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What you need to know Letter from about DACA recipients the Editor and the University

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By Sarah Warman Hirschfield Associate News and Video Editor

In September of 2017, as students left their homes all over the world to come to campus, the Trump administration announced it would begin to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Without DACA, individuals who were brought to the United States illegally as children would lose legal protections and could be forced to leave the country. Since then, the University has engaged in a yearlong legal battle to protect DACA beneficiaries after the policy’s announced rescission.

Since the policy was established in 2012, DACA has shielded eligible individuals from deportation for a renewable two-year period and provided them with work permit eligibility. Of the almost 800,000 undocumented immigrants protected by the program, around 20,000 reside in New Jersey. Last year, 15 were students at the University, prompting the administration to take action to protect students already on campus and in the future.

Joel Martinez GS, a DACA recipient, called the back-andforth legal battle an “emotional rollercoaster.”

“DACA has been a lifeline for many of us and what I’ve

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President Eisgruber ’83 sent a letter to congress in support of DACA last fall.

been seeing is a fighting spirit to keep it alive by whichever means necessary,” he said.

A continuing legal battle Immediately after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced plans to end the program last year, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 sent a letter to congress, urging leaders to prioritize legislation that would provide

both immediate and long-term protection for young people who had enrolled in or were eligible for DACA. The University released a statement of support for DACA students, faculty, and staff, outlining its steps to protect community members from the impact of the announced policy rescission.

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Cheers to the first day of the rest of our lives, Marcia Marcia Brown is a history major from Shaker Heights, Ohio. She can be reached at eic@ dailyprincetonian.com or on Twitter at @Marcia_Brown9 with any questions.

Undergraduate population to expand by 500 by 2026

By Allie Spensley Associate News Editor

The University’s campus is changing — and growing. By 2026, up to two new residential colleges will accommodate 500 new undergraduate students. The University is also reinstating its transfer program, with 10 transfer students arriving on campus in fall of 2018.

New residential buildings are

just one part of the 2026 Campus Plan Framework, which represents the “most ambitious and comprehensive planning process” in the University’s history, according to Executive Vice President Treby Williams ’84.

The framework identifies Lake Carnegie as the future geographic center of campus, with a new nexus of buildings to the south envisioned to include “innovaSee STUDENTS page 11

COURTESY OF MAGGIE MCCALLISTER ,HANNAH PAYNTER, SARAH SPERGEL, RACHEL MACAULAY

Clockwise from top left: Maggie McCallister ’19, Hannah Paynter ’19, Sarah Spergel ’19, Rachel Macaulay ’19.

Twenty years of female leadership on Prospect Ave.

By Ariel Chen

Associate News Editor

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Lake Carnegie, which would be the geographical center of campus.

Eighteen years ago, when Maura George Simpson ’01 considered joining the leadership of Cloister Inn, she initially saw herself as a vice president.

“I wouldn’t have run for president myself,” she said. “I tried to have one of my [male] friends run — I was going to put him up and run for vice president.”

Then, one of Simpson’s older female friends, who she described as vocal and strong, encouraged her to run. Simpson went for it. She won the presidency. The male peer she envisioned as club president ended up being her VP. “It’s interesting to think back on that election, and that there really was some bias on my own part,” Simpson said.

In 2000, Simpson was one of the first female eating club

leaders.

Her peer Melissa Waage ’01, former president of Colonial Club, said that male peers argued against her running for president.

“Because I was a small woman, they didn’t think I had the physical authority to handle interclub politics,” she said.

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a woman would hold me back until I got involved in club politics at Princeton.”

In contrast, this past year, nine out of 11 eating clubs elected female presidents, and many of this year’s newly elected woman presidents eagerly began their eating club leadership journeys as sophomore officers last year.

Kimberly Peterson ’19, president of Colonial Club, became a sophomore officer a few weeks after joining the club and worked on recruitment with the officer corps.

“When elections came around I wanted to give back and show everyone the same warm welcoming feeling I had in sophomore year,” Peterson said.

President of Quadrangle Club Sarah Spergel ’19 also ran for sophomore representative and said that she loved the experience.

Hannah Paynter ’19, president of Cloister Inn, was an assistant to the club’s vice president last year.

“It was a lot of recruitment work and was so much fun to work with all of the officers,” Paynter said. “Almost all of the leadership now were assistant officers last year.”

Waage believes that women in leadership roles help reinforce opportunities for other women.

“Leaders gravitate towards multiple leadership positions,” she explained. “For women interested in building these [leadership] skills, to have that opportunity helps with women in leadership everywhere.”

Waage says that the eating clubs serve as an important training ground for leadership across the University, and she hopes that woman presidents on the Street will have a positive impact across the entire University.

The Interclub Council, which determines the standards for club policies and best practices, is composed of the 11 eating club presidents. So this year, its membership is overwhelmingly female.

One of the ICC’s main goals this term is improving how sexual assault at the clubs is handled. According to ICC copresident Paynter, the ICC is working with the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education office and SHARE peers in the clubs and experimenting with implementation of a consent pledge.

Rachel Macaulay ’19, president of Tower Club and ICC copresident, deferred comment to Paynter.

Jackie Deitch-Stackhouse, who has been director of the SHARE program for just over six years, said that she and the office began cultivating a relationship with the eating clubs early on.

“That relationship has grown deeper and stronger, in large

part due to student interest in creating environments within clubs that are safe and respectful,” said Deitch-Stackhouse.

“I’m very fortunate to be able to build off that foundation.”

According to Deitch-Stackhouse, the SHARE office uses a liaison-based approach. She said that most clubs have at least one member who is a SHARE peer. If there isn’t a peer, the club president is expected to act as that resource.

Deitch-Stackhouse said that a few years ago, the Interclub Council, along with the Title IX office, the SHARE Office, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, and individual clubs came up with a document she called a “best practice matrix” addressing issues such as new member and officer training, club policies and logistics, and club admissions.

Since the learning curve for the club president role is so steep, this common document is especially important when leaders have to make decisions in tough situations, DeitchStackhouse said.

This year SHARE is also piloting a new optional program addressing obstacles that bystanders might run into if they wish to intervene in tough situations.

Deitch-Stackhouse said the process of change is very student-driven and that the new training came about as a result of student requests.

“It’s how we approach our work,” she said. “We go into it keeping in mind that it’s students who are serving as the leaders and the clients, and we’re here to facilitate the process.”

According to Paynter, the ICC is currently working to establish consent pledges for all clubs. While Charter Club has an established policy of requiring Street-goers to read a consent pledge before entering their club, other clubs have been piloting consent pledge programs.

Paynter said that Maggie McCallister ’19, president of Tiger Inn, and RJ Hernandez ’19, president of Cap and Gown Club, have spearheaded the charge for implementing club-specific consent pledges.

“We’re trying to go with a data-driven approach, and whether we need to tailor the pledge to specific clubs, so we’re doing research for all the clubs,” Paynter said.

The efforts that the ICC and the SHARE office are putting toward fighting sexual harassment represent a significant departure from the past, according to Waage and Simpson.

Simpson says that she hopes things that happened two decades ago, such as the drinking atmosphere leading to problems with harassment, are less tolerated now.

“I think that if women who are having trouble can feel more comfortable coming forward to a female president, that’s great,” Simpson said.

“Sexual assault was a serious problem when my class was there, but it was being dealt with with not near as much energy and intensity,” Waage said.

Waage said she is confident that Prospect Avenue’s largely female leadership will positively impact the Street’s culture for women.

“As we’ve seen in business, entertainment, politics, and so on, having women in leadership changes both the tenor of the environment, and the actual policies,” Waage said.

“Having women in leadership absolutely translates into a better environment for women, and how we deal with sexual assault.”

In addition, the ICC also intends to focus on multiple other goals, such as working to make the Street more accessible for underclassmen, especially during the daytime, and improving the sustainability of nights out by improving recycling programs.

“We’ve been talking in ICC about getting people in the door so that it’s a less mysterious process. I fear that some underclassmen never really see the Street through anything but nightlife, and we’ve been talking about making the Street as a whole less mysterious and secretive,” Paynter said.

Hernandez expressed excitement about working with the new cohort of presidents.

“Through our first few ICC meetings, it’s already clear that they are going to bring creative and inspiring ideas to their clubs, and to the Street as a whole,” Hernandez said.

The ICC of today tackles a much broader slate of issues than that of 20 years ago. According to Waage, the ICC of 2000 focused mainly on Street governance: managing sign-in and Bicker, calendar mechanics, and adherence to Princeton Borough policies.

“I believe that there was one other female president at that time,” she said.

With the recent influx of female leaders, though, ICC may face more scrutiny and pressure than usual.

“I think that there’s going to be a lot expected from ICC this year, having so many women on board,” Spergel said.

Spergel said she is confident in the ICC’s power to enact change this year however.

“I think that we can turn this into something big with Princeton’s eating clubs’ positive image overall,” Spergel said.

These women hope to make changes in their individual clubs as well.

Paynter emphasized the importance of making sophomore members feel as comfortable as possible by asking for their input on group bonding activities.

“We’ve been tailoring our members’ nights to sophomores, trying to make them feel like they have ownership of the club,” Paynter said.

“I’m most excited to get to know everyone and build relationships in the club. No year is ever going to be the same, and we just got a fantastic group of sophomores, and next year they’ll be here every day,” Paynter said.

McCallister shared similar sentiments. “My goal is to foster a community that forges strong bonds of friendship that members can carry with them beyond their years at Princeton,” she said.

The cohort of presidents is also working on accessibility and community-building outside of the clubs themselves.

McCallister said that she plans “to approach this year with a willingness to engage in authentic conversations between the University, our graduate board, and our membership.”

Spergel said that Quad has “a new position called outreach chair, whose goal is to reach out to professors and bring them to meals, and work with student groups to host events such as Latin dance night, to diversify the club’s experience.”

“We want to make it part of a larger Princeton community, so people don’t have to choose,” Spergel said.

Macaulay said that Tower recently hosted a study break which raised $1,700 for HomeFront, a nonprofit that assists the homeless.

Conor O’Brien ’19, president of Charter, said he wanted to “work on communicating what the eating club process entails and what the overall culture is like, to underclassmen,” because it seems to him that many people are still mystified by the entire experience.

Though these election results are historic, they are not surprising to those elected.

“It’s not that it’s nine women, it’s that these institutions elected 11 capable, wonderful individuals and nine happened to be women,” Macaulay said.

Her peers, male and female, agree that the group represents a qualified and deserving group.

“I already knew a lot of the women who were elected to the presidency in their respective clubs, and I know them all to be brilliant, intelligent, and determined people, so I was thrilled to find out that they had been elected,” O’Brien said.

Similarly, Hernandez explained, “I’m excited to be a part of this moment and to learn and grow from all of the different takes they each are going to bring to the role.”

“I had previous relationships with most of the women elected, so it makes the relationships and discussions and projects and goals even more exciting,” he added.

Similarly, Spergel focused more on the group’s leadership than on its gender composition.

“I think that men are great leaders as well, but this is really refreshing and a sign of progress,” Spergel said.

“I shared the news with everyone I could find in Charter, so that they could all see just how far the clubs have come, because really it’s very cool to have a large majority of the presidents be women,” O’Brien said.

For Paynter, seeing her fellow women attain leadership roles beside her was especially exciting.

“I was excited to see young women stepping up and taking those roles, especially in open clubs. I feel like we have a bond of similar mentality,” Paynter said.

For McCallister, this year’s elections are a sign that the eating clubs are changing with the needs of the student body.

“Having been historically underrepresented in the eating club system, it is amazing to watch the eating clubs transform to become increasingly inclusive environments for women,” McCallister said.

“Three years ago, TI elected its first female president, Grace Larsen [’16], and I feel honored to follow in her footsteps as the second.”

Peterson agreed, saying, “It’s exciting, and it’s not necessarily unexpected. I think that eating clubs are much more egalitarian and gender-balanced now, and that will continue into the future.”

For both Simpson and Waage, female leadership is a self-strengthening cycle.

“It really took someone who was vocal and strong, who told me ‘You should run,’ for me to do it,” Simpson said. “It helped me go on to other positions in leadership, and to push my boundaries more, and I hope that these current presidents see themselves in more leadership roles during and after college.”

“These things come in numbers. Once you look around and see other people doing it, you think you can do it too,” Simpson said.

Though both celebrate the advances made by the recent slate of elections, Waage and Simpson also both inquired about the number of women of color in eating club leadership, noting the need for continued progress toward improved diversity.

“At the time we really thought we were trailblazers, and yet clearly there’s a lot more work to be done,” Waage said.

In the present, though, Waage encouraged the women presidents to believe in themselves, and Simpson advised these leaders to focus on standing up for what is right.

“Don’t worry about how you look as a female president,” Simpson said. “Just be a president, and make decisions that you are going to be proud of going forward.”

Casey Swezey ’19 of Cottage Club, Julia Haney ’19 of Cannon Dial Elm Club, Mimi Asom ’19 of Ivy Club, and Liz Yu ’19 of Terrace Club did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF UNDERGRADUATE STUFIES.

Left to right: Thaddeus Whelan, Brendan O’Hara, Jake Sawtelle at Ivy League Veterans Council in Columbia last April.

By Rebecca Ngu Senior Writer

In Memory Opening the doors of Nassau Hall reveals an austere, dimly-lit chamber encased in white marble — the Memorial Atrium. Inscribed on the walls are the names of men who have died fighting in U.S. wars since the University was founded in 1746. Those who died in the Vietnam War are the most recent names to be added.

A Latin inscription hangs over the columns: Memoria Aeterna Retinent Alma Mater Filios Pro Patria Animas Ponentes. Translated, it says, “In eternal memory our Alma Mater holds her sons who laid down their lives for their country.”

In the near subterranean light of the windowless room, the meaning of our University motto —“In the nation’s service and in the service of humanity” — sinks like an anchor.

Leaving the room feels like escaping a tomb. Closing the door and re-entering the liveliness of a college campus again is a relief, but the atrium is hermetically sealed, sequestered from the bustle of campus and town.

Military servicemembers are literally incorporated into the architecture and memory of this University.

But are they here in 2018?

A Missing Minority Though veterans have always been part of the University and the administration, faculty, staff, and graduate student body, they have historically been absent within the undergraduate student body. Until this past fall, the University only had one veteran — who graduated last May — in the undergraduate student body.

The paucity of veterans has been a weakness in the Uni-

versity’s claims of featuring a diverse, well-rounded student body. In a 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly article, critics voiced their discontent. The University has consistently trailed its Ivy League peers in veteran enrollment.

President of Student Veterans of America Michael Dakduk told Princeton Alumni Weekly in 2012, “If I could point to a university that is not doing all it could to attract veterans, I would point to Princeton.”

Veterans are generally overlooked as an underrepresented minority in elite colleges.

As of November 2017, Cornell currently has 24 undergraduate veterans enrolled; Brown has 18, and has waived application fees for veterans this year; Yale has twelve 12, while Harvard has six. Inside Higher Ed conducted a survey of 36 selective schools, including the University, in November 2016. Out of the 160,000 students included in the survey, 645 of them identified as veterans — less than one percent — even though there are an estimated 22 million veterans in the country.

A study conducted by the Student Veterans of America indicated that about 52 percent of veterans completed postsecondary education after being released. But those veterans just aren’t coming here.

One reason for the lack of veterans was the discontinuation of the transfer program in 1990, which was restarted this past fall. Keith Shaw, who was hired as director for transfer programs, explained that the lack of a transfer program meant that applicants who had credits from other institutions were ineligible to be admitted because they would be considered transfer applicants.

The University is slowly changing the story. In 2013, it joined Yellow Ribbon, a government program that sub-

sidizes tuition for veterans enrolled in private universities. That same year, it began participating in Service to Schools, a non-profit that provides free counseling to veterans applying to colleges. Two of the veterans, Tyler Eddy and Brendan O’Hara, used Service to Schools in their college application process. This summer, the University hosted the Warrior Scholar Project, a week-long boot camp to help veterans transition from the military to academia.

The fruits of this program are beginning to show. Five U.S. veterans were admitted and enrolled in the undergraduate student body as part of the Class of 2021, the first time in the modern history of the University. The five veterans are Eddy, Thaddeus Whelan, Jake Sawtelle, Brendan O’Hara, and Christopher Wilson. They range in age from 22 to 26, hail from Nashville to New Jersey, come from the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and are interested in everything from business to astrophysics. Two of them are married and live with their partners in Lakeside apartments.

Admitted before the start of the transfer program, they will be joined by seven veterans and one reservist next fall in the first year that the University has accepted transfer applicants since 1990.

This pivot to admit veterans and students from nontraditional backgrounds is motivated by a desire to expand the University’s definition of service to include military service.

Deputy Dean of College Elizabeth Colagiuri, who served in active duty in the Navy for five years, said, “The overarching motivation for including veterans in our student population really does go to the University’s motto, ‘In the nation’s service and in the service of humanity.’

“In a place that really elevates the importance of service,” she continued, “we want to make sure that we are also including military and former military servicemembers.”

The inclusion of veterans provides an insight into the on-the-ground realities of the wars the US has waged for over a decade. “We’ve been in a period post 9/11 where we have active conflicts going on, these are very long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Colagiuri said. “And yet we you have large percentages of the population who still don’t know people who are serving on active duty.”

Shaw, the administrator in charge of the veterans’ welfare, justified the move as a way to promote a richer marketplace of ideas.

“The wars are unpopular and not especially salient. It’s not like there’s a ’60s anti-war left,” he said. “It’s harder for [war] not to be real in a class with a person for whom it was extremely real. It might force us to pay attention to some things that matter.”

This cohort of undergraduate veterans arrived with the burden to represent and pioneer a path forward for a group historically absent from campus. This past year has been a time of surprise, challenge, and learning.

The following section features profiles of three of the five veterans and what brought them to the University.

Where They’re From Eddy dropped out of college in his freshman year. He was attending Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis.

While Eddy liked learning, he felt academically directionless while in college. Feeling constrained by the routines of school, he dropped out his first year and began working as a mechanic at an auto parts shop. While learning useful skills, Eddy knew it was ultimately a dead-end. He poked his head in a military recruitment office. The military offered leadership, trade skills, and a chance to travel.

He joined the Marine Corps and worked for five years as an aviation mechanic, with one year of training.

In the meantime, Eddy married his wife, Kaitlyn, welcomed a baby girl into the world, two-year-old Zoe, and naturalized into a U.S. citizen, as he was born in Canada.

A little over two years into his military service, while stationed in Camp Pendleton in California, Eddy caught sight of a big billboard advertising Yale’s Eli Whitney program.

What was Yale doing in a military camp all the way out in California, he wondered.

“Enlisted people in military getting out are not thinking ‘I can apply to an Ivy League school,’” he said. The majority of enlisted soldiers join the military without having first attended college. About 92 percent of military veterans have at most a high school degree or some college experience. Fewer than seven percent have a bachelor’s degree.

At his base’s education center, Eddy learned about a scholar leadership program that helps veterans apply to colleges. He began bumping into veteran advocates and college admissions officers at military bases, one of whom hailed from the University.

“A lot of hard working people, extremely dedicated people here, were rooting to try and get veterans to start coming here,” he said.

During the application process, the University was his dream, but he told himself that he’d be satisfied settling for a lower-ranked school.

“Princeton was my shot in the dark,” he said.

He was accepted. By the time he attended Princeton Preview at the University last April, he had already committed. This year, Eddy, a 26-yearold married veteran with a toddler in tow, began college as a freshman. *** The military was an extremely formative experience in a different way for Whelan, a sharp-spoken 22-year-old, as it enabled him to realize that he belonged in school.

The military was a way out of a small town existence. He grew up up as a bright, but unmotivated student from a lower-class family in the tiny town of Springtown, Texas.

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New program helps Puerto Rican scholars research impacts of Hurricane Maria

By Katie Tam Contributor

From July 9 to Sep. 1, the University will be hosting 13 scholars through the Visiting Scholars and Artists from Puerto Rico program. The program provides a space for researchers affected by the devastation of Hurricane Maria to advance their work. They will be provided with office space, access to library and scholarly resources, a stipend for living expenses and off-campus housing, and opportunities to interact with colleagues.

The program is sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies and the Office of the Provost and is endorsed by the Princeton Task Force on Puerto Rico.

The visiting fellows’ independent projects range from researching the intersections of migration and contemporary art to analyzing interviews with policy makers about energy use. Some projects respond directly to the repercussions of Hurricane Maria, while others explore long-term interests in grief and memory.

A call to action Thinking that the University had not responded strongly enough to the devastation in Puerto Rico, Emeritus Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and former PLAS director Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones mobilized faculty from PLAS, the Spanish and Portuguese department, and others to respond. In late fall of 2017, they sent a letter to the Office of the Provost, which led directly to the formation of the Princeton Task Force on Puerto Rico.

Díaz-Quiñones organized two symposia during the 2017­ –18 academic year, but wanted to do more.

The Princeton Task Force on Puerto Rico, which includes faculty from the departments of Anthropology, History, Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American Studies, and English, as well as representatives from the PACE Center and Office of the Provost, worked to create a program that would bring Puerto Ricans in need to campus. The group wanted to dig deep and make a meaningful impact in the lives of researchers.

“What can we do that really helps people, scholars, artists, and students in the island?”

PLAS director Maria Gabriela Nouzeilles said, explaining the motivations behind the initiative.

In spring 2018, PLAS and the Princeton Task Force on Puerto Rico called for applications from the University of Puerto Rico. They also reached out for applicants through digital research journals.

They received approximately 70 applications total. Applications were evaluated based on both how much help was needed and how much help the University could provide.

Diverse research postMaria Of the 13 accepted fellows, eight have already settled into their offices on the third floor of Aaron Burr Hall. The rest will arrive later this summer.

Many fellows are faculty from UPR. Érika Fontánez-Torres,

a professor at the UPR law school, arrived on July 9.

She studies conceptual and practical implications of property in Puerto Rico. At UPR, Fontánez-Torres taught a seminar where law students interacted closely with people affected by housing crises.

They talked to people harmed by foreclosures and evictions, and those who lacked official property deeds.

“Who owns the property?

What is the distribution of property? How is it that the majority of Puerto Ricans are in this crisis? I’m trying to understand,” Fontánez-Torres said.

Fontánez-Torres said housing problems in Puerto Rico were exacerbated by the destruction of Hurricane Maria.

The concept of property ownership was radically changed when thousands lost their homes and faced barriers to receiving emergency aid, she said.

Now, Fontánez-Torres hopes she can use VISAPUR to increase awareness and empower the Puerto Rican public to remedy its deepseeded housing problems.

Jorge Lizardi-Pollock, a professor at the UPR School of Architecture, arrived on July 15.

He will research how writers respond to disasters and how countries handle the destruction of places of memory and heritage.

“It’s so difficult to represent what happens after [disasters],” Lizardi-Pollock said.

Hurricane Maria destroyed old buildings in southern Puerto Rico that were a key part of Puerto Rico’s heritage, he said. The buildings were hit hard by the storm and flooding, and there was no money and resources to conserve or rebuild them.

Lizardi-Pollock is interested in how buildings contribute to people’s lives on a personal and individual level.

“It’s important for the identity of the people, for the sense of belonging,” he said. “Architectural heritage should be for all. It should be for my son, for my grandsons, for other generations. Identity always needs a reference to a place.”

Associate professor of political science Cecilio Ortiz García, sociology professor Marla Pérez Lugo, and undergraduate history student Javier A. Nieves Torres — all from UPR-Mayaguez — also arrived on July 15. They are working on projects that integrate politics, sociology, and history with energy.

They are analyzing over 30 pre-Maria interviews with key policymakers in Puerto Rico to understand their perspectives on issues of energy and the environment. Within sociology, they are considering household surveys and other data documenting how communities use shared resources as a model for shared energy infrastructure. In the field of history, Nieves Torres is creating a timeline of energy transitions and usage on the island.

“We’re looking at past energy transitions and their purposes so that we don’t repeat the same mistakes,” Nieves Torres said.

Ortiz García and Pérez Lugo have worked on issues of energy for years. In 2015, they

co-founded UPR’s National Institute of Energy and Island Sustainability, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding not only the science of energy but also the human impacts of it.

“Electrical systems are not only physical or technological, they are also social,” Ortiz García said. “They are tools that society uses to achieve goals.”

The three scholars aim to model sustainable energy markets and the relationship between producers and consumers, and energy and social decisions.

Pérez Lugo said Hurricane Maria brought a new legitimacy to their work. Power outages caused by the disaster led to shortages of water and food, affecting vulnerable populations like the sick and elderly.

“Electricity means water supply. Electricity means food. Electricity means the difference between surviving and not surviving,” Pérez Lugo said. “Electricity and access to energy is not just a technological thing, it’s a political thing, it’s a sociological thing, it’s a psychological thing, it’s a physiological thing.”

Puerto Rico, which had a centralized system of energy in the past, is moving to more community-based, sustainable forms, which may be more robust in the face of disasters like Maria. The University’s own microgrid system, which was key after Superstorm Sandy, serves as a model that they hope to learn from, Ortiz García said.

Alfonso Fuentes, an associate professor at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico and an internationally known composer and musician, arrived on July 22. He plans to work on the orchestration of the first movement of his clarinet concerto, titled Oda para los árboles caídos (Ode for the Fallen Trees). He began the concerto in 2016 but revised it immediately following Hurricane Maria in October of 2017.

“I created a new draft, because my emotions had dramatically altered,” Fuentes wrote in a statement.

In the statement, Fuentes explained that his composition was inspired by the destruction of the crisis. One movement is about the trees that were mutilated by the storm, but slowly regained strength. Like the idea of a fallen tree growing back to life, the entire piece is about hope, said Fuentes.

Laura Bravo López, an art history professor at UPR-Río Piedras, will arrive on Aug. 5 along with Donald Escudero Rivera, a master’s degree candidate. Bravo López and Escudero Rivera will research how migration is represented in Puerto Rican contemporary art. Bravo Lopez helped to curate the exhibition Ida y Vuelta (Round Trip) at the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art at the Río Piedras campus. The exhibition explored migration through painting, photography, and other installations. After the exhibition closed and Hurricane Maria struck, however, she felt that the relationship to migration changed.

“Days after, a displacement crisis from Puerto Rico to the United States reached un-

precedented high levels, and I found that our research needs an update,” Bravo López wrote in a statement.

“Puerto Rican artists are representing their experiences with profound sensitivity and conceptual strength, and migration has been one of the most dramatic consequences of the passage of Hurricane Maria,” she wrote.

Jose Caraballo-Cueto, an assistant professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research at the UPR-Cayey, arrived on July 22. He hopes to resume a project examining racial disparities in health outcomes in Puerto Rico.

Herminio Rodríguez, a professional photographer and professor in the communication department of Inter American University of Puerto Rico, will arrive on Aug. 5. He plans to continue choosing, organizing, and editing 30,000-plus photographs from an 18-year project documenting las Fiestas de Santiago (St. James Festivities) in Loíza, Puerto Rico.

Every July, residents of Loíza don colorful costumes and march in processions as part of a celebration of Santiago, one of the city’s patron saints.

Rodríguez hopes to gain insight on this tradition by also visiting the Loiceña community in El Barrio in New York, which hosts a similar celebration.

“This encounter will help me to demonstrate how, during the immigration process, the cultural traditions and heritage are one of the most important things they carried and use to surpass and survive despite being far from their homeland,” Rodríguez wrote in a statement.

Rodríguez also expressed that although the hurricane ripped Puerto Rico apart, communities would find ways to heal through longheld traditions. People will use the festival to overcome their struggles from the hurricane, just as they have used it to surpass social and racial threats in the past, he wrote.

He hopes to capture that energy of faith and survival in his photography.

PLAS also hopes to help facilitate conversations between the fellows and University faculty by hosting two workshops with research talks.

Manuel Clavell Carrasquillo, Errol L. Montes-Pizzaro, and Nibia Pastrana Santiago did not respond to a request for comment.

Resilience in the face of disaster Disruptions in the wake of Hurricane Maria made it difficult for many scholars and artists to continue their work.

In addition to the physical damage of offices and studios, fellows had to deal with lack of connectivity — both in person and through the internet. Transportation issues made it difficult to meet with colleagues. Power shortages prevented online access and computer use. The fellows said it could feel impossible to focus on academic research and advancement in the midst of such tragedy and destruction.

UPR was severely impacted.

In the wake of Maria, UPR suspended classes for five weeks.

To make up for the delay, stu-

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dents and teachers had a nearly nonstop schedule until the regularly scheduled end-ofterm date in June. The length of classes and lectures was extended, and classes were held on weekend and holidays.

“At the end, we were exhausted. There was no strength anymore to continue,” Fontánez-Torres said.

Dorms, libraries, and other buildings at UPR were damaged, and floodwaters destroyed books and historical documents. Lizardi-Pollock recounted that he had to hammer a hole in the wall of his office to drain out water.

Still, the fellows were impressed with the community’s resilience and students’ willingness to help. When UPR called for assistance in moving 30,000 books from the library to safety, thousands pitched in.

“Most of our students have gone through heartbreaking experiences, but it is also moving to be the witness of their efforts and achievements in these serious circumstances. Our university has gone through a life-changing experience, but there is a sense of community that remains strong,” Bravo López wrote.

Ortiz García said he believes that universities can learn from the communities surrounding them.

“Communities were very resilient. Organizing themselves, opening roads, cleaning debris, finding new and innovative ways of getting water,” he said. “We don’t see communities as static repositories, but active participants in resilience-seeking activities.”

Lessons for Princeton and Puerto Rico Nouzeilles said she hopes that the VISAPUR program will provide relief to scholars and artists and encourage exploration and forms of collaboration.

“We want to explore formal and informal forms of collaboration, exchange of information, teaching projects,” Nouzeilles said. She hopes also to establish connections for future visits to the island for volunteer work, research, and outreach.

The fellows said their time here will allow them to go back to Puerto Rico feeling recharged.

“We are looking to access documents, pictures, videos that we can use,” Nieves Torres said. “But also, fresh air — take some space away from Puerto Rico and see how things are going so we can go back into it.”

“Being here gives me the time, the resources, in order to go back to Puerto Rico,” Fontánez-Torres said.

The fellows also hope to contribute their unique insights and knowledge to the University community. For example, Pérez Lugo said people reacted with surprise when she talked about combining the social sciences and energy. She knows that all of the scholars will be bringing critical new perspectives to the University.

Nouzeilles agrees.

“This is like the spark, and we have to see what happens,” Nouzeilles said.

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Thousands of homes suffered damage and vegetation was destroyed by violent winds during Hurricane Maria.

The main tower at University of Puerto Rico includes the emblem of Harvard University.

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“Ida y Vuelta” exhibit at the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art at UPR.

Thousands are still living in houses with provisional blue plastic tarps as roofs.

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Followers of Santiago walking in Loíza during Las Fiestas de Santiago procession on July 26th, 2014.

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ing private information unless presented with a subpoena, the University provides legal support by funding attorney consultants for DACA beneficiaries, covers the cost of DACA renewal filing fees, and re-evaluates financial aid awards if changes in DACA employment authorization affect students’ employment income.

In November 2017, the University filed a joint complaint in federal court along with Maria De La Cruz Perales Sanchez ’18 and Microsoft. They argued that terminating DACA harms its beneficiaries and their employers and violates their due process rights.

In April 2018, a federal judge ruled that DACA protections must stay in place and that the government must resume accepting new applications, calling its rescission “arbitrary and capricious.” The judge, John D. Bates of the District Court for the District of Columbia, stayed his decision for 90 days to allow the Department of Homeland Security to explain why the program was being canceled.

Days later, Texas and six other states sued the administration in an attempt to end the program by “challenging the 2012 executive action creating DACA in the first place.”

“This lawsuit is emphatically about the rule of law,” wrote the states of Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and West

Virginia in the lawsuit. They argued that the Obama administration did not have the constitutional authority to allow undocumented immigrants to stay and work in the United States.

“Three activist federal judges have blocked the federal government from canceling DACA,” said Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas, referring to Bates and two other federal judges who ruled in favor of preserving DACA. “That means that unelected federal judges are forcing the Trump administration to leave an unlawful program in place indefinitely as legal challenges drag on.”

As a result of the two-sided challenge raised by different states, the program’s legal status is in limbo. Moreover, Congress has been unable to pass legislation, such as the DREAM Act, that would afford protections to those affected by DACA’s repeal.

An uncertain future While the University’s policies and procedures regarding DACA remain unchanged, the outcome of the legal battles will affect the futures of current beneficiaries.

The Davis International Center and the Undergraduate Financial Aid and Student Employment Office continue to support DACA beneficiaries, including by providing legal assistance and covering filing fees.

“DACA status does not have a significant impact on financial aid eligibility,” explained Benjamin Eley, the senior asso-

ciate director of undergraduate financial aid and student employment. “While DACA students do not receive financial aid from the federal government, they are eligible for needbased aid from the University.”

Likewise, DACA students can work on campus to earn extra income.

Frist Campus Center, where many students are employed.

“Every two years, DACA students must pay nearly $500 to renew their Employment Authorization Card,” Eley explained. “The Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid offers increased financial aid for DACA recipients to cover the renewal fee.”

Soraya Morales Nuñez ’18, a DACA recipient, said that the University’s support for DACA students has increased since she arrived on campus.

Working with the Davis Center and University administrators gave students the opportunity to feel more welcomed, according to Morales Nuñez.

Martinez, who came to the United States when he was four and now is a graduate student in psychology, said the University connected him to lawyers, helped him submit DACA renewals, and assisted him in figuring out funding when his DACA temporarily expired two years ago. The Pace Center’s DREAM team, which organizes events and meetings for the migrant community, was another important resource, according to Martinez.

Joel Martinez GS, a DACA recipient.

“I have been lucky enough

that my current DACA status is renewed long enough to finish my doctorate programs, the hope being that the administration should not be able to retroactively take away an active status,” he said. “However, if it is repealed and a renewal is unlikely, in a few years I will ironically be an American-educated doctor without the ability to work or live in the United States.”

Martinez said it’s a misconception that it is easy to get immigration papers and that those who do not get them are lazy.

“The truth is that many of us do go to immigration lawyers and find out we do not have any legal pathway to any status given current immigration law, making DACA a necessary band-aid,” he explained.

Many undocumented LGBTQ+ individuals, for example, were not able to change their status through marriage until same-sex marriage was legalized nationally in 2015.

Morales Nuñez said that the University has an imperative to continue supporting DACA and undocumented students — on campus and beyond.

“As we continue to monitor the situation with DACA and the other high-stakes issues surrounding immigration today, I would like to see [the University] make efforts to further educate the alumni community and encourage involvement in their respective communities and professions,” she said.

More simply, the University community should support DACA recipients because it is

the ethical thing to do, according to Morales Nuñez.

“We cannot say we are in the service of humanity if we do not continue pursuing avenues to provide support of all types to the University’s immigrant community and the immigrant community at large,” she said.

Martinez warned against generalizing any single experience to a universal narrative.

While some DACA recipients have engaged in direct action to decry the ICE procedures and immigration policy, others have talked to media outlets to share their stories.

“This is a very important step, since public visibility is often dangerous, leaving the undocumented immigrant narrative to be constructed by politicians and national media pundits,” he said.

The stories are diverse.

Some speak of tales of excellence and triumph, others focus on the human dignity of immigrants as human beings, according to Martinez, who has written of his experience in the United States.

“While we should continue to tell our stories for Americans who may not have much contact with us, we should be careful about branding ourselves as a model minority — exceptional immigrants — at the expense of other immigrants who were excluded from DACA-like protections and are being criminalized and deported every day,” he added.

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Frist Campus Center, where many students are employed.

Joel Martinez GS, a DACA recipient.

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Proposed dining plans will not go forward as intended

By Benjamin Ball Staff Writer

The mandatory unlimited meal plan for incoming firstyear students will be implemented next year, while the rest of the proposed dining plan will continue to be re-

vised by the administration in response to student feedback.

According to an email from USG, the mandatory unlimited meal plan is the only portion of the proposal going into effect next year.

Rachel Yee ’19, president of the Undergraduate Student

Government, said that the reasoning behind making the unlimited plan mandatory for all first years was partially to ensure that none of them would be excluded from the culture around Late Meal.

“The mandatory unlimited meal plan instituted for first

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years next year is intended to be a pilot,” they wrote. “No changes will be made to other dining plans at this time.”

The original proposed plan received significant pushback from students. Many students took issue with the fact that the proposed plan seemed to strongly deter many students from joining co-ops or going independent.

“There are people who go independent because that is more affordable for them; they are doing that to specifically avoid having a dining hall plan,” said Sally Ruybalid ’21. “It would have been detrimental to those people.”

Yee said she received well over 300 student comments in response to the plan, which she presented to the administration.

“I’m very glad they took student input into consideration,” said Yee. “Over 150 people came to the feedback sessions in person, and they really took that to heart and they’re going back to the drawing board.”

According to Yee, the administration is planning to take all feedback they’ve received, synthesize it, and begin redrafting over the summer.

“I really think the intention behind the original plan was good, but the implementation was not,” said Yee. “As to what the plan is going to look like going forward, that is to be determined.”

The Princeton University Board Plan Review is the committee currently revisiting dining on campus. Dan Day, Assistant Vice President for Communications at the University and a member of the review, wanted to emphasize that the the current proposal is very much a work in progress.

“It was a proposal, not a formal plan to move forward,” said Day. “Everything else will be taken under advisement, and we’ll still look for feedback from students this term and presumably when we come back in the fall.”

According to both Day and Yee, this is the first effort to reevaluate dining on campus in well over a decade.

Day added that in that time the student body has changed markedly, and a dining plan for that student body needs to change accordingly.

“The discussion will continue,” said Day. “We want to get this plan right for all the students we can.”

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tion space,” graduate housing, retail shops, and possibly a hotel.

A continuous diagonal walk will stretch from Mathey to Poe Field, while east-west and northsouth “campus connectors” will form continuous walkways between the most distant parts of campus. These changes are meant to discourage the use of cars in favor of shuttles, bikes, and walking.

Many students are unaware of the extent of the changes, which are projected to be completed in the next 10 years. Some are optimistic about the University’s expansion. Others worry that the increased number of students and square miles will alter the existing sense of campus community.

“I’m happy about the changes and I know I won’t see them in my time, but I feel like it’s going to change campus a lot,” Jad Bechara ’20 said.

Bechara added that he thinks increased reliance on shuttles will make the University feel more like a city campus.

“I feel like campus hubs will change,” he said. “It’s not going to be all centered around Frist and Firestone.”

In particular, Bechara commented that having classes near Lake Carnegie would change students’ experience of the campus.

According to Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day, however, the Campus Plan doesn’t envision locating classrooms by the lake or on the lands south of it.

A more expansive campus is unappealing to some. Mike Zupko

’20 is concerned about how the additional 500 undergraduate students will affect campus culture.

“Expanding the campus population alters the intimate setting that the university prides itself on, whether it is a small 10 percent increase or an even larger one,” he said.

Todd Gilman ’20 said he also values the University’s small size, as well as the student-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, which he’s worried will be negatively impacted. Additionally, he’s concerned geographic shifts will make students feel less socially connected to each other.

In general, Gilman said he doesn’t see the benefits of the expansion.

“Expanding the campus size could detract from the small, close-knit environment that makes Princeton unique,” Gilman said. “My question is, what is the need behind this? I think the

money could be better spent on, say, more financial aid or fixing our current dorms. I don’t see why we need to build a whole other part of campus.”

The University’s strategic planning framework points to the steadily increasing number of applicants — and the shrinking acceptance rate — to justify expanding the undergraduate student body. It argues that the admissions office is annually forced to reject many well-qualified applicants who could use a Princeton education to change “a nation and a world where the exceptional teaching and research [Princeton] can provide are at once greatly needed and all too rare.”

More buildings are needed for more people, but the campus expansion is also designed to meet a host of other goals ranging from environmental sustainability to

“fostering collaboration” and “inviting serendipity.”

However, some students believe the goals for expansion have not been made convincingly evident to the University community.

“I’m not really sure what the purpose of our new campus is,” Gilman said. “I don’t think that’s been clearly communicated to us.”

Others are skeptical about whether new spaces will be smoothly integrated into the existing campus, and wonder how campus will maintain the distinctive sense of place they’re familiar with “It seems quixotic to be like, we’ll build this new thing and then everyone will immediately feel this is part of campus,” Paul Schorin ’19 said. “2026 refers to when the building is done but not when it’s part of campus.”

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The campus planning framework envisions a new Lake Campus as an integrated extension of the existing campus.

This drawing shows a perspective looking north toward Lake Carnegie and the Delaware and Raritan Canal.

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History professor Kevin Kruse discusses Twitter fame combatting ahistorical facts

APRIL 5, 2016

By Benjamin Ball Staff Writer

Like a lithe cat, history professor Kevin Kruse carefully eyes his prey before pouncing. Only Kruse’s prey is ahistorical facts and his territory is Twitter.

Rapper Kanye West was one of Kruse’s recent targets.

After a hiatus from Twitter, Kanye West stirred up controversy almost immediately by espousing support for Donald Trump.

Met with backlash, West argued the Republican party was the party that freed the slaves, while the Democratic party was the party of slave owners. But according to historians, the parties’ current views on race and civil rights have changed significant-

ly since the Emancipation Proclamation. West, however, implied the parties are the same ones that existed at the time of the Civil War. Although West’s statements referenced historical fact, to many users, his tweets ranged from overly simplifying the two parties’ histories to being downright false.

Kruse promptly took to Twitter and replied to the rapper, ultimately creating a 40-tweet-long twentiethcentury lesson on exactly how and why the two parties changed their stances on civil rights.

“If somebody with that kind of platform, with that kind of attention, is out there saying things that just don’t fit with historical record, then I’ll inter-

vene,” Kruse said.

Professors at the University often use social media, and Twitter specifically, for a variety of unique purposes and aims. Kruse is among a number of professors and academics being referred to as #twitterhistorians. Kruse said his goal is to respond immediately to false representations of history and ensure that fact prevails over fiction.

According to Kruse, West is far from the only person on Twitter pushing oversimplified narratives.

Regarding the tweets in question, Kruse claims West is a part of recent pushback against the idea that the Republican and Democratic parties changed their ideas on race since the civil war.

“This is a basic thread

MARCH 20, 2018

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Standoff at Panera ends with gunman killed by police

By Claire Thornton

By Allie Spensley Associate News Editor

This story was originally published as a breaking story. Editors of the ‘Prince’ republished it here so that incoming first year students can be informed about a national issue that affected the Princeton community shortly before their time on campus.

An armed man inside Panera Bread at 136 Nassau St. was shot and killed by police Tuesday afternoon after close to five hours of negotiations with law enforcement officials.

The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has identified the man as Scott Mielentz, 56. Mielentz was a resident of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and previously lived in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Shortly after 10 a.m., members of the Princeton Police Department surrounded Mielentz inside of Panera. After customers and employees evacuated the establishment, law enforcement officials continued to negotiate with him. The situation ended shortly before 3 p.m. when the police shot and killed Mielentz, according to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.

Nassau Street was shut down between Washington Road and Witherspoon Street with no traffic permitted. Members of the University community received a timely alert via email and phone warning students to stay away from the area. The two campus buildings closest to Panera, Henry House and Scheide Caldwell House, were evacuated. All other University operations continued as normal, according to Assistant Vice President for Communications Dan Day. Police also shut down neighboring buildings on the north side of Nassau Street, according to the University website.

An emergency alert via phone call at 11:55 a.m. erroneously alerted some members of the University community that gunshots had been fired and called for a shelter in place. A correc-

tion was issued via phone shortly after. The University is actively working to determine what caused the inaccurate phone call, according to Day. A 12:25 p.m. update on the University homepage announced that the police were negotiating with the man.

By 1 p.m., a SWAT team had arrived on Nassau Street.

At 2:30 p.m., a statement from Princeton Chief of Police Nicholas Sutter said that “the immediate area of the store has been evacuated and police continue to negotiate with the armed man.”

Kayla Moffett ’18 was walking past Panera when she saw a single police officer run past, beginning to draw her gun from its holster and point it toward the door. Moffett said she ran toward the first door she saw — the entrance to 30 Burgers at 124 Nassau St. 30 Burgers locked its doors and Moffett sheltered inside with other pedestrians, watching as more police officers arrived on the scene. Eventually, a police officer with an assault rifle told those inside 30 Burgers to evacuate.

Maddie Wu ’21 was eating at Frutta Bowls, two doors down from Panera, when she saw police cars surround Panera.

“We saw all these police cars coming to Panera but we didn’t know what was going on at first,” Wu said.

“Then we saw a lot of people with guns coming out, the police. They were frantically trying to surround Panera, so they told us to lock everything and don’t move.”

Frutta Bowls was on lockdown for 40 minutes before Wu and others were allowed to leave.

According to the Princeton Packet, public schools sheltered in place while the incident unfolded. “‘Shelter in place’ keeps us secure indoors, instruction able to continue, and on stand-by for updates,” Princeton High School Principal Gary Snyder wrote in a tweet.

of American political history,” Kruse said. “There’s been a concerted effort on a part of some partisans on the right to deny this for some reason.”

For all of his tweets, Kruse said that he never starts out planning what he’ll share on social media. He said he sees his role as purely reactive. He just keeps an eye out for claims put forward by prominent figures and responds accordingly.

Kruse emphasized that he is somewhat selective in choosing who to react or respond to. He said he has no intention of picking on random Twitter users. Instead, he’s more likely to respond to someone with a substantial following who advances an ahistorical narrative.

“As historians we could spend all day going through Twitter correcting things that are wrong,” Kruse said. “I let a lot of pitches go by before I swing.”

While social media platforms might seem like unorthodox places for academic work, Kruse said the immediacy and ubiquity of Twitter today provide a place where scholars can and should speak out for the sake of the truth and the culture around them.

“In general I think we have an obligation to engage,” Kruse said. “I feel like it’s a service we have to provide. I think there’s a hunger for the expertise and I feel that if we’re not out there providing that, they will go to sources who don’t have expertise, but an agenda.”

New video shows fatally shot Panera gunman was armed with BB pistol

Head News Editor

This story was originally published as a breaking story.

Editors of the ‘Prince’ republished it here so that incoming first year students can be informed of a national issue that affected the Princeton community shortly before their time on campus.

The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has released surveillance videos showing that the late Scott Mielentz, who was killed by state police officers at the Panera Bread at

136 Nassau St. on March 20, was armed with a black Crosman PFM BB Pistol.

Computer-Aided Dispatch reports released with the video show that at 10:28 a.m. on March 20, the Princeton Police Department received a call from a man reporting “there’s a guy with a gun at Panera.”

The pistol in Mielentz’s hand was later determined to have actually been a BB pistol.

The video, which was published in Planet Princeton, shows state police officers engaged in a standoff with Mielentz from behind Panera’s trash and recycle depositories.

Troopers were armed with M4 rifles, according to Planet Princeton. The standoff lasted five hours.

The video shows that at approximately 2:54 p.m., two members of the New Jersey State Police Technical Emergency and Mission Specialists Unit fired at Mielentz, striking him in the head and torso.

The video also shows that immediately before state police fired, Mielentz raised his BB gun towards them.

The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is investigating the use of deadly force by police.

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he would sleep through them and play The Legend of Zelda.

Upon graduation, rudderless and reluctant to accumulate debt from college, he enlisted in the Army as an intelligence analyst.

“People who are within military, especially the enlisted side, see the GI bill as a way out,” he said. “A lot of people join the military for the GI bill because they know that they can’t pay for college. It was one of the reasons I joined.”

He soon felt that its reliance on hierarchy and chain of command unduly constricting.

“I understand that in general, intellectualism is not nurtured in military. You are nurtured for following orders.

And that was where I made my stand,” he said. “I figured that my calling was to go to school where I would actually be pressed to question things.

Princeton is a place where everything is questioned.”

Whelan’s officer, a University graduate himself, recognized his mental acuity and recommended that he apply.

Whelan, interested in physics, knew the University had the best physics program in the country. Figuring he had no chance of getting in, he applied and was accepted off the waitlist. By the time Whelan visited campus last April, he was acutely aware that he would be one of five veterans.

“I somehow made it in,” he said. “I still question it, but I’m here.” *** Wilson, a lanky 24-year-old, was born in Florida but raised in Nashville, Tenn. as a military brat. Both of his parents retired from the military; his mother served for a decade, and his father served for 20 years. Growing up, he had always admired the kind of lifestyle that his parents cultivated for their family.

“I remember living on the military base and seeing their way of life,” he said. “It was simple, it was respectful, it was orderly.”

After high school, wanting to gain the professionalism and skills that he admired in military servicemembers and hoping to make a difference in the world, he joined the Marine Corps, ultimately spending five years there.

While there were signs growing up that Wilson wasn’t straight, he was raised in a conservative environment where he did not know a single out gay person, so Wilson put himself in a state of deep denial. While in Monterey for military training, he finally admitted his attraction to men. At a bar, he hit it off with a stranger, and they began dating.

At first, he was afraid of having his peers discover his sexuality and was extremely guarded. After being moved to southern California for the military, separated from his partner by an eight-hour drive, he fell into depression and was encouraged to see the chaplain on base. The chaplain, after learning about his situation, told him, “All the bad in your life is because you’re gay. God is punishing you, and you’re going to hell,” Wilson said, quoting from memory.

“Me being a religious person, it completely just ruined me.”

He stumbled for words. “It really hurt me. I didn’t know what to think about myself.

After that, I was so much more careful about everybody I tried to talk to.”

A year later, he finally summoned the courage to overcome his fear of being out.

The day he showed up at Camp Pendleton, he introduced himself by saying, “Hi, I’m Chris Wilson, I’m from Tennessee, and I’m gay,” he said. “Everybody was just like, ‘OK, yeah, good on you dude.’”

The demanding lifestyle of the military and its life-ordeath stakes tended to smooth

over fears or prejudices among the group, according to Wilson.

“I was always guarded about telling people, but the people I did tell, they were always supportive,” Wilson said. “The military is a brotherhood.

You have to have each other’s backs, otherwise you can put somebody in danger.” He recounted the parties that would happen in the barracks every weekend — everyone was always invited. There were no worries of the exclusivity that might plague a college campus.

The environment in the Marine Corps, where men were away from their girlfriends and wives, also facilitated a few revelations. Three of his comrades eventually came out to him, two as gay and one as bisexual. All three of them had wives and children at the time.

Two days before his first deployment, he and his partner married.

“In case I died, I wanted to make sure that he was taken care of,” Wilson said. He was deployed once in 2015 to the Middle East in Kuwait and Bahrain for nine months. He worked as a ground radio technician, fixing radios needed to maintain communication.

Upon returning to the United States, he began thinking about college.

Motivated from the start, Wilson had already been taking online classes and had managed to earn two associate’s degrees. Returning from deployment, he began thinking about his bachelor’s degree, and nothing was off the table.

“I thought, why not? I’m going to shoot for the best,” he said. “It’s kind of like the saying shoot for the moon, if you miss, you’re still in the stars.”

He covered all his bases and applied to thirty colleges — including all the Ivies — while spending over a year undergoing the college application process.

After receiving his decisions, the biggest criteria for him was financial aid. Wilson identified as first-generation and low-income, and, by leaving the military, he was losing his sole source of income. His husband was also intending to enroll in graduate school, so their income was going to drastically decrease, a situation that many other veterans share when entering school.

“Financial aid was the biggest factor when it came down to choosing schools. I literally cried when I got my financial aid letter,” he said. “They were so well-prepared for us.” Wilson lives with his husband, Ray, as well as his two cats in a Lakeside apartment.

From Soldier To Student Sawtelle, a quiet and broadshouldered 25-year-old from Omaha, Neb., who describes himself as a more “old country” type, remembers a specific moment in freshman orientation. The Class of 2021 was gathered for an event on recognizing diversity. Students were asked to stand when an identity marker applied to them. They were supposed to remain silent through the process, reacting neither positively nor negatively. When the veterans were asked to stand if they identified as a veteran, the five of them stood up. The auditorium erupted in applause.

“Everybody clapped. The whole auditorium. That was amazing,” Sawtelle said.

Despite initial fears of culture shock, the veterans’ transitions have overall been remarkably smooth.

“This isn’t going to be about internal ability or merit — it’s about culture shock,” said Shaw. He meets with the veterans regularly and serves as their go-to man for any questions or concerns. “What happens when someone who hasn’t been in a classroom in a decade is suddenly in a Princeton classroom?” Shaw asked.

Last summer, in preparation for school, they either enrolled

in the eight-week long Freshman Scholars Institute or an online equivalent to catch up academically after years of not being in the classroom.

FSI is traditionally aimed at supporting low-income, firstgeneration students.

The veterans have also joined other social groups on campus. Whelan plays in band; Sawtelle plays rugby; O’Hara does crew; Wilson wrestles.

They’ve become friendly with the graduate student veterans.

Despite being older, Eddy professed that the age gap didn’t prominently figure in his daily life.

“I don’t even realize that half of you guys are 18, I really don’t,” Eddy said, although he admitted that the difference in responsibility sometimes jars him. When his friends mention sleeping through their classes, he reacts out of disbelief.

“How could you possibly do that? How could you possibly sleep through your first two or three classes?” he said. “And then I think about that, I totally did that when I was 18.

Don’t be a hypocrite.”

The biggest challenge for the veterans — academics — is familiar to most students.

This has been exacerbated by their years away and the fact that many of them are the first in their family to attend a four year college.

During the fall, Whelan spent nearly every day in Lewis Library, laboring over problems sets for MAT 103: Calculus I. For Sawtelle, MAT 103 was his first math class after six years of being away from a classroom. He hadn’t even reached calculus in high school.

Beyond the traditional resources, the veterans are all part of the Scholars Institute Fellows Program, a program that provides mentorship, academic enrichment, and advising primarily directed toward low-income, first generation students. “We fit right in with the SIFP crowd,” Eddy, who is a first-generation student, said.

The time away from school, however, also allowed them to reflect on their interests, values, and goals , which has translated into a cohort of unusually focused freshmen. Almost all of them know what they want to study. For Whelan, it’s science public policy.

For Eddy, astrophysics. For Sawtelle, business. O’Hara has always wanted to be a doctor.

Eddy has mapped out all his classes from freshman year to senior spring already.

Being a veteran and an older student can also bring challenges, such as balancing a family while being a full-time student. Sometimes, Eddy will force himself to skip a chapter of a book or delay finishing a problem to spend time with his two-year old daughter, Zoe. On Saturdays, he is in charge of taking care of her, and schoolwork falls to the side.

“I don’t want to open my eyes and four years later, she’s six,” he said. He has been to Prospect Avenue — the hub of nightlife on campus where eating clubs host their parties — once during freshman orientation in September and hasn’t gone back since.

Five students in a body of over 5,000 could have easily splintered and dissolved into the masses, but the veterans have chosen to organize themselves into a unit. They have formally organized a Student Veterans Alliance, an undergraduate volunteer organization approved by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students that allows veterans to continue service in a space of camaraderie, an essential part of the military experience with few equivalents in civilian life. The group, they hope, will be a resource for future generations of veterans.

“They’ve responded to the pressure of having to represent their constituency by dealing with it as a group rather than a series of individuals,” Shaw said on the veterans’ organization. “They wanted to serve as

an effective vanguard to figure out how the other groups that come after them can be made more comfortable.”

Their work in Student Veterans Alliance has been getting off the ground. They meet every two weeks and volunteer off-campus every semester.

This past March, they volunteered to referee a basketball game for the Special Olympics.

The desire to represent veterans well hangs in tension with their desire to enter into this new stage of life without the badge and burden of service.

Eddy takes the burden of representation seriously. “I really want it to personally seem like it was a worthwhile decision to have us here,” he admitted. “A lot of people 18 to 22 might be getting their first impression of a veteran, and I want it to be a good one.”

Sawtelle, however, confided that most of his time is devoted to just being a student and trying to catch up. “In the day to day life, the service aspect kind of gets lost,” Sawtelle said.

Yet Sawtelle admitted that he would sometimes joke with the other veterans that they can’t screw up or else the school wouldn’t let any more veterans in. The desire for veterans to be represented ultimately is not about showering themselves with undue valorization but instead recognizing the multiplicity of their identities.

“The biggest thing that I want to be understood is that veterans as a whole are human,” Whelan said. “We have done what we needed to do to get by, and we want to be a part of the school. We want to be part of Princeton. And we are very glad for the opportunity that we have been given to be test group zero.

While reactions to the veterans have been overwhelmingly positive on the surface, deeper communication and engagement regarding their experiences as veterans have been rarer. For Whelan, even when they do talk about it, language is too imprecise of a tool.

“A lot of my own experiences in [the] military don’t really translate over. I can talk about them in very loose terms,” Whelan said, “but the actual nuances of it get lost.”

A high point for the veterans came in November when the Pace Council for Civil Values held a dialogue about service and the military. The veterans discussed how military experiences have influenced their relationship to service — marking the first time that many non-military students had even thought about the military as a valid form of service. Emma Coley ’20, co-chair of PCCV, remarked that the dialogue sparked the first time she had asked herself whether the University had any veterans.

Coley, who leans toward pacifism, is reserved about how the military figures into her definition of service. Service, to her, is a relationship that moves humans closer together, pointing toward a common vision, that the military, predicated upon war, does not share. Yet she was struck by the ethos of duty that the veterans articulated.

She, as someone who grew up an in Catholic Jesuit tradition of service, recognized their commitment.

“There you see a form of service which is duty-based, it’s about responsibility to one another, it’s [a ] brotherhood, a fraternal bond,” Coley said.

Some who join are often motivated out of pragmatic selfinterest because of the many financial, educational, and leadership opportunities in the military. But the veterans whom the ‘Prince’ interviewed insisted that the service members who stick it out for years, even decades, must sincerely believe that they are serving something larger than themselves.

“You’re being asked to raise your right hand to swear to

protect and defend the constitution of the United States, and implied is the willingness to lay down your life if that is what is required,” Colagiuri said.

“It is easy to overstate that and make it sound more noble than it is. It is noble...but in a gritty day to day sort of way,” said Doyle Hodges, a Navy veteran and fourth-year graduate student in the Wilson School, referring to military service.

O’Hara’s background in military service gave him a perspective critical of the the rat race that can be a defining feature of college life where service becomes a side hobby.

The idea of joining the military — a total commitment — is an unpopular, even unfathomable, option for elite college students.

“I wish more undergrads would look into service as a viable option after graduating. I’m tired of hearing about how everybody wants to go to finance and work on Wall Street,” O’Hara said.

While the veterans are no longer in uniform, the desire and duty to serve still permeates their individual and collective lives.

At the end of March, they were huddled together around a wooden table in the Whitman College common room.

Sawtelle was off to the side, doing childcare duties and entertaining Eddy’s baby girl.

Eddy sat with a laptop taking notes, subtly in charge of the meeting, discussing how to secure funding to advertise at veterans conferences. O’Hara sat next to him, brainstorming ways to set up their own bank account and receive donations as a non-profit. Wilson, diagonally across the table, affably offered to design the group’s logo. Whelan interjected occasionally, reminding them to sign up for summer housing.

A spirit of solidarity, a togetherness rooted in a shared mission of a creating a future for veterans at the University, was palpable.

At least two or three of the veterans eat a meal together every day, Sawtelle said. They have multiple group chats and poke fun at each other. O’Hara bashes Sawtelle for intending to major in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, a major notorious for being a pipeline to Wall Street.

Sawtelle likes to poke fun at Eddy’s sense of righteousness.

Whelan hopes that the cadre of five could be a trailblazing group for veterans and nontraditional students. “One of my dreams is to be able to speak at my graduation ceremony and say, ‘I came in and there was [sic] five of us. I’m leaving and there are now 30 of us.’”

The University admitted eight servicemembers as transfers to matriculate in the fall. It is beginning to expand the definition of diversity and of understanding of who belongs in an Ivy League school.

Eddy, reflecting on how he got here, is still somewhat incredulous — not that he made it to the University, but that he almost never tried. Although a good student in high school and in community college, the idea of applying to the University had never occurred to him.

“It took a ‘I can? I guess I can do that.’ That was the moment that changed my life. I’m hoping to create that moment for other people, too,” he said.

This past weekend, Sawtelle flew to San Francisco on the University’s dime to represent the University at the Service to School’s Memorial Day Summit, a conference to assist veterans transition from military service to higher education programs.

As the University reinstates its transfer program and includes veterans as well as other non-traditional students in its student body, it is opening a new chapter in its history, one where veterans are not merely names or stars on our walls, but part of our community, living among us.

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the freshman dictionary /ˈdɪkʃənərɪ /

A

A.B., abbrev. Artium Baccalaureus, or Bachelor of Arts.

Though called B.A. at most other schools, it’s still your typical liberal arts degree. For the same strange reason we have “certificates” instead of “minors,” you’re receiving an “A.B.” instead of a “B.A.” Unless you’re an engineer, of course. See “B.S.E.” adviser, n. 1. Faculty member assigned to freshmen to assist in course selection. Usually a specialist in a field totally unrelated to yours. 2. Faculty member assigned to sophomores with an unclear role. 3. Faculty member assigned to juniors and seniors to provide guidance in writing junior papers and theses. All vary widely in quality of advising and level of engagement.

Ai Weiwei, n. A Chinese dissident artist who sculpted the statues currently in front of the Wilson School fountain. He tried to come to Princeton once, but the Chinese government held onto his passport. Will release a heavy metal album sometime this year.

Alcohol Initiative, n. A trustee-sponsored attempt to reduce alcohol consumption by throwing huge sums of money at undergraduates for alternative activities. Hosts the popular dodgeball tournament in April, at which many teams are drunk.

Alexander Beach, n. Princeton’s version of a beach. Lacks sand and water but is filled with lots of bodies in bathing suits on sunny spring days. Located in front of Alexander Hall on the northern end of campus. See “Poe Field.” all-nighter, n. Grim, dusk-todawn studying or writing marathon in which sleep is postponed indefinitely. Often procrastination-induced and caffeine-fueled.

Usually followed by prolonged periods of hibernation. Your freshman 15 will probably be 60 percent the food you eat during these. Welcome to college. alumni, n. pl. Those who came before. Gosh, do they love the place. Prone to wearing abominable combinations of orange and black. See “Reunions.” arch sing, n. Event where a cappella singing groups perform a few of their favorite tunes in campus archways. Good singing and great acoustics, but the novelty can wear off quickly. A large percentage of the audience is made up of group members’ significant others (or wannabe significant others) and roommates.

See “jam.”

B

Baker Rink, n. Ice rink located down-campus where the hockey teams practice. The USG sometimes holds free Skate Nights where you can take dates.

Band, n. The University scramble band. Football halftime shows are occasionally funny and always tasteless. Often uses unconventional instruments, such as plastic pumpkins and stop signs. Hard to miss in their extremely plaid orange blazers as they parade through libraries on Dean’s Date (God knows why) or

serenade the hapless on Valentine’s Day. See “Charter Club.”

Beast, n. What spews forth from taps on Prospect Avenue.

Otherwise known as Milwaukee’s Best. It does the trick. beer, n. Beverage of choice on Prospect Avenue. Some clubs try to impress potential members by serving such brew-house delicacies as Killian’s or Yuengling, but eight times out of 10 it’s just Beast. See “Prospect,” “Beast,” “boot.”

Beirut, n. 1. A popular drinking game in which players attempt to toss a ping-pong ball into an array of Solo cups. Losers may be “forced” to engage in a naked lap. Does not usually involve paddles, because this isn’t Dartmouth. A mainstay of the eating club taproom. Syn: “pong.” 2. The capital of Lebanon. See “boot.”

Bicker, n. Princeton’s multiday equivalent of fraternity or sorority rush for the six selective eating clubs. During Bicker, club members meet sophomores and other upperclassmen to determine whether they are worthy of membership. “Worthiness” is determined in a variety of ways. As divisive as it sounds. See “sign-in club,” “multi-club Bicker.”

Blackboard, n. Website used to download course assignments, syllabi and readings. Not to be confused with “blackboards,” teaching instruments found in a variety of classrooms and lecture halls around campus on which professors use an archaic white substance known as “chalk.”

Blair Arch, n. That large, pretty arch across from Richardson Auditorium. Campus landmark and frequent site of a cappella jams.

Blair Tower, n. Former home of despised sophomores who lucked out during residential college room draw and got amazing rooms with amazing views. Now used as classrooms and housing for resident graduate students and a few faculty members in residence. bomb, v. To do miserably on an exam. Translates to a range between A-minus to actually failing. See “Orgo,” “grade deflation.” bonfire, n. Tradition of lighting an enormous bonfire on Cannon Green to celebrate the football team’s victories over both Harvard and Yale in a season.

Much to universal campus excitement, we got one last year. Involves singing praises to Old Nassau as effigies of John Harvard and the Yale bulldog are burned in a fiery inferno. Pretty much as cultish as it sounds. Keep your fingers crossed for the next four years.

in Boston, immigration in Arizona, farming in Florida and other social issues.

Bric-a-Brac, n. Princeton’s all-class yearbook. Make sure you show up on time for picture day and get all your friends to sign HAGS at the end of a school year!

Don’t. High school is over. See “Nassau Herald.”

Bridges, nickname, CEE 102: Engineering in the Modern World. Counts as an HA for science kids and an ST for humanities kids. In past years, the final has involved literally memorizing pictures of bridges. See “P/D/F.” B.S.E., abbrev. Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering. Though called “B.S.” at some other schools, there’s no b.s. in Princeton’s engineering degree.

Bubble, The, n. The metaphorical orange bubble that surrounds campus, keeping us in and the real world out. Also called “The Orange Bubble.” Usage: “Back in the bubble!”, “Welcome to the bubble.” To be used sparingly.

Business Today, n. Glossy campus business affairs magazine with large alumni coffers where ex-Future Business Leaders of America gather to talk Goldman. See “i-banking,” “consulting.”

Butler College, n. Residential college with the newest buildings. Located far down-campus; contains Studio 34.

C

Cafe Vivian, n. Slightly pricier food spot located on the first floor of Frist Campus Center that serves amazing flatbread pizzas, calzones and sandwiches. Styled as a jazz joint, Cafe Viv sometimes features live music.

Cane Spree, n. Multi-sport competition between freshmen and sophomores held at the end of the second week of classes.

Includes cane wrestling, tug-ofwar, unscheduled brawls and a barbecue on Poe Field. Popular for the free T-shirts. Calm down — you’ll get a lot of free T-shirts during your time here.

Cannon Club, n. Bicker club known for its three taprooms. Recently resurrected, the club plays host to a large proportion of athletes. See Street’s breakdown of the Street.

Cap & Gown Club, n. The most-bickered club last year, Cap also has a reputation for hosting high proportions of athletes, especially from track and field. See Street’s breakdown of the Street.

boot, v. To toss one’s cookies, worship the porcelain god, barf, puke, vomit, ralph, regurgitate, spew chunks, whistle carrots, etc. Usually engaged in as part of a “boot and rally,” with hopes of rejoining the party.

Carl A. Fields Center, n. Properly called the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding. A building located on Prospect Avenue that hosts diversity-themed events and programming.

Breakout Trips, n. A collection of civic engagement trips planned and led by students and funded by the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. Participants are selected by application (and you thought your application days were over — you’re in for a rude awakening). Trips take place over fall and spring breaks.

Past trips have examined arts in Philadelphia, school technology

Carnegie, Lake, n. Five minutes from campus, five miles long. Scenic venue for crew but too slimy for swimming. Gift of Andrew Carnegie so that Princeton could have a crew team, after then-University President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, asked him for money for University construction. Wilson’s reported comment: “We asked for bread, and he gave us cake.”

carrel, n. Like the all-male student body and the old pub in Chancellor Green, carrels are the newest addition to the ghosts of Princeton past. For better or for worse, you will never know the four-by-six-by-eight-foot metal study closets in Firestone Library where seniors locked themselves around February to emerge in April with 30,000-word theses.

Don’t worry, you’ll get study spaces that aren’t fire hazards.

See “thesis.” certificate, n. What we call minors. Options include finance, theatre studies, environmental studies, political economy, etc.

Your certificate area of study must be addressed in some capacity in your thesis. Start planning for these now. See “thesis.”

Chapel, n. Site of religious services and opening exercises at the start of every year. Thirdlargest university chapel in the world. Contrary to Orange Key legend, it wasn’t built by a Yalie.

Chancellor Green, n. Gorgeous library attached to East Pyne featuring stained-glass windows and amazingly comfortable couches. Naps happen here.

Charter Club, n. Club with a weighted sign-in system located extremely far down Prospect Avenue, near the E-Quad. Plays host to a high proportion of engineers because they’re the only ones for whom it’s remotely convenient.

See Street’s breakdown of the Street.

CJL, abbrev. Center for Jewish Life. Self-explanatory building on Washington Road. Popular lunch spot regardless of religious affiliation. clapper, n. Part of the Nassau Hall bell that the incoming class tried to steal each year. The logic behind the age-old tradition is that if the clapper is stolen, the bell signifying the start of classes won’t ring, so classes can’t be held. After Geoffrey MacArthur ’95 fell from the tower in 1992, the administration decided to remove the clapper permanently.

Cloister Inn, n. Sign-in club known for hosting a high percentage of water-based athletes.

See Street’s breakdown of the Street. cluster, n. Where a whole bunch of computers congregate.

Features printers which are often jammed, toner-less or otherwise malfunctioning, staplers that are often broken or empty and people scowling at the movies they have to watch for class. Scattered throughout campus.

Colonial Club, n. Sign-in club that recently claimed Friday nights from Charter. See Street’s guide to the Street.

Committee on Discipline, n. The University body responsible for investigating academic integrity and other disciplinary offenses.

CA, abbrev. Community Action. Week-long pre-orientation activity built around service trips in the Princeton, Trenton and Philadelphia area. Like Outdoor Action, but with showers.

Communiversity, n. All-day festival on Nassau and Witherspoon Streets held in April to promote town-gown unity. Features food, bands and student perfor-

mances. When the festival ends, tensions between the University and town soon return. consulting, n. What many of your classmates will go on to do.

See “tool shed,” “Woody Woo.” co-op, n. Upperclass dining alternative in which members share cooking responsibilities.

Vegetarians, try 2 Dickinson St.; omnivores, stick to Brown, Real Food Mathey or the International Food Co-ops.

Cottage Club, the. Officially called “University Cottage Club.”

Bicker club known to be populated by athletes, Southerners and the wealthy. See Street’s guide to the Street.

Coursera, n. An online course engine where lots of people around the world can attend the lectures you’re sleeping through.

Hailed as the future of higher education, it’s been met with mixed responses from students.

CPS, abbrev. Counseling and Psychological Services. Office of therapists located on the third floor of McCosh, available to you free of charge. See “McCosh.”

C-Store, n. A godsend with everything from nail clippers to bulk candy. See “Frist”.

D

Daily Princetonian, The, n. What you’re reading now.

Your one true source of information on life, the universe and everything, as well as the only daily newspaper on campus and one of the oldest college dailies in the country. Available for free everywhere. An absolute good.

A force for justice in an unjust and cruel world. Administrators cringe before its unquestioned power. Completely independent from the University. Just watch out for the online commenters.

Also known as the ‘Prince.’

Davis, Douglas,n. h t t p:// w w w.y o u t u b e .c o m / watch?v=q9RGzTrbP5I. Dinky Bar, where seniors and graduate students who are too mature for the Street go for expensive cocktails.-Bar,abbrev.

Debasement Bar. Sole hangout for graduate students, located in the basement of the Graduate College. According to reports, highly awkward. See “Grad College,” “graduate student.”

Dead Week, n. Week between end of finals and graduation, when seniors and students employed for Reunions hang out and try to do as little as possible.

This can take the form of group vacations to the beach. See “Reunions.”

Dean’s Date, n. 1. The last day of reading period, when course papers are due. Stress reaches all-time high as students realize the number of pages they have left to write exceeds the number of hours before the deadline.

2. Dean’s Date Theater. Students congregate in McCosh courtyard before the 5 p.m. deadline to cheer on classmates who have truly left their papers to the last minute, an activity that was more exciting in the days before email. Look out for your friends with merciless history, english or anthropology professors who

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See “all-nighter.”

Dei Sub Numine Viget, phrase. Latin motto on Princeton’s seal. Translation: “Under God’s Power She Flourishes.”

Unofficial version: “God Went to Princeton.”

Dillon Gymnasium, n. Recreational center in the middle of campus open to non-athletes.

Contains a pool, squash courts, multipurpose rooms, a large gym and a fitness center. Site of loud Zumba classes and dance company rehearsals.

Dinky, n. Our version of the Hogwarts Express. Mini-train that takes you to Princeton Junction for connections to the real world. Flashpoint of battle between town and University. See “Arts & Transit Neighborhood.”

Down-campus, adj. Located on the part of campus closer to the lake, down the hill. Begins roughly at Dillon, ends at the lake. Synonyms: “South.” Usage: “It’s a little further down-campus than Edwards.”

E

E-Quad, abbrev. Engineering Quadrangle. A collection of academic buildings where engineers spend all their time. Very, very far east from central campus.

East Pyne, n. Pretty building up-campus near Firestone Library that houses language departments, the department of comparative literature and the department of classics. eating clubs, n. Eleven large mansions on Prospect Avenue that serve as the hub of upperclassman life. You probably weren’t allowed to ask questions about them on your tour. Biggest reason that Princeton is still considered elitist by the outside world. See Street’s breakdown of the Street.

EC, abbrev. Epistemology and Cognition. Distribution requirement with no discernible meaning. Filled most frequently by philosophy and psychology classes. See “P/D/F.” Eisgruber, Christopher, n.

Your fearless leader. Eisgruber ascended to the University presidency from the position of provost in 2013 Seems to have forgotten that this isn’t high school and assigned you summer reading. Well-respected in academic circles. Some expect he’ll simply maintain the policies of his predecessor. See “Tilghman, Shirley.”

EM, abbrev. Ethical Thought and Moral Values. Distributional requirement commonly filled with Peter Singer’s “Practical Ethics,” in which one of the most prominent philosophers of our time convinces you to stop eating meat.

Emails for Females, nickname problematic nickname for COS 109: Computers in Our World, a computer science class in which you learn little to no programming. See “P/D/F.” entryway, n. Self-contained section of a dorm or classroom building. Most frequently found in older buildings, which were built to be riot-proof. Only way to get from one entry to another is to go outside and back in again or go through the basement or up to the top floor. Partly because of this system, you may never meet the person who lives on the other side of your bedroom wall. e-reserves, n. Catalogues of off-centered scans of many required readings. Thank your professors when they offer these in place of Pequod packets. Bow down to professors who are able to photocopy readings not upside down. Curse all professors as you wait for 300 pages of readings to print. See “Pequod.”

F

fall break, n. Week-long vacation immediately following fall midterms. Implemented in the 1970s when campus activists demanded time off before Election Day to campaign for their favorite bleeding-heart liberal congressional candidates. Now a prime road-trip week. See “Breakout Trips.”

Fine Hall, n. The name of that extremely ugly brown building rising high above the earth down-campus behind Lewis Library. Contains the math department. fire inspection, n. Twice-asemester unannounced visit to your dorm room, before which you should frantically hide illegal appliances under your blankets and un-tape your door ed to avoid fines.

Firestone Library, n. The mothership. Books on books on books (on shelves.) Large behemoth of a library containing books on every subject imaginable, as well as asbestos. Popular study spot. Deathly quiet. See “carrel.”

FitzRandolph Gate, n. Gate in front of Nassau Hall. If you walk out the center gate while an undergraduate, you will not graduate. Of course, that’s just a legend.

Try it and let us know.

Franzia, n. Brand of boxed (read: dirt cheap and sickeningly sweet) wine. Comes in both rose and white. Goes down easy, comes back up more painfully.

See “boot,” “Tower Club.”

Frist, n. The campus center.

Home of the student government, mailboxes and yummy quesadillas. A fun and relaxing place to socialize and study as long as you don’t take introductory Chinese.

See “Late meal.” fraternities, n. pl. Freshmen, avert your eyes. Groups of males that gather to drink and make lots of grunting noises. Freshmen are not allowed to rush Greek organizations. Those who do face suspension. Not a big presence on campus, but they may be your ticket into a bicker club.

Frosh Week, n. The week before classes, when sophomores and upperclassmen reacquaint themselves with campus life and “meet” the freshmen, who are kept busy by an array of University-sponsored activities. Prime time to drink copious amounts of alcohol amid nighttime mosh pits in the eating clubs’ backyards. We’ll see you there.

G

Garden Theatre, Princeton, n. Community theater. Shows mostly artsy films as well as a few big-budget flicks. Good first date. Free movies for students on weekends.

Graduate College, the. n.

Commonly called the “Grad College.” A mythical castle across the golf course behind Forbes rumored to be inhabited by those they call “graduate students.” Undergrads like to climb its tower to take pictures of the view and eat in its dining hall on Thursday nights, when dinner features specialty food stations with madeto-order sesame noodles, quesadillas, etc. See “D-bar.” grade deflation, n. University policy to limit A’s in courses to 35 percent of grades per department. Extremely controversial and a source of many a dining hall debate and Princeton’s unofficial motto, “It would’ve been an A at Harvard.” graduate student, n. An individual smart enough to translate Kierkegaard into 14 languages but mostly isolated from campus life.

Many are forced to live roughly 1 mile from central campus. Often characterized as “sketchy.”

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head, n. Faculty member who acts as den mother or father for the freshmen and sophomores in the residential colleges.

Jadwin Hall, n. An academic building south of Fine Hall that contains the physics department.

Not Jadwin Gymnasium.

Hoagie Haven, n. A Princeton institution. A small hoagie shop on Nassau Street that serves sandwiches filled with things like french fries, chicken tenders, multiple burger patties and buffalo sauce, often in combination.

The most dangerous of drunkfood destinations.

jam, n. An event at which one or more a cappella groups sing, commonly inside of an arch. junior paper, n. Lengthy independent work for juniors meant to prepare them for the senior thesis. Some departments require one; most require two. Often abbrev. “JP.” Tragic reminder of impending mortality.

Holder Howl, n. A moment of collective campus catharsis at midnight each Dean’s Date when students gather in Holder Courtyard in Rocky to release a primal scream of fear and frustration.

See “Dean’s Date.”

Honor Code, n. Institution through which University exams are policed. Students sign pledges agreeing not to cheat on exams and to turn in those who do. Taken very seriously. See “Committee on Discipline.” hookup culture, n. A semisignificant feature of the social scene which is the topic of more online comments and debates on the website of the ‘Prince’ than all the political issues of the day combined. hose, v. To render helpless.

Most often done to rejected Bicker prospects, who are hosed at their doorstep. Fraternities, a cappella groups and even the ‘Prince’ hose, but don’t worry — a literal hose is typically not involved. See “Bicker.”

Houseparties, n. Pseudo-bacchanal scheduled for the weekend after the end of spring semester classes. With theses complete and exams two weeks distant, eating clubs host wine-filled formal and semiformal dinners. The only ones who have it bad are juniors finishing (starting) their JPs and freshman males, who aren’t invited.

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i-banking, nickname, investment banking. What many of your classmates will go on to do.

See “tool shed.”

ICC, abbrev. Interclub Council. Group made up of the 11 eating club presidents. Coordinates relations between Prospect Avenue, the municipality and the University.

ICE, abbrev. Integrated Course Engine. An online tool that visually presents your class schedule for the semester. You can also friend request people on the site and stalk their schedules. independent, adj. n. Upperclass student who joins neither an eating club nor a University dining facility. By graduation, is either a great connoisseur of Princeton’s restaurants, a great cook or a great mooch. Many live in Spelman.

Intersession, n. 1. Week off between fall finals and the start of spring semester. The only week of true freedom you will ever have at Princeton. 2. Jolt of fear for seniors who haven’t started their thesis research.

IRC, abbrev. International Relations Council. Umbrella group somehow related to Whig-Clio that organizes Model UN conferences. See “tool shed,” “Tower Club,” “Wilson School.”

Ivy Club, n. Bicker club with a reputation for elitism and mahogany. See Street’s breakdown of the Street.

Ivy Inn, n. The one and only “bar” in Princeton. Right near Hoagie Haven. Definitely “end of the night” vibes.

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Jadwin Gymnasium, n. Gym for varsity athletes and sports located far, far down-campus, informally called “Jadwin”. Site of varsity basketball games. Not Jadwin Hall.

junior slums, n. Upperclass dorms located up-campus; Princeton’s version of slums, nicknamed, “slums”. Don’t be fooled by the Gothic stone.

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Keller Center, n. Center located near the E-quad that sponsors events, classes and programming related to entrepreneurship and innovation. Stop by before you drop out to work on your start-up full-time. kiddie lit, nickname, ENG 385: Children’s Literature. Perennially over-enrolled course that people think will be an easy LA. Beware — it’s quite large and grades are heavily deflated.

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LA, abbrev. Literature and Arts, a category of your distributional requirements. See “kiddie lit.” late meal, n. The only thing that makes upperclassmen jealous of freshmen. In theory, an option for students who miss dining hall meal times. In practice, free noms and mixers. See “Frist.”

Lawnparties, n. Afternoon drink-a-thon and dance-a-thon on the lawn of each eating club, held in early fall and at the end of spring Houseparties. Known for importing great bands and creating a massive influx of sundresses on Prospect Avenue. Time of year to wear your preppiest clothing — small animal print and pastels encouraged. lectures, n. pl. Oft-missed speeches by professors that constitute the foundation of the Princeton education. Try to attend a couple so you can tell your parents that you are making the most of their tuition dollars.

Lewis Library, n. Large, modern science library located downcampus across Washington Road.

New, nice and quiet.

LGBT Center, the, n. Center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students and allies. Provides safe space on the second floor of Frist. Sponsors events and programming throughout the year and provides resources for interested students.

Lot 32, n. Parking lot located just outside of campus, far down Elm Road, where your upperclass friends’ cars are located.

M Mathey College, n. Residential college located just south of Rocky. A collection of loosely associated buildings with no central quad. Shares a large, picturesque dining hall with Rocky.

McCosh Hall, n. A large, sprawling series of lecture halls up-campus in which many of your introductory-level large lecture classes will be held. Also features smaller seminar rooms mainly used by the English and History departments. Desks are small, cramped and wooden; bathrooms are difficult to find.

McCosh Health Center, n. Isabella McCosh Infirmary, located just south of Frist. You go here when you’re too drunk to go to your room but not drunk enough for the hospital. Areas of expertise: mono and asking women if they’re pregnant.

McCosh Walk, n. Walkway extending from University Place on the west to Washington Road on the east. If there weren’t hills, you’d be able to see clear from one end of campus to the other.

Features many puddles. Stop by around 4:55 p.m. on Dean’s Date to watch your friends sprint.

Multi-club Bicker, n. Initiative begun last year in which some of the bicker clubs allowed sophomores to bicker two clubs at once. See “Bicker.”

Murray Dodge, n. Free cookies and tea but be prepared to hand over your prox as collateral.

Also don’t foget to wash your own mugs once you’re done. Try the matcha tea cookies if you dare.

This place is an extremely popular study spot, so go at off-peak times if you want to get a seat.

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NARP, n. Non-athletic regular person. We are here and we are proud.

Nassau Herald, n. Princeton yearbook containing only the senior photos. To get all the other stuff you associate with yearbooks, you have to shell out some extra cash for the Bric-a-Brac. See “Bric-a-Brac.”

Nassau Weekly, n. Also “the Nass.” A weekly tabloid distributed far less than weekly. Known for humorous “Verbatim” section, which is filled with random overheard quotes from around campus, and for printing other random gibberish. See “WPRB,” “St.A’s.” netID, n. The part of your email address preceding “@princeton.edu” and your username for most campus websites.

New York City, n. Just an hour-and-a-half train ride away.

A round-trip ticket is around $360. Sometimes art or biology classes take you there for free.

Newman’s Day, n. To Paul Newman’s chagrin, students attribute to him the quote “24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case.

Coincidence? I think not.” Of course, Newman never said that, and there are 30 beers in a case, but that doesn’t stop some University students from attempting to drink 24 beers in 24 hours every April 24.

Nude Olympics, n. Sophomore rite of passage banned in 1999 as part of an effort to reduce drunken revelry. Celebrated by running naked through Holder Courtyard at midnight on the night of each year’s first snowfall.

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OA, abbrev. Outdoor Action. Week-long pre-orientation program that sends half of the incoming freshman class into the woods to get dirty and make friends. There’s no action on Outdoor Action, but there’s always freshman week to get to know a new friend even better.

ODUS, abbrev. Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

Oversees campus organizations, undergraduate student government and various student centers. A source of funding for your student group.

OIT, abbrev. Office of Information Technology. Controls the University’s computer and Internet systems. Runs a tech clinic in Frist.

Old Nassau, 1. phrase. Nickname for Princeton University, derived from Nassau Hall. 2. n.

School song.

Orange Key, n. Campus tourguiding group. Don’t believe everything they told you on your tour.

Orange and Black Ball, n.

Campus-wide ball resurrected two years after a decades-long absence. Lots of finger food. Similar to prom.

Orgo, abbrev. CHM 303/304: Organic Chemistry. Soul-killer.

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Pace Center, n. Civic engagement powerhouse on campus that encompasses Community House and the Student Volunteers Council. Sponsors Breakout trips during school breaks and distributes large amounts of money for service projects. See “Breakout trips.”

Palmer Square, n. Town square located just across Nassau Street from the University. Home to preppy stores, specialty boutiques and townies.

Patton, Susan, n. An alumna of the Class of 1977 who wrote an infamous Letter to the Editor to this paper discussing advice she would give to her daughter, namely her belief that Princetonian women should “find a husband on campus before [they] graduate.” Draw your own conclusions.

PAW, abbrev.

Princeton Alumni Weekly. The nation’s fourth-oldest weekly magazine, published by the Alumni Association far less than weekly.

P/D/F, abbrev. pass/D/fail.

Grading option developed to facilitate a true liberal arts education. Designed to allow students to take a class that expands their horizons with the guarantee that their GPA won’t tank. Unless you get a D. Or fail.

Pequod, n. 1. Fictional ship in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.”

2. Outrageously expensive photocopied packets of required reading that often resemble the whale. Promised to become free during every USG election. Don’t hold your breath.

Physics for Future Leaders, actual name of PHY115A. A physics course explicitly designed to introduce non-scientists to just enough science to ostensibly be able to make decisions. Future leaders who are also scientists should seek an actual education elsewhere. See “tool shed,” “P/D/F.” pickups, n. pl. Nights on which Princeton’s many, many selective clubs and organizations greet new members by showering them with champagne, Silly String, etc. in their dorm rooms and then taking them elsewhere for revelry. See “Bicker.”

Poe Field, n. Large oval field at the far southern end of campus where club and intramural sports teams hold practices, sunbathing frequently occurs and barbecues are sometimes held. See “Alexander Beach.” power hour, n. Ritual in which a shot of beer is downed every minute for an hour. Use of hard alcohol not advised. See “boot.”

P-Rade, n. Annual procession of ridiculously spirited, multi-generational alumni sporting black-and-orange costumes. Takes place at the end of Reunions. See “alumni,” “Reunions.” pre-med, n. A student hoping to go to medical school. Generalized anxiety and cutthroat behavior varies per person. See “Woody Woo.” precept, n. Fifty-minute weekly discussion between a small group of students and a preceptor (a grad student or faculty member) to supplement lectures.

A unique feature of Princeton’s education system inaugurated by Woodrow Wilson. Vary widely in quality. Never truly mandatory. prefrosh, n. What you are until you arrive on campus. pregame, 1. n. Name for any gathering held prior to a night out on the Street. Usually a source of hard liquor. Usage: “birthday pregame,” “frat pregame.” 2. v. To consume drinks at a party held on campus prior to a night out on the Street. Usage: “Let’s pregame at John’s birthday party before heading to T.I.”

preppy, 1. n. Person who attended St. Paul’s, Andover, Exeter, Lawrenceville, Groton, etc.

Likely wears a lot of polos and is never seen without Sperrys. 2. adj. Princeton is supposedly one of the 10 preppiest schools in the nation, but don’t be fooled: It’s in the top five. See “Lawnparties.”

Princeton, n. 1.The University to which you have committed the rest of your life (including your future earnings). 2. The affluent suburban town in which your blissful Orange Bubble is located.

PrincetonFML, n. Website where Princetonians procrastinate by publicly sharing their frustrations (Summer’s almost over, FML) and their glories (Time for four years at Princeton, MLIG).

Princetoween, n. The night on which all of campus collectively celebrates Halloween, irrespective of the actual date. Typically the Thursday before Fall Break.

Prospect, abbrev. 1. Prospect House. Formerly the University president’s home in the middle of campus. Now a faculty dining hall and the site of end-of-semester fancy dinners for various organizations. 2. Prospect Garden.

The gardens surrounding Prospect House; popular venue for Houseparties photos. 3. Prospect Avenue. See Street’s guide to the Street.

Prospect 11, n. The ultimate drinking challenge: one beer at every eating club in one night.

A favored item on senior bucket lists. Called “Prospect 10” before Cannon reopened, and possibly once again if Quad goes bankrupt. See “Beast.” prox, 1. n. Common name for PUID, or the Princeton University TigerCard. 2. v. To unlock a door by holding your PUID close to an electronic sensor. Humping the wall in the process is optional.

Usage: “Could you prox me in?” 3. n. The Daily Princetonian’s blog.

See “PUID.” Public Safety, n. University cops responsible for regulating parking, ignoring room parties and opening doors for lockedout students. Called “P-safe.” Despite years of effort by the police union, the officers don’t carry guns.

PUID, n. Your University ID. Your key to admission at the library, sporting events and eating clubs. Can be used to charge food purchases to your student account. Eating club members sport special stickers on theirs.

See “prox.”

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QR, abbrev. Quantitative Reasoning, a distributional requirement. See “Emails for Females.”

Quadrangle Club, n. Signin club commonly known as “Quad.” Endangered. See Street’s breakdown of the Street.

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RCA, abbrev. Residential college adviser. An upperclass student who lives on your hall and provides free food (see “study break”), condoms and answers to questions like what to do when your roommate hasn’t showered in five weeks. See “Zee group.”

Rapelye, Janet, n. Dean of Admission. Let you in. Has revamped Princeton’s admission policies, including accepting the Common App, eliminating small group interviews and abolishing the “YES!” letter. reading period, n. Week and a half to catch up on work at the end of each semester. Originally intended as time to do independent research, it is now a time to sleep in until 2 p.m. and to read and write everything you haven’t in the past semester. Dean’s Date happens at the end.

Reunions, n. Beer-saturated gathering of alumni during the weekend before Commencement

for drinking, fellowship and the P-Rade. Good excuse for students to delay returning home for a week at the end of the year. Reported to be the largest single beer order in the United States.

See “P-Rade.”

Richardson Auditorium, n. Enormous performance hall located up-campus across from Blair Arch. rival, n. What Princeton lacks.

What Penn thinks we are.

Robo, n. Drinking game involving bouncing a quarter into a series of beer-filled cups. See “boot.”

Rockefeller College, n. Commonly referred to as “Rocky.”

Northernmost residential college known for gorgeous Gothic architecture.

Rocks for Jocks, nickname.

GEO 103: Natural Disasters. See: “P/D/F.” RoMa, nickname. Rockefeller/Mathey College dining hall.

Looks like the Great Hall in Harry Potter; both were modeled after Oxford. room draw, n. Computerized process by which students select rooms for the upcoming year. Conspiracy theories abound about the supposed randomness of the process: People with high social security numbers, third letters of their last names near the end of the alphabet and Minnesota addresses may receive better times. room improvement, phrase.

Purgatory into which students with tragically late draw times are cast. Over the summer, those who are eligible for room improvement will theoretically be placed into better rooms. See “room draw.”

Route 1, n. A large, divided road about a five-minute drive from campus along which realworld institutions like movie theaters, malls, Walmarts, discount liquor stores and chain restaurants can be found. Proof that you are, in fact, in New Jersey. rush, v. To move very quickly toward something. n. 1. An aquatic plant. 2. A process you are forbidden to know anything about.

Shhh. rush ban, n. A ban on freshman rush enacted two years ago that prohibits you from engaging in any fraternity or sorority activities for your first year. See “Tilghman, Shirley.”

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safety school, 1. n. Yale, Harvard, Penn, etc. 2. phrase. Popular chant at basketball games regardless of opponent. sexile, v. To render your roommate homeless after a successful date or night out. Etiquette in case of sexile should be discussed with your roommate ASAP. shared meal plan, n. A system by which one can be a member of both an eating club and a residential college, with meals split between the two. Also known as the dream. The number of slots available vary widely by club. sign-in club, n. Eating club that takes members through a lottery system rather than Bicker.

Charter is the only club with a weighted sign-in based on a student’s attendance of club events.

See Street’s guide to the Street. squirrel, n. A furry friend and foe. Cute when scurrying around campus. Pesky when scavenging in your dorm room. Scary when rabid. Not scared of people.

Comes in brown, gray and black varieties. sororities, n. pl. Groups of women who gather together to take pictures in dresses and “network.” There are only three at this school: Kappa Kappa Gamma (“Kappa”), Pi Beta Phi (“Pi Phi”) and Kappa Alpha Theta (“Theta”).

Freshmen are not allowed to rush Greek organizations. It may be your ticket into a bicker club, or

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a way for people to instantly stereotype you.

Stars for Stoners, nickname.

AST 203: The Universe. Purported to actually be a somewhat difficult class involving actual equations. See “P/D/F.” STL, abbrev. Science and Technology with Lab, a self-explanatory distributional requirement.

See “Bridges.”

STN, abbrev. Science and Technology, Nonlaboratory, a self-explanatory distributional requirement. See “Physics for Future Leaders.”

St. A’s, n. “Secret” literary society with unclear purpose and unknown meaning. See “Ivy Club,” “the Nass.”

Street, the, nickname. Prospect Avenue, home of the eating clubs and center of University nightlife. See Street’s guide to the Street.

Studio 34, n. Late-night convenience store in the basement of Butler College known for its French bread pizzas. study break, n. Free food. See “RCA.” Sunday Funday, n. Something Princeton’s whitest students do every Sunday in April at Cottage Club. They know who they are.

Lots of beer and American flags are involved. See “Cottage Club”.

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Terrace Club, n. Sign-in club known for artsy types, vegans and hipsters. Popular end-ofnight stop for all of campus. See Street’s breakdown of the Street.

T.I., abbrev. Tiger Inn. Bicker club known for raucous, beersoaked parties and heavy preponderance of bros. See Street’s breakdown of the Street.

Tiger Admirers, n. Facebook account to which lonely Princetonians can anonymously submit messages of heartbreak and desire that are then posted publicly so others can commiserate. See “PrincetonFML.” Tower Club, n. Bicker club known for freshman-friendly dance floor and taproom, as well as heavy preponderance of theater types, a cappella groups, and Woody Woo majors. See Street’s breakdown of the Street. thesis, n. The T word. Major senior pastime, required of every A.B. student and some B.S.E. students. Most are close to 100 pages. Often replaces socialization, exercise, happiness, etc. in the spring. See “PTL”. third-floor Bicker, n. The practice of exchanging sexual favors for admission into a Bicker club. Named for the club officers’ third-floor bedrooms in which such encounters usually occur.

Tiger, n. 1. Princeton student or athlete. 2. Mascot dressed in tiger-skin suit who capers and cavorts at football games while trying to avoid attacks by the opponent’s band. 3. Campus humor magazine of erratic quality and publication schedule. 4. Striped predatory jungle cat.

Tilghman, Shirley, n. Princeton’s 19th president. Just left the Bubble for greener pastures. First woman and first scientist to hold the presidency. Friend of the sciences, enemy of the Greeks. See “rush ban.” tool shed, n. 1. Nickname of the Wilson School because of the heavy preponderance of premeds and pre-Wall Street types who major there. 2. The Undergraduate Student Government.

See “USG.” Triangle Club, n. Undergraduate musical theater group that writes and stages an annual extravaganza of song, slapstick and dance. Famous for the drag kickline and alumnus Jimmy Stewart ’32.

Twenty-One (21) Club, n.

Secret drinking organization founded in 1881, composed of 42

male juniors and seniors who consume 21 beers in 42 minutes at an annual contest. Members are culled from bicker clubs, fraternities and sports teams.

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UMCP, abbrev. University Medical Center at Princeton.

Still known by its former abbreviation, PMC, because “getting PMCed” after a night of drinking sounds better than “getting UMCPed.” See “McCosh Health Center,” “boot.” up-campus, adj. Located on the part of campus closer to Nassau Street, up the hill. Synonym: “north.” Usage: “From here, go up-campus to find Brown.”

U-Store, n. Officially, the Princeton University Store. Located at 36 University Place, across from Blair Arch. Sells food, dorm items and school supplies. Prostitution allegedly happened there once.

USG, abbrev. Undergraduate Student Government. Resumebuilders who like to hear themselves talk. Plans Lawnparties.

Otherwise, of questionable impact. Current president is Shawon Jackson ’15. See “tool shed.”

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Wa, the, n. Campus colloquialism for the Wawa convenience store. Located between the Dinky and Forbes.

Whig-Clio, abbrev.

The American Whig-Cliosophic Society. Centuries-old debate society that hosts such topical events as the Annual Latke versus Hamantaschen Debate. See “tool shed.”

Whitman College, n. Residential college that bears a striking resemblance to the castle in Shrek. Built in 2007 and rumored to have more money than every other college.

Wilson College, n. Centrally located residential college named after Woodrow Wilson. An incoherent assortment of buildings that vary in quality but are united in their residents’ loyalty to Wilson. Contains a volleyball court.

Women*’s Center, the, n.

Center for women’s issues. Provides an often-quiet study space on the second floor of Frist. Sponsors events and programming for interested students.

Woody Woo, abbrev. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, or the Wilson School. Formerly selective major for students interested in becoming bankers or consultants and learning the language of bureaucracy, as well as those rare folk who actually do want to save the world through government (but will probably end up in banking or consulting). See “tool shed.”

Woody Woo fountain, n.

Idyllic fountain and pool located in Scudder Plaza, north of Robertson Hall. Popular wading spot in the spring, especially after Wilson School theses are submitted.

WPRB, n. Student-run, community-supported independent radio station located in the basement of Bloomberg Hall. Owns the Nass. See “Terrace Club.”

Wucox, n. Portmanteau for “Wu/Wilcox dining hall.” Large dining hall that serves Butler and Wilson Colleges. Frequented by athletes and gym rats postworkout.

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’Zee group, abbrev. Group of advisees. The 20 or so freshmen frequently found under the wing of a residential college adviser. May or may not become close friends over the course of freshman year. Statistically, at least one permutation within the group will hook up.

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Let’s be honest: The Panera shooting was a tragedy Nicholas Wu

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y sister Maddie texted me at 10:41 a.m.

“Don’t come to Nassau right now. There’s cops behind their cars with guns I can’t go outside.”

Maddie was stuck in Frutta Bowls, perhaps the epitome of the safe, innocuous Princeton bubble, just a few doors down from Panera, where a man had just entered with what the police had assumed was a gun. Shops up and down Nassau Street were all locked down. Maddie was released after about an hour, but the standoff continued for the rest of the afternoon.

For that first hour, there wasn’t much information about the standoff other than what I could find on Twitter, or the updates texted along by my sister. The initial reports of the ordeal entirely missed the mark, ranging from tweets about multiple shots in Panera, even to rumors that hostages had been taken. It didn’t help when I received an erroneously sent message from the University’s emergency

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alert system ordering everyone to shelter in place after shots were fired in Panera.

The armed standoff continued for several more hours, until the gunman was finally shot dead by police. And then it was all over, leaving us only with questions.

So, what are we to make of that shooting? What actually happened in Panera that day is much more complicated that it first seemed.

It wasn’t just an act of gun violence by a deranged man.

Instead, it seems to be something much more tragic — and it shouldn’t be forgotten.

By the time you read this column, you might already have seen the surveillance videos of Scott Mielentz’s death. We still don’t know a whole lot about his motives, or what actually led him to enter the Panera that one day, but we do know how it all ended — he was shot dead by police. The State Attorney General’s Office has been rather reluctant to release any details about the shooting, other than the video showing the police shooting Mielentz as he raised a weapon at them. Yet, we do know that Mielentz was only holding a BB gun, not a real gun, when police shot him dead, only adding to the tragedy.

What makes this particular episode interesting, though, and why I say that it’s more than a simple act of gun violence, is that no other people were injured during the incident. Mielentz released all of the customers and staff from Panera and did not fire on anyone.

He had a BB gun, not a real gun. And when you dig into the details of Mielentz’s life, things get even stranger.

Some outlets have speculated that his actions were spurred by financial trouble.

According to documents obtained by centraljersey. com, he had recently filed for bankruptcy, and was in arrears with the Social Security Administration. Yet, still others speculated that this was an outburst of PostTraumatic Stress Disorder.

His attorney had written in documents that Mielentz had been an Army veteran in the Rangers serving in Laos, now suffering from PTSD, but that story doesn’t hold up. The earliest he could have enlisted in the military was in 1979. The Vietnam War ended in 1975.

So, what we’re left with is simply more questions, and it’s incumbent on good journalists to dig further, and for the State Attorney General’s office to release more information on the

exact circumstances of the shooting on March 20.

For our community’s part, Princeton seems to want to sweep the memory of the shooting away. A window was shot out in the Panera on the day of the shooting; it was replaced by evening the next day, as I walked by. And then a week later, Panera reopened, as if nothing had ever happened. “We remodeled,” read a cheery sign outside the storefront read.

So how should we remember this? A few days after the shooting, someone scrawled a message in chalk outside Panera: “[Y]et all he wanted was one last cup of coffee. Asked everyone to leave so he wouldn’t hurt anyone and could have a cup in peace.” Perhaps he was an individual out of touch with the world — a lonely person with whom we can sympathize. Maybe he was just an individual striving for peace. Even if we never find out exactly what possessed Mielentz to walk into that Panera with a BB gun, we should see this day as it truly was — a tragedy — with him as the victim.

Nicholas Wu is a senior in the Wilson School from Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. He can be reached at nmwu@princeton. edu.

[APPLY NOW!] Waste(Land) of Opportunity

y naïve freshman self was shocked by the avalanche of emails that took over my inbox during the first week of Fall semester. As I scrolled through my new collection, I became increasingly anxious that I was not busy enough. These electronic envelopes all seemed to hold the golden ticket to a fulfilling semester, with their google application forms and open houses. The sea of applications overwhelmed me — they were reminders of how I wasn’t taking the full advantage of what the University was offering me. The University showered me with amazing opportunities but did not offer the guidance I needed to navigate through the complex web of options I was faced with, often for the first time.

Fast forward to December, when the typical conversation starter switched from “Which residential college are you in?” to “What are you doing this summer?”

Everyone around me, including myself, seemed to ooze anxiety because they didn’t know what they were doing for their summer vacation. Like all the other confused and terrified freshmen, I joined the herd of applicants charging forward to earn their internships, fellowships, and various other opportunities. While the University sent me emails upon emails about ways to find good internships, I only found one email from Career Services advertising an hour-and-ahalf long workshop to find which internship I should apply to. I felt lost.

This phenomenon seemed normal at first, but in hindsight it was ironic. I came to the University because I was excited about

the opportunities that it would offer me, but when faced with these opportunities I was so overwhelmed with stress that I could hardly exploit those opportunities. The fear that I would not be “competent” or “successful” if I didn’t apply to multiple commitments to fill my resume was painfully tangible. Was this simply because I was insecure about my future?

Partially, yes. However, the biggest problem was that I simply had too many options.

Psychologist Barry Schwartz, at his TED Talk in 2005, explained this ‘Paradox of Choice’ by presenting the negative effects of having excessive freedom of choice. One of the side effects of having overwhelmingly large number many options is that we become “paralyzed.” The multitude of choices overwhelms an individual to a degree where they are unable to choose as a result of analysis paralysis. It’s what you experience when you spend five minutes agonizing over whether to have pasta, a quesadilla, or pizza at late meal. What’s more, when we choose something, we become riddled with regret; the imagined alternative always seems to be the better choice in retrospect, and thus regret reduces the satisfaction we feel even when we did make a good choice.

These two effects combined explain why the 103 Google form applications induced so much anxiety and stress in me.

Of course, I’m not suggesting that we need to reduce the number of opportunities offered on campus.

What I am suggesting, however, is that the University should have more consistent institutional guidance for underclassmen, who are

still confused as to where they see themselves in the near future. The main reason that the abundance of opportunity and choice overwhelms these students is often because they are unsure about what they truly want to pursue in the future. Being undecided may scare students into thinking that they need to do everything to keep every door open. If the student could choose certain fields that they want to prioritize and explore, it would eliminate some options for them and thus allow them to concentrate their energy on pursuing a few select opportunities.

However, students would need comprehensive and personalized guidance from wiser mentors to choose these priorities in the first place. Oftentimes it is difficult for an individual to analyze and assess their interests and skills by themselves. Comprehensive guidance would allow a student to discuss their strengths and weaknesses, potential career options, and passions with a mentor with objective perspective.

This would create solid criteria based on which they could make their choices, rather than hastily applying and committing to everything in fear of missing out. For the stress comes from the lack of self-assurance that we are pursuing what we really want, not from the abundance of opportunity.

What would “comprehensive guidance” provided on an institutional level look like? An example of such a career guidance program can be found at Dartmouth College. Dartmouth’s Center for Professional Development provides the Professional Development Accelerator CareerTracker

Program, a flexible twoyear program that allows students to assess their skills and interests and learn how to explore industries they find interesting.

The difference between Dartmouth’s PDA CareerTracker Program and the University’s existing Career Service resources is that one is consistent while the other is sporadic. While the 30-minute appointments are definitely helpful, it is often very difficult to have a meaningful conversation about the future in such a short timeframe. However, if these 30-minute appointments were done with the same advisor over an extended period of time, they could serve as a map to which students may refer on their journey to the future.

Implementing such an extensive program would certainly take time and resources. While the University should definitely work towards developing one, there are other less timeconsuming initiatives it could start immediately.

One of them would be developing a guidebook that coordinates information about application deadlines for various opportunities that the University offers. The guidebook could include timeline of events of application process, as well as general outline of when and where students look for their summer activities. The student groups could also contribute, and the Undergraduate Student Government could create a website where all information about when each group accepts applications or holds auditions could be organized in one place. Finally, the University could expand the Career and Life Visions workshops held by Career Services

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES president Thomas E. Weber ’89 vice president Craig Bloom ’88 secretary Betsy L. Minkin ’77 treasurer Douglas J. Widmann ’90 Kathleen Crown William R. Elfers ’71 Stephen Fuzesi ’00 Zachary A. Goldfarb ’05 John Horan ’74 Joshua Katz Kathleen Kiely ’77 Rick Klein ’98 James T. MacGregor ’66 Alexia Quadrani Marcelo Rochabrun ’15 Richard W. Thaler, Jr. ’73 Lisa Belkin ‘82 Francesca Barber trustees emeriti Gregory L. Diskant ’70 Jerry Raymond ’73 Michael E. Seger ’71 Annalyn Swan ’73

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that help students explore their values, interests, and strengths. These types of workshops and advising sessions could be better publicized and more frequently than they are now.

The University is indeed a Land of Opportunity.

However, we must develop a way to help students take advantage of opportunities — to do so out of passion rather than out of FOMO (fear of missing out). Otherwise, we may find ourselves stuck in a wasteland instead, standing among piles of empty resume fillers.

Jinn Park is a first-year from Yongyin, South Korea.

She can be reached at jinnp@ princeton.edu.

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hen another admission cycle came to a close last month, I felt a familiar sense of unease with my place on campus, as it brought back memories from the first few months after I was admitted to Princeton. My father is a professor here, and my uncle was an undergraduate student, so my admission was almost guaranteed, so long as I maintained a good academic record in high school.

As a result, I have experienced a lot of resentment, both from students and otherwise, about how I was admitted.

There’s a taboo against talking too much about where and how you got into college, and for me, that was taken to another level. Even now, when I’m not faced with the same level of scrutiny, I sometimes question whether I really deserve to be here, whatever that means.

A few months ago, standing in line at Whole Foods, a woman came up to me, eyeing the Princeton logo on my sweatshirt with an intense look of awe and curiosity. She

asked me how I had gotten in, what my grades and standardized test scores were, and what extracurricular activities I had done. Though this struck me as out of place and intrusive, I answered her politely. But her all-too-familiar line of questioning bore into me as I recognized what this woman really wanted to know — what does it take to be a Princeton student?

I felt myself shed the protection of my Princeton apparel as I told her that I did get good grades and received strong standardized test scores, but also that I had legacy connections and that my dad works as a professor at the University.

Her face changed, as she realized that I benefited from advantages that her son in eighth grade would never have.

This sort of reaction is not unique. My ophthalmologist told me that I probably didn’t have very good test scores and I definitely wasn’t a “real” Princeton student. I told her that standardized testing was stupid, though I happened to be really good at it, and that I was as much a Princeton student as anyone else with “princeton. edu” at the end of their email address. But I knew what she meant, and sometimes I struggle to convince myself that I am a “real” student.

In the classroom, when I hear other students rattle off their high school achievements, or refer to philosophers

I have never heard of, this nagging sense of not belonging creeps in. As I try to grasp at the core of why I belong, at understanding my admission as a result of an opaque and often unfair admissions system, sometimes it feels like there is nothing.

When it comes to figuring out what it means to be a Princeton student, my instinct is usually to remove the many privileges that paved my path to admission and try to get at my central justifications for being here. I try to convince myself that I’m smart enough, and that I can think quickly and speak convincingly. I’ve come to realize, however, that my approach is flawed.

Questions about my ability or worthiness to be a Princeton student usually trigger this instinct.

The privileges I had in the admissions process — as a legacy and child of a faculty member from a high-income area — are not unique. I see commonalities in the ways many students, from recruited athletes to legacy kids to graduates of elite private schools, explain their admission stories. And I see it in precept, when every single student describes their winter break trips as either skiing or traveling to warm places. Over 70 percent of the student body is from the upper 20 percent of the income bracket in the United States. It

is also evident in admission statistics — almost 40 percent of the Class of 2021 went to private school, 13 percent of them were children of alumni, and around 17 percent of the previous class were recruited athletes, which most likely was pretty much unchanged for the Class of 2021. Though there is overlap between these groups, they get at how common these sorts of admissions boosters are and the kind of privileges that almost all students had in getting into Princeton.

Questioning the individual privileges that I, or any other student, had at gaining admission to this university can be not only hurtful but also misguided, because it assumes that I am the exception to the rule. This is simply not true.

The criticisms directed toward me have largely been motivated by a sense of personal injustice, as if my place at the University bumped the Whole Foods mom’s eighth grade child, or my classmate in high school, or my ophthalmologist’s son, out of their rightful spots at the University.

This is also not true, as it would be implausible for their child to be the highest-ranked person on the waitlist who didn’t get accepted. It also puts me in an awkward spot when I have to respond because I do empathize with their general concerns with the admissions system. These concerns, how-

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ever, shouldn’t be directed at me, or any other individual student deemed “not really a Princeton student.”

It’s clear that being an exceptional individual isn’t enough to get into Princeton. Almost everyone has had some sort of exceptional privilege, in their financial situation or a more specific admissions booster.

A “real” Princeton student is a product of privilege, luck, and money, and I do think that needs to change. There are broader, systemic inequities in the admissions system, like the over-representation of certain races and income groups, and faculty and legacy preferences. When people question the legitimacy of my admission, it usually comes from a feeling of personal injustice.

But if we want to have honest conversations about the entire admissions system, we need to move away from pointing at individual circumstances, be it legacy admits, children of faculty, or varsity athletes, and look to broader, systemic inequities in the admission systems. Coming to terms with my place on campus meant realizing that there is no way for me to prove that I am objectively qualified to be here. But I do think I belong as much as anyone else.

Cy Watsky is a first-year from Princeton, N.J. He can be reached at chwatsky@princeton.edu.

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COUNTDOWN

JUNE 1, 2018

of the top moments in 2017–18 Princeton sports

By Chris Murphy Head Sports Editor

The 2017–18 academic year gave Tiger fans their fair share of memorable sports moments. From incredible comebacks to heartbreaking losses, from breakout performances by freshmen to career milestones attained by seniors, this year gave us plenty of unforgettable moments across Princeton sports.

And as this year comes to an end, The Daily Princetonian takes a look back at some of the best memories from this season and counts down the top 10 moments of Princeton sports.

10.

Men’s basketball defeats Southern California in Los Angeles 103– 93 in overtime The list starts with perhaps the best victory for men’s basketball this season. While this was not an Ivy League game, this matchup between 2017 NCAA tournament teams combined a thrilling game with critical non-conference implications, making it one of the most memorable non-conference games in recent memory. Starting the season with some tough losses, the Tigers knew they needed some key victories during winter break if they were to enter Ivy League play with a strong nonconference résumé. Facing off against the No. 10 Trojans in Southern California seemed like no easy task, but on the national stage the Orange and Black came through, pulling off the upset to start the year. Princeton let the Trojans back into the game late, but closed it out in overtime with some clutch baskets by juniors Myles Stephens and Devin Cannady. Stephens shattered his old career high in points by scoring 30 in the contest, as the Tigers lit up the f loor with over 50 percent shooting for the game.

While most of the season didn’t go as expected, Princeton still was able to garner national attention with this stunning upset of a perennial basketball powerhouse.

9.

Women’s golf wins its second straight Ivy League Championship With a plethora of talent returning for the women’s golf team, a second straight Ivy League Championship seemed like it could be attained.

The Tigers did it in style by coming from behind on the final day of the NCAA tournament and beating No. 2 Harvard for a second straight year, this time via a playoff hole. The Tigers were three strokes back entering the final day, but carded a team low round of six over 288 to put themselves in a position to win their sixth Ivy League Championships. Freshman Anabelle Chang — a key addition to the Tiger squad — finished second overall individually in the tournament, while and sophomore Maya Walton, the Ivy League Player of the Year, finished the tournament tied for fifth. Rounding out the top ten was junior Amber Wang, the 2017 Ivy League Tournament champion and the third member of this year’s Tiger team to crack the top 10. The victory sent Princeton to the NCAA West Regional, and gives it a chance to make history next year as it shoots for its first ever threepeat.

8.

Women’s basketball extracts revenge on Penn, winning 2018 Ivy Madness Last season, the Tigers finished second to Penn in the Ivy League regular season and in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament. In 2017, the Quakers swept the Tigers and proved that they were the better team. This season, the Tigers extracted revenge, sweeping Penn by victory margins of 15, 20, and 29. The sweetest of the three was without a doubt the victory in the Ivy League Tournament final; Princeton used its trademark suffocating defense — ranked first in the league throughout 2018 — to win the second annual Ivy League Tournament and punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament. Sophomore Bella Alarie turned in a career high of 17 rebounds, and the Ivy League Player of the Year also took home the hardware for tournament MVP. Also named to the All-Tournament team were senior Leslie Robinson and freshman Abby Meyers, who was a menace from beyond the arc throughout the tournament. The win gave the Tigers their 24th victory of the season, and they cut the nets in the Palestra to celebrate their trip back to the Big Dance.

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Prior to being selected in the WNBA Draft, Leslie Robinson helped lead Princeton to an Ivy League Tournament title and NCAA championship berth.

7.

Ryan McCarthy stuns UVA with a game-winning double OT goal If the women’s field hockey team was going to advance to its third straight NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, it was going to have to get by a tough Virginia Cavaliers team on its home turf.

Trailing 2–1 in the second half against the No. 5 team in the nation, senior Ryan McCarthy put the team on her back and carried the Tigers to a thrilling victory that took a second overtime period to decide.

McCarthy scored her 16th goal of the season in the 57th minute off of a penalty shot to even the game at two. Then, she almost ended the game in regulation with two fantastic chances in the closing minutes. But it was the double overtime chance — a back hander to the right side of the Virginia goalkeeper — that found the back of the net and sent the Tigers into the next round to take on North Carolina. It would be her final win as a Tiger, but scoring the game-winning goal in double overtime will probably be one of the most unforgettable moments of McCarthy’s illustrious career.

6.

Men’s track and field wins the Ivy League Triple Crown It’s quite difficult to be a champion at just one of cross country, outdoor track, or indoor track; how about winning it for all three? That is what the men’s track and field team did this season, winning for the ninth time in program history the cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track Ivy league Championships all in the same season to claim the “Triple Crown.” Even more impressive may be the fact that it’s the fourth time it has done it in the past eight seasons, continuing a trend of absolute dominance in the Ivy League. Starting in the fall, the Tigers won the Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships with the lowest score since 1987, with senior Noah Kauppila leading the way with a second place finish. Then, the indoor track team — finishing in the top two for the 25th year in a row — won by 68 points in the Indoor Track Ivy Heps to claim the largest margin of victory in the tournament’s history. Finally, the Tigers rallied in the Outdoor Heps af-

ter starting the final day in second, scoring in 14 of the last 15 events and emphatically closing out the final leg of the Triple Crown.

5.

Chad Kanoff begins his pro career, signing with the Arizona Cardinals Senior quarterback Chad Kanoff was one of the key pieces to the success of the Princeton football team in the past few seasons.

At times, Kanoff looked like the best quarterback in Division I football and certainly showed the potential to make it on a pro roster. Kanoff got the chance to prove what he’s made of earlier this year, when he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. Kanoff gets a chance to compete with other quarterbacks — including Sam Bradford, Mike Glennon, and the number 10 overall pick Josh Rosen — for a chance to make the 52man roster this summer.

Kanoff finished his senior year with a career best 73.2 percent completion percentage, 3,474 passing yards, 29 touchdowns, and only nine

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After a thrilling upset of UNC, Women’s soccer advanced all the way to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament.

interceptions. His best performance this season came against Yale, with a season high 454 passing yards and four touchdowns, including a career long 88-yard touchdown bomb. And while the team may not have had the season they would have liked this year, Kanoff certainly left his mark, and he will look to join former teammate Seth DeValve ’16 on an NFL roster.

4.

Leslie Robinson becomes the 2nd Ivy League player to be drafted into the WNBA Women’s basketball makes its second appearance on this list, this time due to the individual performance of senior Leslie Robinson.

A standout throughout her four years as a Tiger, Robinson will get to continue her career after being drafted 34th overall by the New York Liberty in the WNBA. In her final season, Robinson averaged 10.2 points per game for the Tigers and finished with 129 assists, the sixth highest single season mark in school history. Perhaps her most important accomplish-

ment, however, was the leadership she brought to the team throughout her four years as a Tiger. She helped lead the Tigers to three NCAA tournament appearances, and she has been critical to the development and growth of the current young crop of Tigers on the team. Leslie became just the second player in the history of the Ancient Eight to be drafted into the WNBA and the second Princeton player ever to play in the WNBA.

3.

Women’s lacrosse snatches Ivy League title, then downs Syracuse in same week Go, women’s lacrosse!

As the year wound down and attention for many students turned toward reading period, the Tigers were still focused on unfinished business in the postseason. Hosting the 2018 Ivy League Tournament, the No. 1 Tigers looked to take care of business and secure their place in the NCAA Tournament. After easily handling Columbia, the Tigers won a back and forth showdown against Penn 13–10 to win the tournament. Hours later,

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they found out that they would be squaring off against No. 19 Syracuse in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Having already lost an epic 17–16 dogfight at home, Princeton looked to exact revenge. The two teams played another classic, with the Tigers taking a six-goal lead midway through the first only to watch Syracuse tie it up in the second half. Senior Colby Chanenchuk, playing in her hometown in front of friends and family, would seal the Tiger victory in double overtime with a brilliant shot on the Syracuse goalkeeper. The goal sent the Tigers into a frenzy, and onto the next round of the NCAA tournament.

2.

Men’s hockey shocks the ECAC, clinching a spot in the NCAA tournament Our Cinderella story of the year is without question the men’s hockey team. The Tigers were uncertain of their ECAC playoff fate heading into the final game of the season, which they won 4–3 against St. Lawrence to clinch home ice and the No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Expected to

win a few games but fizzle out, the Tigers shocked the ECAC and the rest of the NCAA by winning six games in a row, punching their ticket to the NCAA Tournament in the process. Not only did the Tigers not drop a single series in the ECAC playoffs, they didn’t drop a single game. And it was one storybook moment after another for the Tigers. First up, Princeton defeated Union — a team it had not beaten in its last 20 attempts — in back-toback games to make the ECAC semifinals. Then, the Tigers shocked the nation by thrashing the No. 2 Cornell Big Red 4–1 in the ECAC semifinals.

Already riding a Cinderella story, the Tigers took it a step further by winning the final game and getting to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in nine years. On the same ice where the United States shocked Russia in the 1980 Olympics, the Tigers shocked No. 10 Clarkson when senior Max Becker roped a shot into the net 2:37 into overtime, sending the Tigers back to the biggest tournament in the sport.

From No. 7 seed to ECAC champions, the men’s hockey team had a run that will never be forgotten.

1.

Women’s soccer defeats UNC 2–1 in overtime to advance to the NCAA Elite 8 When you beat the best team in the nation, perhaps the best college program in the history of the sport, you are going to create the top moment of the year. The women’s soccer team took No. 2 UNC — holder of 21 national titles and the most wins of any NCAA school in history — and knocked them out of the tournament with a thrilling 2–1 victory in sudden death overtime. Despite being outshot 24–8 for the game, Princeton did enough to send the Tar Heels home on their home field. It was Abby Givens — the sophomore forward who was one of the team’s catalysts all year — who scored the game-winning goal in overtime. Beating a defender, then redirecting the ball in midair, the hometown player sent the Tigers into the Elite 8 for only the second time in school history. Givens and the Princeton women’s soccer team provide us our best moment of the 2017–18 year in sports.

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A freshman’s ode to Princeton Preview Dream, and arriving Contributor ’21 at Preview felt more I remember that incredible than bewhite tent. I recoming a princess, member those orslaying a dragon, ange folders, those or learning to fly. It packets of potential was the stuff of fairy classes, workshops, tales. tours, performances. I remember clutching my compli- I Google Mapsmentary drawstring ed my way through bag like a shield, campus, wandering draping my lanyard from panel discusaround my neck sions that made me as if to scream to jump in my seat to the world, “I’m new open houses where here, and I have no I awkwardly atidea which direction tempted conversaI’m walking in.” tion with real, live Princeton students.

I remember Princ- Night fell, and I exeton Preview. perienced one of the most awe-inspirOne year ago, vis- ing performances iting this campus of my life: This Side — a place now so of Princeton. It was intimately familiar to everything I beme — was an exlieved Princeton to cursion into a world be: an endless supof dreams. Truly. ply of remarkably Princeton had been, talented people, for so long, The creating a dynamic Lydia Gompper

and diverse campus culture. Between the glow-in-the-dark juggling and the heart-palpitation-inducing dancing, that single show confirmed to me that if something could be done well, then it was being done well at Princeton.

And yet, I recognized faces. Some close friends, some classmates, some people I’ve met just once or seen from across campus. The boy in the second row of The Princeton Triangle Club’s “I Got In” is no longer some anonymous, untouchable I left campus retalent to me, but a membering the boy I’ve joked with, students I met as hugged, relied on. heroes.

The dancers are amazing, yes, but A year later, I sit human. I underon my bed, a prestood, this year, frosh lying in a the upperclassmen sleeping bag on my yelling out their dorm room floor. friends’ names from I’ve just returned the balcony as they from yet another take the stage. I unperformance of This derstood their fierce Side of Princeton, pride, their camaraand the show was derie. still stellar. Still wild, still lovely, still imThese are our measurably fun. friends, not our heroes. Or, well, maybe they’re both.

One year ago, I took a tour of a building led by a sophomore who at the time seemed impossibly mature and capable. One year later, I see that boy nearly every day, and that building is my favorite place on campus.

What once was filled with impossible mystique is now familiar, and all the more beautiful for that.

So thank you Princeton Preview, for introducing me to the world that would become my home. And thanks to everyone I’ve met since then; you wowed me as a high school senior, and you haven’t stopped since.

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go quite as well as you’d hoped, or mention that you’re a little worried about finals coming up. On the other foot, be engaged and empathetic when they bring up problems of their own. Showing that you’re a real, imperfect human who looks out for their nearest and dearest is a sure-fire way of demonstrating that you’re closefriend material.

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LOVE & LUST

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

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didn’t even notice you for a few months.

I came to class early and sat in the same seat each time, exchanging few words with anyone.

Then I started to push the limits of my fastwalking abilities, leaving my room for class later and later, until I started to come late enough that someone would find my unassigned seat before me.

And, eventually, the norm shifted so that every class I was next to you.

You were a terrible person to sit next to. You slurped coffee instead of sipping it, teetered on the back legs of your chair so often that most of the time I glanced

over at you it was to make sure you hadn’t fallen over, and barely strung together sentences when you inevitably became my partner by proximity for discussions.

I didn’t dislike you. I just didn’t notice you.

A month before class was supposed to end, we watched a full-length film and at the end of it, instead of clapping you hollered out some ridiculous noise as applause.

When questioned, you were genuinely confused that we all didn’t know what the sound was.

That was when I noticed you.

I fell for the ridiculousness of you — how you yelled applause, how eventually your chair did

fall over, how it turned out that your coffee was really just hot water.

And, for a while, I think you noticed me, too. We started inching too close together to be entirely comfortable when talking and let our skin linger whenever it touched.

We gravitated towards each other in class and eventually began talking outside of it.

And this is where I scared you off. Not consciously, because you still smile a genuine smile at me when you see me, but that little thing where I thought you noticed me too was extinguished. I expected too much from you, too fast. Instead of finding a way to deal with my mental health issues, I pinned my happiness on you. I hid the fact

well enough, but once I noticed the way I would brighten a little too much when I talked to you, it felt like an undercurrent to the tenuous friendship between us.

I heaped too much of myself onto you — trying to fill up the briefest of silences about everything I thought you should know about me; never once considering pacing myself or asking the same things of you. I only saw that you noticed me, and once I noticed you too, I didn’t think to pace myself.

Now, I burn when I think of all that you know about me, and that I barely have half of the same facts, stories, and complaints stowed away.

I was becoming more of a strange sort of weight than the girl who kicked you under the table dur-

ing class for making fun of the professor or the girl who tried to learn your version of applause.

I wish we could’ve met now, with the version of myself that can look at last year and think that I was a child who didn’t understand anything about healthy relationships. I think if we had met now, we would’ve gotten further than we did.

A bigger part of me still waits to see your eyes brighten with your smile whenever we run into each other. Mostly, I know that you are probably lost to me, but next time will be better with someone new. Maybe sometime I’ll ask you to lunch again, and this time, I’ll start by asking why you drink hot water instead of coffee.

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Autonomous robots, unfair jail time, and violent cafes Carson Clay

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by June” by Carson Clay if you know of seniors ’19 that will highlight working diligently on senior theses projects projects that the Princin the spring, and other eton community should projects of students know about! and professors in the Seniors Jan Bernhard, fall. Inspired by deeper Trevor Henningson, probing into some of and Viveque Ramji are her senior friends’ projcombining their exects in an attempt to pertise and interests learn a bit more than within the mechanical the one-sentence byline and aerospace engithat is often given by se- neering department to niors, Carson will share create an autonomous Contributor ’19

quadruped robot with a tilting head. The robot will be able to navigate different environments independently without human supervision — a feature that will allow robots to be more helpful in daily life. Without human control, the dog-like robot can walk around any environment and use machine learning to avoid obstacles and label objects for future understanding.

For example, interacting with a door once will allow the quadruped to identify the next door

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it finds and know the door will open to another room or hallway.

Although this project can be applied in many important ways, one immediate advancement is in the field of search and rescue missions.

Bernhard is excited to see where Princeton robotics is headed in the future, especially with its new robotics lab at the Forrestal Center.

Maybe in the future, autonomous robots can write the seniors’ theses for them, too!

Mary Claire Bartlett, a senior in the Woodrow Wilson School, is analyzing a progressive 2017 bail reform law in New Jersey that has the potential to completely reinvent the concept of bail in America. Incredibly, two-thirds of people sitting in jail right now are not yet convicted, and are simply unable to pay their bail. In fact, they could remain unconvicted in jail for years, while others who committed the same crime walk free.

As it stands, this system is disproportionately unfair for those with lower incomes, especially since not making bail is associated with higher rates of both conviction and longer sentence time. The New Jersey reform uses an algorithm with nine nonsocio-economic criteria (instead of the current system of full judge discretion) to determine whether or not a defendant is a flight risk.

It recommends varying levels of pre-trial monitoring instead of full detainment. Bartlett was inspired by her internship last summer, where she witnessed a defen-

dant serve five years of prison time before his trial, only to be found not guilty. The New Jersey law, she believes, has the potential to prevent similar situations and reduce injustice in our criminal justice system if applied across the country.

Sara Krolewski ’18 is taking a unique angle on an English thesis.

Instead of analyzing themes or literary theory, she is looking at how setting itself impacts literature. Even more interestingly, her setting of choice is the Parisian café and its effect on modernist literature in the ‘20s. Beyond Hemingway-esque carefree partying, she calls attention to the fact that the café was a place for racial and gender conflicts of the time. By day, writers and artists grappled with issues such as women’s clothing standards and sexual norms, and by night, they partied and engaged in violence and promiscuity.

Asked what Princeton’s modern café equivalent would be, Krolewski describes the way Prospect Avenue hosts studying and discussion over lunch during the day, but transforms into a completely different and scandalous venue at night. Who knew that eating clubs were the new French cafés? In fact, Hemingway might have some wisdom for the seniors who continue to work on their theses: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”