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U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

Architecture School dean resigns

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Alejandro Zaera-Polo was named dean of the Architecture School in May of 2012.

Dean of the Architecture School Alejandro Zaera-Polo has resigned from his position effective immediately, the University announced on Wednesday morning.

According to an email sent by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 to the graduate students of the Architecture School, Zaera-Polo’s resignation “will allow him to devote greater attention to his research and other professional activities.” He will remain a professor at the Architecture School.

In the same announcement, Eisgruber explained that the school’s former dean and professor Stanley T. Allen GS ’88 will serve as acting dean until the official appointment of a successor, and Allen will also preside over a search committee that will look for a permanent replacement.

Zaera-Polo was named dean in May 2012, an appointment that caused controversy among graduate students at the time. Allen was dean of the School for 13 years before the appointment of Zaera-Polo’s, who is retiring after only two years on the job. He was a visiting

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STUDENT LIFE

Changes in reporting affect U. crime stats

Student arrested for allegedly holding camera over shower

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In Street Street takes a look at fashion on campus, our campus’s Greek architectural roots and Theatre Intime’s “Red.” PAGE S1-S4

In Opinion Jonathan Lu discusses the importance of good tutoring, and Newby Parton questions a prevalent approach to the discussion of the University’s new sexual assault procedures.

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Today on Campus 6:30 p.m.: A vigil sponsored by the Black Student Union will be held in memory of Mike Brown, who was killed by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer. Frist Campus Center South Lawn.

The Archives

Oct. 2, 1972

Cannon Club’s board of trustees announced that it would cease operations and transfer ownership to the University after 76 years of options. The club faced large debts.

PRINCETON By the Numbers

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The number of reported cases of bedbugs in Holder Hall in March.

News & Notes Summer tresspassing resolved in arrest

A summer burglary in 20 Washington Road resulted in an arrest last week for third-degree burglary and for trespassing.

Andru Brown, 21, of Lawrenceville, N.J., allegedly entered Frick Laboratory on Aug. 5, which was not open to the public and which he was allegedly not licensed or privileged to enter. He allegedly entered with the intent to commit a theft when he was observed at two separate employee desks, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, allegedly searching through their personal belongings. Brown had in the past also received a persona non grata letter as a notice against trespassing.

Brown voluntarily surrendered to the Department of Public Safety on Sept. 26, following an investigation that identified him as a supect. He is currently free after posting a $15,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 6, the Prosecutor’s Office said.

The building is the former location of the Frick Chemistry Laboratory and is currently undergoing extensive renovations to house a number of social sciences programs and the economics department in the near future.

lecturer in architecture at the University for four years until his appointment as dean.

Professors Christine Boyer, Paul Lewis GS ’92 and Guy Nordenson will work in the search committee alongside Allen.

The committee will also include two graduate students who will be selected as non-voting members.

When Zaera-Polo was first appointed, a group of graduate students, believing he was unfit for the deanship, criticized his appointment and expressed their complaint in a letter to former University President Shirley Tilghman.

“We believe that the selection of Zaera-Polo, with his previously stated objections to the core of Princeton’s pedagogical tradition of the thesis, as well as his poor course evaluations as a professor, puts the School of Architecture’s future in danger and should be reconsidered,” the students wrote at the time.

Zaera-Polo dismissed those claims in an interview with The Daily Princetonian a few days after his appointment.

The idea that he is opposed to the architectural thesis is “a rumor being spread without reason,” Zaera-Polo said.

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COURTESY OF 4.BP.BLOGSPOT.COM

By Chitra Marti staff writer

Decreases in the number of sexual assaults reported on campus and increases in burglaries might be attributed to changes in the way these statistics are reported, University officials said on Wednesday in response to the University’s Annual Security & Fire Report, which was released Tuesday.

This year, the most significant change was made to the reporting of sex offenses. Previously, offenses were split into two categories: forcible and nonforcible sex offenses. These categories comprised not just offenses reported to the Department of Public Safety but also those reported confidentially to Sexual

Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education. In 2012, there were 17 forcible sex offenses and no non-forcible sex offenses reported.

This year, however, the two categories have been replaced by four other categories: sexual assaults, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking incidents. Numbers reported confidentially to SHARE are no longer included in the statistics portion of the report but instead are included in the narrative portion of the report. In 2013, there were six sexual assaults, four incidents of domestic violence and one incident of stalking. In addition, 17 incidents were reported confidentially to SHARE. “Confidentiality has never changed.

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By Chitra Marti staff writer

A student was charged with invasion of privacy and burglary in the third degree on Monday after allegedly holding a cell phone camera over a shower door without the knowledge or consent of a female student who was showering at the time.

David Chesley, originally a member of the Class of 2016, was charged on Monday after an investigation by the Department of Public Safety. He voluntarily surrendered.

The incident allegedly took place on Sunday at 8:30 a.m. A female student reported to DPS that she had seen a cell phone held over the shower door with its camera pointed at her, accord-

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Rockefeller Brothers Fund announces decision to join divestment movement

By Anna Windemuth staff writer

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced their decision to join the divestment movement last week, pledging to sell assets tied to fossil fuel companies from their portfolios and to continue investing in cleaner energy alternatives.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is a $860 million philanthropic organization that provides grants to promote democratic practices, peace building and sustainable development.

It was established by the sons of John Rockefeller Jr. in 1940, according to the organization’s website. His father, John Rockefeller Sr., was a co-founder of Standard Oil and is often cited as the richest person in history when adjusted for inflation.

“One of the things we’ve focused on has been climate

change and an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” Steven Rockefeller ’58, a son of Nelson Rockefeller and a trustee of the Fund, said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian.

Rockefeller said he strongly approved of the board’s decision to divest, which stemmed from discussions on how the Fund could bring their endowment investments closer to the organization’s goals and incentives.

The move adds to piling pressure for funds and especially college endowments to divest their investments from fossil fuel holdings. Movements for divestiture have been active at many college campuses, including Divest Harvard and the Fossil Free UC campaign.

In May, Stanford University dropped coal-mining stocks from its endowment. So far,

Princeton has declined to disclose its investments or to join the divestment movement.

Senior Program Officer for the Environment at the Wallace Global Fund Richard Mott said that the divestment announcement is really historic, noting both the source of the Rockefeller fortune and the foundation’s size and influence.

“When you have the heirs of J.D. Rockefeller say that this is the time to move away from fossil fuels, it’s a strong signal,” he said.

The announcement was made a day before the United Nations Climate Summit in New York City and included both a message from actor Mark Ruffalo and a videotaped message from retired bishop Desmond Tutu, according to The New York Times.

The Fund also decided to See DIVESTMENT page 2

ing to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. The student screamed and the individual then allegedly ran from the area. A DPS investigation later led to the identification of Chesley.

The bathroom, a women’s bathroom in Forbes College, was, like most women’s bathrooms on campus, secured by a combination lock. Chesley was allegedly not licensed or privileged to enter the bathroom and was, as a result, charged with burglary, the Prosecutor’s Office said.

While most dormitories in Forbes have private bathrooms, this is not the case in the Forbes annex, which was built decades after the main inn.

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STUDENT LIFE

Students report new case of bedbugs in Forbes College double

By Anna Windemuth staff writer

A case of bedbugs was reported in a room in Forbes College on September 26, marking the first bedbug case of the 2014-15 academic year, said University spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

After the case was reported and an inspection of the

room confirmed the presence of bedbugs, the two residents of the room were relocated to other campus housing to make room for heat treatment, Mbugua said. A University contractor was scheduled to treat the room by the next morning, and an email was sent to the Forbes community

by Manager of Dormitories Kenneth Paulaski to notify

residents of the contractor’s presence in the building.

“It has been confirmed that a room in Forbes Main has bedbugs,” Paulaski wrote. “A University contractor, who will be escorted by a University representative, will commence treating this room tomorrow morning.”

Paulaski deferred comment to Mbugua.

“In addition to preparing the room for treatment, monitors were placed in adjacent rooms as a precautionary measure,” Mbugua said. The results of the extermination procedure have yet to be determined, he added.

The room was a one-room double bedroom in the main inn. Cases of bedbugs are not uncommon in Forbes. A case

was reported in April and another last September. In other parts of campus, three reports of bedbugs were made in Rockefeller College’s Holder Hall last March.

One of the Rocky cases was recurrent. After students were moved from the room and the room was exterminated, they reported a new case of bedSee FORBES page 3

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“I believe the thesis is actually one of Princeton’s most distinctive qualities as a school.”

Students expressed concern at the time that the dean selection process lacked transparency.

“I think it’s good that, for the next dean search, there will be student input,” Jesse Seegers GS ’13 said. Seegers was one of the students who expressed concern in 2012. “We thought [the

last dean search] was too secretive, unnecessarily.”

Eisgruber, in the announcement, thanked Zaera-Polo for his service as dean as well as Allen for assisting the transition in leadership.

Zaera-Polo deferred comment to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua, who declined to comment beyond the University press release. Allen and architecture professor Elizabeth Diller, who led the search committee that appointed Zaera-Polo, did not respond to requests for comment.

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When SHARE reports a statistic to us, it’s reporting a number. They do not give the name or anything like that. It’s just a number; it’s just a statistic,” DPS Associate Director of Support Services Duncan Harrison said.

SHARE Director Jackie Deitch-Stackhouse said its services will not be directly affected by the changes in the Clery Act and that SHARE continues to put forth its own statistics on sex offenses to inform the campus community.

For example, the American College Health Association’s National Collegiate Health Assessment survey reported in 2014 that approximately one out of six Princeton students, both male and female, reported experiencing interpersonal violence that year, including unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, attempted/actual sexual penetration or touching without consent, emotionally or physically abusive relationships, stalking and any other conduct of an unwanted sexual nature.

“The services we provide in SHARE will not be affected [by differences in reporting],” Deitch-Stackhouse said. “These data points serve as confirmation that these issues do exist. … Any data we put forward is the start of the conversation so that we know what the issues are.”

Deitch-Stackhouse noted that SHARE works from a victim-empowerment model and,

while these statistics will not directly affect its work, it is always seeking to improve its services.

Although the number of sexual assaults included in the statistics portion of the report declined, the total number of crimes reported increased largely due to a spike in burglaries. However, Harrison and Director of Operations Stefanie Karp cautioned against attributing this spike to a particular cause.

Harrison and Karp clarified that Clery reporting regulations require that Universities report the number of victims in a burglary rather than the number of incidents. For example, if a burglar entered a one-person room and a six-person room, those would be two separate incidents, but with a total of seven victims, which is recorded as seven in the statistics. The same holds true for offices: if a burglar enters an office where five people work, there are five victims counted and five is reported in the statistics. A spike in the numbers, thus, could be attributed to either a rise in the number of incidents or a change in the types of residences that are experiences burglaries.

The report also now includes a section on personal safety, which Karp said is an effort to make the report as useful as possible to the campus community.

“We’re continuing to improve our report, in the end, to see how it would best benefit the community,” Karp said. “We just felt the report is … about safety and security, so we’re trying to enhance that.

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commit at least 10 percent of its endowment to investments in clean energy, Rockefeller said, and has already eliminated investments involved in coal and tar sands from its portfolio.

Rockefeller said he is very opposed to the Keystone XL oil pipeline running through Canada and the United States, a government project awaiting approval for its final phase. The pipeline spurred student protests at the White House earlier this year.

In addition to the social and environmental benefits of divesting, Rockefeller said he believes companies that divest now will enjoy economic benefits in the long run, as the current consumption of fossil fuels is clearly unsustainable.

“These oil companies will face some very, very serious financial problems,“ Rockefeller said.

The birth of the divestment movement is commonly ac-

credited to college campuses, where students first staged protests against fossil fuel investments. Mott said he thinks it will become more and more difficult for universities to reject divestment due to possible financial losses.

“I think it was never correct and it only becomes less flexible,” Mott said of the economic feasibility argument against divestment. “The risks are predominantly from staying in fossil fuels.”

Mott noted that since the first universities began eliminating coal investments from their portfolios, coal stock went down by 60 percent. If colleges had acted earlier, he said, they would have benefited financially.

Mott added that academic institutions have taken social stances through endowment investments before, such as divesting from tobacco companies. He said that it is a university’s greater mission to support the social good and to help create a viable job market for its students, not to bet on

unsustainable resources.

“I think we’re facing a critical moral issue, and my hope is that Princeton, colleges and universities across the country will join and support the divest initiative,” Rockefeller said.

The University does not disclose the details of its investment portfolio to maintain a competitive edge, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. Andrew Golden, president of the Princeton University Investment Company, which manages the University’s endowment, declined to comment for this article.

The Council of the Princeton University Community resources committee, which considers issues related to the University’s endowment portfolio, does not discuss the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s investment policies, Director of Public Affairs and staff committee representative Karen Jezierny said in an email.

Although Mott said some people claim that individual companies divesting does not

have much of an impact on stock prices, he said it’s already made a very big difference.

“Industries are being called upon to defend their business model,” Mott said, adding that 168 institutions have already joined the movement. This translates into an aggregate of more than $50 billion removed from fossil fuel investments, Mott said.

“I’m encouraged by the positive response and media interest that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund announcement last week has generated,” Rockefeller said. “It’s given me some new hope that perhaps the shift in the public mind may now really be taking place.”

The University’s Rockefeller College was named after John Rockefeller III, who was a longtime trustee of the University and who contributed $7 million to further construction in 1984, according to The New York Times. Six years later, Laurance Rockefeller donated $21 million to the University to create the Center for Human Values.

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Chesley was released after posting a $10,000 bail under the special conditions that he would not have contact with the victim, nor with anyone under 18 years of age, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by The Daily Princetonian. It remains unclear if Chesley knew the victim and whether the victim was underage or not.

A representative from the Princeton Municipal Court said Chesley did not have an attorney on record. Chesley could not be reached for comment. Voice mails left at his cell phone number went unreturned on Wednesday

evening.

A conviction of third-degree invasion of privacy can carry with it a sentence of up to five years in prison and up to a $15,000 fine. If the defendant was found to have disclosed the material as well, he might be subject to a $30,000 fine as well.

Third-degree burglary can carry a three- to five-year sentence.

University spokesperson Martin Mbugua confirmed that Chesley is not currently enrolled at the University and not living on campus.

As of Wednesday morning, he was no longer listed on the Residential College Student Facebook. He was in Wilson College.

Chesley is scheduled to appear in Princeton Municipal Court on Oct. 6.

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In 2012, a student was charged with invasion of privacy after allegedly taking sexually explicit photographs of another student who had fallen asleep. In that case, the student was also removed from the College Facebook, but his case was resolved with a pre-trial intervention program.

Earlier this week, a Lawrenceville resident was also arrested for burglary for an incident that occurred over the summer at 20 Washington Road. He was released on $15,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on the same day as Chesley.

In calendar year 2013, there were 41 burglaries reported, according to the University’s most recent Department of Public Safety’s Annual Security and Fire Report.

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bugs only four days after being allowed to move back in.

The common bedbug feeds on blood and causes itchy bites, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s website. Although considered public health pests,

bedbugs are not known to transmit or spread disease.

The prevalence of bedbugs has risen in the United States in recent years, according to the EPA. The EPA explains that this trend is possibly due to more travel, lack of public prevention awareness and increased resistance to pesticides.

The EPA recommends re-

ducing clutter, using special bedbug-repelling mattress covers and regularly washing and heat-drying bed sheets and other cloth materials that touch the f loor to prevent infestations. To identify possible bedbug infestations, the EPA suggests looking for spotted bedding and the presence of larvae and eggs.

News & Notes LinkedIn ranks U. among top 5 in finance, software development

The University has been ranked fourth in finance, fourth in software developers at startups and fifth in software development by LinkedIn University Rankings, which ranks universities in various professional fields based on the level of career success attained by alumni of those universities.

The University was topped in the finance rankings by the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and Georgetown University, in the software developers list by Carnegie Mellon University, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the software developers at startups list by Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University. The University did not appear in LinkedIn University’s top five schools for investment bankers.

According to the description on its website, LinkedIn determines top schools in various fields by identifying top com-

panies based on hiring and retention rates in each industry.

LinkedIn then finds graduates who work in each of the different fields and finds where they went to school. For each school, LinkedIn calculates the percent of the alumni that have jobs at these top companies and compares these percentages to create the final list.

Patton ’77 claims college rape is rare

Susan Patton ’77, who in 2013 wrote a letter to The Daily Princetonian encouraging women to find a male partner during their time at the University, co-wrote a letter on Friday to the Baltimore Sun criticizing the perception that rape is common on college campuses.

Using the FBI statistic for the rate of “forcible rapes” in 2012, she and Jonathan David Farley, a mathematician, calculated the probability of a woman not being raped in college at 99.8 percent. Although preliminary data for 2013 is available, the FBI no longer distinguishes between “forcible” and “nonforcible” rape. The calculation

assumes rape is equally probable on and off college campuses and among people of different ages.

“Of course, the rape-statistic apologists will say that rape is massively underreported,” Patton and Farley wrote.

Patton and Farley said the commonly cited statistic that one in four women will be raped in college comes from a telephone survey in which, out of 16,000 respondents, only 24 women and 8 men reported during their interviews that they had been raped in the 12 months preceding the survey.

Patton and Farley then use this statistics to calculate an annual risk of rape of 0.3 percent.

However, they do not address the possibility that the study’s respondents’ annual risk of rape may have differed from that of students on college campuses.

A 2008 University survey obtained by The Daily Princetonian showed that nearly one in six female undergraduates reported experiencing non-consensual vaginal penetration during their time at the University.

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Teaching how to learn Jonathan Lu

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oming into Princeton, I knew I wanted to get involved with community service. At the Activities Fair, I spent most of my time under the Pace Center for Civic Engagement tent. Every table seemed to advertise tutoring opportunities, but few required experience. Representatives from several of the groups told me that the Pace Center is planning on holding more training workshops for tutors this year. The introduction of more, and potentially different, tutor training raises the question: What is good tutoring?

In high school, I worked as a geometry tutor. My student’s father hired me to be her tutor during her freshman year. She was a good student. She paid attention in lecture and asked questions when she didn’t understand. She took thorough notes on every lesson, and was always excited to learn. Teaching her was fulfilling.

Yet once the next school year started, I learned that she was searching for another tutor. Now she needed help with Algebra II and chemistry.

I felt like a failed tutor. I wasn’t bothered by the fact that she needed help. I was bothered by the idea of her always depending on a tutor to explain every new subject. In today’s volatile world, new skills and paradigms constantly arise. She can’t depend on someone to always be there to walk her through new concepts.

School teaches us material, but it should also teach how to learn.

Bad tutoring can kill that skill. Tutoring may place too much of a burden on the tutor to teach and not enough on the student to learn. When my father taught me algebra at home during elementary school, I could simply sit back and let him explain everything. My father would ask me questions to engage me. Sometimes I was too lazy to respond.

After an awkward pause, Dad would explain the answers in the end.

I became accustomed to this constant feedback.

When I began learning on my own, I checked the answers whenever I was faced with a problem I couldn’t do in five seconds. I was afraid of situations I hadn’t seen before.

As a tutor, I taught through the same one-sided lectures — it seemed natural for me to simply explain all of the material. Yet I found that tutoring style inadequate. My student could listen as though her life depended on it, but she always seemed completely lost when we moved to a new concept.

Real learning requires ownership and discovery, both of which entail struggle. The one- or two- hour space of a tutoring session eliminates the opportunity to struggle. Both the tutor and student see even the slightest confusion as a failure to be quickly remedied by a neat explanation. No one trusts the student to reason it out herself.

This isn’t to say that all tutoring is bad — everyone needs help at some point. Rather, it means the tutor shouldn’t help the student every single step of the way. Teaching the answer before the student sees the question is absurd.

What is good tutoring?

Good tutoring should supplement good learning.

The best learning comes from experiences. Building projects, essays, speeches and challenge problems.

These learning experiences require failure. Students won’t remember “SOHCAHTOA”, but they’ll remember trying to use angles to measure the distance between two cities on a map. They won’t remember being told to outline their ideas; they’ll remember getting halfway through an essay and being completely lost about what to say next.

Here is the tutor’s biggest challenge: He must believe in the student’s ability. He must show the student that those wayward ideas, those dead ends, that unfinished concluding paragraph prove that the student is growing. He must always be positive, but never complacent.

This isn’t to say that tutors should leave the students completely lost. But instead of spoon-feeding material, the tutor must guide the student in approaching new situations. Outline ideas. Write down all the information. Look at trivial cases. And finally, focus on the skills the material teaches. History teaches us to construct arguments. Chemistry trains us to look at control variables and limiting factors. Math teaches us to play with abstract ideas.

This model only works if both the tutor and student are invested in the learning. The tutor must show that the material merits the effort. How is this fun? Why does this matter? The student must be willing to work on the material independently at some point. Students doesn’t need to understand everything immediately, but it’s important for them to take ownership of their learning.

In “The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future”, Linda Darling Hammond describes an educational study that randomly assigned at-risk seventh graders to remedial, average and honors math classes. It found that those assigned to honors classes, with the more demanding and engaging curriculum, outperformed all other students from similar backgrounds. While the other classes focused on teaching rote skills, memorization, and test-oriented tasks, the honors classes allowed the students to synthesize, draw connections, and make the material their own.

“Honors” is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Tutoring should be honors: it should believe kids are smart enough not just to consume facts, but to use them.

Tutoring shouldn’t leave students unsupported, but it should strive to make them completely independent. The kids will rise to that expectation.

Pace Center groups should train their tutors in the image of this ideal tutor: personable, engaging and, most of all, believing. We best serve lower-performing youth by expecting more of them and giving them ownership of their learning. Give a kid an answer, and you help him with one question. Teach a kid to think, and you help him for a lifetime.

Jonathan Lu is a freshman from Fremont, Calif. He can be reached at jhlu@princeton.edu.

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Keep misandry out of feminism Newby Parton

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am a feminist, so the first words I spoke at a recent town hall meeting on the new sexual assault procedures were in praise of the University’s speedy response to the new Title IX regulations. Victims of sexual assault will now have a clearer understanding of their options. They can be advised by outside counsel at meetings. Professional investigatorjudges have replaced student judges, so victims can step forward without embarrassment. Our compliance marks a huge victory for women on campus, and we’re all better off as a result.

I voiced a single worry at the town hall meeting: that the new “preponderance of the evidence” standard will, definitionally, increase the likelihood of false convictions. Unknowingly, I had struck a hole into a dam. Cries of “rape culture” spewed forth.

Let me take a detour to explain that I do not mean to protect rapists. Nor do I mean to paint false accusations to be a common occurrence. They’re not.

A 1997 investigation by the US Department of Justice found that only about 8 percent of rape accusations are false.

This figure is contested on both sides, with some asserting a lower rate of 2 percent and a peer-reviewed study by criminologist Eugene Kanin finding a rate as high as 41 percent. Regardless of which statistic comes closest to the truth, false reports are the minority.

I should also make this clear: I am not writing to lament the lower evidence standard. Its institution is federally mandated, and it’s here to stay.

Instead I write about a greater concern that those at the town hall pressed upon

me. To articulate that concern, I must return to the discussion that took place there. A student who spoke after me argued that the “preponderance” standard is necessary because evidence in a rape case is inherently shaky. If a victim steps forward a month after the rape, there may not be any evidence at all.

This is a consideration I sympathize with. However, the belief between the lines — that verbal testimony alone should be enough to convict an accused perpetrator — worries me. So too do the finger quotes that female speakers slashed into the air when they spoke about “rights of the accused.” Their meaning was clear and powerful: Accused men do not have rights, and the best way to fight rape culture is to presume men guilty until proven innocent.

The truth is that, as with any crime, false accusations do happen. Maybe my worry — that these new and valuable victories will come at the cost of false convictions — is misplaced. Maybe mistakes will be rare enough that the benefit of suspending more rapists will outweigh the cost of suspending more innocent people. I don’t know, and neither does anyone else. What I do know is that this same worry affects other men.

Here is my great concern: The input from worried men was not received kindly at the town hall. Rather, I was accused of being “steeped in rape culture.”

My accuser was not alone in her belief, for her comment set off an avalanche of smug glances aimed in my direction.

Buried there, I did not dare speak again — my ideas were not welcome.

But this is an important conversation, and all ideas should be heard. A few women have turned the dialogue into a battle against men and women, and in doing so I fear that they will turn men away from feminism. Men feel

marginalized when our worries about a real, higher risk of wrongful suspension are disregarded. Attributing these worries to rape culture only distances us further because we begin to think that this is what feminism has become — a bias against males that mistakes all male viewpoints for oppression.

Treating an accused perpetrator as innocent until he is found guilty can be an outgrowth of human decency, not rape culture. Similarly, the belief that men are guilty until proven innocent is misandry, not feminism. Keeping the two separate is important. Feminism is the struggle to reach equality for the sexes.

It is not misandry, a bias against males.

Sadly, many men forget this because misandrists never identify as such. They will tell you they are simply feminists.

Conflating feminism and misandry like this hurts women as much as it hurts men. Men suffer when misandry is codified, and women suffer by losing male support for the noble goals of feminism. We must remember that this is not a battle of the sexes. Men, remember that feminism means equality — not misandry. Women, remember that men are not an enemy entrenched in rape culture. For that matter, remember that rape culture does not exist as misandrists might imagine it. According to a 2002 study, 94 percent of men have never raped and will never rape anyone.

We shun sexual assault with the same fervor as women do, for we are allies working toward the same goal. That goal can be realized only if we work together, and for more men to work with us, feminism must shed the misandrist beliefs that hide under its name.

Newby Parton is a freshman from McMinnville, Tenn. He can be reached at newby@princeton.edu.

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Helping (in theory) Ben Dinovelli

senior columnist

T

aking the rush hour train across Midtown always seemed to show me the best of the city. The indescribable odors. The sweat created from the unbearable sauna-like heat. The people who would not shut up on their cellphones. Huddled together, you could not shake the eerie feeling that you were just one of a pack of sardines.

Gotta love people. Especially this many people.

Clutching my backpack to my chest with one arm, I awkwardly reached out to a railing, trying my best to avoid any unnecessary physical contact. Each commute became a physical feat, tightly gripping the cold metal pole for physical support, while the arm contorts itself into new and awkward angles to avoid bulky purses and sweaty backs.

But for a second, stuck in the sea of anxious coffee-deprived commuters jam-packed into a metal tin buried hundreds of feet beneath the ground, I almost appreciated being here. Granted, I did not appreciate the cramped space nor the humidity, but I did appreciate the solitude. Despite being surrounded

on all sides, gazing out of the window into the blackness of the underground abyss, I was completely alone with my thoughts. It was just…

“Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen,” groaned a middle-aged heckler who attempted to stand up on one of the flimsy plastic seats. “I have a family to feed…”

“Great,” I thought, instinctually shifting my gaze to the pole to avoid accidental eye contact. That way, I could feign ignorance – maybe my iPhone was playing music too loudly to hear or the train car had lousy acoustics. It created doubt, an excuse for being ignorant.

And an excuse was all I needed to sleep soundly at night.

And in a way, wasn’t it okay to ignore him? He didn’t have to ruin everyone’s commute by standing up, showing off his grime-coated person, and getting in our faces for money. I didn’t even need to hear the rest, I already thought I knew: “He wasn’t a functioning member of society. And anyways, what could I do? He was beyond saving.”

At the time I felt completely justified in my ignorance and contempt. I had no money to give. Here I was trying to make something of myself, trying to prepare for a career with an unpaid internship – while this man was resorting

to begging on a subway.

But later, I realized I was a complete asshole.

In the classroom only months earlier, it seemed so easy to agree with the multiple political philosophers we read who derided vast economic inequality.

Sure, we don’t have to give until global marginal benefits and costs are equal, like Peter Singer has proposed. But with people living on the streets, hell, something was clearly wrong in the world and it was up to us to fix it.

It is easy to be a hero in theory. But now, faced with an actual person, when it should have been the easiest to look into his eyes, empathize with his pain and find that extra dollar in my pocket, my hands didn’t budge. Frozen, I just stared blankly into the pole.

Often, we believe that our problem is that we are too quick to objectify those in need — we disconnect them from our reality and, in the process, make it easier to dehumanize and ignore them.

Yet here,was a person with a face, a name, a family, that I could see, hear and smell, and I sympathized with him less than any one of the thousands of theoretical people in my ethics’ books.

The problem wasn’t that he wasn’t real enough — he clearly was. Rather, it appeared, that something was wrong

with me.

But after all, I’m not a heartless monster (at least hopefully not; although by this point some of you may seriously be questioning that). Hundreds of other people had ignored him as well.

It seems all too easy to serve in one minute, and be dismissive in the next.

In a world where we are constantly bombarded with time constraints, goals and things to remember, we run the risk of compartmentalization. We focus so much on whatever we are doing in the moment that we shrug off any bump, seeing it as an inconvenience, regardless of the cost. We’ve all had these thoughts, yet many among us constantly seek to help others, whether it is through the Prison Teaching Initiative, Big Sibs or some other program.

It’s not that we are flawed or truly hold derision for others. It’s that we’re busy. And while it’s not ideal, it’s natural. However, in light of this, we need to make a persistent effort to be cognizant of others. Stepping back for a second to make sure that we are not being that asshole on the subway like I was is a great step in the right direction.

Ben Dinovelli is a Wilson School major from Mystic, Conn. He can be reached at bjd5@princeton.edu.

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FIELD HOCKEY RESULTS PRINCETON @ DUKE

0-1 Ryan McCarthy ST

Allison Evans ST

PRINCETON @ VIRGINIA

Freshman

Senior

3 goals 1 assist

1 goals 1 assist

4-6

Cat Caro M

PRINCETON @ PENN STATE

Sophomore

2 goals 1 assist

Danielle Duseau M

2-5

Teresa Benvenuti M

Freshman

4 shots 2 shots on goal

Junior

1 goal 2 assists

BUCKNELL @ PRINCETON

Sydney Kirby M Senior

1-0

4 goals 1 assist

DARTMOUTH @ PRINCETON

Hailey Reeves BK Sophomore

Kate Ferrara BK

0-4

2 assists

Junior

2 assists

PRINCETON @ AMERICAN

Annabeth Donovan BK

2-1

Cassidy Arner BK

Sophomore

Senior

2 assists

1 goal

PRINCETON @ YALE

4-1

Anya Gersoff GK Junior

42 saves 17 goals against

PRINCETON @ ALBANY

TEAM STATS

0-2 Goals

Shot %

Shot on goal %

Attempts

Princeton

16

.157

.578

Opponents

17

.177

.656

Penalty corners 1st period

2nd period

102

22

21

96

13

27

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