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Judge rules in favor of Microsoft, U. in DACA lawsuit against Trump admin

Lawsuit filed in November challenges Trump administration’s effort to end program protecting undocumented immigrants who arrived as children

By Sarah Warman Hirschfield and Benjamin Ball Associate News and video Editor, Staff Writer

On Tuesday, a third federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s justification for ending the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program, which

protects undocumented immigrants who came to the country illegally as children, known as “dreamers.”

“DACA’s rescission was arbitrary and capricious because the Department failed adequately to explain its conclusion that the program was unlaw-

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solve the uncertainty facing DACA beneficiaries, it unequivocally rejects the rationale the government has offered for ending the program and makes clear that the DHS acted arbitrarily and capriciously.”

He urged Congress to enact a “permanent solution” that offers dreamers the protection and the certainty that they deserve.

“We hope this decision will help provide new incentive for the legislative solution the country and these individuals so clearly deserve,” wrote Microsoft President Brad Smith in a statement. “As the business community has come to appreciate, a lasting solution for the country’s DREAMers is both an economic imperative and a humanitarian necessity.”

Sanchez, a senior and a co-plaintiff in the suit, said she has been frustrated and disappointing to see minimal concrete action from policymakers to provide permanent policy solution in the aftermath of the DACA repeal.

“It’s been even more taxing to fight for a polON CAMPUS

Inclusion Campaign

hosts forum about segregation in NJ

By Rose Gilbert Senior Writer

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“I felt their presence. It is imagination, but you need to believe something like this,” said Ozbilici.

By Katja Stroke-Adolphe Contributor

Associated Press photojournalist Burhan Ozbilici, winner of the World Press Photo of the Year in 2017 for his photograph of the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov by off-duty Turkish police officer Mevlüt Mert Altintas, spoke at the University on Tuesday

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about journalistic honesty and integrity, and the experience of photographing the assassination.

Ozbilici was meeting a friend at an art gallery.

When Karlov began to speak, he moved closer to take photos, and saw a man standing behind him, who he thought might be a bodyguard. He returned to his friend, telling him

Senior columnist Samuel Aftel urges students to follow their academic passions and two guest contributors reveal lament the lack of Latin American course options.

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the ambassador was a good man, and then there was gunfire, and he saw the ambassador’s body lying on the floor.

“I got really scared, but I did not panic,” said Ozbilici. “I immediately understood the incident was very important, historical, so I could be killed or injured, but I had to stay as a jourSee LECTURE page 6

On Tuesday evening, over fifty people gathered in Arthur Lewis Auditorium to participate in a forum on segregation in New Jersey, fifty years after the Kerner Commission Report, the Passage of the Fair Housing Act, and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The discussion focused on the role of racially diverse suburbs in determining the future of civil rights and integration in both New Jersey and the United States.

Led by Douglas Massey, a Woodrow Wilson professor and co-author of “American Apartheid,” and Myron Orfield, the director of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity and author of “Metropolitics,” the forum also featured a panel of local leaders in an effort to bridge the gap between academia and practice.

Among the local leaders was Dr. Diane Campbell, Executive Dean for

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icy we already had and that was taken away in an unfounded, purely capricious manner. Within that context, today’s decision left me with a variety of emotions. The better opinion would have been to immediately restore all of the original DACA, as the current decision prolongs the uncertainty that has terrorized undocumented youth once again,” she said. “While the news today brings some relief, I know that the fight for justice is unfortunately far from over, yet undocumented migrants are far from giving up.”

Appointed by George W. Bush, Bates is the first Republican appointee to rule against Trump’s move to wind down DACA. In the brief, Bates also opened up the possibility that the Trump administration could be ordered to take new applications for the renewal of DACA benefits, filed on or before Oct. 5, 2017, by those whose benefits were set to expire on or before March 5, 2018. No prior judge has required that new applications be taken.

Student Affairs at Mercer County Community College, who experienced segregation firsthand during her childhood.

“When I think of segregation, I think of my own young life,” Campbell said.

“When I was six months old,” she continued, “my mother took me up in her lap and got on a bus and moved from South Carolina to Trenton, New Jersey. We had to ride at the back of the bus. When we got to the Mason-Dixon line my mother made a point of standing up and moving and, for the first time in her life, she rode in the front of the bus.”

Campbell said that New Jersey still deals with issues of segregation, adding that segregation “hasn’t gone away, so let’s get into it and give it some of our quality attention.”

Professor Douglas Massey, who has studied segregation for the entirety of his adult academic career, called New Jersey one of the See FORUM page 5

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COURTESY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

The government has 90 days to “better explain its rescission decision,“ according to the opinion of the Honorable John Bates.

ful,” U.S. District Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote in his opinion. “Neither the meager legal reasoning nor the assessment of litigation risk provided by DHS to support its rescission decision is sufficient to sustain termination of the DACA program.”

In November, the University filed the joint complaint in federal court in Washington, D.C., alongside Maria De La Cruz Perales Sanchez ‘18 and Microsoft, launching a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s ending of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

The government has 90 days to “better explain its rescission decision,” according to the opinion.

After that, “the administration’s order to rescind DACA will be vacated.”

“We are delighted that the court agreed with us that the government’s termination of the DACA program “was unlawful and must be set aside,” wrote President Christopher L. Eisgruber ‘83 in a statement. “While the decision does not fully re-

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most segregated states in America, a “microcosm of the nation.”

Massey emphasized that segregation concentrates both poverty and aff luence, in turn creating both highly disadvantaged and highly privileged neighborhoods whose residents have widely disparate access to good schools, safe environments, and opportunity.

Myron Orfield stressed that the future of integration in New Jersey and the rest of the nation lies on the success of racially-diverse suburbs, which he characterized as well-run and crucial for integrating schools. Orfield explained that these communities are threatened by steering -- the practice of real estate agents “steering” black and latino families away from white neighborhoods -- and unequal access to prime loans.

He added that white f light and the creation of wealthy white neighborhoods with low tax rates and large tax bases also threatens the stability of racially-diverse suburbs.

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we’ve got some integration now; the bad news is that if we don’t act, it’s not going to last,” Orfield said.

Orfield added that tax-sharing programs can bolster these vital, integrated communities by decreasing their tax rates while increasing the quality of their public services, like schools.

Predictably, residents of wealthier, whiter suburbs tend to oppose this tax reform.

However, Orfield said that these tax reforms are still easier to get through the legislature than raising income or sales taxes because the reforms don’t directly affect large corporations.

Orfield said that, while highly segregated, New Jersey has immense potential for successful integration efforts.

“Nowhere in the country is there a more positive possibility for change,“ said Orfield.

“It’s hard. Civil rights is hard because it’s based on a struggle.”

The Inclusion Campaign, which works to combat segregation, is holding an organizing and strategy meeting on Thursday, May 17, 6:00 p.m. at Mill One, Hamilton.

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He could not understand what the gunman was saying, though he later learned the gunman was speaking in Arabic. As the gunman moved, and then returned to the body and fired again, Ozbilici’s fear increased, but he had to stay calm, he said. He thought of his heroes, of the colleagues who had lost their lives in conflicts, and of his father who taught him his values.

“I felt their presence. It is imagination, not logic, but you need to believe something like this,” Ozbilici said.

According to Ozbilici, what was unique about the photos was that he had captured the assassin and the assassinated in the same photo both before and after the assassination.

“It is representing the world we are living in the dangers we are facing, the biggest dangers of our day of terrorism, of course it

is not a beautiful picture,” Ozbilici explained about the photo of the gunman.

Ozbilici said he prefers the photo of the ambassador speaking.

“The ambassador was a good man, very honest, he didn’t want to have a bodyguard because he had self confidence,” noted Ozbilici. “He was a victim of the Syrian War. The gunman said, ‘You kill us in Aleppo and I kill you here.’”

As he travels around the world, Ozbilici is repeatedly asked how he could do what he did. “I repeatedly said, I’m not a hero, there is nothing extraordinary in my life, but life, as we say, in English, is not always honey and milk,” Ozbilici said.

Ozbilici related the support of his colleagues at the Associated Press and recognition he was given after taking the photos.

“I am really very proud that people recognize and value my work,” said Ozbilici. “I am a dreamer and I am still dreaming.”

As a journalist for the

Associated Press, he tries to honor his father’s teachings of doing good work.

For Ozbilici, journalism is a humanitarian mission.

When working on a job, he always tries to help people, such as carrying the injured.

“AP really gave me the opportunity to work hard,” explained Ozbilici. “I prefer to work hard, and during all my career from my childhood, I’ve tried to invest in values: moral values, good education, good information, freedom, independence, and solidarity.”

The lecture was sponsored by the Humanities Council, the Department of Art & Archaeology, the Program in European and Cultural Studies, the Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Ferris Seminars in Journalism.

The lecture took place in 101 McCormick on Tuesday, April 24 at 4:30 p.m.

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Forget money and study what you love Sam Aftel

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pril marks the exciting — but also terrifying — time of year when fellow A.B. sophomores must declare their concentration. Some sophomores have known what they want to major in throughout their time at Princeton. But other sophomores have been, and still remain, unsure of what they should declare. Unfortunately, many of these sophomores will halfheartedly select majors based on what they consider to be the safest choice — that is, the discipline that will guarantee them a suitable post-graduation job.

I believe the desperation for a high-paying career, which leads Princeton students to study what is profitable over what is fulfilling, is unhealthy.

Princeton has a welldocumented risk-aversion culture.

Princetonians often believe they must maximize their hard-won Ivy League degrees for such an education to have any long-term worth. Hence, why major in visual arts — even if it is your passion — when you can guarantee yourself a post-graduation, six-figure salary by majoring in economics?

The careerist mindset of Princeton students is cynical and counterproductive.

The worth of a Princeton education should be measured by the purpose and quality of life you achieve from your college experi-

ence. That is, the goal of Princeton students should be to study something that can guide them towards a fulfilling life.

Success need not be measured in dollars and cents.

Instead, success should be measured by the meaning and purpose of one’s life, including the meaning and purpose of one’s occupation. A teacher who educates and inspires disadvantaged students can experience a tremendous sense of meaning, despite receiving a low salary. Likewise, a Wall Street hedge fund manager who earns five million dollars a year could be miserable due to the job’s demanding hours.

Of course, I am not saying no one should major in lucrative fields like ECO or COS. If a student believes they will be the most fulfilled by working for Goldman Sachs or Google, by all means, they should study economics or computer science and pursue a successful career. But Princeton students are shortchanging themselves existentially if they only major in ECO or COS because these fields often guarantee a prosperous future. Many people in finance or technology find it difficult to obtain a sense of moral purpose from their professions. For example, if you do not love finance, it is very difficult to enjoy working grueling and lonely sixteen-hour days helping to maintain and increase the wealth of billionaires. Where’s the purpose and fulfillment in that?

Similarly, I believe the intellectualism and creativity of Princeton graduates should be harnessed

to make a social difference.

The amount of income accumulated by Princeton graduates does not impress me. If you use your Princeton education to only achieve financial prosperity, the meaning and intellectual importance of your Princeton education is destroyed. In other words, Princeton graduates have a tremendous opportunity and duty to redistribute the privilege bestowed upon them and the knowledge they have acquired.

Working on Wall Street does not necessarily mean you can’t do this. If you believe you can make a positive difference working in finance, you should major in economics and pursue a job in the field. But if you are just majoring in ECO and pursuing a career on Wall Street to make money, your Princeton education could’ve been more meaningfully employed elsewhere.

The notions of purpose and meaning have deeply impacted my experience at Princeton thus far. I recently declared my concentration in history after realizing that I want to (perhaps) pursue a career as a history professor. Although other career paths are tempting, such as those that do not require five to seven years of graduate school or those that pay really well, I always revert back to my love of history, academia, and the opportunity to be a professor.

Sure, as a history professor, if I am lucky enough to obtain a job, I will most likely never make an obscene amount of money, but that’s okay. The actual substance of a career —

that is, the intrinsic value of a job — is much more important to me than any extrinsic rewards. By majoring in history and seeking a career as an academic, I will be pursuing my intellectual passion and hopefully making a positive difference in my students’ lives and contributing to my field as a researcher.

Money has nothing on that.

Furthermore, the late and profoundly brilliant student writer Marina Keegan, a Yale graduate, penned a 2011 column about Yale students going into finance and consulting. In the piece, published in the Yale Daily News, Keegan lamented the fact that a substantial number of Yale graduates go into finance and consulting without considering a deeper purpose. She wrote, “to me there’s something sad about so many of us entering a line of work in which we’re not (for the most part) producing something, or helping someone, or engaging in something that we’re explicitly passionate about.” Princeton students, too, should consider this wise message.

All in all, majoring in a field that will lead to a lucrative profession is not per se unethical. But so many Princeton graduates too easily sell out to finance, consulting, technology, and other related fields without considering other, more meaningful options.

Life is short. Why not spend it doing something that fulfills you?

Samuel Aftel is a sophomore from East Northport, N.Y. He can be reached at saftel@princeton.edu.

Looking for Latin America in the history department Aly Kersley and Kate Reed

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n the fall of 2018, Princeton’s history department will offer sixtyfour courses. Of those courses, none are crosslisted with the Program in Latin American Studies.

Only one, a junior seminar open only to juniors in the history department, addresses a Latin American topic: U.S. Imperialism in the Modern Caribbean.

This dearth of courses is not a product of lack of demand for HIS/LAS classes.

In the Class of 2017, there were 26 students in the interdisciplinary Program in Latin American Studies. Enrollments in LAScrosslisted history classes — when those classes have been offered — have been consistently high, especially in those classes covering the modern period. The last time the survey course HIS/LAS 304: Modern Latin America since 1810 was offered, in spring 2016, 48 students enrolled. Latin American history seminars offered since then have often been filled to capacity, or nearly so.

When this issue was raised with history department faculty at a meeting to discuss the undergraduate program, the faculty members present seemed unaware of the lack of LAS courses. They responded to our concerns by referring to the tentative list of spring 2019 course offerings, which includes two Latin

American history courses.

However, this does not resolve either the immediate problem of next fall’s offerings, nor the more systemic issue at hand: how could one of the best history departments in the country fail to offer, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, any courses on Latin America?

Part of the problem stems from the lack of history faculty working on Latin America: only three history professors list “Latin America and the Caribbean” as one of their regions of interest. Of those professors, one will be on leave this coming year, and another has transitioned to teaching mostly global history.

The third, who is teaching the two courses offered next spring, will be leaving the University at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year.

This shortage of faculty, however, only speaks to a deeper problem. The history department overemphasizes both U.S. and European history at the expense of Latin American, African, and Asian history.

Tellingly, the department’s distribution requirements for concentrators include one class each in U.S., European, Pre-Modern, and “Non-Western” history. The distribution of comprehensive exams (taken by seniors after the submission of the senior thesis, and worth five percent of their departmental GPA) also reveals the department’s bias

towards the United States and Europe (to the department’s credit, it is considering revisions to the comprehensive exam system, but it is unclear what form these changes will take, and what fields will be offered). Under the current system, Latin American history concentrators take a comprehensive exam that covers the entire region, including both colonial and modern periods. There is one “African” exam and one “Asian” exam offered. European concentrators choose from exams covering Ancient Greece and Rome, Europe since 1700, Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Russia, and the United Kingdom. U.S. history concentrators take their exam on the post-independence United States. What does this say about how the department values the histories of different parts of the world? Is it a coincidence that the areas of the world that the department focuses on are predominantly white?

Princeton has historically been a place designed for white students and faculty members, and the department’s curriculum reflects this in its Anglo-American bias. To demonstrate our desire to break away from this history, the department must improve its coverage of people and parts of the world that have been traditionally marginalized by the discipline, through both courses and faculty hiring decisions.

It is not unreasonable to expect the University to hire more faculty and offer more courses in Latin American history. Brown University’s history department has eight faculty members focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean, and Yale’s has six. This coming fall, Brown will offer four undergraduate classes on Latin American history. Yale’s course offerings for fall 2018 have not yet been released, but three undergraduate Latin American history classes were offered this spring, and four were offered last fall. We believe that this is a valuable and informative comparison, given that all three institutions have similar undergraduate student bodies: 5,232 at Princeton; 5,453 at Yale; 6,670 at Brown.

Every region of the world deserves inclusion in Princeton’s history curriculum. Latin America comprises thirty-three countries and approximately 637 million people. Some of these countries are global economic powerhouses, some have been featured on the front page of The New York Times, and many have played central roles in global conflicts and the development and spread of ideas throughout history.

Any understanding of the history of our world is incomplete without knowledge of this region, and the courses offered by our history department should reflect that. The stories of the

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places and people in Latin America matter, just as much as those of the United States and Europe.

We care deeply about the history department, and want it to provide the best education possible to its students and the many non-concentrators that enroll in its classes. We feel that a more diverse and inclusive program of study is integral to that goal.

Aly Kersley and Kate Reed are juniors in the history department and Program in Latin American Studies. Aly is from Toronto, Canada, and can be reached at akersley@ princeton.edu. Kate is from Annapolis, Md., and can be reached at kreed@princeton. edu.

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Pooping in the shower is Princeton’s new normal: A letter to the Heads of Princeton University Daniel Bracho

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magine a crowded living space with bad plumbing, old hallways, and exposed pipes, where toilets overflow and make an unsanitary disaster, where human feces are found in the shower, urine found in trash cans, shower curtains removed as pranks, and then people of color and people of unprivileged socioeconomic backgrounds have to clean it all up.

You don’t have to imagine it to believe it. This place exists here at Princeton University, the number one school in the country.

Campbell Hall has been subject to various events in the only men’s bathroom of the entire hall.

There is only one bathroom that the entire hall has to share. Three toilets, three sinks, and four showers. A bathroom that constantly needs maintenance and cleaning because of its heavy usage, and therefore leaves a burden to facilities to have to constantly

maintain the bathrooms in a decent state. People may say, “Oh well, you just got a bad hall, you’ll draw into a better one next year,” but shouldn’t Princeton be embarrassed to have students living like this in their first or second year, especially since there is so much discrepancy in quality of dorms between one hall and another? It is unfair that some Princeton students get to reside in dorms that approach hotel-like quality while other students have to face situations like these.

This bathroom concern ridicules University Facilities workers, taking away the fact that they are human beings. Nowhere in their job description does it state that they regularly have to pick up human feces from the ground. It is ridiculous for anyone to have to clean human feces on almost a week-by-week basis off the shower floors.

Waking up incredibly early in their homes, about an hour away from Princeton, before the sun comes out and arriving to campus to have to face feces is com-

pletely unacceptable.

Facilities does an extraordinary job of maintaining the hall clean, but it has reached the point where even the best of cleaners can’t really change the appearance. I admire the work of Facilities to an enormous extent, and I cannot emphasize how valuable they are in this community.

Who knew that at a school like Princeton, Campbell residents would have to be interrogated by the staff of Rockefeller College to figure out who created this mess? Shouldn’t a school like Princeton already have this issue resolved? Even if the school has something like seminars or talks to preach cleanliness and how to keep our facilities safe, the problem isn’t about which student is doing this and who might be behind it all, but rather how the current conditions of the hall have lead to this.

Having conditions like these make it seem normal to be able to commit these horrendous acts. Just like it’s dirty in the hallways, it makes anyone think that

they can do the same in the bathroom or elsewhere in the hall. It’s ridiculous that it’s already become the “normal” thing to be accustomed to these bathroom disasters. The people who are committing the crime are equally as guilty as the University culture that allows this to happen in the first place.

The situation at Campbell Hall, at its core, is a public health issue. Toilets clog and overflow with feces, paper towels, plastic bags, and urine, covering the entire bathroom floor and staying like this for an entire weekend. Feces is found on the shower floors and stays like that for nearly a day; even if it is cleaned up, microscopic traces of feces still remain and are unsafe for those who shower barefoot. Toilet seats are incredibly dirty to the point where you cannot sit on them, even if you wipe them down. There is no ventilation in the bathroom as there are no open windows, and as the bathroom is located in the basement, there is barely any air circulation from the

bathroom door.

How can Princeton be okay with housing students here? Even if there were no bathroom problems, the building itself is incredibly old and not renovated, with exposed pipes that may be a hazard, unfinished painted walls, sinking staircases, only one water fountain for an entire hall, an old common room with limited resources, no laundry room, exposed wires, chipping paint, a dirty appearance, leaking pipes, and water damage, among other things.

I demand action and a response from the University to change this and resolve this situation — not by interrogating students on who’s responsible but by renovating the hall to avoid all this in the first place.

The University and students alike should be outright embarrassed to have a hall like this on campus.

Daniel Bracho is a first-year from Caracas, Venezuela. He can be reached at dbracho@ princeton.edu.

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exual Health and Wellness Services are a major and valued component of Medical Services at University Health Services, located in the McCosh Health Center. An opinion column published

by The Daily Princetonian on April 23, 2018 drew my attention. As the Director of Medical Services, I agree wholeheartedly with two of the primary points, that “the failure to disseminate knowledge about how such services work only heightens fear and apprehension in the student body,” and that there is always room for improving access to services. Therefore, I felt it important to respond by clearly communicating information about our approach to ensuring ready access to health care and a few of the specific services we offer.

Sexual Health and Wellness (SHAW) appointments are designed to provide confidential exams and counseling for the sexual and reproductive health needs of the patients we serve. We strive to be inclusive and nonjudgmental in providing

information and services.

To meet this objective, we engage in frequent staff trainings, case discussions, and offer support for individual professional development.

During SHAW appointments, we do not make assumptions, but instead ask questions about past history and future plans.

While this may feel invasive or judgmental to some, answers to these questions are the key to providing the best information for each student.

I feel it is important here to convey specific information about some of the many SHAW services available at the McCosh Health Center: Emergency contraception (ECP) is available 24/7 during the academic year.

This includes Plan B© (or its generic forms currently available at $13.00) and Ella©, a prescription-only emergency contraceptive pill (currently available at $33.00). ParaGard©, a copper intrauterine device, can also be used for ECP; however, it is only available during regular business hours. UHS has all of these options in stock and available for students, as one may be more effective than another depending

on each person and circumstance.

Unlike a pharmacy, we anticipate that some patients who request emergency contraception may have been involved in a non-consensual sexual encounter. Therefore, we ask personal questions that may be perceived as probing and judgmental, although that is not the intent. While we have heard concerns from a few students that asking about consensual encounters feels uncomfortable, we have also heard from many students that the benefits of asking this question far outweigh these concerns.

Long acting, reversible contraceptives (LARC), including intra-uterine devices and hormonal implants, involve invasive procedures that require informed decision-making and consent. LARC procedures are planned when possible to meet the unique needs of each patient and to minimize physical discomfort. No initial consultation is required; however, we find that most patients choose to take information and consider their options before scheduling a LARC procedure.

Condoms are available at

no cost at UHS, or 24/7 in a vending machine located in the McCosh entryway.

Non-latex condoms are also available for anyone with latex sensitivity.

Maintaining same-day availability for testing for STIs is a priority. Any student with symptoms or knowledge that they may have been exposed can be counseled and seen that day. We have tracking systems that ensure students are notified as soon as possible (including weekends) when a test result is reported as positive. If any student requests results, we will contact them with negative results. If there is any doubt, we encourage students to contact their clinician, whether that is by phone, through the secure MyUHS patient portal, or through email, although we will not send test results through regular email.

To help ensure that we achieve the highest standards possible, we at UHS take student feedback seriously. To that end, we have processes and procedures in place to take immediate action when a concern is reported. Recently, a group of student leaders, working collaboratively with us, developed a guide to

the comprehensive sexual health services available at UHS, which can be found online. We recently expanded our sexual health services based on feedback from students, and will continue to do so.

Not addressed in this response is current information regarding the effectiveness and other factors that may play into individual decision-making related to contraceptive options. I encourage anyone seeking evidence-based information on contraceptive options to explore the Bedsider website at https:// www.bedsider.org/.

UHS is a student health service with a primary mission to enhance learning and student success by advancing the health and well-being of our diverse University community.

Our staff is dedicated to serving students, and we continually stretch ourselves in providing high quality and accessible comprehensive services.

We appreciate hearing about students’ perceptions of our services, and I am available to discuss this or any concerns.

Jonathan R. Pletcher, MD Director, Medical Services

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Women’s Rowing plans to host the Virginia Cavaliers on Senior Day this Saturday

By Molly Milligan Staff Writer

The tenth-ranked Princeton open women’s rowing team returned to campus Saturday evening after a wild 36 hours that featured the Tigers’ only away race of the season. Princeton traveled to race No. 9 Virginia on Lake Monticello in Palmyra, Va. They came out of the weekend with an impressive win in the First Varsity Eight, who moved to 10–1 on the season.

The First Varsity Eight featured three sophomores, four juniors, and two seniors for the second consecutive weekend. The senior pair of coxswain Kate Elfers and two-seat Melissa Curtis were “amped” and “hyped” to face an always-speedy Virginia team in their last away race.

After a wobbly first five strokes, the Princeton varsity established their strong base speed and threw the first punch in what was shaping up to be a tight race.

Staying long and strong, the varsity moved away from Virginia as the race progressed, eventually gaining open water and finishing nine seconds before their competi-

tors. The crew felt like they had thrown down their most complete race yet, coming away with a dominating win against a talented UVA boat.

“We have to just keep getting faster,“ sophomore seven-seat Hadley Irwin said.

Princeton knows they’ll only face faster boats from now until the final race of the year. The Tigers will keep that thought in the back of their minds this week as they train on Lake Carnegie, working towards their goal of winning a third consecutive Ivy League championship.

Head Coach Lori Dauphiny was pleased to have her team race Virginia this season. The Cavaliers finished 11th at the NCAA Championship last May, just one place behind Princeton, so a close race was expected. Before hitting the water, Dauphiny noted to her rowers the historical significance of the day, highlighting the fact that this was Princeton’s first time ever racing in the state of Virginia and its first head-to-head regular season meeting with UVa. In the other boats, Princeton was chal-

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The Princeton 1V boat dominated the Cavaliers on Saturday, winning by 9 seconds.

lenged by a traditionally deep Virginia squad.

The closest margin of the day came in the Second Varsity Four, where Princeton’s lineup that featured four members of the Class of 2021 finished second by only three seconds.

The Second Varsity Eight was outpaced

by Virginia, who has proven to be one of the fastest boats in its class across the nation this season. Sophomore Erin Gray stroked the boat and ref lected on the race as a “great learning experience.” She mentioned that the boat

had “made some strides throughout the week to prepare for the race” and said that the rowers were especially pleased by their strong start to the race.

“The end of the piece could have been stronger and we will continue to work on our fitness to gain some seconds back,” Gray added.

This weekend, Princeton will face more strong competitors from outside the Ivy League: No. 13 Wisconsin and Syracuse. The Tigers will also celebrate Senior Day on Lake Carnegie for their final home

race of the season. The Second Varsity Eight currently features five senior rowers, so there is no doubt that crew will be fired up following their row at Virginia. Their underclassman boat-mate Gray said, “I am excited for Senior Day this weekend especially because the majority of the seniors on our team are in this boat (the 2V8+). I am honored to have opportunities to race with women who have so much experience.” Across the board, the open women hope to honor their seniors with wins this weekend.

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Amaechi stars, seniors on track ahead of Outdoor Track and Field’s Ivy League Championships

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The Men’s track team performed well at the Larry Ellis Invitation and now look ahead to Ivy League Heps.

By Harry Lord Contributor

Gearing up for the Ivy League Heptagonal (HEPS) Championships at University of Pennsylvania in two weeks, men’s and women’s track and field took to Weaver Stadium for the Larry Ellis Home Invitational this past weekend.

Freshman Obi Amaechi reset the school record for the third time in three meets, while,in their last home meet as Princeton

athletes, several talented seniors led the way on the track.

The Mike Brady Invitational Mile was the pick of the track action, as Assistant Coach at Princeton, Robby Andrews, headlined a high-caliber field. In front of an enthusiastic home crowd, Andrews narrowly missed out on a magical sub-4-minute mile, finishing with 4:00.51. Princeton’s experienced seniors were close behind, as Garrett O’Toole and Will Paulson showed their class to finish

just behind in 4:01.24 and 4:01.78 respectively.

When O’Toole took the Ivy League indoor mile title in February, he was followed by teammate Noah Kauppila in second. Paulson took silver over the longer 3000m on that day along with talented sophomore Conor Lundy. These athletes were all shooting for the sub-4 mile at the Larry Ellis meet.

“Having four guys on the team attempting sub-four speaks to how well Coach Vigilante and Coach Samara have prepared us,” ex-

plained O’Toole. Expressing his excitement ahead of the Ivy League HEPS, he assured The Daily Princetonian that “this meet showed our distance runners are looking great heading into the championship season.”

At Penn the stakes will be high, as O’Toole and his teammates fight to complete the “Triple Crown” of Ivy League titles for the year — Outdoor Track and Field, Indoor Track and Field, and Cross-Country.

Competition at the Larry Ellis Invitational had got underway on Friday with the distance events, as senior Josh Ingalls was the third collegiate finisher in the men’s 800m, and senior Melissa Reed impressed in the 5000m, recording 16:52 for a PR. In better conditions the next day, Princeton’s sprinters excelled. In the first event, the 4x100m relay, the women put together a series of smooth exchanges to run 47.13, a time just outside their season’s best. Shortly after, the men won the same race in a swift 40.50 seconds, the fastest time in the Ivy League this season.

With seniors Christina Walter for the 200m and Carrington Akosa for the 100m recording collegiate and personal bests on Saturday, it’s clear the short sprinters will be competitive in both the relays and individual events at HEPS. Walter ran an impressive 24.46 seconds while Akosa, Princeton’s most prolific Ivy League scorer of all time, looked powerful and relaxed, speeding away to a

time of 10.45 seconds. As fellow team captain Josh Freeman ’18 powered to a season’s best over the longer 400m in 47.63, it seems that — as usual — he and Akosa are rounding into form at exactly the right time.

Despite some remarkable performances by collegiate and professional athletes on the track, it was freshman thrower Obi Amaechi who ultimately stole the spotlight. In the sixth round, she unleashed a mammoth toss of 54.43 meters, adding to her own school record with the third best mark in Ivy League history. Amaechi has now broken the school record in every outdoor meet this season, demonstrating not just incredible raw talent, but the ability to compete consistently well.

With senior Kennedy O’Dell winning the hammer throw and taking fourth in both shot put and discus, it’s clear the throwing disciplines will be key to the women’s team’s success at HEPS and beyond.

For most athletes, the home meet was the final tune-up before an intense championship season that commences with the Ivy League Championships in a fortnight’s time. From the 100m to the mile, it’s clear the senior class will be pivotal in the upcoming weeks and sorely missed beyond graduation. While the teams compete for Ivy and NCAA honors, be sure to keep an eye on Obi Amaechi. Currently the 10th best thrower in the East, she looks set to continue an astonishing first season.

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } BASEBALL

Princeton baseball loses in doubleheader against Harvard Crimson

BY LAZARENA LAZAROVA

In a Tuesday doubleheader rescheduled from earlier this season, men’s baseball dropped a pair of games against Harvard. They fell 5 -1 in the first and 13 - 6 in the second, bringing their Ivy League record to 7-7. The team will face Harvard in the series finale Wednesday at 1 PM, continuing a busy stretch of nine games in nine days.

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