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REMEMBERING 100 YEARS THE FUTURE
GRANT WAHL ’96 OF BAKER RINK OF FISH
Last Call for the
Princeton Conservative?
JANUARY 2023
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Harvard ‘20
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PRESIDENT’S PAGE 2 Branzino hatchlings
swim in the clear
FROM THE EDITOR 3 waters at Ideal Fish,
page 34
INBOX 4
ON THE CAMPUS 9
New initiatives in University’s
diversity, equity, and
inclusion report HBCU
partnership commences
Students seek action against
professor who used N-word
Debating whether to remove
Witherspoon statue Seven
seniors honored SPORTS:
Celebrating 100 years of
Baker Rink RESEARCH: Life
as a lonely bee Correcting
Native American histories
PRINCETONIANS 41
George Butts ’08 the hand
model Jessica Lander ’10 on
educators helping immigrant
students Taylor Plosser
Davis ’93 transforming homes
for aging clients
CLASS NOTES 46
Crashing the Conservative Party 24 Sea Change 34
MEMORIALS 63 Princeton has been an incubator of right-wing Eric Pedersen ’82 wants to revolutionize the
CLASSIFIEDS 71 talent over the past 60 years, yet students seafood industry and forge a new way to
and alumni say conservative life on campus is farm fish out of his one-of-a-kind factory in
Navid Baraty; courtesy Leila Philip ’86, Nada Elbuluk ’04, Beverly Schaefer
PRINCETON PORTRAIT 72 endangered. By David Walter ’11 Waterbury, Connecticut. By Wayne Coffey
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On the latest In the first edition of
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Philip ’86 discusses Q&A series, dermatologist PAW Goes to the Movies
her new book about Nada Elbuluk ’04 explains Dean Jill Dolan discussed
how beavers built a skin condition where with PAW the new film She
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On the cover: Photo by Sameer A. Khan h’21
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THE PRESIDENT ’ S PAGE
Service Through a New LENS
I
n the first PAW page of my presidency, back in
September 2013, I emphasized that an ethic of
service was fundamental to Princeton’s mission. I
called upon the University community to ask “how
we can live up more fully to Princeton’s informal motto,”
a motto that now reads, “Princeton in the nation’s service
and the service of humanity.”
This fall we took a giant step in the right direction.
In late October, we announced the Learning and Education
through Service (LENS) initiative, which offers every
Princeton undergraduate the opportunity to do a paid
summer service internship during their time at the University.
That’s not something we’ve been able to do before, and it
sets a new standard for higher education support of service-
oriented learning.
LENS seeks to eliminate two obstacles that sometimes
stand in the way of Princeton students seeking service the value of service and encourage students to give service a
internships. Sometimes they can’t find an internship. And central place in their lives and careers.
sometimes they can’t find funding for their internship. Doing that doesn’t require someone to join the Peace Corps
With the help of generous alumni and friends, Princeton or Teach for America — though of course it’s great if they
had already established an array of internship programs do! I often say to students that you can live a life of service in
that aim to solve these problems. The number and variety nearly any profession: It’s more a matter of how you do your
of programs, however, complicated the task of finding an job than what job you do.
internship that matched a student’s needs. George Shultz ’42, Maria Ressa ’86, Wendy Kopp ’89,
LENS will integrate and supplement Princeton’s existing and Mellody Hobson ’91 all exemplify, magnificently
summer internship programs to create “one-stop shopping” and distinctively, a tradition of service proudly shared by
for rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors who seek to generations of Princeton alumni.
explore summer service internships. In so doing, it will make Yet, though service can take many forms, a commitment
it easier for all students to find service opportunities that to it does not arise automatically or accidentally. It requires
are both personally meaningful and responsive to the needs thoughtfulness, dedication, and care. And those habits of
of the world. mind are more likely to flourish among our alumni if they
In the words of Vice President for Campus Life W. take firm hold during a student’s time at Princeton.
Rochelle Calhoun, the initiative will “strengthen collaboration For that reason, I hope that every Princeton student will
among departments and offices that support service and social find a way to make service a central part of their experience at
impact internships during the summer, as well as provide this University. With resources from LENS, I am optimistic
greater transparency for students so they better understand that they will.
the options available to them.” This generation of students has a strong commitment to
LENS includes financial support to ensure that every service. Some will use LENS to build on past projects, and
qualifying internship is a paid internship. Not only will others will explore new ones. Their interests encompass
LENS provide additional funding to enable existing human rights, community history, medical research, animal
programs to expand their reach, it will also encourage welfare, education, and many, many other causes and topics.
students to secure their own internships and help them to The LENS website collects stories at https://lens.princeton.
identify University funding to support them. This means that edu/student-stories, where you can get a sense of our
more students will be able to spend their summers engaging students’ passion and impact.
in experiential learning opportunities focused on service and Thanks to gifts from alumni and friends and the creative
social impact. work of administrative leaders, LENS will make possible
The LENS acronym takes some alphabetic liberties (in many more stories like those. In its infancy, LENS will
particular, it grabs the “n” from the end of “education”) to depend partly on Annual Giving, though our long-term goal
spotlight an idea from the University’s strategic planning is to raise a naming gift to provide continuing support for
process. A committee of students, staff, faculty, and alumni the program.
urged Princeton to regard service as “an embedded and I’m grateful to the alumni, friends, staff, and faculty who
pervasive lens” on learning. Service experiences, said the have enabled us to take this new and substantial step toward
committee, should deepen students’ understanding of the that ideal, and I look forward to seeing how LENS enables
subjects they studied in Princeton’s classrooms. and inspires our Tigers to do good in the world.
Several faculty have incorporated this recommendation
into their teaching, and some LENS opportunities will link
to Princeton academic work. All of the internships, whether
or not they connect directly to coursework, will reinforce
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Editor’s Note
A Devastating Loss
By Peter Barzilai s’97
B
etween the deadline stress, the
disagreements, and the laughs at The Daily
Princetonian in the mid-1990s, there were
times when staff members couldn’t help but stop
and admire the work of one of their colleagues.
Before Grant Wahl ’96 was a world-famous
soccer journalist, he was a Princeton student with
a special talent. His colleagues could see it in how
he did the work, and the readers could see it in his
elegant writing and smart reporting.
“For a very small group of us who were in that
room with [Grant] every afternoon and a lot of
evenings in ’94, ’95, and ’96, it was a golden era,”
said Justin Pope ’97, co-sports editor in 1996-97.
“There was this energy and kind of cockiness, and
it came from the top, and he was the person who
sat on that tower. Grant created an environment
that people wanted to be a part of and wanted to do
ambitious work.”
Grant, 49, died Dec. 10 while covering a World
Cup match in Qatar. After saying he felt ill for a few
days, Grant collapsed in the press box and could not
be saved by paramedics. His wife, Céline Gounder
’97, said an autopsy performed by the New York
City Medical Examiner’s Office revealed the cause
of death was an aortic aneurysm.
“The chest pressure he experienced shortly before
his death may have represented the initial symptoms,” Grant Wahl ’96 and
she wrote. “No amount of CPR or shocks would have Céline Gounder ’97
with their dogs.
saved him. His death was unrelated to COVID. His
death was unrelated to vaccination status. There was
nothing nefarious about his death.”
A reporter for Sports Illustrated from 1996 to 2021, Grant
wrote about college basketball and LeBron James before
devoting himself to soccer. His impact on the game in the U.S.
Courtesy Sabine Wallis; courtesy Malena (Salberg) Barzilai ’97
has been immense. Many of the tributes from around the world
have credited him with being a visionary. Prominent soccer
figures, athletes, and politicians expressed their heartache and From left,
sent condolences to Céline and Grant’s family. Nate Ewell ’96,
Malena (Salberg)
I got to know Grant through my wife, Malena (Salberg) Barzilai ’97, and
Barzilai ’97, who worked with him at the Prince, and in my Grant Wahl ’96
previous life as a sports journalist. I was thrilled when he wrote in 1995.
a profile of Leeds coach Jesse Marsch ’96 for the November
issue of PAW. We talked about the World Cup and how he dorm room because he was that guy,” said Allison Slater Tate
was looking forward to covering it and continuing to grow his ’96, another colleague at the Prince who has remained close to
Substack website, “Fútbol with Grant Wahl.” Grant and Céline. “His smile was so big and welcoming. He
His death has deeply hurt the Princeton community and was like my brother. And I loved him with my whole heart.”
reminded many not only of his immense skills as a journalist Grant was also fiercely courageous. Whether it was running
but also his kindness and warmth. for president of FIFA in part to highlight corruption within
“He would walk you home to make sure you got back to your Continues on page 4
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or wearing a rainbow T-shirt to the
U.S.-Wales match in Qatar on Nov. 21 to
support LGBTQ rights, he did not shy
away from a good fight.
“He had such a mature sense of
journalism,” said Nate Ewell ’96, who was
a co-sports editor in 1995-96 and worked
with Grant on one of his most memorable, To pleasantly converse
and courageous, stories at Princeton.
Writing in the Prince for the last time,
with rural Americans,
Grant authored a thorough rebuke of
one must avoid politics
future Hall of Fame men’s basketball entirely, and frankly,
coach Pete Carril shortly after his that goes for plenty of
retirement. “Privately, in practice or in urban Americans, too.
the locker room, what you haven’t seen is That is not a true solution
the daily hell promulgated by ‘Princeton’s to our divide, but it may
professor of basketball,’ whose vicious be all we have to prop
assault on the characters of his ‘students’ open a door to rediscover
would have gotten any real professor
our common humanity.
fired, on the spot,” Grant wrote.
Ewell said that several months before
that story ran, “he and I met with the Outside of politics, one finds warm,
whole basketball team and heard their VIEWS OF A DIVIDED COUNTRY hardworking, gracious humans, but
concerns. [Grant] was asking how we Having ridden Harley-Davidson mention politics and they throw up a
should approach this story? What was the motorcycles more than 300,000 miles, wall of defensiveness and conspiracy
right way? What was the ethical way?” crisscrossing two-lane rural America theories. Unable to justify their
Said Pope: “He delivered the over the past 19 years, I enjoyed the opinions, they claim to being treated
goods. He did the reporting. He article about Walter Kirn ’83’s road trip to condescendingly. They go with gut
talked to people. He wasn’t just [an] understand the American political divide feelings, and talk radio and Fox
undergraduate firing off a story. It was (“Lost in the Democracy,” November resonate with those feelings, feeding
the difference between activism and issue). Not a journalist, but an excellent their anger and hate. To pleasantly
journalism. bar mate and listener, I have spoken converse with rural Americans, one
“That piece inspired people to be with hundreds of rural residents in bars, must avoid politics entirely, and frankly,
more courageous and showed what cafés, and gas stations. Not only can that goes for plenty of urban Americans,
student journalists can do. But at the end many not provide local directions, as too. That is not a true solution to our
of the day, he was just a better reporter Kirn describes, they have rarely, if ever, divide, but it may be all we have to prop
than everybody.” traveled outside a 50-mile radius of their open a door to rediscover our common
Ewell, who is now vice president of birthplace. Their view of events outside humanity.
communications for the NHL’s Vegas that radius has grown from disinterest to Geoff Smith ’71
Golden Knights, said he learned from distrust, anger, and hate, fueled by talk Carlsbad, Calif.
Grant how to be a better journalist — and radio and Fox political shows. Of interest
that he shouldn’t be a journalist. to them are gas, food, crop, cattle, and Regarding the story on Walter Kirn ’83:
“I’m not joking at all when I say I tractor prices … and gun rights. Largely I agree that the tone of Democratic
wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him,” he irrelevant are pandemics, Ukraine, and Party leaders toward middle-class
said. “I wanted to be a sportswriter, but I climate change. Americans who do not support them
looked at [Grant] and said, I can’t do this.
I’m not Grant. None of us were.”
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But like a great teammate, Grant may be edited for length, accuracy, clarity,
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can be condescending. I despise country as a whole is helped or hurt by arguments against the growing number
condescension, but I despise being lied this brain drain. of concerned citizens it considers its
to even more. Steve Beckwith ’64 enemies. Twenty years ago, for instance,
Alas, when someone is really New York, N.Y. when British Petroleum began heavily
good at telling me lies I want to hear, promoting the term “carbon footprint,”
I have trouble spotting them. I believe DIVEST PRINCETON the company did so to shift blame from
that that is something Republican Having attended President Christopher corporate malfeasance to individual
Party leaders have perfected in the Eisgruber ’83’s State of the University lifestyle choices.
case of many middle-class Americans, program at Reunions last spring, at Note that BP is unfortunately and
especially regarding their economic which he professed himself opposed to inexplicably missing from the list of
best interests. fossil-fuel divestment, I was unprepared companies from which Princeton has
Many of the lies involve deflecting for the trustees’ decision to divest, which committed to dissociate. For alumni truly
blame onto others: pregnant women, I vigorously applaud (On the Campus, committed to the “service of all nations”
migrants, anyone identifying as LGBTQ, November issue). Hats off to Divest — and for anyone worried about famine
anyone who does not want to own a gun Princeton and its students, faculty, and drought, fires and hurricanes, rising
in order to feel safe, anyone who believes administration, and alumni supporters temperatures and rising seas — we need
that only secular education should be at who these past years raised awareness to keep fighting.
public expense. with their advocacy, and to the Faculty Ben Beckley ’03
The biggest lie, though, is that Committee, which championed Astoria, N.Y.
massive tax cuts for the wealthy and divestment despite the limited charge it
corporations will ever benefit anyone was originally given. I remember when I was at Princeton,
except the wealthy and corporations. It would have been interesting to walking past Nassau Hall there were
The last 40 years have made that amply be a fly on the wall during the trustees’ often students marching and chanting
clear. Only more progressive taxation, a discussions leading to their decision. I “Divest!” to demand that the University
robustly nonpartisan judicial system, and have never understood why the board divest from companies doing business
a firmly secular education system can operates with such little transparency, in South Africa under the apartheid
benefit the vast majority of middle-class especially with respect to major regime. Although I felt some sympathy
Americans, regardless of their color, decisions like this one. for their cause, I thought they were too
creed, or gender. Robert L. Herbst ’69 radical and idealistic. Now in retrospect
Margaret Ruttenberg ’76 Larchmont, N.Y. I recognize they were on the right side
New York, N.Y. of history, just as the students of Divest
A few reactionary alumni have criticized Princeton will be on the issue of fossil-
The article on Walter Kirn mentioned members of the broad and burgeoning fuel investments.
the “brain drain” from small and divestment movement for failing to free Entering Princeton at the time of
medium cities. I think there is evidence ourselves from gas-guzzling cars and the 1970s oil crisis (when oil reserves
for this every month in PAW. The single-use plastic (Inbox, December were wrongly forecast to run out in 20
obituaries from the classes in the issue and PAW Online). It’s true that years), I chose to study mechanical
1950s and earlier contain many grads the proliferation of fossil fuels touches engineering because I wanted to work
who came from small cities and after nearly every aspect of modern life, on solar energy. After graduation,
graduation returned there. Some just as slavery’s economic impact was much to my disappointment I was
were professionals such as doctors once inescapable — even for white unable to find a job in that field. (Energy
or lawyers while others joined a local abolitionists in their starched white companies advertising their research
business, often family owned. They cotton shirts. and development on photovoltaics and
became leaders in the local community. What’s also true, as I write this on a solar thermal collectors were engaged in
Gradually this changed and many 70-degree day in late fall in Astoria, New an early form of greenwashing.) So it’s
grads from the 1960s and later years York, is the severity of the worsening taken around four decades, but climate
shifted to careers in consulting, finance, climate crisis and its underlying causes. In change has finally led us to acknowledge
technology, etc., that were located in 1965, the American Petroleum Society told the urgency of ending fossil-fuel
large cities. Small cities were the losers its members that carbon dioxide would extraction and use, and making the
in this trend. produce “marked changes in climate” by difficult but crucial transition to
In my day, “Princeton in the Nation’s the year 2000. The fossil fuel industry has renewable energy.
Service” was thought to mean working known for more than half a century the Larry Moffett ’82
for the government, especially in havoc it would wreak on people’s lives. Brussels, Belgium
Washington, D.C. However, I think that In those 50-odd years, the industry
those who returned home to small cities has not only sought to hide its own I am surprised that the climate activists
also were working in the nation’s service. culpability, but waged a relentless public behind Divest Princeton were pleased
An interesting question is whether the relations campaign, full of spurious with the measures that the University
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has taken to drop fossil fuels. Your cover I remember being completely enthralled
stated, “Dropping Fossil Fuels,” but the by the class. Whether it was how it made
An editorially independent magazine
dissociation is far from dropping fossil me think, or the cool visuals and seeming
by alumni for alumni since 1900
fuels. This seems like a half measure ease of Professor Jones’ ability to draw
January 2023 Volume 123, Number 5 that doesn’t achieve any of the change electron orbitals of various shapes and
Editor that the activists are seeking. If the colors, or just the zeal and energy that
Peter Barzilai s’97 University were serious about divesting he brought to the class, I was highly
Managing Editor from these companies and ultimately motivated to learn.
Brett Tomlinson
Associate Editor dropping fossil fuels, it could ensure Unfortunately, this excitement came
Carlett Spike that no products from Exxon Mobil crashing down after my first exam result
Digital Editor
Elisabeth H. Daugherty and the other 89 blacklisted companies was a 33 (yes, out of 100). I remember
Class Notes/Memorials Editor make their way onto campus. That calling home and telling my parents
Nicholas DeVito includes natural gas that provides that I would need to drop the class.
Senior Writer
Mark F. Bernstein ’83 electricity, gasoline and diesel used My parents urged me not to. After my
Writer/Assistant Editor in motor vehicles, and the rubber and second exam grade came back with
Julie Bonette
plastics used throughout campus. a 66, I was pissed at my parents and
Art Director Additionally, it could stop accepting myself for not dropping the class, and
Matt Cole
Annual Giving money from alumni who now it was too late. I went to Dr. Jones
Publishing Director work for or have investments in these for extra help, and things started to
Allison Sullivan
companies. It could cut ties with any click. The rest of that semester and
Administrative Coordinator company with operations in Canada the next were some of the most
Brielle McArdle
until it outlaws tar sand development. memorable and rewarding academic
Student Interns
Evelyn Doskoch ’23; Jack Hartman ’24;
The University could also dissociate times of my life.
Connor Odom ’25; Kate Stewart ’25 from China since it stubbornly As a parent, spouse, and spinal
Proofreaders continues to be the world’s worst surgeon, I am faced with problems
Joseph Bakes; W. Raymond Ollwerther ’71 polluter. that force me to think deeply and
Webmaster If Princeton truly wants to drop fossil solve for unknowns. I have shared this
Steven Wolock
fuels it has a lot more work to do. So story repeatedly with my children to
PAW Board
Marc Fisher ’80, Chair
why doesn’t the University do more? It’s emphasize the importance of learning
Naomi Nix ’10, Vice Chair because life without fossil fuels is much over grades. I am truly grateful for
Bene Cipolla ’95 worse than life with them. Fossil fuels “Orgo.” In life, we all get kicked in the
*Alexandra Day ’02
*Courtney Coleman Everson ’03 have allowed human flourishing and the teeth someday. It is how we react that
Christina H. Lee *99 s*99 high standard of living that Princeton’s makes the difference. Thank you, Dr.
Andrew Madden ’92 Jones.
students, activists, professors, and
*Hilary Parker ’01
Greg Rosalsky *13 trustees enjoy. Instead of pandering to Justin Tortolani ’92, M.D.
Jessica Stahl ’06 the activists, the University should own Towson, Md.
Ethan Sterenfeld ’20
*Monica Moore Thompson ’89 up to the fact that to have a high standard
*ex officio of living the University must use fossil Editor’s note: A longer version of this letter
fuels. appears online at bit.ly/tortolani.
Local Advertising/Classifieds
Phone 609-258-4886, PAWads@princeton.edu Brandon Rogers ’06
Ivy League Magazine Network Spring, Texas I had some complex emotions reading
Heather Wedlake, phone 617-319-0995 the article in The New York Times about
heatherwedlake@ivymags.com Dr. Maitland Jones as well as the follow-
Address Changes up in the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
Alumni and Donor Records
100 Overlook Center, Suite 300 In fall 1993, I took organic chemistry
Princeton, NJ 08540 from Dr. Jones. As others have noted,
alumrecs@princeton.edu, phone 609-258-3114 this was a notorious weed-out course
Princeton Alumni Weekly (I.S.S.N. 0149-9270) is an editorially for premedical students. I knew it would
independent, nonprofit magazine supported by Princeton University
and paid advertising. Its purpose is to report with impartiality news
be tough and I worked hard. Despite
of the alumni, the administration, the faculty, and the student body of my effort, I failed the first midterm. I
Princeton University. The views expressed in the Princeton Alumni Weekly
do not necessarily represent official positions of the University. The dropped the class. So did a lot of other
magazine is published monthly with a combined July/August issue.
Princeton Alumni Weekly, 194 Nassau Street, Suite 38, Princeton, students.
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I took Professor Maitland Jones’ “Orgo” a doctor someday. It still felt like a
the Trustees of Princeton University. All rights reserved. Reproduction in (“A Combustible Mix,” December issue) fragile dream. The very real chance of
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at Princeton, N.J., and at additional mailing offices. in the academic year 1989-90, and in my failing organic chemistry was too much
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I took organic chemistry again over up. We have allowed pernicious lies
the summer back at home at a local and hate to become “normal” political
college. And here I am, 30 years later, a discourse. Some even say the events
mid-career physician with an important of Jan. 6, 2021, were “normal political
legacy of service to patients, my discourse.” We have to find a way back
community, and my students. from this precipice, if we are to survive as
But many of my classmates never took a nation.
organic chemistry again. I know they Edward Groth ’66
found success in many ways, but what San Francisco, Calif.
about medicine? The field is not better
off because bright young minds were DISABILITY AWARENESS
discouraged by a professor like Dr. Jones. National Disability Employment
I would challenge those of us serving Awareness Month (NDEAM) has
on medical school admission committees been observed every October since
to consider applications holistically; 1988. For me, as an alum with hidden
applicants are so much more than their disabilities (specifically, autism spectrum
organic chemistry grades. We should disorder and ADHD), this raises the
value not only academic achievement question: In all the years that I have
but also communication skills, empathy, been reading PAW, why have I never
integrity, leadership, enthusiasm, seen any reporting related to NDEAM?
diversity, and distance traveled. We In fact, why have I not seen any stories
should not be delegating the future of on disability save last year’s profile on
medicine to undergraduate professors of Naomi Hess ’22 (“Opening Doors,”
organic chemistry. March 2022)?
Loden Coats
Amy Hairston Crockett ’96, M.D. Adults with disabilities constitute 20 & Alpine Blazers
Greenville, S.C. percent of the United States population.
This includes Princeton alumni, many
Editor’s note: A longer version of this letter of whom have gone on to be successful
appears online at bit.ly/ahcrockett. as artists, entrepreneurs, engineers,
academics, and public servants. Several 137.102202 Robert Stolz Ad Formatmutation_2.125"4.75"_231122_v1.indd
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ANTI-IMMIGRATION VITRIOL alumni are parents to adult children with
The article about Leah Boustan ’00’s disabilities, and they have had to watch
book, Streets of Gold, was informative their children navigate the job market
(Research, November issue). The and all the obstacles (and, yes, triumphs)
facts she and her co-author reiterate that come with this.
have been long known and are beyond Disability employment is a relevant President’s
dispute. How many immigrants our issue in the Princeton community. Your
country can absorb, whom to admit, and feature on Hess was inspiring, but what Award for
how to deal with an influx that vastly is the follow-up? Do you plan on profiling
exceeds reasonable limits are fraught any other leaders in Princeton’s disability Distinguished
political issues, and neither party has community on campus? And what is your
been willing or able to solve them for plan when it comes to addressing alumni Teaching
30 years. But the hate, vitriol, and fear with disabilities and/or alumni who work
The Office of the Dean of the Faculty
mounted against immigrants are not with this population? Where are the
invites all members of the community
“myths,” they are part of a campaign podcast episodes or the Reunions panel to submit
of out-and-out lying for partisan discussions? letters of nomination for the 2023
advantage, to drive citizens to vote Reach out to us alumni and find out President’s Award
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professors as well as professors of the
people are merely misinformed when get an overwhelming response.
practice, university lecturers, and
something much worse is going on. If Preston Burger ’07 senior lecturers on continuing
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On the Campus
Baker Rink has been renovated and
Beverly Schaefer
refreshed several times, but its historic
surroundings remain unmistakable. This
month, Princeton hockey’s venerable
home celebrates its 100th anniversary.
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number of transfer students to 100 over
the coming years. More than 90 percent
of Princeton’s transfers come from
community colleges.
The combined efforts should put
nontraditional students “on a path that
strengthens their outcomes, but also
the ecosystem of higher education,”
according to Crittenden.
The news came in December, just
after the University published its second
annual diversity, equity, and inclusion
(DEI) report. The 48-page document
(online at inclusive.princeton.edu)
details the University’s efforts across and
beyond campus to become more diverse,
accessible, and accountable in matters
related to race and ethnicity, gender,
sexual orientation, religion, citizenship
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION REPORT status, and more.
Princeton Reaches Out
The University’s DEI work is
“guided by a set of institutional action
plans,” according to the annual report,
University to launch pilot programs that and follows President Christopher
Eisgruber ’83’s September 2020 call “to
engage nontraditional students find additional ways to promote racial
equity for members of the Princeton
P The combined efforts
rinceton will pilot two new community and society as a whole, and
programs for local community should put nontraditional to redouble the University’s past efforts
college students in the 2023-24 students “on a path to make Princeton a more diverse,
academic year, building on a 2020 pledge inclusive, and equitable community.”
that strengthens their
to expand the University’s teaching. Vice Provost for Institutional Equity
“If you want to reach adult learners,
outcomes, but also the and Diversity Michele Minter said that
community colleges are a really good ecosystem of higher this work is not a top-down effort, but
place to go,” said Vice Provost for education,” according rather stems from and engages the entire
Academic Affairs Cole Crittenden *05. to Vice Provost Cole community.
The first pilot will bring up to 36 Crittenden *05. “We’ve tried to share ownership
students from regional community and to encourage people to take
colleges to Princeton this summer to according to Crittenden. The fellows responsibility in their own sphere of
spend six to eight weeks earning credit will teach an accredited Princeton influence or in their own operations,”
for two courses and learning more course hosted at the community college, said Minter, who also invited the
about the transfer process, according to and the effort will be led by staff in community to share feedback by visiting
Crittenden. the McGraw Center for Teaching and racialequity.princeton.edu/your-ideas-
Crittenden said the students will Learning. change. “It’s everybody’s work.”
be able to take advantage of Princeton In addition, last year the Community According to the report’s data
resources, such as “financial aid officers College Faculty Program increased section, Princeton’s faculty and staff
who can give an excellent overview benefits for community college have become more racially diverse. In
of the kinds of things students should instructors who mentor Princeton fall 2022, 21.4 percent of tenured and
be paying attention to when they’re graduate students, such as the ability tenure-track faculty identified as Asian,
thinking about transferring.” Staff from to take one free Princeton course per Black, Hispanic/Latino/a/x, or Native
the Emma Bloomberg Center will lead semester, and Crittenden said the American, compared to 17.4 percent in
the effort. Prison Teaching Initiative at the Fort 2018. Senior staff identifying as Asian,
For the second pilot, Princeton will Dix federal facility is “getting back on its Black, Hispanic/Latino/a/x, or Native
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recruit and hire two recent Ph.D.s and feet” after a hiatus; the program is going American, rose from 19 percent in 2017-
place them as visiting teaching and strong at state facilities. He also cited the 18 to 23 percent in 2021-22; nonsenior
advising fellows at a local community related expansion of Princeton’s transfer staff saw a similar 4-percentage-point
college partner yet to be determined, program, which aims to increase the increase in the same period.
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Frederick Wherry *04, who became
the University’s inaugural vice dean COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
for diversity and inclusion in July, said
there’s a “sense of momentum” when 10 Projects Kick Off Princeton’s
it comes to hiring a diverse body of
faculty. “Over time you really see steady
Partnerships with HBCUs
L
progress, … and so long as we’re moving ess than six months after groundbreaking impacts of the
in the right direction, it feels really Princeton announced new research itself, “it was a win-win,”
good,” he said. partnerships with five said Tessa Lowinske Desmond,
In January 2022, the University historically Black colleges and an associate research scholar and
announced an increase in graduate universities (HBCUs), joint research lecturer at Princeton’s Effron Center
student stipends by an average of about projects spanning from cybersecurity for the Study of America and a co-
25 percent — the largest ever one-year to public health have begun. principal investigator (PI) of one of
increase — which took effect in the fall. In November, Princeton announced the projects.
The University hopes this will ensure 10 research partnerships chosen for She’ll be working on “The
that it can continue to “attract and retain the first round of funding through the Heirlooms Garden Project” with co-PIs
the very best students without regard to Princeton Alliance for Collaborative Hanna Garth, an assistant professor
economic background.” Research and of anthropology
Graduate students were also invited Innovation (PACRI), Each project will be at Princeton;
to last spring’s inaugural Inclusive a new initiative that
funded for two years, Kimberly Jackson,
Academy (IA) Symposium, which was “enable[s] research
organized by the Graduate School collaborations
with a maximum of chair of chemistry
and biochemistry,
to support all students in preparing between Princeton $250,000 per project. professor of
for life after graduation. In addition, faculty and their biochemistry, and
the Graduate School launched the peers at HBCUs,” according to the director of food studies at Spelman;
accompanying Best of Access, Diversity, University’s initial announcement in and Whitney Barr, program and garden
and Inclusion (BADI) Awards to honor May. manager at Spelman and a trained
those “who have made significant The selected proposals encompass landscape designer.
impacts in the Princeton graduate the natural sciences, social sciences, They are using the funds to train
student community around diversity humanities, and engineering and Princeton and Spelman students
and inclusion.” “take up some of the most difficult in oral storytelling techniques and
Other highlights from the report: challenges of our day,” according to then send them, over the next two
• The Effron Center for the Study of Princeton’s November announcement. summers, to select sites to collect 240
America, established in November “We were very pleased with the oral histories from those working to
2021, is investing in faculty, visitors, and strength and number of proposals preserve Black and Indigenous seed-
fellows in “emerging areas of American submitted for the first round of and foodways, such as farmers and
studies scholarship” including race and PACRI funding and look forward to gardeners, in the Southeastern United
ethnicity studies. the results that will come from these States and Appalachia.
• Native and Indigenous members of collaborative, creative projects,” “So much about food is hidden
the community are enjoying a newly said University spokesman Michael within stories and people’s memories,”
dedicated affinity space on campus, and Hotchkiss. said Barr, who noted that the project
the Princeton University Library started Each project will be funded for will provide open-source access to the
an Indigenous Studies Working Group two years, with a maximum of interviews.
to learn from scholars in the discipline $250,000 per project. Two projects Garth said it’s important to collect
and to curate related library resources. were chosen in conjunction with the narratives because the knowledge
• The Task Force on the Future of Alumni each of the five HBCU partners: is often not understood by people
Affinity Programming is developing Spelman College, Howard University, outside of the farming communities;
recommendations for “a set of guiding Jackson State University, Prairie the narratives can also provide insight
principles to inform work with alumni View A&M University, and the on well-adapted seeds.
affinity groups.” University of Maryland Eastern Spelman is an ideal partner, as the
Eisgruber acknowledged that there Shore. The United Negro College institution already has an eighth-of-
is more to do in a message included in Fund, which advocates for and funds an-acre on campus — centered around
the report. “This University is — and will scholarships for Black students, is also African diasporic plants — used to
remain — a work in progress,” he wrote. a PACRI partner. teach agroecological and regenerative
“Commitments to diversity, inclusion, From funding scholarships for practices that are part of Black
and excellence require constant vigilance HBCU students to the potentially culture. By J.B.
and unceasing effort.” By J.B.
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he believes “Joe Scanlan intentionally
and carefully planned his use of the
word in order to raise another debate on
free speech (akin to the Katz debacle)
wherein he would emerge victorious.”
Smith said he believes that Scanlan knew
the class “would be greatly distressed by
his use of the word.”
Scanlan has since written a letter,
published Nov. 16 by The Daily
Princetonian, in which he said he is
“extremely sorry that I overestimated
my familiarity with my students and
assumed that we could enter a discussion
… without making some ground rules,
Visual arts professor Joe Scanlan, first and foremost, about whether we
pictured at the Kunstmuseum Den could use or even discuss the word at all.
Haag in the Netherlands in 2020, As I have heard loud and clear from my
apologized after using the N-word
while teaching a poem in class. students, that was a grievously hurtful
overestimation on my part.”
CLASSROOM CONTROVERSY Princeton politics professor Keith
Students Outraged After University Whittington, who wrote the 2018 Pre-
read, Speak Freely: Why Universities Must
Clears Professor Who Said the N-Word Defend Free Speech, told PAW that “it’s
critically important that you maintain a
S
tudents made their disapproval some students left, including Omar certain level of comfort and trust with the
known after Princeton University Farah ’23, who also reached out to students so you can actually engage in the
said it is standing behind Joe administrators to file a complaint. educational process more effectively, and
Scanlan, a professor of visual arts who Farah was told a few days later by Cheri using that language, I think, just winds up
said the N-word in one of his classes. Burgess, director for institutional equity pushing some students away. And so, I
The controversy started on Nov. 3 and equal employment opportunity in think most of the time, you’re much better
while Scanlan was teaching “Words as the Office of the Provost, that an initial off if you don’t do it.”
Objects.” Students had been assigned to assessment “determined that, given the Scanlan has continued to teach, but
read a series of poems by Jonah Mixon- academic context in which the word was Simon Wu ’17, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale,
Webster including “Black Existentialism used, it does not implicate the Policy on was appointed course co-adviser.
No. 8: Ad Infinitum; or Ad Nauseam” Discrimination and/or Harassment,” The repercussions have continued.
— an example of concrete poetry, which according to the Prince. Twenty-one visual arts students
is defined by the Poetry Foundation as In a statement, University spokesman signed a letter calling for a University
emphasizing “nonlinguistic elements Michael Hotchkiss said, “Princeton investigation and critical engagement
in its meaning, such as a typeface that guarantees all faculty and students the “with the events [that] took place and
creates a visual image of the topic.” ‘broadest possible latitude’ to speak their impact on students. And we call on
The poem is 24 pages consisting freely inside and outside the classroom. the Visual Arts department to reconcile
solely of the N-word, which in this case Speech is only restricted under narrow with the space they have held for racism
ends with “as.” The word itself appears exceptions that do not apply to this and disrespect.”
in large print across the first two pages, incident. Our rules recognize that these The Prince reported that several visual
and a series of “s’s” trail on for the free speech protections apply to words arts students hung posters advocating
remainder. and ideas that people may find ‘offensive, for Scanlan’s dismissal at a Nov. 15 open
In a 2021 blog post, Mixon-Webster, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed,’ studio event.
who is Black, said “it is still a cultural but these protections are essential for The Prince’s editorial board also
priority to continue appraising the word Princeton’s truth-seeking mission.” published a column that stated that
while speculating on its implications for David Smith ’24, a Black student in “white people’s use of the N-word has
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Black futurity.” the class, compared Scanlan’s choice irreversibly harmed Black people and
Scanlan, who is white, told PAW he to use the N-word in class to former communities throughout the course of
said the word when asking his class how professor Joshua Katz calling the Black American history, and continues to have
it functioned in the poem. Justice League “a small local terrorist that effect today. Although Scanlan says he
The fallout was immediate. organization” in a 2020 online opinion did not intend to hurt anyone, that is the
According to The Daily Princetonian, column. Smith told PAW via email that consequence of his language.” By J.B.
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CAMPUS ICONOGRAPHY
University Considers Removing
Witherspoon Statue
T
he University’s Committee president, and preacher.
on Naming is reviewing a But Witherspoon also had a “complex
proposal to remove or replace relationship to slavery,” according to
a campus statue of John Witherspoon, Princeton & Slavery Project research by
an influential figure in the American Lesa Redmond ’17, who wrote her senior
Revolution who owned slaves during his thesis about the Witherspoon family’s
time as Princeton’s president. ties to slavery in the United States. While
Last May, five members of the Witherspoon tutored three free Black
philosophy department — graduate students during his time at Princeton, he specific decisions about renaming and
students Brendan Kolb, Kathryn Rech, also purchased two enslaved people to changing campus iconography.” Those
Giulia Weissmann, and Waner Zhang, farm his country estate and voted against criteria include determining whether the
and Professor Boris Kment *06 — abolishing slavery in New Jersey. namesake was “significantly out of step
created a petition that said the statue, The naming committee’s review with the standards” of the namesake’s
which has stood outside East Pyne “will be informed by rigorous research, time and if the space in question plays “a
Hall since 2001, “pays great honor … to scholarly expertise within and beyond substantial role in forming community at
someone who participated actively in the the University community, and input the University.”
enslavement of human beings, and used from the broad University community,” Kolb, Rech, and Zhang, who responded
his scholarly gifts to defend the practice.” according to a University release. The to questions from PAW by email, wrote
The petition, signed by 285 members committee began holding listening that while Witherspoon, in his time,
of the campus community, proposed sessions with alumni, faculty, staff, and “didn’t stand out among people in power
replacing the statue with a plaque that students in late November and found for a commitment to defending racist
“details both the positive and negative “diversity of opinion about the statue norms or power structures,” the towering
aspects of Witherspoon’s legacy.” among every constituency,” according statue and its high-traffic location unduly
Witherspoon, who emigrated from to history professor Angela Creager, the exalt his legacy.
Danielle Alio/Princeton University; Willem de Kooning (1904–1997; born Rotterdam, Netherlands; died East Hampton,
Scotland to serve as the College of New committee’s interim chair. “[O]ur argument has both aesthetic
N.Y.), Woman II, 1961. Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 73.7 x 57.1 cm. Promised gift of Preston H. Haskell, Class of
Jersey’s sixth president, from 1768 Princeton’s Board of Trustees will and moral dimensions,” they wrote,
1960. © The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Photo: Douglas J. Eng
to 1794, was the only clergyman and have the ultimate say in any changes to “based on the broad principle that
college president to sign the Declaration the statue’s placement or presentation. depictions of a certain grandeur are
of Independence. The 10-foot bronze In April 2021, the trustees adopted inappropriate for certain spaces when the
sculpture, created with an identical twin “Principles to Govern Renaming and subject depicted was actively engaged
at the University of the West of Scotland, Changes to Campus Iconography” in racialized slavery — a practice that
stands on a plinth with three tablets (available online at bit.ly/re-naming), separated out the humanity that Princeton
that explain his legacies as a patriot, which established “criteria to help guide aims to serve.” By B.T.
Haskell ’60 Gift Supports Museum,
New Art Education Center
A
n education center at the new Princeton University Art Museum will
be named for collector and philanthropist Preston H. Haskell III ’60
in recognition of his major gift to the Venture Forward campaign, the
University announced Nov. 13. Haskell also will donate eight abstract paintings to the
museum, including works by Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko.
Haskell, the founder and chairman of a Florida-based engineering, architectural,
and construction company, served two terms on Princeton’s Board of Trustees and
24 years on the museum’s advisory council. The University declined to provide the
amount of Haskell’s gift.
The new museum, designed by architect David Adjaye, is under construction
at the site of the previous museum and expected to open in 2024. In a University
release, museum director James Steward credited Haskell with financial support
Willem de Kooning’s Woman II is one
of eight abstract paintings donated and volunteer leadership that helped make the project a reality. Haskell’s gift of art,
by Preston H. Haskell III ’60. Steward added, “takes our collection of modern art to a new level.” By B.T.
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CLASS CLOSE-UP
IN SHORT
Looking to
Pandemics Past
to Plan the Future
W
hen the COVID-19 pandemic
began to rattle the globe,
Professor Keith Wailoo,
a historian of medicine, disease, and
health care, felt as if we were “living IMANI PERRY, a professor of
inside our history books,” as one of his African American studies, won
colleagues put it. the 2022 National Book Award for
Media outlets and the public suddenly nonfiction for South to America: A
became very interested in finding out Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to
what pandemics of the past could teach Understand the Soul of a Nation.
us. Wailoo said he was peppered with In their citation for the award, the
judges wrote that South to America
questions like, “What are we going
is “elegantly personal and archival,
through right now? How does it compare During the Spanish Flu pandemic of
predictive and bold, sweet and
to what’s happened in the past? And are 1918-19, face masks were required on
public transit in Seattle, Washington. soulful, and, most of all, true.”
there lessons from the past that we can Perry delivered an emotional
apply to thinking about and navigating acceptance speech at the Nov. 16
the uncertainties of COVID?” After learning the basics, students ceremony, saying that artists and
Wailoo, who served as president of were asked to think about solutions for intellectuals are obliged to bear
the American Association for the History the present and the future. witness and be truthful. “We may
of Medicine from 2020 to 2022, gave “How do you figure out wise policy write in solitude, but we labor in
talks and interviews, including with with this historical backdrop, this historical solidarity,” she said. “Community is
PAW, but he also decided to “share some knowledge, in mind?” Wailoo asked. never easy but absolutely necessary.
Let us meet the challenges of a
of that insight and wisdom from the field For the midterm, students wrote a five-
broken world together, making
with students who were interested in the to-seven-page paper focusing on a local intercessions with love unbound and
intersection of history and public policy.” or national issue in pandemic policy, such heart without end.”
In the fall, 23 students took advantage as masking mandates, and how the issue
by enrolling in “Making Post-Pandemic relates to historical antecedents. The final Princeton announced two changes
Worlds: Epidemic History and the Future,” consisted of a longer paper with a more in major administrative roles:
a dual history and School of Public and international scope. Computer science professor
International Affairs (SPIA) class. Students also were required to write JENNIFER REXFORD ’91 was
Through twice-a-week 50-minute weekly responses to readings such as appointed as the next provost, and
lectures in Robertson Hall and precepts, Charles Rosenberg’s book The Cholera chemical and biological engineering
professor PABLO DEBENEDETTI
the course identified throughlines Years: The United States in 1832, 1849,
will step down as dean for research
from the Black Death to polio to AIDS, and 1866 and Fang Fang’s 2020 writings after 10 years in the role.
such as challenges to globalization and in Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Rexford, a former Pyne Prize
misinformation. Quarantined City. winner who chairs the computer
There are “really familiar themes in “I found the readings incredible. science department and has been on
the history of pandemics,” according to That’s probably my favorite part about the faculty since 2005, will become
Ian Dagnall Computing/Alamy; Sameer A. Khan h’21
Wailoo. “So, one goal of the class is just the course,” said SPIA major Nannette provost March 13, taking over for
to have students be … more informed Beckley ’23. Deborah Prentice, who is leaving
about the recurring questions — like Beckley, who plans to pursue a Princeton to become vice-chancellor
around trust and expertise, civil liberties, master’s in public health in epidemiology of the University of Cambridge. The
provost leads Princeton’s budgeting
social inequality — that inevitably after she graduates, said she has always
process, oversees long-term
emerge after pandemics.” been interested in illness and disease,
planning, and serves as the chief
but the class has taught her more about academic officer.
the behavioral, social, and political Debenedetti has led Princeton’s
“Through this class, aspects of pandemics. research agenda and overseen
I’ve seen that we’ve “Through this class,” she said, “I’ve growth in sponsored research and
been repeating history.” seen that we’ve been repeating history.” industry and foundation awards. He
— Nannette Beckley ’23 By J.B. Continues on page 17
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