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Q&A with Janina Kugel, Chief Human Resources Officer of Siemens AG

By Shira Moolten

Assistant Prospect Editor

Janina Kugel has been the Chief Human Resources Officer of Siemens AG, a German multinational tech company, since February 2015. In her position, she has global responsibility for human resources – which includes diversity and health management and safety, among other areas.

On Tuesday, April 16, she spoke at the University in a talk titled “Shaping the future of work together!”

Below is a lightly edited and condensed interview with Kugel conducted by the ‘Prince.’

The Daily Princetonian: How did you get to where you are now? Is this where you thought you’d end up?

Janina Kugel: I did not have the idea to become a CHRO or anything. I didn’t even know back then that I wanted to do HR, but I was always open and curious to take opportunities. I did not only have a Plan A — I usually had a Plan A, B or C in my mind — so I liked to always be f lexible. What I love doing is strategic work, operational work, working in different countries — I think that is a variety of experiences that I’m into. But I don’t think you can plan careers so much ahead of time.

DP: Do you feel like things kind of fell into place for you?

JK: I think sometimes, with doing certain things or not doing certain things, you know that you can ac-

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Kugel discusses increasing diversity and pursuing opportunities in relation to her leadership within a multinational tech company.

tually make it happen [and] that things then will follow.

For example, if I hadn’t been taking an operational role, I knew that I would never be able to take general responsibility for everything. So sometimes I think you can take conscious decisions of opening up opportunities, and sometimes I think, if you make other decisions, you are closing opportunities. And I think that’s what you need to consider.

DP: What’s your favorite aspect of your career, or about human resources in general?

JK: I took that choice of going into human resources like eight or nine years back into my professional career, so it took me some

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time. What I like is actually the human aspect: the most challenging thing that one can have in a career, and also the most frustrating aspect.

But it’s just like an interest, like what can you actually do to really drive an organization built on people? That’s why I chose HR. DP: On a personal level, what are the most challenging aspects of your work?

JK: That depends, because I think today I would tell you that the most challenging aspects are totally different things than what I [would]’ve been telling you 10 years ago. Just because there is, of course, always a question of how often have you done the same thing, how often have you made very similar de-

cisions. I think the biggest challenges on one hand are always — well, very clearly, hiring people is much nicer than needing to lay off people. That’s very clear. But, I think, continuous learning, like how to move people to that change of mindset that they have to continue to learn, and also how to change the leadership culture.

DP: What concrete steps do you think companies could be taking that they aren’t, perhaps, to increase diversity?

JK: You have to put in a clear strategy, you have to put structure to processes, because it will not happen if you are not really structuring a process. For example,

structuring a process is like having recruiting interviews done by diverse panels, or by diverse interviewers, because then you will get totally different results.

And then also having a very clear strategy and vision behind it, and also measuring results.

DP: Do you think there is more we could be doing as a society to encourage people from a younger age to enter certain fields or careers that they are not?

JK: When I was 18, I didn’t exactly know what I wanted to do, and I didn’t know what it would feel like to go into certain jobs when I was graduating. I think what helps is when you have role models telling you what it feels like to have their jobs. I think today with social media, having, like, “A day in the life of a _____,” you can actually realize what does a day look like, which wasn’t possible 20 years ago. And I think sharing not only the skills that you need to have, but also what’s the surrounding of the job, and I think that actually gives you a pretty good orientation.

DP: You talked a bit about this need to “switch off” in your personal life, and with the future of work there is less and less of a distinction between what is work and what is home. Do you see that as a challenge, and how can we still give people the opportunity to come home from work?

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“Eco-pirate” Paul Watson discusses environmental activism, marine life staff writer and Contributor

Speaking to a full house, “eco-pirate” Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and cofounder of Greenpeace, asserted that predictions made about the environments of fish and other marine life were correct and the world is on the brink of environmental collapse.

In his talk at the University on Thursday, Watson focused on his past excursions in chasing poachers and hunters. He described boat chases and conflicts with governments and other activist agencies like Greenpeace.

Watson said that Sea Shepherd was among the most effective groups in recent years, working with Interpol as well as the governments of Mexico, South Africa, and Namibia to directly combat illegal hunting and poaching across the world’s oceans.

According to Watson, Sea Shepherd is a multinational, privately funded volunteer movement dedicated to preserving the world’s oceans and promoting a biocentric worldview, rather than an anthropocentric one. It advocates

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for placing the planet and biosphere ahead of human interests as “humans have existed for a fraction of a second on the timescale of this planet’s history.”

Furthermore, the organization operates a small navy of various ships, mostly ex-Coast Guard and private yacht vessels with which it pursues illegal fishing vessels.

Watson rebutted claims that his efforts were a form of ecoterrorism by saying that his endeavors have been nonviolent.

“The Sea Shepherds have never injured another human being, nor been injured on duty,” he said.

This track record, he argues, proves that the Sea Shepherds are a peaceful group, despite their Jolly Roger, a common symbol of pirates.

In recent years, the Sea Shepherds have removed hundreds of kilometers of illegal netting, produced video evidence of poaching around the world, and protected thousands of animals from being captured by fishermen, according to Watson.

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Editorial assistant Madeleine Marr discusses the electric scooter renting on campus, and columnist Gabe Lipkowitz pays homage to Notre Dame through a celebration of Princeton’s architecture.

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Over 200 students and activists attended the conference last weekend.

Sixth annual SPEAR conference discusses violence, decarceration

By Silma Berrada staff writer

On April 12 and 13, over 200 people joined the Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) for their sixth annual conference, entitled “Tracing the Violence.”

According to the event program, the conference was centered around understanding the origins of violence and recognizing “that policies and prisons are themselves sources of violence.”

The conference this year as-

sessed “how and why a massive segment of the incarcerated population is left out of the movement of reform — and sometimes even further vilified by reformers.”

Conference attendees explored what violent crime is, how people “(mis)understand” it, and the consequences of reforms that are “only for non-violent offenders.”

SPEAR Co-President Masha Miura ’21 said the goal of the conference was to “build a network of student groups across the country who are doing similar abolitionist work so

Today on Campus 7:30 p.m.: Princeton University Glee Club presents their annual Walter L. Nollner memorial concert, featuring J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion.

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that we can act in solidarity to one another.”

The conference hosted two interactive workshop sessions for students interested in how to organize on their campus.

“The conference was really special because it brought together incredible organizers, academics, and students to share truly radical and inspiring ideas about abolition, transformative justice, and rethinking violence into a setting where those perspectives are rarely See SPEAR page 2

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were saved as a result of the actions of his organization.

In the lecture, Watson recounted his many dangerous campaigns, featuring shootouts, drone strikes, and run-ins with various governments, including the Soviet Union and China. He also talked about the Sea Shepherds’ partnership with many smaller countries around the world, working in tandem with activists to stop poaching and fishers.

Watson, however, specifically noted that wealthier and more powerful nations were slower to respond, calling out French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for their inaction.

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Paul Watson discussed the dangerous campaigns of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

to prevent their fleets from poaching abroad,” he said.

Watson concluded his talk by addressing how he and his group have used media narratives to get traction for their movement. Watson referenced his long history of sponsorships and endorsements from celebrities — including an especially controversial speech Pamela

Anderson was asked to give on the behalf of Greenpeace which secured Russian governmental support of his movement.

The lecture, which was titled “Speaker Event: Paul Watson,” was sponsored by the Princeton Conversation Society. The talk was held yesterday at the Princeton University Art Museum at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 18.

that need to have the differentiation between what is their professional life and what is their home, they want to make that split, and there’s others that actually merge the one with the other. What I think is relevant is that we do not only have a one-fits-all solution, that we really give the opportunity to people to actually define it themselves, but we also need to allow that to happen.

I believe that sometimes it’s good to distract from some things. For example, when I’m caught in a problem, and I put on my running shoes and go for a run, I usually get better ideas afterwards. And

everyone has his or her own mechanisms and what they could do to get better ideas.

DP: What advice do you have for young people, especially college students, in entering the workforce?

JK: I would say try to do as many internships as you can, to get a glimpse of what it really feels like, and try to use the opportunities when they’re offered to you. Don’t be so fixed on “I need to do so-and-so years in this job or in this organization.” Also look at the opportunities when they come up and grab them when they are there.

And my last recommendation would also be go and live in another country. Go and live in another country and experience another culture.

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institutionally supported, much less respected,” SPEAR Co-President Amanda Eisenhour ’21 told The Daily Princetonian.

The conference opened on Friday with a talk from Michelle Jones, a doctoral student in the American Studies program at New York University, followed by a screening of Free Men, a documentary by activist Kenneth Reams.

Reams was on death row for 25 years until the Arkansas Supreme Court reversed his death penalty in 2018. The documentary, narrated by Reams, depicts his time in solitary confinement on death row, during which he became “a painter, a poet, the founder of a non-profit, and an art event organizer — while fighting at the same time for justice.”

The documentary showing was followed by a call with Reams, who remains incarcerated. Among other things, Reams discussed why he began creating art in prison. He was inspired after reading a book

by Wilbert Rideau, a former death row inmate. Reams got into contact with Rideau, who visited him in prison and told him to utilize his natural talents. According to Reams, he had been told this before, but it was only after speaking with Rideau that “the lightbulb went off.”

“And so I started creating artwork telling stories about the history, the practice, the laws of capital punishment in America. That’s what I’m doing today,” he said.

Reams floated the idea of presenting his artwork at the University.

“I would like to bring an exhibit to Princeton if you all will have me,” he said. “Me and Isabelle [his wife] would love to come back and present some of our art to you all.”

Eisenhour said the screening and call were “incredibly special because prisons, and solitary confinement in particular, are constructed to prevent voices like his from reaching the public.” “[Reams’] humor and ability to connect with the audience was amazing, and definitely inspired people to join the campaign to free him,” Eisenhour added.

The second day of the conference opened with Dr. Marie Gottschalk, a professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Pennsylvania, who gave a talk entitled “Race, Crime, and Punishment: Ten Things Everyone Should Know about Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice Reform.” Afterwards, Truthout social media manager Kelly M. Hayes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota Lena Carla Palacios, and formerly incarcerated activist and writer Donna Hylton discussed how to respond to critics of prison reform concerned about violent crime.

A second panel followed, in which attorney and organizer Andrea Ritchie, author and freelance journalist Victoria Law, and Associate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the Women’s Center at DePaul Univer-

sity Ann Russo discussed sexual assault and gender-based violence and discussed difficult questions including how we avoid turning to a violent system to curb sexual violence, how we can take genderbased violence seriously without expanding criminalization, and how we can fight against both gendered violence and mass criminalization at the same time?”

Multiple workshops following the panels were aimed at helping students start or build organizations dedicated to anti-carceral work. These workshops included “Restorative Justice in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice System,“ “Preventing Gun Violence at the Community Level,“ “Ending Solitary Confinement: How We Built a Coalition in New Jersey,“ and “Organizing with Black Panthers.”

The conference continued with a panel consisting of Co-Executive Director at the Chicago Torture Justice Center Cindy Eigler, activst with the Chicago Torture Justice Center Gregory Banks, and community organizer Timothy Chau Rose. The panel looked “at how systems of criminalization are themselves violent, focusing on one of the most controversial cases in Chicago’s civil rights history: the Jon Burge Cases,” according to the event program. The Jon Burge Cases “spawned the first nationwide example of city-sponsored reparations,” in response to former Chicago Police Chief Jon Burge overseeing the torture and forced confessions of hundreds of falsely accused men.

The closing plenary was delivered by scholar activist James Kilgore on the spread of the carceral state and systemic violence. Kilgore is an activist, writer, researcher, and director of the Challenging E-Carceration project, which focuses on developing critical responses to electronic monitoring and other carceral technologies, according to the event program.

Overall, SPEAR used the conference to address their goal “to grow a movement that builds power by embracing and acting upon issues of structural violence through drawing on notions of restorative and transformative justice, international histories of reconciliation and reparations, and radical and revolutionary ideology,” as stated by the event program, and Miura and Eisenhour were both pleased with how the event went.

“This year we saw a great turnout of both students and activists,” Miura noted.

She hopes University students will continue to engage with SPEAR activities on campus, imploring students “to check out the Ban the Box campaign, as it directly affects our campus’s role in upholding the carceral state, and to watch the Woke Wednesdays video about it.”

Conference organizer Jackson Vail ’21 found the conference rewarding and was grateful to all involved.

“It was really inspiring to be in an environment where a society that meets everyone’s needs could be imagined and were people could rigorously discuss what a world without prisons would look like,” Vail said.

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Men’s tennis falls winless over weekend, drops matches to Columbia, Cornell

By Elan Zohar Contributor

Entering the weekend with a 2–1 Ivy League record and in contention for the Ivy League title, Princeton men’s tennis (18–9 overall, 2–3 Ivy League) faced the 16th-ranked Columbia Lions (14–3, 4–0) at home on Friday and then traveled to Ithaca to take on Cornell (13–8, 4–0) on Sunday.

“We knew it would be a tough weekend,” said head coach Billy Pate; Cornell and Columbia were both undefeated in Ivy League play. Despite a strong start against league-favorite Columbia, the Tigers seemed to lose their stride. They fell 2–5 to the Lions and then 1–4 in matches against Cornell.

“We felt like we needed to win at least one of the matches this past weekend to qualify for the NCAA [tournament] at-large,” Pate said. “Those would have been really good opportunities, particularly Columbia.”

Early in Friday’s LionTiger matchup, it seemed Princeton would capitalize on its opportunity. The Tigers jumped out to an early advantage, winning two of three doubles matches in tie-breakers. Singles play started on a good note as well, only to be stopped due to rain — something Pate described simply as “unfortunate.”

The Princeton team, which had gathered momentum on the outdoor courts, had to move into Jadwin Gym to finish its matches.

Although the singles matches generally remained close contests, only first-year Will Peters was able to seal the deal and come away with a victory.

After a Saturday off, Princeton then took on Cornell on the Big Red’s turf.

It was the Tigers’ first road game of three in the Ivy League season, which may have played a role in their uncharacteristic, unexpected loss.

“It was senior day for Cornell and they had a good crowd on hand. I don’t know if we had the sense of urgency we needed in doubles and that was pivotal,” Pate said.

Once again, Princeton’s only singles win would come from Will Peters, this time in three sets. However, two matches remained unfinished; with some quick singles wins, Cornell clinched an early victory.

The outing was a disappointing outing for the Tigers — it effectively put an end to the team’s dream of earning an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

“Now, we’re on the outside looking in,” Pate said in reference to the possibility of an automatic qualification.

Princeton has two more matches — both away — next weekend against Brown and Yale. If the Tigers want a shot at the tournament, they will need to come back to Princeton on Sunday with two more victories under their belt.

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Tiger crews earn big wins, prepare for big tests

By Molly Milligan Staff Writer

Mid-April means it’s mid-season for all four Princeton rowing teams.

The lightweight women have been the talk of the boathouse after putting together an impressive weekend of racing at the Knecht Cup Regatta on the Cooper River last weekend.

The Varsity Eight nabbed second place behind No. 1 Stanford but finished in front of then-No. 2 Boston University by four seconds.

This week, the Tigers have been rewarded with the No. 2 ranking in the IRA/USRowing Coaches Poll, with BU falling to third.

The lightweight women’s Varsity Four posted the win of the week, dramatically defeating BU by 0.2 seconds to earn a gold medal. “We didn’t even know the result until we landed on the dock,” senior co-captain Grace Miles said after the race. “Our boat speed was very similar to BU’s, we just outraced them. I was really proud of the poise and

aggression that our boat rowed with this weekend,” Miles added.

Princeton will next face No. 6 Georgetown on Lake Carnegie in their final dual race before Eastern Sprints.

The Hoyas placed sixth in the eights race and fifth in the fours race at the Knecht Cup. The seventh-ranked heavyweight men’s squad swept Penn and Columbia last Saturday at Overpeck Lake Park. The First Varsity eight topped Penn by more than four seconds to

retain the Childs Cup, with Columbia coming in third.

The Childs Cups is the oldest contested cup in collegiate rowing — Princeton now owns a series-best 51 cups, including 25 of the last 26.

The Second and Third Varsity Eights defeated their Ivy competitors by even larger margins to remain perfect on the season.

The closest race of the day came between Princeton’s third and fourth boats, with the 3V edging the 4V by 0.3 seconds.

This Saturday, Princeton will face its first true test of the season as thirdranked Harvard comes to town. The Crimson topped No. 5 Brown for the Stein Cup last week, but margins were tight across all crews.

The Princeton lightweight men have retained the second spot in the IRA/ USRowing Coaches Poll after suffering their first loss of the season at No. 1 Cornell last weekend. In the First Varsity Eight, the Big Red edged the Tigers by 2.6 seconds. Margins in

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Lightweight women’s varsity four edged out BU for a gold medal finish last weekend.

the Second and Third varsity eights races were both under 5 seconds.

Despite struggles in the top boats, the Tiger’s Fourth Varsity Eight raced to victory in 6:10.6. Junior Dennis Duffin ref lected on the win, saying, “I think boat attitude was really important — we wanted to win for the guys next to us, and it worked out.”

The Lightweights will face No. 5 Penn and No. 9 Georgetown this weekend

on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia in the race for the Wood-Hammond Trophy. Princeton’s First Varsity Eight beat Georgetown by 10 seconds earlier this season, but the Tigers expect stiffer competition from Penn. The Quakers have been defeated by No. 1 Cornell and No. 3 Columbia, but own wins over No. 4 Harvard and No. 6 Yale — two teams Princeton has not yet seen.

The open women, now

ranked seventh in the CRCA/USRowing Coaches Poll, benefitted from an extra week of training following their success at the Ivy League Invite two weeks ago. During that regatta, the Tigers went a combined 21–1.

In the morning session, the First Varsity Eight topped Harvard-Radcliffe by 3.7 seconds and retained the Class of 1984 Plaque, which is contested between Princeton, Dartmouth, and

Penn. In the afternoon racing, Princeton widened its margin over Harvard-Radcliffe to 12 seconds, while also defeating Cornell for the Class of 1975 Cup. The Second Varsity made an even more impressive comeback on the day after losing to Harvard-Radcliffe by 6.2 seconds in the morning. After a lineup shuff le, the Tigers avenged their loss by more than three seconds in the later session.

Theses success have the

Tigers itching to race again.

Before the season, senior Sadie McGirr said: “It was exhilarating and encouraging to be in the mix with some really fast crews at NCAAs last spring.” One of those “really fast crews” was No. 4 Texas. This year, Princeton won’t have to wait until the last weekend of the season to race the Longhorns. The open women will host Texas and their top Ivy League rival, No. 9 Yale, on Saturday.

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Should We Give E-Scooters A Chance?

Madeleine Marr

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Hoboken announced on April 3 that the city would be the first in New Jersey to introduce an electric scooter sharing program. A six-month pilot program was introduced after an ordinance was passed, allowing Lime and P3GM — which operates JerseyBike — to provide rental scooters within city limits. Mayor Ravi S. Bhalla stated, “I am thrilled Hoboken is leading the way for the rest of the state to implement an additional mode of green transportation.

Electric scooters will help residents easily travel around our city, reduce congestion on our roadways, and improve access to transit stations and business districts.”

As e-scooters begin cropping up closer to home, it raises the question again: should Princeton bring rental scooters to campus? The Transportation Task Force within USG has already brought up the possibility of introducing electric scooter rentals to campus, but the issue has been gaining strength among the student population as more people clamor for Bird, Lime, or Spin to establish a presence in Princeton. While there are many legitimate reasons to be wary of a scooter sharing program, the pros suggest that a limited trial run is worth exploring.

E-scooters have become the year’s biggest tech trend, with investors pouring nearly one billion dollars into companies in the past few months. In major cities like Paris and London, more than four different companies’ scooters can be seen strewn across sidewalks. Yet regulatory roadblocks and market saturation are already causing inves-

tors to worry that the bubble is already ready to burst.

Other colleges have attempted to bring e-scooter rentals to campus with mixed results.

Miami University in Ohio struggled with e-scooters after removing its ban on the vehicles, implementing conditions including “that riders must walk the scooters on sidewalks, ride them in campus bike lanes and park them at bike racks.”

Other schools, such as Indiana University at Bloomington and Michigan State University, have instituted similar regulations about parking.

Since many students have violated these policies, school administrators have resorted to impounding the scooters for multiple weeks. Given the existing crowding of bikes around hubs like Firestone Library and Frist Campus Center, it is worth questioning whether Princeton has the space for the scooters to park. It would also be a significant burden on PSafe to impound all misplaced scooters.

Health concerns understandably cause some hesitation for those considering an e-scooter program in Princeton. One issue that has been brought up is that drunk students will harm themselves and others if they attempt to ride home from the Street — however, the scooters are generally shut off to be charged after a certain point in the evening, precluding impaired students from using them as nights out end.

Another concern involves the safety issues associated with the relatively high-speed vehicles, which is more difficult to address. There have been many incidents with scooter riders becoming seriously injured, especially because most riders don’t use helmets. Would Princeton be held responsible for injuries that occur on rental scooters?

Can McCosh Health Center handle an influx of students with the head injuries, fractures, and

dislocated joints that studies have found are associated with e-scooter use?

Even non-riders may be put at risk, as pedestrians frequently trip over carelessly thrown scooters on the sidewalk. The scooters in Hoboken and many other cities are limited to the bike lanes, something Princeton’s campus lacks. Bikes currently swerve between the sidewalks and the street. However, “boosted boards” (electric skateboards) already co-exist with bikes, pedestrians, and cars, and can reach similar speeds as e-scooters: 25 mph. Princeton students may be able to incorporate a significant number of rental scooters with little impact on the existing transportation ecosystem.

Some cities have initiated e-scooter programs to great success. Citizens in Portland, Oregon, responded well to a four-month e-scooter sharing pilot; 62 percent viewed the scooters positively, and 71 percent reported that they use escooters frequently to travel to their destination. But in Santa Monica, the first city to see a Bird program, chaos followed the start-up: “Citizens piloted Birds on the sidewalk (illegally).

Teens caused mayhem by ignoring traffic laws while doubleriding. Pedestrians tripped over discarded scooters that clogged the walkways.

There were accidents, serious head injuries — Birds zip along at 15 miles an hour, and few trying them out wore helmets — and hundreds of tickets issued to riders. There was a protest. There was a counterprotest. Six months after the scooters appeared, Bird agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a ninecount misdemeanor criminal complaint levied by the city attorney’s office.” This evidence indicates only that the exact circumstances surrounding rental scooter programs matter — therefore, it is worth exploring

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exactly how Princeton’s specific campus structure would react to an e-scooter rental program.

While the e-scooter trend has been hailed as an environmental boon, it may not even be as friendly as has been claimed.

Most of the scooters are charged using coal power, making them significantly less environmentally friendly than biking or walking. The charging system also requires that a contractor collect all scooters at the end of the day, wherever they have ended up, to be charged at a central location. According to Inhabitat, a green lifestyle site, this charging system may actually counteract the benefits — chargers use cars to collect scooters and are likely undoing any of the carbon-saving performed by the scooters.

Ultimately, the scooters have as many potential drawbacks as benefits. They are admittedly fun and convenient, but also potentially dangerous and environmentally draining. They may clutter our sidewalks or improve attendance at lectures across campus. Before we can even deduce the merits, the entire industry may go bankrupt.

The best solution is a measured one: introduce a limited time trial program with a very small number of scooters — perhaps a fifth of the current number of bikes on campus.

This way, both supporters and detractors can observe exactly how the e-scooter trend would play out on Princeton’s small but active campus. If the scooters can be easily integrated into our current transportation system, they would provide an affordable and quick way to get around. But if McCosh becomes overwhelmed with scooter-related injuries, we will have learned our lesson.

Madeleine Marr is a sophomore from Newtown Square, Pa. She can be reached at mmarr@princeton. edu.

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The fire of Notre Dame: reminding us to appreciate our own Collegiate Gothic architecture Gabe Lipkowitz

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France particularly, and the world generally, suffered a tragedy on Monday as the Cathedral of Notre Dame caught fire. Construction on the cathedral began in 1160 and has since become a defining symbol of both the Catholic Church and the French nation as a whole.

While the damage seems to have been contained, the main spire of the Cathedral did collapse, and only in the coming days will we realize the total damage done by the conf lagration.

I am by no means an expert in the history of this beautiful building, but to appreciate its cultural significance at a broad level, one need only see pictures of the horrified faces of Parisians as they watched their cultural icon go up in f lames.

How does one respond to such a disaster? With mourning, of course, but if there is any good that can come out of such a loss, it is to encourage us appreciate the value of such historic buildings to our lives in the first place. In honor of Notre Dame, I seek to examine more closely the collection of those historic buildings on our own University campus that imitate its Gothic style.

These include, among others: Blair Arch, built in 1897 in the Tudor Gothic style; East Pyne Hall, also built in 1897 and of a different variant of the Tudor Gothic style; the University Chapel, completed in 1928 in the Collegiate Gothic style.

Remarks of a current Princeton professor of architecture, and of the architect of our very own Chapel,

illuminate these buildings’ various qualities.

“Architecture moves slowly,” Professor Mario Gandelsonas mentioned a few weeks ago in an architecture seminar. Contrasting the discipline as a whole to rapidly changing fields in the sciences, which often depend on innovation, he made a simultaneous comment that this slowness may in fact be a virtue. If change is regrettable, after all, then a lack of change in a field may be applauded.

If there is one change that modern society has undergone that many have come to regret, and continue to regret for ethical, environmental, and social reasons, then it is excessive materialism. By this I mean a fixation on transitory pleasures in the form of more and more goods. Interestingly, one of the most eloquent descriptions of this condition of the modern age came from none other than the architect of our University Chapel, Ralph Adams Cram (1863–1942). In his book, “The Gothic Quest” (1915), Cram laments: “The general tendency of society for the last two centuries and more has been away from the spiritual and imaginative towards the mental, the intellectual, and now, at last, towards the hopelessly material.”

If Cram wrote at the turn of the 20th century, then what would he make of American society today? If America was indeed “hopelessly material” in 1915, then in 2019, we must surely be beyond “without hope.” As with many aspects of our society, buildings can communicate this. One need only to drive five minutes from our campus to get a glimpse of what might aptly be called Cram’s nightmare today: Route 1.

Here, as in much of the rest of America, buildings

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are thrown up rapidly, either not designed at all or designed under very loose pretenses of modernist or postmodernist distortions, without any attention paid to matters of aesthetics or durability, instead only to short-term profit.

In the face of such excessive materialism, it can be tempting to throw up one’s hands and simply accept aesthetic insensibility as a feature of our modern age. But for Cram, and therefore perhaps for us too, good Gothic architecture served as an antidote. “In noble […] architecture,” the Medievalist speculates, “may lie in part the way of our deliver[a]nce from materialism.”

Formal qualities of Gothic architecture that stand in opposition to the cheap, prefabricated nature of our modern day society include, among others, crenellations suggesting the practice of warfare from hundreds of years ago, intricate gargoyles calling to mind careful Medieval craftsmanship, and load-bearing f lying buttresses that communicate lasting physical strength.

In its predominantly stone and wood materiality, too, Gothic architecture portrays a high degree of resistance to the elements, a beautiful degree of “firmitatis,“ as the Roman architect Vitruvius

describes, and which I’ve written about before.

Finally, the fact that its aesthetic appeal has remained over the course of centuries communicates a resistance to stochastic f luctuations in taste. This immutable nature of the design of Gothic buildings suggests a lasting — perhaps, one might even say, objective — value.

Notre Dame is perhaps the finest example of Gothic architecture in the world, making the fire truly a tragedy, but we can also see such formal qualities suggesting historical longevity in our own campus architecture.

And just as in France, this architecture holds special significance for our campus.

In particular, is not timelessness itself one of the most appealing qualities of our University as an institution? The structure of our classroom — with a lecture and a precept each week, a professor at the front instructing a group of seated students — has barely changed over the course of centuries. The concept of research itself, also core to Princeton’s mission, while innovative and groundbreaking, is also in a sense itself timeless, since there is no clear end or definable finish point. Timelessness even appears in how our Univer-

sity invests its endowment, which, unlike many shorter-term investments, seeks “to assure the perpetual financial health and independence of the University.”

Gothic architecture, in sum, communicates one of the core and unique values that a university such as our own holds. Importantly, too, we cannot take it for granted since it is vulnerable to damage, just as Notre Dame was. Just the other day, as I walked by 1903 Hall — a dormitory designed in the Collegiate Gothic style — I noticed something peculiar.

Instead of stone masonry connecting the two welldecorated roof rakes sloping upwards to a point, not one but two such roofs were in disrepair, with apexes partly broken off.

After hearing of the fire of Notre Dame, let us not forget the vulnerability of this priceless historical architectural style in our own lives. As we mourn the damage done to one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in the world across the Atlantic, perhaps we may take solace in a deeper appreciation of such architecture closer to home.

Gabe Lipkowitz is a senior concentrator in molecular biology. He can be reached at gel@ princeton.edu.

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By Nancy Tran Contributor

Last year, Princeton women’s lacrosse (10–3, 4–1 Ivy) battled it out against Penn (9–4, 3–2) for the Ivy League crown and came away with a 13–10 victory. The two teams have been vying for the title and the automatic bid to the NCAAs for several decades, and Wednesday night was no different. The Tigers took a quick ride to Franklin Field in Philadelphia to take on the Quakers. By the end of the night, the Tigers made out with a close 13–11 win.

For the majority of the first half, Penn held a lead over Princeton after getting in a quick couple of shots. Thirteen minutes into the game, the Quakers led the Tigers by three goals. Adding to their problems, the Tigers had to play down a man when sophomore attacker Kyla Sears was yellow carded. Sears wasn’t the only one to be yellow carded. In the second half, the Tigers were given five additional cards throughout the half, forcing them to go without a player in several instances.

“We were really trying to emphasize that we could not foul and not to get cards,”

head coach Chris Sailer said.

“I think we have to be more disciplined and understand what’s at stake. We put ourselves in a hole with six of the last 10 minutes playing man down and we played for a long stretch with two men down.

Kyla found [senior attack Elizabeth] George and scored with two men down but those kinds of things don’t happen all the time. We have to get back to playing like we need to play in terms of that.”

Despite the early lead that Penn managed to gain over Princeton, both teams were practically even by the end of the first half, when Penn led 8–7. The rest of the game was just as close; however, the Tigers managed to not only even the score within the first four minutes of the second half but never let the score return in favor of the Quakers.

Leading the Tigers was George with six goals.

“I thought [George] played very well last night,” Sailer said. “She went to goal hard, she looked for opportunities, and she made the most out of her shots. She was a kid that was not going to be denied in that game she really carried us in the first half with her fire and intensity.”

Sears added two goals and four assists, followed by four goals from junior attacker Tess D’Orsi. Senior attacker Allie Rogers also managed to put one in the net. Sophomore goalie Sam Fish bounced back after a shaky start to finish with 12 saves. “[Fish] wasn’t playing her normal game early in the game especially when they scored those four goals early on,” Sailer said. “But I think she really pulled it together with a couple of big saves in the first half, and at halftime there was such a change in her. It was like she knew exactly where they were going to shoot and was ready to stop all their low shots, and she was winning ground balls. I think her turn around in the second half was a huge reason why we won that game.”

This was an important win for Princeton in terms of playoff seeding, as the Tigers still control their own destiny in the race for the regular season conference title.

Continuing with the string of Ivy games, the Tigers will travel to New Haven this Saturday to face off with the Yale Bulldogs at 1 p.m. Yale is currently seventh in the conference, and Princeton tied for first after defeating Penn.

Following Yale will be a game against Cornell in Ithaca on Saturday, April 27, at 3 p.m.

“We feel good after the big win,” Sailer mentioned. “ We

just put ourselves in a great position to challenge for the title and to win the title we’re going to have to win our last two games.”

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Kyla Sears helped Princeton beat Penn Wednesday night.

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Mike Morean and Princeton will take on Harvard at home this weekend.

By Tom Salotti Associate Sports Editor

Men’s lacrosse (6–6, 1–3 Ivy) will face Harvard University (5–6, 1–3) on Saturday afternoon at Sherrerd Field in Princeton. The teams are tied for fifth in Ivy League play with two games remaining.

This weekend’s match is high stakes — whichever team loses will be effectively eliminated from playoff contention.

Princeton’s head coach, Matt Madalon, said his team is prepared and excited to compete in such an important game.

“We’re in playoff mentality with our backs against the wall,” he said. “The guys are

fired up and looking forward to the opportunity. We control our fate and are ready for this weekend.”

Last season when the two teams met, the Tigers beat the Crimson 15–10 in Cambridge.

The last time they faced off at Sherrerd Field, Princeton won 12–9. In fact, Princeton has defeated Harvard 34 out of the 41 times they’ve met at Princeton and holds the lead on the overall record of 60–24–1.

The key to Tiger success this weekend, according to Madalon, is locking down on defense and being smart in their own half.

“We’ve got to come out, sink into our defensive system, play good one-on-one de-

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fense, and keep manufacturing stops,” he said. “We need to let the goalie make some saves and allow him to see the shots we don’t want to give up.”

Madalon isn’t too worried about the offensive line, noting that “they’ve been consistent and efficient all year.”

“If we keep giving the ball to our offense, those guys are going to do wonderful things with it,” he said.

One of these wonderful things may be the fact that junior attacker Michael Sowers is only 11 points (goals and assists) away from breaking the program’s all-time points record of 247 points, held by Kevin Lowe ’94. Sowers had

an 11-point game against Siena College last week and has the potential to do it again, “if we do right by him,” the coach said. Still, they’re not letting it get to their heads.

“He’s not the guy to focus on that kind of thing and as a team we aren’t, either,” said Madalon.

After losing their first three, Princeton claimed its first Ivy League win this season against Dartmouth last weekend. In Hanover, New Hampshire, the Tigers defeated the Big Green 13–4. While the score might indicate a drubbing, Madalon assured that it didn’t seem like it on the field.

“It didn’t feel like a blowout

from a coaching standpoint or a player in-game standpoint,” he said. The coach attributed these feelings to a tight first quarter that saw Dartmouth go up twice over the Tigers before trailing 4–3 at the whistle.

The second half is where the team showed its true potential, according to Madalon.

“We started playing at the right speed and playing really well. We had a ton of shots.”

Emulating last week’s strategies will help the team emerge victorious.

“If we make sure we’re executing our technique on offense and defense,“ said Madalon, “we’ll hopefully come out on top.”

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