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STUDENT LIFE
Hart GS ’74 receives Nobel Prize in Economics contributor
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Oliver Hart GS ’74 has been awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his contributions to contract theory, according to a press release by the Nobel Foundation. Hart was jointly awarded the prize with Bengt Holmström, economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Hart made fundamental contributions to a new branch of contract theory that deals with the important case of incomplete contracts,” the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences said in its press release announcing the award. “Hart’s findings on incomplete contracts have shed new light on the ownership and control of businesses and have had a vast impact on several fields of economics, as well as political science and law,” the press release stated. Hart’s studies focused on incomplete contracts and how they are unable to predict future conflicts. “[A] contract that cannot explicitly specify what the parties should do in future eventualities, must instead specify who has the right to decide what to do when the parties cannot See NOBEL page 2
STUDENT LIFE
296 students register to vote through U. events By Emily Spalding contributor
With the 2016 Presidential Election less than a month away, University student groups are encouraging students to engage with the electoral process through various events. On Friday, Sept. 30, Undergraduate Student Government partnered with the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Princeton Votes, and the Interclub Council to host a campus-wide voter registration initiative. The goal was to register students as voters in the state of New Jersey, or as absentee voters in their re-
spective home states. According to Michael Cox ’17, USG Campus and Community Affairs Chair, the event successfully registered 102 students as New Jersey voters and 108 students as absentee voters in their home states. Additionally, in a separate event held at the Nassau Street Sampler on Sept. 15, there were 71 New Jersey voter registrations and 15 absentee ballot requests, Cox added. “Even though we are all on a college campus, it doesn’t mean that we are exempt from voting,” USG President Aleksandra Czulak ’17 said. “That means oftentimes you have to See VOTING page 3
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Students show solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux By Rose Gilbert contributor
On Oct. 10 at noon, nearly 20 students gathered outside Stanhope Hall in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe movement currently working to prevent the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Among those who met outside Stanhope Hall were members of the Graduate Women of Color Caucus, the Black Graduate Caucus, and Natives at Princeton. The Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students, Thomas Dunne, was also present at the demonstration. Dunne declined to comACADEMICS
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Researchers at the University were recently awarded a grant from the Department of Energy to develop a sensor to detect methane leaks from pipelines, compressor stations, and other midstream infrastructure. The University will be awarded $1,188,735 over the course of three years for this project, according to Christopher Freitas, senior program manager for the Department of Energy’s Fossil Energy Midstream Natural Gas Infrastructure Program. This initiative comes from the Office of Fossil Energy as part
of the President’s Climate Action Plan Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions. “Methane is 25 times more efficient at trapping heat than CO2 over 100 years,” Freitas said. He explained that because of the current climate issues, they are looking into research for methane mitigation and methane quantification. The grant awarded to the University falls under the category of methane mitigation, Freitas said. University researchers will be working to use a chirped laser dispersion spectroscopy system to detect atmospheric methane. This system allows for the use See ENERGY page 2
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George, West GS ‘80 Discuss Liberal Arts Education By Coco Chou contributor
University professors Robert George and Cornel West GS ’80 discussed the goals of liberal arts education at a lecture on Oct. 10, stating that its mission is for people to pursue intellectual truths, rather than just using it as a means to an end. The audience was composed of professors, students, alumni, and academics from both on and off campus, filling up the seats
long before the starting time. The Dean of the College introduced the talk by addressing the problem of “liberal arts, as the foundation of education, being under attack.” George started with an autobiography of his family’s humble origin. Education was very important in his family. “[My parents] saw it as a ticket to social economic success,” he said. But he later came to appreciate liberal arts education’s
out to Natives at Princeton to work together to stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock protesters. Real Bird clarified that today’s demonstration was neither a simple picture nor a protest. “It’s the start of a larger movement here on campus,” he said, adding that the group will be holding clothing drives for the coming winter. “If you look at a lot of the media reports they kind of paint it as when winter comes, the Standing Rock protest will end because the Dakotas have very harsh winters,” he said. “We’re trying to help any way See DEMONSTRATION page 2
U. researchers receive Easterly Dept. of Energy funding discusses xenophobia By Betty Liu
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ment. The students, holding signs and posters, gathered on this date to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day and to protest the continued celebration of Columbus Day. The student organization Natives at Princeton also created a twenty-fourhour-long Snapchat geofilter, which reads “rethink Columbus Day.” According to Emery Real Bird ‘17, the president of Natives at Princeton and a student in the politics department, this particular demonstration began when Edna Bonhomme GS, a sixthyear graduate student in the history department, reached
“inherent, non-instrumental values” over its instrumentals, “the importance of not reducing your education at Princeton to purely instrumental purposes,” George said. West continued the dialogue by describing deep education as a product of learning how to die. The process of casting away and disposing one’s previous stands and ideas is the process of dying, he said. He saw it as a chance to reevaluate, sometimes leading to changes and sometimes to re-
inforcement. West acknowledged that, as humans, we will all be connected to some presuppositions and dogmas. However, he said the purpose of liberal arts education is all about the “willingness to look outside of the dominant paradigms.” George then continued with the topic of courage in liberal arts education. “Liberal arts education can only be pursued if you are open See EDUCATION page 2
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Columnist Ryan Dukeman reflects on the recent political windfall to Donald Trump’s campaign, and contributing columnist Mason Cox suggests including undergraduate members on the University’s board of trustees. PAGE 4
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New York University professor of economics William Easterly discussed foreign aid and development programs and their effects on immigration and xenophobia in the developed world in a lecture delivered on Oct. 10. The talk referenced his book The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. Easterly’s talk emphasized the tendency of the world’s wealthy nations to use large foreign aid programs as a substitute for opening its doors to migrants from poorer nations. He proceeded to show how the increased advocacy for aid programs instead of immigration contributes to xenophobia through exaggeratedly negative stereotypes of ethnic groups. “Aid was a nice political out for the humanitarian lobby in the rich countries and the US,” Easterly said. “It did convince the humanitarian lobby in the US to assuage its conscience about the evils of racist immigration restrictions.” Using both historic and reSee EASTERLY page 3
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Men’s tennis doubles knocks off No. 1-ranked Oklahoma over weekend By Isabella Haegg contributor
Facing off against the nation’s top ranked doubles team in the first round of the main doubles draw at the ITA All-American tournament on Thursday, senior Alex Day and junior Luke Gamble battled back from a 1-6 start to take the second set 6-3 and lead 12-11 in the deciding tiebreaker. With the match point resting on him, Day stepped in on his return to pound a backhand winner down the line and upset the No. 1 team in the country. “I felt absolute ecstasy when we won. I didn’t believe we could do it. You almost black out for a second,” said Gamble. Standing at No. 21 in this fall’s preseason rankings, Gamble and Day were not expected to advance against Oklahoma State’s
Julian Cash and Arjun Kadhe, especially after the decisive first set in Cash and Kadhe’s favor. It was coach Damian Hume’s guidance that Gamble credits with Princeton’s surge of confidence that helped them take the second set. “Hume was integral in helping us bring out our potential. He was the one who got us in the right mental spot of playing shot for shot and having fun, which helped us loosen up,” said Gamble. “I went and I watched a bunch of videos on them beforehand, so I got a good count on them. The biggest part of the game plan was not overthinking it and have fun playing against the No. 1 team in the country, because you don’t get that opportunity too many times,” added Hume. Day began connecting with his volleys to put balls away at See TENNIS page 5
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The men’s tennis team upset No. 1 ranked Oklahoma State at the ITA All-American toura-
M E N ’ S W AT E R P O L O
Men’s water polo moves up in the rankings By Emily McLean
(13-3, 3-2). This Sunday, however, Princeton experienced no such close matches; they defeated George Washington 15-8 and Navy 12-7 at home in DeNunzio Pool. In the George Washington game, sophomore driller Matt Payne led the team with five goals and two assists. Senior utility Jovan Jeremic scored three times for a hat trick. Princeton’s smart offensive plays were matched by their defense, which completely shut out the Colonials for five minutes and 29 seconds during the second quarter. Senior goalie Vojislav Mitrovic aided this stellar defense with
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This Sunday, the Princeton men’s water polo team (13-6 overall, 4-1 Northeast Water Polo Conference) handily defeated both No. 16 George Washington University (9-5) and Navy (6-10). The Tigers, formerly No. 14 in the country according to a Collegiate Water Polo Association poll, have moved up to No. 13 after a successful past weekend of play, which featured wins against MIT (4-8, 0-5), Iona College (7-12), and No. 15 Brown (126, 4-1), and also a tough 8–7 loss to then No. 8 Harvard
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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Women’s volleyball extends win streak to nine games over weekend By Jay Lee contributor
The women’s volleyball team continues their 9-game win streak after two back-to-back 3-0 sweeps against Columbia and Cornell. The Princeton Tigers (11-3, 5-0 Ivy League) have once again demonstrated stellar performance and proved worthy of their title as reigning champions. Princeton has not lost a game since September 9th, and bagged two additional wins in their most recent games against Columbia (9-6, 4-1 Ivy League) and Cornell (6-8, 1-4 Ivy League) this past weekend. At the first of their two away games, the Tigers’ co-captain and Ivy League player of the week Cara Mattaliano ‘17 led the attack against the Lions with 14 kills, and freshman Maggie O’Connell further solidified the victory with an additional 12. In addition to thirteen digs and a service ace, freshman Jessica Harris set up a notable 42 out of the team’s 46 assists this game, and received her
well-deserved title as the Ivy League’s Rookie of the Week. Harris is now the third freshman in the team to have received this award. At their second game of the week, the Tigers secured another three sets (25-16, 25-11, 2523) in a convincing win at Cornell. As further display of their momentous form, Princeton made a stunning eight service aces against the Big Red, and scored 51 points against their 30. Once again at the heart of the attack were co-captains Brittany Ptak and Cara Mattaliano, scoring 10 and nine kills respectively. The senior duo now holds the Ivy League’s first and second places in the kills per set ranking, with Mattaliano at 3.53 and Ptak at 3.15. In this weekend’s games, not only did the captains demonstrate yet another instance of impressive performance, but the rookie Tigers – Jessica Harris, Devon Peterkin, and Maggie O’Connell – also displayed the extent of their caliber. Together, they scored 35 of the team’s 82 points this weekend
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and proved to be vital assets to the team. Having won their thirteenth consecutive set and claimed the top spot on the table, the reigning champions have more than established their position as a menacing threat to all other teams in the league. Princeton has shown excellent form thus far, and is now the only undefeated team in the Ivies. The Tigers hold the highest kills per set, hitting percentage, and the second highest digs per set in the league. If they continue to play at their current pace and maintain both their venomous offense and vigorous defense, a backto-back league victory seems not only likely, but also inevitable. Princeton will play Brown (4-11, 2-3 Ivy League) and Yale (11-3, 4-1 Ivy League) at home on October 14th, and October 15th, respectively. While both teams are coming from victories in their latest matches, the game against Yale will be an important test of character, as the Bulldogs are serious title contenders in the league.
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Volleyball defeated Columbia and Cornell to keep their streak alive.
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9 games The women’s volleyball team has now won nine consecutive games.
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net and Gamble was able to force errors and gain control of the point off of his serve, tying the set score at 1-1. Princeton capitalized on the small window of opportunity given to them by Oklahoma State in the 10-point match-deciding tiebreaker, edging their opponents out by a mere two points. Gamble and Day looked to recreate their success in the quarterfinals against Gergely Madarasz and Ricardo Mendinilla of Purdue, but couldn’t manage to close out the 10-point tiebreaker as they did in the first round, falling 6-1, 2-6, 6-10. “We were playing really well in the first set and I thought we were the better team, but in doubles it comes down to a few points with small margins and windows. Us playing so well early on ironically gave them a little window, because we got confident and we left the playing point by point thing by already thinking ahead to quarterfinals,” said Gamble. Princeton’s volleys that helped them to take the first match abandoned them in the second. “Our feet stopped moving and we missed a few easy shots,” said Gamble. Day, Gamble, and junior Diego Vives were defeated earlier in the tournament on Oct. 10 in the qualifying singles draw.
Day forced his USC opponent Rob Bellamy to a third set before falling 4-6, 6-2, 1-6. “Alex played a tough guy who hasn’t lost a match this whole year. That guy played some really good big points that Alex couldn’t close out,” said Hume. Vives and Gamble fell in straight sets; Vives to Baylor’s Jimmy Bendeck 2-6, 0-6 and Gamble to George Washington University’s Julius Tverijonas 5-7, 3-6. Vives and Day competed in the qualifying singles consolation draw the following day but couldn’t pick up wins for Princeton. Jurence Mendoza of Oklahoma State defeated Day 6-2, 6-0, and Vives lost to Illinois’ Julian Childers 6-7(0), 2-6. “My tennis is not where I want it to be. Luckily that’s why we have the fall. It’s a good chance to get as many tough matches as we can so that we are able to be in the best shape possible for the spring … I just need to keep working and results will start coming,” said Vives. With regionals in two weeks, Day and Gamble in particular are looking to build upon their upward momentum from their performance at All-Americans. Said Gamble, “The win gives us new and higher sights and more belief for sure. One of the things Alex and I struggle with is our consistency. We can lose to anyone else but beat really good teams. Our strengths are in our serves, forehands, and volleys, so if we’re hitting them we can pull ahead.”
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nine saves. Just hours after victory over George Washington, the Tigers came back in an equally dominant showing against the Naval Academy. Within the first 39 seconds of the game, Navy managed to score, but Princeton quickly rallied, scoring the next four points. During one eight-minute period, the Tigers managed to put away five goals while preventing Navy from scoring at all. Freshman center Sean Duncan and sophomore utility Ryan Wilson topped the charts with three goals
apiece, while freshman driller Evan Elig and Payne each had two assists. It was in the fourth quarter that Mitrovic shone: in eight minutes, he made six of his total fifteen saves. The dominant wins this past weekend bode well for the Tigers’ ranking for the coming week; though Navy was unranked, George Washington was listed as No. 16 in the nation. Such a convincing defeat of the Colonials is sure to maintain or perhaps increase Princeton’s own ranking. Currently, the top eight spots in the rankings belong to California schools, which have been historically dominant in water polo. Four of the Ti-
gers’ six defeats have come against California teams, including to No. 1 UCLA (190). Coming games may prove to be a challenge for Princeton; the team will be traveling to Cambridge for the Crimson Invitational, where they will face New York Athletic Club and No. 9 Bucknell (12-2). In 2015, the Tigers defeated the Bison all three times they clashed, including an 11-7 victory during the first round of the Collegiate Water Polo Association Championships, which Princeton went on to win. If this weekend mirrors the last, the team will be in excellent shape heading into the tail end of their season.
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we can.” “I think it’s a matter of having an effective demonstration. This would be about getting awareness out, giving supplies and support rather than actually sustaining a protest here. We’re here to learn, we’re here to be students, but we’re also here to be aware of the different political and cultural instabilities that have plagued us lately,” he added. Bonhomme noted that coming together to celebrate indigenous people here, on this territory, as well as elsewhere in the Americas and abroad was particularly relevant this year because of the Standing Rock movement. “They’ve been leading an international solidarity campaign to stop the pipeline from going through Canada and through the United States. It’s important for us to be in solidarity with them as well as to make it known that we here at Princeton appreciate indig-
enous people and their history, and we stand with their fight against environmental destruction and settler colonialism,” she said. Bonhomme added that she wants her community to recognize the destruction done to the groups that are no longer part of this community. Real Bird added that beyond supporting the Standing Rock movement, he wanted to increase awareness of native issues on campus, “It’s something that I think everyone should be aware of because even Nassau Street is on an old Indian trail. People don’t know that.” According to Real Bird, Prospect house used to be Colonel George Morgan’s house, and Morgan was one of the first Indian agents for the U.S. Continental Congress. “People joke about Pocahontas, so there’s this kind of comedic awareness, but there’s not actual awareness, and that’s what we’re trying to change,” he said. “We’re trying to make these issues more pressing.”
George: “Liberal arts education can only be pursued if you are open to truth.”
of optical dispersion rather than optical absorption, allowing for many advantages when used in remote sensing, he added. Mark Zondlo, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is the lead engineer and principal investigator for the project. He is partnering with Gerard Wysocki, the co-principal investigator on this project and an associate professor of electrical engineering. Both are part of the Center for Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment at the University. Zondlo explained that his group works to investigate problems in atmospheric chemistry, namely the key problems in climate, air pollution, atmospheric composition, and emission. His group conducts research on global climate change and air quality. Wysocki works primarily on the development of laser-based spectroscopic systems for chemical sensing. Wysocki did not respond to a request for comment. “This project is a joint project among Gerard and myself to understand, and make a new tool using chirped laser dispersion spectroscopy,” Zondlo said. He explained that the group hopes to use this new technology to detect leaks at midstream facilities. Midstream facilities are compressor stations, gathering lines, and long distance transmission lines, Zondlo said. He noted that, in America, there are approximately three million miles of pipeline, and that these lines
are leaking, presenting a major problem for the environment. The main issue is that methane emission accelerates climate change because it is a more effective greenhouse gas. According to Zondlo, the combustion of natural gas produces twice as much energy per amount of CO2 emitted as the combustion of coal. Within recent years, the U.S. economy has shifted towards the use of natural gas, which is better for the environment than coal. However, methane leaks have the possibility of canceling out some of these climate benefits because the release of a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 will contribute negatively to climate change. Zondlo said that they hope to develop a technology that can be mounted to vehicles in order to detect methane leaks along the pipelines. Vehicles such as cars and aircraft can move along the pipeline and scan for these leaks. Current methods of scanning for leaks include taking aerial photographs to search for dead vegetation, but this only detects large methane leaks. “We look forward to working with Princeton on this critical research,” Feritas said. This research group will be sending in a Performance Management Plan to the Office of Fossil Fuel at the end of October, Freitas said. After review by the department, the project will proceed for the next three years. Freitas said that the goal for the first year is to develop a fullyfunctional laser dispersion spectroscopy system for methane detection capable of simultaneous range finding and chemical sensing.
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to truth… and if you’re willing to face the possibility that you might be wrong. And that is scary,” George said to the audience. He talked about the societal pressure of conformation. He said it is pressing people to compromise their integrity, restraining their freedom of thought and integrity. In situations of differing opinions, George urged the audience to assess these arguments with open minds, and be willing to change their positions. “[Deep education] is not just having all the information correct, not just skill acquisitions. Knowledge is not just facts,” George said. “Deep education is not on the check-box level. It is exploring ‘why,’ understanding and completing arguments that intellectual and well-informed people make.” They went on to the subject of the meaning of smartness in society. West discussed the controversy of cultural smartness, stating that, to be included in
the “provincial circle of cultural smartness” is to exclude the possibility of digging deeper into education by raising ideas and questions that challenge the “obvious.” Excellence, wealth, and acceptance by the society, especially by people of fame and authority, are what mainly motivate young people toward education today. George questioned if that is what life is all about. They discussed pre-professional pressure from society and family that prevents students from seeking deeper education in fields that they truly love. George then posed a question: What does one get from mustering up the courage to pursue a subject one loves that is far from professional plans? “I think you get something called self-mastery,” George said. West and George agreed that the control of self is necessary in order to then surrender oneself to the pursuit of truth, and deep education. In the end, the professors opened up the floor for questions.
“I felt like it [the lecture] is something that gave me new perspective into what Princeton should be,” said Ben Press ’20 after the talk, “the pursuit of knowledge being the ultimate goal.” George, the University McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, is the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He has served important positions on various national committees, such as the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. West, Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, Emeritus, is a Senior Scholar of the James Madison Program. He has also written over 30 critically acclaimed texts on race and democracy. The lecture, entitled “What is the Point of Liberal Arts Education?” was part of the James Madison Program, and took place at 50 McCosh Hall on Monday, Oct. 10, at 5:00 p.m.
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agree. The party with this decision right will have more bargaining power, and will be able to get a better deal once output has materialised,” the academy said in an explanation of his work. His work can be applied to property rights, financial contracts, and privatization of the public sector. Hart co-authored work on the incentives that private and public prison owners have, which has been instrumental to the debate on private prisons in America. Public owners have little incentive to improve quality or to reduce expenses at the cost of quality while private owners have strong incentives to do both. For example, the Federal government said in August that it will phase out its use of private prisons for Federal inmates. In work that Hart published with Holmström in 1986, the two explored performance-based pay and found that contracts are simpler in practice than in theory because a complete list of expectations would be coun-
terproductive; employees would focus too much on doing only what was on that list. Hart earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University in 1974. He follows in the footsteps of numerous other Princeton alumni and professors in earning the Nobel prize in economics, such as John Nash, Jr. GS ’50, Daniel Kahneman GS ’78, and Angus Deaton, who received the same award just last year. This marks the second year in a row the prize has been awarded to a University affiliate. Currently the inaugural Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Hart earned his B.A. in mathematics from Cambridge in 1969 and M.A. in economics from the University of Warwick in 1972, along with several other honorary degrees. Hart has also taught at the London School of Economics and MIT. Among other honors, Hart is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and president of the American Law and Economics Association.
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send an absentee ballot, or a request for an absentee ballot, or register to vote in New Jersey. That is not an excuse to not vote.” She noted that this is the first year USG has taken part in organizing voter registration initiatives. Czulak thought the event was an overall success. ” I thought that was incredible because … it shows that there is a demand for students who want to know more about how to register back home,” she said. Given that the Whig-Clio event was spearheaded entirely by students, there was ample room for the “student voice,” Czulak explained. “It shows that it’s not just a political atmosphere.” Whig-Clio President Allison Berger ’18 attributed much of
the event’s success to the array of organizations involved. “You’re seeing student groups, student government, and the Street all coming together, and I think that’s what was really appealing to people,” Berger said. “These groups are very different, they don’t usually work together, but they’ve come together for something that is so important, which is being engaged in voting.” Berger is a member of the ‘Prince’ Editorial Board. Historically, turnout for college-aged students has been the lowest among age groupings, with only 38 percent of total registered voters ages 18 to 24 voting in the 2012 presidential election. “Voting is an option that we can exercise, but we can also choose not to exercise that option,” Assistant Professor of Politics Ali Valenzuela said. He predicts no change in the
voter participation rates for college students in this election, stating that “when Bernie Sanders was talking about the revolution that would come on the backs of college students, I would tell college students and friends of mine that the revolution will never come on the backs of college students. We have mountains and mountains of evidence that younger voters are just not as interested in politics and just aren’t as willing to turn out on election day.” Valenzuela partially attributed this lack of participation to the habit-forming nature of the election process. “The 18-year-old doesn’t have that kind of identity as a voter, they’ve never voted before,” he said. “But the 36-year-old who has voted in every election thinks of him or herself as a voter, so that’s going to affect whether or not they are going to vote in the next election,
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cent events as examples, Easterly demonstrated the shift from opening borders to migrants to donating foreign aid, such as Chinese migrants in the early 20th century and Norway’s generous foreign aid policy today. The talk illuminated the problem of foreign aid programs indirectly supporting human rights violations of aid recipients by allocating the majority of funds to oppressive regimes in poorer nations. “It just seems that there’s this serial indifference to human rights in the aid world,” Easterly said. “And one thing that has happened with the War on Terror is that there’s actually been an increase in aid going to the most oppressive and violent regimes in the world.” Easterly also spent time explaining how advocacy for foreign aid to poorer nations directly contributes to racist sentiments at home through the overuse of stereotypically negative images of needy ethnic
groups to elicit compassion in wealthy nations. “Development has been guilty of itself creating some of these xenophobic stereotypes,” Easterly explained. “It tends to fuel negative images of poor people, and that has been done for very good-hearted reasons.” Dubbed “disaster pornography,” images of starving children or child soldiers in Africa are often cherry-picked or even staged by the media for broadcast in developed countries, where they appeal to voters’ compassion and empathy, according to Easterly. Easterly drew on several variants of cover art depicting images of malnourished African children for the popular Bono song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” as a prime example of this phenomenon. “It breaks my heart that there really still are emaciated children, but also that all of Africa is portrayed as typified by an emaciated child,” he added. In concluding his talk, Easterly re-emphasized the fact that foreign aid advocacy is performed with good inten-
tions, but has unintended consequences that harm the very populations it aims to assist. “I want to try to, again, keep recognizing that this has been done for very good humanitarian reasons, but there are other ways to achieve the same humanitarian goals without engaging in negative, xenophobic stereotypes.” In addition to teaching at NYU, Easterly also serves as the Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He has written two other books: The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics and The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Harm and So Little Good. The book talk, entitled “Development Theories and the Immigration Crisis in the US and the EU,” was held at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 10 in Robertson Hall Bowl 016. It was sponsored by the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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with college students being less likely to vote.” He also said that he believes there is nothing “particularly politically threatening or motivating for [college students] in this election cycle,” and that “there are other segments of the electorate like immigrants, Muslims, women, who have real clear concerns about at least one of the two candidates that should mobilize them.” While Stanley Katz, Professor in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, calls the ballot a “discouraging choice,” he views this election as a highly consequential one. “I think the stakes are very high. But it’s a sign of the ways in which the… larger political system is in trouble. I think we need young people … who sign on for the long haul,” Katz said. He explained how low voter
turnout has been influenced by the weakening of the twoparty system and that colleges have not accounted for this polarization of politics enough. He added that “liberal arts citizenship is one of the things we’re teaching… I think the institution ought to be making the case that students ought to vote, that it’s a civic responsibility … We don’t do that, most institutions don’t do that, and I think that’s wrong.” Katz said the University has an obligation to “work with our students, to make them understand that they have civic responsibilities, and that everything isn’t a partisan thing.” “I don’t care how you vote, but I care a lot that you vote,” Katz said. “And what I mean by that, I care a lot that you’re engaged in a civic manner. And I think that’s a responsibility of a liberal arts institution.”
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News & Notes Lauren Bush Lauren ‘06 expresses support for Clinton Lauren Bush Lauren ’06 came out in support of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Lauren posted an image on Instagram of Clinton with the hashtag #ImWithHer. The hashtag has been circulating social media to endorse Clinton. The image was posted following Sunday night’s debate, as well as Friday’s release of a video of Republic nominee Donald Trump making lewd comments in the company of former President George H. W. Bush’s nephew, Billy Bush. While Lauren has publicly come out in support of Clinton, other members
of the Bush family have yet to publicly endorse Clinton, although they have publicly disapproved of Trump. Only former President George H. W. Bush and Lauren’s cousin Barbara Bush, former President George W. Bush’s daughter, came out in support of the Democratic nominee. Lauren is the daughter of Neil Bush and Sharon Bush and the granddaughter of former President George H. W. Bush. She graduated with a degree in anthropology and runs a non-profit organization, the FEED Foundation, which received donations from the Class of 2017 class dinner.
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It’s really come to this Ryan Dukeman columnist
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et’s just get one thing straight. There is, to any rational observer, no possible sense of equivalence between the f laws of Donald Trump and the f laws of Hillary Clinton. Period. On Friday, a tape was released of the Republican nominee for President of the United States proudly bragging about sexual assault. Not “locker room banter” or Bill Clinton golf-course chatter, to quote Trump himself. That’s not what groping a woman without her consent is. It’s sexual assault, full stop. In case you’ve been under a rock for the last 15 months, this from a man who opened his campaign by calling Mexicans rapists, seeking to ban all Muslims from the United States, insulting tortured veterans like John McCain, mocking a reporter’s disability, saying a judge couldn’t do his job because his parents were Mexican, claiming black people in this country were all “living in hell,” attacking a Gold Star family, retweeting white supremacists, and calling women “slobs, dogs, and pigs.” And now, from the man who would be the most visible role model to millions of children across this country, overt praise of sexual assault. Beyond the tagline quote of “when you’re a star … you can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy,” I urge you to watch the full 2005 clip from The Washington Post. If you do, you’ll hear the insolent mind of a 15-year-old, from the mouth of a man then in his late 50s. The mind of a man impervious to facts, rationality, decency,
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or basic human respect. The mind of a man for whom women are objects to be taken, to be won, to be conquered, to be judged solely on how quickly they make blood f low to his whatever. The only shocking thing about the fallout from this video — with GOP leaders across the country pulling their support and openly calling for their own nominee to drop out of the race — is that it took this level of overt, base infancy for them to finally pull the trigger. Insulting Mexicans, Muslims, African-Americans, the disabled, the poor, and others was apparently not enough, given that GOP candidates like Sen. Kelly Ayotte (NH) referred to Trump as a “role model” as recently as last week. But the thing is, disgusted though we are morally obligated to be, is anyone really surprised by this video or that it exists? Of course we knew Trump thought this way; we’ve known that about him since literally the first day of his campaign. But Hillary sent some emails, so “both candidates are deeply f lawed.” More than anything else, it is this false sense of equivalence that drives me crazy in this campaign. Yes, both candidates have lied, but to quote Nick Kristof, “if deception were a sport, Trump would be the Olympic gold medalist; Clinton would be an honorable mention at her local Y.” Yes, both have f lip-f lopped on political positions, but Trump frequently doing so within the span of a paragraph simply does not compare to Clinton changing her mind on gay marriage over a period of years. On this and a thousand other points of comparison, there simply is no comparison to be made. Just because they are two people running for the same job
does not mean that whatever they both do is equally controversial, or f lawed, or disgusting, or disgraceful. One candidate has incited violence at his rallies, knows nothing about anything, is the least qualified nominee for President in modern history, and has been endorsed by the Klan. The other hasn’t. One candidate’s only accomplishment is running a business sustained mainly by tax breaks and bankruptcy laws, the other is objectively the most prepared presidential candidate in the history of this country. One candidate can barely finish a sentence, can be baited by a tweet, thinks women aren’t people, and lost a billion dollars in a single year. The other candidate has spent her entire professional life fighting for children and families, and yes, her own political ambitions. One candidate has lost the support of leaders of his party, been called the “textbook definition” of racism by the Republican Speaker of the House, and is now facing open calls by senators and congressmen in his own party to drop out of the race for the decency of the country. Yes, Hillary sent some emails, gave some speeches, and held back the truth more than she should have. But to call the two equal, or equally f lawed, is to ignore the definition of the term. Ryan Dukeman is a Wilson School major from Westwood, Mass. He can be reached at rdukeman@princeton.edu.
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The Case for Student Trustees Mason Cox
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he Office of Vice President and Secretary of the University did not know whether or not students had a voice on the University Board of Trustees. After being routed once, I was put in touch with Director of Media Relations John Cramer, who eventually informed me that there are no students on the Board of Trustees. It turns out that we have no voice. As the Board makes important decisions affecting students, one would expect that students’ voices would be directly represented. How else can the Board accurately weigh both what its members want and what the students want? Student representation would be simple and easy to implement. One member of each class, who desires the position and is aware of the great responsibility it entails, would be elected by that class to be a student
representative for the year. The system would allow the Board to hear from students directly; the student representatives would attend all the Board’s meetings and be an equal to the other trustees. Opinions on campus change with the passage of time, so current students would be best at predicting the transitions necessary to keep campus up-to-date. Many members of the Board have not attended a university in some years, so their decisions may not always represent what would be best for the students and the University in today’s world. If a situation arises where the opinion of the students must be heard, it will be. It will no longer be necessary for the Board to establish a temporary committee to present findings, which is indirect representation of students. Although much of the Board’s agenda is focused on finances, student input is still neces-
sary. Not only does a portion of the finances come from tuition, but also the investments may be contrary to what the student body desires. The Board of Trustees has 38 members, so adding four student representatives is not going to swing a vote often. Most of the time, the student representatives will agree with the other trustees, or else fail to change the vote. If there is a decision where the student representatives do carry the vote, or break a tie, then the case was already controversial and subject to reversal in the future as more recent alumni become trustees. In other words, if the students’ vote ref lect a generational attitude shift, the decision would probably be overturned when the current Board gives way to new trustees. Ultimately, adding four student trustees will allow students’ voices to be represented and give the Board more long-term stability,
without detrimental ramifications. This change is neither radical nor new. Other universities, such as Oregon State University, require at least one student to be on the Board. In the Ivy League, Cornell University mandates two trustees be students at all times. These universities have not fallen into chaos because there is student representation on the Board. It is time that Princeton accepts students as voting trustees on the Board so that students have a voice. Mason Cox is a freshman from Albany, Oregon. He can be reached at mwcox@ princeton.edu.