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Professor Sergio Verdu was dismissed from the faculty effective Sept. 24.

The injured worker was found at a construction site near Shea Rowing Center by members of the lightweight women’s crew team.

By Marcia Brown Editor in Chief

On Friday night, Assistant Vice President for Communications Dan Day confirmed that professor Sergio Verdú was dismissed from the faculty as of Sept. 24 following a University investigation into his conduct in relation to University policies that prohibit consensual relations with students and require honesty and cooperation in University matters.

A Title IX investigation also found Verdú responsible for sexual harassment of his advisee, graduate student

Yeohee Im, on June 9, 2017, but he was not disciplined beyond an eight-hour training session after accusations emerged, according to a Nov. 9, 2017, article in the Huffington Post. The University clarified on Saturday that there was in fact one stage of discipline for Verdú “that included the counseling sessions and other penalties, which the University cannot disclose because of privacy concerns for those involved,“ according to Day. Im wrote in a Sept. 28, 2018 email that she thinks the See VERDÚ page 2

Injured construction worker has died following accident

By Claire Thornton Head News Editor

A critically injured construction worker first discovered by crew team members near Shea Rowing Center this morning has died from his injuries after receiving medical treatment in Trenton.

Members of the lightweight women’s crew team first discovered the worker at approximately 8:20 a.m.

According to the team’s captain Grace Miles ’19, the team was on their morning practice warm-up run when they heard the sound of a crane and someone “screaming in agony.”

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Director Mika Godbole poses in front of the board of lineups in Hinds Plaza.

Princeton music festival features post-classical, contemporary pieces

By Isabel Ting Assistant News Editor

A low, Celtic-sounding hum, almost imperceptible over the rush of traffic, buzzed in the middle of Hinds Plaza next to the Princeton Public Library.

Over two dozen spectators sat in their chairs in the middle of the plaza, sharing earphones with

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the person beside them as the hum grew louder and changed in pitch. The spectators were the performers, and they were all humming in unison.

This was Arone Dyer’s choral piece, “Dronechoir,” one of the highlights of Unruly Sounds Music Festival. The annual festival, now in its fourth year, feaSee UNRULY page 2

Columnist Hunter Sieben argues that the U.S. government must adapt to rapid technological advances and Assistant Editor Samuel Aftel shows how Brett Kavanaugh signifies a system of toxic masculinity among elite American schools.

ed to the incident at 8:26 a.m., along with the Princeton Police Department and the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad, according to University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss.

Hotchkiss told the The Daily Princetonian in a written statement Saturday afternoon that workers from Carson Corp. told emergency workers that the man was “struck by a large beam that slipped off a truck while it was being loaded.”

First responders provided medical aid to the construction worker before transporting him to Capital Health Regional Medical Center in See CONSTRUCTION page 2

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Professor Sean Wilentz speaks on new book: ‘No Property in Man’

Naked man in surgical mask exposes himself on towpath

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Miles said herself and five other teammates promptly ran to the source of the noise and saw that a “huge” 12-foot-wide section of metal building material had fallen on a construction worker.

The construction worker’s colleagues allegedly “couldn’t hear him,” according to Miles, since they were in another area of the construction site.

Miles said that after trying to help the victim, her teammates promptly called the Department of Public Safety, which forwarded their call to 911 operators.

Officers from the Department of Public Safety respond-

“There is no other more central or urgent topic in our history than slavery,” University history professor Sean Wilentz stated at a Sept. 28 panel discussion on his most recent book, “No Property in Man: Slavery and Anti-Slavery at the Nation’s Founding.”

Standing in front of a packed audience in 120 Lewis Library, Wilentz described the work as the cornerstone of a larger project which aims to study the history of slavery from America’s founding to the beginning of the Civil War. He started this project at the beginning, with a book — published in September by the Harvard University Press — that specifically examines the role of slavery in shaping the United States Constitution.

Wilentz was joined by Allen C. Guelzo, history professor at Gettysburg College, and Rutgers University law professor Earl M. Maltz.

Their conversation was moderated by Bronwen McShea, 2018–19 associate research scholar at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

Wilentz’s book rewalks a welltreaded line in American history.

Wilentz, though, argues against the prevailing view among historians that the Constitution fundamentally endorsed slavery.

“In my interpretation, that reading misconstrues the basic documents

and debates, as recorded in particular by James Madison,” he argued. “It slights the importance of anti-slavery politics and anti-slavery thought on the framers.”

Instead, Wilentz identified the core of the Constitution’s position on slavery within a phrase placed in his book’s title: “no property in man.”

“With all the concessions that the framers made to the slaveholders, the majority of that convention deliberately refused to acknowledge slavery’s legitimacy by refusing to acknowledge the cornerstone of slavery’s legality, the right of property in man,” Wilentz said.

The founders refused to state that, under federal law, slaves could legally be considered property.

“If they had done so, they would have rendered the federal government, the new government they were creating, powerless to limit the expansion of slavery into new areas under that government’s jurisdiction,” Wilentz said.

To expand on his argument, Wilentz turned to the 1830s and 40s. He described the emergence of radical abolitionist groups and figures, such as William Lloyd Garrison, who — along with Southern political figures like John C. Calhoun — advanced the view that the Constitution was fundamentally a pro-slavery document.

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On Sunday, September 30, a woman reported that a man, wearing only a white surgical mask, exposed himself to her as she was running on the towpath south of the South Harrison Street Bridge.

According to a campus safety alert, released by the Department of Public Safety, the incident occurred at approximately 7:15 a.m.

The reporting party said that the man had hidden behind a tree and “revealed himself as she ran past.”

Apart from a surgical mask, the suspect was wearing no clothing, and his genitals were exposed.

The suspect was described as a heavy-set adult white male.

Assistant Vice President for Communications Dan Day confirmed that DPS is investigating the incident, noting that anyone who may have information regarding the incident should reach out to investigators.

In a statement to The Daily Princetonian, executive director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky wrote that there is no further information about the incident at this time. In the statement, he encouraged people to take several safety precautions while running in remote areas, including running with a partner, running in more See LEWDNESS page 3

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University’s punishment of an eight-hour training was “not appropriate because it did not have a preventive effect although an essential role of punishments is to prevent in advance further misconducts from happening.”

Verdú did not immediately respond to request for comment.

The dismissal by the University’s Board of Trustees “was recommended by the president and the provost after an investigation established that Dr. Verdu violated the University’s policy prohibiting Consensual Relations with Students, and its policy requiring Honesty and Cooperation in University Matters,” Day wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian.

Im, the graduate student who initially alleged Verdú’s sexual misconduct, wrote in an email Sept. 28 that she did not know the details of Verdú’s termination as she is currently in Korea.

“I heard today [Sept. 28] that

[the] ELE department chair announced to ELE students that Verdu got dismissed,” she wrote, adding that the University did not notify her of Verdú’s termination “in any way.”

“Before the recommendation was submitted, it was reviewed by an independent, standing committee of the faculty at the request of Dr. Verdu, and that committee agreed with the finding that Dr. Verdu violated those policies and concluded that the recommended penalty was reasonable,” Day wrote in an email.

Im wrote that the University “finally made a decent decision on Verdu’s case . . . thanks to students’ courageous voices.”

“Abuse of authority can be prevented only when there is a clear message from the institute that abuse is never tolerated,” Im wrote. “Administrators of the university should remember that the decision to terminate Verdu’s position is not a closure of the sexual discrimination issue, but rather is a baby step in the right direction.”

The ‘Prince’ reported in November 2017 that the Title IX’s panel deliberations focused on two incidents between Im and Verdú when the two were watching television alone in Verdú’s home. In the first incident, the two watched “The Handmaiden” which Im said made her uncomfortable because of its graphic sexual content. Verdú also allegedly put his arm around Im. In the second incident, the two watched a different film and Verdú allegedly wrapped his arm around her shoulders and also allegedly put his left hand on her thigh close to her underwear. In November 2017, Verdú wrote in an email that he “unequivocally den[ies] any allegations of advances, let alone sexual harassment.”

At the beginning of the spring 2018 semester, Verdú was later placed on administrative leave pending a review of his conduct regarding University policy on consensual relationships with students.

In February 2018, new allegations surfaced about Verdú’s past relationships with students, including that he was allegedly seen romantically

kissing a graduate student at a conference.

In an email to the ‘Prince’ in February 2018, Verdú denied allegations that he has had relationships with students.

Before 2016, a clause in “Rights, Rules, and Responsibilities” stated that relationships between students and professors were violations of University and professional standards, as well as potentially violations of state and federal anti-discrimination statutes. In 2016, that clause was clarified to explicitly forbid relationships between professors and graduate students under their academic supervision.

“Considering every faculty member was already obligated to have an education about sexual discrimination, I do not believe that the assailant’s misbehavior may have occurred due to the lack of training,” Im wrote in a Sept 28. email. “It happened from [Verdú’s] wrong mentality that he can take advantage of his authority over his advisees.”

Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity

Michele Minter deferred comment to Day. On Monday, President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and Dean of the Faculty Sanjeev Kulkarni clarified the minimum penalty for all cases in which faculty members are found responsible for sexual harassment is a one-year unpaid suspension from the faculty, effective immediately.

The memorandum was sent to all faculty members. According to Day, this recent action was “in response to the latest report of the FacultyStudent Committee on Sexual Misconduct, which has been examining such issues since 2014.”

As of Sept. 28, Verdú is no longer listed as faculty on the Department of Electrical Engineering’s website.

This story has been updated to reflect Vice Provost Michele Minter’s response. On Saturday, the University clarified that although Verdú’s dismissal was decided on Sept.

22, it did not take effect until Sept. 24. Additionally, the details of Verdú’s initial punishment have been clarified.

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tures a variety of post-classical, contemporary grooves, local artists, and original music from the University’s graduate music program.

In Dyer’s piece, the female performers were connected through a set of instructions on a shared Dropbox file that detailed musical cues and pitch changes for the performers to follow. Aside from the Dropbox instructions, the piece was entirely improvised — it was not rehearsed and the performers had never met before.

Dyer’s piece has been successful in other places like Berlin, explained the director of the festival Mika Godbole. Godbole added that the choir is supposed to include women of all backgrounds, “preferably as diverse as possible.”

The festival lineup also included the electro-country performers, Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves; Korean-American composer and multi-instrumentalist, Bora Yoon; the percussion duo, Arx Duo; Anaglyphs; SMPL; Triplepoint Trio; New Jersey songwriter, Matt Trowbridge; the punk-jazz band, Joy on Fire; and the New York City-based ensemble, Desdemona Quartet.

Godbole described the event as her “brainchild.” The idea for the festival came to her after an argument in a bar with one of her friends, she explained. Her friend had said that he didn’t like “new music,” and Godbole realized that many people thought like him. She wanted to change their minds.

“This music, I want it to reach other people,” said Godbole. “It

can trigger you to do things, feel things, and move in a certain way.”

“New music is not always unpleasant,” Godbole said. “This type of music can be really cool.”

When asked what genre this festival’s music falls into, she categorized it as “stuff not written by dead white guys.”

All of the performers, aside from the choral group in Dyer’s piece, are Godbole’s close friends.

The performers are all supportive of each others’ musical endeavors, she said.

Jason Treuting, a drummer for SMPL, explained that he travels a lot and often misses the performances of the aforementioned artists. However, the festival allows him to see all of the bands perform in one place. Treuting has performed at the festival each year since its inception in 2015.

Some of the spectators were returning attendees, while others stumbled upon the festival for the first time. However, many shared a passion for music.

Haim Soicher, a physicist from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, attended the event for his second year. He heard about it this year through an advertisement featured on U.S. 1, Princeton’s business and entertainment weekly newspaper.

He knows Godbole through his involvement with McCarter Theatre, where he became an usher three years ago.

Soicher added that he has been playing the violin since the age of seven and that “music is a part of [his] life.”

Another attendee, Eileen O’Neil, from New Hope, Pennsylvania, also said that she loves music and that the festival was a great way for her to spend time

in Princeton with her friends, Lynne and Paul DeLisle.

Lynne DeLisle added that she looked forward to hearing new types of music at the festival and that the warm weather was a plus. The DeLisles are from Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Godbole said that she encourages students from the University to attend, since many of the performers are their peers.

Several audience members were spotted with novels or ebooks in hand, while nodding to the beat of the music.

In fact, Godbole said that the best thing for an audience member to do is to “bring a book [or] a beverage and sit all day.” “[I] love this vibe that people can just walk by and bring their dogs and kids,” agreed Anica Mrose Rissi, a fiddler and lyricist for the band Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves. “They can sit all day or listen to a song or two — it feels like a real community event.”

Rissi has performed for the festival all four years.

Godbole hopes to expand the festival to include bands and composers in Trenton. She comes from a middle class background that financially allows her to pursue music, but she acknowledged that there are people who can’t afford to do the same.

“We’re so privileged in this community,” said Godbole, “but there are people who don’t go to this kind of stuff, and I want to take it to them.”

Godbole emphasized that the point of this festival is inclusivity and explained that she disliked going to concerts where she doesn’t feel wealthy or smart enough to attend.

“You feel like you don’t belong, and I hate that,” said Godbole. “I

just want everyone to feel like they belong with all this craziness that happens. It’s beautiful, and it’s a place for everybody.”

Godbole’s favorite part of the festival is “watching everyone do their thing and watching the audience enjoy it.”

She pointed out one of the saxophonists that was playing on stage. Godbole said that the saxophonist is usually very “quiet and introspective,” but on stage, she is “rocking it.” Godbole loves seeing different sides of musicians come to life when they perform.

The festival is not held for profit, and Godbole admitted that she usually loses money

from the event. When she is not organizing the festival, she works at Labyrinth Books, teaches for Westminster Conservatory of Music and Rowan University, and plays for Mobius Percussion, a New York City-based percussion quartet.

The event heavily depends on funding from its sponsors, which include Princeton Public Library, Princeton Sound Kitchen, Small World Coffee, and Princeton Record Exchange.

The festival was held on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Hinds Plaza. The festival is held annually either in late September or early October, according to Godbole.

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Trenton for further treatment, Hotchkiss said.

Miles told the ‘Prince’ the rest of her team’s practice was cancelled and her teammates are “extremely emotionally distressed.”

Two other members of the women’s lightweight crew team declined to comment, or did not respond to requests for comment from the ‘Prince,’ respectively.

According to Assistant Vice President for Communications Daniel Day, the construction near the boathouse involves a new power substation being built to upgrade the electrical

infrastructure on the campus.

Press representatives from Capital Health Regional Medical Center declined to comment on the condition of the injured worker when the news first broke.

Hotchkiss said that students who were nearby at the time of the accident were offered counseling through University Health Services.

The Department of Public Safety directed comment to the Office of Communications and Michael Hotchkiss.

The story was updated at 3:20 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29.

This story has been corrected to indicate the purpose of the construction. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

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USG discusses Campus Dining, fall budget proposal

By Ivy Truong Associate News Editor

The Undergraduate Student Government discussed Campus Dining, the fall semester budget, and the progress of various committees during its weekly meeting on Sept. 30.

Chris Lentz, associate director of marketing and community engagement for Campus Dining, discussed ways that Campus Dining can collect feedback and deliver news to the student body. In the past, Campus Dining has used a student advisory board and focus groups, and Lentz hopes that USG can collaborate with Campus Dining to come up with innovative ways to improve the collection of feedback.

Lentz noted that working with USG can help Campus Dining reach out to various groups on campus.

“We want to have some sort of formal process in place to help us as we’re moving forward so that we are in concert with the student body and that we’re making decisions representative of the full student body,” Lentz said.

Currently, Campus Dining has been using texting to re-

ceive feedback and noted that the majority of the feedback has been positive. The department aggregates the feedback and shares it with the team.

“That honestly has been the best part of it so far,” Lentz said.

“The positive side of it has probably been the biggest impact for our teams.”

Campus and Community Affairs Chair Caleb Visser ’20 spoke about the success of the Vote100 initiative so far, talking about a challenge where a student can invite five of their friends to take the Vote100 pledge. If all five take the pledge, then the student inviting them will receive a Vote100 hat.

Academics Chair Olivia Ott ’20 discussed the various projects that her committee is working on, including improving pre-law advising and sophomore academic advising.

Her committee is also looking at how the University does not count internships as part of its curriculum and how that may affect international students’ visa statuses after their undergraduate years.

Ott also talked briefly about the formation of a potential subcommittee that would focus on financial aid resources related

to academics at the University.

The subcommittee would cover issues such as the cost of thesis binding, Pequods, and textbooks as well as work-study. It would also be a collaborative effort among various USG committees.

“There’s a lot of very specific niche issues associated with that topic [of financial aid resources related to academics],” Ott said. “But they’re all interrelated in the sense that they’re related to the same time.”

USG Treasurer Alison Shim ’19 presented the fall 2018 budget proposal, which allocates $258,550 for the fall semester.

Shim noted that the figures on the budget are only the allocated amounts and may not be the actual amounts spent. The total available budget for the year is $460,651.

This year, USG approved $123,000 for Lawnparties.

“We’ve always just spent more in the fall than in the spring,” Shim said, noting that fall semester usually includes additional expenses, such as Thanksgiving buses and gear giveaway for Dean’s Date.

According to Shim, the budget allocation for the movies committee also increased in or-

der to provide viewings of more first-run movies, or movies that have recently been released.

The senate approved the budget proposal unanimously.

Class of 2019 Senator Nancy Wenger ’19 and U-Councilor Aditya Shah ’21 also gave a summary of the Council of the Princ-

eton University Community meeting on Sept. 24.

The senate confirmed Reilly Bova ’20 as TigerApps chair and Rhea Park ’22 and Joel Fong ’22 to the communications committee.

The next USG meeting will be held on Oct. 7.

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USG senate approved the budget proposal unanimously.

U. celebrates Facilities department with annual picnic

By Linh Nguyen Senior Writer

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The picnic took place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Poe Field.

On Friday, Sept. 28, the University hosted its annual Facilities Appreciation Picnic to celebrate the Facilities staff for their year-round work.

The picnic took place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Poe Field and offered an assortment of buffet-style foods and dozens of tables, as well as a live band composed of “different members from different departments within facilities,” according to Kristen Sobolewski, a member of the Picnic Planning Group.

Sobolewski, a former Department of Public Safety dispatcher who now works for Facilities, said that she was pleased with how the picnic turned out.

“There was good feedback from the last year that they did the picnic,” said Sobolewski. “I think people really enjoy the gathering and getting together with their em-

ployees and relaxing, enjoying the day.”

Additionally, Sobolewski noted two worthwhile additions to the picnic — raffle tickets and a sustainability effort in which staff were asked to bring their own reusable cups, utensils, and plates.

“It’s been an interesting experience,” said Sobolewski.

“The learning curve was a lot, but I think it’s a good message and people seem to be taking it in stride.”

“It’s good to get everyone together from the whole Facilities department, because we don’t really get together throughout the year for anything like this,” said Ellaree Gibbs, who has worked at the University for 32 years. “It’s good to see everyone from the different departments in facilities, and just to socialize, get to know each other, and eat good food.”

Caleb South ’19, a student volunteer at the picnic, worked at the event for his

second year in a row because he thought it has been “a really good opportunity to help.”

“People who work in Facilities do so much for us everyday and I don’t think that we realize that,” said South. “I thought that it was really the least we could do to help out with this.”

Gary Pepek, an engineer at the the Princeton Energy Plant, or “Co-Gen” Plant, also expressed appreciation for the picnic.

“I think it’s great that Princeton has gone back to doing these things, appreciating the hard work and effort that a lot of people put into this place,” he said.

Tony Brooks, another facilities staff member, echoed Pepek’s statements and said he found the picnic to be “a nice time for everyone.”

“Everybody gets together and you’re with people you haven’t seen in a while from last year,” Brooks explained.

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populated areas, and keeping a cell phone on hand to dial emergency numbers. The statement also noted that DPS offers safety classes that people can attend.

“Reiterating my letter to the editor on Friday, PSAFE’s mission is “community caretaking.” We stand ready to address any concerns members of our community may have,” Ominsky wrote.

This lewdness incident follows a similar incident that occurred on the towpath in May of this year.

A female student reported that a naked man had exposed himself to her while on the opposite side

of the canal from her. He then proceeded to take photos of her on his cell phone.

In October 2015, another lewdness incident on the towpath involved a man exposing himself to a student. The suspect in this incident was “wearing a beige-colored, dirty surgical mask, grey sunglasses, a navy blue shirt and no pants.”

Anyone with additional information about the incident is encouraged to contact the Princeton Police Department at (609) 921-2100, the Department of Public Safety at (609) 258-1000, or a confidential tipline at tipline.princeton.edu.

This story is breaking and will be updated with additional information as it becomes available.

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Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. This interpretation held that the framers had deliberately excluded the idea of property from federal law in order to limit slavery’s expansion and ultimately lead to its termination.

“Upon close re-examination of the records of the federal convention in 1787 and subsequent debates, it is this view I believe, and the words I believe are contestable, which emerges as the most accurate,” Wilentz said.

With Lincoln and Madison in mind, Wilentz re-conceptualized property as the central issue in slavery and the Constitution.

“To understand this issue, we need a little context about the politics at the time of the founding,” he added.

Wilentz stressed that anti-slavery beliefs were very new and very fierce, in the 1870s. Slave owners considered the right to own people as important as the right to own a house, and slavery opponents refused to allow the principle of humans as property to become ingrained in the Constitution.

“The heart of the book is about that battle,” Wilentz said.

Maltz then took the podium and praised Wilentz’s work, expressing his agreement with its central argument.

“The men who came to Philadelphia in 1787 did not come to the Convention for the purpose of addressing slavery,” Maltz argued. “They consid-

ered it essentially as a matter for each state to consider on its own terms.”

In agreement with Wilentz, Maltz stressed the deep divisions between slaveholders and non-slaveholders at the Convention, with many delegates going to great lengths to avoid directly addressing it.

Maltz did voice his disagreement with one of Wilentz’s arguments: the creation of the Electoral College, which he described as possibly the most decisively pro-slavery element of the Convention. According to Wilentz, the Electoral College reflected an acknowledgement that Southern leaders were unlikely to win the presidency by a purely popular vote.

“Professor Wilentz may well have overstated the significance of the rejection of the popular vote model,” Maltz said. “Even if Electoral Votes had been allocated according to the free population, admittedly different from eligible voters, Southerners are very likely to have won all of the elections to which he refers. The only exception is the election of 1800.”

Maltz also said that the popular vote model was always a “non-starter” at the convention, since it was opposed by both the Southern states and the small Northern states.

“When considered as a whole, the system established for electing the president cannot be said as being proslavery in any meaningful sense,” he concluded.

Taking the podium, Guelzo also stressed that the Constitution was created at an important historical moment, in which ingrained institutions — such as monarchy and slav-

ery — were beginning to be questioned.

“However, it is also true that what makes the Constitution remarkable is not that, at such a moment, it contained provisions that seemed to offer guarantees to slavery,” said Guelzo, “but that it contained so few of them.”

Given this lack of provisions, the Constitution may be construed as a document which built on the growing Enlightenment trend towards abolitionism.

“Taken at its worst light, however, which is how Finkleton and many modern Garrisons see it, the Constitution is a deeply flawed document which for decades was the protection of an abomination,” he said.

Guelzo disagreed, however, comparing this argument to claiming that the Titanic was built to crash into an iceberg.

“The intentions of the Constitution’s authors, and the subsequent wresting of control of government by slaveholders, were two very different matters, to be confused at our peril,” he stated.

He noted that the debates over slavery were “lengthy, bitter, and far from satisfactory for those who sought explicit protections of slavery.”

The panel, held on Friday, Sept. 28 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in 120 Lewis Library, was sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. The next program in the series, “A Morning with the Madison Program,” will be held during the She Roars Alumnae Event, at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 6.

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Brett Kavanaugh: an icon of broken masculinity Sam Aftel

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n Sept. 27, Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor at Palo Alto University, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh allegedly attempted to rape her at a 1982 high school party in suburban Maryland. Thereafter, Kavanaugh furiously denied the allegation in his own testimony before the committee. Kavanaugh has also been accused of sexual misconduct by two other women: Deborah Ramirez alleges the judge exposed himself to her at a college dorm party at Yale University without her consent, and Julie Swetnick alleged Kavanaugh was involved in a scheme to gang rape women at multiple suburban-Maryland parties in the early 1980s (although Kavanaugh was allegedly at the party, Swetnick does not claim that Kavanaugh took part in her gang rape). Kavanaugh has denied these allegations as well.

Despite the allegations of sexual violence, Kavanaugh may very well be appointed to the Supreme Court — though he has yet to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, as the confirmation vote has been delayed in order for the Federal Bureau of Investigation

to investigate the allegations.

The case raises a series of complex legal questions about how to fairly and effectively adjudicate sexual misconduct allegations in the context of the Supreme Court confirmation process. Furthermore, it has ignited a much-needed conversation about how to provide victims of sexual misconduct the space to share their stories without fearing reprisal and delegitimization. And more broadly, the case illuminates the toxic, broken masculinity of far too many young men.

One of the most disturbing aspects of the allegations is the presence of other male peers in the environment of the assaults.

Journalist Lili Loofbourow, while referring to the Ford and Ramirez allegations, noted in a recent piece in Slate: “There is no penetrative sex, there are always male onlookers, and, most importantly, there’s laughter. In each case the other men — not the woman — seem to be Kavanaugh’s true intended audience.”

In other words, the allegations suggest that Kavanaugh was motivated to assault his female peers in order to excite and impress his depraved male friends, the “onlookers.” The allegations also suggest the cowardice of these male bystanders.

Why didn’t any of Kavanaugh’s friends at these parties intervene to prevent the alleged violence?

Worse still, if the allegations are true, Kavanaugh’s friends seem to have been not just indifferent bystanders but rather enablers of

sexual assault.

Consequently, the Kavanaugh accusations exhibit the toxic performativity and groupthink of masculinity. For Kavanaugh and his friends, the public performance of masculine violence epitomized masculinity. Conventional masculinity, after all, is not an inherent birthright, but rather a hyper-fragile social construct. Many men feel compelled to submit to it, as they wonder: what is maleness without masculinity?

Proving one’s masculinity — which for many men means proving one’s social worth — requires continuous peer recognition of one’s masculine identity.

Masculinity is nothing but an arbitrary marker determined by one’s social environment. It seems that for Kavanaugh, such masculine recognition by his peers may have necessitated the alleged violation and dehumanization of women.

Heteronormative masculinity — that is, masculinity that only men who have sex with (and only with) women and who project strength and authority can claim — is institutionalized in elite educational institutions.

Kavanaugh heavily engaged in a drunken, elitist party culture during his high school years at Georgetown Preparatory School and during his college years at Yale. Such a culture also has existed at Princeton — and continues to this day.

Take a walk down Prospect Avenue on a Saturday night or enter an eating club, and you

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will most certainly observe performances of aggressive, entitled masculinity that make Princeton women (and some men) feel profoundly unsafe. And according to the 2017 We Speak survey on sexual misconduct at the University, an overwhelming number of Princeton women, as well as a large percentage of Princeton men, have been sexually violated. The survey found that: “Approximately one in four (27%) undergraduate women reported having experienced some form of inappropriate sexual behavior during the 2016-17 school year, as compared to 1 in 9 (12%) undergraduate men.”

Brett Kavanaugh, accordingly, is a product of an elite American subculture that privileges those who can claim a hegemonic, heteronormative masculinity.

While we can’t expect the U.S. Senate to hold Kavanaugh and others accountable for their misogyny, we can and must strive to empower women and men to assert their worth and express their identities outside of the imprisoning dictates of our masculine world.

Although I believe that most men are not inherently violent or predatory, many of us do not actively challenge misogyny and violent masculinity in our everyday lives — as we are far too often bystanders. I hope that changes soon, but I won’t hold my breath.

Samuel Aftel is a junior from East Northport, N.Y. He can be reached at saftel@princeton.edu.

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The U.S. Government and its growing technological illiteracy Hunter Sieban Columnist

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his past summer I had an innocent conversation with one of my relatives who happened to be struggling with connecting to the internet on her newly purchased iPhone. When I told her she needed to either use data or to connect to WiFi in order to do so, I was met with the response, “Isn’t WiFi how they hack your information?”

Although I spent a few extra minutes explaining the concept of WiFi, I was not immediately concerned.

The technological divide between age groups is often harmless and reconcilable.

However, this divide has begun to manifest outside of simple familial misunderstandings. Infamously, recent scandals involving Russian election interference through social media outlets and alleged conservative shadow banning on Twitter have exposed certain individuals to copious amounts of information about technologies they otherwise would have no reason to interact with.

Consequently, misunderstandings of the unknown have led to the development of misguided fears and notions among disconnected demographics with respect to what recent buzz phrases like “data mining,“ “social media,“ or “ad-based business models” actually entail.

As apprehensions concerning the privacy, security, and honesty of social media outlets have grown, the United States government has stepped in to assuage the damage in addition to providing potentially beneficial regulation.

Nevertheless, just as you would not entrust a serial thief to housesit, we as a public should not entrust a legislative body of disconnected senators to regulate the way firms like Facebook or Google develop their user interfaces and ad-centric business models.

Independent of Facebook’s acknowledged struggles with Russian advertisements interference during the 2016 election, the questions posed by Senators at

the hearing reinforced the aforementioned divide.

In one instance, Senator Orrin Hatch from Utah asked of Zuckerberg, “How do you sustain a business model where customers don’t pay for your service?”

Business models driven by ad-revenue and in-app purchases have existed as staples of tech giants, and social media firms in particular, for years. As such, Senator Hatch’s question did not solely communicate a current misunderstanding of how Facebook generates revenue.

In short, technology has accelerated at a faster rate than the understanding of those who constitute the legislative branch of the United States Federal Government.

This disconcerting trend was made evident during Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate hearing on Facebook’s data and advertising practices.

Until recently, this growing divide went unnoticed, either for lack of caring within the U.S. legislature or for lack of awareness of the problem’s existence. In any case, legislators need to be held accountable for maintaining a level of technological literacy prior to regulating relatively recent technological developments such as cryptocurrencies, social media platforms, and search engines. This accountability should come in the form of a reimagined educational background for politicians.

The growing embeddedness of STEM in our everyday lives also calls for

changes in the educational backgrounds of our legislators. Already here at Princeton, the Wilson School takes a relatively interdisciplinary approach by requiring coursework in statistics, economics, data science, natural science policy, and psychology in addition the expected instruction in policy and international affairs.

Gradually restructuring the mutual exclusivity of political and STEM educational backgrounds would improve the authority and interactions legislators would enjoy when interacting with Silicon Valley’s companies.

On a similar note, China’s economic eruption over the last decade has largely been fueled by technocratic leadership. Despite the Chinese government’s ignominious censorship practices and shortcomings in handling social issues, their recent success exemplifies the merits of politicians with a working educational background in STEM. Moreover, longstanding practices in society, like physical mail, have online parallels, email, that could benefit from analogous legislative protections but have been glanced over time and

again. While opening or stealing mail that is not addressed to you is a federal offense, there are no laws safeguarding the privacy of emails.

Despite daily interactions via email outnumbering physical mail, we have not seen the U.S. government act in accordance with changes in the ways people communicate, both professionally and casually. While some members of Congress have noticed the need for contemporary email privacy regulations, they are few and far between.

The most salient difference between email and mail is that the latter is delivered by the United States Postal Service (USPS) and subsequently relates to a federal agency, which warrants punishing mail theft as a federal offense.

Having said that, the government should also consider the necessity to safeguard the information transferred daily via email, due to both the quantity and sensitivity of the contents. Even rudimentary confirmation emails following an online purchase can contain one’s name, phone number, address, and credit card information.

Currently, the contents of email exchanges are left to private parties whether that entails the user or the email provider. In both instances, security settings leave much to be desired. I have observed that a large majority of email users even struggle to prevent spam from cluttering their inboxes, let alone more

nefarious communications.

As of now, regulatory trends have focused on impeding companies rather than addressing individual user interactions. New York already stamped regulations on Uber and Lyft that inhibit TLC licenses distributed to For-Hire Vehicles (FHV), thus undermining the business models that made Uber and Lyft so disruptive in the transportation industry. No longer can any individual with a car monetize that resource per request by willing customers.

In a similar vein, New York passed legislation requiring Airbnb to share its user data, shrinking aggregate demand for Airbnb’s services as customers who wanted to maintain a private corporate-client relation are now not able to do so.

In doing so, New York’s underlying motives seem targeted at preventing emerging tech-driven companies from disrupting the older institutions in New York City. Uber and Lyft represent strong competitors to New York’s taxi industry and undermine medallion owners.

Relatedly, Airbnb disturbed New York’s rent-controlled real estate gold mine. As a result, all three companies have experienced regulatory constraints targeted at limiting their influence.

Considering the foregoing, the question arises whether recent regulatory measures taken against emerging tech firms are designed to improve and protect consumers or designed to preserve dated commercial norms in the city.

Moving forward, the development of appropriate regulation for an ever-developing tech sector requires two important modifications to the current approach. First, senators must develop a greater understanding and literacy of the business models that drive modern technological firms.

Second, the legislature’s initiatives must shift from protecting the industries being disrupted to the improving consumers interactions with the new products.

Hunter Sieben is a sophomore from Ottawa Hills, Ohio.

He can be reached at hsieben@ princeton.edu.

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Football dominates Columbia in Ivy League opener, winning 45–10

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Last year’s Princeton team found itself the victim of some bad luck, losing several close games, including its Ivy League opener against Columbia. This year’s team seems to have found an effective solution to that problem: Blow its opponents out. In their Ivy League opener Friday night, the Tigers (3–0 overall, 1–0 Ivy) dominated Columbia (2–1, 0–1) on the road, winning 45–10.

Understandably, head coach Bob Surace ’90 was satisfied with the way his team is playing.

“I thought we had a terrific week of practice,” he said. “Our mindset and our focus were outstanding.”

For the second consecutive week, Princeton got off to a lessthan-ideal start, with Columbia returning the opening kickoff 91 yards to the Tigers’ seven-yard line.

“That’s two weeks in a row where we didn’t play as well as we liked early in the game,” Surace said. “Credit the other team.”

Once again, though, the Tigers quickly got back on track. The Princeton defense held Columbia to a field goal that first drive, and senior quarterback John Lovett capped off a touchdown drive on Princeton’s first possession with a 37-yard pass to senior wide receiver Steve Carlson.

From there, Columbia and Princeton traded two more scores, with Columbia scoring

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on a short run on the second play of the second quarter to make the score 13–10. After that, it was all Princeton. Lovett led the offense down the field on the next possession, scoring on a short run on fourth-and-goal after his thirddown run, ruled a touchdown on the field, was overturned by replay. Princeton would score twice more in the half to make the score 30–10 at halftime. The game never became any more interesting, as Princeton coasted through the second half en route to their eventual 45–10 win.

In what is emerging as a theme for the season, Columbia’s defense struggled to contain Princeton’s dual-threat quarterback.

Lovett wasn’t as sharp throwing

the ball as earlier this season, completing 12 of 22 passes for just 135 yards and two touchdowns, but he was highly effective as a rusher, averaging more than 10 yards per carry with 174 yards rushing on 17 carries. Although Lovett failed to connect with his receivers on many deep passes, he credited their presence on the outside for opening running lanes.

“When you have two guys on the outside in Steve [Carlson] and [senior wide receiver] Jesper [Horsted] that are such deep threats, it opens up the run game a lot,” Lovett said. “We were able to pound the rock early and set the tone.”

Surace emphasized that Lovett

energized the rest of the offense with his performance.

“When the great quarterbacks get in there, the rest of the guys’ tempo picks up,” Surace said.

Perhaps most importantly, Lovett made good decisions with the football. For the third consecutive game, he threw no interceptions, and the Princeton offense played a turnover-free game. Columbia, on the other hand, gave up the ball three times. Two of those turnovers were interceptions by junior safety TJ Floyd, who has three picks in the past two games. Despite that accomplishment, Floyd remained humble.

“I think it’s more what the coaches are doing more than

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Weekend review

Football @ Columbia W 45–10 The football team continued their string of strong offensive performances with a 45–10 victory over Columbia in the Ivy League season opener. Senior quarterback and reigning Ivy League Player of the Week John Lovett rushed for a career-high 174 yards and recorded a pair of touchdowns. He also added a pair of TD passes.

Sophomore running back Collin Eaddy contributed to the Princeton offense, rushing six times for 102 yards. This win gives the Tigers their first conference win of the season. The victory also avenges a narrow loss to Columbia from last year.

Women’s Volleyball vs. Yale W 3–1 Princeton defeated the Bulldogs 3–1 in a rematch of last year’s Ivy League playoff.

The win puts the women’s volleyball team atop the Ivy League with Cornell. The Tiger’s top three hitters dominated the offense for Princeton. Junior Maggie O’Connell, sophomore Clare Lenihan, and sophomore Devon Peterkin accounted for 52 of the 67 kills in the victory. The Tigers narrowly edged out the Bulldogs in each of the first two sets. Yale would rally to steal the third, but a strong closeout performance ensured the Princeton side a crucial victory. Next week Princeton will continue their Ivy League campaign away from home, traveling to Dartmouth and Harvard.

Men’s Soccer vs. Dartmouth T 1—1 2OT The men’s soccer team opened Ivy League action by hosting Dartmouth. The Big Green would put their stamp on the match early with two rapid goals. The quick start meant that Princeton had plenty of time to recover from the deficit. The Princeton side scored two goals in five minutes to close out the first half and even up the game. Despite a strong performance in the second-half, a third game-winning goal alluded the Princeton side. After a tough double overtime match the two teams split the points for a tie.

Women’s Soccer vs. Dartmouth W 0—0 The women’s soccer team opened Ivy League home play last Saturday, taking on Dartmouth at the Class of 1952 Stadium. The Tigers dominated the Big Green with 29 total shots, 10 of which were on goal, but were unable to knock one behind the net, and the two teams concluded the match in a scoreless draw. The team now stands at 6–2–2 overall and 1–0–1 in Ivy League play.

Men’s Water Polo vs. MIT, Brown, Harvard The men’s water polo team had jam-packed weekend with matches against MIT, Brown, and Harvard to kick off Northeast Water Polo Conference play. The team crushed MIT in the first match of the weekend on Saturday, outscoring their opponent 14 to 7. The Tigers continued this momentum into the second game of the day with a decisive 16—11 win against Brown. The team, however, fell 12—13 to Harvard in a highly contested match that concluded after two overtime periods. The Tigers are now 9—3 for the season and 2—1 in NWPC play.

Performances of the week John Lovett - 174 rushing yards, 135 passing yards, 2 TDs Senior quarterback John Lovett rushed for a career-high 174 yards and two touchdowns in the victory over Columbia.

He also recorded 135 passing yards and two passing touchdowns in the win.

Maggie O’Connell - 21 kills, 2 blocks Junior Maggie O’Connell, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, recorded 21 kills on .441 hitting to help Princeton gain a victory over Yale.

Natalie Grossi – Three-match shutout streak Junior goalkeeper Natalie Grossi extended her shutout streak to 310 minutes in last Saturday’s match against Dartmouth. The streak also includes the team’s matches against Yale and Drexel. Grossi now stands at 21 career shutouts, inching her way up the Princeton all-time list.

She’s just one shutout behind Jordan Rettig ’01 and two behind Kelly O’Dell ’84, who occupy second and first place respectively.

Field Hockey vs. Boston University W 3—1 The women’s field hockey team matched up with the Boston University Terriers last Sunday at Bedford Field. Sophomore striker Clara Roth scored the first goal for the Tigers just 80 seconds into the match. Junior striker Taylor Nolan and freshman striker Ali McCarthy added two more goals to the tally to ensure the team’s eighth victory of the season. The team is currently 8—3 overall and 2—0 in Ivy League play.

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me,” he said of his interceptions.

“They’re putting me in the right position to make a play, and I’m just doing my job.”

Surace said he stressed winning the turnover battle throughout that week and that the turnover margin was a major part of Princeton’s win. “[Last year against Columbia] we gave up four turnovers,” he said. “For us to finish with none, that plays a big role in the game.”

As strong as Princeton’s play was, there remains room for improvement. Surace cited the long opening kickoff return, as well as a blocked punt and botched extra point after Princeton’s first score as the type of mistake that needs to be cleaned up.

“I walked off the field not feeling as good as I should have, because I’m not happy about that,” Surace said.

Minor mistakes aside, Princeton’s commanding win Friday night against a good Columbia team sent a message to the rest of the Ivy League.

“That was a very impressive football team you saw there today,” said Columbia head coach Al Bagnoli, putting it succinctly.

As promising as Princeton looks, Ivy League championships aren’t won in a single game, and there is a lot of season left. The team returns home next week for its non-conference finale against Lehigh (1–3) and will play its Ivy League home opener the week after against Brown (0–2, 0–1).

Matt Payne – 10 goals The senior driver scored ten goals for the men’s water polo team this weekend.

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