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Motto will change, Jodi Picoult ‘87 to be 2016 Class name will stay

Despite moves toward diversity and inclusion, students are concerned about a lack of actionable language.

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By Amber Park

By Andie Ayala

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The University Board of Trustees announced Monday morning that it had approved recommendations from the Wilson Legacy Committee’s report.

Included among the decisions was that the Wilson School and Wilson College will continue to be named after Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, and that the University will change its informal motto.

Other approved recommendations include establishing a pipeline program to encourage more underrepresented students to pursue doctoral degrees and diversifying campus art. The committee also recommended designating a Special Committee on Diversity and Inclusion within the board’s Executive Committee to oversee these actions.

Brent Henry ’69, vice chair of the board who chaired the committee, explained that the committee collectively decided on its recommendations and the board later voted to approve them, but he did not specify the number of votes in favor of the recommendations.

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The controversy on Woodrow WIlson’s legacy amplified last November.

topher Eisgruber ’83, who notified the members of University community about the board’s recommendations via email on Monday morning, noted in an interview with the Daily Princetonian that the approved initiatives are ways for the Uni-

versity to affirm and energize its commitment to diversity and inclusion.

“The board strongly endorsed the committee’s report and recommendations, including its call for a renewed and expanded See REPORT page 4

The Class of 2016 Class Day Committee announced Monday morning that the speaker for this year’s Class of 2016 Day will be novelist Jodi Picoult ’87.

Molly Stoneman ’16, a member of the Class Day Committee, noted there have only been two women speakers, including Queen Noor of Jordan ’73 and journalist Katie Couric, as well as one person of color, Bill Cosby, in the history of Class Day. “We decided that we wanted to see more of the values of our class being ref lected in the Class Day speaker,” Stoneman said. She added that Class Day speakers have tended to be white males from Hollywood or business fields but that the committee has recognized that many more students from the Class of 2016 were interested in hearing from people in professions in the arts, screenwriting, creative writing or advertising.

She noted that in the past four years she has witnessed seniors who have collaborated with Career Services, the Pace

Center for Civic Engagement, the Women*s Center, the LGBT Center and other organizations on campus in order to find work after graduation, a departure from the stereotypical Princeton career path.

This departure is reflected in the speaker choice, she explained.

For the first time in Class Day history, Picoult has asked the Class of 2016 what they would like to hear about in her remarks.

“I did ask the Class Day Committee to tell me a little about the things on campus during your four years that have been resonant, as I am sure the university is a very different place now than it was when I was there — and as a writer, I find it important to do my research,” said Picoult in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.

“I was sure someone had made a mistake,” Picoult described her reaction when being asked to be the Class Day speaker, “I mean — Colbert, Stewart, Nolan, Couric — it’s daunting, to say the least. But I’m trying to push past my Impostor Syndrome, because See SPEAKER page 2

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

University admits 6.46 percent of applicants for Class of 2020

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

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

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

Platt, an English concentrator with a certificate in theater, noted that she was incredibly excited and honored to be named valedictorian. She explained that she was first notified that she had been named valedictorian a week prior to the official University announcement.

According to a University press release, Platt is the former president of Princeton University Players, the only student-run musical theater company on campus. She is currently working on a show

that will debut at the New York Fringe Festival, and she will soon attend the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She is originally from Santa Barbara, Calif.

“I know I want writing to be a part of my future, so right now journalism looks interesting,” Platt said, adding that writing fiction would also be a suitable career path.

“I don’t know exactly what [the future] will look like, but I have a couple of years to figure it out,” she said.

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

Since the spring of her freshman year, Platt has annually received an English departmental prize. Her prizes have included the Class of 1870 junior and senior sophomore prizes and the Class of 1870 Old English Prize. Platt has twice been recognized for Outstanding See VALEDICTORIAN page 2

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The University has offered admission to 1,894 students out of an applicant pool of 29,303 candidates, marking a record-low acceptance rate of 6.46 percent.

This year’s applicant pool is also the largest the University has seen to date, breaking the record number of 27,290 set by the class of 2019.

Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye explained that the Office of Admission has been

making efforts to recruit students from every socioeconomic background, which might have contributed to the large applicant pool this year.

“We’re doing more outreach to students,” she added.

Of the 1,894 admitted students, 785 were accepted in the early application process. The single-choice early action acceptance rate was 18.6 percent from a pool of 4,229 candidates. The number of students admitted from regular admission was 1109, and the acceptance rate for regular decision

candidates, including those who were deferred in early action and accepted in the regular pool, is 3.8 percent.

“The admit rate is reflecting the fact that we’ve had this large applicant pool,” Rapelye noted. She added that the expected class size for the Class of 2020 is 1,308 students.

Of the admitted students, 49.5 percent are women and 50.5 percent are men. 50.6 percent of students have identified themselves as students of color, which includes biracial See 2020 page 5

Mitch Daniels ’71 discusses liberal arts learning, education inequality

By Caroline Lippman staff writer

“The proper scope of a university, in one soundbite, is to prepare citizens for a free society. A successful free society needs technologists, it needs philosophers, it needs people of integrity and public life,” Mitch Daniels ’71, president of Purdue University and former governor of Indiana, said in a conversation on Thursday with University Professor of jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program Robert George.

Daniels graduated from the University in 1971, majoring in the Wilson School, and earned a law degree from

Georgetown University Law Center in 1979. He became the president of Purdue University in January 2013 after serving two terms as the 49th governor of Indiana, lasting from 2004 to 2012. Daniels was honored by the University with the Woodrow Wilson Award in February 2013 in recognition of his career in the service of the nation.

George began the conversation by introducing the question of the importance of the liberal arts education.

“The question of the value of liberal arts learning, and therefore the future of liberal arts learning, is in dispute. Many people ask, ‘So what’s the point?’” he explained.

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Daniels stated that Purdue University aims for its students to have a genuine experience with the liberal arts. “College’s real value could best be measured in the capability of graduates to continue learning,” he said.

“Whether our students are studying nuclear engineering or philosophy, we hope that they are developing an appreciation for the need, first of all, to examine all sorts of alternative ideas, to sort the good from the rot and to constantly learn and be inquisitive.”

He added that the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue is working to develop a package that would offer students, regardless of their major, a bundle of See LECTURE page 3

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Picoult to be the first woman Class Day speaker, to have student input for talk; Students “walkout Kennedy ‘77 to speak at Baccalaureate and speakout”, occupy Nassau Hall in protest NOVEMBER 19, 2015

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it is an overwhelming honor to be invited back to speak at my own university!”

Richard Lu ’16, Treasurer of the Class of 2016 Council, said, “I am confident that our class will walk away from Class Day grateful that Jodi Picoult, an accomplished author, pioneer for women artists and Princeton alumna, came to speak to us.”

Stoneman further explained that the Class Day Committee decided upon the speaker based on an open-response survey sent to members of the senior class. The survey asked for names of potential speakers that students saw an interest in. Two seniors will also be

selected from an application process to speak during commencement weekend as well.

Stoneman noted that graduation ceremonies at the University include a Baccalaureate speaker, who is organized by the administration and a commencement speaker, who is typically secured by the president of the University.

This year the other graduation speakers will be Harvard Law Professor of Criminal Law and Regulation of Race Relations Randall Kennedy ’77 and University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83.

Picoult, who graduated with a degree in English from the University, has published 26 novels in 22 years that have been translated in 34 languages in 35 countries. Eight of her books have been number one

on the New York Times bestseller list, including “My Sister’s Keeper,” “Second Glass” and “The Story Teller.” She has addressed topics like stemcell research, assisted dying, gay rights and school shooting in her novels.

“Picoult’s characters often represent the misunderstood or disenfranchised, and it is because of her extensive research about and compassion for her characters that we have invited her to speak, Class Day Committee member Azza Cohen ’16 noted, “She is an author who lifts up the voices of the unheard, which, in this year of discourse and turbulence and questions of inclusion on our campus, will be especially essential and timely.”

Cohen is a columnist for the Daily Princetonian.

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Work in the Program in Theater.

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

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

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

“Focus on the things that excite your heart, and just do those things fully, and who knows what will come out of that,” she said. “Find mean-

ing in the things that you’re doing.”

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

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

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

By Do-Hyeong Myeong editor-in-chief

Hannah Waxman staff writer

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said that he had no plans to sign the document outlining the demands of student protesters occupying his office in Nassau Hall on Wednesday.

The “Walkout and Speakout” protest, organized by the Black Justice League, began at 11:30 a.m, when nearly 200 students convened outside Nassau Hall.

The students then moved into Nassau Hall and filled the hallway, chanting, “We here. We been here. We ain’t leaving. We are loved.”

The organizers demanded cultural competency training for faculty and staff, an ethnicity and diversity distribution requirement and a space on campus explicitly dedicated to black students. In addition, protesters sought acknowledgement that former University President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, has a racist legacy that is impacting campus climate and policies and requested that Wilson’s name be taken off of the Wilson School and Wilson College.

However, Eisgruber said he will not meet the demands.

“The demands include some things I have no authority to do, and some things I disagree with,” he noted.

Asanni York ’17, one of the organizers of the protest, explained the group would not leave until Eisgruber signed the document listing the demands.

“We are tired of talking to people. It’s conversation, conversation, conversation. We try and protest; we meet with the administration every other week,” York said. “We’re done talking. We’re going to be here until he signs this paper. We’re going to be here until things are met.”

University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said that as of Wednesday at 10 p.m., students were still occupying Eisgruber’s office and that the Department of Public Safety had no intention of disciplining or evicting them.

The protesters circulated a sign-up sheet for 30-minute shifts to continue the sit-in from 9 a.m to 6:30 p.m until next Tuesday.

Eisgruber explained that he had an hour-long discussion with the student protesters about their demands and the current racial climate at the University.

He described the conversation as very engaged, adding that it was very important for him to hear exactly what their concerns were and why they had chosen to act in this way.

“I think that it is harder to be a black student on our campus than it is to be a white student.

We should be aiming for a campus in which all students feel equally welcomed,” Eisgruber said.

He added that he agrees with some of the students’ points, saying that Wilson was a racist and that the University should talk candidly about his legacy, including both its good and bad parts. However, he added that he disagrees with the idea of renaming the Wilson School and Wilson College.

“I think it is important for me to be sensitive about these points and honest about my views that I talk about,” he said.

Eisgruber also agreed that an ethnicity and diversity distribution requirement would be a good thing for the University to have. However, he noted that the decision belongs to the faculty and should be made through the appropriate processes.

The request for a space specific to black students is reasonable and desirable, Eisgruber said, adding that he and his colleagues will work on creating

such a location on campus as quickly as possible.

“We have to figure out what’s feasible and we have to recognize if we do that, we can’t do this for black students and not also do it for, for example, students from Latinx, who are also very interested in having a dedicated space,” he explained.

Eisgruber said that cultural competency training for the faculty could be useful, but that mandatory training is neither feasible nor effective because many different ways, rather than simply one way, exist to respond to diversity and intercultural differences. He noted that these changes would have to be made by the faculty in a vote and that he does not think the faculty would approve that measure.

He supported improving the accessibility of voluntary training available to interested parties, explaining that people who care about the programs are likely to benefit from them.

He noted that some reforms have already been put into effect, such as the replacement of the title of “Master” with “Head of the College.” The University announced the change on Wednesday morning, nearly two hours before the protest.

York explained that the group views protest as necessary in changing the racial climate at the University.

“A sit-in hasn’t been done on Princeton’s campus in 20 years.

It’s time to make something happen,” York said.

He explained that the University administration has been addressing race-related issues on campus “in a very white comfortist manner.”

“They talk about issues without talking about the issue,” he said. “They stray away from making statements that make bold claims because they don’t want to make some people uncomfortable. But black students on this campus feel uncomfortable every day.”

Trust Kupupika ’17, a member of the Black Justice League who attended the meeting in Eisgruber’s office, said that the conversation was interesting, but not in a good way. She explained that she felt much of what was said formed part of a diversion tactic, a way to tire out those who were speaking or to paint those who were speaking in a very malicious manner.

When asked about the issue of cultural competency training, Kupupika said that Eisgruber seemed more concerned about the feelings of his staff rather than those of the students in his office.

“He would never want to force his staff to do anything, that they should make a choice to do it, and yet he didn’t see a problem in having students of color being forced to get a degree, or eat dinner or lunch or live in a place that’s named after a racist,” Kupupika said.

Leea Driskell ’17, one of the student protesters, said that she felt that students do not get the voice they need to have within the administration, and if they do have that voice, it is not often heard.

“The University has a tendency to throw money at things to silence us and to hold events to try to appease students, but it doesn’t directly meet our demands,” she said.

Precepts in the African American Studies department were held in Nassau Hall on Wednesday. William Barber II, a Protestant minister and political leader in North Carolina who spoke Wednesday night in the University Chapel, and Ruth Simmons, the first black provost at the University, also made an appearance at the sit-in.

The doors to Nassau Hall were locked at around 6:30 p.m. because the building is normally locked at night, according to Mbugua.

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POCC, George testifies on free speech at U.

By Jessica Li news editor

Princeton Open Campus Coalition co-founder Joshua Zuckerman ’16 and McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George testified at a House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday.

The hearing centered on whether tax-exempt colleges and universities are using the tax code to avoid upholding their commitment to create an open marketplace of ideas on campuses.

According to the committee website, the hearing was announced by Oversight Subcommittee Chair Peter Roskam (R-IL), following an incident at Georgetown University Law Center when a student was barred from distributing campaign material for a presidential candidate.

In his testimony, Zuckerman said that his coalition believes that the protection of free speech is vital to the flourishing of the university.

Zuckerman noted the BJL sit-ins last November when protesters called for increased faculty cultural competency training, affinity housing for students interested in black culture and mandatory courses that present the ‘struggles of minorities.’

He noted that his coalition opposes these demands due to their destructive effects on the free flow of speech and thought. These demands, if accepted, may lead to University sanctioned orthodoxies, he said, and those who defy them will be labeled as racists and slandered publicly.

Zuckerman also noted that many POCC members, since formally opposing these demands, have been subjected to ad hominem attacks.

For instance, a black student and co-founder of the coalition, after expressing dissenting opinions in a Facebook post that the demand for affinity housing creates selfsegregation, was labeled as a “race traitor,” he added.

According to Zuckerman, when

a white POCC member pointed out the hypocrisy of certain raciallydriven demands in a campus publication, a group of black protestors screamed at her and demanded she not be allowed to participate in a campus forum about the issue.

Numerous students have confided to POCC about their opposition to the demands raised last November but are afraid of being subjected to attacks, Zuckerman said.

“This is what we are seeing today. These demands haven’t even been implemented. Imagine what would happen if the University itself were to vindicate the protestors’ worldview and thereby reinforcing the notion that those who disagree need to be reeducated,” he noted.

Zuckerman also rebutted an oped written in the Daily Princetonian by one of the students who organized the protest. In the op-ed, the student claimed that freedom of thought, when threatening to the safety of others, should not be tol-

erated.

But no one is unsafe at Princeton, Zuckerman said, citing that there has not been a single instance of violence and no one is calling for the subjugation of minorities.

Anyone who does so will be condemned, he said.

Though free speech currently enjoys protection at Princeton, protesters are seeking to change that, Zuckerman said, adding that protecting free speech is a mission that should transcend partisan ideals.

George noted a lack of viewpoint diversity among faculty as the problem for campus illiberalism.

There’s great value in intellectual diversity, he said, citing the positive impacts of the James Madison Program that he founded 15 years ago. “[Many] praise the Madison program for turning monologues into campus dialogues,” he said.

Debates stemming from a difference in viewpoints from multiple scholars make a more enriched learning environment, George

noted.

George also noted that he cotaught a seminar with former University professor Cornel West GS ’80, a scholar who George identified as at the left-end of the political spectrum.

“Professor West and I cooperate across the lines of ideology division and political difference in the common project of seeking truth,” he said.

The seminar, which presented a diverse array of writings, including those by Socrates and C.S. Lewis, through multiple perspectives, taught students the value of respect and civility, George said.

“The spirit of truth seeking […] is a spirit open to the possibility that one may in fact, be wrong,” George said.

The hearing, titled “Protecting the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses,” took place Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building and lasted about two hours.

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courses in fields such as politics, literature, economics or philosophy. Some basic rooting in those fields, Daniels explained, can foster critical faculties that make good citizens and business leaders.

George mentioned the conversation surrounding diversity within universities, especially in terms of liberal versus conservative ideologies. He said that he learned about the importance of diversity of thought while teaching a course with Cornel West GS ‘80, a former University professor whose liberal beliefs oppose George’s conservative stances. George explained that he and West each presented different counterarguments and perspectives to their students that the other would not have necessarily considered.

“What it does tell you is what you need is professors with different points of view in the academic community

who are engaging with each other, hearing each other,” he said, noting that he hopes people at universities will recognize the importance of intellectual diversity.

Daniels added that the issue of diversity in the more general sense of the word is a difficult one, noting that Purdue is eager to bring more first generation, low-income college students to its campus. “Whose heart isn’t torn by the continuing problems and struggles of folks to rise in this society, particularly many of those in underrepresented minority groups?” he asked.

Daniels described his vision to create a high school in an inner city area in Indianapolis that could act as a pipeline to Purdue University. This school would ideally be replicated throughout the state. “My ambition is that four years from now, the first class emerges, and when they walk across the stage and are handed a diploma, there’s an admission to Purdue University inside,” he explained. “That’s the sort of link we want to go to, to try to

ensure we are [working towards] the essential goal of upward mobility in our society.”

George asked Daniels about his opinion on the potential impact of college protests this fall regarding race and free speech on campus, especially in terms of the legacy of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, at the University.

Daniels said a similar event happened at Purdue, whether about 150 students sent him a statement and a list of concerns about diversity. He said that he found that there was plenty to agree on, including support for more diversity in the faculty and student body and more funding for scholarships.

“When it comes to our low income and minority students, we double down,” Daniels said. He added that he tried to impart to the students that their university is a place deeply committed to their success. “I told them, you know, you’ll probably never be in a place so committed to inclusivity, fairness for all, and you’ll probably never be in a place full of people who wish

you well and are willing to help you do it, so it’s just a little ironic, in settings like that.”

George and Daniels also discussed the need for people in the world outside of higher education to care about what is taught in schools. Daniels mentioned recent surveys revealing that high percentages of college graduates, even those of Ivy League institutions, have a weak grasp of civic knowledge, including how well they understand the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

Daniels explained that a school such as Princeton is among a group of universities that have large endowments and are in a sense “bulletproof,” but that beyond this circle of schools, there is a lot of risk in the realm of higher education. He said that the amount colleges charge in tuition is emerging into overdue scrutiny as people consider whether too many students are going to college, what they are actually learning when they are there and why it costs so much.

“There is very belatedly now a search for value, for genuine value, in higher education. I think outside the orbit of the fortunately endowed, schools are going to have to work harder than they have in the past to produce and demonstrate value,” Daniels stated.

An audience member asked George and Daniels to comment on the role of a university for non-students in the community. George spoke about the value to younger students of hearing the perspective of older community members in places such as lectures and events open to the public, as well as classes with community auditors.

Daniels added that a university goes beyond four years of class through programs such as continuing education or professional networking opportunities. “What I want to start offering is Purdue for life,” he said.

The conversation, titled “What Are Universities For?” was sponsored by the James Madison Program and was held in the Friend Center on Thursday at 4 p.m.

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commitment to diversity and inclusion, and for much greater transparency in representing Wilson and his legacy, as well as the rest of our history, on our campus,” said Chair of the Board Kathryn Hall ’80.

Long-term conversations surrounding Wilson’s legacy amplified last November following a sit-in by the Black Justice League in Nassau Hall. The protestors requested removal of Wilson’s name from buildings, creation of a diversity distribution requirement, a mandatory cultural competency training for faculty and staff and creation of University affinity spaces.

In early December, the University Board of Trustees designated the ten-member committee to consider these requests.

The committee collected 635 responses from members of the University community and scholars who have studied Wilson by late March. It also hosted 11 on-campus group discussions, with more than 80 participants in total.

The committee included trustees A. Scott Berg ’71, Katherine Bradley ’86, Denny Chin ’75, Angela Groves ’12, Hall, Henry, Robert Hugin ’76, Robert Murley ’72, Margarita Rosa ’74 and Ruth Simmons.

In January, the University began assigning temporary affinity spaces to ethnic, racial and cultural groups.

The report does not include updates about the possible creation of a University diversity distribution requirement or mandatory cultural competency training.

Members of the Black Justice League declined to comment.

Henry noted that although the committee understood the reasons behind the call for name change, it ultimately decided that Wilson’s contributions to public and international affairs outweigh his racist legacy.

The Trustees also accepted the committee’s recommendation to change the University’s informal motto from “Princeton in the nation’s service and the service of all nations” to “Princeton in the nation’s service and the service of humanity.” A plaque with the new motto will be installed at the front of campus.

Henry explained that the committee arrived at this decision because the old motto evoked the University’s association with Wilson and many people have questioned what it meant in a contem-

porary context.

He added that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 had previously suggested that the University adopt a broader perspective on what the University inspires students to undertake. “[This change] was another gesture — hopefully lasting and inspiring — to send the message to have students think beyond our border and not be confined to a political border,” said Henry.

“The change in the informal motto is one example of a way that Princeton can both recognize its history while transforming and evolving to acknowledge the contributions of the new Princetonian,” Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun noted, adding that the recommendations from the committee go beyond the consideration of the name of the school and the college and recognize the ways that the University must redouble its efforts to realize true inclusivity.

Some of the recommendations include that the University acknowledge that Wilson held and acted on racist views and implement initiatives to move toward becoming a more diverse and inclusive place.

One such initiative is a pipeline program to encourage underrepresented students to pursue doctoral degrees and to diversify the University faculty. The trustees have authorized the administration to proceed with actions necessary to develop this program.

Eisgruber said that he and members of the committee curated the pipeline program with the recognition that while the University has been successful in diversifying its undergraduate body, it has been less successful in diversifying other sectors, including faculty and the graduate student body. “[We] cannot have diverse faculties at this University, as well as other universities, unless we get more diverse graduate student bodies,” he noted, adding that the program may be a long-term project.

“It will matter a great deal to the sense of inclusivity on this and other campuses because if we can start to make our graduate student bodies and ultimately our faculties look more like America and look more like our undergraduate student body, then it will enhance this sense of inclusivity on the campus,” he said.

Both Eisgruber and Henry noted that no official timeline with exact dates has been laid out yet on how, when and by whom these initiatives will be carried out. Eisgruber added that he hopes the

changes will be implemented as quickly as possible.

Eisgruber said that some of the recommendations, such as the recommendation on diversifying campus art and iconography, will be rapidly implemented.

In its report, the committee recommends that the administration develop a process to solicit community input with regards to naming buildings and spaces that are not already named after a historical figure. In particular, the committee has encouraged the administration to name the atrium in Robertson Hall in this manner.

Eisgruber noted that plans have already begun for the naming of the atrium as well as the design and implementation of the plaque with the unofficial motto, and noted the current campus art as “[not doing] justice to the diversity of our student body and our community today.”

“We can make this [campus] a more interesting place, a better place and a more inclusive place by making our campus artwork and names of our campus places more diverse,” he said.

Both Henry and Eisgruber noted that the special committee on diversity and inclusion will continue the work of the Committee in ensuring appropriate efforts are put into implementing the initiatives.

Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity Michele Minter noted that the report acknowledges both the University’s strengths and weaknesses regarding diversity and the way history has been discussed on the campus.

“As the trustees pointed out in their report, we will benefit from a more candid understanding of Princeton’s past. The campus community has inherited certain traditions but we also have the obligation to establish our own legacy,” she said.“It does what a university should be able to do, which is to collect information and perspectives and grapple with complicated and controversial topics in a nuanced way. It challenges the administration and the campus community to do even more to create an inclusive campus, and I welcome that charge.”

She added that the University is already working on several recommendations of the committee and said that she looks forward to working with students on these projects and reporting on the progresses.

“The Board of Trustees’ initiatives aim to address the heart of the issue: how to improve diversity and inclusion at Princeton and

how to more completely represent those who are honored on campus,” Dean of the Wilson School Cecilia Rouse noted. “I believe both are critical for Princeton to successfully welcome students, faculty and staff from very different backgrounds and with very different points of view,” Rouse said.

Head of Wilson College Eduardo Cadava and Director of Student Life Aaron King did not respond to request for comment.

Some students welcomed the move towards diversity and inclusion.

Katrine Steffensen ’18, who recently declared a concentration in the Wilson School, noted that she thinks the decisions, particularly the art project and the pipeline program, are steps in the right direction to diversify the campus community.

“I care that my friends can see themselves and their place on this campus and in its history and that they can feel proud of it. And I care that everyone in this situation seems to have good intentions,” Selena Kitchens ’17 noted, “In a conversation that seems so much about symbolism – the symbol of Woodrow Wilson, the symbol of Princeton – I think it’s hard to know from the outside what is merely symbolic and what will lead to real change, so I am hopeful that many of the suggestions… can be steps toward Princeton reflecting its ideals as well as its history.”

Jeremy Borjon GS, president of the Latino Graduate Student Association, said that he is glad that the University frankly acknowledged Wilson’s problematic legacy and reaffirmed its commitment to diversity and inclusion.

“I applaud the University for their movement to establish a high-profile pipeline program to encourage underrepresented students to pursue doctoral degrees,” he said.

Yet many students noted that the report and the announcement did not address some of the main points from last November’s protests. Students also noted concerns about the lack of actionable language in the report.

Borjon noted that he did overall find the report disappointing.

“They had an opportunity to demonstrate bold and creative thinking that would set the standard for how institutions grapple with their racist past. The University failed to lead with any such action,” Borjon said.

Faridah Laffan ’18 said that changing the motto doesn’t seem to do anything beneficial.

Jamie O’Leary ’19 noted that she

and her roommate were surprised that there was no mention on the decision to keep Wilson’s name in Eisgruber’s email.

“We had to go into the report to find it. On the Princeton website, the article about the decision is entitled, ‘Trustees call for expanded commitment to diversity and inclusion.’” she said. “Although I think it’s great that the diversity and inclusion are being emphasized, it seems as if the University is trying to cover up or downplay the significant decision that’s been made.”

Sarah Sanneh ’19 noted that she thinks both the report and Eisgruber’s letter completely circumvent the issues brought up by the Black Justice League.

“How does the final proposed change of an informal motto do anything to help alleviate the negative experiences of students of color here at Princeton? In fact, I would argue that nothing has been changed because the committee has merely taken out one concept, ‘all nations,’ and replaced it with a similar word, ‘humanity.’ What does this accomplish?” she said. “I am disappointed by the lack of response to the proposals regarding racial sensitivity training for faculty and staff.

Many of my friends have experienced some level of race-based discrimination not only from fellow students, but from advisors and professors as well. This is not acceptable, yet this is an issue that the task force deemed acceptable to ignore.”

Sanneh further dismissed the composition of the committee, saying that many of the trustees would have not experienced the tension that minority students on campus have experienced and are still experiencing.

“I am sorely disappointed in the conclusion reached by the Trustee Committee on Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy at Princeton — even the name of the committee only acknowledges the most sensational aspect of the BJL’s proposal — but I’m not sure what else I could have expected from a task force composed of people who have had the privilege of experiencing a Princeton unprejudiced towards them because of the color of their skin.

Before we claim to be in service of all of humanity, perhaps it would serve us well to acknowledge and take steps to alleviate the negative racial experiences of humans on our own campus,” she said.

When asked about the lack of actionable language in the report, Henry said the committee only made recommendations and it was the trustees that drafted the final report.

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New VP for Campus Life Calhoun to focus on diversity

By Marcia Brown staff writer

W. Rochelle Calhoun, who started as vice president for campus life in September, explained that she puts in a special effort to get to know students because while her job is centered around students, her office is in Nassau Hall and students don’t go to Nassau Hall just to hang out.

“I’ve really spent many of my afternoons and evening … going and visiting student groups,” Calhoun said. “I feel like the major part of my job is to be connected with students, and that helps me to really understand how I in my role as an administrator can have at the center of my work the interests and needs of students.”

Calhoun comes to the University from Skidmore College, where she worked for seven years as Dean of Student Affairs, and she worked at Mount Holyoke for more than a decade before that in a series of positions relating to student life, including college ombudsperson and director of diversity and inclusion.

She graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1983 with a double degree in theater and politics, and got her Master of Fine Arts in theater in 2001 from Columbia University.

“A creative leader, she has enormous capacity to engage in a warm and productive way with students,” Executive Vice President Treby Williams ’84 said. “She came across to me as very authentic in her desire to express students issues and concerns.”

As vice president of student life, Calhoun will use a 300-person staff and a $49 million budget to manage a number of organizations on campus such as the Pace Center for Civic Engagement and the Department of Athletics. Williams explained that Calhoun reports to her, but the technical appointment is to the cabinet, so University President Christopher Eisgruber ‘83 reviewed the input and evaluation from the search committee and made the final decision to hire Calhoun.

English professor Jeff Nunokawa, who served on the search committee that selected Calhoun, said he thinks she has a lot to offer the University.

“I’ve never heard anyone speak with such kind of acuity – I haven’t in the past year and I’ve heard a lot of people talk about it – about the activism that was so much at the center of our campus last year, that flowered last year. Not just on our campus but across the country,” Nunokawa said.

He noted the University saw numerous protests last year in many ways precipitated by the Black Lives Matter national movement.

Calhoun said she recognizes the importance of these issues and University students expressing them in protest form, much like on other campuses. She added that she sees protests as a learning opportunity and she values the integrity of the protesters.

“It’s important to have the right narrative around protests as well,” she said.

Calhoun’s office will be deeply invested in working towards more diversity, equity and inclusion, she said. She added that thanks to the results of a task force on diversity, she will be following the recommendation to hire an administrator in her office to focus on these issues.

“We’re at an inflection point on campus on a lot of these issues,” Williams said. ”So we’re very excited [Calhoun has] joined our campus at this moment.”

Williams explained that finding Calhoun involved an extensive national search process involving resume reviews and written materials.

After a national search and coordinated efforts between the administration and a search firm to identify candidates around the country, an iterative process whittled down candidates to fewer than five. Search

committee members, other campus colleagues and groups of undergraduate and graduate students not on the committee interviewed the finalists.

Williams said that one of the difficult things about finding a vice president for student life is that the ideal candidate is someone who can connect with students but is also a very organized administrator.

“There are significant and complex organizational pieces that are under vice president of campus life, so finding someone who can embody the student voice on campus but can also provide sophisticated organizational skills is what we were looking for,” Williams said.

Nunokawa said she was hilarious in her first interview and utterly thoughtful in her second. He also said that her desire to be a part of student life as a warm and effusive personality was evident to the search committee.

“She is, first of all, super funny, in a way where funny is about being honest,” Nunokawa said. “People can be funny as a way of distracting you from the truth and people can be very funny in a way of getting you to the truth in a way that’s not too threatening but to real truths, to hard truths and she’s very good at that.”

Calhoun noted that she doublemajored in politics and theater during her undergraduate years at Mount Holyoke and believed politics to be a logical choice. She added that she found politics to be awful and decided not to go to law school.

“Politics was practical, but theater would get me through college,” she said.

Calhoun said that her theater background informs many of her ideas about her work, the way she is in the world and the way she understands other people in the world.

More than that, it ingrained itself in her adept organization skills, she said.

“As a director, I’m very organized but also I am deeply moved by people’s lives and I think that also speaks to working in an environment when you’re working with people’s lives all the way,” Calhoun said.

She explained that she was first introduced to administrative work while she was getting her MFA in theater from Columbia, during which time she also did administrative work alongside the head administrator. She noted that the students began to call her ‘co-dean,’ and said that this circuitous route led her to administrative work first at Mount Holyoke, then at Skidmore and now at the University.

Williams said the selection committee saw her background as illuminating for her role at the University, because as Calhoun described, when theater is at its best, it takes a stance and gives the audience a new understanding of the world.

Calhoun said commitment to others’ lives will guide her administrative work.

“Diversity and inclusion is important in every single unit in campus life and that absolutely includes Pace and we look forward to more support and more expertise in the area for sure,” said Kimberly de los Santos, executive director of the Pace Center.

Joshua Woodfork, Calhoun’s former colleague and Vice President for Strategic Planning and Institutional Diversity at Skidmore, noted that Calhoun’s experience with diversity issues is expansive. Calhoun noted that she currently serves as a steering committee member for the Saratoga Springs Community-Wide Conversation on Diversity and worked both at Mount Holyoke and Skidmore on committees and strategic initiatives towards greater diversity and inclusion.

Woodfork also noted that Calhoun had to respond to a protest at Skidmore last year, explaining that a group broke off from the larger pro-

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test and interrupted the academic exposition in one of the academic buildings, and students on Yik Yak responded with racist and discriminatory remarks.

The administration called a meeting about diversity on campus in response, and Calhoun spoke at the meeting, Woodfork said. He said she understood that sometimes you have to put your foot on the neck of an institution to advocate and push for change but that she reminded students that they had made their impact and they had finals coming up.

“Rochelle is not just funny and humorous. She uses her intellect and humor in a particular way to make people feel included and connected and she’s terrific,” Woodfork said. “It was a big loss at Skidmore and we feel it every day, but we couldn’t be more proud she’s going to make contributions elsewhere.”

Moreover, Woodfork said, Calhoun is especially equipped to handle sexual assault and misconduct issues on campus because she was very compassionate and knowledgeable about the federal regulations involved.

“She always reminded us that every one incident is a person’s life,” he said.

Calhoun said she sees Skidmore and the University as similar in the nature of their protests but Mount Holyoke and the University as more alike, steeped in tradition and surrounded by incredibly loyal alumni. She said that in many ways, she not only has returned geographically closer to her alma mater but she also is encountering another similar institution and one in which she fell in love with.

She added that what ultimately compelled her to come to the University was an attitude of service to this nation and all nations.

“I was coming to a privileged institution that understood its responsibility,” Calhoun said.

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and multiracial students.

Rapelye noted that admitted students come from 49 out of the 50 U.S. states.

International students comprise 11.7 percent of the accepted students, representing 66 different countries including Armenia, Bhutan, Uganda, Guatemala, Morocco and Bosnia, Rapelye said. This is a decrease from last year’s 13 percent.

Legacy students make up 11.2 percent of the admitted students. Athletes recruited for varsity sports comprise 11.9 percent of the admitted students.

Students who are the first in their families to attend college make up 17.5 percent of the admitted students, which marks an increase from last year’s 15 percent, according to Rapelye. In addition, Rapelye stated that 63 percent of admitted students come from public high schools.

Rapelye noted that her office have taken many steps to reach out to first-generation students and students from low-income backgrounds. The effort includes working with various community based or-

ganizations throughout the country and recruitment efforts with many consortial schools and the College Boards to make the University more accessible in the application process, she explained.

This year, 21.2 percent of the accepted students indicated on their applications that they intend to study engineering, 43.9 percent of which are women.

The applicant pool included students from 9,876 high schools in 151 different countries, Rapelye noted. This is an increase from last year’s 9,500.

Rapelye said that 1,237 candidates have been offered a spot on the waitlist. She noted that students can choose whether they would like to remain on the waitlist, and that the waitlist may be about half of its current size by May, as some students choose not to stay on the waitlist.

“A waitlist decision is, ‘You’re admissible, we just don’t have enough beds,’” Rapelye explained, “I hope we can go to the waitlist, but we won’t know until after May 1.”

She said that the Office of Admission will let students know about their status on the waitlist on a rolling basis between May 1 and June 30.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

U. strategic planning framework includes student body expansion, transfer admission program reinstitution

By Zaynab Zaman senior writer

The University announced its strategic planning framework, recently adopted by its Board of Trustees, on Tuesday.

The framework will focus on the University’s commitment to research and the liberal arts, with an emphasis on diversity and inclusivity, affordability and service, and includes plans to accept transfer students, expand student body and create a seventh residential college.

“The vision that is expressed in the strategic framework document is one that I own wholeheartedly and am delighted to have the Trustees putting forward,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 Eisgruber said.

The framework identifies the University’s strategic priorities, such as expanding the student body and developing new facilities to better support engineering and environmental studies.

In light of the University’s mission as a residential liberal arts research university, priorities such as expanding the Graduate School are also being considered.

Among other plans, the report states that the University will institute a small transfer admissions program for the first time since 1990, in order to attract students of diverse backgrounds,

including military veterans and low-income students who may have begun their post-secondary careers in community colleges.

The first set of transfer applications will be considered as early as September 2018.

Specifically, it states that the Board has authorized the administration to begin planning for the addition of 500 more undergraduates, 125 students per class.

To accommodate these students, a seventh residential college will be constructed.

The plan also provides for the establishment of an interdisciplinary initiative centered on environmental studies to combat climate change and other global-scale phenomena, the continued expansion of its faculty in computer science, statistics and machine learning and increased support for student entrepreneurship.

To provide resources for the initiatives, the Board authorized the administration to propose an increase to the spend rate, currently at 4.12 percent of the endowment, that would take place over fiscal years 2017 and 2018.

Eisgruber noted that different sections of the framework will be implemented on different time frames over the next few months and years, but did not provide a specific range of time, citing the complexity of the decision-mak-

ing process.

“Where we can do things immediately, we will try to do them immediately; other things will happen on whatever time frame is needed in order to get them done right, because it’s very important that we do that,” Eisgruber said.

Noting that he last strategic plan was issued over 15 years ago, Eisgruber explained that many layers of planning went into the framework and that both the University’s Board of Trustees and various task forces across campus, such as the Residential College Task Force and the General Education Task Force, have taken part in the planning process.

He said the Board suggested that it will look at and potentially revise this plan at least every four years to allow for flexibility, and that the framework is designed to be flexible and revisable.

He noted that although the Board considered reports from campus task forces while preparing the plan, the initial reports by the task forces did not determine which recommendations will ultimately be implemented.

Eisgruber added that there were a number of decisions, particularly those regarding finance, that fell more under the Board of Trustee’s jurisdiction, and added the framework set a basis for judging future initiatives, comparing the costs and benefits of pursuing a

proposal.

While this framework concludes an intense period of strategic planning process, the campus planning process is ongoing, Eisgruber noted, and the two frameworks intersect in areas such as the increase of undergraduate admissions and its relation to student housing.

“There are planning processes that will start immediately for the expansion of the undergraduate student body, but there’s no way we can expand the undergraduate student body until we build more residential housing,” he said, adding that the progress on campus planning would influence the implementation of strategic planning framework.

Eisgruber explained that during the planning process, each task force drafted a report which was then posted online to gather feedback and comments, which was then followed by extensive revisions.

He added that because this plan is meant to be a long-term strategy, there was significant consideration about which basic principles and values should guide the University over the next several years.

“There are very important paragraphs in here about diversity and inclusion. Those paragraphs speak to values that have been important to this university

I would say for the past 50 years,” he said.

When these principles are taken into account in drafting the plan, he explained, the University can respond to shorter term issues by going back to the larger concepts of what it stands for and what the Board is aiming to accomplish over the next several years.

“My hope is that everyone will take the time to read through the report. I think people will find in it a set of values that resonate with the many different ways in which people care about this university and care about its future, and that they will find in there a set of priorities and principles that invite continued engagement,” Eisgruber said.

He added that the engagement and participation of students, alumni, faculty and friends of the University is crucial as the University works towards implementing broadly stated priorities.

He noted that the report should be read by everyone with a perspective towards their continuing membership in the University community.

Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article inaccurately stated that success of the initiatives will be reviewed by an externally commissioned task force. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

program for the first time since 1990, in order to attract students of diverse backgrounds, including military veterans and low-income students who may have begun their post-secondary careers in community colleges. The first set of transfer applications will be considered as early as September 2018.

Specifically, it states that the Board has authorized the administration to begin planning for the addition of 500 more undergraduates, 125 students per class. To accommodate these students, a seventh residential college will be constructed.

The plan also provides for the establishment of an interdisciplinary initiative centered on environmental studies to combat climate change and other global-scale phenomena, the continued expansion of its faculty in computer science, statistics and machine learning and increased support for student entrepreneurship.

To provide resources for the initiatives, the Board authorized the administration to propose an increase to the spend rate, currently at 4.12 percent of the endowment, that would take place over fiscal years 2017 and 2018.

Eisgruber noted that different sections of the framework will be implemented on different time frames over the next few months and years, but did not provide a specific range of time, citing the complexity of the decision-making process.

“Where we can do things immediately, we will try to do them immediately; other things will happen on whatever time frame is needed in order to get them done right, because it’s very important that we do that,” Eisgruber said.

Noting that he last strategic plan was issued over 15 years ago, Eisgruber explained that many layers of planning went into the framework and that both the University’s Board of Trustees and various task forces across campus, such as the Residential College Task Force and the General Education Task Force, have taken part in the planning process.

He said the Board suggested that it will look at and potentially revise this plan at least every four years to allow for flexibility, and that the framework is designed to be flexible and revisable.

He noted that although the Board considered reports from campus task forces while preparing the plan, the initial reports by the task forces did not determine which recommendations will ultimately be implemented. Eisgruber added that there were a number of decisions, particularly those regarding finance, that fell more under the Board of Trustee’s jurisdiction, and added the framework set a basis for judging future initiatives, compar-

ing the costs and benefits of pursuing a proposal.

While this framework concludes an intense period of strategic planning process, the campus planning process is ongoing, Eisgruber noted, and the two frameworks intersect in areas such as the increase of undergraduate admissions and its relation to student housing.

“There are planning processes that will start immediately for the expansion of the undergraduate student body, but there’s no way we can expand the undergraduate student body until we build more residential housing,” he said, adding that the progress on campus planning would influence the implementation of strategic planning framework.

Eisgruber explained that during the planning process, each task force drafted a report which was then posted online to gather feedback and comments, which was then followed by extensive revisions.

He added that because this plan is meant to be a long-term strategy, there was significant consideration about which basic principles and values should guide the University over the next several years.

“There are very important paragraphs in here about diversity and inclusion. Those paragraphs speak to values that have been important to this university I would say for the past 50 years,” he said.

When these principles are taken into account in drafting the plan, he explained, the University can respond to shorter term issues by going back to the larger concepts of what it stands for and what the Board is aiming to accomplish over the next several years.

“My hope is that everyone will take the time to read through the report. I think people will find in it a set of values that resonate with the many different ways in which people care about this university and care about its future, and that they will find in there a set of priorities and principles that invite continued engagement,” Eisgruber said.

He added that the engagement and participation of students, alumni, faculty and friends of the University is crucial as the University works towards implementing broadly stated priorities. He noted that the report should be read by everyone with a perspective towards their continuing membership in the University community.

Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article inaccurately stated that success of the initiatives will be reviewed by an externally commissioned task force. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

APRIL 8, 2016

Buck to be the first dean for diversity

By Caroline Lippman staff writer

The University announced its strategic planning framework, recently adopted by its Board of Trustees, on Tuesday.

The framework will focus on the University’s commitment to research and the liberal arts, with an emphasis on diversity and inclusivity, affordability and service, and

includes plans to accept transfer students, expand student body and create a seventh residential college.

“The vision that is expressed in the strategic framework document is one that I own wholeheartedly and am delighted to have the Trustees putting forward,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 Eisgruber said.

The framework identifies the University’s strategic priorities,

such as expanding the student body and developing new facilities to better support engineering and environmental studies. In light of the University’s mission as a residential liberal arts research university, priorities such as expanding the Graduate School are also being considered.

Among other plans, the report states that the University will institute a small transfer admissions

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Defining Princeton

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hen I first stepped on Princeton’s campus four years ago, I could not imagine all the ways I would grow before walking out of FitzRandolph Gate again. My expectations were that of any incoming freshman: I would learn from professors who were experts in their field.

I would become a better writer and critical thinker through my academic and extracurricular work. I would gain a new sense of direction concerning my professional interests and pursuits. I did not, however, want Princeton to change me fundamentally. Hundreds of miles away from my family, friends and the only home I had ever known, I feared what would happen if I let Old Nassau erode what had grounded my identity — my Louisiana roots, my Jamaican and Ethiopian culture and the people I had loved from all these places. I refused to let attending Princeton define me. As my time here comes slowly comes to an end, I am comforted by this thought of sameness. I’m still a bit too quirky, too easy-going. I still enjoy good books and warm summer days. It would be a lie, however, to say I’m leaving Princeton the same way I entered. To do so would discount the courses I’ve taken, the people I have met and the experiences that I have had. And while they have not defined me as a person, their influence is undeniable. It is difficult

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to quantify change, especially because it often happens when we are least aware of it. But as I reflect on my time here, these changes reveal themselves in what seems to be the everyday, the most mundane of moments: giving a presentation in Spanish on the implications of globalization on human rights; writing for the ‘Prince’ every month on a broad range of themes, from the Syrian refugee crisis to campus voting; helping spearhead a new student group to address the challenges that low-income and first-generation students face. These academic and extracurricular moments have made me a more confident, determined person. Even so, they alone cannot account for the most fundamental experiences of university. In fact, many would argue that they are the least important. A presentation does not compare to holding my best friend in my arms as she mourned the loss of her aunt. My columns cannot compete with exploring the arches and alleyways of Barri Gòtic in Barcelona. And as impactful as student organizations have been on my Princeton experience, being exposed to the work of black feminists like Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Davis and bell hooks have let me explore my own identity and, in a way, come into my blackness, womanhood and

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sat with the Black Justice League for over six hours during Wednesday’s sit-in protest in the office of University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83. I listened. I applaud the group’s unapologetic passion. I defend the group’s ability to fight to shape their educational experience. I, too, want their education at Princeton to be filled with inclusivity and equality.

Yet after the administration acquiesced to a watereddown version of the protesters’ demands, all I can feel is disappointment.

I am disappointed by the community’s insularity and reactive suppression of contrary views. I am disappointed that there have been threats to students’ safety as a result of their opinions. How have we reached a point where students at an intellectually thriving university are afraid to express their thoughts?

Without academic discourse and diversity of opinion there is no reaching truth.

While there are many supporters of the Black Justice League on campus, many other students have signed a counter-petition to “Protect Plurality, Historical Perspective, and Academic Speech at Princeton.” Some students have expressed their personal reluctance to sign that petition because those who oppose the demands or methodology of the BJL movement on this campus are stigmatized. It is no surprise that students who have an unpopular viewpoint at Princeton are tempted to stifle it; Tal Fortgang ’18 has been harassed on social media and even received death threats in response to his past articles that criticized race-based privilege.

It’s a shame that in a movement focused on diversity and freedom, all races other than the one protesting are barred from entering the dialogue especially if they disagree. Yes, support for the movement is encouraged from all races, as white students also participated in the occupation of the President’s office.

However, outspoken white students who disagree are specifically discredited from participating in the conversation and often labeled as racists or told that they cannot possibly understand. As a fundamental principle of equality, the weight of a person’s opinions should not be a function of their skin color but rather the quality of their

arguments. If the BJL movement is truly about diversity, then they should invite everyone into the conversation.

Sadly, many persons of color who also voiced objections to the BJL movement have both implicitly and explicitly been called traitors and whitesympathizers. Josh Freeman ’18 posted a Facebook status questioning the BJL’s request for affinity housing for blacks and was told by a fellow person of color to instead stand in solidarity with the movement, to which he responded, “That does not mean I’m obligated to agree with you all.”

During the sit-in, protesters read comments aloud from an anonymous app called Yik Yak in an effort to screenshot tangible examples of racism.

In response to a negative post by a self-proclaimed person of color, one BJL leader said, “You ain’t black. There’s like six of us [at Princeton] and we all here.”

This implies that a black person holding any opinion other than the BJL’s was too shocking to believe, and either the author wasn’t really black or they were a traitorous black.

Aside from student testimony being selectively dismissed, suppression of criticism went so far as to claim the identity of a professor and usurp his freedom of expression. This disappoints me the most. Professor Robert George’s name was fraudulently signed to a faculty support letter that he claimed never to have signed or even seen. His fraudulent online signature was accompanied by a comment that sounded like professor George because it directly took language from an article he had written about abortion.

Professor George, a politics professor who teaches courses on civil liberties, expressed via email his frustration that as a result of the fraud, people are now “misinformed about where I stand on a matter implicating academic values I cherish — and fear are being placed in peril by events at Princeton and around the country.” This “underhanded tactic” that uses fraud to feign support is an embarrassment for Princeton and an example of blatant hostility towards honorable discourse.

Despite the fact that several BJL members told me during the sit-in, “everyone here [at Princeton] is racist,” I believe that the majority of students and faculty on this campus would support their valid plight for equality and agree that racism

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sexuality. It is easy to understand why admitted student Lea would have been resistant to letting Princeton change her. As great and renowned as Princeton is, I understood that the space I was entering was not initially created for someone like me — a low-income, first-generation black woman with no prior connections to the university. Yet as time progressed, I realized that the Princeton of prestige would not be the Princeton that changed me. The Princeton that would change me involved the invaluable female mentorship I received from my professors and advisors, the organizations into which I invested my time and energy, the trips I decided to take and the people I decided to love. My experiences at Princeton are at once unique and universal. We each have different moments that change us, challenge us and cause us to diverge from the paths — and selves — we had originally imagined. These four years would be futile without these transformations. Still, we define those transformative experiences.

We seek them out. We mold them and, in turn, they mold us. We should never fear that Princeton defines us — we define Princeton. For me, that has been the most gratifying experience of all.

Lea Trusty is a politics major from Saint Rose, La. She can be reached at ltrusty@princeton.edu.

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is a very real problem. Thus I would never invalidate their pain, but I do think we need to address their concerns in a more productive manner. It would have helped if the BJL had provided a list of grievances in addition to their list of demands, but on Wednesday my suggestion was met with, “It’s not our responsibility to educate others” and “I’m sick of telling our story.” I implore the BJL, however, to share their experiences with the campus so that everyone can understand what they’re going through and offer support. If they want change, then they should specify what behavior must be targeted for change.

Also, it would have helped if they explained the positive effects that their demands would bring. For example I have yet to hear a compelling argument that explains how removing Woodrow Wilson’s name from school buildings would help their situation. Yes, by now everyone at Princeton is aware that Woodrow Wilson was indeed a racist. But that does not mean we should succumb to historical revisionism and neglect to honor him in remembrance of his other achievements as a President of Princeton and of this great nation. Nobody is perfect, but without men like Washington, Jefferson and Madison who unfortunately owned slaves, everyone in the world would be much worse off. If a moral shortcoming disqualifies a person from post-mortem veneration, then by that logic we should also remove all tributes to Martin Luther King, Jr. since he was a homophobic adulterer who often described gayness as a “problem.” We can acknowledge that these people had personal shortcomings, but it is clear

that they are being honored for their achievements instead. We should refrain from judging historical figures by today’s moral standards; revisionism is a slippery slope and I see no tangible benefits to the BJL movement by engaging in it.

A more productive movement would have sought to foster open dialogue on campus and engage not only the administration but the viewpoints of other students as well. If the goal is to end injustice and increase awareness, why didn’t the Black Justice League let President Eisgruber, who patiently waited at the front of the protest Wednesday morning, respond publicly? Why, instead of engaging with students who disagree with them, do they shut down dialogue and shame those who stand up for a cause as they had? Intellectual bullying and marginalization on this campus needs to be replaced by respectful disagreement.

Lastly, I’m not upset that the BJL encouraged the idea that “revolution is bloody” when a leader read Malcom X aloud during the sit-in.

I’m also not holding it against the BJL that, in the aftermath of horrific attacks in Paris and around the world, their chanting on Wednesday night interrupted a beautiful candlelight vigil for the victims of terrorism that most students on campus knew was occurring.

The BJL made fun of my race the entire day I spent with them, which in any other context would be perceived as inexcusably bigoted. They joked about white culture: “The cultural center for white people is Firestone [library].” They also mocked white characteristics after reading a Yik Yak post in an imitating tone by explaining, “They talk all high up in their

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nose. There’s no bass.”

I’m not even upset that protesters received no disciplinary action as they trespassed after hours and made me feel unsafe, saying, “As far as I’m concerned they’re lucky we’re not burning this b**** down,” in reference to Nassau Hall.

I am not mad about any of that. I just think we should start inspiring more productive dialogue and open mindedness that isn’t a one-way street.

The only thing I demand is civility. That’s why I’m joining the Princeton Open Campus Coalition. This is Princeton. We can all do better.

Devon Naftzger is a politics major from Lincolnshare, Il. She can be reached at naftzger@princeton.edu.

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ball Bennett Graham, who is also a member of the evaluation committee, explained that the committee was not charged with making a decision but rather with reviewing the state of the sport and presenting a holistic report about the future of the program.

Graham said that despite having participated in the committee on sprint football, he was not informed of the decision to terminate the team until shortly before the public announcement.

Ultimately, the decision to terminate sprint football was made

by Eisgruber, Graham said, which Eisgruber confirmed in an email statement to the ‘Prince.’

“This decision was one of the most difficult that I have had to make during my time as president.

I have great respect for the players and the coaching staff of our sprint football team, and for the character they have shown in the face of adversity,” Eisgruber wrote, “many of them provided compelling testimonials about how much the sprint football program had meant to their lives.”

However, Eisgruber noted that he could not “permit the continuation of a program with such a high injury rate and with a substantial risk of very serious injuries.”

“As a member of the alumni group, we’ve had conversations in the past few years about receiving more support from administration [and] we’ve been disappointed at the progress that’s been made as far as turning the tide of the program,”

Graham said.

He further described the decision as a saddening and disappointing moment for sprint football alumni.

After extensive review, the University discontinued the program due to concerns about the “safety of the sport as currently constituted at Princeton, the inability of Princeton teams to compete successfully and changes that have taken place in the league in which it plays,” according to Day. When asked about the team’s specific record of injuries, Price said that he has had no knowledge about the health trends that this team has experienced. Furthermore, he said that could not comment on whether the sprint football team experienced more injuries as compared to other such teams.

However, Eisgruber said that sprint football has substantially higher injury rates than any other varsity sport offered at Princeton.

“The risk of injury to players is unacceptably high, and the University could not responsibly permit the program to continue in its current form,” he said.

Earlier this year, the Ivy League instituted a collective ban on tackling in sprint football, a leading cause of concussions.

According to Day, since the team won its last league title in 1989, it has had 18 win-less seasons. The team has had 106 consecutive losses in the league since 1999, and over the last five seasons had forfeited four times.

Marcoux further said that it is not normal for sports teams to have to forfeit games. However, the situation had to occur a few times in

the past sprint football season since there was not a sufficient roster size, Marcoux explained.

In a University press release, it was explained that “only alternative to discontinuing the program was to recruit specifically for the sport.” University officials, however, concluded that it was not possible to increase the overall number of recruited athletes, according to the release.

Price declined to comment on whether financial reasons played a role in the decision to not expand its athletic recruitment.

According to Graham, the sprint football alumni organization provides most of the funding for the team. Self-funded sports team only require administrative help in facilitating training, Graham said.

Currently,wrestling and water polo are the only other self-funded sport programs at the University.

“As an alumnus of this program, the team meant a lot to us,” Graham said. “When we look back at the history of it, we remember when the program went through a period of success. The program took quite a hit in the last 20 years.”

Graham further noted that concrete conversations about commemorating the history of the team have not yet began.

“We’ve had a lot of camaraderie and sportsmanship that we will continue to honor. But it would’ve been much more exciting to watch that commemoration happening out on the field,” Graham said.

Wrestling was the last sport to be administratively terminated in the 1980s. However, the sport was brought back after petitions from the community.

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DP: What prompted the decision to come out publicly, beyond friends and family, so close to the first game of the season? Do you think the recent media attention has affected your getting ready for the game?

MD: In terms of doing it when I did, that was how the timing shook out. I first had the idea to do it over the summer, and then between going to talk to Coach [Robert Surace ’90] and doing the whole interview process with Outsports.

com, it’s just the time it shook out to that it would be released.

And the media attention hasn’t affected our game preparation at all — our sole focus is just beating Lafayette.

DP: How do you think, as a whole, the NCAA and the professional landscape has changed for coming out as an athlete? Do you think you would have been less comfortable a few years ago than you would be now in terms of coming out?

MD: It’s definitely changed a lot, thanks to great examples set by Jason Collins and Michael Sam. I think it’s definitely a lot easier than it would

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to our game plan and stay to our principles to play a 5-vs-5 game,” Tarakchian said. “Our game plan was to stay to what we do best and use our discipline and the strength in our skill set to combat their athleticism.”

In retrospect, the first three minutes typified the overall nature of the game.

Princeton would go on a run, only to have West Virginia regain momentum with a big shot. Tarakchian and Wheatley were both explosive on offense and accounted for many of Princeton’s points, but their plays in the paint were challenged by West Virginia’s shots beyond the arc.

Princeton led the first quarter on a seven-point run that started with a layup by junior guard Vanessa Smith and a three-pointer by senior guard Michelle Miller.

The Tigers took the first five points of the second quarter to create more distance, but WVU responded with five consecutive points of their own. A massive threepointer by West Virginia’s senior guard Bria Holmes gave her team its first lead of the game. Wheatley retook the narrow lead with a jumper, but WVU got the last shot of the period and ended the first half with a one-point edge.

West Virginia gained steam in the second half, starting with a 9-2 run.

Princeton then retook the lead on a 9-0 run. However, the Mountaineers squeezed in one more 8-0 run in the third quarter to gain a sevenpoint lead. A layup by senior guard Taylor Williams and

another layup by Tarakchian closed the gap at the end of the quarter.

Entering the final stanza, WVU led by three points, so the game was still too close to call. A big three-pointer by sophomore guard Chania Ray ushered in a 9-0 WVU run, giving the Mountaineers a double-digit lead for the first time. Tarakchian, going for her big shots, dampened WVU’s momentum with a three-pointer and assist with Vanessa Smith.

“We had to be aggressive on the offensive end, so when I found daylight, I took the shot,” Tarakchian said.

The teams exchanged points for a bit before a threepointer by sophomore guard Tia Weledji pulled Princeton to within five points. Another Wheatley layup put the game back within reach with just under a minute to go, but Princeton could not get the five points needed to tie up the game. West Virginia once again created a 10-point margin with 23 seconds left.

Princeton’s junior guard Taylor Brown finished the game with a layup.

The Princeton team has every reason to be proud. The Tigers stuck to what they do best on offense and greatly improved their defense from the Penn game on Mar. 8.

“We zoned them most of the game just because of their athleticism, and we had practiced that all week,” Tarakchian said.

The Princeton defense forced WVU to 28.1 percent shooting in the first half. The Princeton offense put up 42.6 percent shooting overall.

If anything, it was WVU’s impressive offense in the second half that changed the game. The Mountaineers im-

proved to 51.7 percent shooting in the second half and stepped up their defense to disrupt Princeton’s plays.

Several long shots gave WVU its edge.

“They hit a few big shots and went up by ten,” Tarakchian said. “They had one more run than we did. I think if you gave us five more minutes, we could have gone on our own run, but they hit a couple more shots than we did.”

“Our defense was pretty solid the whole way through,” she continued. “Good teams and good players like that will hit big shots when they need to, so kudos to them.”

And so the game that no one thought Princeton would play turned out to be an exciting and competitive matchup. For the seniors, it was a chance to cap off an incredible career and give it their all one more time.

This senior class has earned two Ivy League Championships and three trips to the NCAA Tournament. And of course, it gave Princeton the greatest season in Ivy League basketball history, with an undefeated record and the first NCAA Tournament win in program history. These accomplishments culminated in another record-breaker: the first at-large bid in the Ivy League.

“When it comes to an end, it just doesn’t feel real,” Tarakchian admitted, but for her, excitement still lies ahead in seeing how far her younger teammates will go.

“I’m excited for them to now progress on their journey and show what they got because we got a feisty group,” she said. “It’ll be fun to watch in these coming years.”

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with tough match against Big Red in Ivy League Championships

By Michael Gao staff writer

In the 2012-2013 season, the Princeton men’s wrestling team went 0-5 in Ivy League play.

For the last two years they have steadily improved but have finished each year with a 3-2 record.

This year, the men’s wrestling team finally broke the dam, reaching the Ivy League Championship round in Dillon gym for the first time in three decades against perennial conference champion Cornell on Saturday.

Before playing Cornell, the Tigers had been undefeated in Ivy League play, having snapped a 24-match losing streak to Penn in the process.

To get to the championships, the Tigers first had to take on a strong Columbia squad. Though the Lions won two out of the first three matches, sophomore Jonathan Schleifer, senior Abram Ayala and junior Brett Harner quickly rattled off a string of three victories for the Tigers, giving Princeton a lead it would not relinquish for the rest of the match. Though Columbia won two more matchups, further wins from freshman Pat D’Arcy and junior Jordan Laster ultimately sealed the deal for the Tigers, and Princeton triumphed handily in 23-13.

Having defeated Columbia, the Tigers faced the only other undefeated team in Ivy League play, the Cornell Big Red. It was a classic David and Goliath showdown: the traditional wrestling powerhouse against a young and talented squad which had defied expectations to reach the championship. Princeton had not wrestled for the Ivy League crown since 1986, when it had defeated

Cornell right in Dillon Gym 2119. In contrast, Cornell had not lost the Ivy League Championship since 2002. Nationally, the Cornell team had placed in the top five in the NCAA championships from 2010-2012, an unprecedented feat for an Ivy League wrestling squad and had fostered a host All-Americans and national champions. This year, their roster included the 1st-ranked wrestler in the 133-pound weight category, Nahshon Garrett.

The Tigers refused to back down from the challenge. Despite their efforts, Cornell wrestlers did win the first six out of seven matchups, led by Garrett and 6th-ranked Cornell 174-pound wrestler Brian Realbuto, effectively sealing the championship for Cornell, but the Tigers showed incredible resolve and determination, with Ayala, Harner and junior Ray O’Donnell each defeating their opponents to clinch the last three matches for Princeton (O’Donnell’s victory was an emphatic 5:35 pin).

Though Princeton ultimately fell to the Big Red 23-16, the Tigers put up a hard and commendable fight against the strongest program in the Ivy League and one of the strongest in the nation.

The 2015-2016 season, the most successful for any Princeton wrestling team since the memorable 1986 season, represents a turnaround for the program.

For the past 30 years, the team has struggled to make a name for itself despite its strong performance; advancing to the Ivy League championships undefeated in conference play and challenging Cornell strongly for the title should give the Tigers confidence and hope for continued future success.

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Men’s swimming and diving comeback against Harvard to claim 31st Ivy League Championship in record-breaking fashion

By David Xin Associate Sports Editor

How do you end a perfect season?

Men’s swimming answered this question by bringing home Princeton’s 31st Ivy League title – the squad’s seventh title in the last eight years. And they did so in record-breaking fashion.

While Princeton came home with the win, they trailed behind their rival, Harvard, for most of the meet. But that only made their victory that much sweeter.

Senior co-captain Teo D’Alessandro set the tone for the squad on day one with a remarkable performance in the 200m IM. His time of 1:44.33 broke his own Princeton record while securing his third straight 200m IM title. Fellow senior Marco Bove also had a strong showing, finishing second. The 1-2 would be crucial as the Tigers tried to close the gap between them and Harvard.

The Orange and Black also performed impressively from the diving board, where junior Nathan Makarewicz claimed third. The Tigers grabbed second in the 200m freestyle relay.

The Princeton squad clinched enough points on the second day to keep pressure on the Crimson. A Princeton record-breaking performance from junior En-Wei Hu-Van Wright in the 100m backstroke sparked a 1-2 finish. Sophomore Alexander Lewis claimed second in the event. Other notable swims include sophomore Corey Okubo’s second place finish in the 400m IM and the team’s runner up finish in the 200m freestyle relay.

The Tigers kept up the mo-

mentum with a huge win in the 800m free relay. The four man squad of D’Alessandro, senior Sandy Bole, junior Julian Mackrel and sophomore Ben Schafer ended the second day by putting Princeton 52.5 points behind Harvard.

While the deficit was still significant, the Tigers were confident heading into the final day. Indeed, the Tigers had three more swimmers than Harvard competing on Saturday. In addition, Princeton had managed to cut their deficit in half and had the momentum moving forward.

However, Harvard was not going to relinquish their lead without a fight. In fact, the Crimson pushed back to start the third day. They led the Tigers by as many as 116.5 points at one point. Yet, the Tigers persevered as they always have throughout the season.

The comeback came throughout the day, as Princeton swimmers slowly chipped away at Harvard’s lead. Okubo claimed the top spot in the 200m back. Hu-Van Wright claimed his second win of the tournament by sharing the podium with Penn’s Eric Schultz.

Bole took third in the event to further advance the Princeton cause.

However, the major turning point did not occur until the 200m fly. Although Harvard claimed first in the events, it would be the Tigers who came out on top overall. Princeton managed to grab the second, third, sixth and eighth place finishes.

Suddenly, a win seemed manageable. After trailing Harvard for two and a half days, Princeton broke through and took the lead for the first

FIELD HOCKEY

Field hockey completes perfect Ivy season with overtime victory over Penn

By Miles Hinson Sports Editor

Certain things at Princeton seem constant. Problem sets, lack of sleep and a craving for Late Meal. One can probably add one more thing to that list — the Field Hockey team’s constant domination of the Ivy League.

With their overtime victory against the University of Pennsylvania Quakers this past Saturday, the No. 18 ranked Tigers (10-6 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) completed a season sweep of the Ivies and guaranteed themselves a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the 11th straight year. The team hit their mark of perfection after the “blip” of last season where they went 6-1 in league play.

Heading into their final regular season battle, the Tigers, while guaranteed at least a share of the Ivy League title, needed the win to take it outright. Indeed, the team against which they were playing, the Quakers (13-3, 5-2), needed this win to get said share of the title.

The Tigers would get on the board quite early, as senior striker Maddie Copeland continued her scoring onslaught on the season. Senior midfielder Teresa Benvenuti got the ball right in front of the goal to Copeland, setting her up for the tap in to give Princeton a 1-0 lead, just under seven minutes into the game. The Tigers would remain aggressive thereafter — Benvenuti looked to double the Tigers’ lead, but a save from Penn goalie Liz Mata kept Princeton at bay.

Ultimately, Penn would get the last three scoring opportunities of the half, but with two shots wide and one blocked made little threat to senior goalie Anya Gersoff.

The second half featured fewer shots slung than the first; outside of a pair of attempts by Copeland and Penn’s Rachel Huang in the first five minutes, neither side was able

to make much headway on offense. However, the fortune of the Quakers changed as the end of the game drew near. Penn’s Selena Garzio, taking the pass from Elizabeth Hitti at the top of the circle, knocked it into the left corner of the goal and past Gersoff’s extended arms for the tying goal. Thus, despite holding the lead for over 60 minutes of game time, the Tigers found themselves forced to battle Penn in overtime.

Once overtime had commenced, however, the women of Princeton found their groove just at the right time. During the 73rd minute, freshman striker Sophia Tornetta made the decisive play, cutting deep through multiple Penn defenders to make a cross pass over to the right side of the goal. Sophomore striker Ryan McCarthy, running up as well, took the pass and sent the ball into a wide open goal. Mata had been drawn too far to the left side by Tornetta to make any play to stop McCarthy’s goal.

Thus, the Tigers walked away from Penn with a 2-1 victory, and away from Ivy League play at a perfect 7-0.

Though the Tigers have much to celebrate, their real journey is only just beginning. This coming Saturday, they will compete in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, against a school they know only too well — the University of Maryland. The Terrapins, ranked No. 7 in the country, have beaten the Tigers in all five of the teams’ matchups from the 2013 season onward, and knocked the Tigers out of the NCAA Tournament in both the 2013 and the 2014 seasons.

However, things would certainly bode well for the Tigers if they end up taking Maryland down. The last time the Tigers defeated Maryland was in the semifinals of the 2012 NCAA Tournament — the same tournament in which the Tigers made themselves NCAA Champions.

time in the 19th event. From there, divers Makarewicz and senior Noam Altman-Kurosaki set Princeton up for the perfect finish. By claiming third and fifth, respectively, the duo ensured that the Tigers would only need a top two finish to bring home the trophy.

But the Tigers would not settle for second. In an epic 400m freestyle relay, Princeton capped off its comeback with an Ivy League record time of 2:52.06. Needless to say, this sent the Princeton squad watching on the sidelines into an absolute frenzy.

After their first HYP win since 2012 and an undefeated season in the Ivy League, bringing home the Ivy League Championship was the storybook finish the Tigers were looking for. The fact that it was also a comeback story only made their victory sweeter.

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Princeton sprint football program discontinued due to safety concerns

By Jessica Li News Editor

In an email addressed to sprint football affiliates Monday afternoon, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 announced that the University has decided to discontinue its 82-year-old sprint football program.

Eisgruber and Director of Athletics Mollie Marcoux ’91 delivered the news in person to current members of the sprint football team this afternoon, Assistant Vice President of Communications Daniel Day said. Day said that the team was not given prior notice about the program’s termination and noted that members of the current team were not consulted during the deliberations process.

Sprint football team co-captains Chad Cowden’17 and Kris Garris’17 stated that they were shocked and devastated by the news.

According to Garris, the team was unexpectedly told Monday af-

ternoon that Eisgruber had called for a meeting. They were even more shocked when Eisgruber expressed that the program will terminate, Garris described.

“I have no idea why we’re suddenly not allowed to play the game we love so much anymore. I haven’t cried since I was 15 – but everyone was crying. It’s like all our work and dedication has been ripped away. It now feels like there is a huge void in my Princeton experience,” he said.

It’s heartbreaking that players’ ability to make a decision about playing Sprint Football was eliminated by the University, said Cowden.

“Sprint football was one of the main reasons I chose Princeton over other schools and now it has been ripped away from me. My sprint teammates were and will continue to be my family at Princeton,” Cowden added.

According to Jerry Price, senior associate director of Athletics and Athletic Communications, sprint

football team coach Sean Morey was given advance notice about the decision.

Day explained that the conclusion came after extensive deliberations led by a committee of University administrators, athletic staff, athletic medical directors and sprint football alumni.

“We’ve been engaged in a pretty transparent, six-months-long review of the program that was brought about by concerns about the competitiveness of the team and the safety of the sport at Princeton,” said Marcoux.

“We made the decision with great reluctance for several reasons, but most importantly because we know this program has a long tradition at Princeton and we know how important it has been for the student-athletes who have participated in it,” Eisgruber wrote in his email.

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MEN’S FOOTBALL

Darrow ’17, first openly gay player in Princeton football

By Miles Hinson sports Editor

As the Princeton football team prepares for its season opener against Lafayette College, one of its players is preparing to be the first of a different sort. This week, junior offensive lineman Mason Darrow became the Princeton football program’s first openly gay player, and one of the few in football, National Collegiate Athletic Association or professional, as a whole. While having come out to his friends and family his freshman fall, Darrow did not intend to make his story public until earlier this summer. The Daily Princetonian spoke with Darrow about the decision to make his story known, and where he plans to go from here.

Daily Princetonian: What

about the Princeton football community made you comfortable with coming out to them?

Mason Darrow: I started to form bonds with guys basically right when I got here.

It’s a really close-knit team.

Those guys are some of my best friends in the world. It was that feeling of friendship that made me think it would be okay to do something like that.

DP: In particular, did you find it was easier coming out to your teammates or harder than coming out to friends and family back home?

MD: I wouldn’t say it was easier or harder. It was about the same. It’s a scary thing to do regardless of whom you’re talking to.

DP: You were coming off an ACL tear [in addition to coming out publicly]. Can you tell

me what that process was like?

MD: I wouldn’t say it was anything too difficult. They were two separate processes. I was out here at the time I tore my ACL. I wasn’t simultaneously battling that while rehabbing. I came out to friends and family freshman fall. The decision to come out publicly started over the summer, when I realized I was very comfortable in my current situation, and there was an opportunity to help people by doing it publicly.

DP: Along the same lines, do you see yourself serving as an advocate for LGBT rights in the NCAA community?

MD: I don’t know if advocate is quite the right word, but I want to be an example to show people that it can be done and is being done.

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Baseball this season overcame a slow start to claim the Ivy League crown.

Baseball: Champions Again

By David Liu Sports Editor

Heading into this spring, few collegiate baseball fans were watching the Princeton Tigers. With just seven wins, the Orange and Black ranked dead last in the Ivy League last season. But, the Tigers themselves remained confident. With a talented freshman cast, an experienced cohort of co-captains and a veteran coach, Princeton went on to defeat Yale to become Ivy League champions for the first time since 2011. Early into the season, it was clear that the Tigers’ summer adjustments had paid off. During the regular Ivy League season, Princeton – just to name a few accomplishments – defeated Dartmouth in 10 innings, scored 25 record runs over Brown and defeated Columbia at their home stadium for the first time in over three years. In its final championship series against Yale, the Tigers fell in game one of the best-of-three series but then, with stellar pitching from junior Chad Powers, forced a final game three.

Appropriately, the ultimate game of the season came down to the very final pitch, in which a wild Yale throw sent junior outfielder Danny Baer home for the game-winning run. Five Tigers, including junior Zack Belski, senior Danny Hoy, senior Billy Arendt, freshman Jesper Horsted and junior Chad Powers earned first team All-Ivy selections while juniors Keelan Smithers and Nick Hernandez were listed for second team All-Ivy. In addition, Head Coach Scott Bradley won the Ivy League Coach of the Year award unanimously. The Tigers will continue their historic season at the NCAA Regionals in early June.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Princeton falls short in match against WVU in NCAA Tournament

By Berthy Feng staff writer

In an upset-filled March Madness, it seemed for much of the first-round matchup that Princeton (11th seed) would pull off the upset against West Virginia University (6). Despite valiant offensive and defensive efforts by the Tigers, WVU eked out a 74-65 win.

The Princeton women’s basketball team, playing in the St. John Arena at the

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Mason Darrow, the first openly gay football player at Princeton, played for the winning team this year.

Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, made an impressive start. Senior guard/ forward Annie Tarakchian opened the contest with a wide-open layup, followed by a jumper by senior forward Alex Wheatley. The Mountaineers responded with a three-pointer meant to prevent an extended Princeton run, but Wheatley came back with back-to-back two-pointers.

“We knew we had to stick

Women’s basketball earned the first NCAA at-large bid in Ivy League history.

Stat of the Day

39 years Peter Farrell, coach of Princeton’s women’s track and field team, will retire after 39 remarkable years.

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