin two weeks earlier, roughly during the last week of August. Then, classes would end right before Thanksgiving, and after

break students would come back to a reading and finals period that is the same length as it is now, just moved to before winter break. Then there would be three-week-long winter break, plus one week of Intersession when students can either come back to campus or stay home. The spring semester would begin around the last week of January She added that the other Intersession option would be to have this same situation, but with two weeks for Intersession, not one.

Osaka said that if the survey indicates that people do not want finals to be moved, there are still some changes that could possibly be made to the calendar – including the option of a 13-week teaching period as opposed to the current 12-week teaching period.

If the calendar were to adjust to a 13-week teaching period, Osaka explained that the calendar would gain one week of class and lose one week of the three week finals period.

“We decided to ask a subsequent question which is like, do you support having a longer teaching period at the expense of a shorter reading and finals period, and if so, how would you want the reading and finals period to be ratioed out?” Osaka added.

She noted that this elongated teaching period also applies to the spring semester.

Fathy explained that the finals period could remain at its current length and reading period would be shortened, or reading period would remain at its current length and the finals period would be shorter.

“In that case, students might have to take two exams on the same day, and those are the sorts of things we want them to know ahead of time before they take the survey,” he said.

Colagiuri, who has worked closely with the Academic Committee through a faculty task force on strategic planning and general education, noted that the issue of the University’s academic calendar has continually come up as an impediment, for example to students seeking study abroad or internship opportunities outside the University.

Balkind said that it was important to include the graduate student population in the conversation.

“We put together questions around research, research travel, [teaching assistant] commitments and general exams, which are quite important,” Balkind said.

He added that the results

of the survey will differ radically depending on where the graduate students are in their studies, whether they have taken their general exams and whether they have TA commitments.

Balkind noted that a calendar change would be potentially helpful for international students, which comprise almost 41 percent of the graduate student population.

Balkind said he thought that the faculty might like a three-week-long winter break and a two-week Intersession, especially since the current week-long Intersession is often devoted entirely for grading. “[The faculty] would have a really long time to be able to buckle down and focus on research for an extended period there and potentially go and do research travel, [and] get into work with their graduate students in ways that I think right now are lacking,” Balkind explained.

Fathy said that the Committee has been in conversation with the faculty, who have expressed a variety of opinions about potential calendar changes. He noted that one of the concerns faculty have raised is about the quality of students’ independent work if the timing of exams were to change.

He said it could be argued that if the University moves finals before break, students would have less time for independent work, and their exams or essays could be of worse quality.

“But a lot of people counter that by saying that’s the case we have in the spring, and the quality is the same, and in the fall we lose a lot of momentum because we have so many breaks,” he explained.

Balkind explained that he is hopeful that the Committee will be able to enact a change in the calendar, but that they must do the necessary work first to find options that are feasible.

“We don’t want to go forward with a proposal that simply is a non-starter, so that’s why we’re starting with a survey,” Colagiuri added.

Fathy noted that he is expecting a higher response rate than the PDF survey, which was 40 percent of the student body, although 40 percent was still about ten times higher than the usual USG survey.

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of Berkley, California.

He noted that during his studies he had a chance to visit Prague for a summer language program, and he read about communism and the impact that it had on the country to learn as much as he could before he went.

Despite his extensive reading, Kotkin said, he was surprised by the reality of communism that he witnessed when he arrived in Prague – the official, oppressive economy, was supplemented by a second shadow society, where people were doing creative things like creating an underground economy to survive in the system. Kotkin said that this surprisingly inventive society urged him to study communism seriously to find out more about how it was lived, invented and circumvented.

Elidor Mehili GS ’11, who grew up in Albania, noted how even though both him and his parents had lived through communism, it wasn’t until he was in the Soviet History and Successor States seminar with Kotkin that he really came to gain a deeper and critical understanding of communism.

Mehili is a professor of 19th and 20th century European History, International History, and Dictatorships at the Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Philip Nord, Kotkin’s colleague and University’s Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, said that Kotkin has had a transformative impact on the study of Soviet Russia, especially in regards to his publication, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization.

Mehili explained that he recently attended a conference in Philadelphia for scholars that study Eastern Europe and Eurasia, where people were fervently discussing this book by Kotkin 20 years after it had been published and despite the fact that Kotkin wasn’t present in the conference.

Mehili added that Kotkin’s distinguished understanding of Soviet history arose from his pursuit of historical thought and idea, and living through the remarkable moments of history himself researching and studying sources in a number of

Soviet countries during the dismantling communist regime.

According to Mehili, not many other Americans were in the Soviet Union when the Berlin Wall collapsed. Mehili said that Kotkin’s class, which gave University students access to the historical phenomenon, was like living inside of a documentary in the 1980s, as students were able to hear about the communist regime from a firsthand, extensively knowledgeable source.

Christina Florea GS ’13, an advisee of Kotkin, said that when she was in Kotkin’s class, she had to read an unbelievable amount of text and work, which she didn’t think to be possibly managed. She added that after the class, she could read more than she deemed possible initially.

“I think he really believes in his students and knows very well how far to push you and when to push you,” Florea said.

“Some people say to me, you know, you’re too hard.

You’re too demanding.

You’re too rigorous. But this is Princeton,” Kotkin said, “There’s no such thing as too demanding. Kids here they can do it— it’s just that somebody’s got to ask them to try, make them show that they can do it. That’s the challenge of being a good teacher here, and that’s the joy of being a good teacher here.”

Florea noted how Kotkin would attend workshops that weren’t even in his own field and still ask the best questions.

Vice dean of the Wilson School Brandice CanesWrone said that Kotkin is an engaged and broad-thinking colleague. Canes-Wrone added that she and many others in the Wilson School look forward to Kotkin’s contributions to faculty meetings.

William Jordan, History Department chair, noted that Kotkins’ students respect him for his honesty and for the way he encourages them to achieve their best.

“It’s hard to say who the best teacher is in a department of great teachers,” Jordan said, “but Kotkin would get a great many votes if one took a poll.”

Florea said that many students come into the University not knowing what they want to do, but Kotkin was be able to discern his advisees’ strengths and interests before the students themselves

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Florea explained that when she was in graduate school, the dissertation research fellowship review committee rejected her project proposal.

The feedback letter deemed the project as being too ambitious and unrealistic, on account of the requirement that she would have to learn Russian to analyze the sources she would use.

Florea said that afterwards, as her dissertation advisor, Kotkin encouraged her and told her; if this is what you want to do, it will be hard, but you can do it.

When she was still in doubts, he told her “I’m your advisor, and that’s it,” Florea added.

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cause I believed professors here actually cared about being in the classroom and truly enjoyed interacting with naive undergrads. Kotkin is simply the real-life version of this professor,” Brian Kim ’16, who took Kotkin’s undergraduate seminar on authoritarianism last spring, said.

King added that Kotkin is personally invested in his students, not only in terms of academics but also in terms of lifelong success.

Kotkin described the process of watching some of his PhD students go on to become tenured professors as being “breathtaking to watch.”

“I frequently run into people that knew him 10 or 15 years ago. It’s something that

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I’ve always been amazed by; the generational impact he’s had,” Mehili added.

Kotkin explained that he considered teaching at the University as a huge privilege.

“Teaching is the best part of what I do here. There are a lot of other great things that we do here, but teaching— that’s the tops,” he said. “The thing you discover as a professor here is that if you don’t ask much from students then they don’t get much in return. But if you push them again and again and again, if you demand the utmost of them then they will deliver.

They deliver things that they didn’t know they were capable of.”

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In the report, police noted that speed and wet roads were factors in the accident.

The report also explained that the driver’s side airbag had deployed in the crash.

According to The Press of Atlantic City, no summonses for the accident have yet been issued, but the accident is still under investigation.

University professor John McPhee ’53, who had McCollum as a student in a sophomore writing class in 2012, said he was stricken by the news.

McPhee noted he admired her public service and commitment to her campaign and eventual crowning as Miss New Jersey.

“She’s full of imaginative ideas, to say the least — one of which was turning a girl from a town in Arkansas, that is, herself, into Miss New Jersey,” he said.

He also noted her steadfast commitment to public service and her responsibilities as Miss New Jersey, and

explained that she even took a year off from the University to dedicate her efforts to her campaign.

“She is an excellent writer, and more than that, she is a person with a generous spirit and a terrific person to know,” McPhee added.

McCollum won the Miss New Jersey pageant in 2013.

She was also a competitor in the 2014 Miss America Pageant. Currently, she is an anchor on SNJ Today, a news broadcast serving the South Jersey area.

SNJ Today issued a statement on Tuesday saying, “Cara is a beloved member of our SNJ Today family. She and her family are in our thoughts and prayers.”

According to the Princeton Alumni Weekly, McCollum was the first University student crowned Miss New Jersey since 1999.

McCollum is originally from Arkansas. She graduated from the University with an A.B. in English.

While at the University, she was a member of Kappa Alpha Thetha and the Cottage Club.

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it’s some easy fixes.”

Intern Kelly Van Baalen ’19 noted she thought the application process was rather relaxed.

“The meeting was mostly people talking about their projects, and if you have a good idea or drive to work on any of the projects, they will give you the funding,” she said.

Van Baalen said she applied to be an intern because, as opposed to being a part of a student group, she would have the opportunity to work with the University and saw it as a good opportunity to accomplish environmental goals.

Mibs Southerland Mara, Associate Director for Reunions in the Office of Alumni Affairs, was unavailable for comment.

“With [the interns’] help, we’re hoping to have some really tangible solutions to some of this year’s efforts at Reunions,” Weber said.

Weber said that the Office has been working with the Office of Alumni Affairs and other departments to coordinate efforts for Reunions for many years and has received much interest. The Office of

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Sustainability has also worked with alumni classes to pilot projects.

According to Weber, the interns’ projects include how to reuse the plastic beer cups used at Reunions and a sustainability award for student crews – a partnership with University Facilities.

For example, Nicolaison noted that “the first and thirtieth Reunion Classes are piloting a ‘no linen’ option in their registration forms to allow alumni an option of saving money by bringing their own linens. Future Reunions forms will include this option.”

Intern Amber Lin ’19 said that one plan is to recycle the cups into something reusable for the University. The cups are made of No. 5 plastic, a durable, microwave-safe plastic.

According to Weber, the Office of Sustainability is focusing on Reunions because of the opportunities it offers for promoting sustainability awareness to a large number of people.

“I think it’s our biggest challenge as far as events are concerned and people come from all over the world and there’s an enormous effort to manage

the waste associated with it,” Weber said.

She noted that Reunions provides an opportunity to think about how to reinforce a culture of sustainability during a large, well-attended event.

Weber likened it to a service project and said that sustainability as an avenue for service could be a part of other campus events as well.

“Lots of people have ideas, it’s just a matter of getting everyone to work together,” Van Baalen said.

She added that this event will be challenging, but ultimately attainable if everyone cooperates.

“Reunions are famous for so many things and it’ll be exciting when it’s more well known for being more sustainable and more green,” Mooz said. “[What] we’re excited about is how, kind of, Reunions reinforces this culture of sustainability, rather than being an exception to it,” Weber said.

She noted the importance of student and alumni involvement in making plans successful.

“If we crack Reunions, we can crack any event,” she said.

“It’s a worthy challenge.”

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ment who stopped lecture until a woman in the classroom spoke up.

“The boys in the class took this to mean that the professor was very big on successful women and created a very hostile environment in labs and precepts because they thought the girls would all get A’s,” she said.

One way to encourage students speak up is by making sure professors vocally ask for feedback, Centeno said.

Rexford added that there should be anonymized feedback systems where students can request that a professor be more attentive to some issues.

Students often catch on to problematic situations before a professor does, and it is their responsibility to talk about issues of aggression and misgendering with their peers outside the classroom, said panelist Oge Ude ’16.

“Students often brush off a faculty’s remarks as ‘just being PC’ or ‘a teacher has to do that’ and other students need to let them know that’s

not okay,” she added.

In response to an audience question on the proposed diversity requirement, Sylvain noted that the University is creating leaders who will reform policy for one of the most diverse countries in the world, yet it does not have a requirement on culture and race.

Panelist Tracy Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and Director of the Creative Writing Department, added that introducing such a required course need not derail a student’s normal course of study but could instead be taught using existing vocabulary in a field.

The panel, entitled “Politics of the Classroom: Who Speaks? Who is Heard?”, took place in Betts Auditorium at 5:00 p.m., and was conceived by the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and funded by the Office of the Provost. Organized

by Dean of Whitman College Rebecca Graves-Bayazitoglu GS ’02, the event was launched by the Women*s Center in a poster campaign.

It was recorded by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning.

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Inconvenient timing: The problem with the ‘class-free’ period Samuel Parsons columnist

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rinceton University prides itself on attracting students with talents that go beyond academic aptitude. We are musicians, athletes, dancers, actors, poets, entrepreneurs, designers and so much more, all while being academics in one of the most rigorous undergraduate programs in the world. For the most part, the University goes to great lengths to ensure that the students it brings in graduate as enlightened intellectuals without having neglected their other pursuits. One of the measures taken to ensure this is the 4:20 – 7:30 p.m. ‘class-free’ period, during which we can dedicate time to our other interests without having to make academic compromises.

But those of us with consistent, nonacademic daily commitments are, in fact, making compromises. The ‘class-free’ period is idealized for the student with a singular interest but hinders the student wishing to diversify.

To pursue any of those extracurricular activities, many of us are required to make daily or regular commitments. Naturally, these regular extracurriculars funnel into that 4:20 – 7:30 ‘class-free’ slot, with the logical expectation that their members will be available through that time. There are some exceptions, though it is safe to say that the ‘class-free’ period is occupied time for many University students.

This is not an issue. It would be impossible for large student groups, particularly athletic teams, to run constructive practices or rehearsals at times when half of their members were in ECO 100 lecture.

The ‘class-free’ period means that student groups can maintain real camaraderie and inclusiveness and that, in the end, they can function.

On the other hand, regularly scheduled extracurriculars, from Triangle Club to varsity football, are not the only opportunities available outside of class at the University. Half of the wonder of this college is the chance to be a part of spectacular opportunities. From guest lectures with public officials to workshops with entrepreneurs, trips to Broadway or a performance on campus, every week there are incredible things for us to do, but so many of these great opportunities are scheduled within the ‘class-free’ period, meaning that anyone who is otherwise occupied with a regular extracurricular is effectively barred from attending anything else. The University went so far as to schedule the official forum discussing Woodrow Wilson’s legacy, our prime opportunity to voice our opinions on a critical campus issue, at a time which overlaps the ‘class-free’ period — effectively a ‘screw you’ to every athlete or otherwise committed individual on this campus.

The travesty extends to irony when we consider that many professors and preceptors schedule their office hours through the time put aside for non-academic pursuits.

It doesn’t seem constructive to systematically expel from your assistance some of the busiest people who need your help. Moving office hours out of this time may cause inconvenience for some students, though it will be randomly distributed, and the inconvenience will be shared, rather than the same University students having to go to greater lengths every time. This is a key point: the students who are regularly engaged with a commitment between 4:20 and 7:30 p.m. are a subset of the student body, and they are a subset who perpetually miss out as a consequence of the scheduling status quo.

It is fantastic that the University gives time for us to pursue the core passions that we already have, but if we and the administration really want a campus that fosters discovery, curiosity and open discussion, we cannot continue to inhibit the ability of half of our campus to participate.

Once-off talks, lectures, discussions, shows, excursions, forums and any unique opportunities should not all be scheduled between 4:20 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. They should be scheduled morning, afternoon and night, and though there will be class conflicts, it won’t be the same people missing out on every opportunity every single time. Instead, we’ll win some and we’ll lose some, but we’ll have a community that is fully engaged, a community of diverse interests.

Samuel Parsons is a freshman from Wangaratta, Australia. He can be reached at samueljp@princeton.edu.

A new generation of student activists Bennett McIntosh columnist

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wo years ago I published a column, “Where are the student activists?,” exploring the decline of protest and activism on a campus whose very architecture and academic calendar were products of the anti-Vietnam War movement. Imagine how surprised I was this fall, then, when occupations of Nassau Hall brought rapid change to the University’s handling of racial issues and forced a fundamental re-evaluation of how Princeton should memorialize its history.

Protest at Princeton is, apparently, not as dead as I thought.

What is clear is that campus protests this fall are no flash in the pan – American students who have witnessed these protests expect them to become the norm and to drive their future. According to a survey released last week by UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, “The entering freshman class of 2015 ranks among the most ambitious in these areas [of politics and protest] compared to their counterparts” in 50 years. This is not just an increased focus on protest as a tactic – though no doubt college freshmen witnessing 2015’s upheavals now see protest as far more effective than my cohort and I did three years ago – the survey also shows a dramatic upward tick in the proportion of students who value keeping up-to-date with political affairs, and a continued leftward shift in the political identities of entering freshman, who are more liberal now than at any point since 1973.

The demographic breakdown of the results – black and Hispanic students were far more likely to anticipate protesting than their White and Asian counterparts – suggests that the campus climate and identity politics will continue to be a focus of the protests. This represents a shift from previous waves of protests, whether the globallyminded anti-Vietnam and anti-Apartheid activism of decades past or the national but truncated Occupy movements a half decade ago. So it remains to be seen whether the new wave of activism will reach beyond identity politics, expanding the reach of already present groups or catalyzing the creation of new ones. Indeed, protests have been focused both in goals and in scope – in terms of both national attention and of goals achieved, the most successful have been those aimed at changing policies or practices on single campuses.

The protesters have been mocked for supposed myopia – why focus on the “insignificant” injustices on-campus when there are so many issues in the larger world? I’d argue, though, that the focus is a product of pragmatism, and perhaps of a sort of selective pressure. The model of focused action – with inter-campus coordination mainly drawing attention to particular events and particular types of grievances (honored racists, misogynistic parties, affinity spaces) – allows rapid, individual successes

to build momentum across a network of campuses precisely because the demands are specific and immediately actionable.

This suggests a model for student-driven change which plays to the strengths of today’s hyper-connected students. Expanding this model to other realms is challenging: divestment campaigns, for example, have been largely unsuccessful (universities apparently trust students on student affairs far more than on financial decisions), but everything from corporate and government partnerships to labor actions presents an opening for student critique.

Of course, focusing only on increasinglyliberal political activists ignores the diversity of thought at Princeton and other schools. While confrontational protests have brought much-needed attention to long-festering issues, it has resulted in an oft-ugly backlash (see Yik-Yak, or the comment section of the ‘Prince’). Princeton’s Open Campus Coalition and its allies at other schools present the opportunity to air legitimate disagreements with protesters’ demands and tactics while providing a framework for increased understanding.

Representing a diversity of opinions is only a start – if organizations become confrontational (as in the encounter between Princeton Committee on Palestine and Tigers for Israel last week), all sides suffer.

For a university system 300 years in the making, the reaction among faculty and administrators has been surprisingly swift – not only in discussing how to meet the demands of protesters, but also in anticipating future protests. In an email to all students at the beginning of the spring semester, Deans Deignan and Schreyer reemphasized the sections on student dissent in “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” and announced that the University has prepared a written statement to warn student protesters when they are in violation of “RRR.” But the changes in practices are perhaps more telling, and more indicative. After administrators across the country drew flack for their slow response to protests, President Eisgruber quickly responded to Professor Perry’s arrest last week with a thoughtful letter which acknowledged the political context of the events but did not make specific accusations. This increased care is not unique to Princeton – a senior administrator at a private school which did not see high-profile upheaval this year told me that, after events at Claremont-McKenna, Yale and Missouri, he and his colleagues go over emails with a fine-toothed comb, nonetheless fully aware that any statement can be misconstrued.

The beauty of college is that, as a senior, I am already in the old guard – it is the new freshman, coming of age a “generation” after me and after dramatic upheaval, who will shape the future of student activism.

I hope they take the burden wisely… but they’re freshmen, of course they won’t.

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into an uphill battle for the Big Red. The Tigers as a whole shot a scorching nine of 11 from downtown to open up and saw their lead balloon to as large as 25 in the first half before eventually heading into the locker room up by 23.

The onslaught would not stop there. The Tigers opened up the second with a 13-5 run to push the lead up to 31 points and ultimately ended this battle with an 85-56 victory. Indeed, one of the most impressive parts of their victory was the balance in scoring. Four Tiger players — Bell, junior forward Henry Caruso, freshman guard Myles Stephens and freshman forward Devin Cannady — finished in double digits to end the game. The Tigers as a whole were lights out, shooting 50 percent from the field and 44 percent from downtown.

With an impressive victory in the books, the Tigers knew they faced a daunting challenge afterwards: taking on the Lions, second in

the league so far, in New York City. These two teams have a history of dramatic clashes — last March, Princeton and Columbia fought tooth and nail, as Columbia’s star forward Maodo Lo put in 37 points in what would be a one-point Tiger victory.

This game proved to be equally thrilling. Unlike in the Cornell game, the Tigers found themselves on the wrong side of an opening run, falling behind 15-6 in the first 10 minutes and faced deficits as large as 12 in the first half. They kept in this thanks to the impressive performance of forward Pete Miller, who burned Columbia as he scored from down low and the free throw line. Miller finished the first half as the Tigers’ leading scorer with 12 points through the first 20 minutes. Despite a rough shooting performance in the first half (33 percent from the field), the Tigers found themselves down only four.

In the start of the second, Columbia was once again the initial aggressor. After a back-and-forth exchange of

baskets early on, the Lions pushed their lead to 11, with just over eight minutes to go. Seven straight points from the Tigers (coming from Caruso, Cannady and Stephens) brought that lead down to four. However, Lions came close once again to sealing this one up, taking a nine point lead with just under four minutes to go.

The Tigers, however, had other plans. Attacking the post again and again led to layups and free throws for Bell, Caruso and junior guard Stephen Cook, bringing this contest to within three points. For the rest of regulation, Cannady would play the hero. With less than 30 seconds to go, the Tigers were down three and needed to foul. As Columbia’s Grant Mullins went 2-2 from the stripe, Cannady hit a mid-range jumper to bring it back to three. Then, taking advantage of a 1-2 performance at the line by Columbia’s Alex Rosenberg, Cannady rose up and hit another one from downtown to bring the deficit down to one.

Princeton did make an er-

ror on the next play — Maodo Lo, who had nowhere near the outburst he had in these teams’ previous meeting, got behind the defense to sink a layup with eight seconds to go. Cannady, however, responded once more, sinking another three with five seconds to go to tie this game up. Columbia, unable to score on the last play, saw their once-commanding lead turn into a battle in overtime.

Even still, despite the setback, Columbia still came out firing. A 7-0 run to begin extra time placed a daunting task in front of the Tigers. Cannady, however, was there once again, hitting the and-one jumper to bring the Tigers to within four. Cook came through with an and-one of his own, from driving into the post and drawing the contact.

Thus, getting hit in the face with that opening run, the Tigers were within one point of the lead.

Now, with 49 seconds to go, Cannady sank the goahead jumper that would leave the Tigers up for good.

The Lions wouldn’t score again — with an inability

to score and with Caruso sinking all four of his free throws after being intentionally fouled, the Tigers escaped New York with their most exciting victory to date.

While the entire team stepped up in this performance, much credit has to go to Cannady and Miller for keeping their team alive in this one. Cannady finished with a career-high 23 points and with some of the most clutch buckets of his nascent collegiate career. Miller, the hero of the first half, finished with a monster double-double, 20 points and 13 rebounds.

With this thriller in the books, the Tigers have set themselves up for the most important showdown of the season. This Friday, they host the Yale Bulldogs (17-5, 8-0), who currently stand No. 1 in the league at 8-0. The Tigers’ only loss in league play has come at the hands of the Bulldogs — a victory on Friday means that Yale no longer holds the tie-break over them and gives the Tigers their best chance of heading to the big dance.

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Ivy League opponents this past weekend, the women’s squash team have now set their focus on their next competition against Trinity College this upcoming Saturday at the Jadwin Squash Courts and the Howe Cup Championships the following weekend in New Haven, Connecticut.

“We have a tough match against Trinity this weekend, but we finished third last year at nationals, beating Penn, and that was a really big victory for us,” Leizman said, looking to the upcoming

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ups, further wins from freshman Pat D’Arcy and junior Jordan Laster ultimately sealed the deal for the Tigers, and Princeton triumphed handily in 23-13.

Having defeated Columbia, the Tigers faced the only other undefeated team in Ivy League play, the Cornell Big Red. It was a classic David and Goliath showdown: the traditional wrestling powerhouse against a young and talented squad which had defied expectations to reach the championship. Princeton had not wrestled for the Ivy League crown since 1986, when it had defeated Cornell right in Dillon Gym 21-19. In contrast, Cornell had not lost the Ivy League Championship since 2002. Nationally, the Cornell team had placed in the top five in the NCAA championships from 2010-2012, an unprecedented feat for an Ivy League wrestling squad and had fostered a host All-Americans and national champions. This year, their roster included the 1st-ranked wrestler in the 133-pound weight category, Nahshon Garrett.

The Tigers refused to back

down from the challenge. Despite their efforts, Cornell wrestlers did win the first six out of seven matchups, led by Garrett and 6th-ranked Cornell 174-pound wrestler Brian Realbuto, effectively sealing the championship for Cornell, but the Tigers showed incredible resolve and determination, with Ayala, Harner and junior Ray O’Donnell each defeating their opponents to clinch the last three matches for Princeton (O’Donnell’s victory was an emphatic 5:35 pin). Though Princeton ultimately fell to the Big Red 23-16, the Tigers put up a hard and commendable fight against the strongest program in the Ivy League and one of the strongest in the nation.

The 2015-2016 season, the most successful for any Princeton wrestling team since the memorable 1986 season, represents a turnaround for the program. For the past 30 years, the team has struggled to make a name for itself despite its strong performance; advancing to the Ivy League championships undefeated in conference play and challenging Cornell strongly for the title should give the Tigers confidence and hope for continued future success.

match. Though she acknowledges that more challenges lay in the remaining weeks of their season, she is also hopeful that her team can pull through with an unexpected finish. “I think we’re coming into nationals this year as underdogs, and our team has always performed really well as underdogs, so I think we’re in a good spot.”

Leizman attributes their success and position heading into their final matches to the dynamics and unity within the team on and off the courts.

“We’re a really close team and we’re a small team. They are sixteen of us, and it also helps that we are a balanced team,”

she said about her teammates.

“There are four girls per year, so we each get the chance to know each other really well.

We enjoy hanging out together, we live with each other, and we live near each other.

I think that we really enjoy spending time together outside of squash practice in just a social setting.”

With prior wins and team solidarity under their belts, Leizman and her team still hope to improve as they approach the Howe Cup and the end of their season. “We still have two more weeks to keep training, so I’m excited for what we can accomplish in those two weeks.”

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AROUND I V I E S 1.

With regular season meets completed, men’s swimming and diving teams throughout the Ivy League anticipate the end-of-year championships. Of these tournaments, the Ivy championship stands at the forefront. This year the Ivies will be hosted at Brown from Feb. 25 – 27. Until then, all eight teams, which currently represent a wide range of success, will reflect on the past season and improve areas of weakness. Ironically, the current regular season standings perfectly mirror last year’s Ivy championship results, the only difference being Yale and Penn swapping control of third place.

Princeton (7-0 Ivy): For the first time in school history, the Tigers managed to finish with a perfect regular season record. In the process, Princeton also won its first HYP tournament in four years, winning 15 of the competition’s 19 events. The only accomplishment remaining for the Tigers is an Ivy League championship, and based on the HYP results, the Tigers are well poised for their third consecutive one.

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Harvard (6-1 Ivy): In a close second to the Orange and Black, Harvard tightly trails rival Princeton. Until the final tournament of the season, the Crimson had matched the Tigers’ success, maintaining an undefeated season. Then, Harvard faced Princeton and the two undefeated teams collided. Ultimately, the Tigers emerged victorious, winning by nearly 100 points. Despite the Crimson’s success, one has to wonder whether they will be able to challenge the Tigers in the upcoming championship.

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Penn (5-2 Ivy): In often-overlooked third place, the Quakers have improved on last year’s fourth-place result, finishing with only two loses. These defeats came to higher-ranked Princeton and Harvard. Though one win behind the Crimson, the Quakers actually had better luck against the Orange and Black during the regular season, falling 217-234. Princeton will surely watch its back against the Quakers.

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Yale (4-3): The Bulldogs have yet to discover a winning strategy against rivals Princeton and Harvard. Though consistently above average and having defeated four of their seven Ivy League opponents, the Bulldogs do not seem poised to overtake either the Crimson or Tigers. On the other hand, the HYP tournament may have brewed individual rivalColumbia (3-4) The Lions find themselves yet again in the middle of the Ivy League pack. Last year, the Lions finished fifth in the Ivy championship, so they will surely seek to eclipse such results this time around. On that note, sophomore diver Jayden Pantel has been a pure bright spot for the Lions. The Canadian has won 21 consecutive three-meter diving events. The Tigers will put his record to test next weekend.

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Cornell (2-5) Though the Big Red’s lonely two Ivy wins this season place the team in the lower echelon, Cornell has had a few bright spots this season as well. To kick off the season, the Big Red began with a 2-1 record, defeating Dartmouth College and Binghamton University. After winning their fifth straight Bomber Invitation, the Big Red finished the season with a two-game winning streak, showcasing strong performances over Colgate and Brown.

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Brown (1-6) Similar to last year, the Bears had little luck against Ivy League foes this season.

Their only win came over last-ranked Dartmouth at Princeton’s Big Al Invitational. Since then, the Bears have lost to Ivy League opponents by double-digit margins. Of note, Brown battled Cornell for sixth place in the Ivy championships last year, fostering a local rivalry.

Dartmouth (0-7) The Big Green sits at the bottom of the Ivy League men’s swimming and diving rankings. Dartmouth has only found success in local invitational events this season and has yet to defeat an Ivy League team. Looking at individual events, potential sources of celebration at the Ivies, Dartmouth has demonstrated success in the 200-yard freestyle, 200-yard backstroke, and 200-yard IM. EDISON LEE :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Men’s basketball scores huge wins over weekend

By Miles Hinson sports editor emeritus

With half of Ivy League play in the books, the men’s basketball team has set itself up for one of its most successful seasons in a long time.

Making the trip through the Empire State on the weekend, the Tigers (165 overall, 6-1 Ivy League)

pulled off their second straight weekend sweep of league play and pushed their winning streak out to 4. They dominated the Cornell Big Red (9-13, 2-6) to the tune of 85-56 and earned a nail-biter of a win against the Columbia Lions (17-8, 6-2) with 88-83 in overtime.

While the Big Red scored the opening bucket of its Friday night match against

Princeton, they didn’t hold the lead at any point after that. The Tigers came in hungry for a victory, and they rolled over their Ithaca opponents from the very beginning. A 17-6 run, sparked by some hot shooting from downtown by junior guard Spencer Weisz and sophomore guard Amir Bell, immediately turned this game See M. B-BALL page 7

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Men’s basketball won back-to-back Ivy League games this weekend.

MEN’S WRESTLING

WOMEN’S SQUASH

Wrestling falls just short in Ivy championships

Women’s squash continues success with wins over Cornell and Columbia

By Michael Gao

staff writer

staff writer

In the 2012-2013 season, the Princeton men’s wrestling team went 0-5 in Ivy League play. For the last two years they have steadily improved but have finished each year with a 3-2 record.

This year, the men’s wrestling team finally broke the dam, reaching the Ivy League Championship round in Dillon gym for the first time in three decades against perennial conference champion Cornell on Saturday. Before playing Cor-

nell, the Tigers had been undefeated in Ivy League play, having snapped a 24-match losing streak to Penn in the process.

To get to the championships, the Tigers first had to take on a strong Columbia squad.

Though the Lions won two out of the first three matches, sophomore Jonathan Schleifer, senior Abram Ayala and junior Brett Harner quickly rattled off a string of three victories for the Tigers, giving Princeton a lead it would not relinquish for the rest of the match. Though Columbia won two more matchSee M. WRESTLING page 7

Tweet of the Day “Returning to Princeton after a long time away continues to be far better in the summer than in the winter.” blake thomsen (@ theblakeshoww), sophomore infielder, baseball

By Miranda Hasty The third-nationally ranked Princeton women’s squash team finished its Ivy League season with an exciting win this past Sunday. Despite lacking the home-court advantage, the Tigers came out on top with a 9-0 finish over Cornell on Friday and a 7-2 finish over Columbia on Sunday, earning their fifth consecutive win and tenth win of the season.

At the No. 3 position during the opening shift, senior Rachel Leizman shut out her op-

ponent with an impressive 3-0 win. “I’ve been really pleased with it,” Leizman commented on about her individual performance. “I think I’ve had some tougher matches, but I’ve been able to play a more mature game, so I’m feeling good right now, but hopefully it only improves as we gear up for nationals in a couple weeks.”

Senior Tara Harrington and sophomore Olivia Fletcher also played competitive matches this weekend. Harrington completed her Ivy career with a 3-1 win at the No. 7 spot, while Fletcher played at

Stat of the Day

30 years It had been 30 years since Princeton men’s wrestling last made it to the Ivy League Championships.

the No. 1 spot and finished her match at 11-8, 8-11, 11-9 and 11-9.

Leizman is not only proud of her wins but also the collective performance of her team this Friday and Sunday and throughout their season thus far. “I think we’ve done really well this year,” Leizman stated. “We had some tough losses to Harvard and Penn who were really strong this year, and we have pushed through challenges against other teams and have managed to come out stronger after achieving those wins.”

Having defeated their last See W. SQUASH page 7

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