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Day of Action garners unprecedented success

MARCIA BROWN :: HEAD NEWS EDITOR

Hundreds of students turned out for the Day of Action in Frist Campus Center on Monday. The event included teach-ins, discussions, panels, and performances.

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In an unprecedented civic engagement event, University affiliates organized to create yesterday’s Day of Action; hundreds of students converged in Frist Campus Center to participate in what organizers called a “day of Teach-ins and Action.”

Sixty-four teach-ins, discussions, and teaching sessions centered around a certain topic were conducted on issues such as civil rights, democracy and knowledge, international peace and security, as well as climate and environmental challenges.

By 1 p.m. yesterday, over 500 University affiliates had “filled Frist Campus Center to participate in the March 6 events,” according to a press release from Dr. Paul Gauthier.

Teach-ins were solicited from all student groups and organizations at the University “irrespective of politics, ideology, or creed,” according to a packet detailing the day’s events. Furthermore, their views don’t necessarily reflect that of the organizing groups.

The opening town hall at 9 a.m. allowed leaders of the parent organizations for the event to address an audience of about 75 about their reasons for organizing. Notably, this event has become the inspiration for similar initiatives at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and MIT. MIT’s event will take place April 18.

Sarah Sakha ’18, editor-inchief of the ‘Prince,’ opened the day’s events.

“We need to move from thinking about the problems

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to thinking about how we can take action,” Sakha said. “Let us consider what our legacy will be: we have to promote the values of equality and diversity.”

Nicholas Wu ’18, one of the founders and leaders of Princeton Advocates for Justice, addressed the broad span of issues that would be addressed during the day’s events at the opening town hall.

“I’m awed by the sheer diversity of the teach-ins today and the outpouring of support for the Day of Action,” Wu said in his speech. “It gives me and Princeton Advocates for Justice hope for future collective, intersectional activism. It’s incumbent on all of us to transform these discussions into action.”

Wu is an associate opinion editor for the ‘Prince.’

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Events throughout the Day of Action focused on the history of science and the role of science in modern-day politics.

Day of Action sparks discussion on science’s role Science Contributor

Members of the University science community gathered on the Day of Action to discuss the importance of science and its historical and current role in the political climate.

Many of the day’s events were oriented around discussion and audience participation. History of Science Professor D. Graham Burnett ’93, moderated an audience discussion covering topics

in funds from various departments and offices for the event.

According to a packet detailing the events of the Day of Action, the event’s mission is “to create a space and time where the Princeton University community can come together, have open and honest discussion, and launch ideas into reality. Institutions are shaped by those who participate in them; our mission is to empower the Princeton community by increasing our participation in local and public sector organizations.”

At the town hall, physicist Zia Mian noted American intellectual Noam Chomsky’s famous 1967 essay “The Responsibility of Intellectuals.” Mian is the co-director of the Program See ACTION page 5

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Reich ’04 Whitehead speaks about his career, reads prosecuted for fraud from most recent novel

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The event came to fruition after the Nov. 9 election of President Trump, when members of the University community rallied in reaction. Almost immediately after the election, PAJ, an intersectional group composed of 25 student activist groups, was formed. In the past, PAJ organized the Immigration Day of Action and Arts without Borders. Princeton Citizen Scientists also formed in response to the presidential election and is composed of science, engineering, and social science graduate students. PCS conceived the idea for the Day of Action, and worked together with PAJ to create the University-funded event, involving local activist groups outside of the University community as well. According to Wu, the University supplied $12,000

ranging from the lack of education in mathematical logic to the popular distrust of scientists as an intellectual class. Later, Professor Joshua Shaevitz of the Lewis-Sigler Institute encouraged audience members to name reasons why people study science and ways that technologies from science that have changed human lives.

At the “History of Science and Political Engagement” teach-in, See SCIENCE page 2

In a standing room-only lecture on March 6, author Colson Whitehead read an excerpt from his 2016 novel “The Underground Railroad,” which won the National Book Award, and discussed his path to writing.

Assistant professor of English Kinohi Nishikawa first introduced Whitehead, calling him a prominent voice of his generation.

“Looking over Colson Whitehead’s career, we see a recurrent theme. Every new book Whitehead writes seems to herald the voice of our age,” Nishikawa said. “To read Whitehead isn’t so much to enter a time warp, but a time continuum.”

Whitehead infused his talk with humor and levity, as he discussed his upbringing and the dayto-day routines of being a writer.

“I usually spend Monday afternoons in my apartment reeling over my regrets, so this is a nice change of pace for me,”

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Whitehead joked.

He spoke about his childhood in Manhattan and his early love of books, including comics and novels written by Stephen King. Whitehead mentioned that his early experiences with books inf luenced his later decision to become a writer.

“It seemed in sixth grade [that] being a writer was a great job; you didn’t have to wear clothes or talk to people,” Whitehead said.

“At that point, I wanted to write the black ‘Shining’ — basically, if you take any Stephen King title and put the black before it.”

He said that he started reading modernist authors, like Samuel Beckett, during his freshman year at Harvard University in 1987. However, he explained that his writing journey in college was not exactly smooth.

“I considered myself a writer, but didn’t write any thing,” Whitehead said. “Eventually I gathered my forces and wrote two five-page stories to audition for the creative

Ex-Barclays swaps trader Ryan Reich ’04 is currently being prosecuted by the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office for manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) for personal profit between June 2005 and September 2007, according to a trial update by BloombergQuint.

Reich is being prosecuted along with Greek Barclays trader Stylianos Contogoulas for rigging LIBOR. Contogoulas and Reich are not being prosecuted for conspiring together, as Contogoulas transferred to Merrill Lynch in July 2006, one month before Reich joined Barclays in August 2006.

The LIBOR is a key benchmark rate that the world’s top banks charge each other for interbank loans. It is used to calculate interest rates on various short-term loans between banks. Thirty-five separate LIBOR rates are submitted each day for five different world currencies and seven different maturities. Reich and Contogoulas are on trial for manipulation of the U.S. dollar LIBOR. The U.S. dollar LIBOR is set each day by a panel of 16 sub-

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While Max Grear scrutinizes the U.’s ties to private prisons, Lou Chen weighs in on how to treat Trump voters. PAGE 4

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discussion ranged from strictly scientific topics to facts in general, including the relevance of “fact” in the current political climate.

“The term ‘alternative fact’ is a misnomer for what we’re talking about today,” History of Science Professor Keith Wailoo said. “We are really talking about trying to undermine certainty in traditional facts, but questioning their credibility, for example, by undermining confidence in the facts of climate change. But in some places, say the legal setting, old-fashioned facts still matter.”

Wailoo, a professor in the Department of History and the Wilson School, explained that even in a political climate where facts are not always the foundation for debate, they still matter.

“Legal evidence and facts are what matter in courts, no matter how much you try to change the ‘facts’ with Twitter posts,” he said. “People still believe that the facts are out there — like the facts in Trump’s tax returns. We are concerned about manipulating the facts.”

History of Science Professor Angela Creager discussed the role and persona expected of modern scientists.

“We live in society that values participation and distrusts elites,” Creager explained. “Scientists both want authority and respect, and to find a way to open it up. It’s really hard for science to achieve both at the same time.

There’s a lot more distrust in the U.S. of elites. I think finding a way to encourage participation and, at the same time, reinforce values of consensual knowledge is important.”

“This moment is a challenging one for scientists because scientific authority seems under attack,” Wailoo concurred. “But the question of science’s authority has always been something that needs to be established and re-established. Rather than assume that people will believe in authority of scientific facts because they are “scientific,” this moment puts an extra onus on scientists — and journalists and all of us — to explain more and more clearly why their facts and ideas are more authoritative than mere beliefs.”

Onus or not, the speakers argued that no matter the political implications of science, it still holds significance.

“The goal of science is to examine our current theories and design tests to falsify them,” Shaevitz said at the “Why Science?” teach-in. “Science satisfies a basic human curiosity about the universe and our place in it.”

Science teach-ins at the Day of Action included events such as: “Why Science: Facts, Evidence, and the Search of Truth,” “Between Trumpism and Elitism: the Scientist’s Plight under Capitalism,” “Teaching STEM College Courses in New Jersey Prisons,” “Closing the Gap: Gender and Prestige in Science & Medicine,” “Shrinking Ice Sheets, Rising Seas: Today and in the Last Interglacial,” “The History of Science and Political Engagement: An Open Discussion,” “Science in the Public Sphere: How Can We Increase Non-Expert Engagement with the Knowledge and Values of Science?” and “Revenue-neutral Carbon Tax: The Most Feasible and Effective Policy at Combatting Climate Change.”

The Day of Action also incorporated a history of science knowledge fair, and several organizations set up tables in Frist Campus Center to advance their respective causes, including Citizens Climate Lobby, Princeton Graduate Women in Science and Engineering, Princeton Student Climate Lobby, and Princeton University Energy Association.

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Whitehead: I usually spend Monday afternoons reeling over my regrets

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Whitehead gives out free copies of his new book, “The Underground Railroad,” after his talk on Monday.

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writing classes, but I was turned down each time.”

After graduation, Whitehead worked at alternative newsweekly The Village Voice in New York City from 1991 to 1997. He started writing by approaching the paper’s TV editor, and first wrote a piece about the series finales of the shows “Growing Pains” and “Who’s the Boss.”

Whitehead eventually became confident enough to write his own fiction; he decided to write a novel about a child star that was based on Gary Coleman, an actor who portrayed an African-American child raised by Caucasian parents on the 1980s sitcom “Diff ’rent Strokes.” Whitehead obtained an agent to spread the word about the book, but was discouraged to find that his manuscript was rejected by many different publishing houses.

During this time, Whitehead began to have “bizarre thoughts,” but he found solace in the disco music of the ’70s and top-40s radio, such as Donna Summer’s “MacArthur Park.” He joked that the song spoke to his artistic journey.

“K nopf Publish ing Group, why did you leave my cake out in the rain? ” Whitehead said, referencing the lyrics of the song.

Whitehead also discussed his recent novel, “The Underground Railroad,” and described the idea for the novel, which first came to him 16 years ago.

“I was sitting on my couch and saw a reference [to the Underground Railroad] and remembered how in elementary school I thought it was actually an underground subway,” Whitehead said. “I thought ‘Oh, that’d be a good idea for a novel,’ adding complicating elements where each state the protagonist went through was different, like Gulliver’s Travels.”

Whitehead decided to wait on writing that book until he was more mature, but about three years ago, he asked his wife what she thought about the idea.

“She said it sounded better than my other proposal, which was about a Brooklyn writer going through a midlife crisis,” he explained.

Whitehead added that his agent and editor liked the idea as well, so he began putting together the

story and conducting research. He then read a series of excerpts from his novel, describing it as centered around a slave girl, Cora, who is 17 or 18 and lives on a Georgia cotton plantation.

Whitehead read an excerpt from his novel that described Cora’s plantation and a beating that Cora and another slave faced.

He then read a portion about slave catcher Arnold Ridgeway as an example of the book’s “biographical chapters,” in which he explores the backstory and motivations behind his characters.

When asked why he chose Cora to be the novel’s protagonist, Whitehead explained that the novelty of exploring a mother-daughter relationship in a book appealed to him.

“I had also had a long string of meditative male protagonists in a row, so I heard a voice that said ‘Come on, Colson, let’s change it up a little,’” he added.

Whitehead described conducting research for the novel as “terrible,” considering the heavy topic.

“I drew on stuff I first read in college, like ‘Bad Blood’ by James H. Jones about the Tuskegee experiment, and slave narratives like [that of] Frederick Douglass,” he said. “I had three reckonings with research about slavery: child, college, and mid-forties with children.”

Many students were denied access to the event due to space limitations. Dean of Rockefeller College Oliver Avens and Rockefeller College administrator Karen Sisti estimated that they allowed 150 people into the lecture hall. Many audience members stood or sat on the f loor of the aisles.

“I haven’t read the book yet, but have heard great things about it, so I wanted to go,” said Riley Owen ’20, who did not make it into the lecture. “It was disappointing to be turned away after waiting in line.”

The lecture was held in McCormick 101 at 4:30 p.m. on March 6. It was sponsored by the Peter S. Firestone ’62 Society of Mathey and Rockefeller Colleges, the Lewis Center for the Arts, the Humanities Council, and the Princeton Public Library.

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Princeton prison investments: Bankrolling Trump’s racist agenda Max Grear

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This column is the third part in a series focusing on a student campaign for private prison divestment as a lens for examining questions regarding historical and present injustice, institutional responsibility and accountability, and mechanisms of change.

This series ref lects my personal involvement (not as a spokesperson) in the Princeton Private Prison Divest coalition. The first column discussed the disturbing parallels between current University investments and Princeton’s close historical relationship to the slave trade and xenophobia. The second addressed the glaring problems and contradictions of common arguments in favor of prison privatization.

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oday, more than ever before, private prison and immigrant detention corporations are key players in a mounting wave of institutional violence against communities of color.

Princeton’s investments in this industry make it an active participant in this violence.

Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Justice Department will continue its use of private prisons. While hardly unexpected, this reversal makes clear the shared interests between private prison corporations and a demonstrated racist like Sessions. Both actors hope to escalate rates of incarceration, and both have an enormous supply of financial and political capital to achieve this goal.

At this moment, Sessions and President Trump are the political allies of our institution’s short-term and socially irresponsible financial interest in returns on private pris-

on investments. It’s important, then, that we understand exactly who these unsavory allies of ours are and what they plan to do. Such an honest appraisal may help us grasp the degree to which we, as a university, currently stand on the wrong side of history.

Sessions’ recent announcement indicates the dangerous direction in which the justice system is headed under the Trump administration. His Feb. 21 memo rescinded the Obama administration’s plan to phase out the federal government’s contracting with private prison companies. Sessions and his advisors chose to ignore the overwhelming evidence of heightened safety and security risks in private prisons, which prompted the previous administration’s decision to curtail the use of such facilities.

Despite the fact that populations of federal prisoners have steadily decreased since 2013, Sessions’ memo reflects a concern on the part of the attorney general that the 122 prisons run by the Bureau of Prisons itself will run out of space in coming years. In the memo, Sessions argues that private facilities are necessary for the BOP’s “ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system.” This statement can only mean that Sessions plans to ramp up of rates of incarceration. Such a backward direction runs against the now-broad public recognition of the justice system’s deep racial disparities and astronomical prisoner populations.

Sessions’ record as Alabama attorney general suggests that the Justice Department will significantly increase the number of federal prisoners

I am a Zionist Leora Eisenberg

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’m afraid to say it out loud sometimes because it’s become a bad word of late. I believe in Israel’s right to exist and its necessity. I put great faith in the Jewish right to self-determination and have a deep love for the State of Israel. This makes me a Zionist.

On Thursday, Feb. 16, the well-known political scientist and Israel critic Norman Finkelstein repeatedly equated Zionism with ethnic cleansing. He called Zionism a denial of historical truth and compared Zionist endeavors to Stalin’s.

But the Palestinian population in both Israel and the Palestinian Territories has increased eightfold since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. If the Palestinian population of the region has swelled since Israel’s conception, Zionism cannot possibly espouse ethnic cleansing.

Zionism, instead, is the Jewish movement for selfdetermination. The founders of the State of Israel were Zionists, but they did not enshrine rights for only one group of people. On the contrary, the Israeli Declaration of Independence states that Israel will “foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants [and] it will be based on freedom,

justice and peace.” Israel has sometimes erred on its path, but the Zionism described in the nation’s founding document has nothing to do with the ethnic cleansing that Finkelstein mentioned.

In fact, many famous figures are proud to be Zionists, like Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel. He decried genocide — a form of ethnic cleansing itself — but was also unfaltering in his Zionism, finding no conf lict between the two. Like Wiesel, I see no contradiction between Zionism and my values of human rights. I believe in Israel’s founding ideology, and like many others, see it as a movement of “freedom, justice and peace.”

In that vein, I realize that many, on campus and elsewhere, may disagree with my views. But instead of charging all Zionists with ethnic cleansing, I invite you to engage a Zionist in conversation. You will find that many of us are liberals, peacemakers, and warriors for human rights. Ask a proponent of the ideology why they continue to adhere to it. It may be that they find Israel’s existence necessary; it also may be, however, that they find Zionism good and just, even though Finkelstein might disagree.

Leora Eisenberg is a freshman from Eagan, Minn. She can be reached at leorae@ princeton.edu.

under his leadership. Known for his vigorous attacks against civil liberties, Sessions has denounced any attempts to reform clearly unjust civil asset forfeiture laws. Even scarier, however, is Sessions’ record of zealously defending minimum sentencing and of leading the country in convictions for drug crimes — measures which have had a disproportionately harmful impact on communities of color. In this way, Sessions has pioneered the war on drugs and wreaked havoc on communities of color and poor people.

Meanwhile, Sessions’ defense of the continued use of private prisons rests upon a set of blatant falsehoods (or, as they are now known, “alternative facts”). The Trump administration points to completely inaccurate or misleading statistics about supposedly rising crime rates, ignoring evidence that crime rates have steadily declined for decades. It should be deeply troubling to any informed observer that the current administration’s policies on incarceration are informed by falsehoods and directed by an attorney general whose record demonstrates a disturbing disregard for the safety and dignity of people of color.

What should be most disturbing to members of the Princeton community, however, are the University’s financial ties to the very corporations that will help carry out Sessions and Trump’s agenda of locking up human beings en masse. It is abundantly clear that the current administration plans to swell prison populations, particularly with individuals charged with minor drug violations or detained because of their documentation status.

The brunt of this institutionalized violence will be born by communities of the poor and people of color, while aloof University administrators send emails to students assuring their support for programs like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. President Eisgruber does not seem to grasp the irony of touting a letter in support of DACA while simultaneously remaining silent on the University’s investments in facilities which have been used to illegally detain DACA recipients. Just last week, a woman renewing her DACA status was detained directly after speaking at an immigration press conference.

It is dangerously naïve to ignore the very real possibility of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids within our own community. Meanwhile, the University is currently invested in the detention centers which pose an immediate threat to the physical safety of our friends, neighbors, and peers.

Now is the moment that every member of the University community, including administrators, should recognize that the current wave of mass incarceration and immigrant detention represents a sustained state of emergency. The process of divestment from private prison and detention corporations must therefore begin now. This action should be considered a basic step towards fulfilling the ideal of social responsibility expressed in the motto: “Princeton in the nation’s service and in the service of humanity.”

Max Grear is a Spanish and Portuguese major from Wakefield, R.I. He can be reached at mgrear@princeton.edu.

The voter of my enemy is my friend?

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t’s happened to all of us and it hurts like nothing you’ve felt before.

An off hand comment, a shrug, or silence can confirm what you suspected, but refused to acknowledge.

And once it hits you, there’s no going back.

You’ve discovered that someone near and dear to you voted for Trump.

What do you do next?

Having been raised in the future nation of California and currently attending Princeton — where Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Lone Conservatism — you can imagine how my Facebook friends reacted. “If you voted for Trump,” read one post, “unfriend me right now.”

Such knee-jerk reactions are understandable, especially for those who stand to lose under a Trump presidency, but they’re also a simplistic and regressive response to a complicated issue. Granted, given Trump’s intolerant worldview, it’s tempting to paint those who voted for him with the same dirty brush. But in a political era that grows more divisive and vitriolic with each day (and each tweet), it does us no good to reject those with whom we have already formed friendships by labeling them as hateful people, racists, xenophobes, and Breitbart comment section contributors.

But by taking the road far less travelled — by embrac-

ing them — we can yield unexpected results.

A few months ago, a woman called me to solicit donations for the Democratic National Committee.

I told her that I was a broke college student, liberal in my values but not with my money. Then she decided to go for broke. “Sir,” she asked, “do you believe that members of the Tea Party are all bigots?”

Of course, I thought.

They’re homophobic, antiscience Bible-thumpers. But when I opened my mouth, I found that I couldn’t say those words aloud.

I thought of one of my best friends and a favorite elementary school teacher: two staunch conservatives who espoused Tea Party values and undoubtedly voted for Trump. Two people without whom my world would contain a little less kindness, a little less humanity. And, to my surprise, I was overcome with an anger toward the caller so powerful that it caught in my throat.

I paused. And without another word, I hung up.

We throw around words like “bigotry” and “hatred” when the targets are shadowy, amorphous figures.

But when they are given shape and form, our righteousness becomes much more difficult to maintain.

We are unable to reconcile these scathing labels with the people with whom we hold precious relationships.

And this often leads to an unexpected consequence; we become hesitant to speak

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in such broad terms about the groups to which they belong, which declaws us.

Exposure begets acceptance. It’s the reason we encourage conversations between marginalized groups, such as Muslims or the LGBTQ community, and the people who have struggled to embrace them because of their politics or their religion. Now, I challenge you to direct this process to your Trump-voting friends. Through our interactions with them, we grow more open-minded and more tolerant because yes, we liberals need to work on that too.

Lou Chen is a sophomore from San Bernardino, Calif.

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on Science and Global Security at the University and works closely with PCS. “It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies,” Mian said, quoting Chomsky. He explained that through the Day of Action, “we are trying to practice that responsibility.”

He noted that because the situations today are similar, so is the obligation. He added that today’s college students are the next generation to carry on this tradition.

“Forty years ago [Chomsky] was talking about fake news, alternate facts, and an administration that has no idea what truth telling and its obligation to its citizens actually looks like,” Mian said. “This is not the first time.”

Wu and Sakha also led a teach-in titled “The Role of Free Press in Preserving Democracy” during which they addressed participants’ media diet — the types of news and news sources people consume.

The teach-in also addressed the Wall Street Journal’s recent project about “red feed and blue feed” which uses an algorithm to show what a liberal’s and a conservative’s respective Facebook feeds would look like — and how homogeneous

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the events are. Sakha also addressed the opinion echo chamber in which people of the same political opinions reside. The two also discussed the blurred line between editorial and news writing.

The day also included tabling organizations in Frist from outside the University including Citizens Climate Lobby, the Coalition for Peace Action, Innovations for Successful Societies, Showing Up for Racial Justice, RepresentUs Central NJ Chapter, and Stand CNJ. Some professors even rescheduled Monday classes so they and their students could participate in the Day of Action, the press release stated.

Other events included a panel of activists and organizers called “University Center for Human Values (UCHV) Values and Praxis Lab: Community Organizing.” Panelists included Professor Jeffrey Stout, Dr. Cornel West, Nyle Fort, Daniel May, and Jessica Sarriott.

The event also included breakfast and lunch for participants. Organizers wore bright yellow t-shirts that matched the posters around campus that advertised the event as far in advance as three weeks ago.

A concluding town hall included an open mic for participants to express their thoughts and reactions at the end of the event.

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mitters from 16 banks. Each submitter provides an estimate of what the LIBOR rate should be for the day, and the middle eight estimates are averaged to determine the rate that gets submitted.

Reich and Contogoulas’ manipulation of LIBOR rates entailed serving as middlemen between the Barclays’ U.S. dollar swaps trading desks and the U.S. dollar rate submitters in London, requesting specific rates that would make their own trading more lucrative.

Both Reich and Contogoulas have pled not guilty to charges of rigging LIBOR rates. According to Bloomberg, Reich claimed he thought he was simply helping submitters pick between multiple rates, instead of personally manipulating them.

According to Law360, Reich and Contogoulas are being prosecuted by Emma Deacon QC and Dominic Lewis of the English barrister firm 5 Paper Buildings on behalf of the Serious Fraud Office. Deacon’s main argument is that honesty and integrity were abandoned by the traders in pursuit of personal profits.

Deacon did not respond to requests for comment. Lewis

declined to comment, citing a principle of not releasing details of ongoing court cases. However, he predicted that the case would be concluded by Easter, at which time more information would be available for release. The trial is expected to last around eight weeks.

Reich is being defended by QEB Hollis Whiteman barristers Adrian Darbishire QC and Tom Doble. Neither Darbishire nor Doble responded to requests for comment.

Contogoulas is being defended by 6KBW College Hill barrister John Ryder QC, as well as Five St. Andrew’s Hill barristers James Fletcher and Karl Masi.

Ryder, Fletcher, and Masi all did not respond to requests for comment.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Reich left Barclays in 2010 after serving as a vice president. Prior to working for Barclays, Reich worked as an analyst at Citigroup from 2004 to 2006. Reich is now a founding partner at RSW Investments, LLC, a portfolio management service based in Summit, N.J. While at the University, Reich concentrated in economics. On campus, he was also co-captain of the varsity baseball team and a member of Cottage Club.

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Men’s hockey advances to second round

By Jack Graham Staff Writer

The Princeton men’s ice hockey season this year can be viewed as one long comeback. Situated in the cellar of the ECAC for much of the beginning of the season, the team clawed back to earn a No. 7 seed and home ice for the first round of the conference tournament. However, this pales in comparison to the comeback pulled by the team in this weekend’s three-game playoff series against Colgate. Literally a second from elimination, Princeton fought back to win the series and advance in the tournament.

Friday night’s game one began slowly, and neither team could get on the scoreboard for the first thirtynine minutes of play. Colgate ended the drought, however, with a goal from Mike Panowyk at the 19:31 mark in the second. Princeton responded early in the third, snatching the lead with two goals of its own, the first coming from sophomore forward David Hallisey and the second off a blast from freshman forward Jeremy Germain on the power play. Princeton would ultimately fail to maintain its single goal lead through regulation, as Colgate evened the score with under eight minutes remaining. The score would remain deadlocked at 2-2 until the 6:55 mark of the sudden-death overtime,

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The men’s hockey team celebrated its victory after a stunning win.

at which point Jake Kulevich slipped in the gamewinning goal. Princeton outshot Colgate 31-18 in a stellar performance not ref lected by the scoreboard.

Thus, Princeton entered game two with the knowledge that it needed to win the next two engagements.

Despite the dire circumstances, Princeton came out of the gates slowly on Saturday, conceding two unanswered goals in the first period. With its sea-

son teetering on the brink, Princeton fought back to tie the score in the second period with goals from freshman forward Jackson Cressey and sophomore forward Ryan Kuffner, only to allow Colgate regain a 3-2 lead on a power play goal minutes later. Throughout the rest of the second (and nearly the entire third) period, Princeton’s attempts to even the score came up empty. Finally, with senior goalie Colton Phinney

pulled for an extra skater and desperation mode engaged, sophomore defenseman Josh Teves fired a frantic shot from just inside the blue line, and junior forward Eric Robinson tipped in the rebound to tie the game. As the celebration commenced, the clock read one second. Princeton entered the OT period supported by a boisterous home crowd and facing a stunned and demoralized opponent, but it took nearly seventeen

minutes to secure the win on a shot from sophomore forward Max Veronneau.

Playing for the third consecutive night on Sunday, Princeton entered the deciding game forced to contend not only with Colgate, but with exhaustion as well.

The team would emerge victorious over both. Despite conceding the first goal to Colgate seven minutes into the game, the Tigers battled back. Freshman defenseman Derek Topatigh scored his second goal of the season to tie the score on a power play, and Kuffner scored a skillful backhand goal to give the Orange and Black a 2-1 lead that it did not relinquish. Even as the Princeton offense stalled, its defense, led by Phinney, who blocked thirty-five of thirty-six shots, refused to concede another goal. After Colgate’s last-ditch effort fell short, Princeton celebrated its playoffs series victory in front of the Baker Rink crowd.

Princeton’s season continues next weekend with its second-round playoff series against Union College, which earned a first-round bye in the playoffs by finishing second in the conference. Union, which has defeated Princeton twice this season, will present a tough opponent. Anyone familiar with this Princeton team knows, however, that it would be unwise to count them out.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers lock up second place, will face Harvard

By Chris Murphy Staff Writer

Coming into this weekend, the Princeton women’s basketball team knew that they would be invited to the inaugural Iv y League tournament. What they didn’t know, however, was if they would be there defending a regular season title or just looking to turn a second or third place finish into a spot in the Big Dance this March. Princeton locked itself into second place in the Iv y League after Saturday’s result and will represent the No. 2 seed in this weekend’s tournament.

The Tigers could have finished as high as first, or as low as third, in the final Ivy League standings depending on how they played and on how Penn played. On Friday, Princeton defeated Harvard to secure at least the No. 2 seed in the tournament.

Then, the Tigers were defeated at Dartmouth on Saturday, which solidified their second place finish and gave the regular season crown to Penn.

Both games this weekend were thrilling to watch and set the stage for what could be an unbelievably entertaining tournament in Philly. Princeton’s game against Harvard featured a barrage of of-

fensive firepower by the Tigers early and finished with the team holding off a ferocious Crimson comeback. Up 24-9 early, the Tigers kept their foot on the gas pedal and were able to stop everything Harvard threw their way.

Three Tigers scored in double digits, the defense once again out-rebounded the opponent, and Princeton swept Harvard for the first time since their undefeated regular season, winning 64-60.

On Saturday, the roles were reversed as the Tigers had to overcome a massive deficit with a huge comeback of their own. Rattled by a 16-4 Dartmouth run, the Tigers were staring at the 18 point hole they would have to overcome in the final quarter and a half. Princeton quickly went on a 13-4 run of its own fought hard to get back into the game. Despite forcing a season-best 25 turnovers and winning the rebound battle once again, the Tigers’ efforts fell just short in a 58-54 loss.

The standout player from this weekend’s games was freshman Bella Alarie. Alarie, who has been a standout player for the Tigers all season, scored 16 points, 9 rebounds, three assists, and two steals in the win against Harvard.

During the Dartmouth

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game, Alarie scored her team-high sixth doubledouble of the season, with 12 points and 12 rebounds.

Alarie has been putting up these kinds of numbers all season with the Tigers and figures to be a huge part of their team in the tournament run and in seasons to come.

Alarie leads a core group of freshmen that have played some valuable minutes throughout the season. While their numbers may not be huge, the experience they are getting is crucial for them as they get ready to take over the team in the upcoming seasons.

But for now, we will get to see a first-time experience for all players on the Princeton team. From senior captain to first year player, no one has experienced the uncertainty of a postseason Iv y League tournament. The Tigers will use Tuesday’s regular season finale against Penn to get a feel for the court they will be playing on and to have one final shot at in-game practice.

Oh, and getting a chance to down Penn is also pretty good motivation.

These final games will be unpredictable, wild, and perhaps unforgettable. We will all be witnessing history this Saturday when four teams fight to either keep their

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Women’s basketball will be taking on Harvard this Saturday.

season alive, or to be sent home for good. This all comes following a rivalry game with the league’s top two teams, each of which could meet the other on

Stat of the Day

9 Honors Freshman forward Bella Alarie has tied the Princeton record for Ivy League Rookie of the Week with her ninth straight honor this week.

championship Sunday.

Fasten your seat belts, because things are about to get crazy.

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