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Berman expands musical career beyond Princeton
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Michelle Obama ’85 will begin her book tour for her upcoming memoir “Becoming” next month.
Berman just returned from a performance at the Gender Unbound Trans & Intersex Art Festival in Austin, TX.
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Eli Berman ’20 goes above and beyond what University students typically do in their college music careers. The Glee Club member recently returned from being featured in a performance in Austin, Texas. Their music is known for its expressions of Berman’s queer identity. “I consider the works I write to be drafts — they’re always changing,” Berman said. Such a confession of artistry is not often voiced by classical musicians like composer-vocalist Berman. Berman’s first memories of music were of singing with their parents, who are both musicians in the band “Appalasia.” Throughout their childhood, Berman sang with various school choirs and the Pittsburgh Youth Chorus, formerly the Children’s Festival Chorus of Pittsburgh. By age 13, Berman’s classical training led them to start writing their own music, experimenting on GarageBand. By freshman year of high school, Berman had finished their first major composition, arranging Anne Sexton’s poem, “Her Kind,” to music. Since then, Berman has only continued to compose. After winning the Alex Adam ’07 Award this past summer, their performance has flourished. After working at the University of California, Berkeley under Ken Ueno, the California Institute of the Arts under Carmina Escobar, and the Voice Science Works studying vocology and the physicality of voice, Berman became a resident artist at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada for the Revolution: Resonant Bodies program. “Choral music has always been my language,” Berman said. “But everything I learned in California this summer helped me change … I’ve been able to focus on my body and my voice, [and to] experiment with my ideas of how this all relates to gender queerness and transness. I’ve been focusing this all on me as a vocalist, composer, and performer.” Following “years of constant singing that led to vocal manipulation,” the summer presented a turning point in Berman’s artistry. They explained their current experimental compositional
process as a result of “a lot of me just sitting around and thinking and making weird noises in my room and wondering what that meant.” They said that this work ethic was very against the University’s work ethic, “with its capitalistic mindset inherent in what you show [and] what can be commodified.” “I felt I was reclaiming the kind of creativity that is about my body and made by my body, moving away from this regimented kind of composition,” Berman said. Last weekend, Berman, who identifies as non-binary and transgender, traveled to Austin, Texas to perform at the Gender Unbound Art Fest. The festival was the first time that Berman has performed in an exclusively trans space. With the lyrics of their piece, “T4T” (“Trans for Trans”), Berman explored just that with vivid recollections of an inability to express their identity sexually. “Why can’t I feel trans when I f*ck? When I love?” they demand in the piece. Much of Berman’s recent work incorporates improvisation, something they have struggled with at the University. “In Princeton, I lost the impulse to improvise as I learned to become a composer, whatever that means,” Berman said. But in Austin, Berman said they were able to improvise by using the “beauty of being able to connect to this history … both in pain and pride.” Berman ultimately described their work as a process to benefit themselves. “If I’m not making this art which is useful for me, it’s not going to be useful for other people,” Berman said. While this performance in an LGBTQ-friendly space was free from the “dissonance” they typically experience as a non-binary performer, Berman hopes that they can translate emotion to an audience on a level beyond what the music sounds like. Berman sees a future in having more spaces for queer and trans music, both in Princeton and beyond. With a performance this weekend in C4, a collective in New York, and plans for curating a “B’nai Mitzvah” concert on campus in the spring semester, they are constantly refining their “drafts” while shaping a formidable space in the world of contemporary music.
Obama ’85 book tour ticket prices generate controversy By Karolein Eid Former First Lady Michelle Obama ’85 will begin a book tour for her upcoming memoir, “Becoming,” next month. The 10-city tour will travel from Chicago to Dallas to Brooklyn for 12 events in which Obama will discuss her memoir. Venues include major arenas like the Barclays Center, the Capital One Arena, and the United Center, each of which hold about 20,000 people. Since the tour’s announcement
on Sept. 12, two events have been added to the initial 10-event schedule after tickets quickly sold out for several stops. Though tickets have been on sale for several weeks, there are still plenty left. Current ticket prices, ranging from several hundred to several thousand dollars, have stirred controversy. Within hours of going on sale on Sept. 21, cheaper tickets in nosebleed sections sold out. Now, only the more expensive packages remain. Disappointed fans took to Twitter to voice their sur-
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prise. “Michelle Obama is coming to LA next month,” one fan tweeted, “but I’m broke and the tickets are $1,000.” Another wrote, “I’m a teacher in America, so I can’t even afford tickets.” Some fans even tweeted the former first lady to ask if she would buy the tickets for them. Others didn’t seem to mind the prices. One fan, who spent $450 on tickets, tweeted, “Absolutely no regrets. I hope she uses my share of the ticket money See OBAMA page 2
Cambodia opposition leader pushes for democracy By Marissa Michaels Contributor
Activist and politician Mu Sochua lived in exile from Cambodia for almost two decades after her parents disappeared under the Khmer Rouge regime. Ever since, she has fought for justice in her home country -- now working as a leader of the opposition party. She spoke about her political journey in front of an attentive audience on Thursday in her talk, “Democracy in Peril,” as part of the Woodrow Wilson School’s Joseph S. Nye Jr. ’58 International Affairs lecture series. Sochua talked about her path through government and her goals for the Cambodian people, specifically regarding democracy, human rights, and women’s rights. She encouraged audience members, most of whom were students, to get involved in political movements. Sochua is now the Deputy Leader of the opposition party in Cambodia, the Cambodia National Rescue Party. After winning election to Parliament of Cambodia in See SOCHUA page 2
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Shapiro said that the United States’s goal of stability in the Middle East is achievable.
Shapiro details U.S. data strategy in modern conf licts By Allan Shen Contributor
On Thursday, Oct. 11, politics professor Jacob Shapiro deconstructed the United States’ defense strategy and how data is used in modern conflict. He spoke about his most recent book, “Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict,” which was co-authored by Eli Berman and
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Joseph H. Felter. (Berman bears no relation to Eli Berman ’20, who is profiled elsewhere on this page.) “The upshot is that, look, there is an algorithm to restoring order locally,” he said. The United States’ goals of reduced violence and increased stability in the Middle East are achievable, Shapiro explained. Shapiro described the evoSee SHAPIRO page 2
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Sochua has been exiled from Cambodia twice.
1998, she became Minister of Women and Veterans’ Affairs under the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who still heads the government today. In 2004, she stepped down to protest corruption in the government. Sochua was again exiled from Cambodia in 2017 after a crackdown on the opposition party. Now based in the United States, she encourages the international community to put pressure on Prime Minister Hun Sen to address human rights violations. “It’s not my agenda alone. It’s a global agenda,” she said. She said she has faced arrest and exile with courage, and lost so much in her quest to secure freedom and democracy in Cambodia. “I have nothing left, but I have my soul,” Sochua said.
Sochua demands “a real government” with free and fair elections from a regime she says is “still Khmer Rougestyle.” Sochua is motivated by Cambodia’s violent history under the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979 where nearly one in four Cambodians were killed. Sochua demanded there must be “no more killing fields.” Throughout her long career, Sochua has focused on sex trafficking, poor work conditions, HIV/AIDS, and domestic violence. Sochua noted that, as a woman, “you have to be tough, but you have to be gentle.” Advocating for increased female involvement, Sochua mobilized over 1,000 women to support the opposition. Sochua fielded audience questions about non-violent movements, economic sanctions, and global threats to
democracy. She said that, though it shocks her that the current U.S. political system represents the free world, she is inspired by growing grassroots movements such as #MeToo and that of the Parkland Student Activists. Sochua said that she is cognizant that Cambodia may not achieve freedom in her lifetime. In response, her plan is to hand responsibility to younger generations. Her advice to students: “Focus, focus, focus.” In particular, Sochua said she wants people to focus on justice and balancing cultural norms with progress. “Combine your studies with your actual life,” she said. “Join the movement. Don’t wait.” And if you want to improve a system, Sochua said, go to the highest official with stories from the people. This lecture was held in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018.
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and buys something outrageously extravagant for herself.” But, according to The Washington Post, Obama will not be receiving all of the proceeds. Obama and events promoter Live Nation both said that 10 percent of the sales from the tour will be paid to “local charities, schools, and community groups.” Since the tour’s announcement, Obama has thanked fans for their enthusiasm for the tour. “Truly humbled for the response to my upcoming book tour,” she tweeted. “I can’t wait to share BECOMING with all of you & hope to see you somewhere along the way.” “Becoming” is a personal account of Obama’s child-
hood, life in the White House, and her public health campaigns as first lady. A million copies of the memoir will be donated to First Book, a nonprofit which provides educational materials to children. Obama is not the only first lady to hold a book tour. Hillary Clinton launched a 13-city tour following the 2016 presidential elections and the release of her book, “What Happened,” in which she described her election experience. Unlike Obama’s tour, events on Clinton’s tour were held in opera houses and theaters. Among the most expensive tickets sold on Clinton’s tour were $745.50 tickets for the Boston Opera House event. The tour will begin on Nov. 13, the memoir’s expected release date, and will end on Dec. 19.
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lution of U.S. defense strategy by presenting two photos of American soldiers. The first featured infantrymen from the 1st Infantry Division landing on Omaha Beach in 1944. The second illustrated infantrymen from the same division but in present-day Middle East. “The soldiers from the same organization are dramatically different between then and now,” said Shapiro, referring to the stark difference between the kind of enemies and conflicts that the 1st Infantry Division engaged with in World War II and the kind it is facing in the Middle East. Shapiro went on to describe the U.S. defense strategy against insurgents. He explained that the United States often tries strategies and initiatives that end up having insignificant impacts. One example is the Local Governance and Community Development project, a stabil-
ity program that aims to assist the Afghan government in reaching high-risk regions and to help those populations develop stability within their own region. The project hopes that these populations will become less likely to support the close-by insurgents. “The things we thought would help often did not,” Shapiro added. Shapiro also emphasized the necessity of understanding the game theoretic model that functions between the regional governments, civilians, and insurgents. Using a slideshow, Shapiro explained the model: civilians receive services from the government and the insurgents in exchange for taxes or extortions, respectively; the insurgents attack the government while the government attempts to suppress them. During this process, the civilians suffer casualties caused by both the government and the insurgency. Civilians may choose to provide intelligence to the government depending on the risks of the situa-
tion. Shapiro explained that it is important for U.S. forces to work with local civilians, particularly to help gather intelligence. According to Shapiro, U.S. forces are capable of winning conflicts on a regional level with the current strategy. But the main challenge is to win the conflict on a national scale. According to Shapiro, the biggest obstacle preventing the United States from winning a conflict on a national scale is the people who benefit from the conflict and want it to continue. This results in the fundamental misalignment of incentives surrounding the issue, which makes it difficult for the United States to find success on a national scale in these volatile regions, Shapiro said. The forum was held on Thursday, Oct. 11 at noon in Bowl A71 in the Louis A. Simpson International Building. The forum was sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Director’s Book Forum.
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A better argument for why every vote matters Hunter Campbell
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ne of the most frustrating conversations a politically engaged citizen can have is encouraging a friend or family member to vote and getting the classic “my vote doesn’t matter” response. What rebuttal do we subsequently offer these people? “Well, if everyone who said that voted, they could actually make a difference.” This argument is not likely to convince your friend, because by itself it neither disproves the relative unimportance of a single vote nor shows how a single person’s vote could bring about a more consequential number of extra votes in an election. While it is intuitively true that, say, 10,000 extra people’s votes have a higher chance of affecting an election than only one extra vote, it does not change the fact that your friend’s individual vote will almost certainly not matter by itself. At the state level — and especially at the federal level — the number of times a single vote has changed the outcome of an election is close to none. So while it
is possible that one person’s vote will directly change the outcome of an election, the chance of that happening is negligible. Yet the more people that decide to vote — even if they originally planned not to — the higher the chance that those same people will collectively impact an election. This debate can go on endlessly because neither point invalidates the other. The impasse between the view that any particular vote cast is unlikely to matter and the counterargument that all the people who hold that view could decide to vote can be easily resolved. You simply have to convince the person with the former view that voting and publicizing the intent to vote can exponentially increase the number of other people who show up to vote as well. Studies show that social pressure is an effective means of encouraging people to vote if they were previously not intending to do so. A study by Alan Gerber from Yale and Todd Rogers from the Analyst Institute found that a potential voter’s expectation of high election turnout actually increases the likelihood that they would show up to vote. It may seem counterintuitive, but people do attempt to conform to their “beliefs about what people actually do in a given situation.” If
you think a lot of people will show up to vote, you may feel like you are supposed to as well. This phenomenon helps explain the logic behind giving out “I voted” stickers on election day. Wearing one allows you to provide a visible cue that you voted, and someone seeing it may either be reminded that it is election day or may feel that they need to vote, too, since other people are doing so. It also explains why the Princeton Vote 100 campaign is giving out hats and stickers to encourage students to pledge to vote. A 2016 study found that people are more likely to vote if they know they will be asked about their voting record in the future and have a sense of pride in informing others that they have voted. When you publicize the fact that you are going to vote, be it through social media, wearing a button, putting a sticker on your laptop, or just telling your friends, you create pressure for them to vote too. These are all easy steps people can take to get others to vote without a real time commitment involved, unlike campaigning for a specific politician. Publicizing your intention to vote is exactly why your vote matters, even if your singular vote may not be the one vote that changes the outcome of a nearly tied election. Your one vote can
get others to vote. If they also choose to publicize their electoral engagement, they too can encourage others to vote. This dynamic can bridge the gap between many unengaged voters choosing to vote and one unengaged voter choosing to vote. Only by highlighting the connection between one vote and many will you be able to efficiently rebut the notion that someone’s individual vote does not matter. As the midterms approach, let your less politically engaged friends know how much impact they can have just by putting on an “I voted” sticker after they leave the polls on Nov. 6 or by reminding their own friends about the upcoming election day. A great way to encourage your fellow University students to vote is by inviting them to take the Princeton Vote 100 pledge. As more students pledge that they will get involved in the midterms, the students who are currently reluctant will feel more encouraged to go out and vote. We are fortunate to have the ability to vote in democratic elections when so many around the world do not. Let us defend the importance of each individual vote with the best arguments possible. Hunter Campbell is a sophomore from East Arlington, Vt. He can be reached at hunterc@ princeton.edu.
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Men’s XC hosts Princeton Invitational By Samantha Shapiro and Jo de la Bruyere Staff Writer and Contributor
Men’s cross country is running under the radar. Currently, the team stands right on the edge of breaking into the NCAA Top 30 rankings. But the team has its eyes set even higher, aiming for an Ivy League title, a first-place finish in the Mid-Atlantic NCAA Regional Championship, and a top 15 NCAA finish overall. The Tigers are running unnoticed for a reason: the team has deliberately raced its last two meets utilizing pack running, using the meets as opportunities for the team to gain experience running together. “That’s what we want
to do when it’s time for the conference meet,” said junior Conor Lundy. At the Spiked Shoe Invitational at Penn State, the team ran the course as a pack, with the top seven finishing within a one-second spread. More recently, at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational, the team finished in first, running on the course where the NCAA Championships will be held this November. Once again, the team pack-ran, with the top five finishing within a one-second spread. “We felt really smooth all together and felt really comfortable running as a pack,” Lundy said. “It was great to get out there to run as a team for the first time … For some guys, it was more of an all-out effort, and for others, it
was more of a tempo or workout. We fed off of each other, moving up slowly. We really built up our confidence going into the Princeton Invite.” The team has dominated the Ivy League for three seasons straight, with an Ivy League triple crown in outdoor cross country and indoor and outdoor track. However, the team graduated several key runners in 2018, including two of its top five runners from the 2017 Heptagonal Championships: Noah Kauppila and Garrett O’Toole, who finished first and fourth, respectively. Fortunately, the team is looking fast and fit with new runners stepping up. First-year Fahd Nasser, sophomore Matt Grossman, and junior Perrin Hagge have been performing
diligently in workouts; senior Jeremy Spiezio did not compete in the 2017 cross country season, but he will be crucial to the team’s success. The team returns All-American Lundy and juniors Gannon Willcutts and Viraj Deokar as Ivy League finishers from last season. In practice, the team has been gearing up for its biggest races of the season. “Our biggest races are not for another five weeks or so. We’ve been doing a lot of long workouts and tempos, as opposed to maybe some shorter, faster stuff. Now we’re transitioning to intervals and faster stuff,” Lundy explained. “We’re in that key part of the season where we make that transition and start really feeling fit.”
This Friday, the team will host the Princeton Invitational; two weeks later, it will host the Ivy Heps. The home cross country course at West Windsor Fields has been under construction but will be ready for competition on Friday. While the team has not practiced on the course yet this season, it looks forward to using it soon. “We’re going to go into it like every other team in the Ivy League,” said Lundy. “I’m excited to get back out there and I’m excited that the University has made it so we can run on it. It’s a great course to have.” Meanwhile, Lundy maintains optimistic about the future of the team’s season. “We’ll be ready to surprise some teams,” he said with a smile.
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Men’s tennis prepped for ITA Regionals By Ethan Li Contributor
Starting this Thursday, Princeton will host the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Championships for the Northeast division. In the main-draw singles bracket Princeton will be represented by first-year Karl Poling, sophomores Damian Rodriguez and Ryan Seggerman, juniors Payton Holden and Davey Roberts, and senior James Wasserman. First-years Bill Duo and Will Peters will compete in the qualifying singles group. Princeton also has three teams in the main-draw doubles section. Holden and Poling, Rodriguez and Seggerman, and Duo and firstyear Justin Barki will play doubles matches beginning Friday. This marks the first time in 11 years that Princeton has hosted the tournament, which features the best players from across the country. The Northeast region is the largest in the nation, comprising 34 programs, including all of the Ivy League colleges. Other notable schools include Bryant University, Wagner College, and St. Francis University. “The bulk of the competition for the singles and doubles title will come from the seven other Ivy institutions,” said Head Coach Billy Pate. “All eight squads have spent time in the top 50 national rankings recently and it wouldn’t be unheard of to have four to five Ivy teams make the NCAA postseason this year.” Two players from Princeton’s
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ITA Regionals team also competed in the Farnsworth Invitational this past weekend. In particular, Barki and Wasserman are coming off of strong performances
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from the invitational. Together with sophomores Noah Agarwal and Kabir Sarita, they helped lead Princeton to the tournament’s Flight Finals against Gardner-
Webb and William & Mary. “We were pleased with our results in the Farnsworth [Invitational] as we had four guys getting a high volume of play and
lots of great experience,” Pate said. “Justin Barki, one of our four first-year players, had a great tournament in both singles and doubles.” Indeed, Barki put up an impressive undefeated singles streak throughout the Farnsworth Invitational. Despite this strong showing, Barki remains pragmatic about the upcoming regional championship. “I do not have any expectations for this upcoming tournament because I know the level is very high,” he said. “I just want to perform my best and see how it goes.” Matches for the ITA Northeast Regional last from this Thursday until next Tuesday, when the finals will take place for both singles and doubles competitions. All games will be played at the Lenz Tennis Center. In the case of rain, matches will be moved to off-campus indoor sites. The doubles and singles champions will qualify for the Oracle ITA Fall Championships, set in Surprise, Ariz. next month. The team is confident about its prospects. “We’ve been putting in good work on and off the court,” Pate said. “We have four seeded players in singles — Seggerman, Rodriguez, Poling, and Roberts — who are playing well and have their sights set on doing well this weekend,” he said. Princeton’s players echo this sentiment. “The coaches have done an excellent job training us and I feel Tiger tennis will make some noise this weekend,” Duo said.
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