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STUDENT LIFE

Photographers lecture about humanitarian undertakings

Drinking, Juuling often occur hand in hand

By Audrey Spensley Staff Writer

Three photographers trekked to the midst of the Sandinista conflict in Nicaragua, to the most violent years of the Iraq War, and to the home of a fatally ill man and his wife in China for their work.

On Thursday, Oct. 18, the three photographers — Susan Meiselas, Peter van Agtmael, and Sim Chi Yin — also traveled to the University, where they discussed humanitarian photojournalism, along with their own inspirations and frustrations with the field.

Meiselas, best known for her work documenting human rights abuses in Latin America, has also photographed women performing stripteases at New England county fairs and women in refuges in the Black Country area of the West Midlands, England.

She is currently the Belknap Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of English.

Meiselas focused on a single image she took during the Sandinista conflict, which depicted three men, their faces hidden behind traditional Nicaraguan folk masks, holding homemade bombs. The image appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine on July 30, 1978.

“Many read online and watch from afar,” Meiselas said.

Ultimately, Meiselas expressed frustration with the limits of photography.

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Youth Juul use has been called a national epidemic.

By Sarah Warman Hirschfield, Hannah Baynesan, Claire Silberman, HanYing Jiang, and Tahla Iqbal Associate News and Video Editor, Contributors

Around 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 12, a student in a Cottage Club sweatshirt handed a Wawa cashier his ID. “We only accept American IDs,” said the cashier. The student, irate, stormed out.

He was trying to buy a Juul pod — a container of flavored vaping liquid containing nicotine. The Juul, an electronic cigarette purportedly for smokers trying to quit, is a common device on college campuses. The University is no exception.

Julia Haubert, who works at Wawa, said University students make up the majority of Juul customers.

“There’s people that have come in here and have brought, like, six packs of pods as a starter,” she said. That’s the nicotine equivalent of six packs of cigarettes.

Recent data show that 14 percent of young adults reported having vaped in the last 30 days, according to Linda Richter, director of policy research and analysis at the Center on Addiction. That was back in 2014,

before Juuls hit the market, and it is the most recent data on college-aged students.

“My sense is that number is an underestimate,” Richter said. “There is new data coming out on high school students that’s showing that 20 percent are reporting having vaped in the last 30 days. There’s a good chance that it’s at least that high among college students.”

Last month, the Food and Drug Administration called youth e-cigarette use a national epidemic.

The Princeton community was so concerned about a “Juuling” epidemic in middle and high schools last year that the Princeton Police Department, the Princeton Alcohol and Drug Alliance, and Corner House, a local agency that helps youth confront substance abuse and emotional issues, hosted a forum to address the issue. Richter was invited to talk.

“Teachers were seeing kids using them in the bathrooms,” she recalled. “What really surprised people were how young the students are.”

The Daily Princetonian talked to students on campus who have become recent Juul users.

A sophomore described Juuling with a friend last year.

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“We both kind of got addicted to it over the summer,” he said.

Now, he describes his use as intermittent.

“People like doing it mostly when they’re drunk,” he explained, adding that he and two friends will go through a whole pod — which contains as much nicotine as up to two packs of cigarettes — in one night.

He spends about $30 a month on pods, which a friend of a friend supplies him. He said he was aware of the negative health consequences, but he hasn’t tried quitting.

“It’s fun,” he added. “I’m just 19 and I think I’m invincible.”

Another sophomore, who is 21, owns a Juul but said he has only used it a few times himself, citing his weak lungs.

He said he purchases pods for his underage friends five times a week.

Juul pods contain a high concentration of nicotine, the addictive chemical component in cigarettes.

“One Juul pod has about the amount of nicotine as one to two packs of cigarettes,” Richter said.

According to the product’s website, one Juul pod produces about 200 hits. In other words, in 10 to 20 puffs, one will have consumed the equivalent of a cigarette’s worth of nicotine.

The nicotine in Juuls is unlike other nicotine vapes. While most brands use “freebase nicotine,” Juul uses its patented form, JuulSalts, to deliver the compounds. JuulSalts are comparatively easier to inhale, and allow nicotine to be more readily absorbed into the blood, according to the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund.

“The addiction is extremely concerning,” Richter continued. “A good portion of the people who are using e-cigarettes and other vaping devices are

now turning to actual, combustible cigarettes, regular cigarettes. The risk is about four times higher for someone who uses an e-cigarette than who never did. And this is among people who never intended to smoke.”

Tavleen, a student at University of Michigan who asked to only use her first name, said she is addicted to nicotine, but she can go without it.

“I mean, I haven’t tried, really. There was a week when I didn’t have pods, so I didn’t use it then,” she added. She estimated that one out of every four students at her school Juuls.

“I could get cancer and literally die,” she said. “I understand the risks.”

Addiction to nicotine is not the only health concern. According to a 2016 Report of the Surgeon General, e-cigarettes can expose users to “carbonyl compounds, and volatile organic compounds, known to have adverse health effects.”

And despite the name, vapes do not contain water vapor, but rather “solvents, flavorants, and toxicants,” whose health effects are not completely understood.

Grace ’22, who asked to be identified with her first name, said she believes Juuling keeps her off other drugs.

“I don’t feel that it presents a problem to academics because you don’t get affected by Juuling,” she wrote in an email to the ‘Prince.’ “I am sure that there are some health concerns, but I am not too familiar with them.

I am very indifferent regarding Juuling, as I feel like it’s a better alternative to drugs and/or cigarettes, but it obviously still isn’t great.”

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Law professor Leti Volpp ’86 fact- New group J-Lats checks Trump’s Muslim travel ban creates community for Jewish Latinx students

By Oliver Effron Contributor

Using the term “honor killings” betrays a form of Islamophobia said Berkeley School of Law professor Leti Volpp ’86 in the latest iteration of the weekly Asian American Studies lecture series. In Thursday’s lecture, Volpp examined the Trump administration’s travel ban on Muslim-majority countries

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and discussed inherent Islamophobia concealed in the surrounding rhetoric.

Volpp — Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley — began the lecture by observing the current wave of Islamophobia in the greater context of discrimination against Asians and AsianAmericans.

Noting the similarities of the travel ban with the Chinese Exclusion Act and

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By Naomi Hess Contributor

On Friday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m., Latin American f lags adorned the walls of the Center for Jewish Life. Information sheets detailing the different countries and their Jewish communities adorned the dining hall tables, and about 300 people filled the CJL to attend the first Latinx Shabbat.

Students in attendance represented 11 different Latin American countries.

The Shabbat dinner was the inaugural event of the new student group, J-Lats, which brings together students of both Jewish and Latinx heritage.

The dinner was sponsored by the CJL, the USG Projects Board, the Latin American studies department, and the Spanish and Portuguese department.

According to the founder of J-Lats, Abraham Waserstein ’21, the organization seeks to “bridge the Jewish community with the Latino community at Princeton, but it’s also to bridge the Latino community of Princeton with the greater Princeton community as well.”

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Waserstein founded the club in the spring of 2018 when he saw that a place for students who were of both Jewish and Latinx heritage did not exist.

“The Princeton community has this rich diversity that we all agree with, but there’s more to it than what you see,” he explained.

Waserstein himself is of both Jewish and Latinx heritage. His grandparents f led Poland after surviving the Holocaust and moved to Cuba before eventually relocating to Costa Rica.

“I sometimes don’t feel perfectly a part of the Latino community here, and I don’t sometimes feel perfectly a part of the Jewish community here,” Waserstein said.

“I feel sometimes that I’m torn in between the two.”

There are plenty of other University students who share Waserstein’s Jewish and Latinx identity. He mentioned that there are more students with this “dual” identity than he could have expected. Currently, J-Lats has 23 students on its email list.

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Leti Volpp ’86 said Trump’s Muslim ban doesn’t target countries that have business ties to the president.

the internment of JapaneseAmericans during World War II, she said that the travel ban was reminiscent of prior legislation banning certain Asian nationalities from entering the United States.

She said this travel ban differs, however, in a key way — though ostensibly focused on certain countries in the Middle East, Volpp argued that the travel ban was the realization of the “Muslim ban” which President Trump had proposed during the 2016 election.

Some Muslim-majority countries, however, were excluded from the executive order’s final draft, though they seem to have an important commonality, according to Volpp. She said all of the countries omitted from the travel ban have alleged business ties to the Trump Organization — notably, Saudi Arabia, where 15 of the 19 Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were citizens.

In the second half of her lecture, Volpp looked at the nomenclature of “honor killings” and how the term betrays the Islamophobia hidden in the travel ban.

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combine Jewish and Latinx heritage, such as kosher churro study breaks and bachata dance classes at the CJL. In addition, J-Lats plans to work with the thriving Latinx community in the town of Princeton.

Because the Latinx Shabbat occurred during the First-Year Families Weekend, more than 30 families were in attendance, according to Rabbi Ira Dounn, the senior Jewish educator at the CJL. Waserstein explained that having the event during Families Weekend allowed “the broader community to know about the intersec-

tionality that exists between being Jewish and Latino.”

CJL associate director Marni Blitz said that the attendance at the Latinx Shabbat was the largest attendance at a Shabbat — apart from a Shabbat during Reunions — that she has seen in her 11 years working at the CJL. She added that she hopes that J-Lats will break the stereotypes that “all Jews come from the same part of the world, and eat the same types of food, and think the same way.”

J-Lats will receive funding from Co-Create, a CJL incubator program that gives grants to student projects. Dounn explained that J-Lats is just one example of how people do not have to conform to any particu-

lar standard “to be welcome and a part of [the CJL] community.”

Blitz echoed Dounn’s sentiments, noting that CJL does not “just acknowledge that students are from different parts of the world” but “embraces that.”

In his speech at the Latinx Shabbat, Waserstein encouraged attendees to “ask questions about the intersection between Latinx and Jewish heritage; converse with someone you’ve never met; go out of your comfort zone in pursuit of building beautiful bridges over our linguistic, cultural, racial, and religious differences.”

“Call it a mishpacha or familia — tonight we celebrate as one united family!” he said to close out his speech.

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classic tobacco. With only two of the flavors — Virginia tobacco and menthol — available in both 3 percent and 5 percent nicotine, the majority of the products are not geared toward those trying to quit smoking.

A starter pack of four flavors is also available for users that want to try them. Juuls were designed to be a smoking alternative for those trying to quit, according to the company’s website.

Fruity flavors are not allowed for other products in the industry.

“Cigarettes are not allowed to be sold in flavors other than menthol and there are no such restrictions on vaping products, so they’re sold in all kinds of yummy and enticing sounding flavors,” Richter said. These especially appeal to youth with zero-calorie sweetness and brightly colored packaging, which make pods appear like miniature accessories to be traded.

This approach to smoking is also publicized to viewers of all ages through advertisements on television, billboards, and the radio. Yet cigarette advertisements have been prohibited for years.

Free sampling of cigarettes is also prohibited by convenience stores or gas stations, but Juuls have adapted to subscription box services which effectively provide free goods to frequenters. Every sixth pack ordered to those that subscribe and autoship is free.

Although not sponsored by Juul, individual promotion of Juul products gain popularity across the internet. Young people share videos of themselves Juuling through social media and YouTube videos.

Smoking policies There are many policies that can be enacted by both government and schools to reduce the usage of Juuls among young adults.

The restriction of advertisements and the market of Juul products would severely limit young people’s exposure to the product, thus decreasing their usage as well. Richter said that e-cigarette and vaping products should warrant the same ad restrictions as cigarettes.

Richter said that the majority of individuals concerned about the prevalence of Juuling among teenagers agreed that the biggest policy recommendation would be to eliminate flavors in the sale of Juuls. Since the variety of flavors of Juuls is the main attraction for young people, eliminating the flavors would decrease its popularity among its targeted audience.

She suggested that schools can “make sure that there is prevention programs in place, educating students, and also offering students services who are addicted to nicotine … and want to quit.”

At the University of Michigan, which is a smoke-free campus, students can be seen

frequently Juuling at parties, according to Tavleen.

States and cities that have raised the minimum age have seen the problem of young people using Juuls decrease, according to Richter.

Another potential policy is to raise the minimum age to purchase Juul products. California, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, and Massachusetts have already begun this process by increasing the minimum age from 18 to 21.

Some schools have already established total smoke-free and tobacco-free campuses. As of March 2018, Yale has prohibited the use and sale of tobacco-derived products on their campus.

In addition, its student health center offers consultations on nicotine replacement therapy, which are sometimes free of charge for Yale students.

However, even school policy may not necessarily be enough to prohibit tobacco usage on college campuses.

“I rarely see people Juuling outside on campus, but it’s pretty common at suite and frat parties … Even though Yale is supposedly a tobacco-free campus, I’ve actually seen more people smoking cigarettes than I’ve seen Juuling,” wrote Laura Nicholas, a freshman at Yale, in an email to the ‘Prince.’

Back on the University’s campus, the Human Resources Office and the Office of Environmental Health and Safety both enforce a number of rules regarding cigarettes.

One of these rules requires all smokers to maintain a minimum distance of 25 feet from any building and all members to “dispose of any smoking materials in appropriate receptacles” according to the University’s Employee Health Services office. In addition, the University strictly prohibits smoking of any kind in dorms, including the use of e-cigarettes.

These policies are highlighted in the “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” handbook, which is handed to each year’s incoming first-year class.

University Health Services is the primary gateway for students and employees overcoming smoking-related problems.

In addition to this resource, the EHS office links other programs for individuals wishing to quit smoking: N.J. Quitline, Nicotine Anonymous, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J. Tobacco Dependence Program to name a few.

There still exist difficulties in enforcing the smoke-free and tobacco-free agenda. To that end, no student reported experiencing difficulty smoking on campus, and all reported starting to Juul on campus.

“It probably started with... hanging out with other people that are Juuling or at a party,” explained Tavleen. “People are like, ‘oh do you want to take a hit?’ if they know that you don’t do it.”

“You are going to cough and you start doing it more frequently and get into it and buy your own,” she added.

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the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack.

Since then, he has documented conflict zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the consequences of war in America.

Van Agtmael experienced Iraq at the peak of its violence and conflict.

“As a 24-year-old who turned 25 in Iraq, the scenes of violence I was witnessing had an incredible emotional effect on me,” he said.

Photography, van Agtmael suggested, can easily be robbed of its context and complexity, defeating the goal of the photographer.

He pointed to a photograph he took depicting an injured civilian in Mosul being treated by Americans. However, what the picture does not show is that the civilian was injured by an attack that intended to strike an American vehicle.

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Like van Agtmael, Yin stated that who her work is seen by, and how it is interpreted, is one of her primary concerns.

“It became important to me that I be read in Chinese,” Yin said.

Yin became a professional photographer after working as a traditional journalist in China for over a decade.

“There are clear limits to doing advocacy with photography and visual journalism, depending on which country and which society you work in,” said Yin, a Nobel Peace Prize photographer.

She explained that she worked in closed or relatively closed societies, like Singapore and China, where there is no free press or tolerance for different points of view.

The lectures were followed with a discussion moderated by Katherine Bussard, the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum.

Meiselas explained that Sarah Lawrence College, where she had studied, didn’t teach photography.

Van Agtmael received his B.A. in History from Yale in 2003. He added that, although he has never been interested in photography as single, “decontextualized” images, he has been interested in photography as a continuum.

Yin, who also earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in his-

tory, had similar sentiments as van Agtmael.

“Photography is about slices of time, and the preservation aspect is really interesting to me,” Yin said.

Bussard then asked about the role of writing in photojournalism, wondering how the caption and text intersects with the photograph.

Yin explained that context of the photograph is crucial, especially for a personal project. She added that for long-term projects, she writes the story herself, in addition to the captions.

Van Agtmael said that captions are complements to his photographs. For example, he spent 13 years photographing the United States and its relationship to the world, “in the shadow of 9/11,” but all the pictures altogether only add to a few seconds of those years.

“Everything that came before, came after, that I felt, that I smelled — none of that can be captured in the picture,” he added. “The role that the text ultimately plays is as a complement.”

The photographers discussed the future of their field as it relates to technology.

“Could virtual reality get us to the point of empathy we seek?

It has great potential,” Meiselas said.

The panel discussion, titled “Humanitarian Photojournalism: A History of the Present,” was co-sponsored by the Humanities Council and the Program in Journalism. The panel was held at 4:30 p.m. in the Betts Auditorium at the School of Architecture.

form of gender-based violence often against women who have brought a perceived dishonor to their family — though this definition, in Volpp’s view, is not entirely precise.

“I have trouble portraying it as a unique form of violence,” she said.

Trump included language in his executive order condemning honor killings through excluding “those who engage in acts of bigotry or hatred,” especially against women, said

Volpp.

However, Volpp explained that in the same text, Trump also writes that honor killings constitute “fundamentalist teachings,” which Volpp translated as an Islamophobic dog-whistle for his supporters.

She also noted the f laws in the administration’s claim that, annually, 23 to 27 Americans are victims of honor killings.

After viewing the sources of this statistic, Volpp discovered that none of the murders described in the reports specifically constitute honor killings or, in

some cases, gender-based violence at all.

Many audience members found Volpp’s lecture both informative and convincing.

“This wasn’t a topic I had necessarily explored before, so I found it really interesting to get a deep dive into something new,” said Jordan Dixon, Undergraduate Administrator in the Program for American Studies.

The lecture was delivered in Lewis Library at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 18.

Talks in this series are held on Thursdays.

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Since mid-June 2018, Nassau Hall — the University’s oldest and most iconic building — and the cupola that sits atop it have been undergoing major renovations. The renovations are anticipated to conclude by March 2019, although a recent University press release suggests that the renovations could wrap up earlier.

The changes include replacing the building’s slate roof and roof gutters, restoring the structure of and replacing the four clock faces on the cupola, and repainting the cupola and its weathervane. Additionally, according to Alexis Mutschler, assistant director of special projects in Facilities Operations, the renovations include safety features for workers on the building and a new lighting protection system.

The last major renovation to Nassau Hall occurred in 1960, when the roof was last replaced.

The new roof is anticipated to last at least 75 years.

Since its completion in 1756, Nassau Hall has undergone a number of renovations.

In early 1777, during the Bat-

tle of Princeton in the American Revolution, Nassau Hall was shelled with cannonballs

by American and British troops.

After significant renovations, this damage is largely invisible today. There is, however, still a small indentation on the west wing of the hall’s south side where a cannonball struck the building.

The building also survived major fires in 1802 and 1855, both of which necessitated major repairs to the building.

The cupola has been through significant changes as well. Existing in some form since the building’s original construction, the cupola is home not only to Nassau Hall’s bell but to four clocks and a weathervane.

The cupola as it appears now is similar to the cupola on the original Nassau Hall construction. But, after the fire in 1855, architect John Notman, who had designed Prospect House and Ivy Hall (the original home of today’s Ivy Club), was in charge of the rebuilding of Nassau Hall and implemented a new vision for the building.

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The cupola will be renovated with approximately 10,000 pounds of copper. When the renovated cupola is unveiled, it will no longer be the bluegreen color with which most students are familiar. Instead, the new structure will boast the shiny appearance of new copper, but will oxidize to a classic green patina in 15–20 years. The cupola houses the bell whose clapper is hidden during most of the year to prevent its theft, but it is installed for graduation and Opening Exercises.

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10 gallons of primer and 15 gallons of finish coat are needed for the cupola

21,000 slate tiles are needed for the roof

10 to 12 workers worked at the busiest stage of the project

ajor renovation since 1960 doors. The two towers themselves were designed to accommodate more accessible stairways.

The large cupola and the two towers, constructed in an Italian style, were unpopular at the time and were eventually replaced.

Approximately 10,000 pounds of copper will be used to renovate the cupola this year, according to Mutschler.

When the renovated cupola is unveiled, it will no longer be the blue-green color with which most students are familiar. Instead, the new structure will boast the shiny appearance of new copper, but will oxidize to a classic green patina in 15–20 years. Ten gallons of primer paint and 15 gallons of finish coat will be used on the cupola.

The four clocks adorning the cupola — one facing in each cardinal direction — have previously undergone two major modifications. In 1950, the clock faces were adjusted to a more modern style, and in 1980, the clocks’ interiors were digitized. The new clock faces, according to Mutschler, are being constructed by Philadelphia Custom Millwork.

The construction on Nassau Hall and its cupola is beMARCIA BROWN :: PRINCETONIAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The construction on Nassau Hall and its cupola is being facilitated by a number of different construction firms under the direction of the University’s Facilities team. Massimino Building Corporation of Pennsylvania and Bregenzer Brothers of New Jersey will be doing the work on the building, while Joseph B. Callaghan Inc. is the structural engineering firm employed on the project. The preservation architectural firm for the restoration is Mills + Schnoering Architects of Princeton.

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ing facilitated by a number of different construction firms under the direction of the University’s Facilities team. Massimino Building Corporation of Pennsylvania and Bregenzer Brothers of New Jersey will be doing the work on the building, while Joseph B. Callaghan Inc. is the structural engineering firm employed on the project.

The preservation architectural firm for the restoration is Mills + Schnoering Architects of Princeton.

The construction on the cupola, which started over the summer, was still in progress as the Class of 2022 Pre-Rade occurred in early September.

Although the Nassau Hall renovations were omnipresent during the freshmen’s ceremonial entry into the University community, many students in the Class of 2022 were unperturbed.

“I’ve never been familiar with Princeton’s traditions; it doesn’t affect me too much,” said Tanvi Kishore, a member of the Class of 2022. “Besides, it isn’t going to take up the whole four years,” she said.

Claudia Humphrey, another freshman, agreed. “I guess they’re doing construction for a good reason, so it doesn’t bother me,” she said.

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The legacy of white men Siyang Liu

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Legacy? What is a legacy?” laments Alexander Hamilton in the self-titled musical. “It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.” Though profound, this revelation doesn’t convey all sides of the story — while you may not personally experience the effects of the marks you leave behind, countless others will. The pursuit of leaving an impression on future generations is probably what motivated, and still motivates, so many people to donate to the University, in hopes that a building, or even just a plaque, will preserve their name. But there’s a glaring issue: The people whose names are currently enshrined in brick and mortar do not represent the diversity of today’s student body. Rather, we are living in the legacy of white men.

To be honest, I didn’t even notice at first. As a brighteyed frosh trying to take in all the wonders of the University, I worried more about knowing which building was

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yet the people after whom they are named do not represent the diversity of current students. In addition, many of these buildings have a tainted history: Behind these names are people who were explicitly exclusive of people of color and other underrepresented groups. Even though nowadays all students are granted equal access to these spaces, minority students must bear a burden knowing that these buildings were not built with them in mind.

If it is the wealthy and successful who endow the University with such grandeur and elegant architectural presence, then the practical absence of minority representation sends the message that those whose names do not crown these edifices (and, by implication, the groups they belong to) are typically not wealthy and not successful.

Is this what we want generations of Princetonians to take away? Sure, a lot of Princeton’s rich and famous alumni have indeed been white men, but only because for so long those were the only people Princeton accepted. Yet that no longer remains true, and these changes should be reflected in the buildings on campus.

It’s not that the University hasn’t acknowledged this

problem. It has commendably taken ownership of its history through initiatives such as the Princeton & Slavery Project, or the recent renaming of smaller spaces, like the Betsy Stockton Garden or Jimmy Johnson Arch. But this is just a start. The buildings and spaces most commonly used by students still lack diversity in representation.

I am not necessarily calling to change the names of preexisting buildings, because it is important to acknowledge history, not erase it. Rather, as the University moves forward, especially in its plans to expand campus, it should consider the importance of diversity and representation in naming buildings. To alumni who identify with underrepresented groups: Perhaps this can be the inspiration and reason for you to leave your mark.

Our surroundings shouldn’t be dominated by just the legacy of white men anymore. Our student body is far more diverse today than it has ever been before, and building names should reflect that. This is our campus — all of ours.

Siyang Liu is a sophomore from Princeton, N.J. She can be reached at siyangl@princeton.edu.

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which rather than questioning how they were named.

But one day, as I was entering the Butler side of the dining hall, I noticed with a jolt that it was named “Gordon Wu Hall.” Moreover, I looked at the plaque beside the door and realized that it said the same thing, but in traditional Chinese characters. I was shocked. Was this building named after someone who shared my heritage? Someone who I could perhaps identify with? I didn’t know … I didn’t know that was a thing.

My visceral shock at the anomaly of Wu Hall forced me to reflect on a truth whose impact I didn’t fully understand at the time: I was simply accustomed to all the buildings and spaces around me being named after white men. Take the six underclassmen residential colleges for example — all but one fit the bill.

I accepted this as a given, but I cannot do so any longer.

As University students, these buildings in which we live and love, cry and laugh, shape how we conceptualize our individual Princeton experiences. These are the names we fondly colloquialize; turning Witherspoon into “’Spoon” or redefining “McCosh” as a verb. The buildings become integrated in our daily lives,

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o one likes to be uncomfortable. We strive to achieve maximum comfort, whether by rotating through a multitude of Princeton sweatshirts or by choosing classes purely based on the number of hours of sleep they allow for each night.

Don’t get me wrong; I enjoy being comfortable, and I believe feeling comfortable on campus is a key part of enjoying the college experience. But it is important to remember that a college campus is also a place where we should be excited to have our perspectives challenged. We shouldn’t be comfortable with only seeking out safe spaces and limiting our exposure to new ideas.

We should embrace the fact that everyone has a perspective, regardless of their identity, background, or interests. While I believe Princeton facilitates an environment in which people can express individual — and sometimes controversial — opinions, I recently witnessed how a lack of open-mindedness can lead to an unnecessarily hostile environment. This was demonstrated during my first experience with a listserv debate.

The original email was a response to an advertisement of a talk by Mona Cha-

ren — a conservative author who dissects the thirdwave feminism movement through a more traditional lens — sponsored by the Anscombe Society. An individual used the platform of the listserv to share their opinion that the talk was “not a feminist event,” and warned the recipients to “not be duped by the ambiguous wording that the Anscombe society [used] in its advertising campaign.”

This response sparked a debate that opened the door to a theme introduced to Princeton by this year’s Preread: freedom to express your perspective no matter who you are.

In this particular context, a male member of the community replied with a question on whether the feminism of Mona Charen was “just a different brand of feminism, one still based in promoting the interests of women, just with a different conception of what is in the best interests of women.” The answer according to the individual who opened the debate: “If you don’t identify as a woman, I think you should take a step back and keep your opinions on what you think are the interests of women to yourself.”

I was appalled by the dismissive and disrespectful manner of the response, specifically because I had yet to witness someone at Princeton directly opposing someone’s ability to

comment on a situation.

Consequently, it is entirely inappropriate to devalue someone’s opinion solely because they do not fit in a particular box usually associated with that opinion.

In this case: a person not being allowed to share their perspective on a “woman’s issue” just because they may not identify as a woman. You don’t know what insights that person may have on the feminist movement that could have promoted a completely new way of thinking of how to solve issues faced by women. But completely shutting down a voice before hearing it does nothing but prevent a productive conversation from happening in the first place.

While the message did not appear to be aggressive, it caused any further words to be defensive over a conversation that did not require hostility. In the end, there was no agreement to disagree; instead, there was a feeling of devalued perspectives and misunderstanding. Even though I hadn’t participated directly in the debate, I finished reading the final email feeling as if my own perspective lacked value. No one should worry that there isn’t worth in what they have to share, and although Princeton works hard to encourage inclusivity in opinions, it’s a lot easier in principle than in practice.

Thus, in a community

that recognizes the importance of diversity in perspectives, it is our responsibility to recognize the value of someone else’s point of view, no matter if we agree with it or not. We are college students who are learning how to enter a world where we should expect to be challenged and changed, and one of the most important gifts free speech gives us is the ability to get comfortable with perspectives we disagree with from people we don’t expect.

As a society, we can’t pursue progress if we don’t seek out thoughts, theories, and ideas from unexpected sources. We need variety in our opinions in order to escape the echo chamber and initiate innovation, whether that leads to reaffirming our beliefs or completely changing our perspectives.

We can’t create communities that are ready to serve the nation if we aren’t ready to accept that even opinions we don’t agree with not only have a place in discourse but also often lead to conclusions that better the conversation and the individuals involved. If I’m being honest, I want to be shocked by what I hear. It’s so much more interesting than being comfortable.

That’s just my opinion.

Brigitte Harbers is a first-year from New York, N.Y. She can be reached at bharbers@princeton.edu.

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Football faces Harvard in Cambridge

By Owen Tedford Senior Writer

Tomorrow at noon, Princeton football (5–0, 2–0 Ivy) takes on rival Harvard (3–2, 1–1 Ivy) after traveling up to Cambridge on Friday. Normally, this game would be home for the Tigers, but due to the Ivy League’s changing schedule, Princeton will make the trip again. The Tigers will be looking to replicate their success from last year, when they won 52–17. In addition, this will be a chance for Princeton to continue climbing up the rankings. It has climbed to No. 18 in the AFCA Coaches Top 25 Poll. This is the team’s first time back in the top 20 since Princeton clinched the 2013 Ivy League title with a win over Yale and the highest it’s been since it was No. 15 on Oct. 23, 2006. The Tigers are also up to No. 23 in the STATS Football Championship Subdivision Top 25.

Princeton’s defense was the star in last week’s game and has been a dominant force all season. Senior co-captain Mark Fossati won the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week award with 12 tackles, two for loss, and a sack. Fossati, however, is part of a larger group that has been extraordinary statistically. Nationally, Princeton ranks second in scoring defense (8.6 points

per game), sixth in total defense (253 yards per game), and seventh in rushing yards (85.6 yards per game). This is also the first time Princeton

has held its first five opponents to 10 points or fewer since 1935, when a team that featured Pepper Constable ’36 finished fourth in the Heis-

man voting that season and went on to win the national championship.

Offensively, keep an eye out this weekend for a po-

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The Tigers will be up in Cambridge to face off against the Crimson this weekend.

tential return from senior John Lovett, who was injured against Lehigh University two weeks ago. In his absence, junior quarterback Kevin Davidson performed phenomenally in his first collegiate start, completing 26 of 39 passes for 304 yards and four touchdowns.

The Tigers’ stiff defense will be matched by a strong Harvard offense that is led by running back Aaron Shampklin. Shampklin has run for more than 100 yards three times this season, including several explosive runs highlighted by his 57-yard touchdown run last week against Holy Cross. Shampklin will pose a stern test for the Tigers’ run defense and was recognized as one of the top in the league at his position when he won the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week award the week of Sept. 17.

If you are unable to make the trip to Cambridge on Saturday, there are a number of ways for Princeton fans to watch the game across the country. With the Ivy League’s new television contract with ESPN, the game will be carried streamed live on ESPN+.

On radio, the game will be carried on 103.3 FM, which can be accessed across the country through the TuneIn App for those not in the Princeton area.

SOCCER

Men’s and women’s soccer face Harvard back-to-back on Sherrerd this Saturday

By Miranda Hasty

Assistant Sports Editor

Both the men’s and women’s soccer teams will face Harvard this Saturday on Sherrerd Field at the Class of 1952 Stadium. The men’s team will kick off the backto-back games at 3 p.m., while the women’s team will conclude the day, kicking off at 6 p.m.

Having tied with Drexel this past Tuesday, the men’s soccer team (7–4–2 overall, 2–0–1 Ivy) looks to continue its undefeated Ivy League streak with a victory over Harvard (3–9, 1–2). A win or draw would also extend the team’s current five-game undefeated streak. Following the scoreless draw with Drexel, the Tigers will only face Ivy League teams for the remainder of the season, a stretch that will commence with the highly anticipated Harvard match this weekend.

Leading the team are senior defender and midfielder Sean McSherry and senior midfielder and forward Jeremy Colvin.

Both have amassed eight points for the season, with McSherry garnering three goals and two assists and Colvin scoring four game-winning goals. Anchoring the defense is junior goalkeeper Jacob Schachner with four shutouts and a .769 save percentage.

Princeton is 42–41–9 all-time against Harvard. Each of the four previous matchups was highly contested. The Tigers beat the Crimson 3–2 in both 2014 and 2015, Harvard took the match in 2016 at 3–2, and last year’s match concluded with a 1–1 draw, leaving the classic rivalry charged for Saturday’s match.

After the men’s afternoon match, the women’s soccer team (8–3–2, 2–1–1 Ivy) will face Harvard (6–5–1, 3–0–1) in the same stadium. The game is the team’s fifth Ivy League match of the season. While the Tigers defeated Yale and Columbia, they drew with Dartmouth late last month and lost 2–3 against Brown in the team’s last home match.

Key players in the Princeton lineup will be senior forward Mimi Asom and junior goalkeeper Natalie Grossi. Asom leads the team with 10 goals, three of which she scored against Yale, and 20 points. The forward now has 41 career goals and 90 career points, placing her as third on the program’s all-time goals scored list and fourth on the career points list. Asom was also influential in Princeton’s 2015 matchup against Harvard, scoring a goal to contribute to the team’s 2–1 victory. Harvard responded in 2016 with a narrow 1–0 win against the Tigers.

Grossi has seven total shutouts for the season and 22 for her career, moving up to second on the program’s all-time shutout list.

This game is a significant one.

Not only is Harvard looking to redeem its 6–1 loss last season, but the Tigers also need to defeat their next three opponents, including Cornell and Penn, to be considered for the Ivy League title. The 6–1 tally last season, in addition to Princeton’s 5–0 win in 2006, is the largest margin of victory against Harvard in program history.

Both the men and women’s matches will be hosted on Sherrerd Field. They will also be streamed live on ESPN+.

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Men’s soccer looks to defeat rival Harvard on Saturday.

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The women’s soccer team hopes to clinch a victory against Harvard to advance closer to the Ivy League title.

Stat of the Day

100 points

Sophia Tornetta and Elise Wong of field hockey earned a combined 100 points in their careers to be selected to play in the Victory Sports Tours/NFHCA Division I Senior Game.

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