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Students, professors, administrators, and community members attended the vigil.

Hua Qu, Xiyue Wang’s wife, speaks during the vigil, as Michael McGovern GS, President of “Free Xiyue Wang,” looks on.

Vigil for Xiyue Wang marks third year of imprisonment Contributor

At 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, the Free Xiyue Wang Working Group held a public vigil, attended by students, faculty, and community members, in honor of Xiyue Wang, a Ph.D. student in the History Department who has been detained in Iran for over three years on charges of espionage.

The vigil, which was held in Chancellor Green, included the reading of a statement written by Wang, as well as speeches from Wang’s wife, Hua Qu, his friend Will Whitham GS, and several University professors. The reading of Wang’s statement was followed by a moment of silence.

“In her many efforts to rescue me … my wife describes what has happened to me as a ‘terrible misunderstanding.’

My situation is anything but a misunderstanding,” Wang wrote in the statement, read aloud by organizers of the Working Group, in the Chancellor Green Rotunda.

“I’m incarcerated here because, and only because, I came to this country on a navy-blue passport with a bald eagle emblem.”

In his statement, Wang wrote that he “was arrested, forced into confession, unjustly convicted, and imprisoned as a spy.” He has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. His son, Shaofan, who was three years old when Wang was arrested, is now six-and-a-half. At the vigil,

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Qu reiterated her call for Wang’s immediate release.

“Working with others around the world, the United States government must uphold the values that attract many of the world’s greatest minds to its shores,” Qu said. “Securing the release of Xiyue would prove a commitment to the freedom of thought, international scholarship, and cultural understanding that he represents.”

Wang’s name was thrust into the spotlight recently after Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif discussed a possible prisoner exchange involving Wang on NPR. Though encouraged by these statements, Qu said that she sees no sign of dialogue between the two nations and

Black alumni gather for start of Thrive Conference

By Anne Wen Contributor

Decked in black and orange, black alumni attentively listened to the first Thrive startup showcase presentation. The three-day Thrive conference, Oct. 3 to Oct. 5, welcomes over 1,400 guests and alumni to campus for discussion forums, entrepreneurship showcases, and networking opportunities.

By the entrance to McCosh Hall, Room 50, 150 alums waded

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through a crowd immersed in conversation. The hall bustled with energy as old friends reunited.

“It always fills my soul to be back on campus,” said Genay Jackson ’12, who attended the socialimpact talk. “It was a really special four years — all hard. My feelings for Princeton are complex, but there is no place like it.”

Jackson returned to campus from New York City. After years away from the University, she deSee THRIVE page 3

In reaction to the unveiling of the new Woodrow Wilson monument, guest contributors from the Wilson School criticize the decision making process concluding in the erection of the monument, and guest contributor Kiki Gilbert argues that the monument is a step backwards for the University. PAGE 4

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Office of Sustainability replaces bottle giveaway with opt-in utensil program

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Marc Washington presents first at the THRIVE startup showcase.

problem between the two countries was the rejection of international law,” Katz said. “If that was a real value rather than a meaningless statement, Xiyue wouldn’t be where he is right now.”

After the vigil, Casey Eilbert, co-organizer of the Working Group, underscored the lack of diplomacy between the United States and Iran.

“The U.N. General Assembly was held two weeks ago in New York. There was a lot of discussion of the U.S.Iranian relationship, then with the State Department.

Officials [from Iran] made statements regarding the relationship [but] there’s not a lot of transparency with these diplomatic efforts,” Ei-

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fears that recent developments may spur false hope.

“My husband and our family have become innocent victims,” she said. “It is fundamentally unjust that he continues to be treated as a hostage and a bargaining chip in this geopolitical dispute.”

Although Hua hopes for decisive action from the international community, Stanley Katz, former director of the University’s Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, said that international law alone will not be sufficient to rescue Wang.

“In August of this year, [Iran’s] Foreign Minister Zarif, speaking to the Chinese foreign minister in Beijing, made a statement on that point, saying that the

As a part of its goal towards a zero-waste campus, the Office of Sustainability is piloting a reusable utensil kit opt-in for the Class of 2023.

The reusable utensil kit consists of a fork, spoon, knife, and chopsticks, all made of bamboo. A total of 350 students have opted in, with 88 percent from Class of 2023 and 12 percent from other class years. They will be handed out at the “ZeroWaste” event on Oct. 25.

Historically, the Office of Sustainability has given away free, reusable water bottles to every first-year student, but it recently realized that this was not the best way to promote reuse. Many students were receiving free, reusable water bottles from their residential college or academic department already.

Others did not like the particular design of the water bottle or already owned reusable bottles.

At the Greening Move Out, where students can donate used or unwanted items at the end of the year,

the Office of Sustainability was finding more and more reusable bottles from giveaways left on campus.

“It just didn’t seem appropriate anymore,” Lisa Nicolaison, Engagement and Communications Coordinator of the Office of Sustainability, said. “We were causing waste.”

A reusable utensil kit seemed like a better option, especially given the numerous food events on campus that use disposable plastic utensils, which are not recyclable. Nicolaison hopes this kit will encourage habits of reuse and reduce waste both on and off campus.

The Office of Sustainability has already started talking with Outdoor Action and Community Action about ways to get the word about utensil kits out earlier next year so that Class of 2024 students will be able to receive a kit as soon as they arrive on campus.

Ayeda Hamed ’23 found out about the opt-in program through the Office of Sustainability’s Instagram post. She was planSee SUSTAINABILITY page 2

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A website that discusses controversial issues in twentieth-century Japanese history from a right-wing perspective has called itself the Princeton Institute for Asian Studies (IFAS) and presented its website in an orange-and-black color scheme, despite being unaffiliated with the University.

According to the website’s homepage, the Princeton IFAS aims to provide a “[c]ompilation of relevant books previously available only in Japanese or in Japan to express counter perspectives to the prevailing issues, to help those who cannot read Japanese, who has [sic] limited ability to obtain and digest these resources.”

A statement appearing in the website’s footer reads, “Princeton IFAS is NOT affiliated with Princeton University.”

Run by Koichi Mera, the website of the Princeton IFAS provides links to additional resources that advance conservative interpretations of controversial events that occurred See IFAS page 4

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Despite slow negotiations, Wang’s friend, Whitham, expressed faith in Wang’s ability to persevere in prison.

“In prison, a curious person may become indifferent; a passionate person may become apathetic … After three long years, you might expect a lesser person to have regressed or declined,“ he said.

“Xiyue Wang is not a lesser person.”

In his speech during the vigil, he compared Wang to Edmund Dantes, the protagonist in Alexandre Dumas’s famous novel, “The Count of Monte Cristo.” In the book, Dantes, betrayed and unjust-

ly incarcerated, survives in prison for 21 years, before finally escaping.

“Edmund Dantes endures.

He is sustained by his faith in justice, by his will to learn, and by a friend with whom he discusses history, philosophy, science, and more. Doesn’t this sound familiar to you? It certainly did to me. Xiyue Wang is, to me, Edmund Dantes. He is Princeton’s Edmund Dantes,” Whitham said.

Though Wang has seven years left in his own prison term, Wang’s wife still hopes for his imminent release.

“I continue to pray that next year, when Shaofan blows out his birthday candles next year, Xiyue will be right there with us,” Qu said.

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ning on buying utensils because she wanted to cook on campus, but then found out that the Office of Sustainability was giving them away for free.

“I think the opt-in was an extremely smart thing to do, so that there is no waste,” Hamed said. “[The Office of Sustainability] takes care of the little things. Generally, I haven’t seen this back home [in Pakistan] as much, and so I appreciate the effort they are making.”

Hamed said that she received a free, reusable metal straw at the academic expo, but hasn’t used it since. “I think opting in would make me actually think about if I would use it and if I really want it,” she said.

However, she is not sure how often she will remember to bring her utensil kit to the numerous food events on campus.

She is usually outside of her room when she hears about a free food event and may not always have her utensils on hand for future events.

“When a free food event is advertised, they could remind us to bring our own utensils if we have them so whenever I see

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that, I’ll also bring my utensils,” Hamed said.

According to Nicolaison, this pilot program was partially inspired by an op-ed in The Daily Princetonian titled “Stop giving out free t-shirts,” in which columnist Claire Wayner proposed an opt-in program for residential college gear after noticing “piles of Clash of the Colleges t-shirts” at the EcoReps clothing swap last year.

“Students should be sent a registration form which they can fill out

only if they want an item,” Wayner wrote. “This will help to limit the number of duplicates that remain by the end of the year.”

This is the first year the Office of Sustainability is trying an opt-in program, but Nicolaison is optimistic about its future.

“We are hopeful that sort of changing the way we refer to a giveaway on campus will really help,” Nicolaison said. “There’s definitely a culture change that we are hoping to inspire.”

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before and during the Second World War. According to Sheldon Garon, the Nissan Professor in Japanese Studies and a professor of History and East Asian Studies, who specializes in modern Japanese history, the website includes “brazen attempts to, in this case, take the Princeton name” and leverage it in a “kind of a worldwide campaign,” which seeks to “in their terms, spread the word that Japan has really nothing to apologize for, that it wasn’t doing anything differently in imperialism in the Second World War than other powers were doing.”

Garon believes that sites like these are “linked to the very top reaches of Japanese conservative leadership” and try to present, particularly to English-speakers and people in the United States, a pro-Japanese version of history in response to what is perceived as Korean or Chinese propaganda against Japan.

Among the issues featured on the website is the Nanjing Massacre — a campaign of mass murder, mass rape, and destruction perpetrated by

Japanese imperial troops against civilians and soldiers in Nanjing, China, in late 1937 and early 1938. To this day, the death toll remains contested, although most historians estimate that hundreds of thousands of people were killed. In addition, the site discusses the status of so-called “comfort women,” women and girls forced into prostitution by the Japanese military before and during World War II. Over the past decade, statues of comfort women have been erected throughout the world to memorialize their suffering.

“It’s bad enough being a prostitute, but being a prostitute in a battlefield when you’re losing is particularly bad, so they suffered in lots of ways,” Garon said. “These are the women who, depending on your account, were either forced into prostitution, recruited, volunteered.”

While some were willing, others were coerced into sex work, Garon said. The politicization of the issue in both Japan and South Korea, he added, has caused people to hold “black-and-white positions” on the matter.

“It’s about historical memory,” he said. “It’s about bad things the Japanese did. But it’s

also about how governments on all sides are manipulating the memory, too.”

Garon has been in contact with Mera, the creator of the website.

Mera told Garon about IFAS a few months ago, inviting him via email to a panel entitled, “Were Comfort Women Sexslaves?”

In the email, obtained by The Daily Princetonian, Mera wrote that “the United Nations’ Special Reporter [sic] [Radhika] Coomaraswamy declared they were sex-slaves a long time ago, and this notion is prevalent even today in the U.S.” — but that “in Japan, most people have a different perception.”

When Garon responded, asking to visit IFAS with a number of East Asian Studies professors, Mera wrote back that the Institute “do[es] not have any physical presence” and “is a network of scholars” concerned with Asian issues.

To Garon, one insidious aspect of IFAS is its use of the Princeton name.

“It would be akin to me putting up a site that looks like it’s from the Japanese government and saying that the Japanese government apologizes to Asians for all that they’ve

done,” Garon said. “What they’re doing is extremely unethical.”

Mera runs a related website, the Global Alliance for Historical Truth (GAHT), through which he filed a lawsuit in 2014 against Glendale, Calif., in an effort to force the city to remove its memorial dedicated to comfort women. Mera and his co-plaintiffs lost in both state and federal court.

On the GAHT website, Mera announces his intention to send materials espousing his view on the historical use of comfort women, whom he considers to have been willing prostitutes or “professional camp followers,” rather than “sex slaves,” to California school districts.

An announcement on the GAHT website dated June 5 reads (as translated and paraphrased by Garon), “This year, in California, education on the comfort women is just beginning. Chinese- and KoreanAmericans are behind this movement to provide to the schools many memoirs — like, testimonials — of women who are said to be former comfort women. In the interest of correcting the historical record, we want to correct it, and we’re going to send our own mate-

rials to 1,100 schools, because we’ve got to resist the pressures coming from the Chinese- and Korean-Americans.”

Mera was recently featured in the documentary “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue,” a twohour film by Japanese-American filmmaker Miki Dezaki exploring the history of comfort women. The New York Times reported that five individuals featured in the film are currently suing Dezaki for defamation based upon Dezaki’s characterization of their claims as “revisionist” and influenced by “sexism” and “racism.” Mera has not been mentioned among the plaintiffs.

Mera did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.

The University has been informed of the website and, according to Garon, has held meetings to address the matter.

Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss wrote in an email to the Prince, “We have been in contact with the head of this organization and have requested that it make changes to its name and branding to make clear that it is not affiliated with the University.

We will continue to pursue this matter.”

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cided to spend her day off from work reuniting with her best friends.

The day’s programming began with registration at 11 a.m., followed by a number of panels and workshops discussing entrepreneurship.

At 4:45 p.m., alumni had a choice between the “Startup Showcase” in McCosh Hall or a discussion with Princeton University

Investment Company President Andrew K. Golden.

“It’s particularly hard to be different, but to be successful in investing, you have to be different,” Golden said to the crowd.

Golden’s discussion, “Institutional Investing: An Insider’s View,” offered insights — or as he said, “secrets” — into the company’s investment strategies. When Golden pointed to a dramatic “Shhhh” on a powerpoint slide, the crowd burst into laughter. He revealed his “secret” to success in the investment industry — buy

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At the Startup Showcase, a pre-selected cohort of black alum founders pitched their startups.

Winners received a $5,000 prize with an additional opportunity for a $1,000 people’s choice award.

Wright Seneres, the marketing specialist of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council, described the showcase as the culmination of entrepreneurship plans for the conference.

Marc Washington ’97 pitched the first startup — UR Labs, which addressed consumer health and

food technology sectors.

In a Q&A, a panel of judges asked Washington questions about targeted market differentiators, go-to-market strategies, and other startup-related jargon.

While the startup showcase catered to entrepreneurially minded alums, an ongoing investment conversation happened concurrently in McCormick Hall.

The last Q&A session addressed diversity within investment firms and a recent mentorship program that empowered high school students to learn about finance.

After the concurrent business events, alums attended the official welcome dinner reception.

For the next two days, Thrive attendees can expect an assortment of events, including performing arts, panels on higher education, and networking breakfast with students.

Friday’s programing will include a conversation with University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, a discussion on the Princeton & Slavery Project, and a luncheon discussion revolving around civic service.

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Stop and think before you celebrate the new Woodrow Wilson marker on campus Aaron Charlop-Powers Guest Contributor

Tomorrow the University will unveil a new marker on campus about Woodrow Wilson called “Double Sights.”

In the meantime, inside the school that bears Wilson’s name, students are waiting for the administration to fulfill its commitment to diversity and inclusion. This is not a time to celebrate; when viewed in the proper context, the marker emerges as a monument to the University’s moral failure in dealing with Wilson’s legacy and should be seen accordingly.

Three years ago, the Trustee Committee on Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy at Princeton — “the Committee” — published its final report, a response to a list of demands from a student group called the Black Justice League, which included a demand that Wilson’s name be removed from the school. The Committee’s report included a number of recommendations, one of which was to “install a permanent marker on-site that educates the campus community and others about both the positive and negative dimensions of Wilson’s legacy.” The Committee recommended that Wilson’s name remain.

When you read the students’ demands and the trustees’ report and apply some of the analytical skills that are taught at the Wilson School, both the argument to keep Wilson’s name and the University’s slow, modest responses to students’ demands — such as the marker — come into full view as illogical and inadequate.

As policy students, we are taught that program evaluations must be conducted by independent institutions and that individuals and organizations notoriously lack the ability to critically analyze their own performance. The Committee was comprised of 10 accomplished people, nine of whom attended Princeton — with an average of 40 years since graduation — and serve on various University boards and committees. There was one person with no apparent connection to the University.

Ninety percent of the people involved had a vested interest in maintaining the school’s prestige, reputation, and ranking. In the classrooms of the Wilson School, this is known as systematic bias. In fact, one professor at the Wilson School has a name for the outcomes of such processes: magical thinking.

Furthermore, trustee members are generally highly compensated with the social capital and prestige that comes with being a trustee at one of the country’s most renowned institutions, although no one was paid for their involvement with the Committee.

What, then, are the incentives to disrupt the order of things by changing the name of the

Wilson School? In economic terms, the process was not incentive-compatible. To the trustees, the economic and social value of keeping the name was greater than the cost of changing it — evidenced by the final decision to keep Wilson’s name.

Another core tenet of policy evaluation taught at the Wilson School is that programs, especially if they are to be evaluated, should have a clear theory of change and an obvious logic model. What was the Committee’s logic model for leaving Wilson’s name alone?

The stated goal in the report — which we encourage everyone to read in its entirety — is to make the University a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community. To summarize, the proposed process was to acknowledge past mistakes when talking about Wilson, invite original and critical research on Wilson, and attempt to institutionalize a more complex narrative about his legacy.

In addition to activity at the Wilson school, which is addressed below, the University committed to a series of initiatives to promote diversity — including, but not limited to, an effort to recruit a diverse body of Ph.D. students, update the informal motto, which is now installed on a marker in the center of the quad in front of Nassau Hall, and modernize some of the iconography on campus, an example of which may be found by looking for the yellow QR code on the floor outside of the chapel.

The Committee also states its interest in changing the “campus climate” so that people feel that “the Princeton they attend is their Princeton,” and that keeping Wilson’s name on the school implies no endorsement of views and actions that conflict with the values and aspirations of our times.

Herein lies more magical thinking. Surely the trustees understand that the symbolic power of Wilson’s name on the marquee in the world-famous Princeton orange is the ultimate endorsement. Naming at the University is reserved for only the most revered; there isn’t a bigger honor bestowed by the institution. However, the policy school remains the only named undergraduateor graduate-level school at the University.

Reading the report three years after it was released, it isn’t believable that the Committee genuinely expects students of color to feel that the Princeton they attend is “their Princeton” when the name of a man who would not admit them — the same man who hosted the KKK at the White House — adorns the letterhead. Campus culture is set at the top. The name change was a chance for the trustees to say: follow us. They chose to do the opposite.

What, then, do we make of the marker as a method of dealing with Wilson’s legacy?

It is highly unlikely that this marker will promote the level of dialogue the Committee articulated as a goal in their report. The Committee committed to “complicating” Wilson’s legacy and putting that more complex legacy at the forefront, but it is unclear the degree to which students are engaging with this more complex narrative.

For example, last week, a student in the Wilson School conducted a short, unscientific poll. Of the 28 students standing in the hallway of Robertson Hall, directly in front of an exhibit about Woodrow Wilson, 15 said that they had never read the content. Across campus, only 10 out of 47 people said that they had read the installation at the front of the Betsey Stockton Garden — named for a highly accomplished woman who began her life as a slave of Rev. Ashbel Green, a former University president.

The design by Walter Hood is striking and Hood has engaged thoughtfully with students on the marker, but the work to make the Wilson School more inclusive and diverse won’t come from a tall installation. Any progress from the last three years is a result of the work of people — not inanimate objects. The school is very obviously trying to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.

There has been progress in response to renewed student outcries after the publication of the Committee’s report: the University has institutionalized a Diversity and Inclusion Standing Committee; there is a visiting research scholar for diversity and inclusion; students have optional training on issues related to diversity and inclusion. By many accounts, the experience of this year’s MPA1 class has been better than last year’s and by its own accounting this year’s graduate class is the most diverse in the University’s history.

Progress on diversity, however, should not be a distraction from the work to be done on equity or making the school a truly inclusive one; the scope of work is too narrow and the rate of change is far too slow.

For a school that prides itself on excellence, the University fails to stack up to other institutions on this aspect of the professional training. It is equally important to understand how to address structures of power and race as it is to design and run an RCT or assess the labor market implications of artificial intelligence.

As currently constructed, the current programs are graduating policy leaders who lack the knowledge and skills required to be truly effective in today’s policy environment and the institutions of the future.

Students understand who this place is for, and chances are that you believe it’s for you if you are more like Woodrow Wilson than Betsey Stockton.

Despite what the report claims about the marker, it seems that this entire years-long exercise — including the decision to keep the name — is about keeping the University as it is, or changing it as little as possible, and then trying to insulate that position from criticism by dressing it up in committees, reports, and campus installations.

As students and alumni, it is our responsibility to remind the campus community that the events on Saturday are a distraction. When you pass that marker, understand that it represents two things: moral failure of the University and how much work remains.

Aaron Charlop-Powers is a Master’s in Public Policy student at the Wilson School. He is originally from the Bronx and can be reached at aaronsc@princeton. edu.

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A concrete step backwards Kiki Gilbert

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If we do not denounce both white supremacy and white supremacists with clarity and conviction, the University can never hope to uproot and dismantle the racism nestling in its crevices. Though the University touts an increasingly diverse student body, the administration persists in taking concrete steps backwards to ensure that some of its students will feel perpetually uncomfortable on campus. Besides feeling uncomfortable, there’s a sense that the University is actively undervaluing the campus experiences of marginalized students by silencing their input on institutional matters.

In this case, the University’s concrete step backwards is yet another memorial on campus dedicated to avowed white supremacist Woodrow Wilson. We denounce Woodrow Wilson not for the sake of denouncing Wilson, but for the urgent and timely denunciation of the havoc that white supremacy and all of its vestiges wreak upon our world.

After years’ worth of conversations on the legacy of Woodrow Wilson, discussions bolstered by a renewed interest in and reaffirmation of Wilson’s abject white supremacy, the University has erected its final word on the matter.

The final word is a permanent and soaring monument dedicated to Wilson’s “complex legacy,” which — as the

Wilson Legacy Review Committee insists — has established “both positive and negative repercussions” in times to come. The monument’s title — “Double Sights” — is a nod to double consciousness, which sociologist W.E.B. DuBois coined to describe the peculiar experience of black Americans never embodying both their “blackness” and “Americanness” simultaneously.

Double consciousness is not the same thing as reckoning with the good and the bad contained within a single person; it is not about manufacturing complexity for a person upholding the racist conditions that DuBois was responding to. As an aside, using a blackcolored beam to describe the “bad Wilson” and a whitecolored beam to describe the “good Wilson” utilizes a tired trope.

No matter what progressive strides Wilson may be said to have made, racism colored his worldview, and we cannot separate the “positive” actions he undertook on behalf of prowhite institutions from his staunch personal belief that “a Negro’s place [is] in the corn field.” Even if the University simply wanted to assert that Wilson was a complex, misunderstood, and avowed white supremacist, cementing this opinion in the form of a monument does not add to the conversation, but instead dominates it, officiating Princeton’s stance on Wilson’s legacy and stamping out student dissent.

The absence of a plaque providing context for the statue

and the inaccessible height at which the vast majority of Wilson’s words are displayed testify to the University’s intent to put this discourse beyond reach. So let’s provide some context.

Student organizers known as the Black Justice League were the first to seriously and persistently challenge Wilson’s legacy on campus, an action that culminated in an occupation of President Eisgruber’s office in 2015. But an anti-Wilson stance has had far less to do with Wilson himself and more to do with the longstanding systems of racism that Wilson both upheld and deepened.

It was precisely because the BJL understood the pervasive and systemic nature of both the University’s and this nation’s anti-blackness that Wilson was a suitable ideological target for an anti-racist movement. The University — which was the last Ivy League to officially begin admitting blackAmerican undergraduates, and was long known as “the Southern Ivy” — was a haven for Wilson’s particular strain of racism, and remains a haven for watered-down denunciations of white supremacy.

To some black students, the implications of this feel farreaching.

To attempt to nuance the stance of a white supremacist is dangerous, but to devote both material and immaterial resources — time, money, and energy — to the legitimization of aforementioned nuancing is personally disrespectful. Each time a student walks near Wil-

son’s new monument, they’re going to be viscerally reminded of the University’s persistent half-hearted fretting over the question of what to do with a man like Wilson.

Though the University would have us believe otherwise, it’s rather uncomplicated: Woodrow Wilson — an avowed white supremacist — should be unequivocally condemned.

At the very least, the University could hide its racist skeletons in the closet, as opposed to openly acknowledging and then attempting to soften the white-supremacist agenda that Wilson so openly embraced. In no uncertain terms, by continuing to “complicate” the legacy of Woodrow Wilson, the University reinforces its own unwillingness to outrightly challenge racism.

So again, why has the University spent more time, money, and effort trying to complicate the uncomplicated matter of Wilson’s white supremacy, as opposed to dedicating resources towards making this institution more hospitable for people of color that call this campus home?

The simple answer is, this university and its administration cannot see the forest for the trees. The focus should not be on Wilson, but rather on the racially marginalized people — students, staff, visitors, and more — who must endure a tacit embrace of white supremacy on this campus.

Instead of building a physical monument that towers over students’ heads, the University could follow Harvard’s foot-

steps and help put over 7,000 units of affordable housing over people’s heads. Endowing a “living memorial” to support the students and community members grappling with the palpable effects of having white supremacy as a tenant of this university and this nation would be a much more impactful demonstration of taking a stand against the future Woodrow Wilson was trying to build.

Such a “living memorial” would actually serve people and seek to promote collaboration between the University and local partner organizations in order to tackle a host of local issues, including housing insecurity, food scarcity, and disparate access to healthcare.

These are pervasive problems just beyond — and more often than we would like to admit, within — the Orange Bubble, in the neighboring communities of Trenton, Newark, and the town of Princeton.

To both continue engaging in these conversations and to take a stand against yet another memorialization of a white supremacist associated with our campus, please join us for a silent protest and community gathering at 4:15 p.m. onwards in front of the Wilson School on Saturday, Oct. 5.

KiKi Gilbert is a junior Philosophy major from Charlotte, N.C. She can be reached at kiarag@ princeton.edu. Nathan Poland is a senior African American Studies major from Rockville, Md. He can be reached at npoland@princeton.edu.

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Football to kick off Ivy League play against Columbia, looks to repeat rout

By Jack Graham

Head Sports Editor

On a Friday night in New York City last year, Princeton football’s 45–10 win over Columbia inaugurated the team’s Ivy League play and foreshadowed the tremendous season to come. Though the 2018 team had dominated in two non-conference games to open the season, it was difficult to know how well its members would hold up until they had been tested in conference play. A commanding win over a solid Ivy League opponent sent a message to the rest of the league — Princeton was the team to beat.

The 2019 Princeton football team will look to send a similar message against Columbia in its 2019 Ivy League opener at home this Saturday. The Tigers were picked to finish third in the 2019 Ivy League Football Preseason Media Poll, after losing several key contributors to graduation, but they have looked dominant in non-conference wins over Butler and Bucknell. If Princeton can beat Columbia convincingly, all signs will point to Princeton having built another powerhouse.

Columbia will come into Princeton with a veteran team, as it has returned 15

starters from its 2018 squad.

Columbia’s 2018 team finished 6–4, despite dealing with significant injury problems and starting four different players at quarterback throughout the season.

The Lions opened their 2019 campaign with a win over St. Francis before falling 24–10 to Georgetown in their home opener.

Offensively, Columbia has yet to find go-to playmakers. At quarterback, the Lions have split snaps between junior Josh Bean and sophomore Ty Lenhart. Bean has been relatively ineffective, completing 23 of 48 passes for no touchdowns and three interceptions in Columbia’s first two games, while Lenhart attempted just 16 passes total in both games. At running back, sophomore Ryan Young gained 98 yards to lead Columbia in his first game but managed just nine in his second, and the Lions have yet to see a receiver break 100 yards.

On defense, Columbia finished fifth in the Ivy League in points allowed per game in 2018 and has held opponents to a respectable 19 points per game to open 2019. That unit will have its hands full Saturday with a Princeton offense, which scored 49 and 56 points in its first two games.

Senior quarterback Kevin Davidson has spearheaded an unstoppable passing attack for Princeton. He’s completed 47 of 58 passes for 722 yards and nine touchdowns in two games, including an Ivy-League-record seven touchdown passes against Bucknell in Princeton’s home opener. Senior receiver and

first-year starter Andrew Griffin emerged last week as a major threat in the passing game, pulling in 200 yards and four touchdowns, and sophomore receiver Andrei Iosivas has accumulated four touchdowns in two games.

Junior running back Colin Eaddy and sophomore running back Ryan Quigley have

led Princeton on the ground, averaging 6.8 and 7.6 yards per carry, respectively. Eaddy had his breakout game last year against Columbia, rushing six times for 102 yards and a touchdown.

The game will start at 1 p.m. at Princeton Stadium, with live streaming on ESPN+.

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Junior Trevor Forbes takes the field for a snap against Bucknell last weekend.

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Men’s soccer defeats St. Joe’s 6–3, opens Ivy League play Saturday at Dartmouth

By Tom Solatti

Associate Sports Editor

Men’s soccer (5–2, 0–0 Ivy League) defeated Saint Joseph’s University (4–6) on Tuesday 6–3, their last game before the Ivy League

season starts. The six goals scored collectively by firstyear forward Walker Gillespie, sophomore defender and midfielder Ryan Clare, sophomore forward Truman Gelnovatch, and junior forward Jonah Ly-

tle are the most the Tigers have scored in a single game since their 7–3 victory over Seton Hall in 2011.

St. Joe’s had the first shot of the game three minutes in, after Alex Hartmann’s header went over the Ti-

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Truman Gelnovatch scored two goals in Tuesday’s game against St. Joe’s.

gers’ goal. The two teams battled for possession until the 14th minute, when junior midfielder Frankie DeRosa had a chance on goal but went wide. A minute later, however, Gillespie received the ball in the box from junior midfielder and forward Kevin O’Toole and scored Princeton’s first point of the game. O’Toole had a chance of his own in the 17th minute with a free kick from outside St. Joe’s box, but it was saved by keeper Joseph Boehm.

Ryan Clare scored the Tigers’ second point a minute after one of his shots was def lected by St. Joe’s keeper. After Princeton failed to convert senior defender Cole Morokhovich’s corner kick, Clare went one-on-one with the goalie, successfully getting around him for the open goal.

In the 31st minute, Walker was assisted with a “nice f lip” from Clare, bringing the score to 3–0. The half ended with the Tigers up three and the Hawks having made six substitutions.

Seven minutes into the second half, St. Joe’s responded to the Tigers’ dominance with their first goal of the game after a Princeton defender hit the ball off the goalpost

and it was def lected back into the middle for Daryus Lake. Princeton responded quickly, and two minutes later Gelnovatch made it 4–1 with an assist from Frankie DeRosa’s “beautiful through-ball.” Three minutes later, Gelnovatch had his second goal of the game, this time with the assist from Clare, bringing the score to 5–1.

A goal from St. Joe’s in the 68th minute was met with the Tigers’ sixth point four minutes later after Jonah Lytle converted a ball from Clare — Lytle’s first goal of his career at Princeton. The final goal of the game came from the Hawks in the 77th minute, and the game finished 6–3.

Princeton finished with eight shots on target compared to St. Joe’s four. The Hawks out-fouled the Tigers 13–11, but no cards were awarded this game.

The team will head to Dartmouth (3–3–1, 0–0 Ivy) this weekend for its first Ivy League game of the season. Princeton leads the all-time series 39–23– 9 but it could be a tough game — last year the Tigers defeated the Big Green in double overtime after a contentious game. Saturday’s game is a must win for the team if they want a repeat championship season.

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