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Student group crafts carbon policy with NJ state assemblyman Zwicker

By Katie Tam Contributor

Members of the Princeton Student Climate Initiative have drafted a New Jersey Carbon Fee and Dividend Policy, a 94-page white paper outlining a fee-based strategy for reducing carbon emissions and air pollution while minimizing environmental impact.

“What a carbon fee and dividend does is it places a fee on fossil fuels based on their carbon content,” said Jonathan Lu ’18, the founder and research director of PSCI. The carbon fee provides an incentive for companies and individuals to reduce emissions.

Another key aspect of the policy is that tax revenue will be recycled back to low- to moderate-income households and vulnerable businesses in the form of rebates.

“You’re achieving two things with this. The first is that you make the price of fossil fuels relatively more expensive,” Lu said. “The second thing that it does is it returns the majority of the money back to individual households.”

Some of the profits will also be reserved for clean energy initiatives. According to Lu, raising the price on carbon also makes it cheaper to switch to renewable energy.

Lu became involved in January 2017, when he founded PSCI in response to what he viewed as a lack of conversation about climate change on campus.

“Climate change is going to do things like cut the amount of land that can be used to grow coffee by half by 2050,

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and that’s going to cause coffee prices to rise. Or it’s going to increase the incidence of infectious disease.”

Lu stumbled upon the carbon fee system, which he said has been implemented successfully in countries around the world including Ireland, Denmark, and Canada. As a result of the policy, carbon emissions in these countries have been significantly reduced while the economy has been largely unaffected.

“People need energy to keep their homes warm, to get to work, to fly places. You don’t want to both cut emission and restrict people in their way of living,” Lu explained.

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Lu saw carbon pricing as an issue that both Democrats and Republicans could agree on.

They were soon encouraged

by New Jersey State Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker to write the 94-page policy.

“A lot of it was: This is good; what are the utilities going to say? What are the small businesses going to say? What are the stakeholders going to say?”

Lu said.

PCSI’s Carbon Fee and Dividend Policy is based off similar policies implemented in Massachusetts and Washington state. These and other regulations served as a model for Lu, who had no experience with environmental advocacy or

climate policy before the project.

Both members of PSCI and students from Princeton High School were involved in the project.

Each member of the group needed to be an expert on one aspect of the problem. Andrew Wu ’21, who became interested in PSCI after hearing about it at Princeton Preview, performed federal and state tax analysis to determine how to best return money back to households. His research led to the conclusion that direct mail of rebates would be more effective than tax credits. He also worked on air pollution analysis and its effect on New

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On March 30, Princeton and 30 other colleges and universities filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in an ongoing battle to resist the Trump administration’s efforts to bar immigration from numerous majority-Muslim countries.

Targeted countries now include Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.

According to a statement released by the University, the new brief is specifically in support of Hawaii’s case against a Trump administration proclamation barring the entry of individuals from targeted countries into the United States. The statement notes that the new brief echoes arguments that the universities made in a previous filing in April 2017 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The new brief, according to the statement, adds that the University currently has approximately 50 students and employees from six of the af-

fected countries. It also notes that the Graduate School has received 150 applications from students from the targeted countries for admission in the fall of 2017. Over the past five years, the Graduate School has received more than 700 applications from students in the affected countries.

The brief emphasized that the proclamation “threatens the universities’ ability to continue to attract the most talented people from around the globe.”

The University joined a different amicus brief in September 2017 that similarly stressed that the travel ban “both threatens American higher education and offends important, defining principles of our country.”

The University filed its first brief against the travel ban in February 2017, when it joined a legal challenge against President Trump’s original executive order on immigration in January.

The University’s decisions to join in the filing of the previous amicus briefs have been met with praise from students.

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Jersey residents.

Wu also mentioned that the group is expanding beyond carbon emissions to investigate how to regulate other air pollutants.

“It can set great precedents for what can happen through the rest of the country,” Wu said. One of the primary aims for the project was to be an example of success for other states to follow.

“It has a very tangible benefit that will have a large impact as well,” said Samuel Moore ’19, another club member.

The team is promoting the policy to other groups in New Jersey, including the New Jersey Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters. Lu hopes that gaining broad support for the bill will increase the chances of it passing in the legislature.

Lu mentioned that in addition to Zwicker, New Jersey Senator Kip Bateman and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy support the policy.

“We hope to get them all in the same room so we can discuss what is a policy we can all back,” said Lu. “A political coalition is one of the things we’re looking to build,” Moore said. While environmental organizations are generally supportive, business groups are often skeptical of environmental legislation, according to Moore.

Moore said the policy should benefit everyone as much as possible.

Amanda Eisenhour ’21 has led advocacy and outreach as the political director of PSCI. “When we do our research,

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DeRay Mckesson, a prominent activist, spoke on Saturday.

BLM activist Mckesson discusses ‘quiet trauma’

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“The work of justice is almost always the work of equity,” said DeRay Mckesson, a prominent activist in the Black Lives Matter move-

ment. “Equality is the idea that everybody gets the same thing. Equity is the notion that people get what they need and deserve.”

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University graduate students Irineo Cabreros and Tim Treuer have been selected for the 2018 Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program.

Cabreros and Treuer are Ph.D. candidates in applied mathematics and ecology and evolutionary biology, respectively.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science annually selects science, engineering, and mathematics students for its competitive 10-week program, which places recipients in media organizations worldwide. These organizations range from The Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio to WIRED and Scientific American.

“The fellowship pairs graduate students with mass media outlets,” said See FELLOWSHIP page 3

In Opinion

Contributing columnist Siyang Liu calls on the U. to ban the use of lectures as a platform for commercial advertising after a paintball scam in COS126, and guest contributors Olivia Ott and Connor Pfeiffer explain the U.’s progress on calendar reform. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 6 p.m.: Dr. Shaykh Yasir Qadhi presents “A Muslim Theologian’s Response to Violence in God’s Name.”

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we’re not just trying to look at studies and crunch numbers.

We’re also trying to understand what people’s concerns are. What actually do people care about? The only way to know that is to talk to people,” Eisenhour said.

She has been especially fo-

cused on meeting with lowincome communities and communities of color, populations which she said have historically been most affected by pollution and climate change.

“Because our policy makers don’t really care about communities that don’t have as much of a voice in our legislature, they tend to bear the brunt of the impacts of our choices,” Eisenhour said.

PSCI and its directors feel their work goes far beyond the New Jersey Carbon Fee and Dividend Policy itself.

“This isn’t just about this one piece of legislation. First of all, we’re trying to be part of a comprehensive energy package for the state of New Jersey.

But it’s also about reimagining the environmental movement as a whole as being something more representative of the

people actually impacted by climate change,” said Eisenhour.

For Lu, the project has been a way of bringing together activism and research.

“It’s very easy here at Princeton to have your research be only read by one or two people in the world,” Lu said. “It’s very easy for all of the work you’ve done to just be siloed and completely unable to be used by

anyone else.”

Lu hopes that he can be an example to other students who want to get involved in an issue, but don’t feel like they have the knowledge or experience.

“I would encourage people to not feel siloed,” he said. “If there’s something that’s important that they feel should happen, they can totally pull it off.”

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took the stage after an introduction from Justin Wittekind ’21 and Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students and Manager of Strategic Communications Bryant Blount.

After introducing himself, Mckesson slipped his notes into his pocket and delivered the rest of his impassioned talk from the center of the stage without cues or pictures. His manner captivated the room of students and community members.

In recent years, Mckesson has been at the forefront of Black Lives Matter activism

and resistance movements, both on the streets and in political discourse. In 2015, Mckesson was named one of the World’s 50 Greatest World Leaders by Fortune magazine.

In his talk, Mckesson described the nuances of race relations in the United States and the structural inequalities that advance these injustices.

Mckesson explained that there were no official statistics for police shootings and that the numbers in use were only rough aggregates from local media.

“If the newspaper doesn’t write about you, you literally are not in the data set,” Mckesson said of po-

lice shooting statistics. He described some of the protections in place for police, such as Sacramento’s rule that any piece of discipline an officer receives is erased from the the officer’s record after a year.

Besides overt aggressions such as police violence toward black people in the United States, Mckesson emphasized other kinds of oppression they experience.

“There’s all this quiet trauma that’s ruining people’s lives every single day,” Mckesson explained. “It’s the not-sexy stuff.”

Mckesson relayed extensive knowledge about biased state and local laws, including the elimination of parole

in Virginia for crimes after 1994 and the Oregon rule that anyone 15 or older be charged for felonies as adults. Mckesson said that these institutional structures are choices that disproportionately target people of color.

“This isn’t set up for us to win,” he said.

Throughout the lecture, Mckesson stressed the necessity of correcting widespread cultural conceptions of race beyond just fixing the lack of diversity. He argued that “the ideology of oppression will never undo oppression,” as making positive steps requires a fundamental restructuring of the way that race and privilege are understood in society.

“Whiteness shows up in ways that are not just enslavement and lynching,” he explained. White privilege, Mckesson said, is embedded in U.S. history, in institutional designs, in policy, and in the workforce.

“We gave white people wealth,” he argued, explaining a series of U.S. policies set up to give white people in the United States an advantage in areas such as home ownership and education. He went on to describe how society ignores this historical phenomenon. He explained that any similar suggestion of distribution among black U.S. residents is met with the response that black people “have to earn it” instead.

This challenge is further entrenched by what Mckesson views as a reluctance to radically reform the institutions that are the foundations for society, even in the spaces filled with activists.

Mckesson explained that he sees people in the activism movement in three “buckets”: “Salt shakers,” “sugar-high chasers,” and “bridge builders.” The first two, Mckesson said, are not as effective as the third. He explained that salt shakers are pessimistic about progress and sugar-high chasers are simply active protesters.

Surprisingly few people truly embody what Mckesson called “bridge builders,” or the people who recognize an opportunity for change and “find a way out of noway.” This role, especially as it pertains to Black Lives Matter, is “more important than it is popular.”

When asked about his experience being at the forefront of the movement, Mckesson said that it comes with many challenges.

“I’m not a person anymore: I’m a symbol, and people can beat up a symbol,” he said.

Mckesson explained that he isn’t deterred by death threats and criticism, and he is constantly looking for ways to use his social power and media attention as platforms for bridging the ideological racial divide. Mckesson said that he is trying to give a voice to the oppressed regardless of the discomfort.

“Freedom is not only the absence of oppression, but the presence of justice and joy,” he said.

After Mckesson finished the allotted time for questions, he stayed at the front of the room talking to individuals until he was ushered away a half hour later.

Mckesson’s talk took place in McCosh Hall 10 on March 31 at 4:30 p.m. The event was sponsored by The American Whig-Cliosophic Society and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students..

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Cabreros. “I’ll be doing science writing for Slate in New York.”

Cabreros will be sponsored by the American Statistical Association to train as a science journalist at Slate, while Treuer will spend the summer working at NOVA Next in Boston.

“The concept is super broad,” said Cabreros.

“I imagine I’ll be writing more statistical stuff, but that’s just because it’s my interest, and as a fellow you’re also responsible for pitching your own ideas, so it’s kind of up to me, but the past scholars have written in a really broad range.”

Cabreros earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard and a master’s in music from the New Eng-

land Conservatory. He is currently researching gene function primarily from the perspective of causal inference, population genetics, and the interaction of the two in the lab of John Storey.

Treuer, meanwhile, is also a fellow with the Princeton Environmental Institute’s Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy. He is interested in how an integrated understanding of these subjects can lead to great steps forward in environmental conservation.

AAAS typically selects 15 to 20 Mass Media Fellows each year. Those who are selected are provided a weekly stipend of $500 as well as travel expenses to orientation and wrap-up sessions, which include trainings and career panels, in Washington, D.C.

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What students should know about calendar reform Olivia Ott and Connor Pfeiffer

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n March 2017, the Dean of the Faculty charged a newly created Ad Hoc Committee on Calendar Reform with developing a proposal for changing the University’s academic calendar to move exams before winter break, start the fall semester earlier, and create a new Wintersession period in January with additional opportunities for students. For the past year, we have served as the undergraduate members of this committee. With the faculty considering the committee’s proposed calendar at its April 2 meeting, we want to provide students with an explanation of calendar reform. The proposed calendar addresses the challenges created by holding fall final exams in January while still preserving many positive features of Princeton’s current calendar. Most notably, the new calendar would move fall final exams to December and create a two-week, non-credit bearing “Wintersession” in January before the spring term.

The committee’s recommendations are the product of a robust process that consulted people across the University.

During initial meetings, we heard from representatives of USG, faculty members, administrators, and other groups who provided important context about the shortcomings of the current academic calendar and the possibilities created by calendar reform. These discussions informed presentations the committee gave this fall to many groups on campus.

Based on comments from these

meetings and our own discussions, the committee prepared a proposed calendar and asked for feedback from students and faculty through a survey in January. In the survey, 72 percent of undergraduates favored the proposed calendar over the current academic calendar.

This strong level of student support was an important factor in the committee’s decision to recommend this proposal for adoption by the faculty.

The first major change in the proposed calendar is to move final exams before winter break, which has strong student support. In a 2016 survey, over three-quarters of undergraduates expressed support for moving final exams.

With exams and end of term assignments looming during the holidays under the current calendar, students often feel that winter break is not a ‘real’ break and does not allow enough time to rest and recharge. These student concerns are among the primary reasons the proposed calendar moves fall semester’s Dean’s Date and final exams to December.

The creation of a two-week, optional Wintersession period in January is another major change in the proposed calendar. This space would build on existing student-run programming during intersession and provide an additional week, compared to the current calendar, for students to pursue on and off campus opportunities organized by the University, departments, courses, and other students. These activities could include student group travel, workshops and non-credit mini-courses, and international experiences,

among other possibilities.

Although the proposed calendar makes important changes, it also preserves positive features of Princeton’s current calendar. The committee recognized the importance of maintaining full-week midterm breaks in both semesters because students often use this time to travel with friends and student groups, return home to visit family, and take a much-needed break before gearing up for the second half of the semester. The new calendar would also keep the fall independent work deadline in January. While this might mean that students have to complete some academic work over winter break as juniors, many undergraduates stated that they favored keeping the deadline in January to avoid worrying about completing high-quality independent work in the midst of final exam season.

Moving final exams to December and keeping a fullweek midterm break in the fall required several tradeoffs. Going forward, the fall semester would begin earlier, during the first week of September, and fall classes would start on the Tuesday after or the Wednesday before Labor Day depending on the year. Additionally, the final exam period has to be shortened to seven days and end between December 19 and 23. These measures may seem slightly problematic at first glance, but moving exams before winter break while maintaining a full week for fall break would be extremely difficult without changing the length of finals.

In order to alleviate potential concerns associated with these

tradeoffs, the committee made several recommendations for implementing the proposed calendar. These include asking the Council on Teaching and Learning to assess the implications of a shortened final exam period for policies and practices around end-of-term work and publishing the final exam schedule by the end of week three so students have as much time as possible to purchase airline tickets around the December holiday.

After years of discussions and surveys on this issue, calendar reform is a real possibility. The faculty could vote on the proposed calendar as early as its April 23 meeting.

If the new calendar is adopted this spring, it could go into effect for the 2020-2021 academic year, depending on the implementation timeline. Students have expressed their opinions on this issue for years through surveys and other forums, and we want to thank you for engaging with this process.

Please contact us if you have any questions. The committee’s full report can be found at acr.princeton.edu.

Signed, Olivia Ott ’20, Chair of the USG Academics Committee Connor Pfeiffer ’18, Member of the USG Academics Committee Olivia Ott and Connor Pfeiffer were undergraduate members of the Ad Hoc Committee on Calendar Reform. These views are their own and do not represent the position of the committee or USG. They can be reached at oott@ princeton.edu and connorp@ princeton.edu.

‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ appropriated?

Madeleine Marr

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n March 23, marchers around the country and the globe gathered for the “March for Our Lives” to protest for gun control in light of the shocking number of recent school shootings. I attended the march in Los Angeles, walking with an energized crowd in the area surrounding City Hall. I have marched in other events before, but this was the first time when young people made up (in my estimate) almost 50 percent of the crowd. The protestors I saw seemed to be generally middle school-aged, but I also watched young children and toddlers carrying signs they had made begging politicians to implement gun control. One notable sign I saw, carried by a boy who seemed to be in fifth grade, said “When I said I’d rather die than go to math class, I didn’t mean it literally.” The humor of the sign and the age

of the boy carrying it made the overall message, a statement about the boy’s fear of death at school, even more heartbreaking.

One slogan I saw frequently on posters, and heard chanted as I moved through the crowd, was “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.”

This slogan originated after the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., after some accounts contended that Brown had his hands in the air when he was shot by a Ferguson police officer. While the evidence presented during the trial did not conclusively prove that Brown had his hands in this position, the slogan has persisted as a rallying call for Black Lives Matter and related activist movements. So, why were the protesters in Los Angeles, who were predominantly white students and parents, using this slogan? Especially when the concepts implicit in this slogan, of police brutality and antipathy for young black lives, are not a pressing concern for the people I saw co-opting this cry?

Black protesters in Los Angeles and on social media participated in the March for Our Lives, but some brought signs expressing frustration with this blind spot demon-

strated by their fellow marchers. Signs like “So I’ll see you at the next BLM protest?” and “Where was everyone when Eric Garner was shot?” called out what they saw as a whitecentered focus on issues of gun violence to the fore of our national consciousness.

March for Our Lives and the surrounding activist work has elevated the debate on gun control. The movement has gained more ground in 2018, which can’t be ignored.

However, it is imperative to turn a critical eye on the movements one supports in order to improve them — in that vein, we should point out where the current gun control movement has left black perspectives behind.

According to Everytown Research, “gun violence disproportionately impacts black children and teens, who are 4 times more likely than white children and teens to be killed with guns.” Furthermore, “black children are 14 times more likely than white children and teens to die by gun homicide.” The increasing fear of non-POC (people of color) parents and students about gun violence in schools exists for many young men of color in many other spaces, including (in light of Ste-

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phon Clark’s murder) their own backyards. However, this history and what it suggests about the nature of the victims of gun control have been largely ignored in the 2018 mainstream gun control debate. The voices of people who face gun violence more often, including from those whose purpose is supposedly to protect, have been ignored or villainized despite their importance in contributing to this debate.

As gun violence continues to terrorize the American public with increasing frequency, the movement to pressure politicians to legislate guns in a sensible manner is also going to matter more for the future and safety of the country. However, that debate will not be effective if it does not include and feature the voices of everyone who is affected by gun violence — that group must include diversity of race, as well as class, gender, sexuality, and political orientation.

Only then will the activist work gain the political leverage that it needs to succeed.

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

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Paintball in COS 126 Siyang Liu

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he COS 126 lecture on Mar. 6 was unorthodox to say the least. At the end of the lecture, the instructor directed our attention towards a stranger wearing a blue zip-up hoodie and jeans, who ascended the platform at the front of McCosh 50. The man was neither a professor nor a TA, but identified himself as a grad student. Speaking rapidly, he mentioned something about “student events,” then proceeded to explain that he was selling heavily discounted paintballing tickets to Cousins Paintball. He offered two tickets for $10, which wouldn’t expire for two years, and he said that we could buy paintballs on site which were “pretty cheap.”

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n an article published last week, the Sexpert responded to a question posed by a “Curious Sub.” The article does an excellent job emphasizing communication, consent, and respect, and offers good practical advice on limits, safe words, and check-ins. As Princeton’s kink and BDSM club, we at Princeton Plays believe that the article falls short in other areas. It mischaracterizes BDSM (bondage, dominance/ discipline, sadism/submission, masochism) dynamics that do permeate into day-to-day life. It also casts as harmful the wide variety of BDSM practices that exist completely apart from sex.

The author insists that BDSM needs to be limited to individual scenes, “or else fun can easily morph into abuse.” Furthermore, the author writes that “carrying over BDSM dynamics into your day-to-day relationship” is a sign of abuse. This tying of abuse with kink that occurs in day-to-day life is inaccurate and problematic. Such a

Thinking that this sounded like a fun opportunity which almost seemed too good to be true, I bought some tickets, as did hordes of other students. It wasn’t until later when I got a chance to look at the fine print that I discovered the words, “MINIMUM PAINTBALL PURCHASE REQUIRED.” It took one phone call to find out that the minimum purchase cost nearly six times the price of a ticket. The man had never mentioned this. Furthermore, a little searching revealed that Groupon offered packages at Cousins Paintball with more flexibility for paintball purchase, and at a lower price.

Confused, I reached out to the instructor, but he admitted that he did not know who the stranger was, only that the man claimed to be a representative of the university.

I emailed the Princeton Student Events Committee, hoping that he might be affiliated; he was not.

It dawned on me that we had all been scammed…in

class. I was stunned. And the problem was not unique to COS 126 either— this man had been to other lectures as well. I emailed multiple student organizations in an attempt to identify him, though these efforts were futile: no one seemed to know who he was. Somehow, without proper verification, this man was able to enter our classrooms, and for some reason he was also given the time and space to promote his questionable business. It is alarming that an unidentified individual, who may or may not be affiliated with the University, could so effortlessly waltz in and use the classroom as a formal advertising space.

Perhaps it is the students’ responsibility to discern between honest and fraudulent practices. However, in this situation, their judgement was skewed by the fact that the situation occurred in class. The instructor implicitly endorsed the unidentified man by allowing him an op-

portunity during lecture to speak. We as students were more willing to listen to what he had to say because of the authority which it conferred.

We trusted the University, and this caused us to let our guards down and believe this man more than we otherwise might have. In a different setting, fewer students would have so eagerly bought tickets; they would have taken more time to think about the context and question the reliability of the source.

But as it was, we flocked towards the man after class with our cash, cards, and most importantly trust, hoping to take part in this wonderful offer.

After all, the man had been granted a legitimate platform to make his announcement— we automatically assumed, therefore, that he must have been credible. Yet, the opposite was true. Although the “Rights, Rules, and Responsibilities” handbook states that no one can “make sales … on behalf of an off-campus indi-

vidual or organization,” there are no regulations in place to determine who is allowed to make an official announcement in class, and what protocol they must follow. Thus, this man that claimed to be affiliated with the University (but didn’t offer proof to show it) was still able to market to the entire COS 126 lecture. The result was that students were directly taken advantage of.

Our trust in the University should not result in exploitation. The faith that we place in this school and campus, as students, should not be taken lightly. As such, the University must take measures to regulate non-course related announcements in lectures— especially those of a commercial nature— by banning them entirely.

Sad to say, it looks like paintballing in COS 126 was really too good to be true.

Siyang Liu is a freshman from Princeton, NJ. She can be reached at Siyangl@princeton.edu.

Princeton Plays responds to the Sexpert perspective improperly characterizes healthy relationships as abusive and shames people with desires for such relationships.

Though BDSM activities can occur on a scene-by-scene basis, the article implies that this is the best — and only — option.

This implication ignores the full spectrum of BDSM activities. Sure, these activities can be scene-by-scene, meaning that participants negotiate the activity and dynamic each time with clear start and end points, but they can also be incorporated in day-to-day life. For some of us, this may be through a 24/7 dynamic, where participants set up an ongoing, omnipresent dynamic that incorporates kink.

For others, it can be one of a wide range of dynamics.

One such dynamic is kink as a disciplinary tool in a person’s day-to-day life, where participants might be held accountable for specific goals and are subject to consequences if they fail to meet their goals. Others find satisfaction in using titles

to address each other in private.

In these cases, kink is present outside of explicitly sexual situations. When clearly negotiated and enthusiastically agreed upon, these dynamics do not “easily morph into abuse,” as the article writes.

Likewise, 24/7 dynamics can be healthy when everyone is fully informed and enthusiastically consents to kink being a primary aspect of the relationship. For those of us who participate, it can offer numerous opportunities to establish trust and respect between participants, facilitating further BDSM exploration. A 24/7 lifestyle is just one of the many ways to engage in BDSM, and it is just as valid as all the others.

Understandably, the Sexpert focuses on BDSM as it relates to sex, but for many of us, BDSM is not an inherently sexual pursuit. Some of us separate BDSM from sex, finding enjoyment in the act of giving up control or being restrained, rather than the sex that may or may not go

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along with that. According to one study, BDSM acts allow participants to enter a state of flow independent of sexual arousal that is not unlike a runner’s high. For many participants of non-sexual BDSM, it is precisely this feeling that drives them.

Tying BDSM to sex also overlooks the fact that many people who identify as asexual do participate in BDSM. An asexual women writes in a Stanford Daily op-ed that orgasm is not her goal in BDSM. Instead, “pleasure itself becomes the goal.” In these cases, pleasure and arousal are not inherently tied. For instance, some may find pleasure in using BDSM as a form of non-sexual intimacy.

The intimacy here might lie in a shared vulnerability, where the submissive may find a feeling of liberation in giving up control to the dominant, and the dominant treasures the power and trust given to them.

At Princeton Plays, we advocate for all kink and BDSM that is risk-aware and consensual. To

maintain agency and empowerment in BDSM dynamics – regardless of the degree to which they permeate day-to-day life – we suggest that participants prioritize open communication.

Feeling safe in their environment and trusting each other are good prerequisites to have before participants engage in kinky activities. They should discuss their boundaries and expectations for the scene, and their relationship. After play and every few weeks, they should check in with their partner(s) to make sure everyone is on board with the dynamic.

As a club, we take the view that if someone wishes to try a scene, a 24/7 relationship, or some dynamic in between, they should pursue it – within the limits of risk-aware consensual kink. In doing so, they are being empowered and exercising their agency.

Princeton Plays is a student organization. The organization can be reached at plays@princeton.edu.

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Men’s volleyball falls 2–3 to George Mason

By Jack Graham

get the third set they needed to seal the win, as George Mason came back to win the final two. The fourth set was closely contested for much the game before George Mason closed on a 9–2 run to win the set 25–18, bringing the overall game score to 2–2.

That momentum carried over to the final set for George Mason, who took an early lead and held on to win the set 15–9, and with it, the game.

As has often been the case throughout the season, Princeton was led in kills by sophomore middle blocker George Huhmann, with 17.

Oboh led the team in blocks with six, and freshman setter Joe Kelly contributed 43 assists. George Mason was led by star outside hitter Hayden Wagner, who had 19 kills.

Even in defeat, Princeton demonstrated its ability to compete with the best team in its conference, a team that the Tigers may see again in

Staff Writer

In its final home game of the season, Men’s Volleyball took George Mason University to five sets but were unable to close the deal, falling two sets to three.

Despite facing a George Mason team boasting an undefeated record in EIVA conference play, Princeton got off to a hot start, winning two of the first three sets. The first set was tightly contested, with Princeton sealing a 25– 23 win on a kill from senior middle blocker Junior Oboh.

George Mason dominated the second set, opening the set on a 12–4 run en route to an eventual 25–11 win. Princeton would rebound in the third, winning another close set 25–22. Sophomore outside hitter Parker Dixon notched the set-clinching kill to give Princeton a 2–1 set lead.

The Tigers were unable to

the postseason. Currently, George Mason is first and Princeton is fourth in the EIVA standings, making a EIVA semi-final rematch between the two teams very possible.

First, however, the Tigers will have to get there. With a 5–5 conference record,

they hold a two game lead over both the University of Charleston and St. Francis University, who both have 3–7 conference records. Princeton will conclude its regular season with four games on the road. Next weekend, Princeton will travel to New England to face Harvard and

Sacred Heart University before traveling to Pennsylvania the following weekend to take on Penn State and St. Francis. Regardless of their opponents, if Princeton can build on their strong showing Saturday, they have good reason to feel confident about their chances.

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The men’s volleyball team lost to George Mason.

Men’s weekend review

By David Xin Head Sports Editor

Men’s baseball vs. Cornell: W 7–6 After a tough first game against the Big Red, the baseball team came back in the second game to tie up the series at one apiece. The Tigers would ultimately claim the series victory with a narrow 7–6 win this past Sunday. Chris Davis’ single in the seventh inning would prove to be the gamewinner as the Orange and Black held their rivals scoreless in the final two innings of the match. Princeton’s Ivy League record improved to 2–1 with the win. The Tigers will face Monmouth at home this weekend before playing Brown this coming weekend.

Men’s tennis vs. Penn: L 6–1 The men’s tennis team opened Ivy League play against Penn this past weekend. Despite strong performances thus far, the Tigers fell to the Quakers 6–1. While the team started out strong and had a great opportunity to claim the doubles point, Penn managed to rally and land the first blow. The rest of the match would belong to the Quakers as they grabbed five singles points to claim the win. The Princeton side will undoubtedly be looking to improve on this performance this weekend as they face Columbia and Cornell.

Men’s lacrosse @ Brown: L 14–13

With 14.3 seconds remaining in the game, Brown’s Michael Panepinto scored the game-winning goal to give Brown their first Ivy League win of the season. The 14–13 loss puts the Tigers in foreign territory as Princeton has yet to win a conference game this season. The Orange and Black will have some time to regroup in the coming week as they face off against nonconference opponent Stony Brook University. The Tigers will face Dartmouth April 14.

Men’s crew @ Columbia: L 1.1 seconds Sixth-ranked Columbia edged out second-ranked Princeton by 1.1 seconds to claim its first win in the Campbell Cup series. The Li-

ons finished with a time of 6:03.6, while Princeton finished closely after with a time of 6:04.7. Columbia would also claim the 2V race. However, the Tiger’s would leave their weekend trip with two major victories from their 3V and 4V teams.

Player of the Week: Max West: 2 Runs, 1 Hit, 2 RBI Junior catcher Max West added two runs and two RBI’s to the Princeton effort including his second career home run. West ended a Cornell run that had temporarily given the Big Red a 4–2 advantage.

His home-run in the fourth inning tied the game at 4–4.

The Tigers would eventually win the match 7–6.

Women’s weekend review

By Chris Murphy

Head Sports Editor

Softball @ Harvard: L 0–3 The rough season continues for the women after a disappointing three game sweep to the rival Crimson this weekend. The Tigers managed to plate three runs in each, but were done in by their defense, who gave up 26 runs in the three game series. The Tigers are now 2–4 in Ivy League play, and 4–18 overall. They return home for a three game series against Dartmouth this weekend.

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Sam Fish

Tweet of the Day

Women’s lacrosse @ Delaware: W 16–9 The 19th-ranked Tigers are back over .500 after a 16–9 thrashing of the Delaware Blue Hens this weekend. Eight Tigers scored in the game, including senior midfielder Ellie McNulty and freshman midfielder Kyla Sears, who each had a hat trick. At one point, trailing 4–2, the Tigers would rattle off the next 10 goals to put the game out of reach midway through the second half. Princeton is now 5–4 on the season and will hit the road this

weekend to take on Harvard, looking to improve on their 1–1 Ivy League record.

Women’s golf @ Fox Hollow Golf Club: W The Princeton women’s golf team is hitting their stride heading into the Ivy League Championships later this month. Hosting the Match Madness event this weekend, the Tigers placed first in the four team field after beating Columbia on Saturday and Seton Hall on Sunday.

On Sunday, senior Tenley Shield and juniors Amber Wang & Tiana Lau all won their matches to claim the win for the Tigers. They head to the Harvard Invitational next weekend in their final event before the Ivy League Championships.

Women’s tennis vs. Penn: W 5–2 The women’s tennis team opened Ivy League play on a high note with a 5–2 victory over Penn at the Cordish Family Pavilion and Lenz Tennis Center on Saturday.

The doubles team of junior Nicole Kalhorn and fresh-

Stat of the Day

“FINAL: Asher Lee-Tyson closes the game out in 3–2 style! Princeton earns the series victory with a 7–6 Women’s golf concluded March decision over Cornell! #TigerUp” Madness with a 3–2 victory over Seton Princeton Baseball (@PUTigerBaseball)

Hall this Sunday.

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Max West

man Stephanie Schrage — currently ranked 79th in the nation — opened the match with a victory over the top Penn doubles team.

Schrage would then add another victory as a single, contributing to two of the Tigers’ five victories in the match. Princeton adds to its great season; the Tigers are now 13–3 and are ranked 42nd in the nation. Up next is a two match weekend against Cornell on Friday and Columbia on Saturday.

Notable performance: Sam Fish (freshman goalkeeper, women’s lacrosse) Freshman Sam Fish was a big reason for the Tigers’ success this weekend after making a career high of 16 saves in net for Princeton.

Fish came up big when it mattered most; after trailing 4–2 in the early stages of the game, the Tigers were able to go on a 10–0 scoring run thanks in large part to the efforts of their goalie, who buckled down and contested almost every Delaware shot. Fish hopes to ride the career day into next weekend’s showdown with the Crimson.

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