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Thursday April 8, 2021 vol. CXLV no. 32
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BEYOND THE BUBBLE
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Ullman GS ’66 and Aho GS ’67 honored with Turing Award By Allan Shen
News Editor Emeritus
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May Tieu as a freshman on the team.
Tieu earns third career World Fencing Championship medal By Sreesha Ghosh
Associate Sports Editor
May Tieu, a sophomore fencer on the Princeton women’s fencing team, was named women’s foil Junior World Champion on Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt. The Junior World Fencing Championships are held annually and are open to athletes around the world who are up to 20 years of age, and who meet certain selection criteria. This was Tieu’s first individual Junior World Championships medal, adding onto the already impressive accomplishments of having won individual silver in the 2018 Cadet World Championships and team gold in the 2018 Junior World Championships. Tieu will be the fifth U.S. women’s fencer to win gold in the last seven Junior World Championships. “This was definitely a Co-
vid-era tournament,” Tieu commented on the competition. “Fencers were allowed very limited contact with others, both at the hotel and at the venue. There were times I couldn’t even talk to my teammates or coach.” The isolation left Tieu with a lot of time to think about her own performance. “I found myself thinking about how this was going to be my last junior individual event because I’m aging out. But I was still so hungry to win. I’d be sitting by myself, and I’d think about how I didn’t have to care, but I did.” As a first-year at Princeton, Tieu earned first-team All-America, first-team AllRegion, and first-team AllIvy honors. She was also the NCAA regional champion for women’s foil in 2020. “I think this trip felt like a burden on so many people around me,” Tieu said. “Some-
one off-handedly mentioned that my teammates at Princeton didn’t have a competition to train for but still showed up to practice for me to be able to prepare for the championship. My mom packed three weeks worth of masks, alcohol wipes, gloves, airplane seat covers, and so much more. My coach was amazing, and I took complete advantage of her kindness.” “I had so much support, but that means there was a lot of pressure to do well,” she said. In her final match, Tieu went up against three-time Junior World Team member Nicole Pustilnik of Israel and broke a 10–10 tie by scoring the next four points and earning the gold medal, finishing with a score of 15–12. “I’m still not sure how I feel, but the messages I’ve gotten after winning let me know that there are so many people See SPORTS for more
ON CAMPUS
Administrators detail plans for anticipated return to normalcy in the fall
Two University graduate alumni and longtime collaborators, Alfred Aho GS ’67 and Jeffrey Ullman GS ’66, received the 2020 ACM A. M. Turing Award, widely considered to be the highest technical distinction in the field of computer science. Named in honor of the English mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing GS ’38, the Turing Award has been presented annually by the Association of Computing Machinery since 1966. The award recognizes “major contributions of lasting importance to computing” and carries a monetary award of $1 million, with financial support provided by Google, Inc. Ullman, the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, at Stanford University, and Aho, the Lawrence Gussman Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, at Columbia University, shared the award for “[shaping] the foundations of programming language compilers and algorithms,” the association announced on Wednesday, March 31. Aho and Ullman are most widely known for their work in developing compilers, a
crucial set of tools without which most modern programs operating on personal computers, smartphones, and automobiles would not be able to function. Modern software is usually written in high-level programming languages that are relatively intuitive to the human mind, but in order to help computers understand the instructions given to them, those languages must be translated, or compiled, into the binary codes of ones and zeros with which computers can operate. “People tell computers what to do by writing things in programming languages [like Python or R]. The compilation process takes a language that you and I could understand and converts that into ultimately the binary numbers that a computer actually uses to execute a program,” University Professor of Computer Science Brian Kernighan GS ’69 explained. “There is actually a systematic process by which you can take a language at some level and convert it into lower levels,” Kerighan added. “And so that’s what Al and Jeff were working on.” In addition to their research achievements, the award also See NEWS for more
SPORTS
Devin Cannady ’20 signs 10-day contract with NBA’s Orlando Magic
By Marissa Michaels
Associate News Editor
Since mid-March, the University has expressed its intention to invite all students back for a fully in-person fall 2021 semester. At a town hall yesterday, administrators spoke in more detail about what that might look like. During the April 6 event, hosted by the Undergraduate Student Government, a group of 16 University administrators answered questions about all aspects of campus life regarding this spring, summer, and fall — from commencement guests and exams to housing and vaccinations. For next fall, the administrators present at the event said they expect campus life to return to a sense of normalcy and expressed hope that residential life, dining, eating clubs, breaks, grading, financial aid, and athletics will return to pre-pandemic norms. “I think a year ago our message would have been, you know, plan for us to not look normal, and if we are able to look more normal, we will let you know,” said Vice President for Communica-
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Devin Cannady ‘20 helped the Tigers win the Ivy League Tournament in 2017.
By Wilson Conn Contributor
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tions and Public Affairs Brent Colburn. “I think the message that everyone should take out of tonight is assume that that will be a residential experience on campus.” “There may be some modifications, but as you’re making mental plans, it would take something very unusual at this point...for us to be in a position where we’re really looking at rolling things back,” he added. While daily life in the fall will be determined by the course of COVID-19, Director of Health Services Robin Izzo said she hopes that the Uni-
versity will not have to enforce social distancing. It is unclear if there will be a testing protocol, according to Izzo. She indicated that if there was mandatory testing, it might be less frequent than it is this spring. The University has not yet decided whether it will require students, staff, and faculty to be vaccinated by next semester. There is not yet a timeline for when an official announcement regarding the fall will be made, but the University expects to invite all students, staff, and faculty to campus See NEWS for more
Contributing columnist Hannah Reynolds ‘22 and Guest Contributor John Huyler ’67 argue that Princeton’s failure at divesting from fossil fuels will affect prospective students choosing to attend.
Princeton has its first NBA player since Steve Goodrich ’98. Devin Cannady, who played for the Tigers from 2015–19, signed a 10-day contract with the Orlando Magic on Tuesday. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Cannady had previously signed a preseason contract with the Magic on Nov. 27, 2020, but was released prior to the NBA season. During his time at Princeton, Cannady played in 104 games, scoring 14.6 points per game and shooting 40.3 percent from three-point range. He was a key member of the Tigers’ 2017 squad, which went undefeated in Ivy League play and won the 2017 Ivy League Tournament. The team lost narrowly to Notre Dame in the NCAA tournament. Cannady was also named as an All-Ivy honorable men-
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tion that year, and was named to the All-Ivy second team in 2017–18, averaging 16.7 points per game. He is the program’s all-time leader in free throw percentage, fifth all-time in points, and third all-time in three-pointers made. Recently, Cannady had made a name for himself in the basketball world by leading the Orlando Magic G League affiliate, the Lakeland Magic, to the G League championship. Cannady was named Finals MVP, scoring 22 points in the final game against Delaware. “He had a good year,” Orlando head coach Steve Clifford told members of the media Tuesday. “Obviously, it makes sense for us because he knows what we’re doing. He actually stepped in today. He’s very bright and he’s a very good competitor. I’d say most of it he was able to do pretty seamSee SPORTS for more
In the second column of his series, Confronting Gerrymandering, Columnist Collin Riggins explores the responsible use of data in today’s politics, and argues that it is insufficient as a primary indicator of injustice.