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By Melissa Curtis staff writer

Columnist Lavinia Liang discusses the role of Tiger Admirers and true love, and guest contributor Matt Beienburg warns against substituting the words of others for our worst assumptions of them.

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Eight students received the 2015 Spirit of Princeton Award, including Joanna Anyanwu ’15, Christina Chica ’15, Azza Cohen ’16, Brandon Holt ’15, Joe Laseter ’15, Janie Lee ’15, Hannah Rosenthal ’15 and Paul Riley ’15.

The award is an effort of the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students to acknowledge achievements in different areas of campus life, including athletics, community service, the arts, student organizations and religious life. The selection committee consists of administrators, current students and alumni, and the recipients are considered based on nomination letters.

Anyanwu is a Wilson School concentrator from Frisco, Tex., with certificates in gender and sexuality studies and African studies, and is the Tom A. and Andrea E. Bernstein ’80 Scholar in the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative. She is on the varsity track team, an intern at the Women’s Center, a Community Action coordinator and the former co-chair

Today on Campus 12:30 p.m.: Novelist, television producer and writer Doris Egan will speak with students on fanfiction. Free and open to the public. East Pyne 010.

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April 27, 1999 Faculty members passed a motion changing the rules of testing schedules.

They agreed on a reform to the final exam schedule, allowing students to reschedule their exams due to religious observance, illness, athletic commitments and “sleepthroughs.”

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PRINCETON By the Numbers

2,032 The number of students who voted on the divestment referendum last week.

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News & Notes Drexel accidentally sends admission emails to 495 students

Hundreds of students received false admission emails from Drexel University last week, according to the Associated Press.

Four hundred ninetyfive high school seniors who were originally denied admission from Drexel or had submitted incomplete applications received a follow-up congratulatory email from Drexel three weeks later.

The email was to remind students of the reply deadline and was only supposed to be sent to admitted students, but was mistakenly sent to rejected students as well.

Drexel sent out another email to the students seven hours later, apologizing for the error.

Drexel made the same mistake in 1994, when it accidentally mailed admission letters to 25 students.

of Princeton Against Sex Trafficking.

Anyanwu did not respond to requests for comment.

Chica is a sociology concentrator from Los Angeles, Calif.

She has worked with Students for Educational Reform, was the co-president of the Princeton Pride Alliance, was a part of the Princeton Equality Project and is an LGBT peer educator. She has also hosted weekly freshman lunches that address younger students’ questions and issues. Chica has worked in the Women’s Center, Murray-Dodge Café and as a Tiger Caller.

“I don’t know if I was completely surprised,” Chica said, citing her wide range of involvement. She added that she was very happy about the award.

Cohen, on the other hand, said she was completely surprised when she found out she won. As a history concentrator from Highland Park, Ill., Cohen has participated on the Breakout coordinating board, danced for the Bhangra team and worked in the Pace Center.

Her documentary, “Specks of See SPIRIT page 4

Students enjoyed a night of delicious food and exciting performances at Night Market 2015.

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Divestment fails to pass by slim margin

By Daily Princetonian Staff The divestment referendum did not pass, with 52.5 percent of students voting against divestment and 47.5 percent voting in favor of it.

The referendum called on the University to divest from companies “that maintain the infrastructure of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, facilitate Israel’s and Egypt’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or facilitate state repression against Palestinians

by Israeli, Egyptian, and Palestinian Authority security force.”

Though 2,200 students participated in the election and vot-

ing process, only 2,032 students voted on the referendum.

Princeton Committee on Palestine board member Katie Horvath ’15 explained that, although the movement for divestment had been significant, she was not surprised at the outcome of the referendum.

“We knew from the outset that this was going to be an uphill battle, and we had done our research and looked at the previous divestment movements at Princeton,” Horvath said.

She added that she was pleased to have lost by only 102 votes, because with more outreach and slightly increased support, the referendum would pass in a similar scenario. She explained that because win-

ning the vote was a long shot, the leaders of the campaign had multiple goals during the process.

“We had three goals, and only one of them was the actual numbers of the referendum. The other two goals were education and reaching the broader audience outside of this University,” Horvath said.

The University is a leader in the United States, so the relative success of the campaign will give hope to pro-divestment students at other colleges, she explained.

“If we can run a campaign here, on a campus that has so recently been apathetic and historically has been very resistant See ELECTIONS page 3

Free speech discussed at USG open forum

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

The Undergraduate Student Government sponsored an open forum about freedom of expression on campus in Frist Campus Center on Sunday.

The panelists included Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice, mathematics professor Sergiu Klainerman and University general counsel Ramona Romero. USG vice president Aleksandra Czulak ’17 facilitated the discussion with participation from both panelists and audience members.

Klainerman said he had first submitted a petition signed by 60 colleagues on academic freedom in March because he and like-minded faculty members wanted faculty to take the lead in preserving freedom of

expression. The faculty voted on adopting the statement at the April 6 faculty meeting.

Freedom, justice, equality and safety are in a state of permanent conflict, according to Klainerman.

“A successful society has to somehow meet these four basic human needs,” Klainerman said. “Our main motivation was in reaction to events occurring at college campuses, rather than events occurring on Princeton University’s campus.”

Klainerman said that while good intentions can make censorship seemingly nonthreatening, an environment in which students hear nothing but uncontroversial viewpoints will not benefit students.

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SPRING FESTIVAL

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USG presents update on support system for students taking leave at weekly meeting

By Katherine Oh staff writer

The USG senate approved an amendment to the Honor Committee constitution that would give the incoming Honor Committee chair more time for training at its weekly meeting on Sunday.

Honor Committee chairelect and U-councilor Dallas Nan ’16 noted that other changes to the constitution will require more time for review.

“A concern that we need to pass as soon as possible is to make this chair transition time concrete,” Nan said.

“We decided that we wanted the chair to transfer at midyear, so that the outgoing chair has a semester to mentor the incoming chair.”

Under the current system, the incoming chair has to call the chair emeritus whenever he has a question about anything, Nan explained.

Because more than threefourths of the voting members in senate voted in favor, the amendment passed, and Nan will now become acting Honor Committee chair from this date.

In an update on the recent election cycle, chief elec-

tions manager Grant Golub ’17 noted that run-off elections between Jenny Zhang ’18 and Yash Patel ’18 were taking place for the position of Class of 2018 treasurer.

Golub is a former staff writer and senior copy editor for The Daily Princetonian.

In addition, Golub said he wanted to encourage senate members to suggest specific ways to improve the elections handbook.

U-councilor Jacob Cannon ’17 provided an update on a support system for students taking extended leave, which includes a mentorship See USG page 3

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Students and the community gathered to decorate kites, climb inflatable slides and eat summer treats at PSEC Spring Festival.

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database for students considering leaving to find advice.

The database will be constructed based on results of a survey, so that the reasons that students took leave — including whether it was for athletics and whether or not it was voluntary — would be considered in creating the database.

Class of 2016 senator Deana Davoudiasl suggested that the project group make the support database an “opt-in” one, so that students who took a year off and are willing to talk to others considering taking time off could offer advice more in-

formally.

USG’s staff appreciation project is underway, media chair Jia Ning Cheng ’17 said, noting that there will be tables in Frist Campus Center by next week and possibly during reading period, where students will be able to write personal thank you notes for staff. There will also be posters available with information about what staff of different departments do for students, Cheng said.

Addressing the information technology committee, U-councilor Mallory Banks ’15 said that she thought there was a publicity problem for TigerApps and suggested that the committee pursue a campaign to increase student awareness of the resources

available to them.

“No one knows anything about TigerApps,” Banks said. “It’s really bizarre and also totally unhelpful.”

TigerApps shouldn’t be rolled out officially until USG has thought through how to adopt them most effectively, USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said.

Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

During the meeting, Ucouncil chair Zhan OkudaLim ’15 also presented two possible amendments to the senate constitution. The first would allow the senate to create standing committees that continue after the newly elected senate takes office. The second proposal would remove the existing

attendance policy from the constitution and allow the senate to adopt a new rule.

Class of 2018 senator Paul Draper raised a concern regarding the first proposed amendment, noting that senate members might be less inclined to think about the work being done in standing committees, compared to ad hoc committees, since they don’t need to periodically reapprove the group.

The first amendment failed to pass with less than tw0-thirds of the voting senate members voting in favor, while the second amendment passed.

The senate will not be meeting next Sunday, and the final meeting for the year will be on Saturday, May 9.

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to divestment and to change, this could happen anywhere,” Horvath added. “A lot of schools will have even more success the first time around than we had.”

There may or may not be a referendum next year, depending on how events play out, she noted. The divestment movement is certainly not going away, and another referendum will probably be useful to pursue in the future, she added.

Though she feels some regret about the outcome of the vote, the diversity of race, religion, other social justice interests was inspiring, Horvath said.

“One of the things that I’m most excited about in this campaign is that it catalyzed this unprecedented show of solidarity on campus from all sectors,” Horvath said, adding that she hopes the unity shown by students and various student groups will happen again in the future.

Leading up to the vote, Elise Backman ’15 said she and fellow members of the No Divest coalition had been trying to talk to as many students as possible about alternative ways to promote a two-state solution and sustainable peace among Israelis and Palestinians.

“We were just really proud that the majority of the voting students saw through the misleading language of the referendum and ended up rejecting what we saw as a counterproductive proposition, especially coming from the University forum,” she said. ”We don’t believe that it’s a productive policy tool to improve the status quo in the region.”

While the coalition had no expectations about whether the referendum would pass, Backman said, she successfully predicted that the outcome would be very close given the abundance of perspectives.

“Moving forward, we really want to focus on impacting the region in as positive and constructive a way that we can, and we hope that other students will join us in that endeavor,” Backman said.

She noted that the No Divest coalition will continue working on Tigers Together, which begun earlier this year as a collaboration mainly between Tigers for Israel and J Street U. “Tigers Together wants to have as positive and constructive and immediate of an impact as possible on the ground by supporting organizations that work on development issues for Israelis and Palestinians, like entrepreneurship and water scarcity,” Backman said, adding

that Tigers Together has already begun fundraising for such organizations.

She explained that next year, Tigers Together will also launch an internship program that will send students to Israel or Palestine, so that they can bring firsthand perspectives on the region back to campus. The organization is seeking faculty from a diverse arena of academic disciplines, including the Wilson School and development-oriented fields, Backman noted.

“We think the more students that know about the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians, the better,” she said, adding that the No Divest coalition is happy that there is dialogue on campus concerning the Israeli-Palestinian relationship.

Thirteen students ran for ten U-councilor positions. Naimah Hakim ’16 gained the most votes at 791, Dallas Nan ’16 followed with 630 total votes and Brandon McGhee ’18 had the third highest number of votes at 614 in total.

The other elected U-councilors include Jacob Cannon ‘17, Christopher Hsu ’18, Ethan Marcus ’18, Lavinia Liang ’18, Miranda Rosen ’18, Shobhit Kumar ’18 and Sol Taubin ’16.

For the 2016 Class Council, the positions for president, vice president, treasurer and social chair were all unopposed. Justin Ziegler ’16 has been elected

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A high school student spoke at The Princeton Prize in Race Relations symposium this weekend.

President, Gwendolyn Lee ’16 as vice president, Richard Lu ’16 as Treasurer, and Alec Regulski ’16 as Social Chair. Priya Krishnan ’16 was elected secretary by a 60.2 percent majority.

Every position for the 2017 Class Council was unopposed.

Andrew Sun ’17 was elected as president, Nathan Suek ’17 as vice president, Caroline Snowden ’17 as Treasurer, Ariel Hsing ’17 as Social Chair, and Nusrat Ahmed ’17 as Secretary.

The positions of vice president and treasurer were contested for the Class of 2018. , and Rachel Yee ’18 was elected vice president by a 72.2% majority.

There will be a runoff election between Jenny Zhang ’18 and Yash Patel ’18 for Treasurer, due to the closeness of the votes.

Zhang received 268 votes, approximately 42.4 percent, and Patel received 274 votes at approximately 43.4 percent.

Chance Fletcher ’18 ran unopposed for class president, Anyssa Chebbi ’18 ran unopposed for social chair and Kevin Liu ’18 ran unopposed for secretary.

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Dust,” which has been in production since her freshman year, premiered this past weekend.

“I was totally not expect-

ing it,” Cohen said. “I am really flattered that other people think that way of me.”

Holt is a history concentrator from Old Hickory, Tenn.

Holt is a former member of the editorial board for The Daily Princetonian and was the president of Sexual Harassment/

Assault Advising, Resources and Education. This year, especially, he has been an avid participant in campus activism, specifically for students of color, he said.

He said his reaction to receiving the award was one of “immense surprise.”

“A lot of winners that received the prize this year are heavily involved in activism,” Holt noted, adding how nice it is that the University is trying to recognize activism.

Laseter is a psychology concentrator from Chicago, Ill. He has been a photographer for the ‘Prince’ since his freshman year, president of the Minority Association of Pre-med Students, diSiac member, Frist Campus Center employee, Orange Key tour guide, Butler residential college adviser and the co-coordinator for the Habitat for Humanity project at the University.

“I was completely humbled,” he said. “I just thought I was doing what I loved to do on campus.”

Lee is a Wilson School concentrator from Walnut, Calif.

The former president of Students for Educational Reform, she led a campaign to help pass teacher tenure reform. She has worked on the Pace Council for Civic Values, and was a Petey Greene program tutor. Additionally, a philosophy course was created by expanding a poetry and public speaking course she taught.

“I was completely surprised,” she said about receiving the award. “I was really excited.”

Rosenthal, a politics concentrator from St. Louis, Mo., has been a fellow at the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Understanding, an intern at the Center for Jewish Life and is a member of the wind ensemble.

She started an initiative between the Fields Center and the CJL and also created Club Nom, which facilitates dialogue within the eating club system.

Rosenthal won the Princeton Prize in Race Relations in April

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Eight students found out they received the 2015 Spirit of Princeton Award this past weekend.

2010.

“I was honored and humbled to be nominated with other peers who are very inspiring and who I know have done great work on campus,” Rosenthal said.

Riley is from Bensalem, Pa., and is a politics concentrator.

He has served as the Campus and Community Affairs Chair and as a Projects Board member within the Undergraduate Student Government. Aside from his involvement with mock trial and church, he said he has cherished his role as a Butler residen-

tial college adviser for the past two years and takes great joy in seeing freshmen enjoy all that the University has to offer.

Riley said he was truly shocked and honored to receive the award. He noted that people at the University do not boast about the tasks they do and it is therefore difficult to truly know the contributions that fellow classmates are making.

He said he believes this award helps one see what people are doing and how they are positively changing campus life.

Although almost every hon-

ored student was an activist, Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne said he did not believe activism and civic engagement were particularly emphasized in the selection process this year.

“That said, I do believe that the committee is pleased that those recognized show the many ways Princetonians can demonstrate the qualities that make our university such a distinctive learning environment and highlight our strengths as an engaged, dynamic community,” he said.

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Klainerman noted that the lead for academic freedom comes from faculty, not administration. He explained that there exists a serious conflict between defending freedom of speech and addressing the needs and concerns of the nation’s lawmakers.

Approximately 30-40 students attended the forum, and they raised a number of concerns, including the fact that sensitivity training might be necessary to keep in professors’ minds that certain statements are offensive to students. Students pushed for a clearer definition of a “standard for civility” and questioned the limits of standards of speech for faculty members.

The panel responded by citing faculty’s rights to express their opinions without being considered obscene and said that University guidelines in “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” should be made parallel to those laid out by the First Amendment.

“I want to make clear that all of the faculty members that signed the statement didn’t necessarily sign the statement for the same reason that Professor Klainerman articulate,” said Prentice. “I can imagine that the 60 people who signed this came to it for 60 different reasons.”

Ethan Marcus ’18 said he thinks a lot needs to be done to continue the conversation about freedom of speech.

“There’s a lot more the faculty needs to do to work with students so that both sides can convey information and pres-

ent viewpoints in a way that doesn’t violate students’ personal integrity and cultural beliefs and safety,” Marcus said.

The panel noted that students should always bring up and discuss concerns of harassment or abuse.

Students raised concerns about the University taking preventative measures against hate speech, and the panel responded that freedom of speech does not extend to hate speech.

“This university, like any university, is about freedom of speech and diversity,” Romero said. “We don’t all agree on issues; we disagree and learn from one another.”

Students asked if administrators would play a role in preserving freedom of speech on campus.

“I think the administration has an important role to play in creating conditions to prevent hate speech to begin with,” Prentice said. “That’s a role for the administration.”

When students questioned whether the University was going far enough to try to prevent bigotry on campus, Klainerman said that he felt that marginal hate speech should be ignored.

“Not always, but there are times when we should just ignore it and marginalize it,” he said. “Sometimes it works better. Not always, but sometimes it works better.”

Students pushed back against this idea by pointing out that marginalizing hateful speech can uphold the status quo that allows for racism and prejudice.

The distinctions between private and public institutions upholding unlimited free-

dom of speech rules were also brought up.

“The First Amendment is nuanced,” Romero said. “There’s a value issue for institutions of higher learning adhering to freedom of expression. I’d hope that, at this institution, speech that targets individuals would be challenged and that every voice would be heard.”

Klainerman added that there are times when speech is unacceptable and positions have to be taken.

Students said that recent events on campus, which they called racist and offensive, are not being adequately addressed. Cultural competency courses are not being held, which means that the University is not positioned well to take a proactive role to guard against individuals demeaning other individuals at the University, they said.

“In terms of cultural competency training, I agree, it would be very good for this campus.

Where I don’t agree would be that it’s worth making it mandatory,” Prentice said, noting that research shows that mandatory training does not really enlighten anybody. “I think creating a community in which more people want to learn this and the values of understanding other people and understanding their experiences are more prominent, I think that’s what we need to do.”

Both administrators and students said they appreciated the open forum.

“It’s an opportunity for an open exchange of views,” Prentice said. “There are clearly questions students have wanted to ask that this [forum] provided them with an opportunity to ask.”

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#modernlove: Acknowledging the importance of Tiger Admirers Lavinia Lang

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M

y mother told me that she thinks my generation is not serious about love.

This was after we had gone to college. My friends and I had just reconvened in our native Hudson Valley. One of us now had a boyfriend. We congratulated her. They were adorable. She had chosen well for herself — a good-natured, domestic boy to match her spunky timidity. She smiled shyly. “Taking down hookup culture one relationship at a time,” she said. I thought this was a good thing of her to say, but the brief story of her budding relationship was unfortunately sandwiched by the drowning stories of our other friend’s failed hookups.

My mother picked me up afterwards and I sighed. The night was already mature in upstate New York, although the car time only read 10 p.m. “We’ve changed, Mom,” I said, and she laughed because it was only November.

“No, really,” I said. “Everyone’s falling in love, or thinking they are.”

“What’s the difference?”

Mummified in a northeastern winter and studying (waiting) for second semester, I was trying to apply for internships, and my friend was eating all my old chocolate. I had given her permission to do so but, still, the crinkling of the wrappers was getting on my nerves and then there were also the actual noises she made while eating. Twice she said: “I wish someone would write a Tiger Admirers post about me.”

After the second time I cheerfully said, “I’m sure someone will! And, really, they’re not that big of a deal anyway.”

Although I am now no longer part of the Facebook group, I took a break with her that night and we watched the blue and white posts fly by under the quick swipes of down-arrow key.

One post read: “2277 — F**k going out to the street. I just want to have a slow dance with a girl at a beach.”

My mother thinks that we do not take love seriously. If I showed her Tiger Admirers she would probably point at the other posts which come up when “beach” is searched for (I mean the ones which mention “beach-ready bods” etc.) I am sure she would be able to find dozens of other posts, too, which would justify her claim. Yet I beg to differ. I would say, “Yes, mom,” but what about the very fact that Tiger Admirers exists: does that not say anything?

It does. And it says things in only the way college students are capable of. Tiger Admirers is especially powerful because it utilizes both anonymity and open naming in their strongest forms. The admirer is suddenly an 11th-century troubadour poet, cloaking him or herself while praising his or her own versions of Dante’s Beatrice. The admiree, on the other hand, is placed on a pedestal, deified, complete with his or her own marble-engraved name (the blue hyperlink tagged-name even allows a hovering mouse to check out the thumbnail. Bet the Greeks never thought of that!). Self-effacement is the goal here, to relegate oneself to a nameless mouthpiece of praise.

But hold on — I thought the goal of Tiger Admirers was to gain requited love? Or to, alternately, embrace unrequited affections?

Or simply to express what might be deemed embarrassing to say in real life? To me, the cathartic nature of Tiger Admirers is what reconciles these two sets of goals: the nominal one of “putting oneself out there” and the actual one of “becoming a nobody.”

What more can be asked of a college student?

Our lives are filled with similar situations.

These things are here, but not present; they are possessed, but never really had. I think about career choices. I think about major declaration.

I think about friend circles and the cultivation of a definite self. And I still have in mind the one-night stands, the fleeting hookups, the singular boldness of “Shall we dance?” — romance, perhaps, but not really love.

So I am a proponent of Tiger Admirers usage.

Aristotle believed in catharsis but Plato did not. I guess I already have a beef with Plato because of his views on art, but when it comes to Tiger Admirers, I’m again an Aristotelian. To me, 2277 was saying less so “F**k going out to the street” but more so, “F**k posting on Tiger Admirers”; less so “I just want to have a slow dance with a girl at a beach” and more so “I just want to say things out loud without feeling stifled by social conventions.” Oh, say it, number 2277. You’ve already begun. Eviscerate this chasm we’ve created. Bridge the gap between falling in love and merely thinking so.

Lavinia Liang is a freshman from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She can be reached at lavinial@princeton.edu.

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Create a Hindu prayer space

ast week, The Daily Princetonian reported on an initiative by Princeton Hindu Satsangam and a number of both Hindu and non-Hindu students to advocate for the creation of a Hindu prayer space on campus.

Though the University Chapel hosts Hindu events and Murray-Dodge Hall, which houses the University’s Religious Life offices, contains an interfaith prayer room, supporters of the proposal have pointed out that the establishment of a space geared specifically towards Hindu worship would offer a meaningful recognition of Princeton’s large Hindu community. Additionally, a new Hindu prayer space would contribute to the mission of fostering diversity and cultural awareness which lies at the core of the University’s educational goals. The Editorial Board endorses this initiative and commends the students who have expressed interest in a prayer space for their efforts to enhance Hindu life at Princeton.

In general, the University does an excellent job of accommodating and assisting religious groups and of fostering an environment in which religiously-based student organizations can thrive; for example, Princeton supports regular services for Chris-

tians of all denominations in the Chapel, hosts the Center for Jewish Life (which sponsors meals, services and lectures), and offers a Muslim prayer room in Murray-Dodge Hall.

In fact, according to Vineet Chander, Princeton’s Hindu life coordinator, Princeton maintains the nation’s only full-time Hindu life program. The designation of a Hindu prayer space would be a valuable contribution to the climate of religious and cultural diversity to which the University has demonstrated a strong commitment.

Moreover, creating a Hindu prayer room would be more than a purely symbolic gesture; while the Chapel is not conducive to praying while seated on the floor, a new space could be arranged around specific Hindu traditions. The prayer room would give the Hindu community greater control over how it wishes to organize its services and would likely motivate Hindu Princetonians to deepen their involvement in Hindu life on campus.

The creation of a Hindu prayer space could be completed without any inconvenience to the University community. There are many possible locations for the room; one recent suggestion is Green Hall, which is temporarily housing the Department of Astrophysical Sciences on its

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third floor. If the plan for a Hindu prayer space were to be accepted, the University should consult the Hindu community to find an available spot which would not only be convenient and easily repurposed, but which would meet the community’s wishes and needs. In addition to the relative simplicity of setting up a space, Princeton Hindu Satsangam’s proposal has wide support from both Hindu and non-Hindu, religious and non-religious students across the University. The Board sees no compelling reason not to go ahead with creating a Hindu prayer space, especially given the potential for the new space to benefit the Hindu community on campus and to strengthen the religious diversity from which all Princetonians can learn a great deal.

The Hindu community is a valuable part of student life at Princeton, and the establishment of a Hindu prayer room would be an important step towards giving the Hindu community even greater recognition for its contributions to the University.

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ollowing recent events, the rightful outrage from our community — including the recent student demonstration in the University Chapel — appropriately galvanizes us to confront racial injustice and shame those who spew hate.

That racism should be condemned could not be more true, and it is precisely what is true that we must always challenge ourselves to uphold. Despite the good intentions behind it, however, I fear the recent student demonstration has failed to do this, with significant, and troubling, implications.

Understandably, many students considered the April 9th message from President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 a “tone-deaf” and tepid response to sickening bigotry, and they admirably raised their voices to say so. Yet amid the handful of signs carried into the chapel, one featured the president’s own words: “[Racism] is fundamental to the life of a great University” – Christopher L. Eisgruber.

Such a heinous statement should never have been uttered by Princeton’s president.

The problem, however, is that he never said it. Instead, he wrote: “Comedy, satire, and stage performances inevitably transgress boundaries. The controversies they provoke may be genuinely painful, but they are also fundamental to the life of any great University.”

We might be inclined to shrug off the revision as hyperbole or an isolated error, or to concede that it’s close

enough to what he implied.

Or perhaps the sign simply satirized Eisgruber’s own support for “comedy, satire, and stage performances.” But there’s an enormous difference between a witty caricature and a misleading, false attribution. To ascribe a loathsome quotation to someone who has neither uttered nor remotely implied its content is, as The Daily Princetonian’s Editorial Board also observed, “intellectually dishonest.”

This is more than quibbling over the proper rules of bracketed quotations.

It’s about our alarming willingness to quite literally substitute the actual beliefs, intentions and words of our perceived political opponents with the worst of what we expect from them.

Unfortunately, this urge extended beyond an isolated sign: the manifesto read aloud during the demonstration echoed the same indictment: “By proclaiming that racism is ‘fundamental to the life’ of Princeton University, this so-called community becomes one that violently excludes students of color.”

There is certainly logic underlying the charge: if performance begets controversy, and controversy can mean racism, then isn’t defending the freedom to create controversy little better than defending racism? But take the same logic: The freedom to trust someone in friendship invites the risk of disappointment, heartache or betrayal.

Yet friendship remains fundamental to the human experience, and it would be unthinkable to reinterpret such a phrase as “[betrayal] is fundamental to the human experience.”

This does not lessen the students’ courage nor the credit they deserve for raising their voices. Those of us who do not and cannot ever fully know the

pain affecting other members of our community, and who ourselves fail to engage proactively on their behalf, should hear the cries of abandonment and weariness.

Why then, does this matter more broadly?

First, activism, even for good causes, does not give license to distort the truth. If a cause is just, it should prevail because society awakens to the clarity of its truth, not because its advocates more shrewdly bend facts in the wars of rhetoric. Certainly misinformation has been used for great good — like shielding families from the Holocaust — but a habit or comfort with misrepresentation ultimately cripples our ability to perceive justice.

Second, by speaking for, rather than to, those we disagree with, we shut down political dialogue. When warnings of “rising carbon levels” are heard by opponents as a conspiratorial plot for “economic totalitarianism,” or when calls to preserve local self-government become code for the bigotry of segregationist era states’ rights, we close the door to honest discussion. In such cases, should we not listen and discuss, rather than accuse?

Third, racism is not a necessary evil.

It is simply evil. Free speech, however, is precious, even though it can be used to do great harm. Students in the demonstration chanted “hate speech is not free speech,” and racist messages will never constitute a productive contribution to campus dialogue. But when even the words of the university’s president can be repackaged into something so odious, should we not consider the ramifications of attempting to arbitrate speech? As the ACLU reminds us, “Verbal purity is not social change.

Codes that punish bigoted speech treat only the symptom: The problem itself is bigotry.”

Yes, Princeton is a private institution within its right to decide when someone’s contribution to campus climate or dialogue is unwelcome. This isn’t about First Amendment protections. It is about, as Eisgruber quoted from the faculty resolution, “the University’s fundamental commitment … to the principle that debate or deliberation may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed.”

Finally, let us look beyond our campus to the polarized politics in our country: If we condone the literal rewriting of others’ words amid our eagerness to find them illegitimate, how can we be trusted when advocating the greater truth of our side? Distortions and propaganda are unfortunate realities in politics, but that doesn’t mean we should deal in them ourselves. Lincoln’s words to aspiring jurists should apply no less to today’s political activists, left or right: “If in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave.”

Yes, let us stand up and reject the peddling of hate; let us promote the process of healing. But let us not separate truth from the pursuit of righteousness.

Matt Beienburg is a graduate student at the Woodrow Wilson School from Phoenix, AZ. He can be reached at mdb3@princeton.edu.

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defeat having not yet sunken into their minds.

Eternities seemed to pass before that first whistle blew.

I noticed one dodgeball in particular, a medium-sized, orange one. It struck the perfect balance between aerodynamic toss-ability and necessary size for me to block oncoming attacks. I stared at it incessantly, planning my exact attack scheme. In my mind, I still held onto that f leeing hope of victory, that the ‘Prince’ would overcome the odds set before it.

The painful truth was, I was that dodgeball. A round, foamy object, at the mercy of others.

Reality dragged me from the safe solace of my inner thoughts. The whistle had blown. The games had begun. Our time in the tournament had run out.

Part 3: Struck from afar, as a dream withers and dies For the minutes before the whistle had blown, I had plotted out every move I would make down to a tee.

Which balls I would scoop up, which players seemed most vulnerable, where I would aim, etc. My chess playing skills had caused me to plan a strategy many, many moves ahead.

All this planning came to naught. The instinct for self-preservation took over in the opening seconds of the game. I froze, staying

behind as the football team armed itself for our destruction.

As the cherry blossom petals on a rainy April afternoon, we fell swift and hard. Junior Chamsi Hssaine was the first to fall. Noble Chamsi, the Protesilaus in our Trojan War, your service was commendable — your time in action, brief.

The bloodbath ensued all around me. Comrade after comrade fell as the football players unleashed those cannons they call biceps on our slight frames. As if transported to Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” the men and women of the ‘Prince’ were transformed — not into animals or trees, but into targets. We seemed to become just another step in the football team’s spring training, unwitting players in a practice game.

My aforementioned instincts for self-preservation had shut me down. I was a shell of the fearless leader that had hyped his team a few minutes previously. It was perhaps my greatest moment of shame as a sports editor — I failed to guide my team when they needed me the most.

Perhaps my sense of decorum got the better of me.

Or perhaps I had abandoned the desire to continue on and wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. Whatever madness came over me, I rushed up to grab a ball of my own. I could not lead until I became willing to throw myself into the fray.

Your favorite writer was not slain just then. I retreated into safer territory, ball in tow and ready to single-handedly turn the tide of this game.

Epic poems would be written about me. I would be the star of campus. Miles Hinson — Dodgeball Hero. Front page news of the ‘Prince.’

Just as Princeton killed my ego, so the football team killed my dream. I was sniped on the left side, by some faceless member of football.

I never saw his face; I wonder if he saw mine. I wonder if he relished my scream of anguish, the manifestation of my visceral despair.

Part 4: The helpless spectator I can’t tell what’s worse: the agonizing instance of being taken out of the game, or the drawn out torture of watching your team crash and burn. With me, the ‘Prince’ stood little chance.

Without me, they stood a good amount less. We stood up as well as a one-legged seat. ‘Prince’ staff members were dropping like f lies.

Maybe seconds passed.

Perhaps it was minutes.

Time seems to become indiscernible when you’re watching such a fascinating disaster. The last man remaining was sophomore Jason Choe, our Hector against a sea of Achilles. He stood for perhaps a minute on his own. I believe he even managed to take out a few players.

He, like the rest of us, was overwhelmed. The football

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captains, who play on the attack, Erin Slifer and McMunn, have set a great precedence for attackers who are unselfish and share the ball.

When I get three assists, it’s because I’m looking out for other people. When I’m scoring, people are looking for me.”

However, the most intense part of the season is yet to come. As regular season Ivy League champions, the Tigers get the opportunity to host all the games of the Ivy League Championship Tournament. This Friday, they will take on the Harvard Crimson (8-7, 4-3), fourth in the league. The players from Cambridge have had little luck against Princeton in recent years — Harvard has not won a game against Princeton since the 2012 season.

Against the two other teams in the tournament, the Cornell Big Red (9-5, 4-2) and the Quakers (11-3, 5-1), halting runs have been an

issue both this year and last.

Slifer pointed out that stopping these runs was a key focus point on defense.

“A goal for our defensive unit is to prevent runs and we executed that on Saturday,” Slifer said. “Moving forward, our goal is to continue limiting other teams runs and minimize our offensive turnovers so that we do not need to overcome deficits.”

Paloscio notes that when the other team does go on such uncontested runs, the offense has to be f lexible and maintain its composure.

“It’s a patience thing. I think we are a great attack … sometimes if we’re playing a team that likes to kill the ball and have long possessions against us, we need to emulate that.” Paloscio said, explaining how the Tigers may need to move away at times from the high-tempo offense they’re used to running. “That’s definitely a point of emphasis, especially in Ivy League games.

We’ve had the target on our back, and I think teams have tried to play long pos-

sessions against us. We get a little antsy when we finally get the ball. That’s been something that we’ve learned this that will help us as we go into postseason play – to make sure we have long attacks that end in goals.”

While the postseason may be a totally different setting than the regular season, Slifer insists that the plan for the team is the same as always – be thorough in every aspect of the game, down to the minutiae.

“We plan to play with intensity and stick to our game plan while keeping a level head.” Slifer said “We know that we can beat any team when we play our best and execute the little things.”

Paloscio pointed out that, in the Ivy League, no win is ever certain.

“When you step on the field, it’s anyone’s game,” Paloscio said. “Every game has been a fight … we just know that’s going to continue as the games go on.

We’ve treated every game as the Ivy League championship, so that’s what’s going to happen from here on out.

team wound up for a final onslaught of simultaneous, well-aimed throws that spelled doom for our last warrior.

The team walked away, many rejoicing that the slaughter was over, others with a shell-shocked look in their eyes.

Part 5: Regroup and revamp The damage has been done.

Our team has been battered, bruised, but not broken.

Training for next year’s tournament shall start Monday dawn. I shall contact women’s basketball coach Courtney Banghart immediately and see if she will coach us to dodgeball greatness.

The ‘Prince’ will rise again.

Indiana scored off yet another power play, getting a rebound off a save by junior goalie Ashleigh Johnson.

The Tigers went into the half down 4-3, with the chance at the NCAA spot on the line.

The second half began with a quick goal by Hatcher, bringing the score level.

The chippy play, however, would work against the Tigers, as another exclusion led to an Indiana power play goal, causing the Tigers to fall behind 5-4 with 5:13 remaining in the third period.

These Tigers, however, know how to play when the pressure is on. Within the two-minute mark of the third, freshman utility Emily Smith came up clutch, putting in her only goal of the game to bring the Tigers back level 5-5. The two teams finished the third quarter at this score, with the fates of two teams hanging in the balance.

Come the final quarter, the Tigers did not disappoint a crowd filled with Orange and Black faithful. Just a minute and a half in, the Tigers executed a sequence of fantastic ball movements that led to an easy goal for Hatcher, giving Princeton its first lead since the first period.

In addition, so much credit for Princeton’s victory has to be given to Johnson’s anticipation of shots

throughout the game. The power plays from Indiana hit Princeton hard, and the game could have gone out of reach (and with it, Princeton’s hopes of extending their season) had Johnson not brought her A-game on Sunday afternoon.

Johnson proved crucial not just in shutting down power plays but also in setting up counterattacks. Soon after Princeton’s sixth goal of the game, a Johnson save quickly turned into another goal for Hatcher, her fourth on the day. The three-goal run appeared to have broken the Hoosiers, and to Tiger fans, the championship seemed closer than ever.

Indiana, however, would certainly put up a fight.

They scored with about two and a half minutes to go to bring the deficit down to just one. From there, however, the Hoosiers would not get much of a chance to tie it up. The Tigers ran the clock down and kept the ball away from the visitors long enough to lock up the game and the championship.

Due honors went to the Tigers’ stars of the weekend.

Dunstan, who was the player of the game against George Washington, was named to the CWPA All-Tournament second team. Hatcher, Johnson and senior utility Jessie Holecheck were all named to the All-Tournament first team. Johnson, who finished the Indiana game with 17 saves, earned MVP honors for the tournament.

CORRECTIONS Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this article did not report that Marisa Chow ‘17 was also a member of the Princeton Table Tennis Club. Chow is the Co-President of the organization. Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this article misstated the year of Justin Do. Do is a sophomore. The ‘Prince’ regrets the errors.

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Tigers become CWPA champions, earn spot in NCAA Tournament

By Miles Hinson sports editor

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After cruising through its first two matches, Princeton had to battle in a dog fight against Indiana.

A year is a long time to wait for redemption.

The Tigers certainly have the talent and experience.

They just needed another shot in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Championships to show the world that, too. And this weekend, they took advantage of the chance they got.

Princeton (29-3 overall, 12-1 CWPA) has secured a spot in the NCAA tournament after defeating rival Indiana Hoosiers (23-12, 8-2) in the championship round of the tournament to the tune of 7-6. This is the same Indiana team that prevented Princeton one year ago from moving on the NCAA tournament, and the Tigers earned their sweet revenge.

The road to the championship round certainly did not appear as difficult as the final game itself. The Tigers’ Friday and Saturday matches were won quite handily. Against George Washington (14-17, 1-8), the Tigers hardly seemed to break a sweat, going on a 9-0 run across two quar-

ters that essentially sealed the game. The Tigers went into the locker room up 101, and would only augment that lead as the game went on. They finished against George Washington with a final score of 15-2: complete domination from start to finish. Senior utility Taylor Dunstan and sophomore 2-meter Hannah Lapkin were the high scorers on the game for the Tigers, each putting in three. Dunstan also was effective in setting up others, racking up two assists.

Their second match, while better in terms of the scoreboard, was also a showcase in Tiger dominance. The Tigers jumped all over Hartwick (20-19, 6-4), grabbing a 6-0 lead early on and never looking back en route to a 14-7 victory. Again, Dunstan’s play proved to be critical as she put in three goals once more. This time, she was tied with fellow senior utility Ashley Hatcher, who also got three in the back of the net on Saturday.

Junior goalie Ashleigh Johnson was impressive as always through the first, getting save percentages of

80 percent and 67 percent in the George Washington and Hartwick games, respectively.

The effectiveness at both ends would prove critical when the Tigers faced the Hoosiers, a team against which they have struggled in recent contests. A loss in overtime this season, coupled with a painful loss in the CWPA Championships last year, served as key motivations for the Tigers to take back their title. Indeed, Indiana is a team this Princeton program has been unable to solve — prior to this game, the Tigers had not beaten the Hoosiers since 2007.

The game was a bruiser from the get-go. Whistle upon whistle was called as exclusions became a key factor for both offenses to take care of. While both teams took advantage of power plays early on, the game was far more low scoring than Tigers fans are accustomed to seeing from this team.

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Women’s lacrosse first in Ivy League

Defeat in Dillon: The ‘Prince’ vs. Football was a tragedy at its finest

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Every year in Ivy League lacrosse is going to be a battle. This Princeton women’s lacrosse team has not been without its ups and downs, and has had their fair share of close encounters in their seven games of league play.

At the end of the day, however, a win is a win. And a perfect record is a perfect record.

The Tigers (12-3 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) are the regular season Ivy League champions, after having to share the title last year with the University of Pennsylvania Quakers. They won an endto-end victory on Saturday afternoon, defeating the Brown Bears (7-8, 1-6) 14-8.

It would be natural for the players to put a lot of pressure on themselves in this one as they try to secure an uncontested Ivy League title. Senior attack Erin Slifer, however, noted that the team’s success depended on their treating this game as any other.

“We knew that Brown was the game that would determine our fate for the Ivy League but we didn’t want to make it any bigger than any other of Ivy games.” Slifer said “Each game was an Ivy League championship and Brown was the finishing touch.”

The Tigers were able to celebrate a relatively calm Senior Day, as they jumped all over Brown early and prevented the Bears from ever re-establishing themselves in the game. Particularly

strong performances came from senior attacks Erin McMunn and Slifer. McMunn played her last regular season game as a Tiger in stellar form, racking up five goals and dishing out one assist. Slifer, for her part, put in three goals on the game. Moreover, just as remarkable as their high goal tallies was their efficiency: both McMunn and Slifer had a 75 percent shot percentage on the game.

The one unpleasant moment in the game was the opening goal, scored by the Bears just 1:32 minutes into the game. Instead of standing around shellshocked, the Tigers came roaring back, scoring six goals over a 23-minute period and holding Brown to none throughout that time span. The Tigers entered the locker rooms up 7-3, looking to continue throttling the Bears in the second.

It was more of the same in the second. The Tigers clamped down on any chance of a run against them, not allowing consecutive goals by the Bears at any time. Meanwhile, that Tiger offense just kept on churning, getting in goal after goal. The f low of the second half never seemed on Brown’s side. So many times the Tigers would get a stop and have midfielders sprinting out ahead to feed the hungry attacks. Brown looked unable to stop the onslaught.

Certainly, much credit needs to go to McMunn, Slifer and a strong squad of Princeton lacrosse seniors.

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The Daily Princetonian against football was one the most anticipated dodgeball matchups in recent memory.

Here is my personal narrative of this epic struggle.

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Women’s lacrosse went a perfect 7-0 in Ivy League play this year.

However, seniors weren’t the only source of production for the game. Sophomore midfielders Olivia Hompe and Anna Doherty put up two and one goals, respectively, on the day, as Hompe passed the 100-point mark for her career. Junior midfielder Anya Gersoff and junior attack Stephanie Paloscio each put in a goal, as Paloscio would also record an assist on the game.

Paloscio appears to be heating up at the right time: her performance this week-

end follows a three-assist game from last week’s victory over Columbia. She reiterated a point many members of the Princeton attacking squad have said — the success of the offense is built on the fact that everyone who steps on the field poses a threat.

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Part 1: Prologue – What cruel god has condemned us so?

David vs. Goliath is an understatement. This was the powerful army vs. the weak few. The well endowed vs. the lacking in strength. This was a mismatch never before seen in Princeton athletics, a battle lost before it started.

I speak, of course, of The Daily Princetonian’s fight against football.

I always thought of myself as the coaching type. What I lack in physical prowess (see: every possible physical ability there is), I make up for in my ability to empower. I am a fearless leader of troops. I’ve spent the last two months turning my ragtag group of sports writers into a top ranking sports section – surely I could turn the ‘Prince’ team into a formidable squad.

I suppose I watch too much Friday Night Lights.

I’m no Coach Taylor. The odds were never in my favor.

My idealism got the best of me — it blinded me to the ways of the world.

I led a pregame chant. My teammates were around me, cheering wildly as we prepared for the fight of our lives. Perhaps, I thought to myself, this is what it’s like to be a varsity athlete.

I was pumped. I was hyped.

In that moment, I could’ve led my team against any opponent.

Pride, it seems, goeth before the fall.

Part 2: On the court, and out of luck Have you ever been to the zoo, and looked at a hungry lion before it is fed? It looks around with greedy eyes.

Once it is given its food, it thinks of nothing else but to devour the tasty morsel in front of it. The lion eviscerates its meal, bit by bit by bit.

The football team does not consist of animals. But they were hungry. These lions (or rather, these tigers) saw a meal and were ready to pounce. I, the ignorant prey, was up to now unaware. The beautiful bird of hope still f luttered in my hardened chest.

I looked around me. Facial expressions ranged from still unbroken happiness to the “I just got my math midterm back” expression.

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