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ICC criticizes eating club task force report

By Oliver Effron Contributor

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ICC chair and Cloister Inn president Hannah Paynter ’19 said eating clubs are already in the process of addressing some of the problems in the task force’s report.

taking actions to address some of the problems outlined in the report, such as SHARE concerns.

“I wish we had this report earlier, because we could have spent the last year tackling these issues in a more structured way,” she said.

For one, the report recommended that the eating clubs “continue, enhance, and potentially expand existing programs through SHARE … to provide training for eating club officers and members” — a measure that the eating clubs have already taken.

Every club holds mandatory Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE) and University Health Services (UHS) training sessions from September to November, and the ICC has established a

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SHARE liaison who attends every council monthly meeting.

“The University had not necessarily recognized efforts that we had made to create strong relations with [SHARE],” Cap and Gown Club president RJ Hernandez ’19 said. “We are definitely taking steps that we want the University to acknowledge.”

Some on the task force, however, said that there is still room for improvement.

“Sometimes programs in place on paper are not executed fully in practice,” task force member Olivia Grah ’19 said.

“There can be a disconnect about actually bringing the liaisons to the club. The program exists, but there is a separation between the plan and implementation.”

Grah was a leader of the 2017 USG referendum, which stated

that the University should direct eating clubs to release the demographic makeup of their members in an annual report.

Others on the committee also objected to proposed methods of improving the eating club selection process, specifically through decreasing the role of prior affiliations with other campus organizations, such as athletic life, secret societies, or dance and theater troupes.

“The ICC as a whole worked on ‘Sophomore Week’ to demystify the club-joining experience,” Tower Club president and ICC Co-Chair Rachel Macaulay ’19 said. “Even if [a bickeree] might not yet have friends in the club, we still try to make sure nobody has a ‘leg up.’ Our process is about prospective members getting to know the membership.”

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Students with children face inadequate housing

By Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Hannah Baynesan Contributors

Thomas Johnson ’22 and Tyler Eddy ’21 are both married and have children — Johnson has a twomonth-old, while Eddy’s child is two-and-a-half years old. Before moving to Princeton in the fall both had requested two-bedroom apartments in the pet-friendly portion of Lakeside Apartments.

These two students have had disparate experiences in obtaining adequate accommodations.

While Eddy and his family was able to move into a pet-friendly two-bedroom, Johnson and his family ended up in a one-bedroom that was not pet-friendly and proved to be a difficult living situation.

Johnson, a new father, was thankful to have moved into his apartment a week prior to scheduled move-in to prepare for his child’s birth the upcoming week.

Deshawn Cook, Butler College’s director of student life at the time, was sure to let Johnson know that his family was welcome to come to First Year Residential Experience events.

However, while the University was welcoming, it was far less knowledgeable about the housing options available for Johnson and his family. He reached out to the University after being accepted to discuss housing options but the process was confusing, he said.

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“There wasn’t clear communication at first. I know that Princeton is dealing with a shortage of housing overall, so that was a difficult process to coordinate with the housing office,” Johnson said. “We did end up in a one-bedroom, which is slightly difficult with a newborn, and originally our housing wasn’t pet-friendly, so I had to go through the Office of Disability Services to register my dog as an assistance animal.”

Johnson said he had to leave his second dog with his wife’s parents in Colorado before the move due to the lack of pet-friendly housing.

Johnson, an army veteran, previously attended Pikes Peak Community College and Tompkins Cortland Community College, earning an associate’s degree in general studies. Eddy attended Ivy Tech Community College, served in the Marines, and received an associate’s degree in general studies mathematics and science from Palomar College prior to attending the University.

Eddy was offered pet-friendly housing to accommodate his two cats just after he applied. Eddy, who is the head of the Undergraduate Veterans Association, and Keith Shaw; the University director of veterans, non-traditional, and transfer student programs; attempted to help Johnson with his pet issue, but the two said See HOUSING page 3

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Hoffmeyer ’19 is studying comparative literature and will pursue a M.St. in modern languages at the University of Oxford.

Hoffmeyer ’19 to pursue musicology with Rhodes

By Rebecca Han Contributor

When comparative literature concentrator and 2019 Rhodes Scholar John Hoffmeyer ’19 began at the University, he was torn between his musical and academic pursuits, especially with his growing interests in literature and philosophy. For a period, he even considered a concentration in math.

In the spring of his junior year, however, Hoffmeyer took MUS

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359: Sound Cultures, taught by assistant music professor Gavin Steingo. Through the in-class exploration of sound theory and other analyses of music, Hoffmeyer realized that musicology was not limited to “theory or composition,” but could incorporate many of the “contemporary philosophical questions” he was interested in.

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Marijuana is one step closer to being legal in New Jersey, but advocates cannot relax just yet.

On Nov. 26, New Jersey’s Senate and Assembly committees passed a bill that would legalize marijuana for people over 21 years old. A full vote is scheduled for next month.

The original bill, which was introduced by Democratic State Senator Nicholas Scutari, sought to alleviate racial inequalities in the criminal justice system by legalizing the drug for which a disproportionate number of black people to prison are sent to prison each year.

“Lives have been ruined by marijuana arrests of our young people and in some cases, lives were lost during arrests,” wrote Dominick “Nick” Bucci, a retired New Jersey State Trooper, in an email to The Daily Princetonian.

“The current legislation is addressing the concerns of marijuana legalization like no other state has done before.”

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Eating club presidents are fuming over a recently released task force report, which recommended that clubs decrease the role of prior affiliations in the selection process and cut costs to lower membership dues, among other suggestions.

Reassembled in 2017, the task force proposed a series of measures to correct perceived flaws within the eating club system, focusing on diversity, health, and accessibility. Some current eating club presidents, however, criticized the task force’s lack of transparency, an absence of concrete implementation plans for the report’s recommendations, and a general failure to acknowledge progress that the clubs have already made.

“It was all very hush-hush,” Cloister Inn president and Interclub Council (ICC) chair Hannah Paynter ’19 said. “If I’m honest, when I took the role of Chairman of the ICC, we really didn’t have much input from the University.”

The task force was comprised of then-eating club presidents, members of the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, and trustees of the Graduate Interclub Council, and chaired by Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun.

According to former president of the ICC and Colonial Club president-emeritus Matt Lucas ’18, the main objective of the task force was to recommend policies that would enable the eating clubs to be safer, more inclusive, and more equitable.

After listening to criticism from fellow students, Paynter said the eating club presidents were already in the process of

But beyond “Sophomore Week,” members of the ICC are unsure how to decrease the role of prior affiliations, as recommended by the committee’s report.

“I know other presidents are proud of their affiliations, and they create their clubs’ identity,” Hernandez said. “They thought it might be an attempt by the University to micromanage the identity of clubs.”

According to Grah, members of the committee also discussed an alternative selection process in which the clubs would rank potential applicants in order of preference, similar to the medical school residency match process.

“It sounds really bad, but it’s what happens in the bicker process anyway,” Grah said. “I imagine it would be implemented with equity and fairness in mind.”

Grah added that committee members knew such an arrangement would be “unlikely to happen.”

Members of the ICC also objected to the task force’s recommendation to lower member charges, such as dues and social fees, which would mainly occur through cutting costs at the clubs. Proposals in the report include reducing the number of sophomore meals, and allowing club members to eat in dining halls during certain meals, such as breakfast.

Grah however, said that the breakfast option was a particularly viable solution.

“It has the dual purpose of enabling seniors to eat with underclassmen, and letting workers come later,” Grah said. “Most members don’t even eat breakfast at the club.”

Still, Paynter said she opposes

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limiting meals for sophomores, noting that many clubs only allow two or fewer meals a week — further reducing the number of meals could diminish sophomores’ sense of community within a club.

In a response to the task force report, the ICC wrote that “[it is] currently investigating what options exist regarding institutionalized financial aid.”

The report even included recommendations that members of the task force deemed implausible. According to USG president

Rachel Yee ’19, the task force was created in part as a response to the referendum passed on eating clubs in the spring of 2017.

Many on the committee, however, determined that a University mandate to release demographic information would not be feasible, citing concerns about federal laws around disclosure and violations of privacy.

Given this, it would be nearly impossible for the eating clubs to give up their information voluntarily, Grah acknowledged.

“You fall into a game theory trap,” she said. “Somebody goes to [Tiger Inn] and says ‘Hey, we released all our demographic information, you should too.’ But

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if TI releases their information, and Ivy and Cottage did not, then it’s TI who’s put under a microscope.”

Overall, Paynter said she wished that authors of the report acknowledged the progress that she and other members of the ICC have made since the original report in 2010.

“It’s really cool that the University has put the time and effort in partnering with the eating clubs,” Paynter said. “But it’s also really important to recognize that the clubs aren’t removed and ignorant of the problems lying in the system, and we’re trying to figure out the solutions.”

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Two anthropology researchers discussed the continuities and differences between their studies of Kurdish migrants, Sufi groups, and Islamic groups in Istanbul.

Chris Houston, an anthropology professor at Macquarie University, and Onur Günay, a documentary filmmaker and Wilson School postdoctoral research associate, conducted the lecture, titled “Drugs, Crime, Sex, and Sufis: Publiticizing Islam in Kurdish Istanbul.”

Houston and Günay spoke about their fieldwork in Kurdish Istanbul, which focused on political responses to and social effects of the reemergence of war between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Houston’s research focused on opinions towards Kurdish insurgency and the push for increased autonomy alongside cultural and political rights in Turkey.

“In two years’ fieldwork, I found that Muslim talk and action directed to solving the Kurdish issue could be divided into three main groups among Islamists,” said Houston, adding that these three groups, according to his research, are State Islamist, Islamist, and Kurdish Islamist.

According to the State Islamist position, the recognition of a Kurdish issue would be a threat to the status of the Republic of Turkey. Their solution was to push for extreme assimilation on the part of the Kurds.

“Logically, [according to State Islamists], ensuring that Kurds changed their self-perception would eliminate the issue,” Houston said.

The Islamist position was that Muslim identity “should trump other identifications, including that of Turkish nationalists [or Kurdish identity].”

Kurdish Islamism, on the other hand, promoted Sharia law to unite Muslim groups, both Kurdish and Turkish, and sought Islam as a unifying solution for conflict.

The hope of this movement was that “Kurds will be satisfied with whatever Islam gives,” Houston said.

After completing further fieldwork more recently, Houston noted that “in 2017, any sympathy for Kurds had evaporated. In a way …

Islamist discourse had [collapsed to] Statist Islamist.”

Günay completed fieldwork focused on drug use, crime, and spiritual healing of Kurds in a climate of dispossession and violence.

Günay discussed encounters with young Istanbul residents, who spoke of everything from criminal encounters like robbing a taxi driver; to sexual experiences; to the transition from using marijuana to using ecstasy; to their experiences seeing their cousins killed and elders stripped and publicly humiliated.

“Kurdish youth not only see the dead bodies of cousins … they witness the death of their peers in the war between the PKK and the Turkish state … Many [interlocutors] told me that they still see and hear the [violence committed against family members],” Günay said.

The political turmoil, according to Günay, often leads to crime and drug use among young people in Istanbul.

“Istanbul is a tough city. If you don’t work for a couple of weeks, your pockets will be empty,” said Günay, recalling what one young man told him.

Three other Kurdish boys told Günay a story of robbing and assaulting a taxi driver to steal money for drugs. They later began frequenting a Sufi lodge, a place of Islamic religious practice and community.

“For the displaced Kurds, Sufi lodges are social spaces that connect bodies, jobs, resources, and news,” Günay said. “They not only provide shelter for the poor during the cold days of the winter, but also offer opportunities for upward mobility.”

Sufi lodges, according to Günay, provide a place of spiritual healing.

Günay said he remembers a young man telling him, “This is the only place we can be happy.

We can’t control ourselves outside … we are young. We go after prostitutes…. Everyone you see here used to be sinners. For example, I used to do drugs in the parks.

Some of them are alcoholics.

Some of them are thieves. But it’s good here.”

The lecture was held at 4:30 p.m. in Aaron Burr Hall 219 on Tuesday, Nov. 27. The event was sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.

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Pulitzer Prize winner Emily Nussbaum called the series “the most Jewish show I’ve seen on TV.”

Lambert discusses Jewish culture, TV, intersectionality

By Marie-Rose Sheinerman Contributor

Jewish culture and television took the spotlight at a talk that drew an audience old and young.

On Nov. 27, Josh Lambert, the academic director of the Yiddish Book Center and a visiting lecturer of American Studies, spoke on the modern reinvention of Jewish cultural presence in U.S. media.

Jewish culture has strongly inf luenced mainstream U.S. cinema since the 1940s, but many scholars at the beginning of the 21st century predicted that Jews will cease to play central roles, according to Lambert.

A 2013 Pew research study showed a decline in American Jews’ desire to affiliate.

James Leoffler, a prominent scholar, published an article boldly titled “The Death of Jewish Culture.”

Lambert argued that recent years have proved the opposite to be true.

The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list of authors featured 10 writers who primarily write on Jewish themes.

Ten of 11 best-ranked podcasts include at least one Jewish host, according to Lambert. Jewish Studies programs, like the one at the University, are a phenomenon of the past 20 years, and are growing in popularity.

Lambert used the case study of Amazon’s 2014 show “Transparent” as exemplary of the new ways in which Jewish culture manifests in media.

Emily Nussbaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The New Yorker, called the series “the most Jewish show I’ve seen on TV.” According to Lambert, in a move seemingly unmotivated by profits, Amazon picked up as one of its debut shows one that would likely appeal to a tiny audience: “well-educated, intellectual Jews.”

Showing multiple video clips throughout the lecture, Lambert illustrated the ways in which Jill Soloway’s “Transparent,” along with many other shows, including Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black,“ strips certain Jewish rituals of their traditional contexts and repurposes them in a creative manner.

One episode in “Transparent” featured an event titled “Torah Con Tacos,” during which one character interrupted Havdalah, the concluding ceremony of the Sabbath, to say Kaddish (a mourning prayer) for a non-Jewish friend. In another episode, in lieu of a bat mitzvah, a 13-year-old girl cathartically recited her Torah portion to a caterer, while dancing around her living room.

Another Soloway production, a film titled “Afternoon Delight,” features a reconcil-

iation scene between a married couple in which they spontaneously recall the ritual of lighting candles on the Sabbath, grabbing two candles — one in a mason jar and the other in a beer bottle — to do so. “‘Transparent’ was the first show made by a streaming service to receive awards normally given to cable TV shows,” said Lambert.

Despite the show’s unprecedented success in Jewish academic circles, Lambert notes that it faces “very thoughtful criticism” from many in the transgender community.

In production, Soloway did not involve the hired trans advisors until the pilot had already been filmed, and failed to cast a trans person to play the lead trans character. Lambert cited one review that labeled the show simply as “transphobic bullshit.”

Lambert also spoke of a non-profit organization Reboot, which aims to affirm the value of Jewish traditions by redesigning the methods by which American Jews can engage in them.

Every year, Reboot f lies approximately 30 Jews involved in American media to a summit at a spa in Utah to discuss strategies for revitalizing Jewish culture.

Lambert disclosed a conflict of interest, noting that he once participated in the summit himself.

In 2010, Reboot funded a non-traditional Sukkah design competition in New York, displaying the various constructions in Union Square during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The organization has also sponsored the National Day of Unplugging, an initiative to transform the obligations of the Jewish Sabbath into more manageable, modern practice.

Lambert concluded the lecture by discussing the double-edged-sword nature of such recent developments.

“I feel an ambivalence that I don’t necessarily hope to resolve,” Lambert said.

“While some viewers of ‘Transparent’ are rightly inspired by the show’s intersectional project, which attempts to bring Jewishness into conversation with trans and queer narratives, other observers may very reasonably feel disappointed by the exploitation inherent in the attempt to make Judaism compelling to general audiences by hitching its star to the narrative of a more vulnerable and more marginalized people,” he said.

The talk, entitled “Rebooting Jewish Television: ‘Transparent,’ Streaming Media, and FoundationBacked Culture,” took place at McCormick 101 at 4:30 p.m. and was the 10th annual Lapidus Family Fund Lecture in American Jewish Studies.

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their efforts were fruitless.

Unlike Johnson, Eddy has a twobedroom apartment for himself, his wife, and his daughter. Eddy also claimed that he is guaranteed the same apartment for next year, citing a housing policy that applies to all graduate students with children.

Eddy commented that the community of students with children is currently in talks with University administration to try to standardize the room allocation process.

“If you have a family with kids, the norm should be two-bedroom, not one-bedroom,” Eddy said.

University Deputy Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss explained the factors that influence housing assignment, such as students’ class year and family configuration.

“Students with a spouse can generally be accommodated in a dorm,” Hotchkiss said. “Children are not permitted to reside in dorms, so students with children are assigned to available graduate housing.”

“Pets can only be accommodated in a limited number of units,” he added.

Joshua Wallace GS, president of Tigers with Cubs, a support group at Princeton for graduate students and postdocs who currently have or are expecting children, found fault with the University’s lack of accommodations for undergraduates with children, including the requirement for students to live on campus the first two years.

“What surprised me is that these problems exist at all,” Wallace said. “My undergraduate university, the University of Utah, has a lot of ‘nontraditional’ students. A lot of commuters, a lot of families, a lot of older students, and there was lots of married student housing. There was more than enough space for anyone that wanted it, the prices were reasonable, and the housing was set up in a ‘familyfriendly’ way.”

The University says it is going to expand graduate housing with a campus expansion.

“Planning for the graduate student housing at the Lake Campus has been underway for some time.

The current schedule has the Lake Campus graduate student housing available for occupancy for

academic year 2022–23,” Hotchkiss wrote in a statement to The Daily Princetonian.

“A goal of the project is to provide housing that can be used flexibly (for single students and families) to meet the evolving needs of the graduate population,” University Director of Housing Dorian Johnson added in a statement.

Regardless of promises for future improvements, the University does not seem to be addressing current student issues, Thomas Johnson remarked.

“They made promises to me when I decided to come to Princeton. I am in a one-bedroom apartment with my wife, daughter, and dog and am now being told a twobedroom apartment will not be ‘guaranteed’ until my daughter is two. This was after the fact that they ‘guaranteed’ it to me when she turned one. They claim to be addressing the needs of the student while completely ignoring legitimate grievances,” Johnson said.

Hotchkiss declined to address these specific situations but noted that the University is working “hard to meet the housing needs of all our undergraduates using the limited campus housing stock.”

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tions between philosophy, comparative literature, and music.

At Oxford, Hoffmeyer plans to continue his interdisciplinary research and pursue a M.St. in modern languages with a focus on German and French philosophy and intellectual history, as well as Spanish literature, particularly the works of Jorge Luis Borges.

For instance, through a footnote in an in-class reading, Hoffmeyer discovered Italian avantgarde composer Luigi Nono, a figure who, like himself, had a variety of interests.

“He was … someone who was a very successful composer, and also who was extremely invested in the history of literature and philosophy,” he said. “And perhaps more than that, in using his work with a political motivation … to fight against the remnants of fascism.”

Hoffmeyer became more and more confident that his interests in academia and music weren’t mutually exclusive after all — rather, they completed each other well.

Around that time, while starting applications to several fellowships, he realized the range of possibilities that exist to conduct interdisciplinary research. Now Hoffmeyer integrates his diverse interests in music, literature, and philosophy in his research.

Though he is looking at the “more general, methodological field-based questions” on intersecting analyses of the three fields, he’s also interested in texts that incorporate musical and literary elements.

One of these texts is a string quartet by Nono that incorporates literature from German poet Friedrich Hölderlin —but without any human voice.

“As Nono said, he wanted the performers to sing them [the poetic fragments] internally,” Hoffmeyer said. He said that in the piece, the concept of silence is explored on both the literary and musical levels.

It’s just one example of many works which, he added, would be limited if approached from a purely musical or literary perspective.

In the same vein, he is currently exploring German song cycles, individual songs intended to be performed in sequence, in his se-

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nior thesis research.

“I think it’s interesting to look at the ways in which composers can add or take away meaning or emphasize certain poetic elements through their own use of harmony … or particular melody,” Hoffmeyer said.

Though his interests today are thoroughly steeped in music, Hoffmeyer recalled that he struggled to find a musical community when growing up in Florence, S.C., but was lucky to have dedicated teachers.

Still, it wasn’t until he entered boarding school at age 15 that he was exposed to the “more professional sphere of classical music.”

Now he hopes to make classical music and academia more universally accessible.

“The fact that I was taken from not the most musical background, and then thrown into the elite of the elite, which was a huge privilege, has really spurred my interest in breaking down the elitism of classical music and also of academia,” he said.

Hoffmeyer aims to do so through interdisciplinary research and methods like lecture recitals, recitals accompanied by lectures on complementary subjects. The idea, he said, is that the combination of musical performance and verbal presentation can reach much broader audiences than just classical recitals or lectures.

Those recitals are now available on campus through the Princeton Chamber Music Society (PCMS), a music group that Hoffmeyer started last academic year with Nicholas Ioffreda ’20, the group’s current artistic director, and Janice Cheon ’20, the group’s current vice president.

PCMS has a “total-acceptance policy” and was “founded with the aim of offering chamber music performance, education, and outreach opportunities to all members of Princeton’s music community.”

Just in its first semester last spring, the group held two concerts: one featuring German chamber music and poetry and the second highlighting French modernism. The first, a collaboration

with the German department, included a lecture by assistant professor Johannes Wankhammer on the German art song, songs usually set to poems and designed to be sung in recital. “[The talk] did exactly what I want this kind of stuff to do,” he said. “It drew in the philosophers in the audience … it drew in the musicians … it drew in the poet enthusiasts in the audience, and then that [the lecture] was followed by a sequence of five songs.”

Hoffmeyer’s thesis advisor, comparative literature professor Daniel Heller-Roazen, remarked that Hoffmeyer’s ability to pursue his musical interests along with his academic ones is one of his more impressive accomplishments.

The pair first met in 2016 after Hoffmeyer wrote an email to Heller-Roazen in hopes of enrolling in his graduate seminar on medieval literature and philosophy. HellerRoazen was surprised to receive such a request from a sophomore, but was impressed by Hoffmeyer’s abilities after reading a paper he had written that was sent with the letter of request.

“John quickly impressed me as an extraordinary student,” HellerRoazen wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian. “He is, first, exceptionally alert, attentive, and sharp in the class setting.”

He advised Hoffmeyer’s first junior paper, which discussed the “call of conscience” in German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s book “Being and Time.”

Hoffmeyer read the book, Heller-Roazen added, in German and English, “with unflagging attention to literary aspects of the prose.”

“John has mastered a set of skills seldom observed, even among our very best students,” he wrote, pointing to the perception with which Hoffmeyer has tackled philosophical subjects in his studies in German, French, and Mandarin.

Rachel Bergmann, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, also noted Hoffmeyer’s sharp intellect. They first met Hoffmeyer, then only a first-year student, when the two

were students in a comparative literature theory course. In the next semester, Bergmann led a precept in a class on Leo Tolstoy, which Hoffmeyer was a part of.

At the time, Hoffmeyer was planning on majoring in math.

“I was impressed with how well he was able to keep up with the theory for a grad student in math,” Bergmann said. “Imagine my surprise when I learned he wasn’t a grad student, but a freshman.”

When Bergmann was preparing to create and teach their own course through the Collaborative Teaching Initiative the following semester, they approached Hoffmeyer about providing input on the course.

Bergmann and Hoffmeyer have collaborated more since then and are currently working on a PCMS Schubert lecture recital that will take place in December. More than just his “formidable intellect,” however, they emphasized that what was striking about Hoffmeyer was his “radical decency.”

“There is … just a fundamental kindness that one does not often see in someone with his level of talents and caliber of accomplishment,” Bergmann said.

They’ve also noticed Hoffmeyer become increasingly willing to speak on issues related to “power and justice.”

“I think it is what Princeton needs, I think it is what scholarship needs, I think it’s what the world of Western classical music needs,” they said. “Neither of us believes that scholarship can be separated from the realm of politics or ethics.”

Bergmann said that Hoffmeyer’s willingness to address tough subjects gave them “hope and courage for the present.” When they first began to use genderneutral pronouns, they said that he was the first person to use them correctly and naturally.

They said that Hoffmeyer addresses issues for “people who are marginalized both on campus and in the world.”

“I really couldn’t be more proud of him for that,” they said. “And that is the main reason why I think he deserves this Rhodes Scholarship more than anybody.”

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expressed concern that the racial justice goals were not being met.

“This pivotal moment determines whether New Jersey will become a model for what social and racial justice in legalization can look like, or whether we’ll be another object lesson in roadblocks that prevented us from moving beyond the inequities of the drug war,” American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ) Executive Director Amol Sinha wrote in a statement.

“New Jersey is counting on its leaders in Trenton to lift up the communities that have lost the most from unequal marijuana enforcement.”

ACLU-NJ praised the current bill for establishing a expungement process to erase marijuana records and creating opportunities for people with prior convictions to participate in the new cannabis industry.

But advocates expressed consternation about the bill’s omission of critical racial and social justice measures, such as Home Grow and justice reinvestment.

“The current bills offer some money to defray the cost of ex-

pungements, but do not contain any plans for reinvestment in communities harmed by the drug war, which would go toward education, re-entry services, and job training,” New Jersey United for Marijuana Reform (NJUMR), a marijuana legalization advocacy coalition, wrote in a statement.

“The bills have no provisions to allow people to grow small amounts of marijuana in their homes for personal use.”

Bucci agreed with these recommendations and added that New Jersey should give smaller operators an easier chance to enter the market and lower the tax rate “Let’s hope it doesn’t take another year to reach our goal,” Bucci said.

Economically, the state stands to generate about $300 million in tax revenue through the recreational marijuana program.

New Jersey currently spends $127 million each year on marijuana possession enforcement costs, including marijuana possession arrests, which constitute the majority of drug possession arrests.

The passage by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Assembly Appropriations Committee is the first legislative vote on legalization in the state’s history.

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Jae-Kyung Sim

In praise of wasting time

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s a freshman who

is still confused about how I got into the University, I naturally waste a lot of time. I invest at least an hour chatting in the dining hall every day, and I don’t know how many hours I’ve spent just debating with friends about completely inconsequential things, ranging from whether white shoes are worth the money to what kinds of laptop stickers I should buy from Redbubble.

The truth is, though, that these moments — regardless of their “utility” — make me happy. While society, and in particular, my parents, may label spontaneous Wawa trips or playful conversations with my friends as perfect examples of “wasting time,” it is undeniable that these small bursts of wastefulness are what define the Princeton experience for me.

And so, I want to tell everyone that it’s okay to waste time. In fact, not doing so detaches us from the real world.

As students at the University, we tend to set a very high bar for ourselves when it comes to achieving happiness. We don’t think of impromptu table tennis games or spending time with our special ones as “legitimate” methods of achieving satisfaction.

Instead, we have grandiose ideas for what we think are more sustainable, long-term, and thus “better” forms of happiness: having a good GPA, getting a prestigious internship, having a high-paying job, etc.

The problem with this line of thought is neither that these goals are unattainable nor that they are bad to have. It’s rather that in the process of aspiring towards the goals, we often forget that we are allowed be happy on the way too — that something doesn’t need to be of monumental importance in order for it to qualify as worthy enough to make us happy. We thus feel guilty about being on our phones or gossiping with our friends; they feel like counterproductive diversions from our grand journey towards a more perfect happiness.

But happiness does not have a perfect endpoint. Just because you get a Goldman Sachs internship doesn’t mean you will be happy for the rest of your life — new problems will always arise. This is true regardless of where we end up; I may have been ecstatic about getting accepted to the University just a few months ago, but now, the happiness has faded to stress over how terrible my midterms grades are.

The point is, what we often label as “wastes of time” are not different from what we believe are “better” sources of happiness. This is not to say that we should completely abandon our grades in favor of browsing through Instagram all day. But if the abstract idea of happiness is what we all aspire towards in life, then we should not feel guilty about doing the kind of things that make us happy, whether they be small or large.

Moreover, these “wastes of time” may prove to be even more valuable than one expects. During social interactions, or even in the process of letting our thoughts wander about

independent from the streams of readings and problem sets we grapple with, we are exposed to new ideas and general ways of living. It also gives us time to reflect upon our surroundings and take an introspective bird’s-eye view of the direction we take in life — goals we assumed were naturally right, interests we presumed we were supposed to have. In particular, some “alone time” has been found to be essential to recharge, giving a greater consciousness to act more effectively in the real world.

So take those naps that you feel like you shouldn’t be taking. Talk with your friends about random things, whether it’s celebrity gossip or political discussion. Watch a movie on Netflix that you think is too long to fit in your schedule. Maybe they will be life-changing, but even if they’re not (which will probably be the case), at least they made you happy.

Jae-Kyung Sim is a freshman from Sejong City, South Korea. He can be reached at j.sim@princeton.edu.

The case for Princeton’s reconstruction

Kiki Gilbert, Alejandro Roig, Nathan Poland, Kalyn Nix Guest Contributors

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rinceton University, and the country

that grew around it, was constructed as a White supremacist institution. Following the extraordinary research done by the Princeton & Slavery Project, the University community was made aware of Princeton’s reprehensible exploitation of Black bodies. It is now time to act on what we know.

What do we make of the fact that Princeton’s first nine presidents all owned slaves? How do we best push forward, knowing that enslaved Black people owned by administrators were sold on the steps of the President’s House? We know that money earned from the institution of slavery went on to fund multiple professorships, construct buildings — including the home of the African American Studies Department — and make up a significant proportion of the endowment that built this University.

The John Witherspoon statue — whose plaque lauds the Constitution signer as a ‘Patriot,’ ‘Pastor,’ and ‘President’ — excludes the fact that he was a slave owner. That statue, which seemed deliberately aged and weathered, was erected in 2001. Recently, elite institutions nationwide have increased accessibility to lowincome students of color, but the percentage of multi-generational BlackAmerican students (i.e. descendants of American slaves) is falling (Ashly Nsangou & Lauren Dundes, 2018 and Massey et al., 2007). The public housing that once existed in Palmer Square was razed to make way for

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ign-in clubs are antithetical to the

implicit, unstated goals of the University. In order to prepare students for the harsh, demanding social climbing that they will need to do to reach the pinnacle of their money-grubbing careers and donate vast sums to the University, it is essential that they experience isolating social behavior at an early stage.

The vast majority of us claim to be “sell-outs” or “obsequious snakes” or “selfish parasites” or “power-hungry sycophants” yet, last February, ONLY 74 percent of the Great Class of 2020 sold their souls to an inherently illiberal, exclusionary, and elitist system by bickering at least one of the five selective eating clubs (Cannon Dial Elm Club, University Cottage Club, Ivy Club, Tiger Inn, or Tower Club). The other 26 percent failed to recognize the benefits of being forced to be social within a toxic, shallow milieu.

In light of this failing, we are forced to conclude that there is no moral, ethical, or intellectual justification for signing in. While this may appear obvious to the 74 percent of

boutiques and beautification projects that complemented the University.

Relations with the historically Black Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood, a community formerly referred to as “N****r Lane” by Princeton students, are limited.

Should we leave these transgressions in the past, hoping that old wounds will scar naturally? Do we pat ourselves on the back now that the institution has made strides in representational diversity, provided generous financial aid, and established the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding to be a home for minority students? It may seem we’ve come a long way since the Princeton of the past — when up to a third of students on campus participated in an attempted lynching of an abolitionist — but there’s work to be done if we wish to move past the blights of our shared history.

Today, the author Ta-Nehisi Coates will be visiting campus. His renowned article “The Case for Reparations” sparked a conversation that gave many Americans the opportunity to reflect on a fundamental question of U.S. history: How can this country ever heal from the deep wrongs inflicted on Black Americans descended from slaves?

A cursory glance at the state of Black America is telling: net worth, education levels, and governmental representation are far from parity with White America, and even some Black-identifying immigrants. Identifying this fact is not racist; it’s understanding the effects of systemic racism. Any observer of American history can trace the thread of slavery, the failed reconstruction, the segregationist state, discriminatory

culture, and redlining policies to the state of modern Black America.

If the world’s wealthiest university per capita, dedicated to the service of humanity, refuses to fully reckon with the impact of its actions, then where else to start?

Brown University changed iconography on campus to reflect its history with enslavement. Georgetown offered preferential status in admission to descendants of the enslaved Black Americans owned by the University. More locally, Nassau Presbyterian Church began paying reparations to the traditionally BlackAmerican Witherspoon Presbyterian Church for past racist treatment, and the Princeton Theological Seminary has called for an assessment of its iconography in light of its role in American slavery. Though the work is not finished, they’ve demonstrated a commitment to parsing out what reparations could look like for those historically left out of the conversation. Importantly, these conversations were had alongside the very communities who have been most impacted by racist policies. It would be deeply saddening if the University is the last to move on the right side of history, especially when some of our peers have paved the way.

The Princeton Reconstruction Project is comprised of concerned students calling for an active Reconstruction of Princeton University — an intentional pivot from its roots as a White supremacist institution to one that reflects the current values it espouses. We begin by calling for an honest look at diversity among faculty and student populations (including multi-generational Black-American student admission);

adjustments to campus iconography, tours, and materials; the inclusion of the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood in University deliberations that would impact the surrounding area; and further development of spaces that foster community for Black and Brown students. Real, democratic discussion will be needed to further articulate what this Reconstruction should look like. We invite you, students, faculty, and administrators, to an initial discussion on Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 5 p.m. in Campus Club.

Come be heard and hear from others on how we should grow as a community. We don’t have all of the answers, but we believe that these considerations are imperative to reconstructing Princeton as an institution that is oriented towards justice, inclusion, and community. We invite everyone to join in pushing Princeton towards the right side of history.

For further reading about reparations and the University, please see “Princeton’s case for reparations,” by senior columnist Ryan Born.

KiKi Gilbert is a sophomore from Charlotte, N.C. She can be reached at kiarag@princeton.edu.

Alejandro Roig is a sophomore from Franklin Park, N.J. He can be reached at aroig@princeton.edu.

Nathan Poland is a junior African American Studies major from Rockville, Md. He can be reached at npoland@princeton.edu.

Kalyn Nix is a sophomore from Wilmington, Del. She can be reached at knix@princeton.edu.

who will increase their social and economic capital. From a free market perspective, to do otherwise would fail to maximize their personal utility. Evidently, every “social” interaction must serve to enhance the bottom line of their future earnings.

Look to the clear benefits of Bicker, however, and you will find exponentially different outcomes.

Having your social worth calculated and displayed will only serve to benefit you as you pursue others within your social stratum. Otherwise, how would you know who will accept you as a “friend?” Knowing, as you do, that your worth is solely dependent upon the quality of the “social” circles that you belong to, the value of selectively defending the purity of such circles is obvious.

The value of Bicker to upperclassmen is no less important. The stimulation resulting from a late-night discussion of sophomores’ superficial qualities provides invaluable experience in making baseless snap judgements on people’s worth. In addition, the process of Bicker provides essential practice at developing a protective emotional barrier to prevent personal connections from conflicting with future efficient market solutions.

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Abolish sign-in clubs us who chose wisely, in the service of our nation, it is important that we be benevolent and educate those poor souls who are blind to the truth.

The failings of the sign-in system are abundant. With limited space in this article, we shall address only the most egregious faults. Most heinously, the sign-in process allows sophomores to maintain their individuality and self-esteem. Unlike the formative Bicker process, which mandates and enforces a limited repertoire of social behavior, signin provides adequate space for creative expression and acceptance.

Indubitably, those who undergo the sign-in process emerge still clinging to their naïve optimism and hope for a kinder world, which only serves to hurt their future earning potential.

On a more concrete note, rather than establishing social groups that are rigid, unyielding, and uniform in nature, sign-in clubs allow students from all socioeconomic classes to mingle freely during meals and social events. These sorts of interactions, while commended publicly by the University, are fundamentally counterproductive to the future career aspirations of these students.

In the world at large, Princeton graduates mingle only with individuals

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An individual’s skill at emotionally-detached hosing is indicative of their future ability to dissolve unprofitable companies that are weighing down the performance of their private equity portfolios.

However, the banal sign-in clubs are not entirely doomed. A simple resolution would be the immediate abolishment of the “open” nature of sign-in clubs. The impetuous eagerness of the University to cater to narrow-minded “progressive” ideals will make this difficult, but we need not lose hope. Given that the University ethos fundamentally align with the selective Bicker clubs, this preposterous sign-in process cannot last.

In conclusion, we are not insinuating that all members of sign-in clubs are morally feckless, pusillanimous plebeians. A few of them have simply made a poor decision that will irrevocably “hose” their future careers. A select few of them are even aware of their depravity. To quote Mr. Sar C. Asam, a senior member of a sign-in club: “sign-in clubs are like participation medals. They prioritize diversity — a priceless value, in that it has zero economic worth.”

Students — and, to some extent, alumni — have absolute, independent control over whether or not

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sign-in clubs exist. We could abolish this philistine system tomorrow if we wanted to, but we, time and time again, choose to do nothing.

Sar C. Asam is a prefrosh intern at Goldman Sachs. Charles can be reached for questions at FBDB@princeton.edu.

This article was heavily inspired by a similar article by Samuel Aftel.

Editor’s Note: This piece is satire. The real Charles Watt is a senior chemical and biological engineering major from Acton, Mass. He can be reached at cwatt@princeton.edu.

This piece was originally published in The Prospect, the online arts and culture section of the Daily Princetonian.

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Women’s basketball falls to 1–6 after consecutive losses in Cancun Challenge

By Chris Murphy

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Early-season woes continued for women’s basketball (1–6 overall) over Thanksgiving break. After being swept in the Cancun Challenge, the Tigers have now lost six in a row after their opening night win. Without standout junior guard/ forward Bella Alarie in the lineup sidelined by a broken arm, the Tigers have struggled on defense and been exposed by high powered offensive teams.

Going into the season, the Cancun Challenge was seen as a chance for Princeton to insert itself into the national conversation. Two games against ranked teams plus a third against a tough Kansas State squad would show whether the Tigers could compete with the nation’s best. After three straight losses — all by double digits — Princeton heads home hoping to rally and gain momentum in its remaining non-conference games.

The bright spot for the Tigers during the Cancun Challenge was sophomore guard Carlie Littlefield.

She averaged 16 points and four rebounds per game in the tournament and was named to the All-Tourna-

ment Team. She also took home Ivy League Player of the Week honors for her performance in the three-game set, the second time in her career she’s won the award.

In the final tournament game against Kansas State, she matched a career best 22 points.

Outside of Littlefield’s 47 percent shooting, the Tigers had very little success scoring. Princeton averaged just over 35 percent in the tournament, concluding with just 30 percent shooting in the final game against Kansas State. Princeton was also dominated on the glass, an issue that did not come up in seasons past. Princeton’s offense also struggled in the second halves of games, as they were held under 10 points in the third or fourth quarter of all three.

However, the most striking concerns came on the defensive side of the ball.

Against No. 15 Syracuse, the Tigers gave up 30 points or more in two quarters and allowed the Orange to shoot 57 percent. For perhaps the first time, this senior class is facing adversity on the defensive end, which very few could have predicted going into the season. The Tigers have now given up more than 60 points in every

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Carlie Littlefield was named to the All-Tournament team for her play in Cancun.

game this season; last year, they gave up that many only 10 times across the entire season.

The team will certainly improve once Alarie returns. On the bright side, younger players have the opportunity to face this adversity and grow via live game exposure. However,

there is a lot for Princeton fans to be concerned about from the team that is looking to defend its Ivy League title. In the standings, the Tigers currently sit in dead last, trailing division leader Penn (4–2) by three-and-ahalf games. Granted, the non-conference standings do not matter when it comes

to Ivy League standings, yet the confidence of proving the team can win against quality opponents does. Sitting at 1–6 on the year, the Tigers must show that they can overcome a slow start if they want to make a run at a second consecutive Ivy League title.

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Women’s volleyball finishes season trailing Yale by 1 match for Ivy title

By Alissa Selover Staff Writer

As its season came to an end, the women’s volleyball team (19–6 overall, 12–2 Ivy League) trailed Yale (19–4, 13–1) for the Ivy League title by one match. Yale finished conference play 13–1 while Princeton finished 12–2. This didn’t bring the Tigers down as they finished their season strong with a sweep on their senior day, Nov. 10, against Dartmouth (10–15, 5–9).

The seniors honored during senior day were middle blockers Caroline Sklaver and Nnenna Ibe, setter Claire Nussbaum, and rightside hitter Brittany Smith.

Sklaver finished her Princeton career with 12 kills in the 3–0 (25–11, 25–23, 25–20) win over Dartmouth while Ibe recorded eight kills and six blocks to help guide the win.

Junior right-side hitters Maggie O’Connell and Devon Peterkin showed their offensive strengths with O’Connell adding 12 kills and Peterkin adding nine.

Defensively, sophomore outside hitter Alexa Underwood led the team with 10 digs, and junior setter Jessie Harris was not far behind with nine. Freshman libero Cameron Dames added eight to the mix. Harris also led the team with 34 assists for the match, solidifying her rank

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Five women’s volleyball players were named to the All-Ivy team.

as the Ivy League leader in assists per game.

The leaders on the team made up the five All-Ivy League players from Princeton’s team. O’Connell and Peterkin both earned 2018 firstteam All-Ivy League honors.

In conference play, O’Connell had the highest hitting percentage and she ranked third in the league in kills per set.

She received one Ivy League

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Player of the Week honor this season. Peterkin ranked 10th in the league in kills and 11th in digs, proving herself one of the league’s most versatile players. Peterkin was named Ivy League Player of the Week three times this season.

Second-team All-Ivy honors went to Harris and sophomore middle blocker Clare Lenihan. Harris has appeared on the All-Ivy

team every year, this being her third appearance. Harris finished the season with 12.24 digs per game in conference play, and her assists kept the Tigers in the lead in kills and hitting percentage in the Ivy League. Lenihan ranked second in the league in hitting percentage with a .412 this year, her first year as the starting middle.

Sklaver was finished

her season with an All-Ivy honorable mention, and she ranked third in the Ivy League with a .316 hitting percentage.

While the season didn’t end as the Tigers had hoped, they showed great success through their players filling the leaderboards and their impressive overall and conference statistics.

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