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STUDENT LIFE

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On March 1, Cannady announced his plans to take a leave of absence from the University.

The Palace of Justice in Bogotá, Colombia.

Cannady ’19 enters plea deal, Q&A with Manuel receives conditional discharge José Cepeda Espinosa

By Emily Spalding Senior Writer

Standout men’s basketball player Devin Cannady ’19 entered a plea agreement on March 11 for the four charges brought against him after he allegedly threw a punch at a Department of Public Safety Officer in Wawa on Jan. 18.

The charges of simple assault, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct were dismissed. For the charge of being under the influence without a prescription, Cannady was given a conditional discharge, which can be dismissed in a year if he

does not face other arrests or convictions.

Cannady will also serve 20 hours of community service as part of his agreement.

“That’s what we asked for and the prosecutor agreed to it because it was appropriate, and a normal deal in these sort of situations,” Kim A. Otis, attorney for Cannady, said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. “It’s a relatively minor case of the use of marijuana. It happens a lot at the University.”

Prosecutor Kim Lacken, explained that she had consulted the police officer Cannady allegedly threw a

punch at, as well as his supervisor, and they agreed that the charges were “just a result of an unfortunate event.”

The presiding judge, Honorable John McCarthy ’69, asked Lacken whether Cannady’s role as a star basketball player had any effect on the agreement. Lacken quickly dismissed the notion that Cannady had been given preferential treatment, stating that they treated him just as they would any other civilian when making the deal.

Earlier this year, Cannady was suspended from See CANNADY page 3

STUDENT LIFE

ByKarolen Eid Staff Writer

Manuel José Cepeda Espinosa was a magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Columbia for eight years and served as its president from 2005 to 2006.

Justice Cepeda was a member of the technical-negotiation team working on transitional justice during the Colombian peace process. From 2014 to 2018, he served as the president of the International Association of Constitutional Law. Cepeda is also a devoted academic who served as dean of the Universidad de los Andes Law School and has written many books on constitutional

law. He is a graduate of the Universidad de los Andes and Harvard Law School.

During his recent visit to the Woodrow Wilson School, The Daily Princetonian spoke with Cepeda about his role in the Colombian peace process and his thoughts on current trends in constitutional law.

Daily Princetonian (DP): FARC’s [the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia] transition from combat to politics has been met with skepticism and controversy. Do you feel that full reintegration is possible in the near future?

What are the most significant See ESPINOSA page 3

IN TOWN

Students plan first international Tigertrek trip for Intersession 2020

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Retiree Alma Concepcion and Reverend Bob Moore, Executive Director of the Coalition for Peace Action, hold up anti-war signs.

By Naomi Hess Staff Writer

Seeing a need to show students that the technology sector extends beyond American borders, first year students Ron Miasnik ’22 and Daniella Cohen ’22 organized a new TigerTrek trip to Israel.

Fifteen students will go on the Israel TigerTrek trip over Intersession 2020, which is a partnership between Miasnik, Cohen, the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, and the Center for Jewish Life (CJL).

The TigerTrek program op-

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erates through the Entrepreneurship Club (e-Club) and originated in 2012 as a weeklong trip to Silicon Valley. A second TigerTrek in New York City was added in 2017. “[Participants] meet with founders of start-ups and tech executives as well as venture capitalists to understand the startup ecosystems in both of those cities,” Cohen said.

Israel has gained a reputation as a startup nation due to its largely influential technology industry. Many large companies, including Wix, Waze, and Mobileye, are located in Israel.

Contributing columnist Katie Goldman argues that Trump’s recent executive order erodes rather than protects free speech on college campuses and columnist Siyang Liu examines the University’s internalized xenophobia in light of recent events at Duke University. PAGE 4

“We’re living in an increasingly globalized world. It’s no longer reasonable or okay to just think about the US when you’re thinking about any issue, whether it be technological, political, anything,” Miasnik said.

“Israel has the most startups and the most venture capitalist funding per capita of any country in the world, and it has the third most companies listed on NASDAQ of any country after the US and China,” Miasnik added.

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“No US War on Venezuela Vigil” takes place in Palmer Square

By Naomi Hess Staff Writer

On Monday, March 11 at 5 p.m., a group of about twenty-five people in Palmer Square held up signs reading “No U.S. War on Venezuela” while passing drivers honked their support.

The Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA), a Princeton-based grassroots organization whose goals are abolishing nuclear weapons, forming a peace economy, and stopping weapons trafficking, according to

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the CFPA website, held an hourlong protest against United States’ intervention in Venezuela, which the group referred to as a “vigil.”

Nicolás Maduro was re-elected as president of Venezuela in 2018, but these election results have widely been considered fraudulent.

Opposition leader and National Assembly head Juan Guaido declared himself interim president, receiving support from the United States and many other countries against Maduro.

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eight million people.”

According to Cornelia Huellstrunk, Executive Director of the Keller Center, the TigerTrek program aims to impact both the participants and the University as a whole.

“One of the goals is to make sure that a variety of students have the opportunity, and that the students that go are also the ones who are really eager to share their learning with the campus,” she explained.

Miasnik first came up with the idea for a TigerTrek to Israel in the beginning of the school year. Cohen had met Miasnik through a mutual friend before beginning at the University, and they quickly became friends on campus.

“Ron and I have complimentary experiences and skill sets—we make the perfect team,” Cohen wrote in an email to the ‘Prince.’ “When Ron told me about his idea, to bring a TigerTrek to Israel, I was on board immediately.

Israel has a unique start-up ecosystem that Princeton students can learn from, and I am thrilled to be a part of that journey.”

Miasnik and Cohen reached out to multiple on-campus institutions in order to make their TigerTrek a University-

wide endeavor.

“We really wanted to make this a partnership across the University,” Miasnik said.

“Both the CJL and the Keller Center are partnering with us and supporting us in the initiative.”

The Keller Center has firsthand experience with the technology sector in Israel due to a Princeton Startup Immersion Program (PSIP) in Israel.

This program gives students a ten-week internship with various startup companies in Tel Aviv.

“When we created the Princeton Startup Immersion Program a couple years ago, the whole point of the program was to introduce students to a broader way of thinking about entrepreneurship and to realize that entrepreneurship is a human behavior that is really widespread and not just limited to Silicon Valley,” Huellstrunk said.

“It’s amazing to see the entrepreneurial activity there.

It’s very different from the way entrepreneurship works in the United States, and that’s exactly what we want to expose students to,” she continued.

Roth also emphasized the importance of learning about the Israeli technology industry firsthand.

“We read so much about Israel in the newspaper, some of which is true but maybe

gives you a distorted picture of what’s going on there,” she said. “[The trip is] a combination of understanding the technology sector, the aspects of Israeli culture that lend itself to the bold innovation that happens in start-up countries, and the culture of the country as a whole.”

The Israel TigerTrek program will have two main goals: exposing the participants to the Israeli technology industry and teaching them about Israeli culture.

“We want to dive into a lot of the complexities, a lot of the tough questions that are facing Israeli entrepreneurs right now,” Miasnik added.

“We see ourselves meeting with both the big companies, the multinational research and development centers, as well as early companies that are really struggling.”

Participants will learn about the country itself, traveling to Tel Aviv, historic sites in Jerusalem, going to markets, and meeting with locals and other students.

“One of the hardest parts of the trip is that we have a week, and you can spend six months in Israel and not see everything,” Miasnik said.

According to Stephanie Landers, Entrepreneurial Program Manager at the eLab in the Keller Center, the Israel TigerTrek will show students

the importance of visiting other countries.

“Students can sometimes be fearful of going to a different country, especially for an entire summer,” Landers said.

“This Israel TigerTrek will be just enough time for them to have a taste of what it’s like.

This is a great way to get more students interested in and to continue on to PSIP. ” Huellstrunk added that the Israel TigerTrek could inspire a passion for entrepreneurship that students did not even realize they had.

“Even if they don’t apply to PSIP, what do they bring back to campus? What have they learned? How are they thinking about sharing it out?”

Huellstrunk said. “Maybe they’ve caught the entrepreneurial bug. Maybe not everyone who goes to the TigerTrek Israel trip is an entrepreneur or defines themselves that way going in, but leaves with a sense that, ‘Oh, actually I have a pretty entrepreneurial bend’” Although the CJL and the Keller Center are assisting with the planning process, both organizations emphasized that the trip is a studentdirected initiative.

“We provide guidance, we are not doing the planning. This is a student project run through the e-Club,” Huellstrunk said.

Rabbi Julie Roth, CJL Executive Director and Jewish Chaplain at the University, concurred.

“We’ve been working with Ron and Daniella to help them plan the trip, to help them articulate their vision for the trip, and to talk to them about different partners and different potential sources of funding,” she said. “It was their idea that they brought to us.”

Cohen and Miasnik are still finalizing the details of the trip and deciding on whether or not to charge participants.

Cohen noted, however, that the trip will “be accommodating to any student who needs financial aid.

“Financial aid will not be a barrier for anyone on this trip,” Miasnik added. “We’re partnering with the Keller Center and the CJL, reaching out to alumni, reaching out to corporations and foundations to secure funding.”

The program participants for Intersession 2020 will be selected at the beginning of next school year.

“We’re looking for people who can both contribute to and benefit from the trip,” Ron said of the selection process.

Students of all concentrations are invited to apply, Cohen added, saying that “anyone can benefit” from entrepreneurial knowledge.

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the team for violating team rules and was later reinstated following an investigation conducted by the University. He announced earlier this month that he was taking a voluntary leave of absence from the University for personal reasons and would not be playing on the men’s basketball team for the rest of the season.

While Cannady’s driving privileges were also subject to a year-long suspension,

Otis argued that because Cannady is now living and working in different parts of Indiana, losing these privileges would have a “devastating impact on him.”

McCarthy agreed that Cannady’s circumstances were compelling enough to drop this suspension.

While on leave, Cannady will prepare for the NBA draft, and he has plans to return to the University in the fall, according to Otis.

“I’m happy for him. He’s a great person. He made a small mistake and now he’s moving on,” Otis said.

Monday evening, Secretary of Defense Mike Pompeo announced via Twitter that the U.S. “will withdraw all remaining personnel” from its embassy in Venezuela, noting that “the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy.”

At the protest, CFPA Executive Director Reverend Robert Moore, a retired pastor, explained why he believes the United States should not use military force in Venezuela.

“The situation in Venezuela is getting worse and worse,” Moore said. “Even worse than that, among the fifty that are supporting Maduro’s opponent, we’re the only country saying we might intervene militarily, and that is outrageous. We need to take that off the table.”

Moore acknowledged the crisis facing Venezuela and advocated for non-military action.

“Millions of people have already fled the country. There’s no electricity in large parts of the country, not enough food,” Moore explained.

The country is currently undergoing a massive power outage that Maduro blamed on the United States.

“It’s a disaster and it needs to have a very rampant diplomatic and humanitarian intervention to avoid a catastrophe, but war would make things far, far worse,” Moore continued.

Several protesters echoed the sentiments against violence in Venezuela.

“I just wanted to bring awareness that our knee-jerk reaction is always with force,” said Jim Drumheller of Hamilton Township. “Diplomacy is always a better solution

than violence.”

Princeton resident Ken Daly explained his views on US intervention.

“I think it’s not the business of the United States to tell other countries how to do their business,” Daly said.

Princeton resident Alma Concepión agreed with Daly.

“I’m here because I’m against all wars and because the United States has a long history of interventions that have made it much more difficult for Latino Americans to be self-sufficient,” she noted.

The protesters handed out flyers urging supporters to contact their members of Congress to advocate for the Prohibiting Military Action in Venezuela Act, which would block funds for American intervention and prevent the administration from taking military action without Congressional approval.

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challenges to reintegration?

Manuel Cepeda (MC): It is important to value that FARC already demobilized, already laid down arms, became a political party, and has started participating in elections.

Secondly, it’s very important also to give proper value to what FARC leaders have said concerning the problems and challenges of the implementation of the peace agreement.

Until now, the basic position of the main leader of the new party is that, in spite of low implementation of the peace agreement, they continue to believe in peace and will continue to work for peace. In this context, the biggest challenge is what is going to happen with the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, which is the transitional justice institution created by a constitutional amendment in Colombia for FARC and military to account for grave human rights violations and grave infractions of international humanitarian law. There is a huge controversy concerning this Special Jurisdiction for Peace, and the big question is whether it will continue to function without big changes coming from partly the government and also the Democratic Center Party that has criticized this Special Jurisdiction for Peace and now is a party of the government.

If the Special Jurisdiction for Peace cannot continue working in a reasonable way, this would, I think, really create a huge obstacle to the continuation of the implementation of the peace agreement in Colombia and the stability of what has already been achieved.

DP: President Ivan Duque campaigned against the peace accords and accused the Special Jurisdiction for Peace of being too lenient on former rebels. What are your thoughts on these accusations?

MC: Well, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace is the first time in Colombia that there is going to be accountability for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Usually, peace processes in Colombia ended with amnesty. Here, there is not going to be amnesty for these crimes. Secondly, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace will condemn those that were the most responsible for these atrocities, and these sentences will not be imposed in absentia but with those responsible present and submitting to Colombian jurisdiction. It should be noted that no other peace process in the world has ended in a way in which those that end the rebellion accept to be judged and sentenced. So of course if there is acknowledgement of truth and responsibility for the crimes the sentence will be lower. This is the incentive.

But the Special Jurisdiction for

Peace also has an adversarial track procedure for those that do not acknowledge truth and responsibility, and the sentence, if found guilty, may go up to 20 years in prison. So the big question is: could there be a stronger, harsher system?

Where has this system been proposed or invented or created? And, to my notice, there is no other part of the world where this kind of transitional justice system that imposes penalties on those that committed the crimes has been established. So ideally, perhaps someone may think it should be different, but the big challenge in Colombia was how to give justice and truth for the victims and at the same time build peace and put that in the agreement, so that justice not only ends with a sentence that stays on paper, but a sentence that is really implemented and applied. No one has proposed yet a viable alternative.

DP: What do you see as the largest challenges to justice at the current time, whether international or domestic, in Colombia or in the United States?

What can be done to face these challenges?

MC: I think the challenges to justice are very different depending on the context of each country, so for a country like Colombia, the big challenge is how to end impunity, and I think that the Special Jurisdiction for Peace is an attempt to put an end to impunity for atrocities during that armed conflict. We also have the challenge of ending impunity for other kinds of crimes in Colombia. But in other countries, perhaps the challenge is different. For example, I think that in well-established democracies, the big challenge is how to really give space to the judicial system which is more protective of the rights of the weak within the society, of the vulnerable within the society, of those that are not included in the main benefits offered by the society. And this is a huge challenge because, usually, justice works at the margins of the problem, not at the core of the problem, and there are huge debates on whether it is an appropriate role for justice to work at the core of the problem. In Colombia, constitutional justice has worked at the core of the problems, not at the margins, but I understand that this is very controversial.

And I think a third challenge is how to incorporate in the administration of justice’s different systems all the technological advances that are being developed, like artificial intelligence and developments in the organization and decisionmaking fields of study. The administration of justice in general continues to be heavily influenced by the original design of the judicial system in each country, so the capacity to evolve and to incorporate advances in fields’ technologies is low, and I think this is a

general challenge all over.

DP: Can you speak a little about your involvement in the International Association of Constitutional Law and the importance of cooperation between constitutionalists from around the world?

MC: Well, as former president and now president emeritus of the International Association of Constitutional Law, what I can say is that we live in times when basic constitutional institutions associated with liberal democracy are under stress. We are in times in which the examples of how good institutional arrangements worked, like the United States for a presidential system and like Great Britain for a parliamentary system, are in crisis. We are in times in which in areas of the world where we thought that populists were a thing of the past, they are now present and active and challenging important projects of consolidation, of democratic principles. So we are in times in which constitutional lawyers have to think of how to preserve democratic principles in contexts that have changed so much and that require institutional arrangements that are responsive to these challenges but at the same time preserve the basic democratic ideals that have contributed to build

peace and the protection of liberty, dignity, and equality in the Western Hemisphere and in Europe.

DP: Do you believe that the increase in right-wing politics, like that seen in several European countries, can have a significant impact on existing constitutional systems?

MC: We are seeing that. It’s already happening. So it’s happening in Hungary, it’s happening in Poland, it’s happening in other European countries where perhaps the right-wing parties have not won but have become very important players in the political process and therefore have affected how the political systems operate and what are the important issues for the debates. And I also believe that not only because of that but because of other deep transformations in societies within each country and deep transformations in the way globalization has operated, we have a challenge as constitutional lawyers to address these new developments in creative ways. Of course there is the temptation always, when these kinds of structural challenges appear, to say, “Let’s go back to the origins, and let’s reaffirm what we know worked and used to work.” And that’s understandable, but I think that we must reaffirm and de-

fend the democratic principles that have guided the political systems in Europe and in the Western Hemisphere, but without trying to apply old solutions to really, totally different new problems.

DP: What advice do you have for students interested in being involved in the field of constitutional law in the future?

MC: Well, I think that constitutional law is one of the most intellectually challenging fields at the moment. First because of the issues I mentioned, and second because exponential technologies are having such a huge impact on what is going to be the future of the human species, constitutional lawyers must think of how to tackle these issues that are already present. Some have to do with just the use of, let’s say, the social media linked to the technologies we know, and these are really huge challenges concerning not only privacy but freedom of expression and the impact on the function of political systems. And also how other exponential technologies will affect what we are as human beings, what is the future of the human species. Such big issues! And since we are concerned with equality, liberty, dignity, these issues are really challenging for constitutional lawyers to address them.

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Trump’s unnecessary executive order actually threatens free speech Katie Goldman

Contributing Columnist

On Feb. 19, Hayden Williams — a representative of a group that provides training for conservative campus groups — was assaulted by Zachary Greenberg, an Oakland resident, at the University of California, Berkeley. Though, according to the New York Times, neither man was a student at the university, free speech on college campuses is often a popular topic in the news, and the recent event that unfolded at the U.C. Berkeley has once again brought it to the attention of the American media.

President Trump used this altercation as a catalyst to announce his plans for an executive order that attempts to protect free speech on college campuses. Trump claimed that the executive order would withhold federal funding from universities that do not protect free speech.

While free speech is certainly a part of the constitution that must be respected, the executive order suggested

by Trump is both unnecessary and counterproductive.

The proposed executive order would affect both public and private universities, including the University. According to the Office of the Dean for Research, “Most of [Princeton] University’s research funding

comes from federal agencies, with companies, foundations, and other private entities becoming increasingly important sources of support.” If President Trump were to sign his proposed executive order, the University would be just one of many affected American universities.

The vague executive order suggested by Trump is unnecessary. The first amendment already guarantees free speech at public universities and private universities, by nature, should not be under government control. According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), most private universities pride themselves in supporting free speech, yet “if a private college wishes to place a particular set of moral, philosophical, or religious teachings above a commitment to free expression, it has every right to do so.”

Private universities are allowed to have their own rules when it comes to freedom of expression. Students are free to decide which college they want to attend; it is up to individual students to choose a university where freedom of expression is practiced according to their preferences.

Public universities, on the other hand, are subject to government control and therefore already must follow national freedom of speech laws. An executive order on the freedom of expression would be redundant legislation that, in reality, is just an attempt by Trump to please his conservative sup-

porters.

Trump’s declaration of his plan to sign the executive order is incredibly vague and clearly just an unwise reaction to the assault of a Trump supporter.

When describing the executive order, Trump said, “If they want our dollars, and we give it to them by the billions, they’ve got to allow people like Hayden and many great young people, and old people, to speak.”

The specific incident that Trump used to justify the executive order did not even include any Berkeley students; both Hayden and his assailant were simply two men who happened to be on the Berkeley campus.

Therefore, U.C. Berkeley does not have any real jurisdiction over these men. Regardless of the lack of connection to the university, Chancellor Carol Christ and Vice Chancellor for student affairs Stephen C. Sutton of U.C. Berkeley wrote to the campus community: “[Violence and harassment] is intolerable and has no place here.

Our commitment to freedom of expression and belief is unwavering.”

While Republican groups argued that this response was too delayed, the university still responded to the incident and Zachary Greenberg has been charged with three felonies.

Without any real reasoning, Trump is using this incident in an attempt to appeal to conservatives who feel that their freedom of expression is not being adequately protected on college campuses.

Not only is the proposed ex-

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ecutive order superfluous, but it would actually hinder true freedom of expression.

It is unclear as to how exactly Trump plans to impartially determine which universities violate his rules against free speech and therefore would not receive federal funding.

The United States already has a court system to deal with free speech on public college campuses, and private universities have their own mechanisms.

Adding an executive order would only complicate already established procedures.

University of Chicago president Robert Zimmer, told the Observer that “a committee in Washington passing judgment on the speech policies and activities of educational institutions, judgments that may change according to who is in power and what policies they wish to promulgate, would be a profound threat to open discourse on campus.” Zimmer’s concerns are completely valid.

College campuses are supposed to be centers for intellectual debate, and discussions on college campuses should not be mandated by whatever political party is in office.

Despite President Trump’s declared commitment to support the freedom of expression, his unjustified proposed executive order would actually threaten the free speech that he claims to value so dearly.

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Katie Goldman is a first-year from Western Springs, IL. She can be reached at kpg3@princeton. edu.

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Not in my University… right?

Siyang Liu

Contributing Columnist

Around a month ago, a Duke University professor sent out an email to her graduate students warning them not to speak Chinese on campus. In her email, she cautions that her colleagues were “disappointed that [the students] were not taking the opportunity to improve their English” and “being so impolite,” even though the conversations took place in the student lounge/study areas. Furthermore, she states that students who continued to do so would, as a result, receive fewer opportunities for internships and projects.

When I first read about this event, I was deeply saddened.

This wasn’t just the opinion of one professor, but rather an en-

tire culture of discrimination and xenophobia on another college campus. Though I’m not an international student, as someone who also speaks Chinese and is pursuing higher education, the incident hit close to home. I think (I hope?) that the same thing would not occur at Princeton, however, that’s not to say that Princeton doesn’t have problems of the same nature.

Even though our situation may not be as extreme, Princeton too struggles with internalized xenophobia, and it’s important that we confront it.

Oftentimes, students will complain about the “Asian tourists” on campus. This has always made me feel slightly uncomfortable, though I was never really able to explain why until I connected it with the Duke incident. Although it’s perfectly valid to feel exasperation when there’s a mob of people in front of you as you’re trying to go to class, or frustration from the juxtaposition between their

wonder and amazement at our campus while the sparkle you used to see may have faded, I wonder why it’s necessary to pick out the fact that they’re “Asian tourists” rather than simply tourists. Does their Asian-ness specifically add another layer of annoyance? Is it because they often don’t speak English while touring the University?

Another example, perhaps a more immediately accessible one, is the eating clubs. Most people will say that Colonial Club is the “most Asian” eating club and therefore is not diverse.

The stigma that comes with the label of being “most Asian” unfortunately turns people away from signing into Colonial: on Real Talk Princeton, an anonymous question-and-answer site about all things Princeton, people have expressed uncertainty in joining the club because they’re not Asian. Though Colonial isn’t the only eating club that students hesitate to join because they don’t identify

with a certain group, the crucial difference is those groups are largely based on extracurriculars, and not race. This is significant because extracurriculars are a choice, while ethnicity and background are not.

Furthermore, even those who do identify as Asian may hold back on joining Colonial for fear of being bound to such rigid labels and stigmas. This is something I personally resonate with — while I was considering upperclassmen eating options, I was wary of the possibility of people making assumptions about me purely based on my race and eating club. (Though I ultimately did sign in to Colonial anyway because my love for the club and its members outweighed those worries.)

It’s worthwhile to ponder whether all this comes from internalized xenophobia.

When Asians hang out together, they’re criticized for being cliquey. If they speak a foreign language in public, they’re con-

sidered impolite. But rarely is this the case for white people.

Besides, the term “Asian” itself is a huge catch-all which erases the individuality and uniqueness of different ethnicities and backgrounds, causing them to be lumped together and frequently viewed as the “other.” It is a reaction that stems from fear of being a minority with respect to Asians — one that comes from a lack of understanding.

But this fear negatively affects everyone involved by creating distance and prejudice.

All this is to say, though we can be relieved that the Duke incident didn’t happen at the University, it doesn’t mean we don’t have problems of our own.

If you look closely, there are still reflections of xenophobia. It is important that we confront them and become aware in order to enact change.

Siyang Liu is a sophomore from Princeton, N.J. She can be reached at siyangl@princeton.edu.

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Women’s basketball repeats as Ivy League champions, earns tournament one seed

By Nancy Tran Sports Contributor

Women’s basketball (20–9 overall, 12–2 Ivy) won its final regular-season game 80–68 Saturday against Yale (16–13, 6–8), securing a 10-win streak and an Ivy League title. The win marked the Tigers’ 14th conference title in program history and second

in a row. It was also women’s basketball head coach Courtney Banghart’s seventh first-place finish in the Ivy league regular season out of the 12 years that she has been coaching for Princeton. The Orange and Black shared the regular season title with Penn but earned the one seed in next weekend’s Ivy tournament by having a better head-

to-head record against Harvard, the next highest seed.

The Tigers ended the first quarter four points ahead of the Bulldogs and held a consistent lead over them for the rest of the game. Leading the Tigers was junior forward Bella Alarie with 31 points, 13 rebounds, and six assists. Alarie’s performance once again earned her

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Women’s basketball celebrates after defeating Yale to secure the Ivy League title.

Ivy Player of the Week, the 17th in her career. Sophomore guard Carlie Littlefield contributed 20 points, five rebounds, and one assist for the Tigers followed by senior guard Gabrielle Rush with seven points, six rebounds, and a career-high 10 assists.

This season, Banghart has mentioned a few times that the team consists of many “pieces,” or players. “Each piece has to grow and develop and bring something that adds to the team,” she said.

Banghart takes pride in what her team has accomplished this year.

“Our team theme this year was ‘Rise as one,’ as with so many new faces — on the roster and on the staff, it was important that we came together as a team,” she said. “That said, the strength of a team is in the pieces, and a championship team has to work to have no weak links. This team has been a true team in every sense of the word.”

Not only was the game against Yale the Tigers’ 10th win in a row, but it was the team’s 20th win this season thus far.

With the many games that the Tigers have played in the past couple of weeks and the nine

consecutive wins leading up to the game against Yale, Banghart agrees that “there was a lot riding on that final game.”

“Every win and loss counts the same, so we lock in and stay focused on winning one game at a time,” Banghart said. With emotions, ranging from excitement to nervousness running high, she added, “The way I approached it is that I always want to play for an Ivy title. I’ll sign up for those emotions every year.”

The Tigers’ season isn’t over just yet, as the Ivy Tournament begins this weekend. When asked what kind of mindset the team is in going into the last leg of the season, Banghart says that, for now, the focus is on exams.

“It’s midterm week, so we’re focusing on getting through the bulk of our academic work,” Banghart said. “Then we’ll lock into what it takes to earn the Dance Ticket. It should be fun!”

The Tigers are heading into the Ivy Tournament as the first seed against fourth-seed Cornell in New Haven, Connecticut. The game is scheduled for this Saturday at 6 p.m. The winner will play the winner of second-seed Penn and third-seed Harvard on Sunday at 4 p.m.

WRESTLING

Wrestling claims third at EIWA tournament, sends six to NCAAs

By Josephine de La Bruyere Assistant Sports Editor

It was just after 3 p.m. in Jadwin Gymnasium on Tuesday.

The NCAA had released its full list of qualifiers for the national wrestling tournament in March, and Princeton’s wrestling coaches were screaming.

Associate Head Coach Sean Gray pumped his fist into the air. “We’ve got six!” he yelled.

First-years Travis Stefanik, Patrick Glory, and Quincy Monday, sophomore Patrick Brucki, and juniors Matthew Kolodzik and Kevin Parker had all earned tickets to Pittsburgh’s March 21 NCAA wrestling tournament.

Glory, Monday, Brucki, and Kolodzik’s performances at last weekend’s Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championships had qualified them for automatic bids. Based on the wrestlers’ season win percentage, record against head-to-head competitors, conference tournament placement, and coaches ranking, Stefanik and Parker earned two of only 45 at-large bids to Pittsburgh.

Princeton’s six NCAAbound wrestlers are just one fewer than the program’s 2017 all-time high of seven. And though head coach Chris Ayres is “really excited” about what his sextet will accomplish come nationals, the statistic is bittersweet.

This season, No. 19 Tiger wrestling has pulled off historic wins against No. 20 Lehigh (9–9) and Rider (8–5). Its roster includes three ranked wrestlers – No. 4 Kolodzik, No. 4 Brucki, and No. 7 Glory. 70%

of the team’s starting roster earned All-Ivy honors. Princeton had never left the Ken Kraft Midlands Championships with a victor. This year, it left with two.

Heading into the EIWA conference tournament, said Ayres, “I thought we had a team that could take it all.”

The first day of competition did nothing but boost Ayres’ hopes.

Glory bested both of his opponents by fall – two and four minutes into their matches, respectively. Kolodzik logged a 17–2 technical fall in his first round and pinned his quarterfinal rival Glory-style. Monday posted a major decision and a win-by-fall. EIWA No. 10 junior Leonard Merkin cemented his status as the ultimate wild card; he defeated the tournament’s seventh and secondranked wrestlers. Six-seed Stefanik pinned his first opponent and earned an 11–7 upset decision against Army’s No. 3 Brock Harvey. Brucki walked away with a 16–1 technical fall and a decision under his belt.

Even those wrestlers who suffered a loss in the first two sessions – juniors Obinna Ajah and Kevin Parker, first-year Marshall Keller, and sophomore Jonathan Gomez – rallied to win their consolation matches. Thanks to that rosterwide dominance and a run of bonus points, Princeton sent all of its 10 wrestlers to the second day of competition. With 82 points, Princeton was tied with Cornell for second place.

“I woke up Saturday morning and really believed we were going to win the tournament,”

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Princeton wrestling poses with its hardware after a third-place EIWA finish.

said Ayres.

Reality would prove more bleak.

Gomez, Keller, Monday, Merkin, Stefanik, and Ajah all fell in their third round. And two-time EIWA champion Kolodzik, who started his season with a two-month undefeated run and ranked No. 1 in the country at 149 pounds, fell short in a dramatic 5–4 match against Navy’s No. 16 Jared Prince.

This is Kolodzik’s third loss in under a month. After each one, his teammates and his coaches have offered the same reassurance: They are not worried about his chances to win an NCAA title. When the moment really matters, the crowd is loud, the lights are bright, and the stakes are high, he will pull through. He is, they insist, a postseason wrestler.

But this was postseason, and he fell short yet again.

“We had some words after the match,” said Ayres. “Kolodzik has an engineering mind, but there’s an art to wrestling. He’s not good at getting creative. He looks to the coaches too much.

That has to change. He is his own best coach. He knows how to win. He has to learn to rely on himself and no one else.”

But the day was not all bad; Patrick Glory and Patrick Brucki both avenged their stinging losses at Cornell earlier this season. Glory controlled the last two periods of his match against No. 8 Vitali Aruau to earn a 10–8 decision and a conference title. Brucki overcame an early lead from No. 7 Ben Honis, scoring a takedown with 21 seconds remaining to post an 8–6 victory and join Glory on the winners’ podium.

Those highlights weren’t enough to compensate for the team’s earlier failures. Princeton finished the day with 122.5

points, 16.5 points behind Cornell and 30.5 behind Lehigh.

It was disappointing for Princeton’s coaches – and especially its wrestlers, who had hoped to revenge their trouncing by Cornell three weeks ago.

But the Tigers will have one more chance, and Ayres has nothing but full faith in his wrestlers headed to Pittsburgh.

“We have a team that can place in the top ten,” he said.

“I know Kolodzik can win an NCAA title. I know Pat Brucki can win an NCAA title. I know Pat Glory keeps getting better. I know what my guys are capable of.”

But Ayres’ ambitions – lofty for a team currently ranked No. 19 in the country – pale in comparison to his wrestlers.

“I’ve been going to NCAAs for the past four years, just waiting,” said Glory. “Now it’s time. Top ten? Top five. Anything can happen in March.”

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