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Democrat Phil Murphy narrowly wins NJ governor’s election

By Charlie Roth and Lia Opperman Contributors

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Most of the Ivy League has divested Here’s what student advocates from Princeton, Yale, and Penn have to say

By Kalena Blake

Assistant News Editor

Following the formal announcement from Harvard and Dartmouth, the majority of Ivy League institutions have now divested from the fossil fuel industry.

Among those who have not divested are Princeton, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania.

While student leaders at these remaining universities maintain that significant challenges stand in the way of formal divestment, they remain optimistic about what the decision signifies.

According to The Dartmouth, the investment office announced its formal divestment from fossil fuels on Oct. 8. This decision followed a 2017

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announcement that the college would be making no new investments and a 2021 decision that the direct public portfolio would no longer hold investments in fossil fuel companies.

The office plans to allow its remaining public holdings in the sector to expire.

Harvard formally divested from fossil fuels on Sept. 10.

Similar to Dartmouth, Harvard will allow its remaining investments in the industry to expire. This decision followed prolonged efforts by on-campus student advocacy groups, including filing of legal complaints with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office and gaining seats on the school’s governing board.

Prior to this fall, Columbia announced on Jan. 26 that it would not invest in any publicly

traded oil and gas companies.

Additionally, as of March 2020, Brown is selling its direct investment and managed funds.

Finally, Cornell announced a moratorium on new investments in fossil fuels in May of 2020.

Incumbent Democrat Gov. Philip D. Murphy won reelection against Republican and former General Assembly member Jack Ciattarelli, making him the first New Jersey Democrat to win gubernatorial reelection in the past four decades. The last Democrat to do so was Brendan Byrne ’49 in 1977.

Tuesday, Nov. 2 was Election Day across the country, and there were a number of offices on the ballot in Princeton. These included elections for the Governor, State Senate and General Assembly, Town Council, and Public Schools

Board, as well as two ballot initiatives involving sports betting and one involving land preservation.

The race was close — The New York Times did not call the election until 6:28 p.m. on Wednesday evening, shortly followed by AP, after Ciattarelli had been in the lead well into the early hours of Wednesday morning. Mail-in ballots, counted after election day ballots, pushed Murphy over the edge.

Murphy sat comfortably in the lead in polls days leading up to the election. In the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll, released on Nov. 1, Murphy was eight points ahead of Ciattarelli, with 50 percent of responSee ELECTION page 4

Editor’s Note: This story was last updated on Nov. 3, and updated election results may exist by the time you read this.

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Landscape of Student Advocacy at Princeton, Penn, and Yale At the Ivy League schools have not committed to formal divestment, student organizers cite that significant progress has been made in the arena of climate action and sustainability.

In May of 2021, Princeton announced its plans to divest from coal and tar sands. The University of Pennsylvania made a See DIVESTMENT page 2

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Undergraduate voting rate soars to 75% in 2020 election

By Charlie Roth and Alexa Marsh Contributors

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The University’s 2020 undergraduate voting rate reached a record-breaking 75.4 percent — an increase of 24.9 percent from 2016, and the highest voting rate ever recorded for the University — according to a report by the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE). College and university students across the country participated on a similarly unprecedented scale, boosting the Average Insti-

tutional Voting Rate from 53 percent in 2016 to 66 percent in 2020.

Based within the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, NSLVE provides participating colleges and universities with analyses of the voting rates and patterns on their campuses and allows for easy comparison of results between peer institutions and national averages. The report contains data from 2016, 2018, and 2020.

The registration rate — the percentage of the eligible student population that is registered to vote — rose significantly as well. Whereas in 2016 Princeton had a below-average registration rate of 70.1 percent, in 2020 it surged above both its previous record and the new national average to a rate of 87.5 percent.

NSLVE breaks its statistics down into demographic categories. Estimated voting rates were above 70 percent for all race and ethnic groups. The See VOTE100 page 3

STUDENT LIFE

USG to test off-campus dining initiative for student meal plans

By Isabel Yip Contributor

The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Community Dining Task Force has introduced a new off-campus dining trial program that will offer select students free meals off campus.

On Oct. 29, USG announced its plan to involve 150 undergraduates in a dining trial to

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explore the concept of incorporating off-campus dining options in the meal plan. After filling out an application, participants were randomly selected for USG’s Community Dining Task Force.

The initiative will provide each participant three offcampus meals — lunch, dinner, and a snack — each week for four weeks, at no cost.

In return, these undergrad-

uates will be asked to provide reviews of their off-campus eating experiences and the structure of the program.

These focus groups will also provide feedback about the potential implementation of these meals into the unlimited dining plan.

This pilot program is functioning through the Tigers in Town system, an existing

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The men’s cross country team finished first — and the women’s team second — at the Ivy League (Heptagonal) Championships this past Saturday. Both teams look ahead to the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships on Friday, Nov. 12 for a chance to qualify for the National Championships the following weekend.

The closure of the Princeton University Art Museum, in conjunction with the shutdown of the museum during the COVID-19 pandemic, has affected the ways that many students, faculty, and members of the local community interact with the arts and humanities on campus.

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In light of a recent interview with President Eisgruber in The Atlantic, columnist Rohit Narayanan writes: “If Princeton is going to segregate a talented few, it has to prove its value every single day.”

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similar announcement to stop investments in these industries in February 2020.

On June 24, Yale’s investment office set new carbon reduction targets and pledged to achieve zero actual carbon emissions — those achieved without the purchase of offsets — by 2050.

Notably, Princeton is the only school that has a dissociation requirement, which says that the University must cut all ties to fossil fuel companies to divest.

Though the institutions have made steps toward formal divestment, student leaders of divestment advocacy organizations remain committed that these steps are not sufficient.

At the University of Pennsylvania, climate change advocacy is centered around the Student Sustainability Association at Penn (SSAP). Following climate progress and the decision to partially divest from fossil fuels, the SSAP launched a new campaign.

“The goal is to present a more pragmatic, but still very ambitious case for fossil fuel divestment,’’ said Vyshnavi Kosigishroff, SSAP’s co-chair.

At Yale, student advocacy is focused around the Yale Endowment Justice Coalition (EJC) which was formed in 2018 via a merger of two other campus organizations: Despierta Boricua, the Puerto Rican Student Organization, and Fossil Free Yale.

According to one of its members, Josephine Steuer Ingall, the EJC is committed to advocacy through direct action, staging sit-ins at the investment’s office, demonstrations, and occupying locations on campus.

The primary engine on the University’s campus is Divest Princeton. Founded in October 2019, the organization defines itself as “a coalition of students, faculty, and alumni calling on Princeton University to fully and urgently divest our endowment from fossil fuel companies and reinvest responsibly.”

Hannah Reynolds ’22, cochair of Divest Princeton, noted that the movement has now reached a historic point: the organization’s demands have never made it past the resource committee in all five iterations of Divest Princeton until now, where the board has made recommendations.

Reynolds is an Opinion Columnist at the ‘Prince.’

All leaders also noted a renewed sense of hope and a validation of their work following the announcements from Harvard and Dartmouth this fall.

Kosigishroff described the mood at Penn as “excited, optimistic, and very ambitious.”

Ingall and Reynolds also predicted that Harvard’s decision to divest in particular would likely apply additional pressure on their respective investment offices to divest formally from fossil fuels, given the historical trends of each university following Harvard on social issues.

Moreover, Reynolds remarked on the broader implications if, in her view, Princeton continues to lag behind its peer institutions.

“Divestment is becoming something that is in the public consciousness outside of Princeton,” she said. “A lot of brilliant young people who are getting into places like Harvard, Dartmouth, and Princeton are going to choose places that care about

climate and take their futures seriously over a school that’s partnered with egregious polluters.”

Obstacles to Divestment Despite these sentiments, there remain significant cultural, financial, and political obstacles to formal divestment in the Ivy League. Student representatives from each institution cited frustrations with the bureaucracy of their respective university investment offices.

At Princeton especially, Reynolds claimed additional challenges stemming from institutional structures. For example, she noted, a third of the University’s Board of Trustees is elected, making it difficult to put pro-divestment voices on the board.

At Penn, SSAP member Camila Irabien diluted the issue down to the essential tension between the wants of the students and the university’s donors. Kosigishroff observed an additional challenge at Penn, which is that its heightened pre-professional culture can also impede the divestment movement.

“When the entire university culture is about pre-professionalism and traditional preprofessional success, that is directly oppositional to climate progress. That creates a tension that is really hard to break,” Kosigishroff said.

While she noted that there has been somewhat of a renaissance in climate action taken, Kosigishroff still sees shortcomings in the actions that Penn is willing to take.

“Penn for the first time ever is using the terms we use. They’re talking about their investments,

they’re talking about finance in the fossil fuel industry which is a win, but if the response to that is we’ll have more water fountains so people buy fewer plastic bottles that means they’re not really listening,“ Kosigishroff said.

Sources of Pressure Reynolds also cited that a reason for the success of the University’s peer institutions is that many of them have received faculty support, which she says has been more challenging to solicit at Princeton.

However, at each institution, student pressure is growing.

Both Irabien and Kosigishroff noted the increase in environmental consciousness on Penn’s campus.

“The students now are looking for a way to get involved in climate action that is not performative,” said Kosigishroff.

Increased student buy-in can also be attributed to concerted efforts made by the EJC and SSAP to tackle the intersectionality of climate issues.

At the EJC, addressing the subject of Puerto Rican Debt, which Yale indirectly invests in, is an issue core to the organization’s mission.

“Talking about the fact that combatting the climate crisis is a project of racial justice and is a project of decolonization is very important to us,” Ingall said.

At Penn, the SSAP hosted an open forum for student leaders, including Irabien, to present different reasons as to why the university should divest.

The forum which hosted members from various coalitions and groups across campus showed the increased climate consciousness of the Penn stu-

dent body.

“These are people who are really plugged into their communities and student advocacy who understand that climate is a part of their work. I think the movement is growing and people are getting excited,” said Kosigishroff.

In addition to faculty and student pressure, another significant source of pressure comes from the outside community.

In the past week, both The Nation and The New York Times have mentioned the lack of formal divestment at Princeton.

While Reynolds says the University receives little political pressure from the township to divest, many community members and local high school students come to Divest Princeton rallies and show support for the cause.

On the other hand, according to student organizers, Penn and Yale both receive political pressure from the cities they are located in given their vast physical presence as well as the socioeconomic makeup of the surrounding areas of West Philadelphia and New Haven.

“We’re frustrated, but hopeful. We’re motivated and energized by the successes at other institutions and the potential for Princeton to be able to follow in their footsteps,” said Reynolds.

Or, to put it in Ingall’s words: “We’re not done, and we’re not going to shut up.”

Kalena Blake is an assistant news editor. She can be reached at kalenab@princeton.edu.

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voting rates by sex revealed similar rates, with the turnout among female students at a slightly higher 79 percent than the 73 percent of male students.

Among the various academic departments and fields of study, the greatest participation came from students within the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), which boasted a turnout rate of 81 percent.

The voting gap that historically existed between humanities and STEM departments decreased significantly. Visual and performing arts students had the smallest turnout rate with 63 percent.

The first-year students in 2020 — members of the Class of 2024 — had the highest turnout rate among the class years, at 80 percent followed by juniors and seniors years with a combined rate of 78 percent and second year students close behind at 77 percent.

Divisions by education level revealed that undergraduate students turned out at higher

rates than graduate students, with a voting rate of 79 percent compared to the graduate student rate of 69 percent.

This comes as Vote100 — a campus initiative aiming for 100 percent civil engagement among the student body — has increasingly directed its efforts at targeting incoming students.

Vote100 has encouraged first-year students to register to vote by utilizing the firstyear orientation program and partnering with TurboVote, an online service that streamlines the voter registration process and sends users important information about upcoming elections.

“We’re really just very encouraged by Princeton’s performance in the 2020 election. We want to keep the momentum moving,” said Joe Shipley ’22, a Vote100 Fellow. “Our goal is to increase turnout in local and state elections. It’s to make sure that students who are registered and from other states are able to vote. It’s making sure that we get consistent, clear messaging to every corner of the University’s campus. And then we’ll build into a perma-

nent organization that’s here, rain or shine, primary or general, and presidential or nonpresidential.”

The high levels of participation among the youngest Princetonians is particularly significant. As the report states, “voting is habit-forming and young voters will usually continue as voters in subsequent elections.”

“It’s exciting to see students really embrace the motto of human service and nation and humanity and for them to not only vote themselves, but look for opportunities to engage other voters,” said Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne. “That part is really gratifying.”

Alexa Marsh is a news contributor for the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at alexagmarsh@princeton.edu.

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Our goal is to increase turnout in local and state elections. It’s to make sure that students who are registered and from other states are able to vote.

Charlie Roth is a news contributor for the “Prince.” He can be reached at charlieroth@princeton. edu or @imcharlieroth on Twitter or Instagram.

Joe Shipley ’22 Vote100 Fellow

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USG initiative through which Princeton students can pick up free food and drinks at local restaurants. USG diverted $25,000 in funds intended for Tigers in Town into this new initiative.

Eating in dining halls is a standard component of the first-year and sophomore campus experience. All underclassmen are required to have an unlimited dining plan, which costs $7,490 for the 2021–22 fiscal year.

The Community Dining Task Force application emphasized a focus on “high-need students” by asking applicants if they belong to the first generation, low-income community on campus and if they are on financial aid.

Genevieve Cox, a first-year student selected for the trial, noted how the program can be especially beneficial for firstgeneration, low-income (FGLI) students.

“I am hoping to turn eating out into a social event for my FGLI friends and I,” she said.

Lyla Choi ’25, another student selected for the dining trial, indicated her excitement in getting free meals off campus.

“I have wanted to try many of the restaurants on Nassau for a long time, but have been wary of the cost,” she said.

In light of recent dining hall staffing issues, as well as local businesses being impacted by the pandemic, the off-campus dining trial is also seen by some participants as a community-based approach to diversifying campus dining and alleviating understaffing problems.

Choi recognized how this initiative could support local businesses opting to take part in the trial.

Participants can also expect a greater diversity of food options with the off-campus dining trial and its potential campus-wide execution. According to Cox, varied dining options have a particular importance for students from different cultural backgrounds.

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“For students like myself who miss cultural cooking from our homes, this program could truly be our savior,” she said.

Applicants indicated how often they buy food off-campus and were asked to describe the factors that influence their offcampus dining, as well as how the incorporation of off-campus meals could affect their Princeton experience.

For students who were not chosen to take part in the dining trial, they may be “asked to participate in a focus group on the experience of off-campus dining now and how it could be improved,” according to USG’s announcement. USG members leading the initiative did not respond to a request for comment prior to publication.

Isabel Yip is a news contributor for the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at isabelyip@princeton.edu or @ isaayip on Instagram.

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dents indicating their support for Murphy and 42 percent for Ciattarelli.

Gregg Mele, the Libertarian Party candidate for governor, told The Daily Princetonian that he is proud of his campaign, which received 0.29 percent of the vote.

“The Libertarian Party looks forward to building on the momentum of this election season,” he said.

The ballot measures that proposed amending gaming rules to permit fundraising raffles and allocating more funding for land preservation passed. However, the measure that proposed a constitutional amendment to permit wagering on college sports or athletic events did not.

No elections in New Jersey’s 16th Legislative District have been called. Andrew Zwicker (D), a former member of the State General Assembly, is currently leading Michael Pappas (R) for the state senate seat after Republican State Senator Christopher Bateman did not run for reelection.

Democrats Sadaf Jaffer and Roy Freiman currently lead in the race for the two open General Assembly seats over

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Republicans Joseph Lukac and Vincent Panico.

For the Princeton Town Council, Eve Niedergang GS ’89 and Leighton Newlin both won unopposed.

The Princeton Public Schools Board of Education election is still too close to call, with three open seats. Incumbent Brian McDonald holds a slight lead over Mara Franceschi, Betsy Baglio, and Jeffery Lao, who each held about 24 percent of the vote. Lao is currently in fourth place.

Lao told the ‘Prince’ that he thanks McDonald, Baglio, and Franceschi for “running excellent, positive campaigns,” and that “regardless of the final outcome of the election, we are all fortunate that we have wellqualified community members willing to take on these important volunteer roles, and that we can rest assured that our children and our school district will be in good hands.”

Charlie Roth is a news contributor for the ‘Prince.’ He can be reached at charlieroth@princeton. edu or @imcharlieroth on Twitter or Instagram.

Lia Opperman is a news contributor for the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at liaopperman@princeton.edu or @liamariaaaa on Instagram.

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During this season, tourists are in awe not only of the school itself but also the changing leaves.

On Saturday, Oct. 30, the Office of Religious Life invited immigrant youth and families from across New Jersey to carve pumpkins and tour Princeton’s campus.

Sinfonia performed Halloween-themed music at Richardson Auditorium.

Students socialized under the colorful lights outside Campus Club on the night of Saturday, Oct. 30.

The chocolate fountain has returned to Forbes College’s Sunday brunch.

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hy should Princeton exist?” That was the question The Atlantic journalist Emma Green asked President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 a few weeks ago.

Green framed the question around social mobility: Princeton, after all, doesn’t do much for social mobility compared to the City University of New York (CUNY) system which directly serves the low-income community around them in tangible ways.

Eisgruber made a case that Princeton was an incubator for future leaders — a home for young people with “extraordinary talent.”

Eisgruber’s leadership theory would be a perfectly credible justification for Princeton’s existence, but it runs into a problem: Princeton doesn’t seem to have thought deeply about what it means to be a leader. It’s time to change that — or find a new justification for our existence.

Eisgruber’s argument benefits from being consistent with historical outcomes. After all, Princeton has historically educated the nation’s leaders — the raison d’être of Princeton and similar institutions was to give the nation’s future leaders (historically the white and wealthy, but in Eisgruber’s vision now a more diverse group) the extra education they needed to fill those roles. And there are so many good examples of Princetonians becoming leaders in a variety of ways. James Madison! Alan Turing!

Sonia Sotomayor!

But Princeton seems to benefit from some circular logic here. The best students in the country apply to Princeton because of its lofty reputation. Princeton selects the students with the most potential, those least likely to fail. Companies, graduate schools, and other vessels of advancement recruit from Princeton because it has a reputation for being the best, further advantaging the students who’ve made it in. Alumni, unsurprisingly, thrive, and we all pat ourselves on the back for what a great system we’ve created. Princeton

could have us play hopscotch for four years and do perfectly well by this metric. Princeton producing leaders is therefore not necessarily a function of the extraordinary educational environment Eisgruber claims it offers to students, but rather the reputational value the admission into this environment brings.

If we can’t rely on the mere existence of extraordinary alumni who show leadership, what proves Princeton is actually an incubator for leadership?

Eisgruber characterizes Princeton as an “intense [place] where researchers and students are colliding with other people of talent and passion and imagination, focusing on producing things that matter to our society and our world in a whole variety of unpredictable ways.” Eisgruber is betting that random interactions among smart students under the care of some of the world’s greatest scholars will innately build future leaders.

It’s not that there is no merit to this theory. But imagine you were starting a society from scratch and you went to Christopher Eisgruber and asked him what his plan was to educate the potential leaders of the society.

“Oh, we’ll just put them all together in some Gothic buildings, give them two billion dollars to spend each year, stick Peter Singer and Jhumpa Lahiri there for good measure and watch the incredible things they create,” he could respond. “They can just do normal university coursework in the meantime.”

Such a vague plan would beg the question: how exactly would this be achieved?

And when we ask this question regarding the current Princeton education, certain obstacles come to mind that stand in the way of its effective implementation. Students are so burdened with ordinary coursework that the type of spontaneous creation Eisgruber hopes for is severely constrained.

In my experience, student projects often collapse on campus due to a lack of time and interest.

Aside from faded quotes on aging buildings, there is insufficient dialogue and honesty on campus about leadership or what students should be doing

to meet their responsibilities as the beneficiaries of Princeton’s immense resources. Some students may become Supreme Court justices like Sonia Sotomayor, but many may reap the advantages of a Princeton degree without ever using it for the purposes Eisgruber hopes for.

Who is telling them they should?

The flaws in Eisgruber’s justifications ultimately bring us to question the idea that leaders are built on cloistered campuses, far from the realities of the real world. Is there really another book we can read or a seminar we can take, even with incredible classmates and professors, that can substitute for real-world experience? Almost two years after Zoom taught us that we could be anywhere in the world at any time, we’re back staring at blackboards, secure in our smugness that we’re molding the next generation of leaders.

Plato had a formula to educate his ideal society’s leaders — early education in music and physical training, three years of intense physical training, 10 years of math, five years of philosophy, then 15 years of practical political training. Now, maybe Eisgruber is correct and Plato is wrong. It would not be the first time. Maybe the mere environment of Princeton, the quality of our peers and professors, does more for leadership than a specific academic program ever could.

But if this is the justification, it deserves some serious study. We cannot just rely on the cliché that Princeton produces the nation’s leaders based on a self-serving system. And we would have to make changes to ensure that we’re actually making the most of the opportunity and getting enough practicum to serve society well.

Because Green is right, if Princeton is going to segregate a talented few, it has to prove its value every single day.

Rohit Narayanan is a sophomore concentrating in electrical and computer engineering from McLean, Virginia. He can be reached at rohitan@princeton.edu.

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What I’ve learned about midterms Claudia Frykberg Columnist

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hey say life comes full circle, but lately I have been wondering if most of us here at Princeton live our lives on a different, less holistic trajectory.

As a senior, I feel like my time at Princeton has flown by, which may be partly due to the fact that I wasn’t physically on campus for 18 months of “the college experience.” But I also think it is because we here at Princeton don’t focus so much on coming full circle, but instead on riding the nebulous grading curve.

As a first year, that grading curve haunted me. More specifically, I’d obsess about how I could remain on the right side of it, and what it would mean if, God forbid, I slipped backwards down that slippery slope where the crest of that imaginary wave seemed impossible to conquer.

Back during my freshman fall, I recall midterm week — and the weeks prior as midterms loomed — feeling like some swelling ocean of impending doom where it was literally make or break, rise or fall, succeed or pay the consequences. I recall the long nights at Firestone, the labeling of sleep as a luxury, and the guilt that accompanied my indulgence in the smallest of pleasures, like shutting my books so I could watch the last season of Game of Thrones as it

went live.

During these latest midterms, I have to admit the stress crept right back in and sat there, familiar, like an old friend whose visits are never planned but always occur regardless. But this year, something was different.

I suspect that the last 18 months have probably shaped the way I and many of my fellow seniors view the whole midterm process — and the Princeton experience as a whole. Perhaps we all took the lessons learned from the pandemic (and not the ones taught on Zoom) into our final year here at Princeton, and they gave us permission to be kinder, not just to each other, but to ourselves.

As a senior gifted with the privilege of studying the major I love, I am beginning to realize just how lucky we are to sit exams on subjects we feel truly passionate about. I appreciate the value of working together and finding strength in classmates and friends with whom I feel a sense of solidarity, not just in the time we spent together, but also in the time we were forced to spend apart.

I am fully aware that this is my last semester of full classes, which is admittedly somewhat relieving. But I am also, perhaps once again due to the pandemic, acutely aware that, while there was a life before Princeton, there will also be another one beyond it. This realization feels significant, as it

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allows me to place the stress of midterms in perspective.

I think I am just less scared. I encourage you to dare to be unafraid, too.

I know if I’d slipped back into my old, worn freshman Converse this past week, I would have been thinking: “Just hold out until the end of the week, because what you do now will affect you later...” And, while all things are clearer in hindsight, I realize now that “holding out” isn’t necessarily the best way to make the most of this Princeton experience. Rather, a big part of it should include being kinder to yourself, because not doing so, more often than not, has negative consequences.

These days, my friends and

I find ourselves seeking help from our professors without being afraid of sounding incompetent, because we’ve learned that midterms are just a very small part of a long and fulfilling semester, that working 24/7 isn’t the best way to get results, and that your best is actually your best by the pure definition of the adjective. So, ask your professors questions, limit your working hours, and understand that your best will be enough.

Last week, when I finished my second-to-last set of midterms, and when my old friend Stress packed its bags and left a few of its favorite things in my top dresser drawer, knowing he’d be back for finals, I almost felt

sad, understanding that this part of my life was not going to last forever.

Moreover, I think we should try to bend that curve into a circle, knowing stressful times will come around again, and that, when they do, we’ll be able to handle them. Where we sit on any curve, at any given time, will not ultimately define us.

How lucky are we!

Claudia Frykberg is a senior in the English Department. She can be reached at frykberg@ princeton.edu.

Princeton, feed us: Why Princeton should serve Late Meal on weekends

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Ndeye Thioubou

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ate meal is one of the most beloved features of Princeton student life.

So much so that Princeton recently held a special free late meal for seniors to allow them to relive their freshman and sophomore year late meal experience.

Princeton’s Campus Dining website explains the rationale behind late meal: “Campus Dining recognizes that students may be unable to dine during regular dining hall hours.

Therefore, students with meal plans are entitled to use their plan to purchase late lunches Monday

to Friday and late dinner Monday to Thursday at the Food Gallery at Frist. One meal swipe is credited for all late meal purchases.

You may only use one meal swipe per period.”

Late meal has a plethora of food options: from quesadillas to sushi to chicken tenders and fries. Even if a student has attended lunch or dinner during the normal hours, they can still buy pre-packaged or fresh cooked food at late meal. Unfortunately, from Friday afternoon to Sunday evening, Princeton students cannot reap these conveniences that late meal provides.

Although late meal is only offered on week-

days, the need for late meal doesn’t disappear once Friday evening hits.

In fact, students arguably need it even more on the weekends. On Saturdays and Sundays, Princeton only offers two meal periods: brunch and dinner.

Although students can theoretically get in three meals on the weekends by attending brunch twice and dinner once, realistically many students do not do so for various reasons, including catching up on sleep. For this reason, freshmen and sophomores only receive two meals on Saturday and Sunday, whereas on weekdays they receive five. If Princeton extends late meal to the

weekends, students can use brunch as breakfast and late meal as a lunch alternative. And for those who do end up waking up early, they could use Friday late dinner, if implemented, to have breakfast foods to eat in the early morning (not everyone will be inclined to walk to Wucox for breakfast if they don’t live close by).

On weekends, we also lose the chance to use one or both late meals for snacks.

During Sundays especially, healthy snacks are vital to successful studying and homework completion as they provide long-term energy. Proper nutrition is needed to support academic performance.

For underclassmen, late meal represents more than just food: it is an accessible and convenient method of socializing. For example, after my Fundamentals of Neuroscience class, hordes of my classmates and I head to Frist to destress and bond with friends over a meal.

Late meal is also more affordable than eating out on Nassau Street: an eight-dollar purchase per late meal period is included in the unlimited meal plan, which freshmen and sophomores are required to have. On weekends, if freshmen and sophomores are not going to Nassau Street, there is no free opportunity for them to socialize and bond over a meal in the unique environment that late meal provides. Therefore, the first-generation, low-in-

come in particular benefit from the service, since money spent on Nassau or ordering food can quickly add up.

Given that the Street is not as open on Fridays to non-members, late dinner would constitute an important Friday night social activity. Expanding late lunch and dinner availability to every Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday would aid in diversifying Princeton’s social scene, which has received criticism in the past for being too heavily centered around the Street, by giving students a fun environment to hang out in.

Even the students who do end up choosing the Street to have fun over the weekend would benefit from having a free meal instead of having to pay for drunk meal.

I acknowledge that there are some logistical challenges in offering late meals on weekends, most notably the fact that most dining staff probably don’t want to come to work on the weekends. In this case, Princeton should consider hiring part-time staff who would only come in on weekends.

In short, Princeton’s freshmen and sophomores would benefit greatly if the University extended Late Meal. Princeton administration, offer late meal on weekends!

Ndeye Thioubou is a firstyear from The Bronx, New York. She can be reached at nthioubou@princeton.edu.

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Reactions: Princeton’s endowment grows by nearly 50%

Last Friday, the University announced that the endowment has ballooned to $37.7 billion, an almost 50 percent rate of return. This growth is a significant outlier from previous years which made us in the Opinion section wonder how might Princeton react. Will we see improvements on campus? Can Princeton afford to be more ethical in its investments? Should tuition be abolished? We asked ‘Prince’ columnists for their Reactions to this week’s endowment windfall.

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wasn’t surprised by the announcement that Princeton’s endowment had grown by 46.9 percent. The easy money policy of the COVID-19 era skyrocketed the valuation of equities which prompted the greatest bull market in history. Consider that in the last 365 days, the S&P 500 has appreciated by around 40 percent.

Our endowment was sure to follow.

What will surprise me, though, is if we do not capitalize on this handwrapped gift from the COVID-19 monetary policy. I don’t deny that this fiscal year’s return was an anomaly, but that gives Princeton all the more reason to actually utilize the endowment to address the wants and needs of those on campus.

Every meteoric bull market is followed by a stag-

nant bear market, and we are nearing the sun. I understand that “long term is the mantra” for the endowment, but to not liquidate at least some portion of the endowment is equivalent to maintaining our holdings and facing the wrath of the upcoming bear market.

Over the past ten years, Princeton has allocated an average of $1.1 billion from its endowment to the annual operating budget, amounting to about three to five percent of the endowment. With our newly increased endowment, an at-least-proportional increase in endowment allocation only makes sense.

For instance, increasing the allocation towards annual operating expenses by one billion dollars, from $1.1 billion to $2.1 billion, would still only represent 5.5 percent of the endowment.

What could we see improved at Princeton if we liquidated just a tiny por-

tion of our increased endowment? Well for starters, let’s try installing air conditioning in our residential colleges that desperately need them. Craving Late Meal on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday? You’re in luck! Late Meal is now open seven days a week.

Most importantly, the endowment growth likely provided easier exit points for our fossil fuel positions as well as increased generosity in our financial aid program, as we’ve already seen at Yale.

Though one could say that money will be “lost” in either of the aforementioned cases, only in one of the cases will our community be the beneficiary.

The ball is in your court, Princeton.

Windsor Nguyen is a freshman from Appleton, Wis. He can be reached at mn4560@ princeton.edu.

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hirty-seven point seven billion dollars. The amount of money making up our endowment is too large for me to wrap my head around. I was finally able to understand this figure when a fellow ‘Prince’ writer told me that “if they gave every undergraduate student an equal slice, we would get over $7 million.”

I am so grateful for the education I am receiving at Princeton and I’m loving the experience, but if I was given $7 million … I would not be living in First anymore.

Perhaps it’s unreasonable to even fantasize that Princeton would allot the entire endowment to students. Let’s just look at this year’s returns. In the 2020–21 fiscal year, the endowment grew over $10 billion. There are 5,267 undergraduates enrolled at Princeton. That means that if Princeton split the endowment’s earnings from just this one year among undergraduates, each of us would get $1,898,614.

If Princeton made this much money in one year, why on earth does it need $51,870 in tuition fees from each of us? The tuition we pay is nothing but a tiny drop in the ocean of Princeton’s money.

I don’t mean to be ungrateful for the strong financial aid program. It is more generous than most other schools in the country, with over 61 percent of undergraduates receiving aid. For me, attending Princeton was the cheapest option. But after Friday’s announcement, the fact that the University asks for any money at all feels ridiculous.

It’s time to abolish tuition. There is no reason for families to have to save money from the moment their child is born when Princeton made more than 192,789 times the price of tuition this year. If Princeton has to take away the Forbes chocolate fountain in order to pinch their pennies to account for the loss of funds, I think we’ll live.

Abigail Rabieh is a first-year from Cambridge, Mass. She can be reached at ar5732@princeton.edu.

The growth demands Use the money to expand the fossil fuel divestment Princeton education more than ever Rohit Narayanan Columnist

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n a year of astronomical growth for Princeton’s endowment, one might be inclined to assume that PRINCO must have had a particularly successful investment strategy. In fact, one might suppose that PRINCO’s decision not to divest from fossil fuels is the cause for Princeton’s gains, which made it the second highest returner in the Ivy League.

But the number one earner this year was Brown University, which divested its endowment from fossil fuels in March 2020. Therefore, divestment from fossil fuels, rather than hindering Princeton’s financial performance, might have actually helped it, had PRINCO had the foresight and leadership to take climate change seriously.

Further, the high returns themselves are not necessarily indicative

of PRINCO’s success in endowment management, but are reflective of broader trends within the market itself over the past year. In other words, investment in fossil fuels is not necessarily responsible for the endowment’s gains, but it is responsible for threatening our future.

While it still has the ability to take urgent action on climate, Princeton must act in the service of humanity with its newly inflated endowment and divest. Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, recently put it well when describing the foundation’s own reasoning for divestment. “If we only do what we’ve always done, the worst may well sneak up on us while we’re safeguarding some old, rosy vision of economic perpetuity.”

Hannah Reynolds is a senior from Finger Lakes, N.Y. She can be reached at hannahr@princeton.edu.

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ntergenerational equity.” That’s the term that Andy Golden, president of Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO), used to justify keeping the endowment more or less whole, so that it could continue to gain interest and serve the needs of future Princeton students.

Equity is important, of course. But the type of equity we should be worried about isn’t whether present Princeton students or future Princeton students spend the money. Instead, we should focus on those who never get a chance to go to Princeton.

Princeton’s impressive gain is reflective of the fact that corporate profits

soared during the pandemic while the real economy — jobs, specifically — suffered. The endowment ought to do more than serve as a trust fund for hypothetical future Princetonians, already set up for a brilliant future.

Therefore, Princeton, as a civic institution, should liquidate most of its $10 billion worth of gains and invest it in expansion — offering the benefits of a Princeton education to more people. The new residential colleges are a laudable step towards this goal, but Princeton can think bigger.

We can use the online learning tools we discovered during the pandemic to create a one-of-a-kind rigorous virtual program, expanding Princeton courses to thousands of people over the years. The

type of Massive Opensource Online Courses (MOOC) that many colleges offer are interesting, but certainly not a substitute for an in-person course.

With an investment in focused faculty and staff for online education, Princeton could change that — make genuinely comparable open-access courses that reach more people.

While it would be more profitable in the long run to just let the money keep gaining interest year after year, this is a unique opportunity to make sure the money actually serves the people who generated it — and Princeton can do that without compromising its mission.

Rohit Narayanan is a sophomore from McLean, Va. He can be reached at rohitan@ princeton.edu

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McCosh Health Center institutes members-only policy Ben Kim, Milica Maricic, and Claire Middleton

ter has announced a switch to club format and instituted a Contributing Writers members-only entrance policy for the foreseeable future.

For the first half of the seThe following content is purely mester, McCosh admitted any satirical and entirely fictional. student with a health concern. However, after surging Due to high demand follow- appointment requests and a ing both Princetoween and line out the door that overthe fifth wave of the campus whelmed McCosh’s front-desk plague, McCosh Health Cen- staff, the club announced the

change.

McCosh contracted with a local security company to restrict the hoards of unfortunate students who fail to secure a pass.

“My friend could barely stand up on Princetoween,” said a desperate Sexy Waluigi ’24, “so I thought that I could get us into McCosh if I played it right with the bouncers, but

it just didn’t work.”

Her friend Sexy Bowser ’24 declined to comment for this article.

“I’m pretty sure my arm is broken,” said an angry Playboy Bunny ’22, who was denied entry on Saturday night and handed an Emergen-C packet and pregnancy test instead.

A coughing sophomore

complained after his McCosh visit earlier this week.

“I was hoping to get a strep test or maybe some antibiotics, but they only directed me to an extra dose of the J&J COVID vaccine,” he said. “And it was expired.”

For those wishing to join McCosh, the club has announced that bicker starts in early January.

The process will consist of submitting symptom checks every 13 minutes and having daily one-on-one bicker chats with McCosh nurses, who will ask you about your medical history, hobbies, and professional ambitions.

“I think I made a good impression with the nurse at FluFest,” said an optimistic candidate. “They should be able to pull some strings for me, right?”

For now, the CVS on Nassau Street is still PUID. Claire Middleton is a sophomore from Durham, N.C. and contributing writer for the Satire section.

She can be reached at cm51@princeton.edu.

Ben Kim is a first-year from Irvine, Calif., and contributing writer for the Satire section. He can be reached at bk7114@princeton.edu.

Milica Maricic is a first-year from Kenosha, Wis. and contributing writer for the Satire section.

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New breed of spotted lanternfly even better at dodging stomps Anlon Zhu

Contributing Writer

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional.

After months of defending itself from the bottom of students’ shoes, the invasive spotted lanternfly has evolved superior escape tactics.

The new breed was discovered last Friday by Princeton’s Society of non-Territorial Organism Management at Princeton (STOMP).

A vote within STOMP named the new breed the HoppityDotty Candlefly, narrowly beating out Pretty Buttheykilltrees.

“The issue with this new invasive species, the H. candlefly, is not only

that they infest trees and crops with the same intensity as the spotted lanternfly, but they also have terribly quick reflexes and impressively high hops,” said STOMP president Eistud Yebugs ’25.

“They simply dodge when we try to step on them.”

Yebugs’s findings on the enhanced dodging capability of the candlefly have correlated with a notable decrease in lanternf ly corpses outside of Whitman College. For the first time in months, the “YES!” does not have a single red and black splotch inside its letters.

These invasive f lies have nested in trees all across campus, and their rapid reproductive cycles and high survivability are destroying the natu-

ral ecology of Princeton’s campus. High survival rates may be due to the largely uncoordinated, unathletic nature of the student body tasked with stepping on the f lies, namely Ecology and Evolutionary Biology majors.

Desperately in need of talented stompers, STOMP has formed an insect eradication task force with the Princeton TapCats, called TapCats StompFlies. They host workshops each Friday on effective stomping methodology — the innovative “hover, lower, and destroy!” method — in the Whitman courtyard.

Students who are interested in environmental action and tap dancing should sign up for the TapCats StompFlies task force.

Princeton announces new legacy-only admissions policy Liana Slomka and Hannah To Assistant Satire Editor and Contributing Writer

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional.

Last Thursday, Princeton announced that it will “end all non-legacy admissions,” starting with the Class of 2026. From now on, the University will only admit relatives of alumni, with preference given to applicants descending from several generations of Princetonians.

The decision follows Amherst College’s recent announcement ending legacy consideration in its admissions. Troubled by

the policy change, Princeton released a statement indicating a desire to forge its unique approach to admissions.

“Why should we follow in Amherst’s steps?

They’re not even an Ivy,” the Office of Communications wrote in a press release.

“We feel that the best way to continue our tradition of excellence in education is to limit our student body to those who look exactly like the generations of Princetonians who came before them,” the statement said.

The Daily PrincetOnion spoke with current applicants about the new policy.

“Princeton has been my dream school my whole

The first 100 students to join the task force will get a free t-shirt and fly swatter.

Anlon Zhu is a contributing writer for the Satire section. He can be reached at az4244@princeton.edu.

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doesn’t even make it that much easier! They haven’t even told me whether I’ll get automatic admission into the Princeton Cottage Club!”

In addition, Princeton life, but I was always wor- announced that any apried it wouldn’t matter plicant with double-legwho my grandfather was,” acy status (both parents) said Adam Firestone. “I will receive “double adjust feel so relieved.” mission” — the option Sarah Mathey, a Class of 2026 hopeful, expressed approval of the change.

“I think I deserve this as much as — if not more than — anyone else,” she said. “My parents taught me the value of struggle and hard work by making me carry their beer jackets and koozies at Reunions.”

Still, other students think the change doesn’t go far enough.

“People think it’s easy for me, since my great-greatgrandfather wrote ‘The Great Gatsby,’” said Joey Fitzgerald. “But my life has been hard! And this

Adult spotted lanternfly.

of bringing a plus one to Princeton.

Liana Slomka is an assistant satire editor from Atlanta, Ga. She can be reached at lslomka@princeton.edu.

Hannah To is a satire contributor from Easton, Mass.

She can be reached at hto@ princeton.edu.

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‘The French Dispatch’ is totally camp — but that’s what makes it so great

The day I went to see “The French Dispatch,” it was raining hard in Portland — more than the usual misty drizzle — but a long queue had already formed outside the theater more than 30 minutes before showtime. The date was Thursday, Oct. 21; the time — 7 p.m. PST, marking the first showing of the night at The Hollywood Theatre and one of the first public screenings of “The French Dispatch” anywhere.

After several COVID-related delays, the film’s release was much anticipated by critics and cinephiles alike. Originally meant to hit theaters July 24, 2020, the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021, and was officially released in the United States and the United Kingdom on Oct. 22, 2021.

Heralded as Wes Anderson’s “love letter to journalism,” the film follows the ins and outs of a fictional American newspaper called “The French Dispatch of the Liberty Kansas Evening Sun,” based out of the also fictional French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé. The entire paper — from its reporters and its founder, to its typography and layout design — draws inspiration from The New Yorker, particularly during the magazine’s mid20th century heyday when it patronized the likes of A.J. Liebling and James Baldwin. Facsimiles of The French Dispatch newspaper distributed at The Hollywood Theatre as “film programs” were printed to the exact dimensions of The New Yorker, with a stylized layout that mimicked the original.

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Anderson first discovered The New Yorker as an 11th grader in his high school library and, as an aspiring fiction writer, was especially drawn to the magazine’s short stories. Echoes of his past literary aspirations reverberate all throughout his latest film. My experience of “The French Dispatch” felt more like reading rather than watching a movie, punctuated with wonderfully literary descriptions of Ennui that are reminiscent of Charles Baudelaire or Rainer Maria Rilke.

The form of the film itself takes after a periodical: three “short stories” serve as the primary content, with brief bookends and other (sometimes literal) paratexts to help orient the viewer.

Each story, told from the perspective of the fictional reporters, oscillates between narration and live action. With a stunning array of shifting tableaux, we get the sense that we’re paging through full bleed magazine spreads.

It’s Anderson’s ability to maintain this tension between authenticity and artifice that makes his Impressionistic style absolutely perfect for a film about The New Yorker. Much like Anderson, The New Yorker has cultivated a very particular aesthetic, perhaps best characterized by the magazine’s mascot — a dandy-like figure named “Eustace Tilley.” The modern art critic Clement Greenberg once called the publication “highclass kitsch for the luxury trade,” denouncing it as a middlebrow periodical which masquerades around with highbrow (avant-garde) material. If anything, the near ubiquity of New Yorker tote bags validates his claim, suggesting that the

publication is more about style than content.

The same is often said about Anderson, too.

Many criticize the auteur for being too selfindulgent with his extravagant cinematic landscapes, at the expense of well-rounded, empathetic characters and culturally-sensitive plots.

Some argue that the romanticized portrayal of journalism in “The French Dispatch” points straight towards Anderson’s privilege undercutting all his films.

To an extent, they’re right: Anderson’s films are first and foremost a feast for the eyes, perpetuating a tradition of ocularcentrism in Western art established by white male artists — a lineage Anderson fits right into. A part of this sharp visual aesthetic is the blunt, quick-fire delivery of lines, which can make his characters seem as though they are lacking in depth and emotion.

Everything in the world of Wes is precise, calculated, and expertly staged — performative artifice at its very best. If The New Yorker is kitsch, we might say that Wes Anderson is camp.

In her 1964 essay, Susan Sontag described camp as “a vision of the world in terms of style — but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the ‘off,’ of things-being-whatthey-are-not … And the relation of Camp taste to the past is extremely sentimental … The hallmark of Camp is the spirit of extravagance.” This certainly sounds like Anderson, whose films constantly remind us that they are highly crafted, often drawing aesthetic inspiration from a bygone era.

Anderson is known for using highly saturated cotton-candy colors evocative of Impressionism (this frame at 0:24 from “The French Dispatch” reminds me of Monet’s “Impression, Sun”), as well as straight-on extreme long shots, which create his signature “dollhouse effect.” These stylistic choices — among others — not only generate the beautiful, dreamy aesthetic that so many strive for, but much like the Impressionist paintings Anderson is so enthralled by, also reveal the artifice of the medium and prevent us from accepting film as a realistic depiction of life.

Anderson hikes up this artificial stylization in “The French Dispatch” with additional post-production flourishes — superimposing headlines onto select frames, playing with the placement and appearance of captions, fading in and out of monochrome and color, and towards the end, even abandoning film altogether for animation instead. While we might view this as Anderson’s attempt to assert the autonomy of film — as well as his expertise as a filmmaker — I want to suggest that this overload of film techniques actually has the effect of making the movie seem even more bookish. The animation during the third story, for instance, is awfully similar to The New Yorker’s cartoons and illustrations.

In many ways, “The French Dispatch” is the campiest of Anderson’s films — not only in its conceptual imitation of The New Yorker via its plot, but also formally, in how the movie presents itself as more “book” (or magazine) than “film.” Does this do a disservice to journalism?

On the contrary, I think it’s what makes the movie so charming. (We also have to remind ourselves that this is a film inspired by The New Yorker, not The New York Times — we’re talking about different personas here.) Through all the gloss, it’s not The New Yorker that gets caricatured by “The French Dispatch,” but rather, the seriousness of the events and personalities the magazine documents — even the blasé city itself.

“Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature … Camp is a tender feeling,” Sontag wrote. There is no doubt that Anderson takes his art very seriously — the visual symmetry and harmony of his films indicate that extraordinary care went into the production of each frame. To dedicate an entire film to The New Yorker, then, is a declaration of love which suggests an implicit understanding of the sacrifices one must make in service of their craft.

Taken as an ode to journalism, “The French Dispatch” is suffused with emotion, purposely forgoing all seriousness so that we, the audience, have permission to view the life of a journalist through rose-colored glasses. “The French Dispatch” camps so we can enjoy ourselves and, more importantly, so we can experience the joys of modern life.

Cameron (Cammie) Lee is a Head Editor of The Prospect. She also writes about contemporary art, pop culture, film, and Asian (American) identity, and can be reached at cameronl@princeton.edu, or on Instagram at @camelizabethlee.

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The arts and humanities at Princeton, without the art museum

By Olivia Kasule | Contribuing Writer

Near the halls of Brown and East Pyne, at the heart of Princeton’s campus, lies the acclaimed Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM). However, what has previously been a hub for the arts and humanities scene on campus is currently a site of never-ending construction. The renovation of the art museum, which has prolonged its initial temporary closure, began in the summer of 2021 and is slated to finish in 2024. This, in conjunction with the shutdown of the museum during the COVID-19 pandemic, has affected the ways that many students, faculty, and members of the local community interact with the arts and humanities on campus.

Last year, the art museum abruptly closed its galleries as the world attempted to navigate a global health crisis. Consequently, many members of the Princeton community gravitated toward digital media as an outlet to continue engaging with art. Isabel Griffith-Gorgati ’21 served as the Chair of Student Outreach of the PUAM Student Advisory Board during this time and noted the important role technology played in keeping the art museum alive.

“We were able to preserve and host several online projects and events,” Griffith-Gorgati explained. From organizing a virtual Nassau Street Sampler featuring live and recorded offerings to arranging collaborative photography projects that celebrate the diverse perspectives of students by featuring their photography submissions on social media, the museum and its board members found multiple ways to bring the Princeton community together during unprecedented times.

Despite the transition to full in-person instruction this fall, the art museum continues to remain closed as it undergoes renovation under the vision of architect Sir David Adjaye. As a result, classes that usually integrated the art museum into their coursework have been forced to adapt major components of their course. Professor Brian Steininger, who teaches HUM 233: East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations alongside professor Martin Kern, discussed the difficulty of modifying their course — which heavily emphasizes the material side of East Asian culture — with various COVID-19-related restrictions still in place.

“It’s a particularly unfortunate coincidence that the closure coincides with the pandemic since we might otherwise make use of resources in New York like the Metropolitan Museum,” Steininger said.

Regardless of these challenges, Steininger and Kern have managed to preserve some of the interactive aspects of their course in unconventional ways. Alongside taking an evening bus trip to the University’s Forrestal Center to look at Chinese calligraphy, they have also started utilizing other resources on campus, such as The Rare Books Reading Room at Firestone Library, to study illustrated manuscripts and other holdings.

The museum’s incorporation of technology through online exhibitions, art-making classes, and on-demand videos has allowed it to continue connecting with members of the community; however, the unique experience of interacting with art in a physical space has been difficult to replicate through

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Sections of the stained glass sculpture in front of the Princeton Art Museum have been removed as a part of major renovations.

a digital platform. Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu, who teaches AAS 245/ART 245: Introduction to 20th-Century African American Art, emphasized the integral role the PUAM played in the learning process of his course despite its relatively small African Art holding.

“Given that most classical African art is sculptural, it is tough pedagogically to not encounter them in person and to rely on digital images alone.

No amount of high-definition imaging will prepare you for the awesome presence of the Princeton ‘Ikenga’ or the Met’s ‘Nkisi Nkondi,’” OkekeAgulu explained.

Unfortunately, due to its prolonged closure, many students, especially from the Classes of 2024 and 2025, may never have the opportunity to utilize the art museum as a resource during their time at Princeton. Hiba Siddiki ’25 told the ‘Prince’ that she feels like she is “being deprived of such an important amenity at the University.”

Former PUAM Student Advisory Board member Anika Yardi ’21 said, “It’s deeply saddening to know that the art museum I knew will never exist again, but I’m even more sad for the current students that will go the majority of their campus life without access to one of Princeton’s finest institutions.”

For many, the art museum serves as a valuable space to preserve history and culture as well as invoke meaningful thought and conversation. In its absence, the community’s relationship with art and humanities on campus will continue to be impacted.

“I think it will absolutely change the way students interact with the arts and humanities as well — for so many classes, the art museum is a vital resource that cannot be replaced,” Yardi explained.

As the arts and humanities communities at the

University continue to navigate the museum’s closure, the search for sustainable makeshift spaces for learning and engagement continues. GriffithGorati believes that there are several alternative gallery spaces off-campus, such as “the Bainbridge that will provide opportunities for students at Princeton to continue to engage in art and build community in person.” Additionally, she suggests that the closure provides an opportunity for students to “utilize other spaces on campus such as the Lewis Center and engage more in student-created art in the absence of our physical collections.”

Nonetheless, the reconstruction of the museum has sparked excitement and anticipation for the future of the arts and humanities at the University.

Steininger hopes the new museum can “find ways to encourage Princeton students to think of the collection as a resource there for them to engage with and use, like books in the library.”

The renovated museum will exchange its current design for a more modernized one that includes various new amenities such as expanded galleries, outdoor terraces, a rooftop café, and spaces for lectures, performances, and events.

Okeke-Agulu noted, “Students will find attractive spaces to hang out in the new museum. The collection will have better spaces for its reinstallation, thus making student and visitor engagement and encounters with works of art more rewarding.

Moreover, the scale and architectural magnificence of the David Adjaye-designed building will emphatically remind people that the University believes that art and the humanities matter.”

Olivia Kasule is a Contributing Writer for The Prospect at the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at ok0209@ princeton.edu.

Revisiting childhood media in the transition to adulthood

The day I got my acceptance letter from Princeton, I spent the rest of the night making my way through “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.”

In the days that followed, I reread the rest of the series. And then it was on to the Harry Potter series, then “Matilda,” and then all of “The Chronicles of Narnia.” By the time high school had let out, I’d revisited almost every single one of the books I’d loved when I was a kid.

At the time, I wasn’t sure why I was doing it.

Maybe it was just the increased free time, now that I was done with high school and had only one summer left. Maybe it was a way for me to procrastinate on packing for college. Maybe I just wanted to hold onto memories that I’d loved more than anything, ones that I still held close.

Once I’d exhausted my local library, though, I was forced to confront a totally different maybe.

Maybe, I thought, as I sat in the same library I’d been going to my entire life, surrounded by people I’d known just as long, I wasn’t ready to let go just yet. My acceptance, as thrilled as I had been to get it, meant that the idea of college had solidified into something concrete, something real.

Although Princeton meant amazing new opportunities — a chance to learn more, to connect with other people, to grow — it also meant that there were things I’d have to let go of. It meant leaving behind classmates I’d gone to school with for the past 12 years. It meant leaving behind the sleepy town I’d once daydreamed about leaving, back before the reality of it all had truly set in.

And maybe it would even mean leaving myself behind — abandoning the person I’d once been in an effort to keep up with everyone else as they grew and changed.

So I clung to my childhood books and obsessed over words I practically had memorized. I tried to pretend that time wasn’t moving steadily forwards.

Of course, there’s only so much flat-out denial can do to prevent the future from coming. The summer passed by much more quickly than I wanted it to. So, I was off, headed for a state I could barely pinpoint on a map and trying to ignore the sinking feeling of loss as I watched my home disappear from the rear window of our car.

By Thia Bian

Contributing Writer

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Time kept moving on and on. Strangely enough, I found myself settling in at Princeton, despite how quickly everything moved.

When fall break finally came around, I was faced with a free weekend for the first time in what felt like years, with no deadlines hanging over my head. I had a chance to breathe after a stressful week of midterms, not to mention a stressful month and a half of orientation and applying to clubs and trying my best to not get lost on campus. For this moment, at least, I could take some time to relax.

So I checked out “The Mysterious Benedict Society” on my phone from my hometown’s library, and I spent the next few hours reading.

I loved it no less just because I’d somehow made it through my first round of college midterms.

I loved it no less just because I’d submitted my first paper for my writing seminar with only a minor case of carpal tunnel to show for it. I loved it no less just because the world around me had changed dramatically — because in spite of everything I’d worried about, not everything about

me had to change with it.

I spent the next day finishing the rest of the books in the series. And I decided that despite everything, I wanted to have both the person I was and the person I wanted to be with me.

I want to take my past with me. I want to carry it into whatever unknowns the future takes me to next. I can be capable of change and also capable of reminiscence — I can have both, no matter how irreconcilable the two once seemed to me.

I don’t know how my next semesters will play out at Princeton. But I do know that there are some things I don’t have to change, and that at the end of it all, there will be some things that I can come home to, always. Some things will always be there, no matter the years or the distance between us — and that’s enough for me.

Thia Bian is a Contributing Writer for The Prospect at the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at cynthiabian@ princeton.edu, or on Instagram at @cynthia.bian.

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Walker Gillespie shot against Rutgers.

Soccer sweeps Cornell in key weekend matchups Women improve to 5–1 in league play with gritty win

By Eric Lee

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Contributor

A first half goal by junior forward Grace Sherman proved to be the difference maker in the Princeton Tigers’ 1–0 victory over the Cornell Big Red (1–5) on Saturday, Oct. 30 at Sherrerd Field. With the win, the team improved to 13–2–1 overall and 5–1 in conference play.

Prior to the start of the game, a celebration occurred for senior day, in which the nine seniors on the team were honored: Grace Barbara, Caroline Noonan, Aza Keohan, Amy Paternoster, Olivia Kane, Gabi Juarez, Emma Davis, Tatum Gee, and Lucy Rickerson.

Following kickoff, the Tigers got off to a strong start, creating some strong chances to score and applying pressure on Cornell’s defense. After knocking on the door for most of the first half, the breakthrough finally came in the 32nd minute. Receiving a throw-in from midfield, sophomore forward Alexis Hiltunen was able to make her way to the right edge of the box, subsequently passing it off to sophomore midfielder Aria Nagai.

Nagai then flashed some skill with a centering pass to Grace Sherman, who made a turn and tucked the ball away into the bottom left corner to give the Tigers the lead going into

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halftime.

Coming out of the half, the game became more physical as Cornell began to apply pressure of its own. The Big Red threatened from within the box multiple times, but the efforts of goalkeeper Barbara and the rest of the Princeton defense was enough to keep Cornell scoreless.

“This year our mantra is grit, so we have really been trying to embody that and make the most of every game. Sometimes we may not have the best performance, but I think we were able to show that good teams find a way to win,” said Nagai while reflecting on the hard-fought victory.

Overall, Princeton outshot Cornell 16–10, with 11 shots on goal as opposed to the Big Red’s five.

The Tigers will play their final conference game on Saturday, Nov. 6 at the University of Pennsylvania.

“It’s going to be an emotional one for a lot of our seniors since it’s the last Ivy League game,” Nagai said, “but we’re trying to finish out this tremendous season strong and keep it going in the NCAA tournament.”

Eric Lee is a staff writer for the ‘Prince’ Sports section. He can be reached at ericlee@princeton.edu.

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Women’s soccer celebrates senior day ahead of their victory.

The Princeton Tigers (10–5 overall, 5–0 Ivy) earned a hard-fought 2–1 victory against No. 20 Cornell (10–3–1, 3–2) on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 30 on Sherrerd Field. Coming into the match, Princeton sat atop the Ivy League standings with Cornell only a game behind. The intensity of the match mirrored its importance, as the teams combined for five yellow cards and a red.

During the opening minutes of the match, neither team was able to sustain possession. The ball mainly stayed in the midfield as possession switched back and forth.

The intensity of the game switched in the 27th minute as Cornell was dealt a serious blow. During a breakaway for Princeton, sophomore forward Walker Gillespie was fouled by Cornell defender Henry Hylbert, who received a red card as a result. This cemented the tide of the game as Cornell was one player down on the field for the remainder of the match. “I felt him tugging on my back so I went down, and he got a red card,” Gillespie explained afterwards, “and I knew that at that point all we needed to do was score and the game was almost over.”

Gillespie made due on this, as within the minute, he knocked a header into the right corner pocket off a corner kick by senior midfielder/forward Kevin O’Toole. It was the first goal of the match, and Gillespie’s third of the season.

Cornell countered with a number of chances in the following minutes. In the 31st, Big Red forward Emeka Eneli made a run from the midfield towards the goal while being pressured by two Princeton defenders. Eneli managed to find room to shoot to the left bottom corner but was quickly denied by senior goalkeeper Jack Roberts.

The offensive rebound was picked up by midfielder Kurt Lehmkul, but again, Cornell was denied by Roberts seconds after the first try. The Big Red managed to gain possession of the ball once more, as forward Alioune Ka picked up the deflection and moved the ball towards the right of the goal.

However, Princeton was quick to pressure the ball and force it out of bounds.

Determined to close the gap, Cornell played with vigor in the last minute of the first half, repeatedly moving the ball up the field and making several attempts to score, though to

no avail. The teams went into halftime with Princeton leading 1–0.

The Tigers’ offensive drive continued in the second half, as junior forward Daniel Diaz Bonilla scored his fourth of the year in the 55th minute to double the Tigers’ lead. After a diagonal pass to the left by O’Toole, Bonilla held the ball in his possession, waiting briefly for Cornell’s defense to overcommit before taking an open shot at the top of the net. Senior defender Alex Charles also received an assist on the goal.

With their commanding lead, the Tigers settled into a more defensive approach for the remainder of the game. However, Cornell finally snuck a goal past Roberts in the 88th minute. Eneli passed the ball to defender Connor Drought, who put the ball towards the 18-yard box. Big Red forward Griffin Gerrard was quick to react and deflected the ball just to the left of Rogers to get Cornell on the board.

Running off the adrenaline, Cornell scrambled to try and find the net again but was stifled by the Tigers’ backline. The score held and Princeton emerged with its sixth straight win.

“Cornell has a ton of really, really talented offensive players, so to keep them to one goal [...] is really a testament to our defense,” Roberts reflected. “Our backline did great. [Cornell’s] number 14 [Eneli] and number 12 [Tyler Bagley], in particular, are causing pretty much the whole country a lot of problems, so we did pretty well with them to keep them under us.”

With two games remaining and a four point lead in the standings, the Tigers only need one more league win to secure first place. The team carries a victory-only mindset heading into its upcoming matches at Penn on Nov. 6 and then home against Yale on Nov. 13.

“The goal is always to win,” said Mudashiru. “We want to make another historic season — so that’s the goal: to get two more wins and finish off the season strong.”

Julia Nguyen is a staff writer for the Sports section at the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at trucn@princeton.edu or on instagram at @jt.nguyen.

Erin Lee is a staff writer for the Sports section at the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at erinlee@princeton.edu.

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Women’s hockey starts season hot, field hockey bounces back, volleyball falls to Ivy foes

By Julia Nguyen Staff Writer

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Women’s Ice Hockey @ Yale, Brown In their season opener against Yale on Friday, the women’s ice hockey team secured a 2–0 shutout. Senior goalie Rachel McQuigge made 31 saves and earned her sixth career shutout. The Tigers scored with about three minutes left in the period as the offense intercepted an attempted clearance from Yale’s defense. Junior forward Maggie Connors scored both goals with assists from junior defender Solveig Neunzert, firstyear forward Mia Coene, first-year forward Sarah Paul, and sophomore defender Stef Wallace.

Following their first win, the team secured another against Brown. Less than a minute into the game, first-year defender Dominique Cormier scored and gave Princeton an early 1–0 advantage.

Within 42 seconds during the second period, both Maggie Connors and Mia Coene scored. The Brown Bears would score two

goals in the last two periods, but they could not close the gap. Princeton is now 2–0 in both the league and overall.

Their home opener will be against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Friday, Nov. 5 at Hobey Baker Rink.

Men’s Ice Hockey @ Army In their season opener at West Point, the men’s ice hockey team fell 1–4.

The Black Knights scored twice in the first period.

First-year defenseman Noah de la Durantaye answered with a goal of his own for Princeton in the second period with assists from senior defenseman Mark Paolini and sophomore forward Adam Robbins. Army would score twice more in the second period following Princeton’s goal.

The team will play in their first league game on the road against Brown on Friday, Nov. 5.

Women’s Volleyball @

Harvard, Dartmouth This weekend, women’s volleyball fell both to the Harvard Crimson 0–3 (23– 25, 21–25, 20–25) and the Dartmouth Big Green 2–3 (26–24, 25–14, 14–25, 14–25, 16–14).

When Harvard and Princeton met earlier in the month, the Tigers won 3–2. On Friday, the two teams were well matched in a back-and-forth battle throughout all three sets, with Princeton trailing. Junior setter Lindsey Kelly led with 27 assists, senior middle blocker Julia Schner with nine kills, first-year middle blocker/ right side hitter Mariah Haislip with six blocks, and junior libero Cameron Dames with 10 digs.

Similarly, in their first game against Dartmouth almost a month ago, the Tigers defeated the Big Green 3–0. Although Dartmouth won the first set this past Saturday, Princeton came back and secured wins in the next two sets. Dartmouth managed to close the gap

and win the fifth, earning them the 2–3 victory.

Lindsey led the game with 50 assists, junior outside hitter Elena Montgomery with 21 kills, Schner and Haislip with six blocks, and Dames with 32 digs.

Princeton is now 13–5 overall and 7–3 in the league. The Tigers will be on the road for another league game against the Brown Bears on Friday, Nov. 5.

Field Hockey @ Brown After two losses last week, the Tigers came back with a 3–0 shutout against the Brown Bears.

Sophomore midfielder/ defender Sam Davidson scored her first career goal on a penalty stroke in the second period. Junior goalkeeper Clair Donovan added to the scoreboard in the third period off of an assist from junior midfielder Sammy Popper. With less than eight minutes left in the game, junior striker Ali McCarthy secured the 3–0 win, assisted by junior mid-

fielder Hannah Davey.

The Tigers are now 6–1, trailing second behind Harvard.

They will be hosting Columbia at Bedford Field for their regular season finale on Saturday, Nov. 6.

Football @ Cornell In a Friday night game against Cornell, the Tigers maintained their undefeated record, beating the Big Red 34–16. 7–0 overall and 4–0 in the league, this is the third season in a row that Princeton has secured seven straight wins since the opener. Senior wide receiver Dylan Classi surpassed 1,000 receiving yards on Cornell’s turf.

The Tigers will be taking on Dartmouth in another away game on Friday, Nov. 5. Their next home game will be against Yale on Saturday, Nov. 13.

Julia Nguyen is a staff writer for the Sports section at the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at trucn@princeton.edu or on instagram at @jt.nguyen.

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Men’s XC wins Ivy crown; Women’s team takes second

By Emily Philippides Head Sports Editor

The men’s and women’s cross country teams hosted the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships (Heps) on Oct. 30 at West Windsor Fields, with all eight institutions partaking in the meet. Harvard and Princeton alternated first and second place between the men’s and women’s races, with the Tigers topping the podium on the men’s side but finishing behind the Crimson on the women’s side.

At each year’s Heps, points are compiled by summing the individual places of each team’s top five finishers, with the sixth and seventh-place finishers serving as tiebreakers. Men race eight kilometers and women six kilometers. The team with the least number of compiled points wins.

The men’s team crushed the field with 28 points overall, beating second-place Harvard by 15. The Penn Quakers finished in third place with 90, followed by the Columbia Lions (128), the Dartmouth Big Green (132), the Cornell Big Red (134), the Yale Bulldogs (156), and the Brown Bears (234). This is the team’s 22nd Ivy League title in program history.

The Tigers’ top five finishers were senior Ed Trippas (23:26), senior Kevin Berry (23:32), sophomore Anthony Monte (23:55), sophomore Matthew Farrell (23:57), and senior Jakob Kintzele (24:08), all of whom finished individually in the top ten overall.

Trippas, who recently represented Australia in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games after surpassing the Olympic qualifying standard of 8:22 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, crossed the finish line in second place behind Harvard’s Matthew Pereira (23:18).

His teammate Berry closely followed in third.

On the women’s side, the Tigers (68) finished in second place behind Harvard (37), improving upon their fourth-place finish in the 2019 championships. Yale (78), Columbia (89), Penn (135), Dartmouth (137), Cornell (138), and Brown (204) followed. Princ-

eton’s front runner, sophomore Fiona Max (20:26), grabbed silver behind Yale’s Kayley Delay (20:08). Harvard’s Isabell Sagar (20:31) rounded out the podium for individual finishes.

“I was proud of the work we did on Saturday,” Max said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. “We had some unexpected injuries crop up that kept us from being at our best, but we navigated the emotions of that as a team. In the end, I think Heps was a good sneak peak of the potential of this squad and a stepping stone for regionals. Now we are turning our attention to the next two weeks of training.”

Behind Max, Princeton’s topfive finishers included first-year Angie Allen (21:00), junior Abby Loveys (21:08), senior Caroline Timm (21:14), and first-year Lexi Allen (21:32).

“We have much to celebrate today as a team,” women’s head coach Brad Hunt said in a postmeet interview. “Though we fell short of our goal to be best in the Ivy League this fall, the foundation for future success has been set by a young and talented group. We cannot wait for the opportunity to … battle the best in the region for a chance to advance to the NCAA Championships.”

Up next for the Tigers is the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships on Friday, Nov. 12 in Bethlehem, Pa. The men will compete in the 10K and the women in the 6K against institutions in the U.S. mid-Atlantic region which include the Villanova Wildcats, the Penn State Nittany Lions, and the Georgetown Hoyas. The top two teams at the meet will receive an automatic bid to compete in the NCAA D-I National Championships the following weekend.

Both the men and women competed at the National Championships in 2018 but missed the team qualification standard in 2019.

Emily Philippides is a Head Sports Editor at the ‘Prince’. She can be reached at ep17@princeton.edu.

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The men’s cross country team poses after being crowned Ivy League Cross Country Champion for the 22nd time in program history.

FOOTBALL

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Princeton football looks to keep undefeated season alive against Dartmouth

By Matt Drapkin Contributor

Undefeated after seven games, Princeton will look to extend their win streak in a matchup against Dartmouth (6–1) on Friday, Nov. 5.

This is the third consecutive playing year that the Tigers have notched a sevengame win streak to start the season. By securing a 34–16 victory against Cornell University (1–6) last week, Princeton has gone 7–0 in three consecutive seasons for the first time since 1903 and is ranked 15th in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Their success thus far has been the result of solid production all around: they are ranked 9th in the FCS in both offense and defense, ahead of the rest of the Ivy League.

“The biggest thing is our effort,” said Head Coach Bob Surace ’90. “Our effort has been terrific. From the first snap at Lehigh, all the way through the last snap Friday night at Cornell, we’ve played with effort. It’s been really fun to see.”

Remaining consistent over long stretches of games has not been easy. Doing so after missing out on an entire football season adds an entirely new layer of difficulty. One of the biggest keys for keeping his team focused has been discipline, explained Surace.

“We’re doing all of the little things — not committing a lot of penalties, lining up right — that I know after not playing last year, everybody was worried about,” Surace noted.

“But our guys have done such a great job on their own during their time off to really get the details down.”

The details, indeed, have been at the forefront of the Tigers’ focus. Their red zone offense has produced no interceptions nor fumbles up to this point, while boasting 19 total touchdowns in seven games — ranking second in the Ivy League. Their aggressive defensive unit has also been top-tier. Princeton’s defense has sacked the opposing offense 25 times following the win against Cornell University, also in second place compared to the rest of the conference.

Being league leaders in a variety of categories, Surace assures, has added no external pressure.

“We say this every week: compete against yourself,” he said. “You worry about the process and the scoreboard takes care of itself. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to practice great, to hold each other accountable, to do those things, and then we get to play a really complete game in the league.”

Aside from the game plans and scouting reports, one element that will be crucial to Princeton’s success moving forward is their recovery.

“I break with the team everyday after practice, and we talk about recovery. We talk about hydration, we talk about fueling your body properly foodwise, nutritionally, we talk about sleep,” Surace explained.

Surace noted the importance of recovery both physically and mentally.

“The mental health thing is something we talk about. It’s much different from when I played here in the 1980s. If I see a guy that’s a little bit down, if we see a guy that might look like he’s struggling, you just

have conversations,” he said.

“One of the things I think Princeton can really be great at, if the students utilize the resources, is getting to the resources. And there’s so many of them. I make sure they know that they’re fully supported in that way,” he added. “This isn’t 1988 where you were looked upon as soft if you went to see somebody for help. We don’t lift without a strength coach.

We don’t practice without position coaches. If you need help academically, or any other way, utilize the resources.”

Proper recovery will be essential as the Tigers look forward toward Friday’s matchup against Dartmouth. Despite losing to Columbia earlier this season, the Big Green is rolling right now. Coming off of a big 20–17 win against Harvard last Friday, they have taken second place in the Ivy League standings, right behind the Tigers.

“Almost every year for the past five, six years — there’s always a lot at stake against Dartmouth,” Surace said. “We have such tremendous respect for them. They have a tremendous program and coaching staff. It really challenges us to be our best.”

In 2018, Dartmouth settled for second place behind Princeton in the Ivy League standings. In 2019, Dartmouth claimed first place.

Surace’s key to the game for the Tigers?

“We’re just going to have to play our best.”

Matt Drapkin is a contributor to the ‘Prince’ sports section. He can be reached at mattdrapkin@ princeton.edu.

ROWING

Women’s lightweight rowing 8+ wins gold at the Head of the Charles

By Lizzie Evanko Contributor

Princeton rowing teams traveled to Boston last weekend to participate in the Head of the Charles, the largest twoday regatta in the world.

The men’s heavyweight crew sent a 4+ and an 8+ boat, with both boats securing top10 finishes in their respective Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships. The 4+, stroked by junior James Quinlan, placed fifth overall (16:20.679), but third collegiately behind Dartmouth and Cornell. The winner of the men’s championship 4+ was a US Training Center boat featuring alumnus Andrew LeRoux ’20. The 8+, stroked by junior Floyd Benedikter, finished eighth (14:23.345), following

the University of Washington, Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, Syracuse, Brown, and Northeastern.

The women’s open crew was represented by one 4+ and two 8+ boats. The 4+, stroked by sophomore Emma Cavendish, finished eighth (19:00.166), and sixth amongst collegiate boats.

The first place boat featured Kelsey Reelick ’14 in the stroke seat. As for the 8+ championship, the 2V, stroked by sophomore Klara Thiele, placed 12th (16:40.549). The 1V boat, stroked by sophomore Lucy Koven, had an impressive second-place finish (15:48.090) behind Stanford. One of the boats behind the Princeton 1V was Rowing Canada Aviron, which was composed almost entirely by the Canadian gold-medal winning team in the 2020 Tokyo

Olympics.

“We are very excited to have a full team and get back to racing this fall & spring,“ said junior Camille Vandermeer, a member of the second place women’s openweight boat.

“The freshmen have already made a big impact on the team, and it will be exciting to see how the rest of the season progresses.”

The men’s lightweight crew sent two 8+ boats to the Head of the Charles, with both entries finishing in the top-five.

The second boat, stroked by senior Henry Vecchione, placed fifth (14:48.284). The first boat, stroked by senior George Dickinson, finished third (14:43.485), trailing behind only Yale and Cornell.

Finally, the women’s lightweight crew was represented

by a 4+ and an 8+ boat. The 4+, stroked by junior Camille Boylan, placed third (19:34.387), putting the Tigers behind only MIT and Boston University.

The 8+ overwhelmed the competition, securing a gold medal (16:37.246) and beating the second-place boat, Georgetown, by nearly 20 seconds. Junior stroke Sarah Polson, freshman Cecilia Sommerfeld, sophomore Kalena Blake, senior Rebecca Mays, sophomore Lily Feinerman, sophomore Anella Lefebvre, sophomore Bonnie Pushner, senior Daisy Devore, and junior coxswain Margaret Murphy comprised the championship-winning boat.

Murphy gushed about her boat afterwards, and recounted the exhilaration after the race: “I am so incredibly proud of my team. It was exhilarating

to race the Head of the Charles.

For me, though, the most nerve-wracking part was not even the race itself but rather the anticipation of hearing the results after finishing. As we pulled into the dock, our coach just held up one finger to let us know that we had finished in first place. The sheer joy that came over all nine of us is a moment that I will never forget.”

The Tigers will host its 13th annual Princeton Chase at Lake Carnegie on Sunday, Nov. 7.

Lizzie Evanko is a contributor in the sports section. She can be reached at eevanko@princeton. edu.