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past decade, the percentage of undergraduate alumni giving has decreased over the same period, according to Princ eton Alumni Weekly (PAW) archives.TheUniversity’s Annual Giving campaign raised $68.6 million in 2020–21. Despite the increase, the percentage of alumni participation de creased from 49.6 percent of
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At the start of the semes ter, students welcomed the University’s new Pay with Points program, a campus dining initiative champi oned by the Undergraduate Student Government (USG).
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the trip proved a far cry from what many in the group ex pected. The frustration came to a head during a group pre sentation among their peers at PBC, when some members of CA Group 18 voiced their concerns with the week’s pro gramming.“Thetitle of Community Action is just that — a title,” a student said in a speech co-written with other firstyears, according to a record
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In a year with a particularly high number of Community Action participants, many students expressed concerns about the orientation pro gram. For some, the purport edly service-focused oppor tunity fell short of its stated mission — and students said they left feeling unfulfilled.
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On Aug. 28, ten CA groups traveled to Princeton-Blair stown Center (PBC) as part of their orientation, focusing on the theme of education. But
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sau Street] with my friends without worrying about spending too much mon ey,” Monica Jun ’26 wrote in a message to The Daily Princetonian, adding that she’s been using her points at The Bent Spoon and Jam min’U-CouncilorCrepes.
“As a student on finan cial aid, I feel like [Pay with Points] was really helpful for me to go out on [Nas
With the new program, each student on the unlim ited meal plan receives $150 each semester (in the form of Dining Points) to spend at specific local businesses in the Princeton area, as well as at on-campus dining locations. All first-years and sophomores are required to hold the unlimited meal plan.Students have generally responded positively to the program’s aims.
Stephen Daniels ’24, who chairs the Community Dining Task Force, said that the purpose of this program is to create “an opportunity for all stu dents to be able to engage with some of the food op tions in town and on cam pus that aren’t a part of the mealDanielsplan.”said he is opti mistic that the program will also benefit the vendors.
orientation experiences, or ganized by the John H. Pace, Jr. ’39 Center for Civic Engage ment. With the Class of 2026 making up the largest firstyear class in the University’s history, CA experienced an uptick from around 500 firstyear participants last year to 698 this year.
“It’s going to be a big thing for the local economy,” he said. “The vendors have been really excited about it, and I’m certain that there’s going to be a lot of appetite
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“Students wanted to return in person,” Tubridy said. “Ulti mately, this program is guided by students and their feed back.”Despite their disappoint ment with their CA experienc es, members of Group 18 said they were ultimately grateful to have gotten to know their peers through the experience.
est impact” by adminis trators’ determination.
“There were a lot of sanitary and hygiene products, but not
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“In the past there were 500 students total with 6–7 fellows. This year, the three of us were in charge of 820 students,” Shao said in an interview with the ‘Prince.’ (The fellows over saw 698 first-year students and 113 student leaders.)
“They asked us to go through and see if there was any expired food and organize it,” Genevieve Shutt ’26 said.
Ten groups in the Sustain ability theme were sent to the Pocono Environmental Edu cation Center (PEEC) for their CA experience. In preparation to return to campus, one of three buses broke down. As a result, two groups were unable to leave PEEC until four hours after they were told that they would.While the first-years of the group worried about missing upcoming orientation events on campus, CA leader Seth Kahn ’25 said he felt assured by the response of Pace Center leadership.“Wewere in constant com munication with the com mand center on campus,” he said. “The CA leadership dealt with it well.”
During CA leader training, Biondi was told that the pro gram was about engaging in informed service.
“I am grateful when students and partners can share openly and honestly about their expe riences,” Gruppo wrote in an email. “In Community Action we acknowledge when we fall short of our goals, celebrate when we reach them, and al ways grow more together from both experiences. We appreci ate when CA leaders and par
Pace Center leadership said they hoped that this year was an improvement from the past two years, when orientation programming was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Students also raised con cerns around inclusion in the acts of service. While the service aspect of the trip was to play with the high school student band, only around eight out of the 40 CA mem bers could play an instrument and brought one with them, according to Beth Villaruz ’24, a CA“Theleader.rest of us watched,” Villaruz said. “Overall, there was little opportunity to do service.”TheCA fellows attributed some of the challenges of co ordinating CA due its inherent unpredictability.
‘I think we were more of a burden than a help’
However, Gwen McNamara, Assistant Director of Commu nications for the Pace Center, later clarified to the ‘Prince’ in an email that the film crew was arranged by the University.
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Biondi: It was like a step-in, step-out model of service without ever actually learning or trying to put that community first
“At one point after asking for the third time what chores we could do and interrupting, we’re looking at each other and we think ‘we should leave,’” Ja cobsPaul-Louisadded.
ing shared with The Daily Princetonian.“Thereis something im portant that needs to be rec ognized, and if it hasn’t been recognized by us then it has certainly been recognized by those who remain in the same positions long after we leave,” the students added during the presentation. “We need to rec ognize that two hours of sub par community service is not sufficient to start legitimate change.”Group 18 was one of 60 CA groups organized this year, each focusing on specific subthemes within the general cat egories of Education, Sustain ability, and Essential Needs and Well-Being of Refugees. Central to planning the groups were Kasey Shao ’25, Amaya Dressler ’25, and Grace Kim ’25, who served as the 2022–23 CA fellows for the Education, Sustainability, and Essential Needs themes, respectively.
‘There was little opportunity to do service’
Biondi ’24, one of the group’s two CA leaders, felt similarly: “I think we were more of a burden than a help.”
“One thing I realized is not everything would be under our control,” Kim, one of the fellows, said.
“We go inside and we’re ask ing ‘What do you want us to do?’ They think for a while and come up with a closet. We went to this closet and it was mostly already organized,” Ja cobs said. “So after we try to help with that, we go back and end up interrupting a conver sation with an at-risk teen. We were then told to pull out some weeds — we couldn’t find any.”
undergraduate alumni participating in 2021–2022 to 47.4 percent in 2021–2022.TheClass of 1997 raised the largest amount — $10,851,997, its highest total ever — in celebration of its 25th Reunion; this is the fourth-highest to tal for a 25th Reunion class in University his tory.“Last year, Princ eton alumni came together yet again to continue our great university tradition of supporting current students through An nual Giving,” wrote Chris Olofson ’92, Vol unteer Chair of Princ eton’s Annual Giv ing Committee, in an email to the ‘Prince.’
volunteers have to Princ eton’s students and to the university’s mission of excellence in teach ing and research,” wrote Olofson.Deputy discretiontotheandfundssity,programschooselarger.”thisalumnibydentHotchkiss.thealumniberwithpresseddenttionthealumnidecreaseHotchkissSpokespersonUniversityMichaelsaidthattheinpercentofparticipatingincampaignisafuncofagrowingstubody.“Participationisexasapercentage,thetotalnumofundergraduateinallclassesasdenominator,”said“Asthestubodyexpandsandincludingthenewestclasseachyear,denominatorgetsWhilealumnimaytogivetocertainattheUnivertheAlumniGivingareunrestrictedflexible,meaningUniversityisallowedusethematitsownforthe“great
“The way I understood CA is that we’d be working with partners and that we’d be com ing informed into communi ties and really try to engage actively in a productive way,” they stated.
“The exceptional results reflect the deep commitment our alumni donors and
In practice, however, Biondi said they felt the experience did not actually engage stu dents in community service.
“The impact of Annu al Giving is in every stu dent’s experience — ev ery academic discipline, research lab, and class room — because unre stricted gifts to Annual Giving go directly into the University’s operat ing budget,” Hotchkiss said.These unrestricted funds support research at the University, as well as the University’s finan cial aid program.
ever actually learning or try ing to put that community first over your own desires,” they said. “It frankly felt like it was for optics more than any thing.”
When asked about the spe cific student concerns about CA detailed in this report, CA Program Director Sara Gruppo provided a general statement:
a lot of food. And a lot of the food was expired, but we were told not to throw it out because they couldn’t spare to lose it.” Eshaan Govil ’26 said that he perceived the group’s impact at Anchor House as very mini mal. “We were thinking with the cost of the bus, [and] if we had just donated that money to Anchor House, it would have been so much more useful,” he said.Some members of the group that stayed at Anchor House said they felt as though they were in the way of the Anchor House staff.
ticipants share their feedback with us and welcome continu ing the Fromconversation.”Junetothestart of ori entation in late August, the CA fellows were responsible for planning virtually every as pect of CA — researching their themes, finding community partners, and planning hous ing and transportation to offcampus sites — planning 20 schedulesThroughouteach. they said they were guided by a commitment to CA’s multifaceted goals. As Shao put it, “CA is meant to provide a wonderful experi ence, orient [first-years] to the Princeton community, and create community within themselves.”“Therewas a push and pull between coordinating service and community bonding,” Dressler added. “The goal was also to ‘stick and bond’ them to their peers.”
On Sept. 8, the Univer sity announced that it would cover the cost of attendance for families making up to $100,000 annually. President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 specifically thanked alumni donors in the an nouncement of the ex pansion of financial aid.
“I think that really bonded us together because we found, even in [our disagreements], we understood where [each other is] coming from,” Govil said.
Other CA groups took issue with the extent of their ser vice work, and several students echoed Biondi’s sentiments that the orientation program ming felt like “optics.” Mem bers of CA Groups 1–3, in the Arts sub-theme of Education, visited Trenton Central High School where they were met with film cameras and a per formance by the high school’s band.While Princeton students ate lunch with high school students, a film crew began to film their interactions, the students said. Alex Tubridy, a Community Action program coordinator, told the ‘Prince’ that the film crew was ar ranged by Trenton Central.
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Abraham Jacobs ’26, one member of Group 18, told the ‘Prince’ that of the 10 CA groups at PBC, only two left the Center to engage with commu nityFourteenpartners.students in Group 18, whose sub-theme within the Education category was “Leadership through Mentor ship,” rode a charter bus from Blairstown, N.J. to Trenton, a two-and-a-half hour trip. Half of the group visited Anchor House, which hosts a transi tional living program for atrisk youth in Trenton, while the other half traveled to the organization’s food pantry.
“I proposed a task force on community dining to cre ate this sort of program,” he said, “and then we had CO VID, so it shut down and we just restarted it last fall.”
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While students are excit ed about the program’s exis tence, many said they hope to see it expand and improve in the coming months. Jun said she “think[s] it would be nice if there were more sponsors.”Otherstudents similarly said they hope for a great er number of dining loca tions. Students specifically mentioned they hope to see Tacoria, Junbi Bubble Tea Shop, and Ficus make the list of participating eateries.
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students would like to see added to the program.
“A few places that are relatively popular is a good start, but I wish it would include more dinner/lunch restaurants rather than coffee/dessert places,” Gen evieve Cox ’25 wrote in a message to the ‘Prince.’ She’s used some points already for ice cream and at Coffee Club, but noted, “sometimes I want more substantial food rather than just snacks.”
Cox participated in the community dining pilot program in 2021 and previ ously spoke with the ‘Prince’ about the importance of this program for first-gener ation, low income students and students who “miss cul tural cooking” from home. She noted that after seeing the program begin this year, she hopes the number of res taurants included will reach the greater array of options that were available as part of the pilot program.
To Phelps, the program is “a very visible demonstra tion of how students’ energy, opinions, enthusiasm, and feedback can shape univer sity policy and programs.”
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This program has been in the works for several years, according to former USG Senator Brad Phelps ’22.
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For vendors currently in cluded in the program, the process of integrating the new payment method seems to be going fairly smooth ly. Although Coffee Club — Princeton’s student-run coffee shop in the basement of Campus Club — was not originally able to accept points when the program first started, student em ployee Gail Samuel ’25 con firmed that the popular café is now accepting points as payment.“Theprocess itself is very simple,” said Jun, who has paid with points a few times. “It’s actually very convenient to just tap my [student ID] against the cen sor.”
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“Personally, I haven’t [used any points yet] be cause the places that they have the points for are not the places that I usually go to,” Audrey Chau ’25 told the ‘Prince.’Chau is a former assis tant opinion editor for the ‘Prince.’“Idon’t want to waste all of the points right away,” Jashvi Desai ’25 added, not ing that she’d heard more locations would be added to the program and she’d rath er save her points for after that happens. Desai sug gested that USG could run a survey to collect student input about which eateries
As of now, it’s not clear whether the program has caused an uptick in busi ness beyond FitzRandolph Gate.Small World Coffee baris ta Allyson Cubler, who has worked at the coffee shop for almost a year, told the ‘Prince’ that she hasn’t no ticed a significant increase in sales since the program began.“Business just gets a little busier anyways when stu dents come back [to cam pus],” she said.
for vendors to get involved in the program.”
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vey next week, in this issue you’ll find a sneak peek of the graphs you will be able to explore online very soon. We implore you to reflect on the nature of our insti tution and the forces which drive our four short years in this square mile that we call home. Learning more about our community is a means by which we may improve it, and better un derstand one another in the process.Inthe coming years, the Class of 2026 will weave themselves into our great orange and black fabric, shaping our campus in ways that we cannot yet imagine. They will form friendships and fall in love, they will find excitement in new academic pursuits and
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Students rock in the rain at fall Lawnparties
University hikes late meal allowance to $9 for lunch and dinner amid price increases
“Gotta get fueled up,” Daniel Bauman ’23 told the ‘Prince.’ “I had pizza, man go, and a quesadilla, so the options were great.”
“I really like the vibe. I think it’s really fitting for Lawnparties,” Emilie Chau ’25 told the ‘Prince.’ “It’s definitely a little more chill. Like rather than ev eryone jumping around, it’s more relaxed and laid back.”Inaddition to Hippo Campus and Villanelle, many eating clubs host ed their own performers. Ivy Club hosted DJ AKKI to get students dancing before house-music head liner Proper Villains took the stage. Colonial boasted singer-songwriter JENE VIEVE, as well as Miami DJ Jun-iLL, on its front lawn. Cap & Gown Club held a performance by student band Strawberry Milk, the student opener from Lawnparties spring 2022. Due to rain, Tower Club moved its performer, in die trio Almost Monday, indoors. Quadrangle Club followed suit with an in door concert by performer Ramona Jade. Terrace F. Club hosted artists The Lesson GK and All Smoke No Mirrors.
Michelle Pirone Lambros told The Daily Princetonian that con struction on Witherspoon Street between Nassau Street and Spring Street is on sched ule to be completed by “late October or early November.”
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The allowance for late meal has increased in the past, from $5.95/lunch and $6.95/dinner in fall 2017 to eight dollars for each meal byThe2021. unlimited dining plan has seen significant changes since last semester — students with the plan now receive $150 worth of dining points each semester that they can use at select local restaurants, and soph omores can use the points toward spring eating club dues. Vasquez cited these changes, along with the new increase in late meal allow ances, as part of University Dining’s goal to “ensure we are providing value for our students.”
Luppen also commented on the inclement weath er, asking, “Are you guys f***ing soaked?” before launching into the band’s nextAttendeessong. sang along, danced, and generally frolicked. Some students hoisted friends on their shoulders and others held signs. The band performed songs from their recent album, “LP3,” as well as other hits.
When classes began last week and late meal — a pro gram which allows students on the unlimited meal plan to purchase food after nor mal dining hall hours — opened in the Frist Campus Center Gallery again, stu dents found that prices had increased since last semes ter.All first-years and sopho mores are required by the University to hold the un limited meal plan, which includes the late meal allow ance.“There are certain days of the week where I physi cally can’t get lunch because of back-to-back classes, so it’s really unfortunate that I cannot get completely free meals,” Nathan Beck ’25 said. “They have PawPoints now, so it’s unfortunate that I have to use them at late meal, to find food that I like and find nutritious, instead of on Nassau like they were intended.”Beckis a contributor for ThePriorProspect.tothe allowance hike, students had expressed frustration with the increase in prices rendering some food options inaccessible.
Beginning Sept. 12, late meal allowances for stu dents increased to nine dol lars each for lunch and din ner, up from an allowance of eight dollars per meal. In an email to The Daily Princetonian, University Di rector of Retail & Catering Cristian Vasquez said that the change meant that “stu dents can order an entrée from any station,” includ ing a fountain beverage, and stay within the allowance.
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Others noted how the music’s more low-key en ergy resulted what they saw as a less chaotic and potentially safer viewing experience, compared to events in past years. At fall Lawnparties last year, raucous, overcrowded au dience spaces, pushing, and moshing resulted in at least one student injury, with some Black, female students feeling particu larly targeted by the vio lence.Crowd control was also supported by USG’s deci sion to host the headline performance on the Frist Campus Center lawn, which has more space for attendees than Quadran gle Club’s backyard. USG chose to host the event in the Frist North Lawn for the first time last spring, when construction ren dered the Quad backyard temporarily unavailable.
leased original songs, ac cording to a tweet promot ing the performance that Sam Spector ’24 posted in August.“Ithink it’s been a good opener, she’s gotten the crowd excited,” Nicholas Urbati ’25 told the ‘Prince’ after the show.
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This year’s fall Lawnpar ties took place on the first Sunday of the school year — notably earlier in the semester than last year’s event on Oct. 3. Many at tendees reported that the early September date felt abrupt, as it was so soon after the start of the se mester. However, before the pandemic, it had been tradition for Lawnparties to take place in the first month of the academic year.“It feels soon and strange,” said Raphi Gold ’26, “but it also feels better because we’re not too far into the academic year.”
At 4 p.m., Hippo Campus took the stage, sporting all Princeton merch. The band riffed on their spirit-wear to connect with students in the audience.
longstanding theme of preppy and pastel-hued at tire, enjoyed free food and music along Prospect av enue, and took photos in front of the Fountain of Freedom.Students began lining up for admittance wrist bands and bagels in Mc Cosh courtyard from 10 a.m.Foodonwards.trucks, including Nomad Pizza and Fox & Son, opened for students at 12 p.m. Students also enjoyed fried oreos, Rita’s Italian Ice and Frozen Cus tard, Taco Bell, fresh man go, pretzels, and a barbe cue hosted by Chabad.
“It looks like we f***ing go to school here,” front man Jake Luppen said.
Students came back to campus this fall to find Witherspoon Street dug up and Graduate Hotel con struction well underway. Ac cording to Princeton Town Council members and the municipality’s Engineering Department, the work will be finished Councilmembersoon.
that construction on Wither spoon will increase sidewalk widths from six to 14 feet on both sides of the street. Ad ditionally, the road will be come a one-way street, head ing northbound only — away from Nassau Hall — and the remainder of the street will become a hybrid service lane for deliveries and parking for customers.“There’s been a lot of de lays, but they actually are still on schedule,” Purcell said. “It’s a construction proj ect, so every time they dig a hole in the ground, they find something that we didn’t know was there. But the con tractor is doing very well get ting around all of the diffi culties.”While current construc tion has narrowed the exist ing pathways, Pirone Lam
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“We should be getting through this quickly,” Pirone Lambros said. “And I think it’s really good that we were able to move through a slow er season in the summer and get major pieces done.”
On Twitter, David Chmielewski ’24 wrote
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street, also northbound.
“I think that the impact of having the kind of outdoor dining and the beautiful setting and wonders for the street is kind of our central focus,” Pirone Lambros told the ‘Prince.’ “It is just going to be beautiful.”
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“I think it’s good to have a variety of artists coming to campus, and I’m person ally very excited,” Greta Harrington ’25 told The Daily Princetonian prior to the show. “I think that people will vibe no matter what.”Stephen Bartell ’25 echoed these feelings: “I feel like I’m one of the few people on this campus really excited for Hippo Campus — I love them, I’m stoked to see them.”
There were also water stations along the street, encouraging students to stay hydrated throughout the day’s festivities.
“I think that if it were later on in the academic year, we would feel pres sure to just be studying today,” she continued, “whereas right now I feel totally comfortable just having fun and not really doing anything.”
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of the price increases that “late meal is such a source of community in your first two years but the university apparently wants to make it pay for play for… reasons? I genuinely can’t explain this other than abject cru elty, these policies make no sense.”Vasquez credited nation wide increases in food prices for creating the higher costs at Frist and across campus, as well as increasing hourly wages to $18.42 “and convert ing all academic-year staff to 12-month employees.”
Despite a gloomy fore cast, fall Lawnparties drew crowds of students to the main stage on the Frist North Lawn, who joined in dancing and singing along to the headlining indie rock outfit, Hippo Cam pus, on Sunday, Sept. 11. Equipped with umbrellas and rain coats, students braved the rain in order to partake in the Princeton tradition.Theselection of the band, announced by University Student Government (USG) in August, marks a genre shift for the festival. In recent history, the event has primarily featured rap artists as headliners: Main stage performances were put on by A$AP Ferg and Flo Milli in the fall of 2021 and spring of 2022, respec tively.Forsome attendees, this shift had a significant im pact on their experience with the festival.
whatever else. But then you have a beautiful new kitchen or whatever it is and it’s like somehow people are missing thatPironepoint.”Lambros echoed Sacks’s enthusiasm about the changes the construction will bring to the town.
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“The social culture on Lawnparties is very inclu sive,” Swagel said. “Every one who wants to attend canChangesattend.” to vibes and venue aside, the festivities proceeded largely in line withStudenttradition.opener Vil lanelle, formerly known as Sam Spector Music, per formed on the main stage at 3 p.m., opening for Hip po Campus. The group’s set list included several unre
To mitigate parking con cerns coming with these changes, the town is plan ning to offer one hour of free parking in the Spring Street garage in a push to keep Witherspoon as pedestrianfriendly as possible.
“Whennow. you do renova tions on a house, it’s messy. It’s tough,” Sacks told the ‘Prince.’ “Everyone keeps complaining, it’s really un pleasant, you cordoned off the worksite, and you have to use a different sink and
While Councilmember Eve Niedergang said this is a wel come addition to the town, she has some concerns about the“Iproject.feellike their assurances that they could keep Cham bers Street two ways and then [change their] mind into the construction,” she told the ‘Prince,’ “is really a disservice to the Councilmembercommunity.”Mia Sacks said she is optimistic about the effects of the construc tion, even if it is a sore spot right
bros said it hasn’t prevented businesses from attracting customers, and the sidewalk will be fully open soon.
Construction in town did not take a summer break.
“It does feel soon,” Oren Swagel ’26 said. But he also noted that for freshmen, Lawnparties being held earlier this year could fa cilitate new friendships.
Witherspoon St. construction to finish by late fall, town council members say
Two streets over, the con struction of the Graduate Hotel is still on schedule to be completed by 2024. Until that project is completed in 18 months, however, Cham bers Street will be a one-way
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“This new change means that my family will be able to afford mugs that say ‘Princeton Mom’ and ‘Princeton Dad,’” she began. “But my grandparents will have to share one.”
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“We were excited by the amount of enthusiasm in the room,” recalled head preceptor Will Faleyu ’21, *41. “The professor was beaming, and he told me that out of all 400 students, there could even be tens of future doctors in the class.”Atpress time, ANT 201: Introduction to Anthropology has added 200 more seats.
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orange folder that holds anywhere between three and five pieces of Studentspaper.expressed their satisfaction with this announce ment. Amelia Waterstone ’26, who will be receiving U-Store credit under this change, shared her excitement.
On Sept. 6, a record 401 students attended CHM 201: Gen eral Chemistry I. Professor Michael Hecht began the lecture by saying, “Everyone look at the person to your right. Now look to your left. These will be your classmates in Intro to Anthropology next semester.”
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With this money to use at the U-Store, the University ex pects each student to be able to purchase either one shortsleeved shirt, one box of pop-tarts, two Gatorades, or an
Priya Med ’26 plans to major in neuroscience with a certifi cate in quantitative and computational biology.
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page 7 Hum r 1. Pregnancy is a medical condition that affects the types of medications you can take and the healthcare McCosh Health Center should provide. 2. They ordered a bunch of pregnancy tests in 2002 and need to give them away before they expire (20-year shelf life). 3. They’re passive aggressively asking if you’ve gotten fat. 4. Princeton likes to keep tabs on potential legacy babies. 5. Nurses enjoy small talk just like everyone else. 6. Living in Princeton is boring, but scoring an invite to a baby shower every now and then really breaks up the monotony. 7. Planned Parenthood needs business in a post-Roe world. Claire Silberman is a Head Humor Editor at the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at cmbs@princeton.edu.
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Following the announcement that families making up to $100,000 will be eligible for full financial aid, the Univer sity clarified the policy in an email to students, writing that “the aid will be given in the form of U-Store credit.”
Dean Dolan added, “This credit cannot be used alongside a U-Store membership. All purchases are final.”
Spencer Bauman is Associate Humor Editor and a sophomore studying Chemical and Biological Engineering. He is glad to live far from the U-Store so he will not be tempted to spend his tuition on Pop-Tarts and Ritz Crackers.
The Daily PrintsAnything sat down with Dean of the Col lege Jill Dolan, who explained the reasoning behind this change.“Wewant every student to come to Princeton and be able to buy not just one, but two sweatshirts,” Dolan said. “We want to foster a community of diverse Princeton apparel and water bottles.”
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inflation isn’t hard to understand: as students and administrators come up with new ideas to en rich the curriculum, they usually add them to all the existing re quirements instead of replacing existing requirements. But this is a mistake. Increased require ments cause students more stress and curtail their freedom to pur sue their intellectual curiosity. We deserve the right to pursue the multiple interests that brought Eisgruber to Princeton in the first place.
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On its own, increasing require ments by one course may not seem like much, but at a school where students can take a limited number of courses, a single more prescribed course can have a large impact — and the pattern shows that students have less and less freedom as to which courses they canThechoose.reason for this credential
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of the most notable dynamics in the mod ern workforce has been credential inflation: professions requiring more and more education to enter. As Bur ton Bollag writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education: “When Bren da M. Coppard was studying occu pational therapy in the late 1980s, a bachelor’s degree was the stan dard ticket to enter the profession. By the 1990s, a master’s degree was expected. Today a doctorate is be coming the norm.” We’re seeing a very similar type of credentials inflation here at Princeton, as aca demic requirements increase to be awarded a degree. This dynamic threatens the integrity of a liberal arts
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claims and evidence in sociology, SOC 300, was added. The Depart ment of English required nine courses in 2002, but requires ten courses in 2022. The Department of Religion has also increased its requirements from eight to nine departmentals. In Psychology, the eight departmentals have re mained the same, but the num ber of prerequisites, which do not count towards departmentals, has increased from two to three. Simi larly, Anthropology has increased the number of required depart mentals from eight to nine. In the Department of Computer Science, the number of departmentals has stayed the same at eight, but there are many more restrictions for how they must be distributed and the number of required prerequi sites has increased.
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First, let’s look at the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA). In 2002, no prerequisite courses were required. The fol lowing were the departmental requirements: “Concentrators must take at least three courses in the ... School. They must take at least three courses, 300-level or above, in one of the following departments: economics, history, politics, and psychology, or sociol ogy, plus at least three other social science courses. In addition, the … School has an ethics and quan titative analysis requirement.” In total, that is 11 required courses. Today, SPIA has much more onerous requirements. There are four required prerequisites, seven core course requirements, and six additional elective courses with strict guidelines for how they must be distributed, for a total of 17 courses (SPIA dodges the Rule of 12 by requiring courses in mul tiple departments). In addition, SPIA now requires a cross-cultur al or field experience requirement, which is typically fulfilled over theSimilarly,summer.although the Depart ment of Sociology only required eight courses in 2002, it now re quires nine courses in 2022. One additional required course about
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departments seem to be increas ing requirements. The Rule of 12 prevents A.B. students from tak ing more than 12 courses in any one department, not including two departmental prerequisites. To complete a concentration, stu dents generally must complete a minimum of eight departmental courses. Thus, the total number of departmental courses can be between eight and fourteen. Over time, I have seen each depart ment’s number of required cours es creeping closer to the maxi mum. We can see the changes by comparing the requirements in 2002 and 2022.
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Theeducation.Princeton admissions website describes a liberal arts education as offering an “expan sive intellectual grounding in all kinds of humanistic inquiry … by exploring issues, ideas and meth ods across the humanities and the arts, and the natural and social sciences.” University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 him self has said: “I came to Princeton because I wanted a liberal arts education that would enable me to pursue multiple interests rig orously.” The promise of a liberal arts education is exploring many disciplines, and having numerous course requirements hinders that exploration.Thebestway to allow students to explore diverse academic inter ests is to allow students in the A.B. program to take any classes that fulfill their required 31 courses with minimal requirements. Stu dents will learn more when they’re taking diverse classes to explore their passions, not to fill arbitrary requirements.Yetunfortunately, the trend seems to be going in the oppo site direction. In 2020, the Culture and Difference (CD) distribution requirement was added, bringing the number of requirements up to eight. Exposure to the perspective of marginalized groups is impor tant, but the University could have created the new CD requirement while eliminating one other A.B. distribution requirement to avoid increasing the overall number of requirements for graduation.
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Despite my lack of affili ation to either Britain or the Commonwealth, I was among those who felt the Queen’s death acutely. But why should I, or any of us, mourn Queen Elizabeth? Some have sug gested it is because her death closes the chapter on a roman ticized bygone era — but this is not why. Instead, we should mourn her because she em bodied something larger than herself or any of us: the con tinuity of her nation, its laws, and its history. The Queen dis charged this task with visible dutifulness until the very day she
known colleges in the world and its decisions have impacts. If Princeton substantially dropped maximum tuition, say even to just $10,000 annu ally including room and board, our peer institutions would face enormous pressure to do the same, especially from the upper-middle-class students who have the most sway over the University. If our peers kept increasing tuition, they would be hit on the very metrics that they care most about: number of applicants, U.S. News and World Report rankings, and yieldOtherrate.private colleges might have to start dropping tuition to match, and as tuition at private colleges starts to drop with lots of press and fanfare, public colleges could start feel ing the pressure not to charge well above the private options. The only tangible way to reduce tuition prices is to apply down ward market pressure. Cur rently, elite colleges charging exorbitant fees (even if they’re mostly returned in aid) allow other colleges to raise prices as well. Princeton and Harvard can’t solve this problem on their own, but in a market economy, price signals from the biggest brands are bound to make a dif ference.Let’s be clear about what lowering tuition means for col leges across the country — it means cutting costs. Princ eton may not rely on tuition to stay afloat, but other colleges do. The University of Virginia (UVA) credited 35.6 percent of its non-medical revenue to stu dent tuition and fees in 2021 and only spends 6.3 percent of its academic budget on stu dent aid. If UVA had to slash tuition, that would mean sub stantially cutting yearly costs. Some statistics suggest that colleges should cut down on administrative costs. While
Queen Elizabeth II touched many lives abroad, both through her service as an agent of peace and diplomacy, and by the example of her leadership. It is very possible that I may not have ended up as a scholar of medieval history, society, and kingship without the Queen’s far-reaching influence. It was my first visit to Britain at the age of 10 that began my fasci nation with stories of the past and their lessons. My passion for history began when a very young and eager version of my self memorized the succession of monarchs from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen’s role and duty opened my eyes to the endless ly intriguing progress of histo ry, which enables some things to evolve deeply yet somehow stay the same.
tive due to its historic tradi tion and powerful dignity. The monarch is there in moments of national celebrations large and small, whether it be the end of a great war or the open ing of a new school or hospital. The Crown also leads in mo ments of crisis and uncertain ty, comforting its people as the Queen did when she addressed the nation in 2020, during the dark days of the COVID-19 pan demic.Throughout her life, from the years following World War II to the present day, she became the foremost cultur al icon of Britain. Now she is gone and, inevitably, Britain has changed forever.
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aware that the University doesn’t rely primarily on tu ition to fund its operations, but the numbers are staggering. In 2021, net tuition and fees — that is, student payments mi nus student aid — came out to a grand total of just under five percent of the University’s oper ating revenue. The total amount raised by tuition and fees, just more than $100 million, is less than the more than $300 mil lion surplus that Princeton ran in 2021. That means Princeton could have cut all student fees campus-wide while still having a budget surplus of about $200 million. We pay tuition out of a sense of tradition more than anything else.
Amongdied. the ancient Latin maxims of the English Com mon Law, one stands out, both in its puzzling, mystical lan guage, and importance: Rex nunquam moritur, “the King never dies.” Despite its origins as a piece of medieval politi cal theology, it still very much is part of the law. It declares the utter and unbreakable
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Last week, University President Christo pher L. Eisgruber ’83 announced an enormous increase in student financial aid. Increasing stu dent aid is one of the better uses of the University’s recent financial gains, second only to expanding the student body (which Princeton is also do ing). But increasing aid is not enough — Princeton needs to take steps to drastically reduce its sticker price, if not eliminate tuition altogether. Tuition is completely unnecessary to uni versity finances and by keeping its sticker price high, Princeton contributes to tuition inflation across the country where aid is not so Studentsplentiful.may already be
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I admired the Queen for the continuity and stability that she represented. Being born and raised in Venezuela, I knew nothing but national instabil ity and the partisan corrup
continuity of the Crown, from which all governing authority flows. This is why, upon the moment of the Queen’s death, the Crown passed invisibly, imperceptibly, and immedi ately, to her son King Charles
Now, the most obvious ar gument against eliminating tuition is that eliminating tu ition would be a massive give away to the richest families on campus. If Princeton is able to be perfectly price discrimi natory and fleece the rich for every last cent they could pay, why shouldn’t it? In The Har
Queen Elizabeth II embod ied her nation for more than 70 years. Most of us did not know a world without her. While during her life and reign the Queen accomplished much — and made mistakes — her per sonal actions are not the main source of people’s admiration and subsequent grief. Rather, she is mourned principally as the deceased vessel of Britain’s and the Commonwealth’s es sence, stability, and endur ance. The successful execution of this great duty is in itself quite a feat, as it requires the monarch to almost renounce their own humanity, giving up much of their personal freedom, privacy, and even sometimes their name to serve their people. Queen Elizabeth’s success in this endeavor is magnified by the visible and undeniable sense of duty that she displayed in her role. On her 21st birthday in 1947 she made an often-quoted pledge, declaring that her “whole life, whether it be long or short” would be devoted to her peo ple’s service. She fulfilled this promise, as she discharged her constitutional duties even in infirmity, to her very last day.
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bureaucratic bloat is no doubt a real problem, pretending that waste, fraud, and abuse will be perfectly targeted by costcutting measures is naive. The argument about bureaucratic bloat is also often tied to con servative critiques of “diversity deans.” Even if we did want to cut these positions, we aren’t going to meaningfully re duce costs on the back of DEI programs. If we cut costs, the student experience will be af fected.Itseems arrogant to sit at Princeton, with its massive en dowment, and plot to worsen the student experience at other universities. But the truth is that students are not paying for an “experience,” they’re paying for a degree. College costs have gone up because the degree is valuable enough that people are willing to pay for it and able to pay for it because of feder ally guaranteed student loans. But the “high tuition high aid” model pioneered at Harvard and Princeton has contributed to a world where colleges com pete more on amenities than price, where colleges gouge prices and taxpayers to guaran tee the money, and where gen erations of students are ham pered by mountains of debt. Because of the market economy, other colleges have adopted the high tuition, but not the high aid.We have at least some respon sibility to try and set it right.
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Thursday, Sept. 8, the world witnessed the decline in health and death of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Despite her advanced age of 96 years, her long reign and con stant presence in public life — she had just appointed her 15th prime minister two days before — made her departure feel sudden and unexpected. Her passing prompted mourn ing in Britain, the Common wealth, and worldwide.
III.This feature of the law, how ever, does much more than merely secure the survival and continuity of government. It palpably transforms the one on the throne into the embodi ment of the nation, the keeper of its laws, justice, and legacy. It is often said that the mon arch has two bodies: a Body Natural “subject to all Infir mities that come by Nature or Accident,” and a Body Politic “that cannot be seen or han dled, consisting of Policy and Government, and constituted for the Direction of the People, and the Management of the public weal ... utterly void of Infancy, and old Age, and other natural Defects.” These words, recorded by Elizabethan jurist Sir Edmund Plowden, do not, of course, represent current legal reasoning. However, the spirit of the King’s Two Bodies lives on not only in the law but in the very culture of Britain. It features prominently in works such as Shakespeare’s “Henry V”:
But viewing tuition at ultraelite colleges as a method of economic justice is missing the forest for the trees. Even if every dollar in tuition was put to great use at Princeton or Harvard, which it obviously isn’t, that money is benefitting Princeton and Harvard students who al ready have extraordinary ad vantages just from attending. If you think the wealthy need to contribute more to society, that money should be paid in taxes which benefit the average American, not tuition to elite colleges.Onemight think that ev ery extra dollar counts, and if families can pay, they should. But that ignores the fact that Princeton is contributing to an inflated college price market. Princeton is one of the best-
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tion of my people’s country. In Queen Elizabeth II, I saw hope of unity and solidity that, though they can be tested, al waysSymbolsprevail.are important and powerful things. In a mod ern world where a pragmatic, materialist view of the world dominates, it is easy to assert that they do not matter any more. But the millions who mourn the loss of Elizabeth II are witnesses to the power of symbols. These are forces for good, forming links among peoples with disagreements and enabling them to carry on in progress. To become a liv ing symbol, as the Queen did, involves a great act of sacrifice. We should not mourn Queen Elizabeth II because she rep resented some element of a romanticized, bygone era, as some have suggested, for the “good old days” were not al ways good. Instead, we should commemorate her for serving as the warrantor of national unity, cultural continuity, and steady leader of her people as history progressed. Indeed, she was a link to the past, one that did not look backwards to it, but instead anchored her nation’s future on it. This role has now been passed to her son, King Charles III, whose immediate assumption of duty and service profoundly dem onstrates once again that the Queen never dies.
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Joel Sabando argued that Har vard’s tuition should be much higher: up to $1 million so that the ultra-wealthy pay the same proportion of their income as any other Harvard student.
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To an American audience, this system of national conti nuity may seem esoteric and borderline mystical — almost the stuff of fairy tales. Howev er, each country has their own way to symbolize national uni ty. For Americans, it may have been, until recently, the dig nity of the presidential office. In Britain, the Crown serves this unifying and stabilizing role. The monarchy is effec
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Mourning Queen Elizabeth II isn’t about romanticizing the past. It’s about national continuity, laws, and history.
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Juan José López Haddad ’22 con centrated in History and is from Caracas, Venezuela. He is a former Senior Columnist for the ‘Prince.’ He is now a PhD student in Me dieval History at Johns Hopkins University. He can be reached at jlopezh1@jhu.edu.
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Changing ‘concentrations’ to ‘majors’ undermines what makes Princeton unique
John Raulston Graham is a junior majoring in ar chitecture from Portland, Tenn. He is the Orange Key Guide Service historian and a member of the Princ etoniana committee. He can be reached at jrgraham@ princeton.edu. Graham is a former features writer for the ‘Prince.’
The newly introduced Dining Points system ini tially seems to remedy this problem: students on the unlimited meal plan receive $150 worth of din ing points loaded onto their TigerCard at the be ginning of every semes ter, which could be used to cover whatever the cur rent late meal allowance doesn’t. However, this program was announced via email by the USG as “an opportunity for stu dents to connect with each other and the town of Princeton without hav ing to worry about paying out of pocket.” The Dining Points program was cre ated for students to not have to choose between being able to enjoy and af ford the occasional meal in Princeton or spend that money on a basic necessity like lunch. Using Dining Points to pay a remaining late meal balance defeats this
explain what was so unique about their edu cation compared to those of peers at other univer sities.Allowing students to pick up single-depart ment minors has the unfortunate potential to wreck one of the tenets of any Princeton degree. Princeton students can not double-concentrate (or I suppose, regretful ly, now double-major), because mastery of two subjects captured in a thesis is considered too onerous a burden. Yet by randomly tossing out the term “minor,” Princ eton now admits that students can achieve partial competence in a second field.
T he ingetonnewsmonumentalthatPrincwasrenam“concentra tions” to “majors” and allowing departments to create minors slipped under the radar at the end of last term. Stu dents may have been in different to the change or appreciated that their degree would be easier to explain. But this change in terminology cuts away at Princeton’s stepsetonofbytionjacketsplied,thesisfirstthatThedeeplyceptalumnithesis.toeswellstudentsUntilorsopportunitytoyear.sismentcourseserdentswhich“Fourthequirement.ofportantly,Faculty,professor,mathematician,onway.LutherGraduatebacklastawkwardlyuntilfirstdemicallymadenotlutedacademicensuredistinctiveness.academicWemustthatPrinceton’srigorisn’tdiinthesameway.ManystudentsmaybeawareofwhatPrincetonacauniqueintheplace.Ididn’teitherIcameacrossansizedgatespringonabikeridetocampusfromtheCollege—theP.EisenhartGateCurious,IreadupDeanEisenhart—amathDeanofthebutmostimthepioneerPrinceton’sthesisreDeanEisenhartwasfirsttoproposetheCoursePlan,”requiredallstutotakealargpercentageoftheirintheirdepartandcompleteatheduringtheirseniorEisenhartwantedgiveallstudentsthetoearnhonbasedontheirtheses.thischange,onlywhoperformedinlower-levelcourshadtheopportunityearnhonorswithaStudentsanddidnoteasilyacEisenhart’splan.Eisenhart’splanwascontroversial.planwassohatedtheClassof1925,theclasstowhomtherequirementapadornedtheirbeerwithanillustraofatigercrushedfourbooks.TheClass1927departedPrincwithasongontheofNassauHallcon
Over the past week, al most every peripheral conversation in Frist has been about the Food Gal lery’s substantial increase in prices. Despite the in creased late meal credit, many items remain in accessible with the cred it alone. For example, cheeseburgers and fried chicken sandwiches ex ceed the new $9 limit. En trées at the other stations can be even more expen sive, with some priced well beyond $10. The only item under the current limit at the new Asian food sta tion, for example, is an appetizer portion of veg etable potstickers. This, of course, does not include the price of a drink.
Anotherpurpose.solution may be to raise the current late meal credit from its cur rent $9, to a number that covers the price of every entrée — however, this is moving backwards. Instead, the University should abandon the credit system entirely so that ev ery student on a meal plan may be guaranteed a late meal package of an entrée, side, and drink — at the very least — similar to how a dining swipe allows for unlimited access to the dining hall for that meal. The current structure is entirely dependent on the whims of inflation, costs, and gouging. Students on meal plans pay for meals, not discounted entrées.
Christofer Robles Contributing Columnist
Eisenhart’s push for a more rigorous education advanced Princeton’s transition to a true uni versity.Theindependent work that Eisenhart inaugu rated is now central to the idea of mastery that a Princeton degree repre sents. Many universities only ask students who seek honors to complete an undergraduate the sis. But unlike degrees from other institutions, a Princeton degree rep resents the culmina tion of careful person al research. It’s in that context that the term “concentration” must be viewed. What Princeton students study is not just a reflection of their coursework, it is what they have researched deeply, with intense fo cus and concentration.
The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author’s views alone.
Although Princeton re cently adjusted this credit to $9, the surge in pricing has nevertheless revealed a significant weakness of the current late meal pric ing scheme: it fails to tru ly accommodate students who rely on its purported purpose. The University must restructure this sys tem if it truly wishes to offer a viable meal alter native for its students: an entrée, side, and a drink should be the standard ized late meal package, ir respective of price.
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When the University announced its changes in terminology, Dean Dolan said that the changes were motivat ed by a desire to “bet ter align us with other colleges and universi ties while preserving exactly what concentra tions and certificates already do.” However, the unique names fit unique programs. Why apply the “major” name to a program that differs significantly from its peers? The words “con centration” and “cer tificate” simply allowed Princeton students to
I will be unable to eat lunch in a dining hall Monday through Thursday be cause of class and sched uled commitments, so I will likely be eating late lunch four times a week. This is not a unique cir cumstance; countless stu dents have classes, jobs, and obligations that will leave them in similar posi tions. Students must now either severely restrict their food options, or con sistently pay out of pocket for lunch and/or dinner, effectively creating an un balanced imposition on the students who may rely on late meal the most.
John Raulston Graham Guest Contributor
aving been de prived of chick en quesadillas and mass-pro duced sushi since May, I was eager to return to Frist Campus Center for my first late meal of the year. It came as a sur prise to me, then, to dis cover that food prices at the Food Gallery in Frist had increased from what they were last semester, with most entrées exceed ing the Unlimited Dining Plan’s then-allotted $8 late lunch and dinner credit.
ISABEL RICHARDSON / THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN Increased late meal prices at the Food Gallery at Frist.
Christofer Robles is a sophomore contributing col umnist from Trenton, N.J. Christofer can be reached at cdrobles@princeton.edu or on Instagram @christofer_ robles.
demning Dean Eisen hart for “originating the four-course plan.” Some alumni, upset about the increased rigor of the plan, even blamed the poor performance of the football team on the the sisThisrequirement.changecame in the wake of Princeton’s evolution from a simple college to a university that puts a greater em phasis on educational rigor. Not until the Uni versity’s sesquicentenni al in 1896 did the College of New Jersey change its name to Princeton. The graduate school was es tablished the same year. Before these changes, Princeton awarded grad uate degrees to any stu dent who returned three years later with letters certifying that they had been doing produc tive work in their field.
One may wonder why the terminology matters at all. But when we see Princeton abandoning its unique terminology in favor of conformity, one wonders how it will withstand the pressures for a less rigorous cur riculum. Student dis taste for departmental and thesis requirements go back to the very es tablishment of these requirements. Will the University decide that the thesis is unnecessary next? We don’t have to move in that direction: departments consider ing a minor program should be sure to require independent work and uphold Princeton’s rigor. The University and its students are better off with Eisenhart’s push to require the thesis. We can’t let that vision fal ter.Like their predeces sors 100 years earlier, the Class of 2025 will have the ability to try out a new academic program. It is up to the University whether this is a step forward or backward.
According to the late meal page on Princeton University’s Campus Din ing website, “Campus Dining recognizes that students may be unable to dine during regular dining hall hours. There fore, students with meal plans are entitled to use their plan to purchase late lunches Monday to Friday and late dinner Monday to Thursday at the Food Gallery at Frist.” This not only explicitly acknowl edges the too-common phenomenon of not being able to eat lunch or dinner due to commitments that may conflict with normal dining hall hours, but also highlights the need for providing students on meal plans with the meals they are entitled to, per
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stereotypes. They were clear to me because the small restaurant selling quesadillas reminded me of one of my favorite Mexican restaurants back home. The wom an selling dreamcatchers was reminiscent of the small shops on Ferry Street selling souvenirs from Portugal and Spain — pieces of home for some. I never stopped at these places because I was afraid of what people would say at school. I could just hear my sixth-grade classmates snickering when I said where I was from, insistent that I didn’t belong. No, I thought. I couldn’t possibly prove them right. And so, at my own loss, I didn’t stop.
Why didn’t I? And why am I men tioning restaurants and dream catchers when I spent the summer working at a safety net hospital in one of the poorest Congressional districts in the nation? Shouldn’t I have more to say?
This summer, my internship was in the South Bronx, so I learned the NYC subway to and from work, making the following observations on any given morning — as scientists-in-training do.
make a living. Good people who inherit dreams and sell dreamcatchers.That’ssomething that seems to get lost in all the na tional discussions of healthcare for underserved popu lations. Each population is composed of people. Good people, bad people, people in between. Regardless, people get sick. And people get hurt. And when they do, they need a system in place to care for them. These were people, not problems. The fact that an inad equate healthcare system is in place is not their fault. It is their reality.Iseemed to realize this fast er because I knew how quick ly people in Newark could be written off as problems. How? Because I was. My family was. During the lead water crisis, my family and I received letters as suring us of the safety of our tap water, even as the mayor was handing out bottled water on streets near our home.
During my last week, on Wednesday, I had a quesa dilla at the small restaurant.
I stopped and bought a dreamcatcher on that last Friday morning.
And so this realization, cul tivated over years, ultimately made me stop. I stopped apol ogizing for how my journey didn’t fit neatly into a box, and I stopped apologizing for the things I couldn’t control. And the parts of my background that I had tried so hard to seal off for others’ convenience — making sure I never seemed like someone from Newark — well, I stopped sealing them off. Why couldn’t someone from Newark do what I did? Was it really so unbelievable that I was here?
I should stop here. I come from Newark, N.J. For those unfamil iar with Newark, its reputation is not unlike that of the Bronx. Both are often painted as places where crime, violence, and poverty are all that could possibly flourish. I have carried, wrestled with, and tried to hide this stereotypical reputation while the urgency to get out of this place echoed throughout my mind. I understand where it comes from. It comes from story after story about the bad things that happen in these places.Iunderstood this from a young age when I chose to leave my public elementary school in Newark for a private school in a more affluent neighborhood. At 12, I thought that was getting out. Far from it, I stuck out like a sore thumb in middle school. Cognitive dissonance didn’t even begin to describe the culture shock I faced. Some of my classmates at the time made these assump tions of my home abundantly clear to me — for the worse. They had written off Newark, written off me, as not belonging. And what’s more, they were confidently ignorant. Nevertheless, school came to an end, and at the end of every day, I went back home.
This summer subverted my internal monologue. I was on the phone with my mom one evening, and I found myself describing parts of the Bronx just as I would Ferry Street (a street I grew up with). The simi larities were so clear to me, but not through shared
The day I stopped: on dreams, healing, and what we take with us
moves forward, and so did I.
Being from Newark is something I am proud to carry with me. There are countless individuals who have shaped my path, and good people I have had the joy of knowing. To forget them would be to forget who I am.
This week in The Prospect, we highlight four voices from our summer Dispatch series, which gave our staff writers a platform to chronicle and reflect on the vital personal and social growth that the summer months away from campus can afford. We thank all of the writers who shared their stories throughout this summer with the community. Please read the other installments of the Dispatch series on our website.
On the corner of Mount Eden Parkway and Selwyn Avenue is an elderly woman who sells dream catchers in the mornings. I passed her small streetside shop nearly every day on my way to work this summer, and every time, I thought, “I should stop here.”
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On the corner of 174th Street and Selwyn Avenue is a small restaurant that sells quesadillas. I passed this restaurant every day on my way to work this summer, and every time, I thought, “I should stop here.”
Anika Buch is an Associate News Editor at the ‘Prince’ who typically covers STEM communities and on-campus research. She can be reached at ambuch@princeton.edu.
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By Anika Buch | Associate News Editor
Newark became my weakness — even though the Newark I had known was far from the stereotypes. There were times when I wished so badly I could just change my address. I needed to get out of this place. Where I was from wouldn’t matter if I was good at what I did — that’s what I told myself eight years ago. But time
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As an aspiring medical professional, if I am fortunate enough to do so, I would like to practice medicine in an area like the Bronx one day. I would like to work to treat the people in a community that reminds me of the one closest to my heart. Because as much as I seek to heal a community like the Bronx, the fact remains that the Bronx healed me first.
As my internship progressed, it became clear to me that my life experience was not my weakness. My own life was my strength. I could empathize uniquely with in the clinic because of my own experiences in Newark. I realized that even if I did get out of Newark, I would carry it with me. Because, for all of Newark’s reputa tion, for every story of crime, there were also good people. Good people who seek to give unconditionally, regardless of what they have. Good people trying to
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Those nights were cast with the magic of a dimmed and vacant of fice. My sister and I would start out playing hide-and-seek in conference rooms and supply closets. Takeout and a sweet treat were also a must; the food is always bomb in Midtown, but there was a Thai place on the corner that had the most incredible noodles I have ever tasted, piquing my love of internation al cuisine. We would shift to coloring with crayons or playing make-believe with the action figures my mom had stashed in her desk drawers. At the end of the night we’d crash in sleeping bags on the carpeted floor, while my mom worked away. And I absolutely loved the scent of that pink bathroom soap.
Kerrie Liang is an Assis tant Editor for The Prospect and Podcasts at the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at kerrie. liang@princeton.edu, or on Instagram at @kerrie.liang.
I hate the silence. As soon as my alarm goes off, I reach out for my phone to turn the alarm off and proceed to open Spo tify. I have my headphones on as I fold laundry, brush my teeth, read, eat din ner, and walk down the street (sorry mom
“lads.” I learned that they were in Barcelona for vaca tion and had not gone to bed earlier than 6 a.m. the entire week. As we began our journey down the hill, I also learned that one of them had gotten his sister tickets to Olivia Rodrigo’s show for her birthday — he definitely deserves a “Brother of the Year” award forHowever,that. the biggest surprise came halfway through our descent, when the group split into two. I watched one guy open his phone to call his friend... on Snapchat. At first, I laughed it off — maybe this was the only way they could contact each other without a Spanish phone plan — but when the same guy used Snap Maps to check for direc tions, I realized this was not a one-time thing. As I soon learned, instead of Messenger or Google Maps, many Irish people use Snapchat — an app that I had thought every one retired from by high school graduation — for everything.Mynewfound interest in speaking to random peo ple on the street was not limited to Spain. In Vien na, I listened to a graduate student explain that yes, it was absolutely essential for him and his buddies to drink 23 beers, one in each district, within 24 hours, and no, it certainly was not strange that they had started this challenge at 10 a.m. in the morning. In fact, he insisted that any reasonable person would have started at 8 a.m. In Paris, I met a restaurant owner who was really ex cited that I also spoke Chi nese and sent me off with a postcard wishing me safe travels home.
I still can’t place exactly what about my relationship with myself makes me uncomfortable with the silence. Maybe it’s because I don’t want my thoughts to wander, or maybe my attention span is too short, and I just get bored. I definitely hope it’s not some mysterious remnant of the angsty self-loathing of my tween years. I guess if I keep embracing the si lence, I’ll figure it out eventually.
Laying on the sand, we talked about what we were looking forward to this summer. One girl was from Atlanta, Georgia and studied finance. I learned that she had just broken up with her long-term boyfriend and was ready to live it up in Barcelona before going into her se nior year. The other girl was from Mexico and had just graduated from uni versity. She was looking forward to getting a tattoo even though her parents disapproved. I’ve never been one to talk to strang ers, but I guess sharing chicken nuggets after six hours of protecting each other through inebriated encounters really brings people together. And as the sun emerged from the horizon and the sky came to life, I had a feeling that this summer would be one to Julyremember.found me stuck on Turó del Carmel — the hill home to Antoni Gaudí’s “Park Güell” — with a group of Irish men who referred to themselves as
Gia Musselwhite is a Features contribu tor for the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at gmusselwhite@princeton.edu or @gia. musselwhite on Instagram.
This summer, I was the most extroverted I have ever been. For my entire life, I have lived by the say ing, “Don’t speak unless spoken to.” But the past two months of talking to strangers have allowed me
to learn, empathize, and connect with others in a way that I would never have experienced other wise. These people come from all over the world. I have never met them be
fore and will never meet them again. Yet, during these conversations, our lives intersect — miracu lously and fleetingly — and are imprinted on each others’ forever.
“[ding-ding] Doooors opening. Ste—” He sprinted out — pure glee on his face.
A lot has changed since those nights. I’ve grown, my mom’s grown, and our relationship has grown more compli cated, as mother-daughter relation ships often do. My parents changed
The train stopped. I got up.
and dad, I’m still paying attention). I con stantly drown out the silence.
Living in Washington D.C. this sum mer is my first time living alone — em phasis on alone. If you know me, you know I enjoy my alone time (probably a little too much). But every time I closed my door in the past for some much-need ed solitude, I was never truly alone. There was always the soft murmur of the living room TV, the sizzling from the kitchen, or the creaking wooden floors. Now, it’s quiet. The only sound in my studio is the white noise from the AC unit, and the only sign of life is the squirrels and rats that rustle the shrubs in the alley outside my window.
Drowning out the silence
The Simple Suds of Midtown Manhattan
By Gia Musselwhite Features Contributor
In the never-ending quest of “self-im provement” that too many of us are stuck on, I have since tried to enjoy sharing silence with myself. Even though I have struggled, and experienced moments of weakness where I run back into the em brace of Michael Barbaro’s voice, I have started to enjoy the quiet. Without it, I would never hear the wind rustling through the trees, little kids playing an adorable game of “I spy” on the train, or the rattling of my neighbor’s bike (now known as Bike Guy) as he rolls it through the hallway.
Eden Teshome is an Associate Podcast Edi tor at the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at eden teshome@princeton.edu.
When I was a kid, my mom would spend long days and nights at her of fice on 35th Street. Whether she was giving her all to a trial, or finishing up billing towards the end of the month, weekends at the firm were a regular or deal. But true to her nature as a work ing mother, she would often drag me along — she isn’t one to waste time with her family, even if it would add an extra hour or two of kiddie distraction.
Now, I spend my lunch breaks ex ploring the Garment District alone, without my mom there to hold my hand (or pay for my coffee). Outside of the hours of 9-to-5, the day’s schedule is up to me. But these past few weeks, I have also gotten a preview of adult life’s calm mundanity. I’m now the one typing for hours at my computer, in stead of abusing every color in a jumbo crayon set. And despite the career op portunities and newfound freedom, it’s hard to let go of childhood. Youth isn’t over for me yet, but this is a re minder: the end is in sight.
I may not have journeyed far from home this summer (54 minutes by the Long Island Railroad, to be exact). But in a neighborhood so familiar, I’m experiencing something new. I can’t fight the end of childhood, the way I waged wars with plastic dragons and princesses. But whenever it becomes too much, I can step into the restroom. I can rinse my hands, close my eyes, and breathe in the floral scent of that Midtown office soap. Sure, it may look foolish to outside eyes, but it will bring me right back to those nights we had, a few blocks away and a decade ago.
One day, I was walking home from work, and my headphones died. Left with no choice, I took them off and continued to walk. But after a few minutes, I felt uneasy.Doyou know how people say you have a strong relationship with someone if you can sit with them in silence? I think about this a lot. And at that very moment I thought of it again. I know I have people in my life that I can share silence with, but I realized that I was not one of them.
There’s something about the hand soap in Midtown Manhattan.
By Eden Teshome Associate Podcast Editor
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For now, I have three more years of college to tackle first. Maybe I’ll take some soap for the road.
I often ride the Metro with my head phones on and my eyes fixated on the floor.One time, I watched a kid pace up and down the car out of the corner of my eye. He had just one fabric glove on, with the thumb hole cut out, and an Under Armor backpack slung over his shoulder by one strap. He was saying something into his phone with an impish smile across his face. As we arrived at Metro Center he jittered by the door, continuing to say something to his phone — that I didn’t hear through my headphones.
It may not be quite that rare, but there are only two places I have lath ered my hands in that pink cleansing goop: my mom’s office and my own. Scent is said to be the strongest sense when it comes to emotions, and the soap’s light, floral fragrance calls hap py memories to the front of my mind.
I wonder if I could have known why that kid was so excited to run off.
jobs and moved out of NYC, just as my semi-independent life at Princeton began. And this summer, I found my self interning at a nonprofit just a few blocks over from her old workplace — where things were simpler.
Talking to strangers
By Kerrie Lang Assistant Prospect Editor
June started off with thumping music and strobe lights. My second night in Barcelona was spent screaming along to remixed “Mamma Mia” songs with two girls I had met at the student resi dence the day before. As we emerged from the crowds of tourists in the club, glowing in our and others’ sweat and with our stom achs rumbling, we were tasked with the toughest challenge of all: finding food at 3 a.m. We probably spent over two hours ask ing anyone — from stonefaced security guards to drunkards barely holding themselves together — whether they knew a place to eat before finally stum bling upon a McDonald’s. After waiting another 30 minutes for food, we head ed back to the beach to watch the sunrise.
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The women’s rugby team (0–2) hosted the Army Black Knights (2–0) for its first-ever home match as a varsity team. Despite their speed and the home field advantage, the Ti gers had difficulty rebutting the forceful attacks from their Army challengers and suc cumbed to an 87–0 loss.
means the world to me and I’m ex tremely honored to be chosen by the guys to help lead our team as we go through the season,” Bobo told the ‘Prince. With the support of their teammates, Bobo and the other captains are prepared to lead their team into the season.
Sandeep Mangat is guest con tributor for Sports and an Associ ate News Editor who has reported on labor shortages on and off cam pus, University guidelines regard ing the COVID-19 pandemic, inter national student life, and research led by Princeton faculty. He can be reached at smangat@princeton. edu and on Twitter @s_smangat.
After a focused training camp, Princeton football fans look for ward to finally seeing the Tigers take the field again this season with a game one matchup against the Stetson Hatters this weekend.
Defending champs Princeton Football gear up for week
Army opened the second half strong as well, earning a try around 90 seconds in. De spite the lopsided scoring, the Tigers continued to respond with a lot of contact and tran sitioned well from attacking andJuniordefending.flyhalf and co-cap
tain Sophia Villacorta was integral to this end, both fighting for the Tigers to keep possession following scrums, while also helping with defen siveIntackling.thefinal stages of the game, the Tigers, as they con tinued to have difficulty keep ing possession, had a few turn overs, some of which Army capitalized on to earn tries.
By Eric Fenno Staff Sports Writer RUGBY By Sandeep Mangat Guest Contributor
WOMEN’S SOCCER: IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS CONFERENCE RECORD OVERALL RECORD 1. HARVARD 3 0 6 0 2. DARTMOUTH 1 0 5 1 1 3. BROWN 2 1 4 1 1 4. COLUMBIA 2 1 3 1 1 5. PENN 2 1 2 0 4 6. PRINCETON 0 2 4 2 7. YALE 0 2 3 2 1 8. CORNELL 0 3 1 4 1 THE WEEK IN NUMBERS: TIGERS STANDINGS AND RESULTS RESULTS FROM THE LAST WEEK: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8: PRINCETON 0, LOUISIANA STATE 2 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11: PRINCETON 4 GEORGE MASON 1 UPCOMING GAMES: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15: PRINCETON AT HOFSTRA, 1 P.M. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18: DELAWARE AT PRINCETON, 7 P.M. @PUWRFC/TWITTER. Varsity women’s rugby host their first ever game at West Windsor Fields in history. Tigers fall to Army in historic women’s rugby varsity home opener WOMEN’S
Eric Fenno is a staff writer for the Sports and Prospect sections at the ‘Prince.’ He can be reached at ef4960@ princeton.edu.
“We’re young, and we’re building. We have three re cruits that came on, and it’s been really awesome to learn from them and see them play,” sheDozenssaid. of Princetonians, including University Presi dent Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 and Ford Family Director of Athletics John Mack ’00, made the trek down to West Windsor Fields to show their support. Additionally, the match was held on Alumni Appreciation Day, and alumni of the wom en’s rugby team were honored at halftime.Inaninterview with the
“We still have a lot to learn, and they’re growing every single week. And I think you know they’re proud of them selves; I’m proud of them,” said Ziluca, who joined the Tigers in the fall of 2019. “We can’t look at scores. We can’t look at wins and losses.”
“I look forward to playing along side this special group of guys and helping this team in anyway I can,” Classi
In a preseason poll, Princeton was ranked third in the Ivy League — placing only three points be hind Harvard and Dartmouth — and is not expected to take home the Ivy League championship. With the talent of these senior cap
the Tigers went down early, their defense re sponded with impressive tackling, successfully keeping Army at bay near the end of the first half. However, even with the burst in defense, the team had difficulty keeping posses sion of the ball.
COURTESY OF @PRINCETONFTBL/TWITTER The Princeton football team has selected its senior team captains for the 2022 season. CONFERENCE RECORD OVERALL RECORD 1. YALE 0 0 2 0 2 2. CORNELL 0 0 3 1 3. PENN 0 0 2 1 1 4. BROWN 0 0 1 1 5. PRINCETON 0 0 1 1 1 6. HARVARD 0 0 2 2 7. COLUMBIA 0 0 1 2 1 8. DARTMOUTH 0 0 1 2 1 RESULTS FROM THE LAST WEEK: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9: PENNSYLVANIA STATE 1, PRINCETON 2 UPCOMING GAMES: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17: PRINCETON AT FAIRFIELD, 7 P.M. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20: LOYOLA (MARYLAND) AT PRINCETON, 7 P.M. MEN’S SOCCER: IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS CONFERENCE RECORD OVERALL RECORD 1. YALE 0 0 2 0 2 2. CORNELL 0 0 3 1 3. PENN 0 0 2 1 1 4. BROWN 0 0 1 1 5. PRINCETON 0 0 1 1 1 6. HARVARD 0 0 2 2 7. COLUMBIA 0 0 1 2 1 8. DARTMOUTH 0 0 1 2 1 RESULTS FROM THE LAST WEEK: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10: STONY BROOK 0, PRINCETON 3 (FAIRFIELD, CONN.) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10: PRINCETON 2, SACRED HEART 3 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11: SETON HALL 1, PRINCETON 3 (FAIRFIELD, CONN.) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14: RIDER 1, PRINCETON 3 UPCOMING GAMES: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17: FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL AT PRINCETON, 1:00 P.M. (PISCATAWAY, N.J.) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17: FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON, PRINCETON, 4:00 P.M. (PISCATAWAY, N.J.) SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18: PRINCETON AT RUTGERS, 1:00 P.M. WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS
Army put ink on the scoresheet early, getting a try less than two minutes into the match. The team was strong on conversions, scoring on eight out of Although13.
“Being captain for this team
Bobo and Byrd earned first team All-Ivy League selections last year, with Iosivas and Ndukwe named to the second team. Classi was also named an Honorable Mention AllIvy honoree. Iosivas, known for his dominance both as a wide re ceiver and a decathlon athlete on the track and field team, has even been put on the 2023 Reese’s Senior Bowl Watchlist, along with other seniors across the country who have NFL draft potential.
The Tigers will host the Brown Bears at the West Wind sor Fields for their second home game on Saturday, Sept. 17.
Senior flanker and co-cap tain Kathryn-Alexa Kennedy, who has been part of the team since the fall of 2019, told The Daily Princetonian that going varsity is a big step.
“We just want to make sure that we’re growing our game because we are a younger team, new to rugby,” Ziluca said. “We’re not close to cam pus out here, but the amount of fans we had out was pretty awesome. And just the support that we feel from Athletics; we can feel the love.”
tains and their devoted teammates and coaching staff, however, the Tigers have the potential for an other historic season.
“My mindset has been consis tent through the past 13 years: work our hardest to prepare our team exceptionally well, and then see if our team can be its best version every week,” Surace said.
Thewrote.seven captains were chosen by their own teammates for both their talent and their ability to lead. “It’s the highest honor I could ask for — being chosen as a leader by your friends, your family, is something you [can’t] describe,” Io sivas commented. “I have so much gratitude for the position I’m in, and I’m thankful to my teammates for trusting me and the others to lead them this year.”
“This year, we have a locker room full of incredibly hard work ers who bring the same level of fo cus and love for the game to each and every practice as they do on game day,” Jester told the ‘Prince’. “We are excited to open up in Flor ida against Stetson, and can’t wait for the season ahead!”
In preparation for this year, the Tigers named seven new senior team captains: tight end Carson Bobo, offensive lineman Henry Byrd, wide receivers Dylan Classi and Andrei Iosivas, linebacker Matthew Jester, defensive lineman Uche Ndukwe, and defensive back Michael Ruttlen Jr. According to Surace, having seven captains dis plays an unusual depth of talent on the team this year.
Anna Albrecht, the assistant coach for the team, described the team’s journey in reaching the varsity level as a long time coming.“You’re stepping into a mo ment of history, but as soon as you get boots on the ground, feeling it, feeling the alumni come in, and feeling what it means to the players is an en tirely different thing. And I am just so honored to be here,” she told the ‘Prince.’
As a new season kicks off this weekend for the Tigers, last year’s successes are in the rearview mir ror.The Tigers play their first game of the new season this Saturday, Sept. 17, at Stetson University (0–0 Pioneer League, 2–0 overall), com ing off an Ivy-League-best 9–1 re cord in 2021. The fall of 2022 in cluded electric wins over longtime rivals Harvard and Yale that led to a massive bonfire on Cannon Green.“We don’t start at 9–1 or where the previous season left off, we start with the same record as our competition,” Head Coach Surace ‘90 told The Daily Princetonian.
‘Prince,’ women’s rugby head coach Josie Ziluca said that despite the loss, she was im pressed with the team’s efforts.
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