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The Office’s Ellie Kemper ’02 to give Class Day speech

By Ivy Truong and Claire Thornton Associate News Editor and News Editor

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As an undergraduate, Ellie Kemper ’02 was an active writer and actor with the Triangle Club and played field hockey for the University’s 1998 National Championship-winning team.

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Actress Ellie Kemper ’02 has been selected as the keynote speaker for the University’s Class Day ceremony on Monday, June 3, 2019, according to a University statement. Every year, a committee of graduating seniors selects the keynote speaker.

Kemper was a cast member on “The Office” and currently stars on the Emmy-nominated Netf lix show “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” She has received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards for that leading role.

She also had leading roles in films, such as “Bridesmaids” and “21 Jump Street,” and has guest-hosted “The Ellen Degeneres Show” and co-hosted “Today” on NBC. She is also a writer and will publish a collection of personal essays in October.

“For many of us in the Class of 2019, Ellie Kemper has been a part of our lives since childhood, when we would gather with family and friends on Thursday nights to watch ‘The Office,’” Class Day co-chair Jordan Salama said in the statement. “Today, she continues to command a strong and funny presence in Hollywood with her unique voice, and we could not be more pleased to welcome her as a testament to Princeton’s everlasting commitment to the arts.”

Kemper is a former member of Quipfire!, an improv comedy group at the University.

Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman ’19 has been a member of the group since his first semester at the University, and told the ‘Prince’ Wednesday that Quipfire! members have expressed support for bringing Kemper to campus for big events.

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Lawmakers, U. professors look ahead to a Supreme Court with Kavanaugh Contributor

On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, effective July 31, 2018. On Monday, July 9, President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to take Kennedy’s place.

On the same day, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker released a statement announcing his opposition to Kavanaugh’s nomination. Booker said he was concerned about Kavanaugh’s views regarding Roe v. Wade, the Affordable Care Act, and the rights of workers to organize for better wages and working conditions.

Because of this, Booker urged young people to oppose Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Court.

In a July 20 statement to The Daily Princetonian, Booker wrote, “This is not a partisan moment or a political moment — it is a moral moment.

And for the millions of college students across the country, the stakes

of this moment are incredibly high.

If you are a person who believes in your individual freedoms — to control your own body, to access affordable health care, to marry who you love — do not be silent.”

Booker continued to state that the greatest historical movements were led by youth, referring to the Freedom Riders, Tiananmen Square, and the current student activism in the United States regarding gun violence.

“Stand up with us, fight with us, work with us, struggle with us. Join with others and raise your voices in a chorus of conviction that will ultimately help us stop this Supreme Court pick. You have the power to influence the outcome of this moment in our history,” he wrote.

In his July 9 statement against the nomination, Booker argued that a Supreme Court with Kavanaugh as a justice could lead to a conflict of interest regarding the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.

“The fact that Judge Kavanaugh has a long-established view that a President should not be subject to civil litigation or criminal investigation while in office means that President Trump has just nominated a justice who has already reached conclusions on these serious questions,” Booker said. “That should raise enormous red flags.”

In June, Booker gave the Class Day address for the Class of 2018.

In a law review article from 2009, Kavanaugh advocated that civil suits and criminal investigations be suspended while a president is in office.

Supporters of the judge have pointed out that Kavanaugh was indicating his view of what was good policy, noting that an investigation distracts the President from important political issues. Kavanaugh’s supporters argued he was not indicating his view of what was legally permissible.

However, comments that Kavanaugh made in 1998 suggest he believes See SCOTUS page 2

Sekhsaria ’18 turns senior thesis into $2.5 million start-up Lumhaa Staff Writer

Shriya Sekhsaria ’18 used her lifelong interest in collecting memories as inspiration for her senior thesis. This summer, she took that interest a step further by turning her thesis into a startup company called Lumhaa with the help of the Keller Center.

Lumhaa is about recording and sharing memories through a virtual platform. Users can create virtual “memory jars” via text descriptions, audio or video recordings, and images.

Memories can be shared or kept private, and they can be tagged

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with locations, dates, and emotions. Today, Lumhaa is worth an estimated $2.5 million, according to a VC firm’s July estimate.

“My interest in collecting memories started when I was really little,” Sekhsaria said.

She explained that by age three or four, she would regularly approach strangers to ask them to share their memories with her.

Sekhsaria is a former head news editor for The Daily Princetonian.

Sekhsaria began creating memory jars in India the summer after her freshman year in college. Her focus for the summer was to write a book about

The Asian American Students Association welcomes first-years with a message of unity as well as recognition for Asian-American students on campus, and guest contributor Max Parsons ’20 challenges managing editor Sam Parsons’s column on protecting legal immigration channels.

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The University will be the only Ivy League university to require a graded writing sample.

U drops SAT/ACT essay requirement, will require graded writing sample

By Ivy Truong and Benjamin Ball

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terminally ill children in India who were below the poverty line, in order to raise money for their treatment. When some of the children she was working with passed away, Sekhsaria created memory jars for them and mailed them to their families. The jars contained notecards upon which she wrote short stories, quotes, and drawings about and from the children.

“I knew I didn’t bring them back, but that was my way of immortalizing the kids,” Sekhsaria said.

Sekhsaria continued her work after seeing the impact See LUMHAA page 5

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On July 5, the University dropped the need for applicants to submit an essay score from the SAT or ACT. Beginning this 2018-2019 application season, applicants will, instead, have to submit a graded high school writing sample, preferably a work either of English or history.

In a statement, the University said that this new policy shift “aims to alleviate the financial hardship placed on students, including those who have the opportunity to take the test without writing during the school day and for free.”

In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye explained that this change is one of many that the University has made in order to encourage applicants from

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a broader range of socioeconomic backgrounds to apply.

She noted that, although some students are able to take either standardized test with the writing section included through their high schools, other schools may not offer the writing section at all.

“For those students, if they came to our page and looked at the requirements for the Princeton application and saw that writing was required, they might just keep going and not apply,” Rapelye said.

Taking either test with the writing section costs more than taking the test without the writing section. The ACT with the writing section costs $16.50 more than without it, and the SAT similarly costs $17 more with it.

According to the statement, University officials See SAT page 7

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Scheppele: Judge Kavanaugh is ‘deferential to executive power’

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Senator Cory Booker has emerged as a staunch opponent of Trump’s nomination of Kavanaugh.

civil liberties violations you need to do’?” Scheppele said.

According to Scheppele, Kavanaugh is the sort of judge who would approve drastic measures in what the President deems to be urgent situations.

While U.S. courts have often not deferred to international law, Kavanaugh’s rejection of international law was especially extreme, according to Scheppele, as he affirmed the government’s decision to broaden the scope of the crimes that military commissions at Guantanamo could prosecute to include crimes that are not defined as war crimes by international law.

“He’s deferential to executive power. International law reigns in executives so if as a judge he wouldn’t acknowledge that international law is a separate constraint on the President, then the President can do whatever,” Scheppele said. “So that’s the real concern. That’s the area where I think he’s out of the mainstream Republican choice.”

Scheppele said it is improbable that the Democrats will win the fight against the nomination. She noted that the Republicans have prioritized the court in their campaigns for decades, while Democrats have not.

A politicized court Scheppele said she is troubled by the highly polarized nature of the current system of appointing Supreme Court justices, which she says started during the presidency of Reagan.

“Every time a case comes down people say is it five to four, is it liberals against conservatives? And that

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that only Congress should be permitted to investigate a sitting president.

Booker wrote to Kavanaugh on July 20 to request he recuse himself from any cases related to the investigation, in response to a 2016 video where Kavanaugh expressed support for overturning the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the independent counsel statute.

Sociology and Wilson School professor Kim Lane Scheppele said she does not think the investigation of President Trump’s campaign prevents him from naming a nominee.

However, she said there would be a serious question of whether Kavanaugh and Gorsuch should recuse themselves in a case related to the Russia probe.

Opinions on campus Princeton College Democrats president Sebastian Quiroz ’20 said he is concerned about Kavanaugh’s positions on women’s reproductive rights.

Quiroz is also a member of the ‘Prince’ Editorial Board.

If confirmation hearings stretch into the fall semester, Quiroz said College Democrats will consider calling senators to take action.

Quiroz said he does not believe in denying President Trump the “prerogative” to appoint a Supreme Court justice but that he is also against “the Senate just signing a blank check on whatever the President decides.”

In the long term, Quiroz said, Princeton College Democrats will focus on winning midterm elections and, in 2020, the presidency, so that the Democratic Party can regain the position to impact the Supreme Court.

College Republicans did not respond to the ‘Prince’ requests for comment by the time of this article’s publication.

In an email statement to the ‘Prince,’ politics professor and wellknown conservative scholar Robert George wrote that Kavanaugh is more of a “textualist” and “originalist” than Kennedy. George said this means Kavanaugh will not advance progressive social causes in the name of the constitution.

George described Kavanaugh as a “mainstream conservative jurist — very much in the mode of Neil Gorsuch and John Roberts.”

According to George, many progressives worry that Kavanaugh will help the Supreme Court rule in favor of conservative social causes. George questioned whether Kavanaugh will provide a critical fifth vote to reverse precedents on issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage, as George said he views it as “almost certain” that Kavanaugh would have ruled against abortion and same-sex marriage had he been on the Court when the initial cases were decided.

Sociology and Wilson School professor Kim Lane Scheppele said

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Opponents of Kavanaugh are concerned about Kavanaugh’s positions on reproductive rights.

that Kavanaugh is “a solidly Republican judge and he would have been on the shortlist of any Republican president.”

While many have discussed Kavanaugh’s views on social issues, Scheppele said she is most concerned by his rulings regarding presidential power in the area of war and security, mentioning Kavanaugh’s record serving on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which handled the Guantanamo cases.

“Kavanaugh has kind of led the wing of the D.C. Circuit that has systematically gutted the protections that the Supreme Court gave to detainees in Guantanamo,” Scheppele explained.

Scheppele noted that several judges in the D.C. Circuit regularly rejected international law in order to approve the actions of military commissions, as these judges supported expansive powers for the commander-in-chief during a national security threat. The executive branch can easily declare national security threats, Scheppele explained, and she is worried this would enable the President to violate civil liberties.

“What if Trump said, ‘we’ve heard that there is about to be a terrorist attack and so therefore we need to go onto a war footing, we need to do mass searches of homes, whatever

just makes it look like it’s purely a political decision and has no law in it at all,” Scheppele said.

George also commented on the polarization of the court.

“The two major political parties are now ideologically monolithic (or something close to it), and the Supreme Court is now composed of conservative Republicans and liberal (or progressive) Democrats,” George wrote.

George said he thinks that the Democratic minority will rarely get the fifth vote in big, highly publicized cases.

George traced the court’s polarization back to the blocking of the confirmation of Robert Bork during Reagan’s presidency.

“Confirmation battles have been extremely bitter when a president is nominating someone who might shift the ideological or philosophical balance on the Court,” George explained. “People on both sides will rant about the sins of those on the other side while forgetting their own transgressions. People on both sides will use against those on the other whatever weapons are to hand. It is not a pretty sight.”

Scheppele, who studies courts in other countries, explained that one problem with the system in the United States is that the Constitution is almost impossible to amend. Because of this, political movements have to gain control of the court to reverse a court decision.

The other issue, according to Scheppele, is that there is no regular rotation of judgeship. Scheppele said she was taught that life tenure preserves the independence of the court.

While the system may preserve the independence of individual judges, she argued that it makes the court “completely politically dependent.”

Each judge serves as the lasting influence of the President who appointed them, long after that President has left political office.

Scheppele explained that in other countries the judges on the high court usually have nine- or twelveyear fixed terms. The judges cannot wait until a president of their party is in office before retiring, as is possible in the United States.

The United Kingdom now uses a professional commission of experts to appoint judges to its Supreme Court, added Scheppele, and in Germany the court maintains a political balance.

The German Federal Constitutional Court has 16 judges, divided into two panels of eight. Scheppele explained that there is an understanding that, in each panel, four judges are appointed from the right, and four judges are appointed from the left. An even number of judges is required to break a tie. This makes each panel “automatically deadlocked” so that every case requires a person to be persuaded, and decisions are largely moderate, according to Scheppele.

Scheppele said she thinks most people in the United States would agree that the Supreme Court is a partisan institution. She said that’s not how it should be. “[Justices] should be doing law, not politics,” Scheppele said.

This article was originally published in the July 23rd Freshman issue.

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the jars made on the families.

Over the next year, she started working with army units around the world.

“Whenever a soldier’s body went home, a jar went home with the body,” she said.

During her junior year, Sekhsaria started to apply her study of psychology to her memory jars. She became interested in why the memory jars she had created made the impact they did and asked what an ideal memory jar would look like.

These questions became the focus of her senior thesis with the psychology department.

Sekhsaria’s research for her senior thesis investigated the feelings that resulted from creating and reading memory jars.

Sekhsaria found that reading from memory jars — whether their own or other people’s — made people feel significantly happier and less lonely. These results came from a wide sample of people, including seniors at the University and people 80 years of age and older in several different countries. To measure results, she used the UCLA Loneliness Scale and the Ryff Scale of Psychological Well-Being, among others.

Sekhsaria’s completed thesis earned the Edward E. Jones Memorial Prize, which recognizes “the most outstanding work in social psychology, broadly construed,” according to the University psychology department’s website.

Sekhsaria’s next step involved entrepreneurship, in which she earned a certificate through the University’s Program in Entrepreneurship. This involved developing Lumhaa as a virtual platform for creating memory jars.

To build Lumhaa, Sekhsaria is working with a team of Indiabased computer programmers and three undergraduate interns, Crystal Wu ’20, Hannah Wang ’21, and Mara Muslea ’20.

Wang is a news writer for ‘Prince’ and Muslea is comptroller.

Sekhsaria and her team of interns speak weekly with their eLab advisor, Marty Johnson ’81. Ed Zschau ’61 serves as their Keller Center advisor.

The Summer Accelerator Program also provides workshops and sessions to teach students about entrepreneurship topics. It grants small amounts of “seed” funding to each participating entrepreneurship team without taking equity in the companies, said eLab Entrepreneurial Program Manager Stephanie Landers.

Through the Summer Accelerator Program, Lumhaa has developed into an increasingly layered memory-sharing experience. Among its several existing and developing features, Lumhaa’s “Lum Day” presents a “Question of the Day” that incorporates the memories recorded on the website. The “Walk” feature allows users to see memories connected to various locations.

Though the Lumhaa app itself is free for up to 3GB of memories, according to Sekhsaria, Lumhaa also offers Lum World, a paid service for organizations to aggregate the memories of their members. It is currently used by the University’s Keller Center and by HomeWorks, a Trenton-based nonprofit providing housing and support for high school girls, founded by Natalie Tung ‘18.

Landers said Sekhsaria’s personal motivation is a big factor contributing to Lumhaa’s success.

“I see that it means so much to her, because she works very, very hard, and it shows in the end product that she’s creating,” Landers said.

In the future, Lumhaa plans to offer Lumhaa Premium, a paid extension of the free app which would provide additional services such as inperson memory interviews and

physical memory jars, as well as Lum Store, which would allow members to commission art representing their memories, and Lum XR, to allow people to relive their own memories and those of others through virtual reality.

Wu, who applied to work with Lumhaa in hopes of becoming acquainted with startup culture, found the company’s focus on stories to be novel.

“The application for Lumhaa seemed very personal,” Wu said.

The memories recorded on Lumhaa so far include around 25,000 jars from 60 countries, with a few thousand people signed up for accounts with the platform. According to Sekhsaria, Lumhaa’s memories include those of about 200 Olympic athletes and a few hundred Uber drivers, as well as senior citizens, World War veterans, and others.

“People are the heart of everything we do,” Sekhsaria said. “Lumhaa is meant to be something that makes you feel like your story fits into the world.”

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“Some of our members may have excitedly put her name down,” he said, but clarified that the final decision was made independent of the comedy troupe.

In an email to the Class of 2019 announcing the decision, the Class Day Committee wrote that the decision was based on the University’s “unprecedented campaign” in recent years to support the arts and humanities on campus. The email cited the opening of the Lewis Center for the Arts and the University’s investment in student-led initiatives in the arts and humanities as the basis for their decision.

The email also noted that the committee wanted to mark the 50th anniversary of co-education on campus and cited Kemper’s own connections to the introduction of co-education at the University.

“This year, we are honored to welcome a speaker

who not has not only demonstrated excellence as [a] Princeton alumna in the public eye, but whose mother Dorothy Jannarone Kemper ’72 and aunt Julie Kemper ’78 laid the foundation for her success and the success of all the women who followed in their footsteps at this great University,” the email wrote.

Kemper was also a member of the Princeton Triangle Club, which accepted its first female member in 1968, one year before the University officially went co-ed.

That first female Triangle member was a graduate student, according to Triangle Vice President Emily Kunkel ’19.

“Triangle has really been historically co-ed,” Kunkel said, compared to musical theater groups at other Ivies.

Harvard’s “Hasty Puddings Theatricals” only let women join the cast this year, for example.

Kunkel said it is great that the Class Day Committee is giving a female comedian attention. She said that

women in comedy should be given just as many ”platforms” and as much “respect” as their male peers.

“We’re really excited that she’s engaging with the [University] community again,” Kunkel said.

Prior to her professional acting career, Kemper received her undergraduate degree from the Department of English at the University. She would later study at Worcester College at the University of Oxford, where she was working towards a graduate degree in English.

During her time as an undergraduate, she was an active writer and actor for the Triangle Club and also a member of Theater Intime.

According to the email, she played field hockey at the University, where she was a part of the 1998 National Ch a mpion sh ip-w i n n i ng team.

According to the University statement, the Class Day ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 3, 2019 with a class procession.

The ceremony itself will start at 10:30 a.m.

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anaging editor and migrant student Sam Parsons (no relation) recently offered his perspective on the state of America’s immigration system in a looming 2,100-word column titled “Defending Princeton’s 12 percent: The unseen side of the anti-immigration movement.” In what quickly morphs from an insightful remark on the often untold vocational difficulties faced by international students to a partisan diatribe, Parsons lurches into a clumsy yet familiar attack on Trump and his not-so-recent failure to pass immigration reform. However, besides the conf lation of the F-1 visa, which Parsons presumably uses, and the H-1B, which he clearly does not, what I found particularly problematic was his framing of American identity as merely an arbitrary construct. To me, like millions of other Americans who support key elements of Trump’s immigration proposals, the question of who is admitted to our country for work, travel, and citizenship is a weighty question that requires continued scrutiny.

Missing from Parsons’s analysis of the H-1B program is any mention of the loophole that allows companies and large outsourcing firms to bypass regulations mandating market-based wages for visa

holders and proof that the job could not have been filled by an American citizen. By hiring immigrants who possess a master’s degree or paying the visa holder any salary greater than $60,000, large corporations are allowed to, and do, pay below market wages to grateful immigrants while equally qualified Americans are left on the sidelines. While Trump’s increased scrutiny of H-1B visa applicants presents an inconvenient and patience-testing burden to international students at Princeton and elsewhere, I, for one, think it is a righteous attempt to ensure fair play and protect the average American from amoral corporate greed.

Visa gamesmanship is the rule, not the exception. To illustrate, the New York Times, a paper not prone to sympathy for Trump or his policies, found that nearly one-third of H-1B visas were used in tandem with this deceitful strategy. In part, this is because the visa is issued through a lottery process. Large companies rig the system by filing so many applications that they are statistically bound to win tens of thousands of low-wage employees. And while Parsons would have you believe that $6,000 in legal fees for visa sponsorship is sufficient deterrence to multi-billion dollar companies seeking an edge, the $20,000 that they save on average per-year, per-visa by underpaying migrants keeps the corporate bal-

ance sheet in the black.

Of course, the reason discussions on immigration policy are so polarized is completely unrelated to the macroeconomic implications of visa reciprocity or any other bureaucratic factoid. Instead, these issues are emotional for many because they ask us to define, in law, what it should take to become an American. More importantly, it asks us to determine the impossible: Who is deserving of becoming a citizen?

This is a question that the author ignores for the most part, only occasionally advocating for a more “open legal immigration system.” It is clear, however, that the author would like to be a citizen and resident of the United States and thinks himself deserving. I wonder why. Is it because he is clearly an intelligent individual educated at one of the finest universities in the world? Is it because he is presumably an egalitarian with liberal values? Is it because he has spent significant time in our country and feels well assimilated?

Clearly, Parsons appears to be a strong candidate to live and work in this country, and it is not just because we share the same surname or any other arbitrary characteristic like his country of origin or the immigrant status of his extended family.

Fortunately, Trump’s immigration reform framework would reward people like the author in their legitimate applications for H1-B

status visas by mitigating the prevalence of borderline fraudulent attempts by companies looking to outsource jobs to save money. It would also eliminate the nonsensical policies surrounding the diversity visa lottery, a baldfaced, valueless attempt at social engineering.

Additionally, rather than stringing along the 1.8 million undocumented residents of the United States with a constitutionally f limsy DACA program, Trump has offered a 10–12-year path to citizenship in exchange for border wall funding.

Admittedly, these political strides probably offer little consolation to the rising-senior author as he nears post-grad purgatory.

However, I am happy to say that these policies are strengthening the present and future of the Union. For those planning on voting in our nation’s upcoming midterm elections, I implore you to vote for the local candidates that best serve your interests. At the end of the day, the politicians that have the greatest impact on one’s everyday life are sheriffs, mayors, and zoning committees, not the President. In any case, you will have to wait two more years to vote for Bernie Sanders again.

Max Parsons is a junior concentrating in economics from Seneca, S.C. He can be reached at maxp@ princeton.edu. This article previously appeared online on Aug. 14.

Letter from the Asian American Students Association

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o the Class of 2022, On behalf of the Asian American Students Association (AASA), welcome to Princeton University! We will surely not be the first — nor the last — people to welcome you to this amazing community. Nonetheless, we are so excited that you are here, and we cannot wait to see what you will no doubt accomplish during your time here.

Over the course of your freshman year, you are going to receive advice from almost everyone you meet. Get involved in extracurriculars; go to office hours; take a class in an unknown topic. While these cliché bits of wisdom are certainly valid, we want to throw in our own advice — namely, don’t be afraid to speak up. Loudly.

AASA was established in 1971 to fight for the creation of an Asian American Studies program on campus and for greater recognition to be awarded to the Asian-American community. Throughout the years, we have expanded from supporting Asian-American education to launching projects and hosting events to celebrate the diversity of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) culture; to devising solutions to issues in AAPI politics;

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES president Thomas E. Weber ’89 vice president Craig Bloom ’88 secretary Betsy L. Minkin ’77 treasurer Douglas J. Widmann ’90 Kathleen Crown William R. Elfers ’71 Stephen Fuzesi ’00 Zachary A. Goldfarb ’05 John Horan ’74 Joshua Katz Kathleen Kiely ’77 Rick Klein ’98 James T. MacGregor ’66 Alexia Quadrani Marcelo Rochabrun ’15 Richard W. Thaler, Jr. ’73 Lisa Belkin ‘82 Francesca Barber trustees emeriti Gregory L. Diskant ’70 Jerry Raymond ’73 Michael E. Seger ’71 Annalyn Swan ’73

142ND MANAGING BOARD managing editors Isabel Hsu ’19 Sam Parsons ’19 head news editor Claire Thornton ’19 associate news editors Allie Spensley ’20 Audrey Spensley ’20 Ariel Chen ’20 associate news and film editor Sarah Warman Hirschfield ’20 head opinion editor Emily Erdos ’19 associate opinion editors Jon Ort ’21 Cy Watsky ’21 head sports editors David Xin ’19 Chris Murphy ’20 associate sports editors Miranda Hasty ’19 Jack Graham ’20 head street editors Danielle Hoffman ’20 Lyric Perot ’20 digital operations manager Sarah Bowen ’20 associate chief copy editors Marina Latif ’19 Arthur Mateos ’19 head design editor Rachel Brill ’19 cartoons editor Tashi Treadway ’19 head photo editor Risa Gelles-Watnick ’21

NIGHT STAFF copy Jordan Antebi ’19 Minh Hoang ’19 design Quinn Donohue ’20

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The Asian American Students Association was established to fight for the creation of an Asian American Studies program

and to giving students the chance to engage in dialogue about imminent problems facing the AAPI community.

Although the creation of the Asian American Studies certificate this past year was a triumph for AASA’s efforts, the fight is hardly over for more representation, for more equality, for more progress.

We may be an organization that focuses on the Asian-American experience, but we are not limited to only engaging

with members of our own community! As Princeton throws work and other stressors at you, it is easy to be consumed by the pressures of campus life.

But we cannot forget that we exist within a bigger world than just our campus.

You are walking in the same halls as student activists who conducted a 36-hour sit-in and demanded more courses in LatinX and Asian-American studies. You are taking classes in the same

rooms as Helen Zia ’73, the noted Asian-American journalist and activist.

You are living with peers who helped advocate for Princeton’s Asian American Studies program. And now, it is your turn. We want you to make your own impact on Princeton and to add your voice to the conversations we are having on campus about the Asian-American experience.

We welcome you to find the place to make your mark on campus along-

side us; remember that AASA is a place for anyone, regardless of ethnicity or political beliefs. Feel free to talk to us at our Activities Fair booth, during the Carl A. Fields day event, or at our Welcome Dinner on Sept. 18. We are so excited to meet you all and to welcome you to the Princeton community!

With love, The Asian American Students Association This piece is part of a series of welcome letters to the Class of 2022. Extracurricular organizations are encouraged to contribute submissions to opinion@ dailyprincetonian.com.

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“believe that assessing a student’s in-class work will provide helpful and meaningful insight into a student’s academic potential.”

Unlike other Ivy League schools that have gotten rid of the essay section requirement, Princeton has chosen to replace the writing section with a graded writing sample. This decision is a nod to the eventual senior thesis that the majority of students are expected to complete at Princeton.

“It doesn’t matter what your concentration is, it doesn’t matter what area you’re in, and in some disciplines you will write more than in others, but in every discipline at Princeton you must learn to write. You must submit your intellectual work in a written form, and so what better way to find out how well students are prepared than to ask what they have already accomplished in high school in a graded paper,” she explained.

Though Rapelye acknowledged that the admissions team will most likely receive a broad range of both “quality of writing and quality of assignments,” she emphasized that a graded writing sample will provide insight into an applicant’s academic environment and the applicant’s performance within the context of that environment.

“We’ll learn a lot about the teaching and we’ll learn a lot about how much time teachers have to put into their editing or their grading,” said Rapelye. “[In] some school districts, the teaching load is large, and teachers don’t have the luxury of spending as much time grading papers as other school districts.”

More information about the submission of the writing sample will be released on the admissions website later this summer, the statement said.

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On tap with Olympian Caroline Park ’11

By Molly Milligan and Samantha Shapiro Staff Writers

From the Ivy League to the Olympic stage, Caroline Park ’11 has continued to play hockey at an elite level. Following her career as a Tiger, Park hoped to continue playing hockey, and she earned a spot on the combined Korean National Team. The Daily Princetonian caught up with Park following the Olympics to learn more about her experience.

The Daily Princetonian: How did you initially get involved in hockey?

Caroline Park: I started playing ice hockey because of my older brother Michael. My parents initially tried to keep me away from ice hockey because they were worried I would get injured. My mother hoped I would pursue piano, so whenever the piano teacher came to my house for lessons, I pretended to be sick and locked myself in the bathroom. Once the piano teacher left, I would go outside and play road hockey with my brother.

Once my parents caught on to what I was doing, they gave in and signed me up for ice hockey.

DP: What were the highlights of your time playing for Princeton?

What did your collegiate hockey experience teach you?

CP: I’ve always appreciated the friendships I cultivated through playing hockey at Princeton.

These are the friendships that will last a lifetime and are so special — few outside of hockey would understand the pains of morning lifts, shuttle runs, beep tests, etc. My collegiate hockey experience taught me about time management. It was difficult adjusting to life as a student-athlete. However, it was an invaluable learning experience that prepared me for training for the Olympics while in medical school.

DP: Were the Olympics always an aspiration of yours? Had you dreamed of competing on world stage, or did it come more as a sudden opportunity?

CP: I feel like every child who grows up playing ice hockey in Canada dreams of competing at the Olympics. I watched it every four years with my family and was always in admiration and awe of the athletes. Obviously, I didn’t think I would end up competing for a Unified Korea. However, I think that has made everything infinitely more memorable on top of an event that is already incredibly special to begin with.

DP: What was the biggest reason you decided to accept the Korean coaches’ offer and take time off from medical school to pursue hockey?

CP: I love ice hockey. Even after playing four years of collegiate hockey at Princeton, I still had a desire to compete and play ice hockey at a competitive

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level. So when the opportunity to play at the international level presented itself, I did not hesitate for a second. I knew there could always be a way to work around things, even something as intense as medical school. You only live life once, so I figured, why not try to pursue all of my passions?

DP: What does it mean to you to be competing in the Olympics? What has been your best memory from the Games so far?

CP: It’s a dream come true and such an honor to be competing for the host country. My best memory of the Games so far would

be walking in the Opening Ceremonies. The roar of the crowd as we entered the stadium was incredible. I doubt there will be many things in my life that could top that moment.

DP: What does it mean to you to be a part of this historic moment of unification between North and South Korea?

CP: It is a privilege and something I will look back on with pride and fond memories. It truly is a historic moment in Olympic/sports history, and it’s a reminder of how sports can transcend cultural barriers. We’ll have

to wait and see if it will have any lasting implications, but being a part of a team that symbolized peace and unity was very special.

DP: What do you value most about this experience? What has been a lesson learned from training for the Olympics and playing with teammates from a variety of backgrounds?

CP: One of my favorite aspects of this experience is meeting and getting to know our 12 North Korean teammates. Although we may have different cultural backgrounds, they were not much different from us. Our team became incredibly close by the end of the Olympics, and it’s these bonds I value most from this experience. I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to meet and get to know these amazing women who very few would ever get the chance to meet.

DP: What are your plans for after the Olympics?

CP: I’m planning to take some time off to rest and recover after the Olympics, but I’ll return to and finish medical school!

DP: Is there any advice you might want to offer current Princeton students?

CP: Never give up on your dreams! Life is too short to not pursue whatever you’re passionate about, so go after your dreams relentlessly and fearlessly.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

On tap with recruit Jaelin Llewellyn ’22

By Matthew Fuller Staff writer

Getting to know the University’s next basketball star In a recent trend that features an increasing number of athletes choosing prestigious academic institutions over traditional athletic powerhouses, the University has landed 2 four-star recruits from the class of 2022.

Among the recruited class next year, Princeton students will get to watch Jaelin Llewellyn, a four-star point guard from Canada.

Llewellyn turned down major programs such as Wake Forest University, where his father played, and University of Virginia, currently the top-ranked basketball program in the country.

Childhood Llewellyn grew up in Mississauga, Ontario. He describes this experience as great not only for giving him a taste of city life, but also for affording him the opportunity to experience a quieter suburban environment. Llewellyn has spent the last two seasons playing at Virginia Episcopal School, a small and selective college prep school in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Growing up, Llewellyn

followed players like Tracy McGrady while he was on the Houston Rockets, Rajon Rondo while he was on the Boston Celtics, and LeBron James. Llewellyn has tried to incorporate these players’ strategies on the court.

Career Nationally ranked as part of ESPN’s ESPN 100, four-star Llewellyn comes in ranked the 16th best point guard prospect in the class of 2018, and one of the top two point guards from Canada. The six-foot, two inches and 160-pound point guard is ranked as highly as 89th in the country by Rivals. com. Last season at Virginia Episcopal School, he averaged 17.9 points, 3.9 rebounds, 4.3 assists, and 1.1 steals per game. This year, through 23 games, he has improved all of these numbers, with 23.0 ppg, 5.6 apg, 5.5 rpg, and 1.5 spg.

Over the summer, Llewellyn was afforded the opportunity to compete in the Adidas Circuit as part of Team Loaded.

The team won the summer championship, going undefeated. At 8.8 ppg and 3.8 apg, Llewellyn described this experience as a big moment in his career, as it gave him the feeling of winning some-

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thing major. Next season, the University will receive a player with a real hunger to win. Of the memory, Llewellyn said it “really makes me crave for moments like that again.”

Playing style Of his playing style, Llewellyn said, “It could be described as a quick, athletic, and aggressive guard that can score, and loves to put teammates in positions to be successful.” Llewellyn seems to take the role of a facilitator seriously. The aforementioned players that he looked up to as a child are all known for giving their teammates opportunities and elevating their team’s overall level of play.

Additionally, as he looks to further his skills, Llewellyn tries to take bits and pieces from today’s elite point guards, including Kyrie Irving, Damian Lillard, and Stephen Curry. DraftExpress.com labels him as “an explosive athlete with strong footwork off the dribble,” also saying he should make an immediate scoring impact for the Tigers next season.

Of his success on the basketball court, Llewellyn credits much of it to his dad, Cordell Llewellyn, for his dedication to his son’s basketball career.

Furthermore, on his motivation, Llewellyn says that what motivates him most is “wanting to be able to live my future life the way I want, and live comfortably, for myself, my parents, and other family members.”

Interests As far as music goes, Llewellyn usually listens to rappers that are up-andcoming and fairly close to him in age before games.

Lil Peep and Lil Tracy have been some of his favorites for over two years. Once he hits the court, however, he said, “It doesn’t really matter what music is being played because I’m just in a different zone.”

Off the court, he really enjoys videography. He has been filming and editing videos since he was in middle school.

Outside of videography, he was also developing skills in another game, Call of Duty. In ninth grade, Llewellyn says he was actually ranked 97th in the world at one point.

Future It is no secret that the University offers worldclass academics, a quality that would be hard for any recruit to overlook.

In an interview with Phenom Hoops Report’s Patrick O’Brien, Llewellyn

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said that the University is “a place where I know I’ll develop each year I’m there because I have goals of playing professionally.

And a place where I have the opportunity to play as soon as I step on campus.”

Llewellyn was also given offers by other prestigious universities, like University of Virginia and Harvard, but he had a special eagerness to play at Princeton.

“I chose Princeton because they were one of the first schools to show interest in me athletically, and I feel like they would be most accepting of me as a person,“ said Lewellyn. “I just felt like I’d fit in.”

When asked what he was most excited for, Llewellyn responded “It’s hard to pick one thing to be excited for because it’s everything really. Maybe just being on campus for that very first day.”

Stepping on campus for the very first time is a memory very few University students can forget.

When Jaelin hits the court next season, students will be given the opportunity to witness more memorable moments, hopefully some of them being next March.

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