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ROTC cadets at U. share perspectives on service By Sarah Sakha
Thank you for your service 0620 14 FEB Cadet Major Natalie Fahlberg ’18 walked past Scully Hall and circled Carl Icahn Laboratory as she made her way to Jadwin Gymnasium. In the pitch black, her silhouette was barely discernible. Fahlberg wore her uniform with her ruck, a backpack weighing 35 to 50 pounds. Though the temperature was 31 degrees, she was unperturbed as she strode confidently forward. Her hair was pulled tightly back into a neat bun at the nape of her neck, right be-
low her cap. Fahlberg, the Executive Officer (XO) of the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and the only female in the senior Army ROTC class, joined her fellow cadets at Jadwin Gym to complete a short two-mile ruck march. At a pace of 17.5 minutes per mile, the cadets moved in formation. In late March, as part of their basic training, the cadets will march 12 miles in under three hours, with a pack weighing up to 70 pounds. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, cadets make this very walk to Jadwin Gym for early morning physical training, or ‘PT’ in
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A new book, “Blowing America’s Mind: A True Story of Princeton, CIA Mind Control, LSD and Zen,” documents the experiences of two University alumni who were subjects in LSD and hypnosis experiments at the now defunct New Jersey NeuroPsychiatric Institute’s Bureau of Research. Under the research objectives of Dr. Humphry Osmond, who coined the word “psychedelic” and guided Aldous Huxley on the mescaline trip featured in The Doors of Perception, John Selby ’68 and Paul Jeffrey Davids ’69 were hypnotized and given LSD to explore altered states of consciousness. In 1977, news broke of Project MKUltra, a program of experiments on human subjects undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency to develop drugs and procedures for interrogations and torture. The program, which started in the early 1950s and ended in 1973, used front organizations, such as colleges, hospitals, and prisons, to conduct the experiments while hiding the research’s connection with the CIA. “We knew we had volunteered for hypnosis and LSD research,” said Davids, “but the fact that it was being funded by the CIA and that the doctors we trusted … were working for the CIA — we didn’t know about [until] 10 years later, when MKUltra was exposed.” On Aug. 3, 1977, former CIA Director Stansfield Turner confirmed that “86 institutions were involved” in “149 separate research projects.” The University and Columbia University were two of these institutions, notified personally by the CIA in a set of letters admitting that University students “had apparently been involved in a phase of CIA
testing between 1953 and 1964.” According to a 1977 article in the LA Times, CIA experimentation with LSD began “out of concern in the 1950s that the Russians and the Chinese had developed effective techniques in mind control,” resulting in fear that “American prisoners of war or American diplomats” would become victim to these tactics. A news release from the University Office of Communications on Sept. 1, 1977, provided further details about the experimentation, including that “CIA funds totaling $4,075 were paid in 1953 and 1958 for research by two individuals who were then affiliated with the University.” The release also refutes any claims that the “University as an institution was involved in this research.” In email correspondences to former University President William Bowen on Aug. 31, 1977, former University Research Board chair Robert May confirmed that a Chemistry Department faculty member was paid $753 for “characterizing the alkaloids present in seeds of [Ipomoea] Sidaefolia Choisy” which are known to have “‘disorienting effects when ingested.’” May could not confirm “whether the chemistry was done in a Princeton laboratory or not.” “I saw a notice up on the bulletin board in the [psychology] department when I was a junior,” said Selby. After completing a questionnaire and an interview with Dr. Bernard S. Aaronson, a hypnotist, Selby was signed off by the department to count his work at the Institute as course credit. According to the New York Times, before the Institute existed the first of three mental health facilities on the now-abandoned plot of land in Skillman, N.J., was open — the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics. This village was built in 1898 and was See LSD page 2
Standoff at Panera Bread ends in death of gunman By Allie Spensley Assistant News Editor
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 See PANERA page 2
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Over spring break, a deer crashed through the window of Wu Hall. The deer was not injured.
Oh, deer, another one: Deer visits Wu Hall By Benjamin Ball Staff Writer
A deer smashed through a first f loor window into Wu Hall early Saturday afternoon, leaving a large amount of broken glass on the f loor. The deer entered the east side of Wu, through a window behind the card swipe station facing Wilcox Hall, before climbing up the stairs to the second-
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f loor lobby. Public Safety officers quickly closed off the building and stationed themselves around the area. Paul Schorin ’19 was on his way to meet some friends in Wu when they told him, “Don’t come — there’s a deer.” “I was like, ‘Oh, they must be joking; my friends are so kooky,’ but they weren’t,” said Schorin. “As I look up, See OH, DEER page 2
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The new book by U. graduates documents the experience of patients at the New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute.
military vernacular. That means that cadets must wake up by 0530, before the sun rises. On 14 FEB, sunrise was at 0653. While Fahlberg and the other cadets were at Jadwin Gym, campus was eerily desolate — a background of towering buildings with pitch-black windows. The sidewalks that would soon be alive with hustling students were empty. 0635 Cadet Captain Teddy Waldron ’18 called the company to order. Thirty-five cadets, with rucks in tow, awaited instructions in the lobby of Jadwin Gym. Three injured cadets sat out dur-
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Trenton artist, students create new Butler mural By Benjamin Ball staff writer
Butler College invited Trenton artist Will Kasso to conduct a painting workshop over spring break. Kasso and members of the University community created a 40-foot mural on canvas which will be installed later this spring on the lower level of the Butler dorm complex near Studio 34. The mural attempts to express the University’s multifaceted history, depicting important figures in the University’s past and present, with more recent alumni of color and alumnae emerging from the University’s past into the future. The project is part of the larger Campus Iconography Project, an effort by the Campus Iconography Committee and the residential colleges to make the art and imagery on campus more representative of Princeton’s current diverse population. “There’s really a desire to have some iconography that is more reflective of the student body as it exists now, as opposed to say, 1888,” said David Stirk, dean of Butler College. “One part of the committee is to solicit new ideas for the portraiture on campus, but another part of it is just within the residential college to look at what ideas we might come up with.” One of those ideas, formulated by Stirk and Head of Butler College J. Nicole Shelton came about when they met Kasso at an art show in Trenton last August. After continued correspondence with Kasso, Stirk and Shelton invited him to be an artist-inresidence for a week and head a community mural project at the University. The project was supported by funding from the Campus Iconography Committee. Shelton made the intentional effort to make the project about the entire University community, not just students. As a part of this effort, she invited Laura Kalin,
an assistant professor in the Program in Linguistics, to help paint. Kalin was excited to be a part of the project and the larger goal it was trying to accomplish. “I figured, why not?” Kalin said. “I think the goal was to create an outlet for students to be able to talk to each other about these important issues and create something physical that embodies the discussion.” The mural attempts to express the positive and negative aspects that go along with each historical figure. “It’s a lot about reckoning with the complicated past of our beloved University,” Kalin said. “It’s very much about bringing diversity to Princeton and reckoning with a non-diverse and exclusionary past.” Kasso encouraged students to wrestle with the often difficult and politically charged topics represented in the mural. “Whatever you paint you have to defend,” Kasso said. “If you believe what you’re putting on that wall, that canvas, that paper, what have you, you have to defend it because not everyone is going to appreciate it; not everyone is going to see it the way you do.” Kasso was impressed with the students’ ability to go through parts of the University’s history that may not have been pleasant but were still important to discuss and depict. “We just dumped out a lot of stuff, talked about the history of Princeton, the good, the bad, and the ugly,” Kasso said. “You gotta go through the darkness to get to the light, right?” Kasso believed that the student-led nature of the project made it unique. “My role in this is more or less like a coach,” Kasso said. “I help you, I draft up the plays, but you have to execute them. It’s really taking their ideas and showing them how they can really be transformative.”
The students ref lected on the rewards of being in charge of the mural project, even with very little previous art experience. “I think the coolest thing for me is that we are in charge,” Anna Wolcke ’20 said. “[Kasso] is the artist, so he knows how to paint and draw, which most of us don’t, but we can say something, make a comment, and he adds it.” The project began with a workshop on Monday, March 19, when students discussed graffitti as well as the parts of the University’s history they wanted to include and how those components would be represented. “Kasso was guiding us on the process of what we should be thinking about, but basically all the ideas that are on the wall are student-generated,” Manisha Kapasiawala ’19 said. “All the issues that are in Princeton, or anything we want to put on the wall, whether it’s people or a black squirrel on Blair Arch, all of those are student ideas.” Kasso emphasized that another important component of the project for students came in understanding that art is made through multiple mistakes and involves constantly painting over and making changes before the final product can be made. “I tell people, there’s three paintings underneath the painting that you see,” Kasso said. “Ideas change as you go, but it’s a lot like life: as you grow, your perspective on things changes.” The students around Kasso took the lesson to heart, explaining that it was beneficial to have an environment where mistakes were not something to be feared but a part of the creative process. “You don’t have to be afraid to make mistakes,” Wolcke said. “It’s paint; it dries, and then you can just paint over it again, and that’s a really nice feeling. You don’t have to be afraid of trying something, and if it’s bad, you just change it again.”
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I see there’s a deer staring at me through the window of where the college office and the dining hall is.” Paige Allen ’21 was returning from brunch in Whitman College and walking back to her dorm when she saw all of the Public Safety officers on the scene. Allen is a staff copy editor for The Daily Princetonian. “I was originally really concerned because I saw a lot of PSafe officers and after what just happened at Panera, I was worried about what might be going on,” said Allen. “Paul Schorin was sitting here, and he was like, ‘There’s a deer in there, Paige.’” Schorin saw the deer hitting its head against the window in the attempt to get out again, but to no avail. Animal control was
called to the scene and attempted to coax the deer out of the building. Allen then returned to her dorm room in Wilson College, where she could get a better look at Wu from her window. She watched as the animal control officers tried to shepherd the deer down the stairs. After its failed attempts to exit the building, the deer “calmed down a bit and [animal control] started feeding him apples,” said Schorin. “Then at the end he just ran out on his own power.” The deer had some difficulty descending the staircase, but it eventually managed to exit the doors on the first f loor of Wu, where it took off through an arch of 1915 Hall and over Whitman’s hill. Allen watched the deer’s exit: “The deer just kind of trotted out on its own.” “I was happy to see it
wasn’t injured or anything,” said Allen. “[I] thought it was quite a drop from the window, but it didn’t look injured or anything; it just left.” Assistant Vice President of Communications Dan Day said the deer suffered minor cuts, as there was a small amount of blood to be cleaned up in Wu. “We presume the deer will go on to live a long life,” Day said. Day said that the deer crashing into the window in Wu was the second such event he knew of in his six years here, referencing last year when a deer crashed into Forbes College. Day expressed his happiness that the story ended well for the deer. “I hope they swiped its meal card,” Day joked. “I’ll check with Campus Dining.”
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Participants in Princeton Township’s March for Our Lives congregated outside the Nassau Panera Bread on Saturday.
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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 correction 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 rif le 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.
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he first week of freshman year, I remember my residential college head repeatedly telling the same anecdote about a student who came to him regarding her coursework. Over the course of their discussion, she complained to him “I have too many advisers!” Princeton ostensibly has an excellent support system for incoming freshman. RCAs, PAAs, DSLs, and a slew of other acronyms all remind us that, as hard as academics at Princeton are, there will always be structures in place to set our feet on the right path and bail us out if necessary. When students’ principal advisers within a department are professors, however, freshmen don’t have access to optimal information. My advisor in the physics department emphasized the rigor of Princeton courses, and encouraged me to take courses with
a lower workload in my first few semesters at Princeton. Experiences can certainly vary across departments, but professors and faculty have an undeniable incentive to be risk averse. This line of reasoning has merit, since students come from different backgrounds and arrive with different degrees of preparation for Princeton. At the same time, many of the most rewarding and fulfilling classes one could take at Princeton exist outside of one’s major, and do require a substantial amount of work. Freshman year is an ideal time to explore these classes. For students who aren’t certain of their interests, taking an easier introductory class won’t provide the same understanding of what a major entails as a more difficult class, so an aversion to these sorts of classes prevents students from exploring other potential majors. Even for students that know exactly what they want to do with their lives, Princeton offers the chance to learn unique skills, from singing to painting, that won’t be easily accessible after graduation. The effect of a few bad
grades freshman year is small compared to bad grades junior or senior year, making freshman year the ideal time to explore a broader scope of materials. Moreover, as our time in Princeton draws to a close, students are pressed to finish distribution requirements and certificates, making it less feasible to take a whimsical class that has a high workload. Kiddie Lit isn’t packed with students that have a passion for children’s literature; it’s a course that earned its name for offering a relatively low workload. It’s a fine balance between not overloading yourself in your first semester and taking advantage of Princeton’s unique opportunities, and professors are unlikely to have that body of knowledge. From conversations with friends throughout various departments, the default seems to be to err on the side of caution and suggest course loads that are guaranteed to be safe. The opportunity cost, however, shouldn’t be trivialized. The best arbiters of whether “X schedule” is doable for a freshman are likely to be other students with similar experiences.
While RCAs and PAAs can help, they are only one or two upperclassmen, with majors that likely differ from those of their advisees. In an ideal world, departments would have a structured way to connect freshman with upperclassmen majoring in their field within the first few days of the school year, and before course selection had closed. This would give freshman more honest feedback about classes and the difficulty they might expect at Princeton, and would encourage taking classes that we’ll never be able to after we leave the Orange Bubble. A wide pool of upperclassmen simply provides freshmen with more experiences and more data from which to form their first experiences at Princeton, and possibly explore something they never thought to before. In the meantime, I’ll keep telling every freshman I meet to take a painting class. Rohit Dilip is a junior concentrator in Physics from Fremont, Calif. He can be reached at rdilip@princeton.edu.
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originally intended to be a “selfsustaining agrarian community” for epileptics to “live together in a wholesome environment” and “receive medical treatment” away from asylums and prisons. In 1953, the village was turned into the New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute, a research and treatment center catered towards “alcoholics, drug addicts, emotionally disturbed children[,] and people with cerebral palsy.” The Institute was remodeled a final time in 1983 and renamed the North Princeton Developmental Center, focusing primarily on “developmental disabilities, cerebral palsy[,] and other neurological disorders.” The center closed permanently in 1998 and was completely demolished by 2012. “I learned about the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute’s hypnosis research from a poster on a kiosk on Nassau Street,” explained Davids. “It made it out that it would be research that could help you lose your inhibitions. The implication was that it might even improve your sex life.” According to Davids, the allmale campus culture placed “enormous pressure on how [the students] would meet women,” and students would “have to go to lengths to meet girls and maintain relationships.” The Institute presented its research as a study of meditative states and altered awareness. In reality, research subjects experienced “some of that,” according to Davids, but the research took an unexpected turn. “It put us through some harrowing experiences, very deliberately because [the researchers] wanted to study our behavior and reactions under psychedelic drugs and/or deep hypnosis conditions in which our sense of reality was changed, sometimes in ways that would provoke temporary psychotic episodes … other times, a positive and more mindexpanding experience,” he said. “Before 1966, you had people disseminating LSD everywhere,” explained Davids. Sandoz, a pharmaceutical company, produced the drug. In 1966, public funding was cut and LSD became harder to procure, an effect that “certainly has thwarted serious and vital scientific work,” as a ‘Prince’ reporter wrote in 1966. Although LSD sources became scarce, the Institute continued to carry out the studies. “From 1966 onward, they were ordered … to cease all LSD studies, and they therefore should have used hypnosis to induce similar states,” explained Selby. “But they didn’t. They kept using LSD.” In 1967, Selby conducted a questionnaire survey of drug use among students. He found that 15 percent of undergraduates at the University experimented with marijuana, hashish, or LSD, and that two-thirds of the users are on the Dean’s List, as the New York Times reported. That same year, the Princeton University Student Committee on Mental Health, which Selby served on, released a pamphlet discussing the “social, medical, and legal aspects of psychedelic drug use, descriptions of a successful and unsuccessful trip, and clear definitions of drug-related terms.” Aimed towards dispelling “pretensions and moral judgments” about psychedelic drugs, the pamphlet was sold at the local town bookstore. Former Associate Opinion Editor Robert Herbst ’69 published a “critique of the drug report” and excoriated the lack of medical information in the pamphlet. Herbst claimed that “hardly any LSD is used and interest centers around marijuana and hashish” at the University, making the pamphlet’s legal and social sections obsolete for the majority of students. Former University President Robert Goheen commended the efforts of those students who distributed the booklet, “Psychedelics and the College Student.” He
said, however, that “what good it will do, I don’t have the vaguest idea in the world.” Goheen asked to meet with Selby to better understand psychedelic use on campus. “He was a very devout religious fellow,” said Selby, adding that the President was upset about the situation on campus. Selby met with President Goheen between eight to ten more times, and Goheen became more involved, eventually sponsoring a forum on psychedelics, according to Selby. Goheen even arranged for Selby to receive a diploma his senior year, when Selby and his pregnant wife fled for California one night after a bad encounter with the CIA. Selby met Alan Watts, a British philosopher who popularized Eastern philosophy in the West, at a seminary in San Francisco. Davids and Selby recall the some troubling effects of the drug experimentation at the Institute. When Davids began his time at the Institution as a research subject, Selby, then a research hypnotist, was assigned to him to train him to go into deep hypnotic states. “At that time, [Selby] was undergoing a psychological crisis as a result of the deep hypnosis experiences he had been put through for over a year, in which there were hypnotic conditions that he was convinced were never erased. He felt he was still being manipulated by the doctors at the Institute,” explained Davids. When Davids was in a trance, Selby had an out-of-body experience where he was hypnotically made to experience that he was a bird and flying away, according to Davids. Selby, convinced the doctors had never restored his memory of growing up on a cattle ranch in the West, went upstairs to confront Dr. Aaronson, who ended Selby’s panic by putting him into a trance. Coming to the University, Selby had never even had a beer. “I was an absolute straight, Republican, conservative, Presbyterian, cowboy,” he said, adding that he was lonely and lost his freshman year. His sophomore year, he was “pretty much an alcoholic.” Joining the Tower Club, he had the opportunity to enter a stabilizing group, but felt he was still drinking too much. “The main problem at Princeton, when I was there, was alcohol,” he added. When he started at the Institute and was introduced to hashish, Selby stopped drinking. As he continued research at the Institute, he began using more psychedelics. “I did get more and more weird… mostly from the LSD and research we were doing” he said. “Dissociative disorder is what it would be called now.” Selby looks back on his involvement with the CIA’s LSD experiments as rather traumatic, but emphasizes that he does not believe that the psychedelic drugs themselves were the cause of his distress. “I wouldn’t blame the LSD for my freakout,” said Selby. “I would blame the Institute. But also just the fact that we were so frightened of getting caught, that made us paranoid. And when you take a psychedelic and you’re dealing with paranoia, it’s dangerous.” “The process of writing the book was therapeutic,” said Davids, adding that it allow him to “break through some of the fog we’d been put in.” Davids is an independent filmmaker and writer. He has written and directed several films and has written television episodes for the Transformers series as well as a spin-off of the Star Wars series. Selby is a psychologist and author. He has written over two dozen self-help, spiritualgrowth, business-success, and psychology books. Recently, he has written a book and accompanying mobile app, Mindfully High, to provide marijuana users with profession insight to guide their experience.
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ing the PT session. The cadets would soon make their way around the stadium, go south on Washington Road, cross the brick bridge over Lake Carnegie, and then make their way east onto the Delaware and Raritan Canal towpath. The cadets would remain in two lines for the entire march, brief ly exchanging a word here or there. A cadet at the front of the formation would carry the Army ROTC f lag. Once the cadets reached the end of the towpath, they immediately broke formation to run back, each settling into a different pace. Some cadets lagged behind, sometimes marching and sometimes jogging. Others were far ahead, unbothered by the 50-pound packs strapped to their backs. Every time a cadet fell behind or stopped to retie their shoes, another cadet would slow down and accompany them, ensuring that morale stayed high. Once they crossed the bridge again and were making their way north on Faculty Road, a driver honked at them, acknowledging their service — a small, f leeting sign of deference. The cadets marched forward, seemingly unfazed by the gesture extended to them whenever they are in uniform. Someone always thanks them for their service. Whenever she hears such a commendation, or whenever someone pays for her meal as a show of thanks, Kara Dowling ’20, a Navy ROTC cadet, feels conf licted. She hesitantly explained that she doesn’t feel she’s done anything to deserve it. Dowling isn’t the only one to feel this way.
“[It’s as if you’re] treated with a respect that you did not earn … earned by people before you,” added Waldron, buttressing Dowling’s sentiments. “In American society, military service is celebrated as a kind of genuinely self less act, but I think it’s important to understand that it is, at the end of the day, just a job,” Waldron explained. Lieutenant Colonel Kevin McKiernan, who directs the Army Officer Education Program and, has served in the Army for 24 years, agreed with the two cadets. “I think when we call it service sometimes, it puts us on a pedestal that maybe it doesn’t necessarily deserve,” McKiernan explained. According to McKiernan, military service is a choice, one that comes with its own unique benefits and challenges. Not the typical student 0710 Cadets sprinted the final leg of their ruck march, nearing Jadwin Gym, with arms sharply bent, moving quickly. Waldron and Fahlberg finally rounded the corner in view of the gymnasium. With their gazes fixed straight ahead, the two took no notice of the warm sunlight that had begun to take hold of campus. Shortly thereafter, cadets partnered up outside the gym, one counting aloud while the other did pushups on the cold concrete. Struggling to maintain perfect form, they did their best to push through to the end. Their noses were almost touching the ground every time they bent their arms as close to 90 degrees as possible. Halfway through, they switched partners, welcoming a short reprieve. However, most people haven’t seen the cadets
training. Most students and faculty members have rarely seen them in uniform. As Major Lee Gerber, former assistant director of the Army Officer Education Program, pointed out, most of ROTC’s activities happen before students are awake, far away from the public eye. In addition to PT three times a week, cadets are required to take a weekly leadership lab on Friday afternoons, as well as a mili-
in civilian garb, seems almost out of place. Inside, the walls are painted a bright Princeton Orange and are lined with Purple Hearts, a large woven University logo inscribed with the old motto, and the Officers’ Oath, all of which are prominently displayed in wood-framed glass cases. But the Armory wasn’t always on the outskirts of campus. Up until the Vietnam War, it was located in Morrison Hall, then known as West College. In May 1970, thousands of students and faculty gathered to approve a strike against the war in Vietnam. Students also firebombed the Armory amidst protests at the Institute for Defense Analyses. The Armory was moved shortly thereafter. Unlike its Ivy League peers, however, the University maintained its Army ROTC program during and after the war. Still, Navy ROTC was disbanded during the war and was not reinstituted until the fall of 2014. The Navy program is run in cooperation with Rutgers University, where cadets travel for classes and physical training three times a week. Navy ROTC cadets have to wake up by 0430 to get to training on time. The Air Force runs a similar
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The University Motto featured in the lobby of the ROTC program building.
tary science elective course. According to Gerber, who worked with the Army ROTC program for three and a half years, their classroom is situated at the edge of campus, in a building at the corner of Faculty Road and Alexander Street that prominently features the University’s motto in its lobby, beneath the window to the front desk. It reads: “Princeton in the nation’s service and the service of humanity.” All the professionals who lead Army ROTC and work at the Armory, as the building which houses ROTC is called, move in and out of their offices in full uniform. The receptionist, clad
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Rob, Visser, and two other cadets participating in color guard ceremony at home basketball game in Spring 2017.
program, while the Marines are subsumed in the Navy ROTC program. For the 36 Army ROTC men and women who do train on campus, military service and the ROTC program offer personal and financial benefits. The list includes support for higher education and leadership opportunities. The ROTC scholarship pays for a portion of undergraduate college tuition, along with a monthly stipend that varies by class year. Oftentimes, the military will also pay for graduate school. Some cadets would not be at the University without ROTC. For instance, Dowling would most certainly have opted for Clemson University in her native South Carolina. There, unlike the University, where all grants are based on need, a full academic scholarship was guaranteed. On the other hand, the hardships set the cadets apart from many of their peers, as they have to wake up far before the sun rises, maintain a disciplined schedule, and take mandatory courses that do not count for University credit. “A lot of people just don’t understand how taxing it is, both at Princeton and after Princeton,” Fahlberg explained. Upon graduating this June, Fahlberg will attend Airborne School and then contract into the New Jersey Army National Guard. For her, like any other commissioned officer, that
means at least eight years of service after graduating. Seniors like her are also sometimes granted an educational delay to complete a graduate program. “I don’t know if [other students] see ROTC as a form of service, but they see [what happens after] as service,” said Dowling. “I don’t know if they appreciate the four years of training we go through to get there.” The summer before senior year, Army cadets are required to attend Cadet Summer Training for three weeks of rigorous instruction at Fort Knox, Ky. CST is generally supplemented by Cadet Troop Leading Training, approximately four weeks of training that provides cadets with real-life exposure to an active-duty unit at a U.S., or sometimes international, base. For Fahlberg, the only senior female Army cadet, there are the added challenges of being a woman in the military, which is only 14–16 percent female. These range from changing in the field in front of men to proving her physical fitness capability. “When you think military, you think super macho…. You don’t really think of a 5-foot-4-inch, 110-pound girl,” Fahlberg said, smiling. Despite such stereotypes, Fahlberg and Christina Onianwa ’18, the only female of color in the senior class’s Navy ROTC, have risen to the challenge. Even in an unequivocally “masculine culture,” Fahlberg said she sometimes likes being the only girl in her cadet class because of the challenges it poses. Onianwa concurred, adding that with regard to race, the military can often be equalizing. “On the battlefield, it doesn’t matter what color you are,” Onianwa said However, there have been issues of ROTC students not being able to reconcile the program with certain medical conditions. “It’s an unforgiving environment,” explained one such student, who dropped out of the ROTC program at the end of their freshman year. The student was granted anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the circumstances discussed. “There are standards; you either adhere to them or you don’t,” the student explained. In order to join ROTC the fall before college, this student went off medications prescribed for depression. However, if disclosed on intake forms, the illness, since it requires treatment through medication, can put a cadet in danger of being disqualified from the program. Once training has been completed, soldiers can get a waiver to openly take medication. However, the waiver isn’t available to those in training. The student experienced a bout of Lyme disease shortly following the twoday Spring Field Training Exercise at Fort Dix, where ticks are common. The student also decided to re-start medication, meaning that the student had to leave the program. Cadets have the option to quit without an explanation within a year of joining. “It’s an intensely stressful environment that doesn’t work well with being a student,” the student said. McKiernan noted that military service is a job which cadets must choose to do with such challenges and benefits in mind. The See ROTC page 7
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responsibility they carry is something cadets place upon themselves. Bridging the civilianmilitary divide on campus 0730 With backpacks in tow, cadets head back in twos and threes toward Wu Hall, where they all have breakfast together every morning after PT. The cadets are smiling and laughing, despite being weighed down by the 50-pound rucks on their backs. Their f lushed cheeks recover once they enter the dining hall, where they eat as a unit — always together and always in uniform. However, for many ca-
cording to a recent Slate piece penned by Amy Schafer, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a small number of military families disproprotionately comprise a large portion of the armed forces, widening the civilian-military gap even further. Many grew up within these families and this culture. Samuel Rob ’18 and Caleb Visser ’20, so-called “army brats,” moved around frequently as children because of their parents’ military careers. Rob is the son of two career Army officers, both former Judge Advocate General colonels who helped resolve legal military issues and prosecute war criminals. Rob’s brother Jacob, who also attends the University, is a first-year in the Army ROTC program. Visser is the son
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Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, cadets report to Jadwin Gym for PT.
dets, the uniform is heavier than the rucks on their backs. “You don’t have that luxury in the military to step away after a 9-to-5 work day. Every day you wear the uniform, you represent the Army,” explained Gerber, adding that the cadets must live up to certain expectations every single day. In addition to their uniformed breakfasts, Army ROTC cadets are encouraged to spend at least one day a week in uniform. “When you’re in the uniform and you’re talking in precept, it definitely — in a good way — adds a sort of pressure that I have to be really careful about the things I say,” explained Fahlberg. “That’s why you always kind of wear the uniform, even if you’re not [physically] wearing it.” After all, the uniform represents a choice all the cadets have willingly made. “I signed that dotted line saying I’m willing to die for my country,” Fahlberg said, starkly illustrating the weight of the choice she made. The divide between those connected to the military and the rest of the population has also been discussed on the national level. Ac-
of a retired Army officer and his older brother is a captain in the Army. Rob and Visser have both participated in color guard ceremonies at home football games, during which four cadets march and present the regimental colors on the field. These games, along with the second annual Military Appreciation Football game held this year, are part of a growing initiative to help increase the University community’s awareness of current student cadets and alumni who are either veterans or currently serving in the military.
Yet, Gerber said, “If you stop the average person on campus, they couldn’t even know that [ROTC] exists.” Nevertheless, there are many sources of support and community for University cadets — and even veteran staff members. Rob, who oversees daily training operations as Battalion Command Sergeant Major, befriended Dennis Stewart, who served in the U.S. Navy before becoming a chef in Whitman Dining Hall. Other students have had similar experiences. The Center for International Security Studies also hosts a speaker series known as MIL 101, established in Feb. 2014 by Wilson School Ph.D. candidate Doyle Hodges GS, who spent 21 years as a Naval officer before coming to Princeton. Margaret Mullins, who now runs the program, explained how “the approach to MIL 101 this year is largely from the perspective of civ-mil relations.” Mullins explained that the program encourages discussion around the civil-military relationship, by recommending to all interested that they more critically analyze the roots of the divide, where the military is deployed and for what purpose, and the willingness of citizens to question the military and demand more access to information. Although events are open to the public and are geared toward students who may not have a military background, a large part of the University’s military community is in attendance. “I walk in, and it’s like all of ROTC sitting here,” explained Dowling, comparing the number of military personnel to civilians. ROTC cadets and command have praised the University’s focus on expanding the ROTC program. President Eisgruber has spoken at the commissioning ceremony every year, when graduating cadets going to active duty are commissioned as officers with the rank of Second Lieutenant. Each senior can invite
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If someone falls behind, a fellow cadet joins them, ensuring morale stays high.
up to 15 guests, who proudly fill the wooden pew-like seats of Nassau Hall’s Faculty Room. “That’s a big deal! They take good care of us,” Gerber exclaimed. Additionally, the University’s recent change in policy for transfer students has improved its relationships with ROTC, facilitating the enrollment of student veterans and growing the numbers of ROTC students. According to Gerber, ROTC membership has doubled in size over the past four years. Though there are several veteran graduate students, the number of undergraduate veterans remains low. In the 2014–15 and 2015–16 school years, there was only one student veteran at the University each year. This year, there are just five in the first-year class. However, Waldron pointed out that not everyone in
emigrated from China following the Cultural Revolution and grew up in a country without many political freedoms. “I feel as though I need to give back to this country, this country that has given so much to me and my family,” Waldron explained. Visser explained that he grappled with varying types of service while on Bridge Year in Senegal. “I was forced to really confront a lot of conceptions of service and what service meant to me,” explained Visser. “A significant reason that I chose to come to Princeton was its emphasis on service and acting as a steward in the nation’s service and in the service of humanity.” Visser also pointed to an unusual motivation for service — namely, being critiqued. Many cadets admitted that at one point or another, they had fielded
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Cadets run in formation, with the cadet at the front carrying the Army ROTC flag.
the military sees the divide as a bad thing. “The military is not that different from any other part of the government,” explained Rob. “You have a responsibility to vote, to know who the candidates are, to familiarize yourself with their policies. You have the responsibility to know what’s going on.” The choice to serve — and sacrifice autonomy 0830 Previously deserted sidewalks were bustling with life, as students rushed to grab breakfast or make their way to early morning classes. The cadets are out of uniform and back to being regular students. Even without the uniform, being a cadet is a salient identity marker. For Falhberg, it is no different than her gender or faith. For Onianwa, it is no different from her race or gender. “My identity won’t change. I’ll always be a woman of color…. I expect to be treated as an equal [in the military] regardless of my identity,” said Onianwa. Fahlberg and Onianwa carry these identity markers wherever they go, be it their classes, their eating clubs, or their advisee groups — both cadets also serve as RCAs. Campus hosts a multiplicity of avenues to serve; cadets and commanders highlighted this as their way to serve, to give back to a society they had benefited from, or to fulfill their duty to the body politic, as Rob put it. With that motivation in mind, Rob is the only senior cadet commissioning active duty this year. Graduating seniors commission as second lieutenants at the conclusion of the four-year program, and have the option of electing to go active duty, National Guard, or Reserve. Waldron stressed an “ideological pull,” saying his background made him motivated to serve. His mother
questions, and sometimes even critical remarks from classmates and professors. “I’m totally aware of the criticism of the military,” said Visser, “but because I am aware of those and because I am from the community, I feel like I can go back into it and hopefully make a more well-rounded impact.” Waldron explained that such an awareness often motivates cadets to serve. “I couldn’t judge [U.S. foreign policy] without having been there, been a part of the decision-making process firsthand and serve,” said Waldron, referring to his decision to join ROTC. Waldron explained that he would like to make a limited positive effect by serving in the military. He added that since the United States is likely to be involved in wars anyway, he believes there is a certain moral good to entering the military sphere as long as you go in well-intentioned and committed to trying to make better decisions. Still, Wilson School professor Jacob Shapiro, himself a Navy veteran, paints a vivid picture of sacrifice. “You don’t get to say no…. You’re doing the mission assigned, whatever hardship that imposes on you or however much you might disagree with it.” “That loss of control, willingly giving up your liberty in the service of a larger good for some period of time, is just fundamentally different [than other forms of service].” And this choice, job, or responsibility — however a cadet chooses to phrase it — means being put in charge of 35 to 90 people as soon as they finish college. This fate awaits the graduating cadets in June. In the meantime, they keep training. Senior Writer Rebecca Ngu contributed reporting.
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After winning ECAC title, Men’s Hockey falls in NCAA Tournament to Ohio State
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The Tigers concluded their 2017-18 season at 19-13-4 overall. By Jack Graham associate Sports Editor
Men’s hockey’s impressive season finally came to an end Saturday with a 4–2 defeat at the hands of Ohio State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Princeton had mounted a seven-game winning streak to win its first ECAC conference title since 2008 and qualify for the NCAA Tournament, but was unable to keep the run going
against top-seeded Ohio State. Despite the loss, Princeton’s run to the NCAA Tournament marked a significant turnaround for a team that finished last place in the ECAC just two years ago. “They’ve done something special,” said Head Coach Ron Fogarty of his team and their senior leaders. “They’ll soon look back at this game and realize to get here is very difficult, and they did something spectacular for
Princeton University.” In Saturday’s game, however, Ohio State took control early, scoring two first period goals and stifling Princeton’s offense. The Orange and Black made seven power plays but was unable to convert on any of them, as Ohio State’s penalty kill unit held stout. Ohio State scored two more goals in the third period to bring the margin to 4–0. Finally, after Fogarty put a line full of seniors on the ice in the
final minutes, defenseman Matt Nelson scored a power play goal with 26 seconds remaining, and forward David Hallisey added another with 10 seconds left to bring the score to 4–2 and put a silver lining on the game for the Tigers. “If there is a way to go out well, that’s probably a way to go out,” said Hallisey. “Scoring as a senior class on the ice there twice in 45 seconds is a lot of fun.”
Before the late goals courtesy of the senior class, Princeton’s offense was unable to get much going. The Ohio State defense held Princeton’s offense scoreless for 59 minutes and limited two of the country’s most dynamic scorers, junior forwards Ryan Kuffner and Max Veronneau, to 11 shots and no goals. “I was just concerned how we played knowing they had highend talent,” said Ohio State Head Coach Steve Rohlik. “I think our lines did a pretty good job along with our defense.” Defensively, the Tigers were set back with the loss of star junior defenseman Josh Teves, who was ejected for a hit to the head of Ohio State forward Dakota Joshua early in the second period. “It was a good call,” said Fogarty. “We saw the review, it was unfortunate, [the] timing was close but the right call was made.” “It would have helped to have him, but it kind of falls on everyone,” added Nelson. “We should have picked up the slack.” Though the season ended on an unfortunate note, this Princeton team has both the talent and the drive to make similar runs in the near future. “Where we’re at right now is a new starting point,” said Fogarty. “I know it’s going to be a contagious feeling for our three classes that will be returning, and they’ll pass that onto our incoming freshmen. We’ll be here again for sure.”
Princeton Athletics Weekend Review THIS WEEKEND
By David Xin Head Sports Editor
Men’s Tennis @ Florida Gulf Coast (FGCU): W 4–3 The men’s tennis team ended their spring break trip to Florida with a 4–3 win over FGCU. Despite losing the double points, the Tigers were not fazed. Showing their usual poise, Princeton came back in singles play, grabbing four matches to secure the win. The match caps off the non-conference play for the Orange and Black as the team will now enter into a sevenmatch run through the Ivy League. Women’s Lacrosse vs. Dartmouth: L 15–12 The women’s lacrosse team lost to Dartmouth, falling to 1–1 in Ivy League play. The Big Green started the game strong, building an impressive 13–6 lead. Despite the uphill battle, the Tigers were not disheartened as Princeton mounted a strong comeback. The team managed to cut the deficit to two, but never drew closer. Dartmouth would hold on for the win. The Tigers return to Sherrerd Field Thursday for their matchup against Syracuse. Men’s Lacrosse @ Yale:
L 16–8 The men’s lacrosse team were overwhelmed by the Bulldogs, falling to 0–2 in Ivy League play. Yale dominated several key categories throughout the game, beating the Tigers in faceoffs, shots, and ground balls. This ultimately translated into a 16–8 victory for the Bulldogs, who have won 18 of the last 19 meetings between the two Ivy League rivals. The Princeton side will look to rebound from this tough loss as they face Brown this coming weekend. Men’s Hockey vs. Ohio State: L 4–2 The men’s hockey team fell to No. 5 Ohio State in the NCAA Midwest Regional Semifinal with a 4–2 loss. Despite the loss, the Tigers have plenty to be proud of as they look back on the season. Princeton entered the tournament with a remarkable eight-game unbeaten streak that included four wins over ranked opponents. In fact, the Orange and Black swept No. 16 Union and beat No. 2 Cornell. Women’s Softball @ Brown: L 5–0, W 7–1 The women’s softball team split their series with Brown this weekend
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with each team claiming one game apiece. The tie break scheduled at Princeton was postponed due to the snowstorm that left the field unplayable. Despite a tough loss to start the series, Princeton clawed back in the second game with seven unanswered points. Although Brown would ruin the
shutout with a late point, they never posed a challenge for the Tigers in the second leg. Fencing @ NCAA: Princeton brought home two NCAA titles courtesy of sophomores Maia Chamberlain and Kasia Nixon, who won saber and épée titles, respectively.
They were the fourth and fifth titles the women’s program had ever won. It was also the first time in program history that the Tigers won two titles in a single year. Five of the nine Princeton competitors earned All-American honors.
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Nixon claimed the individual epee title with 17 wins at the NCAA championships.
Wang earned a Top-10 finish at the LSU Tiger Golf Classic.
Maia Chamberlain Sophomore Maia Chamberlain claimed the saber title at the NCAA fencing championships this past weekend.
Kasia Nixon Sophomore Kasia Nixon won the épée title at this year’s NCAA fencing championships. Along with the title earned by épée Anna van Brummen ’17 last year, it was the second straight épée title for the Tigers.
Amber Wang Junior Amber Wang tied for eighth out of 72 players competing in the LSU Tiger Golf Classic. The women’s team finished ninth with Wang leading the team at +9.
Chamberlain snagged the individual saber title with 17 wins at the NCAA championships.
Stat of the Day
107 wins The women’s fencing team racked up 107 wins at the NCAA Championships to finish seventh.
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