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U . A F FA I R S

Faculty vote to approve calendar reform, move final exams to before winter break

Certificate in journalism wins approval; valedictorian, salutatorian announced

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The faculty spent nearly an hour deliberating calendar reform.

University faculty voted to approve the proposal for calendar reform after much contention at a meeting on Monday.

“I was very inspired by the passion that all the faculty showed in this meeting,” Undergraduate Student Government president Rachel Yee ’19 said. “I think it’s very evident that a lot of our professors care about the well-being of their students.”

The new calendar will move fall exams to December and include a “Wintersession,” a flexible two-week space in January for stu-

dents to engage in internships or independent work.

A majority of the faculty raised their hands and said “aye” to the motion, and the reform’s passage was met with vigorous applause.

“Different departments, and indeed different individuals, have different needs across the calendar,” computer science professor Aarti Gupta said. “We have to balance these competing interests and then make choices.”

The faculty spent the better part of an hour debating the amendments.

“It was definitely a lot more contentious than I thought it would be,” Yee See CALENDAR page 2

STUDENT LIFE

ON CAMPUS

Nine U. seniors win the Spirit of Princeton award

Former president of Poland, Lech Wałęsa, gives advice in fireside chat

By Audrey Spensley and Joe Kalawec Associate News Editor and Contributor

Nine seniors were selected as winners of the Spirit of Princeton award, according to deputy dean of undergraduate students Thomas Dunne.

Allison Berger ’18, Christina Onianwa ’18, Diego NegrónReichard ’18, Gaby Joseph ’18, Jordan Thomas ’18, Katie Tyler ’18, Maia Craver ’18, Soraya Morales Nuñez ’18, and Zoë Anne Toledo ’18 were the award winners.

The prize is conferred on students who have made contributions to the University through “the arts, community service, students organizations, residential living, religious life and athletic endeavors.” It was first given in 1995.

The winners will receive a certificate and a book prize and will be honored at a dinner in the beginning of May. Nominations, which served as the primary criteria for con-

sideration, are evaluated by a committee comprised of administrators and undergraduate students who select the winners. Any undergraduate student can be nominated or contribute to a nomination for the award. Nominations were due on April 9.

Berger, from Madison, New Jersey, is majoring in economics with a certificate in political economy. She has served as the president of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, editor for the The Princeton Tory, and founder of the University’s chapter of the Network of enlightened Women (NeW), a group for conservative female undergraduates, among other activities.

Berger formerly served as a member of the editorial board for The Daily Princetonian.

She also founded and chaired the Princeton Editorial Board.

“The ability to learn from people in formal and informal ways has been amazing,” said See SPIRIT page 5

Hugh Trumbull Adams ’35.

The audience was also invited to ask their own questions.

Marzenna K. James, Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, acted as the Polish to English translator for Wałę sa.

Wałę sa began his political career in the Gdansk shipyard in communist-controlled Poland during the 1970s. He organized labor strikes and demanded better rights for Polish industrial workers. During the massive economic stagnation that plagued communist states in the 1980s, Wałę sa’s inf luence grew and the Solidarity union increased in size, reaching a peak of almost ten KRISTIAN HRISTOV :: THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN. million members.

Lech Wałesa addressed students and public in McCosh 50.

“I was not planning to be leader, I was simply brought

By Kristian Hristov ranging from his personal up and I was simply doing Contributor experiences as president my duty,” noted Wałę sa. “It and as the leader of his labor was just fortunate that in reFormer President of Poland union, Solidarity, to Amer- alizing my own ideas I hit and Nobel Peace Prize laure- ica’s place in global leader- the right target of what was ate Lech Wałę sa spoke at the ship. needed.”

University on Monday on the Questions were posed by For his efforts with Solisubject of solidarity in the Keller Center Director Mar- darity, Wałę sa received a Notwenty-first century. He dis- garet Martonosi and Pro- bel Peace Prize. He contincussed a variety of subjects, fessor of Computer Science See POLAND page 3

STUDENT LIFE

April 24 holiday, Newman’s Day, still celebrated at U. Tradition denounced by actor Paul Newman involves consuming 24 beers in 24 hours

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On April 24, some University students will partake in a decades-old tradition, “Newman’s Day,” in which participants drink 24 beers in 24 hours.

The tradition, especially popular at the University, comes from an apocryphal quote attributed to actor Paul Newman: “24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not.”

“All my friends are celebrating,” said Anyssa Chebbi ’18, who does not drink. Last year,

her friends bought a 24-pack of beer and drank it throughout the course of the day.

“It’s going to be nice outside,” she said, adding that she expects they will celebrate in a courtyard near their dorm.

Sources revealed that some eating clubs are set to celebrate the event, providing beer for those who wish to partake, although none of the eating club officers have officially verified this.

Hannah Paynter ’19, president of Cloister Inn, wrote in an email that her eating club “does not endorse or condone Newman’s

Day in any way.”

Tower Club and Charter Club declined to comment. All other eating clubs did not respond to request for comment.

Newman’s Day celebrations at the University date back more than a decade.

Although the tradition started at Bates College in the 1970s, the earliest mentions of Newman’s Day in The Daily Princetonian are found in an article from 2002, detailing student and faculty reactions to the festivities. One student, Pete Cioni ’04, recalled a student in the previous year who “stood up, turned to face his seat

and urinated on it for ‘nearly a minute’” before turning around and sitting “in his own mess” in class. Colonial Club hosted the band The Holy Smokes, a performance which included setting a guitar on fire.

In an attempt to curb participation in this drinking game, the student-run Alcohol Coalition Committee began multiple initiatives in the spring of 2002.

The initiatives carried over to the following semester when 500 posters with images of stomach pumps on them were posted around the school on Nov. 4.

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had become so notorious among the local police department and the Department of Public Safety that borough police lieutenant Dennis McManimon expressed surprise when the police department’s only actions on Newman’s Day in 2004 were “to cite two students who were caught with beer on the sidewalk.”

In 2004, Paul Newman’s attorney wrote a letter to the University stating that the actor was “disturbed by the use of his name in conjunction with this alcohol-related event” and that he “would like to bring an end to See NEWMAN’S page 3

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said. “I thought it would be a very simple couple of comments here and there, but it turned out to be pretty heated.”

Many of the protests against calendar reform came from faculty members concerned with having adequate time to conduct research before they have to begin preparing for classes, considering the new calendar would make the summer break begin a few days to a week earlier.

“For those of us who get a large percent of our research done over the summer months, that’s a not-so-insignificant cost,” philosophy professor Thomas Kelly said.

Kelly and other professors were skeptical of how effective Wintersession would be at providing a worthwhile experience for students.

“I worry that we’re a little bit overly optimistic about Wintersession,” Kelly said.

“I think it’s quite difficult in practice to give undergraduates intellectually valuable experiences, and two weeks is not that much time to do that.”

Professor Elizabeth Harman, also of the philosophy department, argued that the current calendar is very helpful to faculty members with children, allowing them to get work and preparation done when their children go off to school. She also stated that Wintersession would have a negative effect on the faculty as well. “[Wintersession] is a huge loss to faculty productivity,” Harman said. “Some of my colleagues are a little embarrassed to offer this as a reason because it seems selfish, but [the proposal] is just bizarre to me. We’re a serious research university; research is very important to us. We shouldn’t diminish it.”

In response to the protests, other professors remarked that the benefits for the students in the new calendar far outweighed the possible problems that could arise, especially when it came to lower-income students who are expected to come home for winter break, come back for January exams, and go home again.

“I think this is a serious disadvantage to many of our numerous new types of students that we’re trying to recruit to come to Princ-

eton who are disadvantaged socioeconomically,” said molecular biology professor Elizabeth Gavis. “This is a huge imposition on them.”

Other professors noted that the vast majority of students support the changes to the calendar, which speaks to the necessity of reform.

“I would like to express my strong support in favor of the new calendar, which comes not so much from my personal opinions … but primarily from the overwhelming support I sense among our students,” said Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, chair of the department of chemical and biological engineering. “I think we really need to talk a little bit more on that. If the advantages [of the current calendar] were so great, I would expect that to ref lect in at least a significant fraction of the students being in favor of the current calendar.”

Dean of the College Jill Dolan took the stand brief ly to confirm to her fellow faculty members that USG had officially endorsed the reforms and had found strong student support for them.

USG Academics calendar chair Olivia Ott ’20 echoed

this.

“I was really excited to see it finally go through, and I feel great for students,” said Ott. “I think all the survey data we’ve done and most of the work we’ve done has shown that this was what students wanted to happen.”

Physics professor Steven Gubser suggested dividing the calendar reform discussion into two parts: having to do with Wintersession and not. The meeting stopped for a moment so President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and others could deliberate on whether or not that could be done.

“I think there are really two things being proposed here: One is to move exams before Christmas, and the other is to establish Wintersession,” Gubser said.

“I would like to see them treated differently because I think they require different levels of justification.”

The faculty voted on whether or not to divide the motion and rejected Gubser’s proposal, moving immediately to the vote.

The changes to the academic calendar will take place with the fall term of 2020, at the start of the 2020–21 academic year. Stu-

dents in the Class of 2021 will be the first to experience the new schedule, in their senior year.

Additionally, during the meeting the valedictorian and salutatorian were announced for the Class of 2018: Kyle Berlin and Katie Lim, respectively.

Other items on the agenda were the proposal for an undergraduate certificate in journalism, proposed changes to the undergraduate curriculum in the Department of Chemical and Biological engineering and the graduate course catalogue, and the curriculum of several other graduate departments. All of these proposals were approved unanimously.

“I’m very proud of Princeton; I’m proud of the faculty for voting in favor of [calendar reform] overwhelmingly,” Yee said. “It was very clear that this is something that is much needed.”

The calendar revisions to the Rules and Procedures of the Faculty were developed by the Ad Hoc Committee on Calendar Reform, chaired

by Gupta and staffed by Elizabeth Colagiuri, deputy dean of the college.

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Wa łę sa: My generation cannot think up the challenges of the new era POLAND

beyond nation states.

If we succeed, Wałę sa said, Continued from page 1 “they will say after our gen............. eration, they not only got rid ued his political activism of the evil order of the world throughout the 1980s, help- but they have also started a ing to establish the first non- new construction of a new communist government in order.”

Eastern Europe.

According to Wałę sa, Wałę sa’s Solidarity move- America must regain its ment is widely credited moral and spiritual leaderwith inspiring the peaceful ship, providing hope and a removal of communism in positive example rather than many Soviet satellite states waging war. such as East Germany, Bul“You are now the only garia, Czechoslovakia, and superpower,” said Wałę sa.

Hungary.

“You’ve seen what happened In 1990, Wałę sa became the in the world. You carry spefirst democratically elected cial responsibility for this president of the Republic of world.”

Poland. He pushed for closer Wałę sa specifically urged ties with the West and sup- the new generation to find ported Poland’s ascension the answers which will preinto the European Union vent an increase in war and (EU) and membership in the chaos.

North Atlantic Treaty Orga“You are the leaders of the nization (NATO). world,” he concluded. “I give During his talk, Wałę sa em- you what I think would be phasized that the new gen- useful to you, but you are eration of young leaders is the ones to work out the anliving in a drastically differ- swers.” ent world than his. The new Walesa’s lecture, titled generation, he argued, will “Solidarity in the XXI Cenneed to go beyond what their tury,” was sponsored by the predecessors have achieved.

Keller Center for Innovation “My generation cannot in Engineering Education, think up the challenges of Princeton Institute for Interthe new era because we are national and Regional Studweighed down by our experi- ies (PIIRS), and Princeton ences, experiences of war,” University Public Lectures.

Wałę sa said.

Free and open to the public, For Wałę sa, new technolo- the talk, labelled a ‘Fireside gies and globalization re- Chat,’ was held in McCosh 50 quire the younger generation at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April to create political structures 23rd.

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Newman’s Day was widely celebrated on campus in the 2000s.

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this tradition.”

Newman noted that the tradition was “particularly abhorrent” in light of his son Scott’s drug overdose death in 1978. His son struggled with alcoholism.

Newman also took out a fullpage ad in the ‘Prince’ discouraging students from drinking.

Following Newman’s plea, the University took steps to limit Newman’s Day festivities. The following week, Public Safety officers confiscated around 400 Newman’s Day shirts, which read, “If found, please return to McCosh Health Center” and the quote, “24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not.”

A group of students had paid $2,000 for the shirts and planned on selling them. Later, the University returned the shirts to the students.

Dean of Undergraduate Studies Kathleen Deignan justified the confiscation of the shirts, citing “concern that the T-shirts were designed to be used as paraphernalia for a dangerous drinking activity that has led to the hospitalization of students in the past.”

After 2004, when Newman wrote a letter to the University, celebration festivities died down. The following year, the

Student Health Advisory Board launched a campaign called “Livesmart” to promote responsible drinking habits among students for Newman’s Day. SHAB handed out orange wristbands in Frist Campus Center and flyers explaining how to be smart about drinking.

The next year, residential college deans sent an email to students stating, “Newman’s Day is not a longstanding Princeton tradition, and you are risking a permanent disciplinary record if you participate.” This did not stop many students.

“I’m an extremely intelligent and academic person involved in many activities,” said one sophomore, who attended three classes during the celebration, “but there are certain times when you’ve just got to be a meathead.”

Some students, holding cans of beer, played whistleball in the courtyard of 1903 Hall. Others sold Newman’s Day shirts.

By 2007, Newman’s Day on campus was dying down. The ‘Prince’ reported that only one student got in trouble for having an open container of alcohol.

Many students interviewed for this article said they did not know about Newman’s Day, or if they did, did not know anyone celebrating it on campus — suggesting that the University’s efforts to stop the event have been partly successful.

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Everything in its context: Waltzing in a big room Allison Huang

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’ve been discovering how to use space.

I spent the Princeton Pianists Ensemble “Hell Week” playing in rehearsals in preparation for the spring show ‘Act II.’ I am in a two-piano, four-hands ensemble (one pianist per piano) with another pianist, Amanda Cheng ’20, playing my own arrangement of “Waltz” from Khachaturian’s Masquerade Suite. I never heard this piece before I arranged it.

When arranging, one encodes sound onto the page.

The music is thus alive in the arranger’s mind, already formed and shaped by their imagination, before it is played. When rehearsals swung around, I walked into our small rehearsal room knowing how I wanted everything to sound, and I was able to execute this conception. I developed this piece based on my experiences performing solo piano for almost fourteen years.

I quickly learned that the piece we had honed in our small rehearsal room morphed and changed when played on the stage.

What I had learned as a solo pianist did not prepare me

for this. We moved from a small room in which we could easily hear each other (the two pianos essentially functioned as one instrument) to McAlpin Rehearsal Hall, a performance room able to seat a hundred people and where the sound bounced around the room when we played on two D Concert Grand Steinways.

We were commandeering animals in their own right.

When I first played in the hall at an in-house rehearsal, the space was completely unfamiliar. All of a sudden, Amanda and I were fifteen feet farther apart. I felt like I was glancing over an interminable, glossy black distance as Amanda and I tried to match sound for sound. We could not. The “Waltz” began to slow and slow, lagging further until it no longer danced.

I spent the last week learning to accustom myself to McAlpin, the new environment and space for our piece. We adapted and integrated much more pronounced movements into our playing, which allowed us to communicate the waltz-step to one another and also to ‘fill in’ the space between us and the audience and ‘take ownership’ of the large pianos before us (movement was a big no-no when I played solo). Because we wouldn’t be able to hear one another otherwise, we increased the volume of some moments in the piece

that I had hoped to be soft; thus, the revised section evoked a different color from what I had planned.

In order to accommodate the space, we dissolved the mandates I had formed from my experiences as a soloist and from our rehearsals in our small classroom. This was the same music on the page in theory, but it became something different in the context in which it was played.

In the process of adapting my arrangement to the McAlpin stage, I first resisted. I thought we were twisting the music to suit its context and thus distorting its original form. The way in which the piece changed made it into its own species entirely. Luckily — and I say luckily because my stubbornness would have been to my detriment — I was forced to accept the changes. Gradually, I found enjoyment in the performance of this new species, too.

I think that adapting my music to the context in which it would be performed is like transplanting a plant into new soil.

A head of lettuce will grow differently depending on the nutrients of the soil (or nutrient solution) it is in.

If the soil is nitrogen-rich, the lettuce tends to produce more leaves (which is nice for the consumer). If the soil is potassium-poor, the heads of the lettuce close up as the leaves grow and

thus cause the lettuce to be heavier (which is ideal for the farmer). Transplanting can yield new products and new experiences. I suppose this image could be extended to this campus community: many of us have been uprooted from our past lives and replanted here, a context that has yielded its own unusual and distinct fruit. Some of us may move on from here, yet we would do well not to forget who we are before we go.

At least for this PPE concert, considering context has inevitably opened up the question of purpose: Why was I so resistant to adapting my piece? I hesitated because I had not anticipated these changes, and because they went against much of what I had learned as a soloist. But this is the Pianists Ensemble, and I do not walk onto the stage as a soloist. I take as much as I have learned from solo piano as I can, and then my partner and I must drift and change according to the context. In those moments backstage, when my heart is pounding before we walk onstage together, I am comforted to remember the soil from which we came from and the f lower (or lettuce) that we will grow to be.

Allison Huang is a first-year from Princeton, N.J. She can be reached at ah25@princeton. edu.

McCosh should increase access to sexual health services Morgan Lucey

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n recent months, the University has implemented major reforms in student health care for Counseling and Psychological Services. These reforms include reducing wait times from three weeks to six days and employing a team of professionals trained to handle eating disorders. These actions are major steps forward in making the environment of the University more inclusive and helpful to students struggling with their mental health, but there are other aspects of the student health care system that need to be reformed. Specifically, the sexual health department at McCosh Health Center desperately needs to improve its accessibility and breadth of services.

At the time that this article was written, the next available appointment at McCosh for a birth control consultation appointment was two weeks in the future. This is a similar period to the wait times for CPS before reforms were enacted. Furthermore, two weeks only represents the time to obtain a prescription for the pill form of hormonal contraception. If one is seeking another form of contraception that requires a more invasive procedure, such as an intrauterine de-

vice or Nexplanon, there is an even longer wait time for the procedure after the initial consultation. Thus, students are discouraged from making responsible choices about safe sex because of the wait time for appointments. Decisions about becoming sexually active rarely occur over that long of a time span. By the time of an appointment, the student is likely to already have become sexually active.

Despite the available contraception methods — or perhaps, because of their inaccessibility — mistakes happen, which is why methods in emergency contraception exist. These methods are effective up to 72 hours after unprotected sex but are most successful within 24 hours of intercourse. Emergency contraception is available at McCosh but only with significant barriers. Although the clinic is open 24 hours a day, emergency contraception is only available during business hours, when a doctor or nurse trained in sexual healthcare is available. To obtain emergency contraception, one has to endure a conversation with a nurse or doctor about safe sex. When one is so vulnerable regarding their sexual activity, having to speak with a relative stranger at length about it only makes an already uncomfortable situation worse.

To provide a patient with the appropriate care, a physician or nurse must under-

stand the nature of why the patient is seeking emergency contraception, which is most easily accomplished through conversation. However, this should be done efficiently and impersonally, without any sense of judgment, so that the patient does not feel further embarrassment or vulnerability regarding the situation.

Even after going through this conversation, obtaining the morning-after pill still costs $30. Emergency contraception is available at the CVS on Nassau Street without such a confrontation, but the price is raised to about $50. Neither price is trivial nor affordable for the entire student population. Based on the manufacturing and distribution of the morning-after pill, it may be difficult to lower the price. However, this does not account for the fact that McCosh fails to offer subsidization or a payment plan to students with financial need, barring them from what may be a crucial step in reproductive autonomy. Seeking the morning-after pill is the responsible choice after having unprotected sex and should be encouraged by the student health care system.

At the time that this article was written, the wait time for an STI/STD screening appointment was only four days. This indicates a recognition of the fear and apprehension one faces if they believe they might have an STI/STD, through

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limiting the time one has to wait to obtain an answer.

McCosh should be lauded for maintaining this low wait time. However, there is not widespread understanding among the student body about how the screening appointment operates. If one tests positive, they receive a phone call with test results. If one tests negative, they never receive a follow-up. Many students are left to wonder because they aren’t informed that no news is good news. McCosh should provide a more thorough explanation of how their services work to avoid such speculation and apprehension.

The lack of accessibility to McCosh’s sexual health services discourages students from making responsible decisions about their sexual health and wellness.

The current system serves to increase stigma and discomfort when seeking both preemptive contraception and emergency contraception. Furthermore, the failure to disseminate knowledge about how such services work only heightens fear and apprehension in the student body. Thus, the same level of effort that went into the much-needed mental health reform should also go into reforming sexual health services.

Morgan Lucey is a junior studying neuroscience from Scottsdale, Ariz. She can be reached at mslucey@princeton.edu.

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Tyler: Princeton ‘spirit’ refers to building up the U. community

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From left: Maia Craver, Katie Tyler, Gaby Joseph, Jordan Thomas, Diego Negrón-Reichard, Allison Berger, Zoë Anne Toledo, Christina Onianwa, Soraya Morales Nuñez.

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Berger, emphasizing the importance of making strong relationships with people to the University experience.

Onianwa is an ecology and evolutionary biology major also pursuing a certificate in Spanish. She is the Battalion Executive Officer for the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) Unit Rutgers/ Princeton, and will be the first female and African American to commission as a naval officer from Princeton through NROTC. From Dumfries, Virginia, Onianwa has led several groups on campus, including serving as president of the Princeton Association of Black Women (PABW) and co-president of Blackbox.

Onianwa could not be reached for comment at the time of publication.

From San Juan, Puerto Rico, Negrón-Reichard concentrates in the Wilson School. He is a member of the Wilson School’s Advisory Board and treasurer of Princeton Advocates for Justice, in addition to serving the Undergraduate Student Government as a U-Councilor and a member of the Projects Board.

“It felt like the work I’ve done on campus had been recog-

nized,” said Negrón-Reichard, after finding out that he had won. “But most importantly, it felt like a nod to all the people I’ve worked with in the past and all the teams that I’ve had the honor to be a part of.”

Joseph, from Bellevue, Washington, is majoring in molecular biology with a certificate in engineering biology.

Besides playing for the varsity men’s soccer team, he has served on the Executive Leadership Team of Princeton Faith and Action (PFA), and is an active member of Athletes in Action. Among other activities, Joseph is part of Profound Ivy, Princeton’s minority student athlete mentorship program.

“The most impactful thing for me at Princeton was seeing people that were not just committed to themselves but committed to others; their friends, their teammates, their classmates,” said Joseph. “People who have inspired me through their desire to spend time with and aid others.”

Thomas is from Newark, New Jersey, and is a Wilson School concentrator with certificates in Portuguese language and culture and African American studies. He has served on multiple advisory boards and as an RCA in Rockefeller College, where the dining hall’s “JD Thomas Clusters” are named in his honor. Thom-

as was also selected as a 2018 Rhodes Scholar.

“Finding out that I won was such a special moment because [this] is one of those very particular type of awards where it wasn’t me advocating for myself,” said Thomas, “but rather people who believed that I had contributed to the University in such a way that encouraged them to advocate for and nominate me.”

Tyler, a Near Eastern Studies major with a certificate in Arabic, is from Rye Brook, New York. She has been heavily involved in CONTACT Princeton, a crisis and suicide prevention hotline, and was named Volunteer of the Year by CONTACT of Mercer County. Katie is also an OA leader and Leave No Trace Master Educator and a head fellow in the Writing Center, among other activities.

“It means a lot to me that I’ve gained so much from Princeton,” said Tyler. “For me, having the Princeton ‘spirit’ refers to building up the Princeton University community and expanding the University’s reach to include the community beyond the Fitz-Randolph Gate.”

Craver is a senior from Irvine, California, concentrating in psychology. She is a captain on the varsity women’s track and field team and competes in the heptathlon. Among her other campus activities, she

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works in the Princeton Baby Lab, a developmental psychology research lab that focuses on understanding how children learn language.

“The ‘spirit’ of Princeton to me means finding ways to make Princeton work for you and being a person who can help others find the best way to make Princeton work for them,” Craver wrote in an email.

“I have met people along the way that have been able to help me learn and understand that there isn’t a set way to navigate Princeton, you have to make your own way, but regardless of how you do it, everyone can do it,” wrote Craver. “And I think being able to instill that confidence into people around you is what the ‘spirit’ of Princeton is all about.”

Nuñez, a senior from Grand Junction, Colorado, is majoring in politics and earning certificates in Latin American Studies and History and the Practice of Diplomacy. Nuñez has been heavily involved in activism on campus, serving as an executive board member for Princeton Latinos y Amigos, president of the Princeton QuestBridge Scholars Network, founding member of Princeton Advocates for Justice, member of the Princeton DREAM team, and USG Class of 2018 Senator, among other

activities.

One event that had a strong impact on Nuñez was a Latino Alumni Conference that took place in the spring of her junior year, which gave her the opportunity to meet many accomplished Latino alumni and showed her the deep legacy that Latinos have on Princeton’s campus.

“Princeton has really enabled me to participate in activities that allow me to give back to others in some capacity,” said Nuñez. “It was very inspiring to see how these alumni have used their Princeton education to give back to their communities along with the Princeton community.”

Toledo, a member of the Navajo (Diné) Nation from Long, Utah, is an Architecture Concentrator. Toledo is president of Natives at Princeton and of the Ivy Native Council, and has led efforts to organize Native American Heritage month, including setting up a tipi, inviting Native speakers to campus, and working with the dining hall staff at Whitman to host a themed dinner. She has been involved in numerous student groups and has served as a member of the Campus Iconography Committee.

Toledo could not be reached for comment at the time of publication.

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Rugby joins PCAN in fight against cancer MEN’S AND WOMEN’S RUGBY

By Chris Murphy Head Sports Editor

Sometimes, the best of sports is not the games on the field, but the off-the-field causes that unite the teams.

The Princeton men’s and women’s rugby football club offered a great example of that this weekend.

On a beautiful Saturday afternoon, six teams — four collegiate and two high school — joined together at Rickerson Field to take part in the 2018 Rickerson Cup. The event, named after its founding chair and former Princeton rugby player Stuart Rickerson ’71, features three rugby events in one afternoon and unites men’s and women’s rugby teams from New Jersey and the surrounding area. High school teams kick off the event when they compete for the New Jersey High School State Championship, followed by the Princeton Women’s Sevens Invitational and the New Jersey State Men’s Rugby Championship. Needless to say, the afternoon features an actionpacked slate of rugby matches that never disappoint.

But even more important than the state championship

game and both collegiate tournaments is the cause that brings them together. Now in its 12th edition, the Rickerson Cup teams up with the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network to raise awareness for the disease and money to help find a cure. Through the efforts of Rickerson and Elaine Bigelow ’10, tournament director and former Princeton women’s rugby captain, the Rickerson Cup has raised over $400,000 to aid in the fight against pancreatic cancer.

Bigelow’s father, Doug Bigelow, died of the disease.

“You don’t need to study biostatistics to conclude that the more research funding deadly diseases get, the fewer deaths result,“ said Bigelow.

“Pancreatic cancer is near the bottom of both private and federal research funding.”

Rickerson also has personal relations to the disease. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in early 2005, yet he has continued to fight, all the while helping improve the chances of other pancreatic cancer patients. He said that he hopes, with continued funding, “we can get the fiveyear survival rate above single digits and allow many more

people diagnosed to lead longer and happier lives.”

The Rickerson Cup showcases the continued effort Princeton athletic teams put into striving to be “in the nation’s service.” Each year, the Cup is organized with the help of students on both the men’s and women’s team. This season, sophomores Owen Tedford and Dani Peters led the way in planning and organizing the Rickerson Cup, working alongside Rickerson and Bigelow.

Tedford is a sports writer for The Daily Princetonian.

“It’s been really amazing to see the support of this cause grow every year with each subsequent tournament,” said Peters. Starting in 2010, donations for the Rickerson Cup have increased every year except for one, with the larg-

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est single year accumulation being over $60,000 in 2016.

Furthermore, many New Jersey teams have made the trip to the Rickerson Cup. To date, nine collegiate rugby teams in the state have attended the cup, with five making the New Jersey State finals and three different teams winning it.

The event has led not only to more competition between instate rugby rivals, but it has also allowed the camaraderie between the teams to grow even stronger. Following the Rickerson Cup, the captain of the Seton Hall Pirates — one of the teams in attendance — explained, “This was definitely a really unique and fun experience. We can’t wait to come back next season.”

When asked about his personal attachment to the Rickerson Cup, Tedford noted,

“Having played rugby for nearly eight years now, seeing these kinds of festivals of the sport mean a lot to me, as they are truly all about celebrating the game we share.

Win or lose, it doesn’t matter.

It’s more about the community that the sport shares and fostering those connections.”

The Rickerson Cup continues to be one of Princeton’s best sporting traditions in spring. Bridging the gap between current students and alumni, fostering community between the various teams of New Jersey, and uniting hundreds in a fight against cancer are what help make the event special every year. And with the number of donations continuing to rise, the Princeton rugby community is well on its way to helping PCAN double survival rates by 2020.

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Junior Andrew Slade looks to evade a tackler during the men’s Rickerson Cup final against Seton Hall.

Senior captains Mark Goldstein (left) and Billy Haynes (middle) pose with Stuart Rickerson ’71 (right) following the Tigers’ Rickerson Cup victory.

Men’s lacrosse stays alive in Ivy playoffs

MEN’S LACROSSE

By Owen Tedford Senior Staff Writer

On Saturday the men’s lacrosse team (7–5, 2–3 Ivy League) traveled up to Cambridge to take on Harvard (7–5, 2–3) in its last road Ivy League game of the season. The game started slowly with only three goals scored in the first quarter, but by halftime, behind a six-goal second quarter, the Tigers took a 7–3 lead, a script similar to its last two wins by building halftime leads that it is then able to hold for the rest of the game as Princeton would go on to win 15–10.

The Tigers were led by their usual cast of characters: sophomore attack Michael Sowers, senior midfield Austin Sims, and freshman midfield Chris Brown. Sowers had seven points on the day (one goals, six assists), Sims had four goals, and Brown had three goals. Sims and Brown also each added one assist. Sowers broke the single-season record for assists on Saturday, reaching 54. He is also

second in points for a season with 79, behind none other than himself — his own record of 82 from last season. Brown joined Sowers and Ryan Boyle ’04 as the only Princeton freshman ever with at least 15 goals and 15 assists. Lastly, both Sims and sophomore attack Phillip Robertson both went over the 30-goal mark for the season as they tie at 31 for the team lead.

A new name to make an important contribution to the team was backup sophomore goalie Jon Levine.

Levine had to come on to the game in a hostile, proHarvard stadium when starting senior goalie Tyler Blaisdell was called for a cross-check. Without any warmup, Levine had to come on the field with the Tigers only up 10–9 and hold strong in the net while Harvard had a two-man advantage. Levine held strong against a shot from 10 yards out and then in a one-onone on the doorstep from Kyle Anderson, the Crimson’s leading scorer.

Coming into the game,

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the Tigers needed a win to stay alive in the race for the Ivy League tournament.

Princeton needs to win its last game of the year and then hope Brown loses against Dartmouth. Dartmouth came close to helping Princeton this week when it played Penn, almost

pulling off the upset, but the Big Green lost in double overtime 10–9. Dartmouth will be looking for its first Ivy League win this season.

This weekend, the Tigers will host Cornell on Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium in their last game of the season. This game

will be a good test to see what Princeton has learned since its mid-season slump, when it lost three league games in a row. The game will be available to watch on ESPN3 or the Ivy League Network and can be listened to live on the TuneIn App.

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Freshman Luke Crimmins helped to ensure the Tigers stayed alive in the Ivy League Tournament race.

Stat of the Day

$200 million The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network hopes to raise this amount of money by 2020 to help double the survival rate for those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

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