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In Opinion Steve Swanson considers the longterm effects of hookup culture, and Sarah Sakha argues for more careful choices of words on campus. PAGE 4

In Street This week in Street, Street takes a look at Princeton’s improv groups, Staff Writer Victoria Scott goes behind the scenes of “The City Lost and Found” and Staff Writer Maya Wesby imagines a day in the life of Ted Cruz. PAGE 4

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BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Sen. Menendez indicted for corruption

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

U.S. Senator Robert Menendez and Salomon Melgen, a Florida ophthalmologist, were indicted on Wednesday by the District of New Jersey for one count of conspiracy, one count of violating the travel act, eight counts of bribery and three counts of honest services fraud.

Menendez was also charged with one count of making false statements.

The announcement was made

by Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Newark, New Jersey Division Richard Frankel.

According to CNN, Menendez has asserted his innocence, pledging to fight the federal corruption charges brought against him. Menendez said the charges were politically motivated and “intended to silence me.”

Menendez and Melgen did not respond to multiple requests for

comment.

“I have always conducted myself in accordance with the law,” Menendez said. “I’m angry and ready to fight because today contradicts my public service career and my entire life.”

In a press release Wednesday, The Department of Justice alleged that Menendez accepted close to $1 million worth of lavish gifts and campaign contributions from Melgen between January 2006 and January 2013. Melgen’s contributions were allegedly in exchange for Menendez using the power of his Senate office to influence the outcome of ongoing contractual and Medicare billing disputes worth tens of millions of dollars to Melgen and to support the visa applications of several of Melgen’s girlfriends.

The indictment alleges that, among other gifts, Menendez accepted flights on Melgen’s private jet, a first-class commercial flight and a flight on a chartered jet; numerous vacations at Melgen’s Caribbean villa in the Dominican Republic and at a hotel room in

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Sen. Robert Menendez was indicted for corruption on Wednesday, but he has asserted his innocence.

Paris; and $40,000 in contributions to his legal defense fund and over $750,000 in campaign contributions.

Menendez never disclosed any of the reportable gifts that he received from Melgen on his financial disclosure forms. “[Prosecutors] don’t know the difference between friendship and corruption and have chosen to twist my duties as a senator

Whig-Clio discusses new sexual assault policies

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First year student Stephen Lamberton ‘99 was charged for allegedly breaking four windows at Tiger Inn, using a detached bicycle seat.

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Stanford offers free tuition

Stanford University will now offer free tuition to students who come from families with less than $125,000 in annual income and assets, CNN reported.

Stanford made this announcement when it released its regular admissions results last week.

Room and board charges will also be waived for those students whose families’ incomes are below $65,000, which is more generous than the school’s previous threshold of $60,000.

While the expected parent contribution is zero, Stanford still requires students to contribute $5,000 on their own from summer or part-time jobs.

“Our highest priority is that Stanford remain affordable and accessible to the most talented students, regardless of their financial circumstance,” Stanford’s Provost John Etchemendy said, according to CNN. In comparison, Princeton grants free tuition for students whose parents earn less than $120,000, while those with incomes lower than $60,000 do not have to pay tuition, room or board.

of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section.

“It’ll be very interesting to see how this plays out legally,” said Stanley Katz, senior lecturer in the Wilson School.

Katz noted a few standout points in the trial, namely the indictment of Melgen as well as Menendez and the jury’s decision to indict both men before the See MENENDEZ page 2

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and my friendship into something that is improper,” Menendez said.

The Department of Justice has been preparing to bring criminal corruption charges against Menendez since early March.

The case is now being investigated by the FBI and is being prosecuted by Deputy Chiefs Peter Koski and J.P. Cooney, and Trial Attorney Monique Abrishami

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The 17th Gyalwang Karmapa spoke in the University Chapel on Wednesday about human rights.

Karmapa visits U., discusses women’s rights, environment

By Zynab Zaman staff writer

Women’s rights are a reflection of the degree to which everyone enjoys basic human rights, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa said in a lecture on Wednesday.

Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel Alison Boden introduced the Karmapa, noting that Karmapa literally means “the one who carries out Buddha-activity” or “the embodiment of all the activities of the Buddhas.” The Karmapa was born in Tibet and fled to India, where he has continued his training as a monk, Boden said.

The Karmapa explained that he was born into isolation and had no opportunity for formal education as a child. However, he was still recognized as the Karmapa at a young age. The important title has sometimes burdened him and brought him a multitude of challenges since childhood, he said.

Though his life has been difficult, the hardships he has faced have increased his empathy, he said. He is now able to have increasing concern for the challenges that other people face, becoming sensitive to a host of issues including gender, he added.

“We cannot assess the degree to which women are empowered in this society. The degree to which they possess the rights that are their rights,” he said. “We need a mutual understanding, and this understanding has to be real. It has to be founded in basic human benevolence and caring for each other.”

The Karmapa said he works to inspire people to support and facilitate the empowerment of women around the world.

Though famous historical steps have been taken for women’s empowerment, including women’s See KARMAPA page 2

The American Whig-Cliosophic Society discussed various aspects of the University’s new sexual assault policy on Wednesday.

Wilson School professor Stanley Katz, who is an outspoken critic of the University’s decision in 2014 to lower the evidence standard for sexual assault cases, addressed the topic in a short talk at the beginning of the discussion.

Whig-Clio senate president Jack Reed ’16 explained that the event was intended to be an open conversation, rather than a lecture.

There were no representatives in support of the University’s new standard of evidence at the discussion.

According to Katz, the administration sent the entire faculty an email at the beginning of this academic year indicating a possible change in the disciplinary procedure to address sexual assault cases on campus. The change was mandated by the Office of Civil Rights, based on a perceived violation of Title IX. Before the change, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students would prepare the charges against a student who had been accused of an offense. The accused person then had the right to seek guidance from another member of the com-

munity, including a peer, faculty member or administrator. A formal hearing in front of the Committee on Discipline would then take place, and the accused would be able to make a statement.

The Committee would ultimately make a judgment based on the hearing.

Under the new policy, however, a case will be investigated separately by specialists at hearings with lawyers present. The case will return to ODUS if the independent hearing is to find that an infraction has occurred.

Katz warned against the overly punitive nature of discipline at the University.

He noted, for example, that the University tends to suspend students for two semesters rather than putting them on probation or suspending them for only one semester. “[The disciplinary process is] one of the most serious social mechanisms [that] should always be used fairly,” Katz said.

At the same time, Katz said that he understands the University is under a lot of pressure, as it depends on federal funding for certain research, especially in the sciences. He noted that the Department of Education’s intervention into the matters of universities requires a lot of justification.

“The University should See POLICY page 2

STUDENT LIFE

Falcon ’15 first U. student awarded David-Weill Scholarship

By Olivia Wicki staff writer

Eric Falcon ’15 became the first University student be awarded the Michel DavidWeill Scholarship, and he will pursue a master’s degree in European affairs at Sciences Po in Paris after graduation.

Every year, the Michel David-Weill award provides one American student, studying

at one of twenty Sciences Po partner institutions, with an $80,000 grant to attend Sciences Po and obtain a master’s degree. Named after Michel David-Weill, the former chairman of the investment bank Lazard Frères, the scholarship is directed by the Michel David-Weill Foundation.

“I was very excited. It’s a huge honor,” Falcon said. “I honestly didn’t expect to get

it. I was competing against a lot of qualified students from all across the country.”

The program is competitive and only a maximum of 20 students can even apply, Sciences Po International Affairs Manager Nur Manisali said.

David-Weill founded the scholarship to attract more Americans to Sciences Po in France, Executive Director of the Michel David-Weill Foun-

dation Anne Scattolin said.

“The world is getting smaller and more globalized, and if … you can get a different education at some point, meet new people, gather with French people and international students and get a different perspective, you know that will be what a great new leader will be,” Scatollin said.

Falcon is an American born in France who moved back

to the U.S. when he was four years old. He later pursued a year-long study abroad program in France in high school and he interned at the U.S. embassy in Belgium during the summer after his sophomore year at the University.

“In some ways [returning to France] feels like home,” Falcon said.

He is a Wilson School major, See SCHOLAR page 2

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statute of limitation was reached.

“They are playing hardball,” Katz said in reference to the prosecution about the fact that Menendez found out about his indictment from the press release.

Katz said that it’s extremely difficult to delineate acts of friendship from outright bribery, meaning that this case will be a hard one to prove.

Law professor at Northwestern University and a member of the American Bar Association’s Global Anti-Corruption Task Force Juliet Sorensen ’95 said that it is too soon to say whether the case will be dismissed.

“The indictment of Robert Menendez references a number of documents,” Sorensen said.

“I am sure that in the course of pre-trial discovery and pre-trial motion practice, Senator Menendez’s lawyers will certainly try to assess how the government came to acquire those documents. If they were obtained either directly, that is to say in physical form, or perhaps indirectly, electronically, from the Senator’s office in congress, I would expect that that would be litigated and brought before the judge probably in the form of a motion to dismiss the indictment.”

She noted that there have been recent rulings about this clause in the pre-trial motion practice concerning former Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana, now in jail for corruption.

In that case, the FBI had actually executed a search warrant on his congressional house office.

If documents are expressly

linked to a crime, they are not protected by the speech and debate clause, according to Sorensen “Obviously Dr. Melgen and Senator Menendez are close personal friends, and I would expect that their attorneys are, even now, preparing the series of dissents that these two had a very personal relationship and friends rely on each other,” she said. “That’s what friends do. However, things are a little different when one of those friends is a powerful U.S. state senator and the other friend is seeking special acts from him clearly in exchange for certain monetary favors.”

Sorensen cited Menendez working hard to obtain visas for the doctor’s girlfriends as such an act.

Justice Department spokesperson Peter Carr deferred comment to the indictment.

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and took a number of classes in the French and Italian Department at the University, including FRE 339: The World in Bandes Dessinees, which in French means “The World in Comic Strips,” in the spring of 2013 and a junior seminar in French studies in the fall of 2014, professor Andre Benhaim, who taught both classes, said.

“He struck me as a bright mind but also embodying the future of the Renaissance man,” Benhaim said of Falcon’s interests in many different disciplines.

Sophie Meunier, an alumna of Sciences Po and Falcon’s junior paper adviser, supported his scholarship nomination.

His paper was titled, ”The European External Action Service and Foreign Policy Coordination in the European Union.”

“We worked very closely because I was supervising his JP as well as teaching his seminar,” Meunier explained. “The things that really struck me about Eric were first of all how genuinely excited he seemed to be about studying European integration.”

Falcon said his interest in the EU was first sparked by its ability to use coordination and diplomatic action through economic integration to establish peace between many countries that had been in perpetual conflict.

Meunier said that Falcon embodied much of the collaborative spirit of her class when she had students workshop

each other’s JP drafts in the second half of the semester.

“He’s by far the student who took the assignment most to heart,” she said. “He really was helpful to the other students in the seminar in trying to get them to improve their drafts.”

At the University, Falcon has been the technical director and vice president of Triangle Club. In the future, Falcon hopes to one day have a career in government or diplomacy, with a focus on EUU.S. relations.

“I’m really looking forward to the very diverse exchange of ideas with students and faculty,” he said. “The majority of the students in the program are not French – they come from every country in the EU. I’m interested to meet other young people interested in these issues.”

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push back against that,” Katz said, “We should make clear that we won’t make changes that we don’t think are appropriate.”

With regard to the standard of evidence adopted by the University, Katz cited Section 2.5.1 of “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities,” where it says that all evi-

dence presented must be clear and convincing.

Katz said that this raises a lot of questions about whether such a standard is appropriate, or whether another measure – such as the Office of Civil Rights’ preponderance of evidence standard – would be preferable.

“Trying to protect students on campus, also trying to be fair to students, is a hard thing to do,” Katz said, “No system is completely fair. We

need to try … getting it right as an internal matter.”

Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources & Education peer Josh Morrison ’17 was present and available throughout the discussion, to ensure students could speak with him in case they felt uncomfortable at any point due to the sensitive nature of the topic.

The event took place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber.

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suffrage and the election of female presidents in some places, these steps are not enough to truly empower women, he said.

Societies are still not equal even though many countries appear to have reached gender equality through legislation and social pressure that protect the rights of women, he said. He added that he believed the solution is to develop love, understanding and authentic concern for one another.

There are also two different kinds of activists, the Karmapa said.

Because we live in an interdependent world, everyone’s actions affect each other, and so everyone is an automatic activist, he said.

The intentional activist, however, refers to those who have visions and seek to achieve specific goals, he explained.

“We need to be both kinds of ac-

tivists,” he said. “We need to take responsibility for our own views and behavior as individuals.”

People also need to focus on stewarding the environment and solving other societal issues, he said, and it is important to have pure intentions throughout this process.

People cannot approach activism with arrogance or pride or the mentality that they are somehow better than others, he added.

Sometimes, a soft approach is as necessary as a loud and raucous approach, and activists can often be unwarrantedly aggressive, he said.

The Karmapa also used the idea of smoking to explain the concept of motivation. Despite all the public knowledge of the harms of smoking, many still partake and one is only inclined to change when he or she feels a strong motivation to do so deep in their hearts, he said.

Only a similarly deep conviction to change the quality of the

environment will result in anything happening, he added.

When asked his opinion on homosexuality, the Karmapa said that love is important, noting that his answer differs from the traditional Buddhist answer.

“If the relationship is founded on true and genuine love, it is authentic,” he said. “But if a relationship is based only on desire and not on love, then whether it is a homosexual or heterosexual relationship, it still is not going to be very good.”

His current visit is only his third visit to the United States, he explained. He wanted to see American universities due to his encounters with American university students in India, he said.

The lecture, called “A Buddhist Perspective: Gender, the Environment and Activism,” took place in the University Chapel at 4:30 p.m.

It was sponsored by the Office of Religious Life and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

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The way we speak

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Dalliance and dopamine: another look at hookups

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’ve found myself frantically looking up slang terms in Urban Dictionary midconversation — discreetly on my phone — more frequently than I’ve had to look up a word in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Though, it makes sense to refer to Urban Dictionary, which was started back in 1999 by none other than a college freshman. Nowadays slang is a natural part of the spoken word, and how we speak is constantly evolving. It can be hard to keep up. In fact, it can be so hard that even courtrooms are now referencing Urban Dictionary, according to The New York Times.

Language reflects the changing needs of our society and our culture, which is why it is always evolving. According to the Linguistic Society of America, language is also a form of group identity, which is also dynamic. And the rise of texting, online chatting and social media is giving way to a new way of talking — or rather, virtually talking — altogether.

But now slang isn’t a part of our language; it is our language. While the days of eloquent — and arguably convoluted — Shakespearean language may be long gone and justifiably so, we ascribe little value to language and how we talk, particularly in college. College has its own set of slang, and adopting “college-speak” becomes a necessary part of assimilating and fitting in, both linguistically and socially, as writer Mark Peters points out in GOOD Magazine.

As linguistically enriching as neologisms may be, we have grown to underappreciate the value of a well-developed, diverse lexicon.

Many professors at Princeton have even commented on papers urging the use of simpler language. Furthermore, not only have slang and “college-speak” come to dominate the way we speak, but we simply care more about what we want to say, rather than how we say it. Perhaps many of us have never given the way in which we speak a second thought. After all, spoken language is relaxed, informal speech that shouldn’t require more effort, and day-today conversations are the rare occasions when we aren’t under pressure to perform.

We are dangerously close to losing sight of the value and intrinsic beauty of the spoken (and written) word.

Nonetheless, we have been desensitized to how we speak. Slang has become the norm to the point that on the occasion that someone does utter a slightly more obscure word, snarky comments such as “nice SAT vocabulary” will immediately follow.

But what has been culturally popular is now taking root in our education system. Even the College Board has decided to take the SAT in a new direction in 2016, away from matching the letters of the correct archaic word to fit the sentence in the question. The new and improved exam will feature ‘”high utility’” words which will be of greater use to students on a daily basis and across a wide range of disciplines and contexts.

Ben Zimmer, executive editor of Vocabulary. com, which seeks to expand people’s vocabularies, points out that though the SAT may be moving away from demanding students to know the definition of miscellaneous words and toward requiring them to use more commonplace words in various contexts, the SAT is not undermining the value of expanding one’s vocabulary. The only difference is that now there will be no higher SAT score waiting at the finish line, but rather a better command of language.

As seemingly futile our efforts were as anxious high school students to learn as many obscure, obsolete words possible to pass the vocabulary section of the SAT, not all the words we learned or were tested on were irrelevant and inapplicable. Many of those words were — and continue to be — not only useful but simply striking elements of the English language.

To many, if not most, a sophisticated lexicon implies pretension. People can be skeptical and condemning, and they perceive it as pointless.

However, I see it differently. As Emerson said, words are so vascular that if you cut them, they’ll bleed, so we must appreciate language as a dynamic, living being. Language is what shapes politics, cultures, sciences and even entire civilizations, and we are dangerously close to losing sight of the value and intrinsic beauty of the spoken (and written) word. This applies to not just the English language, but to all languages. So I ask you to be more thoughtful of what words you use next time you strike up conversation, and you may just find that the conversation takes a whole different turn.

Sarah Sakha is a freshman from Scottsdale, Ariz. She can be reached at ssakha@princeton.edu.

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here was a time when it seemed that every time you’d open The Daily Princetonian there would be an opinion piece about “hookup culture.” Gallons of ink were spilled over the issue, with anonymous contributors sharing sexual anecdotes while columnists agonized over the culture’s effect on gender roles and romantic orientation, with a fair amount of moralizing thrown in for good measure.

The interminable debates inspired parody by the Tiger Magazine and, of course, commentary by the Princeton Tory. It seems that the campus breathed a sigh of relief as the argument gradually wore itself out and the view that “if you don’t want to hook up, don’t hook up,” as summarized by Colby Pines, reasserted itself as the default sentiment.

Since the beginning of this academic year, I haven’t been aware of any resurgence of this debate — for which I’m sure most are grateful.

That being said, hookups are an undeniably prominent part of the Princeton culture and experience, and one that most incoming students aren’t familiar with as high schools tend to be more relationship-oriented. It’s therefore worth it to take a critical look at this aspect of our culture, rather than just accepting the status quo.

The first thing that jumps out about the practice of serial hookups is that it is rarely, if ever, designed to be a long-term plan. I don’t know if statistics for Princeton students exist, but the U.S. Census indicates that by the age of 30, over 80 percent of Americans have been married at least once and over 60 percent remain so. While marriage rates are on the decline for our generation, it still seems true that the endgame for most people involves, eventually, a spouse and children. In this regard, serial hookups don’t fit with most students’ future plans; at some point, those who want monogamy will presumably eventually want to replace the uncommitted, casual sexuality of hookups with the commitment and emotional attachment of a serious relationship.

This disconnect between serial hookups and most people’s future plans is not too concerning on its own. We do lots of things here that we don’t plan on doing after — living in dormitories, taking classes, singing in a capella groups, doing sports, drinking like sailors — so why should our sexual relationships be any different? The difference, in fact, is something peculiar to sex: its uniquely powerful reward mechanism.

A discussion of the effect of sex

on the brain could very quickly devolve into an excursus on neurochemistry and evolutionary psychology. Leaving the technicalities aside, it suffices to say that humans have a strong reward system for sex: having an orgasm causes the release of neurotransmitters that ingrain the behaviors that led up to it. This makes sense in an evolutionary perspective as sex is linked to reproductive success — those primates that were able to learn what behaviors were associated with successfully having sex were more likely to pass on their genes. The danger is that one cannot choose exactly which associations the brain will strengthen, as seen in a series of studies since the 1960s which successfully conditioned subjects to respond with sexual arousal to stimuli as varied as boots or jars.

What does the power of sex as a training device mean for hookups?

At the very least, it means that we should be cautious. If every sexual experience embeds an association between its circumstances and reproductive success, casual sex will only tend to make one want more casual sex. Worse can happen if hookups are being sought for a reason other than pure physical desire: hooking up to combat low self-esteem will associate low self-esteem with reproductive success; hooking up to be seen as cool will associate sex with social climbing. Neither of these examples are conducive to the formation of healthy, committed, long-term relationships.

Of course, we shouldn’t condemn hookups based on just this speculated effect. Data is always preferred. Few good studies have investigated the long-term effects of sexual promiscuity, but the data, though quite limited, points in favor of the above interpretation.

By nature it is almost impossible to separate correlation and causation in a study like this, but the correlations are unambiguous: for instance, people who have more sexual partners report having unhappier marriages, and according to the Heritage Foundation, a woman’s number of previous sexual partners is positively correlated, in a linear manner, with the likelihood of acquiring an STD, getting divorced and becoming a single mother, as well as being negatively correlated with overall happiness.

I strongly emphasize that I am not basing any of my conclusions upon these studies alone because of the huge confounds of socioeconomic status, age, underlying psychological disposition, religion and other factors. However, as Randall Munroe puts it, “correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively.”

A more clear-cut example of the

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training effect of sex can be seen with the phenomenon of Internet porn. As hardcore pornography became cheap, anonymously accessible and ubiquitous, one would predict that growing numbers of young men — the chief user base — would begin to train themselves to be out of touch with real sex.

This would lead to increased rates of erectile dysfunction among otherwise-normal young men, which is exactly what has been reported in the past few years according to the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Unlike hookups, pornography usage has been causally linked, in a series of studies from the 1980s, to all kinds of scary negative consequences, including enhanced belief in “sexual servitude” of women, decreased belief in faithfulness and increased acceptance of sexual assault. This demonstrates that sexual release is as potent a training device as hypothesized above: the manner in which one habitually experiences sex can cause wide-ranging psychological effects, even to the point of making real, physical sex no longer sufficiently arousing.

So, what does all of this piecemeal evidence add up to? We have seen how casual sex could be a powerful mechanism with uncertain consequences and weak correlational evidence that backs this up. Further, we’ve noticed that in one domain, pornography, people’s ability to have real sex has been impaired by their own habits. In the same way that porn trains its users’ brains to seek out more voyeuristic, virtual sex, we can conclude that to some extent casual hookups train their participants to prefer unattached, uncommitted sex — a propensity that is incompatible with the long-term goal of family.

The takeaway is not that we need a return to Victorian sexual mores or that the University should institute social codes. Rather, we as free adults need to recognize the incompatibility between our behavior on Thursday and Saturday nights and our eventual goals in life, at least for those who will want marriage and children. The training mechanism of sex is very powerful, and we can’t assume that some latent desire for commitment and family will sweep aside years or decades of habit formation “when we’re ready.”

It would be unrealistic and counterproductive to try to make everyone avoid premarital sex, hookups or even pornography; there certainly is some value in experimenting to learn what you want out of life. But it is imperative to understand the potency of sex as a training mechanism and the long-term effects that it can have.

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Breaking down gendered personhood

Kelly Hatfield Columnist

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ED talks have long been fodder for conversation.

Ranging in subject from issues of the environment to innovations in scientific research to social commentary, these speeches often offer a snapshot of the United States’ current state of being. One of the most talkedabout talks in recent weeks was one given by Monica Lewinsky, famous for her affair with thenPresident Bill Clinton in the early 1990s, or, in her words, for having “taken wrong turns by falling in the love with the wrong person.”

In the talk, Ms. Lewinsky broaches the subject of her experience in the wake of being branded as “that girl” with a candor that is striking in its courage. She then extrapolates outward to offer a critical look upon a society that perpetuates cycles of public humiliation.

What interested me most within this video was also discussed in a piece Ms. Lewinsky wrote months before for Vanity Fair, in which she writes both to illuminate her personhood and to criticize the double standard that emerged in the wake of the White House investigation,

which left her virtually isolated. As she so eloquently writes: “not lying low had exposed me to criticism for trying to ‘capitalize’ on my ‘notoriety.’ Apparently, others talking about me is O.K.; me speaking out for myself is not.”

As Ms. Lewinsky discusses in the 18 minutes she spoke at the TED conference and in the rest of the Vanity Fair piece, there are a number of intertwining issues at hand.

I encourage you all to read her op-ed or watch her talk, but what struck me as most salient was this idea of a single-faceted personhood and an inability to rectify that for oneself in a way that is very gendered.

Much has been said about the heteronormative sexual double standard that persists in society and is intimately tied to the slut-shaming from which Ms. Lewinsky suffered.

Men are expected to demonstrate their sexual prowess and are portrayed in the media as bragging about various “conquests”; women are cast in a pure, chaste role and must toe the line between being a “prude” or “bitch” (often because of an instance where she refused a man) and a “slut” or “whore.” This isn’t news to anyone, I’m sure.

What needs to be considered alongside this troubling dynamic

is this idea that many of the actions Ms. Lewinsky would have taken to move on with her life were cast in a way that implies her taking advantage of a situation, when in fact the media itself was doing just that to her. Countless other examples exist of such hypocrisy, perhaps the most notable next to Ms. Lewinsky herself being Kim Kardashian.

A woman who in part owes her fame to a leaked sex tape, Kim has often been portrayed in a way that ignores her successful branding since. She has built an empire for herself, but that was largely ignored up until the point a successful man was attached to it; namely, Kanye.

She became that “one good girl … worth a thousand bitches,” in the words of Kanye’s song “Bound 2,” where before she and her attempts to reconcile her personal sex tape’s wider distribution were cast in an unflattering, slut-shaming light.

When people choose to try to knock her down a peg, then, they revert back to some of this rhetoric. Kanye himself perpetuates this trend for other women: he made comments saying that he needed to take “30 showers” after dating ex-girlfriend Amber Rose before he dated Kim, in part due to Rose’s past as a stripper.

He implied this notion of “dirti-

ness” as one that derived from a woman’s general sexuality, deriding it when convenient, while conveniently forgetting about its hand in shaping his wife’s fame.

In an age in which we see private information ranging from sex tapes to passport numbers leaked and available for consumption, it’s important to regain the consciousness of thought that recognizes those on the other end as more than just “that woman” (as Ms. Lewinsky was famously referred to by President Clinton) or “that man.” This is important not only with regard to public figures and how they play into or break traditional gender stereotypes, but how those we “know” or simply “know of” play into or break our own biases and how we react in turn. This could serve as a grassroots effort to combat many of these harmful, perpetuated notions not only pertaining to gender, but to race, class, age, etc. It obviously is not an answer, but one way to react in an age, to borrow Ms. Lewinsky’s phrasing, of “mass humiliation.”

Kelly Hatfield is a sophomore from Medford, Mass. She can be reached at kellych@princeton.edu.

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that he has seen in his time as coach, and credited her “unbelievable vision” as key to her strong campaign. Koelzer, who moved from forward to defenseman this season, recorded a remarkable 26 points from the blue line, with eight goals and 18 assists. Kampersal noted her big-time playmaking ability, saying, “She was spectacular all year … she had so many big goals.” Junior forward Jaimie McDonell (25 points) and sophomore forward Hilary Lloyd (21 points) also powered the offense. In net, junior Kimberly Newell was a workhorse, starting 26 games and compiling an impressive .925 save percentage while allowing 2.36 goals against per game.

Looking ahead to next season, the future seems bright. Although they will lose seniors Ali Pankowski, Brianna Leahy, Brianne Mahoney and Ashley Holt to graduation, the Orange and

Black will return their top five point-scorers and starting goaltender from last this year. Asked about what steps the team needs to take in order to reach the next level, Kampersal stressed that it will take “a collective belief” in the program. He added, “we will have a pretty strong group next year,” and acknowledged that a window of opportunity is quickly emerging.

“Within these next one to three years we need to get things done,” he said. After a successful season, Kampersal and the Tigers seem hungry for more.

Men begin the rebuilding process under Fogarty The men of Princeton hockey faced an uphill battle this season, long before the first puck dropped and the 2014-15 season got underway. After former head coach Bob Prier was canned over the summer and Ron Fogarty was given the keys to the program, the young Tigers team — which included nine freshmen and eight soph-

omores on the roster — had to learn an entirely new system.

As if these challenges were not enough, injuries plagued the squad, especially during the first half of the year.

From a win-loss perspective, the Tigers did not enjoy much success this year. The team compiled a 4-23-3 record while finishing last in the ECAC, going 2-18-2. However, there was notable improvement as the season progressed. Head coach Ron Fogarty pointed to shots on net allowed as an indicator of this progress, saying “we were giving up mid-40 shots … at the beginning of the season. After Christmas, it was decreased by about 20.” He also lauded his team’s effort, saying, “our guys competed hard every night.

There was no quit.”

One particular weekend late in the season demonstrated the progress and competitiveness that Fogarty mentioned, as the Tigers impressed with a 2-1 victory over Clarkson University and a 1-1 tie against a strong then-No. 20 St. Lawrence Uni-

versity squad, teams that had beaten the Tigers 4-0 and 3-0 respectively earlier in the season.

In men’s ECAC hockey, each team earns a playoff birth, and the Tigers had an opportunity to shock the conference when they travelled to No. 5 Dartmouth for a best-of-three postseason series. The matchup was closer than many expected — a testament to the team’s improvement over the season. A goal with less than two minutes to play led Dartmouth to a 3-2 victory in the opener, and only one goal separated the two teams in Game 2 before an empty net tally with five seconds to play cemented the 2-0 win and series sweep for the home team.

Junior forward Jonathan Liau led the Orange and Black with 14 points this season, scoring four goals and tallying ten assists. Sophomore forward Ben Foster recorded four goals and six assists and junior forward Kyle Rankin accumulated three goals and seven assists to lead the offense alongside Liau. While goals were often difficult to come

by, the constant for the Tigers this season was the strong play of sophomore goaltender Colton Phinney. Speaking about the netminder, Fogarty remarked, “[Phinney] was no question our most valuable player throughout the season. He gave us a chance game-in and game-through. He did a great job.”

Fogarty was also quick to note that while the goalie had a strong campaign, he still has room for improvement — an exciting prospect for the Tigers.

In 29 games, Phinney faced a whopping 953 shots, recording a save percentage of .910 and a goals against average of 3.08.

His season included a stellar, career-high 51-save effort against then-No. 9 Harvard in a 4-3 loss.

While they will return their top three leading point-scorers, as well as their starting goaltender, the Tigers will lose six seniors to graduation next season — Tom Kroshus, Tucker Brockett, Aaron Kesselman, captain Tyler Maugeri, alternate captain Aaron Ave and Ryan Benitez.

Fogarty said this class will be “deeply missed” and praised them as a group that “left a great foundation to build upon for Princeton hockey.”

Despite a difficult season from a win-loss perspective, Fogarty remains confident about the future of the program. He said the Tigers’ off-season work will be crucial to the team’s success next season, explaining, “It has to be a great summer of office conditioning … We have to be better physically fit aerobically and anaerobically to handle the rigors of the game of Division-1 so that there are no mental breakdowns when we’re getting tired next year.”

While the rebuilding process takes time and patience, Fogarty thanked the Princeton fans for their backing, adding a statement that demonstrates the extent of his confidence in the direction of the program.

“I appreciate the fans supporting us,” he said, “and I promise them they’ll have a winning team to root for in the very near future.”

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school but is particularly impressive given the Princeton team’s relatively small size.

The Tigers only have 23 fencers, while Columbia, Notre Dame College and Pennsylvania State University, the three schools that finished ahead of Princeton this year at the NCAAs have 45, 55 and 57 fencers respectively on their roster. Additionally, these schools are able to recruit some of the top fencers in the world, but what the Tigers lack in size and recruiting power, they make up for in hard work and dedication.

As junior épée Anna Van Brummen noted, “we went in with one less person, which means automatically 23 less

points for your team, so for 11 people we did very well. Also, our freshman class was four people, while Columbia had around 18. We are simply not given nearly as many recruiting positions as the other successful schools. Some of our squads don’t even have alternates, so if someone got injured we were pretty much screwed … Yes, there is taking home first place, but there is also doing your best with the situation presented to you, which is 100 percent what our team did.”

On the individual side, Isis Washington of St. John’s University edged out Van Brummen (who was competing in her first NCAA Championships) in her semifinal bout, 1514. The match was never more than one touch apart.

“As usual being edged out sucks, especially by one point,” Van Brummen said. “In fencing, a point is scored in just a matter of seconds, so I find in all the 14-14 bouts that I end up losing, I just replay the last touch over and over in my head and think about everything I could have done differently, but didn’t. It’s almost easier when there is a larger score gap because then you know it was an issue with your fencing, which you can work on for next time, versus just luck. I actually fenced well and so did my opponent, so I am really not disheartened by my loss.”

Hudson also noted that “[Van Brummen’s] semifinal came down to an unlucky last touch that could have gone either way. The four-day competition is rough – especially on

“Yes, there is taking home first place, but there is also doing your best with the situation presented to you, which is 100 percent what our team did.”

Anna Van Brummen, junior épée

the girls this year since they had to cheer for us the first two days before fencing on the third and fourth day – so it was

amazing that she was able to hold the mental and physical composure needed to make it to the final four.”

Hudson, whose NCAA individual run came to an end in the semis a year ago, advanced to the finals this year but in the end came up just short of winning the title, ultimately falling 15-11 to Jake Hoyle of Columbia.

“I wish I could’ve clinched the NCAA title,” Hudson said.

“However, Jake Hoyle fenced very well all weekend and I couldn’t quite pull out a victory. However, I definitely noticed progress compared to last year. I felt like I was able to stay stronger mentally and physically throughout the competition, which is definitely needed in an event like épée where every touch counts.”

On the men’s team, Hudson finished second and sophomore Alex House finished eleventh in épée at NCAA Championships, freshman Thomas Dudey finished ninth in foil, and freshman Edward Chin and Peter Pak finished eighth and ninth in sabre, respectively. On the women’s team, Van Brummen finished third and junior Isabel Ford finished seventh in épée, sophomore Ashley Tsue finished tenth and senior Ambika Singh finished eighteenth in foil, and freshman Allison Lee finished seventh and junior Gracie Stone finished eighth in sabre.

With only one senior competing in the NCAA Championships this year, expect an older and more experienced Princeton fencing team to do even bigger things next year.

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the close-knit nature of this year’s team. “It was never about one person, it was about the squad.”

The team-first nature was reflected on the court as well — even with stars like Dietrick and Tarakchian out on the court, no one person seemed to dominate alone. Princeton had four players this season scoring more than 10 points per game. Dietrick herself led the way with 15 a game.

This team showed its poise both on and off the court.

Dealing with the increasing media attention was one of the team members’ key skills.

“It was never about one person, it was about the squad.”

Annie Tarakchian, Junior forward

“It was crazy. There were reporters at every single practice.

You really just have to compartmentalize — you come early to practice, you talk to the media, and then it’s over,” Dietrick said. “It started early, so by the time Ivy season came around we were already used to dealing with the pressure.”

Tarakchian pointed out that having to deal with this extra pressure indicated how far this team had come.

“Pressure is a privilege — our media coverage was from the fact that we hadn’t lost,” Tarakchian said. “To be able to go into 30 games and come out on top 30 times is incredible. That’s the way you want it to be.”

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deep hole by the New Year.

To illuminate the desolate early season, sophomore starting forward Spencer Weisz explained, “From the beginning of the season it was a big adjustment losing the seniors from last year. He [T.J. Bray] really controlled the game with his actions on the court. We weren’t really sure how to win close games. We started doing ‘situations’ to learn how to win during practice and I think that was able to translate into later in the season.”

Fortunately, the focused, hard work on closing games and developing team unity paid off in January. The month awarded the Tigers a five-game home stand, which the team capitalized on: It won four of these five games and lost only to top-ranked

Harvard. January’s games also gave a small preview to interconference play within the Ivy League, allowing the Tigers to prove their force with wins over Penn and Dartmouth.

At last, through the months of February and March, the Tigers solely faced Ivy League opponents. Despite the tough losses that the Tigers suffered early in the season, Princeton approached these games with redemption. Looking back, the “situations” paid off as the Tigers finished the final two months with a 7-4 record, including an impressive fourgame win streak to close out the season.

For an even more in-depth perspective on the team’s growth and eventual success, Weisz noted, “Our win versus Columbia at home was a culmination of all the hard work we put in. Through most of the season we were losing at lot of close games and this

game showcased our resiliency.”

Success in hand, the initial challenge of inexperience presented itself as a blessing in disguise for Weisz and the rest of the men’s basketball team. Weisz explained, “I think knowing the feeling of losing and losing those close game and make up want to win next year. We can put the work in the offseason knowing what it takes to win. We’ll be much that much more ready to win next season.

The Tigers now head into the offseason with the clear goal of matching raw, young talent with experience. However, Weisz was quick to remind that Princeton does not depend on any particular player, but rather that the team thrives as a “sum of the parts.” With talent, experience, and teamwork, Princeton men’s basketball promises great success in the years to come.

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of the April 1 article, “Q&A: Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri talks gender, ideal lifestyle,” misspelled Davuluri’s last name. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

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The Princeton women’s swimming and diving team clinched the Ivy League Championship title.

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MacDonald and Nikki Larson claimed first and third place in the 500-yard freestyle.

Competition remained taut through the second day, with Harvard, Yale and Princeton separated by fewer than 10 total points by the competition’s end.

Freshman Claire McIlmail made a splash in her first conference final, beating Yale sophomore Kina Zhou in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:47.21.

Friday’s final event marked a thrilling Princeton victory, as the Tigers, the Bulldogs and the Crimson went one, two and three in the 800-yard freestyle relay.

As on day two, Princeton saved the best for last. The quartet of McIlmail, Larson, MacDonald along with freshman Maddy Veith outpaced all competition with a time of 3:18.25 time in the 400-yard freestyle

relay.

The weekend’s penultimate event was the 3-meter dive, in which sophomore Caitlin Chambers blew her competition out of the water with a final score of 360.55 points (Yale’s sophomore Lilybet MacRae took second with 338.30).

“Saturday’s 3m final was one of the most stressful events I’ve ever dove in,” Chambers said post-tournament in an interview with Princeton Athletic Communications. “The quality of the diving was absolutely amazing and every single woman in that final brought their best to the table. Coming out on top, and particularly after winning the 1m title Thursday, was really exciting.”

“I’m really happy with my individual performance this week, but I have to say that I’m honored to be a part of PUCSDT,” Chambers added. “After working with these amazing women all year I know everybody swam and dove their hearts out this weekend to win the team championship

and winning it together means so much more than any individual achievement.”

It was her outstanding individual performance which earned Chambers Princeton’s only NCAA championship qualification. The sophomore travelled to Greensboro, N.C. to compete in the 1m, 3m and Platform events (on March 19, March 20 and March 21, respectively). Having gone undefeated in Ivy League competition in 2014-15, she placed 32nd on the 1m with 276.60 points, 48th on the 3m with 249.40 points and 38th on the Platform with 213.60 points.

While the Tigers will lose some key leadership to graduation — senior Reese Iriondo helped the 800-yard freestyle relay bring home first place in the Ivy League championships — the future remains bright for this talented squad. The team’s title defense will begin next fall as it attempts to hold off strong Yale and Harvard teams throughout 2015-16.

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Harvard’s perfect regular season. The team compiled a 7-4 record on the year and a 5-2 record in the Ivy League, which offered great hope for the team prior to the ever-important Ivy League Championships, which the team hoped to reclaim.

Despite losing to Harvard and Columbia, the team came away with the final laugh as it came out victorious in the Ivy League Championships to claim Coach Orr’s 22nd Ivy League Championship in 35 seasons and his sixth in seven years.

The team absolutely dominated the field in the Championships, finishing with 1519 points in a wire-to-wire victory. They beat runner-up Harvard by 233.5 points and had already claimed the tournament after the preliminary sessions.

“I’m very proud of the guys for a great performance against a tough league,” Coach Orr said

after the competition.

The Tigers’ fantastic performance throughout the season saw the team rewarded with five berths in the NCAA Championships, two in individual events and three in relay events. Senior Harrison Wagner and freshman Corey Okubo both qualified for the NCAA Championships individually, with Wagner qualifying for the 50-yard freestyle for the second time and Okubo qualifying for the 400-yard individual medley. However, due to unfortunate circumstances, Wagner, Okubo and two of the relay teams did not compete in the NCAA Championships.

“As far as that goes, it was quite admirable because of the circumstances at NCAA: the mature reaction of all the people involved was one of the most impressive things I’ve seen it my time here,” Coach Orr said on this topic.

At the end of the season, the team will bid farewell to some of its key contributors in the

past four years. These seniors will leave having contributed to three Ivy League Championship titles in four years and contributed to various other victories during their time here at Princeton.

“We graduate a large group of point scorers and leaders and hopefully we can replace them with our incoming class,” Coach Orr said.

As a recap to the season, Coach Orr said that “this was an exceptional year, the team acted like a good solid unit and team all season long, which showed especially in the Ivy conference,” before adding, “overall, I felt that it was extremely successful season, and I feel that most everyone on the team feels that way as well.”

Although the team is losing some of the best swimmers and divers in the Ivy League, the current crop of freshmen and next year’s recruits are sure to bring promise and talent as the team looks to defend its Ivy League Championship next year.

Although the Princeton men’s squash team (8-8, 3-4 Ivy) had a strong season, it was overlooked when championship brackets were set at the end of the year. Despite victories over both Franklin and Marshall and Penn, a 5-4 loss to Cornell University at the end of the season and early losses, such as a 5-4 match against Navy, dropped them into the B bracket of the CSA national championships, while F&M and Penn advanced to the A bracket.

In a bracket of 8, the Tigers came into the Hoehn Cup as the number one seed.

In the first round, the Tigers decisively defeated Bates 7-2. Upon advancing to the semifinals, the team played and beat Drexel for the second time this season. In the finals, the team faced off against Ivy League rival Dartmouth for the second time. As they had earlier in the season, the Tigers took down Dartmouth 6-3.

Despite the fact that it was not the draw that the Tigers wanted to be placed in, senior captain Sam Kang does not believe that should take away from the overall victory for the Tigers. “Even the B bracket wasn’t easy, because Cornell who beat us was the

two seed in the B bracket.

Dartmouth and Drexel were really good teams. So I think that it was a good result for us because we had some wins from guys who were struggling all year or were injured. It was more like a good team win,” Kang said.

On the women’s side, the Tigers (12-3, 5-2 Ivy) showed great resolve all season long.

Despite losing in the third and fourth place match at the Howe Cup in two of the past three seasons, seniors Alex Lunt, Nicole Bunyan and Hallie Dewey were determined not to lose this match. After a thrilling 6-3 victory over Yale in the quarterfinals, the team advanced to play Harvard in the semifinals. Having lost 7-2 to the Crimson in the regular season, the Tigers came into the match as the underdogs.

The Tigers, however, led 4-2 after the first two shifts of matches. The Tigers could not find the coveted fifth victory they needed in the third shift, however. This put the fourth seeded Tigers in a consolation match against Penn. Princeton had lost to Penn earlier in the season 6-3, but the team was not willing to let this happen again. The Tigers came out and defeated Penn in a thrilling 5-4 match. Team captain Bunyan said about the match, “This year it was

a combination of all the three seniors wanting to win. Having three seniors in the top 9 all wanting to do their best, that’s a third of the lineup. That’s pretty crucial. And then the other teammates really had something to prove as well. After having lost in the 3-4 twice before this, in past nationals, we really wanted to come out and have a fun bus ride home rather than a sad, depressing bus ride home.”

The Tigers’ successes extended to individual achievements as well. The women’s team sent five players to the CSA Individuals.

Freshman Olivia Fiechter and sophomore Maria Elena Ubina were both awarded top five seeds in the tournament. Additionally, Bunyan, Lunt and junior Rachel Leizman joined the underclassmen in the tournament.

Fiechter, Ubina and Bunyan all reached the quarterfinals with Fiechter and Bunyan reaching the semis before both losing. These three women won All-Ivy honors with Fiechter named Ivy League Rookie of the Year.

On the men’s side, seniors Tyler Osborne and Kang advanced to the CSA Individuals. All-American Kang advanced to the quarterfinals and finished sixth in CSA individual rankings for the season.

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Women’s basketball team completes season for the ages

By Miles Hinson sports editor

30-0 in the regular season.

The program’s first NCAA Tournament victory.

Under head coach Courtney Banghart, this women’s basketball team has achieved high levels of success. Few, however, could have imagined that they would reach such heights this season. The Tigers finished their season 31-1, falling to the Maryland Terrapins, no. 1 seed and one of just four teams remaining in the NCAA Women’s Championship tournament.

Going into this year, however, Banghart noted that she felt the need to push this team more than she had others.

“On the way into this season, I thought this team was too nice, too easygoing,” Banghart said. “I was harder on this team than in previous years.”

Senior guard Blake Dietrick, however, commented on a different side of the team: a group of women hungry to win after not qualifying for the tournament last season.

“Last year, losing the Ivy [League title] was a reality check for us, since we had won it the past four years, then to be the team that broke the streak and let everyone down,” Dietrick said. “We were so

intent on that not being the legacy that was left from this season.”

Even with this extra motivation, the level of success this team achieved was surreal even to them.

“Back when we were 2-0, [senior guard] Blake [Dietrick] and I sat down,” said junior forward Annie Tarakchian.

“She said ‘Annie, if we go undefeated this year you have to bleach your hair.’ ” Now, with her hair bleach-blonde, she admitted while laughing, “I never would have thought that we would [go 30-0].”

Just as impressive as the team’s was the manner in which they won. The Tigers recorded winning margins as high as 71. Only twice in their 31 victories did they win by less than 10 points.

One of the key components in this formula for victory was trust between teammates.

Banghart, in the midst of her comments about needing to push this team, said with a note of pride that “they trusted each other,” highlighting the bond that kept this team together as they made their way to perfection.

“Our motto was ‘got your six.’ That’s military jargon for ‘I got your back,’ ” Tarakchian said, commenting on See W B-BALL page 4

Women’s swimming and diving dominates, wins Ivy League title

By Andrew Steele senior writer

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The Princeton Women’s Basketball Team finished the regular season with an unprecedented perfect record.

In the 2012 Ivy League finals, Princeton women’s swimming team fell to Harvard. The following year, it topped a competitive 2013 championship field to take a come-from-behind victory in front of a home crowd.

Last season, in spite of a meethigh 92 points from Princeton’s Lisa Boyce ’14, the Crimson retook the crown with 1409 points to the Tigers’ 1384. This year, the Princeton squad of swimmers and divers continued this backand-forth tradition, edging out their Cambridge, Mass. rivals with a day three comeback at Harvard’s home pool.

With the win, head coach Susan Teeter concluded her 31st season at the helm with her 17th Ivy League championship.

Following an early win in the 200-yard freestyle relay, Princeton fell just behind rival Harvard throughout the course of the tournament’s first day. Junior Stewart Sada took third in the 200-yard individual medley finals, while juniors Elizabeth See W SWIM page 5

HOCKEY

FENCING

Tough seasons for both hockey teams

Fencing closes out an astonishing season

By Mark Goldstein staff writer

Women enjoy successful season, look to take the next step Though they did not compete in the NCAA Division I Championship tournament, the women of Princeton hockey had a unique view of the action. Of the eight teams competing, Princeton had played six of them over the course of the season, demonstrating just how difficult a road the Tigers travelled in their 2014-15 campaign.

Despite a schedule filled with talented teams with national pedigree, the Tigers compiled a 15-14-2 record overall, including

a No. 6 13-8-1 performance in the formidable 12-team Eastern College Athletic Conference — perhaps the most talented league in the nation. Highlights included a 1-0 win over eventual national runner-up Harvard, a season sweep of top 10-ranked Cornell University and a runner-up finish in the Ivy League after a fierce race with Harvard that came down to the final day of the regular season.

After finishing No. 6 in the ECAC, the Tigers travelled to Hamden, Conn., for a best-ofthree postseason quarterfinal series with Quinnipiac University, a team that had beaten Princeton twice during the regular season and was then

ranked No. 6 of all Division I teams. Attempting to advance past the quarterfinal stage of the tournament for the first time since 2006, the Tigers could not best the Bobcats and star goalie Chelsea Laden, falling 7-0 and 2-0 to end the season.

While the year ended in disappointing fashion, head coach Jeff Kampersal ’92, in his 19th year at the helm of the program, said that his team “outperformed expectations” this season. He praised the squad’s resiliency and recognized the four senior class members for setting a positive example for the team’s underclassmen. For his role in his team’s success this season, Kampersal was

recognized as the Ivy League Coach of the Year. The coach deemed the honor a “collaborative award,” and credited assistant coaches Cara Morey and Lee Mirasolo and his players for his success.

While hockey is a team sport, a few players stood out as difference-makers for the Tigers this season. Sophomore forward Molly Contini (coming off of hip surgery and a year off) and sophomore defenseman Kelsey Koelzer were awarded All-ECAC second-team honors for their performances this season. Contini led the team in points with 28, compiling 16 goals and 12 assists. Her head coach called her “the most unselfish player” See HOCKEY page 4

Men’s basketball grows from losses, powers on staff writer

Following the graduation of star player T.J. Bray and shooter Will Barrett, the Tigers (16-14 overall, 9-5 Ivy League) headed into this season combating inexperience and a leadership vacuum.

With only one upperclassman in the starting lineup, many doubted whether such a young team would be able to compete in a conference featuring veteran Crimson and Bulldog squads. Fortunately, the Tigers met these challenges and questions in

stride to grow as a team over the course of the season and finish with a winning 16-14 overall record.

As expected, the beginning of the season posed numerous challenges for the Tigers.

Through November and December, the Tigers stumbled upon a 5-9 record, including a lowly No. 7 finish, out of eight, at the Wooden Legacy Tournament. The tumultuous schedule that kept the Tigers traveling across the country ref lected the team’s inconsistency. To be sure, the Tigers had dug themselves a See M B-BALL page 4

staff writer

The Princeton fencing season came to a close two Sundays ago in Columbus, Ohio, at the NCAA Division I Championships. Summarizing the Tigers’ entire season would be a nearly impossible task, as fencing is broken down into three weapons and the men and women have separate teams, each with an individual component and a team component.

However, the Princeton fencing season can only be characterized as astonishing.

“I’m very proud of my whole team, especially all the freshmen, who fenced very strong and beat some of the top NCAA fencers throughout the season,” junior épée Jack Hudson remarked.

The Tigers capped the season by finishing No. 4 at the NCAA Championships, marking the fifth straight year Princeton has finished in the top four. (Princeton is the only school ever to have achieved this feat.) Five straight topfour finishes is an incredible accomplishment for any See FENCING page 4

MEN’S SWIMMING

Men win their sixth Ivy League title in seven years

MEN’S BASKETBALL

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By Gordon Moore

By Tom Pham associate sports editor

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The men’s basketball team worked hard to improve during the season.

In what surmounted to be a fantastic and memorable season, the men’s swimming and diving team reclaimed the Ivy League Championships. Despite a mix-up at the NCAA Championships that led to the Tigers defaulting on both of their individual races, this season must be considered a great success.

The team competed in several tournaments in its spring season, starting with a match against Navy at DeNunzio Pool and ending with the Ivy League Championships at the same location. The team spent most of its spring season facing Ivy League opponents, facing only

Navy and NC State in non-conference meets.

The team easily beat Patriot League champion Navy to the tune of 171-129 but was dispatched by NC State by the score of 180-113, on what was also Senior Day for the Tigers. Although the team was soundly beaten by NC State, senior Michael Manhard made the day his own with two individual victories.

Going into the spring season with a 4-0 Ivy League record, the team hoped to continue its dominance but fell short of a perfect season after losses against Columbia in New York and against Harvard at the Harvard-YalePrinceton meet, which led to See M SWIM page 5

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n 2011, Nick Lavrov ’15, Nicky Robinson ’15, Preston Kemeny ’15 and Yegor Chekmarev ’15 had a vision: a no-audition improv group at Princeton.

“We wanted to do improv comedy and the only way to do it was to make a new group for us to perform in,” Lavrov said.

Their vision manifested as Lobster Club, the first and only no-audition improv comedy troupe on campus. It was founded around the same time as the ¿Shruggers? organization, which would eventually become a

no-audition coalition with Lobster Club as its f lagship organization, according to ¿Shruggers? president Ethan Gordon ’17.

“The intent is to provide a space for anybody interested in performing arts to have the opportunity to explore all that the performing arts have to offer,” Gordon said. “[It’s to] help combat an underlying culture of selectivity that’s especially prevalent in performing arts communities really all over Princeton.”

Running a no-audition performance group has its challenges, particularly in preparing for shows.

“We need[ed] to figure out what would a good system be for no-audition but for still putting on shows,” Lavrov said. “You can’t just have

someone perform in shows without ever having done anything before.”

To ensure this, Lobster Club members are required to attend at least two-thirds of practices in order to perform.

In some respects, Lobster Club functions as both a performance group and a group that builds improv skills. “There’s no experience necessary,” Lavrov said. “We have a lot of people in our group where this was their first time was doing improv.”

“We put emphasis on teaching the skill of improv, so our workshops are open and anyone can come to them,”

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ounded in November 1992, Quipfire!, Princeton’s oldest improv comedy group, has developed its particular style of improv over the past two decades.

“They started off predominately doing short-form improv,” artistic director Jake Robertson ’15 said. Television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway? use shortform improv, which consists of smaller premise-based games, but Quipfire! has since expanded their repertory.

Quipfire!, according to Robertson, now performs more long-form improv, which is currently more prominent in the professional improv world. One example of Quipfire!’s application of long-form is its improvised “Musicals!” shows, the latest of which took place this past weekend. The audience gave suggestions for a title of a musical, and the group improvised a musical production with many interlocking scenes to create a vibrant, unique and hilarious story

each night of the performance.

Despite the deviation from its shortform roots, the group still maintains close ties to its alumni predecessors.

“We switch between generally three places now,” Robertson said. “We’ll do New York one year, and Chicago and then Los Angeles. Those tend to be places where there is a lot of improv going on.”

Quipfire! does a set of shows during Frosh Week to get students interested in auditioning for and watching the group, according to managing director Lauren Frost ’16. About 100 people auditioned this past fall alone.

“I think we get a lot of people to audition because it’s something that doesn’t really need experience,” Frost said. “Improv is something that a lot of people haven’t done before, and a lot of the members that we get haven’t done it before.”

“We also try to emphasize that we keep our auditions really fun,” Robertson added. “Sometimes people say, ‘Oh, I’m just glad I auditioned because I had a great time.’”

Quipfire! performs a variety of shows throughout the year to showcase

went over to her room and I had this whole bag of activities we could do: we could do makeovers, we could do facials … and then I pulled out a magazine and said, ‘Or, we could write a murder letter by cutting out letters!’ ” No, this is not a fan-made sequel to Mean Girls. This is Fuzzy Dice, one of Princeton’s three improvisation comedy troupes, during downtime.

Executive director Paulina Orillac ’17 (responsible for the conspiracy quoted above) said that part of what distinguishes Fuzzy Dice as a group is its emphasis on the social atmosphere, which she described as “chemically unbalanced” — in the fondest way possible.

“We try to become really close-knit, we try to get to know each other outside of the rehearsal room,” Orillac said. “I think that’s something really special about Fuzzy Dice as a group, especially in Princeton.”

On the more technical side, artistic director Angad Anand ’16 added that while all three groups on campus are friendly and supportive of each other, each has its own style. “We have a more holistic, scene-based improv where we really try to create some sort

of objective,” he explained. “We really try to tell a story.”

In shows, the group makes a point to incorporate as much audience involvement into its improv games as possible.

Publicity chair Cat Sharp ’18 explained that a signature game, called, unsurprisingly, “Fuzzy Dice,” has four scenes going on at once, all inspired by the audience’s suggested keywords. Another staple is called “Paper Chase,” which invites audience members to write anything they want on pieces of paper that are collected outside the theater before

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new forms of improv with which it is experimenting.

In October, Quipfire! did its Gravid Water Show, which involves having actors memorize one person’s lines from a scene, and then pairing those actors with an improviser who does not know the scene and must come up with its responses on the spot.

“People really loved it,” Robertson said, “We’ve grown throughout my experience into a group who experiments a little more. For example, Gravid Water was a one-off show, so we just did one evening.

And I think that we’re making that into a thing we do more often.”

Quipfire! is performing another Gravid Water in April, as well as a set of shows

in May. “These shows will probably be Armandos,” Frost said, “where we have a guest, probably a professor, give a monologue based on a suggestion, and then we improvise based on that.”

According to Frost, Quipfire!’s future

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At the same time, the no-audition format made necessary a division between members new to improv and more experienced members. “[We had to build] a leadership framework that would allow us to keep being able to teach improv to new people while also allowing older people to develop their skills,” Lavrov said.

Since its founding, Lobster Club has grown increasingly prominent on campus. “It’s a dormitory name,” Gordon said, who noted that ¿Shruggers? has also been expanding.

“Last year, we started Acapellago, a no-audition a cappella group, and this year we’re starting Sans Comic,

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which is a no-audition sketch comedy group,” Gordon said.

Overall, Lavrov said, being in Lobster Club has been an enjoyable experience.

“Before being a senior, my favorite things were getting to do improv and perform in front of people and getting to watch other people grow with me,” Lavrov said. “As I learned more improv, these other people were also learning improv … and that was really cool to see.”

After becoming a senior, however, Lavrov’s favorite aspect of being a part of Lobster Club has changed. “It’s definitely getting to meet freshmen,” he said.

“When would I ever meet a freshman?”

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the show. During the game, random papers are given to members, who must weave the contents into the scene.

Seeing as Fuzzy Dice also performs off-campus, both for events such as the Princeton High School graduation as well as inter-school exchanges, the group makes a conscious effort to avoid Princeton-specific jokes in general. “We try to make our improv very much universal,” Anand said. “We have a lot of parents and others come to see our shows, so we don’t want to be telling jokes about grade deflation, or Forbes, or something like that.”

This school year has been an especially transformative one for Fuzzy Dice, after losing seven members in the Class of 2014.

When the group returned from the summer, it had only four members remaining.

“This year was very much a rebuilding year,” Anand said. “When we did auditions this year, we were looking for people with different styles of humor, different perspectives on life, different backgrounds. And we’ve really collected a very eclectic group of people.”

As a junior and a second-year artistic director, Anand was par-

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ticularly aware of these changes.

He was accustomed to working with a group of experienced, senior improv comedians as an underclassman; now, suddenly, he was in charge of six new members, five of whom were freshmen. “A lot of first semester was just about training them on the basics, but looking forward, I really want to help them develop their own improv styles and voices,” he said.

Looking forward for the group as a whole, Anand said that Fuzzy Dice would like to start experimenting with music in its improvisation, adding that they will be looking for a music director next year.

In the meantime, changes are happening in smaller, but no less exciting forms. Sharp explained that the group released its first ever promotional video for the upcoming show, appropriately titled “April Show(er)s.” Sharp noted a significant increase in audience attendance after the publicity efforts of the February Shows, and hopes to see the same for the shows this weekend.

“Come to our show! Watch the video promo! Check out the cool posters!” she said.

“Down, doggie,” Orillac said.

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includes not only trying new forms of improv, but also getting more involved in the larger college improv community.

“For a long time, we were pretty isolated, just doing our own thing here,” Frost said, “but now we do the College Improv Tournament, we had our show with the Fordham improv group, Stranded in Pittsburgh, and we’re going to a comedy festival at Brown next weekend.”

(The weekend of April 3-4.)

Quipfire! is trying to both see and perform more college improv shows in order to gather good

ideas and inform the outside world about the group.

“As weird as it seems, you could get someone to come to a school because of improv,” Frost said, “We actually had an alum interviewer email us and say he interviewed a kid who hadn’t applied to any other Ivy League schools, but applied to Princeton after seeing us perform somewhere. That’s the dream, that people would see us and think we are one of best college improv groups they’ve seen, and decide they want to come here and do improv.”

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF TED CRUZ

THE CITY LOST AND FOUND

MAYA WESBY Staff Writer

VICTORIA SCOTT

7:00 a.m. – Wakes up, rolls out of bed and then prays in front of his at-home memorial for Jesus and Ronald Reagan. He does not stop praying until he hears Papa Reagan’s voice reassuring him that running for President was the right thing to do.

7:50 a.m. – Eats breakfast. Chick-fil-A® biscuits with honey.

8:22 a.m. – Puts on a big-boy suit and runs his fingers through his hair. Practices making that face that looks like he’s constantly about to cry. His high school drama coach once told him that his upside-down smile was, quote, “on point.” He is now ready to seize the day.

8:45 a.m. – Attends a meeting to outline his campaign trail map. Plans for stops in Iowa (obviously), New Hampshire (obviously-er) and Disney World (obviously-est). Pretty women who sing and do chores all day. Perfect.

10:05 a.m. – Potty break.

10:50 a.m. – Visits a natural history museum and gives a speech on the importance of education. “I went to Princeton, so I know things.”

11:30 a.m. – Tours the museum with a group of children. Makes sure the cameras catch him expressing his relatability. Successfully hides blatant confusion about the exhibit on evolution.

1:00 p.m. – Has lunch at a nearby small-business deli. Downs a sandwich that reminds him of his drunken nights at Hoagie Haven, a world-famous small-business deli.

1:06 p.m. – Hopes that no one else remembers those drunken nights at Hoagie Haven.

1:45 p.m. – Gets on his pimped-out tour bus to go to another press event.

1:50 p.m. – Has an on-bus meeting about possible VP options, just in case he makes it that far.

Thinks about a title-winning chicken fight between Sarah Palin and Chris Christie for the whole ride, but doesn’t say anything. Sarah in a swim suit. Chris in a swim suit. Mm. 3:15 p.m. – Drives past one of those “Ready for Hillary” posters on someone’s window. Struggles to hold back tears, but one rolls down his cheek in silent defeat.

3:30 p.m. – Arrives at a construction site and gives a speech on the importance of the hardworking American.

3:37 p.m. – Makes something up about how Obama has taken away their jobs.

3:40 p.m. – Makes something up about how Obama has taken away their health care.

3:43 p.m. – Makes something up about how Obama has taken away all of their rights in general.

3:44 p.m. – Especially guns.

3:45 p.m. – And warm weather.

3:50 p.m. – Gets back on the pimped-out tour bus and goes to a nearby big-corporate hotel.

4:15 p.m. – Has a meeting in a conference room about which demographics to target during the campaign. Makes a short list of demographics and immediately crosses off immigrants, the young and the highly educated.

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rban renewal tr ansformed American cities in the 1960s and 1970s, and many prominent photographers documented those changes. The University Art Museum’s special exhibition, “The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980,” explores the cinematic responses and photographic art that characterized urban renewal and popular media in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles during this tumultuous time.

The exhibition is a collaboration between University Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago and opened in Princeton on Feb. 21 after being featured at the Art Institute of Chicago. According to the University Art Museum website, this exhibition is the first project to capture an important shift in history through “photographic, cinematic and planning practices” based on evidence from the vibrant “streets, neighborhoods and seminal events in the country’s three largest cities.”

In Chicago, the exhibition brought together many mediums of art, including slideshows, photo collages and

artist books from over 30 collections across the United States and holdings from the Art Institute itself, according to the Art Institute of Chicago webpage. At Princeton, the exhibition displays various works of art from the Princeton Library, the University Art Museum and other institutions.

“Some of the objects in the exhibition are from here — either from the Art Museum or the Princeton Libraries. Our coorganizers, the Art Institute of Chicago, also loaned a very generous number of objects to the exhibit,” Katherine Bussard, the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at the Princeton Art Museum, said in an email statement. “Nearly 40 other institutions or individuals lent the majority of the objects, and this is one of the most exciting aspects of the exhibition.”

The exhibition includes photographic works by Ed Ruscha, Garry Winogrand and newly rediscovered projects by Allan Kaprow and Shadrach Woods.

The curating process for such an exhibition is long and arduous. Bussard worked for more than five years to plan this exhibition.

“All exhibitions are different, but ‘The City Lost and

Found’ exhibition took more than five years to plan. The cocurators and I started with an idea, explored it and related objects, and did years of research to arrive at a final checklist,” Bussard said. “That process is what creates the experience on the walls of the museum right now as well as in the pages of the accompanying book.”

The curating process in general involves much thought and planning. Bussard, who has curated more than 20 exhibitions since 1999, describes the meticulous process as something that always takes a long time.

“The goal is to bring together those objects that — when in dialogue in the exhibition — make clear the purpose and argument of the exhibition,” Bussard said. “In the case of ‘The City Lost and Found’, for example, if we wanted to show the decisive impact of street photography on urban plans of the 1960s and 1970s, we needed to find copies of those plans, review them, learn who the contributing photographers were, and so on, all in order to determine what to display to make this point.”

The exhibition will run for another three months and will close June 7.

4:19 p.m. – Circles the working class, evangelicals and the elderly.

4:20 p.m. – Interrupts meeting to hold a pencil like it’s a cigarette and pretends to smoke it in front of everyone. Giggles.

5:30 p.m. – Completes ironic enrollment for Obamacare.

6:00 p.m. – Naptime.

7:15 p.m. – Wakes up crying; had a nightmare about the complete dissolution of One Direction.

7:18 p.m. – Consoled by wife.

7:30 p.m. – Leaves hotel and drives in an All-New 2015 Ford-450 (“’Murica!”) to a restaurant to meet with prospective campaign donors.

7:50 p.m. – Orders macaroni & cheese off of a kid’s menu.

7:59 p.m. – Impresses the prospective donors with the pretty picture of his own swearing-in that he drew on the back. A crayoned Obama weeps in the background.

9:15 p.m. – Leaves the restaurant and takes the All-New 2015 Ford-450 (“’Murica!”) back to the hotel.

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A capture of Los Angeles featured in the exhibit, taken in 1969 by photographer Garry Winograd.

9:35 p.m. – Potty break.

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10:00 p.m. – Takes a bath using a cotton candy bath bomb, stolen from his wife.

10:50 p.m. – Gets dressed in pajamas decorated with his favorite Adventure Time characters.

11:02 p.m. – Pledges allegiance to the Illuminati Canada (“Amurica!”), his true home.

11:15 p.m. – Before bedtime, prays that Jeb Bush and Rand Paul and that Asian kid he met on the museum tour all stay out of the race so he has a shot at victory.

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11:20 p.m. – Falls asleep to the soothing sound of Rush Limbaugh’s podcasts. Mm.

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t is difficult to imagine a place for yet another music ensemble among the many performing groups that already exist on campus. However, after hearing a preview of Opus 21’s upcoming concert, I’ve realized that there is not only a place for this ensemble in the Princeton arts community, but also a true need.

Opus 21 is a classical chamber music group started by Edward Leung ’16 and Ashley Kim ’16, who are both pursuing certificates in instrumental performance. Leung and Kim are highly decorated musicians with ample experience in the pre-professional music world.

Last spring, they combined forces to create a new ensemble intending to fill a void in their Princeton music careers. Leung explained that while there are many fantastic student performing groups at Princeton, before Opus 21, there was no existing ensemble that featured only the very best classical musicians on campus.

Leung and Kim went through a rigorous recruitment and audition process to fill the Opus 21 roster. With the dual mission of revamping Princeton’s music department and providing Princeton musicians with conservatory-level performing opportunities, Opus 21 has an ambitious to-do list. Having heard three works, which will be featured on the program of Opus 21’s upcoming perfor-

mance this Saturday, April 4, I am convinced that the ensemble is working hard to accomplish its goals.

On Sunday night, three talented cellists and one of Opus 21’s co-founders, pianist Leung, presented a cohesive performance of Popper’s “Requiem” for three cellos. The cellists melded their individual sounds, successfully matching their tones, vibrato styles and bow strokes on a minute level. Their passing of melodic lines back and forth was effortless, making it difficult to notice that a switch in players had even occurred. The fact that this piece took only two rehearsals to put together is hard to believe, and reflects well on the group’s professionalism and efficiency.

As I was about to float away in a cloud during the final dreamlike moments of the Popper, I was a bit dismayed that not enough care was taken in conveying Popper’s final cadence, which came across as more of an afterthought. The performers seemed to have thrown in the towel at this point. Overall, however, Popper’s “Requiem” was a fantastic sample of the group’s talent, and I am confident that the energy of a live performance will alleviate the issues with the ending.

Schoenberg’s “Verklärte Nacht” for string sextet is always an absolute showstopper.

Kim led the group on first violin with poise and musicality.

The entire group rose to her level, creating a dramatic, exciting performance that will most definitely transport you from hectic Princeton life to Schoenberg’s exquisite musical world. Each individual player in this sextet was highly polished, with especially virtuosic performances by Kim, Emma Powell ’17, Jay Kim ’18 and Nathan Wong ’18.

Finally, a piano quartet played two movements of “Summer Night Music,” composed by graduate student Chris Rogerson. I enjoyed the beginning of the movement “Summer Nights,” which consisted of a bed of strings creating a texture that each musician could soar above with a solo, one by one, passing along the melody.

Rogerson’s unison at the end of the movement was extremely powerful with the strings sustaining each note, using every possible centimeter of bow.

While the group successfully conveyed the programmatic concepts of this gorgeous composition, the performance was a bit tired. The players were dispassionate, producing sloppy entrances and phrase endings that were not often together.

With a week of rehearsal left after the generally superb runthrough that I heard on Sunday, Opus 21 is sure to come out with a bang in their first full-length concert this Saturday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall.

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‘For Colored Girls’ explores racial and gender identity JOY DARTEY Contributor

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n a scene from the choreographed poem “For Colored Girls,” seven women are standing in line, and the “Lady in Brown” gives a short monologue about the struggle of a prototypical black girl across America in the 1970s while the remaining six women dance, depicting her narrative.

“For Colored Girls,” adapted from the play entitled “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf,” written by Ntozake Shange, is being brought to the Princeton stage this weekend.

The performance is directed by Scot Tasker ’16 (who prefers to be referred by the pronoun they) and produced

by Martina Fouquet ’16 and Naimah

Hakim ’16, president of BAC|Drama.

Scot and Martina’s adaptation of the show remains true to Shange’s choreopoem/play, later adapted to film, and tells the tale of seven different women who are differentiated by colors, not by name.

How to summarize the choreopoem’s scope? For Tasker and Fouquet, a line from Shange’s choreopoem ref lects the show’s theme: “bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma i havnt conquered yet.”

While “Black Lives Matter”-themed events have been prominent on campus lately, the purpose of the show is not to showcase the theme of “Black

Lives Matter” per se, but rather, as Fouquet, the producer, said, “This is an important work because it’s another venue for black people to see minority on stage, which is something we don’t always have.”

That said, for actor Amber Stewart ’15, who plays “Lady in Orange,” the event was a way to be involved in the black community.

“I was studying abroad, and I would see online all the things that my friends were getting up to and feel very disconnected, and so when I came back, I really wanted to become connected to the black community in a meaningful way,” Stewart said.

Organizing a show with seven actors has not been without its challenges. Tasker’s primary concern was determining the time and the space for the show because they had to make sure every actor was available at set times, and they had to make sure the space was intimate enough to suit the play. Tasker went on to say, “One challenge of the show was trying to strip away what people think they should be doing so they can connect with their inner vulnerability.”

Tasker also commented on the style of the play, the way COURTESY OF BAC: DRAMA it is written and its Nonny Okwelogu ’15 and Amber Stewart ’15 featured in the promotional posters of “For Colored Girls.” tone as being poten-

tially challenging to channel on the stage. “There is very little stage direction in the text, there is a lot of freedom within the words, and in the tone,” Tasker said. To overcome this challenge, “you have to sort of step back from it and let it do the work,” they said.

Fouquet added, “These poems are free range almost in a way that they can be interpreted in multiple ways.”

But despite the challenges of putting on this show, Tasker said directing this play “has been about creating a safe space” for all the parties involved.

Priscilla Agyapong ’15, who plays the “Lady in Yellow,” is looking forward to opening night.

“I am very excited about how people will experience the play, because I think most people will come expecting to see the movie, and I think this will be a pleasant surprise, especially for people who are not familiar with the original play,” Agyapong said.

Nonny Okwelogu ’15, who has been involved in a few BAC|Drama shows and who plays the “Lady in Brown” in “For Colored Girls” summed up the purpose of the choreopoem by saying, “What Scot has been telling us is that it’s not us out there, and that it’s the lady in [whichever color] ... There are points when we are reenacting things, but for the most part, we are just telling stories, so it’s not necessarily all about us or even our characters, but it’s just these stories and our trying to tell them the best we can.”

She concluded by saying, “I think people that have not seen it will be pleasantly surprised and people who have seen it will be pleasantly surprised.”

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as Flow Latin Dance Company w il l present its f irst show, “Bai la Sin Perm iso” (Dance Without Permission) on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8PM in the Wilson Blackbox. The first modern Latin dance group on campus, Mas Flow brings a contemporar y f lavor to modern dance. In anticipation of the event, tickets have sold out for all three nights.

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CAMPUS PICKS THEATER: THEATRE INTIME PRESENTS “STUDENT PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL” University Art Museum Thursday 5 PM

As we know very well because it’s a fact that’s always being thrust in our faces, Princeton students are very talented. This weekend, this year’s Student Playwrights Festival, the Theatre Intime staple that brings together that talent in writing, directing and acting, is having its closing performances. Featuring plays written

by Annika Bennett ’15, Carolyn Beard ’18 and Emily Fockler ’17 and directed

by Victoria Gruenberg ’16, Beard, and Galen Ogg ’18, SPF is sure to make you feel inadequate about yourself — so you definitely don’t want to miss it!

DANCE: EXPRESSIONS PRESENTS “PULSE” Frist Film/

Performance Theater Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 PM As Destiny’s Child once said, “Ladies, leave your man [or woman] at home” — at least that’s what the members of womenonly eXpressions will be doing during their spring show “Pulse,” which promises to be “diverse,” “dynamic,” and “eXcit[ing].”

Guest performers such as Urban Congo, Baker and Goods, Old Nassoul and Anjali Taneja will also be featured. Independent work got your blood pressure low? Come get your heart racing at “Pulse.”

THEATER: DING! A MUSICAL EXPERIENCE: A SENIOR THESIS SHOW Berlind Rehearsal Room at McCarter Theatre Center Thursday and Friday, 7:30 PM and 10 PM Saturday, 2 PM and 7:30 PM

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If you’ve been mourning the absence of xylophones and other easy-to-use “instruments” in your life ever since you left kindergarten, you’ll probably want to check out DING! this week. Theater certificate student Emily Whitaker ’15 is directing this musical presentation, which is an interactive experience that will encourage audience members to play like it’s kindergarten again and ultimately create a musical composition together. As in kindergarten, no previous musical background is required to have a great time.

EVENT: INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION AT PRINCETON PRESENTS EASTER EGG PAINTING Frist TV Lounge Thursday, 8 PM

Chocolate. Bunnies. Eggs. Pastel.

Happiness. SPRING. These are all things that excite us about Easter, and while we might not be getting that last one for a while (why hello, surprise snow), you can get the first three on Thursday by painting an Easter egg with the International Students Association. There will be Lindt chocolate eggs for everyone, and the best-decorated eggs will win Lindt (presumably also chocolate-y) prizes. Did we mention there will be chocolate?