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The athletic staff told rowers that Snyder had acted inappropriately during the fencing team trip.

Lifting coach on leave pending investigation

By Sarah Warman Hirschfield and Rebecca Han Associate News and Video Editor and Contributor

The fencing team is working with a new strength and conditioning coach pending an investigation into the team fall break training trip to Budapest, Hungary.

Sam Snyder, who served as strength and conditioning coach for men’s and women’s fencing and men’s and women’s rowing, is on administrative leave pending the investigation, according to University Spokesperson and Director of Media Relations Ben Chang.

Snyder declined to comment.

The athletic staff told rowers that Snyder had acted inappropriately during the fencing team trip. Upon

returning to campus, however, he was permitted to coach the rowing teams.

“I had lift with him on Tuesday,” said Camille Heubner ’20, a member of the lightweight women’s rowing team. “He knew he was not working with the fencers at that point, but he wasn’t sure about rowers.”

By Thursday, Nov. 8, Snyder was no longer coaching the rowers. Another rower, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, confirmed that they had their Nov. 8 lifting session at Jadwin Gymnasium instead of the boathouse, their usual location.

Snyder has not coached the fencing teams since returning to campus after fall break.

Matthew Fleekop, former fencing strength and conditioning coach and current strength and conditioning

Coach for men’s lacrosse, men’s soccer, men’s and women’s tennis, and women’s ice hockey, is currently filling Snyder’s position.

“We still have all our fencing coaches, so our main fencing training has not changed at all,” said a member of the fencing team. The fencer said they don’t believe the incident is as “severe as everyone makes it out to be,” and cited how calm the fencing team was in the days following the trip.

Snyder interned at the University of Rhode Island, Bryant University, and the University before becoming a part-time strength and conditioning coach for men’s volleyball and men’s and women’s rugby at the University.

In August, he started working fulltime as strength and conditioning coach for rowing and fencing.

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“The administration could and should do more to stand by its trans students,” a graduate student said.

LGBTQ+ students respond to Trump

By Sarah Warman Hirschfield Associate News and Video Editor

Following a bold move from the White House that threatened to change current definitions of gender, the University has responded with stronger protection and resources for its LGBTQ+ students. The support did not go unnoticed.

Last month, after learning that the Trump administration was considering a redefinition of gender under Title IX that would

effectively roll back a number of legal protections for transgender individuals, President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi, and University of Wisconsin Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, wrote a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, advocating for the continued protection of transgender individuals.

In a letter to the LGBTQ+ student body, Judy Jarvis, director of the LGBT Center, pledged See LGBTQ+ page 3

STUDENT LIFE

Q&A with American Enterprise Institute president Arthur C. Brooks

By Oliver Effron Contributor

Arthur C. Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, and New York Times monthly columnist Arthur C. Brooks sat down with The Daily Princetonian Tuesday afternoon. Below is a lightly edited transcript of the conversation.

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want to start with the midterm elections. The polls closed exactly a week from yesterday, and I’m wondering to what extent — if at all — Tuesday night was a good night for the Democrats.

Arthur C. Brooks: Well, it was finally a good night for pollsters. It happened more or less the way everybody said it would. Democrats performed really well in purple districts,

Columnist Sinan Ozbay criticizes social media giants’ policies restricting free speech, and guest contributor Currie Engel explains how she found the courage to practice her own work out routine.

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Men often outnumber women in the Stephens Fitness Center weight room, pictured.

Gender disparity in weight lifting persists on campus

By Sarah Warman Hirschfield and Isabel Ting Associate News and Video Editor and Assistant News Editor

Anyone who works out at Stephens Fitness Center knows that men outnumber women in the downstairs area, home to the free weights, squat racks, and bench racks. Of the men and women interviewed for this article, all agreed that men outnumbered women in the weight

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“Objectively, men outnumber women,” said Allen Welkie GS, who described himself as a frequent gym-goer.

The Daily Princetonian talked to men and women about why this gender disparity persists, despite the well-known benefits of strength conditioning for both genders.

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The only thing that the midterm elections really say is that polarization continues at pace in the United States, Brooks said.

and picked up enough seats to win back the House and then some.

The only thing that it really says is that polarization continues at pace in the United States, and it’ll continue, at least, for the next two years.

Don’t expect a whole lot of progress if you want people to compromise and get policy done.

DP: I saw the exit polls. College-educated voters turned out for Democrats in greater numbers than in 2016, while voters with a high school degree turned out more for Republicans. Polarization is definitely increasing.

AB: Yes, and there were some people who voted for [President Donald] Trump in 2016 who voted Democrat in 2018, particularly in the Upper Midwest states. But again, it’s kind of what you expect. Pundits try to find some pattern in it, but really it’s just so they can make copy.

The real challenge we face is getting a better public policy environment where people are working together — not necessarily agreeing, because agreeing leads to mediocrity, but promoting an environment where there can be a real competition of ideas.

But we’re not close to that

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Winn: It’s hard not to notice the gender ratio in the weight room

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“It’s not useful for me. I don’t do heavy lifting,” Lewis said.

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ness goals.

Sara Lewis ’20, who uses the elliptical and runs, said she hates weight lifting.

“It’s not useful for me. I don’t do heavy lifting,” she said. “I’m not trying to get bulky.”

Ellie Breitfeld ’20, who runs and does abdominal workouts,

said she finds the weight room intimidating. She also said that she would be willing to learn how to use weights to improve her arm strength, but she would rather spend her time doing cardio.

Julia Jansen ’19 said she prefers cardio because she does not want to focus on getting bulked up, although she does use weights in about one out of every six workout sessions.

Other women cited lack of experience and an enjoyment of cardio as reasons for choosing not to lift.

For women who do lift, the journey was not easy. When Sarah Drohan GS, the treasurer of the Princeton Powerlifting Club, began lifting three years ago, she felt like she “stood out as the only woman in the room.”

“Eventually, I just stopped caring about it,” she said. Drohan, who studies ecology and evolutionary biology and applied and computational mathematics, said that she often works in male-dominated fields. This phenomenon was quite common among women who lift.

Jean Grossman, a lecturer in the Wilson School, was one of the few female graduate students in the economics department at MIT. “I’m used to being in an environment that’s almost entirely male, so I think it was easier for me to start doing weights,” she said. Grossman added that when she started lifting 15 years ago, she felt pressure to do only cardio.

“Then I thought, this is as much mine as anyone else’s,” Grossman said.

Chloe Coronado Winn ’19, who is one of the few women studying electrical engineering at the University, said that she

first started lifting downstairs when her friend Kathy Zhang ’19 invited her. She added that it’s a “little hard not to notice” the men to women ratio in the weight room. However, she does not think that women should feel intimidated when going to the weight room for the first time.

“If it’s your first time coming down, you feel like, ‘Oh, maybe I don’t know how to use the equipment,’ or, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing,’” Winn said.

“But I swear, half the guys here don’t know what they’re doing, so there shouldn’t be anything scary about that.”

Zhang, who majors in classics, took advantage of mentorship opportunities in the weight room. She has previously worked with personal trainers, both in Dillon Gym and back home in Newtown, Pa. “They showed me how to use everything, which made things easier,” she said.

With time and experience, beginning lifters’ confidence and comfort level in the weight room increases. Although Winn and Zhang lift weights together, both also often go down to the weight room by themselves.

“In order to overcome barriers to entry, it’s important that women are well-represented on a fitness staff,” assistant direc-

tor of Campus Recreation Matt Brzycki wrote in an email to the ‘Prince.’ “Roughly half of our fitness supervisors and personal trainers are female.”

Brzycki said that misconceptions are sometimes promoted as fact.

“The biggest misconception is that a woman who lifts weights will develop a masculine physique,” he explained.

“That — and the unfounded fear that women who lift weights will lose flexibility — is at least partly to blame why women didn’t really start to adopt weight training as a viable form of physical activity until the early 1980s.”

The vast majority of women can significantly increase their muscular strength without an attendant increase in muscular size, according to Brzycki.

He noted that these misconceptions still linger. To that end, Brzycki pointed to Campus Recreation’s extensive array of group fitness classes and a series of introductory classes to help fight these misconceptions, and one of these classes focuses on lifting weights.

Brzycki added that most group fitness classes are designed to accommodate varying levels of ability and experience.

“During the past several years, we’ve offered several workshops in the Stephens Fitness Center that are specifically geared toward weight training for beginners as well as women,” he said. This array of classes has the potential to bring more women into lifting by increasing their familiarity with the sport.

Hope VanCleaf, a communications assistant in the Lewis Center for the Arts, said it was intimidating not to know how to use the free weights.

“I wish they would teach more if you go down there,” she said.

VanCleaf said that she only uses free weights at home when she is watching YouTube videos, and added that for most of her life, she did not feel comfortable going to gyms in general.

“The older I have gotten, the more comfortable I have become,” said VanCleaf. “It didn’t matter whether it was men or women [in the room], it was just self-consciousness.”

Bringing more women into the weight room has a host of positive health benefits for new lifters, which women have noted.

Welkie said that women should lift since lifting is a part of any healthy exercise regimen.

“I got my wife into lifting,” he said. “I started lifting before we got married, and then we started lifting together, and she’s actually a personal trainer right now. She’s encouraging other people to lift as well.”

VanCleaf emphasized how important weights are and how her health has improved tenfold since she began to lift. She started lifting to avoid osteoporosis and to strengthen her bones.

Likewise, weight lifting can help women who suffer from depression improve their selfconcept. Winn said she feels empowered when she lifts.

From a physical health perspective, lifting weights offers many benefits. Increasing strength improves an individual’s capacity to perform everyday tasks more easily and with greater resistance to fatigue.

Weight training also increases lean-body mass and decreases body fat, improving body composition and physical appearance.

“Two percent of American men aged 50 and older have osteoporosis of the hip, while 10 percent of their female counterparts have the same condition which carries a greater risk of fractures,” Brzycki said, citing statistics from the National Center for Health. “Most college students might find that [fact] irrelevant, but it’s never too early to take protective measures to address their bone health in later life.”

Researchers are now finding that weight lifting improves cognitive function, according to Brzycki. “And who doesn’t want that?” he added.

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that there will be “no changes to Princeton’s trans-inclusive healthcare, non-discrimination policies and support.”

“Not long at all after the statement came out, there were a lot of little support systems just to quickly reassure people. An email, some posters, and conversations alone helped us all to remember what we’re still fighting for: just being able to live our lives,” LGBTIQA peer educator Nico Cooper ’21 said.

Some students think that the University still has more to do to protect trans students.

A trans graduate student, who requested anonymity, told The Daily Princetonian that while it was great that Eisgruber sent the letter, it was discouraging that only a few schools signed it.

“The administration could and should do more to stand by its trans students,” the graduate student said. “They should make it easier for trans students facing hostile family situations to gain financial independence.”

The student added that the University should mandate training for professors to teach them how to interact with trans students in a respectful and affirming way.

“These things really are not asking a lot, but they would make a huge difference for the trans students on campus,” they said.

“While I don’t identify as a member of the trans community and cannot speak for the experiences of trans students, I think that despite Eisgruber’s support of trans students at the federal level, [the University] still needs to examine the realities of the disparities on its own campus to ensure an equitable experience for trans students and the LGBTQ+ community as a whole, especially regarding financial

aid and stability for students facing abusive situations related to their identity at home,” Amanda Eisenhour ’21 said.

The LGBT Center has added programs designed to support the trans and gender non-conforming community on campus.

These recent efforts include the creation of a working group to direct the University’s response if the proposed policies are enacted. Additionally, the Center is offering students one-on-one meetings with directors Jarvis and Eric Anglero. It also plans on revamping the student Gender Group to discuss concerns of trans and gender non-conforming students in light of the news.

The Center has held a lunch event for trans and gender non-conforming students and hosted a staff training series with special focus on the experiences of trans students.

Scooter Liapin ’20, a co-president of Princeton Pride Alliance, said that the Center’s trans-oriented programs are focused on “remembering trans activists who are no longer with us as well as celebrating trans activists who are doing amazing work in the community.”

On Nov. 14, the Center will host a Transgender Day of Remembrance, beginning at 7 p.m. with a keynote speech by transgender activist and founder of Familia: TQLM, Jennicet Gutiérrez. The following day, Gutiérrez will host a workshop to discuss building support for the trans and queer immigrant communities.

Liapin noted that it is important to remember that trans activists are responsible for much of the progress made within the larger LGBTQ+ movement in recent years. When addressing deceased LGBTQ+ activists, including those trans activists that will be remembered and celebrated on Nov. 14, the phrase of choice is “rest in power.”

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beating his seed time by nearly three seconds with a 4:01.98.

Buese began a truly impressive individual meet effort with a victory in the 100-yard butterfly, which he followed three events later with a fourth-place effort in the 100-yard backstroke. In between these, McQuet took first in the 200-yard freestyle, and Lau and senior Tyler Lin finished two-three in the 100-yard breaststroke. Over the course of those four events, the Tigers built up a hefty 67.5 point lead over Penn State — a margin which would expand to 73.5 by the end of the night’s events.

The Saturday morning session largely followed the same patterns. Curry continued her strong individual performance for the women in the 200-yard butterfly, holding off three swimmers who finished within a second of her time of 2:02.50 to take third. Teng and Ma both picked up their second top-ten finishes of the meet, with Teng taking ninth in the 100-yard freestyle and Ma rounding out the top eight in the 200-yard breaststroke.

The Princeton women also showed well in diving, with two Tigers making the finals of both the one and three meter events. Junior Natasha MacManus finished third in both, scoring 256.70 points from one meter and 281.1 from three.

The men continued their rel-

ative dominance throughout Saturday’s races. Buese won his second event of the meet in the 200-yard backstroke, a performance which McQuet followed with a third-place finish in the 100 yard freestyle. The Tigers had four men in the top eight of the 200-yard breaststroke, with junior Daniel Arris leading the way in fourth place.

Freshman Raunak Khosla finished second in the 200-yard butterfly with 1:49.15, and Cox came third in the same event, only .12 seconds behind his teammate.

Further impressive individual performances came from the Tigers in the men’s diving competition. Junior Charlie Minns won the one-meter event and finished fourth in the platform, and sophomore Colten Young reversed those placements, taking fourth in the one-meter and scoring 290.05 points from the platform, besting the bunch by nearly ten points.

The Princeton women ended in fifth place with 520 points — less than half the total of Duke, the women’s victors. The men, who enjoyed 17 top-three finishes over the two days, scored 897 points — good for a commanding 141-point victory in a meet which saw the other four teams finish within 130 points of each other.

The Princeton women and men both travel to Ithaca this weekend, where they will face off against Cornell and Penn in the second triple meet of the season.

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right now. We’re not close to that anywhere in American society — whether in Congress or on college campuses.

DP: Well I wonder if part of the problem stems from moderate candidates getting booted out of office in favor of more radical ones. Not just for Republicans, but Democrats too: Just look at [former New York City Congressman] Joe Crowley, who was beaten in his primary

by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

AB: It happened in some cases, but then again, look at Arizona. A moderate Democrat defeated a moderate Republican.

That’s actually another thing: there’s nothing too alarming about polarization right now. Luckily, American institutions aren’t breaking down. We’re having a stress test and we’re passing with flying colors. Forget Congress: The press is doing its job. The judiciary. Most of all, state and local governments.

DP: The most underrated aspect of American government.

AB: Exactly. We have an overfederalization of interest in politics. Everybody’s wrapped around national politics all the time.

When I’m in my hometown, Seattle, and people are talking about Trump, I’ll ask them, “Who won the school board election for superintendent?” Oftentimes they don’t even know who’s running. Yet, they’re the ones making the policies that’ll affect you the most, not the federal government.

This is not to say we shouldn’t worry about Trump. He’s making terrible policies. But it shouldn’t come at the expense of focusing on local politics.

DP: Or what if we just stepped away from politics completely? I know you’ve advocated for that in the past.

AB: Yes, it’s OK to step away

from politics for a while. I wrote a column recently about how people should take a “politics cleanse.” Nothing’s going to change if you stop following the news for a few weeks. It’s not like the fascists will take over.

Don’t read pundits, especially. They’re just trying to target your confirmation bias and tell you what want to hear. There are very few pundits out there who are in the business of challenging you, because if they do, they won’t get readers.

I mean, even the Times.

One of our columnists wrote a piece called, “Pigs All The Way Down.” I hate that she compared Republicans to animals.

It’s dehumanizing.

DP: That’s interesting.

AB: It is. I myself have had to step away from politics for a little while. As the president of [the American Enterprise Institute], I have to be more focused on the “climate of policy,” not the “weather of politics.”

Think about it this way: when a climate scientists start reading the daily weather report, you have a mismatch of skills.

DP: That actually goes to my next question. You’ve written several books about effective poverty policies, notably “The Conservative Heart.” Strictly from a policy perspective, I’m curious what you think about Democrats announcing that they’re going to introduce a bill for $15 minimum wage in the House. Do you think that’s good policy?

AB: It’s a bad policy. It’s not because it’s expensive, but a lot of poor people are going to lose their jobs.

About 82 percent of people who get the minimum wage are not poor. I don’t mind that, but when disproportionately, the layoffs will happen at the bottom of the income scale, it’s counter-effective.

The question is what you should do instead.

DP: So, if you were dicta-

tor in America, and you could enact one policy to alleviate poverty overnight, what would it be?

AB: For sure, we should expand the earned income tax credit. That idea has some of the most bipartisan support, but still, it doesn’t go far enough.

We need to accompany that with two other things. One is economic policy that insources more jobs. It’s a really good thing that we lowered the corporate tax rate. The Democrats under Obama wanted to get it done, but for political reasons, it couldn’t happen. Most of them now, however, are happy that it’s finally happened.

The other is that we need to expand access to skills and opportunities, especially for vocational skills. There are 7 million unfilled, dignified jobs today that cannot be outsourced. Welders, for example.

Healthcare workers, that’s another.

Not everybody needs college.

Ninety percent of high school seniors say they’re going to college. Sixty-five percent actually apply, and only 30 percent of them actually graduate. So definitely expand vocational training.

DP: Finally, just to go back to politics for a second, what can we do to fight polarization?

AB: The best way to do it is stand up to the bad forces on your side. If you’re a Democrat standing up to a radical Republican, or vice versa, it’s entirely irrelevant. You hated them then and hate them now.

But if you go on campus, and say, “we’re going to fight for a competition of ideas and all different points of view,” that’s effective.

That’s what I’m trying to do on the center right. I’m trying to stand up to the fringe and say, “What you’re doing is bad for poor people, bad for the country, and not the way we’re going to achieve the new American century.”

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or me, walking into the weight room of Stephen’s Fitness Center is like being an English major in an advanced particle physics class. No matter how many times I walk down those steps, pick up my 10-pound weights, and awkwardly squeeze myself as unobtrusively as possible into a corner, my lack of a Y chromosome makes me feel out of place. It isn’t going to stop me from going down there, but it does make me feel far more selfconscious than I have ever felt anywhere else on campus.

I ran on the same treadmill every day freshman year: the first one on the second row of the cardio section. I lost 15 pounds in two months, arriving home at Thanksgiving to a mother who tried to forcefeed me pumpkin pie and candied yams. It was the thinnest I had ever been—and I thought, the fittest. Then I went to a high-intensity cardio cycle class and almost fainted on the bike. Sure, I was thin, but the long, lowintensity runs I did on the treadmill every day had weakened every other part of my body.

Aside from the infrequent weight room sessions I got as a varsity athlete in high school, I had absolutely no idea how my body worked — and how exercise impacted the way I felt, looked, and thought about myself. When I got to college, I promised myself I wouldn’t gain the Freshman 15, so I counted calories and ran six miles on the treadmill every day. But by the end of the year, my knees started hurting, my ankles would swell, and I quickly fatigued on any run that went above my normal 7.6 mile-per-hour pace. I ran for the calorie deficit; I didn’t run to feel good.

In a 2016 study published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), women said they worked out for “weight loss and toning” reasons. Alternatively, the NCBI cited two earlier findings that men were more likely to exercise

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for “social and competitive reasons.” However, societal pressure from both male and female groups to “look a certain way” — be that more muscular and “built” for men, or flat-bellied and toned for women — are equally driving factors for body image. The NCBI also cited a report that showed increased exercise for men was directly correlated with higher levels of self-esteem, whereas the inverse was true of young women. This might have something to do with the fact that, as the study suggests, women are taught to exercise to lose something, rather than to gain something, while the opposite is true of men. Men build and gain, women shrink and lose.

This isn’t just me feeling intimidated as I walk down the steps to the weight room — it’s a metaphor for the heavy weight of gender performance and expectation in the world.

Even though the metabolic advantage of strength workouts and the long-term calorie burning benefit of building muscle are well proven and frequently studied, I’m usually one of the few women in the “dungeon.” Women are taught to burn as many cal-

ories as possible in one cardio session, but few women understand the way the body and our muscles work. In all honesty, women usually aren’t taught how to do strengthbuilding workouts, especially if they weren’t a part of a high school, collegiate, or club athletics program. We don’t know how to load up a bar or use a spotter for heavy weight training. We don’t know that some workouts are just naturally harder because women are more inclined to have a tilted pelvis, causing Lumbar lordosis. We don’t know that women’s low testosterone levels mean muscles are harder to build. We don’t know that women generally develop more slow-twitch muscles (from all that cardio!), which helps with endurance during a hard training session. In 2009, “Women’s Health” cited The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, which said that strength training helps burn “an average of 100 more calories in the 24 hours afterward than they did when they hadn’t lifted weights.” I definitely did not know that.

Only after much research directed toward understanding how and why my female

body works the way it does have I been able to see what it needs — a healthy mix of cardio and strength. And I walk down those steps almost every day now. I do pull-ups (definitely with a little help) and push-ups and even squat occasionally (I’m only up to 95 pounds, but I’m working on it!). My body looks different than it did freshman year, but I feel strong. Yes, my shoulders are broader and my thighs are thicker, but my knees don’t hurt and I can crush a spin class at the top of the leaderboard without feeling like I’m going to faint. I still feel a bit weird in the weight room, but my health matters more to me than my gender performance.

All of this is not to say that women should be body builders, or that men should run 5ks every day. All I’m trying to say is that this whole middleschool-gender-segregationat-the-gym thing really just shows how little we know about what our bodies — our human bodies — need.

Currie Engel is a senior English concentrator from Charlotte, N.C. She can be reached at mcengel@princeton.edu.

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he Carl A. Fields

Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding would be my favorite place to study on campus if it were on campus.

As a Mathey Moose situated in a corner of campus, I am quite used to the long treks to classes past Washington Road; however, sometimes far is just too far.

The Carl A. Fields Center (CAF) represents the vision of diversity has — or should have — for its student body, but its distance from campus is more than disappointing.

I can’t help but conclude that its distance represents a lack of true concern with the state of cultural understanding within the framework of the University.

There is a profound difference between the University accepting students of color to improve its demographic diversity and accepting them to include diverse perspectives and histories. Besides the presentations during orientation that facilitate conversation between different groups, this University lacks a genuine engagement in diversity of the student body. This

engagement can be defined as rejecting the tokenization of students of color, asking culture-pertinent questions, and inviting students of color to occupy previously uniform spaces. No, I was not accepted into the University on the basis of Affirmative Action.

Yes, I have an entire history besides slavery. And yes, I deserve to be here and make my presence known.

Students of color, who need true diversity to flourish, often seek out diverse experiences. Such experiences should not have to be sought out, as it takes away from the true point of college: education and growth. This constant search for inclusion also creates a feeling of being an outsider, which can really be detrimental to one’s learning experience here.

The Carl A. Fields Center, a haven to the typical person of color at Princeton, is not conveniently accessible to the typical person of color or to the general population on campus. ​Some might say that the distance of CAF from campus — like that of the eating clubs — makes it so that the people that do seek out this inclusive environment are the ones who truly want to be there. However, the lack of

exposure to the diverse cultures visually explored at CAF threatens the cultural development of a detached Princeton student.

Diverse exposure is a concept we seem to be missing here: if this institution of a higher education is diverse in print, everything is okay, but to inject diversity into the vein of life at this University seems to be too much of a strain for the University. I thought we put in continual hard work here at the University, not minimal effort. ​We should in no way take aims to collectively dig CAF from its foundation on Prospect Avenue and plop it on top of Frist Campus Center as a show of protest, however; an extension could be made. A prominent location speaks for a salient idea. The idea of diversity should be just as important as political involvement (represented in Whig and Clio Halls) and as widespread as something like coffee, which is sold at countless spots on campus. Inserting the presence of the Center of Equality and Cultural Understanding alongside the likes of the LGBT and Women’s Centers, both of which maintain offices in Frist, would show an active engagement in the true

prospect of diversity.

The place itself is a comfort to many students, but moving the community’s ethos closer to campus would allow for more students to get involved in CAF sponsored events with more convenience. A campuscentered presence would also bring in more students and hopefully leave a lasting impression of active diversity on those who enter. ​Ideally, what does active diversity look like on campus?

For one thing, it doesn’t stop at Orientation; it perseveres with ardor. Additionally, diversity goes beyond a number. I should not — and neither should other students of color — be hesitant to attend a PWI (Predominantly White Institution), feeling as though I will be an outcast as a cultural rarity because I was only accepted for the color of my skin.

Active diversity and true cultural understanding should both be constant presences; therefore, the first step to having a general feeling of inclusion at this University is to bring the presence of the Carl A. Fields Center closer to the center of campus. The events usually held at CAF would exert a more striking force in a populated place like

trustees Francesca Barber David Baumgarten ’06 Kathleen Crown Gabriel Debenedetti ’12 Stephen Fuzesi ’00 Zachary A. Goldfarb ’05 Michael Grabell ’03 John Horan ’74 Joshua Katz Rick Klein ’98 James T. MacGregor ’66 Alexia Quadrani Marcelo Rochabrun ’15 Kavita Saini ’09 Richard W. Thaler, Jr. ’73 Abigail Williams ’14 trustees emeriti Gregory L. Diskant ’70 William R. Elfers ’71 Kathleen Kiely ’77 Jerry Raymond ’73 Michael E. Seger ’71 Annalyn Swan ’73 trustees ex officio Marcia Brown ’19 Ryan Gizzie ’19

142ND MANAGING BOARD managing editors Isabel Hsu ’19 Sam Parsons ’19 head news editor Claire Thornton ’19 associate news editors Ariel Chen ’20 Ivy Truong ’21 associate news and film editor Sarah Warman Hirschfield ’20 head opinion editor Emily Erdos ’19 associate opinion editors Jon Ort ’21 Cy Watsky ’21 head sports editors David Xin ’19 Chris Murphy ’20 associate sports editors Miranda Hasty ’19 Jack Graham ’20 digital operations manager Sarah Bowen ’20 chief copy editors Marina Latif ’19 Arthur Mateos ’19 Catherine Benedict ’20 head design editor Rachel Brill ’19 associate design editor Charlotte Adamo ’21 cartoons editor Tashi Treadway ’19 head photo editor Risa Gelles-Watnick ’21

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Frist. The representatives of CAF would also hold more influence in the general lives of students.

Diversity should be at the heart of what it means to be a Princeton student, and currently, CAF proudly occupies a spot way down in Princeton’s foot. It is due time that CAF moves to the heart of campus.

Makailyn Jones is a first-year from Sharon, Mass. She can be reached at makailyn@princeton.edu.

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Free speech and its discontents Sinan Ozbay Columnist

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hat makes it acceptable for

Twitter to deplatform widely unpopular members, but wrong for the Department of Justice to jail those with dissident views? As it turns out, nothing makes it acceptable.

As Princeton students grapple with questions of free speech, they should consider the effects of social media companies on that speech.

Anyone who is committed to a substantive right to free speech against government intervention should support a similar principle in the context of corporations policing speech.

Think about why we limit the government’s ability to censor speech in the first place: the government is large, powerful, and has an interest in suppressing dissident opinions. If the government were so discerning and so inclined, it might manage to censor only the bad views. Yet, as much as you might trust an Obama to filter out only the hate speech, you wouldn’t want a Trump to be making the same sort of decision. The fact that we cannot know what political tides loom on the horizon compels us to deny government the power to censor, even if we would be comfortable with the present government having that power. In other words, government’s ability to police speech is limited in the good times to prevent abuse in the bad.

In all respects relevant to policing speech, social media giants are just like governments in that they are large and well-resourced relative to any individual. They have interests in suspending views critical of them.

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Worse, they are unaccountable, and certainly more so than governments. A government official trying to censor someone will likely be stopped by other members of government vested with the power and incentive to check their abuse. Indeed, this is as true of the President as it is of the lowest civil servant when it comes to free speech, which is codified in our laws and our Constitution. Our government is intentionally organized with a principle of decentralization and mutual checks on power.

When it comes to corporations, circumstances differ.

Corporations are highly centralized, and there is no corporate governance principal of respecting free speech. If a handful of board members go rogue and decide they don’t like someone, that person can lose their right to speak on the only platforms that matter for being heard.

What does Twitter have to compel your trust that the U.S government does not? A better vibe? A nicer logo?

Of course, corporations are accountable in certain ways: shareholders can relent, and no firm seeks a public relations disaster. But that is exactly the point. To the extent that they are accountable, corporations are accountable in the wrong way. Or, at the very least, they are accountable in a way that would never be accepted as a means of keeping governments in check when it comes to abrogating individual rights. Public relations incentives and shareholder votes are to corporations as voters in elections are to governments.

But speech rights aren’t the sort of protection that can be voted away. That is the entire premise of rights. No majority can determine that a minority has ceded their

rights. This is a central tenet of constitutional democracy.

That a majority of shareholders or Twitter users don’t like someone cannot possibly be justification to strip them of their right to speak.

A right to speak without any chance of being heard renders that right nothing more than an empty promise. Appeals made to the fact that participation in social media is voluntary and that these companies are private hold little sway in light of this. Free speech is an outcome we strive to achieve rather than being regarded as mere adherence to some legal text. Free speech is central to having a free society, useful political discourse, and a feeling of inclusion in the political process. It helps us find truth as a society and participate in civic life as individuals. As a result, when corporations are allowed and encouraged to hollow

out that promise, everyone suffers.

I don’t particularly like Alex Jones. But I worry more about what is to come if we rally behind his being banned from YouTube. The moral arc of a decade will often bend the wrong way (consider the 1980s in the U.S., or the 1930s in Germany). If today we allow Twitter to ban those who are despised, we may be building the guillotine for our own heads.

Worse, the threats are not so far off and speculative, or censorship confined to farright fringe views. Ahead of the midterms, Facebook banned pages that spanned the political spectrum.

Worse, it was supported by the Atlantic Council, featuring a pantheon of unsavory characters, including Henry Kissinger. It may sound radical, but I’m not particularly keen on war criminals choosing what I can and cannot read.

Whatever your views are on these groups, it should at the very least be acknowledged that such censorship is an imminent threat. Dissident views take two forms: the derided and the marginalized. We shouldn’t be so foolish to think we can achieve all of the censoring we find desirable without also endangering others who must be allowed to speak.

We must tolerate the former to protect the latter. In a free and open society, maintaining free speech begins with legal protections against government censorship. Indeed, modern threats to free speech stem more from the Twitter-bird than the baldeagle.

Sinan Ozbay is a senior studying philosophy from Princeton, N.J. He can be reached at sozbay@princeton.edu.

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Wednesday November 14, 2018

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Women’s soccer defeated by Texas Tech

By Tom Salotti Staff Writer

Women’s soccer (11–4–2, 5–1–1 Ivy) fell to the Texas Tech Red Raiders (14–5–2, 5–3–1 conf.) last Friday evening 0–3 in the first round of the NCAA Division I tournament. After clinching the Ivy League title in the season finale against Penn, the Tigers secured the only tournament slot from the League.

This was Texas Tech’s first NCAA tournament appearance since 2015, and the Tigers’ third.

The Red Raiders finished in a three-way tie for third in the Big 12 and qualified for the tournament in the postseason tournament after falling to Baylor.

The Tigers defeated Penn (13– 2–1, 5–1–1 Ivy) in a season finale that saw the team clinch the Ivy League championship and earn a tournament berth, 1–0.

Texas Tech took an early lead in the game, with Jade King scoring off a cross into the box by Kirsten Davis around the seventh minute.

In the 58th minute, Davis took on Princeton’s defense herself and

was able to get a shot off that hit bottom right corner, bringing Texas Tech’s lead to 2–0, after an assist from Ally Griffin.

Less than ten minutes later, Charlotte Teeter notched in the final goal of the game after an assist from Davis. The game concluded 3–0 for Texas Tech, who will face University of Virginia next. UVA defeated Princeton’s local opponent Monmouth 2–0 on Friday night.

The Tigers finished the game with 11 shots, six corner kicks, and 13 fouls. Texas had a whopping 24 shots, seven corners, and 15 fouls against Princeton.

Princeton keeper junior Natalie Grossi had nine saves, to Texas Tech’s three.

“There’s only one team that finishes the NCAA tournament with a smile, everyone else finishes with a loss. But the last game was not an indication of our quality as a team. We faced a buzz saw of talent and at the end of the day [Texas Tech] was better,” head coach Sean Driscoll said. “I can’t say enough how thankful and appreciative I am of a group

of student-athletes who went through a rollercoaster of a season and ended up finishing as well as they did. It shows tremendous consistency.”

Friday’s game concluded a high-pressure season that was ultimately a success. As returning Ivy League champions, the team had extra pressure on them to perform, said Coach Driscoll.

“So many times, we could have run off the tracks, but we stayed on the right track. We have the best athletes in the world, full of character and drive that is second to none. We have a great staff that is committed to the team.”

Now the team resets.

“Every team is like a jigsaw puzzle — every player is a piece.

Now we put the puzzle in the box until next year. We then throw it on the ground and put it back together again. We’ll look at players and see what they’re good at, develop our formation, tactics, and do it all over again,” Driscoll said. “We have a really good group of rising seniors and have a team of amazing people. We are already looking forward to next fall.”

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Lucy Rickerson fights for the ball in Princeton’s loss to Texas Tech.

M E N ’ S W AT E R P O L O

Tigers begin NWPC tournament Friday

By Sam Lee

Contributor

Men’s water polo (16–10, 6–4 conference) will begin the Northeast Water Polo Conference tournament this Friday at 2 p.m. when they face Iona College (6–25, 0–10).

If they win, they will play the No. 2 seeded Saint Francis College on Saturday afternoon.

The Tigers will come into the match with a two-game win streak, including a victory against Iona on Nov. 4. Iona, on the other hand, enters the match on a six-game losing streak, and has gone 0–10 in conference play this season.

Although the Tigers ended the season with a 16–10 record, good for third in the NWPC, their success has not come without challenges. On the first day of the season, Princeton lost junior center Sean Duncan to injury, one of the key players in the Tigers’ run to the NWPC championship game last year.

“Right off the bat we were having to deal with adversity, and I think we’ve definitely gone through a lot this year, but it’s

just part of any process,” said head coach Dustin Litvak. “I think if you look all around college water polo, there’s a lot of parity all around. It’s just normal. It’s something we talk about, and every day has new challenges.”

Despite the injury to Duncan, as well as the loss of key graduating seniors, the Tigers have still found success this season, thanks in large part to contributions from the Class of 2022.

Freshmen Keller Maloney, Wyatt Benson, and Mitchell Cooper have combined for 81 goals this season.

Maloney also leads the team with 25 steals, while Benson paces the team with 67 drawn ejections.

“I think that it’s a tremendous freshman class, without a doubt,” said Litvak. “They’ve been huge for us.”

The Tigers have also benefited from strong senior performances.

Senior utility Ryan Wilson leads the team in assists with 41, while senior attacker Matt Payne has scored the most goals at 67. Payne will enter the Iona match on a hot streak, recording 7 goals and 13 assists in the final three games and winning NWPC Offensive Player

of the Week in the process.

“They really want to leave a strong legacy behind,” said Litvak on the senior class. “I can’t say enough about how hard they train every day, the intensity they bring to the pool. They’re real serious about their craft, and you can tell that water polo is very important to them.”

Payne will look to keep this form in Friday’s game, which will be the Tigers’ first elimination match of the season. Should they lose, they will be eliminated from the NWPC tournament, and in all likelihood will lose their shot at an NCAA bid. Despite the high stakes of the game, the Tigers will not be changing their approach.

“For us, the challenge is obviously to bring the right energy every day to the training and to the games. But we’re not trying to be anybody different at the end of the year than we’ve been all year,” said Litvak. “We have really been striving for consistency. We have kind of said since the beginning, if we do our job every day, we’ll be in a good place come this tournament.”

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Senior Matt Payne leads men’s water polo into postseason play.

SWIMMING

Swimming competes in Big Al Invite

By Mark Dodici Contributor

The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams competed in the annual Big Al Invite in DeNunzio Pool over the weekend. The men (2–0, 0–0 Ivy) continued their strong start to the season, besting the field of five teams, while the women (2–0, 0–0) faltered and finished fifth.

The meet took place over two sessions on Friday and one session on Saturday. It included squads from Duke, Lehigh, Northwestern, and Penn State.

The Friday morning events failed to produce a clear frontrunner in either meet. For the Princeton men, a secondplace finish from sophomore Charles Leibson in the 200-

yard individual medley and a 50-yard freestyle victory by senior Christian Feiler set the tone, but the Tigers did not lead until the fifth and final event of the session.

In the 400-yard medley relay, the two top Princeton teams finished second and fifth. The A team — senior Cole Buese, sophomore Corey Lau, junior Derek Cox, and senior Murphy McQuet — led the way, finishing just .07 second behind Duke’s first place time. The 62 total points collected by the men in this event were enough to give them a four-point lead over Penn State at the first break.

Though the women’s team had no top-five finishes in the first session, senior Joanna Curry got Friday evening off to

a better start, claiming fourth place in the 400-yard individual medley (the session’s second event). Senior Isabel Reis followed with a third-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly, clocking in at 56.35.

While no other Princeton women cracked the top five on Friday, freshman Cathy Teng placed 10th in the 200-yard freestyle, while sophomore Jenny Ma and freshman Vivian Wang finished sixth and eighth respectively in the 100yard breaststroke.

For the men, the Friday evening session saw Princeton gain separation at the top of the leaderboard. Freshman Jonathan Pollock turned in a third-place performance in the 400-yard individual medley, See SWIM page 3

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Men’s swimming finished atop a field of five teams in the 2018 Big Al Invitational.

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