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(Top left, clockwise): Brooke Holmes, Martin Kern, Monica Youn, Ekaterina Pravilova, were awarded 2018 Guggenheim fellowships in recognition of their achievements.
Faculty members awarded Guggenheim fellowships
By Isabel Ting Assistant News Editor
Four University faculty members were awarded the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, which celebrates prior achievement and exceptional promise in “productive scholarship or creative ability in the arts.” The winners were Brooke Holmes, Ekaterina Pravilova, Monica Youn, and Martin Kern. Fellowships are awarded through two annual competitions: one open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada, and the other open to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Approximately 175 fellowships are awarded each year, and successful candidates in the United States and Canada competition are announced in early April. Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities Brooke Holmes was awarded the fellowship for her most recent book project, “The Tissue of the World: Sympathy and the Idea of Nature in Greco-Roman Antiquity.” With it, she aims to elaborate on the relationships between nonhuman entities and humans in the larger cosmos between animals and plants. Her work focuses on GrecoRoman roots of Western ideas
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about the physical body, the natural world, matter, and the non-human, according to a statement from the University. “I argue that sympathy during this period takes shape as a way of conceptualizing communities between the human and non-human world and encourages an understanding of ‘capital-N’ Nature that will persist for centuries in the West,” Holmes said. Concepts in the book first appeared in her fall 2014 lectures at the University of Chicago. Although this will be the third book that Holmes has written, she said her favorite work that she has produced See FELLOWSHIP page 2
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U. community reacts to Lawsuit proposed dining changes against new
American diplomat McFaul speaks about diplomacy trends.
Former ambassador to Russia discusses US-Russia relations
By Emily Spalding Senior Writer
On the morning of April 11, President Donald Trump tweeted on U.S.-Russia relations, saying: “Our relationship with Russia is worse now than it has ever been, and that includes the Cold War.” A few hours later in Robertson Hall, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul responded to the President’s sentiments. “The Cold War for me was a fundamental moment in my life,” McFaul said. “Growing up as a young kid in Montana, I was scared to death … that the
Cold War was going to become a Hot War.” He explained that despite the fact that he has now grown to admire former President Ronald Reagan’s policies, at the time McFaul was “so scared that [he] took [his] first trip abroad as a young sophomore at Stanford University to Leningrad USSR.” McFaul said his time spent abroad completely changed his perspective on future U.S. relations with Russia. “It was the reason why I got interested in what I am doing today, and therefore, for me, this was a glorious moment,” See AMBASSADOR page 3
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Title IX regulations delayed By Ivy Truong
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By Ivy Truong and Mallory Williamson Assistant News Editor and Staff
After a draft of proposed changes to meal plans was circulated via a student’s email on Tuesday night, students have expressed frustration and outrage regarding the potential plans, which would require underclassmen to purchase an unlimited plan and all upperclass students who are not part of an eating club to purchase a “Community Plan.” “This draft document was distributed to students Tuesday at Wilson College during the first of several residential college focus groups planned by the Board Plan Review Committee,” explained Univer-
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sity spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss in a statement. “The committee — made up of staff and students — continues to seek student input as it develops recommendations for campus dining options that support the diverse needs of Princeton’s undergraduate student body.” Chris Zhang ‘18, a member of the Real Food Co-op, explained that the change could result in many negative consequences. “I think that there’s probably good intentions behind this plan that they want to build the upperclassmen community in the dining hall as an alternative to eating clubs, but I think it’ll be doing lots of harm and little See MEALS page 5
Contributing columnist Maya Eashwaran argues that campus carry brings more harm than it prevents, and contributing columnist Jinn Park makes the case for stronger advising for underclassmen. PAGE 6
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Risk of lead exposure through water piping is greater than national average in New Jersey.
EPA to expand, improve NJ water infrastructure By Mallory Williamson Staff Writer
On April 5, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to provide $5.5 billion in loans to water infrastructure projects under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program. Future WIFIA projects, which were included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, could help improve New Jersey waterways.
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EPA Regional Administrator Pete Lopez mentioned specific environmental needs in New Jersey that could be addressed with the funds. “Funding critical repairs and improving resiliency in our wastewater treatment and drinking water distribution systems remains a critical priority,” Lopez said in an EPA statement. “New Jersey knows all too well the costs of storm damaged water and wastewaSee EPA page 4
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New dining plan proposal reequires upperclassmen to purchase mandatory meal plan.
Four months after announcing its plan to propose new Title IX regulations regarding campus sexual assault in March, the Department of Education still has not released what those new rules will be. A lawsuit that challenged interim guidelines announced by the Department of Education in September has also been delayed to June. The lawsuit, brought forward by SurvJustice, Equal Rights Advocates, and the Victim Rights Law Center, claims that the interim guidelines have caused the groups to see a decline in sexual assault victims willing to come forward about their assault and “pursue justice through campus processes.” It also alleges that schools have stopped responding as quickly, if at all, to students’ complaints. The request to delay the lawsuit was granted when a
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remains her first book, “The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece,” which she spent seven years working on, including the time she spent on it during her dissertation on comparative literature at the University. She examined how the physical body first emerged in the West and explained that by understanding the physical body’s emergence, humans can begin to understand why the soul becomes an attractive concept to Plato. “I think that [my first book] is the most complex and original, by far the most ambitious,” Holmes said. Next year, in addition to “The Tissue of the World,” Holmes plans to finish a short book on the relationship between antiquity and the present. Ekaterina Pravilova, who specializes in 19th century Imperial Russia, found the Guggenheim Fellowship’s absence of residential requirements greatly appealing because it allows her to conduct research in Russia. In her current project, “Political Money: A History of the Russian Ruble 1768-1917,” she examines how projects of reforming the currency were ways of triggering and withholding transformations within the aristocracy. Pravilova said she is most proud of her 2014 publication, “A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia,” which examined the cultural and economic factors that triggered the emergence of Russian property regimes from the reign of Catherine the Great through the First World War. “A Public Empire” won several awards, including the George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association and the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Pravilova plans to leave for Russia this summer to conduct research for her current project and will return in the fall of 2019 to teach. Creative writing professor Monica Youn plans to use the fellowship to take time off teaching and use the grant money to focus on her next book, “Cribs.” Although a “crib” is defined as a young child’s bed, the informal definition of the term, as explained by Youn, is a “slipshod or inaccurate translation.” She hopes to explore the concept of cultural heritage and is interested in what it means to have a racial identity that is not connected to a particular homeland. Speaking about her own childhood, Youn recalled that she grew up in the South without a strong connection to her Korean-American identity, except from what was imposed on her from “external sources,” referring more specifically to the Southern stereotype. She began writing her first book, “Barter,” published in 2003, while working for the Federal Appellate SF and published her second book, “Ignatz” in 2010, during her 13-year-long career as a lawyer. Although Youn had previously applied to the fellowship back in 2013 and was unsuccessful, she explained that applying again after the publication of her most recent book, “Blackacre,” in 2016, “certainly helped.” Blackacre is a legal term and a placeholder for a piece of land, as John Doe is a placeholder for a hypothetical person, and the theme of the novel is rooted in British property. “If John Doe wants to pass Blackacre down, the mechanism of that is through Jane Doe,” Youn explained. “[John] has to ensure that [Jane] is fertile and faithful. Legal and social controls evolved to con-
trol fidelity and the fertility of women.” Youn uses her background in law and her own experience with infertility to understand her own struggle, particularly the social stigma surrounding infertility, to conceive a child. She explained that the pride she felt for completing “Blackacre” stems from the difficulty she experienced writing it, since the topic is surrounded with shame. Chair of the East Asian studies department Martin Kern was awarded the Guggenheim, a fellowship that he had applied to before ten to fifteen years prior, for his project, “Performance, Memory and Authorship in Ancient China: The Formation of the Poetic Tradition.” In this project, Kern studies the origins of and early developments of Chinese literary culture during the first millennium B.C.E. He explained that the ancient Chinese did not have books in the way we have books today and that their sense of authorship and originality diverged from those of ancient Greek literature. Instead, Chinese literature emerged out of religious and political tuitions, such as royal speeches and religious humans, and then gradually developed into more secular forms of literature. Although Kern’s entire education was in Germany, he became interested in East Asian studies precisely because of how different it was from his German curriculum. He said he found elements of the Asian culture, such as Buddhism and calligraphy, “immensely attractive.” “When you think about Chinese literature, you don’t just think about China, you think about literature and what literature is in the first place,” Kern added. He also pointed out that during his school years, in the 1980s, just ten years after the Cultural Revolution, China was finally opening its borders, evoking a sense of novelty and mystery that drew him in. “[China] became a country that you could actually go to,” Kern said. “It was kind of a new place. When I was there in the very early years of development, it was interesting.” Currently, Kern gives lectures and conducts discussion in Mandarin, when he visits China, reads classical Chinese, and can read Japanese, which is primarily a research language. The work that he is most proud of is his first book, “The Emigration of German Sinologists 1933–1945: Revisiting a Forgotten History.” “I noticed [that topic] because of how many Germans there were in the field in America,” said Kern. “I’m still happy that I wrote that because somebody had to write it.” One of the most challenging works he was involved with was “The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature.” “It was challenging because you have to take into view one thousand years of literature and write that into a trustworthy way so that people who read that have a fair sense of, ‘Yes, I can rely on this account,’” Kern explained. His current project also takes on a similar feat. Although Kern is proud of the works he has produced, he emphasized that he received the fellowship because of the work he has done with the intellectual community. He explained that scholarship isn’t done in solitude, but is rather inspired from peers and even students. “If I were at a different place, I wouldn’t have been able to do everything that I have done,” Kern said. “This [fellowship award] is clearly related to the wonderful conditions at Princeton and the wonderful colleagues I have around the world that I constantly learn from.” Holmes, Pravilova, Youn, and Kern are among 173 fellows chosen from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants.
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he said of his time in the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. McFaul said that at that time, he felt like he was witnessing a turning point in history unfurling before his eyes. Today, he is dismayed by the current attitudes towards the situation between Russia and the United States, as echoed in President Trump’s tweet this morning. “So that’s why this conversation about the new Cold War … depresses me,” McFaul said in reference to President Trump. Having dedicated five years of service to the Obama administration, first as special assistant to the president and senior director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council, and later as the U.S. Ambassador to Russia in 2012, McFaul adds a unique voice of authority, scholarship, and expertise to current dialogues about Russia. His book, “From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia,” which will be released on May 8, looks at both his personal experiences working in Russia as well as the historical roots of the political state today. “It’s part autobiographical, and it’s part analytic, and part historical,” McFaul said about the book. While many of the deeply political and complex topics that the book extensively explores were touched upon in his talk, McFaul made clear that his main focus was to proffer a concise yet strong explanation for how Russia has come to be the country it is today and how its relationship with the United States has evolved. “I deliberately use that phrase ‘Hot Peace’ to echo the past … because there are some similarities, and there are some important differences,” he said. “But what I want to just convey to you is that it’s pretty bad, and most certainly some elements of our moment today are worse than some of the more cooperative periods during the Cold War.” “I just want to explain what happened,” he added. McFaul’s involvement with the Obama administration’s 2009 “Russian Reset,” which attempted to ameliorate U.S.– Russia relations through cooperative efforts, grants him a special vantage point to discuss what happened. While the reset did have significant positive results, like bringing down the number of nuclear weapons allowed in the world by 30 percent, the period of cooperation was ephemeral. According to McFaul, the demise of this progress can be attributed to two pivotal events: In 2011, Vladimir Putin announced to then-president
Dmitry Medvedev his intention to run for president, and mass demonstrations occurred in Russia that same year. There have also been several factors at play since the Cold War, such as shifts in power, Russian domestic politics, and strict U.S. policies, among others. Following the talk, McFaul took questions from the packed hall. While some students asked for elaborations on matters McFaul previously mentioned in his talk, many audience members used this portion of the event as an opportunity to ask about aspects of the Russian-U.S. narrative in the news today, such as allegations of Russian interference in U.S. presidential elections and the recent expulsion of diplomats following the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. Sakari Ishetiar GS said he was surprised at the tone McFaul used during the talk, prompting him to reconsider past historical assumptions and to ask more questions. “There’s no criticism to it, but the level of optimism, especially regarding the Medvedev years, I did not expect to hear that from a former U.S. diplomat,” he said. He noted that while McFaul supported most of his claims dealing with Medvedev with first-level evidence, there was still some deeper proof left to be desired. Ishetiar was primarily responding to an answer McFaul gave to an earlier question about Medvedev. “I believe — and this is going to be controversial in the book and controversial when I say it now,” said McFaul, “I do think that Medvedev thought of himself as a modernizer, thought of himself as a liberal.” “That’s what he wanted to do, he just failed to achieve those objectives,” he added. Yet Ishetiar recognizes the uniqueness of the relationships McFaul has with these political figures and sees how the general audience member might perceive the situation differently than the former ambassador would. “I think we have to give some credit to Ambassador McFaul, who is the one out of us who actually has a relationship with former President Medvedev and some of the other figures involved here,” Ishetiar said. “I’m not saying he’s wrong, I’m saying he might have access to information that we don’t have, and maybe some of that is even in the book!” Ishetiar is a first-year MPA at the Wilson School studying international relations, with specialties in Russia, Syria, and communication. The event, titled “Up to the Minute: Russia,” took place at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall.
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Justice Department attorney said that it would be difficult to go forward with a hearing, as several administration attorneys had other court deadlines and some of the groups who filed the suit had previously planned travel during May. According to Politico, the new regulations are anticipated to be instituted this spring, since an agenda published by the Trump administration mentioned Title IX rules. In September, Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos chose to reverse several Obama-era directives regarding Title IX and campus sexual assault. This decision effectively voided the “Dear Colleague” letter that the Obama administration released in 2011, which outlined the Obama administration’s Title IX policy. Devos’s ruling allows colleges and universities to demand a higher standard of proof for campus sexual assault cases, calling for “clear and convincing evidence.” The decision also allows colleges and universities to provide mediation in sexual assault cases if both parties consent. When the interim guidelines were released, the University had no plans to adjust University policy since, as they stated, the University has been in a resolution agreement on the policy since 2014. When asked for comment,
Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity Michele Minter deferred comment to Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day, who declined to comment on the delay of the new regulations and the lawsuit. Minter had previously told The Daily Princetonian that the University was planning to review the interim guidelines before making any adjustments. “We have to really review it,” she told the ‘Prince’ in the fall. “We think that the policy we have is working well for our campus. We think it’s fair and gives significant, equivalent rights to both parties.” Minter told the ‘Prince’ that the University’s agreement in 2014 moved to a “preponderance of evidence” standard, transitioned from holding a hearing with the Committee of Discipline to an investigation with several trained investigators, and allowed the investigators to adjudicate the case but not administer the punishment. In December, a House education bill — titled the “Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform Act” or the “PROSPER Act” — was proposed, which would allow internal investigations of Title IX violations at colleges and universities to be halted or suspended at the request of law enforcement or prosecutors. The bill has not yet been passed. Title IX administrator Regan Crotty also deferred comment to the Office of Communications.
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ter systems.” “A lot of parts of New Jersey get their water from local watersheds … and a lot of areas that depend on local watersheds are taking more than the watersheds can support,” said Don Martocello ’18, a geosciences concentrator pursuing a certificate in environmental studies. “This is something that in part can be fixed from new conservation technology but also new societal reform and change.” The WIFIA program was authorized by President Barack Obama on June 10, 2014 as a loan program intended to provide states and municipalities a relatively low-cost way to invest in water infrastructure projects. It was later amended in 2015 and 2016. Particularly, WIFIA funds are intended to improve wastewater treatment, energy efficiency, alternative technologies, and potable water treatments. In New Jersey, the risk of lead exposure through water piping is much higher than the national average. Many New Jersey homes have not been renovated since lead solder was banned by federal law in 1986 and still have water piping with lead elements that can contaminate drinking water. “Getting those artifact or relic technologies out of the
water system would be a really great thing to do,” Martocello said. New Jersey did not submit a letter of interest for or receive any WIFIA funds during fiscal year 2017. In 2017, 43 prospective borrowers from 19 different states submitted letters of interest indicating desire for WIFIA funds, and 12 projects from nine states were ultimately selected to apply for WIFIA funds. WIFIA funds can only be used for up to 49 percent of a project’s total cost, and overall federal contributions to any given project cannot reach over 80 percent of total expenditures. Loan repayment can begin up to 5 years after the project is finished, but must be completed within a 35-year span. Each project proposed to WIFIA serving a large municipality must cost a minimum of $20 million, and projects serving municipalities of 25,000 individuals or fewer must cost a minimum of $5 million to be eligible for the program. The expansion of the WIFIA program has come amid general federal infrastructure spending cuts. President Donald Trump has promised to fix the United States’ infrastructure issues and in recent weeks has released elements of an infrastructure plan, including various funding adjustments. “Innovation is great, but we also need to be socially aware and responsible,” Martocello said.
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good,” Zhang said. “The draft document ref lects recommendations the committee is seeking comments on. The committee looks forward to hearing more from students at the upcoming focus groups,” Hotchkiss said. The circulated document is a draft of a proposal for which the University is seeking feedback. The proposal outlines the “Community Plan,” which would require all upperclassmen who are not members of an eating club to purchase a mandatory meal plan for $2500. The proposal, if implemented, would also require all first-year students and sophomores to purchase an unlimited plan in hopes of establishing a “connection for all students to residential college dining.” The draft document also suggested extending dining hall hours and eliminating late meal. Additionally, the proposal includes the expansion of the University’s dining points program, launched in September 2017. Dining points, which can be used in place of cash at Campus Dining locations, are currently only included with the Block 95 meal plan. The new proposal would add 250 dining points to the unlimited meal plan and to the new “Community Plan.” The new proposal also eliminates the Two Extra Meals program, which currently allows juniors and seniors not on a dining plan to eat twice a week for free in the residential colleges, a total of thirty free credits per semester. Instead, the proposal states that juniors and seniors will be alloted five “home college meals” semesterly, which can be eaten in the dining hall of their residential college. No changes to meal plans would go into effect for the 2018–2019 academic year, Hotchkiss explained. In several emails that circulated on listservs Tuesday night, students were encouraged to attend three focus group meetings designed to allow students to share feedback on the proposal with relevant administrators. The meetings are on April 17 at 9 a.m. in the Forbes Private Dining Room, April 19 at 6 p.m. in the RoMa PDR, and April 20 at 12 p.m. in the Whitman PDR. If unable to attend one of these sessions, students can submit feedback online. One student, Will Johnson ’19, began a GoFundMe to “give Princeton a dictionary.” According to a Facebook post where he shared the link to the GoFundMe, he wrote that he started the fundraiser because “they [the University] obviously don’t understand the meaning of independent.” “When I saw the email, I thought it was a joke at first,” Johnson explained in an interview. “I was confused and upset, then annoyed and angry.” Johnson cooks his own meals, eats with his family in the area, or goes to restaurants. “I find it hard to eat my two meals [weekly through the Two Extra Meals program] in the dining hall as it is,” Johnson. “I can’t imagine eating the number of [dining hall] meals proposed in the email.” “I feel that this proposal takes away a lot of freedom from students,” Johnson added. “I chose to be independent not only to save money but also to have the freedom to spend money on
what I want.” LiQian Peng ’19, a member of the Scully co-op, wrote in a statement about her frustration with the drafted proposal, especially since, for her, it seemed that the University was showing more support for co-ops by approving the new Scully co-op. She, like Johnson, spoke about the lessened control that independent students would have over their meals. She wrote on her own experience as a junior who had to purchase the Block 95 plan — the lowest meal plan available — while also participating in a co-op. According to Peng, after a semester of capitalizing on seminar events with food, using her co-op membership, and having opportunities to meal exchange with friends, she ended up having half of her meal swipes left. “The drafted proposal would strongly deter students from joining coops or going independent, in particular by imposing a significant financial burden on students interested in cooking together or having greater control over the food they’re eating,” Peng wrote. Peng also noted the potential the drafted proposal would have to cause tension, as upperclassmen in eating clubs would be singled out as the only students who would have a scaled-down dining plan. She would rather that the University look at different options when revising meal plans, such as making the expanded social options listed in the drafted proposal available to all upperclassmen and keeping a range of meal plan options for students to choose from. “My situation calls for expanded apartment-style housing, more Independent-friendly rooms, and more co-ops on campus (which the independent community has been asking for for years),” she wrote. “It would also be great to have truly de-coupled housing and dining plans so that oncampus housing does not require having any meal plan at all, for instance.” Zhang suggested that the committee look at an optional, cheaper dining hall plan for upperclassmen. That way, he explained, eating in a dining hall would mean paying for a meal comparable to the prices at Panera Bread “instead of it being comparable to Winberie’s.” Underclassmen have also expressed doubts about a new requirement to make the unlimited plan mandatory for first-year students and sophomores. “It would be unfair for people who are on financial aid or anyone who doesn’t want to pay for it and would rather pay for somewhere else,” Jane Brown ’21 said. “It’s a free will question: what do you want to eat?” Hannah Fein ’20, although a fan of the unlimited meal plan, said she finds the potential elimination of late meal to be a problem. She noted, however, that many of her friends are not on the unlimited plan and their quality of life at the University seems barely affected. “I don’t understand why we would get rid of it [late meal] because it fulfills a completely different need than D-hall food/meals — it’s perfect for late night snacks, stocking up on water bottles or boxed fruit or chips for snacks, or grabbing something in such a central location right on the way to class,” Fein said.
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y naïve freshman self was shocked by the avalanche of emails that took over my inbox during the first week of Fall semester. As I scrolled through my new collection, I became increasingly anxious that I was not busy enough. These electronic envelopes all seemed to hold the golden ticket to a fulfilling semester, with their google application forms and open houses. The sea of applications overwhelmed me — they were reminders of how I wasn’t taking the full advantage of what the University was offering me. The University showered me with amazing opportunities but did not offer the guidance I needed to navigate through the complex web of options I was faced with, often for the first time. Fast forward to December, when the typical conversation starter switched from “Which residential college are you in?” to “What are you doing this summer?” Everyone around me, including myself, seemed to ooze anxiety because they didn’t know what they were doing for their summer vacation. Like all the other confused and terrified freshmen, I joined the herd of applicants charging forward to earn their internships, fellowships, and various other opportunities. While the University sent me emails upon emails about ways to find good internships, I only found one email from Career Advising Center advertising an hourand-a-half long workshop to find which internship I should apply to. I felt lost. This phenomenon seemed normal at first, but in hindsight it was ironic. I came to the Uni-
versity because I was excited about the opportunities that it would offer me, but when faced with these opportunities I was so overwhelmed with stress that I could hardly exploit those opportunities. The fear that I would not be “competent” or “successful” if I didn’t apply to multiple commitments to fill my resume was painfully tangible. Was this simply because I was insecure about my future? Partially, yes. However, the biggest problem was that I simply had too many options. Psychologist Barry Schwartz, at his TED Talk in 2005, explained this ‘Paradox of Choice’ by presenting the negative effects of having excessive freedom of choice. One of the side effects of having overwhelmingly large number many options is that we become “paralyzed.” The multitude of choices overwhelms an individual to a degree where they are unable to choose as a result of analysis paralysis. It’s what you experience when you spend five minutes agonizing over whether to have pasta, a quesadilla, or pizza at late meal. What’s more, when we choose something, we become riddled with regret; the imagined alternative always seems to be the better choice in retrospect, and thus regret reduces the satisfaction we feel even when we did make a good choice. These two effects combined explain why the 103 Google form applications induced so much anxiety and stress in me. Of course, I’m not suggesting that we need to reduce the number of opportunities offered on campus. What I am suggesting, however, is that the University should have more consistent institutional guidance for underclassmen, who are still confused as to where they see themselves in the near future. The main reason that the abundance of opportunity and choice overwhelms these students is often because they are
unsure about what they truly want to pursue in the future. Being undecided may scare students into thinking that they need to do everything to keep every door open. If the student could choose certain fields that they want to prioritize and explore, it would eliminate some options for them and thus allow them to concentrate their energy on pursuing a few select opportunities. However, students would need comprehensive and personalized guidance from wiser mentors to choose these priorities in the first place. Oftentimes it is difficult for an individual to analyze and assess their interests and skills by themselves. Comprehensive guidance would allow a student to discuss their strengths and weaknesses, potential career options, and passions with a mentor with objective perspective. This would create solid criteria based on which they could make their choices, rather than hastily applying and committing to everything in fear of missing out. For the stress comes from the lack of self-assurance that we are pursuing what we really want, not from the abundance of opportunity. What would “comprehensive guidance” provided on an institutional level look like? An example of such a career guidance program can be found at Dartmouth College. Dartmouth’s Center for Professional Development provides the Professional Development Accelerator CareerTracker Program, a flexible two-year program that allows students to assess their skills and interests and learn how to explore industries they find interesting. The difference between Dartmouth’s PDA CareerTracker Program and the University’s existing Career Service resources is that one is consistent while the other is sporadic. While the 30-minute appointments are definitely helpful, it is often very difficult
to have a meaningful conversation about the future in such a short timeframe. However, if these 30-minute appointments were done with the same advisor over an extended period of time, they could serve as a map to which students may refer on their journey to the future. Implementing such an extensive program would certainly take time and resources. While the University should definitely work towards developing one, there are other less time-consuming initiatives it could start immediately. One of them would be developing a guidebook that coordinates information about application deadlines for various opportunities that the University offers. The guidebook could include timeline of events of application process, as well as general outline of when and where students look for their summer activities. The student groups could also contribute, and the Undergraduate Student Government could create a website where all information about when each group accepts applications or holds auditions could be organized in one place. Finally, the University could expand the Career and Life Visions workshops held by Career Services that help students explore their values, interests, and strengths. These types of workshops and advising sessions could be better publicized and more frequently than they are now. The University is indeed a Land of Opportunity. We must, however, develop a way to help students take advantage of opportunities — to do so out of passion rather than out of FOMO (fear of missing out). Otherwise, we may find ourselves stuck in a wasteland instead, standing among piles of empty resume fillers. Jinn Park is a first-year from Yongyin, South Korea. She can be reached at jinnp@princeton.edu.
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Fighting fire with fire: Campus carry Maya Eashwaran
Contributing Columnist
T
he massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. is unshakable. As a student, it is difficult to imagine such a situation, such a shadow of grief hanging over a school, a campus. The 17 students killed in Parkland are part of a larger network of unimaginable pain, splintered families, and broken communities. This story is not new. According to CNN, there have been 17 school shootings since the start of the year. We again and again have seen fiery town halls and marches in the streets, have seen politicians offer condolences and promises for legislation that will change something, anything. Nothing seems to be working. Meanwhile, on college campuses in several states, students and faculty with a permit can legally carry a
concealed weapon on their person. Most recently, Georgia’s “campus carry” law went into effect on July 1, 2017, a decade after the deadly Virginia Tech shooting. Campus carry seems to be a reaction to the sort of brute violence seen in shootings like Parkland and Virginia Tech, a visceral movement to arm citizens to stop mass shootings before they happen. Proponents of these bills argue that arming students and faculty could prevent future bloodshed of the same magnitude as Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, and Parkland. Guns, to them, are symbols of safety, guaranteed by the Constitution as legitimate as our First Amendment rights. But is it safe, in light of increased gun violence, to give more people guns? Advocates for campus carry may say that guns in the hands of the “good guys” can prevent mass shootings from occurring. However, according to a study conducted by the National Gun Victims Action Council mentioned in The Trace, seven out of 77 participants who were placed in self-defense scenarios would have shot an innocent by-
stander. In addition, most of the participants themselves would have been killed. Evan Defilippis and Devin Hughes, authors of this compilation, conclude, “none of the participants came close to the accuracy or judgement required to stop an active shooter or a criminal.” Minkah Makalani, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, in a brilliantly written piece in The New Yorker, cuts to what he calls the “intellectual costs” of guns on college campuses. He writes, “Faculty members have generally opposed campus carry because they suspect that allowing guns in the classroom will hinder our ability to teach about controversial subjects such as state surveillance, sexuality, race and racism, and radical social movements … Many of us entered the profession without knowing that we would have to consider whether a student who is upset about his grade, uncomfortable with a lecture on black queer sexuality, or disagrees with our placing slavery and white supremacy at the center of American history might have a gun hol-
stered on his waist.” In a world where anyone could be carrying a gun, offending someone could lead to disastrous consequences. This new weaponized culture could silence opinions deemed too controversial — how, then, can we learn about anything considered controversial in such an environment? How can we trust that the people around us will accept or argue against our views respectfully and peacefully without fear of violence? We came to this university, no matter where we’re from, for a common purpose. To learn and grow, to challenge our ideas, and to reinforce our places as citizens of the world. A privilege of attending this University is being able to engage in such conversations, no matter how provocative, without fear. Most of us left home, travelled cities, states, oceans away just for this opportunity for fearless debate and the fearless seeking of knowledge. Every day, we take this simple freedom as something for granted, debating fearlessly with peers and professors alike. This freedom is something that rests on the fundamental
safety of our campus. Campus carry and the fears it brings undermine the goal of education and truth seeking. It is imperative, in today’s environment, to view campus carry as a serious burden in an intellectual sense, as Makalani writes, and in a physical sense. While editing this piece, I had to edit the number of school shootings that occurred since the beginning of the year three times. I watched as the number went from 13 to 17 in a startlingly short amount of time. Arming educators and students is not the answer — instead of fostering a safe environment, it creates a dangerous space in which words, ideas, and our individual freedoms are repressed. The number of school shootings will continue to grow. Now more than ever, we must do our part to protect education and its place in society as we know it — as a haven for knowledge and as a place of safety. Maya Eashwaran is a firstyear from Alpharetta, Ga. She can be reached at mayae@princeton.edu.
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Softball rallies from seven point deficit, but Monmouth survives By David Xin
Head Sports Editor
The softball team (5–21 overall, 3–6 Ivy) struggled to find its rhythm early in its match against Monmouth (13–13) on Tuesday. Despite a rally late in the game, the Tigers were unable to cut the deficit as the Hawks ended the game with a 13–7 win. The Tigers hit a wall early in the game, hitting just one single in the first three innings. Monmouth, on the other hand was red-hot, registering a single, four walks, and two wild pitches resulting in four runs. The Hawks added to the advantage with a solo home run in the second inning. By the fourth inning, it seemed Monmouth would dominate the rest of the game with a commanding 7–0 lead. Princeton finally put itself on the scoreboard after a pair of hits from first-year outfielder Mackenzie Meyer and junior catcher and first
baseman Keeley Walsh led to the Tigers’ first score. With a run under its belt, the Orange and Black seemed to have found its rhythm in what would be a massive fifth inning. The Tigers would go on to score six unanswered runs. The highlight was Walsh’s three-run homer that tied the game
at seven apiece. Showing their resilience, the Tigers had fought their way back to even terms by the end of the fifth inning, after a slow start to the match. However, the comeback appeared to have taken everything out of the Tigers, as Princeton remained scoreless for the rest of the
game. Monmouth, on the other hand, came back with a surge. The response from the Hawks started in the sixth inning. Walks continued to plague Princeton as four free passes led to yet another Monmouth point. The Hawks held a narrow 8–7 lead heading into the seventh.
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Despite rallying back from a 7-point deficit, the Tigers were unable to hold their momentum as Monmouth answered with a five-point inning to secure the win.
Just as the Tigers found their rhythm in the fifth inning, the Hawks ended the game on a high note, scoring five times to end the match. A three-run homer from Monmouth’s Alex Holzman gave the Hawks a commanding lead, pushing the Monmouth advantage to 13–7. Despite the score line, Princeton showed f lashes of brilliance in their first nonconference home game of the season. The Tigers managed to rally from a 7–0 deficit although they were unable to hold off Monmouth’s runs later in the match. Princeton’s next game will be part of a three-game series against Ivy League rival Yale (8–22, 4–8). A win could move the Tigers up in the Ivy League standings as the Bulldogs sit directly above the Tigers in the Ancient Eight. The team will travel to New Haven, Conn., this Saturday to begin the three-game matchup.
Tigers edged out by Maryland in final moments in 12–11 thriller WOMEN’S LACROSSE
By David Xin Head Sports Editor
The women’s lacrosse team took No. 2 Maryland to the wire, building on a strong lead to stay ahead for the first 50 minutes of the game. However, the Terps came back as a free-position attempt with 45.1 seconds left on the clock gave Maryland the opportunity to steal the game. After giving the Terps their largest deficit all season, the Tigers were unable to hold on and were narrowly edged out by Maryland 11–10. Princeton opened the game strong, leading by four against their nationally ranked opponents. The Tigers showed off their depth early with a 4–2 lead. Each of the four goals came from a different Princeton player. Junior Elizabeth George added to the lead to give the Tigers a five-point edge. The two teams would trade blow for blow leading into halftime. The Tigers led 7–4 at the break. Despite the lead, the break was bittersweet as Princeton’s star offensive player, first-year Kyla Sears, was called for her second yellow card. Consequently, Sears
was forced to sit out the remainder of the game. Without their top offensive option the Tigers would have to look elsewhere to keep the momentum going. Senior Colby Chanenchuk replaced Sears in the second half and quickly stepped up to extend the Princeton advantage. Chanenchuk set a pretty feed to fellow senior Ellie McNulty to give the Tigers their largest lead of the day at 8–4. However, Maryland would make a crucial three-goal run to trim the Princeton lead to one. Despite their lead, the Princeton side found themselves on the defensive until junior Kathryn Hallett found the back of the net to give the Orange and Black a two-goal cushion. However, the Treps would rally again with another three-point run to launch themselves into the lead at 10–9. With 1:32 remaining on the clock, George completed her hat trick and tied the game at ten apiece. However, Maryland would once again have an answer for the Tigers. Scoring with less than a minute left, Maryland pulled through with an 11–10 win.
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Princeton was unable to hold on against No. 2 Maryland, the Treps came back in the dying moments of the game to steal a win. answered with a five-point inning to secure the win.
While the result is certainly disappointing, the Tigers had a strong showing against a nationally ranked opponent. Princeton outshot Maryland 34–30 and had the edge in draw controls. The Tigers will try to rebound from this tough loss as they return to Ivy League
play. Princeton will have three straight home games in the next three weeks. These games will be crucial as the Princeton team hunts for a title. The Tigers are third in the Ivy League with a 2–1 conference record behind Dartmouth (with a 3–1 Ivy League record) and Penn, who has a
perfect 3–0 record in the Ancient Eight. This coming weekend, the Tigers will face off against the Bulldogs in Sherrerd Field. Yale is fourth in the Ivy League with a 2–2 record. The Bulldogs would climb take the third spot with a win against Princeton.
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Reflections
STREET EDITORS: DANIELLE HOFFMAN, LYRIC PEROT, LUCY CHUANG
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STREET writers ref lect on their year at Princeton, exploring topics ranging from body image to their time at Princeton Preview.
Body positivity talk
with yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley As someone with an unhealthy relationship with my own body, I go out of my way to avoid body positivity conversations. Just the thought of being recognized as someone who isn’t skinny is very stressful to me. And over the years, I’ve grown to hate and be very harsh on myself. So yeah, body positivity talks don’t inspire or empower me or cause me to suddenly love myself. And I didn’t feel inspired by this one either. However,
this talk had a deep impact on me. Hearing Jessamyn Stanley — who, by the way, is a boss — talk about her experience as a fat woman practicing yoga was a huge wake-up call to me. Stanley talked about her own feelings of self-doubt when she first went to a yoga class. So many toxic thoughts came to her while she looked at and compared her body to others through the large mirror. She hated looking at herself and feeling like she wasn’t doing
the poses right because of her body. These thoughts became unbearable and suffocating, to the point where she had to run out of the classroom. The second time she tried yoga, these toxic thoughts came back, but she just wasn’t having it. She asked herself, “So is this what we’re going to do for 90 minutes?” After an uncomfortable period of time — whether it be 10 minutes or an hour — these thoughts shut off. There are only so many flaws you can point out about
your body before it starts to get repetitive. Stanley told us the best thing to do is just to let these thoughts come out, and that’s what has me shook. On Stanley’s website, her mission is to celebrate bodies and encourage students to ask “How do I feel?” rather than “How do I look?” Hearing Stanley talk about her toxic thoughts, I’ve realized that I let myself define how I feel with how I look. I can’t begin to stress how many times I’ve run out of a
room to stop my thoughts. I’ve left auditions in the middle of them. I’ve missed classes on the days I felt very ugly. I’ve skipped meals at the dining hall so people wouldn’t see me. I’ve avoided parties claiming that I got “bad vibes” when really I just felt bad in my party outfits. And there’s just so much more I’ve missed out on because I can’t handle the negative thoughts. I let my appearance bully my emotions.
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THIS WEEK ON THE SEXERT:
Fresh-tasting Fluid Dear Sexpert, I’ve always heard rumors that eating pineapple would make my vagina taste better, but is that actually true? Are there other foods that do the same? Sincerely, Fresh-tasting Fluid? Dear Fresh-tasting Fluid, It seems like the rumor that eating pineapple makes your vaginal f luid taste sweet has been around since middle school. But from where exactly did this rumor originate? More than likely, it came from the idea that vaginas have to smell like a fresh field of f lowers and not what they actually are — a body part. That being said, the myth that pineapples make your f luid tastes better might not be entirely false. At the end of the day, your diet has a profound effect on any bodily f luid, whether it be saliva, sweat, urine, ejaculate, or vaginal f luid. The science community has confirmed that eating certain groups of foods will affect the natural pH (the acidity or basicity of a liquid solution) and smell of your bodily secretions. For example, eating pungent foods, such as garlic, meat, vegetables like asparagus, and cheeses, will make for a stronger smell. The same can be said for alcohol and cigarettes, which are linked to a bitter taste. On the other hand, staying well hydrated and eating sweeter foods with a high water content can decrease the aromas
coming from body f luids. These trends suggest that maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle — drinking lots of water, exercising often, and eating balanced meals — will ensure that your secretions smell just as healthy as the foods you are eating. This means that a pre-sex meal of pineapple is not going to make you smell any better or worse than eating garlic pizza — it’s about your overall diet on a longterm scale. General hygiene, like taking regular showers, wiping properly (front to back), and wearing clean underwear is just as important as a healthy diet. Doing more than this, however, can have unintended negative consequences. Your vagina is self-regulating and self-cleaning, which means that although it is possible for your smell to f luctuate based on the foods you have been eating or perhaps the presence of your menstrual cycle, there is no need to use more than a mild soap and water when cleaning the vulva and labia. Using douching products and scented wipes could actually make your vagina smell worse by throwing off your natural pH, causing irritation, and leading to infection. If there is a noticeably foul odor (from more than just the broccoli you had at dinner), check with your doctor. The smell might be indicating that something else (like an infection) is to blame. With rude nicknames like “fish taco” or “tuna town,” it’s no wonder that people second guess whether their genitals smell. And can be hard to know what to believe when we are bombard-
ed by myths on social media or ads for products that promise to make us smell “fresh and clean.” These reinforce the negative stereotype that genitals are dirty and smelly — which just is not true! Everyone has their own healthy pH and natural smell that is normal (and even “sexy” to others).
So does pineapple make your vaginal f luid or ejaculate taste better? Maybe, but it’s not really going to matter in the long-term. What is important is that you stay healthy in terms of hygiene, diet, and exercise, and those things will ensure that your vagina continues to smell like a healthy vagina.
~ The Sexpert Information regarding the smell and taste of bodily f luids retrieved from Buzzfeed, Self, Vice, and Health. For more advice from The Sexpert, visit thesexpert. princeton.edu.
One year later: A freshman’s ode to Princeton Preview Lydia Gompper Contributor ‘21
I remember that white tent. I remember those orange folders, those packets of potential classes, workshops, tours, performances. I remember clutching my complimentary drawstring bag like a shield, draping my lanyard around my neck as if to scream to the world, “I’m new here, and I have no idea which direction I’m walking in.” I remember Princeton Preview. One year ago, visiting this campus — a place now so intimately familiar to me
— was an excursion into a world of dreams. Truly. Princeton had been, for so long, The Dream, and arriving at Preview felt more incredible than becoming a princess, slaying a dragon, or learning to f ly. It was the stuff of fairy tales. I Google Maps-ed my way through campus, wandering from panel discussions that made me jump in my seat to open houses where I awkwardly attempted conversation with real, live Princeton students. Night fell, and I experienced one of the most awe-inspiring performances of my life: This Side of Princeton. It was everything I believed
Princeton to be: an endless supply of remarkably talented people, creating a dynamic and diverse campus culture. Between the glowin-the-dark juggling and the heart-palpitation-inducing dancing, that single show confirmed to me that if something could be done well, then it was being done well at Princeton. I left campus remembering the students I met as heroes. A year later, I sit on my bed, a pre-frosh lying in a sleeping bag on my dorm room f loor. I’ve just returned from yet another performance of This Side of Princeton, and the show was still stellar. Still wild,
still lovely, still immeasurably fun. And yet, I recognized faces. Some close friends, some classmates, some people I’ve met just once or seen from across campus. The boy in the second row of The Princeton Triangle Club's “I Got In" is no longer some anonymous, untouchable talent to me, but a boy I’ve joked with, hugged, relied on. The dancers are amazing, yes, but human. I understood, this year, the upperclassmen yelling out their friends’ names from the balcony as they take the stage. I understood their fierce pride, their camaraderie. These are our friends, not
our heroes. Or, well, maybe they’re both. One year ago, I took a tour of a building led by a sophomore who at the time seemed impossibly mature and capable. One year later, I see that boy nearly every day, and that building is my favorite place on campus. What once was filled with impossible mystique is now familiar, and all the more beautiful for that. So thank you Princeton Preview, for introducing me to the world that would become my home. And thanks to everyone I’ve met since then; you wowed me as a high school senior, and you haven’t stopped since.
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“TheIncorruptibleBody”SeniorThesisReview Heather Grace Staff Writer ‘18
“The Incorruptible Body,” a senior thesis exhibition by Angélica María Vielma ‘18 is currently on view in Hurley Gallery at the new Lewis Arts Complex through Saturday April 14th. As a Visual Arts major, Vielma has taken coursework in photography, sculpture, product design, and environmentally-minded art. Her exhibition centers on photographic processes and representations of the self, within a framework of Catholic iconography as well as her personal identity as the daughter of practicing clowns, in her hometown of Pharr, Texas. Activating the theatrical modes of religious ritual and circus performances, Vielma transforms the gallery space into a house of worship, refercing aspects of personhood and the soul through exhibition mechanisms that draw on ceremonies of life and death within the religious tradition.
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If you’re reading this your week is really not as bad as it could be Anoushka Mariwala Street Writer ‘21
Presenting: a real-life, entirely crowdsourced University to-do list, in all its strangeness, sadness, and glory.
1. Crowdsource seven water kettles from various Forbesians.
2. Take a bath in maple syrup because I lost a March Madness bracket challenge to my friend. 3. Text my parents to warn them that Tinder might spontaneously appear on their phones since I just used our shared account to download it. No, it’s for Cardi B, I swear.
4. Some physical training. We’re talking agility, strength and conditioning, hand-eye coordination, dodging, dipping, ducking, diving, and dodging. Dodgeball is happening, so watch yourself because my team is gonna full send. 5. Make sure I don’t do anything socially awkward for seven whole days.
6. Get anonymously featured in The Daily Princetonian for my to-do list.
7. Purchase two packs of ping-pong balls. 8. Get my life together enough to make a comprehensive to-do list.
9. Actually follow aforementioned list. 10. Remind myself to water myself! (hydrate or die-drate!) 11. Scavenge hair ties because I came to Princeton with 120 hair ties, and they are now all on the floor of my dorm. This is a crisis.
12. Respond to Anoushka’s strange to-do list emails.
13. Take a “me” day.