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Attendees of Nash GS ’50 memorial appreciated service By Ruby Shao news editor

The University mathematics department hosted a celebration of the life and work of John Nash GS ’50 Saturday because Nash amazed both mathematicians and nonmathematicians, according to organizing committee member and mathematics professor emeritus Joe Kohn GS ’56. “Nash was really extraordinary. I mean, you very seldom have people who cover such a huge area, bringing in so many new and original ideas,” Kohn said. “The other thing is that because of the tremendously difficult and traumatic life that he had, he became well-known throughout the world, even outside of math-

ematics, and we felt that we sort of owed it to the general public to have a procession.” Nash and his wife Alicia died in a taxi accident in May. The celebration on Saturday opened with welcoming remarks at 9:30 a.m., then featured lectures on Nash’s work by experts in economics and mathematics, a lecture on Nash’s life by Nash’s biographer Sylvia Nasar and a remembrance service in the evening. Kohn, who had known Nash since Kohn’s undergraduate years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explained that he collaborated with department chair David Gabai GS ’80, acting chair Igor Rodnianski and professor Sergiu Klainerman to plan the

events. Kohn said they selected one economics speaker and three pure mathematics speakers to reflect the fact that less than 10 percent of Nash’s work lay in economics. Mathematics professor Janos Kollar, who said he had known Nash as a colleague since 1999, said Nash had a major effect on the field of mathematics despite losing many years to his illness. He noted that Nash made several contributions in the 1950s, including discoveries in algebraic geometry, differential equations and game theory, whose effects continue today. “Maybe his most important contribution from science’s point of view, and that’s what he got a Nobel Prize for, is See MEMORIAL page 4

UMatter, a university-wide health communication initiative on bystander intervention, is partnering with Tiger Transit, the university bus services, to provide a nightly bus service for students from Prospect Avenue to their dorms on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, UMatter student fellow Adam Cellon ’17 said. Director of Transportation and Parking Services for the University Kim Jackson did not respond to a request for comment. Cellon explained that the bus will run from 12:30 to 3 a.m. on these three nights, taking a

special route by Prospect Avenue, Frist Campus Center and the residential college dorms. Students can use an app called TigerTracker to follow the routes of the buses. “In theory, this sounds like an effective initiative,” Lauren Richardson ’18 said. ”The main issue is going to be tracking the buses using the app. Not all students may be in the state of mind or have the patience to track and wait for the bus.” Cellon said that the bus will provide a safe space for students going home from the street and will include two sober host students. He added that these two sober students will include a Sexual Harassment/Assault See UMATTER page 5

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Princeton Neuroscience Network approved as club By Marcia Brown contributor

Princeton Neuroscience Network, a student organization to help community members engage with and learn about the field of neuroscience, was approved as an official club by the Undergraduate Student Government on Oct. 18. The officers of the club have been planning the creation of the club since last spring. Although the Cognitive Science Society had been established last year, no group on campus had sup-

ported neuroscience alone, PNN president Seong Jang ’18 noted. “It’s amazing to see something like this happening. We were up at Lewis on the chalkboard writing ideas and now they’re pretty much all going to happen,” PNN Vice President Andy Schilling ’17 said. In initial conversations about establishing PNN, the founders planned to connect students on campus, but then wanted to go beyond just being a society, Jang said. Co-director of the See NEUROSCIENCE page 2

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News & Notes Harvard’s Fox Club accepts women

The Fox Club, one of Harvard’s eight original all-male final clubs, became the second final club to accept women into its membership on Monday, the Harvard Crimson reported. An email sent to prospective members of the club said that a group of women had become members of the club, and that the club intended to transition to being fully co-ed over the next year. The move comes six weeks after the Spee Club, another formerly all-male final club, voted to invite women to participate in its punch process. It is still unclear whether women have been admitted into the Spee Club, as the punch process is still ongoing. Undergraduate officers wrote in a letter to the Fox Club’s graduate board that they felt that Harvard had forced their hand, noting that they feared repercussions from administrators if they did not make the move by Nov. 1, according to a separate report by The Crimson.

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Carl Icahn ’57 threatened Congress on Oct. 21 that he would form a super PAC worth $150 million should the legislature not pass legislation slashing corporate tax rates. Icahn did not respond to a request for comment. Icahn, founder and majority shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, explained in the letter that he hopes that this threat will push Congressmen to highly consider passing the Portman-Schumer framework which would lower taxes on overseas funds recovered into the United States economy. The taxes collected on these funds would then be contributed toward the building of new highways, according to the letter. Nick Nyhart, president and CEO of the Every Voice Center, a civil rights nonprofit organization that focuses on campaign finance reform, explained that super PACs are political organizations and structures that can spend unlimited amounts of money as long as they, in theory, do not coordinate with a campaign. He added that people can give unlimited amounts of money through a super PAC.

Nyhart also noted that while highly unusual, Icahn’s move is not unprecedented. “It’s unusual, but it has happened,” he said. “You could start with the Koch Brothers, who have announced that they and their network are going to put close to $900 million into politics this year. I don’t know if anyone has ever put that much money into one policy — $150 million is up there.” When asked about the feasibility of the threat, Nyhart noted it should not be taken lightly. “I think the threat of that kind of money will impact people who are on the fence about this issue, particularly if Icahn can put some money into the races this year. They may think twice before prosecuting,” Nyhart said. Richard Phillips, an analyst at Citizens for Tax Justice, explained that the framework Ichan supports came up from democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, and republican Senator Robert Portman. Both Schumer and Portman did not respond to requests for comment. The idea was to come up with different ways to discuss different aspects of the tax code, Phillips explained. One of the provisions, he See ICAHN page 5

More rainfall on the African savanna could lead to fewer trees, according to a recent study conducted by University researchers published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences. Authors for the study were David Medvigy, an assistant professor of geosciences, and

Xiangtao Xu GS, one of his doctoral candidates. Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University, co-authored the study. This strange phenomenon of a negative correlation between rainfall and trees in the region can be partially explained by grass’s relationship to rain, Xu said. In an environment with heavy

rainfall, grasses are better able to absorb the moisture and use it to support photosynthesis. Trees, though, are better suited for drier environments, where roots and leaves aren’t susceptible to heavy rains, he said. When these trees are exposed to long, heavy periods of rainfall, they have difficulty taking advantage of the newlySee STUDY page 3

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Princeton Neuroscience Institute and neuroscience professor Jonathan Cohen said that the emergence of PNN ref lects the conf luence of events around neuroscience on campus and across the country. National trends and the other events at similar universities show a growth in interest in neuroscience, according to Cohen. “That growth ref lects a more general growth in neuroscience both along students but along society at large,” Cohen said. ”I mean, you know, the brain is the organ of the mind. The mind is at the root of most of things we do and that inter-

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est us.” Schilling said the field of neuroscience is very “hot” right now, and the PNN is seeking to amplify the interest in neuroscience by directly engaging students. The interest is present, Schilling said, so as long as PNN provides an engaging program, it will attract many people on campus. He added that the introductory course of Neuroscience 201 had 216 students enrolled of a 250 student maximum this fall. PNN officers said the group plans to target people

beyond current and potential neuroscience concentrators by hosting events open to undergraduates that cross over between fields. Jang said that as a network, the organization aims to engage all members of the University community, including undergraduates, graduates, post-docs and faculty. “First and foremost, we wanted to make it a student group and connect students and members of the community around us,” PNN Treasurer Ankush Rakhit ’18 said, “One of our visions is to have professors also involved in philosophy and engineering to come in and give lectures here and tie that in with neuroscience.” In addition, Jang said PNN hopes to spread neuroscience from PNI to the youth and organizations outside campus. Because PNN is still in the planning stages, many of its programs have yet to be initiated, according to Jang. He explained that many of the neuroscience professors are leaders in the field, and the organization wants to capture that by having speakers, debates and panels from faculty at PNI but also from other fields, Jang said. One of PNN’s first initiatives will be to create a mentoring program for future neuroscience concentrators, according to Jang. “There’s a lot of questions the sophomores are going to have coming into the department unlike other departments with a very established history, that just doesn’t exist because we’re new and exciting,” Schilling said. Neuroscience graduate student Anne Mennen GS said she sees PNN as an opportunity to bridge the gap between undergraduates and graduates. “Intellectually, it could be

really good because we can learn a lot from undergraduates, and graduates can show them what research would actually be,” Mennen said. She said that because professors interact with graduate students differently than with undergraduate students, the graduate students could serve as a liaison. Rakhit said that PNN is planning a lab-match program so that graduate students could help undergraduates learn more about research and what kinds of labs they might want to be a part of. Schilling noted that another event that would have mass appeal would be a panel where professors debunked myths about neuroscience, as he said there is a lot of misinformation about the field. “There’s so much pop science on neuroscience and people can be so misled by the media,” Mennen said. “We have to communicate that the robot is not, in fact, going to take over the world.” The group will also work with students in high school and community colleges so that students can learn about neuroscience earlier, explained PNN outreach committee chair Chi-Chi Azoba ’18. Kids get extremely excited about neuroscience, Jang said based on his own experiences as a neuroscience volunteer. “I know a lot of communities outside of Princeton kind of feel like Princeton is just this high, arching campus that doesn’t really do much outside the community,” Azoba said. “It’s not entirely true, but I think this [initiative] will help a lot.” PNN officers said they might host a public event showcasing PNI’s brain imaging tool, which Cohen said undergraduate students can use to write their senior theses. “If I had had access to

something like this when I was an undergraduate, my career would’ve been very different,” Cohen said. “It took me a while to beat a path to neuroscience. In the day it was a very different kind of field, no human brain imaging, that’s for sure.” He added that because the brain is arguably one of the most complicated devices we know of in the universe, neuroscientists need tools to deal with that complexity. Some of those tools belong to PNI.

“There’s so much pop science on neuroscience and people can be so misled by the media. We have to communicate that the robot is not, in fact, going to take over the world.” Anne Mennen GS “PNN sounds really interesting to me because it sounds like it will really get the word out there about what neuroscience is,” neuroscience concentrator Lauren Berger ’17 said. ”For people who are not a science major, when they hear neuroscience they say ‘Ok, well I know it’s the brain, but what does that really entail.’ … I think it’s important to not only explain what it is but also to inspire other people to get involved in other ways.” Neuroscience was established as a concentration last spring and currently consists of 19 concentrators and a few seniors doing an independent concentration, Cohen said. The certificate program has existed for 15 years.

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supplied water — especially if there isn’t plentiful grass to help in the absorption. Xu explained that the idea came after a series of brainstorming sessions regarding topics on plants’ water use. Due to the scarcity of rain that it receives, the African savanna seemed to be the most promising environment from which to gather data on rainfall and how plants use it, he said. He explained that he, Medvigy and Rodríguez-Iturbe used a numerical model to illustrate the differences in water-use strategies between grasses and trees. This model, and a rainfall simulator, allowed the researchers to ensure their theories were accurate in ref lecting the re-

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ality of the African savanna. “It’s just because [grasses and trees] are in competition,” Xu said. “It’s just because if we just plant trees you can have a very good prediction, if we just plant grasses we can have a very good prediction — but if you put them together, they’re competing with each other.” Xu said that fewer trees on the savanna is not necessarily a problem for the ecosystem, but that it could affect the composition of the savanna over time. He added that this change is analogous to how the industries and cultures in a city can change over time. Although grasses may benefit from more rainfall in this prediction, it is hard to determine whether or not this is a good scenario, since trees would likely not reap similar benefits, Xu said.

He noted that while the study is not directly connected with climate change, climate change is one of the reasons why researchers conduct these kinds of studies. “We know that in the future, rainfall is going to become more extreme,” Xu explained. “If it did become more extreme, what would happen?” Gabriel Katul, a professor of hydrology and micrometeorology at Duke University, said that the study is relevant because rainfall may be increasing due to climate change. He added that the study focused on how climate could alter the vegetation composition of the savanna, particularly the composition between grasses and trees, rather than how the savanna may be a ref lection of overall climate change. Xu said that the study

cannot determine how the lives of those in the region may be affected, but can be a reference point for experts to make public policy decisions. “This is how different disciplines should operate,” he added. Xu noted that, while the study provided one sufficient explanation for the phenomenon of fewer trees on the savanna, there could be many more. He said that it would be interesting to analyze how any overlooked physiological differences among trees and grasses might inf luence their competition, and that it would be intriguing to create a more complex model that included factors like temperature and radiation changes, in addition to rainfall variations. Titled “Relation between rainfall intensity and savan-

na tree abundance explained by water use strategies,” the paper was published Oct. 5 and was supported by the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Xu noted that both institu-

tions supported the research financially and helped engineers communicate with researchers. The Princeton Environmental Institute and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment declined to comment.

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to find connections between mathematics and economics, and the application of mathematical ideas to questions in economics,” Kollar said. Harvard economics professor Eric Maskin, a 2007 Nobel laureate in Economics who delivered a lecture on Saturday entitled “John Nash’s Contributions to Economics and Game Theory,” said that game theory began with John von Neumann’s 1928 method of solving two-player zero sum games, in which one player must win and the other must lose. Nash revolutionized game theory in 1950 by creating a way to analyze nonzero sum games involving any number of players. For example, in a war both sides can lose in suffering devastation, while in international trade both sides can win through an agreement, Maskin noted. He added that despite the breakthrough, Nash’s game theory remained unappreciated until economists began studying a set of highly applied problems in the 1970s. Nash’s mathematical prowess showed in his status as the only person to have ever won both the Nobel Prize and the Abel Prize, Kohn noted. Kohn said that Nash’s technical power and imagination allowed him to outshine other mathematicians. ”He would look at things the way nobody else had looked at them,” Kohn said. He identified Nash’s persistence as a third quality that led to his success. “You have some idea, and first of all it takes great technical ability to be able to try to carry it out, but more than that, to have the … persistence to go after it, because the path is never straight. Even if everything seems to work, you always have to take all kinds of detours,” Kohn said. Kollar said Nash started a new field that is still developing, namely how to answer questions in economics in terms of mathematics. Maskin, who noted he had not realized the full extent of Nash’s contributions to the field until hearing the other speakers at the celebration, specified that game theory remains a lively area of research. One open question that Nash himself worked on concerns games involving at least three players, some of whom might create coalitions to take advantage of the players not in coalitions. Researchers are still seeking a way to predict which coalitions will form, Maskin said. Kohn said the University mathematics department must take some credit for Nash’s success.

“Our graduate program is very much oriented toward encouraging people to start thinking on their own,” Kohn explained. “Of course a genius like that could have appeared anywhere under any circumstances, but the fact that we have this kind of atmosphere probably helped.” He added that the University took care of Nash following his mental illness, setting the stage for the nineties, when Nash began to recover until he could have a normal life. “The department recognized what a great person he had been and treated him with kindness and so on when he was really in bad shape,” Kohn said. Based on numbers provided by Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel Alison Boden, the Nash remembrance service marked the 13th memorial service held in the Chapel in 2015. Seven were sponsored by a department, the rest by families. Three more memorial services, including one sponsored by a department, are scheduled for the remainder of the year. “Memorial services on campus for former faculty members and other members of the University community are relatively common and they are usually planned and sponsored by the respective department,” University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. He added that services often take place in the Chapel when a relatively large number of people will want to attend. In Nash’s case, although the mathematics department invited University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 to speak at the Chapel, he had longstanding and unchangeable plans to leave campus for family reasons, Mbugua said. As a result, Eisgruber wrote his remarks in the form of a letter to the family, friends and colleagues of John and Alicia Nash. University Vice President Bob Durkee ’69 delivered the message on Eisgruber’s behalf. Members of the Chapel Choir who sang at the remembrance service described the mood as more festive than mournful. “It was definitely more focused on the legacy of John and Alicia and positive memories of them, rather than being a funeral service,” Kate Wadman ’16 said. “I thought it was a nice atmosphere.” Eric Fung ’18 said that the service was very beautiful, poignant and appropriate. He called the space fairly packed, with about three-quarters of the Chapel full. The audience contained mostly faculty and community members rather than students, Brandon Joa ’18 said. “It was a good balance in

terms of talking about John and Alicia’s personal lives, and then a little bit about some academic commitments,” Joa said. He added that speakers discussed Alicia’s instrumental role in helping Nash conquer schizophrenia as well as the couple’s social interactions with others. Wadman said two speakers focused on Nash’s professional accomplishments, while the last three focused on the personal sides of how John and Alicia behaved as people. Although one speaker talked extensively about Nash’s math accomplishments using jargon that she said confused many people, Wadman said the remembrance service was generally accessible. She said the evening gave her an image of him as a person that she had never really seen before, for she had never thought much about what Nash was like on a daily basis. “The biggest takeaway was that John Nash loved what he did, and his wife loved what she did,” Fung said. ”They both were engaged in activities that they thoroughly enjoyed and as a result were really good at, and I think that’s something we can learn from them.” He noted that in mentioning Alicia, speakers emphasized her relationship with Nash and her work with mental illness. The celebration was funded by a combination of University support and grants for math department conferences, according to Kohn. He added that members of the department went out of their way to execute the events, including taking time off to handle logistics and other details. Kohn said that the celebration was successful, noting that among the events, Nasar’s lecture drew the largest audience at roughly 300 people. Nash’s story of recovery from mental illness should teach everyone that great ideas come from all sorts of different circumstances, Kohn noted. Maskin said he considered both Nash and his wife Alicia good friends. He added that like many mathematicians, Nash was rather shy, very modest and a little bit awkward in social settings, but he had a wonderful, rather dry sense of humor. “When I knew him, he was enjoying life,” Maskin explained of Nash’s final two decades. “He had such a terrible time when he was younger with mental illness and poverty, really, that the transformation where he was treated like royalty wherever he went and people valued him for his work contributions — that was really heartwarming to see.”

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noted, is to move the tax system to a territorial tax system, which would exempt most active earnings brought back from foreign subsidiaries from being taxed twice. Instead, a country would pay only the difference between the United States’s tax rate and the tax rate of wherever it is repatriating profit from. “The other key part of it is that it would create a minimum tax, so, although all the income ashore or made abroad doesn’t actually get taxed, you would owe some minimum tax,” Phillips said. ”The idea behind the minimum tax is to go after these companies like Apple who are actually holding large sums of money in tax havens rather

than having them be in places where they actually do business.” Both Nyhart and Phillips noted that Icahn’s action is an illustration of how big money speaks in politics. Phillips said that in policy in general and tax policy specifically big companies can reap huge benefits by investing a certain amount of lobbying. “If you want to protect people from this kind of attack, you’ll have to find money on your own and give in the amounts, not of tens of millions but hundreds. And most people can’t afford that, so it seeks the removal of politics and democracy from the lives of everyday people,” added Nyhart. “It says, you don’t really count when it comes to elections, and that’s a terrible message to send, it’s a terrible reality in a democracy.”

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Advising, Resources and Education Peer Adviser and a peer health adviser. “The idea behind the bus is to give a better opportunity for people to intervene if there are problematic situations,” peer health adviser Michael Chang ’16 said. ”The situation that we want to help avoid is one where someone is being walked home by somebody they are not comfortable being walked home by.” UMatter Project Manager and Director of the SHARE Office Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse said that this initiative idea was the result of a student project from EGR 392: Creativity, In-

novation, and Design, a course offered in the spring of 2015. Deitch-Stackhouse said that one of the groups came up with the bus concept and piloted it in the spring. Tim Lau ’17, one of the students who originally came up with the idea, said that the group’s goal was to find a way to mitigate sexual aggression on campus. To develop the initiative, the group conducted and analyzed over a hundred interviews to investigate student opinions on sexual aggression on campus, and found that many students felt the anonymizing environment of the street and the journey home from the street unsafe. “We wanted to figure out if there was a way to interject and

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“The idea behind the bus is to give a better opportunity for people to intervene if there are problematic situations.” Michael Chang ’16, peer health adviser

walking back to the room,” Lau said.

Following the initiative, UMatter decided to use the idea and rebrand it as well as implement it officially with one or two changes, Deitch-Stackhouse said. She explained that because the bus initiative is a longer-time initiative, and not a pilot study, the University must abide by all bus policies, noting that, for example, the bus policies prohibit food and water on the bus. According to Lau, the original project included providing food on the bus to incentivize students to use it. UMatter is looking instead to install hydration-stations and bus stops with food and drinks, Deitch-Stackhouse added. Chang said that initiative will launch officially on Thursday.

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et me state this outright so that there is no confusion. No, I don’t think Mexicans are rapists. No, I don’t support misogyny. No, I don’t think a large concrete wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is a sound appropriation of federal funds. And yes, I believe Obama is a legal U.S. citizen. Yet, for some reason, I find it hard to hate Donald Trump. In fact, I find his success fascinating, and a recent piece in The New York Times gave me a newfound appreciation for the man behind the persona. As much as I try to fight against my implicit biases, there is always that gut feeling I get when I see a new candidate emerge from the Republican field. It’s the feeling I got anytime Michele Bachmann went off about some religious association between hurricanes and gay rights, or when Rick Perry played the Texas Cowboy persona with his gun stance. But for some reason, I don’t have that feeling when I see Trump. Trump is different. I don’t need to fight that

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thought of “here we go again” every time he appears on TV. I have an uneasy feeling, sure. But I liken the feeling to having to deal with my racist grandfather. He was a kind person and I know he meant well, but sometimes he just sort of slipped up. Deep down, offending people wasn’t his main objective. Sometimes, I just had to remind him that it wasn’t appropriate to talk about people or cultures that way anymore. That’s the sort of feeling I get with good ol’ Donald. I’m sure that sounds quite condescending, but I don’t mean it to be. The amazing thing I’m realizing is that despite his stubborn racism and antiquated views, I don’t hate the guy as much as I should. The reasons I have to dislike Trump are extensive. He made overtly misogynistic comments about Megyn Kelly after the first primary debate (and countless other times). He likens illegal immigrants to criminals and rapists. He criticized John McCain for being a war hero, commenting, “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” That was tasteless. He was the head of the “birther” movement against Obama’s legal citizen-

ship. The list goes on. But the key observation here is that his criticisms don’t come with a party tag. He insulted two major figureheads of conservative, right-wing America. Trump isn’t playing by typical party rules. Trump is just a guy who says what’s on his mind, and his views happen to align more with the right than the left. It isn’t a “right vs. left” debate with him. It’s an “everybody vs. Donald” debate. As Scott Alexander, from the blog Slate Star Codex, covered extensively in his post last year, political party bias and belief affiliation is one of the strongest forms of in-group/out-group division and leads to the some of the worst instances of discrimination (even more so than race). As much as I fight against it, I can’t help but stigmatize somebody when I identify him or her as a member of the gun-toting, bible-loving, Fox-News-watching religious right. But Trump isn’t part of that group, not in the slightest. He doesn’t care about insulting Megyn Kelly or John McCain or George W. Bush or any Republican figurehead. He even boycotted Fox News! He doesn’t conform to my stereotypes of a modern conservative candidate and thus, my pent-up

stigmatization cannot and does not apply. Left without a mold to fit Trump, I was left curious. The Times piece filled in a lot of what I was wondering about Trump, though one can hardly call the Times an unbiased source. If I had to sum up what I think of Trump now, I’d say he seems like an audacious, yet well-intentioned old man with a large ego, a lot of money and very low self-esteem. Not a shining endorsement by any means, but not a condemnation either. Sure, he’s coarse, sexist and uncomfortably racist, but he’s honest. I’m not saying his honesty should justify everything else. But it’s rare, very rare. It’s a virtue that is so pervasively absent from American politics that it’s astonishingly refreshing to see it from anybody, even from Trump. When you see a new tweet from @realDonaldTrump, you know it’s not the result of a focus group’s attempt to win swing votes. According to the Times, “‘I do focus groups,’ [Trump] said, pressing both thumbs against his forehead, ‘right here.’” He treats everybody equally (in the most unpleasant sort of way) and that’s really admirable for any candidate. Nobody is safe

from his punches when he enters the ring. Will I ultimately end up voting for Trump? Doubtful. When it comes down to it, I just disagree with him on too many issues. As a candidate, Trump is the opposite of what I would vote for — smaller government, lower taxes, harsher immigration laws. But as a politician, Trump is something that I really like. Using his fortune and celebrity status, he has, to some small extent, managed to transcend partisan politics. He doesn’t side with anybody just for the sake of having a side. I don’t like that he’s rude, stubborn, racist, sexist and dismissive. But I love that he is his own candidate. With billions of dollars, Trump noted, “I don’t need anybody’s money, I’m using my own money. I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really rich.” Crass? As always. But in the age of corporate and partisan-funded campaigns, that’s the sort of populist stance you’d expect from someone like Bernie Sanders.

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We Speak survey results: A fuller picture Marni Morse columnist

Sept. 29 article in The Daily Princetonian on “We Speak: Attitudes on Sexual Misconduct at Princeton University” survey results began by stating, “1 in 3 undergraduate women have experienced inappropriate sexual behavior at U.” The University’s own story on these results led with: “a sizeable majority [of students] knows where to go on campus for help following an incident of nonconsensual sexual contact.” The community’s response to the survey results has been disappointingly muted, perhaps because no one was surprised by the appalling facts the data exposed. Even the email from U. President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 described the findings as “heartbreaking” and “disturbingly and unacceptably high,” but he never suggested the numbers were shocking. The distinctive leads highlight different aspects of the results of the survey and perhaps shed light on what different parties would like to focus on, though neither focus on what is perhaps the most important and appalling fact, one that is only realized once different statistics are considered altogether. The entire campus community seems to have failed to compare this survey data to other relevant available information. Princeton conducted its own survey rather than use the survey drafted by the American Association of Universities (AAU). Twenty-seven other universities participated in the AAU survey, including all of the other universities in the

Ivy League. Princeton’s use of its own survey has both advantages and drawbacks. The survey can address some unique Princeton issues, however, comparing our results with those of the AAU survey is challenging. The University, on page 4 of the We Speak report, argues that the findings are “not directly comparable” to other studies, perhaps because they cover different time frames and asked different questions, but are “generally consistent” with results from other schools nonetheless. But are our results “generally consistent” with those of other schools? Across all 27 universities taking part in the AAU survey, 23 percent of undergraduate women during their entire time at their universities had experienced sexual assault or misconduct due to physical force, the threat of physical force or incapacitation. All seven Ivies in the AAU survey had sexual assault or misconduct rates for undergraduate women either equal to or greater than the average (Columbia and Cornell at 23 percent, Brown 25 percent, Harvard 26 percent, Penn 27 percent, Dartmouth and Yale 28 percent). The highest rates for undergraduate women were at USC and Michigan at 30 percent. Princeton’s definitions for sexual misconduct differ somewhat from those in AAU survey. But trying best to make a direct comparison, 27 percent of undergraduate women responding to the Princeton survey had experienced nonconsensual sexual contact (This eliminates cases such as stalking since that was evaluated separately on the We Speak survey.) This statistic is above the AAU average and on the high end of the Ivy rates, though it does seem “generally

consistent.” However, the Princeton time period is more restrictive than that used in the AAU survey. Princeton asked respondents to just note experiences within the 2014-15 academic year as opposed to during their entire time at the University. Equally interesting is the lack of comparison of the We Speak results to other data from Princeton. Princeton’s Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, also known as the Clery Act report, was published the very next day and covers “crime statistics for the campus, public areas immediately adjacent to or running through the campus, and certain noncampus facilities” for the 2014 calendar year. The Prince news coverage has made no effort to put these numbers in conversation with the We Speak survey results. Nor has anyone taken that information and compared it to the Sex Discrimination and Sexual Misconduct Student Discipline Report 2014-2015 (which has been poorly publicized compared to the other two reports which were at least emailed to all undergraduates; as far as I can tell the ‘Prince’ never covered this report at all). Granted, it’s hard to directly put all this data together; each report uses slightly different definitions or boundaries — both physical and time-wise. Nevertheless, they each cover issues of sexual misconduct, and it’s worth considering the data side-by-side. Let’s start by looking at rape statistics across these three reports. According to page 12 of the We Speak report, just over 5 percent or 1 in 19 undergraduates who responded to the survey (specifically 1 in 13 undergraduate women) experienced “nonconsensual sexual penetration,” commonly known

as rape. That’s 143 of the 2710 undergraduates who took the survey, which is 143 too many. The Clery Act report had an official total of eight rapes reported during the 2014 calendar year, 10 if you include incidents in residential facilities. Hidden in the text on page 51 of the report, and not in the charts on the following page, the University offers information, not officially part of the Clery requirements, about the additional number of reports received by confidential counselors on campus but not officially reported to the University. Though this data isn’t broken down by types of sexual offenses, such as rape versus sexual assault, 28 incidents of sexual offenses were reported to these confidential counselors. The Clery Act report covers a slightly different time period from the We Speak survey, although the length of both is one year. Even so, there is an irrefutably huge difference between the 143 self-reported and eight officially reported rapes in a 12-month period. I’m not saying there is any manipulation of the data. Presumably students, for a variety of reasons, are choosing not to officially report incidents of rape, as the We Speak survey responses support. This disparity and the reasons behind it is an issue certainly warranting more thoughtful discussion and resolve. Hopefully such action will occur throughout this year. But I think we should be outraged more by this huge discrepancy between what individuals are alleging is occurring on campus and what is actually being reported. And if that isn’t enough to incense you, adding in the data from the Student Discipline report

should. You know those 143 people who say they were raped last academic year? Well, zero students were expelled for “nonconsensual penetration” or rape last year. Princeton’s adjudication procedures found no one responsible for rape last year. It’s true that only eight allegations of rape were reported to the University in 2014 and the data for spring 2015 is not yet available, and I’m not saying that in all eight of the Clery Act cases the committee should have found someone responsible; I don’t know the evidence in those cases. But it does seem strange that no one was found responsible for rape last year. The numbers cause me to be highly skeptical about what is occurring on campus regarding the reporting of sexual misconduct and its adjudication and punishment. (Notably, Princeton’s rape expulsion rate isn’t unique, even though beyond college campuses, rape is considered a felony crime.) Nevertheless, I do see plenty of encouraging points in the reports as well. Under the University sex discrimination and sexual misconduct policy, the University found a total of 24 respondents responsible in sex discrimination and misconduct cases in the 2014-15 academic year. Granted, I have no knowledge of the cases, but given that I’m naturally inclined to believe a victim, this number seems roughly appropriate, even though the rape-specific numbers still seem questionable and worrisome, as well as the total numbers reported and thus adjudicated. Among other things, I’m glad that the University included a trigger warning in the results, that it has held numerous events to discuss the survey results and that

across the board it has acknowledged the self-reported rates in the survey are extremely troubling. Indeed, the University launched the UMatter campaign this fall to address issues like bystander intervention. But you would think that as a first step, a university fully committed to creating real change would make all this information much more readily available and easier to consume. This means publicizing all the various reports covering sexual misconduct in one place and conducting a crossreport analysis, including comparing our internal data to one another and to that of the AAU survey even given the limitations. The University should have one website with all of this information and email it to the campus community, just as it does in accordance with the Clery Act with those annual reports. It also means the University writing should lead with the most important information, even if it is troubling rather than positive. It means clear charts with all the important and relevant numbers rather than burying some of the data in paragraphs of text and leaving only more basic data in easily digestible chart form. Though it’s a bit hard to find and comprehend, the data doesn’t lie. Clearly we, as individuals and as a campus community, need to do much more to reduce sexual assault and misconduct on campus. No one should be satisfied until the number of victims of sexual misconduct is zero. Marni Morse is a politics major from Washington, DC. She can be reached at mlmorse@princeton.edu.

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A consistent Princeton onslaught ultimately caused the Harvard defense to crack. In the 58th minute, senior striker Maddie Copeland, the team’s leading goal scorer with 13 on the season, had ample opportunity to show off her net-finding talents. Taking the ball at the top of the circle, Copeland sent the ball sailing into the right corner of Harvard’s goal to tie up the match at one apiece. Freshman midfielder Elise Wong and freshman striker Sophia Tornetta were the ones to earn assists on the play, a typical sight from them as they rank third and second, respectively, in Tiger assists on the season. Copeland certainly was not finished with her onslaught then. Just into the 67th minute, from nearly the same spot she had scored the equalizer, she sent the ball past Harvard’s Issy Davies

for the go-ahead goal, sealing the Princeton victory. At 5-0, the Tigers are two wins away from achieving a perfect record in Ivy League play, a feat they have not achieved since the 2013 season. The battle after Harvard, however, was against a team of the highest order. Just a week after the Tigers fell to the top-ranked team in the nation, the Syracuse Orange, they had to come out against the no. 2-ranked Huskies, who sit right behind Syracuse in the NCAA rankings (17-0 overall, 10-0 Big East). The Tigers have had their difficulties in recent times against this squad and have not earned a win against UConn since the 2009 season. Despite the odds seeming against them, the Tigers would be te ones to take command of the game early on. Copeland would continue scoring as she burst past the defenders for the unassisted goal in the 9th minute of the contest. Moreover, getting a

goal scored on them at all was a sight the Huskies had not seen in a while — prior to the game against Princeton, the last time UConn allowed a goal was on Sept. 25, nine games earlier.

“Just a week after the Tigers fell to the top-ranked team in the nation, the Syracuse Orange, they had to come out against the no. 2 ranked Huskies” UConn, however did not allow itself to fold after the early goal. The timeline of the game was in some ways similar to the Tigers’ previous matchup against Harvard, only with roles reversed. Princeton, upon

scoring the early goal, was under constant pressure from the UConn offense. The Huskies got 12 shots off compared to just the Princeton one (Copeland’s goal). Ultimately, the Huskies would find their opportunities, albeit not until the second half. This team, which leads the NCAA in scoring at six goals per game, scored four unanswered goals. On the game, the Huskies’ propensity for finding shooting opportunities showed in the scoreboard — 21 shots and 12 penalty corners for the girls from UConn, and five and two respectively for the Tigers. After this weekend, only three games remain for the Tigers before the end of the regular season. The team will play out its last two homes games this week, taking on St. Joseph’s on Wednesday at 6 p.m. and Cornell for a Halloween matchup this Saturday at 12 p.m. Both games can be viewed on the Ivy League Digital Network.

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Yablon all advancing to the next round of doubles matches. Unfortunately, Carcione fell to Dartmouth’s Max Fliegner. On Saturday, the four Tigers with first-round byes played their respective singles matches. Vives dominated, clawing past Yale’s Photos Photiades before an exciting win over Cornell’s Stefan Vinti in three, despite a second-set loss. Colautti won his first match of the day in the round of 64 but fell in the round of 32 to Colin Sinclair of Cornell. Yablon faced a similar fate, defeating his first opponent before falling to Ciro Riccardi of Dartmouth. Two Tiger doubles advanced to Sunday, with Vives and Colautti advancing after a win over Stony Brook and Gamble and Day after a win over a Penn pair.

The Tigers continued their push on Sunday, which saw a walkover win for Vives to advance him to Monday’s quarterfinal, while Day and Gamble won both of their doubles matches against Dartmouth and Brown to advance on to the semifinals. In an unfortunate turn, the Cornell pair of Sinclair and David Volfson defeated Colautti and Vives to knock them out of the tournament. The final day of Tiger play saw the Tigers fall in both of their matches, with Dartmouth duo of Roko Glasnovic and Diego Pedraza defeating Day and Gamble in doubles, while Penn’s Kyle Mautner rallied from a second-set loss to win against Vives in three sets. After this weekend, the Tigers have some time off from competing. The Tigers will return to action at the LSU Fall Invitational on Thursday, Nov. 5 in Baton Rouge.

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Women’s field hockey team splits weekend matchups By Miles Hinson sports editor

The No. 20 women’s field hockey team powered past Harvard last weekend to remain undefeated in league play.

Beating Harvard teams was a common theme among many Princeton teams this weekend. The Princeton field hockey team managed to get in on the act as well. Completing the last two games of a four-game stretch away from home, the no. 20-ranked Tigers (8-6 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) continued their dominance in Ivy League play, beating Harvard 2-1 in Cambridge this

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Saturday. They would, however, also be tested once more against one of the best teams in the NCAA, falling 1-4 to the University of Connecticut Huskies. In its first match of the weekend, Princeton initially found itself with its hands full against the Crimson team (7-6, 2-3) that had so far been just in the middle of the pack in terms of Ivy League title contention. The Tigers found themselves having to claw out of a hole after a Harvard goal in the 24th

minute put the Tigers down 1-0. The deficit would remain the same as the Tigers went into the locker room after the first 35. It was the second half of the game, however, where the Princeton offense began putting punishing pressure on the Crimson defense. Opportunities were clearly on the rise in this section of the game — the Tigers outshot the Crimson 10-0 overall in the half, compared to 6-4 in the opening half. See FIELD HOCKEY page 7

Tigers successful at USTA/ ITA Northeast Regional By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

This weekend was a tough but exciting one for the men’s tennis team, which competed in the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional at Yale over the weekend, despite the unfortunate timing of the event coinciding with midterms. The Tigers played notably well, with sophomore Diego Vives reaching the singles quarterfinals and the dynamic duo of junior Alex Day and sophomore Luke Gamble powering through into the tournament semifinals.

The tournament began on Thursday, with freshman Jimmy Wasserman and junior Jonathan Carcione looking to advance through the qualifying singles round, competing against 46 other players looking to lay claim to one of 16 spots in the main draw that began early Friday morning. Both players collected two wins, qualifying for the first round of main singles and advancing onto the next day. Thursday’s success put eight Tigers in the main draw, with Carcione, Wasserman, sophomore Kial Kaiser and classmate Gamble competing

in the first round on Friday, while Vives and juniors Tom Colautti, Josh Yablon and Day were seeded high enough in singles to receive first-round byes. Colautti earned a topfour seed in the tournament, the highest Tiger seed for the weekend. Friday’s games went well for the Tigers, who won three of four singles matches and swept in doubles, with Kaiser, Gamble and Wasserman all advancing to the next round of singles matches, and Colautti and Vives, Day and Gamble, and Kaiser and See TENNIS page 7

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The women’s hockey team opened it’s season with a bang, winning its first two games of the season.

Women’s hockey starts the season on a strong note, dominates in Mercyhurst doubleheader By Miles Hinson sports editor

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Men’s tennis competed at the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional over the weekend with strong results.

Opening its season on the road, the women’s hockey team made a strong start to the 2015-16 campaign. The team travelled to Erie, Pa. to take down Mercyhurst College, going 2-0 in a Friday and Saturday doubleheader. Advertisment The Tigers (2-0 overall) found themselves engaged in a tight one to kick off their season as they edged by the Lakers (0-5-1) just 3-2. In the game itself, junior wing Morgan Sly got it going for the Tigers in the first period, taking the assist from freshman wing Karli Lund and junior wing Audrey Potts for the score. Skating up fast in the 2-on-1 opportunity, Lund hit Sly coming on the right side for the score. However, the Lakers’ Emily Janiga would neutralize the advantage, scoring with less than a minute to go in the first to tie the game up. The Tigers came right

back, as Sly, in conjunction with freshman wing Stephanie Sucharda, returned the favor to Potts and set her up for the goal under three minutes into the second period. Getting the puck from Sucharda, Sly would get past her defender to make a pass to just in front of the goalie, where Potts was ready for the score. However, the Lakers would come up with the lateperiod response, finding the back of the net with just a shade under 40 seconds to go in the period to knot the game up at two apiece. The Tigers, however, ended up on top due to the work of senior wing Cristin Shanahan, who took the puck off assists from senior forward Jaimie McDonnell and junior forward Molly Contini to put the Tigers up for good. For the following game, Lund would transition from making the assists to scoring herself. She got the Tigers going in the first few minutes, forcing the turn-

over, taking the puck up and sniping it into the right corner of the net for the unassisted goal. Sly would also get in on the act, scoring off a def lected shot attempt by Shanahan right in front of the goal and putting the Tigers up 2-0. While the Tigers held a 2-0 lead with a little over 37 minutes left in the game, Mercyhurst did not exit without creating chances. Tiger penalties allowed Mercyhurst to get the edge it needed for a goal at the 12:21 mark in the second. However, Mercyhurst, despite having five power plays in the second period alone, was ultimately unable to capitalize and bring this game level. With a successful opening weekend in the books, the Tigers turn to their first taste of Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference play. They will hit the road once more to take on the Yale Bulldogs on Friday and the Brown Bears on Saturday.

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