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Q&A

Majority of varsity athletes Q&A with Marie major in the social Yovanovitch sciences, our analysis finds. ’80, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine

By Jasmyn Dobson

Senior News Writer

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By Molly Taylor Staff Features Writer

Despite the commitment of daily practices and weekend competitions, varsity student-athletes, in principle, have the same academic experience as other students. Composing just under 18 percent of the undergraduate population, student-athletes receive the same advising, take the same classes, and are held to the same standards.

“As a matter of educational policy,” the University’s athletics website says, “Princeton seeks to assure that student-athletes are

representative of the student body.”

But with April 11 marking the end of concentration declaration for A.B. sophomores, The Daily Princetonian analyzed the concentration choices of current upperclass students. The ‘Prince’ found that in their academic interests, student-athletes aren’t quite representative of the student body.

Student-athletes disproportionately major in the social sciences — 57.8 percent of current upperclass athletes study within the discipline. In contrast, only 29.8 percent of non-athletes

Writing myself into Princeton’s story

By José Pablo Fernández García | Head Prospect Editor

hesitated to write more explicitly about my Mexican identity or my story of immigration. They’re weird, complex identities and issues I often struggle to understand on a personal, internal level, especially as an immigrant to a country with a distinctly difficult history of race and otherness. But after this much time as a student here, it might be a lie by omission to not write this part of me into the story of this place.

To begin, I have to go back to a high school See STORY page 9

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This Week on Campus

See STUDENT ATHLETES page 5

The Daily Princetonian: What led you to spend so much of your career working in the Soviet Union or former Eastern bloc states?

Marie Yovanovitch: I came to Princeton, and I started studying Russian.

This was during the Cold War, when lots of people who were interested in for-

See YOVANOVITCH page 3

Princeton students come together to observe Ramadan

STUDENT LIFE

The PROSPECT

As I’ve written and published more essays in these pages, I’ve discovered a great joy in knowing that I’m writing myself into the story of this place, Princeton. It may only be a few thousand words by the time I graduate, but they’ll be there. Alongside headlines of prestigious prize winners and major world events, I’ve added, among others, one celebrating my birthday, some mourning my losses, and one honoring my identity.

At least, part of it.

For some reason, I’ve

chose a social science concentration.

Economics is the most popular concentration among student-athletes — 19.3 percent concentrate in the department compared to 8.3 percent of non-athletes. 12.8 percent of athletes concentrate in SPIA compared to 8.2 percent of non-athletes and 8.7 percent of athletes concentrate in politics compared to 3.2 percent of non-athletes.

Student-athletes are underrepresented in STEM. Only 16 percent concentrate within the natural sciences, compared to 28 percent

Marie Yovanovitch ’80 served as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2016 through 2019. She began her foreign service career as a U.S. State Department official in 1986, and left the State Department in 2019, when she was recalled from Kyiv by former President Trump. She later testified in Trump’s first impeachment inquiry.

Yovanovitch discussed her recent memoir Lessons from the Edge on campus on April 12 as a part of the Walter E. Ledge lecture series. She sat down with The Daily Princetonian ahead of the lecture to discuss her career, memoir, and how Princeton students can give back through foreign service.

This conversation has been edited for clarity and concision.

eign policy studied Russian. I mean, that changed after the break of the Soviet Union and in the early 2000s, with the focus on the war on terrorism and so forth, but when I was at Princeton, Russian was a very popular thing to study if you were interested in foreign policy.

I chose to do that in part, not only because of my interest in foreign policy, but also because of my family history. So I took Russian for much of the four years at Princeton. I didn’t quite know what I was going to do next after Princeton, [but] I ended up doing a semester abroad in Moscow at a language school to study Russian with a bit more diligence and I really, really got interested in it.

DP: Your memoir describes a great deal of the fear and confusion and betrayal you felt after you were recalled from your post in Ukraine. In particular, you describe moments of selfdoubt. What inspired you to publish these more vulnerable reflections?

MY: I’m not sure how I’m actually comfortable with

By Janny Eng Staff News Writer

After sundown on the night of April 5, nearly 100 students, faculty, and community members gathered in the Frist Multipurpose Room for the first community iftar during the month of Ramadan. Iftar is the evening meal during which Ramadan observers celebrate with friends and family after fasting from sunrise to sundown.

During April 5’s iftar, which was organized by the Muslim Students Association (MSA), crowds of people shared food and chatted as music played in the background. Several organizers of the event expressed well wishes for the holiday and invited everyone to partake in the festivities.

The Muslim holiday of Ramadan began on April 2 and will continue for a month, ending with Eid

al-Fitr on May 2. For many students on campus, Ramadan is a time of faith, community, family, and gratitude.

Amina Anowara ’25, President of the South Asian Students Association (SASA), expressed the gratitude she felt while observing Ramadan. “Not being able to eat during the day, it really makes you appreciate the things that you do have because you’re without them for a short period of time.”

Some students explained the principle of equality underlying the holiday, a value consistent with the Islamic faith.

“Ramadan is a time where everybody at their root is considered the same person, whether you’re rich, poor, a different color or gender,” said Mohamed Alghondakly ’23, who observes Ramadan. “At the end of the day, everybody is fasting,

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so it brings us back to a place where we could all be considered equals, because in Islam, the major theme is that everybody’s considered equal.”

“I think it’s a time where you see the Muslim community gather like no other time in the year,” Kulsoom Ghias ’24, an MSA board member said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.

“With the community, [fasting] altogether, there’s something about that that gives you the strength that you need,“ Ghias continued. “The religious devotion that you have throughout it makes it really special and even easier to do.”

Ramadan is usually celebrated with friends and family. While firstyear students on campus may find it difficult to celebrate away from family for the first time, students expressed that See RAMADAN page 2

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ACADEMICS | CISS SPRING SIMULATION — Saturday, April 16, 7 a.m., Robertson Hall.

The Center for International Security Studies is hosting a crisis simulation, offering the opportunity to practice strategy and diplomacy. All majors and years are welcome to attend.

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there is a welcoming Muslim community available at Princeton.

Alghondakly explained how the April 5 iftar created a sense of community.

“It feels like a real community. The thing is, a lot of people here are coming from places where they’re completely away from their family, and this gives us a chance to really build that community that we once felt when we were with our families,” Alghondakly said.

Nimrah Naseer ’23, CoPresident of MSA, shared Alghondakly’s sentiments and explained how these feelings have informed MSA’s mission.

“When you’re home, you can break your fast with your family, but it’s really hard to recreate that on campus,” Naseer said.

“We have been trying to create spaces, or just little notes to people to make them aware this is where people are breaking their fast.”

MSA continues to strive to build community on campus by hosting a variety of festivities.

Abdelhamid Arbab ’23, co-president of MSA, described that some of these planned activities incorporate the Princeton community at large. “There are two community iftars per week, and then we actually have a fast-a-thon coming up on April 13, where we’re inviting the entire campus to fast with us,” Arbab said prior to the event.

Other events include a combination of daily informal prayers, as well as large group gatherings to break the fast as a community.

Observers of Ramadan will break their fast after sundown, which current-

ly occurs at around 7:30 p.m.. Since most campus dining halls close at 8 p.m., several students reported needing to grab a to-go box.

“It’s just better to take a take-out box with me,” Anowara said. “It would be really nice if they could extend it [dinner time] a little bit just so I could go down and eat there instead of having to go earlier.”

When asked about accommodations for students observing Ramadan, the Princeton Dining Program responded, “Campus Dining accommodates students who are fasting by providing options for both Iftar (post-fast meal) and Suhoor (pre-fast meal).

The dining program currently provides take-out containers, so students who are fasting may come in during the dinner meal period to prepare a takeout container for Iftar.”

JON ORT / THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN

Members of the Princeton community have expressed enthusiasm at being able to gather and break fast together without any restrictions for the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19.

“It’s important to note that it’s been two years because of the pandemic that we’ve not been able to gather together after

breaking our fast,” Imam Khalil Abdullah, Assistant Dean for Muslim Life, explained. “I think that there’s a little bit of extra excitement and gratitude for our being able to gather again.”

Janny Eng is a News contributor for the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at je3398@ princeton.edu.

Q&A

Q&A with Taleeb Noormohamed ’98, Canadian Member of Parliament

By Sidney Singer

Assistant News Editor

Taleeb Noormohamed ’98 is a Canadian Member of Parliament representing Granville, Vancouver. He currently sits as a member on the Canadian Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.

The Daily Princetonian sat down with Noormohamed for a conversation on his time at Princeton, stopping misinformation, and his role in the Canadian Parliament.

This interview has been edited for clarity and concision.

The Daily Princetonian: So, just take me back a bit.

Why did you come to Princeton?

Taleeb Noormohamed: Growing up as a child of immigrants, my parents would always say go get the best education possible. They’d given up everything to move to Canada and they really wanted to be sure we got the best possible everything. Really their whole investment of time, effort, and not a whole lot of money, because we didn’t have any, was for me and my sister when it came time to go to university. They said whatever it takes, however, you do it, you have to go to whatever the best school is you can go to. I never thought I would get into Princeton.

And [when] I got the letter that said “yes,” instantly I was ready to go. It just felt like the place I needed to go.

DP: So how do you feel coming back to speak to the other Canadians who are at Princeton now?

TN: I feel great, because there weren’t a lot of Canadians when I was here. So I think [Canadians] have a double responsibility. I think on one hand, we have a real chance to share with people what Canada is really all about. It’s not igloos. [We can] talk about Canada in a very reasonable way but I think it’s also a good chance for Canadians to appreciate the differences between the United States and Canada living here.

When it comes to Princeton in particular, I think the one thing about this place that really struck me was the cosmopolitan ethic that you get being here the idea that you are a citizen of the world, and that you have an obligation through your experience here to take the privilege that you gained while you were here and do something meaningful with it. And so there’s this real sense of connectedness to the idea that hopefully some of these stu-

dents will come back to Canada, right? A lot of us don’t.

Some of us will come back to Canada and bring with us the richness of this experience and hopefully help to build Canada.

DP: You also went to Oxford and then you went to Harvard. Do you think that having that wide perspective, being outside Canada for your education, gave you a unique perspective in terms of governance and politics?

TN: I think so because on one hand, being able to see your own country from the outside is very important.

Being distant from your home country is very different. I think you can be deeply Canadian but be elsewhere because you maintain those ties to Canada. But it is important to see Canada, how others see us, and understand that we have created a global perception of Canada that I think is very positive.

It’s easy to get comfortable in what we think Canada is, and I think what the last two years have shown us is that despite the best efforts of our government, there are things that we still need to fix. But we have to be prepared to do some of the heavy lifting in areas that are deeply uncomfortable investing into making sure that we are stopping some of this spread of online hate and the spread of this ideologically motivated violent extremism. We think of ourselves as being immune from that and we are not.

DP: What would you say would be something that the Princeton Canadians can do to help cultivate that sense of wanting to help others and wanting to combat this hatred that you’ve been talking about?

TN: I would encourage everyone that is Canadian that has had the opportunity and the privilege of getting an education here to find their way back home. I think it is important to spend time helping to strengthen Canada, because Canada has [the] opportunity unlike anywhere else. We’re leaning heavily into investments in the economy of the future and in innovation. This is where we tie back to Princeton and think about making the world a better place through service, [through] whatever sort of form that service looks like.

It’s all an opportunity and so I think bringing that global perspective back home is going to be crucial in working with folks who are already in Canada.

DP: So with that, why do you think Canadians don’t

want to go back home?

TN: There has historically been an income disparity.

You graduate from a place like Princeton, or if you graduate from McGill, you can come to New York, and you can make a whack load more money than you can make in Toronto or Vancouver. When you come to Canada, remember what you’re getting: high quality health care and you’re getting child care. That perception that you can’t make as much money in Canada, there are elements of that, but it is changing as a direct result of people seeing the value in Canada. When some of the most xenophobic policies of the Trump administration came into effect, what that did for Canada is make us the option that people had to take, and now it’s the option that they want to take.

Now they’re staying in Canada, and building in Canada, and that is a really strong signal of what economic growth in Canada will look like. And why I think graduates in the next generation won’t have to make that choice.

DP: I know you’re also on the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. Can you tell me a little bit about that?

TN: I’ve been on the job since November. It’s a great privilege to be on that committee. We have a study going on [with] the impact of Russian disinformation, and the Russian threat to Canada. That’s a very real problem that we are dealing with. I spend a lot of my time right now thinking about disinformation because what Jan. 6 should have taught Canada is how very fragile our pluralistic society [is and] how very fragile our democratic institutions can be. There is a very real obligation that those of us who are elected to office in Canada and I would argue also in the United States, to carry ourselves in a way that respects and values those democratic institutions— if we think we can survive that without having a plan to counterbalance [it], we are wrong. This is not me speaking as a liberal. This is me speaking as a Canadian. In Canada sometimes, [we’ve] gotten away with the fact that because we’re not the United States. If we have learned anything over the last couple of years, particularly is that we do need to be, we need to be much more thoughtful and much more careful in how we build.

DP: What do you think that role is for students to help stop misinformation

from spreading?

TN: Students have the greatest privilege which is access to incredible information, incredible, rational, thoughtful information, particularly here where you can have a debate between people who live on different sides of an issue, right?

I think that is the greatest skill that students here and elsewhere should be bringing to the conversation, which is that [what] comes with great knowledge [is] great responsibility. It’s not okay to be quiet and to be silent when you see patently false things flying around. We have an obligation with this education, to play a role in being voices of reason. And I think right now on campus that should start.

It should start here where we start to see othering where we start to see people pushing things that cause you know the foundations of hate and extreme views to start to form.

DP: I know that you are going to speak about Ukraine and disinformation at the event. What as students, in terms of using social media for good, do you think that we should do about these issues?

TN: I think social media can also play a very positive role. Right? And I think where it plays a positive role is in communicating, [and] reaching to people that may not have the facts. I think reporting misinformation im-

mediately is critical. Making sure that we are communicating clearly, and calmly, what is actually happening on the ground, and the need for us to speak out, about unlawful action by the Russian government, which is actively engaging in war crimes.

I’m really glad to see Canada leading in so many ways on Ukraine. If we don’t find a way to send a very clear message to authoritarian regimes across the world, that we are not going to tolerate this, it gives license to them not just to do some things we talked about before. I think it has given new life to conversations around making sure that we don’t forget Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Myanmar, the Rohingya, Sahel and in other parts of the world, and that these crises are going to multiply, you know, whether it is through climate change, whether it is through you know, economic disparity, and that if there is one thing that Ukraine should teach us, it is that no one is immune, and that we need to invest heavily in building social capital and intellectual capital in dealing with these things.

Sidney Singer is an Assistant News Editor from Nova Scotia, Canada, who has covered a variety of news on and around campus. She can be reached at sidneysinger@princeton.edu, on Twitter @sidneylsinger, or on Instagram @sidneysinger.

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that because I’m a private person. But after my testimony during the impeachment inquiry, I got lots and lots of letters from Americans primarily, although also from people abroad, saying, ‘Thank you for your service. We are interested in hearing more about your life, about the challenges of the State Department. We didn’t really know what foreign service officers did.’

This book is in part a response to those people who wanted to know more about diplomacy, about the State Department, about what we do for every American that we represent, and hopefully, it’s provided a little bit of context and background for that.

DP: What are the lessons that you’re hoping people will take away from your memoir?

MY: The importance of diplomacy to all aspects of our national security.

I think when many Americans think about our national security, they think about the military. They think about maybe the CIA. They don’t necessarily think about the State Department, and the State Department is absolutely fundamental. I also — and this was particularly true after I came back to the United States — realized how I’d taken our democracy for granted even though my parents, who had fled totalitarian regimes in Europe after World War II, brought me up to be so grateful to be in the United States and to be able to become an American and live in the land of the free.

George Kennan [Class of 1925], a famous diplomat with a long association with Princeton, wrote about how our single biggest strength is our values, our democracy. And if we have a strong democracy at home, then that really is the engine for our diplomacy where we can attract other allies and work around the world to safeguard American interests, American values and promote those interests abroad.

That link between a strong democracy at home and a strong diplomacy abroad, I think, is really important.

I also thought a lot about the importance of integrity, individually and also in for-

eign nations. I was shocked and continue to be shocked that the former president of the United States would have basically used his office to try to browbeat a foreign president, and I’m thinking specifically [of Ukrainian] President Zelensky, into doing him a favor. I describe the corrosive nature of corruption, both here in the United States and abroad.

And, I talked about the theme of Russia and the former Soviet Union, because that was my foreign service experience. I wrote this long before the latest invasion of Ukraine, but Russia presents a challenge, and a real danger.

DP: What are lessons you took away from your time at Princeton?

MY: When I was at Princeton, the motto was “Princeton in the nation’s service.”

That motto really made an impression upon me. I was an immigrant to the United States. We were rich in the things that mattered, but we didn’t have a lot of material things. And, I sort of washed up in this very elite university, and at every turn, when we had lectures from the president of the University or alumni com-

ing back to talk to us, they would all repeat that motto of “Princeton in the nation’s service.” What I took that to mean is that all of us, no matter who we were, were privileged to be able to attend a great university like Princeton, and study with some of the finest minds.

And that it was kind of a responsibility of ours — if not an obligation — to give back.

My parents have brought me up with that same kind of value set.

Although I took some detours after I graduated from Princeton, I ended up in the Foreign Service, which was the right job for me because it was a way of giving back and serving the American people. But it was also something that married my purpose with my interests.

I love history, I love foreign policy, and like politics.

It’s all really interesting to me, and I like traveling and meeting people from different cultures. It was the right kind of career for me.

DP: You weren’t sure that you would enter the Foreign Service after Princeton?

MY: No, I really didn’t know. It was one of the things that was kind of in the back of my mind, but I was not nearly as focused when

I graduated from Princeton as perhaps I should have been. But, honestly, detours are good for you because you learn perhaps other things that you might have not have learned.

DP: What advice do you have for students potentially thinking of a career in foreign service?

MY: First of all, I think a career in the Foreign Service at the State Department is a wonderful thing. It was a great career choice for me.

And if people are interested, I think they should definitely pursue it. Because not only is it a super interesting career, it’s a super interesting lifestyle. You can also make a difference every day in somebody’s life because people look to the United States. They look to the U.S. Embassy, they look to individual diplomats, and you can really be a force for good and it’s a wonderful thing to be able to make a positive change in somebody’s life or in a country.

DP: Do you have any advice for students who aren’t interested in the Foreign Service, but still face the question of “what do I do after Princeton?”

MY: I think [you should] cast your net wide because

when you’re graduating from Princeton, you have this great educational background. And looking forward, it is likely that you’re at a time in your life where students who have just graduated don’t have that many responsibilities. I’m sure some students do, but many students don’t. You’re really only responsible for yourself. So you are at your freest in terms of thinking about you know, ‘I’d like to have a career in banking in a couple of years, but right now I’d like to explore I don’t know, teaching English in Taiwan, or joining the Peace Corps and maybe going to Africa, or just traveling, or working in the inner city.’

I would access that Princeton motto about how students can be part of that Princeton service for the nation and the world. I think there’s so many opportunities out there and you learn something from all of them, even if you decide that this really was just a detour.

Jasmyn Dobson is a Senior News Writer who often covers SPIA events and administrative changes. She can be reached at jbednar@princeton.edu.

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IN TOWN

Town Council discusses Prospect ‘historic district’ and ongoing Witherspoon renovation

By Charlie Roth and Madeleine LeBeau Staff News Writer and News Contributor

At its Monday, April 11 meeting, the Princeton Town Council considered a proposal for the creation of a “historic district” along Prospect Avenue, continued to discuss the Witherspoon Phase Two renovation project, and approved the 2022 municipal budget.

The Princeton Prospect Foundation (PPF) introduced the proposal for the creation of a historic district along Prospect Avenue between Washington Road and Murray Place, an area that encompasses all of the University’s eating clubs.

The Council’s review follows unanimous approval of the proposed district by the Princeton Planning Board on Jan. 6, and a unanimous recommendation by the Princeton Historic Preservation Commission on Nov. 15, 2021.

Michael La Place, the planning director for the Municipality of Princeton, explained that the next step in the approval process is for the Council to direct staff “​​to formally draft an ordinance to create the district.”

Sandy Harrison ’74, the Board Chair of PPF, and Clifford Zink, a

historical preservation expert and the author of the book, “The Princeton Eating Clubs,” led the formal presentation to the council and spoke in support of creating a historic district on Prospect Avenue.

Harrison began by noting that “often, municipalities in considering adopting a new historic district are reluctant to do so if there is resistance from any of the property owners within the proposed district.”

Zink assured the Council and mayor that “all of the property owners within the district, which are the eating clubs as well as the University,” support the proposal.

Harrison also emphasized that the support of the historic district by the PPF and the Graduate InterClub Council, which has oversight over the eating clubs, is documented in writing.

Zink provided details as to the boundaries of the proposed historic district and some of its key architectural features. He noted that the Ferris Thompson Wall and Gate will be included in the new historic district.

The gate, built in 1911 and designed by the same architectural firm that designed the FitzRandolph gate, marked the entrance to the athletic field and was prominently featured in the P-Rade route until the 1980s.

Zink also mentioned that the

University is working on a restoration project for the ironwork on those gates and emphasized that the purpose of “the historic district is not to freeze time and [prohibit] any changes on the street.”

He said that the district would be considered a “type two” historic district which will only require the Historic Preservation Commission’s (HPC) approval for modifications that “involve the facades visible from the right of way.” Eating clubs could continue to renovate the inside of their houses or the outside portions of the properties not visible to the street without requiring approval by the HPC. Several public speakers and Councilmembers noted the importance of Prospect Avenue to the history of Princeton.

“There’s an architectural element, but also the human element,” said Councilmember Eve Niedergang, explaining what’s at stake in her view of the historic district designation.

Niedergang specifically highlighted “the role of African American or [the] local African American community in the eating clubs,” a sentiment that was echoed by other speakers.

Princeton resident Michael Floyd recounted his family’s history on

Prospect Avenue, noting that his “paternal grandfather was the steward of Tower Club for most of the first half of the 1900s” and was “one of the lead African Americans in Princeton” at that time. Years later, Floyd’s brother became a member of Tower Club. He was happy to see that the historic preservation proposal has progressed to Council review.

Former Princeton resident Kip Cherry said he has been involved in the process leading up to today’s presentation to the Council since the beginning.

“Historic districts create a context for change around them,” Cherry said. “To put Prospect Avenue into context, this area represents a major period of change and evolution for both the town and the university and the country as a whole.”

The Town Council will consider a formal ordinance at a future meeting yet to be announced.

The Council also heard an update on Witherspoon Street construction from the Town Engineering Department, specifically about Phase Two, which stretches from Green Street to Franklin Avenue.

Last meeting, the Engineering Department proposed two options, with the major difference being one having a bike lane and the other

without one. After meeting with municipal staff, the department settled on the option without a bike lane, which will include wider lanes for cars, more crosswalks and raised sidewalks for pedestrians, and 37 new trees.

The Council approved the plan unanimously, and must now approve a contract with a construction company before the Nov. 19, 2022 deadline.

The Council began the meeting by unanimously approving the 2022 municipal budget, which will increase by 0.92 percent this upcoming year.

The full meeting can be viewed here.

The next regularly scheduled meeting will be held on Monday, April 25.

Charlie Roth is a Staff News Writer and Assistant Data Editor for the ‘Prince,’ focusing on local town coverage.

He can be reached at charlieroth@princeton.edu or @imcharlieroth on Twitter or Instagram.

Madeleine LeBeau is a News Contributor for the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at mlebeau@princeton.edu, on Instagram @madeleinelebeau, or on Twitter @ MadeleineLeBeau.

ON CAMPUS

Flo Milli to headline Lawnparties on April 24; Julien Chang and the Deep Green will open

By Annie Rupertus News Staff Writer

Rapper Flo Milli will headline Spring 2022 Lawnparties, according to an email announcement from the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Social Committee on Wednesday, April 13. Julien Chang and the Deep Green will perform as the student opener.

In a break from tradition due to ongoing campus construction, this semester’s concert will take place on Frist North Lawn on Sunday, April 24, with the headline act slated for 4 p.m. Food and activities will still be provided on Prospect Avenue, and students will be able to get wristbands from McCosh Courtyard.

USG Social Chair Madison Linton ’24 said in a message to The Daily Princetonian that the new venue has a “higher occupancy” than the backyard of Quadrangle Club. She also emphasized that “the safety of our community is of top priority.”

The USG email announcement also noted that, “as University COVID regulations begin to lift,” a “limited number of guest tickets” will be available on for undergraduates to purchase for $30 — an opportunity that was put on hold for fall semester’s event due to COVID-19 policies. Students will be allowed to purchase at most one guest ticket

each on a first-come-first-serve basis.

“Guest and Graduate student tickets will go on sale via the ODUS website on Monday, April 18th at 9am and close on Friday, April 22nd at 4:30pm,” according to the email.

This is the second Lawnparties event of this academic year. The upcoming performance comes after a fall Lawnparties with a last-minute headliner change due to allegations of misconduct against the original headliner and reported instances of student injury during the eventual performance. The headliner of the fall music festival was A$AP Ferg.

In Fall 2020, the University hosted a virtual concert featuring Jason Derulo that saw backlash regarding USG’s allocation of funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This semester’s headlining artist, Flo Milli, has performed at a number of collegiate institutions in recent weeks, including the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of North Carolina, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pittsburgh. She is also set to travel to Rhode Island for Brown University’s Spring Weekend on Friday, April 29.

Tamia Monique Carter, better known by her stage name Flo Milli, is a hip-hop artist from Mobile, Alabama. She rose to fame in 2019 for

her song “Beef FloMix,” a take on Playboi Carti and Ethereal’s “Beef.”

Her remix went viral online and scored her a deal with RCA Records.

Her first mixtape, titled “Ho, Why Is You Here?” was released in July 2020, and ranked among the best albums of the year by NPR, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and others. She was also nominated for Best New Artist in 2020 at the BET Hip Hop Awards and for Best New Artist in 2021 at the BET Awards.

According to The Daily Tar Heel, students got a sneak peek of an unreleased song, “Hottie,” during her concert at UNC. Julien Chang and the Deep Green are set to perform at 2:30 p.m. The band is comprised of undergraduates Julien Chang ’22, Jeffrey Gordon ’22, Akiva Jacobs ’22, Maya Keren ’22, and Maya Stepansky ’22 and performs music written by Chang, who has over 60,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.

In 2019, Billboard Magazine published an interview with Chang that opened, “Julien Chang could’ve been dubbed a teen prodigy with the arrival of his debut album, ‘Jules,’ on Oct. 11 from Transgressive Records, if not for the fact that he just had a birthday in September.”

The band, which formed within one week of its members’ arrival on campus in their first year, has

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Flo Milli, who will headline Lawnparties for Spring 2022.

frequently played at Terrace Club.

They have since toured in the U.S. and in Europe.

Carter and Chang did not respond to requests for comment from The Daily Princetonian by the time of publication.

This story is breaking and will be updated as more information

becomes available.

Annie Rupertus is a first-year from Philadelphia, Pa. and a News Staff Writer who covers USG for the ‘Prince.’

She is also a designer for the print issue. She can be reached at arupertus@ princeton.edu or @annierupertus on Instagram and Twitter.

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Tigers in Town program to continue into Fall 2022

By Madeleine LeBeau News Contributor

The Tigers in Town program, which funnelled more than $170,000 into local businesses during the Spring 2021 semester, will expand in the Fall 2022 semester, according to Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne.

Despite being created in the COVID-era to improve town and gown relations, in an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Dunne confirmed that having students go into the community is something “that we plan to keep and continue to invest in” next semester.

Dunne said that the Tigers in Town program was designed to fulfill two purposes when it began in Spring 2021. The first reason was to help students, particularly members of the Class of 2024, to connect and “get out of Zoom and be out and about” within the parameters of COVID-19 restrictions, and the second was to help support local businesses that were

suffering from reduced student traffic.

On March 14 in a meeting with the Princeton Town Council, University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 presented his annual report detailing contributions that the University had made to the town in the past year. Among those contributions, the report noted that more than $171,000 had been spent by the University in the Spring 2021 semester in support of the Tigers in Town program.

According to a Program Report issued by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students (ODUS), 21,378 individual registrations were logged for Tigers in Town events during the Spring 2021 semester. These events were held at 41 locations throughout the town of Princeton.

Tigers in Town programming remained popular as COVID-19 restrictions began to relax in the Fall 2021 semester.

According to an email from Ian Deas, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students and Director of Student Leadership and Engage-

ment, 78 Tigers in Town events were held in the Fall 2021 semester. In addition, the MyPrincetonU site, through which registrations for Tigers in Town events are managed, showed that more than 25 Tigers in Town events have been offered this semester, including two large events celebrating the Class of 2024’s Declaration Day at SayCheez Cafe and Junbi last week.

Looking forward to next fall, Deas told the ‘Prince’ that, although the pandemic-related restrictions that precipitated the creation of Tigers in Town are winding down, “the program will stay generally the same.”

He said he “would not be surprised” if the amount of funding allocated by the University toward the program decreases, given that many organizations are moving study breaks back onto campus.

However, Deas expects that “Tigers in Town will continue to be an integral part of the Princeton experience.”

Deas said that the number of Princeton vendors participating

in Tigers in Town will expand in Fall 2022, and that ODUS is working on a plan to “engage businesses that are not walking distance of campus, but are still in Princeton and still do a lot of work with the University.”

Deas also mentioned that, although some of these businesses “have a food truck that comes to campus regularly,” Tigers in Town is currently considering how they could “create infrastructure that encourages students to host Tigers in Towns at locations that are farther from campus but still part of the town.”

Both local businesses and undergraduates seem to support continuing the program. In an email to the ‘Prince,’ Vin Jule, the Tigers in Town point of contact for Small World Coffee, said that “it’s been great having more students in our cafe, and all have been appreciative.”

“We have certainly had a lot of student visitors outside of these events, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Tigers in Town has made more students aware of Small World,”

he added.

Kateri Espinosa ’24, one student who has utilized the program, told the ‘Prince’ that she “like[s] how it gives students the opportunity to try things in town without putting a financial strain on them,” and noted that “it’s a great way to support local businesses” and “connect with our community.”

And the program may soon see ripple effects in other universities.

According to Deas, who presented on it at a virtual national conference, the Tigers in Town program is a model that “is starting to inspire other colleges to create [a] similar setup and plan to support local businesses.”

ODUS is planning to prepare a report this summer that will provide details on Tigers in Town programs for the academic year 2021–2022.

Madeleine LeBeau is a News Contributor for the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at mlebeau@princeton.edu, on Instagram @madeleinelebeau, or on Twitter @MadeleineLeBeau.

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Athletes are disproportionately represented in 12 academic departments, including politics, economics, sociology STUDENT ATHLETES ............. of non-athletes. 19.7 percent of studentathletes are on the B.S.E. track, compared to 29.3 percent of nonathletes.

S t u d e n t- a t h l e t e s also chose to major in the humanities at a rate five percent below that of non-athletes, 12.9 percent of whom are in the discipline.

Seven departments — astrophysics, music, Slavic languages and literature, French and Italian, German, East Asian studies, and Spanish and Portuguese — have no student-athlete concentrators.

Conversely, studentathletes are overrepresented in 12 departments. 35.7 percent of politics concentrators, 34.1 percent of economics, and 33.8 percent of sociology students are athletes.

According to Associate Dean Alec Dun, these trends reflect student-athletes’ academic interests, not their differing ability to fulfill certain concentration requirements. Dun serves as a liaison to the Athletic Department.

“There’s no aca-

CBE at Princeton.

But Marsalo said she found herself struggling to keep up with work on top of her inseason athletic commitments. A physics midterm on the day her team returned from a tournament in Florida was the tipping point.

“I just simply didn’t have the time to prepare like I needed to, and I did really poorly,” Marsalo said. “I took a step back and asked, ‘Will I be able to proceed with my life if I don’t pursue engineering?’ Right now, I’m just trying to figure out not only what I like, but what I can do while being an athlete.”

As Marsalo looked to switch tracks, her academic advisor first encouraged her to continue pursuing B.S.E. — suggesting she take a summer class or pass/D/fail a course to lighten her workload — and her professors offered strategies to help her succeed. Still, Marsalo didn’t like the feeling she had in her engineering classes of “just doing enough to get by.”

Since dropping engineering to consider psychology or politics, Marsalo has benefitted from the experi-

demic interest that a student-athlete can’t follow because of the sport they do,” Dun said. “We live and die by that.”

Dolly LampsonStixrud ’22, a member of the women’s fencing team, is majoring in chemical and biological engineering (CBE).

Only three out of 60 CBE concentrators are athletes. “[Majoring in CBE] is something that you can do if it’s something that you want to do,” Lampson-Stixrud said. “But it is really, really hard — there’s a reason why I’m one of the few athletes in CBE. You have to be willing to lose a lot of sleep, and sleep is necessary to do well in sports. So you have to determine what is necessary to sacrifice.”

Sophia Marsalo ’25, a softball player, found herself making this determination in the middle of a five-class semester of B.S.E. prerequisites. In high school, she loved her engineering classes — “I would take as many as I could,” she said — and planned to declare

ence of her mostly A.B. teammates. Only one upperclass softball player is on the B.S.E. track.

“As soon as I said that I was switching to A.B., one of my teammates sat down with me on TigerPath,” Marsalo said. “We’re all similar people and live the same life.

Knowing what they liked or thought was easy definitely influenced my decisions.”

Compared to their non-athlete counterparts, student-athletes see a wider gender gap in engineering.

Only 28.6 percent of student-athletes in engineering play on women’s teams, while 43.1 percent of nonathlete B.S.E. students are female, according to data from the Office of the Registrar.

Genevieve Fraipont ’23, who plays on the women’s water polo team, serves as a representative for Jock Docs, a peer network for student-athletes on the premedical track.

The idea of the group, she said, is to address the specific challenges pre-med student-ath-

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letes might face.

“There’s the time commitment, of course — like any STEM major, it’s both rigorous and timeconsuming,” Fraipont said. “I think athletes also have a stereotype of not being smart, so maybe freshmen athletes get dissuaded from pre-med. The Jock Doc advising cohort supports athletes in a different way by saying, ‘if you do want to be a doctor, it is do-

most people [on my team] had a couple of essays to do the entire semester,” Fraipont said. “I was like, ‘Why do you guys get to go out every single night, and I’m studying in the Whitman library?’”

In contrast to the idea that expanded time commitments contribute to the underrepresentation of student-athletes in STEM, Jake Intrater ’23, a math concen-

able.’”

Still, as a religion concentrator, Fraipont noted that her science courses often required more of her time. This demand was most pronounced as a first-year when she took organic chemistry.

“I had an exam every other week, whereas

trator on the heavyweight rowing team, suggested studentathletes might just be less interested in the subjects.

“The type of person who’s dedicating their life to the point where they’re a math major at Princeton is not going to necessar-

ily also be achieving such competence in a completely different realm,” Intrater said.

“Student-athletes have a lot on their plates [and] aren’t necessarily always the most academically motivated.”

Dun, on the other hand, suggested that student-athletes’ interest in the social sciences “might conceivably” be tied to their experiences as members of a team.

“Athletes operate as parts of larger groups,” Dun said.

“They think about how these groups work, why they work, and effective ways to make them improve.

The social sciences are about systems, how they evolve, and how to impact change.

That, to me, would be an organic explanation.”

The interdisciplinary nature of some social science departments, according to Britt Masback ’24, might be particularly appealing to studentathletes. Masback, a SPIA concentrator, is on the men’s cross country and track teams.

“I think athletes are more likely to use their time in college to figure out their academic interests, so it makes sense that [SPIA] would be attractive,” Masback said. “It is one of the largest majors, probably because it attracts people from a lot of different angles and interests.”

“I also don’t think SPIA is seen as the easiest or most manageable major,” Masback added.

Politics concentrator Ben Bograd ’23, who plays on the men’s soccer team, intended to major in SPIA when he started at Princeton. However, he later realized another department would better allow him to explore his interests in American politics and foreign relations. As Bograd’s plans shifted, his teammates offered helpful advice.

“A lot of the resources that student-athletes have when they first come to college are upperclassmen teammates, more so than your PAA or your RCA,” Bograd said. At the recommendation of a teammate, he took POL329: Policymaking in America in the spring of his first year.

Bograd explained that the politics course “helped catalyze [his] interest in policy.”

Despite his positive experience in politics, Bograd noted that certain challenges — like essay deadlines after away games or office hours during practice times — are felt by student-athletes across disciplines.

“Many of us were recruited athletes, and for some students, that might lead to a bias that athletes are less prepared for classes,” Bograd said. “But plenty of the smartest people I know are student-athletes. They’re just as capable.”

Molly Taylor is a Data and Features staff writer for The Daily Princetonian. She can be reached at mollypt@ princeton.edu.

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Why Princeton is no longer promoting its admission rate Karen Richardson

Guest Contributor

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here has been much discussion recently about the University’s decision to step back from promoting statistics about admitted students, including a Reactions column this week. As Dean of Admission, I want to provide additional information and context.

First, it’s important to be clear about what we’re doing and why.

Selective institutions have long made a practice of marking the day admission decisions are released by trumpeting their low admission rates and the impressive credentials of admitted students. For the reasons detailed below, Princeton began stepping back from this approach a few years ago by no longer highlighting its admission rate or the standardized test scores of admitted students.

We took an important step this year by making the decision to no longer release an announcement about admitted students and to instead highlight the enrolled Class of 2026 — the students who will join the University community in the fall. A number of peer institutions have made similar decisions, including Stanford, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania.

Of course, we recognize that data on admissions and admitted students has

value and we will continue to report it to state and federal authorities and include it in our Common Data Set. The fact that Princeton has to turn away many extremely well-qualified applicants each year – despite the coming expansion of the undergraduate class — is no secret and isn’t going to become one. The admission rate is — and will continue to be — available through sources like the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard.

But neither prospective students nor the University benefit from the admission process being boiled down in headlines to a single statistic like the admission rate.

We know from our interactions with prospective students, families, and counselors that highlighting an admission rate and framing the admissions process through a list of statistics instills anxiety and fear. We do not want to discourage prospective students from applying to Princeton because of its selectivity.

Instead, we want prospective students to consider if Princeton is the right fit — if the resources we offer, the academic opportunities we provide will allow them to flourish at our residential research university.

We want students to find a place of learning wherein their own contributions will be valued. And to know that Princeton’s generous need-based financial aid program might afford them the opportunity to graduate debt-free. This is how we approach our conversations with prospective

students. By stepping away from promoting statistics like the admission rate, we are signaling that selectivity is not part of our pitch.

In my blog post to the newly admitted early action group for the Class of 2026, I highlight our holistic process and the conversations my colleagues and I have around building a class.

The Admission Office’s goal is to admit a diverse and dynamic group of students. We think about how students will interact with one another in the classroom and on the field, in the music practice room, and the residential college common room. We discuss how students might approach difficult circumstances, how they would interact with people with different perspectives, and how they might approach the University’s informal motto about the service of humanity. To do this, we read and discuss the essays, the letters of recommendation, interview write-ups, and any other pieces that have been shared with us.

But our work does not end on decision day, as admission statistics might suggest. With the help of our wonderful campus community, we spend the month of April officially introducing admitted students to Princeton — some for the very first time. And when we enroll the next class this summer, we will talk about their many talents as the newest members of the Princeton community.

Karen Richardson ’93 is the Dean of Admission at Princeton University.

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Acceptance rates mean nothing Windsor Nguyen Columnist

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ith this year’s college admissions cycle coming to a close, Princeton has made the unprecedented decision not to release statistics on admissions rates for both the early and regular decision rounds. Last fall, the 145th Editorial Board claimed that withholding data discourages students from applying to Princeton.

Despite being a commonly held opinion on campus, this is the wrong way to approach college admissions. Admittedly, prospective students should by no means ignore acceptance rates altogether — doing so may land them in a situation where they are not accepted anywhere.

However, when it comes to institutions such as Princeton, a sensible prospective student who has done their research should know that Princeton is a ‘reach’ school. So why care about Princeton’s acceptance rate? Why care if the rate is 5 percent or 2 percent or just completely absent altogether?

In fact, withholding admissions statistics encourages prospective students to be extra thorough in researching the schools they are considering.

This is a good thing.

Of course, researching the school means researching the school. Are you prepared for

their academic environment?

Do you see yourself in a big city or a small town? Are there extracurriculars at the institution that you can dedicate yourself to? Does the institution fundamentally contradict a core value of your life? Do you prefer to grind at parties or grind in the library? These are crucial questions that prospective students should consider, and they are infinitely more important than any singledigit number on a screen could tell them.

If a student truly does their research on what Princeton has to offer and decides that this campus is a potential home for them for the next four years, why should they be deterred by the acceptance rate or lack thereof?

Low acceptance rates inherently indicate prestige. Unfortunately, the drawback of this low-acceptance-rate culture is the unhealthy trend of prestige-chasing by many highachieving prospective students who may shoot for prestigious colleges without having done enough research into most, if any, of the colleges to which they are applying.

Imagine that you are vegetarian. You live in an area where everyone is raving about the highly-rated restaurant in town, which happens to be a steakhouse. However, the steakhouse has limited seating, and there always seems to be a long line of people waiting

to get in. Most people don’t get in, yet people still get in line every night. This steakhouse goes against your fundamental value of vegetarianism — you know you wouldn’t enjoy going to this restaurant. Still, all your friends are hellbent on getting into this exclusive steakhouse.

You even notice random people on the Internet pining after the restaurant from afar.

Wouldn’t be it exciting to show that you beat the statistical odds of getting into the restaurant? Wouldn’t it be exciting to get into this highly touted restaurant just for the sake of prestige? Would it make any sense for you to get in line, too?

Of course not.

Should the steakhouse’s low “acceptance rate” play a role whatsoever in your decision to go? The answer is a resounding no. It clearly does not and should not impact how you view the steakhouse.

The same goes for colleges.

Subjective popular opinions about a school should not influence one’s decision to apply whatsoever.

I anticipate that there will be those who argue that Princeton ought to at least publish its core statistics — standardized test score percentiles and demographic percentages, for example — because this is a part of a prospective student’s research process. Keep in mind that Princeton withholding its admissions statistics simply

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means that the school will no longer be formally publishing its annual “Class of 20XX” admissions statistics page. Admissions and enrollment statistics will still be published annually in the Common Data Set. That being said, I do agree in particular that the loss of transparency in the demographics of admitted students is not beneficial for anyone.

Princeton needs to maintain its commitment to making its world-class education accessible to talented students from diverse backgrounds. To withhold this information is to remove their accountability, a violation of their commitment.

Even with lackluster transparency regarding data on student demographics, Princeton will continue to report various

information about its current student body. Savvy prospective students in future application cycles should look into this to uncover data most relevant to them.

I’m sure many of my fellow peers would agree that their Princeton acceptance came as a surprise, yet we all decided to take that leap of faith and apply anyway. If a prospective student has decided that Princeton is the right school for them, the absence of a trivial number should not deter them from applying.

Windsor Nguyen is a first-year student from Appleton, Wis. He can be reached at mn4560@princeton.edu or @windsor.nguyen on Instagram and @WindsorNguyen on Twitter.

Why Princeton should care about COVID-slide Tara Shukla

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ince the start of the pandemic in 2020, American college enrollment has declined by 7.8 percent. Undergraduate enrollment across several private four-year colleges has dropped steeply, while the number of Pelleligible FAFSA applicants from March 15 to April 15, 2020 was down by over 25 percent compared to that same period in 2019.

What’s happening to the country’s college-aged population?

The answer lies in a phenomenon that has overtaken American education in the past few years: COVID-slide. This term describes the postvirtual-learning increase in educational inequities in K–12 schools, including learning loss and worsened opportunity gaps for underserved students.

However, the “slide” isn’t an issue unique to younger students.

Current educational research on this topic suggests that higher education will continue to demonstrate pandemicinduced diversity losses in the years ahead. With a huge endowment and a seemingly infinite pool of cultural and social capital, the University is responsible for forestalling the myriad of challenges that COVID-slide will pose in the coming years. Princeton’s fight against COVID-slide has to begin with deliberately increasing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity in incoming classes, starting with its applicant pool.

Preliminary data suggests that, in light of the pandemic, fewer firstgeneration, low-income (FLI) students are able or motivated to pursue a college education. Last year, the U.S. Department of Education released a report that found that the pandemic has raised new barriers for FLI and disabled students to enroll

in college and complete their studies. These barriers include financial and housing insecurity as well as worsened college preparation for lowincome districts. For this reason, four-year institutions, including Princeton, are predicted to lose FLI students in their upcoming application cycles and beyond.

In fact, it’s likely that we already have. Princeton will not release admissions statistics for the 2022–2023 cycle, citing its desire to alleviate applicants’ anxiety. Meanwhile, other Ivy League institutions have experienced record high applicant pools with record low acceptance rates. This increasingly competitive college application process aggravates educational inequities and deters minority applicants, who may not have the resources to cultivate a competitive application.

Instead of hiding its selectivity from the public, the University should re-

lease its acceptance rates and make public commitments to increase outreach to FLI and minority applicants. President Eisgruber has justified Princeton’s existence through its investment in talented students of all backgrounds — but how can it invest in students whose talent is overshadowed by housing insecurity, racial violence, and the effects of COVIDslide? Princeton must not only invest in the privileged few; it must expand its support of talent from underserved communities.

Making Princeton more accessible to FLI students in the long run also requires an array of deliberate policy initiatives, including internal program development and outreach. The University should consider continuing test-optional admissions, especially after data showing how the average junior dropped four percentile points in the ACT after virtual learn-

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Princeton should also utilize increased housing capacity from new residential colleges to increase the population of transfer students and FLI students in particular.

To fight the learning loss caused by COVID-slide, the University can broaden its academic support system to help these students during their transition to Princeton. Its policy decisions should be data-driven and geared toward the most vulnerable students.

To fulfill its mission to foster educational equity on a national level, the University can further invest in staffing, research, and program development for the newly-developed Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity. Specifically, Princeton should expand the Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP) to provide outreach programs for more underserved K–12 public schools in the country.

This year’s pre-read also fell in line with these values. Jennifer Morton’s Moving Up Without Losing Your Way encouraged students to think critically about diversity. Its message remains relevant to the University at large.

Princeton must make ethical choices in its pursuit of institutional greatness, and never lose sight of the source of this greatness: its students.

In the coming months and years, let’s ask the University: how can Princeton move on from this pandemic without losing diversity along the way?

Tara Shukla is a first-year from Highland Park, N.J. who is interested in computer science and economics. Tara can be reached at ts6796@princeton.edu.

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ARTS & CULTURE

The art of looking up

By Paige Cromley | Staff Writer

Leaving the physics building at night, my neck hurts from hunching over a notebook for so long. Only a few stars in the sky peek out, the bright lights from the stadium fighting for my eyes’ attention.

I’m about halfway through my studies at Princeton, and I’m declaring Astrophysics as my major. I’ll spend the next two years studying quantum and cosmology, hoping to understand the workings of the universe, from cosmic expansion to star formation.

It feels whimsical, indulgent almost, to tell people I want to spend this era of my youth studying the stars.

However, I think there is something fundamentally grounding about the field — it seems significantly removed from human-scale worries. At least, that’s what I’m hoping (I’m only a sophomore, so don’t count me as an expert).

Though I’m only a few semesters in, I already feel like I sometimes lose my footing when taking courses here. I’ve been lucky enough to take classes in a variety of fields, from computer science to religion, and many of them have been steeped in the theoretical, which has served wonderfully to expand my critical thinking. Yet, I’ve found that my mind often gets caught up in a net of equations and Greek words. Higher education serves to clarify my thoughts, but it also distorts my perspective, giving me a sense of vertigo and a disconnect from the reality of whatever I’m studying. There’s something strange about sitting in a lecture hall, learning how the slope of a line on the chalkboard implies the age of the universe when I’m not even sure what the phase of the moon was last night. My head swirling with the abstract, sometimes I feel the need to ground myself

with reminders of what exactly I’m studying.

Cole Meyer ’24, another soon-to-be Astrophysics major, feels the same urge to step back sometimes, taking a break from the problem sets and readings. For him, it helps to reflect on the night sky. “Studying astrophysics, there’s a lot of math, a lot of physics,” he told me.

“It’s so many equations. Stargazing helps me take a step back again.”

Meyer is the President of the Princeton Astronomy Club (PAC), a new extra-curricular designed to spread the joy of stargazing and foster a community of students interested in astrophysics. Right before spring break, they held their first stargazing party in Forbes backyard, featuring games, pizza, and, most importantly, a telescope lent by a graduate student. In addition to admiring the constellations hanging over the golf course, attendants could gaze through the telescope, searching for distant objects, unobservable with the naked eye.

This act of looking up at the night sky is what initially sparked Meyer’s academic trajectory. “The reason I chose to be an astrophysics major is not so I could solve second order differential equations, it’s because I like to look at the sky and think about what’s up there,” he said.

The birth of PAC has reminded me that I was drawn to astrophysics for the same reasons, though I forget them in the frenzy of exams and approaching due dates. I’ve spent a few semesters focused intensely on grades and worrying that I couldn’t keep up. Prompted to look up anew at the sky, I’m again excited to declare my major.

But even if your concentration doesn’t directly involve the night sky, stargazing every now and then is still a recentering experience. The act itself invites one

to zoom out and contemplate a larger plane of existence than usual. Like standing at the edge of the ocean or the edge of a canyon, confronting the sheer vastness of space is good for the soul. And regardless of what you study, taking a moment to squint at the sky is a nice change from the blackboard or computer screen.

On April 8, PAC hosted another stargazing party in Peyton Hall, where students had the opportunity to observe the sky using the building’s large dome telescope. They hope to host similar events next fall. As for the rest of the spring, there are a few special celestial events to look forward to, like the Lyrids meteor shower in April and a total lunar eclipse in mid-May. Of course, the sky is up there any night, a hemisphere of entertainment with no admissions fee. I’d suggest it anytime you’re in need of reassurance that, while your head might be constantly spinning with the theoretical, you are well and truly planted on the ground — even if it’s just for a moment between various obligations. I can’t promise how many stars you’ll see on the walk to your dorm, or through the library window you’ve curled up by for hours, but it never hurts to take a peek.

Paige Cromley is a staff writer for The Prospect who likes writing about pop culture, campus life, and personal reflections. She also writes for Features and News. Paige can be reached at pcromley@princeton.edu.

Self essays at The Prospect give our writers and guest contributors the opportunity to share their perspectives. This essay reflects the views and lived experiences of the author. If you would like to submit a Self essay, contact us at prospect@ dailyprincetonian.com.

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By that point, I had visited Princeton’s campus only once and sent in my early action application as soon as possible. I was set on calling this place home. Not yet December at the time of this dance, I hadn’t yet heard from Princeton. But that didn’t stop a friend’s parent from asking me about my application essays.

Awkwardly posing for a photo, the way one does with a platonic date, I fielded questions. I remember smiling through questions about my family’s background and history in Mexico. I remember brushing off a comment about what a shame, in their view, it was that I didn’t have family in Mexico, poor and working away on some farm, that I could write about for my essay. It was a joke to them. It was a caricature of my family and my birth country to me.

I brushed it off because I didn’t have the time or desire to explain: to explain that some of my family actually does live in the countryside, to explain that many from my maternal grandfather’s generation are engineers because my mom’s dad moved all on his own to the city to study and set the example. To explain that every preceding generation has worked harder than I could imagine so that one day I could get to be the one to come to this place and profit off its luxuries.

And what I couldn’t explain that day, for it had not yet happened, is that in the morning, when I open my Princeton-provided wardrobe and choose one of the many, many button-down shirts my friends know me by, I can’t help but hear in my head the story my mom has told me and my brother more times than I can count: her father would launder and iron his dress shirt each and every day so he could study at his university, because he didn’t have a wardrobe full of shirts like I do. He had a single dress shirt.

I never met him. He died a month after my older brother was born. But I always wanted to write his story as part of my story of this place.

When December came around and I received my acceptance letter, I eventually remembered that parent’s comments. I clearly still do to this day. But they were only the beginning.

The next incident to stand out came in January 2020, when I traveled down to Florida with the Princeton Triangle Club for its then-annual tour. I’ve written about Triangle a lot before, and pretty much in only positive terms — for a good reason. Every time I get behind a spotlight or climb up to a set of catwalks or even tremble up a ladder 30 or more feet into the air, I am reminded of how much I love doing my lighting work — no matter how sore I may end up the following day.

But that doesn’t change the fact that on the fringes of my incredible tour memories remain racist comments made by our alumni hosts and later repeated for

laughs on the tour bus. I laughed alongside everyone else as a freshman; it was the easiest way, I thought, to brush those things off. But brushing things off doesn’t erase them.

I’ve been told by club officers since then that the next tour (whenever we can finally make that happen again) won’t handle such comments the same way, and I trust that promise. But I’ll always regret simply laughing along during my first tour.

I regret laughing along because it hasn’t been the only instance of brushing things off involving Triangle’s alumni. If anything, it was only the very first instance. I’ve brushed off conversations in which I’ve been made to feel complicit in tokenism. I’ve brushed off weak-willing attempts to atone for the group’s past racist sketches and songs.

I could go on, but I think that’s enough for now. It was enough for me to realize that, for all the joy and the excitement of seeing those little triangles light up the McCarter curtain and of hearing the wild cheers the moment my friends start strutting into a kickline, these great memories will always be a little marred by what some alumni have done.

There’s a certain irony that it’s so often alumni who tarnish my Princeton memories when the school so often celebrates its strong alumni connections.

In fact, all the fences going up around the campus these days in preparation for Reunions remind me of how much alumni can dominate the story of this place; alumni like the old white man at the Ohio Valley Princeton Association’s holiday party this past winter break.

Despite everything I just wrote, I still do have great pride in the students of the Triangle Club. So when asked by our wonderfully generous host to give a campus update for all the alumni at the party, I, of course, included Triangle’s then-upcoming triumphant return to the McCarter stage.

Afterwards, this old man ended up talking to me, mentioning he once hosted the club in Cincinnati.

After commenting that I’d love for a future tour to swing by Cincinnati once again, I heard the dreaded, practically cliché, question: “Where are you from?” It’s so often a neutral question, but enough years in Ohio teach you that there are certain people who ask this question in order to separate you as different, foreign.

They see your too-dark-to-be-just-tan skin and hear your not-English name and demand to know how you are less American than them.

So I gave my standard when-in-Cincinnati answer of Loveland, a suburb northeast of the city. He followed up exactly with what I expected: “No, your family.”

That time, I had just enough energy to explain that we’re from Mexico, but I wish I had followed up by pushing him with the same questions until he named some European country — likely Germany or Ireland, given Cincinnati’s history. But I didn’t push; I just went

home shortly after and brushed it off.

But I can’t keep brushing things off. I have to find — somewhere, anywhere — a line to hold firm. I’m writing now — adding this long-overdue part of my story to the story of this place. A recent incident involving an alum reminded me that there are things I must refuse to brush off.

Maybe the alum misspoke, as is somehow almost always the case in these scenarios. But misstatement or not, the incident brought rushing back all these memories I’ve now written about. It brought up so many of the same gross, uncomfortable feelings I previously had tried to simply brush off.

All these memories, all these feelings, they’re part of my story, and they’re part of Princeton’s story as well. And still, there’s a part of me that hesitates to highlight these moments in my story of Princeton.

There’s a part of me that wishes I could write about my Mexican immigrant self without grappling with these moments of being othered — made to feel separate and alone. There’s a part of me that wishes I could write about my grandpa without worrying about feeding into a toxic narrative of a model immigrant.

But at this point, I’ve decided to just simply write, to join my story and Princeton’s.

This idea of writing yourself into the story of a place is one I first encountered in one of Brittani Telfair’s columns. She discussed an essay by Myriam Gurba, who criticizes Joan Didion’s racial grammar for, among other things, diminishing my own Mexico.

In some acknowledgment of Didion’s influence, Gurba writes: “She modeled how writing yourself into the story of a place convinces readers that the place is yours. You, the author, fuse with rhetoric and fact. Your body joins the topography.”

Reading these lines the first time a couple of weeks ago and again now, as I write all this, brings some peace to the very unease I discovered when The Daily Princetonian’s own diversity report revealed that, at the time, only six percent of this paper identified as Hispanic or Latino — zero percent among those who had spent more than three academic years at the ‘Prince.’

With those numbers, I’m pretty certain I’m the only Mexican immigrant who grew up in Ohio in his third year at the ‘Prince.’ There aren’t many people like me around here to tell our stories. I’ve only managed to tell my own so far.

There is indeed some unease or loneliness in this reality. But the peace I’ve found in response is one I’ve created by adding the missing part of my story, finally, to this paper and to this place. Headline by headline, I’ve made this place a little more my own.

José Pablo Fernández García is a junior from Loveland, Ohio and Head Prospect Editor at the ‘Prince.’ He can be reached at jpgarcia@princeton.edu.

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‘A collaboration without knowing each other’: Werner Herzog reflects on ‘Grizzly Man’ at campus screening

By Wilson Conn | Contributor

On April 6, Werner Herzog told a packed campus audience that one of the most talented filmmakers he knew of was viciously killed before the footage he captured was refined into a feature documentary.

“We are speaking about a wonderful movie, great poetry of footage, and phenomenal achievements in filmmaking … which [are] unique in film history,” the legendary German filmmaker said to a crowd of Princeton community members at the James M. Stewart ’32 theater. “It will never happen again.”

The filmmaker whom Herzog waxed poetic about that night was Timothy Treadwell, a man who spent 13 consecutive summers living with grizzly bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park until he and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were mauled and partially consumed by one of the bears in October 2003. During his time in Alaska, Treadwell recorded over 100 hours of footage of himself and the bears — Herzog describes Treadwell’s camera as “his omnipresent companion.” Herzog used some of this footage to create his 2005 film “Grizzly Man,” in addition to interviews with those close to Treadwell and familiar with the pair’s death.

After surprising the audience with a clip from his upcoming film “Theatre of Thought” that featured an interview with University neurologist Uri Hasson, Herzog showed “Grizzly Man” for the lucky few members of the Princeton community who were able to secure tickets to the screening.

“I haven’t seen the film in a long time, and I must say I’m very fond of what [I just saw],” Herzog said after the credits rolled.

The German director also spoke of how he came to make the documentary. When meeting with producer and frequent collaborator Erik Nelson in 2004, a magazine article about Treadwell and Huguenard’s death caught his eye, at which point Nelson revealed that he was planning to make a film on the tragedy.

“I asked [Nelson] point blank who is directing the film, and he said ‘I’m kind of directing it,’” Herzog recalled. “I said no, I will direct this film … and within 10 days, I was shooting in Alaska.”

“I had a contract,” Herzog added, “the worst contract you can imagine … not even a freshman in film school would get such a lousy contract.”

The contract didn’t seem to matter to Herzog,

though. What was important to him was to tell Treadwell’s story in the right way.

“Of course, I could not easily make a film about somebody whom I did not at least deeply respect,” he said.

Through interviews with loved ones, footage of Treadwell’s interactions with animals, and emotional video diary entries plucked from Treadwell’s camera, there is no doubt Treadwell’s portrait is drawn delicately and humanely throughout the film. At the center of the story, Herzog reveals a man who, despite his playful antics and typically cheerful on-camera personality, was overwhelmed by his solitude and struggled to relate to his own species, instead (perhaps naïvely) seeking friendship with wild animals.

“I think perhaps [Timothy] wanted to mutate into a wild animal,” said ecologist and close friend Marnie Gaede in the film.

Treadwell had a fanciful view of his ursine cohabitants, giving them cartoonish names like “Mr. Chocolate” and even sleeping with a stuffed teddy bear in his tent. While Herzog does treat the subject of Treadwell’s psyche with tenderness and care throughout the film, he pointed out that this naïveté with respect to the “overwhelming indifference of nature” is what got him killed.

“What is going on in our civilization is what I call the ‘Disney-fication’ of wild nature,” Herzog said. “Bears are fluffy, and you have to hug them and dance with them and sing a song to them.”

“This tragic misunderstanding, a philosophical misunderstanding, as if everything in nature was ‘vanilla ice cream happiness’ and a song to the bears cost him and Amie Huguenard [their lives], and cost two bears their lives that had to be shot by [park] rangers,” he added.

Herzog is no stranger to wild nature himself, having grown up in an area of Germany so remote he did not make his first phone call until the age of 17. He has traveled to places as inhospitable as Antarctica and the Amazon rainforest for his films, and even spent two consecutive summers with his son, who was in his early teens at the time, in the wilderness of Alaska, just like Treadwell. Although his harshly realist view of nature was well-formed by the time he made “Grizzly Man,” Herzog remarked that the filmmaking process “shaped” into “clear contours” his philosophy that “the common denominator of the universe is chaos.”

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“I kept thinking, in what kind of universe do we live,” he said. “Just by stepping outside … you know, this is very, very, very hostile, very unfriendly. It is murderous. It’s something that is chaotic.”

Even with his criticisms of Treadwell, though, it’s evident that Herzog’s time with Treadwell’s footage and loved ones left a mark on him emotionally. In Herzog’s lone on-camera appearance in the film, during which he listens to the nightmarish audio recording captured

by Treadwell and Huguenard during their final moments through headphones at the house of Treadwell’s heir, Jewel Palovak, the psychological impact of the project is clear.

“When [I was] listening to the tape with Jewel Palovak, I didn’t want to be filmed,” he said. “We filmed me mainly from behind, and we watched her face trying to read from my face, and it’s one moment that still makes me ache when I think about it.”

In the scene, Herzog went on to insist that Palovak destroy the tape and never listen to it, the horror clear in his voice and body language.

Palovak has since placed the tape in a bank vault, and has kept the wealth of video recordings that Treadwell made over the years.

With this massive quantity of footage, one has to wonder if the film would have ever been made had Treadwell lived.

“My opinion is, we shouldn’t speculate,” Herzog said. “We should enjoy the film as it is. It’s a collaboration without knowing each other.”

Indeed, Treadwell had done much of the heavy lifting in the collaboration by the time Herzog came across the footage in 2004, although Herzog did miraculously edit the entire film in just 10 days in September of that year in order to meet the deadline for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Despite the astonishing craft and efficiency showcased by Herzog during the production of the documentary, though, he insists that Treadwell remains the true visionary.

“He captured such glorious improvised moments,” Herzog narrates in the film, “the likes of which the studio directors, with their union crews, can never dream of.”

Wilson Conn is a co-head editor for the Sports section at the ‘Prince’ who typically covers football, basketball, and breaking news. He is also a senior writer for the Podcast section. He can be reached at wconn@ princeton.edu or on Twitter at @wilson_conn.

Course Reviews

By Elizabeth Medina, Staff Cartoonist

Helios

By Audrey Zhang, Staff Cartoonist

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The Prospect 11 Weekly Event Roundup

This coming week’s events include multiple student art exhibits, theater performances, and concerts spanning a wide range of musical genres. Here’s our roundup:

Art Native America: In Translation Art on Hulfish 11 Hulfish Street, Feb. 5 – April 24, open gallery hours An exhibit of work by Indigenous artists curated by Wendy Red Star, featuring art that examines colonialism, identity, and heritage.

Theater The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman Theatre Intime Hamilton Murray Theater, April 15–17, 22–24, 8 p.m.

A play that tells the story of Matthew Shepard, a queer 21-year-old student who was kidnapped, beaten, and murdered on a fence in Laramie, Wyoming.

Art “Store as Art” Princeton Atelier / Lewis Center for the Arts 33 Witherspoon St, April 15, 10:30 p.m., April 16, 12–6 p.m.

A project in which students explore the role of the art and the artist in relation to commerce by opening and operating a retail establishment in downtown Princeton.

Music

Stuart B. Mindlin Memorial Concerts Princeton University Orchestra Richardson Auditorium, April 15–16, 7:30 p.m.

Princeton University Orchestra plays Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story,” as well as works by Beethoven, Chavez, and Still.

Art Senior Art Show by Samm Lee Lewis Center for the Arts Hurley Gallery, April 17–30, 24/7 A free exhibition in which senior Samm Lee will showcase a new piece of art called: Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken

Theater

A Conversation with John Doyle on his Work with Stephen Sondheim Lewis Center for the Arts Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio, April 18, 3:15–4:15 p.m.

A conversation with Professor John Doyle about his work on Stephen Sondheim’s musicals, moderated by Stacy Wolf, Professor of Theater and American Studies and Director of Princeton’s Program in Music Theater.

Theater

“Athens, Georgia” — A New Rock Musical Princeton Atelier / Lewis Center for the Arts Hearst Dance Theater, April 20, 4:30 p.m.

A rock musical based on “The Frogs” by Aristophanes, featuring students from the spring Atelier course, “Athens, Georgia.”

Literature The Good-Enough Life Labyrinth Books; Princeton Public Library; Princeton University Press; Humanities Council Princeton Public Library, April 20, 6–7:30 p.m.

Music How to Write a Song: Concert of New Songs Lewis Center for the Arts Frist Film/Performance Theatre, April 19, 4:30 p.m.

Princeton students perform original songs written over the past semester as part of the spring Princeton Atelier course, “How to Write a Song.”

A conversation with Avram Alpert, lecturer in the Writing Program at Princeton University, and Christy Wampole, Professor in the French and Italian department, about the way in which our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society.

Dance UNTITLED: A spring showing by Michael J. Love and DAN 303 Lewis Center for the Arts Forum Lewis Arts complex, April 18, 1:30 p.m.

Dance

Princeton Arts Fellow Michael J. Love and his students present a new work that explores methods of rhythm tap dance performance, live electronic music composition, and practice-based research on Black American music.

MUSE RAQs: Princeton Belly Dance Company Frist Film/Performance Theatre, April 15–16, 9 p.m.

RAQs: Belly Dance Company presents MUSE! Come be dazzled by spins, props, and shimmies.

Compiled by Albert Lee | Senior Prospect Writer

Friday April 15, 2022

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Devin Cannady ’20 agrees to multiyear deal with Orlando Magic

By Kameron Wolters Contributor

Former Princeton star basketball player Devin Cannady ’20 signed a multiyear contract extension on Sunday with the Orlando Magic.

Cannady, 25, previously signed a 10-day contract on March 31, and played in the Magic’s final five regular season games. The deal is partially guaranteed, although the exact details have not been released by team officials. Cannady is just the 11th Princeton player in history to play in the NBA. After an illustrious four year career at Princeton from 2015– 2019, Cannady first signed a deal with the Orlando Magic in 2020.

He finished his college career as Princeton’s fifth all-time leading scorer, while ranking third in Princeton history in three pointers made and first in free throw percentage. As a Tiger, he also earned All-Ivy honors twice and averaged over 14 points per game during his four seasons at Princeton. He was waived by the Magic in 2020, at which time he began playing for the Orlando Magic’s NBA G League affiliate, the Lakeland Magic. The G League is the official minor league of the NBA. The success he attained in col-

lege continued in the G League.

He averaged 11.7 points per game during the 2020-21 G League season and eventually was named Championship Game MVP after dropping 22 points in the title game. The Lakeland Magic beat the Delaware Blue Coats by a score of 97–78, claiming the team’s first G League title.

After this run of success, Cannady earned a second 10day contract with the Orlando Magic in 2021. He played in eight games, scoring a career-high 17 points in a game against the New Orleans Pelicans. Sadly, he would go on to suffer a severe ankle injury that would keep him off the court for almost a year.

Now, he is back and playing some of the best basketball of his career, cementing his spot in the NBA. Cannady suited up for the Magic in their final regular season games against the Toronto Raptors, New York Knicks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Charlotte Hornets, and Miami Heat. He averaged 10 points per game across the five games, including a 15 point performance against the Heat in the season finale. Cannady averaged over 27 minutes per game during the stretch, and shot just over 40 percent from three-point range.

After his first game back

with the Magic, Cannady told Dan Savage of orlandomagic. com that he was “having fun” and said that it “felt good to be back.” He went on to describe his 11-month return from injury as a “grind” and said, in reference to his return to the NBA, “whether I made every shot or missed every shot, I was gonna have fun out there.”

Whether it was his optimistic demeanor, well-rounded play, or a combination of the two that convinced coaches and team executives to sign him indefinitely, the bottom line is that his place in the NBA is secure for the near future.

The Magic finished the season with a record of 22–60, the second worst in the league behind only the Houston Rockets.

Via the Draft Lottery, Orlando will have the second best odds to land the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. Anchored by a young core of Cole Anthony, Mo Bamba, Franz Wagner, and Jalen Suggs, the Magic will look to continue to rebuild next season, and Cannady is now guaranteed to be along for the ride.

Kameron Wolters is a contributor to the Sports section at the ‘Prince.’

He can be reached at kw9217@ princeton.edu or on Instagram at @ kam.wolters.

BASEBALL

Princeton baseball doubles season win total in series victory against Cornell

THE WEEK IN NUMBERS: TIGERS STANDINGS AND RESULTS MEN’S LACROSSE: IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS

CONFERENCE RECORD OVERALL RECORD 1. NO. 5 CORNELL 3 –1 10 –1 2. NO. 4 YALE 3 –1 7 –2 3. NO. 3 PRINCETON 2 –1 8 –2 4. NO. 13 HARVARD 2 –1 7 –2 5. NO. 17 BROWN 6. NO. 11 PENN 7. DARTMOUTH

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6 –4 4 –4 4 –6

RESULTS FROM THE LAST WEEK: SATURDAY, APRIL 9: NO. 3 PRINCETON 12, NO. 13 BOSTON U. 7 UPCOMING GAMES: SATURDAY, APRIL 16: DARTMOUTH AT NO. 3 PRINCETON, 3 P.M.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE: IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS

CONFERENCE RECORD OVERALL RECORD 1. YALE 4–0 8 –2 2. NO. 12 PRINCETON 2–0 7 –3 3. CORNELL 3–1 7 –5 4. BROWN 2–2 5 –5 5.

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HARVARD DARTMOUTH PENN COLUMBIA

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RESULTS FROM THE LAST WEEK: SATURDAY, APRIL 9: NO. 12 PRINCETON 18, BROWN 6 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13: NO. 9 MARYLAND 19, NO. 12 PRINCETON 9 UPCOMING GAMES: SATURDAY, APRIL 16: DARTMOUTH AT NO. 12 PRINCETON, 12 P.M. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20: PENN AT NO. 12 PRINCETON, 5 P.M.

OTHER SPORTS NEWS: COURTESY OF SHELLEY M. SZWAST/GOPRINCETONTIGERS

Junior outfielder Nadir Lewis was key to the Tigers’ series win.

By Gabriel Robare

Sports Staff Writer

This past weekend, Tiger baseball won their series against Cornell (7–14 overall, 3–6 Ivy), taking two out of three games. That doubled Princeton’s win total for the season, improving their record to 4–21 overall and 2–7 in the Ivy League.

What was the difference? How did the Tigers win two out of their last three games after winning two out of their first 22?

The victory cannot be attributed to one singular change. All in all, the team simply played better in every phase.

In the first game, the team got an absolute gem from junior starting pitcher and strikeout artist Jackson Emus. He paired 10 strikeouts — giving him 46 on the season in seven appearances, 20 more than any other Princeton pitcher — with just one walk, one run, and six hits over six innings of work. Other than a home run in the second, the Big Red never threatened the Tigers.

Emus, at last, received some run support from his offense, too. After the home run in the second inning, the Tiger offense put together some singles, passed balls, and sac flies to take a 5–1 lead. Phenom junior outfielder Nadir Lewis — 3-for-4 with 5 RBIs on the day — came up in the sixth, presumably tired of dink-and-

dunk offense, and put the game totally out of reach with an opposite-field grand slam, extending the lead to 9–1.

Emus then left the game with a lead that, in the last couple months, he usually only saw his opponents hold.

Each team traded wins late in the game, but Princeton coasted to a 12–3 victory.

The team backslid into their previous losing ways in the second game of the Saturday doubleheader. On that day, Cornell smacked Princeton 7–1.

Sophomore starting pitcher Tom Chmielewski allowed eight hits over six innings and 101 pitches. He didn’t pitch poorly — two of the runs probably could have been avoided without a Lewis error in the fifth. Chmielewski’s pitching kept the game to a fiverun deficit. The game was in reach, had Princeton been able to scrounge together any offense. The Tigers managed only four hits on the day, as Cornell starter Spencer Edwards smothered all opposition for eight innings.

But the Tigers rebounded in the final game of the series, getting off to a quick start. Sophomore outfielder Matt Scannell opened the scoring with a three-run homer in the bottom of the first.

Cornell touched up first-year starting pitcher Andrew D’Alessio for three runs each in the second and third innings. In previous games, the Tigers had a propensity to capitulate after such scoring outbursts from an

opponent. But this weekend against the Big Red — it was just different.

Junior second-baseman Noah Granet was on his A-game — a threerun triple and two-run single constituted five of the Tigers’ seven unanswered runs. He led Princeton’s own scoring outburst, putting the score at 10–6. The scoring ended there, with sophomore reliever Jason Ramirez pitching four innings of two-hit ball, allowing no runs and fanning four on an efficient 47 pitches.

The offense’s comeback and Ramirez’s elite relief portend better things for the Tigers going forward.

Against Cornell, the Tigers didn’t look perfect, or even elite — but they never looked like they were out of the game.

The team looked resilient this weekend, and sometimes, resilient is better than good.

The Tigers will head up to Hanover, N.H. to take on the Dartmouth Big Green in a three-game set this weekend. They play Rutgers in a midweek clash at home. Then, the Harvard Crimson come to town the following weekend against a Tiger team that looks tough to take down.

Gabe Robare covers baseball and is the Head Puzzles Editor, as well as a Staff News Writer and Senior Prospect Writer, for the ‘Prince.’ He can be reached on social @GabrielRobare or at grobare@princeton.edu.

MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD DROPS TO NO. 12 IN NATIONAL RANKINGS AFTER BEING RANKED AS HIGH AS NO. 6 EARLIER IN THE SEASON, THE MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD TEAM DROPPED TO THE 12TH SPOT NATIONWIDE THIS WEEK IN THE THIRD VERSION OF THIS SEASON’S USTFCCCA POLL. THE TEAM HAD BEEN RANKED AT NO. 8 IN THE PREVIOUS EDITION AND WAS NO. 6 IN THE FIRST POLL. PRINCETON WILL HOST THE LARRY ELLIS INVITATIONAL THIS WEEKEND. SOFTBALL’S MARSALO NABS TWO IVY WEEKLY AWARDS FIRST-YEAR SOFTBALL PLAYER SOPHIA MARSALO WAS NAMED IVY LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE WEEK AND IVY LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK. MARSALO BATTED AN IMPRESSIVE 10-FOR-13 IN THE WEEK’S MATCHUPS AGAINST CORNELL AND MONMOUTH, HELPING THE TIGERS GO 3–1 IN THE PROCESS.