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Alumnae compete in Winter Olympics

By Ivy Truong and Isabel Ting Assistant News Editor

Alumnae participation in Olympic hockey and rowing have thrust the University into the international spotlight.

Caroline Park ’11 was named to the unified Korean hockey team for the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang. Park initially thought the offer was a spam message, but she has since jumped into the competition with great passion.

She is currently taking a leave of absence from Columbia University’s medical school in New York City in order to do so.

The former head coach of the University’s women’s ice hockey team and current head coach of Pennsylvania State University’s team, Jeff Kampersal ’92, coached Park during her time at the University. According to Kampersal, Park’s talents included her speed, competitiveness, and understanding of the game — and her skills went beyond athleticism.

“She also had an interesting life away from hockey,” explained Kampersal. “She excelled at school, and she was an accomplished actress.”

He added that at the University, the coaches focused on teaching players to work “extremely hard, be aggressive, and to execute good habits.” For Park however, motivation was never a problem.

“Again, from the day we started

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When she’s not competing in the Olympics, Caroline Lind ’06 works for the University’s Office of Development.

recruiting her, you knew immediately how organized and how determined she was,” Kampersal said.

As an undergraduate student, Park fit in her classes during the mornings and nights to accommodate her afternoon practices.

According to Kampersal, training added up to 20 hours per week, not including travel time. For Park, he noted, her schedule was even

more crowded, since as a pre-med student she had to make time for multiple labs every week. Kampersal explained that Park performed her two full-time jobs — athlete and pre-med student — exceptionally well.

“How many people can say they competed in the Olympics while in medical school?” said an awed Kampersal. “Her ability to timemanage, deal with stress, probably

sleep little, and learn to be doctor and while competing at the highest level in her sport, speaks for itself.”

The current head coach of the University’s women’s rowing team, Lori Dauphiny, spoke similarly about three other alumni competitors: Lauren Wilkinson ’11, Caroline Lind ’06, and Gevvie Stone ’07. All three have earned medals at the Olympics in rowing

and won NCAA championships with the varsity eight during their time at the University.

“I can’t tell you how much pride I felt when I saw them standing up on the stands,” said Dauphiny.

“And even if they didn’t win medals, I feel the same pride.”

All three athletes worked extremely hard and were exceptional students, balancing two-hour daily weekday practices and occasional weekend morning practices before competitions. “[These] future Olympic athletes were relentless and had big hearts,” explained Dauphiny, adding, “[They were] feisty and didn’t let things get them down.”

Despite their shared quality of persistence, each athlete had slightly different personalities and attributes. Lind, who crushed every record during her time at the University and was the first female alumna to win a gold medal at the Olympics, “stood out immediately as someone who was on fire and was faster than any athlete I had ever coached,” Dauphiny said.

According to Dauphiny, Lind was “one of the most humble kids” she has coached. If anything went wrong during a competition, she would always turn to her coach to ask what she could do to bounce back.

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Panel discusses repercussions of Iranian protests Westminster under new ownership

By Linh Nguyen Contributor

In the wake of rising political tensions in Iran, the Wilson School co-sponsored a panel with the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies and the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies to discuss future implications of the recent protests in Iran that took place this past December and January.

Visiting University scholar and former White House foreign policy consultant Dr. Banafsheh Keynoush moderated the event.

“Protests have become a daily reality in Iran, and the state is catching up,” said Keynoush during her introduction of the panel. “Reform in Iran has political boundaries that are being stretched, and Iran’s foreign policy may or may not be impacted by internal changes in the country.”

The panel featured four speakers from various disciplines, although a fifth scheduled speaker, Narges Bajoghli, a postdoctoral research associate from Brown University, was unable to attend.

Department of Near Eastern Studies lecturer Nura Hossainzadeh was the first speaker and focused on how expectations for an Islamic republic shape contemporary Iranian politics.

“Debates go back to the early days just after the revolution,” said Hossainzadeh, again referring to the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.

Hossainzadeh focused on the controversy that has arisen over “the position of the Guardian, the Assembly of Experts, and the Guardian Council.”

Hossainzadeh attributed much of the unrest in Iran to Ali Khamenei, the Guardian Jurist and Supreme Leader, See IRAN page 4

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The panel considered what protests in recent months might signal for Iran’s future.

After months of speculation among Westminster Choir College students, faculty, and alumni about the school’s future, Rider University President Gregory Dell’Omo sent out an email on Feb. 21 announcing that Rider University has signed a non-binding term sheet to transfer ownership of Westminster to Beijing Kaiwen Education Technology Co., Ltd., this spring.

The three schools that will be affected by this transfer are Westminster Choir College, Westminster Conservatory of Music, and Westminster Continuing Education.

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President of Peru, U. alum, avoids impeachment Contributor

Saturday, Feb. 24 is the University’s annual Alumni Day, where alumni get together to reconnect, go to lectures, and receive awards. Among the awards given is the James Madison Medal, given to an alumnus who achieved a distinguished career in public service or advanced the graduate education program. Last year’s recipient was Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ‘61, current president of Peru. Since receiving the award, however, Kuczynski has experienced a fall from grace.

Kuczynski received media attention in December 2017

for narrowly avoiding impeachment. His controversy appeared to begin with dealings Kuczynski had with Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction giant and the center of several corruption scandals across Latin America, resulting in the arrest of the vice president of Ecuador as well as other investigations taking place in Venezuela and Columbia.

The charges set against Kuczynski claimed that he had improperly received $782,000 dollars from Odebrecht through a firm that he owned, Westfield Capital, based in Miami. Kuczynski admitted to receiving the money, but claimed he did nothing wrong. He claimed

that he had not violated any laws and that the money he received was not a bribe for preferential treatment.

Kuczynski appeared before Congress on Dec. 21 making his case. According to the New York Times, “A two-thirds majority — or 87 of 130 votes — was needed to remove Mr. Kuczynski. After his testimony, Mr. Kuczynski left the chambers, and lawmakers debated his future over several hours.

Lawmakers finally voted 78 to 19 in favor of the motion, with a number either abstaining or not present.”

The result of the vote, allowing Kuczynski to narrowly avoided impeachment, was largely attributed to a fac-

tion of the right-wing party, founded by the daughter of the currently jailed and former authoritarian leader of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, that swung the vote in Kuczynski’s favor.

During the vote, details of the petition for a presidential pardon for Fujimori were leaked.

This led many legislators to speculate that Kuczynski made a deal with the right-wing party to pardon Fujimori in exchange for keeping him in office. Kuczynski’s party denied these claims.

“The political landscape in Peru is really fluid and that’s part of what we’re dealing with,” said history professor Jeremy Adelman, who specializes in Latin American studies.

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“There are really weak structures, and coalitions are forming.”

Seeming to confirm their suspicions three days later, Kuczynski offered Fujimori a presidential pardon, outraging thousands of Peruvians who took to the streets to protest.

Kuczynski responded, appealing to Peruvians to “turn the page” and accept the decision.

Fujimori released a Facebook video from a hospital bed, vowing to support Kuczynski’s call for reconciliation and offering his first explicit apology to Peru.

“I’m aware the results of my government were well received by some, but I acknowledge I See PERU page 3

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as Lind on the ergometer, the indoor rowing machine that measures strength and fitness, she was gifted technically, especially since she rowed small boats during high school.

Dauphiny remarked on Stone’s “exceptional boat feel” and her natural ability to sense when she was executing proper technique.

Furthermore, Stone underwent knee surgery in her sophomore year. Fortunately — and impressively — she made a large comeback that spring. “[She went] from not being able to walk to going to make very fast records in the spring and then winning the national championship [in 2006],” Dauphiny said.

Wilkinson, for her part, was a “wild card,” according to Dauphiny, but was nevertheless one of the most “consistent athletes” in terms of technique, effort, and scores, that Dauphiny has ever

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coached. “[Wilkinson] was a leader in a very quiet way, and that always impressed me,” said Dauphiny.

“She didn’t use loud words, [but instead], she led by example and was someone that the team looked up to.”

When asked to recall one Wilkinson moment most impressive to Dauphiny, she referenced the 2011 NCAA championship. With Wilkinson’s help, the University won, despite being the underdog.

“I didn’t have to motivate them [because] you don’t get into Princeton unless you’re self-motivated,” Dauphiny said.

After the Olympics, each athlete will return to their respective careers. Currently, Stone is a physician and is completing her residency. Wilkinson was previously considering veterinary medicine, while Lind works for the University’s Office of Development.

The Olympics will end on Feb. 25.

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Gevvie Stone ’07 suffered a knee injury during her sophomore year at Princeton but quickly bounced back.

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also disappointed other compatriots,” said Fujimori in the video. “And to them, I ask for forgiveness from the bottom of my heart.”

He was originally spending a 25-year prison sentence for authorizing a death squad against Maoist rebels, killing 25 people. According to the Guardian, his conviction was considered “a landmark ruling for human rights cases in Latin America.”

The Madison Medal was established by the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni

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(APGA). It is named for the fourth president of the United States who is considered to be the University’s first graduate student.

This year’s James Madison Award Recipient will be author and critic Daniel Mendelsohn ‘94. Mendelsohn himself will give an address.

Professor Steven Levitsky, who specializes in Latin America at Harvard University, declined to comment.

Political science author Jo Marie Burt and Ricardo Luna ‘62, Kucynski’s foreign minister until impeachment, did not respond to request for comment.

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and his push for further power, which he believes is guaranteed by God. Hossainzadeh referred to the Iranian Revolution and Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution and Iran’s first Supreme Leader, and said, “Reformists often point out that Khomeini didn’t give this authority explicitly to the Guardian, but to the government as a whole, acting through the proper legislative and executive ordinance, which includes a popularly elected Parliament and President.”

Following Hossainzadeh was Luciano Zaccara, a visiting research scholar from Qatar University. Zaccara displayed numerous tables and graphs from recent municipal, parliamentary, and presidential elections.

“[President Hassan Rouhani] obtained over five million more votes in 2017 compared to what he obtained in 2013,” Zaccara explained. In the following slide, Zaccara noted that reformists also gained a comparatively large majority of seats in Iran’s municipal division in 2017.

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, a visiting research scholar at the University and an economics professor at Virginia Tech, spoke after Zaccara and presented his economic research on Iran.

“Do these protests indicate that a larger uprising is in the works?” began Salehi-Isfahani. “This is the question that has been asked in the digital sphere, and it is asked every time there is a protest in Iran.”

Salehi-Isfahani explained that since Iran has become a republic, the country has faced bank failures due to its significant dependence on oil.

However, he also claimed that Iran’s economic destitution has often been exaggerated by international media.

“The New York Times had an op-ed that claimed that 40 percent of Iranians are living under poverty, and if you Google that, many articles come up with the same result,” said Salehi-Isfahani. “But this is not true.”

Salehi-Isfahani referenced a study from the World Bank, which found that the poverty rate is actually 9.5 percent. He also suggested that “there is a tendency to exaggerate because it gets a lot of hits on your website.”

University associate research scholar Amin Moghadam was the final speaker for the panel. Moghadam focused on geographic studies conducted about Iran, specifically localized issues.

“I want to point out two socio-spatial phenomena,” be-

gan Moghadam. “The first is borders, and the second is the geography of shopping malls and how we can link them to the issue of spatial injustice.”

Moghadam projected a map of Iran on the screen, using a pointer to indicate that “peripheral areas” have higher unemployment rates, before switching to another slide that showed the distribution of large shopping malls throughout the country.

He explained that these shopping malls are the result of neoliberal urban policies that were put in place at the end of the 1990s. The malls aimed to maximize land value and transform financial assets, without having any socio-economic repercussions.

Relating these ideas back to the current unrest in Iran, Moghadam suggested that the shopping malls were leading to what geographers call ‘spatial injustice,’ since “people do

not necessarily have the purchasing power to benefit from these places.”

At the conclusion of the presentations, Keynoush opened the floor for audience members to ask the speakers about a variety of issues, from Iran’s hyperinflation and the low exchange rate of its currency to international pressure on Iranians to escalate the protests into an overthrow of the current government.

The next conversation about Iran in the discussion series is entitled “Shias in the Gulf Monarchies and their Relations with Iran,” which will be held in 300 Wallace Hall on March 1 at 12 p.m. This discussion will be led by Laurence Louër, Associate Professor of Sciences at the Center for International Research in Paris.

The panel took place in the Arthur Lewis Auditorium in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 22.

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President Dell’Omo, Kaiwen Education is “a Chinese firm that owns Kaiwen Academies, two prominent K-12 international schools in Beijing” and plans to “continue operating Westminster and its entities in Princeton.”

Dell’Omo lauds the firm as an organization that can make the “necessary investments” to preserve Westminster’s legacy.

A letter of intent released by Kaiwen Education’s Board of Directors states that the firm plans on investing $40 million in the three schools.

“Kaiwen Education intends to make offers of employment to faculty and staff as well as continue committed student aid at the time of closing in the form of endowed scholarships, tuition discounts and other grant obligations,” the email wrote.

Dell’Omo also notes that faculty members and staff will continue to retain similar base salary and hourly pay, rank, tenure and service credit, and employee benefit plans.

In addition, Kaiwen Education “has hired two consultants recommended by Westminster to assist in the next stages.”

These consultants are Larry Livingston, current chair of the Department of Conducting at the

University of Southern California’s Flora L. Thornton School of Music, and Catherine “Kitty” Jarjisian, an accreditation consultant and retired music educator and administrator. Dell’Omo plans on bringing Livingston, Jarjisian, and Kaiwen Education representatives to campus in the near future to introduce them to the Westminster community.

Dell’Omo states that further details of the term sheet must be kept confidential, but he plans to keep the Westminster community updated as the administration continues further negotiations with Kaiwen Education.

Westminster College of the Arts Dean Dr. Marshall Onofrio expressed support for “further collaboration.”

“Their K-12 arts education programming is outstanding, and I am confident that they will bring the same commitment to their work with us,” wrote Onofrio in an email to the The Daily Princetonian. “This partnership offers a significant opportunity for Westminster Choir College to not only continue its 92-year history of providing stellar educational and performance experiences but also continue to evolve and thrive.”

However, this email comes days after the Princeton Theological Seminary filed a lawsuit against Rider for violating “the school’s obligations to Princeton Theological Seminary and the conditions set by the original

donor of the land,” according to Planet Princeton.

Constance Fee, former president of the Westminster College Alumni Association, which is also involved in the lawsuit, explained that the alumni association is waiting to find out what is in the term sheet before issuing a response.

“We are asking our lawyer to read through it carefully because we have expectations that the 1991 merger agreement will be honored,” said Fee. “Until we have those facts, the lawsuit is going ahead full force.”

President of the Seminary Craig Barnes was unable to be reached for comment at the time of writing this article.

Although many Westminster alumni remain unsatisfied with the scant details that have been given, current Westminster students are becoming optimistic.

“While the reaction of some outspoken members within our Westminster Family seems to be anger, I’m confident in saying the the majority of the current students have put WCC’s legacy to be the top priority,” wrote Shelden Mendes, a junior at WCC, in a message to the ‘Prince.’ “We do expect some changes, and we’re prepared to do what we can to help the process along as best we can.”

Mendes also pointed out that the “buyer spent millions of dollars, not to buy our land, but to continue and further push the

legacy of Westminster Choir College.”

Corinne Berntsen, a secretary for Westminster’s Student Government Association, echoed Mendes’ sentiments.

“Being a Westminster student for the past three years, every time I receive an email from the Office of the President, I have to admit that it’s a bit traumatizing because, typically, it’s some sort of earth-shattering news,” said Berntsen. “But we’ve been begging for a name of the prospective buyer, and we finally have received it.”

Berntsen emphasized the need to “remain friendly and keep a positive front with this buyer and with Rider.”

“We just really need to keep in mind to be open-minded,” said Berntsen. “I think that this buyer has the ability not only to continue to have our school exist, but I think that we are also going to have opportunities to expand and grow.”

In general, students seem prepared to move forward with these changes and become an active part in the school’s future.

“Westminster has changed incredibly since its founding days, but what has withstood the test of time?” continued Mendes. “Our ability to accept others and open our hearts. And with that, I welcome Beijing Kaiwen Education into our family.”

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Anonymous Have you ever spent a night in the infirmary? I’m going to take a wild guess and say no, except for an exclusive minority of you. I’m always taken aback by how many students have never been to CPS, who don’t know how to get there, which floor it’s on, or how to take a friend there.

But the day might come when you will have to know where a real-life counselor is on-call to help someone in crisis. It did for me. You need to know; we all need to be prepared.

Spending a night in the infirmary is one of the loneliest experiences. I have never felt more alone than on the night I stayed there. I checked myself in at approximately 7:30 p.m., and any visitors are kicked out promptly at 10:30 p.m. (Who even goes to bed at 10:30 p.m.?) I was lucky, and bought them a few more minutes because of an opportune fire alarm at 10:20 p.m.

It’s sterile and austere. The walls are white, the sheets are white, the sidebars on the bed are white, the windowpanes are white, the lighting is a cool white. A nurse visits to deliver the predetermined dosage of medication — 11 p.m., 11:30, some time, any time. It’s not like I have anywhere else to be, anyways.

The walk back to your dorm room the next morning is akin to a ‘walk of shame.’ Imagine begrudgingly wearing the same clothes from last night, bedhead hair, smudged eyeliner, oh, and a pillow under armpit, determined gaze fixated straight ahead, praying no one crosses paths with me.

But they do; it’s 10 a.m., and students are frantically rushing to class. Of course I can’t hide. I lower my gaze, blood

Too much to ask rushing to my pallid cheeks.

I struggle to climb back into my own bed, in the unsettling loneliness of my room. I pull the covers far over my head.

That 10 a.m. lecture? Forget it.

Looking back, I don’t regret that ‘walk of shame.’ If I had not listened to people around me and realized where I was at, I very well might not be here right now.

But too many people believe that you have to be crazy, unstable, incapable, dependent if you stay in the infirmary.

And too many people haven’t seen the inside of a room in the infirmary, or the office of a therapist or psychiatrist.

So what happens when your friend, partner, roommate, anyone you love, needs just that? What if they haven’t been eating, sleeping, showering, going to class, getting through the day? What if they indicate suicidal ideation to you, in a text, a passing remark? What if they are depressed, anxious, helpless, stuck? Now you are helpless and stuck too, because you are literally without help for someone else. You don’t know where to go to seek out help, how to do it, where, when. All you know is ‘why.’

I have had the horrific, heart-wrenching experience of talking too many friends, whom I love more than myself, out of taking their lives, cutting, hurting themselves, doing something reckless, brash, stupid, giving up. I have had the experience of talking myself out of those same things — of convincing myself that life is, will be, worth living. Because of that, I am able to talk to strangers and peers about resources and support. I can and will skip class to do anything I can to help, because I know very well that many others can’t

or won’t.

But I ask you again — what happens when someone does not know how to get help or cannot get help? What happens when a friend’s life lies in their hands? The fact of the matter is that most University students are not trained enough — if at all — to properly handle such a situation.

And that, in turn, makes them helpless.

However, we shouldn’t be helpless. One would expect more from University students — the ability to look up resources, study a map, navigate a process or physical building, to empathize, to know when to not leave someone alone, to stay to help someone — even if it means missing class or not spending that hour on a problem set!

We go to the No. 1 school in the country. We get a firstclass education — at least, we’re told we do. We are supposed to be the next generation of leaders — or some bullsh*t like that.

But how can we lead people — how can we exit this bubble and enter the real world — when we don’t know how to help one friend in need?

How to talk to them, how to get them help? I am critical of myself for not being able to do more, of others for not doing enough, but now I call upon the University to take responsibility — to take action.

We, undergraduate and graduate students, need mandatory bystander/active intervention training in case this — God forbid — happens again. We have AlcoholEdu and Not Anymore, but what about mental health? Why is mental health the last issue to engage the attention of administrators, to get more funding, to get a segment that is more than 10 minutes

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long during Orientation?

CPS developed a relatively new program called Princeton Distress Awareness & Response that teaches people how to respond to someone in distress: how to recognize the signs and symptoms and what tools can be used to effectively support someone.

The program is facilitated

by CPS clinicians, and only takes 1.5 hours to do. But as it stands, it is completely optional, and offered to students, faculty, or groups, only if/when requested.

This training should be mandatory and taken by all class years. For example, before students can register for courses, or during the add/ drop period, they should be required to complete the training. By educating and equipping students, we will not be helpless anymore, and we can collectively take one step forward in inviting more open conversation about mental health and the culture of “suffering in silence” that we have cultivated. And we can more effectively support each other, as I hope we would all want to do.

Have the lives taken by suicide at our school not been enough of a red flag? This is our call to action. There are people here whose job is literally to help us in this regard, but so many can’t establish a line of communication with them.

The reaction to “I want to die” should never be “lol, same.”

Is a student’s life not worth 90 minutes of our time? It is not too much to ask.

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he day was blustery and the door propped open.

The only thing that stood between us and the wind was a curtain of strips of heavy plastic. It was 11 a.m. and the restaurant was virtually empty, so our server brought out a large bowl of dark chicken-bone soup before we had the chance to open our menu.

Small tidbits of corn and ligament gyrated gently in the murk at the bottom of the bowl.

I looked on with wonder: To me, this was the ultimate show of hospitality. It reminded me of the way my mother would hand me a bowl of bone broth after she’d spent hours attending to it at the stove. The waitress proceeded to take our orders — in Chinese, of course — and soon the empty broth bowl was whisked away as new dishes piled onto the table.

I did not take out my phone to try and snap a Instagrammable picture of the plate of tripe, with food in shapes one would not even have thought edible, or the boat of ground beef and pickled green onions — overwhelming

in its messy thrown-togetherness and underwhelming in its monotonous color scheme.

I probably would not have visited this restaurant if I had first scoped it out on Google Reviews, where its rating teetered at a 3.8 out of 5 due to complaints about ‘lack of service’ and where there were no pictures of the food. This is worrisome, because the food was excellent, and my whole family agreed that the nuances of flavor were just the way they should have been in a precariously preserved hub of authentic Chinese cuisine like this one. How would I have known if I did not walk in and give it a chance?

Customers savvy with and active on photo-sharing social media tend to flock to restaurants with food that has been crowdapproved and that looks good on camera. According to a study by economists from UC Berkeley, a half-star improvement in online ratings makes a restaurant 30–49 percent more likely to be fully booked during peak dining times.

As for photo-sharing, a study from Sheffield Hallam University research shows 59 percent

of people in an online survey reported they had visited a restaurant after seeing user-generated photographs of its food on social media, and 16 percent reported they had avoided a restaurant after seeing user-generated photographs of its food on social media.

“In the old days,” said restaurant owner Ben Walton, “you wanted people to say nice things about you, but word of mouth has evolved. If you want people to say nice things about you now, you have to make sure your dishes look good.” Social media presence — particularly the photo-sharing network — makes or breaks business.

But the unphotographed, “unshared” space matters too. If the crowd seeks solely the aesthetic experience, it may amp up selective pressure on restaurants that create a particular experience (that is, one that is heavily visual).

As another Daily Princetonian columnist has noted, restaurants that push out non-photogenic food — no matter how delicious it is — either evolve to conform to the standards of the crowd or else exit the market.

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This restaurant, where ugly chicken soup bloomed warmth in the stomach and where delicacies like tripe poured forth in endless sustenance, tells a different story. The restaurant’s internal culture — the welcome sight of the restaurant employees (often all family) inhaling white rice together at a table in the back, while another snips away at a crate of green beans dumped onto the adjacent table (in the eyes of the Yelp reviewer, an unprofessional and unaesthetic transgression) — is what preserves the authenticity of food, a home away from home.

I believe that more than just my Chinese-American family would find the food and the experience worthy. But the “crowd” online leaves this kind of experience in the dust; the crowd fails to curate and lift up a diversity of experiences. Am I just clinging to my nostalgic past experiences, or is there something to be preserved here?

Allison Huang is a first-year from Princeton, N.J. She can be reached at ah25@princeton.edu.

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What Princeton should learn from other schools’ eating clubs Liam O’Connor

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his month, over threequarters of sophomores chose to join one of the 11 eating clubs that line Prospect Avenue. These clubs — which have histories spanning 139 years — open a gateway to new social lives. With their opulent mansions, popularly-ingrained stereotypes, and mysterious names like Ivy Club, Tower Club, and Colonial Club, eating clubs seem to be as uniquely Princetonian as an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.

But they’re not. In fact, eating clubs were popular social options for many American college students outside of Princeton in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries until they were replaced by modern fraternities and sororities. While the most famous eating clubs are at the University, they’re not the only ones to have ever existed. Our eating clubs should learn a few lessons from the eating clubs at other colleges to improve the Princeton experience.

Davidson College in North Carolina hosts eating clubs as well as traditional fraternities and sororities. Unlike Princeton’s eating clubs, Davidson’s four “eating houses” have only female members. In the fall, there is an information session for first-year women during which an ambassador from each eating house speaks about their house’s activities.

Tara O’Herlihy is the Chief Justice of the Patterson Court Council — a position roughly analogous to being the president of Princeton’s Interclub Council. She said in an interview, “Each house has a social event and a service event for members and first-year women.

The social event may be a party.

The service event is a community service project on campus.”

During the start of the spring semester, women sign up to join an eating house in a process similar to that of Princeton’s sign-in eating clubs, called “Self-Selection.” Women rank the clubs in order of preference in a survey, and an algorithm sorts them into houses based on membership openings.

But there’s a critical difference between Davidson and Princeton’s processes. At Davidson, O’Herlihy said, “The survey allows women to cluster with up to three other women. Most do choose to cluster to stay with their friends.” She estimated that 80–85 percent of women are in an eating house.

O’Herlihy said the eating houses “are very popular because of the open Self-Selection process. No one has to put on a face to get accepted.”

Once in an eating house, women participate in a variety of activities. Claire Thompson is the president of the eating house Warner Hall, and her father — Charles Thompson ’86 — was the president of Cap & Gown Club.

“There are three big reasons why women join an eating house,” she said in an interview. One of the reasons, she said, is “that each eating house has a philanthropic cause that they adopt. My house increases awareness of HIV/AIDS.” Warner Hall’s signature Red and Black Ball raises money for the HIV prevention nonprofit RAIN and the Mwandi Mission Hospital in Zambia. “The philanthropy side has been a significant part of my college experience,” Thompson said of her eating house.

Princeton’s ICC should incorporate elements of Davidson’s SelfSelection into its own admissions process. This past fall, it was difficult to find open house events for the eating clubs. They either were poorly promoted or e-mailed at

random times from club officers.

The ICC should make a standardized calendar that lists each club’s sophomore information events that mirrors Davidson’s fall information session.

At such sessions, the eating clubs should also promote their service programs. While each club organizes unique service projects, this aspect isn’t well-communicated to sophomores. In other words, most sophomores don’t consider community service as a criterion to evaluate when determining which club to join.

One common complaint about the eating clubs is that they break up friends. Not everyone in a group can get into the same Bicker club, and sign-in lotteries could do the same. The ICC could mitigate this problem for the latter by allowing students to apply in small groups much like Davidson’s eating houses.

Stanford University also had eating clubs until the administration abolished them nine years ago. Established in 1892 — only one year after Princeton’s Colonial Club was founded — they provided an alternative to the school’s dining halls for 117 years; students could join one of seven eating clubs all located in a single L-shaped building. In the beginning, students had to undergo “rush,” like that of a fraternity. But the clubs gradually abandoned this policy and became open to anyone who wanted to join. As a member of the El Capitan eating club said in 1967 after deciding to end rush, “We did not like playing junior gods.”

Leslie Nichols graduated from Stanford in 1963 and was the president of Los Arcos, Stanford’s oldest eating club and one of the first to eliminate rush. In an interview, he said of joining the club, “I got a hand-written invitation from the

president. You just dropped by the open house and joined.” He added, “There was nothing elitist about it,” saying that he “didn’t feel there was any sort of exclusion.”

In an advertisement from The Stanford Daily in 1968, each club published demographic statistics about its members. Club advertisements contained members’ names, majors, and extracurricular activities.

Princeton’s eating clubs should also release demographic information on their members. A 2016 referendum directed the USG to form a committee that would collect statistics on the composition of students in eating clubs. Since the eating clubs are independent from the University, they were not forced to provide this information. Club presidents argue that collecting information about members would further reinforce club stereotypes because, as former ICC President Christopher Yu ’17 stated, “A lot of people won’t join a particular club because they think there’s too many of X or too many of Y in that club.”

But the story of Stanford’s eating clubs undermines this argument. They served as bastions of diversity and inclusivity on a campus with an exclusive fraternity system. A Stanford alumnus who was an eating club member told the Stanford Alumni Association, “Many — or most — of us did not fit into the fraternity mold.” Likewise, publishing demographic information didn’t make the eating clubs any less diverse.

Finally, Princeton’s eating clubs should follow the lead of Stanford’s eating clubs by incrementally phasing out Bicker. Traditions aren’t malleable in the short-term.

Students lack institutional knowledge; consequently, they assume that the current social traditions at Princeton have always existed.

Another symptom of yellow fever

Dora Zhao

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had my first encounter with “yellow fever” my sophomore year of high school. As I watched my friend pine after a different girl every month, I could not help but notice the common denominator — they were all Asian. While I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, it reached the uncomfortable point where his choices blurred from having a “type” to having a fetish. Yet, I decided not to intervene — a choice that I have come to greatly regret.

There has already been discourse about “yellow fever” across college campuses. Most recently, a columnist for the Yale Daily News wrote an in-

sightful article on the harmful effects of racial fetishism.

While bringing awareness is important, these articles have focused solely on “yellow fever” through the lens of the white male-Asian female relationship. These relationships do occur more often. But by quarantining the problem, we are glossing over the fact that people of color can engage in racial fetishism. In any form that it comes, regardless of the perpetrator, we cannot reduce anyone to a mere token.

Not to be mistaken with the mosquito-transmitted virus, “yellow fever” refers to a pejorative cultural term describing men who have an obsession, typically in the form of a sexual fetish, for Asian women. While it is important to note that not

every man dating an Asian woman has “yellow fever,” it becomes an issue when there is not only a clear pattern but also a history of problematic behavior within the relationship.

Objectifying Asian women is not exclusively limited to white men. Most saliently, if we analyze rap music, Asian women frequently become sexual tokens. For example, the rapper Donald Glover, also known as Childish Gambino, makes frequent mention of his fetish for Asian women. In his song “You See Me,” Glover gleefully exclaims that he is “ballin’ each and every day / Asian girls everywhere, UCLA” and that he “need some variation / especially if she very Asian.”

It is not an isolated example.

He also promotes the negative

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stereotype of the emasculated Asian male which is often juxtaposed to the hypersexualized Asian female archetype. When talking about using Asian female bodies as sexual objects, the lyrical phrase “eatin’ Asian p***y, all I need was sweet and sour sauce” from Kanye West’s “I’m In It” is a particularly explicit example as well.

Of course, this form of fetishism is different from the traditional power dynamic that we see. When we look at white men turning Asian women into sexual objects, it comes with strings attached. It comes with the history of laws like the Page Act of 1875, which barred most Asian women from immigrating to the United States, casting them all as prostitutes and the U.S. occupation of Asian countries during the late twentieth century.

It comes with the Suzie Wongs, the Madame Butterflies — the reduction of Asian women to oversexualized erotic tropes.

The sexual fetishism by nonwhite men is no less harmful.

Even though it may not come bearing the same weight of institutionalized subjugation, it still paints Asian women as two-dimensional characters.

Instead of being respected for their personalities and individual beings, they become just more bodies molded to fit prescribed stereotypes.

This discussion is not limited to just intimate relationships. Rather, it is reflective of a larger issue — horizontal prejudice. Sometimes also termed “lateral violence,” horizontal prejudice describes negative actions against one’s peers rather than one’s adversaries. In this context, it means targeted groups acting in a racist manner toward members of their own race or of a different minority group.

Horizontal prejudice is not something we can ignore. Just because you aren’t white does

But traditions are fluid over the course of decades, as they’re altered by changing cultural norms and student body compositions.

Every other collegiate eating club in recent history outside of Princeton has abandoned its exclusive practices. Bicker is too entrenched in campus culture for it to disappear overnight. But the eating clubs could abandon it — one by one — over the course of a decade. A pragmatic, gradualist approach will dually ensure that Bicker does end and that the clubs can adequately adjust their practices to prepare for the change.

Eventually, students would forget that Bicker ever existed.

It’s already hard enough to get into Princeton, so we shouldn’t create new internal boundaries that prevent students from eating with old friends or making new ones. We should aspire to create a coed version of Davidson’s eating house model where any student can join any eating club to partake in its fellowship and service.

While our 11 eating clubs are distinct to Princeton, they are not the sole collegiate eating clubs in existence today or in American history. Their traditions may go back a century, but sometimes traditions need to change in favor of more equitable practices. None of the eating club systems are perfect, but the University’s eating clubs should adopt the progressive policies from other schools that increase fairness, inclusivity, and diversity. By continuing to improve the eating club system, we can create an environment where all Princetonians thrive.

This is the third article in a series about improving the University’s eating clubs.

Liam O’Connor is a sophomore from Wyoming, Del. He can be reached at lpo@princeton.edu.

not inoculate you from perpetuating systems of oppression.

The sexual fetishization of Asian women by men of color is only one instance. It is a twoway street, and we are all admittedly complicit. Anti-blackness in the Asian community, colorism, Chris Rock’s joke at the 2016 Oscars — all examples of horizontal prejudice.

It is hard, almost impossible, to undo centuries of internalized oppression. People of color have been historically pitted against each other, driving deep-seeded wedges between their communities. But there is still possibility for change.

The first and most important step to getting there is creating more opportunities for crosscultural dialogue. Whether that is in classrooms, in the workplace, or on the streets, we need to understand that there is no “other” in the equation.

Even after learning jargon-y terms like “horizontal prejudice,” we cannot weaponize our knowledge. The world does not divide neatly into the guilty and the innocent, the prejudiced and the fair. Instead, we are all complicit in oppressive practices. But rather than wallowing in the existing problems, we must recognize our own shortcomings and learn how to move toward a more equitable society.

While we cannot erase the color line, engaging with each other will help us understand that there are similarities in our experiences. Solidarity matters. And even if we did not face these struggles, we must come to learn empathy and to not discount someone else’s experience. Progress comes from when we get to know one another as individuals, not just as the sums of our stereotypes.

Dora Zhao is a first-year student from Newtown, Pa. She can be reached at dorothyzhao@ princeton.edu.

Sports

Friday February 23, 2018

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Football schedule change could make both Harvard and Yale away games

By David Xin Head Sports Editor

Instead of facing one of the normal age-old rivals Harvard or Yale, the football team will play Brown in next year’s homecoming matchup and end the season playing regional rival Penn. The decision comes after modifications to the Ivy League football schedule announced in mid-December 2017. This conflicts with the traditional schedule for the Tigers. What many alumni have expressed concern about however, is that Princeton will play both the Bulldogs and the Crimson away.

The homecoming games were often the highlight of the football season for alumni and fans alike. However, the new schedules may give the Tigers an opportunity to grow new rivalries and add to the storied traditions of the Ivy League.

“I don’t think this will change the rivalry,” University Director of Athletics Mollie Marcoux said. “The rivalry is still very much intact. A lot of thought went into it.

It is a complicated schedule

and we made sure to hit our principles. The Ivy League football rivalries are fantastic and we will make it great. We will make it a great Princeton experience.”

“Princeton, in terms of homecoming games, will play Harvard when Harvard is here and Brown when Brown is here,” Marcoux said. Although the decision was announced in mid-December, a schedule change has been an ongoing process with initial discussions beginning as early as 2012. Several reasons prompted the schedule change. For example, the new schedule eliminates the need for Dartmouth to travel to Princeton during its final exam period.

More importantly, the Ivy League wanted to promote regional rivalries to enhance the final game of competition.

“Now, the last game will not only have title implications, but it will also feature regional rivalries,” Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris said. “How exciting is that?”

Currently, Harvard and Yale already finish the season together. Next year, The Game -- the famed matched between

the Crimson and Bulldogs -will be hosted in Fenway Park in Boston, Mass. “It just made sense to extend regional rivalries across the Ivy League,” Harris explained. The regional matchups to begin the 2018 season are as follows: BrownDartmouth, Columbia-Cornell, Penn-Princeton, and of course, Harvard-Yale.

The decisions were made by the Ivy League and were voted on by a committee of athletic directors. “Football scheduling is complicated,” said Harris. “We looked at several different options, getting input from various constituencies including football coaches, athletic directors, and people who understand the schedule.”

In addition, the schedule had to comply with numerous Ivy League rules including limits on the number of home and away games teams were allowed to play. “There are many nuances to the schedule and many of the changes were a result of trying to say loyal to Ivy League principles,” Marcoux added.

Several alumni contacted by the ‘Prince’ on the issue declined to comment.

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The updated football schedule appears above.

Games marked in orange are home games, while games marked in white are away.The homecoming game against Brown will take place on Oct. 13, 2018, at Princeton, while the games against Harvard on Oct. 20 and against Yale on Nov. 10 will both be away games.

LACROSSE

Women’s lacrosse wins season opener

By Miranda Hasty

Associate Sports Editor

The women’s lacrosse team opened its spring season against Temple (2–2 overall) last Saturday, clinching its first victory,17–4. The Tigers now sit at No. 9 in the IWCLA poll and No. 12 in the Cascade Media poll.

Four players scored multiple goals, including sophomore midfielder Tess D’Orsi, who scored five times. First-year midfielder Kyla Sears earned four goals and two assists in the first match of her collegiate career, while junior midfielder Kathryn Hallett and junior midfielder Ju-

lia Haney scored a combined total of six goals.

First-year defender Mary Murphy also had an impressive performance for her first match with four ground balls and two caused turnovers, being named Ivy League Defender of the Week.

Though Temple was able to get four balls in the

back of the net, senior goalie Mary Kate McDonough anchored the Tigers from the back with four total saves.

Princeton will look to continue its momentum from the season opener last Saturday against No. 16 Virginia (2–0). The two teams have a competitive history, tied at 18–18 in

total matches. Princeton took the last games at 17–10 and 14–7, but with nine encounters in the NCAA tournament, Virginia has proven to be a fierce contender. The Cavaliers swept the first two games of their spring season, winning 17–4 and 15–7 against Elon and Richmond.

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Women’s lacrosse defeated Temple soundly in its season opener.

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Number of times in the past 24 years that Princeton has finished either first or second in the Men’s Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships

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