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Valedictorian Berlin, salutatorian Lim share advice for underclassmen

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Maia Hamin ’20 confers with Ferris Professor in Residence Joe Stephens after a meeting of JRN 400:The Media in America.

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Kyle Berlin ’18 is a Spanish and Portuguese major from Arroyo Grande, Calif.

Katherine Lim ’18 is a computer science major from Atherton, Calif.

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On Monday, April 23, University faculty accepted the nominations of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standings for the Class of 2018’s valedictorian and salutatorian.

Kyle Berlin ’18 was selected as the valedictorian for the Class of 2018. Berlin is a Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures major from the small town of Arroyo Grande, Calif., which Berlin said translates approximately and appropriately to “Big Ditch.”

Before coming to the University, Berlin participated in the Bridge Year Program in Peru, which piqued his interest in studying Spanish. He selected the major

during his semester abroad in Cuba.

“I realized that by declaring Spanish I would have a lot of flexibility, and in my experience everyone in the department is just really warm,” Berlin said.

Berlin will also receive certificates in creative writing, theater, and Latin American studies. In what he describes as one of his favorite projects at the University, Berlin crafted his senior thesis in theater around the theme of “the use of knowledge against crisis.”

To do this, Berlin organized a series of lectures

by Professor Burl Kylen entitled, “The Last Lecture Before Kingdom Come: A Brief Genealogy of Sunset Studies” about the impend-

U. approves new Asian-American studies certificate Senior Writer

After a forty year campaign from Asian American students, alumni, faculty, and staff, the University officially approved a certificate program in Asian American Studies on April 2nd. The establishment of the certificate, received with delight and tentative hope by students, marks a historic achievement and important beginning for a longer journey of establishing a thriving Asian American Studies field at the University.

“Never in my wildest dreams could we imagine that we could get this by the time I was a senior,” said Nicholas Wu ’18, former president of AASA, who has been involved in the campaign since his freshman year. Wu is former opinion editor at the Prince.

“Now we’re on the cusp of something really big,” Wu said.

While Asian American Studies classes have been offered in the past, such as Beth Lew Williams’ “Asian American History,” which attracted 100 students this past

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fall, the certificate creates an institutional home for Asian American Studies. This necessitates a mandate for the University to hire more faculty and provide a diversity of classes, according to Anne Cheng, professor of English and long-time advocate for Asian American Studies.

Previously, Asian American Studies was supported on an ad-hoc basis through visiting faculty and speakers, such as the Asian American Speaker Series. Now, as an established program, more attention can be paid toward developing a real curriculum and methodology of Asian American Studies. Cheng hopes that the certificate will work towards a 21st century model for the field.

The new certificate will not only establish Asian American Studies as a field, according to Cheng, but will also hopefully present a model for doing interdisciplinary ethnic studies in the 21st century, in contrast to its early years.

“In the 1980s, it was about identity politics,” Cheng said. Asian American Studies was part of a general moveSee ASIAN-AMER. page 5

Contributing columnist Gabriel Lipkowitz criticizes New South’s monolithic proportions, while senior columnist Leora Eisenberg argues that not wanting to go out to the Street is not only valid, but normal.

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Journalism classes have been taught at the University for more than 50 years. Students have loved the classes — they usually fill up within minutes of the beginning of course selection — but they wanted more. On Monday, they finally got their wish.

After years of conversation, planning, advocacy, and hard work, the plan for a journalism certificate has finally materialized. The University faculty voted unanimously to approve the certificate. It will be open to students during the 2018–19 academic year on an application basis.

Joe Stephens, the Edwin F. Ferris Professor in Residence and award-winning investigative journalist, has been one

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ing end of humanity. To Berlin, the lectures served as an opportunity to reflect on “community and intimacy and memory and loss and sorrow.”

For his creative writing and departmental thesis, Berlin wrote a collection of fragments about the Patagonia region, exploring ideas of ecology, melancholy, and thought at the end of the world.

Berlin explained that some of his most meaningful experiences at the University existed in the “informal things between formalized spaces or activities.” He said he “performed a sort of anthropology of the campus,” attending countless lectures and performances and engaging personally with

of the key figures shaping the program.

“At a time when journalism is under assault in a lot of areas in society, it’s great to see this university — the students, the faculty, the administration — all come together and say this is important for society,” Stephens said. “We need a way to find out verified facts. We need ethical, reliable journalism.”

And teaching reliable journalism is just what the program will seek to accomplish. The journalism certificate will have three elements of requirements, including coursework, substantial field experience, and a required colloquium during the senior year. The five courses must consist of at least one “gateway course” or a JRN 200-level See JOURNALISM page 2

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Sprinkler system causes Helen Zia flood in Forbes Annex ’73 discusses AsianAmerican identity

By Katie Tam Contributor

At about 12:05 p.m. on Apr. 24, a sprinkler system in the Forbes Annex was mistakenly activated, flooding three rooms and the surrounding hallway.

The sprinkler was triggered during routine testing and remained on for about 15 minutes, according to lead custodian Marva Perdriel and custodian Vince VanDerTuyn, who were called to the

scene for cleanup.

When they arrived, “there was an inch of water on the ground,” Perdriel said.

The situation has now been cleared, although the carpeting remains damp.

The University’s Facilities Organization declined to comment on the situation.

Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day said that he had not heard reports of the incident at the time he was contacted.

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Today on Campus 6:00 p.m.: Poet and Princeton alum Jenny Xie ’08 reads with creative writing seniors Mim Ra Aslaoui, Nicolas Freeman, Isabella Grabski, Lavinia Liang, Alicia Lai, and Rosed Serrano Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street

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Asian-Americans must be intentional about understanding their history and experiences, said Helen Zia ’73, an Asian-American author, feminist and LGBTQ+ rights activist.

In her talk about the future of Asian-American identity, Zia recounted stories from her long life in activism in an attempt to highlight the importance of developing cohesion within the AsianAmerican community.

She added that America faces a future in which no race will constitute a majority of the population.

Zia began with the story of her visit to a state museum in Ketchikan, Alaska, in order to see whether Asian-American involvement in the fishing and cannery industry was being recognized.

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class, at least two upper-level seminars, and at least two additional journalism-related courses, which can be any course listed, cross-listed, or approved by program director Margo Bresnen.

Princeton journalism courses began in 1957, and have since consisted almost exclusively as Ferris Seminars, or 400-level intensive writing courses. The classes are exceedingly popular. According to data from the University registrar, 1,498 students have enrolled in 123 journalism courses, with overall enrollment increasing 35 percent since 2007.

This upcoming academic year, the University will bring in 10 visiting professors and lead several reporting trips domestically and abroad as

part of the classes.

Newby Parton ’18 has taken four journalism classes and previously worked as an opinion editor for The Daily Princetonian. Although Parton is pleased that the certificate has passed, he wishes that he could have pursued the certificate program during his time at the University, he said.

“We have an extraordinary line-up of professors who are journalists, and they teach extraordinary courses,” Parton said.

Stephens, who has made his career in journalism, spoke to the importance of having an academic experience in journalism early on.

“After I took my first journalism class, it was like I was a whole new person. It was like my whole world just kind of came together,” Stephens said. “It’s, you know, it was like walking or breathing. Everything that was hard became

easy. I couldn’t imagine doing anything else.”

According to the proposal from the Humanities Council, under which the Journalism Certificate Program will be housed, the goals of the program are four-fold. Students who receive the certificate will need to demonstrate critical media literacy, taking courses such as Stephens’s class JRN 445: Investigative Journalism. They will also be able to practice writing and the art of storytelling through more stylistic courses, such as professor John McPhee’s JRN 240: Creative Nonfiction. Additionally, the program will highlight public service and global citizenship and digital entrepreneurship.

Kathleen Crown, executive director of the Humanities Council at the University, said she has listened to students pushing for the certificate program since she started at

the Council five years ago.

Crown explained that the program is not simply a badge.

The certificate will serve as “a connective tissue and make the students aware of each other and of themselves as a community on a similar path,” Crown said. “This is a vocation and a craft that is needed now more than ever.

It’s a critical time for journalism and Princeton has a role to play.”

Crown is a member of the ‘Prince’ Board of Trustees.

One of the unique aspects of the program is its ability to attract students from across disciplines at the University.

In an effort to maintain diversity of interest areas in the program, the certificate will not have an independent work requirement. Students will instead engage in a separate colloquium during the senior year.

“We strongly believe that

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journalism needs a disciplinary foundation, that students will have a liberal arts education and solid grounding in a discipline, whatever it is, and that is what will serve students best who want to go on and pursue journalism,” Crown said.

The Ferris Seminars have brought an outstanding group of visiting professors to the University over the years, including David Remnick ’81, now top editor of The New Yorker; Jill Abramson, past executive editor of The New York Times; and Washington Post Senior Editor Marc Fisher ’80.

Edward Wong, former Beijing Bureau Chief at the Times and one of the program’s visiting professors last year, expressed support for the certificate program.

“Princeton students are among the citizens who will renew and reinvent journalism at this critical time,” Wong said. “The certificate program will give students rigorous practical training while grounding them in principles, ethics and history.

I can’t imagine a better way to bolster democracy and civil society.”

Sophia Cai ’21, a member of the University Press Club, is currently enrolled in her second journalism course and expressed interest in pursuing the certificate here. Cai said she would have taken just as many journalism courses without the certificate program, but she is still happy about the news.

“Journalism becoming a certificate validates the work that these students are doing,” Cai said.

“Students are already leading the way,” Crown added.

“They’ve done the work, we want to recognize the work that they’re doing.”

The certificate will be open to rising juniors and seniors during the 2018–19 academic year.

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professors and peers. He also took several opportunities to study abroad in Cuba, Namibia, South America, and Europe. According to Berlin, “one of my favorite things about Princeton are all the chances there are to get out of Princeton, sponsored by Princeton.”

Berlin’s thesis advisor, professor Brian Herrera, said that he has “rarely encountered an undergraduate student with such palpable vision.” Berlin worked with Herrera in organizing his theater thesis, which Herrera described as “one of my top two or three most stimulating and gratifying theatrical collaborations in recent memory.”

“I don’t know that I have ever encountered such a formidably talented undergraduate student who was guided by as much genuine humility, open-hearted generosity and ethical concern as Kyle,” Herrera said. “His extraordinary creative intellect is matched in every measure by his character, his humor and his humanity.”

Berlin said he is extremely grateful for the support and ability to collaborate that he has experienced at the University, explaining that he wouldn’t have been able to do what he has done without all the support that surrounded him.

“I would never choose schoolwork over having a conversation or doing something that I enjoy or that mattered for other people,” Berlin explained. In this way, he tried to foster an environment of compassionate humanity and inclusion

over a contrived version of excellence.

Regarding his plans after graduation, Berlin said that he is “leaning into the uncertainty” and looking for how he “can best do good for the world.”

Berlin will continue to collaborate with the nonprofit theater company that he co-founded with a Davis Projects for Peace Grant while at the University, and also has a one-way ticket to Peru, but isn’t sure yet where his path will lead him.

Berlin is looking forward to delivering the valedictory address at Commencement in June. He hopes it will challenge the University to be a better version of itself.

Katherine Lim ’18 of Atherton, Calif., is a computer science major and will deliver her class’s salutatory address in the traditional Latin.

Lim started learning Latin in middle school despite her school not offering any foreign languages. Instead, she began studying with a teacher who taught Latin at the high school she would later attend.

Throughout her freshman and sophomore years at the University, Lim took additional classes in Latin. Her favorite was LAT 232: Introduction to Medieval Latin, due to its unique departure from the traditional readings by Caesar and Catullus which constitute most high school curricula.

“I really love the Classics department here. Professors who teach Latin in general are really passionate about their subject matter and it’s really fun taking classes from them,” she said.

Her primary area of study, however, involves computer architecture, which focuses on the construction and

implementation of computational systems while maximizing performance and power efficiency. Lim’s senior thesis was centered around heterogeneous systems, specifically the integration of cores with varying performance aspects.

She worked on interfacing these systems while designing optimized low-level and functional software for them.

Lim said that her two most influential professors at the University were her senior thesis advisor, electrical engineering professor David Wentzlaff, and computer science professor Margaret Martonosi.

Martonosi taught Lim’s first computer architecture class, COS 375: Computer Architecture and Organization in spring of 2016.

“She taught it in a very different manner, where she encouraged participation. It was kind of weird because at Princeton, we’re so used to just sitting in lecture and being quiet,” Lim said. “There’s a lot of intricacies in computer architecture that you don’t necessarily consider and working through the problems out loud and engaging with the problems in class breaks down any ideas you might have that you’re the only one who doesn’t understand the material.”

“I think the world of Katie. She was the top student in the class, and did a very ambitious project designing a computer processor and mapping it onto FPGA hardware. Her interactions in my class clearly demonstrated her facility for the material,” explained Martonosi.

Martonosi also explained how Lim has distinguished herself academically and personally.

“I really appreciate how she takes on technical challenges. She is also quite open about asking a broad set of people for ideas or for answers to questions she has.

Her quick learning curve, and her current command of how computer systems are built is very impressive,” Martonosi said.

Lim also worked in Wentzlaff’s lab since her junior year, where she contributed to OpenPiton, the world’s first open source, generalpurpose processor and hardware framework. “I’m really thankful how [Wentzlaff] advised me on my graduate school application essays and allowed me to explore the projects I’m interested in,” Lim said.

“She works way above and beyond what is needed to be a great undergraduate researcher. She is able to cross between hardware and software systems with ease (something unique to most students) and is able to take on very complex computer systems and modify them with ease,” Wentzlaff wrote.

“In the research projects she has done in my group, she has really taken a leadership position and taken over the ownership of a non-trivial portion of OpenPiton,” he added.

She also cited Robert Mullins, Senior Lecturer in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, as being a particularly inspirational figure in her academic career. With him, Lim worked on an open-source hardware project this past summer.

Despite her numerous accomplishments, Lim emphasized the importance of her extracurricular activities, which were some of the highlights throughout her

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four years. Lim said that as an active member of the Wilson College knitting circle, “It’s nice meeting people from different years and doing things other than pure academics.” In addition, she tutors at the Princeton Public Library, teaching introductory programming classes. “It’s been a lot of fun to work on my teaching skills, and teach people who don’t have education or technology as their main focus,” she said.

When asked about the advice she would give to underclassmen, she said, “It’s much better to take care of yourself personally than doing the most work or having the most accomplishments.

If you’re not happy, it doesn’t really matter. Sometimes it’s okay to just let that assignment go. Often, you’re a lot harder on yourself than others are.”

Lim also encouraged students not to get disappointed if they didn’t get their ideal summer job or internship. “There’s a lot of push — especially in computer science — after your freshman or sophomore year to be looking for an internship.

People put a lot of emphasis on these things but I’m not sure it’s that important in the long run,” she said.

After graduating, Lim will work towards her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle. She was awarded a scholarship from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation, as well as a National Sciences Foundation fellowship, due to start next year.

Commencement for the Class of 2018 will be held on Tuesday, June 5. Lim will deliver the Latin salutatory address, and Berlin will deliver the valedictory address.

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There, she discovered a picture of a machine labeled “iron ch*nk,” which was used to cut off the heads of fish and to gut them. It acquired its nickname, which contains a racial slur, because it could supposedly work as fast as many Asian workers.

Zia wrote a letter to the museum, hoping they would be aware of the slur and include more context about the contributions of the Asian workers. She received an apologetic reply that noted that the entire exhibit would be removed.

Zia was dismayed that the museum, instead of acknowledging the context and history of the name, decided to scrap the exhibit altogether.

She also said that the story was a physical example of an idea she calls “M.I.H.,” or “Missing in History.” For Zia, the “M.I.H.” phenomenon is truly detrimental to the Asian-American community, as so much of the history of prior generations has simply gone missing.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Zia explained that it seemed as though there were fewer than 70 students of color on campus during her time at the University. New studentinitiated courses at the University began because of the efforts of Zia and other minorities, who wanted to see an end to racism on campus and everywhere else. This was an attempt to move beyond courses centered on European and Atlantic studies and according to Zia, was a great first step against the “M.I.H.” problem.

Zia took two such courses during her time at the

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Zia also used the rise of Asian cuisine in America to emphasize the importance of Asian-American studies. She said that ever since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which ended a policy based on quotas, the United States has been more open to people of color.

One manifestation of this was the increasing number of Asian restaurants in New Jersey.

Zia described this phenomenon as another metaphor for the Asian-American experience.

“As welcome as the foods might have been, unfortunately, the welcome mat did not extend to Asian people who brought those f lavors,” she said, attributing this to a wave of racial hysteria that occurred in the 1800s.

“Without Asian-American studies, this history, this experience, these exceptional and important parts of American life really still remain M.I.H. — not just to the general public, but also to inf luential policy makers, students like you who are going to be the decision makers in the future,” Zia explained.

Zia said this knowledge of the Asian-American experience could help the community through what she calls “collision.”

This process includes constructive storytelling, experience-sharing, and mutual understanding of the situations of different groups, she noted.

Zia also recalled one of her first experiences with collision after the 1982 death of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American man beaten to death by two autoworkers in Detroit, Mich. The killing occurred during a time when the U.S. automobile industry blamed Japan as the cause

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Zia spoke about the future of Asian-American identity in a lecture on Thursday.

of lost jobs. The sentencing of the two men only to probation sparked outrage and demonstrations.

This allowed Zia to learn how to explain to journalists the history of racism toward Asian-Americans and how they reacted to it.

According to Zia, the journalists were confused during these conversations. However they did indeed report on her stories, a welcome side effect.

Zia mentioned that, unfortunately, collision took a turn for the worse when sociologist William Petersen coined the phrase “model minority” in 1966, near the height of the civil rights movement in America.

Zia said that the idea of the “good” minority and

the “bad” minority, implicit in new label, drove a wedge between minorities who wanted to unite for conversations about racial justice. However, Asian-American studies could remedy the damage done by the model minority idea, she said.

Zia said she hopes that more and more AsianAmericans will feel a connection to their AsianAmerican identity that goes deeper than “I can use chopsticks” or “I’m good at math.”

Given the ongoing demographic shifts in America, Zia asked the audience, and specifically the students, to imagine how the future of society will look and what steps can be taken to change op-

pressive systems.

Zia concluded by expressing her desire that Asian-Americans will be better able to face that future by both reclaiming their history in the United States and bolstering their community. Therefore, Zia said, “we have to do this; we not only can fight for our visibility and to define ourselves, but we must. We have to. We can expect that the future will bring more collisions.”

The lecture was delivered on Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Jones 100 as a part of the Asian American Speaker Series, organized by the American Studies program and cosponsored by the English and history departments.

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Faculty voted in favor of an Asian-American studies certificate program at a recent meeting.

ment for ethnic studies that emerged out of Third World Liberation Front of the 60s and 70s. Buoyed by the radicalism of the time, students asserted “Asian American” as a radical act bridging “Asian” and “American” as a singular identity worthy of scholarly study.

At the University, advocacy for Asian American Studies began as early as 1970, with the creation of Asian American Students Association. It began with what Helen Zia ’73 described as “episodic, student initiated seminars.”

Zia, a prominent writer and activist who has worked to advance Asian American and LGBT rights, attended two of these student-run seminars in her undergraduate years in the University. These seminars imparted an important education to her and her peers, that later translated to greater civic and political engagement among those peers.

Zia credited these early seminars for their later community organizing.

“There was an awareness ‘oh, we have a connection to this democracy,‘” she said.

“We have a connection to this society. We have skin in the game here. We have contributed to this, and it was so important for people in our communities to see that.

We weren’t just, as the books used to say, sojourners.”

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Poking holes in the Bubble Winnie Brandfield-Harvey Contributing Columnist

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received a text from my mom confirming that the check-up went well, and the mass in my dog Bosco’s stomach wasn’t cancerous. Two days later, I was studying in Frist for my psychology midterm the following day when a text from my mom popped up on my computer screen next to my notes about eighteenth-century mental institutions. She texted my sisters and I that the doctors were putting Bosco down because of internal bleeding. She asked me to FaceTime her to say goodbye.

I immediately sprinted from Frist to my dorm room, leaving my computer and backpack behind. I called my mom on FaceTime and started crying when her teary-eyed face appeared on the screen. It is very hard to see the people you love cry. She moved the phone down so that I could see Bosco, who was ly-

ing there still wagging her tail like she always did when she was happy. However, her lackluster eyes told a different story. A part of me wanted to keep her forever, but another part of me felt selfish for letting her live in pain for so long. I’ll never forget the cracked words that left my mom’s mouth, so real and yet so unbelievable all at the same time. “Bosco’s gone. She’s gone.”

The feeling in my room changed. The room in which I felt safe even with the door taped. The room in which I held pre-games with teammates. The single in Walker Hall I once hated and learned to love. Suddenly the room where I had been secure became the room where my dog died. This was the first time I experienced grief, and it was here at Princeton, thousands of miles away from my family in Texas. Living away from home was never easy for me; my homesickness followed me into December of that freshman year. I can’t count how many times I fell asleep with my mom on speaker, finding comfort in her voice, her laughter, even her coughs. Eventually, I found myself actually enjoying things here instead of

just getting through them.

Princeton became my second home within a few months.

You don’t have to be homesick to miss home, and you don’t have to be unhappy here to feel lonely. I think everyone has had a feeling of loneliness here, with a simultaneous longing for home. When Bosco died, I felt this overwhelming sense of guilt because I hadn’t been with her in her last few months. I realized then that Princeton really is a bubble. It is easy to forget that there is this whole other world going on, outside of campus.

Sometimes the bubble can be comforting, providing us with security, free laundry, late meal, and other valuable resources.

However, sometimes the bubble isolates us. Time seems to stand still here. When my parents visit, they somehow look ten times older. When I returned home for fall break this year, I had a house. When I returned over winter break, I was living in a high rise, all my clothes packed up in boxes. However, when I step off the Dinky onto campus, everything feels the same, just how I left it.

Some days I love being sucked

into this Princeton dimension.

Staying up late in Firestone, surrounded by many other students who are in the same boat. Walking back to my room at midnight without feeling the need to look over my shoulder. And yet, some other days, I realize I haven’t called my mom in a week. I have no idea what is happening in the news. I am not keeping track of all the money I am spending so casually with my prox.

One of my teammates spent Easter with her grandmother, and a few weeks later, her grandma passed away. I walked with her to practice that day, and she broke down in tears as we crossed over Streicker Bridge.

She told me how hard it is to listen to her parents cry over the phone. How she cries every time she leaves home, even though she looks forward to going back to school. I think that when we return to this bubble, this amazing, comforting, isolating bubble, we know that means we must leave some things behind.

Winnie Brandfield-Harvey is a second-year from Houston, TX. She can be reached at wab@princeton. edu.

In college, we grow so fast Sabrina Sequeira Columnist

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remember it clearly: the bustle of the movein trucks, students, and families beaming with excitement, the Tiger mascot posing with incoming frosh underneath a sign that declared, “Welcome Class of 2021!” On what seemed like both a week and a century ago, move-in day, I felt young. New. Everything around me was new, teeming with the thrill of exploration.

Every face, every corner, every arch — all were fresh. Buildings built before the birth of the country seemed new to me.

I was new. I felt it.

Throughout my first year at the University, I’ve learned, grown, and certainly struggled. Though it would be a stretch to call myself wiser, I have matured. I’ve forced myself to think about what I want to study, where I want to work, and who I want to become.

These momentous questions have aged me. And at Princeton, the culture of internships,

coupled with a career-oriented academic focus, pushes us to plan ahead farther than we would otherwise look. I do not mean to discredit the merit of an internship or the opportunities that a summer commitment affords, but it is striking that many of us have taken a step towards research and careers outside of the classroom, even as first-year students. And internships constitute just one facet of the stress that engulfs Princetonians. It is easy to drown in this fast-paced world of adulthood.

Hardly a day goes by when someone doesn’t ask me, “What are your plans for this summer?” The implications are that I should have something planned. Who would negate this, when Princeton offers us so many opportunities beyond the Orange Bubble? My summer plans are still in the works, but admittedly, one reason I am even looking into summer opportunities is because I have submitted to the pressure of those questions. The internship phenomenon leads me to question, at what point does my job as a student not cut it anymore? When do we cross the fine line between adolescence and adulthood? Is it when

I start my junior independent work, or before then? Perhaps it was the day I walked on stage to accept my high school diploma.

Even as a sophomore and senior in high school, I had a job outside of school. But today, I am no longer seeking work at Chipotle; instead, I am applying to internships with “analytical chemist” or “hospital shadow” in the position title.

In a single year, my priorities and responsibilities as a college student have forced me to grow faster than I did in four years of high school.

We should not lament our decision to go to college but instead immerse ourselves in new challenges. An entire academic year leaves us with many memories to appreciate and lessons to learn from. For sophomore, junior, and senior readers: The ways in which you have grown differ, as you’ve already experienced the shock that comes with new pressures of the first year of college. Whatever your class year, take this time to see the direction in which you are taking your life, to see how much you’ve changed, and to consider if this is the direction in which you would like to travel. Are you doing something simply because it is expected of

you, or because you feel it could bring you closer to where you want to be?

Pause, and think about your experiences of this past school year. If you feel you made a mistake, try to learn from it.

An important step to growth, to learning, and to getting the most out of the college experience is reflection: We cannot expect to change our lives without recognizing the forces that have led us to where we are.

Likewise, think about how positive memories have shaped you this year; it would be a shame to leave them untouched. In recalling and reliving them, they will bring you a newfound joy.

We cannot allow ourselves to move through the motions of a stressed college student, running through our days, scouring for ways to fulfill requirements and responsibilities, for ways to catch up to our peers. I’ve fallen victim to this tendency. I should learn to acknowledge my growth and take this time to consider how my days have led me to where I am now.

Sabrina Sequeira is a first-year from Springfield, N.J. She can be reached at sgs4@princeton.edu.

There’s probably nothing wrong with you Leora Eisenberg

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spent almost the entire two first years of my college experience wondering if there was something wrong with me. I never liked going out to the Street — every time I’d tried, I hadn’t had a great time.

Maybe I hung out with the wrong people or went to the wrong clubs, but when I reflect on the time I’ve spent on the Street, I mostly remember my general discomfort around people I don’t know and dances I don’t like.

This reflection troubled me. I was painfully aware that the college experience, as portrayed in books, movies, and music, is supposed to be the time of any young person’s life, i.e., when they have the opportunity to party a lot; just take a look at movies like “The House Bunny”

or “Legally Blonde.” After re-watching those films, I called my mom to ask if I had missed the stage of my development where I learned to enjoy going out. She responded that I was perfectly normal. My mental process, however, is reflective of our having grown up consuming the idea that most, if not all, people in college like to party — and that that’s the norm. The problem with that idea, however, is that some people don’t — so they often feel like something is wrong with them.

The reality is that partying is by no means the objective norm. Countless students have confided to me that they don’t enjoy it — and that they wonder if they’re normal. “What will my friends think?” they say.

“Will they think I’m weird?”

It breaks my heart to think that a friendship would be ever be contingent on something as peripheral as partying. Too often, students who don’t enjoy partying let this small part of their personalities negatively affect their

self-worth.

Sadly, students often think that there is something wrong with them when they don’t conform to this image of college that popular society produces — that is to say, the one where everyone parties. Friends have cried on my shoulder because they’re virgins and apparently no one in college should be; others have whispered that they don’t want to drink but feel social pressure to do so in college. The common refrain is that these individuals feel that they are, in some way, “damaged goods” for not wanting to drink, have sex, or go out. But the fact is that they’re not.

If the case is that you don’t partake in these activities, there is nothing wrong with you. No one and nothing should have any jurisdiction over what you choose to make out of your college experience. In fact, if participating in these activities under social or societal pressure makes you unhappy, then there’s nothing wrong with stopping altogether.

It’s perfectly fine to refrain from certain “prescribed” activities if they detract from your time at Princeton — especially if they detract from your time at Princeton. The notion that all “normal” college students enjoy going out is flawed. There’s nothing wrong with going out or having sex, but to silently make others feel bad for abstaining or to reinforce the notion that everyone enjoys the same things you do is wrong.

I’ve only recently come to realize that there really isn’t anything wrong with me just because I don’t enjoy going out. It’s just not who I am.

It doesn’t mean that I don’t have an active, meaningful social life and host the occasional party in my room.

It does, however, mean that I don’t adhere to the societal norms of college life. After two years, I’m okay with that — you should be, too.

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

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Beyond basic bad aesthetics: The architecture of New South Gabe Lipkowitz

Contributing Columnist

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t does not take a trained architectural eye to recognize the unabashedly modern design of New South Building.

Built in 1965 and designed by the American architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, this administrative center in the southern part of campus presents an uncompromising façade of ref lective glass and concrete, scorning all ornamentation. At seven stories tall, it stands as a veritable skyscraper on campus, surpassed only

by Fine Hall and Cleveland Tower, located in the Graduate College. Overall, its form is dominated by one of the purest of geometric volumes, the cube.

Criticizing New South’s architecture from the outside is hardly uncommon.

As many would point out, its design is devoid of creative formal subtleties that would add personality and character to an otherwise anonymous expression of International Style. The building’s concrete and glass materials, arranged rigidly in horizontal levels stacked on a vertical grid, give off a vaguely totalitarian aura, suggestive of Stalinist, Communist blocs. Now, and even more so when it was first built (pictured) the building refuses to respond to its surroundings, its black concrete disrupting the otherwise pleasant rolling landscape of grass and trees.

So much is hardly news to most students on campus. More interesting to me is one defense of the building’s architecture that I have heard: its view over campus, seen from its upper f loors. From the glass-walled rooms of New South’s seventh f loor, a viewer can see our entire southern campus laid out from west to east: Whitman residential dormitories are closest, then New Butler, then natural science laboratories, and beyond.

Last weekend, I wanted to investigate this muchlauded view. So, I spent the afternoon on the seventh f loor of New South.

I must say, at first I was impressed. It was an experience of our campus’s built environment like none other. I could see tiny pedestrians moving around Wu Hall, automobiles driving down Elm Drive, and the entireties of three residential colleges. To me, this seemed at first a strange architectural paradox. How could I dislike a building from the outside so strongly, yet be impressed by its view from the inside?

Yet as the afternoon progressed, and I spent more and more time glancing out from this viewpoint, I began to feel uneasy. For a while I could not articulate why, but eventually it dawned on me.

This was not how our campus was meant to be experienced.

In the nearly three years that I’ve been at Princeton, the aspect of our campus I’ve come to admire most is the centrality it gives to the pedestrian experience. Unlike many college campuses, which perhaps

display impressive individual buildings but neglect how people travel between them, Princeton’s campus landscape makes even a casual stroll between classes an enjoyable experience.

This is especially true of its southern section.

On a sunny day, a stroll down Tilghman Walk brings a wonderful sense of peace and contentment.

Here, as one gracefully treads the line between student dormitories to the left and the grassy expanse of Poe Field to the right, one feels both city and nature simultaneously, a truly unique experience.

A journey eastward from Wu Hall to Fine Hall on an autumn afternoon brings profound balance. This is brought about by a remarkably perspectival view that arises from the collinearities of Thomas and Schultz Laboratories, the stonepaved Goheen Walk, and evenly spaced lamp posts.

It is truly the “Ideal City,” as expressed by the Italian Renaissance architect Leon

Battista Alberti, manifested right before our eyes.

Walking down from Frist Campus Center, a pedestrian’s descent southward is gracefully mediated by a series of winding pathways and stone stairways.

Along the way, one is redirected perpendicularly to the intended direction of travel to walk through an allée, formed by the evenly spaced trees.

In sum, our campus’s built environment is most meaningfully experienced in a particular way: from the ground, where journey is highlighted as much as destination and where one appreciates its beauties at the scale of an individual human being.

This, I realized, is why the view from New South was so exceedingly unsettling.

From this viewpoint, as the campus lay prostrate before my eyes, all those personal, intimate experiences were irreparably destroyed.

Instead of subtle design surprises greeting the pedestrian who rounds a cor-

ner, here everything was presented at once. Looking on those walkways I had come to love from the standpoint of a pedestrian, at a gradual pace that encouraged me to appreciate their subtleties, I was disturbed by how quickly the eye could move from start to finish. Our campus, best experienced in a dynamic, deeply intimate fashion, was here presented as if on a television screen.

In fact, from this angle the campus looked not wellintegrated, but surprisingly disjointed. Instead of the usual synergy between its diverse architectural styles, the buildings instead appeared haphazardly placed, not fitting a previously thought-out plan as the Modernist philosophy underlying New South itself might prescribe.

Over the past decade, the University has quite obviously attempted to improve the interior of New South, to little avail. Installing brightly-colored furniture such as lime green stools

and tangerine orange chairs, as well as blanketing the walls with a nearly f luorescent yellow paint, hardly injects genuine vivacity into the building’s design.

Instead, the juxtaposition of these vibrant hues with the building’s colorless exterior merely highlights the latter’s dreariness. Importantly, the only renovation that could put an end to the hazard that its startlingly expansive view poses to the experience of our beautiful campus, would be to cover with some opaque material its whole-wall windows entirely. Something tells me this is not an option. While New South is likely here to stay, we should learn from its mistakes. In the future, as our campus expands southward, we should do our best to encourage the University to eschew such high-rise designs.

Gabriel Lipkowitz is a junior in molecular biology from Charlottesville, Va. He can be reached at gel@princeton. edu.

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A view of New South, which houses various University spaces and offices such as a dance studio and the office of the general counsel.

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Sports

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The NFL draft: a Princeton perspective

By Jack Graham

Assisstant Sports Editor

On a wall in the tunnel connecting the home locker room to the tunnel, there is a collection of portraits of former Princeton players with NFL experience. During this weekend’s NFL draft, we will find out whether any recent graduates will earn a precious spot on that wall. The likeliest candidate is quarterback Chad Kanoff, who broke all-time University records in career passing yards, single season passing yards, and completion percentage in the 2017 season and has drawn the attention of scouts from several NFL teams. In any case, in anticipation of the most exciting days of the long football offseason, we have compiled a list of Princeton players who have heard their names called in the draft over the past few years.

Seth DeValve ’16 (2015, Round 4, Overall 138) Despite missing a significant number of games as a junior and senior at Princeton due to an injury, DeValve enjoyed a productive collegiate career as a tight end and wide receiver. He finished his Princeton career with 122 receptions and 1,336 receiving yards, good for 10th and 13th all-time respectively in University record books. Drafted in the fourth round by the Cleveland Browns in 20164, DeValve has spent his first two years in the league with one of the worstperforming teams in NFL history. Nonetheless, he has had success as a tight end, with 43 receptions, 522 yards, and three touchdowns in two seasons. He also made headlines last season as the first white

NFL player to kneel with his black teammates as part of the national anthem protests.

Caraun Reid ’14 (2014, Round 5, Overall 158) Throughout his Princeton career, Reid, a defensive tackle, was one of the most dominant defensive players in the Ivy League. A member of the All-Ivy League first team for three consecutive seasons, he helped lead Princeton to an Ivy League title in 2013 with 11 tackles for a loss and 6.5 sacks on the season. He was drafted by the Lions in 2014 and has since then played for the Chargers, the Redskins, and, most recently, the Colts.

Mike Catapano ’13 (2013, Round 7, Overall 207) Catapano, a defensive lineman, was also named to an All-Ivy team three times in his career at Princeton. As a senior, he led the Ivy League in sacks with 12, and was second in the league in tackles for a loss with 15.5. Drafted by the Chiefs, he played two seasons for the Chiefs and another two for the Jets, starting in four games for them in 2016.

This weekend, Kanoff could follow in the footsteps of these exceptional players, becoming the fourth Princeton player selected in the past six years.

Scouts representing 12 teams attended Princeton’s Pro Day to watch him throw, and he recently participated in a private workout for a member of the Patriots’ staff. He is projected as either a late round pick or a top-priority, undrafted free agent.

The draft begins Thursday at 8 PM on ESPN. The second and third rounds will take place on Friday, and rounds four through seven will happen on Saturday.

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Seth DeValve ’16 was drafted as a fourth round pick by the Cleveland Browns in 2016.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Women’s lacrosse dominates Penn, keeping Ivy League title hopes alive

By David Xin

Head Sports Editor

The women’s lacrosse team dominated Penn in a mustwin game with its title hopes on the line. The Tigers (9–5 overall, 5–1 Ivy) defeated the

Quakers (11–3, 5–1), 21–8, a record margin which has not been matched since April 2000. With this victory the Tigers move into a tie for the top spot in the Ivy League with Dartmouth (11–3, 5–1) and Penn (11–3, 5–1).

Coming into the game the Tigers were on a mission. They needed to defeat a strong No. 10 Penn squad by a five-goal margin for a shot at hosting the 2018 Ivy League tournament. However, few could have predicted

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Win keeps Tigers’ title hopes strong; they now tie with Penn and Dartmouth at the top of the Ivy League.

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the result. The Orange and Black came out like a team possessed, with four Tigers managing a hat trick among Penn’s 21 goals allowed. This was the third most goals the Quakers had allowed in program history.

Just as importantly, the win kept the Tigers in the title race. Heading into the match, the Quakers were undefeated in their five games in the Ivy League. The Tigers were 4–1, with their sole loss coming from Dartmouth earlier in the season. With only two games remaining in conference play, a loss would have eliminated the Tigers from title contention. With the season on the line, the Princeton team rose to the occasion. Princeton had the edge in shots, ground balls, and draw controls. In addition, the Tigers limited turnovers and held Penn’s rookie star Zoe Belodeau scoreless.

Despite the strong performance, it was the Quakers who would land the first blow.

However, after the opening goal, Princeton responded with seven of its own. The Princeton defense smothered Penn, keeping the Quakers scoreless for 23 minutes of the

Stat of the Day

13 goals The women’s lacrosse team beat No. 10 Penn by 13-goals--the Tigers largest margin of victory over the Quakers since 2000.

game. By halftime, the Tigers had already accomplished their mission, reaching the five-goal margin needed to host the 2018 Ivy League tournament. While Penn would make a run after the half to cut the deficit to three goals at 10–7, the Tigers had an answer. Building momentum, the Tigers netted another two to build their cushion before continuing on a remarkable 9–0 run sealing the deal.

First-year midfielder Kyla Sears had a five-point game, giving her 63 points for the season. Her 63 points sets a new record for points in a season by a freshman. Senior midfielder Ellie McNulty also had a five-point game with four goals and one assist.

Junior midfielder Elizabeth George tied a career high of five goals and added seven draws to the Princeton effort.

Princeton will surely look to build on this remarkable result in the game against Columbia (6–8, 3–3) on Saturday. Penn will play Yale (7–7, 2–4) and Dartmouth will travel to Brown (8–6, 1–5). A win by all three teams will mean a three-way split for the Ivy League title.

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