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Independent major application to see more faculty oversight

By Caroline Lippman staff writer

Starting this year, residential college deans will assume more active role in the application process for independent concentrators.

According to Deputy Dean of the College Elizabeth Colagiuri, students will have to consult their residential college deans before submitting applications for independent concentrations.

A faculty subcommittee of the Faculty Committee on the Course of Study will then evaluate the proposals.

In the past, students did not necessarily have to go through their residential college deans, Colagiuri noted.

“We have seen an increase in the number and variety of proposals in recent years, and we think it’s important that we have a degree of faculty oversight in reviewing those proposals,” she said.

Dean of Whitman College Rebecca Graves-Bayazitoglu ex-

plained that this year residential college deans are taking a more active role in the process of pursuing an independent concentration.

“What’s different is in fact that the residential college deans are now acting as a kind of departmental representative for the independent concentrators in their college, which means we’re just taking a more active role in supporting the students who are granted the opportunity to do an independent concentration as they move through their junior and senior year,” she said.

Graves added that students interested in independent concentrations have often consulted residential college deans and that the students’ faculty advisors for their concentration always remain their main advisors. The deans of the residential colleges will now serve to facilitate and oversee the process for the students in their college, answering questions, making sure deadlines are met See INDEPENDENT page 3

STUDENT LIFE

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Over spring break, eight new bike stations and 50 new bikes were added to campus as part of the Zagster bike-sharing program.

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Career Services to begin partnership with PICS

By Kristin Qian staff writer

Starting June 1 of this year, Career Services will be partnering with Princeton Internships in Civic Service, according to Pulin Sanghvi, executive director of the Office of Career Services.

The PICS program allows undergraduate students to participate in eight- to ten-week paid internships in nonprofit organizations, all of which are sponsored by alumni. The University has partnered with PICS since 2010 in order to offer more students greater access to these internship opportunities. Internships include multiple programs across the nation, including health and social services, public policy and education.

The key change is that Career Services will serve as the primary starting point for internship searches, in addition to providing support through their resources and through various career and life vision programming, he noted.

Director of the Office of Career Services Evangeline Kubu said that in addition to oneon-one advising, Career Services will provide assistance with the PICS application. The

application will be integrated into the HireTigers Handshake system, but all other counseling will remain the same, she added.

Career Services hopes to create programming to help students prepare for PICS internships as well as engage with the internships afterwards to synthesize what they have learned.

As Career Services undergoes a re-imagining process that seeks to put in place a new model based on helping students discover who they are, this new partnership will be a great opportunity to build on the way Career Services supports students, Sanghvi explained. The re-imagining process consists of an expansion of opportunities to help students define a unique career and life vision, including Career & Life Vision workshops which Sanghvi himself directs and teaches.

“The heart of the career and life vision emphasis of Career Services has been to help our students engage with the Princeton experience in an intentional and mindful way, where they are able to leverage every component of the Princeton experience as a laboratory to frame questions about themselves, answer those

questions and develop a worldview of what matters most to them, where our primary goal is to find a path that will bring out the best in them,” Sanghvi said.

Career Services is excited to work directly with PICS interns to make sense of their internships and help students understand how their internships will influence their choices going forward, he said.

Sanghvi said that students find PICS internships to be helpful in transforming how they think about the world and how they think about the different ways to engage with the world. Students rave about the impactful experience of PICS and meaningful relationships they make with alums, he added.

With new technology to support the application process, Career Services will also provide resources to publicize PICS internships and draw awareness to the program, Sanghvi said.

Service and civic engagement is in the mission of Career Services, Sanghvi said.

“This is really just a chance for continued collaboration with the PICS program and we are very excited to keep See PICS page 2

Zagster bike-share program expands reach on campus staff writer

The Zagster bike-share program added eight new bike stations and 50 new bikes around campus over spring break, according to Nate Taber, head of marketing at Zagster. This puts the campus total at nine bikeshare stations and 60 bikes.

“More than ever, [the expansion] allows students to actually use [bikes] as a means of transportation, so instead of driving or using another motorized form of transportation, they can ride a bike to get to their destination,” Taber said. “These types of programs represent real progress and real success for bike-sharing as both a concept and a reality on the ground.”

University Director of Transportation and Parking Services Kim Jackson said that the motivation to expand stems from a

need for students to have both easier and eco-friendly methods of travelling around campus.

“I think that it is something that students — undergraduates, graduates — and faculty and staff are going to really embrace here on this campus because we are a pedestrian campus,” she said.

She added that the student feedback she’s received has been enthusiastic.

According to a press release from Zagster, Inc., potential users of the bike-sharing service pay a one-time $20 membership fee. Rides for members are then free for the first two hours, and then members have to pay $2 for every additional hour afterwards. Zagster’s website states that bike-share stations are located at the James Forrestal Campus of Princeton University, the Engineering Quadrangle, Firestone Library,

Richardson Auditorium, Frist Campus Center, Forbes College, Lakeside Apartments, Lawrence Apartments, and the original docking station at Princeton Train Station.

Using a bike with the program requires the free Zagster app, according to Taber.

“If you don’t have a smartphone, you can unlock the bike via text message,” Taber noted.

A user enters a unique bike code, found on the bikes themselves, and then goes onto the app to unlock and use the bike.

When a user is done with a bike, they can return it to a Zagster station, use a specific locking code to secure the bike and end their trip in the app, Taber said.

He added that the uniqueness of the Zagster bike-sharing program is bikes being equipped with fourth-generation bikesharing software. In other words, all technology needed to

use a bike — such as locking and unlocking — are located on the bike itself, he said.

Jackson said that when the University was looking for a bike-sharing company, they were especially looking for one with bikes that didn’t come with a lot of infrastructure and would allow for an easy expansion.

“Unlike a lot of large municipal programs such as Citi Bike in New York City or Capital Bikeshare in Washington D.C., Zagster has a model that tuned towards medium and smallersized environments and communities such as the town of Princeton, New Jersey and the Princeton University campus,” Taber said.

That makes the system cheaper than large, third-generation, kiosk-based systems, according to Taber. “[This] also makes it more

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nimble and easier to deploy in a diverse set of environments,” he added.

Dean of Forbes College Patrick Caddeau said that bikes were a crucial part of University student life.

“Clearly, based on the number of bikes you see around campus and especially in Forbes, I think [bikes] are a great resource,” he said.

He added that biking is a healthy and affordable mode of transportation that also has no impact on one’s carbon footprint.

“The thing that I really like about it is, if this succeeds and it’s in place and we have more bike stations around campus, we will be able to get the word out to students before they come to Princeton,” he said.

He noted that incoming students won’t have to worry See BIKE page 2

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supporting [the program],” he added, noting that Career Services has a long-standing involvement with the PICS program, though previously the primary contact for the program had been the Pace Center For Civic Engagement “We think of this as a University relationship with the PICS program,” he said.

There will still be continued involvement from many people around the University, according to Sanghvi. The PICS program will continue to offer rich multidimensional learning experiences, he added.

“It’s providing community service with the objective of helping students decide if the nonprofit world is what they would like to do.”

Charles Freyer ‘69, PICS board chair

Since PICS is an alumnidriven and alumni-organized effort, the role of Career Services is to partner and support the program, he said. There is positive alumni energy behind the program, especially from the Class of 1969, and Career Services is appreciative of this energy, according to Sanghvi.

“It’s grown as a labor of love and it’s clear in the experiences of students that have had internships through PICS,” Sanghvi said.

Charles C. Freyer ’69, chair of PICS Board, noted that PICS provides experiential learning opportunities, and through the partnership with Career Services, hopes to help students think about and prepare for their work life and their postgraduate careers.

“We are a part of the mission of Career Services — an important part, I think Pulin

agrees — to provide that experiential learning segment to the interaction with alumni and the hands-on internship experience that is essential to help people make a decision about what they like to do and what they don’t like to do,” said Freyer.

According to Freyer, PICS’ relationship with the Pace Center was really one of support.

“They provided some support to us, and the program coordinator was a PACE employee,” he added.

That responsibility to provide support to us will now be switched to Career Services; they will hire a new program coordinator, and provide public relations support as well as other support, Freyer explained.

Freyer noted that there are many more synergies between what PICS does and the new mission of Career Services.

“It’s more than simply providing community service; it’s providing community service with the objective of helping students decide if the non-profit world is what they would like to do, either fulltime, or part time as an adjunct to whatever career they’re pursuing,” Freyer said.

He added that the program assists students in the career decision-making process while at the same time providing valuable community service to PICS’ partner organizations.

PICS has grown since 2014, he added. Two summers ago, there were only 93 interns participating in the program, and this summer PICS will be interacting with more than 160 students, according to Freyer.

“We’re very happy to be joining Career Services; there are some pretty significant synergies because our missions are so well-aligned and that will be a benefit to Career Services and particularly a benefit to us as well as we continue our growth and try to provide internships to as many undergraduates as possible,” Freyer said.

PICS Program Coordinator Evan Schneider was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.

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about the hassle of buying and maintaining a bike in preparation for coming to college.

“They’ll know that there are bikes here on campus so they don’t have to go through the expense and trouble of buying a bike and then figuring out what to do with it,” he said.

Jackson added that she hopes to see the bike-share program expand to a point where students no longer have to bring their own bike to campus.

“Students don’t have to bring a bike or come here as a freshman and feel they have to go on and buy a bike… now, with bike-share, they also have that option to more easily get around campus,” she added.

“When we look and talk about sustainability… you need to give commuters and people as many options as you can… biking and walking are surely two options that we can use here at Princeton, in addition to the TigerTransit bus, so that people aren’t driving their cars,” she said.

Caddeau said he also believed the program could inspire other, lasting acts of sustainability in students’ lives, noting that the familiarity one develops from the University’s bike-share program will encourage them to use programs elsewhere when they travel.

“You may be less hesitant to participate in it. If you go to a

lot of cities… they have wonderful bike-share programs and you’re familiar with it from the Princeton campus, and you’re more likely to give bike-share programs a try in another city when you’re visiting instead of taking a cab,” he said.

Jackson added that the bikeshare program is also convenient for University faculty and staff, who can leave their cars parked in lots and instead use the bikes as a time-efficient and environmentally-friendly alternative.

TJ Smith ’18 said that he found out about the expansion in the program from emails sent by the Undergraduate Student Government and Forbes. He added that he’s frequented the bike-share stations often since returning from spring break and added that the easier mode of transportation from Forbes to the E-Quad is particularly convenient.

“It would be nice if there was another set of bikes down by Jadwin and Lewis, but otherwise it’s really nice and convenient,” Smith said.

Caddeau noted that bikesharing programs ultimately help solve the wider problem of stray bikes on campus – abandonment of bikes that do not have a summer storage space.

“We try and take some of the abandoned bikes, clean them up and then donate them to local area programs, but because it’s abandoned property we have to hold on to the bikes for a certain period of time,” he said.

The University holds on to these bikes for a period of 90 days to 100 days, Jackson added.

“The University is running a space to store those abandoned bikes, so not only is it very expensive but it takes up a lot of space before we can even get to the point of donating them,” he explained.

Jackson said that she hopes the bikes are one day able to develop the technology for students to use their TigerCards to access a bike as opposed to a code.

Taber said more bike-share stations will be added throughout the town of Princeton via a grant in the summer or fall, and added that the Mayor of Princeton Liz Lempert posted a tweet that reflects this future initiative.

“If that expansion were to happen in the future, that would mean that the system would be even more useful for both students and residents in Princeton. Like always, we’re working with the University and with the city in order to deliver the best solution for bike transportation,” Taber said.

Terbush added that discussions of expansion have demonstrated demand for bike-sharing programs.

“The fact that Princeton decided to go ahead with such a significant expansion is proof in itself of the success we’ve already had. The fact that Princeton, the town, is now looking to help with that is further proof,” he said.

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and ensuring that students have completed all of their departmental requirements, she noted.

Graves explained that the residential college dean can offer feedback by having conversations with students considering independent concentrations and drafting proposals.

“I can point out where there are issues and help anticipate some of the questions that I know will come up when the Faculty Committee on the Course of Study officially considers their application,” she said.

Shannon Osaka ’17 is pursuing an independent concentration that bridges Environmental Science and Environmental Studies.

She said that when she was going through the declaration process last year, the Office of the Dean of the College served as the administrator of independent majors. Osaka added that she did not need any official approval from her residential college dean but found that it was a good step to confer with her residential college’s director of studies and her academic advisor.

Osaka was then notified in September 2015 that her independent concentration would be overseen by her residential college dean. According to Osaka, this change was useful for her and should be useful to other students as well.

“It can be very hard to navigate everything that you need to do,” she said of the independent concentration process.

However, she added that she believes the most important aspect of the process is to have faculty advisors who are on board with the major.

“If you have a strong idea and you’re willing to fight to make it happen, it’s possible. You just have to be flexible in adjusting to the different things that they might want you to do and just kind of accept that it’s going to be a longer process,” Osaka said.

Brandon Scott ’16 has an independent concentration in Aesthetics, which he said combines art history, philosophy, and comparative literature, and also draws from history and architecture.

“I’ve just really enjoyed having the flexibility to make a concentration and bring things together that I like and I think hopefully more students will be able to do it,” Scott added.

Like Osaka, Scott went through the Office of the Dean of the College while preparing his proposal for an independent concentration and consulting potential faculty advisors. Now that the residential college deans are acting as additional representatives for students with independent concentrations, Scott explained that he met with the dean of his college this year to discuss the topic of his thesis, impor-

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tant deadlines and his progress in meeting his concentration and general requirements.

He noted that deans may have different opinions about independent concentrations.

“It seems like that might be one of the consequences of spreading it out to the residential colleges; there’s a variability in how the deans feel about doing an independent concentration,” he said.

Colagiuri explained that the committee is looking to schedule its meeting some time in April and hopes to offer students feedback by the end of April or early May at the latest.

The A.B. Sophomore Concentration Declaration period runs from April 11 to April 19.

“We always recommend that students go ahead and declare a departmental major if they have not received word on the independent concentration package... if they are selected for the independent concentration, then that is a change we can make in the system on our end,” Colagiuri noted.

Osaka said that last year, her proposal was due in the beginning of April but she was not notified of its acceptance until early May. “There were a couple problems with my application that I had to sort out with my faculty advisors and I changed it a little bit from what I had originally proposed, so in that intervening time I had to declare a different major, so it was all kind of stressful and agonizing,” she said.

She added that the process was useful in the end because it allowed her to change and adapt her major while writing the proposal and obtaining permission.

Scott said that his proposal, submitted in late March, was approved in April before the sophomore concentration declaration period.

Graves added that while the residential college deans advise students during the application process, the Faculty Committee on the Course of Study will evaluate the applications and make final decisions. She said that if a student is granted the opportunity to pursue an independent concentration, their residential dean will be notified along with the student.

“I think usually we’re copied on the letter that comes out saying they have permission to do this major,” she said.

In evaluating the proposals for independent concentrations, Colagiuri said that the committee is looking for the level of rigor and breadth consistent with a Princeton degree.

“We look for proposals that are truly crossing departmental boundaries, that are proposing a course of study that there simply is no other way for a student to do at Princeton, and that are rigorous and will develop sufficient methodological basis for students to complete their independent work,” Colagiuri explained.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Remembering the Near East John T. Nelson ‘10

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o the Editor: Like many students and alumni, I was deeply dispirited to learn of the Near Eastern Studies department’s decision not to renew Dr. Michael Barry’s lectureship.

Dr. Barry stands out in my memory as one of the most remarkable teachers under whom I had the honor to study while at Princeton. A polymath and a polyglot, he brought to his classes each week the gift of his roving intellect, his eloquence and good humor, and most importantly his conviction that the Islamic world be studied as a civilization alike in dignity to all others. His lectures on Afghanistan and the discussions that ensued illuminated the subtleties of a foreign land that had once again, for a time, moved from the periphery of the earth to its very center. I enrolled in his course to better understand this country into which the United States had, with the best of intentions, invested such colossal energies while showing so little empathy.

I could not have wished for a more accomplished or inspiring guide than Dr. Barry, who as a child knew Afghanistan before the Soviet catastrophe and who, as a young man, risked his life to deliver humanitarian aid to a people whom he loved and knew intuitively, though they were not his own. In his humanitarian endeavors, he demonstrated a level of compassion for others that was matched only by his erudition. There are, to my knowledge, only a handful of scholars in the world who know what he knows and fewer still who have seen what he has seen. He is irreplaceable.

For Dr. Barry, Afghanistan is not a barren wasteland to be contained and then forgotten, though he possesses the sobriety of mind to recognize that this has been the attitude of the great powers throughout history. It will never be the attitude of anyone whom his teaching and writings have touched.

It is deeply troubling that as America returns to forgetting Afghanistan, Princeton University should set out to forget Dr. Barry.

I credit this teacher with encouraging me to ask deeper questions, to challenge my assumptions and to practice humility in consideration of the world’s challenges. These lessons have led me to pursue a career in foreign policy in which I am reminded regularly of Dr. Barry’s perceptive insights and arguments. This is all the more true in the current political climate, which too often treats ignorance and prejudice as virtues. I am confident that many more Princetonians whom he has mentored will share my sentiments, and I would encourage those who have not already done so to petition the relevant authorities to reconsider their shortsighted, though no doubt well-intentioned, decision.

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here will never be a World War III — at least, not the way I have imagined it.

Some of us may envision an upcoming World War as one that features the drafting of our boys to far-flung Pacific islands or small towns in Europe or Northern Africa.

We may even worry that WWIII will mean food rationing, or hope that it would spruce up the U.S. economy the way the second World War did.

This isn’t reality. While it’s not for me to predict the future, it is unlikely that any so-called “World War III” will resemble anything our great-grandparents witnessed.

There are simple reasons for this, mostly related to our current state of affairs. Today there are at least 195 sovereign nations in the world; by the end of WWII there were no more than 100. The British Empire did not officially disintegrate until 1997; currently, the vestiges of colonialism give the world different problems to face, but problems nonetheless. In noting this, how

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Improve the major declaration

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n the next few weeks, sophomores enrolled in the A.B. program will be declaring their majors within one of the 35 academic departments offered by the University. In light of this rapidly approaching deadline, the Board recommends the following improvements to the declaration of majors and certificate programs: 1) the University should update its certificates webpage to include a more comprehensive and inclusive list of all programs offered, as it is currently missing some programs, 2) individual departments should create and advertise open houses and information sessions for their respective certificate programs, and 3) the Office of the Dean of the College should update its website for choosing majors to make it more comprehensive and user-friendly than is its current format.

According to the University’s description of certificate programs on the Admissions website, certificates “enable students to supplement their work in departmental concentration with focused study in another, often interdisciplinary, field.” Given the significance of these programs to the undergraduate curriculum, the Board urges ODOC to update its website for certificate programs. The first area for improvement for the current website is that the list of programs presented is not representative of the full list of certificates that the University offers. For instance, the politics and economics departments offer a certificate in political economy that is not listed on the central website; the section for the Program in Language and Culture does not specify its respective subsidiary certificates as well. The Political Economy Program is only open to students concentrating in either politics or economics, so it is practical that ODOC chose not to include such a program on its comprehensive list.

However, the Board recommends the creation of two separate lists, one for certificates open to all Princeton students and one for students within each specific department. This benefits not just current students deciding their courses of study, but also prospective students who are interested in seeing the full range of opportunities Princeton offers. Furthermore, the current website often provides links to respective departments, as opposed to links to the direct webpages of the certificate programs and their specific prerequisites. It is a simple fix to instead link students directly to the certificate website, and this reform would make researching certificate programs a more centralized, user-friendly experience.

The second problem that should be addressed falls under the responsibility of the respective departments to which the certificate programs belong. The Board encourages the departments to host and extensively advertise open houses and information sessions relevant to their certificates. Calendars for these forums should be consolidated on the homepages of

the certificate programs and updated regularly.

Information of this kind is crucial because many certificates offered by the University are introduced to students within small academic circles based upon similar courses they have taken. Open houses and similar information sessions provide students outside of these circles with the opportunity to learn about these programs. Not only would this help students discover new opportunities, but the programs would be stronger if they enrolled students from diverse academic backgrounds. The Board therefore urges departments to advertise these promotional activities to a greater extent than previously done. This can be done through college-specific listservs and notifications from deans of the colleges. Some certificates such as the Values and Public Life Program have placed placards and posters in dining halls. Thus the Board encourages certificates and residential colleges to better communicate this information through emails and other advertising platforms.

Finally, there is much room for improvement on ODOC’s current website dedicated to helping students choose a major. The Board appreciates the effort that ODOC has demonstrated to make the webpage a useful tool in the undergraduate process of major declaration. Aspects of the current web page such as links to department websites and guides to department-specific independent research are user-friendly and advantageous resources. Included on the website is a link for students to access the perspectives of students in various departments, with the student liaisons’ names and emails listed.

While such information is helpful, this list, like the list of certificate programs, does not include all the departments within the University. Furthermore, while it is advantageous for students deciding upon a major to hear the perspectives of individuals currently enrolled at the University, it would be equally advantageous to hear those perspectives of graduates of these same departments, in order to allow students to envision what their post-collegiate experiences might be like after acquiring said majors. This webpage has the potential to be a very helpful resource in the declaration of majors, and these recommendations provide meaningful steps toward achieving this goal.

While the implementation of these suggestions might not make a great impact on the decision-making process of current sophomores, given the relative proximity of the declaration period, future generations of University students would certainly benefit from them.

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Trump will not be Hitler

then can we accurately equate Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler?

The fall of the Berlin Wall supposedly ushered in a period of postmodernism, in a similar fashion that Obama’s presidency introduced an era of “post-racialism,” but these are claims that are consistently contradicted. On the first count, individuals from both sides of the aisle employ modernist, irrefutable tactics by arguing that Donald Trump is the new Hitler. While I am not interested in arguing against post-modernism wholesale, it seems that this case and a few others exemplify how we harken back to the past universally, appropriating certain definite notions about the world from yesteryear. Constantly we are reminded to learn from history — with varied results — and perhaps this is what we do when we refer to President Obama as Stalin or remind modern “social justice warriors” that their problems do not compare at all to the issues that faced men and women who were lynched in the American South or waterhosed by the police in the 1960s.

Comparing Trump to Hitler, and thus belittling the terrors that

befall the present, is a mistake. If elected president, Trump will be in one of the greatest positions to make America worse, with methods that may resemble methods of past dictators. But no matter what, he will not be Hitler.

When comparing Trump to Hitler, many arguments stem from the notion that Trump’s rhetoric resembles those of the Nazi leader and perhaps by extension neo-Nazi dogma. His alleged comments concerning a mandate that would require Muslims to carry “identification cards that note their faith” has been compared to similar regulations imposed on Jews. Trump’s targeting of Mexican immigrants, branded by him as one of the key problems facing U.S. security today, also mirrors Hitler’s condemnation of Jews and other minority groups before and during WWII. There are countless other ways that Trump parallels the rise and rhetoric of Hitler, and I am not denying that the comparable rise of the Nazi leader is important to note during this election cycle. Rather, I wish to caution against the urge to give Trump the easy way out

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— to hold him against a standard of history that can never truly be met, but challenged nonetheless.

Many of us fear that history will repeat itself, but our world does not face the same problems it did during Hitler’s lifetime. The context of the Holocaust is not one that we live in today, nor is it one that is possible to faultlessly replicate. On the Internet, I’ve seen many “jokes” that Trump will usher in a new era of slavery for African-Americans, featuring everything from cotton fields to antebellum slave masters. Funny or not, this is another example of our fallacious relationship with the past.

Many may imagine that the worst thing Donald Trump could do to black people is “send us back” to cash crop, cotton-picking slavery.

While undoubtedly slavery is one of the many atrocities that the United States have committed, other horrors such as Jim Crow laws or the modern mass incarceration crisis have existed since then. “Modern-day slavery” is unimaginable, but if it did come to be, it would certainly not take the form of American chattel slavery.

Indeed, many of us fall into the trap of holding certain atrocities

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as the pinnacles of evil, such as American slavery or the Holocaust.

These were horrifying occurrences, which cost millions their lives and much more. However, in constantly focusing on these unique historical incidents, we ignore the similar cruelties that have occurred since then and place a disproportionate focus on the past. We are neglecting the present and the conditions that have the potential to make dictatorship or imperialism even more frightening.

I fear that we regard evil as taking only a few forms. Consequently, will we recognize and condemn evil if it does not imitate the wickedness that has been endorsed as the supreme form?

Our post-modern world has the potential to create yet unseen evils, but we continue to cling almost exclusively to historic standards.

I write this with the hopes that we remember this and find new ways to “define” evil that will make Trump even less of an acceptable candidate for President.

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year, Princeton proceeded to fall to Harvard in both the eastern sprints and IRA championships. In what has been a back-and-forth series with perhaps their biggest rival, a win on Saturday will go a long way toward giving the Princeton squad the confidence to prevail this season in the end-of-season championships.

Finally, the women’s open crew team will face perhaps the toughest opponent of its season when it takes on Brown, along with Ohio State University, on Lake Carnegie on Saturday as well. The Bears, reigning Ivy League Champions, bested the Tigers by over seven seconds in this race last year and were also the only Ivy League team to

beat Princeton at both the Head of the Charles and the Princeton Chase in the fall.

Looking to avoid dropping its opener to Brown for the third straight year, and to establish itself as the new team to beat in the league, Princeton hopes to have improved enough to pull off a huge win over the Bears on Saturday.

Although all four teams will ultimately be looking forward to the two big championship races at the end of the season, these early dual meets can be crucial for the teams’ performances there.

From pride to building confidence to determining the top eight rowers to fill out the first boat, no one will take these competitions lightly as the teams hope all their hard work over the winter will translate to success on the water.

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CWPA Championships.

Afterwards, Princeton will face off against Indiana, arguably its toughest opponent of the weekend.

The Hoosiers and Tigers have split several of their last meetings. Princeton or Indiana has won the CWPA tournament the last four years. In fact, the Hoosiers dealt the Tigers a heartbreaking loss two seasons prior in the CWPA finals.

However, Princeton responded last season, knocking off Indiana to claim the CWPA title and advance to the NCAA tournament.

Perhaps as a testament to the intense competition between the two teams, both finals matches were decided by a single goal.

The Tigers will be undoubtedly looking to replicate last year’s successes with another win against long-time rival Indiana.

Finally, Princeton will wrap up the weekend with a final game against Ivy rival Harvard. The two sides have already met once this season during the Harvard Invitational in early March.

The Tigers managed to gain the upper hand against the Crimson, scoring a comfortable 12-8 win.

However, the match was much closer than the score line would seem to indicate. Indeed, it was Harvard that threw the early punches, gaining a 2-0 advantage and finishing the first quarter with a 3-2 edge. However, the Princeton squad soon found its rhythm and the net, scoring five times to take a 7-5

lead at halftime. The Tigers later widened the lead, only to have a late Crimson rally push the lead down to two again. However, the Orange and Black landed the final punch, icing the game with two final goals.

With Harvard undoubtedly looking to avenge its earlier loss, a repeat of Princeton’s display of resilience and strength will be needed to grab another win over its Ivy League foes.

With conference play starting this week, the stakes are raised as Princeton looks to continue its past successes in the CWPA tournament. However, regardless of the outcome, fans of women’s water polo will have plenty to watch as the Tigers face off against some of their toughest foes.

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Women’s water polo takes to the road against Michigan, Indiana, Harvard

By David Xin associate sports editor

This Saturday, the women’s water polo team will start their weekend by traveling to Ann Arbor, Mich., for three straight conference matchups against the University of Michigan, Indiana University and Harvard. The road trip will be crucial for the Tigers, who look to advance to the Collegiate Water Polo Association Championships and defend their title.

The Tigers will begin the weekend by playing against the Wolverines. Michigan has proven itself to be a tough and physical opponent. Indeed, the Tigers, who are still restructuring after several losses due to graduation, may find themselves in an upward battle as

they try to claim a crucial first win in the conference.

However, Princeton has certainly proven itself capable throughout the season, dropping only three highly contested matches. The Princeton squad has shown remarkable resilience in spite of the unusually small squad this season, with several players stepping up to make key contributions for the Tigers.

The Tigers will also have a little bit of history on their side. Indeed, the Tigers have beaten the Wolverines in their last three encounters. This includes one win during the regular season last year, a victory away during the Bison Invitational two seasons earlier, and a crucial win in the first-place game of the See W. WOPO page 5

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The women’s water polo team will face a weekend on the road to prepare for a defense of their national title.

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Men’s and women’s crew teams to open spring seasons

By Alan Balson contributor

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Men’s and women’s crew will continue their spring seasons this weekend.

After strong performances in the fall races and months of preparation, Princeton men’s and women’s rowing both open their seasons this weekend. Far from easing into competition, the teams will face some of their toughest rivals right off the bat in the first of a series of dual meets that lead up to the end-of-season eastern sprints and the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships.

With both the men and women competing for Ivy League and national championships, the teams would love to start the year off with winning performances in this weekend’s competitions.

The only team traveling for its opening game, the

men’s lightweight team will head down to Annapolis and Washington, D.C. to face the United States Naval Academy and Georgetown University.

Princeton has triumphed over Navy, Saturday’s opponent, for the annually-awarded Murtaugh Cup for seven straight years, including a 15-second win over the Midshipmen last year. However, after victories in the fourth and fifth boats last year, Navy’s lower boats should prove to be a good test of Princeton’s depth as the rowers compete for places on the top boats. On Sunday, the Tigers will take on the Hoyas for the Fosburgh Cup, which Princeton has retained for three straight years dating back to the 2012 season. With the last two victories coming by over 20-second margins, the Tigers have every reason to

believe that the streak should stay alive this season as well.

The men’s heavyweight team has an easier trip over to Lake Carnegie on Saturday, where it too will face the Hoyas. The team has enjoyed similar success against Georgetown, including a dominant 18-second victory last season. With crucial races against Columbia, Penn, Harvard, and Cornell coming up in the next few weeks, the Tigers look to replicate their past performances against the Hoyas and defend their status as the top program in the east.

The women’s lightweight squad will also be in action on Lake Carnegie on Saturday as it hosts Harvard for the 1999 Cup. After avenging a 10-second loss in 2014 with a tight one-second victory last See CREW page 5

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Women’s lacrosse to take on a tough Harvard squad

By Claire Coughlin contributor

The last time the Princeton women’s lacrosse team (4-2 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) battled against the Harvard Crimson was last year’s semifinal game, which preceded the Tigers’ victory in the Ivy League Championship. While the first half of last year’s game was certainly exciting, with a 4-4 score at halftime, the Tigers’ offense exploded in the second half with a nine-goal run and two more goals to make the final score 15-8. The Orange and Black’s 15 goals were an Ivy League Tournament record, which is exactly the type of success the team hopes to achieve again this weekend.

Ranked No. 11 in the NCAA — the best of any Ivy League Team — the Princeton women’s lacrosse team has had a very successful season thus far. The Tigers began this spring with four straight

wins against some tough teams including No. 5 University of Virginia, but recently fell to No. 6 University of Notre Dame, 16-11, and No. 8 Pennsylvania State University, 14-10, in their past two performances.

Princeton’s success this season has been an incredible team effort, but three players to keep a special eye on are senior and junior midfielders Liz Bannantine and Olivia Hompe and junior goalie Ellie DeGarmo. These three players were all recently added to the 2016 Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List, which includes the top 50 players in the nation. Both Hompe and DeGarmo have already been named Ivy League Players of the Week this season. DeGarmo is ranked fifth nationally with a save percentage of .500 and boasts a total of 57 saves. Hompe has tallied 22 of Princeton’s 72 goals this season and leads the Tigers with 28 points overall.

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Midway through the season, the Crimson has already experienced its own fair share of success. The team’s strongest facet has been its offense, which averages a league best of 12.86 goals per game. Marisa Romeo leads the team’s strong offense with a total of 22 points this season, followed by Julia Glynn and Maeve McMahon.

With one more game under its belt than the Tigers, the Crimson’s record this season is 4-2 overall and 1-0 in the Ivy League. Its only losses have come against high-ranking teams, Stanford and Syracuse University.

Starting time for this Saturday’s game is 12 p.m. at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, Mass. Princeton currently leads the series between the Tigers and the Crimson 2818, and has been victorious the past four match-ups. The rivalry game will be shown live on NESNplus and the Ivy League Digital Network.

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Women’s lacrosse will face off against a strong Harvard squad.

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“Never though something could fire my competitive 57 saves edge like basketball, then was introduced to IM Women’s lacrosse goalie Ellie innertube waterpolo. Welcome to postseason” DeGarmo has 57 saves this season taylor williams (@ preTAYY), senior forward, women’s basketball

and is ranked fifth nationally.

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