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U. limits free speech, says FIRE report

By Hannah Waxman staff writer,

Jessica Li News editor

In a recent report published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the University was given a red light rating — the lowest in the evaluation scheme — for protecting free speech.

Samantha Harris ’99, the director of policy research at FIRE, said the ratings are based solely on the explicitly written policies of the institution.

A red light rating denotes that the institution has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech, Harris said. She added that the description implies that institution’s restrictive codes are applied in all situations, regardless of circumstance.

In the University’s case, FIRE not-

ed underscored concerns with the Section 1.2.1 in the University Rights, Rules, Responsibilities booklet, which codifies “respect for others.”

Particularly, the section enumerates disciplinary actions for demeaning behavior, which can be broadly interpreted, Harris noted.

A segment of the current policy reads that “abusive or harassing behavior, verbal or physical, which demeans, intimidates, threatens, or injures another because of personal characteristics or beliefs or their expression, is subject to University disciplinary sanctions.”

University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan did not respond to a request for comment by press time.

It is important to note that something subjectively demeaning that may be in fact, be a critical part of the social discussion, Harris said.

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On Tuesday, students rejoiced the warm spring weather by sitting on the lawns and enjoying the sunshine as the temperature went up to 73 degrees fahrenheit. The warm weather will continue this week.

ACADEMICS

New fellowship to fund chemistry graduate students

By Betty Liu staff writer

LOCAL NEWS

IAS, SAVE Princeton argue on battleground

Professor of chemistry emeritus Edward Taylor has established funds to the chemistry department to provide a full fellowship for all third-year graduate students in chemistry.

Taylor said that the funds for his donation come from his invention of the anticancer drug Alimta, which is used to treat lung cancer and mesothelioma. Taylor discovered the cancer-fighting compounds while active in a lab at Princeton and worked with the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly to invent Alimta.

“I think it’s only right, and I’m glad that I could work it out this way, to give back to the University and to

the chemistry department, something really truly substantial because that comes from work that which I did in the chemistry program,” Taylor said.

Despite the fact that he has been retired for 18 years, Taylor still keeps in touch with the chemistry department. He said that the idea for the fellowship came from Tom Muir, chair of the Department of Chemistry.

Muir was not available for comment.

Taylor said that he was particularly interested in funding the third year of graduate studies because it was a crucial time for graduate students in chemistry.

“The third year is just that time when students are launching themselves total-

ly in research, that’s when they concentrate, those are the critical times in doing, starting, maintaining and embedding themselves into a research program. And you don’t want to break that intensity and make it difficult to do that by fragmenting your time by trying to find outside funding.”

According to Daniel Novoa GS, it is usually the responsibility of the chemistry graduate student to find external funding for the last three years of study. Many funding opportunities require a proposal that takes a considerable amount of time and devotion to build.

Moreover, some sources of external funding may require additional work durSee FUND page 2

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

By Marcia Brown staff writer

By Jessica Li news editor

Save Princeton, a coalition of nine national advocacy groups, sent a letter to Charles Simonyi, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Advanced Study imploring for a meeting with IAS to explore alternatives to construction on Maxwell’s Field last Wednesday.

“Our organizations respectfully and formally request that the Institute for Advanced Study cease its development plans and pursue alternate building locations for the faculty housing project slated for Maxwell’s Field,” the letter reads.

According to Jim Campi, communications director for the Civil War Trust, a signatory organization on the letter, the coalition formed this past Friday. Members of the coalition include the American Association for State and Local History, American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati and the New Jersey Chapter Sierra Club, he said.

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that this campaign is a national issue, Campi added.

In the letter addressed to IAS, coalition members noted that “the property has been identified by the National Park Service, countless historians and numerous archaeologists as the site where Washington’s famous counterattack first struck the British lines.”

The coalition is also offering $4.5 million dollars, more than $1 million above the appraised property value, to acquire Maxwell’s Field, according to the letter.

“The more the public learns about the project, the more upset they are about disruption of the battlefield,” Campi noted.

Alexandra Altman, communications associate for the Institute for Advanced Study, said in a statement that the letter “misstates facts [and] implies that the Institute is acting irresponsibly, paying no heed to preservationist concerns.”

According to Altman, IAS has been a long-time See IAS page 3

Senior columnist Will Rivitz argues that intelligent advocacy for a group entails understanding the role identity plays for its members, and columnist Beni Snow argues that Trump can no longer be considered a joke.

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Dickinson College Professor of philosophy Cripsin Sartwell recently accused University professor Alexander Nehamas GS ’71 of plagiarism and libel.

Dickenson College has placed Sartwell on temporary leave shortly after the allegation.

Sartwell did not respond to requests for comment.

Nehamas deferred comment to a statement.

In a statement sent to the ‘Prince’, Nehamas denied Sartwell’s allegations of intellectual dishonesty.

“True, Sartwell’s ‘Six Names of Beauty’ came out in 2004 but most of the material in my book had already been published by then,” Nehamas wrote. “So, I believe Sartwell’s accusation is perfectly groundless — and, just for the record, I never read his book.”

In late February, Sartwell noted on his blog similarities in ideas and writing style between his book “Six Names of Beauty” and various works

by Nehamas over multiple

decades, including “An Essay on Beauty and Judgment” and “Only a Promise of Happiness”. “[I] say the (alleged) fact that […] Nehamas [was] inf luenced by my work, and systematically attempted not to notice that they were, or pretended that they weren’t, shows something terrible at their heart,” Sartwell wrote.

Nehamas stated that the germ of his ideas for the essay appeared when he gave the Stanford Presidential lecture on beauty in 1999, which predates Sartwell’s publication.

He added that he published an essay similar to that lecture in Threepenny Review in 2000.

In 2000, Nehemas gave two lectures at Berkeley at Yale.

The lectures were published in 2002, and contained “most of the main ideas” of his 2007 book “Only a Promise of Happiness”, he wrote.

Sartwell noted that he believes it’s impossible that Nehamas hadn’t seen his book.

“Anyone who was talking […] about beauty, or doing a rudimentary search on the topic he was writing a scholarly book about, could

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not have failed to notice my book,” Sartwell wrote.

Dickinson College Director of Media Relations Christine Baksi wrote in an email statement that Sartwell is currently on leave, however, he remains in good standing with Dickinson.

“Good standing” indicates that Sartwell remains a tenured faculty member at Dickinson, Baksi wrote in an email, adding that she cannot comment further on personnel matters.

The Dickinsonian reported that while Sartwell wrote on his blog he was fired over a free speech issue, philosophy department members say that he has not been fired.

Sartwell wrote on his blog last Sunday that Dickinson had also removed him from the employee health insurance plan.

However, Baksi wrote in an email that Sartwell “remains employed by Dickinson with all employee benefits, including healthcare.”

Sartwell also made similar allegations about University of Oklahoma philosophy professor Linda Zagzebski, postSee SARTWELL page 3

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ing the funding period, such as extra teaching or regular progress reports, Novoa said.

“It is very difficult to find sufficient funding to support a research group,” Taylor said. “That is one of the major problems, always has been.”

This often puts students in a difficult position of having to choose a position of financial security and one where they are very interested in the research.

“You take a graduate student who is trying to look around at the faculty and their research projects, gets pretty excited about one of the new faculty members, but then there are no research grants that have come to this new faculty member yet because they’re just starting out,” Taylor noted.

He added, “There is kind of an inherent block, or difficulty of making a choice, of working for a young, promising, gung-ho faculty member who hasn’t yet received any research grant support. And that’s going to make life very tough,” Taylor said.

This insecurity is very detrimental to graduate students. Michelle Hofman GS, third-year graduate student in chemistry said, “Sometimes when your advisor doesn’t have money to pay you, then you have to teach again in your third year and that prevents you from getting as much research done.”

Concerning the new fellowship, Hofman said, “I

think it’s a great opportunity for the incoming students and the younger graduate students right now because they don’t have to worry about funding.”

Martin Rauch GS also noted that this grant is a huge help to both graduate students and faculty at the University.

Now that chemistry graduate students are funded through their first three years, Rauch explained, this means that advisers don’t have to pay for student’s tuition and stipend for the third year, which “frees up” the lab’s money to be used on equipment and supplies instead, thus increasing the productivity of the lab. ” It can hardly be stated in a brief manner how much pressure these new grants will relieve,” Novoa added.

The grant also means that graduate students will likely not have to teach beyond the program requirements unless they want to, Rauch said.

“It will directly benefit my career by enabling me to get more research done and in a better funded lab which will translate into a more impressive resume,” Rauch said.

Novoa similarly noted that Taylor’s gift is essential for graduate students to produce “good science.”

“A part of me hopes the impact of Professor Taylor’s gift will resonate with a larger audience and inf luence others to more freely fund not only chemistry but science as a whole in other institutions. It really does serve as a bold and shining example during a period where funding is scarce,” Novoa said.

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Condemning such speech may shortchange important conversations, according to Harris.

Additionally, FIRE flagged University regulations that prohibit inappropriate conduct related to sex, gender expression and gender identity. Currently, the University defines them as “unwelcome conduct that may not fall under sexual harassment or sexual exploitation, but that is sexual in nature.” FIRE is not concerned with the University’s definition of sexual harassment, Harris said. However, the possibility of disciplinary action against speech that may not rise to the level of sexual harassment is alarming, she noted.

FIRE also expressed concerns about the University’s Information Technology Policy. According to current policies, students must refrain from “transmitting to others in any location inappropriate images, sounds or messages that are clearly threatening, hostile, or harassing.”

Harris said that as a lot of back and forth debates may be perceived as hostile, this regulation may limit open debate on the issues of public concern.

Josh Zuckerman ’16, co-founder of the Princeton Open Campus Coalition, also noted that these policies are problematic in theory.

The University has not defined what malicious or defamatory content constitute, Zuckerman explained, and these descriptions can be applied to a wide array of scenarios.

Though these interpretations may not reflect the University’s intent, a student can perceive them as prohibitive, Harris noted, adding that the University should revise these possibilities to clear misunderstanding.

Harris explained that two issues arise with restrictions on free speech. There may be the possibility that future administrations can take advantage of these provisions, making free speech more vulnerable.

“Political winds shift all the time, and people in power tend to want to censor speech they disagree

with, and you can’t assume that people in power will always agree with you,” Harris said.

When seeing these policies, students may resort to self-censorship to err on side of caution, she added.

Harris described the gradual withdrawal from conversations as the “chilling effect.”

In light of recent campus controversies surrounding the fine line between hate speech and free speech, Harris explained that the latter is not a legally defined category. She said that she believes institutions should always encouraging students to speak about their perspectives, thereby drowning hate speech with more speech.

“We don’t need restrictions on free speech, they will be tested by the market place of ideas,” she said.

While hate speech is absolutely repulsive and has no academic or social merit, it’s not the University’s job to police what students are saying unless these expressions lead to direct harm, Zuckerman said.

Nonetheless, Zuckerman said that the most of censorship he and members of POCC had experienced came not from the administration, but from students. According to Zuckerman, the University adopted a statement that reaffirms the importance of free speech last semester and, in his opinion, has kept to the commitment with integrity.

These policies are only disturbing if they are interpreted as written, Zuckerman said. Given the confidential nature of disciplinary actions on campus, he cannot recall an instance when a student is investigated for speech-related violations.

McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George, who recently testified at a House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee hearing on free speech, did not respond to comment by press time.

Politics professor Stanley Katz, who was involved in a petition to reaffirm free of expression last semester, did not respond to comment by press time.

According to a FIRE press release, the report surveyed 440 colleges and universities across the country and found that 49.3 percent of these institutions have policies that seriously infringe upon students’ right to free speech.

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ing the music video of Miranda Lambert singing “Time to Get a Gun.” Zagzebski was first made aware of the threat Mar. 1, she wrote in an email.

The dispute between with Zagzebski arose on Sartwell’s blog surrounding her paper “The Search for the Source of Epistemic Good.”

In her paper, Zagzebski focused on “the problem that an adequate account of knowledge must explain what makes knowledge better than mere true belief.”

“I recognize that it is possible for people to have the same idea independently, or to have published similar ideas and people do not notice the similarity,” Zagzebski wrote in the email statement.

“I do not see much similarity between Sartwell’s published work and mine, but in any

case, my published ideas are completely my own.”

Zagzebski added that the chair of the department of philosophy at the University of Oklahoma had received a threatening email from Sartwell recently that provoked a security response.

“Sartwell is acting very irrationally as is clear from his many blog posts,” Zagzebski wrote. “I think it is sad when a person’s mental health problems are catalogued in detail on national blogs.”

In the past few days, Sartwell has also written on his blog accounts of some his interactions with Dickinson administration and questions from friends and colleagues.

According to one of his posts, in the letter sent to Sartwell on Mar. 3 , Dickinson administrators expressed that some of Sartwell’s former colleagues have expressed concern about his mental health.

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Due to a reporting error, a Mar. 6 article on USG Senate meeting misspelled Academic Committee Chair Shannon Osaka’18’s name.

The Daily Princetonian regrets this mistake.

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supporter of the Battlefield Park.

Over the course of the construction, the Institute listened carefully to public concerns and incorporated extensive changes to the faculty housing site plans, Altman stated.

Among these changes, IAS took many suggestions from historian David Hackett Fischer, who is quoted in the coalition’s letter, according to Altman. IAS had already moved the project further away from the Park, adjusted the profiles and materials of the housing units and enhanced the landscaped screen between the site and the Park.

The letter further notes that IAS faculty housing occupies only 7 acres of the 21-acre field, and that it is committed to preserving the remaining 14 acres adjacent to the Park.

However, according to Campi, it is important to note that the 14 acres the Institute set aside as open space cannot be developed anyway because of government-mandated wetland protection and stream corridor buffer requirements.

According to a February New York Times article, several experts noted that the location of the central events of the Battle of Princeton as determined by the coalition is far from universally accepted.

“The letter from the project’s opponents is clearly part

of a PR campaign by the Civil War Trust and the Princeton Battlefield Society to repeat misstatements that have been unequivocally rejected by the courts,” Altman added.

She also noted that IAS has received all the necessary regulatory approvals to proceed.

However, Campi noted that it is of trivial matter whether IAS had received approvals from local governments, as the choice ultimately lies with the Institute.

“IAS continues to respond to these concerns by denying the history of the property, arguing it has made modifications to its plan — it has, but all relatively minor,” he noted.

News editor Annie Yang contributed reporting.

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Listen when you speak

n the night of the Oscars, a user of a community-driven music blog I write for made a “list” (basically a vehicle for driving site-wide discussions) asking his fellow commenters to discuss the fact that Sam Smith had just won the show’s award for Best Original Song. In the thread that followed, one user argued that “if you were going to pander to the LGBT crowd, Lady Gaga would have been a better shot. Gaga was nominated for “Til It Happens To You,” a song she recorded for “The Hunting Ground,” a film about sexual assault survivors on college campuses. Although this accusation of “pandering” was by no means the most blithely offensive comment made in the list (read the thread if you must), it made me consider its implications. Lady Gaga has undergone a fair bit of scrutiny from the queer community for her involvement with gay rights over the past half-decade or so. What, then, does it mean for a person to be an advocate for the LGBTQA+ community when that advocacy is framed as being a “vehicle for their voice,” standing up loudly for a group of people of whom she may not be a part?

In other words, what happens when someone speaks up for a community without the approval of its members?

Of course, the idea of speaking outside of the community is less applicable to Gaga herself, as she has been publicly out as bisexual since at least 2009. However, the criticism still stands: if one is prepared to fight for the civil rights of an entire group, they must be prepared to represent that group adequately. We’ve seen some similar criticism of Hillary Clinton’s purported commitment to the rights of Black people in the country she aims to lead, especially after two people involved in the #BlackLivesMatter movement confronted the presidential candidate at a fundraiser, criticizing her past stances on Black crime; similar questions have been asked of Sanders. There’s been a fair bit of critique levied at “male feminism” — not the concept as a whole but a sizeable subset of supposedly feminist males — as a vehicle for those who “assum[e] that their opt-in respect for women will entitle them to legions of adoring lovers.” Basically, if one group is fighting for the rights of another, some members of the first group will probably tread on the second’s toes in some way, usually unintentionally but often harmfully.

That kind of “treading” happens very publicly every so often at Princeton. A few weeks ago, ‘Prince’ columnist Zeena Mubarak criticized the campus bellydancing troupe Raks Odalisque for “reinforc[ing] outdated Orientalist stereotypes,” among other complaints. Similarly, midway through last semester, Alfred Burton, writing for the ‘Nass,’ slammed Terrace’s yearly Drag Ball as “an environment so often at the root of transphobia… reduc[ing] the people dressed in drag to jesters.” Both articles drew their fair share of

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criticism, the former in fact inspiring a response from the officers of Raks in the same issue of the ‘Prince.’ Much of this criticism was, put simply, dumb — one of the most-upvoted comments in the thread read, in full, “This is an early April Fool’s piece, right? If not, what a pathetic attempt of being offended.” That said, I’d like to discuss one criticism I’ve heard levied in more private discussions — that of speaking against people who purportedly stereotype an oppressed group without actually consulting anybody in those groups before talking.

I’m not going to spend too much time critiquing the strictly logical arguments made in the pieces themselves. I think there were solid points made in both (particularly complaining about the crowd butchering the Arabic language and straight men dressing in drag for kicks), and I think there were less solid points made in both as well (comparing Raks to a strip club or implying that all drag shows at Princeton would perpetuate transphobia). However, I find it somewhat odd that even if Mubarak or Burton are part of the cultures or groups they’re ostensibly supporting here, they don’t mention it in their pieces. I do not know if Mubarak is involved with belly dancing or its culture in any way, and I do not know if Burton is trans. Regardless of their identities, though, by not involving themselves (or, for that matter, anyone else involved in bellydancing, “Arab culture,” the trans community or drag shows) at all in their pieces, they are essentially confronting these issues from the outside. Their articles, in being written without an experiential perspective, are unavoidably written from an impersonal one.

Which is all well and good, of course, if the claims accurately capture the experiences of the respective groups the articles are attempting to defend. However, from my own personal experience, for the most part I’ve seen the opposite to be the norm. I have friends in Raks who have told me about Middle Eastern students who have thanked them for “reminding them of home.” I have fervently feminist friends outside of Raks who appreciate, in the words of one commenter, that the company treats “bellydancing as a joyous event, not as some sort of oversexualized, immature, attention-seeking ploy.” Similarly, my friends who are trans or non-binary have spoken overwhelmingly in support of Drag Ball put on

by Princeton’s LGBT Center and Pride Alliance.

Almost all of my cisgender friends very much appreciate the event as a way to explore gender identities different than the one as which they identify. One of my closest friends on campus, who at the time of Drag Ball this year was preparing to come out as genderqueer, used the event as a means of becoming more comfortable with gen-

der identities they had which were not the ones assigned to them at birth. After the event, they felt more able to present themselves as genderqueer, gender-fluid and third-gender.

All this is to ask: how does one act as a good ally or advocate of a group to which they do not necessarily belong? An exhaustive guide is far beyond the scope of this long-form piece, but one thing to remember is to always keep in mind the thoughts and experiences of the group with whom you are allied. As Black Girl Dangerous creator Mia McKenzie writes in a post about ally theater, “Listen. Solidarity is action. That’s it. What we DO in solidarity is all that counts. How people with privilege listen to what marginalized groups ask of them and do that is all that counts.” While it’s great to speak out against bigotry and oppression in general, it’s key to make sure the way you’re speaking out aligns with the way that people directly affected feel about the issue. For example if I, as a Jew, were hurt by the presence of bacon in the dining halls, I would love for non-Jews to speak out against that presence. However, since there are a good number of vegetarian options in Wilcox and since I believe that there are a lot of more serious problems facing me and my people today, I would not look particularly highly of someone not directly affected by the “issue” protesting this indecency — especially at the expense of the opportunity to protest other anti-Semitic issues that exist today.

So, in order to properly fight for the equality a community desires, one must be willing to make sure that what they are saying is consistent with what that community believes needs to be said. If a writer wants to protest the “Orientalist stereotyp[ing]” of a bellydancing troupe, she should make sure that those for whom bellydancing is an inescapable and invaluable part of culture at home — herself included in that group, if appropriate — feel that this is an issue worth examining. If a writer wants to denounce how a drag show succeeds “at the expense of those who are not born cisgendered,” he should check in with those who identify as a gender different from that assigned to them at birth — including himself, again, if he is part of that community — to ensure that they do in fact feel as though the event perpetuates an oppressive culture. After all, as The Anti-Oppression Network puts it, “allyship is not an identity — it is a lifelong process of building relationships based on trust, consistency, and accountability with marginalized individuals and/or groups of people.” An ally must speak out often and loudly — but what that ally says must embody the lived experiences of those they claim to represent.

Will Rivitz is a sophomore from Brookline, Mass.

He can be reached at wrivitz@princeton.edu.

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kay everybody, the joke isn’t funny anymore.

Knock it off. Last spring, when Trump said he was considering running for president, it was a farfetched farce, similar to the three other times he announced he might run for president, most recently in 2012.

In June when the campaign officially began, it was a curiosity.

As his poll numbers grew, I confidently declared that he was as much a blip as Herman Cain and would soon be gone. Even as he claimed a solid lead in the polls in the fall, I was not scared.

Now, I am.

I am genuinely worried for this country when a man has stronger words for Megyn Kelly than he does for a KKK leader.

I am truly scared for members of the many groups that Trump has singled out. There is a real chance that the next commander of our armed forced is a man whose response to the disgustingly high rate of sexual assault in the military was “What did these geniuses expect?”

Trump has accused Mexicans of being criminals and rapists.

He has had law enforcement remove black students from his rallies. He was unwilling to say he would not have supported the Japanese internment during World War Two. He has infamously called for a ban on all Muslims coming to America. In a speech at one of his hotels, he remarked that “The only guys I want count-

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ing my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes all day.”

How could a man that feels so much animosity towards so many different groups of Americans ever be qualified to lead? I am terrified to live in a world where Trump, a man who advocates for violating the Genva Convention by targeting the families of terrorists would be in charge of our nuclear arsenal.

Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson told Fox News “What good does it do to have a good nuclear triad if you’re afraid to use it?”

Trump seems to have a special ability to drive the country away from sanity. I am certainly not a fan of Marco Rubio’s politics, but I have trouble believing that in a pre-Trump era he would have proclaimed “I don’t know if sand can glow in the dark, but we’re going to find out!” when discussing bombing foreign countries. Trump is bringing out the worst in the voting public and the politicians who are competing for those votes are stooping to his level.

I do not have enough space in this column to quote something horrendous Trump has said about every group. As it is, the online version of the above few paragraphs is a wall of blue hyperlinks. But remember, as long as Trump is willing to deprive basic rights from one group, he is willing to deprive those rights from any group. This is not a matter of politics–it is a matter of a

man who does not believe in universal human rights being the presidential front-runner. It’s not funny anymore.

President Trump admires authoritarian leaders such as Putin. He has called for “opening” up libel laws to go after journalists who write political critiques.

Don’t forget that the Supreme Court is already down one justice, and another three are over 75 years old. A court packed with Trump justices will harm America for decades.

People are fed up with the current system. They want someone who speaks plainly (even if 79-percent of his statements examined by Politifact were mostly false or worse). But please, do not consider this man for president. If the general election is Trump vs Clinton, there is only one choice. As a Bernie fan, I have plenty of misgivings about Clinton, but I will happily vote for her to prevent President Trump. Republicans, even those who do not support Trump, will feel pressured to vote for their party’s candidate. Don’t. If as a Republican you just can’t bring yourself to vote for Clinton, find a third party candidate. This isn’t about politics. A dangerous demagogue who lacks any shred of decency isn’t a candidate, he is a threat.

Anyone but Trump.

Beni Snow is a freshman from Newton, Mass. He can be reached at bsnow@princeton.edu.

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With the doubles point safely in hand, the Tigers went into the singles matches with all the momentum. Hahn was the first to draw blood in the singles with a comprehensive 6-2, 6-2 victory. Fighting back bitter disappointment from her earlier doubles loss, Hahn outplayed her opponent with some classy and controlled tennis to extend Princeton’s lead. Meanwhile, Muliawan backed up her doubles win with another impressive performance, cruising to a 6-2, 6-2 victory. It was the battle of experienced players, as Georgia’s Linn Timmermann was no match for the in-form Muliawan.

The next Tiger to prevail was Kalhorn, after a closely contested win over Georgia’s Chiara Volejnicek. There were moments of brilliance for both competitors, with Kalhorn clinching the vital points to secure a 6-4, 6-4 victory. Kalhorn’s win was followed closely with a win from her doubles partner, Joyce, who had to dig deep to fight off a fierce challenge from Panther Daniela Ramirez.

Joyce was striking the ball sweetly from all parts of the court, toughing out Ramirez to secure the first set tiebreaker.

She then steadily asserted her dominance throughout the second, winning the match in two sets, 7-6, 6-4.

Unfortunately, the Tigers

could not complete their shutout as junior Sivan Krems fell to Georgia State’s Rasolomalala in a nail-biting three-set encounter. After losing in a tight first set, Krems bounced back, showing some impressive tenacity to dominate the second 6-2. Unfortunately, her opponent fought off the spirited Krems, winning the 6-2 to finish with a score of 7-5, 2-6, 6-2.

Princeton’s Steffensen closed out the one-sided affair with a mentally tough three-set victory over Georgia State’s Rehse.

The first two sets saw the two competitors produce some of the most stunning rallies and ballplay of the day as Steffensen won a thrilling first set tiebreaker, and Rehse replied with an inspiring 7-5 comeback in the second. Steffensen gathered herself and brought back her brilliant best in the third, silencing Rehse with a 6-0 bagel to finish with a score of 7-6, 5-7 and 6-0.

The Princeton Tigers produced a character-defining performance to finish with a score of 6-1 against the No. 42 Georgia State. The Tigers will take a break next week to gear up and take on Texas-Austin, Houston and Rice the following weekend. It will be interesting to see how the Tigers match-up against Texas-Austin this time around after a disappointing loss to them earlier in the season. The tennis season is gaining stride and the Tigers are looking strong for these matchups in two weeks’ time.

Shaw talks Chili’s, mountain climbing ON TAP

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Kurt [Thiemann] is in charge — or play the name game. You have to come up with as many famous names as possible within a set period of time.

DP: If you couldn’t play volleyball which sport would you play and why?

ZS: Right now I’d probably play soccer because I used to play soccer in high school. I could actually play at a decently high level. If I could go anywhere I would play handball. We just finished our handball championship. We played against the entire men’s soccer team last night, it was pretty fun.

DP: What is the craziest

practice you’ve ever been in?

ZS: This might not be the craziest one, but there was this one time when Kurt got blocked like ten times in a row. Every time he was blocked just straight down.

That was pretty funny.

DP: What is one fun fact that most people do not know about you?

ZS: I almost died climbing a mountain in Argentina. There was this decently sized mountain that had a trail that you were supposed to take but I didn’t know where the trail was.

It was pretty treacherous and there were some pretty steep places where if I had made a misstep I would have died.

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } WOMEN’S TENNIS

Women’s tennis takes down No. 46 Georgia State in tight contest

By Helen Zhang contributor

Returning to home soil this weekend, Princeton women’s tennis also returned to some winning form with a sweeping victory over No. 42 Georgia State.

After two disheartening losses in last week’s Blue Gray National Tennis Classic down in Alabama, the Tigers came out swinging against a spirited Panthers lineup. Doubles duo junior Caroline Joyce and freshman Nicole Kalhorn capitalized on a couple early breaks in their No. 3 doubles match, running away with an impressive 6-1 victory to claim the first points of the day.

On the courts next to Joyce and Kalhorn, the Tigers faced a much fiercer battle, with scores deadlocked in both the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches. Senior

Emily Hahn and sophomore Katrine Steffensen faced stiff competition from the Panthers pair of Niri Rasolomalala and Kristin Rehse as the two teams matched each other step for step, shot for shot. Hahn and Steffensen played some impressive tennis, only to be ousted by the Panthers at the very end, falling by a score of 6-4 and allowing Georgia State to even up the overall score 1-1.

All eyes turned to court 1, where senior Amanda Muliawan and junior Dorothy Tang were locked in an equally thrilling contest of their own.

The senior-junior pairing of Muliawan and Tang proved too strong for the Georgia State Panthers, as the Tigers outgunned their opponents, earning a 6-4 win and clinching the deciding doubles point for the Tigers.

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KATHERINE TOBEASON :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The women’s tennis team won a hard-fought matchup against top-ranked George State this weekend.

O N TA P

On Tap with Zachary Shaw, outside hitter

By David Liu sports editor

In the midst of a long schedule that includes many of the nation’s top squads, men’s volleyball will take on Loyola University Chicago and Lewis University next week. The two schools were last year’s NCAA champion and runnerup, respectively. Despite the difficulty, senior outside hitter Zachary Shaw recently sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss teammates, health and Argentinian mountains.

COURTESY OF ZACHARY SHAW

The Prince sat down with senior Zachary Shaw of the men’s volleyball team.

The Daily Princetonian: What has been your favorite moment of the season thus

far?

Zachary Shaw: Pretty typical answer is when someone gets hits in the face. Honestly the plays that are really funny are the best, in practice at least.

Our setter got hit in the face once — the ball came right back in his face.

DP: How do you maintain that positivity in games?

ZS: Our recent game against George Mason was a tough game, they played really well and we played ok. There was a sequence of plays when we got roofed straight down three times in a row. You can either be depressed or you can just laugh it off.

DP: What are some of the team’s favorite traditions?

ZS: We have this long, sought-out tradition of going to Chili’s on our away trips that started with Brad Howard, our food czar (we have all these designated roles on our team). At Chili’s, we’re only allowed to get water as a drink. My choices for entrée vary between a burrito, quesadilla, salad or salmon dish.

DP: What do you do to pass the time on road trips?

ZS: On the way there we just work or watch film for the game. Then on the way back we will either watch a movie — [junior setter] See ON TAP page 5

WOMEN’S TRACK

Women’s track competes at Ivy League Heptagonals

By Nolan Liu associate sports editor

The Princeton women’s track and field team took a respectable fourth place at the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Track & Field Championships over the weekend of Feb. 28, with senior Cecilia Barowski providing an individual highlight as she set multiple records in her performance at the 500-meter dash.

Barowski had seen prior success in the 500, setting a Princeton record with her time of 1:12.38 as a freshman in 2012 and finishing just shy of teammate Kim Mackay ’15 in last year’s contest. However, Barowski simply ran away with all the honors this year, setting a meet, facility and personal record when she crushed the competition with a time of 1:11.34.

Additionally, junior Allison Harris had a dominant weekend across various field events. On Saturday, she won the women’s pole vault with a 4.15-meter performance, taking home Princeton’s eighth title in the past 11 years. However, Harris went on to star in the 60

m hurdles, finishing in sixth place and gaining the Tigers yet another point in the meet as a whole. At the conclusion of the event, head coaches named Harris Most Outstanding Field Performer of the Meet.

However, despite these individual successes, the women’s team as a whole fell behind powerful Harvard and Cornell squads. Sophomore Kennedy O’Dell took fifth place in the shot put, with her throw of 13.01 falling behind Nikki Okwelogu of Harvard and Michaela Smith, Leena Morris and Taylor Drayton of Cornell. In the 400, Harvard’s Autumne Franklin and Cornell’s Udeme Akpaete also swept the top two spots, just outdoing Princeton junior Elisa Steele, who finished sixth with a time of 57.31. The foursome of Steele, Barowski, sophomore Quinn Parker and senior Meghan McMullin also fell behind Harvard and Cornell relays in the 4x400, taking fourth with a strong time of 3:48.89, while Princeton’s 4x800 squad of junior Katie Hanss, freshman Alie Fordyce, freshman Anna Jurew and sophomore Ashley Forte also finished

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just behind Brown and Columbia with a third-place finish of 8:50.81.

Ultimately, the Princeton women took fourth place in the overall competition, with the team’s score of 77 placing ahead of Brown’s 65.5, Columbia’s 52, Penn’s 48.5 and Yale’s 16.

The Tigers were beaten out by Harvard’s 136.5 points, Cornell’s score of 123.5 and Dartmouth’s mark of 101.

Despite the lower team finish, the Tigers can take pride in the promise shown by their underclassmen.

Competing in her first Ivy Heptagonals, freshman Kerri Davidson managed to take third place in the triple jump with a 12.22-meter effort. Additionally, Forte and Jurew both complemented their strong performances in the 4x800 relay with top results in the 800: Forte ran a 2:10.77 to take second place overall, while Jurew finished just behind her with a 2:11.76 mark, good for a scoring finish.

The Tigers will wrap up their indoor season on March 11-12, when Barowski competes in the 800 at the NCAA Championships.

OLIVIA TOBEASON :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Women’s track finished fourth at the Ivy Leage Heptagonal meet.

Stat of the Day

1:11.34 seconds Cecilia Barowski ran the 500-meter dash in an Ivy League Heptagonal meet record time of 1:11.34.

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