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Wright ’17 wins Dale Fellowship

By Allie Spensley senior writer

Margaret Wright ’17 has been named the recipient of this year’s Martin A. Dale ’53 Fellowship, which enables an outstanding senior to pursue an independent project that widens his or her experience of the world and significantly enhances his or her intellectual development. Wright will spend the next year traveling across the country, primarily on foot, to interview the people she meets along the way and create “listening poems” from the words and phrases they use.

“The ultimate goal of the project is to create a collection of these poems, whether a physical book or a series of audio files,” she said.

Wright plans to follow the American Discovery Trail, the country’s only non-motorized coast-to-coast trail, which runs from Delaware to northern California. She will ask interviewees a broad range of questions, and will continually change her approach based on their input.

Wright said that her experiences at the University, both inside and outside of the classroom, have shaped her interest in becoming a better listener. In particular, her study of creative writing and participation in prisonrelated advocacy work have informed her idea for the listening poems project.

“I had barely studied poetry before coming here,” Wright said. “The more I started learning about poetry — both through the Creative Writing Program and also through Ellipses, the slam poetry group I joined in my sophomore year — the

more I began to see poetry as an art form that is uniquely effective at challenging and expanding our perceptions of the world and creating opportunities to access other people’s interiors.”

As an English concentrator pursuing certificates in Creative Writing and Latin American Studies, Wright completed a poetry thesis this year. Advised by professors Tracy Smith and Meghan O’Rourke, her thesis partly inspired her decision to embark on a creative project after graduation. In particular, Wright said, listening to Smith and O’Rourke talk about poetry’s impact on its readers made her curious about how poems can be used to facilitate empathy and create opportunities for listening.

“I sometimes got worried, when writing my thesis, that a lot of the poems I was writing were probably most accessible or interesting to people who had had life experiences similar to mine. I started to wonder about how I could help make poetry that would include a wider array of voices, and maybe work more directly towards social change — which is something that I would ideally like to be doing with all of my writing, even if in just a tiny way,” she said.

This year, Wright and other members of Ellipses began co-teaching a poetry class for incarcerated people in a state prison.

“We sometimes discuss poems that I’ve known and loved for a long time, but talking about them with our students — hearing what moves or angers or surprisSee DALE page 3

ON CAMPUS

Princeton Research Day to celebrate student research

By Kristin Qian senior writer

Where can you find a molecular biology major sharing research next to a French and Italian concentrator, both presenting posters in the same room as a computer scientist?

Princeton Research Day. The event, taking place on Thursday, May 11, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Frist Campus Center, will showcase research conducted by over 200 undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other nonfaculty researchers, spanning fields from the natural sciences, social sciences, and engineering to the arts and humanities.

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BEYOND THE BUBBLE

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Michael Gordin, professor of the history of science, will become the director of the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.

Gordin named director of U. Society of Fellows senior writer

Margaret Wright ’17 is the recipient of this year’s Dale Fellowship.

Her project will involve writing interview-based poems.

presenting his spring junior paper.

“I always think it’s fun to share your research with a larger audience and also to see all the great research that other people are doing that you don’t always get to see,” Blackman said.

Blackman is a former Street editor for the ‘Prince.’

His 10-minute talk, titled “Princeton’s Lost Museum: Arnold Guyot’s E. M. Museum and the history of American natural science,” explores the worldview of the late University geology professor Arnold Guyot by studying traces of a revolutionary natural science museum that Guyot created at the University in the early 19th century.

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George among conservatives criticizing Trump’s EO

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mobile app called Guidebook to allow visitors to follow the program of presentations. Visitors can vote for their favorite presentations on Guidebook, and winners will be presented a personalized award certificate signed by the University President, Provost, Dean of the College, Dean of the Faculty, Dean of the Graduate School, and Dean for Research.

Throughout the event, the tag #PRD17 will be used on social media.

Research Day will host three types of sessions: 10-minute talks, posters, and 90-second elevator pitches.

Harrison Blackman ’17, a history concentrator with certificates in urban studies, Hellenic studies, and creative writing, will be

Established in 2000 by a gift from University Charter Trustee Lloyd Costen ’50, the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts supports a class of several scholars for a period of three years, providing them with financial and intellectual support.

The Society, which has been directed for the last eight years by English professor Susan Stewart, will continue next year under the directorship of history professor Michael Gordin, according to a University press release.

After earning his A.B. and Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard, Gordin was also a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2001 to 2003 and 2004 to 2005. He has been a professor at the University since 2003, and he served as the inaugural director of the Fung Global Fellows Program. Gordin has also been associated with the Princeton Society of Fellows as a faculty fellow, and teaches courses on the history of science, pseudoscience, Einstein, and nuclear weapons.

Gordin said that he originally learned that the position would be open when he heard that Stewart would be stepping down as director. He said that Eric Gregory, the chair of the Council of the Humanities at the University, asked Society affiliates for recommendations to fill the position. While Gordin didn’t apply directly for the position, he expressed both interest and enthusiasm when his name was put forward.

He thought that his experience with the Harvard Society of Fellows would certainly be helpful during his tenure as director, though he noted several differences between the two groups. While both groups are postdoctoral societies modeled off British equivalents at Cambridge and Oxford, they have vast differences in terms of composition.

“The Harvard [Society of Fellows] is also three years long, but it’s very different from the Princeton one in that it’s, first of all, sciences and humanities, so all fields are basically open,” Gordin explained.

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In Opinion

Today on Campus

Tom Salama lays out a blueprint for growing sports crowds, and Liam O’Connor argues that the “drinking privilege” enjoyed by Ivy League students ultimately harms them. PAGE 4

4:30 p.m.: James A. Baker III, U.S. Secretary of State and former White House Chief of Staff, will present “A Conservative Approach to Climate Change” at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 10, in McCosh Hall, Room 10.

President Trump signed an executive order on May 4 intended to weaken the Johnson Amendment, a provision in the 1954 Internal Revenue Code that is designed to prohibit nonprofit or 501(c)3 organizations from endorsing a political candidate. Named for former President and thenSenator Lyndon B. Johnson, the provision concerns organizations such as churches, charitable foundations, and universities.

In the ensuing controversy over Trump’s Presidential Executive Order Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty, conservative Christian leaders have criticized the order as a hollow. Among them? University professor Robert George.

Calling the president out on Twitter, George wrote that the order was a “betrayal.” The ‘Prince’ asked George why he felt so strongly.

“President Trump, when he was a candidate, promised that he would seek robust protections for religious liberty,” George said. “He assured supporters that he would do so through both executive orders when appropriate, and legislation.”

The executive order, as the Associated Press reports, does not alter the law on the books. Although Trump said that the order is intended to protect churches from being pursued by the IRS for engaging in political speech, the 1954 law, which is considered an annoyance by conservatives, remains. George said that the law is “not in the top 50 of the religious liberty concerns of any major religious freedom advocacy group that I know of.”

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ciety selects between 10 and 15 fellows each year, the Princeton Society of Fellows selects four to five in the humanities and social sciences, a select group chosen from between 700 and 1,200 applicants each year. Gordin also noted that the goals of the two organizations are different.

“There’s no teaching whatsoever at the Harvard Society, whereas at Princeton, part of the mission of [the Society] is to integrate the fellows into the pedagogical mission of the University,” he said. “At Harvard, it is absolutely not to do that; they are kept apart.”

At Princeton, each fellow is required to teach one course per semester for five of the six semesters covered by the fellowship, according to Gordin. The scope of these courses is broad, ranging from introductory freshman seminars to upper-level electives, though all fall under the umbrella of either the social sciences or humanistic studies.

The Society currently doesn’t have fellowships in the natural or biological sciences, except for one associated fellowship in astrophysical sciences. While Gordin believes the structure of the Society will likely remain the same, he expressed appreciation for the existing natural sciences fellowship.

“The astrophysicist is a wonderful tradition. It takes one of the more philosophically inclined fields in the sciences and has, to

date, proven very effective for people talking across disciplinary borders.”

Still, Gordin said that a group the size of the Princeton Society is likely more suited to a fine focus on depth of conversation, and thought that it would be difficult to include more disciplines.

“Interdisciplinary conversation between scientists and humanists is not always that easy to maintain. I don’t know how well that would work in a much smaller society,” Gordin explained.

Gordin also noted differences with the Fung Global Fellows Program.

He explained that the Fung program targets a more professionally developed audience of junior faculty members at international universities and tries to provide them with a common idea to work on for one year.

“The idea to focus on a common topic was to turn it more into a directed seminar, which I think you can do very well for one year ... but since the Society has people for three years, it would be difficult to find a topic,” Gordin explained.

When discussing his own ideas for the society going forward, Gordin said that he hopes to make the group’s discussions and projects more widely known on campus, which he thinks may take some time to change. He also noted that a new executive director for the program is currently being selected and said that he hopes the search will be done within a month.

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es them in the poems — always changes the way I think about these poems for the better. I’ll often leave class and realize that I didn’t really understand a poem until we talked about it together.

It has cemented for me how important it is that poetry not just circulate in a really insular community — which I think some poetry sometimes does — that poems become so much better when lots of different voices get involved,” she said.

As a member of Students for Prison Education and Reform, Wright has worked with other students and incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people who have taught her the value of intentional listening when engaging in advocacy work for marginalized communities. “[SPEAR] made me realize that it’s alarmingly easy to start doing advocacy work without really listening to the people you’re trying to help or advocate for,” Wright said.

“My involvement with SPEAR has made me want to take a year to think about the way that I listen to other people before I continue doing any sort of advocacy work.”

Wright said that an independent project she completed the summer after her

sophomore year, in which she interviewed and wrote profiles of previously incarcerated artists, most directly informed her idea to create listening poems.

“The artists were just incredible, but afterwards when I started writing about them I became kind of uncomfortable with how central my own voice was in the profiles. I loved listening to their interviews — I would do it over and over again — and each time I would wish that there were a way for me to share the voices in the interviews more directly with a wider audience. It made me curious about creating a piece of writing where the voices of the people I was interviewing would be more prominent than my own voice,” Wright explained.

After completing the project, Wright hopes to pursue a line of work that combines her interests in poetry and prison reform.

“One of the reasons that I wanted to do this project is that I would love to ultimately do something related to either creative writing or social justice work — or, in an ideal world, some combination of the two,” Wright said. “I’m not convinced that I’m a good enough listener to do either right now, but I’m hoping to practice and improve over the next year.”

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and fit the story you want to tell in 10 minutes,” he explained. “My strategy is to pick one or two points that I want to emphasize in an engaging way with compelling images.”

Blackman also noted that, as a historian, research is about crafting a narrative from lots of small details.

“For history, it’s the devil in the details,” he said.

“The details make it really rich and compelling. And it’s finding the themes, unearthing them, like dinosaur bones.”

In addition to talks, Princeton Research Day will feature poster presentations.

Anna Kimmel ’18, a junior in the French and Italian departments pursuing a certificate in dance, will be presenting a poster that stems from her fall junior paper research. Her project focuses on an ethnographic study of contemporary West African dance in Burkina Faso, including the role that it has played in shaping the post-colonial identity for the nation, as well as how dance has been used to unify the national culture and national identity, she said.

“Particular to the project, I learned how to articulate why art is valuable to me, and learned how to write that and communicate that to an audience,” Kimmel said, adding that more generally, she learned to craft an argument in a scholarly fashion and to have confidence in her ideas by supporting them with text and now with a visual aid through a poster for Research Day. “A poster isn’t really intuitive for the humanities,” she said, noting that reducing her junior paper, which was over 50 pages long, into a poster was the biggest challenge. “Ultimately it came down to finding out what was actually really important to you within those pages,” she said.

Austin Wang ’20 is one of a handful of freshmen presenting at the event.

His research, which was all conducted before coming to Princeton, is about using bacteria to convert waste products to electrical energy efficiently. He said he looks forward to sharing his own research while also exploring research conducted by other students.

“One of the biggest things about communicating science is obviously trying to present it in a way that other people can understand, but also trying to keep in mind why people should care and how it will impact their lives directly,” Wang said.

Zach Stier ’20, a prospective mathematics major, will present work he conducted at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on developing an animated visualization of how oceans and land masses change with time.

“It’s a bit of a fine line between providing enough technical detail and too much technical detail,” Stier said.

The event will not be limited to posters and talks, but will also showcase interactive exhibits.

James Tralie ’19, a geosciences major pursuing certificates in French, film, and planets and life, will be presenting a video he originally made for a French class project.

“I wanted to envision what a world would be like if experiences were entirely virtual and all that we thought was real was actually just a part of this larger network of computer programming,” Tralie said.

He hopes to save time after his video to start a conversation with the audience.

“I’m always looking for new forms to present my work in, and it’s always really nice to be able to spark a really cool discussion around the project afterward,” Tralie said.

A fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical and Aero-

space Engineering, Matthew Fu will be giving a 10-minute talk on research related to his thesis work — a new type of surface coating that could help ships move faster.

“The opportunity to ex-

plain what I’ve been up to is rare,” he said, noting that he mostly interacts with people in his lab or people familiar with his field. “It’s a lot of fun to be able to explain in a high-level way what it is I’ve been working on for a couple

of years.”

Princeton Research Day is a collaborative effort led by the offices of the Dean of the College, the Dean of Faculty, the Dean of the Graduate School, the Dean for Research, and the Provost.

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Breaking the silence: Question what they tell you Leora Eisenberg

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n May 3 and 4, J Street U held an exhibition of photos by an Israeli non-governmental organization called Breaking the Silence, whose goal is to “expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories.” I applaud its desire to better Israeli society, but I do not feel the same about

the accusations that have come out about the organization.

BtS has been accused of libel and manipulation. For example, BtS co-founder Yehuda Shaul was caught on film telling a tour group that settlers in the West Bank poisoned Palestinian wells, a biased claim which was later completely debunked.

Many Israeli soldiers have come out claiming that their testimonies were recorded without their permission, falsified, or taken

out of context. The organization has also refused to submit any of its information to a military prosecutor in order for its claims to be checked; while much of the material is protected by source confidentiality, some is not — and BtS has not released any of it. This is suspect for an organization that claims to want to reform Israeli society, and particularly to reform the ways of the Israeli army.

I have no interest in censoring

Breaking the Silence; it has every right to speak to students about its views. But students must question the validity of what they hear. And if we are to truly better the situation in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, we cannot rely on anything but the facts.

Leora Eisenberg is a freshman from Eagan, Minn. She can be reached at leorae@princeton.edu.

Build the hype: How the University can nudge its students to the stadium Tom Salama

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uring football season, I received no shortage of pictures of packed stadiums from my friends at other universities. But at the PrincetonHarvard game this year, Powers Field was two-thirds empty. Had it not been for the free Hoagie Haven at a tailgate before the game, I have no doubt that the stadium would have been even more barren.

That’s a problem. Princeton games should have higher turnouts, and the University must play a role in raising turnouts.

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for fear of a lackluster social life. After all, before coming to college, I figured that social life would center around sports — thanks to “Blue Mountain State.”

Sporting events are lackluster for many reasons, including the University’s small size. But what discourages me the most is the lack of advertising. I know of only one way to find out what’s happening in Princeton sports on a given day: opening the unwieldy Princeton app and going to the sports section there. But unless I check it every single day, I am likely to miss the big, important games.

The first hurdle is simply informing students. That way, those who have an interest in sports can go. The adminis-

tration should start spreading the word about major sporting events by email, and these should not be sent by residential college listservs, which are used and abused on a daily basis.

Of course, getting University students to go out to non-academic activities en masse will always be challenging given their workload. But if the administration lightly incentivized turnout with giveaways — and actually told us what games were on the horizon — school spirit and excitement will end up shining through.

Tom Salama is a freshman from Bayonne, N.J. He can be reached at tsalama@princeton.edu.

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news about big events and giving away t-shirts or rally towels at games.

The administration should approach sports attendance with a measure of importance. Crowd size is a metric of school spirit, and school spirit leads to alumni giving down the road. Further, a vocal minority of students here crave a more “normal” college experience. That means a raucous time on weekends, tailgates at football games, and an excited student section in the stadium.

But it’s hard to do those things in a subdued environment, which takes its toll on more than just sports games attendance.

The dying sports culture might discourage admitted students from attending the University,

he U.S. public feels that the nation’s business and political elites are held to a different standard of the law than the “common man” is. When it comes to underage drinking laws at the country’s top universities, the public is right and has reason to be outraged.

There’s a peculiar double standard in how drinking laws are enforced on college campuses. My friends who attend state schools talk about police raids on fraternity parties, large arrests, and regular patrols to confiscate alcohol from underage students.

Their stories seemed foreign to me and my friends at Ivy League schools. We had heard of campus police breaking up parties for noise complaints, but no one actually knew of anyone being punished — by the school or local law enforcement — for underage drinking. In our memories, there have never been raids on the University’s eating clubs or Harvard’s finals clubs.

The Ivy League — except for Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania — is lax on punishing students for alcohol infractions. Everyone at the schools knows it, too. I recently received an email for a club pregame that said, “You will never be in trouble for being intoxicated.”

The reason for this isn’t that Ivy League students drink significantly less than students at state schools. Princeton, for example, is far from a dry campus. Its UMatter initiative says that 72 percent of students use

alcohol and at least 45 percent have spent a minimum of one day drinking during the past month. This is roughly consistent with a report by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism that found that 60 percent of college students consumed alcohol within the past month.

Liquor laws vary by state, and some have looser restrictions.

But this does not explain why Harvard — a school of approximately 6,700 undergraduate students — issued only 19 referrals for liquor law violations in 2015. The Harvard Crimson has chronicled the high rates of alcohol use by underage freshman. Both Massachusetts state law and school policies ban underage possession of alcohol. By comparison, Northeastern University — which is a few miles away and has about 14,000 undergraduates — issued 679 referrals that same year. Clearly the differences in state drinking laws also don’t account for the Ivy League’s low alcohol punishment rate.

The truth is that alcohol laws are loosely enforced in the Ivy League because of the wealth and status of many students’ families. This is especially apparent at the University.

New Jersey outlaws the possession of alcohol by those under 21 years of age, but there is a loophole that permits it on private property. The state assembly granted municipalities the power to outlaw all underage drinking in 2000.

Since then, the town of Princeton has considered ordinances that would do so in 2001, 2013, and 2016. They failed to pass each time. Princeton and East Windsor are the only two municipalities of 12 in Mercer County without such an ordinance.

The University also has a contrived alcohol policy. Rather than ban all underage drinking — as other colleges in New Jersey have done — it circuitously explains violations of the alcohol policy and then builds in a loophole that permits underage students to drink in their dorms.

When townships in Mercer County considered passing ordinances that outlawed underage drinking on private property in 2000, political science professor David Robevich told The New York Times, “I live in Hamilton Township, where the response is ‘All the kids drink.’ This law is meeting with resistance in suburbia because it will be applied to nice white middle-class kids.”

Herein lies the point. Parents of Ivy League students don’t want their children to be held back from becoming a Wall Street executive or national politician because they were charged with underage drinking while in college. As a result, these schools have become lenient on enforcing the law. Or, in the University’s case, letting the existing loophole persist.

The schools are doing this to our own detriment. Ivy League students often go on to become national leaders in their respective fields. Not enforcing underage drinking laws sends the message that they are above the rule of law.

Further, we often forget that these laws were created to prevent young people from becoming addicted to alcohol. While the University has education and counseling programs, they are less effective than enforcement. Minimum drinking age laws are supported by decades of scientific research. Arguing that they are ineffective would be equivalent to denying cli-

mate change or saying that vaccines don’t work.

Several prominent political families, including the Kennedys, have had problems with alcoholism. The late Senator Ted Kennedy went to Harvard and struggled with alcoholism, albeit a decade after his college years. Seeing that many Ivy Leaguers are also likely to become high-profile politicians and business leaders, the need to enforce these rules only becomes more necessary to prevent the onset of alcohol dependency at a young age.

Ultimately, the blame for these loose rules falls on the Princeton Council and the University administration, not the Princeton Town Police Department or the Department of Public Safety officers who have been adequately enforcing the set of flawed policies that they have been given.

To fix the problem, the Council should pass the private property underage drinking ordinance — with parental and religious exceptions — that has been proposed multiple times.

The ordinance should have some sort of punishment either in the form of a fine or community service — but not something that appears on a criminal record — that serves as a deterrent.

For the University, I recommend that the Board of Trustees to commission another report on alcohol abuse like that of 1999. In addition, the administration should eliminate the dorm loophole in the Alcohol and Drug Policies and encourage stronger enforcement during a multiyear phase-in process that allows students to adjust to the new standards.

Nothing will likely change in the near future. As underage University students drink in the

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eating clubs and at their pregames this weekend, I ask them to check their drinking privilege. They will be able to drink alcohol all night and return to their dorms without an encounter with law enforcement or campus authorities. But students outside of the Ivy League will not be so privileged.

Liam O’Connor is a freshman from Wyoming, Del. He can be reached at lpo@princeton.edu.

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an easy win for Trump, but does little. The amendment, “which restricts partisan endorsement by clergy in their official capacity,” is routinely flouted.

“It’s never enforced,” George added. “It’s arguably unconstitutional.”

The Amendment represents a mere annoyance, not a major grievance for religious conservatives, George said. The law is “not even in the top 50 of the religious concerns of any major religious freedom advocacy group that I know of,” he added.

“But the reason the ACLU isn’t even suing him is because this doesn’t do anything,” George said. “By making a big deal of [the Johnson Amendment], [Trump] created the appearance of doing something for religious liberty, but it, in fact, doesn’t cost him any-

thing. That’s what makes him such a gifted deal-maker. He makes people on opposite side of the table think that they’re getting something when he doesn’t have to do much to give it in the first place.”

George underscored that conservatives like him need to “wise up and demand more of [Trump].”

“We’re not asking him to abuse his power,” explained George. “We’re asking for substantive protections for people who, on religious grounds, or on grounds of conscience could not participate in activities that they deem to be immoral.”

“I don’t think Trump is a man with many principles, if any,” George added. “He’s a transactional person. I think the future of religious liberty depends on what he thinks is necessary to retain support of religious conservative supporters.”

The existing 1954 law is designed to prohibit tax-exempt

organizations from engaging directly in support or opposition to a political candidate or campaign; however, it doesn’t prevent these organizations from supporting public policy initiatives or other efforts that heavily favor one side of an election. Explicitly, such organizations cannot donate to a candidate or make public statements in support of a particular candidate.

These provisions, however, have not kept such organizations from pursuing political work through other means — those not penalized by the IRS, most notably in church involvement of the Civil Rights Movement.

“People on the other side of the debate — they interpret that as a right to discriminate,” George said. Regarding the law’s effect, he gave an example of exercising religious liberty as opposed to using it to discriminate.

“For example,” George explained, “a nurse who cannot,

in good conscience, participate in abortions. This is a right to honor her own conscience, not a license to discriminate.”

“Her livelihood, as a nurse, should not depend on engaging in what she considers unjust homicide,” he added.

Paul Draper ‘18, former president of the Princeton College Republicans and publisher of the Princeton Tory, a conservative student magazine, agrees with George’s assessment.

“If the executive order is all the Trump administration ends up doing, that certainly will be a failure on their part, but if it’s an indication that we’ll do more, then that’s good,” Draper said. I don’t think the executive order in its current form is sufficient.”

He also agreed that the Johnson Amendment is not a priority, but is still an issue. Draper explained that a big issue for those concerned about issues of religious liberty is taxpayer funding going to health care plans that fund

abortion. Draper said he hopes that the order is just the first step toward ensuring greater religious liberty.

George explained that he does not view religious freedom as absolute and can be overridden if certain criteria outlined the Religious Freedom Restoration Act are met.

The intervention must be used to further a compelling government interest and be the least intrusive or restrictive means of protecting that interest.

“Religious freedom for me is not absolute,” George said. “It can be overridden when necessary.”

George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at the University, and is the founding director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, a program in the politics department that explores questions of American constitutional law and Western political thought.

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Women’s track takes third at Ivy League Championships ByMiranda Hasty

2013.

Junior Kennedy O’Dell also had an eventful meet, earning a total

of ten points across three events: the hammer throw, the shot put, and the discus. O’Dell finished in fourth in the hammer throw in Day One with a 55.11-meter toss. She also took fourth in the shot put with a personal record of 13.98. She threw another a personal record in the discus, finishing in fifth at 44.42.

Sophomores Kerri Davidson and Nnenna Ibe each competed in the triple jump, finishing fifth and eighth, respectively.

Freshman Heide Baron, freshman Ashley Willingham, sophomore Ellie Randolph, and senior Christina Walter earned third place in 4x100m relay at 46.76, their best time of the season.

Walter also competed in the 100m and 200m finals, finishing at 24.25 and 11.86.

Senior Elisa Steele and Willingham earned personal records in the 400m, clocking in at 54.77 and 55.41 to take third and sixth.

Freshman Devon Block-Funkhouser finished in sixth in the 400m hurdles at 1:01.70 after

qualifying with a personal record on Day One. Sophomore Gabi Forrest and senior Alexandra Markovich ran the 5k. Forrest finished in fourth at 16:39.20 and Markovich seventh at 16:46.10.

Junior Quinn Parker, Baron, Willingham, and Steele combined for 3:43.14 in the 4x400m, earning fourth place standing.

Ten points came in the heptathlon as junior Maia Craver and sophomore Frances Lodge placed third and fourth with 4,902 and 4,869 points.

After the meet, Princeton earned eight All-Ivy League honors. Allison Harris, Julia Ratcliffe, Lizzie Bird, Anna Jurew, Jackie Berardo, and Zoe Sims earned First-Team All-Ivy honors, while Berardo was also named Second-Team All-Ivy. The Tigers will travel to West Point to compete against Army on Thursday before they wrap up the season with the ECAC Championship, NCAA East Regionals, and NCAA Championships.

the team relays would play a vital role in deciding the victor of the meet. The 4x800m relay took sixth in 7:32.71, while Cornell placed last. In perhaps the most exhilarating race of the meet, the Princeton 4x400m relay of sophomore Cole Bransford, senior Jabari Johnson, first-

year Connor Matthews, and Freeman put it all on the line to place third in 3:12.30, just ahead of fourth-place Cornell.

Finally, the first-year athletes in the decathlon secured the win for Princeton since Cornell had no athletes in the decathlon. Har-

ry Lord and Justice Dixon improved on day two to finish third and fifth.

It was coach Fred Samara’s 40th Ivy League title, and he reminded the team in an emotional meeting afterwards that it competed from the heart this weekend to beat the odds.

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After qualifying 10 athletes for Day Two, the women’s track and field team finished in third place in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship with 103 points.

The team was tied for third with Dartmouth after Day One with 29 points. Seniors Allison Harris and Julia Ratcliffe stood out with first-place performances in their respective events. Harris won her fourth Ivy pole vault title with a meet record of 4.23 meters, the 17th best of the season in the NCAA and the seventh best in the East. Ratcliffe became the first student-athlete to win four hammer throw titles. Her furthest throw out of three reached 69.24 meters (227-2).

Day Two saw new personal records and two event wins in the steeplechase and the 4x800m relay. Senior Lizzie Bird took the steeplechase title, the second of her career, at 10:14.24. The relay team of Bird, sophomore Anna

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From left: Anna Jurew, Madeleine Sumner, and Jackie Berardo are all smiles after winning the 4x800m relay.

Jurew, sophomore Jackie Berardo, and senior Zoe Sims obtained Princeton’s first 4x800 win since

MEN’S TRACK & FIELD

Men’s track wins 17th Ivy League title ByViraj Deokar staff writer

The Princeton men’s track and field team captured its 17th Outdoor Heps title at the 82nd annual Outdoor Heps Championships held May 6 and 7 at Yale. With an entire team effort, the Tigers edged out second-place Cornell 156 to 149 points for its fifth title in the past seven years. Penn was a distant third with 86 points.

Going into the meet, Princeton knew it would be a true challenge, and every single member of the 36-man Heps team would count. On paper, Princeton wasn’t supposed to win, but the Tigers showed once again that pre-meet stats don’t really matter. It’s what they brought on competition day that truly counted.

Princeton started off with a great first day. Sophomore Adam Kelly began the day with a runner-up finish in the hammer throw along with a new personal record of 68.96m. In the long jump, senior captain Greg Leeper came up big to take third while beating two Cornell athletes. In the pole vault, senior Ben Gaylord scored by placing sixth, and junior August Kiles became an individual Heps Champion for the third time in his career with a clearance of 5.31m, a new outdoor personal record. In a very slow and tactical 10,000m run, senior William Bertrand finished runner-up. First-year Viraj Deokar also closed hard to take sixth and score. After day one, Princeton was in second, with 34 points, while Cornell led with 39 points.

Day two was a tug-of-war between Princeton and Cornell. Princeton scored big in a few events, but then Cor-

nell came right back in others. Senior captain Xavier Bledsoe finished runner-up in the high jump. In the discus, junior Mitchel Charles finished runner-up with a toss of 53.13m, and senior Jared Bell placed third with a mark of 51.99m. Senior captain Chris Cook won his third individual Heps title with a victory in the shot put after a toss of 17.62m.

Charles took runner-up in the shot put with a mark of 17.54m. In the triple jump, sophomore Stefan Amokwandoh jumped a personal record of 15.71m for a big third place finish. While the Tigers dominated the field events, Cornell fought well on the track.

On the track, the 4x100m relay team of sophomores and first years took third with a time of 40.99s.

Charles Volker also placed runner-up in the 100m in 10.67s and fifth in the 200m in 21.71s. In the men’s 1500m, junior William Paulson ran a fast final 400m to finish runner-up in a time of 3:46.07. First-year Joey Daniels became an individual Heps champion for the first time with a wind-aided 13.88s in the 110m hurdles.

In the men’s 400m, junior Josh Freeman dropped a full second of his previous best to run a new personal record of 47.02s and finish runner-up. In the 800m, junior Noah Kauppila scored with his sixth-place finish.

In the 400m hurdles, Leeper became an individual Heps champion for the second consecutive year with a time of 52.05s. Junior Spencer Long finished runnerup, edging out a Dartmouth runner by just two thousandths of a second at the line.

Going into the final few events, Cornell was up, and

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Stat of the Day

13 honors

13 All-Ivy League honors were presented to the Princeton Men’s Track Team, with 4 runners earning first-team All-Ivy League honors.

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