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Anderson offers a defense Guggenheim of traditional marriage Q&A: Professor Mark Beissinger

By Emily Spalding staff writer

Mark Beissinger, the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics, is one of the recipients of the 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Beissinger received the award in the field of Political Science for his work on social movements and imperialism in Russia and the post-Soviet states. The Daily Princetonian sat down with Professor Beissinger to learn more about his research interests and his view on Russia today.

The Daily Princetonian: Your work has primarily focused on topics concerning the Soviet Union. What sparked your interest in this field of work? Where has it led you, particularly as it relates to “A Revolutionary World: The Growth and Urbanization of Global Mass Revolt,” for which you received the Guggenheim Fellowship?

Prof. Mark Beissinger: My work up until maybe about six or seven years ago primarily focused on the Soviet Union, but more and more I’ve been engaged in global study of revolutions around the world. That’s been sparked in part by events in the region of the former Soviet Union, particularly the revolutions in Ukraine. So I was asked a number of years ago to speak at a conference of historians at

Yale about the relationship between violence and revolution. I had written something about the spread of nonviolent resistance movements … I had a hunch that revolutions were becoming less violent over time, but there was no data to be able to show that. So I went out and tried to collect some data about deaths and revolutions over the course of the last century. That kind of sparked my interest in a broader study about how revolution has changed over the last century.

And I put together a data set of revolutionary episodes from 1900 to the present, about 350 of them, and I’m using that to look at trends and topics like violence and revolution and the success rate of revolution, the incidence of revolution, what happens after revolution, and so on. So that’s the nature of the Guggenheim project. It emerged out of my work in the Eurasian region, but it’s much more global … Now I do have another dimension of that project, which is at the individual level. So when I was in Ukraine I was able to get a very unusual survey that allowed one to identify not only who participated in the Orange Revolution, but who supported the Orange Revolution and didn’t participate, who opposed the Orange Revolution, who mobilized as a counter-revolutionary, and who See BEISSINGER page 2

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Dr. Ryan Anderson gave a talk Tuesday called “Marriage: What It Is, Why It Matters, and the Consequences of Redefining It”

By Nouran Ibrahim Contributor

“Let me start, as any a good conservative should start, by turning back the clock 50 years,” Dr. Ryan Anderson ’04 said.

Anderson is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, editor of “Public Discourse,” the online journal for The Witherspoon Institute, and co-author of “What is Marriage?

Man and Woman: A Defense.”

He graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in music and holds a doctoral degree in political philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.

50 years ago, according to Anderson, births to single mothers were in the single digits across the general American population. They have now reached about 40 percent.

“Gays and lesbians are not to blame” for this rise, stated Anderson.

Rather, it was the rise of a “sexual revolution” and a redefinition of marriage that has resulted in family fragmentation, and it was the revolutionary idea that love makes a family which has allowed for the emergence and permanence of this redefinition of marriage.

Anderson attempted to exchange this definition for another he, politics professor Robert George, and Sher-

if Girgis argue for in their book, “What is Marriage?

Man and Woman: A Defense.”

“Marriage is a comprehensive unity…. It is comprehensive in the action spouses engage in, it is comprehensive in the good that spouses are ordered towards, and it is comprehensive in the commitment that spouses make to each other,” Anderson argued.

He further illustrates the difference between the completeness of our own functional bodies and the incompleteness of our roles as creators of new human life. The same way in which academic institutions are ordered towards the good of truth-seeking, marital institutions are ordered toward the good of creating and raising children that we as individuals cannot do alone.

Marriage, according to this definition, becomes a “civic project” that requires commitments from individuals most other ordinary relationships do not. It is when these commitments are not made that there are social costs, such as those of single-parent households, according to Anderson.

“Marriage as a public policy matter exists to unite a man and a woman permanently and exclusively as husband and wife to then become mother and father to any children that that union might produce,” Anderson said.

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ON CAMPUS

“Sex, Power, and Pleasure” workshop discusses inclusive sex ed

By Samvida Venkatesh staff writer

There is no safe online space for people to ask questions about sex and pleasure without attracting vicious internet trolls, Andrea Barrica, Founder and CEO of O.school, said in a workshop on Tuesday titled ‘Sex, Power and Pleasure: The Sex Ed you Deserve.’

O.school is a shame-free online platform for pleasure education that is intersectional, trauma-informed, and entirely LGBTQ+ inclusive, Barrica explained. She said, “The de facto sex ed all over the world is porn, which is usually made by and for men, and we wanted

to change that – you don’t want to learn how to drive from a NASCAR race.”

Barrica explained that 35 of the best sex educators in the country, and some from around the world, were brought onto the O.school platform, which is currently under beta-testing and can be accessed only by invite.

“We don’t want to be exclusive, but we do have to ensure a safe space for people to ask questions and keep out the trolls that are rampant on other platforms,” Barrica explained.

The O.school model has classes on various topics live-streamed to users, who will be able to ask instructors questions in a live chat,

Barrica said. The level of classes is usually aimed at beginners and those who want to try things out, she added.

“When I went to my first kink meetup I was absolutely overwhelmed, I freaked because I was in a dungeon,” Barrica said, explaining the need for a safe platform for users to ask questions and explore interests.

There are six main categories under which videos are streamed, Barrica explained. #unlearn helps people overcome the shame around their bodies, instructs on how not to slut-shame others, and works to remove the religious and cultural stigma See PLEASURE page 4

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Princeton Students for Gender Equality and the Women*s Center hosted the founder and CEO of O.school.

NEWS & NOTES

Three U. alumni named most intelligent people in the world associate news editor

Three alumni have been named to Gazette Review’s “Top 10 Most Intelligent People in the World” list, which was published on April 8.

The list includes Terence Tao GS ’96, who was named the world’s most intelligent person, along with Christopher Hirata GS ’05 and Akshay Venkatesh GS ’02. All three are professors based in the United States.

Tao is currently the James and Carol Collins Chair of the Mathematics Department at the University of California, Los

Angeles. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree from Flinders University in Australia at the age of 16. He received his Ph.D. from the University at the age of 21, where he worked under Professor of Mathematics Elias Stein. Tao was named a full professor at UCLA and holds the distinction of being the youngest person to achieve this rank at UCLA, at the age of 24. In 2006, Tao was named a co-recipient of the Fields Medal, often described as the “Mathematics Nobel Prize,” and in 2014 he received the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. He was named as a finalist for Australian of the Year

in 2007, and received a $500,000 grant for winning the Alan T. Waterman Award in 2008. He is well-known for his proof of the Green-Tao Theorem, which states that there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers, as well as Tao’s Inequality. His current research focuses on harmonic analysis and analytic number theory.

Hirata, who was named the third most intelligent person in the world, is a professor of physics at The Ohio State University.

He received his bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of Technology in 2001 at the age of 18 and was the youngest Ameri-

can to win a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad at the age of 13. At the age of 16, Hirata worked with NASA to help with their mission to colonize Mars, and at the age of 18 he published a paper titled “The Physics of Relationships.” In 2005, Hirata received a Ph.D. in Astrophysics, and worked at the California Institute of Technology until moving to Ohio State in 2012. Hirata’s IQ has been stated to be around 225, which is one of the highest in the world.

Venkatesh, who was named the seventh most intelligent person in the world, is a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford Univer-

In Opinion

Today on Campus

Senior Columnist Marni Morse criticizes the lack of reporting on sexual assault cases and Contributing Columnist Emily Erdos encourages students to learn more practical skills. PAGE 6

4:30 p.m.: Gérard Araud, ambassador of France to the United States, will give a talk, “French Foreign Policy in an Unstable World” at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 16.

sity. He entered the University of Western Australia at the age of 13 as the youngest ever student, and received First Class Honours in Pure Mathematics in 1997. He also received the J.A. Woods Memorial Prize for being the leading graduating student. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics under Professor of Mathematics Peter Sarnak in 2002 and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 2005 to 2006.

He has received the Salem Prize, the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, and the Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences. His research focuses on representation theory and ergodic theory.

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was apathetic. And the survey included about 350 other details on people’s lives such as what language they speak at home, what their political attitudes were, how tall they were, what did they weigh, what did they drink, did they smoke, did they go to the gym, how frequently, did they own a computer, did they use the internet, and so on. So it gives us a level of detail about participation in a revolution that we’ve never had … Basically about individuals we’ve tried to scrape information from lists of people who were arrested or who died or individual stories, but this gives us a kind of systematic view of how people who participate in a revolution compare with those who didn’t … So, based on that I lobbied my colleague Amaney Jamal who runs the Arab Barometer survey to do a similar type of thing to the extent that we could in Egypt and Tunisia after those two revolutions. And now I’ve also been able to get similar information for the 2013-2014 revolution in Ukraine … So I have this very individual level, very fine-grained information about who participates in contemporary revolutions. The project that I’m doing has to do with the fact that revolutions as a mode of regime change have been growing more frequent over time, actually significantly more frequent.

So although we don’t think necessarily of our world as more revolutionary, in some ways we have many more, significantly more, revolutions today than occurred either in the first half of the 20th century or during the Cold War. Plus they have shifted in nature. So they’ve moved away from social revolutions, which aim to transform class structure, to what I call urban civic revolts.

This is kind of the center of the book and the Guggenheim project. The urbanization of revolution and what does that mean for the political processes underpinning revolt, the frequency of revolt, the social forces involved in revolt, and so on. So, the communication systems and the networks that underpin revolt, they’re quite different. They are all of selective incentives because these revolts are not occurring where the state is weak, but exactly where the state is the strongest, that is in the cities.

DP: How do you approach researching a topic such as this one? What do you look for in a subject? Do you find your research on-location is more useful than the research you do domestically?

MB: Finding a topic is the hardest thing, I think, for most researchers. Finding a good topic, or I should say more finding a question. I think it’s looking, really, for puzzles, things that stand out that seem to run counter to what you think might be the case. Sometimes when you look back at them they seem obvious, but to many people they don’t necessarily. So I think for me, that’s kind of the way in which I often go about thinking.

Start with a topic, but then look for the puzzle in the topic.

DP: So what was the puzzle in this project?

MB: The puzzle in this topic was the fact — I guess there are two puzzles. First of all, the fact

that revolutions are becoming more frequent over time. That’s kind of the key puzzle that seems to motivate a lot of what I’m doing. And then what is driving that? And there it seems to be driven by the fact that by global urbanization, the massive movement of people — you know if you look in 1900, about 10 percent of the world was urban. Today it’s 53 percent. Most revolutions were more, up until about 30 to 40 years ago, rural based, or involved peasants somehow. Even if they were urban in the early part of the 20th century, they usually took place in predominantly rural societies. So now that’s not the case. So I guess identifying the puzzle and trying to see what drives the answer to the puzzle, that’s kind of how I’ve gone about doing it.

DP: Has your study of the Soviet Union shaped how you perceive the current situation in Putin’s Russia?

MB: I should make it clear I do still work on the Soviet Union and still write about Russia, Ukraine, and other states in the region. I’ve been involved in the study of Russia and the societies in that region for a long, long time. So the early work in my career that I’ve participated in had to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union and with the mobilization that occurred during the Soviet Union.

DP: In addition to being a professor of politics at the University, you also serve as the director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. What are your goals for the future of this institute and the students who participate in it?

MB: Well actually I’m stepping down as the director, so Stephen Kotkin is going to be the new director. So I’ve run it for seven years. I think the way in which I viewed the role of PIIRS has been to view it as value added to the University, not to duplicate what takes place in departments, but to bring people together in ways they otherwise would not necessarily ordinarily interact.

To provide students with opportunities that they wouldn’t necessarily ordinarily have, such as the Global Seminars. So we run a number of programs in addition to the regional studies programs that bring people together along thematic lines, across departments, and across areas focused on particular issues. So these are all the ways which I think PIIRS can add value to the University without trying to substitute for what’s already going on here.

And I think that that’s basically the direction that my successor is going. So PIIRS is a critical link in the internationalization of the University, not only in providing students with opportunities to go abroad, but also in terms of bringing people from abroad here, in terms of fostering research about the rest of the world, sometimes in innovative ways. And running certificate programs for undergraduates as well on international topics. So we’re the major funder for undergraduate students for research abroad as well, particularly in the summer in language training. So I think we’re a critical link in the University’s broader strategy of internationalization. We’re not the only part of that strategy, but I would say more the academic link in some ways.

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There are truths or realities marriage is based on, including that man and woman are biologically different and complementary to one another and that a child needs both parents to thrive, he further argued. According to Anderson, it is only through marriage that individuals are incentivized to direct their emotions toward monogamous relationships centered towards cooperatively raising a child.

“Gender differentiated parenting is important,” Anderson noted, as he emphasized each gender’s role and “competitive advantage” when it came time to instill certain characteristics in children, referring to a mother’s disadvantage when it came to holding her son in a friendly headlock.

Furthermore, a father’s job for his daughter is “helping helps her navigate into being a woman and protecting her from some of the complications of sexuality,” he added.

Anderson engaged the crowd by quoting former President Barack Obama’s 2008 Father’s Day speech in which Obama said, “We know the statistics, children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crimes, nine times more likely to drop out of school and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.

They are more likely to have behavioral problems or run away from home or become teenage parents themselves.

And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it.” Anderson facetiously asked the audience which “right-wing nut job” that quote came from, only to reveal that it was indeed

Democrat President Barack Obama.

Anderson noted that “government is in the marriage business.” He explained that when government is not involved, the creation of fragmented families and other social costs follow.

Anderson warned students that there is no “logical reasoning why the redefinition of marriage can stop here [once sexual complementary marriage becomes unnecessary].” He built off of that logic to pose the question of what, if sexual complementary marriages are no longer necessary, then stops the rise of “throuples” — unions made up of three individuals or “wedleases” — temporary marriages.

These kinds of relationships lead to societies in which children are born with essentially uncommitted parents, one that has failed to complete its job, Anderson argued, as his definition of marriage is a union built to consummate in the creation and raising of a child.

Anderson concluded that once one concludes that the “male and female” part of marriage doesn’t matter and is arbitrary or irrational, there is essentially no legal basis for commitment and monogamy. This, according to Anderson, is underlined by the failure of the government to help push citizens toward the creation of a complete, successful society.

The lecture, titled “Marriage: What It Is, Why It Matters, and the Consequences of Redefining It,” was hosted by the Princeton chapter of the Elizabeth Anscombe Society on Tuesday, April 11 in 28 McCosh Hall at 4:30 p.m.

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that often surrounds conversations around sex and pleasure. #elusiveo is centered around orgasm and climax, whether solo or with a partner.

“Women get taught how to say no, but we’re never taught how to negotiate!” Barrica explained, so O.school has a category of videos on #slutskills, a wide range of classes on sexual and non-sexual communication. #couples+ works on partnered sex, group sex and polyamory while #kinky explores BDSM, power-play, and the like.

Finally, #sexafter is a category that explores sex and sexual pleasure after traumatic events, be it cancer, a difficult pregnancy, or sexual assault, Barrica explained.

Barrica hopes to keep this category of classes entirely free for users even if some of the other videos require a membership fee.

Pleasure education is important to dispel many of the myths surrounding pleasure, Barrica said. Audience members at the workshop elaborated on some of the reasons they believed pleasure education was important, including the divide in the manner that men and

women are taught pleasure in sex ed, particularly masturbation. Barrica added that scientific research on female pleasure was ignored for many decades because male scientists never felt the need to study female pleasure.

In defending O.school against criticisms that the organization should focus on the many other ways that women have it worse, particularly reproductive rights, Barrica said that women should be thriving in the world, not just surviving. “I want to fight the patriarchy at the offense,” Barrica said, adding that all a woman had to do to join this movement was to go to her room, pull out a mirror, and look at herself.

In order to avoid any restrictions on content and workshopping, Barrica said that O.school did not receive any government funding, but is funded entirely by venture capitalists. “The patriarchy is funding its own demise, one orgasm at a time,” she laughed.

The workshop was attended by 25 people, of whom only one was male. Sponsored by the Women*s Center and Princeton Students for Gender Equality, the workshop took place at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening in the Lewis Center.

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Riley Wilkinson worked the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings for Princeton, holding Harvard scoreless to secure her first save of the season.

Starter Nori earned her sixth win of the season, allowing only one earned- run over four innings.

While Princeton maintained its position at the top of the Ivy League standings, it will face yet another challenged next weekend with

a four-game series at Penn, second in the Ivy League South with a 5-3 conference record. Thus, the high stakes surrounding the series will make the rivalry all the more intense.

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Softball redeemed a 2-game loss against Dartmouth with a Harvard sweep this past weekend to secure their position on top of the Ivy League South division.

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More must be done to prevent all sexual assaults

Marni Morse

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hree weeks ago, a 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped in her Maryland high school by two older students. I read a lot about it in my news feed because I happen to have graduated from the rival high school, located about 10 minutes down the road.

There was a lot of coverage on the matter from The Washington Post, which is unsurprising because it handles both local and national issues.

Specifically, there have been 29 pieces in the paper about the rape since the news broke.

Some of them were directly about the alleged rape, some about how it received national attention from Republican politicians because the alleged assailants were undocumented immigrants, and some of the articles pushed back, arguing that conservatives should not use this incident as an excuse for xenophobia.

As for myself? Well, I, of course, was outraged by the fact this sexual assault had happened. Since graduating from high school four years ago, I have become a vocal critic of sexual misconduct and have called for those in power, be it government officials or school administrators, to do more.

A lot of middle schools and high schools do not teach about consent — I mean, how can they, when many are not allowed to discuss sex much

at all? Thankfully, my county does have pretty comprehensive sex education, but to be honest, knowing what I know about sexual violence, I’m not all that surprised that this happened. But my thoughts didn’t center around the assailants because I knew very well that they could have been anyone.

That’s why, when a series of columns appeared in the Prince, I was frustrated. The writers quite frankly weren’t coming from the same place I was, being so close to the incident in question, or as focused on the very serious problem of sexual violence and its high prevalence in America’s high schools and our universities.

The original piece by Jacquelyn Thorbjornson lamented the lack of news coverage, which though true from one perspective, isn’t from most.

As I pointed out, there was a lot of coverage in the D.C. area, including by national media based there. Perhaps the author was right that it didn’t make national news on many of those sources. That said, rape and sexual violence is happening at schools, even middle schools and high schools, often without making national news. I agree — I’d like to see all of these cases make national news, regardless of who the perpetrator or victim is.

Sexual misconduct is a big deal, and we need to be shining a brighter light on this epidemic. Did you know that 44 percent of reported sexual assaults take place before the

victim is 18? Or that one in three-to-four girls, and one in five-to-seven boys are sexually abused prior to leaving high school?

This past Thursday, a teacher was arrested on sexual assault charges in North Dakota, and three days before, students from a North Carolina high school were accused and facing charges for sexual assault.

And that’s just what I found from local news articles from a quick Google search for “sexual violence in high schools.”

From Googling these stories, none of them made national news. The columnist is right that there is media bias, but there is bias against treating sexual violence as a major issue instead of media bias. She contrasts the Maryland high school case with the Brock Turner case, which did receive a lot of media attention. In that case, the media attention was caused by the convicted student athlete’s light sentence and the victim’s willingness to speak out, albeit anonymously, as another respondent highlighted.

But let’s acknowledge the reality — most cases of sexual violence are not reported by the national or even local media. There is a systematic neglect of issues of sexual violence because, in many ways, sexual violence has been normalized and ignored like many issues that disproportionately affect women or other marginalized people.

And that systemic neglect is the problem at hand here.

It’s not some niche issue of

liberal media ignoring rape cases when the media does not want to criticize the culprits for being undocumented immigrants. After all, The Washington Post is liberal and it covered this case quite a bit.

So, yes, like that columnist, I am outraged about the lack of coverage. But it is not just about the neglect of this case — it is for all cases of sexual violence.

The irony of this debate about coverage hit its peak for me last week. My news feed exploded again. Another sex offense. This time at my alma mater high school. The head of security had sex with a 17-yearold; among other things, he is charged with “being in a supervisory position and having sex with a minor who was enrolled at a school where he worked.”

I know the man charged.

He worked there when I was there. He was always there in the main hallway, going up to students who were roaming the halls during class as his job entailed. The national news hasn’t picked up on this story. They probably won’t.

I don’t expect a cry from conservatives to remove security officers from schools as there was with undocumented immigrants for the other Maryland sexual assault case.

But I’ll be waiting, outraged about it all.

Marni Morse is a politics major from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@ princeton.edu.

Spoiled, but not rotten Emily Erdos

Contributing columnist

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he truest things are said in jest.

So when my sister, jokingly, yet nonetheless bluntly, said “You’re spoiled,” I was humbled to find some truth in this accusation.

This comment came up in a conversation about dormitories with Katie, my sister who is a freshman at another college. Katie told me that she’ll be living off campus next year.

Off campus entails a lot more than its obvious definition — she’ll have to budget, grocery shop, cook, clean, pay rent, take care of a car, and pay for gas. She will live in the “real world.”

More than 98 percent of Princeton students live oncampus all four years. Thus, fewer than 2 percent of Princeton undergraduates interact with a landlord for subletting or rental during the school year (and even then, the University has its own website to aid students with the search process — students are never completely on their own). Fewer than 2 percent of Princeton students pay utility bills. Fewer than 2 percent of Princeton students are monitored by municipality police, rather than the University’s Public Safety, or “P-Safe.” Fewer than 2 percent of Princeton students are immersed in the “real world.”

Princeton isn’t all that unique. This is the case for many liberal arts universities.

While these establishments offer the doorway to the ivory tower of academia, they neglect daily skills, which, arguably, will play a more seminal role post-graduation. Rest assured, we will learn these practical lessons the hard way once we graduate and move on to our first full-time jobs.

Despite a dearth of offcampus living opportunities, Princeton deserves some credit. Although only 2 percent of students leave campus housing, a larger 30 percent, or some 1,600 undergraduates, become “independent” of the University dining system, choosing to cook and eat on their own. This population is split into two categories: those who utilize campus kitchens, or those who join one of the three campus cooperatives.

This still leaves 70 percent of students reliant on the University dining system, whether it be one of the eleven eating clubs, the dining halls, or the Center for Jewish Life. Enter the comment: “You’re spoiled.”

In some ways, I’d have to agree. Immediate access to prepared food is a privilege, and so are other aspects of Princeton on-campus housing. Having building, cleaning, and maintenance facilities is a much appreciated privilege. Having automatically locking doors

and our own campus police is a privilege.

While Princeton undergrads learn how to debunk Sigmund Freud’s arguments, code for an entire network system, and explore the crevices of history, other undergrads may be learning how to plunge a toilet, broil a meatloaf, and pay their rent.

Although I’m exaggerating the polarity here for emphasis (of course, most other students obtain comparable liberal arts knowledge and Princeton students achieve some degree of practical knowledge), this overstatement does highlight a pragmatic gap in our extraordinary Princeton education.

Princeton does offer more “practical” courses during Wintersession, where 63 short classes — ranging from one hour to three days — are taught on subjects ranging from break dancing to venture capital to the card game Bridge. But these courses are only offered to students who stay on campus during Intersession, which is a minority.

The University is a liberal arts school, but what happened to the practical arts? Home economics classes in high schools have been discontinued, and secondary education lacks in teaching generalized life skills.

Some might say that these skills are learned in the home during childhood, but it can also be argued that childhood is no longer homogeneous, and

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thus cannot be as educational for all millennials. Parents may live paycheck-to-paycheck, or live in a city and not own a car, so their children might not learn the skills of balancing a budget and getting gas.

Princeton is the highestranked university in the country; yet, graduates are never formally taught how to change a tire or register for health insurance. Even the 2 percent of students living off campus are unlikely to learn these lessons through their University education.

Much of my opinion here is hypocritical, for I chose this university with the full intention of living on campus all four years. And most of what I say is with tongue-in-cheek: I don’t expect the University to change its housing arrangements.

What I do expect is a rebranding of college as the heralded “transition to adulthood.” In reality, it’s more a small step away from childhood than it is a large step towards adulthood. Students have to understand that despite the countless hours spent studying, we will step out of Princeton naïve, vulnerable, and possibly unready for the “real world.”

Emily Erdos is a sophomore from Harvard, MA. She can be reached at eerdos@princeton.edu.

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Michael Danielak his first loss of the season with a critical 3rd inning rally. After seeing the first eight Tiger batters go down in order, sophomore outfielder Jesper Horsted ended the no-hitter with a double down the left field line. He would score on the next play after junior infielder Asher Lee Tyson notched an RBI single to give Princeton its first run of the day. After a walk set up Tyson on second, senior outfielder Nick Hernandez hit a base hit of his own to tie the game at 2. Freshman Connor Nolan then knocked a single back up the middle, scoring Zack Belski and giving the Tigers the 3-2 lead.

Sophomore pitcher Ryan Smith would work a perfect 1-2-3 seventh inning to seal the Tigers’ win over Dartmouth; it was his third save of the year.

Saturday’s nine-inning contest was one of the most exciting games played all year by the Tigers. They were defeated by Dartmouth 7-6, but nearly came back from a four-run deficit late in the game. Senior pitcher Chad Powers (1-2) took the loss for the Tigers, but really only struggled in one inning in which he gave up four consecutive hits and a walk before orchestrating a double play to end the damage at three runs. Powers pitched six innings, but was rocked for six earned runs, six hits and only registered one strikeout. However the Tigers’ offense nearly took him off the hook for a loss with a late inning rally. After various one-run innings in the early part of the game, senior infielder Cody Phillips would plate an RBI in the sixth to cut the Big Green

lead to 3. Their next strike would come in the eighth, when senior pinch hitter Paul Tupper hit a two-run bomb to cut the lead to 1.

However the rally would end there as the Dartmouth closer went three up and three down in the ninth to record his seventh save. The Tigers, however, were happy with taking one of two from a tough Dartmouth opponent.

Sunday’s doubleheader saw Princeton sweep Harvard, winning the first game 9-4 and the second game 5-3. The first game, like the Dartmouth game, was full of excitement, but this time Princeton’s rally succeeded. Trailing by two in the second, it took them until the fifth inning to take the lead by a score of 5-4.

However, Princeton knew this would not be enough in the back-and-forth contest.

But coming up to bat with the bases loaded, freshman David Harding delivered with a three-run double to put the Tigers up 7-4 and put the game on ice. Harding had a near-record day for Princeton, putting up eight RBIs across the two games and was definitely the MVP for this series against Harvard. Harding would double again in the ninth inning of game two, which put the Tigers up 5-1 and proved to be valuable insurance runs after Harvard hit a two-run home run in the bottom half of the inning.

With their three wins in four games, the Tigers vaulted to the top of the Lou Gehrig division as they now turn to intra division matchups. Up next for the Tigers is a critical four-game series against the Penn Quakers this weekend.

All four games will be on the road and will feature a battle between the top two teams in the division.

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Baseball wins 3 of 4 Ivy League matches, first in Lou Gehrig Division

By Chris Murphy staff writer

Followers of almost every college sport claim that once conference play rolls around, the non-conference performance does not matter at all. After this weekend’s results, the Tigers seem to be the latest example of this trend.

After starting the season 4-14 and facing many tough non-conference opponents — including Duke, Maryland, and Navy, on the road — many people wondered if the Tigers would return to their epic 2016 form. Now, after taking three of four in the weekend slate of games, Princeton finds themselves at 5-3 in the conference and atop the Lou Gehrig division of the Ivy League conference at about the midway point in the conference season.

Facing their final two opponents from the other division, the Tigers knew this would be their last chance to

set a benchmark for where they are as the title chase begins to heat up. This weekend featured a doubleheader against a tough Dartmouth team, followed by two games against a Harvard team that has been slumping as of late.

The Tigers looked to steal as many games as they could in enemy territory and walked away with three hard fought wins and one nail-biting loss.

Saturday’s first game saw the Tigers taking the win over the Big Green by a score of 4-2. Senior pitcher Chris Giglio was phenomenal for the Tigers, pitching six solid innings and allowing only four hits (only one being for extra bases). While he only struck out four batters, he kept the Dartmouth players from putting any power to the ball, forcing small contact and getting key outs on his way to a victory (2-2).

On the other side, Princeton handed Dartmouth pitcher See BASEBALL page 7

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The spring season for baseball is starting to look brighter as they stand atop the Lou Gehrig division in the Ivy League conference following three weekend victories.

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Women’s water polo claims Softball sits in three consecutive victories, first in Ivy League surpasses 20-win mark South after New England matches

By Mike Gao

Approaching the CWPA championships, the women’s water polo team reached the 20-win milestone this past Saturday with a victory against Brown.

followed by Chelsea Johnson and sophomore utility Lindsey Kelleher with two each. Down 9-4 in the second quarter, the Hoosiers never recovered and ultimately fell to Princeton 10-6.

The Johnson sisters and Wan would be the linchpin in another Princeton victory, this time over Ivy League rival Brown. Despite being unranked, Brown fought tenaciously and held the upper hard for much of the first half of the match. After 11 saves from Johnson, Brown’s Jessica Heilman and McKenna Miller ground to a halt, who combined for six of the Bears’ 8 points.

Meanwhile, Chelsea Johnson, Wan, and junior 2-meter Sydney Cheong scored three points each, earning a tough 11-8 win for Princeton.

The Tigers’ toughest match, however, was yet to come, as Princeton struggled to hold off the 17th-ranked Hartwick Hawks, ultimately prevailing in a 13-12 thriller. Offensively, Wan and her record-setting season were once again the center of the story, as she recorded another hat trick. She was joined

by Kelleher with three goals of her own, and by the middle of the second half, the Tigers held a seemingly insurmountable 13-8 lead. But Hartwick came roaring back, despite an impressive 14 saves from Johnson, and, with under a minute left to play, had climbed within 1 of the Tigers. Nevertheless, the Tigers remained cool and disciplined and emerged with a grueling but well-deserved victory.

As their season continues to roll, the Tigers set their eyes forward to a home duel against George Washington and then the vaunted CWPA championships, where they seek to continue making waves.

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It was another successful weekend for the Tigers in the pool, as the women’s water polo team felled three CWPA rivals to move to a respectable 21-3 overall record, 6-1 in conference play.

Currently ranked 10th in the national polls, the Tigers are poised for yet another remarkable season— coach Luis Nicolao has broken the 20-win benchmark an impressive five out of the last six seasons at Princeton.

The Tigers have been remarkably consistent all season. Anchored by formidable Olympic gold medalist goalie Ashleigh Johnson and powered by the dynamic offensive play of stars like junior utility Haley Wan, who has recorded an astounding 59 goals this season, and junior 2-meter Chelsea Johnson, Princeton has established itself as one of the toughest opponents in the NCAA to face in the pool, and it

has yet to drop a match to a lower-ranked contestant, mustering out terrific victories against storied programs such as San Diego State and Ivy League rival Harvard. Their sole losses have come to USC, Arizona State, and CWPA rival Michigan, ranked first, fourth, and seventh in the nation, respectively.

The Tigers came off a 2-1 triple-header last weekend, where they defeated Bucknell and St. Francis before falling to Michigan. Staying steady at 10th in the national polls, the Tigers aggressively made their case as one of the nation’s elite programs with a string of three hard-fought victories this weekend.

Princeton opened with a decisive victory over another storied CWPA program, the Indiana Hoosiers. Despite having beaten Princeton in every encounter since 2015, the Hoosiers were stymied by Johnson’s 13 saves. Meanwhile, Wan led the blistering Princeton offense with 3 goals,

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By Jack Graham contributor

Princeton softball travelled to New England this weekend for a string of games against two opponents in the Ivy League North Division, Harvard and Dartmouth.

Coming off an opening weekend to Ivy League play in which the team emerged undefeated, Princeton protected its first-place position in the conference. The team dropped both games of its Saturday doubleheader against Dartmouth, but rebounded well on Sunday, winning twice against Harvard.

Saturday’s doubleheader against Dartmouth began in disappointing fashion for the Tigers, as the team’s bats were ineffective in the first of the matchups. Dartmouth pitcher Breanna Ethridge shut down the team offensively, limiting them to five hits, a walk, and no runs. Senior pitcher Claire Klausner tossed three shutout innings but allowed a three-run homer in the fourth to give Dartmouth a lead it would not squander. Ultimately, Princeton would fall 6-0.

The Tigers would face another disappointment in the nightcap, blowing a fourrun lead to endure a one-run defeat. Princeton opened a 5-1 lead early on after scoring four runs in a second inning punctuated by a tworun single by freshman Alli-

8 RBIs

Freshman David Harding went 3-for-6 against Harvard on Sunday with 8 RBI to be named Ivy League Rookie of the Week.

son Harvey. However, senior starting pitcher Erica Nori conceded runs in the third and fourth innings to cut the margin to 5-3, and a Princeton error in the fifth contributed to a three-run inning for Dartmouth, giving Dartmouth a 6-5 lead that they would protect over the next two innings.

Undoubtedly fueled by the disappointing start to the weekend, Princeton came out strong in Sunday’s doubleheader against Harvard.

The Tigers scored early and often in the first game of the series to score a commanding 10-2 win in six innings.

Sophomore Kaylee Grant led the charge with a 4-RBI game, and Grant, freshman outfielder Megan Donahey, and senior outfielder Marissa Reynolds scored two runs apiece.

Klausner was stellar on the mound for the Tigers. She allowed a run in the first but shut down Harvard’s offense from that point onward, conceding only one run over the next five innings.

Princeton completed the sweep later that night with a 6-2 victory. With a three-run third inning highlighted by a Grant home run, Princeton leaped out to another early lead. Harvard would claw back to bring the margin to 3-2, but Princeton reopened the lead with another three-run inning in the sixth. Sophomore pitcher See SOFTBALL page 5

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