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Public Safety to have access to rifles in emergencies By Drew Brazer contributor

In Opinion Columnist Newby Parton discusses the current role of race in University admissions and Columnist Nick Wu suggests that the University should use their endowment to expand financial aid. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 1:30 p.m.: The Keller Center will host a symposium on innovation in education and entrepreneurship for its 10th anniversary. Friend Center Auditorium.

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Oct. 13, 1972 The University Action Group voted unanimously to challenge University President William Bowen GS ‘58 to a public debate regarding ROTC.

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Sworn Department of Public Safety officers will have access to rifles in the event of emergency situations on campus, DPS Executive Director Paul Ominsky announced at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday. “The national best practices for responding to an active shooter have evolved,” Ominsky said. “It is now a law enforcement best practice to get an armed officer to the scene as quickly as possible to save lives.” He explained that the first armed officer who arrives can interrupt a shooter. “Response time matters,” Ominsky said. ”Even a few minutes can make a difference to save a life.” Sworn DPS officers are trained in the New Jersey police academy for 26 weeks, the same institution as law enforcement officials serving in the Princeton Police Department. They also possess most of the same credentials as local police officers, including the power to arrest. “Although we have a safe campus, and it is difficult to imagine a situation occurring at Princeton like an active shooter, we still need to plan, to prepare, and to train our staff,” Ominsky

said. The decision was reached in order to better ensure the safety of the University community, according to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Officers will not always be armed, but will be ready to arm themselves under the threat of an active shooter, Mbugua said. Under current policy, an active shooter or a person brandishing a firearm on campus would require an armed response from the local Princeton Police Department. The DPS, in turn, is unarmed and provides a support function. “DPS will not have access to rifles for any other purpose than to respond to an active shooter or someone brandishing a firearm,” Ominsky clarified. “Our priority is ensuring the safety of our students, our faculty and our staff.” Though the University had been discussing the policy for several months, the announcement comes soon after shootings at Texas Southern University in Houston, Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. The new policy will be enacted in the coming months. In 2008, the Fraternal Orders of Police, the labor union See RIFLES page 2

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Economics and Wilson School professor Angus Deaton was awarded the Nobel Prize on Monday.

Deaton wins Nobel Prize in Economics By Paul Phillips news editor

Angus Deaton, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Wilson School and the economics department at the University, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday. The prize is eight million Swedish krona, or about 977,000 U.S. dollars. The list of laureates is prepared by the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and the Royal Swedish

passion in him. “I feel passionately about measurement, about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in it, and indeed how much politics is involved in it,” Deaton said. When asked about the most important lesson he learned during his time as an economist, he said that while his answer would have been different at various points in his life, he now considers the most valuable lesson he has learned to be the importance of understanding statistics at a serious level. The Royal Swedish Academy of Science did not respond to See NOBEL page 2

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Intoxicated driver hits cyclist on Alexander street

A Hamilton Township woman was charged with driving while intoxicated after allegedly hitting a cyclist on Alexander Street on Friday, according to a report by the Princeton Patch. Stephanie Mulryne, 23, was allegedly driving north on Alexander Street toward Dickinson Street in a 1998 Ford Windsor when she hit Arthur Diringer, 66, of Princeton, as he was riding his bicycle along Alexander Street at 1:35 a.m. on Friday, according to a report by The Trentonian and the Princeton Police. Diringer sustained a facial injury from the incident and was transported to the University Medical Center at Plainsboro. There were no other reported injuries in the incident and no reported damage to Mulryne’s van. Investigating patrols subsequently determined that Mulryne was allegedly intoxicated and arrested her. She was charged with driving while intoxicated, improper use of a cell phone and reckless driving. She was later released from custody.

Academy of Science chooses the winner. Deaton said at a news conference in Richardson Auditorium on Monday that while receiving the Nobel Prize was something he thought of as a possibility, he was certainly not awake at 6 a.m. anticipating a phone call. In fact, he thought he was unlikely to get the Nobel Prize because he had never worked in a specific field and instead explored many different areas. The center of what he does is measurement, Deaton said. He explained that his first mentor, Sir Richard Stone, a Cambridge economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1984, had instilled this

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Former Representative Barney Frank spoke about the government in McCosh 50 on Monday afternoon.

Former Representative Frank lectures on U.S. government’s “vicious cycle” By Tea Wimer contributor

A “vicious cycle” plagues America’s ineffective government by causing frustrated Americans to vote based on empty promises for candidates who still do not serve the people, retired U.S. Representative Barnett “Barney” Frank said at a Monday lecture. Frank served the 4th district of Massachusetts as a Democrat from 1981-2012, championing civil rights and acting as the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee from 2007-2011. Barney was also a co-sponsor of the Dodd-Frank Act, which called for sweeping reform in the U.S. financial industry. He was also the first Congressman to come out as gay and marry a person of the same sex.

Anger comes from frustration in the government, a system that is supposed to work for the people and provide for them. As voters scramble for representatives that will work for them, these same representatives use this anger at the system and give empty promises that are hardly ever fulfilled, which only leaves voters feeling even more angry than before. Frank said this “vicious cycle” can only be broken by giving more assistance and help to those middle class American citizens that have lost faith in their own government. Anger toward the government has become an important tool for the Republican party, as they denounce the large central government that the United States boasts in an attempt to garner the votes of those who are frus-

trated with the government, he said. Then, due to the sorry state of bipartisanship in the House and Senate, he added, nothing ever gets solved and the American people are only left feeling even more frustrated with their government. To laughter from the audience, Frank said the Republican party had become upset with their own speaker for “the conspiracy of doing government,” implying that Republicans rarely do their job. “When I became influential in the government, the government quit being influential on the people,” he said. Frank noted a main issues with the way the United States’ budget is spent is the exorbitant military spending budget. Starting from the end of World War Two, the United States has put so See FRANK page 2

The Council of the Princeton University Community discussed university policy updates with regard to emergency response and preparedness, sexual misconduct and student diversity on campus at its meeting on Monday. Executive Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky announced that sworn Department of Public Safety officers will soon have access to rifles in the event of emergency situations on campus. Though the University had been discussing the policy for several months, the announcement comes soon after shootings at Texas Southern University in Houston, Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. In response to data from the “We Speak: Attitudes on Sexual Misconduct at Princeton” survey, Professor Deborah Nord addressed the issues surrounding sexual misconduct at Princeton. The “We Speak” report, released last month, found that approximately one in three undergraduate women have experienced inappropriate sexual assault behavior. The Council said administrators should consider the effects of bystander intervention and alcohol with regard to sexual assault. Nord said many respondents who experienced sexual assault indicated that alcohol was involved. “I consider this data heartbreaking,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said. “It indicates an unacceptable level of sexual misconduct and violence that our students are experiencing on this campus.” Eisgruber noted that the issue

of sexual misconduct on campus is not an easy problem to solve. He said the problem is not University-specific and that many people today are comparing numbers at different campuses to see which are higher and lower. “Regardless of how you come out on that, these numbers are too high on our campus and it is an issue on which we are going to make progress only if all of us own it as something where culture change needs to take place,” Eisgruber said. There is a relatively even distribution with regard to the location where these incidents occur of sexual misconduct among undergraduates. Twenty-two percent of sexual assaults take place in the room of the victim, 39 percent in the room of the assailant and 33 percent in other locations, including campus eating clubs, according to the CPUC’s summary of the report. The Council briefly discussed the monopoly of University eating clubs on campus-wide social engagement. Nord noted it is her personal view that the University faces a challenge of possessing “monolithic social life,” though she does not believe that the eating clubs are responsible for their current monopoly. Environmental Health and Safety director Robin Izzo discussed recent developments in emergency communication on campus and community training techniques, including classes that faculty members can attend to learn about sexual misconduct. “Communication, of course, is always the most important thing during emergency management,” Izzo said. She said the University’s See CPUC page 2

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representing DPS officers, requested that sworn officers be allowed to bear guns in case of an active shooter situation on campus. Sworn officers at the time used bulletproof vests, batons, handcuffs and a

substance comparable to pepper spray called OC. The FOP filed a complaint that being unarmed posed an occupational hazard, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ruled against the union. In 2013, the FOP renewed its calls for sworn officers to bear firearms, but then-University President Shirley Tilghman said

guns had no place in a community like Princeton, according to a January 2013 article in The Daily Princetonian. “We have in place a number of measures that will ensure that if there is a risk … police can rapidly have the appropriate response without having our own police officers armed,” Tilghman said at the time.

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much money into the military in an attempt to be the ultimate interventionist country. He pointed to 9/11, saying that the U.S. government was not responsible for the events of that day, yet it exploited the opportunity to gain even more funding for the military budget. The budget is unnecessarily high, Frank said. The amount of money the military spends keeping those troops in other

countries only adds to the bill, Frank said. This exorbitant spending presents a problem because it takes even more money away from social programs that seek to diminish inequality by improving the lives of middle and lower class Americans. Inserting military into other countries does not solve social issues and only roots U.S. soldiers in those areas for decades. He cited examples of troops staying for decades in Europe, South Korea and, more recently, the Middle East. Reducing inequality is an

important step for voters to regain confidence and trust in the federal government because the process relieves some of voters’ anger and increases happiness. Frank also asserted that another waste of taxpayer dollars is the “war on drugs.” He pointed to the unusually high number of black males incarcerated for petty drug charges and also said that racism is the worst he has seen it in his lifetime. Frank spoke in McCosh 50 to a nearly full auditorium. The lecture was sponsored by the Wilson School.

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telephone and email notification system is the primary means of informing everyone at once. Izzo noted that last year, her office introduced a Princeton Telephone and Email Notification System portal that would allow people to subscribe to non-emergency notifications. Such notifications include early dismissals, delayed openings and closings. About 600 people are currently enrolled, she said. Among the additions to the campus safety arsenal will be a new force mobile app that will allow students to contact DPS with a simple swipe to the right in the case of emergency situations, according to Izzo. Vice Provost for Institutional

Equity and Diversity Michele Minter gave an interim update about the CPUC task force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The update pertained to the implementation of recommendations by a task force charged with addressing campus climate issues last spring. “There were a number of categories for the recommendations. All of these go together to make up our campus climate,” Minter explained. ”They include academic, co-curricular and extracurricular data and addressing bias, discrimination and harassment.” Minter said the University is implementing the task force’s roughly 30 recommendations from last year. She said one recommendation is that the Fields Center should be refocused more tightly on serving students of color. Right now, many administrators and faculty use the

space, making it hard for cultural groups to schedule events. Accordingly, cultural groups should receive priority for reserving the building. Minter said the “Rights, Rules, Responsibility” policy was also updated to be more accessible and a new frequently asked questions section and infographic is available online to answer questions about how the policy works. “With regard to academic offerings, the provost created a fund for cultural studies that elicited proposals for faculty members whose departments want to do more work in the area of identity and difference,” Minter added. Furthermore, the task force on general education will launch this fall and will consider whether there should be a distribution requirement focused on identity and difference.

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requests for comment. Chair of the economics department Janet Currie explained at the news conference that Deaton received the Nobel Prize for his work on consumption, poverty and welfare. Through his work, Deaton was able to analyze the impact of individuals on policy by understanding that decisions of individual consumers aggregate to the economy as a whole, Currie said. “Looking at the people behind the numbers has led him to consider the relationship between economic policy, allocational resources in the household, and consumption and savings over the life cycle,” she said. Currie also noted Deaton’s passion for measurement and understanding the details of how the numbers we work with every day are put together.

Deaton earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1975, and was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1945. He explained that during his childhood, many of his family members worked in the fields and were uncomfortable with his staying inside reading books. This background made him aware of the importance luck has in people’s lives, he added. “There are these strokes of luck that, if you read around the world, they would be shuffled in very different ways,” Deaton said. Deaton said that while the world is becoming a better place and many humans enjoy a higher standard of living than they did several hundred years ago, inequality has become a serious threat with enormous ramifications for politics and climate change. “I don’t think you could describe the United States as being owned by some small faction,”

he said. “But I do worry about a world where the rich get to make the rules.” Economics professor Smita Brunnermeier explained that Deaton’s individualistic approach to analyzing data has made economists more cognizant of the context behind government or survey data numbers that come out. Currie noted that because Deaton’s work emphasizes the importance of understanding individual behavior for comprehending what goes on in the aggregate economy, it is highly related to many economic disciplines including microeconomics, which focuses on the individual, and macroeconomics, which focuses on the aggregate. Deaton’s colleagues, Currie said, are delighted to hear of his receiving the Nobel Prize. “It seems a very timely recognition of lifetime contributions that have been really important to many people in this department,” she said.

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Think before you bump Will Rivitz

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double-checked the number, dread filling my heart. Thirteen notifications?!, I thought. This can’t be good. And, indeed, it wasn’t — a friend from back home had gone through my Facebook posts from 2010 and 2011, when I was a wee junior high student, and bumped the choicest ones into my timeline. Embarrassed, I saw that about a dozen of my Facebook friends — everyone from Princeton students to my mom — had liked a particularly damning status update about my hatred of romance in fantasy novels. The damage was done: everyone I knew on Facebook that day was reminded of a particularly angsty era of my past. This phenomenon — to “necro” — is not a new one. Since the beginning of Internet forums, there have always been those who dredge up old, forgotten threads in order to make their voices heard in them, either because they don’t understand the culture of the forums they’re in or because they just want to annoy other users. It’s one of the great constants of the Internet: a forum thread or old post of some sort is archived neatly away, and inevitably somebody will stumble upon it and thrust it back into the spotlight. However, necroing is particularly noteworthy on Facebook because of how personal it is. It’s somewhat humiliating to have a half dozen of your edgier middle school thoughts unearthed — it’s an era many of us would much rather forget, and having someone remind you of how awkward you were back then isn’t always fun. On the other hand, though, it’s almost gratifying to be necroed on Facebook. It proves to you that people care about cheekily getting under your skin, willing to dredge up things you’d rather leave forgotten. It also proves that people are comfortable enough with you that they’re willing to risk your mortification in order to grow closer to you. Necroing is not something mere acquaintances typically do — if you’re being necroed, chances are it’s by somebody who truly cares about you. This is exactly why I’d like to advise people to be careful when they bump old posts. The thing about Facebook is that it’s very, very public. If you necro somebody’s posts, you’ll see it and they’ll see it — but so will countless other people. Some of those other people will inevitably be struggling socially, and would love nothing more than somebody to care enough about them that they’d be willing to bump old posts. Facebook habits of their friends notwithstanding, it can feel isolating to see other people’s old thoughts in your timeline with the full knowledge that nobody will do the same to you anytime soon. It’s hard to articulate why this happens, especially because there hasn’t been any research done or studies undertaken about this sort of thing. As such, I speak only for myself when I say it can have an effect. During a particularly drab time near the end of last winter, I saw a lot of old posts resurrected from the dead — and to me, that meant people having a good time together. Even worse, there was an implied “without me” at the end of that, my FOMO augmenting the social anxiety I already felt. These were friends with whom I had spent some time, and I was hurt that not only was I not having my posts bumped but also that I wasn’t around to see them (I assumed) laughing with each other in person about how silly they were in middle school. It wasn’t just that people were bumping old posts — it was that I had nothing to do with it, and that was painful. Speaking especially from personal experience, then, it often stings to see other people having a good time over ridiculous status updates from 2011 within earshot if you’re not included. Facebook isn’t really a structured group activity, of course, and it’s possible for those not included in the first place to jump in, but even if one not initially involved joins in there’s still that crippling self-doubt that they’re missing out on something or other. And while Facebook is by no means the worst offender here — it’s just text over the internet, after all — it can still be painful for those who feel most socially awkward and introverted to see other people presenting themselves as having such a good time without them. So, next time you’re going through your friend’s feed from 2009 or bumping bad profile pictures from a middle school dance, it’s worth thinking about who else will see these things. Obviously, the draw of necroing is how public it is — but publicity is a double-edged sword, especially in terms of mental health and social anxiety. I’m not arguing that necroing is an unnecessarily toxic practice that should be ceased immediately — that would be stupid, especially when there’s such a goldmine of content out there from a few years back. However, for the sake of those who may not be in such a positive place, it’s worth thinking before you bump. Will Rivitz is a sophomore from Brookline, Mass. He can be reached at wrivitz@princeton.edu.

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The present role of race in admissions Newby Parton

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Sept. 23 report from the Princeton University Office of Communications states that a review by the Office of Civil Rights “has been concluded with a determination that the University did not discriminate against Asian applicants on the basis of race or national origin.” This is almost, but not precisely, what the OCR found. Instead, the OCR report says that the evidence for a Title VI violation by the University is “insufficient” and that the practices of the admissions committee were found to comply with Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, two Supreme Court rulings on the subject from 2003. But the University readily admits that it uses race as a factor for admission, and the OCR report did not find otherwise. It found that the discrimination was legal. And it is. The Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger that racial bias in admissions is, in fact, just fine. In a 5-4 decision, the majority wrote that the University of Michigan Law School had a “compelling interest” to promote diversity and grant affirmative action. A dissent led by Chief Justice William Rehnquist argued that the policy was just a veiled quota system, which would make it unconstitutional. The stated reason for race-sensitive admissions is diversity, and that is well and good. But when one race gets a boost in college admissions, another race must suffer a relative loss. In re-

cent practice, the race suffering a loss has not been whites, but Asians. In his December 2013 New York times op-ed “Statistics Indicate an Ivy League Asian Quota,” Harvard University graduate Ron Unz presents a convincing, datasupported case that this race-based quota exists at all Ivy League schools. Fortunately, the quota is weaker at our University, if it remains at all. The OCR report notes that 25.4 percent of admits for the Class of 2014 were of Asian descent, a trend “inconsistent with the existence of a quota.” This is something to be celebrated. At peer institutions like Dartmouth College, the percent of Asian American students plateaued at 15 percent and has remained there for their Class of 2018. At the California Institute of Technology, a college with strictly raceneutral admissions, 44 percent of the student body is Asian. I could write a page-long column on my own opinion of race-sensitive admissions, and I have. In my Feb. 17 column “Princeton admissions and its racism,” I argue that the admissions process should be race-blind but that affirmative action should exist for low-income students, in order to continue providing help to the struggling communities who are the intended beneficiaries of the current policy. Thankfully, the University is beginning to do just that. The OCR found that “admissions staff worked with the University’s financial aid staff to identify applicants who would be eligible for Pell Grants” so that the admissions committee would understand “the challenges an applicant has

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had to overcome to achieve academic success.” Overall, it is my opinion that the University’s admissions practices have improved greatly. But whether you support the current practices, whether you believe that admissions should be race-blind, or whether you believe there should be no affirmative action of any sort, it is important to recognize the forms of discrimination that exist. For only when we recognize this discrimination can we discuss big, important questions about the role admissions should play, if any, in manipulating its demographics. What kind of diversity is desirable to have at a University? Should a student who adds diversity be accepted over a more qualified candidate who adds less diversity? If so, should the reason be fairness to a student who had fewer resources, or should this policy exist because diversity is good for everyone else? The University’s practices may be allowed by law, but are they moral? These questions are not rhetorical. Rather, they are among the most important questions everyone associated with a college should discuss. In the 1920s, Harvard University rejected a measure to establish a quota on Jewish students, only to slash Jewish enrollment by 40 percent under the guise of holistic admissions. We must be mindful of our history and all the aspects of the present situation if we are to avoid repeating the sins of our past. Newby Parton is a sophomore from McMinnville, Tenn. He can be reached at newby@princeton.edu.

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o, what is one to do with the fantastic earnings on the endowment? Last week, PRINCO released its annual report, sparking debate in the Princeton City Council about larger returns to the community, according to the Princeton Packet. But I actually agree with the University that the amount it contributes to the town is already enough. An analysis by Princeton Future, a local public policy planning group, found that the University’s voluntary contributions to the town of Princeton constitute 7 percent of the municipal budget, as reported in the Princeton Packet. Yet, four residents of Princeton are still attempting to sue the University in New Jersey’s tax court in order to challenge the University’s status as a nonprofit. Part of their case is that the University’s endowment is earning returns higher than that of an ordinary nonprofit; therefore, the University is making risky enough investments and generating enough profit that they could pay property taxes. They argue that the University needs to pay its “fair share.” The University could probably pay its property tax burden, but far more important are the overall principles of the tax code. Although Princeton generates massive returns, the tax-exempt status of nonprofits are based on the

fact that they further an educational, scientific, literary or otherwise publicly beneficial purpose, rather than the amount of returns they generate, based on the IRS definition of a 501c(3) organization. Therefore, stripping the University of its nonprofit status would then imply that the University does not further an educational, scientific, literary or otherwise publicly beneficial purpose. And the University very clearly furthers those purposes as one of the world’s leading research universities. The argument advanced by the aforementioned plaintiffs would be valid if the University were an evil institution that had a pure moneymaking motive, but it clearly does not. Asking the University for its “fair share” would be morally equivalent to asking a church or an animal shelter to pay taxes. Are tax exemptions a debatable subject? Yes. But if we want reform, we need to change the whole system, not just Princeton’s tax status. Such a change to the tax code would have huge repercussions for nonprofits all over the state. While Princeton might be able to afford the extra overhead of a property tax burden, a smaller nonprofit, say a soup kitchen, would be forced to close under that tax load. Yet, rather than belabor the point about the University’s tax status, I think we should draw attention to the state of financial aid at the University and the potential to further a greater public good than direct contributions to the town of Princeton,

which is certainly not in dire financial straits. Let’s work under the assumption that the University does in fact need to contribute its “fair share” to the community. Consequently, as a university, that community would consist of the students. Princeton always touts the fact that its financial aid program is loan-free; the admissions website states that about 60 percent of students receive some form of financial aid. Yet, there are many who do not qualify substantially, and are forced to take on massive loans to afford a Princeton education. This comes in the wake of increased scrutiny of the student loan industry by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who alleges that the debt load accrued by students restricts economic opportunity. The University has the opportunity to fulfill an even larger social good by expanding its financial aid to fill this hole in the financial aid system. Only 83 percent of Princeton’s seniors graduate entirely debtfree according to the financial aid website, and the average level of indebtedness is $6,600. For reference, one of the so-called “egg chairs” in Lewis Library costs about $5,000. The amount of interest earned on the endowment this past year was $1.7 billion. Surely the University should be spending that money by filling in the financial aid gap instead. Along similar logic, the average grant for a family whose household income is $100,000-$120,000 is about

$47,400, based on the statistics on the financial aid website. That’s a generous amount of money, and we should all be grateful that the University is able to provide that much. However, at the same time, the expected contribution is still a significant portion of that family’s annual income, and the student might still have to take on the burden of loans. The statistic that the University doesn’t provide online is how many students are admitted and then decide not to matriculate because of the size of the expected contribution from the family. For the cost of two of the “egg chairs,” a person in that income bracket could have been fully, instead of only partially, funded. There’s an opportunity here for the University to truly fulfill its mission “in the nation’s service and the service of all nations.” By expanding financial aid to fully fund more students, rather than forcing students to take on student loans, the University could attract an even more diverse student body. Allowing students to graduate debt-free would allow them to strike out into the world unfettered by student loans. This is a relatively modest proposal. I could do without fancier chairs if it means that more of my classmates could graduate without any debt load at all. Nicholas Wu is a sophomore from Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. He can be reached at nmwu@princeton.edu.

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shots, the Tigers could not claim the victory against Brown, and had to go home with a tie in a game they knew they could have won. The draw puts the Tigers in sixth in the Ivy League standings with just one point, whereas Brown remain at third on the table with four points, trailing league leaders

Harvard (4-4-2, 2-0) and Dartmouth, who have won both their games so far. Princeton will have a three-game home stand in the upcoming week, as they play Fairleigh Dickinson before hosting Columbia (6-2-1, 1-1) and West Virginia. A victory over Columbia would allow the Tigers to jump above their opponents in the standings. The Columbia game will be at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17 at Roberts Stadium.

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ahead to this week’s game against Lehigh. The Tigers are also in the lead in the

Ivy League with the firstplace seat, but Lussi and her team remain grounded and focused as they proceed through the season. “We take it day by day, game by game,” Lussi said.

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final. The other results all came from extra matches. Carcione won in a tiebreaker 10-5 over John Zordani of Wisconsin, Radu defeated BC’s Alexandre Thirouin in straight sets and El Tonbari lost to Wisconsin’s Jose Carranza in a very competitive 12-10 tiebreaker. In the doubles bracket, the duo of Carcione and El Tonbari lost in the final to Wisconsin’s pair 8-0 in the super set. In the extra

match Radu and Wasserman lost 8-5 to Wisconsin’s second pair. Coach Billy Pate said “Though we didn’t get wins in doubles today we came back and played well in the remaining singles matches. We might have left a few wins out there this weekend, but we gained a lot while working on tactical aspects we wanted to focus on. Overall, we saw quality effort from guys vying for starting spots in the lineup this spring.” The team has the next weekend off before going to Yale for the ITA/USTA Northeast Regional on Oct. 22.

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Win dropped in agonizing fashion By Tom Pham

Associate Sports Editor

After a disappointing 1-0 defeat at Dartmouth (6-3-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) to start the Ivy League campaign and a bounce back 3-2 win against Seton Hall (0-9-1) at home, the Princeton men’s soccer team (4-3-2, 0-1-1) travelled to Providence, Rhode Island to face off against Brown (5-4-1, 1-0-1), who defeated Columbia (6-2-1, 1-1) last weekend. The Tigers got off to a positive start, dominating possession and getting plenty of shots off on goal against Brown goalkeeper Erik Hanson, who was forced into some great saves. However, it was Hanson who made a costly error in the first half that allowed prolific senior striker Tom Sanner to add to his season tally and score his seventh goal of the season. After a deflected shot from senior Brendan McSherry bounced up in the box, Hanson ran out to punch the ball, but ended up missing, and with the ball kindly falling to his feet, Sanner did not make a mistake to slot home from 15 yards out. The Tigers continued to look

threatening during the first half, and peppered the Brown goal with shots, but were unable to add a second goal to their tally. Princeton came out in the second half looking to add another and claim the victory, and came close multiple times, with both junior defender Greg Seifert and McSherry hitting the crossbar when Hanson looked completely beaten. However, it was not meant to be for the Tigers, and they were made to pay by Brown for their finishing woes. As the game was ticking away and Brown looked less and less likely to claim a point, a rather controversial foul by Sanner gave Brown the chance to pump the ball back into the box, and a beauty of a ball from Louis Zingas allowed Jack Hagstrom to power above the defenders and head the ball into the top corner as senior goalkeeper Ben Hummel was left in two minds, whether to come out and punch the ball to safety, or to stay in his goal. This goal pushed the game to overtime, and despite once again dominating overtime with six See M. SOCCER page 5

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Despite dominating the game, the Tigers dropped two valuable points as they allowed a late Brown equalizer in the 86th minute.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Women’s soccer demolish Brown to go top of table By Miranda Hasty staff writer

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The women’s soccer team were in fantastic form against Brown as they thrashed their opponents 4-0.

Encouraging results at Farnsworth Invitational for competing players By Grant Keating staff writer

The Princeton men’s tennis team hosted the 47th Farnsworth Invitational this weekend at the Lenz Tennis Center. The tournament is Princeton’s annual home singles and doubles tournament featuring Army, Binghamton, Boston College, Bucknell, Drexel, Fairleigh Dickinson, Georgetown, Lehigh, Marist, Monmouth, New Jersey Institute of Technology, St. John’s, Temple and Wisconsin. The tournament provided some early insight for the team and allowed fringe players to compete for starting roles in the spring. Seniors Mohamed El Tonbari and Florin Radu represented

Princeton in the tournament alongside junior Jonathan Carcione and freshman Jimmy Wasserman. In the round of 16 played on Friday, Radu, Carcione and Wasserman were all victorious in straight sets, with Radu winning 6-1, 6-4, Carcione winning 6-2, 6-3, and Wasserman winning 6-1, 6-2. However, El Tonbari was also beaten in straight sets against John Zordani of Wisconsin, 6-4, 6-2. In the doubles matches, the pair of Radu and Wasserman were defeated in the round of 32, before winning the round of 16 match in the consolation draw. Carcione and El Tonbari fared much better, defeating the Boston College pair 8-3 in the round of 16, before thrashing the NJIT

pair 8-0 in the quarterfinals. Carcione and El Tonbari continued their momentum in the semifinal on Saturday, defeating the Wisconsin pair of Sprecher and Sweet to book their spot in the final. However, Radu and Wasserman were defeated in their doubles match. The singles matches did not turn out much better for the Tigers either, as both Carcione and Wasserman were defeated in straight sets in the quarterfinal, while Radu lost in the semifinal and El Tonbari was dropped in the consolation round of 16. Heading into the final day, for the singles Wasserman defeated Army’s Sam Lampman 6-4, 6-2 in the Singles Consolation SemiSee M. TENNIS page 5

With a 2-3 record, the fall season started off rocky for the Tigers. Heading up to Providence, R.I. last Saturday, however, the team carried six victories under their belt and soon added another. With a 4-0 shutout against the Brown Bears, the Orange and Black earned their first win in Providence since 2009, ending Brown’s twogame win streak, and can now boast their own sevengame win streak. Now 3-0 in the Ivy League for the first time since 2012, the Tigers, along with the Harvard Crimson, hold a five-point lead over the Ivy conference in the first-place position. The first goal came from junior forward Tyler Lussi just ten seconds before halftime. Following Lussi’s lead came freshman standout

Mimi Asom, breaking free from the defense to make the score 2-0 soon after the whistle sounded for the second half to begin. Sophomore midfielder Vanessa Gregoire chipped a free kick into the far corner for the third goal, and sophomore midfielder Alessia Azermadhi finished a cross from sophomore defender Natalie Larkin for the final goal and the first goal of her career. Junior goalkeeper Hannah Winner also stood out with her second completed shutout of three Ivy games. This was an important game for Tyler Lussi, who scored her thirty-seventh career goal on Saturday. She is now the fourth top scorer in program history and shows great signs of climbing even higher. “Every single day is a drive to get better,” Lussi said. Lussi didn’t hesitate to

express her pride while discussing last weekend’s game. “We came out very strong,” Lussi said. “The goals just kept coming. It comes right from [head coach] Sean [Driscoll]. He demanded a high level of play from us from the very beginning, and we showed that we can really dominate a game.” Driscoll joined the coaching staff earlier this year in January, and with him, the team outscored their last seven opponents 23-6. Lussi attributes her team’s performance to their work ethic and their ability to recover from early setbacks. “With three losses, it was tough, but we’re a hardworking and a close-knit team and it shows on the field.” “Our confidence is growing and our energy is really high,” Lussi said, looking See W.SOCCER page 5

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The men’s tennis team sent four to compete at the Farnsworth Invitational, who all performed well.

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