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Cameron Platt ’16 named valedictorian, Esther Kim ‘16 selected as salutatorian

By Maya Wesby senior writer

On Monday, Cameron Platt ’16 was named valedictorian for the Class of 2016. Esther Kim ’16 was named the Latin salutatorian.

Platt will give her valedictory address at the Commencement ceremony on May 31, and Kim, per tradition, will deliver the salutatory oration in Latin on the same day.

University faculty accepted nominations from the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing in a meeting on April 25.

Platt, an English concentrator with a certificate in theater, noted that she was incredibly excited and honored to be named valedictorian. She explained

that she was first notified that she had been named valedictorian a week prior to the official University announcement.

According to a University press release, Platt is the former president of Princeton University Players, the only studentrun musical theater company on campus. She is currently working on a show that will debut at the New York Fringe Festival, and she will soon attend the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She is originally from Santa Barbara, Calif.

“I know I want writing to be a part of my future, so right now journalism looks interesting,” Platt said, adding that writing fiction would also be a suitable career path. “I don’t know exSee VALEDICTORIAN page 5

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STUDENT LIFE

Esther Kim ‘16 LECTURE

U. faculty couples discuss intersection of work, family life

By Amber Park staff writer

COURTESY OF THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Vincent Po ‘18 shoots a portrait during an afternoon photo session for his project The Other Side of Me.

Photo campaign seeks to show different perspectives

By Catherine Wang staff writer

The Other Side of Me, a photo campaign spearheaded by the Princeton Undergraduate Student Government University Student Life Committee, held photo sessions on Friday and Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. each day. The campaign seeks to encourage students to share an aspect of their lives which they would otherwise not typically discuss or share.

USLC Chair Jenny Zhang ’18 and photographer Vincent Po ’18 organized the campaign after Zhang came up with the idea in February.

Po is a staff photographer for the Daily Princetonian.

Zhang explained that after being elected the chair of USLC, she had the idea to do a photo campaign, originally called Love Yourself. From its inception, the campaign was focused around students’ insecurities or struggles. Zhang explained that

after bringing Po on board as the photographer two months ago, the campaign’s name was changed to The Other Side of Me. Both said the reason for this change in theme was to make the campaign more inclusive, since focusing on a specific issue like self-love might have limited the number of students who would have participated in the campaign. Po and Zhang explained that they wanted to See CAMPAIGN page 2

Two couples, all professors at the University, reminded students of the importance of and challenges in balancing careers with family at a panel discussion on Monday.

The panel centered on a conversation between Nannerl Keohane, president emeritus of Duke University and Wellesley College and visiting professor at the Wilson School; Robert Keohane, professor of international affairs; Andrew Moravcsik, professor of politics and international affairs; and Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of New America.

Slaughter, a professor emeritus at the Wilson School, emphasized the importance of work in the household. According to Slaughter, household work is as essential and should be valued as equally as the work done for income.

Slaughter emphasized this message by using the example of her experience working at the United States Department of State in 2011, a position she described as having been her “dream job.” She explained that during her time work-

ing at the State Department she began to reevaluate her conceptions of what it means to balance career and family.

She realized that, as a parent, she wanted and needed to come home and be with her family. Thus, it was during her experience at the State Department that she came to understand what the balance between work and family should look like for her, she said.

Robert Keohane spoke about the unexpected ways life offers couples different opportunities at different times. To explain this point, he drew on his own experiences of adjusting and changing his personal choices in conjunction with his spouse’s career.

Moravcsik, Slaughter’s husband, added emphasis to the idea that “men need to play a much greater role at home.”

Moravcsik referenced an article that he wrote earlier this academic year in The Atlantic titled Why I Put my Wife’s Career First.

Moravcsik concluded that though many people generally want egalitarian marriages, not all marriages work that See COUPLES page 4

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Activist Arafat Mazhar discuses legal punishments for blasphemy in Pakistan senior writer

“Simply put, you blaspheme, you die,” said activist Arafat Mazhar in a talk on Monday.

Mazhar is the founder and director of Engage Pakistan, a nonprofit organization in Pakistan that aims to reform Pakistan’s blasphemy law.

Before speaking, Mazhar clarified that when he spoke of

“blasphemy,” he was referring to any insult or criticism of the Prophet Muhammad. According to Mazhar, there are a number of blasphemy laws in Pakistan, but one of the most controversial is the one regarding statements towards the Prophet.

Mazhar began by discussing the current situation in Pakistan with regard to legal punishment of blasphemy.

He explained that, in his view, Pakistan’s blasphemy law is a deliberate perversion of Islamic tradition.

The blasphemy law was passed in 1986, and at the time there did not appear to be significant debate surrounding what constituted blasphemy and what the punishment would be. The consensus was that there could be no punishSee LECTURE page 3

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Panelists discussed their personal love and work relationships.

In Opinion

Today on Campus

Members of the Princeton Private Prison Divestment Coalition respond to the Editorial Board’s stance against divestment, and cartoonist Emily Fockler offers a tribute to the late artist Prince. PAGE 6

4:30 p.m.: Palestinian diplomat Maen Rashid Areikat will deliver a lecture as part of the “Conversations about Peace” series. Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.

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create a campaign that would allow students to choose what they wanted to share.

“Everybody has something that they feel is really important for them to talk about, even though not all of these are some ‘giant reveal,’” Po said.

The campaign was inspired by last year’s Dear World campaign, a national campaign led by photographer Robert Fogarty that held an event at Princeton.

Zhang noted that The Other Side of Me campaign is different than Fogarty’s campaign with regard to the crowd that it attracts. Since students were encouraged to write anything that they wanted to for the Dear World campaign, those messages tended to be briefer than those of this year’s campaign, which generally take the form of lengthy paragraphs.

“A lot of people [last year] went to take really nice pictures, and they turned out nice, but I think that this campaign attracts a different crowd who are willing to share a little more,” Zhang said.

In addition to the campaign’s initial test run, which used 20 USG members to get the word out about the campaign, 90 students participated in the campaign’s two photo sessions last weekend. This was an ideal number, according to Po, since if more people had showed up, the shoot would have been difficult to manage.

Po said that finding the right visual images for the campaign was extremely important.

“We made sure that what we came up with aligned very well with the image,” he said. He explained that he and Zhang spent a long time figuring out what kind of a visual they wanted for the campaign. According to him, they tossed around multiple ideas, such as blending two opaque images or using balloons, before he came across the visual concept of the campaign images employing the technique of disintegration.

Po and Zhang both noted that they feel satisfied with the way that the campaign has evolved.

Po emphasized that the campaign has really been shaped by the students, who have written messages about a wide variety of issues such as body image, cultural roots and perfectionism.

Kathy Fan ’19, who wrote a message about how friends have become an important aspect of her identity, said that she was glad that the campaign gave her an opportunity to reflect on herself and read the reflections written by others. “The support I’ve received from people who have read my message is amazing, and it’s very inspiring to learn about the story behind other people’s photos as well,” she said.

Po and Zhang are currently considering spreading the campaign to other campuses or making the campaign annual.

“I feel that Princeton can give us a really skewed vision of reality,” DG Kim ’18, a participant in the initiative, explained. “Everybody you meet is so talented, so smart, so invincible.”

He noted that while it is important that individuals stay humble about their abilities, the illusion of perfection this humility can create can be damaging in its own right. Kim said he feels that oftentimes students do not pursue certain academic tracks or extracurricular activities because they don’t feel that they are smart or good enough for them.

The Other Side of Me gives students the opportunity to expose their own self-doubt, share stories of survival or even express the smallest imperfections that help us break down the Princeton facade of invincibility,” he said.

According to Kim, he decided

to contribute to the project because he felt that his own internal conflict was one that could resonate with other students.

“People both in and out of Princeton have since [the initiative] talked to me about their shared experiences — even people that I have fallen out of contact with years ago. It’s so great to see that my short story could inspire other people to reach out and talk about their lives in a more vulnerable way,” Kim said.

Pooja Patel ’18, another campaign participant and a USG UCouncilor, explained that she was contacted by Zhang to be a part of the initial publicity campaign. Patel explained that while she was happy to be a part of the test shoot, she was incredibly nervous when the time came for her to share something unknown about herself alongside the photo.

Patel is a former staff writer for the ‘Prince.’

“I’ve never shared anything that is remotely vulnerable on social media, so I spent a long while contemplating a message that honestly spoke to my Princeton experience and that I believed would resonate with other students,” Patel explained. “I was completely blown away by the positive and supportive responses I’ve received both from people on campus and at other universities.”

Patel noted that she is very impressed with the outcome of the campaign overall.

“I appreciated how creative people were with what they chose to share, from raw experiences with depression and anxiety to poetry,” she said. “I think it’s really encouraging to see people embrace this initiative and share experiences, some of which are in stark contrast to what feels like a pervasive ‘culture of perfection’ at Princeton.”

Mental Health Initiative Board co-chair Sarah Sakha ’18 also noted that Zhang was the one who initially reached out to her to participate in the campaign. Sakha explained that she was excited for the campaign’s turnout as soon as Zhang explained the campaign’s premise.

Sakha is an associate opinion editor for the ‘Prince.’ “[The campaign is] finally a chance for people to be honest — with themselves, with their closest friends, with peers — about our insecurities, vulnerabilities, sources of pride, personal experiences and life changes,” she said. “Looking at all these pictures and reading through the stories and thoughts people so candidly shared made me realize how much there is to people beyond the perfunctory hellos exchanged in passing, hasty meal had in the dining hall or even close relationship you have.”

Sakha explained that she participated in the campaign because the only way to hopefully get those around you to be honest about themselves is to first be honest yourself.

“I really hope we can talk more on this campus, not networking-esque small talk, but really talk. The outcome of this campaign has been really uplifting, and I hope to see more of this going forward,” she said. “A lot of people have come up to me saying how ‘brave’ I am, which has made me sad in the sense that this openness about our experiences is so rare or taboo on this campus that anything I say that defies a pristine image is perceived as bravery.”

“I think this photo campaign has been pretty successful so far,” Anyssa Chebbi ’18, another campaign participant, said. She explained that the real beauty of the campaign is that it goes beyond just a photo and lets people talk about whatever they want.

“Students at Princeton want to talk about their personal struggles,” she said. “The Other Side of Me photo campaign gives them a platform to do so.”

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Mazhar: Is not lying in the name of the Prophet the biggest blasphemy?

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ment other than death and that retraction of an initial blasphemous statement was not possible.

He noted that the reason blasphemy laws are so powerful in Pakistan is due to the perception of a unanimous consensus by jurists regarding the punishment for blasphemy. However, he pointed out the numerous flaws in the law and how disagreement within the academic community has been unfortunately suppressed.

Mazhar noted a contradiction relating to the blasphemy laws, explaining that there previously was an ijma on the death penalty, meaning that killing due to blasphemy was unanimously prohibited. Ijma is the Arabic term for scholarly consensus. Yet, current law makes the opposite claim, stating that the unanimous punishment for blasphemy is death.

Mazhar attributed this policy to corruption within the Pakistani judicial system. He explained that authority oftentimes ends up perverting tradition. Mazhar discussed how over time, tradition has been misinterpreted and misconstrued and how the system has become flawed.

He pointed to a section of the blasphemy law, noting that it in fact has been formed from misquotations. The law claimed that all jurists agreed that the death penalty was a necessary consequence of blasphemy in Pakistan. However, the written law eliminated

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an important clause, which stated that there were scholars who did not agree that the death penalty had to be the punishment for blasphemy.

Mazhar explained that though the authority figures giving the fatwa, or official declaration, regarding the blasphemy laws are delivering corrupted interpretation, their larger audience overwhelmingly believes them. He noted that it is dangerous for the Pakistani population, particularly Pakistani youth, to have this sense of the punishment for blasphemy.

“They misquote, they misattribute at every possible moment,” Mazhar said, referencing Pakistani jurists.

Mazhar called for an ethical and principled reading of legal tradition, not a literalist reading.

“We need to reimagine not just law but theology and what it means to love the prophet of Mercy, peace be upon him,” Mazhar said.

He explained that his goal is eventually to go to the Supreme Court of Pakistan and challenge the blasphemy laws.

He ended by theorizing that if blasphemy is being defined, then it is likely that the falsifying of truth in the name of Islam and specifically in the name of the Prophet Muhammad itself could be considered a form of blasphemy.

“Is it not this lying in the name of the Prophet that is the single biggest blasphemy one can do?” Mazhur concluded.

The lecture, titled “Blasphemy! The Untold Story of Pakistan’s Law,” took place at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall.

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News & Notes Princeton names Deanna Stockton new head engineer The town of Princeton has named Assistant Principal Municipal Engineer Deanna Stockton as its new head engineer. Stockton’s installation will mark the replacement of former head engineer Bob Kiser.

This announcement came from town officials in an announcement Monday night.

The change will take effect at the end of June and will mark the end of Kiser’s 33-year term as Princeton Township’s head engineer.

Kiser hired Stockton in 2000 to serve as the Princeton’s assistant township

engineer, but Stockton had to leave the post in 2002 when she relocated with her husband to the Netherlands, where her husband was placed on a job assignment. Stockton returned to Princeton in 2005 and has since served the township as its assistant engineer.

According to an article on PlanetPrinceton.com, Stockton has participated in every major municipal project in the past decade that has occurred in the consolidated Princeton and the former township.

She played an integral role in leading the $4.4 million Mountain Lakes dredging and dam restoration project, as well as the $6.7 million Community Park pool

and recreation facility improvements. Other projects Stockton has spearheaded include the renovation of the former Princeton Borough municipal building and several roadway improvement projects.

Stockton, whom town officials praise for her ability to work well with other government entities, residents, and the University, will lead a department of 11. She will work alongside Jack West, municipal land use engineer.

Her projects so far have worked to secure grants for roadway buildup, organize a plan for bicycles and continue work on the University bike share program.

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way. He noted that not only women are constrained by social roles in the workplace, but that men are also limited by societal norms in how they feel their place in the domestic household should look.

Slaughter agreed that sometimes women can be “sexist” to men within the domestic sphere. She explained that many women believe that if they leave the traditionally domestic role solely to care for their husbands then their houses would fall apart. She noted that women need to reevaluate this stereotyping, since it can be just as detrimental to gender equality as sexism towards women in the professional sphere.

Moravcsik added that men are often feel reservations with regard to taking on a more domineering role in the household. He said this is a

constraint that needs to be changed because “accepting the role of a lead parent is incredibly satisfying.”

Nannerl Keohane emphasized the importance of spouses taking turns in their roles within their relationships.

In her own experiences with her husband, she said she has learned that spouses ultimately discover that they are really doing equally balanced work. She explained that spouses will become grateful to one another when they realize the amount of work that their counterparts do.

Both couples agreed there needs to be more conversation about different approaches to defining confinements of social gender norms within male-female spousal relationships.

The panel was titled “Life, Love, Work and Family” and was held in McCosh 50 on Monday at 4:30 p.m.

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actly what [the future] will look like, but I have a couple of years to figure it out,” she said.

According to the release, Platt earned the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence in her sophomore year and was the cowinner of the George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize for exceptional achievement during her junior year. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the fall of 2015.

Since the spring of her freshman year, Platt has annually received an English departmental prize. Her prizes have included the Class of 1870 junior and senior sophomore prizes and the Class of 1870 Old English Prize.

Platt has twice been recognized for Outstanding Work in the Program in Theater.

Platt is also a peer academic adviser in Wilson College and a member of the undergraduate advisory committee in the English department.

Kim, also an English major, said that one thing that has most defined her academic career at the University is the study of languages. During her freshman and sophomore years, she took courses in Swahili, Spanish and Latin. She also studied Hebrew while studying

abroad at University College London during the fall semester of her junior year. Kim explained that she leaves campus every other weekend to be a part of Alabaster Group, a Christian organization that holds conferences between the eight Ivy League schools and MIT. Kim is a Fulbright Fellow and will be going to South Korea next year. She hopes one day to write fiction novels. Kim noted that, for students who hope to be salutatorian, meaningful goals should be set.

“Focus on the things that excite your heart, and just do those things fully, and who knows what will come out of that,” she said. “Find meaning in the things that you’re doing.”

According to the press release, after her time teaching English in Korea as a Fulbright Fellow next year, Kim plans to pursue an MFA in creative writing at Florida State University.

Platt said that students should be sure to pursue actions that motivate them.

“Really do what you want to do, and do the things that make you feel energized and passionate every day, because work is hard,” Platt said. She added that students should continue to prioritize their health and their friends along with their studies.

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In response to “Against Divestment from Private Prisons”

he Editorial Board recently published an editorial opposing SPEAR’s referendum calling on the University to divest from private prisons. It argued against the University divesting in general and more specifically, against divesting from private prisons. We will refute their arguments by explaining the inherent moral reprehensibility of prison privatization that the Board fails to understand.

In objecting to divestment in general, the Board claims that “the neutrality of the endowment should be maintained, and its investment practices should not be politicized.” But can neutrality actually be achieved when an institution is helping to fund an industry and benefiting monetarily? The Board fails to see that by investing in a company, an institution conveys that it sufficiently approves of the company’s actions to be a shareholder, essentially endorsing the company’s positions. Thus, divesting from a company is not a statement of being actively against a company. Rather, it retracts the endorsement implied through investment by asserting that Princeton as an institution will not economically support the operation of private prisons.

The Board claims that “student referenda are… poor measures of support in the University community for a proposition.”

It calls into question the validity of students expressing their voices through the forum that the Undergraduate Student Government provides. If the Board wants to question the efficacy of referenda, it should also consider the elections of class representatives; voting for representatives received a much smaller percentage of votes than SPEAR’s referendum did. The referendum received over 1,600 votes — 30.1 percent of the student body, just short of the required 33.3 percent. Among the voters, 89.0 percent voted in favor. That is as close as the University can come to consensus when there is such low voter turnout, especially given that voting on the referendum far exceeded voting on the USG candidates.

The Board argues against divestment because it presumes opposition among those who did not vote; however, abstention does not translate to opposition. It is just as likely that students didn’t even know about the referendum, given the incredibly short timetable for campaigning. It’s also incredibly ironic that while advocating for “neutrality” in our endowment, the Editorial Board assumes opposition in matters of student opinion. Clearly, this is an issue that students care about, and we cannot ignore the demands of over 1,600 students under the guise of preserving “free and open academic discourse.”

The Board relies on such overused accusations of the “stifling of discourse” in noting that “the lack of an organized opposition campaign to this first-time referendum resulted in largely one-sided public advocacy.”

According to USG referendum rules, the referendum’s sponsors are prohibited from campaigning until an opposition party, if it exists, officially organizes by one week prior to the election. Then, both sides are given the remaining time to campaign.

The Board should recognize that there was no real opposition to this referendum. Free and open academic discourse happened; the Board must acknowledge that rather than reproducing the status quo that it seems to consistently endorse, this discourse led to a clear and resounding call from a large portion of the student body to divest from private prisons. The most visible and substantive opposition to the referendum so far took the form of the ‘Prince’ editorial itself.

Next, the Board moves into arguments specifically against SPEAR’s referendum.

The Board suggests that SPEAR “conflate[s] issues surrounding the criminal justice system with issues surrounding private prisons.” This statement is perplexing, since private prisons are undeniably a subset of the prison system. Still, it seems that the Board means that there is an insufficient causal link between the actions of private companies and the issue of mass incarceration itself.

To better understand the link between private prisons and mass incarceration, one simply needs to consider the reprehensible incentives and logic by which a private prison operates. A private prison profits by charging the government rent. Thus, its profits are a direct function of the number of people it incarcerates and the duration of their sentences — and of the number of people who recidivate after they are released.

It seeks to maximize these three quantities in order to maximize profit. It should not be hard to see why private prisons then lobby for incarceration over alternatives such as drug treatment programs, mental health services and restorative justice — alternatives that are not only more humane, but also cheaper and in fact “not likely to result in large increases in crime and recidivism,” according to a report by the Public Policy Institute of California.

Such corporations would also like the government to enact policies of mandatory detention, by which individuals with pending immigration cases are automatically separated from their families and detained without any sort of individualized assessment. Likewise, they would like to promote longer sentences via mandatory minimums and to cut back on in-prison programs such as education and career workshops so that when released into a society that enacts barriers to individuals with criminal histories attaining jobs, education, student aid and housing, former prisoners are more likely to re-commit a crime. Such in-prison programs have been shown to reduce an individual’s likelihood of re-arrest by at least 40 percent. In 2015, the Corrections Corporation of America collected $3,356 tax dollars in profit per prisoner, money that went into padding its shareholders’ pockets instead of to such programs.

Apart from how these motivations directly influence criminal justice policy, they are themselves morally repugnant. We hold individuals accountable for intent to harm in our justice system and everyday moral relations; why should we not do the same of our institutions? The Editorial Board writes that government entities’ choice “to employ private companies to either run prisons or provide the services necessary to run them … should be viewed separately from the policies determining why people are incarcerated.” Even if we take on this naïve supposition that the government is free from corporate influence, private prisons exist for the sake of incarceration. There is no way to separate them from why and how people are incarcerated.

Then again, the claim that there is insufficient evidence to prove that private prison corporations influence policy is preposterous. The Board writes that “the link between lobbying by these corporations and changes in federal or state laws is unclear” because many other organizations, such as the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, lobby for such changes.

Private prisons are a $4.8 billion industry with capital and power that public sector prison unions do not have. The Board’s claim that because corruption exists in other parts of the criminal justice system, we should not divest from one is problematic. This is the same argument that has been made against other divestment cases, particularly

that of South African apartheid, which the Board highlighted as a shining example of how “divestment should only occur in the most extreme of circumstances and when proposals are backed by substantial consensus among the Princeton community.” We wonder where this consensus was in April 1985, when John Outwater III ’85 rejected divestment in a ‘Prince’ article by asking, “Why South Africa? Economically, blacks in South Africa are better off than blacks in most other African nations. Politically, they are in the same situation — they have no rights.” By following a legacy of anti-divestment sentiment, the current Board continues to obstruct comprehensive movement towards justice by acting against a profound injustice.

The Board claims that while “SPEAR cites several concerning examples of behavior by private prison companies in its referendum fact sheet, they provide little evidence of issues unique to private prisons.” The fact that public prisons frequently perpetrate human rights violations should not stop us from taking action on these issues in private prisons. For the same reason that we cannot invest in public institutions, we can’t divest from public institutions, but we can ensure that our investments in companies are in line with our University values.

The Board also argues against divestment based on the claim that there is inconclusive evidence that private prisons are more harmful than public prisons. The Washington Post article that the Board cites states, “some states allow privatization without requiring cost and quality evaluations at all.” This means that we have absolutely no way of knowing what’s going on inside a large percentage of private prisons. There is a lack of data, and that is a major problem we have previously highlighted about private prisons. These are companies that hold contracts and have the power to dictate the terms of those contracts, which often fail to contain clauses mandating reports on the treatment of prisoners. The end goal of these contracts is to make sure that incarcerated people are kept out of sight; the system is incentivized against accountability.

Additionally, the same Washington Post article supports the divestment coalition’s position. It goes on to point out that “even if the public and private sectors are equivalent, one can argue against privatization on the grounds that… it enables greater expansion of the prison system and therefore may increase incarceration and hinder the search for alternative penal policies.” Thus, the Editorial Board failed to respond to the points that refute their arguments.

We ask that the Princeton community question the Editorial Board’s poorly argued and researched stance and that it condemn the Board’s choice to perpetuate the unjust status quo under the guise of “political neutrality.”

In 1978, Princeton’s Board of Trustees came out against divestment from companies that supported South African apartheid by stating their commitment to a “strong presumption against the university as an institution taking a position or playing an active role with respect to external issues of a political, economic, social, moral, or legal character.”

This delayed divestment from South Africa by about five years, and as we know it, Princeton was on the wrong side of history. Do we want to make the same mistake again for the same reasons? We hope not.

Signed, Julie Chen ’17 Alice Mar-Abe ’18 Micah Herskind ’19 Members of the Princeton Private Prison Divestment Coalition

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The Tigers finished in second place. This is not the first time the Tigers have come close to clinching the top spot in the Ancient Eight. The Tigers have been runner-up twice in the last four years, and in eight of the 11 tournaments since then, the Princeton squad has fallen by a margin of only 13 shots.

Still, in spite of the second place finish, the Tigers still have plenty to be proud of. “As a team we have also come a long way, and being a part of that has been an honor. I am extremely proud of our effort and the im-

provements we have made over this year,” said Wong.

Indeed, Princeton managed to place four athletes into the top 10. Junior Hana Ku led the Princeton effort, standing at fourth overall.

While the tournament concludes the season, the Tigers are already looking to improve on their game and the results from this season. “We need to continue to improve at finishing strong; it takes a great effort from all five players from start to finish,” said Wong.

Although it was not the fairy tale ending they were looking for, the women’s golf team can head into the offseason proud of another accomplished year and most likely many more to come.

ond bases, respectively. However, the Lions threw Arendt out on his way to third base.

Henceforth, Columbia took control of the game during the bottom of the fifth. The Lions first tied the game up off an Orange and Black pitching error. Then, Columbia’s Robb Paller followed with a grand slam to clinch the game for the Lions.

Saturday’s second game proved more favorable for Princeton. Leading the charge was junior pitcher Chad Powers. The California native pitched all nine innings for the Tigers and allowed only four hits in the process. In the meantime, the usual suspects, Arendt and Hoy, each earned two runs to lead the Princeton offense. In total, the Tigers

prevailed 6-2.

Both losses on Sunday proved to be heartbreakers for the Tigers. In the first meeting on the second day, the Lions wasted little time taking the lead, scoring four runs in the first inning alone. Undaunted, Princeton slowly mounted a comeback that climaxed in the final inning of the game. In the seventh inning, Princeton began strong with two doubles and runs from Hoy and Arendt. Thereafter, juniors first baseman Nick Hernandez and infielder Zack Belski took control of first and third bases.

However, the Tigers struck out before they could capitalize, giving Columbia a 5-4 victory.

Sunday’s second game was the reverse story of the first.

Princeton jumped to a 6-2 lead following the top of the sixth.

However, the Lions responded strongly with three runs in the bottom of the sixth and

then two more in the seventh.

Both teams demonstrated strong offense and were evenly matched for the final game, but the Lions held on to steal an 8-7 victory.

Reflecting on the competitiveness of such tight games, Hoy explained that clinching clutch victories requires strong defense. The Tigers have demonstrated strong defense this season — most recently against Penn — but could not match Columbia in this regard.

Nevertheless, Princeton will take the lone win at Robertson Field and begin preparing for Cornell, the final opponent of the team’s regular season. The Bears, though dominant in the past, have descended to a 6-10 Ivy League record this year, giving the Tigers a chance to clinch the Lou Gehrig Division for the first time since 2011.

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of play, the Tigers remained in fifth place with a cumulative team score of 309-311, 44-over-par, for a grand total of 620 over 36 holes, 22 shots shy of leader Harvard, which had a score of 292-306, 22-over-par, with a grand total of 598.

Mitchell continued his brilliant form into the final day, leading the Tigers with an individual score of 77 , 5-over-par, to cap off a great weekend for the sophomore.

Mitchell finished sixth on the individual ladder, just four shots behind winner Graboyes from Cornell. In the final round, both Davis and Hedrick put in impressive performances with a 76, 4-over-par, and 75, 3-overpar, respectively. The pair

produced the highlights of the day, with birdies from Davis on the par-3 11th hole, and Hedrick on the par-3 15th hole. Meanwhile, junior Quinlan Prchal produced a classy 5-over-par and junior Alex Dombrowski shot an 84, 12-over-par. The Tigers improved markedly over the course of the three days, finishing strong with their best team performance of the championships, a score of 305. Princeton finished sixth overall in the Ivy League Championships, shooting a team 61-over-par after 54 holes, just 18 strokes behind winners Harvard. Competition was fierce this year, with just six shots separating sixth-place Princeton from third-place Yale. This weekend rounds off the season for the Tigers, who will now be looking forward to next season.

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Baseball drops games to Columbia, stays atop division standings

By David Liu sports editor

This past weekend, Princeton baseball (19-17 overall, 10-6 Ivy League) took its Ivy League-leading record on the road to face three-time League champion Columbia (13-23, 7-9). After splitting the two games on Saturday, the Tigers lost by one run in both games on Sunday. Despite the losses, Princeton still leads the Lou Gehrig Division, but holds just a one-game lead over Penn.

The Tigers have been preparing for the final, difficult stretch of their Ivy League schedule all season. Though Columbia has not done particularly well this year, the Lions have been historically dominant, winning four league titles in the past eight years. Describing Columbia’s strengths, senior co-

captain infielder Danny Hoy explained, “They’re very well coached and they have a lot of returning players that have won a lot of games in the past.”

Additionally, Hoy explained that the Lions are particularly difficult to defeat at home.

Prior to this weekend, the Tigers had not won even once on Columbia’s Robertson Field in the past three years.

The first meeting between the two teams on Saturday began slow but escalated into an 8-4 Columbia victory. Following a Lions run in the fourth, Princeton responded with a high-offense fifth inning.

Junior outfielder Danny Baer and sophomore infielder Asher Lee-Tyson jump-started the inning with two quick runs to give Princeton the lead. Cocaptains Hoy and Billy Arendt then advanced to first and secSee BASEBALL page 7

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Baseball dropped both of its games against Columbia this weekend, moving its overall record to 19-17.

WOMEN’S GOLF

Women’s golf finishes second in Ivy League

By David Xin associate sports editor

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Women’s golf finished at a close second to Harvard this weekend.

The women’s golf team traveled to Greenwich, Conn. to compete in the annual Ivy League Championship this past Friday. The Tigers started the three-day tournament on the right foot, claiming second place among seven competitors after the first day, with Harvard in the top spot.

Although Princeton would attempt to close the gap throughout the tournament, the Crimson would hold on to clinch the title.

The Tigers held onto second.

After the first round of competition, the Tigers found themselves eight

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shots behind Harvard.

Freshman Tiana Lau led the team by placing second individually, finishing the first round even par. She stood only one shot away from first place, held by Yale’s Jennifer Peng.

The Orange and Black cut the deficit to six shots in the second round. The Tigers managed to hold their team score steady at 310 while the Crimson added 10 shots to its cumulative score. Freshman Amber Wang, the top Tiger in the field, led the team at third overall, hitting six shots over par. Yale’s Peng continued to lead that of all competitors.

In the third round of competition, the Princeton

squad managed to cut the deficit early. However, the Crimson would manage to hold on to its lead, extending it to 13 shots by the end of the day. With the win, Harvard claimed its fifth consecutive Ivy League title.

“Obviously we are disappointed with a runner-up finish. About mid-round we closed the gap and tied it up with Harvard, which was awesome, but as the back nine progressed, Harvard pulled away and won the title,” said senior Alexandra Wong. “Harvard played great golf today and we have nothing but great respect for them.”

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MEN’S GOLF

Women’s lacrosse defeats Columbia Men’s golf finishes to finish regular Ivy League season sixth after two-day Ivy League tournament

By Claire Coughlin staff writer

The No. 10 Princeton women’s lacrosse team (10-4 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) faced its first tough loss of the season last Wednesday against the No. 17 Penn. The Tigers were hoping to maintain their streak in the Ivy League, but the Red and Blue came out strong. While the Tigers played their best, they were unable to come back from a four-goal run in the first six minutes that ultimately lead to the Quakers leading the entire game. The Tigers lost 12-7 and went into the weekend tied in the conference for first with Cornell (4-1 Ivy League) and Penn.

On Saturday, the Orange and Black traveled to the Upper West Side of New York City to play against the Columbia Lions at Rocco B. Commisso Soccer Stadium.

The Tigers were really hoping for a comeback game against Columbia (6-8, 1-5) to

regain their strong momentum. Just midway through the first half, the Tigers had already scored five goals to give them a 5-1 lead. Two of these goals came from freshman midfielder Kathryn Hallett, who was just one of the many scorers on Saturday.

The whole team seemed to be on the offense as 10 members each successfully got a shot off of Columbia’s goalie Kelsey Gedin. Although Columbia responded to these five goals with two more points, senior attack Anna Menke and junior midfielder Lauren Steidl were both able to help the Tigers end the half with a four-goal lead.

The team was also able to start the second half strong with the momentum they hoped. A four-goal run that included two successful attempts from junior midfielder Olivia Hompe, senior midfielder Anya Gersoff and sophomore attack Colby Chanenchuk. The only point in the game in which the Lions

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were able to slow down the pace of the game was following this run in which they went on a four-goal run of their own. After this, the Tigers dominated for the remainder of the game.

It was definitely a great game for freshman Hallett, who had two goals and one assist, as well as freshman midfielder Nonie Andersen, who showcased a career high of three draw controls. Junior goaltender Ellie DeGarmo also continued her stellar play as she finished the game with 10 goals. DeGarmo was named Epoch/Lacrosse Magazine player of the week and has been a pivotal part of the Orange and Black’s overall success thus far.

As the regular season comes to a close, the Tigers will travel to New Hampshire to play the Brown Bears in the last game of their regular season. Face-off time is at 1 p.m. and the game will be covered by the Ivy League Digital Network as well as ESPN 3.

By Helen Zhang staff writer

Men’s golf headed to Metedeconk National Golf Club in Jackson, N.J. this weekend to face off against its fellow Ivy League rivals in the Ivy League Golf Championships.

The championships started Friday morning in sunny but windy conditions with sophomore Michael Davis leading the way for the Tigers in the first round. Davis shot a beautiful 74, 2-overpar, displaying great technical ability and consistency in the opening round. Davis ended the 18 holes at sixth on the individual ladder, just two shots shy of Harvard’s Greg Royston and Dartmouth’s Ian Kelsey who each turned in an even score of 72.

The highlights of the first round for the Tigers included brilliant birdies from Davis on the par-3 seventh hole and

Stat of the Day

10 saves Junior goatlender Ellie DeGarmo saved 10 goals against Columbia this weekend.

sophomore Marc Hedrick on the par-3 11th hole. Princeton finished the day 21-over-par, 17 shots behind leaders Harvard, who shot an unbelievable team 4-over-par.

Sophomore Eric Mitchell stole the show on the second day, shooting the equal best single round score of the Championships. Keeping even for the first 13 holes, Mitchell pulled out a stunning eagle on the par-5 14th hole, and then birdied on the very next hole to reach 3-under-par. He closed the day with a bogey, finishing at an incredible score of 70, 2-under-par, after the 18 holes. Mitchell shot up 17 spots on the individual leaderboard to third with a twoday score of 148, 4-over-par, just three strokes behind Cornell’s Luke Graboyes who sat on a score of 145, 1-overpar. After the second round See M. GOLF page 7

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