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ON CAMPUS

STUDENT LIFE

We analyzed room draw: Housing for student Over 50% of available housing performance groups will be next to construction remains uncertain as 2022 Reunions approaches

By Madeleine LeBeau News Contributor

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Nassau Hall through a chain-link fence as it underwent construction to make it more accessible.

By Sam Kagan, Lia Opperman, and Anika Maskara Head Data Editor, Assistant News Editor, and Web Design Editor

On Monday, the University released draw times for the most conventional room draw since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year will be the first under the University’s plan to fully implement a four-year residential college system, allowing upperclass students to live in residential college

housing without purchasing a University meal plan. Further, this room draw cycle is the first to feature dorms in New College East (NCE) and New College West (NCW) — additions that present the University with an unprecedented housing lottery.

On the Undergraduate myHousing portal under the “Available Rooms” list, students may browse housing options. The list indicates that 15.2 percent

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of available rooms and 15.9 percent of available beds will be “immediately adjacent to a construction project” at the start of the 2022-23 academic year. By some measures, this is a dramatic undercount.

“The dorms that are highlighted on the ‘Available Rooms’ list are a prompt for students to understand that those dorms have rooms that are immediately adjacent to construction sites,” See ROOM DRAW page 6

In an email sent to the student leaders of performing arts groups on Thursday, March 17, the Alumni Association of Princeton announced that the University is expecting “an unprecedented number of alumni and their guests [to] return to campus” this summer for Reunions, suggesting that the first inperson Reunions since 2019 will require more on-campus housing to be available than in past years.

The email stated that “essential student groups that are operationally vital to Reunions” will have housing priority and “students who commit to work for Campus Dining are guaranteed housing” throughout Reunions, which will run from May 19–22.

However, the email stated that students in performing groups who, in the past, “were automatically offered some campus housing during Reunions” in previous years are not guaranteed housing this year. Alumni Engagement also stated they need to “significantly reduce the number of beds allotted to [student

performers], and, in fact … cannot confirm if any housing will be available.”

Finally, Alumni Engagement stated that they “hope to have an update on the number of campus beds available to performance/entertainment student groups in mid-April.”

On Wednesday, March 30, the Princeton Reunions Team provided an update via email to student performing arts groups.

In this update, the Reunions Team affirmed its “commit[ment] to ensuring that our student workers and performers are allocated some housing for each group,” but did not provide details as to how much each group would be allocated or the methodology for making that determination. They provided an application form for the student groups to complete in order to apply for housing, which asks respondents to provide information on the group members that need housing and the performances they have planned.

In an email to The Daily Princetonian, Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss noted that in past years, the University See REUNIONS page 5

U. AFFAIRS

Responding to AFA’s letter, Eisgruber Experiencing ‘Signatures’: resists removing segment on Prof.

Relearning how to read Joshua Katz from ‘To Be Known and Heard’ first-year orientation website

By Cameron Lee

Head Prospect Editor Emerita

“Signatures,” a two-part senior thesis show by Megan Pai ’22, mobilizes the audience not just as spectators, but as performers and collaborators.

Modeled after the structure of a music concert, the show consists of two halves, beginning in the Hurley Gallery in the Arts Tower of the Lewis Center for the Arts and concluding in the Hagan Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. In lieu of museum placards, letterpressprinted programs stationed at the entry include a list of pieces to be “performed” (by

you, the viewer). Visitors are encouraged to take one of the “invitations” scattered near the entrances of the galleries — silver in the Hurley Gallery and gold in the Hagan Gallery — and leave the card in the other gallery upon exiting.

As the writing on the cards suggest, the show’s “Intermission” lasts for the duration of time the visitor spends traveling between the two parts of the show. Over time, the exchange of gold and silver between the two spaces provides a spectral record of those who See SIGNATURES page 16

By Paige Cromley Assistant Features Editor

A segment on classics professor Joshua Katz’s controversial statement calling a former Black student activist group a “terrorist organization” will remain on the University’s To Be Known and Heard website, President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said in a statement on Thursday, responding to the Academic Freedom Alliance’s (AFA) request to “refrain from using its administrative resources to target” Katz.

The AFA’s letter, sent to Eisgruber on March 27, had rebuked Nassau Hall for To Be Known and Heard’s segment on Katz,

citing a concern that the administration was “systematically denouncing a sitting member of its own faculty” and argued that this constituted a violation of academic freedom.

The AFA letter was signed by politics professor Keith Whittington, who chairs the group’s academic committee. The AFA is a non-profit established in March 2021 that works to “uphold the principles of academic freedom for faculty members at colleges and universities in the United States,” according to their website.

In his response to the AFA’s letter, Eisgruber said he would “resist any suggestion” that the To

Be Known and Heard website be edited to no longer mention Katz, citing his own concerns around upholding academic freedom. The website was created for a January 2021 Wintersession program through the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding and was presented during first-year orientation programming for the Class of 2025.

“I share your deep regard for free speech and academic freedom,” Eisgruber said in his response, shared with The Daily Princetonian by the University Office of Communications. “I am concerned, however, that See EISGRUBER page 2

T H I S W E E K I N F E AT U R E S | PAG E 1 8

With candles, choreography, and colorful strip lights, a student-led spin class gets a community active COURTESY OF MEGAN PAI

This Week on Campus

In a Dillon Gym studio, Caroline Kirby ’23 leads fully-booked spin classes each week. Designed to welcome Princeton students of all ability levels, Kirby’s popular classes have formed community on campus for those interested in staying active.

SPORTS | Princeton Women’s Lacrosse vs. Maryland — Wednesday, April 13, 7 p.m., Sherrerd Field.

EVENT | Night at the Movies: Princeton University Figure Skating Club — Saturday, April 9, 8 p.m. & Sunday, April 10, 2 p.m., Baker Rink.

Woman’s Lacrosse faces off against Maryland in the Salute to Service Game.

A figure skating show set to movie soundtracks.

WORKSHOP| Learn-to-Sew Thrift Flip — Friday, April 8, 4 p.m., A Floor in Lewis Library.

An introduction to sewing fundamentals by Makerspace Consultant Anna Kerr.

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your letter appears to ask me to censor a website consisting of teaching materials prepared for a January 2021 Wintersession program and maintained on a University website for educational purposes.”

“Given that the production and publication of teaching materials in general deserves protection under the principles of academic freedom and free speech, I am inclined to resist any suggestion of censorship,” Eisgruber added.

Eisgruber also responded to the AFA’s claim that “Professor Katz was singled out for criticism at a university-sponsored orientation event.” Eisgruber acknowledged that while the University had hosted an orientation event that made use of the To Be Known and Heard website, the panelists did not discuss Katz or the associated part of the website.

In an interview with the ‘Prince,’ Whittington noted that while Katz is not under the threat of being fired or “sanctioned” for what he said, “there’s the concern that university administrators are engaging in a campaign of intimidation and harassment against him.”

“I do think the university needs to think more seriously about this kind of institutional speech and what’s appropriate for administrative units on campus to be doing,” he said.

Katz and his attorney did not respond to requests seeking comment on the AFA letter to Eisgruber. Katz is a member of the AFA, but Whittington noted that he was not

involved in the organization’s deliberations on this issue.

To Be Known And Heard is part of a new orientation module presented to incoming first-year students that states as its goal for “students and others to learn about race and racism from around the time of the University’s founding up to today.”

The “Race and Free Speech’’ chapter of the website describes how “throughout its history, Princeton has grappled with what crosses the ‘line’ between free speech and freedom of expression, and racist statements and actions.” The chapter features a number of examples of such instances, including details of the controversy surrounding a Quillete article Katz wrote in 2020, in which he referred to the Black Justice League (BJL), a student activist group active until 2016, as a “local terrorist organization.”

The To Be Known and Heard website quotes one sentence from Katz’s piece: “The Black Justice League, which was active on campus from 2014 until 2016, was a small local terrorist organization that made life miserable for the many (including the many black students) who did not agree with its members’ demands.”

Below that statement are quotations from Eisgruber and other faculty members rebuking Katz for his speech.

The website describes how following a faculty letter urging Princeton to act on a list of anti-racist demands, Katz “took the opportunity to sharply rebuke” the BJL and includes an excerpt from his column alongside quotes from Chair of African

American Studies Eddie S. Glaude GS ’97 and Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts Tracy K. Smith rebuking his words.

The AFA letter claimed that, on the website, “Katz is held out as an example of a professor making a racist statement and is shown being denounced by the university president, the Classics department, and the chairs of two academic units for engaging in racist speech.”

Eisgruber emphasized in his letter to Whittington the importance of including information about the controversy on the website.

“It is hard to imagine how the website could have covered recent controversies about race, free speech, and student protest at Princeton without mentioning the exchange between Dr. Katz and his critics,” he wrote.

AFA’s letter is the most recent in a string of objections to the website’s mention of Katz’s op-ed.

Last October, mathematics professor Sergiu Klainerman and other faculty members submitted a complaint alleging that administrators responsible for the creation of the website violated University policies for the purpose of harassing and discrediting Katz.

The University declined to investigate Klainerman’s complaint, according to a Dec. 7, 2021 letter signed by Michele Minter, Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity.

Then, on March 15, Princetonians for Free Speech (PFS), a non-profit run by alumni, published a letter on their website asking the University’s Board of Trustees to commission an investigation into what they referred

to as a “smear campaign” against Katz on the To Be Known and Heard website. The letter was signed by members of the PFS Board of Directors Stuart Taylor Jr. ’70, Edward Yingling ’70, and Todd RulonMiller ’73.

Ten days earlier, Yingling and Taylor Jr. had published an article in Real Clear Politics on the same issue.

Yingling, in an email to the ‘Prince’ on March 25, claimed that “others had the right to criticize Professor Katz’s statement.”

“This is not about what individuals said,” he wrote. “This is about Princeton administrators using those statements and creating a context to attack Professor Katz for speech the President of the University said was protected under Princeton’s rules.”

Yingling and Whittington told the ‘Prince’ that their organizations had not coordinated with each other in objecting to Katz’s treatment by the University website.

In their complaints to the University, Klainerman, AFA, and PFS also took issue with what they said was a misleadingly incomplete quotation of Katz’s statements in his op-ed on the To Be Known and Heard website.

The complaint filed

by Klainerman and others last October noted that Katz’s quote on To Be Known and Heard had been altered so as to leave out the parenthetical “(including the many black students)” after the phrase “who did not agree with its members’ demands.”

The quote, as it appears currently on To Be Known and Heard, is unaltered from the way in which it appears in Katz’s original Quillete op-ed, including

that parenthetical.

The AFA’s letter noted that the organization was “disappointed that the correction was made through a stealth edit with no acknowledgement of the error and certainly with no apology to Professor Katz for the misrepresentation of his writing.”

In Eisgruber’s response to AFA, he acknowledged that “the authors of the website had an ethical obligation to correct the error, as they did shortly after the matter was brought to the University’s attention.”

Whittington told the ‘Prince’ that the controversy over Katz’s portrayal on To Be Known and Heard is “a question of how universities ought to conduct themselves in general.”

Eisgruber wrote in his response to Whittington that “University staff members enjoy free speech rights along with other members of our community, including the protections of academic freedom when the staff members engage in teaching activity.”

“If the website had engaged in name-calling or made derogatory comments about Dr. Katz, I would regard it as inconsistent with University values,” he wrote. “The website, however, does nothing of the kind.”

Katz served as a trustee at the ‘Prince’ from 2014 to early 2020, and before that as a faculty columnist from 2006 to 2013.

Paige Cromley is an assistant Features editor and a writer for the News and Prospect sections of The Daily Princetonian. She can be reached at pcromley@princeton.edu.

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ON CAMPUS

U. professors speak on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing, future of Supreme Court

By Charlie Roth

Staff News Writer

With the Senate Judiciary Committee set to vote on her confirmation on Monday, April 4, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination process is nearing its completion. If endorsed by the Judiciary Committee, the full Senate will vote before its April 8 recess.

If confirmed, Jackson would be the first African-American woman on the Court.

After Jackson’s committee hearings March 21–24, The Daily Princetonian spoke with University professors to hear their thoughts.

On Jackson as a nominee History professor Kevin Kruse emphasized Jackson’s unique background in comparison to other current justices. According to the Washington Post, if confirmed, Jackson would be the first justice with experience as a federal public defender, and upon the retirement of Justice Breyer, the only justice with experience on the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

Kruse told the ‘Prince’ that Jackson’s role as a public defender “as someone who’s been on the other side of the criminal justice process,” stands out to him.

“That’s a perspective the Court has lacked for a long time and certainly needs,” Kruse said.

“We often think about the ideological diversity of the court, but I think there’s a kind of professional diversity too. It’s become standard to have one kind of judge from one kind of background. I think having someone with a public defender background is terrific,” he continued.

Udi Ofer is a visiting lecturer in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and the national director of the Justice Division at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Ofer emphasized Jackson’s experience and perspective when describing why he thinks she is an ideal nominee. “[Jackson] has the intellectual expertise, the academic background, the practical background, and the personal background of someone who understands the impact of so many decisions made by our nation’s highest court,” he continued. “She’s exactly

what the Supreme Court needs right now.”

Ofer noted in his interview that “the last Supreme Court Justice who had significant experience representing criminal defendants was Justice Thurgood Marshall.”

Marshall served on the Court from 1967 until 1991.

Paul Frymer, a professor of politics and director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs, offered that Jackson’s experience as a public defender may have complicated her confirmation process.

“The one weakness that she faced is that she is the only judge who was a public defender. So that put her in a spot where she had to represent people who are often not so savory,” Frymer said to the ‘Prince.’ “And some of that became an issue, but the charges leveled by her opponents were all overblown about a couple of cases. It was just theatrics.”

For Ed Whelan, though, Jackson’s relative lack of experience in constitutional law is a sticking point. Whelan, a former Supreme Court clerk under Justice Antonin Scalia, is the current vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Whelan visited campus in February to talk about the replacement of Justice Breyer’s seat in an event hosted by the Princeton Federalist Society.

“She’s had very little experience deciding constitutional questions, and it was very surprising that she said that she wasn’t familiar with the landmark ruling that barred [the Virginia Military Institute] from continuing as a male-only institution,” Whelan wrote in an email to the ‘Prince.’

Three Republican Senators — Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Susan Collins (RMaine), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Ark.) — voted to confirm Judge Jackson’s nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court in 2021, though Graham has already said he will not vote to confirm her to the Supreme Court. Collins, however, plans to vote to confirm Jackson.

Ofer said that there are issues being raised now by Republicans, including Graham, that were not brought up during the confirmation hearings in 2021.

“There are a lot of questions that seem to be more concerned about the cultural

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is honored at the third annual Judge James B. Parsons Legacy Dinner on February 24, 2020.

wars that are playing out in the United States right now than about a genuine interest in learning more about Judge Jackson’s qualifications,” he said.

On the hearings Professors were quick to point out what they saw as the height of polarization of the country and the politicization of the nomination process.

In his interview, Kruse remarked that “in the modern era, the confirmation process has kind of turned into more of a public spectacle than anything.”

“We’ve seen in the past few [confirmation hearings], no matter which party nominates for the Supreme Court, you get half of the Senate… heaping lavish praise on them for their character, and then the other side tends to look for sound bites,” he said.

Kruse said that this was evident during Jackson’s hearings, citing a comment made

by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), who said that the “jackassery” seen in the courtroom is “partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities.”

Martin Flaherty, a visiting professor of Public and International Affairs, also noted his disappointment in the way the confirmation hearings have unfolded.

“The whole process has further descended into tragic comedy. The histrionics of the Republicans, including and especially Princeton’s own Ted Cruz ’92, have been a disgraceful display of racial dog whistling and pandering to their extreme base.

The most notable bright spot

is the grace, intelligence, and near superhuman self-control of Judge Brown Jackson,” Flaherty said.

Whelan noted that the partisanship of this confirmation hearing fits within a longer-term trend.

Whelan said that for “at least three decades, Senate Democrats, led by Joe Biden, have abandoned the deference model, in which opposite-party senators assess a president’s Supreme Court nominee on intellect, experience, and character, irrespective of judicial philosophy.”

“They instead decisively shifted the Senate’s role to a battle over judicial philosophy. Senate Republicans, with a decade or more of lag, made the same shift. So there is nothing unusual, and there should be nothing unexpected, about Senate Republican opposition to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination,” Whelan said. ​​

On the future of the Court While professors were excited about the historic nature of Judge Jackson’s nomination, they were hesitant to say she would have an immediate impact on the politics of the Court.

“In terms of the raw numbers, the Court is pretty much a six-three conservative court, and she’s replacing a vacating liberal justice. So overall, in terms of the balance of the court, that won’t have much immediate effect,” Jonathan Kastellec, an associate professor of politics, said.

However, Kastellec does think that Judge Jackson’s background could have an effect on how the Court views

certain cases. “​​Introducing diversity into a multi-member court of any sort can change the nature of the decision making by making other judges approach different issues in some ways.

She will be the first woman African-American justice, which might bring a different perspective in cases in which gender and race intersect,” Kastellec said.

“It’s a powerful, symbolic, and substantive statement of racial and gender inclusion on the court. The court now has more women and more people of color than it’s ever had, and it’s becoming more reflective of America. That’s all really important, and I think that will stand the test of time.

It’ll continue to have an influence,” Frymer noted.

In addition to her identity, Ofer also noted what students can learn from her career path.

“I hope that the Princeton students will find inspiration in Judge Jackson,” he said. “I hope that she inspires them to stay true to their values.”

He added that, “Princeton students will be inspired to be future public defenders, which I think is one of the greatest callings for this generation and for any generation ... ensuring that everyone is afforded due process and equal protection of the law regardless of the size of your wallet.”

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.

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U. AFFAIRS

With some University summer international travel plans still in flux, new guidelines add layer of certification

By Isabel Yip

Assistant News Editor

Students who wish to travel internationally on the University’s dime will now be required to get special certifications or exceptions from University officials, according to revised guidelines by Princeton’s Global Safety & Security Unit (GS&S) released on March 21.

The new guidelines will apply to travel in the summer of 2022 and beyond.

In an email to The Daily Princetonian, Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss said that the certification and exception processes are intended to serve as safeguards for travel sponsors within the University who are considering potential risks before approving international travel.

“For undergraduate students participating in Princeton-sponsored internships, programs or research opportunities abroad, the certification or exception will be granted by the Office of the Dean of the College and the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life,” he said.

“Both offices are working closely with students to assist with the completion of the necessary certification or exception process.”

According to a letter by Associate Provost for International Affairs and Operations Aly Kassam-Remtulla to the University community, these guidelines are not specific to COVID-19 and will not be subject to change as the pandemic continues to evolve.

“This guidance establishes a more permanent structure for how we will ensure the health and safety of our travelers, accounting for but no longer centered on the pandemic,” Kassam-Remtulla wrote.

The revised guidelines announcement comes as some University international travel programs for the coming summer continue to be reassessed.

Princeton in Munich, for instance, will be held remotely this summer instead of in Germany, according to an announcement by the program’s director Adam Oberlin on March 30.

In an email to students obtained by the ‘Prince,’ Oberlin described the decision to go remote as the result of “ongoing uncertainty about the effect of Covid regulations on the cultural component of the course; the impact of the conflict in Ukraine; the estimated financial implications of rising costs on-site.”

Oberlin also mentioned “the need to have adequate lead time to prepare an online alternative” as part of the reasoning for why the announcement came at this time.

Other students are still awaiting approval of their impending travel plans.

In an interview with the ‘Prince,’ Cathleen Weng ’24 described the process of requesting funding from the University for a Florida State University summer program in Cosa, Italy.

After initially requesting funding from the classics department, Weng described the process of

waiting for University approval as “a limbo process of not being sure at all when the University would make this decision.”

Weng is an Associate Prospect Editor for the ‘Prince.’

Still, other international programs are proceeding as planned. After a period of uncertainty, Nomi Willis ’24 now has confirmation that her global seminar “Conflict, Borders, Multilingualism, Translation” in Cyprus has been approved to proceed inperson.

“They hadn’t guaranteed anything until I think last week, confirming that it would be in country,” she said.

Willis’ experience seems more in line with what Hotchkiss said is the University’s shift to a minimally restricted travel protocol.

“Happily, the University’s new permissible travel guidelines allow for a scope of international travel nearly as broad as before the pandemic began, while still accounting for the many risks and complexities of international mobility,” he wrote.

Under the revised guidelines, travelers seeking certification for their trips are instructed to download and fill out certification forms from GS&S that will be reviewed and signed by the certifier. Certifiers will “have their own internal process for review and signing.”

The process of requesting certification for international travel is dependent on the risk category dis-

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The Louis A. Simpson Building, which houses IIP.

tinction (A, B, C, or X) that has been given to international locations by GS&S. These categories proceed in order of increasing risk — with destinations in category A deemed to present no disruptions greater than those faced while traveling domestically.

Conversely, destinations in category C are deemed to present a substantially higher risk than that posed by domestic travel.

The potential risk is determined by travel warnings issued by the U.S. government, lack of U.S. diplomatic presence in that location, the imposition of sanctions on that location, or the presence of conflict.

Travel to a category C location requires an exception to be issued by a senior University administrator that allows travel to a destination that would “otherwise be prohibited on the basis of risk.” The Dean of the College or the Vice President for Campus Life must approve this exception, which “requires at least three working weeks to be completed” from the

time of first contact.

Travel has been suspended to locations with a category X distinction.

The risk level for international locations can be checked online through GS&S. GS&S is now assessing international travel via “Princeton-specific assessments,” moving away from “an exclusive reliance on the State Department’s travel advisories,” according to Kassam-Remtulla.

Princeton’s International Internship Program (IIP) contacted students on March 23 to share the revised guidelines. IIP expressed their plans to contact students with “information about how [their] office can provide support to help [students] navigate the GS&S process.”

These new guidelines go into effect for travel beginning April 4.

Isabel Yip is an Assistant News Editor who typically covers University Affairs and student life. She can be reached at isabelyip@princeton.edu or on Instagram at @isaayip.

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did not “provide housing for every member of each student group participating in Reunions events.” Hotchkiss added that for this year’s Reunions, the University has “arranged for beds on the Rider, Westminster Choir College and the Princeton Theological Seminary campuses to increase our available housing (on campus and proximal to campus)” to house alumni in attendance.

In reference to the March 17 email guaranteeing housing for students who “commit to work for Campus Dining,” Hotchkiss explained that “[d] ining jobs may not be a good fit for all students from performing groups because the highest need for dining jobs is during lunch and dinner hours, which is often when student groups perform.”

Although “students receiving free interim housing on campus must complete designated tasks to support Reunions,” Hotchkiss added that the Princeton Reunions Team is “working to determine which additional Reunions tasks may be a good fit [for students in performing groups] and will work closely with students to communicate their options.”

Student performing arts groups are currently working independently to obtain housing for their performers.

Julia Elman, ’23, the president of the Princeton University Players (PUP), told the ‘Prince’ she believes that “there is no way that the entire cast and crew, plus the necessary production people from both [Theatre-]Intime and PUP can get guaranteed housing.”

According to Elman, PUP has attempted to find alternative housing and have sought donations for hotel rooms, “but because it is the first Reunions in … years, all the hotel rooms are either full or [are very expensive].” She also noted that “Reunions rests on com[ing] back to connect with [alumni] groups and see the current groups perform.”

Elman described that she is overall “angry and frustrated” with the current situation.

Maya Jaaskelainen ’24, the drum major and president of the Princeton University Band, an organization she described as “operationally vital” to Reunions, commented that she expects that the band’s 20–30 students will “have enough housing that [they] all will be able to stay.”

Jaaskelainen said that the band is “hired by the Alumni Council each year to lead the P-Rade,” and this year is no exception.

Student groups have been looking forward to continuing the tradition of performing for their alumni. Sloan Huebner ’23, president of Princeton University Glee Club, is “really excited… for all of the people that are currently in Glee to see how strong the bond and the traditions are between people that went here 50 years ago and people that are still here today.” Although she believes “this whole situation has been a hassle,” she is resolute that Glee Club is “going to do the best with what we have, and we are going to

make [our Reunions performance] happen.”

In an email to the ‘Prince’, Chuck Rozakis ’03, an alumni who was a member of performing arts groups including the band, PUP, TheatreIntime, and the Jewish a cappella group Koleinu, commented on the importance of Reunions for both alumni and student groups.

“Reunion events are really important for the long life and health of student groups,” he said. “[They] keep the alumni connected to the group, which means the alumni are more

aware and willing to provide support like donations and hiring the group[s] for gigs.”

Student groups that will be performing at this year’s Reunions and intend to request housing should complete the application form by April 10.

Results and housing confirmation will be emailed during the week of April 11.

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

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Alumni gather on campus for Reunions in 2013.

U. AFFAIRS

U. joins most Ivy peers in not disclosing Russian investment holdings, as some colleges divest amid war

By Brenden Garza News Contributor

As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine moves into its sixth week, a growing number of American colleges and universities have made moves to divest endowments from Russian holdings.

The vast majority of Ivy League universities, including Princeton, have not announced similar plans.

Since the initial invasion in late February, national and international sanctions on business in Russia have been instituted in response to the invasion, and as the war continues, American universities are becoming another avenue for sanction efforts. Across the country, colleges and universities, including the University of Colorado and the University of Arizona, have announced divestment from holdings in Russian companies and stocks.

The Arizona public university system, for instance, had $4 million invested in Russian assets — a small fraction of its $1.2 billion endowment — which Fred DuVal, the Arizona

Board of Regents’s chair-elect, announced a move to divest in early March, as first reported by Inside Higher Ed. “With today’s action, the board repudiates Putin’s aggression,” the board’s chair Lyndel Manson said of the decision to divest at the time.

At Princeton, many University community members have expressed solidarity with Ukraine, raising money and holding public demonstrations.

One group of Russian students wrote a letter of support which was circulated through University listservs and published in The Daily Princetonian.

The most recent and highprofile divestment announcement came from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on March 14.

In light of such divestment announcements from Princeton’s public counterparts, the ‘Prince’ reached out to the University Office of Communications on the issue.

Responding to a question on whether the University has plans to divest any part of its endowment from Russian holdings, Deputy University

Spokesman Michael Hotchkiss wrote that, “Any process to consider divestment and dissociation would go through the Resources Committee of the CPUC [Council of the Princeton University Community], which was established to ‘consider questions of general policy concerning the procurement and management of the University’s financial resources.’”

Hotchkiss reiterated in an email to the ‘Prince’ the University’s general policy regarding public disclosure of endowment holdings.

“The University does not publicly disclose holdings of the endowment or its investment strategy,” he wrote. “The only exception is the rare context of a formal dissociation proceeding reaching a certain level of maturity.”

Kate Ivshina ’23, one student on campus who has been active in Ukraine solidarity work, told the ‘Prince’ she opposes any investments in Russia.

“Although we cannot comment on the divestment or dissociation process that the University may be considering, we want to make it clear

that we are against any investment in Russia,” she wrote to the ‘Prince,’ speaking on behalf of 02.24.2022, a student group founded in the wake of the invasion.

“Any investment in Russia pays directly to support the ongoing genocide of Ukraine through Russian taxes,” Ivshina added. “Efforts should be directed towards rebuilding of the Ukrainian nation and supporting millions of refugees who became the victims of the war.”

The ‘Prince’ also reached out to the seven other Ivy League universities to ask whether they have plans to divest from Russian holdings.

According to the Yale Daily News, Yale University has reportedly divested from Russian holdings, but it has not specified how much of its endowment was in Russian assets. Officials from Yale University did not respond to the ‘Prince’ by the time of publication. Yale has also signaled a commitment to enroll more Ukrainian students in the upcoming school year, as the YDN reported on April 6.

Columbia University Associ-

ate Vice President of Internal Communications Robert Hornsby declined to comment.

Dartmouth College Associate Vice President for Communications Diana Lawrence told the ‘Prince’ that Dartmouth is “horrified by the brazen aggression of the Russian war in Ukraine,” and that the university “[hopes] that the global condemnation of this unprovoked invasion and its devastating effects reflects rising support for basic human rights, respect for international law, and the principles of freedom and understanding valued by academic institutions.”

Lawrence also referred to Dartmouth policy not to disclose specific investment holdings.

Harvard University, Brown University, Cornell University, and the University of Pennsylvania did not respond to requests for comment by the time of publication.

Brenden Garza is a news contributor for the ‘Prince.’ He can be reached at bg8077@princeton.edu or @brenden.garza on Instagram.

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Among upperclassmen drawing into residential colleges, New College West was the most popular, while Forbes College was the least popular ROOM DRAW Continued from page 1

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wrote Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss in an email to The Daily Princetonian.

“These designated rooms have windows that open directly to construction sites and that will experience the highest impacts from construction.”

Other hal ls, while not considered “immediately adjacent,” will still experience disruptions from ongoing projects. For instance, buildings like Edwards Hall — directly across the street from the Art Museum construction site — or Yoseloff Hall — which will only be separated

from the construction of Hobson College by a single walkway — are not designated “construction adjacent” by the “Available Rooms” list.

These classifications run contrary to a construction overview released by University Housing and Real Estate Services earlier this year. According to a graphic at the beginning of a presentation from the office, when considering the projects at Dillon Gym, the Art Museum, Hobson College, Whitman Lawn, Butler Temporary Dining Hall, and McCosh, some 53.6 percent of available rooms and 53.9 percent of available beds will be next to construction for some period of the next academic year.

The two construction assessments, from the

“Available Rooms” list and the Housing Services, respectively, do not line up. When considering all locations that are assessed by either review to be “construction adjacent,” 59.2 percent of available rooms and 59.1 percent of available beds will be next to a campus renovation project.

This count opposes a claim made on the “Available Rooms” list, which states that “there is enough capacity for students to not have to select rooms that are immediately adjacent to construction sites.” In considering the construction indicated on this sheet, the assertion seems plausible.

However, upon examining

the expanded slate of constructionadjacent rooms, there is not enough space, by any metric, for all students to avoid the inconvenience.

The ‘Prince’ also analyzed which students entered each room draw.

One may enter a draw in a group of up to eight students, so long as all of the students are eligible for the draw in question. A first-year, for example, may draw in a group with a sophomore for that first-year’s assigned residential college. Some draws have other restrictive requirements. For example, a student is only eligible for a draw in Spelman or independent housing if at least half of their draw group pledges to be independent (not on a meal plan or in an eating club)

for the entirety of the next academic year.

As in the past, first-years are only eligible to draw rooms from their assigned residential college.

First-year students formerly in First College will now live in New College West, and first-year students in New College East were chosen via a lottery system that occurred in February.

Upperclass students are not as confined: with every residential college accepting juniors and seniors, they may enter as many of the seven residential college draws as they please. With the added option of entering draws for upperclass, Spelman, and inde-

pendent housing, sophomores and juniors could, theoretically, request a spot in 10 different room draws as a part of 10 different groups. One’s place in each draw is determined by a points system that considers class year and original residential college affiliation.

Despite the myriad of complications in entering various lotteries, draw group sizes generally remained consistent across all draws. Every residential college claimed an average group size between 2.34 people and 2.39 people, except for Forbes, which averaged 2.07. The independent draw had an average size of 2.03, upperclass was 2.67, and Spellman, in which every group must consist of either four or eight people, averaged 4.24.

A total of 3,459 u nderg radu ates chose to participate in this year’s housing lottery, 86.6 percent of all u nderg radu ates per the residential college facebook.

Those who are not in the lottery may have received a room through the housing accommodations draw, may be serving as an RCA, may be living off campus or in an eating club, or may have simply forgotten to enter the lottery.

Of those 534 students who are not in the room draw, 73 are first-years, 158 are sophomores, and 303 are juniors.

Those who chose to remain in room draw often tried their luck in a number of the lotteries. On average, juniors entered 3.9 draws, sophomores entered 5.4 draws, and first-years,

housing contract within fifteen minutes of selecting a room. While one may evaluate many different options, no individual can secure multiple accom mod at ion s.

Furthermore, as one may enter different draws with different groups, many room draw groups eventually break up. If one’s group changes, the remaining members do not lose their draw time, but rather must proceed with the fractioned group.

Each residential college must reserve a set number of spaces for firstyears and sophomores. While there is no limit to the number of upperclass students who may enter the draw for a given residential college, each college only has the capacity for a fraction of the sophomores and

projects which span the length of Elm Drive, presents students with a novel series of challenges and choices. The calculus of room selection, weighing location, square footage, and a litany of other factors, isn’t getting any easier.

All housing and draw data used in this analysis was sourced from the University Housing Portal on March 28th, before the start of room draw. Data on total enrollment by class year was sourced from the Residential College Facebook on the same date.

confined to their own residential college, all entered one draw. Twentysix people entered all 10 draws: 11 juniors and 15 sophomores.

Among upperclass students, some residential room draws were more popular than others. New College West was the most popular option, attracting 1,548 students, while Forbes College was the least popular, bringing in just 622 students.

A number of additional factors complicate one’s housing process.

All of the draws take place at different times and, to secure the space, one must sign a

juniors on its room draw list. Spelman and independent housing face similar limitations, whereas upperclass housing has much larger hall capacities.

Different residential college draws may suit different students depending on their rooming preferences.

Whitman College, for instance, has the most singles, whereas Rockefeller College has the fewest. Forbes, meanwhile, is the residential college with the most doubles and Mathey College is the only one with quints.

This year’s room draw, complicated by new colleges and construction

including the Frosh Survey, focus on numerical storytelling and data journalism.

He previously served as a news editor. Sam can be reached at skagan@pr inceton. edu or on Twitter @ thesamkagan.

Sam Kagan is the Head Data Editor and a senior writer with experience reporting on university finances, alumni in government, university COVID-19 policy, and more. His projects,

Anika Maskara is a Head Web Design and Development Editor. She can be reached at amaskara@princeton.edu or on Instagram @anikamaskara.

Lia Opperman is an Assistant News Editor who often covers University affairs, student life, and local news. She can be reached at liaopperman@pr inceton. edu, on Instagram @liamariaaaa, or on Twitter @oppermanlia.

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USG speaks with administrators on University’s ‘sexual climate’

By Alison Araten

News Staff Writer

The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) discussed the University’s sexual culture and issues around sexual misconduct in a conversation with members of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) at their weekly meeting on Sunday, April 3.

The USG Senate also approved eight new student groups and a budget proposal from the Mental Health Initiative (MHI), and heard updates on mental health related recommendations previously proposed by USG members.

Members of the CPUC Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Climate, Culture, and Conduct presented their research to the USG. The Committee was established in December 2019 to bring together faculty and students to address sexual climate and misconduct on campus.

At the USG meeting, present committee members included Vice President for Campus Life Rochelle Calhoun, Committee Director of Gender Equity and Title IX Administration Regan Crotty, Sexual Harrasment/ Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE) Director Jacqueline DeitchStackhouse, and Director of Health Promotion and Prevention Services Sonya Satinsky.

“I’ll just tell you that the general goal of our committee and our work is to think about how we, as a University, look at particularly climate and culture, and improve it in such a way that everyone has an opportunity to thrive on our campus,” Calhoun said.

Calhoun explained that

the Committee has used the book “Sexual Citizens” by Jennifer Hirsch ’88 and Shamus Khan as a foundation for its work. Hirsch has previously spoken on campus about her research.

Calhoun added that the committee has facilitated conversations around the sexual climate on campus with student leaders, directors of identity centers, faculty, and administrators to identify and respond to the issues that exist.

“From a SHARE perspective, we think that we have some work to do in developing a better culture and climate on campus,” Deitch-Stackhouse explained.

“We need a culture around consent, we need a culture around respect, we need a culture around accountability, and we need a culture around bystander intervention.”

The committee members then opened the conversation to input from the USG, asking members to describe their perspectives on the University’s sexual culture and climate and offer recommendations for improving it.

MHI Representative Noah Luch ’24 raised concerns about the accessibility of resources surrounding sexual misconduct.

“What I’ve heard from a lot of students is it feels like the University increases the number of steps when really it should be decreasing the amount,” Luch said. “I guess my recommendation is lowering the barrier to entry — having an active role in seeking out people and saying, ‘Hey, if you want to talk about anything, here’s a coffee session where you can talk to us about your own experiences.’ Something like that where you’re

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actively going into the community rather than waiting for people to come to you.”

U-Councilor Carlisle Imperial ’25 described the underlying “hookup culture” on campus while Campus and Community Affairs Committee (CCA) Chair Isabella Shutt ’24 recommended that the administration work specifically with eating club leaders and members to ensure that students feel safe in the clubs’ party spaces.

Chief of Staff Dillion Gallagher ’23 added that “[t] here’s sometimes a concern among students that the students who care more about this issue are the ones responding to surveys, going to events, doing these trainings and taking them seriously, while other people are taking a more passive role, if they’re taking any role at all.”

“How can we make sure that this is reaching everybody and that it’s not a question of opting out?” Gallagher said.

Deitch-Stackhouse con-

cluded this segment of the meeting responding to Gallagher’s question by informing USG that SHARE is working on a mandatory four-year curriculum designed to ensure that all members of the University community participate in these types of trainings and conversations.

After these remarks, the Senate transitioned to voting matters. Student Groups Recognition Committee (SGRC) Chair Derek Nam ’23 reported that the SGRC had approved eight new clubs and the Senate voted unanimously for their approval.

Additionally, Luch presented a budget request on behalf of MHI of $2000 to host a lunch bringing together members of the administration, faculty, and student leaders to discuss experiences with mental health on campus. This proposal also passed unanimously.

At the end of the meeting, President Mayu Takeuchi ’23 checked in with Senate members, emphasizing her “holistic approach” to ad-

dressing mental health on campus and following up on a discussion held during the Feb. 20 Senate meeting that called on members to identify actions each could take to support mental health.

Luch reported progress with plans to set up a “wellness space” in Campus Club over the summer, and 2025 Senator Walker Penfield ’25 hoped to finalize a video guide for incoming firstyears to accessing mental health resources by the end of the semester.

The meeting concluded with various members of the Senate encouraging their fellow students on USG to take care of their own mental health.

USG Senate meetings are held in Robertson Hall Room 016 at 8 p.m. on Sunday evenings and are open to all.

Alison Araten is a news staff writer for the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at aaraten@princeton.edu and @alisonaraten on Instagram.

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Dennis Parnell Sullivan GS ’66 wins 2022 Abel Prize

By Allan Shen

Senior News Writer

Acclaimed mathematician Dennis Parnell Sullivan GS ’66 was awarded the 2022 Abel Prize. One of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon a research mathematician, the honor is considered the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in the field of mathematics.

Sullivan’s honor marks the fifth consecutive year in which the Abel Prize has been awarded to an individual affiliated with the University. Presently, 10 out of the 25 Abel Prize laureates in total are Princeton affiliates.

The Abel Committee, consisting of five mathematicians from around the world, selected Sullivan “for his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects,” according to the announcement.

The Abel Prize was estab-

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Dennis Sullivan GS ‘66 .

lished in 2002 by the government of Norway and has been awarded each year since 2003 by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The prize is accompanied by a sum of 7.5 million Norwegian kroner, or approximately $860,000, to be funded by the Norwegian government.

Sullivan stated in an interview with The Daily Princetonian that he spent eight years on solving what he said was arguably the most difficult problem of his career: the universality of the period-doubling cascade, a problem discovered by physicists performing computational research on dynamical systems in the 1970s.

Sullivan recalled learning from Princeton mathematicians such as his advisor William Browder GS ’58, Norman Steenrod, and Solomon Lefschetz as a graduate student in the 1960s and how that experience aided him in his research career.

“I was at the right place at the right time with the right interest,” Sullivan remarked. “In the 1970s, things split. The geometry went off in one direction while the algebra went off in another.

I went off in a third direction, dynamics, but I still had this understanding of both the geometric part and the algebraic part, and that has always been very useful. So, Princeton was great.”

Sullivan is a distinguished professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the Albert Einstein Chair in Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

Born in Port Huron, Mich., in 1941, Sullivan graduated with a B.A. in mathematics from Rice University in 1963 before entering Princeton for graduate studies in mathematics.

He initially intended to study chemical engineering as an undergraduate before he was

pulled into mathematics after observing a professor’s demonstration of a theorem in topology.

After completing his doctorate at Princeton, Sullivan worked through a series of fellowships at the University of Warwick in England, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sullivan spent one year as professeur associé at the University of Paris-Orsay and became a permanent professor in 1974 at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) in France.

He became a faculty member at the CUNY Graduate Center in 1981 and simultaneously worked in the United States and France until he left IHÉS for Stony Brook in 1996.

He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton in 1966 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled “Triangulating homotopy equivalences,” under the supervision of Browder.

Browder shared his praise for Sullivan in an email to the ‘Prince.’

“Dennis was a member of my first group of graduate advisees on joining the Princeton faculty, and even among this stellar group, Dennis stood out, larger than life, stepping farther, grinding harder, and an intellectual vacuum cleaner always at high power,” Browder wrote.

“His thesis made a great contribution to our subject, and he has been high flying ever since.”

Sullivan’s Abel Prize comes for his groundbreaking contributions to the fields of topology and dynamical systems, which can be linked back to his graduate studies at Princeton.

Sullivan’s Ph.D. thesis built on the work of Browder and Russian mathematician Sergei Novikov and dealt with the classification of manifolds: a class of fundamental mathematical objects that appear to be flat when observed from a single point on their surface, but possess a much more complex global ge-

ometry in reality.

Sullivan’s work on the classification of manifolds in five or more dimensions greatly accelerated the development of surgery theory, which is an innovative set of techniques used to transform one manifold into another.

Sullivan’s interest in manifolds and topology helped him make contributions in unexpected areas and make unexpected connections; the prize citation called him a “true virtuoso” for developing deep insights in various fields.

John Milnor ’51 GS ’54, a fellow mathematician at Stony Brook who received the Abel Prize in 2011, met Sullivan while the latter was a graduate student at Princeton. He reflected on his experiences of learning from Sullivan over decades.

“He is a wonderful mathematician, full of ideas and is very good at talking to people and explaining his ideas,” Milnor told the ‘Prince.’ “We both wandered from subject to subject. Actually, even though I’m 10 years older than him, I think I’ve learned much more from him than he has learned from me because he was working much earlier on areas that I later became interested in.”

Sullivan’s numerous other honors include the 1993 King Faisal International Prize for Science, the 2005 U.S. National Medal of Science, and the 2010 Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1983 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991.

Sullivan will be presented with the Abel Prize by King Harald V of Norway in a ceremony in Oslo on May 24.

Allan Shen is a senior writer who often covers research and obituaries.

He can be reached at fuluns@princeton.edu, or on Twitter at @fulunallanshen. He previously served as an Associate News Editor.

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By Isabel Richardson, Angel Kuo, & Zoe Berman Associate Photo Editors and Staff Photographer

Despite flowers struggling to bloom with the ever-changing weather, a new sign of spring came this week: the Fountain of Freedom once again flowed next to Shapiro Walk.

A tree blossoms by Little Hall in Mathey College.

This past Saturday, balloons of every color decorated the entrance to Dillon Gymnasium leading to the GSRC’s PrideFest celebration.

Yellow flowers set against the background of the President’s House.

Students wait in line at food trucks as part of the GSRC’s PrideFest.

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The case for lifting up instead of weeding out in Princeton’s pre-med classes Lucia Wetherill

Assistant Opinion Editor

W

hen I tell someone that I’m a pre-med student, their general response is one of sympathy. Looking at Princeton’s pre-med classes, it’s not hard to see why. For many first-years, acclimating to Princeton’s rigorous environment while taking classes such as CHM201: General Chemistry I, CHM202: General Chemistry II, and MOL214: Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology, is incredibly difficult for one simple reason: these classes are weed-out classes.

Princeton is one of the many colleges that have weed-out pre-med classes.

Headlines like “Weed-out classes shouldn’t be a lesson in survival” and “Grade Toxicity, Weed-Out Culture, and Other Gen Chem Qualms” are found too often within college newspapers.

Across several universities, classes like general chemistry, organic chemistry, or even biology are known to attempt to “weed out,” or filter out, students who are either unable to keep up with the rigor or are only superficially interested in the major.

Weeding out can also prevent overcrowding in certain departments. With increased rigor and high standards come increased pre-med dropouts, the logic being that only the strongest and most committed students will remain on the path. This is especially true because a strong undergraduate transcript is crucial for a medical school acceptance.

Yet, this strategy is far more detrimental than it is beneficial. In order to increase diversity in the medical field and allow students to pursue their passions, the University must engage in a “lift-up” culture rather than a “weed-out” one.

I’ve seen the weed-out effect first-hand among my peers. After taking CHM201, a number of my friends decided to diverge from the pre-med track. CHM201 is notoriously difficult: we covered over 50 class periods’ worth of AP chemistry content in the first five weeks, and the midterm had a staggering range of content. For those who did not have a strong foundation in chemistry (and even for many who did), this was far too much information to learn in such a short period of time. The second half of the semester was hardly any better, and the class caused many to seriously doubt whether being a pre-med was truly feasible.

I’ve also seen a similar wave of panic gripping premed students in MOL214 this semester. Despite a dismal class average of 68.4 percent on the midterm exam, there was no curve to relieve pressure on students. One friend told me that even though she was incredibly passionate about being a physician, she felt like she’d be weeded out before she even reached that goal. Many of us pre-meds feel like we are drowning, and that despite our best efforts, we will not be able to get the grades we need to even pass the screening process of competitive medical schools.

I truly believe that all of

my friends who expressed these concerns are incredibly intelligent and capable.

This is Princeton University — everyone is intelligent and capable. Furthermore, pre-med classes were initially put in place because of limited class space. Conceivably, this would then lead to limited space for physicians: a recent AAMC report revealed that there is a growing shortage of physicians in the United States.

So, if they’re not filtering out incapable students, and they’re not preventing overcrowding, then what exactly are weed-out classes achieving?

Even though pre-med classes can serve to effectively weed out those less committed to the track, more often than not they inadvertently filter out students who have received less prior preparation in the sciences than others. These students are overwhelmingly first-generation, lowincome (FLI) students or students of color.

A longitudinal study conducted on Stanford University freshmen tracked pre-meds’ interest in becoming physicians between the beginning of freshman year and the end of sophomore year. The study found that “[underrepresented minority (URM)] students showed a larger decline in interest than did non-URM students” and that “women showed a larger decline than did men, independent of race or ethnicity.” Furthermore, the researchers found “no association” between scholastic ability (determined by SAT scores) and the changes in students’ interest level. When interviewed, 85 percent of those whose interest decreased identified one of their first or second-year pre-med courses (particularly the chemistry courses) as the reason for their declining interest.

In an age where increasing diversity in the medical field is a priority and physicians are in short supply, having a system that filters out underrepresented identities is counterproductive and nonsensical. The study with Stanford students concluded that Stanford pre-med classes were “substantially more likely to discourage students’ interest in medicine as a career than to encourage that interest.”

Students (many of whom belong to underrepresented groups) who were no less capable or intelligent than their peers were filtered out, simply because of the challenging nature of the pre-med classes and the lack of preparation prior to matriculation. Perhaps it’s not as drastic here at Princeton, but the truth remains: weed-out courses are incredibly damaging, not only to individuals who are directly affected, but also to the composition of the medical field as a whole.

If the University wishes to increase the diversity of the applicant pool to medical schools and truly help students pursue their passions, it must convert to a lift-up strategy. This lift-up model is best exemplified

by Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which are experts in lifting up their students. One study found that when compared to graduates from “Ivy Plus” colleges and other universities across the U.S., HBCU

graduates experienced greater social mobility. One key difference between the two systems is how HBCUs are highly aware of the “educational disparities that often exist between URM students and non-URM” and adapt to help those students acclimate.

Furthermore, relentless efforts to make students’ success and social mobility a priority at these schools are often felt and appreciated by their students. One student at Xavier University noted that she’d wanted to attend the institution because it was known for its strong science programs and the fact that it was “​​really geared towards getting people into medical school.”

Students at HBCUs feel like their institutions are helping them achieve their goals and working with them, not against them.

While Princeton does have some mentoring programs and resources such as the Scholars Institute Fellows Program (SIFP), which offers events like chemistry table dinners and other forms of academic support for FLI students, these students still cannot be truly supported or uplifted when pre-med classes’s fast-paced and rigorous work actively weed them out. After all, even with external support, success is difficult when it feels like the curriculum itself is working against you.

In that sense, SIFP’s efforts cannot fully compensate for the copious amount of knowledge that students are expected to master in a such a ridiculously short amount of time Both Princeton and HBCUs seem to recognize that there are educational disparities and gaps in information for URM students, but the University fails to properly address the issue.

Pre-med courses seem to be designed with the assumption that each student already has some basic understanding, but current support systems cannot fully compensate for that lack of foundational knowledge.

Restructuring or redistributing the amount of information covered across CHM201 and CHM202 so that students can learn concepts at a steadier pace is the kind of structural solution that will improve the pre-med culture at Princeton. Another solution is to give students more opportunities to drop a certain number of tests or curve tests more frequently. This would enable more students to feel capable and empower them to continue on the premed path. Finally, increased advising and tutoring resources for URM students are needed, especially in order to cover “basic” knowledge that professors assume students already know.

These early classes, especially those popular among first-years such as general chemistry, are crucial for students (especially URM students) to decide whether to stay on the pre-med track. In order to truly support pre-med students and produce a diverse pool of medical school applicants, those classes must lift their students up rather than weed them out.

Lucia Wetherill is a firstyear from Newtown, Pa. She can be reached at lw2158@ princeton.edu.

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The subtext of headlines and the news we are fed Ava Milberg Columnist

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s an Apple News notification popped up on my phone last week that the Senate passed a bipartisan bill to make daylight savings permanent, I immediately chuckled. While this is without a doubt a serious piece of legislation that will impact Americans’ lives, my amusement was more directed towards the use of the word “bipartisan,” its role in making this newsworthy information, and the headline in the context of a tense news cycle. Reflecting upon what I found off-putting about this article helped illuminate for me ways in which we can promote respectful and informative journalism, which helps the public become educated about world events while remaining sensitive about the catastrophic nature of many newsworthy stories.

During a week when most news headlines revolved around the war in Ukraine, changing how we set our clocks felt somewhat insignificant. Sure, it will impact our days during the winter, making it so that for the approximately 16 weeks when

the sun used to set between 4 and 5 p.m., the sun will now set between 5 and 6 p.m. And yes, this could have larger ripple effects, such as impacts on seasonal depression or potentially attracting more customers to storefronts as daylight hours extend further into the evening. In these regards the legislation was not unimportant, yet the headline still seemed to stick out like a sore thumb as arguably a fluff piece among a slew of more serious news developments regarding the war in Ukraine or a historic Supreme Court Justice nomination.

However, do these more serious pieces of news make the recounting of a less weighty subject unworthy of being in the news? While there is no right answer to this question, I’m inclined to say no. There is not a need to silence ourselves amidst others’ hardship, but instead we must tread carefully, being wary of how we craft headlines and where we place them. Perhaps my reaction was more about the juxtaposition of the news notifications that came through my phone that day rather than the very newsworthiness of the bill itself.

Yet I also took issue with the phrasing of this news,

with the headline hailing the bill as ‘bipartisan.’ In our current political climate, the word ‘bipartisan’ signals an anomalous type of collaboration between Republicans and Democrats. This type of collaboration has become so unusual in our incredibly divided Congress that when it does happen, even in areas as apolitical as our clock settings, it makes headlines. While I value cooperation between the two parties, I am not sure that this particular type of collaboration merits praise for its bipartisan nature; rather, it would seem somewhat ridiculous if Congress proved so oppositional that even our clock settings became a matter that fell along political lines. The more that we praise congressional representatives for working together on apolitical issues that should be fertile grounds for collaboration, the more we reinforce the expectation that collaboration in Congress should be exceedingly rare and difficult.

Perhaps when taking note of the bipartisan nature of legislation, we should also take note of the collaborative efforts that led to the passing of the legislation. Going beyond simply acknowledging the noteworthy teamwork when it

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does take place in Congress so that we can learn from these remarkable feats could help make these efforts more common.

I do not intend to blame Apple News for pushing this notification, nor do I intend to fault news sources for writing about a diverse range of issues — some incredibly serious and others less so. Rather, I hope that this column serves as a call for us, readers and writers, to be cognizant of how we frame things: giving praise where it is due, crafting headlines with care, and ultimately circulating news in a respectful manner, since paying attention to the me-

dia we consume and how we consume it bears great consequences on our political engagement.

Not only is it important for us to stay informed about current events, but how we discuss those events matters, too; the words we use to craft a particular narrative and inherently put a spin on any story we tell. Paying attention to how we share news or how news is shared with us, even within the Princeton community, is a crucial duty that all of us hold as global citizens.

Ava Milberg is a sophomore from New York City. She can be reached at amilberg@princeton.edu.

We cannot master the clock Abigail Rabieh Columnist

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hat can you do in one hour? A few things come to my mind: I could practice my viola for the length of time high-school-me found appropriate, I could successfully dry my clothes in an unappealing First College basement, or I could make a 20-page dent in my weekly reading schedule.

Nothing too important — an hour is not a lot of time.

However, the nation has recently decided otherwise.

On March 15, the Senate unanimously passed a bill to make daylight savings time permanent. It would mean that our clocks would no longer jump between times twice a year — we would never spring back again!

An hour does not mean much to me. All I felt when I heard this news was shock that the Senate passed anything at all, much less unanimously.

However, this decision has garnered immense public attention.

According to Scientific American, the change will

permanently harm our “circadian rhythms.” The Jewish Orthodox Union also argued against the change, as it will make it more difficult for morning prayers to be said pre-work. One Washington Post columnist scathingly criticized Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville for claiming the change will result in “more sunshine,” and suggested that the government should refrain from believing that the change “altered the rotation of the Earth.”

I find it fascinating that so much debate has come from this idea of ‘losing’ or ‘gaining’ time. After all, what do the clock changes mean? We commonly say we ‘lose’ an hour in the spring, but that’s technically incorrect. The moon does not fast-forward through the sky, and our bodies do not jump through an hour of sleep. The widespread notion that we can legislate time, and govern its effect on us, is somewhat ridiculous.

The Senate is not the only one guilty of this fallacy: Princeton students attempt to plan every moment of their days in order to

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achieve maximum productivity and, perhaps, happiness. We imagine that our days, our grades, and our brains would be better if we could just spend our time correctly. Yet this infatuation with plans prevents us from truly enjoying our lives.

There is a pervasive obsession with how we spend our time — constantly trying to optimize our use of it to the smallest degree. One of the most common examples of this phenomenon is the rise of “Daily Routine Videos” on TikTok, which, Sophie Haigney in the New York Times notes, demonstrate absurd levels of micromanagement in an attempt to schedule every part of the creator’s life. We are certainly not free from this at Princeton, where students seem to have an obsession with living life according to the schedule. The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning constantly counsels planning out the semester and implores us to utilize strict agendas to avoid burnout and plan our lives, both in and out of the classroom. White breaks on my friends’ Google cal-

endars are few and far between; their days are full of appointments and plans.

I am also one of these people: I live and breathe life through my planner. My mother’s most common advice is to make a daily plan.

Though it’s true that planning sometimes helps me reduce anxiety and is certainly useful to succeed in my classes, I am sick of perpetually trying to control time. I don’t want to constantly live my life according to some schedule I told myself weeks ago would work best. I decided at the beginning of the semester I would run at 3:30 p.m. every other day after precept, but now that the weather is warmer I’d rather use that time to read in Prospect Garden and eat a late-meal snack. It’s impossible to preplan my emotions! There is no way to determine in advance at what moment I am going to feel the desire to do certain things, or simply feel joy in my day. This loss of spontaneity stops us from being able to truly enjoy the present. Instead, we’re always focused on the future, planning for the next week while living the

current one according to some (often unrealistic) expectations from days prior.

The Senate has got it right in one sense — it does not make sense to flip-flop between times with the goal of developing our days to the precise right amount of sunlight. It is an example of human arrogance to believe we can make time bend to our will, or that we can squeeze every drop of productivity out of a day.

We need to stop pretending that if only we could master time, we could improve our lives. Guest contributor Johnatan Reiss wrote that Princeton students would be better off if the University “mandated” some more free time. I agree that we need to free ourselves from the rigidity of our environment, but I would argue that University-sponsored productivity breaks do not solve a problem. They would only continue to enslave us to a false idea: that the perfect plan will lead to the perfect life.

Though it sometimes seems impossible with all the work and stressors of college life, it’s important that we take individual responsibility for the way we lead our lives. We must stop pretending that we can make them better by winning the race of time, and start living more in tune with our desires. There is a difference between organization and obsession with crafting the perfect day. Be kind to yourself and leave room for spontaneous moments of happiness and fulfillment. If you are a 4–10 a.m. sleeper, live your truth.

Apparently, you’ll never have to worry about seeing the clock skip again.

Abigail Rabieh is a first-year columnist from Cambridge, Mass. She intends to concentrate in history and typically writes about American politics. She enjoys playing the viola, trying to study in all the possible areas of Firestone Library, and rooting for Boston sports teams. She can be reached by email at arabieh@ princeton.edu, on Instagram at @a.rabs03, or on Twitter at @ AbigailRabieh.

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Is the ‘Prince’ too negative?

Ashley Olenkiewicz Columnist

“Specifically, while Princetonians are taught to be critical and should have opinions about many topics, the Opinion pieces of the ‘Prince’ can be quite negative in tone and can seem to have just one focus: complaints about the University,” wrote Jorge Aguilar ’06, former writer for The Daily Princetonian, in a letter to the editor.

Aguilar is not alone in his opinion. A similar concern — that opinion pieces published by the ‘Prince’ are too often critical of the University — was raised in an opinion section meeting a few weeks ago.

It is a question worth pondering: Is the ‘Prince’ too negative?

I argue that the ‘Prince’ is not and cannot be too negative. This very belief reflects a fundamental problem in the way society perceives the role of journalism: The sentiment that news coverage or opinion pieces can be too negative reveals a privileged point of view.

Aguilar writes that he wonders if students could “write about issues beyond complaints against the University, such as pressing public policy issues.” Yet, the grievances students find with the University are, more often than not, indicative of larger societal problems that are not unique to Princeton’s campus. The Univer-

sity is not an establishment with a culture entirely separate from the rest of the country. It is equally susceptible to the societal ills and injustices that plague any other establishment — academic or otherwise. Princeton’s robust investment in the fossil fuel industry makes it an active contributor to global warming, the administration’s decisions to foster academic freedom plays into greater society’s battle with censorship, and the Caterpillar referendum being debated in USG reflects global concerns for Palestinian and Israeli people.

Princeton’s status as an elite university means it attracts not only the world’s best and brightest, but also the most affluent and opportunity-privileged students.

Inequality on campus is an often exacerbated reflection of inequality in society. It is rare that a ‘Prince’ piece critical of the University will not have implications that reach beyond FitzRandolph Gate.

I would go so far as to say that it is crucial for ‘Prince’ opinion pieces to focus primarily on University-specific grievances, rather than solely on larger, ever-looming issues. When students call on the University to divest from fossil fuels, pay for all course books, or improve mental health services, the likelihood that their writing provokes change is much higher than if they had broadly written about climate change, socio-economic

inequality, or healthcare access.

Aguilar also wishes that ‘Prince’ columnists would write about subjects that “truly reflect students’ interests and intellect.”

Presumably, Aguilar believes that if students wrote about topics that truly interested them and that they were knowledgeable about, the pieces would organically cover topics outside of the University.

However, pieces submitted to the ‘Prince’ are not obligatory for any student, and therefore it is unlikely that a student would devote time to a subject they are not genuinely interested in or knowledgeable about.

In fact, opinion pieces are often inspired by personal experience and driven by a writer’s passion to improve the Princeton community and society as a whole.

Kelsey Ji ’24 wrote in her recent column that she believes Princeton should not mandate vaccinations past the third dose in light of her adverse reaction to the booster shot. Hannah Reynolds ’22 advocated for a sexual assault allegation framework of “survivorship over victimhood” after experiencing first-hand the alienation that accompanies “victim” rhetoric.

Audrey Chau ’25 called on CPS to “stop putting students into boxes” in light of her concerningly impersonal consultation with a CPS counselor.

Opinions are indubitably influenced by an individual’s sur-

roundings. It is worth acknowledging that the life of a Princeton student is often consumed by the Orange Bubble, a phenomenon experienced predominantly by elite university campuses. The effects of which can, and do, leak into the writing of ‘Prince’ columnists.

However, as long as the majority of opinion pieces continue to be applicable to greater society in one sense or another, I believe the suffocating effects of Orange-Bubblethinking are successfully held at bay.

Insofar as the problem of excessive negativity is concerned, the sentiment that the news is undesirably negative is not exclusive to Aguilar’s letter to the editor.

Beyond reporting at the ‘Prince’, the issue of “bad news bias” is a genuine concern of journalists and readers alike. The prevalence of bad news bias has led to a shared feeling of distress among readers and a notion that the news is overwhelmingly negative. A report found that the U.S. emphasized negative coverage (rising cases) on COVID-19 throughout the pandemic and underreported good news (downward trends in cases).

The result was an inaccurate portrayal of the pandemic that made it difficult for Americans to gauge what COVID-19 developments were truly alarming and which were not.

Clearly, skewing coverage of current events to be more negative

than reality is cause for concern, as in the case of journalism amid the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this alone cannot and should not discourage critical pieces. We must recognize the distinction between negative and critical opinions. The former can be thought of as having a negative tone for the sake of negativity, without any real intention behind it. Whereas critical opinion pieces seek a desired outcome — a call to action. While “bad news bias” may be a genuine concern, ‘Prince’ opinion pieces overwhelmingly end with a call to action: a hunger for change, not unnecessary negativity.

Students at the ‘Prince’ are not critical of the University simply for the sake of being critical. While it may be less pleasant to read complaints against the University than praises in favor of it, it is unfair to dismiss such grievances when students suffer as a result of inadequate University action, resources, or policy.

Ignoring injustices or University failures in favor of more positive coverage not only does our peers a disservice, but ultimately the University as well.

Ashley Olenkiewicz is a first-year from Porter, Texas. Her columns focus on campus culture and University policy. If you have questions or comments she can be reached at ao8250@ princeton.edu.

Caterpillar Referendum peddles Why I’m campaigning for the the hate and bigotry of the global university to stop using Caterpillar BDS movement construction machinery Jared Stone and Orli Epstein

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Guest Contributors

he Caterpillar Referendum that Princeton undergraduates will be voting on this month utilizes a seemingly innocuous issue — whether to use Caterpillar machinery for campus construction projects — as a vehicle for hatred and bigotry that will undoubtedly harm students in our community.

The language in the referendum seeks to ban the machinery because of the company’s alleged role in the “demolition of Palestinian homes, the murder of Palestinians and other innocent people, and the promotion of the prison-industrial complex.” In reality, though, the referendum does nothing to confront the situation at hand, or to ameliorate the conditions of Palestinians. In addition, it situates itself within the global anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

The official explanation of the resolution presented by the Princeton Committee on Palestine directly cites BDS as an argument in favor of advancing it to a vote — even as the sponsors exclude any explicit mention of BDS from the more visible referendum language itself.

As practicing Jews and proud Zionists, we are deeply concerned about the introduction and circulation of this referendum.

Furthermore, as members of the Princeton community, which has long committed itself to work “in service of humanity,” we are troubled by this misleading effort, which will alienate Jewish and Zionist students from the broader campus community and compromise students’ well-being.

All other Princeton students should also be concerned by the referendum, regardless of their background, heritage, or political leanings.

The global BDS movement was founded by figures who object to Israel’s existence, while seeking to destroy it. Founding member Omar Barghouti said, “most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine.” Movement leaders impose a double standard upon the Jewish state, denying the Jewish right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland while not objecting to the statehood of other nations. Such a double standard, not demanded of any other nation, is categorically antisemitic.

One of BDS’s primary prongs is to push governments and organizations — and universities in particular — to divest from corporations affiliated with the Jewish state in any manner. Caterpillar, in particular, has become one of the foremost corporate targets of BDS because of its dealings with the Israeli government.

The official explanation for the referendum bluntly explains, “Caterpillar is listed as one of the only targeted construction companies in the national Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement” — leaving no doubt about why they are being singled out at Princeton.

The BDS movement is not only grounded in antisemitism; it also nurtures an environment where acts of hate are perpetrated against Jewish people and communities.

The advent of BDS referenda at American universities over the past few years has tracked closely with sharp increases in hateful attacks against Jews on college campuses. As previously reported in The Princeton Tory, when Princeton students voted on another BDS-aligned referendum in 2015, Rabbi Julie Roth of the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) reported 12 antisemitic incidents in just two months, including “swastikas, attacks on social media and in the [The Daily Princetonian], and hacks to personal and organizational email accounts.” Rabbi Roth, in her capacity as Jewish Chaplain, recalls having reported “no cases of antisemitism in the previous 10 years” on campus.

If the 2015 referendum serves as precedent, this referendum is likely to exacerbate the same trends in the Princeton community: an increase in hateful behavior and rhetoric towards Jewish students, similar to what we saw in response to heightened tensions and violence in the region this past May. At the same time, it will have absolutely no tangible impact on the conditions of either Israelis or Palestinians (whose own government uses Caterpillar equipment for Palestinian Authority projects).

Instead of supporting a resolution that is rooted within a bigoted global movement, we ought to cultivate a Princeton campus where all students can safely cherish their identities and express their sentiments; where we collectively engage in a discourse free of hostility and intimidation; and where we sustain a positive environment for ourselves and future generations of Princeton students.

If the undergraduate student body is to commit ourselves toward the highest principles of fairness, tolerance, and justice, we must vote against this resolution.

Jared Stone is a sophomore and Politics concentrator from Las Vegas, NV. He is president of Tigers for Israel. He can be reached at jaredstone@princeton.edu.

Orli Epstein is a sophomore and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering concentrator from New York City, N.Y. She is vice president of Tigers for Israel. She can be reached at oepstein@ princeton.edu.

Eric Periman

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ast Sunday I stood in front of the Undergraduate Student Government Senate and asked them to approve the language of a referendum I am proposing for the spring USG election. The referendum is very simple: I am calling on the University to immediately halt usage of all Caterpillar construction machinery in ongoing and future campus construction projects.

You might recognize Caterpillar by their obnoxiously loud machines strewn across campus, their trademark yellow CAT logo, or by the above picture of President Eisgruber and other administrators jauntily breaking ground on the new Lake Campus development project with a massive Caterpillar machine sitting right behind them.

But there is more to Caterpillar than meets the eye. Caterpillar Inc., an American company whose headquarters are only half an hour away from my hometown in Illinois, is the largest construction-equipment manufacturing company in the world. Their annual sales in 2021 topped nearly $25 billion and their machinery is regularly sold around the globe. Caterpillar machinery has been used frequently in Historic Palestine and Israel. In fact, Caterpillar has made a handsome profit from their sales of D9 bulldozers to the Israeli government. As recently as 2001, court documents revealed that Caterpillar sold 50 of its D9 bulldozers to the state of Israel for the not-so-insignificant sum of $32.7 million.

How are these Caterpillar bulldozers used by Israel? Well, let’s take a look. In 2004, during the peak of the Second Intifada, Human Rights Watch reported that Caterpillar D9 bulldozers had been used in the demolition of over 250 Palestinian homes in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. These homes represented but a few of the approximately 18,000 Palestinian homes that have been demolished by the State of Israel since 1967.

Worse yet, just the previous year, in 2003, Caterpillar machinery was used in the murder of a 23-year-old American activist named Rachel Corrie.

Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestine activist from Olympia, Washington, travelled to Historic Palestine that year as a senior in college in order to peacefully protest the mass demolition of Palestinian homes.

Corrie, along with eight other American and British volunteers, participated in

non-violent protests with the intent of stopping Israeli bulldozers (built by, you guessed it, Caterpillar) from demolishing Palestinian homes in the Rafah refugee camp. Dressed in a fluorescent orange jacket with reflecting tape and carrying a bright white megaphone, Rachel stood in front of an Israeli D9 bulldozer and attempted to stop it from demolishing the home of the Nasrallah family (who were still inside at the time of the demolition).

Yet as the bulldozer advanced towards Rachel, it did not slow down. Even though Rachel scrambled to get out of the way, she was caught by the forklift of the Caterpillar bulldozer and was quickly dragged underneath. After Rachel had completely disappeared, the bulldozer stopped, reversed, and proceeded to roll over Rachel’s body once more. She did not survive.

After this unthinkably violent attack, Rachel’s parents, Cindy and Craig, sued Caterpillar for their machinery’s role in the murder of their daughter, as well as the murder and injury of four other Palestinian families caused by Caterpillar machines.

Without acknowledging any culpability, issuing any apology, or offering any restitution, Caterpillar moved to dismiss the lawsuit and refused to provide any form of compensation to the Corrie family or any other family that had joined the lawsuit. For the last 20 years, Cindy and Craig Corrie have fought for justice for the murder of their daughter, but have received nothing but silence from both the Israeli government and Caterpillar Inc. It is for these reasons, among many others, that I hope the undergraduate students at Princeton will call on the University to stop using Caterpillar machinery in their numerous campus construction projects. This is not a company that should be allowed to build our new Art Museum, nor our new Lake Campus Development Project, nor our new Engineering Quadrangle. It is not a company that should have their machinery strewn across our campus for students, visitors, alumni, and staff to see each and every day. Caterpillar has shown time and time again that they are perfectly comfortable remaining complicit in heinous and violent acts committed with their machinery. Princeton must send a message that companies like these have no place in our campus community. And never will.

I hope you will agree by supporting my referendum.

Eric Periman is a junior in the School of Public and International Affairs. He is the president of Princeton Committee on Palestine (PCP). He can be reached at eperiman@princeton.edu.

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Reactions: Princeton admits Class of 2026, won’t tell us acceptance rate

Last Thursday, prospective members of Princeton’s Great Class of 2026 received offers of admission from the University. We’d like to tell you more about the class, but we cannot because the University has declined to release any statistics about accepted students — both during the Regular Decision round and during the Early Action process. We asked our columnists for their Reactions to this unusual decision.

Less information never solves anxiety Abigail Rabieh Columnist

Princeton explained that their decision to withhold admissions statistics was partially an effort to “tamp down the anxiety of applicants.” Unfortunately, this goal is unrealistic, this solution is a bandaid, and Princeton’s shift will only serve to increase applicants’ stress.

When I reflect on my college application process, I do not think that I suffered from information regarding acceptance rates at different colleges. In fact, I found it helpful to have a realistic idea of my chances at acceptance. Knowing that the previous year’s acceptance rate was 6.46 percent allowed me to dampen my expectations, as I should have. This is because the whole application process is so arbitrary, and any student at Princeton could just as easily have not gotten in.

It is important for applicants to have that data, so that they can craft a series of applications that suit their needs. For example, I applied to schools which have a wide range of acceptance rates — from 4 percent to 71 percent — to make sure that I would have a set of schools to choose from, and to increase the likelihood that I would be accepted to at least one.

Additionally, Princeton’s decision to withhold this data will actively worsen students’ stress. Most college applicants know that Princeton is considered a selective school — after all, it has been ranked the best university in the country for more than a decade by US News and World Report. We often imagine things to be worse than they are: if Princeton, a selective university, won’t even admit their statistics, it will lead people to assume that the numbers are so low that even the University thinks it is demoralizing. This may be true, of course, see-

ing that last year’s acceptance rate was 4.38 percent. However, hiding the truth won’t help.

Admission statistics, in my opinion, are not the most stressful thing about applying to college. They only tell the truth. The entire college application system is broken: Education is supposed to be the Great Equalizer, but applicants are sorted by merit with unequal outcomes, we rank colleges based on irrelevant criteria, and college applications cause high school students immense anxiety. Princeton knows this and presumably knows they cannot fix it on their own.

The University could try other methods to tackle applicant stress — such as not releasing their decisions on the same day as every other Ivy League school. By releasing this information on a single day, many competitive and high-achieving students who have often applied to more than one Ivy may receive several rounds of disappointing news all at once. Perhaps changing this policy, or being more open about what criteria applications are actually considered against, would allow students to have a better understanding of what to expect when they apply to Princeton, or at least mitigate their anxieties throughout the process. Hiding such important information will only make things worse.

Abigail Rabieh is a first-year columnist from Cambridge, Mass. She can be reached by email at arabieh@princeton.edu, on Instagram at @a.rabs03, or on Twitter at @AbigailRabieh.

I’m glad Princeton has a modicum of shame Rohit A. Narayanan

Community Opinion Editor

Hiding admissions statistics does nothing to fix the fundamental problems with college admissions. It doesn’t even serve to reduce stress, since as Abigail noted, students will assume the rates are even lower than they actually are. But it is a positive development in one respect: it shows Princeton has at least an ounce of shame about how ridiculously low its acceptance rate is. That’s progress!

Top universities like Princeton have seen acceptance rates plummet in recent years. In just 10 years, Princeton’s acceptance rate has decreased from around 8.5 percent to just less than 4 percent.

What institution, no matter how omnipotent, can filter out the top 4 percent of the most qualified applicant pool in the world?

It’s a game of luck with people’s mental wellbeing in the balance.

But what’s scarier than the low admission rate is the fact that Princeton and other top colleges seem to revel in their selectivity. While Dean of Admissions Karen Richardson has strenuously denied that Princeton seeks to drive down its acceptance rates, it’s undeniable that the allure of selectivity is a big part of Princeton’s pitch and a subterranean acceptance rate only serves to further that goal.

This year, the acceptance rate may be lower than ever before, but instead of flaunting it, we are admitting it’s a travesty by hiding it. I wish Princeton would take a systematic approach to admissions rate deflation, like starting an admissions collective. But the first step is admitting we have a problem. And Princeton has done just that. Princeton, unlike other Ivy League institutions, is also making a tangible effort to increase capacity by building new residential colleges, hopefully in order to raise acceptance rates going forward.

In the middle of Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, Netflix’s documentary on the notorious admissions fraud, one student asks: “When we have children and they apply to colleges, where do you think they are going to be going?

Like no one’s going to be getting into colleges at that point. It’s crazy.” I’m glad I am going to an institution that sees this future and at least recognizes that it’s not ideal.

Rohit Narayanan is the Community Opinion Editor and a sophomore from McLean, Va. He can be reached at rohitan@princeton.edu.

The ulterior motives behind this decision Mohan Setty-Charity Senior Columnist

Right now, affirmative action is under attack in the Supreme Court. Groups like Students for Fair Admissions (SFA) argue that race-blindness is the only way for the process to be fair. They’re wrong. As Ashley Olenkiewicz ’25 recently explained in the ‘Prince,’ affirmative action is an “indispensable tool in the continual effort to rectify the effects of the United States’ abhorrent racial history.”

I think part of Princeton’s rationale to stop releasing admissions statistics is to push back against SFA and other anti-affirmative action groups by decreasing transparency. And that can be risky.

Many people assume that admissions statistics provide useful information to applicants and other parties. They think that when seeing an institution’s acceptance rate, or its range of standardized test scores, applicants will have a better idea of the number of fellow students who are interested in applying, how challenging it is to get in, and some characteristics of admitted students. But is that a reality?

In fact, these statistics only reflect an incredibly small part of a broader picture. The acceptance rate for a certain school often tells us very little about the odds of an individual getting admitted, given the various factors that affect admissions decisions.

And while knowing the average standardized test scores can make some people feel better or worse, it would be a mistake to think that there is a distinct cutoff that guarantees or ruins one’s prospects of admission.

What admissions statistics do is allow for information distortion by groups like SFA, who are trying to lead applicants to believe that just because they achieve a certain GPA or standardized test score, they earn a spot in the coming class. But in reality, no one is guaranteed admission. When Princeton refuses to share admissions statistics, it means people cannot make this faulty argument as easily.

The University now has what it wants: more leeway in shaping a class they want. This means that they can emphasize racial or socioeconomic diversity, community building, and a commitment to progress.

The admissions office has stated that they are going to release data about the matriculated members of the Class of 2026 this fall. But this is a different set of data that serves to reveal certain characteristics of the incoming class rather than giving a false impression of what it takes to get accepted, like admission statistics.

In order to justify withholding current admissions statistics, the University needs to prove that it has continued to make efforts to create a well-rounded and balanced incoming class.

Mohan Setty-Charity is a sophomore from Amherst, Mass. He can be reached at ms99@princeton.edu.

Satire

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I am the staffer stuck in 48 University Place.

Please help.

Daniel Viorica

Associate Satire Editor

The following content is mostly satirical and mostly fictional.

I went to the first ‘Prince’ Satire meeting because I lost the TigerMag invitation in my inbox. It was in a conference room on the fourth floor. I thought it was basically nondescript — maybe a bit villian-esque — but little did I know the image of that room was about to be burned onto my retinas for the rest of eternity.

The first thing they asked us was if we were dishwasher safe. I was young. I was naive.

I thought it was funny.

Then they locked the door.

And they told us to start writing.

Mirth has become my coping mechanism. Whenever

I get sad, my subconscious is now conditioned to turn it into an Onion-style headline. None of them are funny.

None of them are ever funny.

One by one the others started escaping. Under the pile of ‘Prince’ hoodies we have for a bed, they dug a tunnel with their MacBooks.

They left at night, in the glow of the ‘Prince’-branded neon light. All of them are now Econ majors — we have a GroupMe. I am physically incapable of bailing on a commitment so I just stayed. My classes were no longer important.

My family was no longer important. I started writing “Self” pieces for The Prospect, about my feelings. But really, I was thinking about how to blame the administration for my problems and pitch it as a joke.

Soon there were only four of us left. I think the Managing Editors knew about the escapes, but they didn’t care — as long as there were articles by Tuesday for each print edition.

They still have meetings every Sunday, under the cover of darkness (at 3 p.m. — they put up blinds.) During one they made me Associate Satire Editor, because I was still around. I had never said a single funny thing in one of these meetings. It didn’t matter. Now I am still here, unnoticed, forgotten.

Once, I believed, as we all did, in the power of satire to enact change. No more. This is the end. Now I know that the only power of satire is to provoke more satire, more satire which nobody reads . . .

I’m going. It was the TigerMag article that convinced

me. We had to smuggle in a print copy, because their website hasn’t updated since 1997.

But it was enough, now I’m going. It’s over. If you’re going to remember me — don’t read

my article on Nietzsche . . .

Daniel Viorica ‘25 was an Associate Satire Editor of The Daily Princetonian. He has since largely recovered.

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Princeton to interview parents in upcoming application cycle Spencer Bauman

Associate Satire Editor

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional.

With the Class of 2026 decision release behind us, the University has announced a crucial change to the application process for the upcoming admissions cycle. Specifically, along with alumni interviews of applicants, the University has decided to implement interviews of applicants’ parents, too.

Prospective parents will be required to submit their own supplement through DAILY PRINCETONIAN STAFF / THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN the Common Application, A screenshot of the Princeton Parents Facebook page, after the policy and will later be contacted to change. schedule an interview.

We at The Daily PrintsAnything sat down with current admissions counselor Dez Syder ’17 to understand what qualities the Office of Admission will be looking for in the parents of a prospective student.

“We are looking for parents who will contribute positively to the Princeton community,” she noted, “and by community, I mean the Princeton Parents Facebook page.”

“We are tired of parents who only ‘lurk’ on the page and do not contribute to the lively discussion. We want to see motivated parents who post questions that could easily be answered by either their child or a quick Google

search,” Syder continued.

Prospective students have already begun expressing their concerns regarding this recent update.

“Does this mean I need to get my mom a college counselor now?” asked one applicant.

Students have also been advised not to write their parents’ supplement for them, and the Office of Admission has noted “we will be able to tell if they do.”

Spencer Bauman is an associate satire editor for The Daily Princetonian. He is very glad his parents are not active on the Princeton Parents Facebook page and would like for it to stay that way.

Cartoon Raccoon Sighting

By Sandy Lee, Staff Cartoonist

Burnout SZN

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Let’s Get this Degree

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ARTS & CULTURE

‘What is a box?’:

Confluence, communication, and Schrödinger’s Cat in Introduction to Sculpture

By Audrey Zhang | Contributing Writer

Confluence: the meeting of two rivers, perhaps of thought, or words, or ideas.

Language and communication have always fascinated me. How do we transfer our dreams and perceptions of the world to others? What is lost during that translation? Perhaps by sharing our thoughts, we may gain connections, create societies, and generate futures we can sculpt, hopefully for the better.

In Visual Arts professor Joe Scanlan’s VIS222 Sculpture class, our second assignment of the term was to create a “Schrödinger’s Cat” box from a piece of 4 feet by 8 feet AC plywood with a partner. Professor Scanlan showed us numerous slides of boxes that explored the idea of uncertainty. One box-like building exhibited uneven windows, revealing nothing about the interior space. Another box had suspended boards that clustered in the air to create inner and outer spaces. We also viewed images of George Vantongerloo’s boxes, which have many overlapping cubes with architectural qualities.

Sabien Taylor ’24 and I decided to tackle the challenge together. Over FaceTime, we brainstormed ideas. We first asked, “What is a box?” and we decided that they were protectors, secret holders, and time capsules. I suggested we create a box containing thin sheets of wood that would resemble two human heads, which would fit into each other when opening and closing the box. Sabien suggested we create a maze, so we combined our ideas.

We built a 1 foot by 2 feet two-layer box: the first layer would have two heads and a complicated maze between them. A person would tilt the maze to get a marble from one head to the other. Upon completion, the player would lift off the first layer to reveal an image in the second layer: the same two heads, but closer together, and the path between them would be straight. The two layers would represent the time and effort we invest in getting to understand and trust another person, and how gaining that trust makes communication easier. We named our box “Confluence.”

When we presented our idea to the class, professor Scanlan noted that we had created a one-way narrative in which the communication between two people would always be maze-like at first and then a clear path after time. In the

spirit of Schrödinger’s Cat, professor Scanlan advised us to combine the two layers, creating a superposition of possibilities. There would be a straight path from one head to another — between people, the connection is sometimes instantaneous — but there would also be the maze surrounding the path. If the marble missed the straight path, it would need to navigate the entire maze: sometimes conversations with close friends take time and effort, too.

Sabien and I eagerly accepted the idea, and we expanded our sculpture to be 2 feet by 4 feet, which meant that two people had to navigate

we used a myriad of saws, rulers, clamps, and screwdrivers to shape our plywood into our box.

To stay on the same page, we communicated often, shouting over the buzzing saws and our earplugs. We would restructure the paths of our thoughts, find better ways to express our ideas, and come to an agreement before making the next move. With Sabien’s clarity of thought, patience, and attention to detail, I felt our own connections start to straighten, strengthen, and become clear as we inched our way towards completing our box.

On March 3, our class gathered in a dark theater, where all the groups displayed their boxes on long tables. Sabien and I put a lid on our box, which made it unassuming. Our classmates made interesting pieces: one box was made of the space between other boxes. Another box was made of loose pieces that we could assemble into different shapes. Most boxes were interactive, and one was even smashed to pieces with a sledgehammer as a performance element.

Sabien and I went last, and when we unveiled our maze, our classmates expressed their excitement and delight at the complex structure. We invited pairs of participants to play, and many people were able to navigate the golf ball from one head to the other with some effort. We even put the lid on the box, and two of our classmates were still able to complete the maze in under a minute.

I found it fascinating that some pairs completed the game with few words: seeing firsthand the clear importance of physical commuPHOTO CREDIT: ASH ALBESER nication intrigued me.

Plywood and screws; Connection, whether it takes an instant Through communication, verbal or otheror a journey through a maze, is always worth it. wise, we lose the fuzziness of our thoughts and gain clarity of understanding between people.

We align with a common goal in mind, creating the maze together. Professor Scanlan joked that art and connections that are beautiful. we could use our sculpture to play matchmaker The author wishes to thank professor Scanlan between two people: will you two be able to for his guidance, Sabien Taylor for being a wonachieve instant connection? Play with the mar- derful partner, Orlando Murgado for training ble to find out! the class on how to use power tools, and Ash In the weeks following our proposal presenta- Albeser for helping create their box and taking tion, Sabien and I worked hard on our project. pictures.

We simplified our grid design. We made a toscale foam model of our sculpture. When we Audrey Zhang is a Contributing Writer for The couldn’t find a marble, we revised the entire Prospect at the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at az5221@ internal design to fit a golf ball instead. princeton.edu or at @shimmer_the_powerful on InsWhile working many long hours together, tagram.

Megan Pai ’22 transforms her audience into performers and collaborators SIGNATURES Continued from page 1

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have chosen to participate.

Wall text prompts the reader to circulate through the Hurley Gallery clockwise around the perimeter of the room, engaging with text as both book and video, before ending in the center of the space, where a troupe of unmanned music stands wait patiently for “performers” to take their places. Music by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky — raw, unedited recordings of Pai practicing piano — softly rumbles in the background of the gallery. In the Hagan Gallery, a single video projection cycles through all the works on display in the Hurley Gallery, set to Chopin’s “Fantaisie Impromptu.” The video and audio are synced between the two galleries —when music plays in one, the other falls silent.

Calling upon the audience to actively read and parse through the works with their hands, “Signatures” shatters the formalities of “the white cube” — a gallery aesthetic associated with modern art, and characterized by its white walls, rectilinear form, and bright overhead lighting. The design of the white cube prompts audiences to maintain a safe distance from the art object — both to protect the artwork and also to allow for a more seamless experience in the gallery.

This sterilized experience of visual art often relies on making the processes of production and consumption invisible, in veneration of the final product.

Through this fetishization of the art object, we become fixated on its physicality, while remaining oblivious to the manual labor of both making and per-

ceiving. The hermetic setting of the gallery is meant to elevate our visual experience of the art itself by creating a utopian space that exists beyond the banal of the everyday. According to literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky, the role of art is to reanimate life for us through a process of defamiliarization. For Shklovsky, the poetic or painterly image does not simply represent the object, but instead, introduces a new way of seeing.

But in “Signatures,” Pai seems to defamiliarize the process of reading itself. Reading is a two-part process that involves first decoding the sign — a word or image — and then comprehending the sign within its context. Within the show, we can still decode words and images as individual units. Yet the insertion of physical disruptions, or “glitches,” in the infrastructure of the text makes contextual comprehension difficult, stymieing our ability to form links between words —sometimes even between syllables of words.

As a result, we become aware of reading not just as a cognitive process, but also something that is distinctly physical.

Each of the pieces in “Signatures” presents its own method of systematized abstraction or obstruction that complicates our ability to slide between the two stages of reading. In some pieces, such as “Sight Reading” and “Notes from Rinna,” the text itself is fragmented into chunks, making it difficult for us to place the words or phrases within their respective contexts, while other pieces present physical glitches to confuse our reading. In “Muscle Memory,” for instance, the transparency of the paper causes the images and the text to bleed from page to page, muddying the legibility of the sign. And in “Transcription,” the im-

perfections and idiosyncrasies of Pai’s handwriting similarly slow down our reading of the text. At times, there even seems to be synchronicity between the stylistic glitches in the videos and the music in the gallery, as Pai stops and starts in her practicing, creating an experience of sonic synesthesia.

While walking through the show, I thought of a neuroplasticity experiment in which the human subject wears goggles that turn their vision upside down.

Although the subject initially struggles to navigate through space with their upside down vision, they eventually become acclimated to their new experience of perception — so much so, that once they take off their goggles and return to their normal vision, they are spatially confused and have to readjust once more.

Each piece in “Signatures” seems to present its own pair of reading goggles that distort the cognitive process by which an image or text is transformed into something filled with meaning. With each physical step we take through the gallery, we are forced to take a few mental steps back and relearn to read in the system Pai has set up for us. These works purposefully ask us to slow down and take care with our looking.

Sometimes, this may feel frustrating, as the meaning which feels as though it should be accessible is just out of our reach. Yet, as with any great work of art, I have found that the work rewards you the more time you spend with it.

Cameron Lee is a Head Editor Emerita of The Prospect.

She also writes about modern and contemporary art, pop culture, film, and Asian (American) identity, and can be reached at cameronl@princeton.edu, or on Instagram at @ camelizabethlee.

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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:

Music VTone presents: Palette VTone First College Black Box Theater, April 7–9, 8 p.m.

Members of East Asian Music group VTone present senior solos and studentarranged a cappella pieces. Tickets can be acquired in Frist and through University Ticketing.

Art This Wonderful Memory: Senior Art Show by Isabella Hilditch Program in Visual Arts Hurley Gallery, April 8–16, open daily 24/7 Isabella Hilditch ’22 examines the environment and childhood through sculpture. Members of the University community can enjoy the exhibition for free and an opening reception will take place on April 11 at 7 p.m.

Theater HORSEMANSHIP Program in Music Theater, Program in Theater Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts complex, April 8–9, 8 p.m, April 10, 2 p.m.

Princeton Arts Fellow Will Davis and visiting artist Truth Future Bachman present “Horsemanship,” a musical-in-progress that explores the transgender experience and horses. Tickets are available through University Ticketing and the event is free and open to the public.

Music

Princeton Pianists Ensemble presents: Full Bloom Department of Music McAlpin Hall, Woolworth Music Building, April 8–9, 8 p.m.

Lee Music Rehearsal Room, April 10, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.

The Princeton Pianists Ensemble performs live. Tickets are available through University Ticketing.

Art Mycoremediation: Senior Art Show by Olivia Kusio Program in Visual Arts Lucas Gallery, April 10–23, open daily 24/7 Olivia Kusio ’22 explores the impact of extractive industries and grapples with Princeton University’s investments in the fossil fuel industry. The event is free and open to the University community.

Theater

New Works Festival II: Shalom Bayit by Aleeza Schoenberg Program in Theater Donald G. Drapkin Studio, Lewis Arts complex, April 9, 8:30 p.m., April 10, 3 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Aleeza Schoenberg ’22 presents an original play for the Program in Theater’s New Works Festival centered around three siblings in a Modern Orthodox Jewish family. The event is open to the University community and tickets are free through University Ticketing.

Theater

The Princeton Triangle Club Spring Show (Call Me By Your Net ID) The Princeton Triangle Club Community Hall/Class of 1970 Theater, April 14-16, 8 p.m.

The Princeton Triangle Club, the University’s premier musical comedy group, debuts several new works.

Art sorry about saying you don’t: Senior Art Show by Raya Ward Program in Visual Arts Hagan Studio, April 11–23, open daily 24/7

Music

A free event open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff introduces new works by Raya Ward ’22. Hagan Studio is located at 185 Nassau Street.

Orrin Evans With the Princeton University Creative Large Ensemble Department of Music Richardson Auditorium, April 9, 8 p.m.

Professional jazz pianist Orrin Evans and the Princeton University Creative Large Ensemble perform music by the Captain Black Big Band for Jazz Appreciation Month. Tickets are available through University Ticketing.

Theater

Music Princeton Singers: For the Beauty of the Earth Princeton University Art Museum Art on Hulfish, April 10, 7 p.m.

The Princeton Singers perform in honor of “Native America: In Translation,” an exhibition of Indigenous artists’ works curated by Wendy Red Star. Free tickets are available on the Princeton University Art Museum website.

Translating Theater Co-Curricular Class Program in Theater Tilghman Studio, April 11, 2022, 5–6:30 p.m.

Translator-in-residence Jeremy Tiang teaches a final class in a series about translating theater. Open to all Princeton students free of charge, with no translating experience or reservations needed.

Compiled by Albert Lee | Senior Prospect Writer

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With candles, choreography, and colorful strip lights, a student-led spin class gets a community active

By Isabel Jacobson

Features Contributor

“You can do anything for 30 seconds!”

This is a favorite mantra of Caroline Kirby ’23, a spin class instructor at Dillon Gymnasium. She pedals in perfect double-time to a remix of “Hot Girl Summer”

by Megan Thee Stallion, sporting a matching light blue yoga set.

“Don’t think about it — just go,” she yells to the sea of out-of-breath students facing back at her.

The Bronxville, N.Y. native instructs the class to “tap back,” and in harmony, the cyclists stretch out their arms and hover above the seat for two counts.

They move their bodies right and left, in and out of the saddle. At her command, they turn up the resistance on their bikes, straining more and more with each pedal.

“This is hard, it hurts, it’s work, but it’s temporary,” she tells the class.

At difficult moments, Kirby changes the color of the room’s LED strip lights from light blue to deep red.

Screams and claps erupt from the semi-circle of bikes. It’s an emotional and physical release — just as Kirby intended.

“I always say in class ‘we cheer, we scream, we yell,’” she said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. “This isn’t class, it’s 45 minutes to just work out and take out whatever sh*t you have on the bike.”

Beads of sweat cloud the room. The mirrors, covered with phrases like “embrace body neutrality,” are often fogged up by the middle of class. Most cyclists are red in the face, many are breathless, but all keep moving.

To Kirby, the community element of spin is just as important as the workout itself. Her class, always full, draws both complete beginners and advanced regulars.

“I think the goal is just to make sure that everyone feels welcome,” she explained. “I’ve gained such an awesome group of people who come every week.”

Wells Carson ’22 had never tried spinning before this fall. Carson is a member of Charter Club, of which Kirby is the vice president. She sent an open invitation to the spin class in the club’s group chat, which prompted him to try out a class.

“I was intimidated having never done it before,” he said. “But she really set the tone of ‘go at your own speed’ — she tries to make it really fun.”

Kirby’s overarching philosophy in her classes echoes this: “If you ever need to take a break, take a break. Try everything if you want, but it’s also your time.”

Carson, now a regular of the class, appreciates both the sweat and the sense of belonging the class provides. He even started the “Charter Cycle Chat,” where club members plan their workouts together.

“It has started this funky little community,” he explained. “It’s really uplifting.”

For Kirby herself, spin-

PHOTO TAKEN BY GRACE ZHUANG ’23 AND GIVEN TO THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN COURTESY OF CAROLINE KIRBY ’23.

Caroline Kirby ’23 during a spin class.

ning began as a lifeline. She competed as a varsity runner in her freshman and sophomore years of high school, achieving recruiting times for Princeton and other D1 schools. But, during a 100-meter hurdles race, Kirby tore her achilles tendon in half.

“I really thought there was no shot I’d be able to run or be athletic again,” she explained.

The recovery took over a year. Kirby’s physical therapist suggested spinning as an alternative form of cardio. She began taking classes at her local SoulCycle, a phenomenon she herself describes as “culty,” and soon enough, she was hooked.

“Every time I left [SoulCycle] I felt like I accomplished something,” she said. “I would be crying in the back corner because I couldn’t do anything anymore, but I still felt like I had actually worked for 45 minutes.”

Kirby regained her strength and continued to spin even after she was fully recovered. The summer prior to her first year at Princeton, she decided to pursue spin instructor certification, inspired by a family friend and her SoulCycle teachers. After working as a substitute instructor at local studios throughout the summer, she submitted an audition video to Dillon Gym. “I love [spinning] because it gives me a space to let out any stress I have, just through a really fun 45-minute class,” she said.

Her first class was once a week, and initially drew five or six people. Stringing Amazon LED lights on the walls and surrounding the base of her bike with fake candles, Kirby attempted to make the large group fitness studio feel intimate.

“Part of what spin studios do is they take you away from the rest of your day,” she said. “It’s tough to motivate yourself to do

anything, and now it’s my job to motivate 20 people to bike for 45 minutes.”

Kirby’s own motivation has not faltered. In her time at Princeton, she has worked to improve her confidence as an instructor.

For her, leading a class can be likened to “essentially public speaking.”

Kirby is also in charge of compiling music and creating programming for each ride, which have evolved dramatically from her early classes. Her classes consist of a warmup and a mix of sprinting, jogging, or climbing on high resistance.

“The penultimate song is always one that’s a lot slower,” she explained. “We turn off the lights for it and it kind of gives everyone a second to breathe, get their heart rate back down, and get fully geared up for the final song, which is usually sprints again.”

Even with the same basic class structure, Kirby still tries to make each class unique. She experiments with different lighting combinations, on-bike choreography, and class themes, making it a goal to surprise her riders. On Valentine’s Day, Kirby hosted two classes: one for the holiday’s lovers and one for its haters.

Jacob Raghoobar ’23 had just finished his first ever spin class when the ‘Prince’ spoke with him.

“You kind of get to escape from everything else around you for 45 minutes, which I thought was really cool,” he said. “[Kirby] and everybody else were very open and it didn’t feel like a judgmental space at all.”

When asked if he would consider taking the class again, his response was enthusiastic.

“I definitely think I will!

It was really hard, but I think that’s what makes it rewarding,” he said.

With only 20 bikes available, Kirby’s class is a hot commodity. This past fall,

the class would often fill up 30 to 40 minutes prior to its scheduled start time.

Kirby described feeling “really bad” having to turn away upwards of 10 people per class.

This semester, Dillon Gym adopted a reservation system for cycling classes through the app “IMLeagues.” This system allows students to book their spot 72-hours in advance, as opposed to getting to Dillon early to save a bike.

According to Erika Liskovec, Dillon’s Coordinator of Recreational Programming, Group Fitness, and Instructional Programming, the scheduling system was developed as a response to issues Kirby noticed as well as feedback from the Group Fitness Survey sent out last semester.

With the new booking system, Kirby’s class has only continued to flourish.

All 20 spots fill up within minutes of the system’s opening, and there are often waitlists with more than a dozen people.

Part of this influx of newcomers may be attributed to Dillon Gym’s new TigerWell funding, which enables all students to participate in group fitness classes free of cost. Before the grant was enacted in spring 2021, students had to purchase a ‘FlexPass’ for $40 per semester in order to participate in the classes.

According to Liskovec, allowing students to attend group fitness classes for free has been “huge [for] accessibility.”

“There seems to be a sizable increase of students that are coming to classes,” Liskovec said, “which is super exciting,” Kirby agreed: “I think these classes are filling out because suddenly students can just show up whenever they want, and [the cost] is not a point of concern.”

Another change this year: masks. Until the University’s mask mandate was lifted on March 14,

Kirby and her riders were required to wear face coverings in class. Though she described the experience as something like “altitude training,” Kirby nonetheless was grateful to be working out with her community in-person.

“I am driven by … the feeling of everyone else being there, working hard and showing up for something physically,” she said.

“That is something that I missed a lot, and I’m just excited that everything’s back.”

Kirby took a leave of absence for the 2020–2021 school year, during which she continued to develop her teaching style, even auditioning for SoulCycle in March of 2021. The experience was intense, but she also found it incredibly rewarding. While a career as a SoulCycle instructor ultimately didn’t mesh with the schedule of a full-time Princeton student, Kirby found the intense audition experience to be worthwhile.

“People were so different.

I was 21 years old, just a random college student, one was a drag queen and professional opera singer, one was a single mom,” she described. “It was super cool to see all kinds of diverse people being there, because they love the experience.”

Kirby has found that same diversity in her experience as an instructor at Princeton. In the final song of her class, Kirby instructs her class to push up and down on the bike’s handlebars. The LED lights strobe in a rainbow pattern. As Avicii’s “Wake Me Up” plays, a chorus of claps breaks out. Everyone is in it together: smiling, sweaty, and alive.

Isabel Jacobson is a News staff writer and Features contributor for The Daily Princetonian. She can be reached at ijacobson@princeton.edu.

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Devin Cannady ’20 returns to NBA, signing 10-day contract with Orlando Magic

By Kameron Wolters Sports Contributor

Former standout Princeton basketball player Devin Cannady ’20 signed a 10-day contract with the Orlando Magic on Thursday, March 31. Cannady has signed two previous deals with the Magic and has been a key member of the team’s G League affiliate for the past couple of years.

Cannady was a member of the Princeton men’s basketball team from 2015–2019 — a period during which he was a two-time All-Ivy selection.

He averaged over 14 points per game during his time as a Tiger. In 2017, he helped lead Princeton to an Ivy League championship and a spot in the NCAA Tournament. The following season, he averaged 16.7 points per game and was an All-Ivy second team honoree.

Cannady finished his college career with 1,515 points — the fifth-most in Princeton history — and ranked third all-time in program history for three-pointers made. He also finished as the program’s all-time leader in

free throw percentage with a career mark of 89.6 percent.

Cannady has previously signed deals with the Magic in 2020 and 2021. After being waived in 2020, he joined the Orlando Magic’s G League affiliate, the Lakeland Magic, where he averaged 11.7 points per game and shot 40 percent from three-point range during the 2020-21 season. The Magic went on to win the G League championship with Cannady scoring 22 points in the final and being named championship game MVP. He was one of only three Ivy Leaguers to compete in the playoffs that year.

His stellar play in the G League earned him another 10-day deal in 2021. Cannady appeared in eight games for the Orlando Magic, scoring a career-high 17 points in his second-to-last game against the New Orleans Pelicans. Unfortunately, in the ensuing game against the Indiana Pacers, Cannady suffered a gruesome ankle injury that kept him out for nearly a year.

The Orlando Magic currently has a record of 20–59, the worst record in the NBA;

COURTESY OF GOPRINCETONTIGERS.

they sit last in the Eastern Conference. Cannady made his first appearance of the season in the Magic’s recent loss against the New York Knicks — scoring four

points — and will hope to prove himself to the team during their last three games before the regular season ends on April 10.

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.

MEN’S LACROSSE

No. 3 men’s lacrosse kicks off home games with a dominant 18–7 victory

By Julia Nguyen

Head Sports Editor

41 seconds.

The Marist Red Foxes held the lead for 41 seconds out of a 60-minute game before the Tigers tied the game two-all, taking off with a 9–0 run.

On a gloomy Tuesday evening, No. 3 Princeton (7–2 overall, 2–1 Ivy League) claimed a dominant 18–7 victory over unranked Marist (3–7, 2–1 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) on Sherrerd Field.

In the opening minutes of the first quarter, junior midfielder Sam English outran his defensive matchup, netting one in from the center seam.

Less than two minutes later, Marist attackman Jake Deacy answered with a goal of his own to even the score. Building off the momentum of Deacy’s goal, attackman Kellen Pulera netted another to give the

Red Foxes a short-lived onegoal lead.

This would be their only lead of the evening.

English followed with a second goal of his own, and from there, the game was entirely in the Tigers’ control. Senior midfielder Jamie Atkinson pulled Princeton ahead with his first goal of the season. Two more goals in the first quarter — one from junior midfielder Alexander Vardaro and another from Atkinson — put Princeton ahead by three heading to close off the first.

Less than a minute into the second quarter, senior attackman Chris Brown, assisted by first-year attackman Coulter Mackesy, found the net with ease from the bottom right of the crease despite the lack of an angle for a shot. Fiftyone seconds later, junior attackman Christian Ronda received a pass from Brown, spun away from his defend-

er, and netted one in.

Ronda wasn’t done. Once again, 56 seconds after his first goal of the game, he scored another. This goal was more impressive than his last. After moving the ball between Brown and himself a couple of times, Ronda switched up the play. He cut into the center while receiving the ball in transition and shot one in with his feet touching the crease, but skillfully staying outside of it.

Many of the Tigers’ goals aren’t easy shots. With defensive pressure, crowding in front of the goal, and a lack of angle, making the decision to take a shot isn’t always so black-and-white.

“A lot of it comes down to what’s going on in the game at the moment. If we [had] just played a lot of defense or if we need a longer offensive possession, we look to be more selective with our shots,” Ronda told The Daily Princetonian. “We

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First-year Coulter Mackesy had three assists against Marist.

also have a lot of talented and unselfish players on our team, and we put a lot of trust in each other to make those decisions.”

The trust within the team was definitely apparent in Tuesday’s game. With the depth of talent the Princeton team holds, no one person is more heavily relied on than the others. Throughout the game, the ball was shared among every player, and out of 18 total goals, nine different Tigers scored. Moreover, 10 of the goals were assisted by a fellow teammate.

The team chemistry is undeniable, and it all starts in practice.

For Ronda, playing on the left field with Brown has allowed them to build a strong dynamic. Two of Ronda’s four goals Tuesday evening were off assists from Brown.

“Each game we get more comfortable playing off each other and learning each other’s tendencies. In practice, we talk a lot about where the other likes to dodge, when to set picks or give space, and I think this chemistry has translated well to in-game,” Ronda said. “Brown is also a great leader on the field. He elevates everyone’s game with his leadership and playmaking ability.”

Ronda’s words are true: Brown totaled two goals and four assists to help lead the Tigers to victory — and this was one of his quieter games.

With a 9–0 run in the first two quarters, Princeton led Marist 10–2 heading into halftime.

The Red Foxes saw a much better second half, opening the third quarter with a goal from attackman Jojo Pirreca to end a 28-minute scoring drought before the Tigers took off with a 6–0 run to make it 16–3.

Despite gaining more offensive possessions than they did in the first half, the

Red Foxes still struggled to make successful plays. The Tigers put up a hard defensive fight, causing 21 total turnovers on Marist’s end.

Still, Marist played with determination. The fourth quarter saw a 3–0 run from the Red Foxes to bring the score gap from 13 to 11. With about eight minutes left to play, Marist’s long stick midfielder JT Roselle snuck one past the Princeton defense.

Roselle’s goal was arguably the prettiest goal of the game. With a spin-dodge to avoid the Tigers, followed by a skillful switch of hands, he bounced one past junior goalie Griffen Rakower.

Despite the late three goals to finish the game, the Tigers outshot the Red Foxes 58–30. Princeton outplayed them both defensively and offensively with more turnovers and more ground balls and face-off wins.

With a victory to kick off this week’s home games, the Tigers will host No. 13 Boston University (BU) next on Saturday, April 9 at 1 p.m.

“BU is a great opponent, and they’re going to come here ready to play on Saturday. I think we did a lot of things well today: moving the ball and getting everyone involved on the offensive end and getting stops on the defensive end,” Ronda told the ‘Prince.’

And while BU may be a competitive top-20 matchup, Ronda made it clear that the Tigers have at least one advantage: fans to cheer them on.

“The students and fans have been incredible all year, and we’d love to see some of that support on Saturday!” he said.

Julia Nguyen is a co-head editor for the Sports section at the ‘Prince’ who usually covers the weekly recaps. She can be reached at trucn@princeton.edu or on Instagram at @ jt.nguyen.

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‘One step at a time’: Andy LeRoux ’20 begins training for rowing Olympic trials

By Lizzie Evanko

Associate Sports Editor

The very first time Andy LeRoux ’20 sat in a boat, he knew that this was something he was passionate about.

“My best friend at the time was a rower. He suggested I try it out, and I went down to the boathouse in Florida and instantly fell in love with it,” he told The Daily Princetonian.

LeRoux, a Florida native, began his rowing career 10 years ago during his first year of high school. During his high school career, he was on the Team USA and competed in the Junior World Rowing Championships. His success in high school eventually led him to Princeton, where he was a member of the men’s heavyweight crew team.

But even before stepping foot on campus, LeRoux aspired to take rowing as far as he could, setting his sights on the Olympics as early as his high school years.

In an interview with the ‘Prince,’ LeRoux reflected on his early experiences at Princeton.

“Early [in] my freshman year, one of the guys I looked up to a lot was Nick Mead [’17]. He was the captain my freshman year.

He’s a great guy … was a good team leader. He came out [to one of the training centers] right after he graduated and then ended up going to [the] Tokyo [Olympics],” LeRoux said.

“I feel like he was always a good role model for me and an inspiration.”

Following in Mead’s footsteps, LeRoux was named captain of the heavyweight team his senior year. For LeRoux, his leadership and general experience in collegiate rowing has helped prepare him for his professional rowing career. “[College] is almost like a development period for going on an international level. A lot of the guys that are here did [under-23s] at some point or were in the top of the programs in college,” LeRoux explained.

While he still has much

rowing to do, LeRoux credits Princeton’s program for his growth and preparation for competing at such a high level. “[College] definitely kind of prepares you for coming out here in training, trying to make the Olympics … there’s more to go after college, but I think [I] definitely got a lot better at Princeton,” he said.

In comparison to training at Princeton, rowing at a professional level has a very different focus.

In college, education remained the main priority, but now LeRoux explains that he feels more pressure when it comes to rowing.

He emphasizes that unlike his time at the University, there aren’t any second chances.

“In college,” he said, “if you don’t make the top boat, there’s a second boat, or if you don’t make the second boat, there’s the third boat.”

“You’re always going to race. You’re always going to have a good time.

Whereas here, if you don’t make the team, there’s no second boat to be in,” LeRoux continued.

With higher levels of rowing comes more intense training. According to LeRoux, while the schedule is similar to his college schedule in terms of workouts, the amount of rowing is a lot different.

“Fitness level is definitely generally higher — you’re competing at the highest level. So I think the biggest difference is at Princeton, you know, we may be trained to like, hit maybe eight sessions a week,” he said. “Whereas here, we’ll do like 10 or 11.

And every session tends to be a bit longer, as well.”

In addition to helping LeRoux improve his rowing abilities, Princeton has also helped prepare him academically. He explained that Princeton’s heavy course load taught him crucial time-management skills, a skill he utilizes as he rows professionally while attending classes full-time.

His typical routine con-

sists of two things: rowing and going to class. LeRoux said that he rows approximately 20,000m a day, followed by a second workout in the evening. From 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., he is either sitting in a boat or in a class.

Despite a grueling schedule, LeRoux welcomes the hard work, knowing that his efforts move him closer to qualifying for the Olympic trials.

There are two avenues a rower can take to compete in the Olympics: they can be selected at a selection camp or win a trial to qualify. Additionally, for the men’s 8+, the top five places at the World Championships automatically qualify for an Olympic spot.

“Hopefully I’ll make the World Championship team this summer. I don’t know what boat, but any boat would be good,” LeRoux commented.

The next few years leading up to the 2024 Olympics will be extremely important for LeRoux. With a couple of races coming up this summer, he maintains a positive mindset, aiming to make the national team to represent the United States at the World Championships in September.

“All the way through September will be pretty, pretty intense, but I’m definitely looking forward to it,” he said. “I’m definitely excited to actually get some international experience at the elite level. I think it’s definitely helpful to make the World’s teams leading up to the Olympics.”

Even with his ambitions of competing in the Olympics sitting in the back of his head, LeRoux chooses to take it day by day.

“My mind is thinking about it more short term,” he said. “Step one: Make the [World Championship] team this year. And then just take it one step at a time.”

Lizzie Evanko is an Associate Sports Editor at the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at eevanko@princeton.edu.

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

CONFERENCE RECORD OVERALL RECORD 1. NO. 10 HARVARD 2 –0 7 –1 2. CORNELL 2 –1 8 –1 3. NO. 3 PRINCETON 2 –1 7 –2 4. NO. 5 YALE 2 –1 6 –2 5. NO. 8 PENN 6. BROWN 7. DARTMOUTH

1 –2 0 –2 0 –2

4 –3 5 –4 4–5

RESULTS FROM THE LAST WEEK: SATURDAY, APRIL 6: NO. 6 PRINCETON 17, BROWN 9 TUESDAY, APRIL 5: NO. 3 PRINCETON 18, MARIST 7 UPCOMING GAMES: SATURDAY, APRIL 9: NO. 13 BOSTON U. AT NO. 3 PRINCETON, 1 P.M.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE: IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS

CONFERENCE RECORD OVERALL RECORD 1. YALE 3–0 7 –2 2. NO. 12 PRINCETON 1–0 6 –2 3. CORNELL 2–1 6 –4 4. BROWN 2–1 5 –4 5.

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HARVARD PENN COLUMBIA DARTMOUTH

2 –1 0 –2 0 –2 0 –3

4–4 3 –7 2 –8 2 –7

RESULTS FROM THE LAST WEEK: NO GAMES LAST WEEK UPCOMING GAMES: SATURDAY, APRIL 9: NO. 12 PRINCETON AT BROWN, 1:00 P.M. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13: NO. 9 MARYLAND AT NO. 12 PRINCETON, 7:00

OTHER SPORTS NEWS: MEN’S LACROSSE’S SLUSHER NAMED IVY LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK MEN’S LACROSSE’S JUNIOR ATTACKER ALEX SLUSHER WAS NAMED IVY LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK AFTER SCORING A CAREER-HIGH SIX GOALS AGAINST BROWN IN THE TEAM’S GAME ON SATURDAY, APRIL 2. SLUSHER CURRENTLY LEADS THE TEAM IN GOALS, WITH 31, AND LEADS THE IVY LEAGUE IN GOALS PER GAME. MEN’S SQUASH’S IBRAHIM REACHES NO. 11 IN WORLD RANKINGS THE PSA WORLD TOUR HAS RELEASED ITS APRIL WORLD RANKINGS, AND RIGHT NEAR THE TOP IS PRINCETON SENIOR YOUSSEF IBRAHIM, A FORMER MEMBER OF THE MEN’S SQUASH TEAM. IBRAHIM IS CURRENTLY RANKED NO. 11 IN THE WORLD, THE HIGHEST RANKING OF HIS CAREER. IBRAHIM JOINS NINE OTHER EGYPTIAN ATHLETES IN THE PSA’S TOP 15.

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Andy LeRoux rowing for Princeton against Georgetown in 2017.