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With school-wide mandate lifted, some classes, departments maintain masking requirements

By Janny Eng

News Contributor

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On March 14, the University lifted its indoor mask mandate in most University spaces. But the new guidelines include some exceptions: students must wear masks when “required by state or local agencies,” “instructed by Global and Community Health,” or “when faculty or staff conveners of a class, lab, gathering, or meeting require participants to wear a mask.”

Implemented at both the department level and in specific courses, several professors have mandated that face coverings be worn during their classes.

The Writing Program, which offers 55 writing seminar sections, all with an enrollment limit of 12

students, and four graduate-level courses, has instituted a department-wide mask mandate, according to an email obtained by The Daily Princetonian. A professor in the program, who requested anonymity, also confirmed this fact to the ‘Prince.’

“The Writing Program will continue to require face coverings in all Writing Seminar classes and Writing Center conferences through the end of the semester to maintain a consistently safe environment for our faculty, fellows, and seminar communities,” the email stated.

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CPUC gives divestment update, Spring has sprung plans for new academic options U. AFFAIRS

By Aidan Iacobucci Staff News Writer

At the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) meeting, on Monday, March 21, administrators discussed the University’s decision to disassociate from fossil fuels, plans for a minors program, and upcoming changes to the University’s COVID-19 protocol.

President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 introduced the speakers and facilitated questions from the faculty and student body.

Dissociation from Fossil Fuels Vice President and Secretary of the University Hilary Parker and Professor

of Civil and Environmental Engineering Anu Ramaswami spoke on behalf of the Administrative Committee and the Faculty Panel on the University’s dissociation from fossil fuels, respectively.

The dissociation process began in May 2021, when, following a recommendation from the CPUC Resources Committee, the Board of Trustees authorized the creation of an administrative process to guide dissociation from two categories of fossil fuel companies.

“We are dissociating from those that participate in climate disinformation campaigns, or otherwise spread climate disinformation, as well as those that are in the thermal coal or

tar sands segment of the fossil fuel industry, unless they can meet a rigorous standard for their greenhouse gas emissions,” Parker said at the meeting.

With this transition, Princeton is joining other Ivy League institutions in establishing a plan to divest from fossil fuels, although the University maintains that they are going beyond just divesting.

Parker said that the University will be going beyond the economic stakes in investing by ceasing other forms of partnership and relationships.

“So as we are thinking about a process that we would need to put in place, we absolutely would need to be thinking about investments and PRINCO,”

onto petitions of support, and formed new campus groups centered on the conflict.

On Feb. 28, a group of Russian students circulated a Letter of Solidarity with Ukraine on University email listservs; the letter was later published in The Daily Princetonian.

In an interview with the ‘Prince,’ Kate Ivshina ’23 said that the idea to write the letter came to her as she felt “very helpless” while reading the news.

“I felt that not enough people on campus care about this right now, or like, not enough of this information [is] shared here,” Ivshina said. “And so

we decided [that] the first step could be writing a letter showing that we support Ukraine.” The letter called on University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 to publicly support the people of Ukraine and condemn the Russian invasion.

A few hours after the letter was sent out, Eisgruber issued a statement about the war.

Another organizer behind the letter, Nadya Fishchenko ’24, said that she appreciated that the president’s statement was not anti-Russian.

“It is very important for us to differentiate this war from

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Anthony Fauci Students fundraise, petition, announced as 2022 show solidarity for Ukraine Class Day speaker BEYOND THE BUBBLE

By Hope Perry

Head Podcast editor

In the weeks following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many members of the Princeton community have sought out avenues to express solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

On Feb. 25 — just a day after the initial assault began on Feb. 24 — students, faculty, and local residents gathered outside of Nassau Hall for a rally. In the days that followed, community members have raised funds for humanitarian organizations working in the region, signed

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Princeton students and town members came to the front of Nassau Hall to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

This Week on Campus

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By Brenden Garza News Contributor

On March 18, Princeton University announced that Dr. Anthony Fauci has been selected to be the Class Day 2022 Speaker, following a similar announcement by the Class Day co-chairs in an email to the Class of 2022.

This will be the first inperson Class Day since 2019 due to the ongoing challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Class Day, which takes place the day before Princeton’s Commencement, is organized by members of the senior class. The ceremony will include speeches by graduating seniors and recognition of class members for their contributions.

Dr. Fauci has served as the Chief Medical Advisor to the United States President since January 2021, and also serves as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

Dr. Fauci rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic when he was assigned to the White House

| The Hello Girls — Friday, March 25, 8 p.m., Saturday, March 26, 8 p.m., & Sunday, March 27, 2 p.m., Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center.

The Hello Girls is a musical about the lives of America’s first women soldiers during World War I, directed by senior Kate Semmens and featuring seniors Molly Bremer and Violet Gautreau, along with a company of twelve student actormusicians. Tickets are available through the McCarter Box Office.

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Coronavirus Task Force in January 2020 and has served as a key voice for Americans in understanding and combatting the pandemic.

He has served under multiple Presidential administrations, and has contributed to HIV/AIDS research throughout his career.

The Class Day co-chairs Christian Potter ’22, Julia Chaffers ’22, and Sarah Lee ’22 highlighted his work on public health policy throughout his career as well as his leadership during the pandemic, saying that “few people better represent Princeton’s unofficial motto, ‘In the Nation’s Service, and the Service of Humanity.’”

Dr. Fauci continues to operate as a leading voice during the ongoing pandemic, and the Class Day co-chairs believe “[he] will be able to impart a message that our class can continue to take on after graduation”.

Brenden Garza is a news contributor for the ‘Prince’.

He can be reached at bg8077@ princeton.edu or @brenden. garza on Instagram.

ARTS | Princeton Chinese Theater Presents: Journey to the West 2 — Friday, March 25, 8 p.m., Saturday, March 26, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Drapkin Theater.

Journey to the West 2 is a student-written musical based on the Chinese epic “Journey to the West” set after the characters have reached their destination. English subtitles provided.

| Men’s Baseball vs. Yale — Saturday, March 26, 5 p.m., Clarke Field.

The Princeton Tigers take on the Yale baseball team this Saturday! You can watch them at Clarke Field or later on ESPN.

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Prof. Sam Wang advises N.J. redistricting commissions in historic, bipartisan vote

By Laura Robertson News Contributor

In mid-February, for the first time in New Jersey’s history, new legislative district maps were determined by a bipartisan vote. Sam Wang, neuroscience professor and the director of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project and the Electoral Innovation Lab, served in an advisory role in this landmark vote.

Since 1973, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has gathered every 10 years to debate and decide upon the legislative district maps for the decade to come. The commission is made up of five Democrats and five Republicans, as well as one nonpartisan member, referred to as a ‘tiebreaker.’

In the past, members of the commission voted strictly along party lines and the final decision was determined by the tiebreaker. This year, for the first

time, the map was adopted after nine members of the committee — four Republicans, four Democrats, and the non-partisan member — voted for it.

In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Wang said that there are several reasons why the vote was bipartisan this year.

One reason was that the parties released draft maps to the public in advance, Wang explained.

“In the past, a lot of redistricting has been done behind closed doors, using software that’s not broadly available, through a negotiation process that is often not visible to the public,” Wang said.

Wang argued that releasing the maps allowed citizens and journalists to play a watchdog role.

“I think it builds faith in the process,” he said. “It lets people know that they’re on notice, that they’re being watched.”

Wang and his team advised John E. Wallace Jr. and Judge Philip Carchman, the chair of the Congressional Redistricting Commission and the non-partisan 11th member of the Legislative Apportionment Commission, respectively.

Wang described the process of serving as an advisor in this legislation: “The whole thing is called Hotel Week,” he said.

“You go there, and you hole up in there. All the commissioners hole up, their lawyers hole up, we all hole up. And we eat hotel food.”

Wang said that he could not describe the events in detail because it was privileged information.

“I will just say that there was much more information sharing than usual,” he said.

Wang credited Judge Carchman for serving as a mediator: “At the end they came up with a plan that was agreeable to both

sides. And as I said, that was the first time ever.”

In an interview with the ‘Prince,’ Carchman noted that in the past, the tie-breaker had always been a social scientist, while Carchman had judicial experience instead.

“I came into this as a former judge without any stated point of view from a social science perspective,” Carchman said.

“So, in that regard, I think to all involved this was a bit of a wild card.”

Carchman also addressed criticism that Wang has received for his work as an advisor in the redistricting process. New Jersey Republican lawmakers accused Wang and the Princeton Gerrymandering Project of bias toward Democrats, and sued.

The lawsuit was dismissed by the N.J. Supreme Court on Feb. 3, 2022.

“During the course of this process, various parties have questioned the issue of partisanship of Sam and his team. I will tell you without any question that Sam and his team operated in a completely nonpartisan way,” Carchman said.

“Their analysis did not favor one party over the other. And, you know, the integrity of his team’s work was beyond question.”

Wang’s team uses a combination of statistical analysis, geospatial analysis, and computer simulation to decide what a fair map would look like for each state.

Despite the historic nature of the bipartisan agreement on new districts, Wang cautioned that the pandemic-related delays in the New Jersey census have also delayed representational fairness. Because New Jersey votes in odd years, instead

of even years like most of the country, these legislative maps won’t be used until 2023.

“That means that representational fairness got delayed two years,” Wang said. “Hispanic and Asian communities are the fastest growing communities in New Jersey, and they have to wait two extra years for representation. That’s terrible.”

Outside of providing advice to redistricting commissions, the Gerrymandering Project has analyzed voting districts across the nation in an effort to “understand and eliminate partisan gerrymandering at a state-by-state level,” according to their website. It has also produced reports for legislative district reformers in Virginia and Michigan, and been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Project is currently developing the nation’s first open-source database containing geographic and demographic information on precincts in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Wang’s team has also begun to shift focus to the next issue: voting rules.

“I’m interested now in reforms like rank-choice voting — other kinds of voting reforms that could make representatives more responsive to voter sentiment,” he said.

“At some level, redistricting is about creating fair representation,” Wang added. “And so now, what we’re hoping for is to help work on responsive representation. So that’s something I’m really excited for in the next ten years.”

Laura Robertson is a news contributor for the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at lr15@princeton.edu.

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Rozenberg: I guess the one thing Senate launches USG that we can do is use our voice USG

reform initiative, sponsors DEI motion

By Annie Rupertus Staff News Writer

During their weekly meeting on Sunday, March 20, the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) announced the USG Reform Project, a new initiative with the goal of introducing administrative changes. The Senate also heard committee updates, approved a budget proposal for the Princeton Perspectives Project, and agreed to sponsor a referendum for the spring election cycle that would make the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee a core committee of USG. The Social Committee also announced that they plan to select a student opener for Lawnparties this week.

The USG Reform Project comes out of what was known as the Internal Resources Working Group, headed by USG Chief of Staff Dillion Gallagher ’23. Gallagher expressed that the push for reform was motivated by “the student body’s general disinterest in the work of USG.” Gallagher is an opinion columnist for the ‘Prince.’

“It’s clear to me and to many of you that the USG is facing a crisis of confidence in ourselves and in our work,” Gallagher said. “To the students we serve, we are often seen as an extension of the University administration, instead of active partners in numerous

initiatives of our classmates.

For some of the most difficult years of our lives, USG was forced to reactively explain and frame University decisions.”

Gallagher said that, since then, “USG has been unable to find its footing internally.” He listed issues such as USG members who “don’t take serious interest in work in the Senate,” meetings filled with unanimous votes rather than debate, and frequent uncontested elections. He projected a slide with quotes from discussions with Senate members and students, including “it feels like people don’t care” and “most of the student body doesn’t know that USG does anything.”

Gallagher detailed changes he hopes to see implemented by the next winter election cycle. He emphasized that “when it comes to this process, everything must be on the table,” including enforcing Senate attendance “strictly but compassionately.” Another change includes implementing an expectation that all class senators and U-Councilors serve on at least one committee.

Other proposed changes include incorporating task forces into the senate constitution “so their scope and timelines are fully transparent,” creating a data and archives team, and considering “expanding the size of the Senate.”

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our nation and our home country,” Fishchenko, a Russian citizen, said. “Because, yes, the Russian army invaded Ukraine, but we — and a lot of Russian people, both in Russia and abroad — are against it.”

Politics professor Mark Beissinger, an expert on the post-Soviet states, told the ‘Prince’ that an independent poll found that approximately half of the Russian population supports the war. “Which is actually pretty astounding,” he said of the poll. “When a country goes to war and only half of your citizens support it, that’s not really a very good degree of support from the public.”

He noted that the poll also showed that about a quarter of Russians firmly oppose the war.

“But, what I think is interesting is [that] a lot of people in Russia — a significant number of people who support the war — don’t really know why the war is taking place,” he said.

Liza Rozenberg ’22, another organizer of the letter and a Russian citizen, shared her frustration with her government, but emphasized the importance of individuals like her taking action.

“I guess the one thing that we can do is use our voice and the freedom of speech that we have here that people back home don’t have,” Rozenberg said.

The same group of students has also launched an organization called “02.24.2022,” named after the date of the invasion. As of March 17, they received enough signatures necessary to be recognized as a student organization by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

The student group’s goal, according to the students, is to provide accurate and reliably sourced information about the war to Princeton students and to organize future acts of solidarity.

Also on campus, the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) took action to fundraise for Ukraine during the holiday of Purim on March 16 and 17. The holiday of Purim traditionally emphasizes giving and generosity; it is a custom to gift bags of treats to friends and family, and donate to charity.

In the days leading up to Purim, CJL student leaders sold gift bags in both Frist Campus Center and in the CJL to students. They also took donations via Venmo. The money raised from the gift bags and donations went to the Hillel International Emergency Relief Fund.

“We’re part of a worldwide network of more than 550 Hillels around the world, five of which are in Ukraine, one of which was bombed by the Russians,” CJL Executive Director Rabbi Julie Roth told the ‘Prince.’ The Hillel chapter in Kharkiv was destroyed amid the war on March 3.

Roth also spoke about how Hillel organizations across Europe are assisting refugees.

“Students who are involved in the Hillel in Poland are running a daycare, basically, for the children of refugees,” she said. “The Hillel organizations aren’t just helping students and professionals who work at Hillels in Ukraine, but they’re taking in all kinds of refugees, not just Jewish refugees.”

Sarah Bock ’24, a student leader at the CJL, told the ‘Prince’ that the fundraiser was a success. “Because it’s such a universal issue on campus — at least I felt like — when we were in Frist, we got a lot of attention that I don’t think we necessarily would have with a different cause,” Bock said.

As of March 17, the CJL had raised more than $600, according to an email to the ‘Prince’ from Roth, and the Princeton Orthodox Union Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus had also separately raised over $1,100 to directly support Ukrainian people, according to Rabbi Mati Kahn in a statement to the University.

The Scharf Family Chabad House of Princeton had also independently raised over $3,000 to send to Ukraine as of March 17, according to the group’s Instagram story.

Hope Perry is a news contributor and the Head Podcast Editor at the ‘Prince’ who has covered USG events, U.S. politics, and student activism. She can be reached at hperry@princeton.edu or on Twitter @hopemperry.

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instances.

“Masks in general are really important, and it’s clear that COVID still exists,” she said.

For many students, the lift of the mask mandate, in the words of Diane Peck ’25, “is definitely more of a positive than a negative.”

“Having [the masking policy] more relaxed provides more autonomy and free choice for the student body,” Peck said in an interview with the ‘Prince.’ “We’re doing our part with our COVID tests and our masking in the past, which has allowed [the University] to relax the mandate.”

According to the COVID-19 dashboard, there were 34 undergraduate positive cases from 777 tests submit-

ted in the week ending March 11.

In addition to the Writing Program, the Chinese Language Program has also made the decision to continue requiring masks in all classrooms.

In an email to the ‘Prince,’ senior lecturer Jing Wang said that “our Chinese Language teachers feel it’s important to maintain masks inside the classroom given the close proximity we are to one another.”

According to the course registrar, the Chinese Department is offering 30 classes this spring, all with 10 students or fewer enrolled.

In some departments, such as molecular biology, the indoor mask mandate is being enforced on a classby-class basis.

Professor of Life Sciences Elizabeth Gavis wrote in an email to the ‘Prince’ that “MOL faculty may require students to wear masks in their

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classroom,” but that “[e]ach faculty will use their own criteria as to when to stop requiring masks because it will depend on class size, room size, and nature/style of the class.”

According to a Canvas announcement on March 13, MOL 101: From DNA to Human Complexity will continue to require face coverings until the positivity rate decreases to

1 percent.

Similarly, Professor Adam Finkelstein, one of several instructors in COS 126: Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach, wrote to the ‘Prince’ that “the mask policy for COS courses is decided on a per-course basis by the instructors.”

In COS 126 specifically, all students attending class meetings and

precepts are required to wear masks for at least two weeks following spring break. According to Finkelstein, this decision was made in order to have time for the evaluation of policies going forward.

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

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Parker said.

Parker added that the University needs to “be thinking very broadly in our process” of disassociation and “cease other forms of partnerships” in addition to divestment if a certain company’s behavior is deemed “sufficiently egregious.”

The University’s total fossil fuel investments, both direct and indirect, amount to about 1.7 billion dollars or 4.5 percent of the endowment, according to their presentation. 13 million dollars, or 0.3 percent of the endowment, is directly invested in fossil fuels.

Parker claimed that the University will begin to dissociate from both direct and indirect investments in fossil fuels “This is because dissociation includes and goes beyond investment” she said.

Parker also pointed to Tiger Transit’s moving of its full fleet to battery operated vehicles starting in the 202223 academic year as an example of other sustainability work.

Ramaswami noted that the University was “[a]t the leading edge of what universities are doing and even what investment companies are doing” and expounded on the two active charges that the administrative committee on dissociation is giving the Board of Trustees.

Various committee give the Board of Trustees tasks and goals, known as charges, in order to achieve collective University visions.

“The first charge was to develop metrics and standards for dissociation from companies that engage in climate disinformation,“ Ramaswami said. “The second one is those that materially participate in the thermal coal and tar sands segments of the fossil fuel industry.”

One student, Hannah Reynolds ’22, pointed to the political disruption that the world has faced in recent weeks.

Reynolds is a coordinator of Divest Princeton and an opinion columnist for The Daily Princetonian.

“How have the current political issues in Ukraine, where we’re seeing human rights violations that are centered around oil and gas and conflicts there, been considered in our divestment and our necessity to be investing in the service of humanity?” Reynolds asked at the meeting.

Parker directed the question to Eisgruber who said, “I think what I would do just once again, is to remind folks that the process that we have at the University of harboring questions around dissociation and divestment, that its a process that focuses on the long term values of the University and decisions reached designed to be long term kinds of judgments.”

“The application of those judgments over time may vary as conditions in the world, particularly with regard to the production and use of fossil fuels, change,” he added.

“Our goal remains to propose for Board approval a set of actionable criteria for dissociation and a process for implementing them, now and into the future, by the end of this academic year,” the statement during Parker’s presentation read.

More information on the Univer-

sity’s dissociation can be found on the University website.

Prospective Minors Program Dean of the College Jill Dolan and Associate Dean of the College Rebekah Peeples presented on Princeton’s plan to create a minors program.

“We think that a minors program will enhance the various pathways through the undergraduate curriculum,” Dolan said. “Certificate programs, as many of you know, are multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary.

Many students however, would like to minor in a field that exists as a single discipline.”

In addition, this change will update the “idiosyncratic nomenclature” of Princeton degrees, according to Dolan.

“So part of this project is also to perhaps make our undergraduate curriculum a bit more legible outside of the University, in addition to opening up options within it,” she said.

The minor program will allow Princeton departments to propose their own minors in the future.

“There is no double majoring in Princeton because of the rigors of our independent work which would be difficult and perhaps even burdensome for students,” Dolan said. “[The Academics Committee] came up with something they called mixed concentrations in the hope that perhaps departments could get together to divvy up their credits in a way that would let students mix their concentrations.”

Dolan further explained that the idea of ‘mixed concentrations’ was not pursued any further than ideation during this process.

This project is slated to be piloted over the next couple years, starting in the fall of 2023 by the Classes of 2025, 26 and 27.

COVID-19 Updates and University Protocol Assistant Vice President of Environmental Health and Safety Robin Izzo and Assistant Director for Emergency Preparedness Derek Ziegler expounded on the University’s ongoing shift in approach to COVID-19 protocols.

“We’re focusing a lot more on mitigation levels for campus rather than risk status,” Ziegler said. “So within the mitigation levels, we’re looking at things like severity of illness on campus, whether there’s an impact on the surrounding healthcare systems, and overall continuity of operations and ability for students to take classes, as well as maintain our central functions.”

In addition, he mentioned that “as of early last week students are not required to wear masks in most University settings” and that students may bring overnight guests as long as they are up-to-date on the CDC’s vaccination protocol.

Izzo discussed the importance of respecting people that choose to wear masks, in view of the University’s change in protocol.

“People are wearing masks for different reasons,” she said. “Maybe they are [at] higher risk themselves. Maybe they are protecting someone else who is. Maybe they’ve got a big trip planned where they want to take that extra step to protect them. If someone is wearing a mask, respect them.”

Nate Howard ’25 called into question the University’s effectiveness in dealing with positive COVID-19 cases,

despite the change in procedure.

“I had COVID during the big spike, and was not called in for contact tracing,” Howard said. “I still got COVID because we are one community. My question is, going forward as we loosen restrictions, how are students going to be safe?”

Izzo pushed back, stating that “after a decent amount of time, contact tracing is not helpful.”

“I think people have to look at their individual situations and their end and determine how often they should be testing and when they should be wearing a mask,” she said. “In addition, students have individual responsibility to identify close contacts, not just University Health Services.”

Mental Health remarks from CPS and UHS Medical Director of University Health Services (UHS) Dr. Melissa Marks ’86 spoke on the patient-centric approach that UHS takes to mental health.

The “triple aim” approach that she described encompasses a multifaceted approach to healthcare and aligns with the mission of the UHS in providing “high quality and multispectral care to patients in an environment with respect.”

“We look at patient and population care outcomes, which are measurable outcomes, patient population care experience, and the cost of care which is also called in some arenas of valuable care,” she stated.

Director of Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) Dr. Calvin R. Chin also spoke on the implications of COVID-19 and how CPS mitigated such issues. He started by discerning that trauma can manifest in ways that are not universally understood.

“When we think about trauma, we define that as anything that can happen that makes you fear for your safety [or] that makes you fear for your life.

I don’t think it’s a big leap to sort of see how the pandemic has made us all have to sort of reckon with that,” Chin said.

He then pointed to the decline in mental health for adults during the duration of the pandemic.

“The percentage of people in the US that have reported symptoms of anxiety or a depressive disorder during this period has ranged between 30 and 40 percent. Just for comparison in 2019, the average percentage of people in the US reporting anxiety or depressive symptoms was 10.8 percent,” Chin said. “[We] saw an increase in CPS appointments and wellness checks across campus [since April 2020], compelling CPS to educate departments to be more proactive and not just [recognize] students who may already be in distress, but to sort of brainstorm with different departments on how to sort of alter policies,” Chin noted.

“One of the things that I always say is that you don’t have to have to sacrifice academic rigor, to be humane and to be kind,” he said.

The meeting ran from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Frist Multipurpose Room.

The next CPUC meeting, the final one of the spring semester, will be held on May 2.

Aidan Iacobucci is a staff news writer for the ‘Prince.’ He can be reached at iacobucci@princeton.edu or @aidaniaco on Instagram.

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On March 15 in the Whig Senate chamber, Princeton students congregated for “the debate of the year” — at least according to advertising ahead of the event by the Center for Jewish Life (CJL), which worked with WhigClio and Fuzzy Dice to pull it off.

The event was the annual Latke-Hamantaschen debate, which pits students and faculty against each other to determine which Jewish food reigns supreme, according to Madeleine LeBeau ’24, student vice president for programming at the CJL. “Tonight we embark on our annual quest to resolve the profound and weighty — well … depending on your recipe — question as to which reigns supreme: the latke or the hamantaschen,” LeBeau said.

LeBeau is a News Contributor for The Daily Princetonian.

The debate was moderated by Dean of the College Jill Dolan, who could hardly be expected to be impartial in arbitrating since she advocated in 2015 on the side of the latke.

“As you can imagine, the stakes are very high,” Dolan told the ‘Prince,’ explaining why she found moderating “much easier.” “As a moderator, I just tried to keep it fair, keep it honest, and keep it good.”

“Something quite remarkable about this debate is that it began at the University of Chicago in 1946 and has taken place on the Chicago stage every year since then,” Dolan said at the debate, “with the Professors dressing in full regalia.”

“I am glad that is not the case for us,” Dolan added

to general laughter from the crowd.

Representing the Hamantaschen were Professor of Music Gavin Steingo and Fuzzy Dice’s John Ehling ’24. The Latke team consisted of Lecturer of Near Eastern Studies Philip Zhakevich and Fuzzy Dice’s Molly Lopkin ’25. The Latke team won the opening coin toss and opted to go second in their defense.

Steingo opened the debate with his “Three Theses of the Hamantashen.”

“The first thesis that I present is that the hamantaschen has the superior form conforming to the Golden Ratio,” Steingo said. “The second thesis is that the sound of the word is superior.”

In an effort to corroborate this statement, Steingo presented a “study” that was conducted to see babies’ reaction to the respective words.

“When Dean Dolan whispered the word ‘hamantaschen’ in the ears of 30 6-month-old babies, they smiled so beautifully and their breathing was relaxed. When the word ‘latke’ was said, there was a palpable sense of displeasure,” Steingo said to the audience’s amusement.

His third thesis was that it inspired advancements of music and art, such as with Susannah Perlman’s “Hamentaschen Song.”

The “Latke Team” presented next, and Zhakevich employed a largely etymological approach to defending the latke.

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a proposal for a referendum to establish DEI as a core part of USG. Aaronson explained that the referendum’s purpose “is to institutionalize the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and to ensure its longevity in the work of the USG.” The referendum would set the DEI Chair as a Senate Executive Committee position and a voting member of the Senate, elected during the winter cycle.

The Senate voted unanimously to sponsor the referendum.

Parliamentarian Kate Liu ’23 explained that this vote means the Senate is “putting its weight behind” the referendum; next week, the referendum will be put up for a language review, a vote on whether its language clearly expresses what the referendum intends to accomplish.

All proposed referenda, both

Senate-sponsored and studentsponsored, must be subject to a language review. After approval, the referenda can appear on a ballot for the student body to vote on.

U-Councilor Stephen Daniels ’24 delivered a mental health referendum update, although this particular referendum has not yet been put to a vote for Senate sponsorship.

The referendum, originally described in last week’s meeting as a general funding request for mental health counselors, now calls on the University to work with USG to determine gaps in mental health resources before allocating resources.

Daniels indicated that this measure “would be a part of a larger strategy around mental health” and will be voted on next Sunday, March 27.

“It makes a lot of sense to the Senate to sponsor this,” Daniels said, “because this would be a largely Senate-focused policy initiative.”

Daniels also presented a

budget proposal of $1,000 for the Princeton Perspectives Project, which provides “an opportunity for students to share their experiences with mental health on campus.” In the past, the project has been given a $1,000 budget to help in its work to destigmatize conversations around mental health.

The proposal passed unanimously. The funds will be put towards food and a photographer for an event in April.

The Academics, Sustainability, and Social Committees each gave brief reports on their work so far this semester.

Academics Chair Austin Davis ’23 emphasized his committee’s arrival at what he says is “pretty much a final proposal” for the implementation of academic minors.

Davis said that the proposal “was approved by the Committee on the Course of Study this past week, and it will go to a faculty vote this coming week.”

“This is a pretty big change because it will completely

change how certificates work at this University,” Davis said.

“Now any academic unit can form a minor, so that means history can have a minor but also, say, [Statistics and Machine Learning] can continue as a minor as well.” The Senate will consider discussing these potential changes with administrators later in the semester.

Sustainability Chair Audrey Zhang ’25 spoke about her committee’s “first big event of the year,” a coffeehouse art gallery that will take place on Saturday, April 2 at 12 p.m. The event’s location will be announced at a later time.

Zhang is a Contributing Writer for The Prospect at the ‘Prince.’

Social Chair Madison Linton ’24 updated the Senate on planning efforts for spring Lawnparties. She reported that the committee has been in coordination with various administrators, including Executive Director of Athletics John Mack, Dean Alison Boden from

the Office of Religious Life, and Father Daniel Skvir ’66 from the Orthodox Church “to ensure that we were being as respectful as we could” in choosing the Lawnparties date, which is Saturday, April 24.

She noted that this semester’s event falls on Orthodox Easter, and Class Senator Kanishkh Kanodia ’23 added that Lawnparties will occur during the month of Ramadan.

The Social Committee put out a bid for an artist on Monday, March 7 and hopes to pick a student opener by this upcoming weekend.

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

Annie Rupertus is a first-year from Philadelphia and a Staff News Writer who covers USG for the ‘Prince.’ She is also a designer for the print issue. She can be reached at arupertus@princeton. edu or @annierupertus on Instagram and Twitter.

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Spring weather brings life back to campus as students gather outside Frist Campus Center to study under the sun.

Orange Key campus tours were packed with visitors this weekend.

On the last day of winter, students all over campus decided to take a break from their rooms and step outside to work and play.

Students sit atop the sculpture “Public Table” to study in the warm spring weather.

Sinfonia Orchestra performed in the Rockefeller College common room on Friday night.

Students play in the volleyball court outside Blair Hall as spring weather peeks out.

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frying latkes, oil, appears 193 times in 26 books. So clearly, it appears more because they were using it to fry latkes.”

Ehling presented the second hamantaschen defense pointing to its linguistic superiority.

“Iambic pentameter has been used in various famous quotes like ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’ and ‘We hold these truths to be self evident’ and ‘The hamantaschen is better than the latke,” Ehling said.

He then recited a slightly altered version of a soliloquy from The Scottish Play: “Hamantaschen, hamantaschen creeps in this petty place of hamantaschen to the last syllable of hamantaschen and all our hamantaschen-laden fools the way to hamantaschen. In hamantaschen, the latkes are but a walking shadow, a whore pancake that struts and frets his hour on the plate and then is eaten no more. It is a fool, eaten by an idiot, full of empty calories, signifying nothing,” Ehling recited.

Then, Ehling and Steingo, clad in cloaks under dimmed lights, inducted the audience into the “Cult of the Hamantaschen” by re-enacting the “O Captain, My Captain” scene in Dead Poet’s Society.

Fuzzy Dice’s Lopkin then presented a slam poem and diss track on behalf of the Latke, contradicting Ehling’s assertion that the hamantaschen was better for its conformity to iam-

bic pentameter.

“Your sides are one, two, three, we got the whole diameter/You’re lucky I didn’t say this rap in iambic pentameter,” Lopkin said.

After the debate, the audience was allowed to direct questions to the panelists.

“How does the hamantaschen team respond to their association with genocide,” an audience member asked, referring to the story of the Jewish holiday of Purim.

Ehling responded: “We are very sorry.”

The next question, directed to Lopkin, asked if she came up with the previous rap-rebuttal after hearing the hamantaschen’s presentation on iambic pentameter.

“Sure, let’s go with that,” said Lopkin.

The audience was requested to vote via a QR code, and Dolan read out the result by interpreting an excel graph.

In an Academy Awardsesque blunder, Dolan accidentally announced that Hamantaschen had won the debate before correcting her mistake, announcing instead the Latkes as the true victor.

“I have trouble reading graphs at times,” Dolan said.

In an interview with the ‘Prince’ asking why they chose to defend their respective delicacies, Steingo, Zhakevich, and Lopkin each responded: “Because we were assigned.”

Aidan Iacobucci is a Staff News Writer for the ‘Prince.’

He can be reached at iacobucci@princeton.edu or @ aidaniaco on Instagram.

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Criminalization and the literary canon Brittani Telfair

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t a party in the early morning of Nov. 20, 1960, a man stabbed his wife with a penknife: once in the stomach and once in the back, nearly killing her. When another partygoer attempted to revive her as she lay bleeding on the floor, he reportedly said, “Get away from her. Let the bitch die.” The man was Norman Mailer, American novelist and essayist. His wife was the artist Adele Morales Mailer.

Following unsubstantiated allegations that Random House had canceled the postmortem publication of a book of Mailer’s essays, the literary corner of Twitter erupted with condemnations of the publishing house for engaging in socalled cancel culture. Notably, Random House stated that the book was never under contract.

Representatives of the Mailer Estate confirmed and said that the alleged essay compilation is under contract with Skyhorse.

Despite the evident mendacity of the initial allegations, controversy continued to churn. Among the distressed was Princeton Professor Emerita of Creative Writing Joyce Carol Oates. On Twitter, Oates criticized what she perceived as a lack of room for debate that “hurts some individuals’ feelings.” She also denied that Mailer was a “bad husband.”

I am not interested in unpacking every single aspect of Oates’s thread, but rather in exploring what her defense of Mailer’s canonization reflects about mainstream culture.

In response to critics who pointed to Mailer’s history of homophobia, sexism, and violence, Oates tweeted, “‘bad husband’ to whom? like many oftmarried men Norman Mailer wound up finally with a much younger, adoring, & altogether quite wonderful wife (Norris Church) whom everyone liked. womanizers all eventually wear out, it just takes time & if you’re lucky, you are the last wife.”

In my opinion, Oates’s tweet recasts all six of Mailer’s marriages in a certain light. Oates explicitly invokes the trope of the wily womanizer who just needs to find the “right woman”; the playboy genius who one “lucky” woman will catch at the perfect point of maturation.

What’s more striking than what Oates says is what she erases: there is no recognition of his assault of Adele Morales Mailer. Furthermore, there is no mention of his obsession with masculine virility and violence, his public homophobia, the seeming fantasies of sexual violence in his novels, or his racist depictions of people of African and Asian descent. (To preempt any cries that Mailer was simply a “man of his time,” James Baldwin was also active during this time period, and objected to Mailer’s work in an Esquire article.)

Ultimately, Oates’s tweets reflect mainstream attitudes about who should be penalized as “criminals.” Society’s conception of justice is wholly warped by racialized and sexualized distinctions about whose lives matter and whose do not. These distinctions mean that while some are harshly punished by the criminal justice system and reviled in the court of public opinion, others’ actions are dismissed as human flaws, moments of passion, or the fault of the victim, especially if the perpetrator is a distinguished white man and the victim is a woman.

Imagine this: you are watch-

ing the news one evening, and you see that a man who assaulted his wife in your neighborhood has been apprehended by the police. The news flashes you his mugshot, maybe cuts to a police officer talking about how they caught him, and then transitions into another story.

This news segment is meant to bring you relief.

We are taught to gain satisfaction from the severity of the American carceral system: from the endless deluge of cop TV shows to political narratives, we are taught to understand that keeping ourselves safe means locking up, or executing “criminals,” and we should accordingly feel happy and reassured when we see those dangerous people getting “what they deserve.”

However, this notion of justice is not justice: it begins and ends with vengeance. The state makes no effort to rehabilitate the victim, does not even begin to consider rehabilitating the perpetrator, and ultimately squanders life by never addressing root problems.

Criminalization serves to strip humanity: the actor becomes a threat, a monster, an enemy who “deserves” to suffer — anything but a human being.

Blackness is also wholly conflated with criminality, which helps explain the extreme rates of surveillance and incarceration that Black people face and the mainstream willingness to explain away these circumstances in the racist terms of lapsed morality within Black communities as opposed to structural racism.

The criminalization of Blackness also contextualizes the lack of state interest in the femicide and disappearance of Black women. As UCLA historian Robin D.G. Kelley argues, the violence that the state enacts and media promotes against Black people (regardless of whether or not they have committed a crime) contrasts with the forgiveness, willingness to forget, and even veneration toward the harms that white people commit. As many have asserted, in the case of Black women, law enforcement apparatuses are meant to surveil and harass — not protect.

One of the most dire examples of the glorification of white crime is Hollywood’s obsession with Ted Bundy, the American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous young women and girls. Fascination with Bundy remains strong to this day, even in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement and widespread condemnation of the commonality of sexual violence against women.

Bundy is glamorized over and over again: in 2019, Zac Efron played him (one trailer suggested Bundy was something of a rock star with its choice of background music), and in 2021, Chad Michael Murray did. These films aim for entertainment: Bundy is presented as alluring and intoxicating. The women he killed are largely forgotten: they are the vehicle through which his cunningness is showcased.

Their disposability — the meager value that society placed on their lives in the first place — is strikingly obvious.

Ultimately, our society is comfortable with literally extracting people from their communities and sequestering them in cramped, unsafe, and maddening conditions — especially if they are Black, Brown, and poor. It is often comfortable with dismissing and ignoring violence against women, especially if these women are Black, Brown, and trans; it canonizes violent fig-

ures across cultural contexts, from pop culture to history to literature.

I am not advocating for the universalization of carceral, retributive attitudes; rather, that we put in practice ways to think about harm, “crime,” and accountability in ways that do not hinge on race and the ascribed disposability of large segments of the population.

Revisiting the Norman Mailer quandary can help illuminate what this practice might look like.

“Should we cancel Norman Mailer?” is a myopic question.

It also ignores the fact that cancellation rarely happens in reality, given that those who decry violent behavior lack the power to de-platform members of the elite and that even those who suffer some blow to their platform often already have ludicrous amounts of wealth.

It is possible to engage with and deconstruct the bias present within a work that defined the thinking of a canonical figure, as in Myriam Gurba’s essay on Joan Didion’s racial grammar. Acknowledging and grappling with the violence that canonical figures enacted while reading their works can help us understand the contexts for the violence we see in our current moment.

And finally, when it comes to maintaining an openness for “debates,” some debates simply do not need to happen anymore. Constantly reviewing racist, sexist, and generally hateful texts to debate their “merits” is a waste of time: it is a thinly-veiled, noxious demand that marginalized people prove their humanity over and over again and ignores the vast amount of scholarship on the systemic nature of inequality.

Readers can and should engage with the full context of the individual who wrote a canonical piece. If the author inflicted harm on others, those harms must be grappled with and the humanity of the author’s victims recognized. Biases within a text should not be dismissed either. No person’s talent absolves them from following basic tenets of morality.

Furthermore, the canon should not be regarded as static. Arguing that an author should still be read just because they were influential at some point in time does not make sense. It is often an excuse to normalize engagement with violent, discriminatory texts and thus desensitize students to violence and discrimination.

Additionally, the canon is currently incomplete: it elevates the perspectives of Western white men with a sprinkling of “diverse” authors from marginalized communities.

Maintaining that the figures in the canon are sacred and untouchable shuts out other, more crucial voices.

In the end, I cannot tell you whether or not you should read Mailer. Maybe in the future, I’ll be in a context where it makes sense for me to engage with Mailer’s work with a critical lens. To preempt claims that I am “insulating myself from alternative viewpoints,” I have been exposed to the belief system that normalizes white supremacist heteropatriarchal social structures in educational settings since I was a small child. I’m much more compelled to focus on works by authors the canon excludes.

Brittani Telfair is a senior from Richmond, Va. concentrating in SPIA and pursuing a certificate in African American Studies. She can be reached at btelfair@princeton. edu or @brittanit10 on Twitter.

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Mental health care must be proactive Allen Liu

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ost of us have lost count of the number of times we’ve seen or heard the words “mental health” in the last two years.

The pandemic and other crises have taken a huge toll on our mental health and underscored the need to invest more in resources like counseling. Administrators, professors, and our classmates have acknowledged the challenges of the past two years and encouraged us to get help when needed. However, acknowledging mental health crises and responding to them is not enough.

In order to truly improve mental health on campus, Princeton’s administration must take a proactive approach to mental health.

What if the University simply tried to prevent mental health crises? Consider its response to the crisis from last spring, which presented a combination of heavy COVID-19 restrictions, a two-day spring break, and academic expectations not different from those of a normal semester.

The administration made the correct decision to postpone Dean’s Date, as did the many professors who modified their final exams or grading schemes to acknowledge student burnout.

However, rather than responding to the crisis, the University could have partly prevented it when making important decisions before the semester: A lack of inperson activities and a lack of breaks were bound to

cause burnout. The University should have thought about how to make even limited in-person instruction possible (as it eventually did at the very end of last spring semester) and either extended spring break or ensured that students had no assignments during that time.

Likewise, certain decisions during this academic year could have been made with greater consideration of their mental health impacts. Students who caught COVID-19 and the “Princeton plague” fell behind on work and took weeks to catch up. Establishing lenience for students with illnesses and different ways to keep up with classes while sick (such as lecture recordings and notes) would have prevented a lot of stress. Committing to offering virtual learning options for international students stuck abroad during the early omicron surge would have prevented many students from having to rearrange travel plans during finals and not being able to see family during the break.

Finally, more transparency would have alleviated confusion and stress that many students felt when the University loosened restrictions during an uptick in cases.

In all of these situations, the University opted to take a reactive approach to mental health: focus on directing students to resources like Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) and offer occasional accommodations to mitigate the impacts of difficult circumstances. However, even with resources like CPS, students

may still feel overwhelmed or unsupported; counseling cannot completely address the different factors and policies that cause distress. Likewise, individual responsibility, which the University tends to call on to address mental health crises, cannot remove underlying causes of distress.

Instead of a reactive approach to mental health, the University should take a proactive approach by actively considering students’ mental health in all of its decisions. To do so, the University must consider how the student experience impacts mental health, and adapt it to protect students’ wellbeing while enabling them to achieve other goals like academic rigor.

What might this look like in a “post-COVID-19” semester? Here’s one example: first-years often take difficult introductory courses.

These courses usually have harsh grading and can mar students’ transcripts as they are getting acclimated to Princeton. A poor grade early on can weigh on a student’s confidence and discourage them from taking academic risks later on.

To acknowledge this, the University could adopt a more lenient grading system or pass/D/fail policies for first-years in order to alleviate their stress and encourage academic exploration.

Additionally, high workloads, especially around midterms and finals, can make it impossible

to finish assignments and fully absorb material from classes. Forgiving one or two missed homework assignments would give students some breathing room in the most difficult weeks of the semester and help them get more out of their courses.

Rather than taking a reactive approach to mental health, the University can ensure that well-being is a central part of its decisionmaking and student experiences at Princeton. Mental health care can be proactive, and on a healthy campus, it must be.

Allen Liu is a senior from Chattanooga, Tenn. He can be reached at afliu@princeton. edu.

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Students need to understand current events.

The classroom is the solution.

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ars, humanitarian crises, politics, shifting Covid regulations, and many other issues dominate the media and public discourse week in and week out. To better help students to fully utilize their education and enter this global discourse, Princeton should encourage faculty to develop adaptable course curricula that incorporate current events into classroom discussions. This will enable students to connect the theoretical or historical aspects of courses they are taking to real-world situations.

The Princeton classroom provides an ideal opportunity for students to apply important theoretical knowledge from weekly assigned readings to the various situations that we see in daily headlines. Instead of limiting students’ engagement with these issues to news consumption or on-campus events – which are not always feasible for many students – faculty could use their classroom as a space to shepherd students into practical thinking throughout the semester.

Incorporating discussions and critical thinking about current events into Princeton’s pedagogy would acknowledge several important realities. The talks, discussions, club meetings, and virtual resources that we currently have allow students to engage with these topics, and it is a good first step. Nevertheless, they can be further complemented with classroom discussions to give students more opportunities to be engaged.

One of the main tenets of the University’s educational mission is to prepare its students to contribute positively to academic or community discourse before and

after graduation. In concentrating in a subject, getting a certificate, or even just taking some classes within a department, we should be better positioned to provide informed commentary and to engage thoughtfully in the global discourse on a wide variety of topics. This is especially true when current events almost always have something to do with what we are learning.

However, with the intensity of a busy course load and other obligations, some students are unable to engage with these world issues on a daily basis. For this reason, why not encourage a learning environment where those students can still actively participate in thought-provoking discussions led by Princeton’s highly respected faculty without having to compromise their heavily packed schedule outside of class?

A few weeks ago, the evening that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began to take over the headlines,

a friend remarked that the events unfolding were far too important to ignore, so her assignments would have to wait until another day. People care about the war in Ukraine, as with many other world events, for a variety of reasons.

With regards to Ukraine, some were initially concerned about the possibility of the U.S. sending troops, while others have family and friends who are directly affected. Many more are worried about civilian casualties, the unfolding humanitarian crisis, and the sovereignty of a nation being threatened. Issues like this are too important not to be incorporated into classroom discussions, especially if Princeton truly aspires to nurture future scholars who will be responsible for addressing these very issues in their own lifetime.

Princeton offers every student a myriad of programs, talks, and discussions on campus about current issues, often with some of the most well-respected scholars in

the world. Some of these programs are accessible to all, while others may be out of reach to those with a busy schedule. Efforts have been made to make these opportunities more accessible: some discussions are now over a meal, while others are presented in a virtual format that may allow for remote or later viewing.

Yet, conversations about these topics could and should be more integrated into the everyday life of students. Princeton’s faculty are some of the leading figures in the national discourse on the very subjects they are teaching, but rigidly structured syllabi leads them to bypass important ideas to stay on schedule. Even though classes make up only a small portion of the Princeton experience, they are, of course, the primary time during which students can expand their knowledge and hone their analytical skills needed to apply textbook learning to real-world challenges.

Because of this, faculty should

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be encouraged to design their courses with more flexibility by incorporating topics that students may come across in real time through the news into the material that is being taught. Such a move would increase students’ engagement, bring in new and fresh perspectives on other materials they are learning, and encourage students to contextualize what they are learning in class in light of what is going on in the world around them.

I recently argued that academic freedom should not cover speech that falls into a broader definition of “hate speech.” Some could say that by bringing politics into the classroom, professors could risk making people feel like they are not able to teach objectively.

However, professors speaking on any current events does not mean they are just espousing personal beliefs. In fact, they are well equipped to explain the ongoing intellectual discourse from different perspectives without being too partial. As such, the integration of current world issues into the classroom – even those that are somewhat controversial – is an acknowledgment that excellent learning and teaching can and should take different forms, rather than a violation of academic freedom.

We are all better off when students and faculty are contributing to the academic and real-world discussions in the classroom in active and engaging ways. Creating avenues for students to do this throughout their time at Princeton will lead to better informed conversations and beliefs about current events, and make classes as relevant to students as possible.

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

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In Honor of the Women Princeton History Forgot Sally Jane Ruybalid Columnist

Princeton has a rich history of producing great women leaders and scholars — Sonia Sotomayor ’76, Elena Kagan ’81, Lisa Jackson ’86 — the list is endless. However, too often, the narrative of women at Princeton neglects the true legends, the forgotten women who broke down inequities on campus and paved the way for Princeton students like myself. I would like to take this space to say “thank you.”

Thank you to the women who organized and participated in the sit-in at the Yankee Doodle Tap Room at the Nassau Inn in Feb. 1970 to protest that the restaurant only served males at lunch (The Daily Princetonian, Volume 94, Number 16, 23 February 1970).

Thank you to the women who, through the Women*s Center, moved to ban on-campus open public showings and sales of pornography in the 1980s. They endured rape jokes openly published in The Daily Princetonian by fellow students and pushback from organizations like Whig-Clio (The Daily Princetonian, Volume 107, Number 35, 24 March 1983).

Thank you to the women who continued to apply and be admitted to Princeton even though the university blamed the acceptance of “co-eds” for the increased burden on facilities services (The Daily Princetonian, Volume 94, Issue 112, November 1970).

Thank you to the women who rallied against the all-male Tiger Inn and Ivy eating clubs to demand the inclusion of women bickerees.

(The Daily Princetonian, Volume 109, Number 119, 21 November 1985)

Thank you to the women who founded the lightweight crew team and were later banned by the University from finding a volunteer full-time coach. (The Daily Princetonian, Volume 99, Number 101, 16 October 1975) Thank you to the women who suffered the horrors of harassment and still had the bravery to mobilize protests on Prospect Street — even after a car intentionally drove through one of their protests in the prior year (The Daily Princetonian, Volume 111, Number 58, 28 April 1987).

Thank you to the women who attempted to try out for the hockey team but were barred due to “the possibility of damage to their reproductive organs.”

(The Daily Princetonian, Volume 97, Number 3, 7 February 1973)

Thank you to the women who sought to join sports teams after the ECAC permitted women to join, despite discouragement by the University (The Daily Princetonian, Volume 96, Number 96, 4 October 1972) Sally Jane Ruybàlid ’22 is a concentrator in the School of Architecture and is from Trinidad, Colorado. She can be best reached via email at sjr4@princeton.edu DESIGNED BY BROOKE MCCARTHY

Thank you to those who endured as Princeton attempted to disband the women’s lightweight crew team in its entirety despite the fact that Title IX had already been enacted to make gender-based discrimination illegal in college athletics (The Daily Princetonian, Volume 99, Number 101, 16 October 1975).

Thank you to the women who pushed back against being sexually objectified by Playboy Magazine when the publication attempted to recruit women on campus for their sexy “Ivy League Women” issue. Thank you to those who also protested outside the offices of The Daily Princetonian after it willingly ran an advertisement for Playboy (The Daily Princetonian, Volume 103, Number 6, 12 February 1979).

Princeton University — which didn’t change the lyrics to our Alma Mater song “Old Nassau” until 1987 to include women — and the surrounding area is rich with forgotten, overlooked, and hidden history when it comes to coeducation and women. May we all take a moment during this Women’s History Month and on the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX to recognize, ruminate, and reflect on the contributions of the ones that have slowly faded into the past.

To the women and femmes of all orientations, races, and ethnicities who fought to remain visible at Princeton University while holding it to its own standards of justice, ethics, moral thought, and values and to quote the traditional prayer for Princeton: to all who work(ed) here, for all who bear the University’s name…

Thank you.

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Stop framing us as victims Safely supporting survivors of sexual violence

JON ORT / THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN

The entrance to the Department of Public Safety.

Hannah Reynolds

Senior Columnist

Content warning: The following column contains references to sexual assault. If you or a friend have experienced sexual misconduct and are in need of assistance, Princeton has a number of resources that may be of use.

You can also reach SHARE, Princeton’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education service at 609-258-3310.

“Even after time, the pain from sexual assault never goes away.” These words still echo in my head ever since a Princeton Public Safety officer first said them to me after I reported sexual assault.

To my surprise, after speaking with nearly every available resource for survivors of sexual assaults and domestic violence on campus, I found that Public Safety was the most validating and vocal when it comes to victimcentered resolutions. The officer’s awareness of the possibility of re-traumatization through processes like Title IX and filing criminal complaints, as well as his understanding that the pain never totally disappears, imbued me with a sense of respect and agency I didn’t always experience from my peers and others I confided in.

In fact, despite their use of the term ‘victim’ for legal purposes, Public Safety’s approach left me feeling the most like an empowered survivor rather than the weak victim I felt like throughout the entire process.

Don’t get me wrong: the support I had received from my peers was incredible. When I first shared my experiences of sexual violence with a few trusted friends, an extensive network of support emerged almost immediately. My friends pointed me to peers who had experience with Title IX in the past, delayed school work to help me look through evidence, accompanied me to hours of meetings, and sat with me through nights that were hard to

spend alone. Without this resounding support system and the generosity of my peers, I would not have stayed so strong through such a difficult process.

However, at the same time, I have come to realize that our campus community’s default approach to supporting survivors of sexual violence at Princeton, in which those who experience sexual violence are seen as victims, is inherently flawed. By labeling peers who are survivors of sexual violence as victims, we feed into a false narrative where strong, capable, and brave individuals who unfortunately have experienced sexual violence are defined by that experience.

Through this, survivors are completely deprived of their agency and choice in a process that is often re-

of pity that made me feel weak, naïve, and foolish in a way that fundamentally conflicted with the strong and empowered person that I believe myself to be. I was ashamed to be considered a victim.

I started to feel as though my friends only supported me because they felt sorry for me, and came to withdraw from the support that was so graciously offered in the moments I needed it most. In this way, the victim narrative can disincentivize the courageous act of speaking up by stigmatizing the experience of sexual violence as something weak and shameful.

Sometimes I think that I would have come forward sooner had there not been a stigma around being the ‘victim’. We regularly see that when women come

victims are often seen as passive and fragile, survivors are strong and capable. Although the pain always stays for all victims of sexual assault, survivors have the power to take control of their future and hold perpetrators accountable following incidents of sexual violence.

It is important to note that promoting survivorship over victimhood is about more than simply changing the use of a word. Rather, it’s about altering the entire paradigm we use to think about and treat individuals who have experienced sexual violence. When well-meaning friends and acquaintances jumped in to help with my case, decisions were made entirely without my consent. For example, peers without the full details of my situ-

“The victim narrative can disincentivize the courageous act of speaking up by stigmatizing the experience of sexual violence as something weak and shameful.” traumatizing.

It’s alienating to be considered a victim. In my case, it was not until after I finally reported the assault to Public Safety and they filed a report using the word that I considered myself a victim of sexual violence. Before then, I had resisted the term ‘victim’ entirely. But I quickly found that in criminal cases, the term victim holds a far different weight than it does socially. Legally, a victim is seen as someone who has not only suffered harm at the hands of a perpetrator, but also as an active and independent participant in criminal cases. There’s a sense of agency and autonomy associated with being a victim of sexual assault.

Socially at Princeton, however, to be labeled a victim comes with a sense

forward with allegations of sexual misconduct they are not taken seriously.

After all, it was only two years ago when Tara Reade was antagonized for accusing now-President Joe Biden of misconduct.

In the present social and political climate, coming forward with sexual assault allegations can feel more like a sign of weakness and helplessness than one of strength and power.

Thus, reinforcing a victim narrative can be counterproductive as it discourages people who have experienced sexual violence from speaking up.

By employing (and really believing in) the term ‘survivor,’ we can allow those who have experienced the pain and trauma of sexual violence to become more empowered without defining them by such experiences. While

ation took steps to get my assailant removed from a campus organization, without alerting me to their plans ahead of time, or asking for my opinion.

Their actions, though well intentioned, escalated the threat of retaliation from my perpetrator and put me at greater risk of harm.

Despite their intentions, it was clear that some of my peers saw me as a victim in need of help and pity without actually listening to what I wanted and needed. Looking back on the decisions made on my behalf without my consultation, the parallels between the incidents of assault and the processes of justice were unmistakable: in both cases, decisions were made for me without my permission and seriously threatened my safety and well-being.

Many of the grand acts

of support I received from peers came from the best of intentions, but without clear communication with and consent from the survivor, decisions made by overly supportive peers can be invalidating, or worse, dangerous. By choosing to confront the perpetrator about their actions, remove them from a group, or ‘cancel’ them socially without consulting with the survivor, one infringes on the very freedom of choice and control that the survivor was deprived of in the first place during those incidents of sexual violence. Even worse, these actions can also put the survivor at heightened risk of retaliation, whether physical, social, or legal. Therefore, in supporting peers who have experienced sexual violence, approaching all instances of sexual violence from a survivorcentered perspective can serve as a means to end the harmful victim narrative which reinforces passivity and the victim’s inability to control their own future.

I have experienced both the enduring pain of sexual violence and the harmful consequences of others seeking to make decisions without my informed consent. These experiences have shown me that the most effective way to overturn the reductive, harmful victim narrative is by restoring the power of choice to survivors. Acting without the survivor’s full consent and knowledge can ultimately cause more harm than good, even if well-intentioned.

While that Public Safety officer was indeed correct in saying the pain of sexual violence may never fully go away, the right kind of support and care from loved ones can make the process a heck of a lot easier, and that can be enough.

Hannah Reynolds is a senior in the anthropology department from the Finger Lakes in Upstate N.Y. She can be reached at hannahr@ princeton.edu.

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ARTS & CULTURE

‘Philosophy with the body in it’: Studying dance at Princeton

By Andrew Johnson Contributing Writer

Beginning my sophomore spring at Princeton and leaning towards declaring a Politics concentration, I stepped confidently into a familiar choreography: construct course schedule, participate, attend office hours, write, go out, regret it, pull all-nighter(s), receive grades, repeat. Signing up for DAN 208: Body and Language was merely another step in this carefully-constructed choreography; a pass (P) to protect the GPA, a 1:30-4:20 p.m. warmup for 4:30 p.m. fencing practice, and ultimately a course that both interested me and fulfilled the Literature and the Arts distribution requirement.

My routine froze and time slowed as I approached room 108 in the New South Building, minutes away from my dorm, yet miles from my comfort zone. I was perhaps the stiffest dancer on any night out on the Street, and having been a competitive fencer since age seven, I had never found time between athletic and academic demands to conquer my fear of the stage. Not knowing what to expect, I clung to the convention of a typical ‘first class,’ prepared to hear about a syllabus I’d already read, and armed with my name, major, and fun fact.

I was disarmed at the door.

I found myself in an intimidatingly silent studio dotted with students deep in serene contemplation, forming a perfect circle between the colossal window and mirror. A barefoot instructor appeared, handing me pencil and paper before swiftly pivoting to the next newcomer. I sat down and stared blankly at prompts that asked about language, body, and embodied language, wondering if my step into the unknown was a stumble. Nevertheless, pencil eventually met paper, and I began my first attempt at answering questions that would reshape my relationship with the arts, my surroundings, and ultimately myself.

After taking my place in the circle, I remember being drawn to the chaotic web of pipes, ducts, and fans on the ceiling. My eyes ran through a beautiful metallic maze that starkly contrasted the calm and stillness of the dance floor below.

DAN 208 would become my floor that semester, grounding and supporting me as the beautiful chaos of Princeton raged above.

The studio warmed as professor Aynsley Vandenbroucke invited each of us to introduce ourselves, instructing the others to ecstatically throw up their arms and shout our names back. After uttering my name in precept tone,

and being lovingly shouted down by my peers, I found comfort where self-consciousness should have been. I felt myself lean back, letting the floor support me just a little bit more. In mere minutes, Vandenbroucke had humanized the most impersonal part of the course routine, and in the following weeks she would gradually decouple the human from the routine.

After every student received their shout, we pondered the ‘languages’ each of us brought to class, and my peers mentioned home dialects, mathematics, and other systems through which they interpreted the world. Vandenbroucke then taught us the grammar of her own, and we found ourselves moving freely and fearlessly around the room within minutes.

We considered how each body part could move staccato, flow chaotically, and even lead the others, building spontaneous dances without scripts.

Sometimes we would move like aimless atoms, execute every motion with control and precision, or dance in conversation with each other, allowing our bodies to naturally react to one another as new choreographies arose from the interplay.

While I initially struggled to sustain the rhythm, Vandenbroucke encouraged us to embody different characters, people, or aspects of ourselves in our dance. These performances provided a logic to my movement; I imagined and performed the character’s next move when I didn’t have one of my own.

Class sessions prioritized finding such moments: We began with meditation that put us in conversation with our own bodies before Vandenbroucke provided questions and techniques to guide the dance, leaving time for everyone to create movement meaningful to them. The curriculum never told us how to dance, but instead gave us the tools necessary for moving freely and understanding what such movement reveals.

Vandenbroucke paired these in-class dances with diverse readings spanning Virginia Woolf to Middle English poetry, forming a beautiful diptych of theory and practice that invited radical reinterpretation of body, cognition, and language. I came to appreciate how the body sidesteps, shapes, and acts independently of the mind — realizing that embodied language can express ideas, meanings, and reflections that are otherwise indescribable.

Dancing is not merely a way of moving, but a way of knowing; it offers a unique mechanism through which to think, feel, express, and work through intricate concepts. We can paint, write, and dance to express complex arguments, or in the words of a poet our class read, “be danced,” letting the body seize control and help us contend with difficult emotions. As anthropologist Tim Ingold says, “an-

thropology is philosophy with the people in it.”

DAN 208 has shown me that dance is philosophy with the body in it.

The course seized upon the concrete political implications of these revelations. Vandenbroucke paired our dance sessions with scripted performances where we reenacted the routine motions observed in the campus libraries, causing us to reflect upon the implications of how we move in the world and are restricted by society’s conventions.

Such pairings led me to the conclusion that if the body’s condition and motion shape the mind and generate distinct meanings, the actions we perform every day shape our identities. Through unquestioned convention, social structures regulate how we posture, gesture, present, and converse, forming the physical routines through which we live. We performatively check our phones when caught between conversations. We embody characters when asked “tell me about yourself” as employees, interviewees, and bickerees. We maintain an outdated appearance of “hard work” at all times.

We risk living on someone else’s terms.

Studying dance should not necessarily encourage rejecting the everyday choreographies enforced upon us, but rather using performance art to viscerally understand and reexamine the performances through which we live. The world may be a stage, but we need not be actors. Ironically, my time on the stage highlighted that I should not merely live through others’ eyes, straining my body to produce A’s, P’s, and all these external markers of performance.

On the second day of class, Vandenbroucke told us to have conversations about our day in three positions: leaning forward intently, lying down without eye contact, and sitting in a middle position. While lying on the studio floor, eyes once again fixated on the metallic chaos above me, I worried about appearing disrespectful, waiting for the moment when I would zone out and miss something. However, as I relaxed my body instead of performing attentiveness, I felt more engaged with the conversation and was later comfortable facing them on my own terms in the final middle position.

Unlike my initial expectation, my studies in dance this semester will likely not help me better display myself on stage, around campus, or even on the dance floor during a night out on the Street.

Rather, they have provided a floor that supports me as I find my middle position, in the Orange Bubble and the grayer world beyond.

Andrew Johnson is a contributing writer for The Prospect and a Staff Writer for Satire at the ‘Prince.’ He can be reached at andrewjj@princeton.edu.

Growing up with instant noodles

By Albert Lee | Senior Writer

Many people associate instant ramen with college students, and for good reason. Ramen lunches, dinners, and occasionally breakfasts are so ubiquitous among college students that the Princeton University Store dedicates an entire shelf to this convenient mealin-a-cup. Unlike many of my peers, however, I fell in love with instant ramen from an earlier age. Since childhood, instant noodles have served as a constant in my life, following me wherever I go.

I’ve tried dozens of instant ramen varieties, of all flavors and shapes. Of all the brands, my family most worshiped Shin Ramyun, a Korean variety of instant noodles I frequently saw advertised on TV when I visited my grandmother in Seoul. Whenever my mom went to H Mart, a Korean-American supermarket chain, she regularly brought home two or three boxes.

On weekends, my dad and I would often share three packs of ramen for breakfast. One pack was never enough for one person, and two was too much. He would poach eggs in the same pot, adding scallions and chili peppers to enhance the noodles’ lab-perfected flavor. When we sat down to eat, he’d serve my noodles in a bowl, making sure not give me too much broth. Like the classic Korean dad he was, he ate his ramen out of the lid of the pot, reminding me of the dangers of too much sodium while he consumed enough salt to brine a turkey.

When I was a kid, I didn’t spend as much time with my dad as some of my friends. As a postal worker, he didn’t have a conventional work schedule, and the only day I saw him for extended periods of time was Sunday.

Living away from home, I’ve developed a deeper appre-

ciation for the moments that we did have together.

My mom had a more flamboyant way of making ramen. A maximalist in almost all areas of life, she would take sliced rice cakes and dumplings from the freezer and add them to the soup, thickening the broth into a hearty stew. Korean convenience foods, especially combined, made up a significant part of my diet as a child. I didn’t realize it at the time, but her hybrid creations were likely her way of making cheap foods exciting for me and my brother.

When I started cooking for myself more often during my virtual freshman year at home in Chicago, I often emulated the dishes my mom made for me when I was a kid. When deadlines piled up and I had little time to make anything else, I could always rely on a packet of instant ramen and a pot of boiling water to nourish me when I grew tired of eating last night’s leftovers.

Ramen was a stable presence in an otherwise chaotic and disheartening year.

When it came time for me to move on campus my sophomore year, my parents and I piled my belongings into the family minivan and drove the 791 miles from Chicago to Princeton. After arriving in New Jersey, we rapidly located the nearest H Mart to buy snacks, having depleted our car stash.

After nearly missing the entrance — my dad always complains that the roads in New Jersey are too narrow — we pulled into the H Mart parking lot. My parents helped me pick out three boxes of ramen, which I later piled on top of my wardrobe. For the most part, the boxes remained undisturbed. I would often forget they existed until my friends pointed them out to me when they visited my room.

I grew to appreciate them more, however, at the end

of fall semester. When COVID-19 cases rose in December, I spent most of my time in my room working on assignments. In the days leading up to my exams, I would often substitute meals from the dining hall or Wawa with ramen to save time and money, a strategy many college students have adopted before me. Slurping shrimp-flavored ramen while pouring over my molecular biology notes, I was glad my parents had the foresight to make sure I had an ample supply of food in my room.

Despite my deep love for it, instant ramen is not my favorite food or even my favorite noodle dish. I much prefer pho and mul naengmyeon, a Korean dish of thin, chewy noodles in ice-cold broth. At one point, I even resented my parents for feeding instant ramen to me so often; as a little kid, I sometimes complained to my mom that I wanted a “normal” breakfast when she made her army-base-stew-like concoctions. “Normal” to me meant more “American,” a construct supposedly at odds with the culture my parents grew up in.

Since then, I’ve thankfully rejected this view. Looking back at my childhood, I’m grateful that my parents had options like instant ramen that made feeding me and my brother easier, now that I better understand the difficulties they faced as immigrant parents.

When I grow up — actually grow up — I don’t want to forget this. Instant noodles will always have a special place in my heart, my family’s soupy potion for hunger and homesickness.

Albert Lee is a Senior Writer for The Prospect who often covers music and artist profiles. He can be reached at alberthl@princeton.edu.

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Report: They’re still talking in the GroupMe

University announces Class of 2026 pre-read “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” Spencer Bauman

Associate Satire Editor

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional.

A shift in tone from “Moving Up without Losing Your Way,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 announced the Class of 2026 pre-read

will be Dr. Seuss’s “Oh, the Places You’ll Go.” This change resulted from general “dissatisfaction” with the content and length of the past few years’ prereads.

“Last year’s just seemed way too niche, like, what if I want to lose my way?” remarked one member of the Class of 2025. “The author of our pre-read nev-

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The class of 2025 GroupMe.

Andrew Johnson

Staff Satire Writer

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional.

From 12:34 a.m. to 2:44 a.m. last night, 66 percent of first-year dorm rooms across campus lit up by the intermittent glow of phones and tablets, reminding the Class of 2025 that those same four people who spammed the class as prefrosh are still, somehow, talking in the GroupMe. Screenshots obtained by The Daily PrintsAnything reveal a steady barrage of asks to borrow screwdrivers, requests for the answer to No. 2 on the problem

set, 11th hour pleas for a fourth person to add to their draw group, and proposals to share an Uber to EWR at 4 a.m. tomorrow.

Students briefly considered turning off notifications or leaving the group, but refrained “for old time’s sake.”

At press time, half of the Class of 2025 was cringing at every vibration coming from the nightstand.

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er addressed that in her book. But then again, I never read it, so I wouldn’t know.”

Following the announcement of this change, some students still took issue with the decision.

“I find Seuss long-winded and frankly talking in circles most of the time,” commented one prospective member of the Class of 2026. “I gave it a skim and looked at the pictures, but I wish it would just get to the point. I stopped reading about halfway through — six pages in give or take.”

Another member of the Class of 2026 eagerly offered some literary criticism.

“The book makes some great arguments. I do in fact have brains in my head and feet in my shoes.

But can I really steer myself in any direction I choose? I thought it raised some fascinating ontological questions and I can’t wait to discuss with my zee group in the fall!” said Avi Dreader.

Other students were less enthused about the choice, and called the book’s writing style “a bit elementary.”

Spencer Bauman is an associate satire editor. He can be reached at sbauman@ princeton.edu.

The Class of 2026’s pre-read.

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Riddle

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‘First on Film’

FEATURES

PHOTO BY SOL LIBSOHN. REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION OF SARA PRESTOPINO

Student-curated exhibit reflects on “the long journey” of racial integration, inclusion at Princeton Molly Taylor

Staff Features Writer

While searching the archives of Mudd Library, Professor of History Alison Isenberg found a “beautiful, hand-created” photo album. The work inside, captured by documentary photographer Sol Libsohn, highlights a key moment in the University’s contentious history surrounding racial integration: the 1964 Princeton Summer Studies Program (PSSP). The program invited 40 public high school students — 30 of whom were Black — to reside on campus and attend classes at the University.

Drawing from Libsohn’s collection, a small group of undergraduate curators designed a photo exhibit, which is now on display in Wilcox Hall of First College. Titled “First on Film: Creating Spaces for Racial Reckoning on Campus, 1960s and Now,” the curators looked to connect the legacy of PSSP — and First College, where it was based — to racial inclusion and student activism today.

The exhibition serves as a final opportunity recognize this legacy. First College is set to be demolished this summer and replaced by Hobson College in 2026. The gift of Mellody Hobson and the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, the University’s eighth residential college will be the first to be named for a Black woman.

The campus landscape is changing — both physically, with the destruction of First College, the construction of Hobson College, and socially in response to student protest. The “First on Film” exhibit emphasizes the successes and failures of Princeton’s efforts for racial inclusion and their implications for the present. “[That] summer was not just an isolated event,” curator Gil Joseph ’25 said. “We are trying to show the long journey of Princeton coming to terms with its relationship with race, and how it has been an ongoing battle.”

Isenberg and documentary filmmaker Purcell Carson, who worked to locate the rest of Libson’s collection, have researched PSSP as part of their collaborative work on Trenton, NJ. For years, they wanted to engage Princeton students in a public history project and were ultimately able to do so with the support of Head of First College AnneMarie Luijendijk as well as the College’s Director of Studies Johanna Rossi Wagner.

“The photos took on a new life and gained a new meaning through the interpretations that the students brought,” Carson said.

In 1964, PSSP immersed high school juniors in college-level academics with the goal of increasing applications from Black students. In the previous academic year, only 12 Black undergraduates attended the University.

Several PSSP graduates who ultimately attended Princeton said in interviews with Carson and Isenberg that they felt misled — their experience in that summer led them to believe the University was racially integrated, which was far from reality. In the fall of 1964, only 11 Black students entered in the first-year class.

However, the program’s curriculum, featuring works by James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, still engaged students in the national conversation around race and equality.

“They weren’t just high schoolers from New Jersey watching the civil rights movement happen from afar,” Carson said. “For the first time, they were being told to think of themselves as people who could make a difference.”

Beyond its influence on the students, PSSP had a lasting impact on the broader landscape of higher education, both at the University and nationally.

“The University was beginning to move toward racial integration and was on the cusp of coeducation. And this summer program was an important piece of that puzzle. The program served an important role in engaging President

Goheen in the fact of having black students on campus,” Isenberg said.

PSSP also became a model for the national Upward Bound program, which was established the following year.

Rather than trying to capture the program’s far-reaching implications, Libsohn’s photos document small moments: a student reading a book, hands clasped over his forehead. A son, carrying his suitcase, walking beside his father. A group gathered on couches, talking in front of Wilcox Hall’s geometric windows.

The photos, Joseph said, capture the summer in its “rawness.”

“For me, it was impactful to see the photos of Black teenagers just being on campus,” Joseph added, “not just studying, but also discussing, having fun, and creating art in the same places that we are in right now.”

During Wintersession, the curators — led by Julia Chaffers ’22, Emily Sanchez ’22, and Mohan Setty-Charity ’24 — collaboratively selected photos and designed the exhibit, covering walls in Lewis Library with print-outs in the process. They considered both the history they had learned from Isenberg and Carson as well as advice from Princeton University Art Museum curators, who helped them determine how to convey their message visually.

“We decided we didn’t want to tell a narrative in any specific sense,” Chaffers said. “The exhibit falls more toward asking questions and starting a conversation.”

Chaffers is a senior columnist for the ‘Prince.’

To prompt personal reflection from viewers, the curators chose images that are relatable due to their recognizable backgrounds, like Nassau Hall.

“Images allow for more subjective responses,” Joseph said. “As people are walking through the exhibit, they could be thinking about their own journeys as current Princeton students or alumni and their experience in a place that is still a predominantly white institution.”

In an explicit connection to the present, the exhibit culminates in a display of photos from recent protests on campus — such as the 2019 demonstration at the “Double Sights” monument — that have called on the University community to confront racism.

“We’re showing this continuity of Black students at Princeton trying to create space for themselves,” Chaffers said.

The significance of the exhibit is compounded by its location in First College, which has been central to the University’s complex history of racial integration.

In response to undergraduates’ growing opposition to eating clubs for their exclusivity, an opt-in community called the Woodrow Wilson Lodge was formed in the late 1950s. The Wilson Lodge became the University’s original residential college, Wilson College, in 1967.

“It was an important alternative to the eating clubs and offered a more egalitarian, democratized living situation,” Carson said. “It has strong ties to the struggles for inclusion and racial justice on campus.”

Wilson College later became the center of controversy over the legacy of its namesake. After five years of student activism, the University removed the name of President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, from the residential college and the School of Public & International Affairs.

In light of this history, Sanchez said, “The exhibit is a way to reclaim the space for the students and remember it in ways it might not have been before.”

“It’s very important that we do not just destroy First College and move forward,” Joseph said.

“How do we take away the lessons we learned from its existence?”

“We’re showing this continuity of Black

students at Princeton

trying to create space for themselves.”

- Julia Chaffers ’22

Molly Taylor is a Staff Features Writer for the Daily Princetonian. She can be reached at mollypt@ princeton.edu.

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After historic March Madness run, women’s basketball season ends 1 point shy of Sweet 16

By Matt Drapkin Staff Sports Writer

The Tigers’ season has come to a brutal end.

On Monday night, the No. 11 seed women’s basketball team (25–5, 14–0 Ivy League) lost to the No. 3 seed Indiana Hoosiers (24–8, 11–5 Big Ten) in the second round of the NCAA tournament, falling 56–55.

The game came just two days after big wins for both teams. This past Saturday, Princeton knocked off No. 6 seed Kentucky in a hardfought 69–62 win. The Hoosiers had a much easier time taking care of business against No. 14 Charlotte, winning 81–51.

This was the Tigers’ second time making it to the second round of March Madness. If they managed to pull away, it would have made for Princeton’s first trip to the Sweet 16 in program history.

The Tigers’ tournament run instead came to an end on Monday night due to a poised Indiana team that managed to hold their own on the defensive end. The Hoosiers limited Princeton to significantly fewer points than their season scoring average of 68 points per game.

Indiana finished the regular season ranked No. 11 in the AP poll, meaning that this would be Princeton’s toughest matchup to date in the postseason. All five starters for Indiana earned All-Big Ten honors this year, making for the most single-season honors in program history.

Even with the cards stacked against them, Princeton was not fazed at the beginning of the game.

The Tigers came into the game aggressive from the start — junior guard Grace Stone scored the first bucket of the game with a threepointer from the top of the key.

It quickly became a back-andforth game, with neither team able to pull away by much. Then, just four minutes into the game, senior guard Abby Meyers got called for her second foul. Since five personal fouls disqualifies a player from the game, Head Coach Carla Berube subbed Meyers out. She would not see the floor again until the second quarter.

Even without the Ivy League Player of the Year on the floor, the Tigers managed to keep up with the Hoosiers. The first quarter ended 17–17, with Princeton shooting a 100 percent from three. Unfortunately, foul trouble would plague Princeton once more, with sophomore guard Kaitlyn Chen picking up her second foul to end the first quarter.

The second quarter began with both of Princeton’s premier ball handlers, Meyers and Chen, watching from the sideline. Picking up the slack were the other starters, namely junior guards Julia Cunningham and Grace Stone. They led the team in scoring at the end of the half, with nine and eight points, respectively.

Their offensive production was not enough to stop Indiana’s ensuing run. With some of Princeton’s best players on the bench, the Hoosiers came out gunning to open the quarter. Guard Ali Patberg hit an and-one three and converted the four-point play to push the lead to 21–17. This momentum carried through the rest of the half, leaving Princeton trailing behind 39–29.

Leading the way for the Hoosiers was guard Nicole Cardaño-Hillary with 10 points, with guards Chloe Moore-McNeil and Grace Berger each adding nine points.

“We gave up 39 points in the first half, and that’s not really who we are,” Princeton Head Coach Carla Berube said following the loss. “The foul trouble really hurt us.”

Coming out of the locker room, it seemed as though there would be more of the same for Indiana.

Back-to-back jumpers from Berger extended the lead to 43–29 with six minutes to go in the third quarter.

But this 14-point lead would be the largest of the game for the Hoosiers, who faced a resilient Princeton squad already accustomed to facing adversity. The Tigers managed to

stop the bleeding with a revamped defensive effort.

“We knew we were down 10 at half, and I think we kind of went back to our principles defensively,” Cunningham told the media after the game. “We got a lot of stops, got a lot of hands on the ball there, and we were able to push, and that always leads us to our best offense.”

It still was not a pretty offensive quarter; the team only shot 32 percent from the field and 20 percent from three, significant drop-offs from their season averages. Regardless, it was enough to shrink the Indiana lead to three by the end of the period, 45–42. Princeton managed to keep their opponents to just six points in the quarter.

To start the fourth quarter, the Hoosiers looked as if they were ready to pull away for good. They continued to feed the ball inside to forward Mackenzie Holmes, who put her arsenal of post moves on full display for the audience. With one drop step followed by another, Holmes hit two baskets in a row to give Indiana a 42–49 lead, just two minutes into the fourth quarter.

“It was certainly tough to defend them in the post down the stretch, just getting around Holmes and [Aleksa] Gulbe,” Coach Berube said.

“They’re big and strong.”

The Tigers refused to go away.

They went on a 8–0 run over the next two minutes, culminating with a smooth drop-off pass inside from Chen to sophomore forward Ellie Mitchell, whose layup off the glass gave Princeton their first lead since the first quarter, 50–49, with just under five minutes remaining.

After Cardaño-Hillary quickly responded with a baseline reverse layup to re-establish the Hoosier lead, the scoring came to a complete standstill. Finally, with just 1:12 remaining in the final frame, Abby Meyers managed to get to the freethrow line and knock down two clutch shots. Princeton led 52–51.

Just the next possession, Holmes drew a foul for Indiana, and Grace Berger stepped up to the line for a pair of free throws. She knocked down just one of two, leaving the score tied 52–52 with 58 seconds to go.

Coming out of a timeout, the Tigers looked to get Meyers going on the perimeter. Mitchell set her point guard a screen going towards the left baseline. Indiana switched Holmes onto Meyers, and with one look at the new defender, Meyers pulled the trigger from deep. The shot missed off the front of the rim.

Coming the other way, the Hoosiers ran a very similar offensive set.

Trying to give their guard space to create, Grace Berger used a screen at the top of the key to get some space on the right side of the court.

Cunningham switched the screen on defense with Chen, who now had the task of guarding the Hoosiers’ leading scorer.

Berger wasted no time. She stepped right, spun left, and finessed her way into the paint for a layup over sophomore forward Ellie Mitchell that gave Indiana a 52–54 lead with just 28 seconds remaining.

In what could have been the final offensive possession for the Tigers this season, Princeton put the ball in sophomore guard Kaitlyn Chen’s hands. She drove hard right off of a screen from Mitchell, turning the corner with a purpose. Mitchell then ran away from the ball to Meyers in the opposite corner, who burst towards the top of the key spotting up for three.

When Meyers got there, however, the play had been foiled by Indiana’s defense. Chen got caught in the air under the basket, looking to make a skip pass back out to Meyers. The ball never made it. Instead, it was picked off by Ali Patberg, who was promptly fouled. After two more fouls got the Hoosiers into the bonus, forward Aleksa Gulbe stepped up to the line and calmly downed both free throws, pushing the Indiana lead to 56–52 with just 1.6 seconds left.

Coach Berube still had one time-

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Women’s basketball team battled Hoosiers at Indiana home court. out to burn. Only the players know what was said in that final huddle.

The final play of their season — the final play of the seniors’ careers at Princeton — saw Cunningham inbound to Meyers for one last threepointer at the buzzer, which she drained. It didn’t matter towards the outcome, though, and the game ended Indiana 56, Princeton 55.

The look on their faces watching that final shot go in says what words cannot quite articulate about the raw emotions they felt as the realization that their season was over began to settle in.

“This is never easy to see your season end,” Coach Berube said. “We had a great year, and I’m extremely proud of my team, my staff, the university, the Ivy League. We just came up a little short against a really strong team, a great Indiana team.

But we fought until the end, and I can’t ask for anything more from my players.”

For Princeton, Cunningham and Stone each added 13 points. Meyers had 11 points, and Chen had 10 points and five rebounds. As she’s done all season long, Mitchell was

a beast on the boards, putting up six points and 15 rebounds for her team. The next leading rebounder in the game was Indiana’s Mackenzie Holmes with eight.

“Ellie is unbelievably relentless,” Berube said. “Nothing stops her.

She has a knack of reading the rebounds, and she has this drive of going for every board, every loose ball, diving out of bounds to save a ball; she’s everywhere. She’s the heart of our defense. She was Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year for a reason.”

This makes for Princeton’s fifth loss all season. They walk away with a 25–5 record, as well as a perfect 14–0 record in the Ivy League. Even with the loss in the big tournament, the team reflected on what their success has meant in the grander scheme.

“We put Princeton on the map,” Cunningham said. “We beat the SEC champs, and then had a one-point game with the Big Ten runner-up.

For the Ivy League, it’s huge. For Princeton, it’s huge.”

“We showed the national stage that we can compete with anyone,”

Berube added.

While this season has officially come to an end for the Tigers, the team loses only two seniors from their current roster: Meyers and guard Neenah Young. These two won 97 games across their four seasons together, and finished with a 54–4 Ivy League record.

Next season, the Tigers can expect to see most of their players return. Key returners will include Cunningham, Chen, and Mitchell.

Regardless, filling the hole that Meyers will leave behind will prove difficult no matter what kind of talent fills her void. She finishes her career at Princeton with 936 points, just shy of the 1,000 mark.

Until next winter, the Tigers can take a well-earned rest. According to Coach Berube, however, it does not seem like the team is eager to take time off.

“They’re going to be really hungry to get back to games like this.”

Matt Drapkin is a staff writer for the ‘Prince’ sports section. He can be reached at mattdrapkin@princeton.edu or on Twitter at @mattdrapkin.

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

‘Fifth is great, but we’re not satisfied’: Men’s track and field earns eight AllAmerican honors at NCAA Indoor Championships

By Julia Nguyen

Head Sports Editor

The men’s track and field team have outdone themselves.

The Tigers earned their way to fifth place in the nation on the weekend of March 11th at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Indoor Track Championships. The team sent eight athletes to Birmingham, Alabama for the championships.

As if sending these Tigers to the biggest meet of the season wasn’t impressive enough, all eight Tigers earned All-American honors.

“Leading up to the indoor season, we all believed that we were one of the best teams in the nation, but now, we know for a fact that we are,” first-year distance runner Sam Rodman told the Daily Princetonian. “And on top of that, other teams [know] as well.”

“We knew we were at this level,” junior pole vaulter Sondre Guttormsen added. “I guess it [was] a validation of our team and how good we are.”

Day 1 Guttormsen had one goal in mind entering the meet: to win — and win he did. He secured the championship title in the pole vault with 5.75m and was awarded with the Mid-Atlantic Region NCAA field athlete of the year.

His title is the first NCAA indoor title for Princeton since 2002. His brother, junior pole vaulter Simen Guttormsen, placed fourth in the event. Together, the duo secured crucial points for the team, setting them up for success going into day two of the meet.

The first day also saw a fourthplace finish by the distance medley relay (DMR) team. First-year Harrison Witt ran the 1200m to launch the relay, followed by senior Michael Phillippy in the 400m, Rodman in the 800m, and senior Sam Ellis as the anchor in the 1600m. With a time of 9:26.01, the Tigers not only earned themselves All-American honors, but also secured the second best time in school history.

Despite a successful finish, the moments leading up to the relay were filled with uncertainty. Witt traveled to the meet as an alternate for junior mid-distance runner Ethan Reese. After sustaining an injury at Heptagonals, it was unclear whether or not Reese would be able to compete.

“I knew that I was running the 1200 leg in place of Ethan about 20 to 30 minutes before the gun went off,” Witt explained.

Even with a last minute change, Coach Fred Samara was as confident as ever.

“Harrison is one tough runner.

[The coaches] knew he would stick himself right in the pack and never give an inch to the more experienced runners,” Coach Samara told the ‘Prince.’ “I kept reminding him to remember how good he is.”

Still, Witt felt the nerves creep up on him.

“My stomach dropped a little bit as flickers of the most important performance of my life flashed before my eyes,” he said.

But he knew he had his coaches and team on his side. “Sam [Ellis] reminded me of the confidence my teammates have in me, and I quickly refocused and loosened up.”

For Rodman, his nerves mainly stemmed from the pressure of competing against so many wellversed athletes, especially as a first-year.

“I was very [nervous] the week of the race, but once I started

warming up, I knew that I belonged there and was just focused on doing my part,” he said.

However, Rodman felt the support of the team just as much as Witt did. “I had a lot of trust in my teammates and my coach, which helped with the nerves.”

While earning All-American honors was a triumph for the Tigers, some of their favorite moments at the meet were watching their teammates dominate in their respective events.

“It was special to see everyone come together to accomplish an amazing feat,“ Witt reflected. “I remember smiling a big goofy grin and soaking it all in as the footsteps pounded by.”

Day 2 For both junior heptathlete Andrei Iosivas and senior thrower CJ Licata, competing on the second day was a lot harder than the first.

Iosivas’ heptathlon events were split between the two days: 60m, long jump, shot put, and high jump on the first day, followed by the 60m hurdles, pole vault, and 1000m on the second. In the 60m, he set an impressive NCAA indoor championships meet record of 6.71 seconds.

“I didn’t expect to run that fast,” he laughed. “It’s kind of cool, but I mean the heptathlon is seven events, so I couldn’t really be stuck on it.”

Iosivas emphasized the physical and mental toughness required for success.

“The first day is pretty easy because everyone has all the adrenaline,” he said. “but the second day, your body hurts, your mind hurts, and you’re just like ‘damn, we’re still going.’”

For Iosivas, he explained that focus was the key to his success.

Going into the second day, Iosivas kept his eye on the prize, and with 6,069 points, he placed fourth, breaking his own personal and Ivy League record of 6,036 set at Heptagonals in February. En route to his top-five finish, he also earned a personal best in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.82 and in the 1000m with 2:46.93.

Licata, on the other hand, spent the first day cheering on his teammates as his shot-put event was one of the last of the entire meet.

“I was watching all the events on Friday. It’s exciting, but you’re like ‘crap, like I’m doing this tomorrow,’” he said. “I just felt like the tension could [be] cut with a knife, but that’s what makes it fun.”

Even surrounded by talented athletes and future Olympians, Licata did not let the nerves deter him. In fact, he used them to his advantage, transforming his nervous energy into adrenaline. His mark of 19.75 placed eighth at the meet and secured fifth place for the team, tied with Texas A&M at 26 points.

Looking ahead to the outdoor season While the Tigers definitely made a statement at indoor championships, their goal since the beginning of the year has been to show the nation what they’re capable of in the outdoor season. With a top-five finish last weekend, the team feels even more momentum going into the spring season.

“I think fifth place really blew a lot of our expectations off, especially because the indoor meet is so rigorous to [qualify for],” Licata commented. “We’re all motivated and locked in. To say that we can finish fifth indoors with legitimately eight guys that competed,

we … can do something very special outdoors.”

“Fifth is great, but we’re not satisfied. Outdoor is where we really shine, and we’re headed straight to the top this outdoor season,” Phillippy added.

With a season opener at Penn this Saturday, March 19, the team is ready to not only dominate their League foes once again but also podium at NCAAs. As Ellis put it, “The team goals are to destroy the other Ivy teams at Heps, get top 3 at NCAAs, [and] have a lot of fun doing it.”

A shout out to Coach Samara Every successful team needs a leader, and for the Tigers, that leader is Samara.

Following Heps, Samara was named Ivy League Coach of the Year. Samara has been selected for this award nine out of the 11 times it has been awarded. As a former decathlon track athlete and Olympian himself, his knowledge of the sport is unmatched.

The award was well-deserved: Samara has led the Tigers to 49 Ivy Championship titles — 24 indoor, 20 outdoor, and five in cross country. This season’s title was the seventh consecutive indoor title for Princeton.

While the statistics are an accurate representation of Samara’s talent, his coaching expertise goes beyond the titles. In interviews with the ‘Prince,’ the All-American Tigers were asked how Samara has influenced them. Here’s what some of them had to say: “Coach Samara is a Princeton track legend at this point. He’s impacted many lives over the years with his passion and love for the team. I’ve never met someone that is both so competitively fierce and sincerely compassionate as Fred Samara. He inspires winners and people want to compete their hardest for him.” — Sam Ellis ’22 “I owe a lot of my success just from his technical coaching experience. I don’t think anybody really coaches like him, but he also demands a lot from you, which I think is really good because it keeps you on your toes. He deserves the award, clearly; that’s why he has so many of them. But it’s … just the fact that he elevates you physically as an athlete, but also just mentally. That’s the big thing that he strives for.” — CJ Licata ’22 “Coach Samara is just so passionate. He loves the sport with all his heart … After someone makes a big throw or a big jump, he’ll literally cry because he’s so happy.

He has so much love, both for the sport and the team. On top of that, because of the excellence he wants you to be at … the team kind of holds everyone else accountable to be excellent.” — Andrei Iosivas ’23 “I remember leaving for a meet earlier in the season where our relay team was going to try to qualify for NCAAs. I ran into Coach Samara before leaving, [and he] told me ‘Just remember, you belong here.’ It meant so much for him to say that, especially being a freshman and especially coming from such an accomplished person in the track and field world.

He is always very supportive and has believed we were one of the best teams in the nation since we first met in August.” — Sam Rodman ’25 Julia Nguyen is head editor of the Sports section of The Daily Princetonian who usually covers the weekly recaps. She can be reached at trucn@princeton.edu or on Instagram @jt.nguyen.

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

CONFERENCE RECORD OVERALL RECORD 1. CORNELL 1 –0 6 –0 2. PRINCETON 8 –2 5 –1 3. HARVARD 1 –0 4 –1 4. DARTMOUTH 0 –0 4 –1 5. BROWN 0 –1 6. PENN 0 –1 7. YALE 0 –1

5 –2 3 –2 3 –2

RESULTS FROM THE LAST WEEK: SAT., MARCH 19: NO. 3 PRINCETON 21, NO. 6 PENN 20 (OT) UPCOMING GAMES: SAT., MARCH 26: NO. 2 PRINCETON AT NO. 14 YALE, 3:30 P.M. SAT., FEB. 19: PRINCETON AT YALE, 7 P.M.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE: IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS

CONFERENCE RECORD OVERALL RECORD 1. PRINCETON 1– 0 6 –0 2. YALE 1–0 4 –2 3. BROWN 1–0 4 –3 4. HARVARD 1–0 3 –3 5.

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CORNELL PENN DARTMOUTH COLUMBIA

1 –1 0 –1 0 –1 0 –2

4 –3 3 –4 2 –4 2 –6

RESULTS FROM THE LAST WEEK: SAT., MARCH 19: NO. 11 PRINCETON 12, PENN STATE 11 WED., MARCH 23: NO. 7 LOYOLA (MD) 16, NO. 10 PRINCETON 15 UPCOMING GAMES: FRI., MARCH 25: NO. 10 PRINCETON AT COLUMBIA, 7 P.M. TUE., MARCH 29: STONY BROOK AT NO. 10 PRINCETON, 7 P.M.

OTHER SPORTS NEWS: TWO WRESTLERS REACH NCAA FINAL AT THE NCAA WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS, BOTH PATRICK GLORY ’23 AND QUINCY MONDAY ’23 FINISHED AS RUNNERS-UP IN THEIR RESPECTIVE WEIGHT CLASSES. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME PRINCETON HAD A WRESTLER ADVANCE TO AN NCAA FINAL IN ANY WEIGHT CLASS IN 20 YEARS. TRACK AND FIELD SETS TWO NEW SCHOOL RECORDS AT PENN CHALLENGE, TIES ANOTHER ROBBIE OTAL ’22 SET THE BEST DISCUS MARK IN SCHOOL HISTORY WITH A THROW OF 61.24 METERS. IBRAHIM AYORINDE ’23 TIED THE SCHOOL RECORD IN THE 100-METER SPRINT WITH A TIME OF 10.36 SECONDS. AYORINDE, DANIEL DUNCAN ’24, GREG SCHOLARS ’22, AND SIMANG’ALISO NDHLOVU ’22 SET THE SCHOOL RECORD