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Santorum: Rights come from God, not government By Alexander Stangl staff writer
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Santorum’s stance: rights come from God, not govenrment. Govenrment, he says, has the job of safeguarding these rights in modern society.
Activist Duane de Four discusses masculinity, allyship on campus By Jisu Jeong staff writer
“There is no single definition of healthy masculinity,” said Duane de Four, media critic, educator, and activist. In his talk, de Four discussed healthy masculinity and allyship. He especially stressed the applicability and relevance of allyship to University social life, particularly on the Street, where Princeton’s 11 eating clubs are located. De Four said that the question of healthy masculinity is not the kind of question that has firm boundaries, borders, and rules. He said there are three guiding principles. According to de Four, the first principle is the idea that there is no one correct version of healthy masculinity. He explained it may be more correct to speak of multiple healthy masculinities. De Four’s second principle involves “being in tune in humanity and not running away from it.” Expanding on this principle, he noted that some of the biggest lies about manhood revolve around self-reliance. He referred to this idea as “the myth of rugged individualism.” De Four said that rugged individualism is deeply embedded in American politics, media, and culture. He pointed to neoliberalism, the idea of seeing everything in terms of value in markets, as “a philosophy utterly lacking in empathy” that is derived from rugged individualism. He offered the Marlboro Man, President Hoover, and
The Walking Dead as past and current examples of this concept in American culture and media. De Four rounded out the explanation of his principles by explaining that the third guiding principle of healthy masculinity is of cultivating a man’s relationship with himself. “In reality, many of us are in dysfunctional relationships with ourselves,” he said. He added that men should recognize they all need help and should seek out help when needed. De Four said that being allies – people who support an often marginalized group’s cause – is not an identity but a lifestyle. “No one should be going around calling themselves an ally,” he said. De Four added that being an ally also means making mistakes. Addressing the University community, de Four said that although it may be difficult for students to willingly put themselves in a position where they will make mistakes, students should nonetheless try to be allies. De Four offered a few practical tips for allyship at Princeton, specifically on the Street. As examples of helpful considerations, he suggested choosing party themes carefully and assessing and discussing a club’s culture with members. The talk, titled “The New Manly: Allied Masculinity on the Street,” was hosted by the Men’s Allied Voices for a Respectful & Inclusive Community (MAVRIC) Project. It was held at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18 in McCosh 10.
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West College and Robertson Hall to be named for Morrison and Lewis By Marcia Brown head news editor
In a press release Tuesday, the University announced that it will rename West College and the major auditorium in Robertson Hall of the Wilson School in honor of University Professor Emerita Toni Morrison and Nobel Laureate and former University Professor Sir Arthur Lewis, respectively. The new names will take effect on July 1, 2017. The University Board of Trustees approved the recommendations from the Council of the Princeton University Community Committee on Naming, composed of faculty, students, staff, and alumni. The committee was proposed in response to protests and student activism
largely led by the Black Justice League, which has encouraged the University to be more welcoming to students of color, particularly black students on campus. The committee was established in September of last year. West College, one of the most prominent buildings on campus, was originally a dormitory when first built in 1836. According to the press release, the present name of the auditorium, which is currently named for former University President Harold Dodds, GS Class of 1914, will be transferred to “the adjacent atrium that serves as the entryway into Robertson Hall.” Morrison, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was the first African American to receive this award
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Contributing Columnist says not to rename the Woodrow Wilson Room, Senior Columnist Imani Thornton investigates protest voting patterns at Princeton, Princeton Graduate Students United debunk a Graduate School fact sheet, and Contributing Columnist Sarah Dinovelli explains why we don’t need internships. PAGE 4
4:30 p.m.: Woodrow Wilson School hosts Beth Cobert, speaking on “Why Government Can’t (and Shouldn’t) Run Just Like a Business,” Robertson Hall.
and, the press release notes, was instrumental in helping “to attract other faculty and students of color to Princeton.” Her books include “Song of Solomon,” “Beloved,” and “The Bluest Eye.” She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Additionally, her papers have recently been opened for research in the University library. Lewis, who started working as a professor of public and international affairs in 1963 at the University, later worked as a professor of political economics, teaching economic development and economic history. In 1963, Lewis was knighted, and in 1979, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in See MORRISON page 2
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According to Santorum, the manner by which the United States both conceptualizes and celebrates freedom is what sets the United States apart from other nations. He noted that Americans’ unique view of freedom has been a key driver of the United States’ rise to the status of world power. In particular, Santorum stressed the origin of rights. Santorum noted that, unlike in other nations, the rights of Americans come from “Judeo-Christian values,” upon which, he argued, Western civilization was founded. “Rights don’t come from government,” Santorum said, referencing the U.S. Declaration of Independence. “They come from God.” In this way, he argued
that since these rights don’t stem from government, it is simply the job of government to protect these rights to ensure safety and stability in society. However, he continued, there are forces that threaten to upend American society. Among those, he explained, include the breakdown of the American family, popular culture, and the current secondary and higher education systems. To demonstrate this, Santorum contrasted the experience of a citizen living in the rural countryside to another living in New York City. While the citizen living in a rural area might not think to lock their doors, since there is very little risk of theft, the New Yorker would likely consider such a choice unwise. “Because you’re living
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economic development, particularly concerning developing countries. According to the press release, “[Lewis] remains the only person of African descent to win a Novel Prize in a field other than Literature or Peace.” Lewis also served as economic adviser to the government of Ghana after it achieved independence in 1957, and he has also consulted nations such as Trinidad and Tobago, the press release states. The Committee on Naming solicited input from University community members in its decision. According to the press release, 210 people submitted suggestions related to renaming. “I’m very proud that the committee undertook this outreach effort to try to hear from all of Princeton as a whole,” said Devin Kilpatrick ‘19, who served on the committee. “I think that people made sure that every single one of the suggestions were considered, and [the committee] did research about people who were suggested they didn’t know.” Kilpatrick explained that from this outreach effort, the University now already has a list of names from which to look into for future naming initiatives. He said he thinks that there is a cohort of young individuals now who are just beginning their careers and will be great prospects for naming honorees in the future. “I think, absolutely I think, there was an honest effort, a genuine effort on the part of the administration to accommodate all of the wishes and the suggestions of the whole entire campus community,” said Jonathan Aguirre, who served as a third year graduate student on the committee. “There were so many suggestions and they were all valued equally, so I felt that this is a step towards the right direction.” Chaired by history professor Angela Creager, the CPUC Naming Committee also includes Professors Stephen Macedo, Alejando Rodriguez, and Stacey Sinclair, and two undergraduate students, Devin Kilpatrick ’19 and USG president Myesha Jemison ’18. Assistant Vice President for Human Resources Romy Riddick, Osbourne Shaw ’97, and Vice President and Secretary of the University Robert Durkee ’69 are also committee members. In November 2015, the BJL led a sit-in of the office President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 to push for a list of demands, including renaming the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Wilson College. Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879,
for whom these buildings are named, served as president of the University from 1902 to 1910, and he also was governor of New Jersey and President of the United States. “I would just say this is an example of the administration responding to student requests and opening up dialogue about race and identity at Princeton,” Kilpatrick said. “I hope it encourages student activists.” “I think the student pressure that happened last year, their voices were heard and that’s important for the administration,” Aguirre added. “[The administration has] really let us know that they’re open to suggestions and to make the campus more inclusive.” During Wilson’s presidency, the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote was approved, and federal agencies were re-segregated by race. The BJL emphasized his notable racism by placing posters around campus with quotes from the former university president about racial matters. Just as Wilson did in the White House, the BJL also screened the infamously racist film “Birth of a Nation” on campus. Wilson’s words were also commemorated by the University in its unofficial motto, “In the Nation’s Service and in the Service of all Nations.” The University recently changed the motto to reflect the public service contributions of both Wilson and Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor ’76, so that the motto now reads, “In the Nation’s service and in the service of all humanity.” The University has also created an exhibit which details Wilson’s legacy, both in terms of public service and race. The exhibit, which was originally displayed in the basement of Robertson Hall, has been shown in several locations around campus, and it is currently on display in Forbes College. University activism, including the work of the BJL, has taken place as part of a larger movement nationwide wherein university communities reassess their pasts, particularly their ties to racism and slavery. As part of this trend, Georgetown University, where 272 slaves were once sold in order to keep the institution afloat, decided to award preferential status in its admissions process to descendants of the enslaved in September 2016. Additionally, in February 2017, Yale University decided to rename Calhoun College, named for former U.S. Vice President and slavery advocate John C. Calhoun, for Grace Hopper, a computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral. Aguirre said that the committee chair will come out with a full report of the committee’s work May 1.
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in communities where people aren’t leading virtuous lives,” Santorum said. “you’re not as free – not as safe – and you need more government.” This difference in safety levels was not always the case, he noted. To this point, Santorum cited air travel having been much easier in past years. “You just got on an airplane!” he said, in contrast to the process of being processed by TSA officers, being subjected to random checks, and the like. This follows, he argued, from the loss of values rooted in Western civilization’s Judeo-Christian background. He noted that government can only grant as much freedom “as [one] can constrain [his or her] own passions.” It is in the absence of self-restraint, which Santorum linked to a degradation in faith, that government must increase its presence, restricting the rights and freedoms of citizens to ensure safety and stability. As proof of his viewpoints, Santorum noted that one need not look
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further than the past presidential election. He explained that “the President is a ref lection of America,” and the fact that President Trump was able to secure the presidency in the past election shows that Americans were afraid, and desired some form of security. Trump offered this security, “[tapping] into something that allowed him to win this election, and a lot of it was fear,” he said. “The world is changing. It’s unsettling. It’s scary. Because [citizens] don’t know what’s next.” The lecture was held at 4:30 p.m. in Whig Hall. The event was hosted by the Princeton College Republicans, the Princeton Tory, and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, in association with the Young America’s Foundation (YAF). According to the group’s website, the YAF is “committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values.”
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Princeton and the protest vote
Imani Thornton
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After the “shock” of Donald J. Trump’s electoral victory settled down, I remember hearing any number of choice quotes about college students’ responsibilities for Trump’s election. “Did you even vote?” “All of these protests, but did you all go to the polls?” “This is why you all shouldn’t have wasted your vote on Harambe.” I wanted to make sense of the electoral decisions of my university peers — or at least a sample of them. I suppose I will never fully understand why Donald Trump became president. According to some, it is because stupid college kids were too narcissistic and myopic to vote for Hillary Clinton in as high rates as Barack Obama. To others, Donald Trump is a symbol of white backlash, yet another one that the nation has experienced since its founding. Perhaps a mixture of both, in liberal and moderate circles, the blame usually falls on the protest voter. For more reasons than one, perhaps this is unfounded scapegoating. What is a protest voter? Many would consider, with derision, the act of voting third party as a protest vote. If I choose not to vote at all, I could also be considered a protest voter, especially if I had not suffered from voter suppression. In general, a protest vote is one cast (or lack thereof) when one is dissatisfied with the prominent, main party candidates. In the United States, many protest votes go to the Green or Libertarian Party, rather than the Democratic
or Republican Party. Protest votes can also include those of the write-in variety or a blank vote. One of the most popular third party candidates of recent years is Ralph Nader ’55 who is often accused of splitting the 2000 vote in favor of George W. Bush (ignoring the Florida voting suppression scandal). Millennials are commonly associated with protest voters. For example, in a September 2016 article, Charles Blow called for young African Americans to vote for Clinton despite their skepticism. Rather than focusing on why young black voters may be apathetic to Clinton and largely ambivalent about voting, Blow used shaming tactics to urge “dumb, childish, self-immolating” protest voters to ostensibly save Clinton from a devastating loss. The implicit tone of this article and others is that young people — particularly young black people — were too myopic to understand the impact of their voting behavior. In this way, the common conception of the protest vote is that it is characteristic of unintelligent, low-information voters, who, if they were more knowledgeable about Clinton’s platform, the electoral college system, or the Democratic Party’s reliance on them, would have acted differently. This narrative, however, becomes more complicated when one considers how Ivy League students — who are typically considered high-caliber, knowledgeable people in general — are included in such a large age group. According to GenForward’s December 2016 Toplines survey, 28 percent
of adults ages 18-30 chose not to vote for president. Of the 1,823 sampled, 59 percent had at least some college education or above. In this survey, 20 percent of all 18-30 adults voted for Donald Trump and 42 percent for Hillary Clinton. Only 9 percent voted for third party candidates, including Jill Stein and Gary Johnson. White adults 1830 voted for Gary Johnson at the highest rate — 5 percent — while Jill Stein received the highest support from Latino/a 18-30 adults, with 3 percent. In short, this survey data suggests that 37 percent of 18-30 adults cast a “protest vote”. Whether one considers the voting patterns of egotistical, “social justice warrior” college students as the reason for Trump’s presidency is an article in itself. But how do students on Princeton’s campus feel about protest voting? How complicit are “we”? I took a survey of Princeton students, not to extrapolate from such results but to get an idea of how some Princeton students felt about protest voting and whether they participated in such an act. Of the 21 results I received, 85.7 percent of students voted in the 2016 presidential election. 23.8 percent of these Princeton students voted for Gary Johnson or Jill Stein, the former of whom was overwhelmingly most popular. While this percentage from my small sample is lower than that of GenForward, it appears that “protest voting” is not anomalous on Princeton’s campus. What does this mean? I would like to first address the limits of my survey. Besides the small num-
ber of those sampled, the title of my survey: “Protest Voting — Your Thoughts” may have been self-selective and therefore attracted a higher proportion of protest voters than representative of Princeton’s population. Despite these limits however, helpful information can be gauged as to how Princeton students may defy or fit into the “myopic-college-student-who-is-to-blame-forTrump” stereotype. Of those surveyed, few wanted their comments published in this article, perhaps indicating that voting behavior is understandably a private matter. However, from a broad perspective, about half of the survey-takers had negative stances on protest voting, appealing to logical arguments and the constraints of the two-party system. Another half either defended their votes or lack thereof, with various reasoning. It is perhaps impossible to get a true indication of how many Princeton students protest voted, due to the stigmatization surrounding such a choice. While my investigation began with an interest in protest voting on an Ivy League campus and the views of my peers on the subject, a major takeaway from this short investigation is that the protest voting population at Princeton probably exists — but a full reveal is unlikely considering the morally heinous events of the Trump presidency. Imani Thornton is a politics major from Matteson, Ill. She can be contacted at it4@princeton.edu.
Letter to the Editor: Responding to the Graduate School fact sheet Princeton Graduate Students United guest contributor
The economist Albert O. Hirschman once wrote that there are three sorts of arguments used to “debunk and overturn ‘progressive’ policies and movements of ideas.” This response will argue that the progressive action will produce the exact opposite of that objective; that the effort to change something won’t make a difference at all; or that the effort will put in danger good things that already are in place. In short, negative reactions to progressive change boil down to the perversity thesis, the futility thesis, and the jeopardy thesis. Uncreative and repetitive, responses to efforts at positive change tend not to operate in good faith, but rather through predictable rhetorical pirouettes. Hirschman developed this thesis while a permanent member of the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and so it is doubly fitting that his typology so neatly describes the University administration’s ongoing reaction to graduate student efforts to form a union. While we understand that the Graduate School is entitled to its own views on unionization, we are disappointed that our efforts to seek better working conditions and a voice in university governance have been met with such undisguised hostility. Last week many graduate students received a document prepared by the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School, titled “Fact-Checking Graduate Student Unionization Claims.” Right away, it is impossible to ignore the implication: what comes from the University ad-
ministration is fact, while what comes from graduate students is nothing more than claims to be debunked. One would hope that, having admitted each of us to our respective graduate programs here at Princeton on the basis of our merits as scholars and our abilities to think critically, the administration would engage with us on this issue in good faith. If we are to, in the words of the Graduate School’s goals, “become stewards of [our] professions and contributors to the improvement of [our] societies, cultures, and the world at large” then we must be allowed to engage in unfettered dialogue with our colleagues without the heavy hand of the administration placing its thumb on the scale. If an election is called on the issue of graduate student unionization, and a majority is not reached, then we will not be able to form a union — we understand that, and accept it. In the meantime, we consider it our responsibility to speak with as many of our colleagues as possible about their concerns regarding their academic work environment and living conditions, and move forward in our efforts to improve that environment. The “Unionization Claims” listed by the Graduate School are deliberate distortions of our arguments. The administration’s pointed refusal to refer to our organization by name — instead referring to us as some shadowy group of “organizers” — is more than a little silly. The people involved in Princeton Graduate Students United (PGSU) are your colleagues and academic collaborators, your students and mentees — some of us are often behind you in line for coffee.
We’d appreciate the chance to engage in conversation on our campus without having to navigate alarmist communiqués in our inbox every month. The University “Fact Sheet” asserts, somewhat ominously, that “the union’s focus is on the interest of the collective.” Somehow, advancing our common interests as graduate students appears here as a bad thing. For all the particularities of our work in different disciplines, we have a great many things in common as graduate students at Princeton, and our aims in working towards unionization are protecting what we like about our lives here, advocating for what could be better, and accommodating for our diversity while acting as a group with shared interests. “There is no guarantee that engaging with a union will make things better,” the document claims. Hirschman would call this a classic example of the futility thesis in action. There are never any guarantees in political or academic life — in fact, without legally recognized and collectively organized representation by a union, there are already no guarantees. Under the current system, students have no tangible recourse if the University’s priorities change, or if an individual’s or department’s conditions shift. Relying on the goodwill of the University might appear to work for some, but it doesn’t work for everyone. We applaud Princeton for having taken a stand against the alarming executive orders coming from the White House in recent weeks, but in our current political climate, it is at best, counterproductive, and at worst, actively destructive, for our University to paint a view with
which they do not agree as less than fact. It serves no one to assemble a set of “claims” that the PGSU has not made, purportedly coming from a group of “organizers” that are not identified. It does even less good to separate these unsourced “claims” from “The Facts,” with the Olympian definite article announcing that the administration’s view is the only legitimate view. Graduate students do not have the kind of voice here at Princeton that our unionized colleagues at peer institutions have. Instead of appealing adhoc for meaningful representation and incidental changes — appeals to which the university is in no way bound to respond — we would much rather represent ourselves through a union, so that we can get on with what Princeton invited us here to do: our work. Signed, The Organizing Committee of Princeton Graduate Students United Richard Anderson, History Edna Bonhomme, History Murat Bozluolcay, Near Eastern Studies Eden Consenstein, Religion Robert Decker, French and Italian Eugene Evans, Plasma Physics Kay Gabriel, Classics Disha Karnad Jani, History Elias Kleinbock, Comparative Literature Mikey McGovern, History Felice Physioc, History Kimia Shahi, Art and Archeology Hrishikesh Somayaji, Chemistry David Walsh, History Mochi Liu, Quantitative and Computational Biology John Colin Bradley, Philosophy Thomas Davies, Classics
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Haley Siegel
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This past year, the Princeton Club of New York remodeled its main dining room. The changes were unveiled in March. What was once the Woodrow Wilson Dining Room has now been rechristened as the “Nassau 1756” Dining Room. The reason? According to a recent Daily Caller article, Princeton alumni now consider Woodrow Wilson to be a negative reflection on the University’s legacy as a notable “white supremacist.” Following 2015 student protests over the display of Wilson’s name on University buildings — that involved an occupation of President Christopher Eisgruber ‘83’s office, among other events — it appears as though the Princeton community is
Sarah Dinovelli
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s of the drafting of this column, it is almost the tenth week of spring semester. Many seniors are PTL, children and students are frolicking around the Woody Woo fountain, and I am still struggling to find a summer internship. As the end of the school year approaches, I am growing more resigned to the fact that I may not find an internship at all. I hope that I am not the only one with this problem. I would imagine that there are others, considering how cutthroat the internship market appears to be. But I do not know for sure, since we do not often talk about it. Instead, we celebrate the successes and discuss their details and logistics. Career Services’ annual report highlights how 78 percent of students found internships last year. Searching through
When renaming isn’t enough still basking in a paradoxical state of indulgent selfhatred mixed with a smug, politically correct, self-satisfaction. In theory, the desire to rename the room as a way of addressing racism should be regarded as a commendable attempt at unity, especially in a time in which our nation is embroiled in a polarizing stalemate across political and social lines. Yet, the decision to remove Wilson’s name cannot be framed as a meaningful change that adequately corrects a past wrong. Instead, it appears to be an appeasement perceived as necessary to avoid a potential uprising of leftists among the Princeton student body. The change has little to do with actually providing a sense of emotional closure or redress for those negatively affected by Wilson’s
legacy. Instead, it’s a token cop-out to prove to the public that the alumni of the University are not racist. It’s a sincere but misguided attempt at conveniently erasing our nation’s past imperfections. Frankly, the thought that this change is a worthy token of redress is blatantly ignorant. The decision to remove Wilson’s name is wasted on the very people to whom it likely makes no difference. After all, universalizing the name of a swanky restaurant to the innocuous if clichéd Nassau 1756 does not universalize the experience of dining there. Contrary to what may be a myth of the Ivy League, wearing the latest Ralph Lauren duds and shilling out $16 to enjoy a caulif lower “steak” with champagne is most likely still limited to only a small
fraction of Princeton alumni. Furthermore, the act of removing Wilson’s presence has negative consequences on our present dialogue. The apparent eagerness of Princeton’s alumni to expunge even the faintest trace of unsettling truths from the public consciousness only serves to perpetuate the kind of cursory treatment of racism and the lack of awareness today that most people would condemn. For example, we as a society have rightly vilified Sean Spicer for engaging in a Holocaust denial by alleging that Hitler did not use chemical weapons at a recent press conference. So, it seems hypocritical to support the alumni club in denying Wilson’s legacy of racism. Doing so allows for those in power to make
the justification that our society has done enough to counterbalance three centuries of racism, when in many cases, that is simply not true. By engendering a phobia of facing reminders of our past, who is to say that in the future, we as a society will be suddenly less prone to lapses in moral judgment? The crux of the matter is that there will always be more skeletons unveiled from the messy quagmire of our nation’s complicated past. Our objective in addressing them should not be to bury or ignore the reminders of their legacy, but instead to actively consider what lessons we can take away from them. Hayley Siegel is a freshman from Princeton, N.J. She can be reached at hsiegel@princeton.edu.
Why we don’t need internships the Daily Princetonian’s archives uncovers several articles about funding unpaid internships and the value that different columnists found in their summer experiences. The only article to even mention internship-less summers was a piece penned in 1998 about a student’s pile of rejection letters. And even he had one job offer currently on the table (lucky). Maybe something just always pans out for everyone. How great would that be! But I have a strong feeling that is not the case. Rather, our silence on this issue stems from our tendency, as both Princeton students and as humans, to highlight what is great about our lives and ignore speaking about the many pressures and challenges we all face. Most students who are confronted by the internship search process thus find themselves feeling, at one time or another,
alone and inferior to their peers. A person unfamiliar with Princeton’s culture would probably ask, “Why do you place so much pressure on yourselves to find internships?” The specific reasons differ from person to person, but the general answer is: “internships are imperative for future success.” But there are many definitions of “success” and countless paths to achieving the same goal. For me, mental well-being plays a large part in both academic and career success. Considering that this past school year has left me quite worn out, perhaps a summer to myself would place me closer to my goals than a stressful internship would. I am still searching for an internship, but I find myself thinking more and more that I am doing so in order to fulfill an outside expectation as opposed to pur-
suing my own dreams. We believe that internships will make the difference between finding a career worthy of a Princeton student, and settling for a mediocre job (or no job at all). Internships thus serve as litmus tests for how successful we will be once we graduate. You will be better off if you find internships as opposed to not. Working for Google or Goldman Sachs or a prominent statesman will lead to more post-graduation success than interning for an unknown entity. Depending on where we fall on this arbitrary hierarchy of internship positions, we find validation or question our self-worth, and decide whether we measure up to the expectations society holds for Princeton students. One could argue that the pressure we place on ourselves and inadvertently on each other is beneficial. It pushes us to make productive use of
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our summers and prepare ourselves for the job market. But we worry so much about following the path that the community lays out for us that we may not ask ourselves why we are looking for internships, as opposed to other opportunities, at all. We allow outside forces to dictate what we should do with our lives, as opposed to figuring it out for ourselves. Not finding an internship may seem like a hit to our pride. Since freshman fall we are told that we need internships every summer, and it feels like a massive failure to not fulfill this expectation. But even if our resumes do not grow, we can develop just as much as people — and that’s much more important in the long run. Sarah Dinovelli is a history major from Groton, Conn. She can be reached at sarahmd@princeton. edu.
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Wednesday April 19, 2017
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Women’s lacrosse tops Yale 17-9, remains undefeated in Ivy League By Grace Baylis Staff writer
Princeton women’s lacrosse was in Ivy League action against Yale last weekend, beating the Bulldogs 17-9. The Tigers remain unbeaten in Ivy League play and have only lost two games so far this season, currently holding a 10-2 record overall. The game started as a back-and-forth event, Princeton only managing to take the lead from a goal by senior midfielder Anna Doherty off a pass from junior Colby Chanenchuk. The junior had a total of three assists in the game and currently leads the team in assists with 27 overall. The performance was a display of the depth the Tigers have in their team, with eight different players scoring. Princeton welcomed back sophomore Allie Rogers from her injury that had caused her to miss five games. Rogers came back strong, adding a goal to the tally.
Sophomore midfielder Kathryn Hallett scored another hat trick, taking her goal total to 17 so far this season. Sophomore midfielder Elizabeth George also found the back of the net twice for Princeton as the Tigers began to draw away from the Bulldogs. At the half, Princeton led comfortably at 12-5. However, Yale did not make the second half easy for the Tigers. Senior second team AllIvy player Tess McEvoy started a three-goal run for the Bulldogs. But the Tigers responded well, as Doherty, senior midfielder Olivia Hompe and juniors Ellie McNulty and Kennedy Krauss scored four straight goals to widen the gap between the teams. This was Krauss’ first career goal for the Tigers. The goal by Olivia Hompe takes her total to 47, now level with what Hompe ended on last season. She leads the goal standings for the Ivy League conference,
five in front of second place, Harvard’s Marisa Romeo. The senior attacker is third in NCAA standings of goals per game, averaging 3.82, and earned the fourth Iv y League Offensive Player of the Week honor of her career. Senior goalkeeper Ellie DeGarmo also earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week last week for her display against Harvard. Making a total of ten saves against Yale, DeGarmo leads the Ivy League in number of saves and save percentage. The Tigers, ranked at No. 6, will continue their stint of away games on Wednesday against No. 10 Penn. This will prove a tough challenge, as Princeton lost to the Quakers last year. However, the Tigers have momentum and are playing with confidence this season, as they look to maintain their perfect record in Iv y League play. Game time is 7 p.m.
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Soon to challenge the lacrosse team’s Ivy League win streak this coming week are No. 10 Penn and No. 12 Cornell.
MEN’S BASEBALL
Penn sweeps baseball in weekend four-game series By Miranda Hasty
Associate sports editor
Following two exciting victories against Harvard, the baseball team (9-22, 5-7 Ivy) faced Penn (18-14, 8-4) in a fourmatch series at Meiklejohn Stadium in Philadelphia last Saturday and Sunday to kick off Gehrig Division play. The Tigers suffered two narrow defeats in Saturday’s games, falling 5-4 and 3-1. The games were hard-fought, however, as sophomore outfielder Jesper Horsted had three hits from the top of the order in the first match, while senior infielder Zack Belski, freshman Ramzi Haddad and freshman David Harding each had multi-hit outings. Pitchers senior Christopher Giglio and freshman Eli Kimbell combined for eight strikeouts. Princeton led the game 1-0 for the first three innings, but ran into trouble in the fourth when Penn surpassed them to take the lead at 3-1. The rest of the match went back and forth between the two teams until the Quakers took the game after a walk-off RBI single from Tim Graul in the ninth. Penn controlled the second match of the day, leading 1-0 until the eighth inning. Though Princeton was able to get one run on the scoreboard, Penn countered
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The Tigers will compete against Rider before they resume Ivy League play against Columbia this Saturday and Sunday on Clarke Field.
with two more runs to bring the final tally to 3-1. Impressive against Penn was senior righthanded pitcher Chad Powers, who scattered five hits in seven innings and allowed no runs after the first inning. Powers also had six strikeouts, a season high, and no walks. Easter Sunday was unsuccessful for the Tigers
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as well, adding two more losses to the season tally. The first game finished at 17-5, the second at 10-2. The score was 9-1 by the fifth inning, and Princeton was able to rally in two more runs to bring it to 9-3 in the sixth. The team added two more in the seventh, but Penn had already amassed a total of 17 runs to conclude the game. Each with two hits,
Harding and senior outfielder Paul Tupper were standouts in Sunday’s first match, Tupper coming in as pinch-hitter in the sixth inning and finishing with three RBI. The Quakers again dominated the final game of the series with eight RBI by the end of the third inning. The Tigers were able to amass two runs in the fourth inning after a wild pitch
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.570 percent Ranked second in the nation, senior Ellie DeGarmo anchors the defense of the women’s lacross team with a .570 save percentage.
and an RBI groundout from senior outfielder Danny Baer, but Penn soon gained two RBI in the fifth game to clinch a 10-2 victory and series sweep. Princeton will host Rider on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. on Clarke Field.
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