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Students protest against the University’s enforcement of Title IX regulations.

External Review Title IX reports

By Benjamin Ball Head News Editor

On Thursday, Oct. 24, the University released two reports, both authorized in the wake of student protests last semester, about its adjudication of Title IX cases.

The first report, which provides recommendations about the University’s Title IX process, was produced by an independent external review, while the second one was released by an internal Joint Committee, comprised of members of the Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct and the University Student Life Committee.

In addition to the reports, Provost and Alexander Stewart 1886

Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Deborah Prentice released an open letter to the campus community, in which she asked the administration to focus on the areas in which the reports recommend improvements. Prentice wrote that she “would like to receive advice” on the implementation of a variety of changes by the end of the calendar year.

With regards to recommended changes in the University’s adjudication processes, Prentice has asked Ramona Romero, Vice President and the University’s General Counsel, “to assess these recommendations and to advise us on how best to address them,” noting that “implementing changes in this area is especially challenging

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because such changes must align with federal regulations and guidance relating to Title IX, which are periodically revised.”

Prentice also asked Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun to present a plan for the enhancement of resources for students through the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE) program, Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS), and “new programs” by the end of 2019, with the goal of implementation by the end of the academic year.

Additionally, Prentice wrote that “[t]he reports recommend that the University explore alternative procedures and practices See TITLE IX page 2

By Zachary Shevin

Assistant News Editor

At least 65 of the Certificates of Fire Inspection posted in buildings across campus have expired. These expired certificates, however, do not reflect the results of the most recent inspections and are currently being replaced by date-free signs in accordance with permission from the municipality.

The Daily Princetonian recorded the locations and expiration dates of any fire certificates reporters encountered across campus, each of which note that the “premises were inspected and found to comply with the minimum fire safety standards as set forth in the State of New Jersey” and contain an “initial inspection

date,” a “date issued,” and an “expiration date.” According to Princeton Fire Marshal Joseph Novak, the municipality has issued over 1,000 such certificates to the University.

Title 5, Chapter 70, of the New Jersey Administrative Code states that “Upon completion of a required inspection, the local enforcing agency shall issue a certificate of inspection,” and “The certificate of inspection shall be posted by the owner of the use in a conspicuous location therein.”

All of the 65 certificates that ‘Prince’ reporters came across, which included certificates in Frist Campus Center, lecture halls, academic buildings, athletic facilities, and all six residential colleges, were expired.

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Q&A with musician Michael Mwenso

By Hannah Wang Senior Writer

Jazz band Mwenso & the Shakes is slated to perform at McCarter Theatre on Nov. 6. The group describes itself as a “troupe of global artists who perform music that merges the highest form of entertainment and artistry while commanding a formidable timeline of jazz and blues expression through African and Afro American music.” The Daily COURTESY OF SOKI YAMADA / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Princetonian had the opportunity to sit down with lead vocalist and bandleader Michael Mwenso to preview the upcoming show.

The Daily Princetonian: You were born in Sierra Leone but spent much of your youth hanging out at jazz clubs in London. Can you tell me more about how you got your start in music, and who some of your most important inf luences are?

Michael Mwenso: I was really raised in London, and London was really where the spark of music hit me. It was there that I was able to meet many great artists and musicians who influenced my life, such as James Brown, B. B. King, and Eddie Carter — a lot of musicians that I met as a child who helped me and guided me to get me to this place where I am with the See JAZZ page 2

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Shiru Cafe’s location near Brown University, which recently closed amidst the company’s shift in

Q&A with Mudd Library curators about Shiru, free café previously exhibition on 20th-century female activism

By Zachary Shevin Assistant News Editor

Shiru Café, a Japan-based café chain that serves college students free of monetary charge in exchange for personal data, had plans to open a location in Princeton this past winter. However, these plans never came to fruition, and since then Shiru has closed its three U.S. locations.

Last October, The Daily

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Princetonian reported that Shiru Café had plans to open in the winter of 2018.

At that time, Shiru had one location at Brown University, with locations in New Haven and Amherst under construction and locations at Harvard University and in Princeton in the “leasing and permitting” phases. However, by January, Shiru’s website removed “Princeton” from its See SHIRU page 4

Associate editor Rachel Kennedy responds to a recent op-ed in the Daily Pennsylvanian, while contributing columnist Kate Lee reflects on recreational reading in the whirlwind of coursework at Princeton, and columnist Sebastian Quiroz contends that during midterm season the time not spent studying can be as worthwhile as studying itself.

By Marissa Michaels Staff Writer

Amanda Ferrara and April C. Armstrong curated the exhibition “On Display: The Public Lives of 20th-Century American Women” at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. The exhibition, which includes categories like “Activism,” “Government Service,” “Political Campaigns,” “Rights,” and a rotating case about University faculty wives and staff, will be displayed until February 2020. The Daily Princetonian sat down with Ferrara, Mudd’s Public Services Project Archivist, and Armstrong,

Mudd’s Special Collections Assistant for Public Services, to discuss the curation of the exhibit.

The transcript below is edited for length and clarity.

The Daily Princetonian: Can you just talk me through what the inspiration was for this exhibition?

April C. Armstrong: So this year is the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment which gives women the right to vote in the U.S., and so this was a good time to think about women in public policy.

And the policy papers hadn’t

Today on Campus 12:00 p.m.: 2019 Princeton Poetry Festival organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Princeton professor Paul Muldoon featuring poets from around the world.

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had an exhibition drawn specifically from them in a while …

We had also been talking a lot as a staff about ways that we could bring out some of the things that weren’t so obvious in our collections, but especially the public policy papers.

Amanda Ferrara: You may know this already, but Mudd holds the public policy papers and the University Archives, and so we try and have researchers come in to use those materials as much as they’d like … This exhibition is goSee CURATOR page 4

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for resolving complaints about sexual misconduct and restoring the complainant, the respondent, and the community outside of the regular Title IX procedures.”

According to Prentice, a “working group” is already discussing this issue, but in light of the recommendations, Prentice is asking the group to “accelerate its work” and produce its own set of recommendations by the end of 2019.

She said the University community “will have many opportunities to discuss these reports as a campus community, beginning with an initial discussion at the CPUC [Council of the Princeton University Community] meeting in November.”

Prentice asked the CPUC to create a new committee on sexual misconduct, which will replace the Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct and develop “a plan for implementing the reports’ recommendations on training, communication and engagement.”

The creation of the new committee will be on the CPUC agenda at the Council’s Nov. 11 meeting.

The University undertook both the external review and the work of the joint committee after a ten-day protest, organized by Princeton Students for Title IX Reform, held outside of Nassau Hall last May. The joint committee is primarily concerned with the functioning of Title IX mechanisms at the University, along with questions of how to create additional support structures for students. The external review aims to “provide useful clarity and strengthen trust in the University’s Title IX process,” according to the initial request for the review by Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity Michele Minter.

The joint committee is cochaired by Calhoun; undergraduate Nicolas Gregory ’22; graduate students Mai Nguyen and Abigail Novick; and J. Nicole Shelton, Stuart Professor of Psychology and Head of Butler College.

Since May, the joint committee has held more than 20 meetings

“with a variety of students and administrators.”

According to the Office of Communications, the joint committee also worked with an “outside consultant,” who facilitated focus groups with “RCAs, SHARE Peer officers, student leaders from the Centers (Fields Center, LGBT Center, and Women*s Center), Graduate Women in STEM, and student protest delegates.”

The joint committee report contains 19 recommendations.

Of these, five come from the “Support and advocacy for complainants and respondents” section. These include recommendations that “the Title IX Office create a new administrative role to assist students in navigating the Title IX and appeal process” and that “current annual training for Title IX Advisers be expanded.”

The report also lists multiple recommendations in regards to “the sexual misconduct investigation, adjudication and appeal process,” “alternative (non-disciplinary) approaches to addressing harm,” and “support for mental health provided through Counsel-

ing and Psychological Services.”

On the topic of “campus climate and culture,” the committee recommended the University expand the capacity of the SHARE Office, that the SHARE and Title IX Offices expand customized information and training for graduate students, and that the University reexamine and potentially revise its definition of “retaliation” in formal policies.

The external review, meanwhile, was requested by Minter and Director of Gender Equity and Title IX Administration Regan Crotty.

According to Deputy University Spokesperson Mike Hotchkiss, the reviewers were chosen by University Provost Deborah Prentice.

“As stated in our May 10, 2019 update, Provost Deborah Prentice oversees the external Title IX review process. She selected the external review committee based on their qualifications and extensive relevant experience in this area,” Hotchkiss wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian.

The members of the external review are Amy Adelman, who serves as Deputy General Coun-

sel at Emory University’s Office of the General Counsel, Howard Kallem (ret.), formerly the Director for Title IX Compliance at Duke University’s Office for Institutional Equity, Duke University, and Laura Rugless, Executive Director and Title IX Coordinator at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Equity and Access Services.

The executive summary of the external review states that “the University has a strong Title IX infrastructure,” but “some students feel that their needs are not being met.”

The external review team, according to this summary, “identified a need to assess capacity and resources for the Title IX Office and SHARE; enhance training, awareness, and information sharing with the University community; and improve upon support services and coordination across partner offices and individuals.”

Editor’s Note: This story is breaking and will be updated with more information. Comprehensive coverage of the contents of the reports and the University’s “next steps” is to follow.

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The oldest of the 65, located in McDonnell Hall, expired in October 2007, and the most common year of expiration was 2017, with 38 certificates having expired that year.

The Uniform Fire Code does not specify penalties for not posting updated fire certificates. Principal Inspector at the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs’ Division of Fire Safety Lawrence Wheeler said that because the Code does not specify penalties for displaying fire certificates or displaying expired certificates, these offenses would be considered “general violations,” the penalties for which are set by the local enforcing office.

However, the University “recently received permission from the municipality, which administers the fire code in Princeton on behalf of the state,

to replace certificates that had inspection dates in each building with non-dated signs referring people to the inspection records,” wrote Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss in an email to the ‘Prince’.

These non-dated signs, which read “This building is inspected and maintained in accordance with the New Jersey Uniform Fire Code,” inside of a black and orange border, direct people to the University Fire Marshal’s Office to view inspection records. Signs have already appeared in at least three locations, including McDonnell Hall, Lewis Library, and outside of Fine Hall.

According to Novak, this permission came after a meeting with representatives of the University, the state, and the municipality. Because his office issues over 1,000 certificates to the University, with multiple certificates in certain University buildings, Novak explained

the difficulty that would come with replacing each certificate yearly. He added that the new procedure will prevent the University from “chasing their tails” when it comes to updating certificates.

“I’m actually pretty glad people notice that stuff. It’s pretty cool,” Novak added, “but I can assure you, you’re in a really safe place.”

Novak said that the certificates are now kept digitally at the University Fire Marshal’s Office, where the most recent inspection certificates are available.

The University is currently in the process of distributing the new signs, which direct people towards these records. Hotchkiss noted that the remaining outdated certificates do not reflect the most recent inspections, writing that all University properties were inspected at least once in 2018 and that “inspections are continuing as usual this year.”

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A Certificate of Fire Inspection in Frist Campus Center, which expired in Januaryß 2018.

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band, with Mwenso & the Shakes. It’s been a journey from London to New York to here now. It was hanging out with all these artists and musicians. It was getting to becoming a musician — a trombonist — and then having the ability to be in different bands that allowed me to fully understand music and develop into an artist who had an inquisitiveness about AfricanAmerican music. It was being in different kinds of bands and different kinds of communities, whether it was reggae bands, Afrobeat bands, or jazz bands; it all added to who I am now. So when you hear our music as the Shakes, you will hear a lot of different genres happening there, and I think of it as a tribute to me growing up and saturating myself in

music in certain ways that really propelled me to be who I am today.

DP: You are now the leader and lead vocalist of the jazz band Mwenso & the Shakes. When and how did this group come together?

MM: When I was asked

by Wynston Marsalis in 2010 to come work in New York City at Jazz at Lincoln Center, that was really the meeting point for how the Shakes really developed and grew. Out of me creating a scene there and, through the scene, a community that allowed me to find the Shakes and connect and bring them together as a band. We have Ruben Fox from London on the tenor saxophone, Vuyo Sotashe as a great vocalist and amazing human being, Michela Lerman the tap dancer, Julian Lee on the saxophone, Mathis Picard who is on piano, drums is Kyle Poole from

Los Angeles, and on bass, Russell Hall from Kingston, Jamaica.

DP: You recently released your debut album, “Emergence.” What was the process of recording it like, and what do you hope listeners will appreciate or get out of it?

MM: It’s taken years for us to get to this point. The process is like how the album is titled; it has been a process of coming into being, and there is something that has been very natural about it too. It has been very natural for us to develop and create a band that is unique in this way.

I pray and hope that people get from it a deeper knowledge of the history of the music and the culture that also is able to give them a wanting to know more about it — not just about the Harlem Renaissance, but also about African-American history

and culture.

DP: You are coming to McCarter Theater on November 6 as part of your Harlem 100 tour. Can you tell more about what this tour is about, and what we should be looking forward to in November?

MM: You should be looking forward to a musical celebration that will depict and point out the premier artists of that time, not only who they were but also their importance.

We do it in a way that will have some historical narratives, but it will also have some modernist qualities to it too, in the sense of the way that we present the music and the way we perform it. That will be different. It won’t just sound like the way it did in 1934.

DP: Is there anything else coming up for your group, or anything that we should be following?

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What are your hopes for the near and distant future?

MM: We’ve got some things in the pipelines.

We just got considered for a Grammy nomination, which we are excited about. We don’t know how far we are going to get, but we are excited. Also, we have a big production that we are looking forward to doing next year in January at an institution called the National Sawdust in Brooklyn. We are looking forward to writing lots of original music. I just want us to make as big an impact as we can, to do it with definitiveness, and to be able to make people think and feel and think about music differently.

DP: Is there anything else you would like to add?

MM: Come see us. Come support the band. Come support the show.

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ing to be a good way for us to try and reach out as much as we can, in another sense to let people know what we have and how they can use collections differently.

There’s also a lot of conversations going on professionally about how to do this within the archives profession and library science profession, about how we can use collections in a different manner to show the wide range of topics and subjects and experiences that people have in their everyday lives that are that are documented and archival materials.

“Our Locations” page, and, this September, The Brown Daily Herald reported that Shiru would be closing all U.S. locations.

At the Providence location, Shiru served free coffee (one cup every two hours) to any student who completed a Shiru “resume” with their name, email address, major, class year, and professional interests of technical skills.

With the mission of “[creating] a place where students can learn about the professional world and envision their future careers,” Shiru’s main source of revenue at its Japanese and Indian locations is sponsorship. At these locations, Shiru trains its baristas to provide explanations about the sponsor corporations and holds events where company representatives can interact directly with students.

Shiru currently has 19 locations in Japan and six in India, with three more Indian locations currently listed as “Coming Soon.” At the time of previous reporting by the ‘Prince,’ Shiru had a singular U.S. location at Brown Uni-

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DP: And can you tell me more about these instructional courses?

AF: We are open to everyone on campus if they want to have an instruction session.

Professors usually reach out to us if they think that there’s an overlap with the subject materials that we have. We love when there’s an overlap, but it’s also really fulfilling when there isn’t and we can make a connection ... We have the students come in and we try and have a mock Reading Room session … So we love teaching history courses, but we’ve also done a lot of other ones too.

So religion and linguistics, visual arts, politics, first-year seminars, things like that.

DP: Can you walk me through the process of selecting materials for this and displaying it?

AF: Sure. I think part of it is in our everyday lives and helping researchers find materials and us doing our own personal research here and answering reference questions, we find things that really spark our interest and we keep internal notes … And so in finding materials for those, you come across other stuff, and so we had a sense of what was here, but it also required a lot of research for us in searching different names, topics, subjects, dates, and then going and making a whole list of those and then going into the boxes to find those materials to see was it visually appealing, does it connect to our top-

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A photobook from the “Government Service” section of the exhibition.

ic, does it add anything to our entire subject? If it did, then we made note of it and kept it. And then you just kind of parse through that bit by bit, layer by layer, until you come up with a core set of materials that really get your point across. So it really took a lot of work and labor and love for us to do it.

AA: I manage the blog here on social media. And so the way I get topics for the blogs is varied ... People might ask a question, like people can email us and ask us to look for things for them, and I went to look for things. And in one case, I looked for things in a box that I saw had a lot of photographs of women and I got really curious about the Ivy Lee papers. He was a manager of a PR firm that represented a variety of government clients, but one of them was [the] Long Island Railroad, and so I got really drawn into that, and I wrote a blog about the women who worked for the Long Island Railroad in 1942.

So its exposure and paying attention to some extent, but there is also that and like, once you’ve decided we want to try finding material related to this, you intentionally go through based on what you think could be there and you hope is there and then make decisions based on what you see. I think a lot of people might not think about it too much. But there’s a lot of stuff that is really interesting that wouldn’t go in an exhibit because it doesn’t have much visual interest. Just a lot of typed sheets of paper wouldn’t

be something people would want to come and look at so there’s a lot of sifting.

DP: And how long did this process take?

AF: We chatted about what could go into the cases next in January. And we made a plan in March and we started working on it in April, May. And it took longer than we thought.

DP: What would you say your goals are for this exhibition?

AA: There are a couple of things. So one is that public policy is a lot of different things. It’s not just somebody who’s running for public office and gets elected, works for the government or is appointed, like Secretary of State ...

But there’s a lot of things that influence public policy and a lot of different ways to engage with it. And women have been involved with that for a very long time, even before the major women’s rights movement when people are really starting to see women involved in those sorts of things, but well before that. There are a lot of ways to shape public policy.

And also that there is a lot of material for this topic within the collections that we have. And then perhaps more generally, we hope to inspire people to think about our collections in some different and new ways. Maybe they could find something on a different topic, if they just explored and went at it from another angle, and we’re happy to help people do that.

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Photos of the workers on the Long Island Railroad from the “Work” section of the exhibition.

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versity and an estimated 76 percent of the Brown student body had registered as cafe members.

Also at that point, Shiru had yet to secure any corporate sponsors for its U.S. locations. However, The Herald reported in early September that the café had established partnerships with Upserve, Service After Service, and Wirecard and expected “twenty to twenty-five [sponsorships] by the end of the year” at the three New-England based cafés.

Since then, all three of Shiru’s U.S. locations have closed.

One reason for the business’s financial trouble, according to reporting from The Herald, was “a ‘more elaborate and sophisticated’ espresso-based coffee culture in the U.S.’” The specific reasons for Shiru’s decision to give up on opening a location in Princeton are unknown.

Shiru’s U.S. Director of Operations Keith Maher did not respond to request for comment from the ‘Prince.’ However, in an email to The Herald, Maher wrote that Shiru will close its U.S. locations to “remain focused on ‘continued growth’ in Japan and India.”

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A case for reading Kate Lee

Contributing Columnist

Printed on a pair of socks in Labyrinth Bookstore is “so many books, so little time.” It’s a cute, positive sentiment: when you love books, the pile to read seems endless and exciting. But when I passed it last week, the phrase hit home differently.

Like many other students, I’ve loved books for a while. Throughout high school, I was always in the middle of a book, picking one up after I’d put another down. I tried to make sure I was reading just for the sake of it, attending book clubs and book festivals. When I came to Princeton as a prospective English major, I thought it’d be a dream — I’d be reading more than ever.

But it was only last week that I realized I hadn’t read a book for fun since coming to college. I felt so chased by all the reading I had to do for classes, and when I brief ly thought of finding another book on my own, I didn’t re-

ally know where to start. I wanted to read something worthwhile but hadn’t kept up with releases or reviews. I asked myself the question that a lot of students seem to echo: “if I barely had time to read before, why would I ever start now?” I hadn’t realized how draining academic reading can be. To constantly be analyzing, searching, or even skimming works to meet a deadline can change your feelings toward reading in general. After a month and a half, it was already starting to feel like a chore.

The environment and resources at Princeton don’t help much either.

Readings for classes can swallow up hours and hours of time and require constant skimming. But it’s not just the academic reality; the libraries themselves are not encouraging of leisure reading. Even in Firestone, contemporary fiction books are located at the lowermost level and the labels are not easily identifiable and accessible by the author’s last name.

Unless someone was deliberately looking for a certain novel, it’s rare that they’d find themselves browsing the shelves.

Moreover, there are not many copies of each book, even current bestsellers, and many are only available for a three hour loan at the circulation desk.

These conditions can make it difficult or completely unthought of to try and read for fun. But at an institution like Princeton, an essential part of a great education should be the sincere appreciation for culture and literature. Our college experience should provide and encourage ways to continue learning and growing in the future.

At the core, that’s what reading does. It provides a chance to engage in a new world, soak in a new feeling, and, at the very least, spend an afternoon focused and fulfilled by the simple joy of stories.

It’s easy to feel like there are so many other things going on in these four years; why would anyone add reading for fun to the

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list? More than anything, it’s incredibly liberating.

You don’t have to critique or write about a text; you can just simply enjoy it the way it was written. It’s a reminder that part of the reason we read is to feel and to explore, not just to absorb and understand knowledge. In a whirlwind of requirements and responsibilities, reading in your own time can also be a rare act you do for its own sake. You get to choose to treat yourself with the literature you want to read; these books might be more meaningful and life-changing than anything you read in class.

Three new books now sit on my shelf; I don’t know when I’ll finish them, I don’t know if I necessarily will. But the important thing is I get to choose.

Time I spend reading feels exhilarating and relaxing again, however “little” it may be.

Kate Lee is a first-year from Austin, Texas. She can be reached at k.lee@princeton.edu.

On “wasting time” Sebastian Quiroz

Contributing Columnist

Midterms week is upon us. For many of us, this means papers and exams consuming much of our time during a week we would usually devote to preparing for our weekly classes — preparation that, unfortunately, must still happen.

In light of the stress that midterms bring, we should remember that time spent not studying can be just as valuable as time spent studying.

This column is not particularly original — we have all heard it, time and again, that spending time doing things other than studying benefits us. Despite that, many of us still struggle to see the truth in that axiom.

Certainly, we find pleasure in those moments when we spend hours on end pretending to do work in some basement classroom to talk with our friends or when we spend an hour “too long” to eat a meal with someone. But the comment that comes

after that is often along the lines of, “it is so nice to waste time sometimes.”

This sentiment reveals something deep about how many of us understand our time here.

The notion of “wasting time” is problematic.

The notion of waste implies a disregard for the value of things. When we waste food, for example, we are talking about an object with much value — monetary and subsistence value, for instance — but whose worth we do not appreciate. In fact, when we waste food, we act as if it were acceptable to let no one and nothing enjoy and take advantage of that value.

Similarly, when we use the phrase “waste time,” we are correctly assigning value to the concept of time. This could be monetary value, but it needn’t be. The relevant point here is that wasting time is about the under- or unappreciation of the value of time.

This points us to an obvious problem, then. The idea of enjoying waste seems to be a contradic-

tion in terms — you can’t enjoy something while at the same time not appreciating that thing. One way of resolving this issue would be to say that we really aren’t enjoying the time that we are “wasting.” The time spent with our friends or meeting new people is time that shouldn’t be used this way because it doesn’t give us any real value.

Such a conclusion, however, seems wrong. Very few of us would say that we regretted these moments and while we might regret having to stay up late to catch up with work, many of us will say it was worth it in the end.

To resolve this issue, I am led to the conclusion that such uses of time aren’t in fact “wastes.”

Certainly, it is not “productive” or “efficient” — whatever those words mean — but it doesn’t follow that we have wasted the time we spend with our friends. Rather, it is in these moments that many of us find joy. These are the moments that remind us what is worth pursuing — friendship and human

connection.

This brings me back to midterm season. Certainly, the time spent preparing for our assessments is worth it and not wasted.

But I also want to propose that at least some of the time not studying is also not wasted. Certainly, scrolling through Instagram might fall outside this category of not-wasted-time.

But other moments, which we might otherwise call “wasted” time, should be recategorized. Perhaps they are not as worthwhile as the moments spent studying — that is, up to each individual’s discretion. But to call those moments “wasted” is too strong. It suggests that our relationship with our friends and peers are not valuable to us.

Those relationships define what it means to be human. Connecting with our communities should never be considered wasted time.

Sebastian Quiroz is a senior from Deltona, Fla. He can be reached at squiroz@ princeton.edu.

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Princeton, you’ll be ok without us: A response to Penn’s proud legacy opinion Rachel Kennedy

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I am the seventh person in my family to attend Princeton. The surprise that comes across many faces when they hear this from a black woman cuts down my embarrassment a bit. But not nearly all of it. I have benefited from a system that perpetuates tokenism and the myth of American exceptionalism.

That’s an embarrassing fact.

A few weeks ago, Agatha Advincula, a legacy student at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote a column proclaiming her pride in her “Penn heritage.” While celebrating her family and coming out of “hiding,” she argued that prestigious schools need legacy students to maintain their “brands” and benefit from “philanthropy.”

I do not go to Penn. I can’t speak to Advincula’s experience, but I can say that I do not feel targeted or shunned for being a Princeton student who “got in the easy way.”

Rather, at an undergraduate institution of roughly 5,200 students, I am in the company of at least 728 other children of alumni.

Advincula claims that legacies are necessary to the financial and intellectual security of elite schools such as Penn. The same does not

hold for Princeton. The University does not need us, and it should not continue to privilege us.

Backed by nearly 250 years of lauded scholarship and the nation’s largest endowment per student, Princeton does not need legacies to maintain its standing. Though legacy status should not detrimentally affect a student’s application, it should not increase an applicant’s chances of admission nearly fourfold, from 7 to 30 percent.

Advincula was right to say that colleges are like businesses. Yet, money is no longer an object at universities like Penn and Princeton.

These universities hardly need tuition, never mind donations, any more. In 2016, Harvard University briefly toyed with the idea of getting rid of tuition fees for everyone.

While the idea didn’t pan out, one message rang loud and clear: top schools have enough money.

And they will have no problem securing substantial donations (donations that they really do not need) as long as the majority of students continue to hail from wealthy backgrounds, legacy or not. When Advincula boasts that admitting legacies “reinforces a narrative of prestige all within the context of a Penn education,” she is turning a blind eye to the unique socioeconomic context of the education system in this country.

In order to get to a school like Penn and Princeton, you have to academically excel. That’s difficult to

do when two-thirds of schools with high percentages of black and Latino students do not offer calculus.

It’s also difficult given the fact that minority and low-income students are more likely to be taught by inexperienced teachers than white and higher-income students.

In general, minority and low-income students are underserved by America’s public schools, and few have access to the private schools feeding students into colleges like Penn and Princeton. From the school-to-prison pipeline to enormous lapses in funding, many Americans have been failed by the American education system. Education systems have long sought to serve certain communities more than others — and legacies are part of that privileged circle.

The truth Advincula leaves out is that as children of college-educated parents, we were set on an easier path from the start. Our parents read to us. Our parents encouraged us to participate in extracurricular activities. Our parents had high expectations of us. All of these behaviors indicate socioeconomic factors that directly contribute to one’s success in school and on standardized testing.

Stigma surrounding legacies is not simply based on the assumption that we are stupid or underqualified. The negativity comes out of resentment for a broken system.

I’ve learned about the challenges in American education from data,

not personal experience. Anyone who knows me well knows how much I loved my private elementary school, private secondary school, and now Princeton.

When my cousin, Princeton grad number four, came to campus a few weeks ago for Thrive, an event celebrating black alumni, I was proud to take her on her first cookie run to Murray Dodge, and I loved laughing with her as she reminisced on the fun nights she had in my entry hall. When my dad, Princeton grad number two, came for parents’ weekend a week later, we walked the perimeter of campus as he met my friends. He told me stories of the Third World Center, and we discussed the new Woodrow Wilson statue. Having him here was one of my favorite days I’ve had on this campus, and it was special sharing it with someone of the Class of 1977.

I don’t feel a need to hide these details, but I don’t lead with them, either. The college admissions process is so extreme — from celebrities committing fraud to students rising from poverty to an Ivy League school — that you really never know who you’re going to be sitting next to and how they got here. Navigating this unbalanced yet still diverse playing field is tricky — a couple of insensitive comments or assumptions I’ve made are replaying in my head now — but I think it’s for the best that we are forced to grow out of our own spheres and learn what to

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To a certain degree, I share the personal pride Advincula describes, but not the belief that legacies should be the underpinnings of a school’s culture and community. Her way of thinking is phasing out — slower than molasses, though. Sixteen percent of students of the Class of 2023 are the first in their families to attend college, while 14 percent of students are children of alumni. That’s a small but positive step for the University — one more important than ensuring that generations of families can have photoshoots and pass down faded sweatshirts.

No one chooses where they are from, and everyone should have pride in their family and accomplishments. But you should know how your story relates to historical and systemic factors before sulking in self-pity and celebrating elitism.

Our way was easier, and it shouldn’t have been. When Advincula writes, “Legacy is part of the fabric at elite institutions,” she’s right, for now. I think universities should double down on their effort to unravel racist and classist systems of inequity. Admitting fewer legacies may be a way to start, and Princeton should not be afraid to do so. Don’t worry, money and prestige are here to stay.

Rachel Kennedy is a junior from Dedham, Mass. She can be reached at rk19@princeton.edu.

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Football faces biggest test yet vs. Harvard

By Jack Graham Head Sports Editor

No. 13 Princeton football’s (5–0, 2–0 Ivy) 15game winning streak and unbeaten 2019 record will be put to the test Saturday afternoon, as the Harvard Crimson (4–1, 2–0 Ivy) travel to New Jersey for Princeton’s homecoming game.

Harvard will be by far Princeton’s toughest opponent of the season. Princeton’s first two Ivy League opponents, Brown and Columbia, showed promise on offense and defense respectively, but both currently have losing records.

Princeton’s non-conference opponents — Butler,

Bucknell, and Lafayette — are even worse, holding a combined 2–19 record.

Harvard, on the other hand, has won its past four games after starting the season with a non-conference loss to San Diego and is tied in the Ivy League standings with Princeton with a 2–0 conference record.

The Crimson has played well on both offense and defense, scoring 38.6 points per game and allowing 19.6 points per game.

Defensively, Harvard boasts a fearsome front — they lead the FCS in sacks per game with 5.2. They have a balanced defensive rotation, with three players — Truman Jones, An-

thony Nelson, and Brogan McPartland — tied for the team lead with three sacks. They are also brutal against the run, leading the FCS by allowing just 2.09 yards per rush and are second in yards per game allowed with 68.4.

That will set up a compelling matchup against the Princeton offensive line, which has allowed only six sacks in five games and powered Princeton to 4.66 yards per rush.

Harvard’s defense has allowed 246.7 yards per game passing, which will present an opportunity for senior quarterback Kevin Davidson, who leads the FCS with a 73.6 completion percentage, and the Princ-

eton receiving corps.

Offensively, Harvard is led by junior quarterback Jake Smith, who has completed 61.2 percent of his passes for 14 touchdowns and five interceptions in the 2019 season. Their leading rusher is junior Devin Darrington, who has averaged 4.7 yards per carry on 103 attempts this year.

Last year’s game against Harvard was the closest the Tigers played all year, but Princeton ultimately prevailed 29–21. The only other game Princeton didn’t win by double digits was its 14–9 win over Dartmouth in a battle of unbeatens.

Saturday’s homecoming game represents the start

of a brutal stretch of four games for Princeton. After Harvard, Princeton will travel to Ithaca to face Cornell, and a week later will play currently unbeaten Dartmouth at Yankee Stadium. The Tigers will then return home to face Yale, a team with a 4–1 record that was projected to finish ahead of Princeton in the preseason Ivy League poll.

So if the Tigers can finish unbeaten for the second consecutive season, they’ll have earned it.

The game against Harvard will kick off at 1 p.m. at Princeton Stadium on Saturday. It can be streamed on ESPN+ or heard on WPRB 103.3 FM.

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Women’s hockey opens season vs. Syracuse

By Owen Tedford Senior Staff Writer

This weekend, Princeton women’s hockey will open its season at home against Syracuse (0–7) in a two-game series on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. The Tigers will be looking to get off to a great start this season before they have to play their first conference game on Oct. 29 against Quinnipiac at home. Expectations are high for Princeton this season, as it is currently ranked No. 6 in the USCHO.com rankings behind ECAC rivals No. 4 Clarkson and No. 5 Cornell and was picked to finish second in the ECAC preseason poll behind Clarkson and tied with Cornell. Notably, the Tigers received more firstplace votes (five) than the Golden Knights (three) and

the Big Red (four). Princeton will face Cornell in Ithaca on Nov. 2 at 3 p.m.

Two notable returners for Princeton are sophomore forward Sarah Fillier and senior defenseman Claire Thompson. Fillier and Thompson were both selected to the ECAC Hockey Preseason All-League team and named to the Team Canada roster for a pair of exhibition games against the United States on Nov. 8 and 10. Both were instrumental to the Tigers’ NCAA-leading power play.

Fillier is looking to continue off of an excellent debut at Princeton, where last season she was named second-team All-American, first-team All-ECAC, firstteam All-Ivy League and the NCAA’s leading scorer with 57 points (22 goals, 35 assists). Furthermore, Fillier was the American

Hockey Coaches Association National Rookie of the Year and a top-10 finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the top player in NCAA Division I women’s ice hockey.

Thompson picked up several individual awards as well as a finalist for the ECAC’s Best Defenseman of the Year and was named to the first-team All-ECAC and first-team All-Ivy League. Thompson led the ECAC’s defensive player n in scoring with 23 points (nine goals, 14 assists). Of her nine goals, four were game-winning and four of her assists also led to game-winning goals.

Fillier and Thompson are two of the Tigers helping return more than 75 percent of their scoring from last season. Along with them look for sophomore Maggie Connors

and senior Carly Bullock, linemates with Fillier and two of Princeton’s top-five scorers from last season.

In goal, the Tigers will turn to junior Rachel McQuigge and senior Stephanie Neatby who were both crucial in Princeton’s 20game unbeaten streak last season. Both also had save percentages of nearly 93 percent, win percentages over 60 percent, and goals allowed against averages fewer than 2.

This season also brought change for the Tigers on their coaching staff with the addition of Mel Ruzzi and Courtney BirchardKessel as assistant coaches to head coach Cara Morey.

Ruzzi has coached for 15 years at the collegiate level, including at Yale and Harvard. Birchard-Kessel brings an international pedigree to the Princeton

coaching staff having been the head coach of the Toronto Furies in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League last season. Both have been involved with their respective national development programs, Ruzzi with the United States and Birchard-Kessel with Canada.

Syracuse’s record should not be seen as ref lective of the team’s talent, as it has faced teams that are all ranked in the USCHO. com poll or receiving votes (Clarkson, Boston College, Northeastern, Colgate).

The game in Princeton will be the Orange’s first true road game of the year.

Syracuse won its conference last season and made its first appearance in the NCAA tournament. This year it was picked to be third in the College Hockey America conference.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Tigers nip Green 13-6, Kaz’s runs clinch win

By Bob Lovell Alumni ‘52

Editor’s Note: In honor of the 150th season of Princeton Football, The Daily Princetonian will be re-publishing football articles from our archives.

This article was originally published on Nov. 27, 1950, after Princeton beat Dartmouth to finish undefeated.

Some polls had the Tigers as national champions — the last time Princeton could claim a national championship in football.

In almost incredibly dramatic fashion, undefeated Princeton, led by the running of Dick Kazmaier and Jack Davison, ground out a hard-fought 13–7 win over scrappy Dartmouth in Palmer Stadium today. The victory assured the Tigers of an undefeated season and the Ivy League title as Penn went down before a vastly improved Cornell team.

No game has ever been played in Palmer Stadium under conditions which could hope to equal those of this game today. The slippery ball and the gale which blew from the open end of the stadium made sustained offensives unlikely. As it turned out it was the end runs

of Dick Kazmaier which brought about the win.

The first quarter was a battle against the elements for both teams. A wind blowing from the open end of the stadium made kicks carry 70 yards in one direction and nothing at all in the other.

Dartmouth, winning the toss and gaining the wind in the first quarter, scored with a minute remaining in the period.

Princeton, frustrated by the wind and rain, found it impossible to get a scoring march underway.

At the beginning of the game the Tigers recovered a fumble on the Dartmouth 36 but were unable to get underway.

When, the Tigers got the wind in the second quarter, Chandler began to move his ball club. A plunge by Davison netted a yard before Kaz took charge. Running wide to his left behind beautiful blocking, the Junior ace went 37 yards for the score. The ensuing try for the extra point was missed when McNeil fumbled the slippery ball.

On the next series of plays a poor Dartmouth punt rolled out on the Green 29. On the first play Kazmaier again went to his left, eluded

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two tacklers and dragged another five yards before going down on the four. Three plunges by Davison put the ball over. On the conversion attempt, Kaz went around left end and shot over for the point.

The third quarter saw Princeton, still moving with the wind, push Dartmouth back in the shadow of its goalposts in the opening minutes. Forced to punt from its own five, the Big Green saw the wind blow the ball back enough to give the Tigers the ball on the 14. For the rest of the period the play see-sawed back and forth with neither team gaining a distinct advantage.

The Princeton offense, fighting against the wind, completely took the play away from Dartmouth with Davison running the ball 75 percent of the time. Dartmouth was unable to cross the mid field in the final quarter.

Let’s face it. The game Saturday was not football; It was much more like Water polo played in a windtunnel. It was too bad that the graduating Tigers had to play their last game under conditions which made it difficult to distinguish teams and virtually impossible to tell one player from another. It

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was a great season for a great team.

Now the players can sit back and wait until the individual plaudits are handed out by men who don’t see most of their selections play

all year. Most likely to receive national acclaim are Finney, Donan and Kazmaier. Their contribution has been valuable but they are all parts of a team.

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