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News & Notes Safety advisory issued to all colleges in Philadelphia area following online threat

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have issued a safety advisory to all colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area about a possible threat on Monday.

The threat surrounded a social media posting that threatened violence at an unnamed university in the Philadelphia area.

The FBI and ATF have denied knowledge of any specific threat. In response to the threat, campuses have increased police, security officers and CCTV patrol, according to advisory alerts from the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University.

According to an advisory alert from the University of Pennsylvania, the violence is threatened to occur at 2 p.m. on Oct. 5.

The threat comes days after a shooting at the campus of Umpqua Community College in Oregon on Oct. 1, where nine people were fatally shot and another nine were injured.

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ACADEMICS

Humanities Sequence adds mentors, event organizers

By Shriya Sekhsaria staff writer

The Humanities Sequence at the University has undergone many changes since last year, including doubling in size and doing away with applications.

The Council of the Humanities has also set up a team of student mentors called Humanities Mentors, social event organizers called Symposiarchs and interns called Scribes.

Kathleen Crown, executive director of the Council of the Humanities, said the Humanities Sequence of HUM 216-219 is an intensive yearlong double course taught each semester by six faculty members from the disciplines of literature, philosophy, history, music, art and classics. A double course refers to a course that counts as and takes the same number of classroom hours as

two courses.

Crown said that one of the Council’s goals in eliminating the application was to make the sequence available to more students due to high student interest and positive student feedback. She explained that the course administrators received around 100 requests to reserve spots, which was triple the usual number of students who had applied to take the class in the past.

This increase was due to both the waiving of applications and publicity through events like dinners with HUM alumni and faculty, Crown said.

Crown noted that the sequence included an additional precept this year, raising the enrollment limit to 60 from 45 previously. She noted that this addition was not easy because the precepts are all facultyled and each must be structured and built into the course.

STUDENT LIFE

USG senate talks diversity, reform

By Katherine Oh staff writer

The Undergraduate Student Government senate introduced the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life’s work for diversity and inclusion during its weekly meeting on Sunday.

Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun, who recently joined the University from Skidmore College, joined the meeting and explained that she and her colleagues are paying particular attention to the role that diversity, equity and inclusion plays in that vision.

Among her priorities as vice president for campus life are concerns about safety and a sense of belonging, as well as how to make sure students can have fun, she added.

Coming to the University from a different institution, Calhoun said she noticed the University could do more for everyone to understand how the fact that we are a diverse community fundamentally changes who we are.

“I used to think about my diversity work and I’d label it ‘them,’ ‘us,’ and ‘me,’” Calhoun explained. “ ‘Us’ is the inclusion part. How do we

reimagine who we are, and how does it change who I am. The gap for Princeton, the ‘them’ you got down. It’s the ‘us’ and the ‘me.’ ” The Office of the Vice President of Campus Life is currently working to “inf luence, impact and change for the better” the real life experience for students on campus, Calhoun said.

“I think about this being the best place for you to be. I think about how we are intentional in our work so Princeton students can have a great experience,” Calhoun explained. “What I hope is that together with my colleagues in campus life, we can at least figure out pathways for success for your personal development.

Whether you choose those pathways is up to you.”

Outgoing chief elections manager Grant Golub ’17 went over, but the Senate did not vote on, proposals for reform of the referenda process, including raising the signature count necessary to petition, as well as adjusting the timing of referenda to coincide with the USG election cycle.

Golub is a former staff writer and senior copy editor for The Daily Princetonian.

Sung Won Chang ’18 was See USG page 3

According to Crown, current enrollment in the sequence stands at 60 students compared to the 36 students last year.

“Most students who were on the waitlist, and who came to class and who were persistent, as far as I know, those students all ended up getting space in the course,” she said.

Monique Claiborne ’17, a Humanities Mentor and Symposiarch, said that applications to the sequence were counterproductive, especially for freshmen, because many students chose not to apply to the sequence due to the pressure of having to produce the “perfect application.”

“A lot of students have been intimidated by the HUM sequence,” she said. ”You know, you come to Princeton and you’re excited that you got in this really exciting enSee HUM page 2

Principedia, a community-sourced wiki of courses offered at the University, was launched at a hackathon event called Hackademics on Saturday.

Principedia gathers knowledge by inviting contributions from the community, similar to Wikipedia, Associate Director of the Undergraduate Learning Program Nic Voge said. He added that this method of gathering knowledge is useful because the community has more knowledge than each individual, and so can contribute more information.

Voge said that students at the University are continuously building layers of knowledge and accumulating knowledge about how to be effective students. Principedia is a way to capture this knowledge, collect it, organize, build upon and circulate it to students, he added.

The results will be compiled in articles that are also called “course analys[es]”, which is a technical term for an analysis of the pedagogical content of a course, cochair of the Principedia Editorial Board Nathan Agmon ’17 explained. He added that this “course analysis” would consist of articles on University courses that students are constantly updating.

Nicole Wang ’17, another co-chair, said that this course analysis will go beyond what students will find in course evaluations on the registrar’s page.

“What Principedia is really asking you is to think about what made you successful in the class you took,” she said. “Be ref lective and objective. We encourage students to write about courses they’ve enjoyed or have had a big impact on their academic experience. Ref lect on the learning process.”

Wang said that a student’s netID is attached to the articles they write and is accessible to University students. Only students with a valid University netID, he said, can contribute to the website.

Agmon noted that people may initially doubt Principedia’s efficacy because it is crowdsourced.

Ref lection and introspection play a crucial role in how people learn and become effective learners, Voge said. He said he has observed this pattern in his work with the McGraw Center and conversations with students on how they learn.

“Seven or eight years ago, at UC BerkeSee PRINCIPEDIA page 3

MUSIC

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The Sikhs of Princeton held a musical workshop in the 1915 Room on Sunday afternoon.

STUDENT LIFE

Cannon accepts 13 out of 19 bickerees, Tower accepts 15 of 52 in fall Bicker

By Paul Phillips associat e news editor

Cannon Dial Elm Club and Tower Club, the two eating clubs to have completed Bicker so far this year, saw a total of 71 bickerees.

This fall, Cap & Gown Club did not participate in fall Bicker, while Ivy Club will begin conducting its Bicker

sessions this week.

Tiger Inn and Cottage Club have historically foregone fall Bicker.

The number of bickerees at Tower almost doubled, rising from 27 in 2014 to 52 in 2015, according to Tower president George Papademetriou ’16. The number of students accepted fell slightly from 22 to 15, and the accep-

tance rate fell from 81 percent to 29 percent.

The number of bickerees at Cannon stayed roughly constant, at around 19, according to sources within the club.

This fall, the number of accepted bickerees fell and the acceptance rate rose, with 13 out of 19 bickerees accepted for a rate of 68 percent. SevSee BICKER page 3

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vironment and all of a sudden you’re faced with this multitude of applications.”

Eli Gramajo ’19, a student currently enrolled in the sequence, said an application would not have deterred him from wanting to join.

Gramajo added that he felt like 60 students was not an excessive number for the sequence.

“I feel like the lecture doesn’t really matter because it’s only 50 minutes,” he explained. ”But in precept, we have 12 students per precept.

And I think that’s a pretty good number.”

Stephen Kamola, a lecturer in history who taught the sequence in the fall of 2013, said that another change the sequence has undergone over the course of the past two years is the linking of lectures and precepts, ensuring that the same professor covers a particular topic in both. Before this association, the professors who lectured on a topic were often not the ones who conducted precept discussions about it, leading to extra background work required of all professors.

The Council of the Humanities has also created the new position of the Behrman Professor in the Council of the Humanities, Crown said.

Esther Schor, a professor of English at the University since 1986, is the inaugural appointee. Crown said that Schor will begin a three-year term teaching in the sequence and the certificate program.

Schor said that she applied for the professorship to get more deeply involved with the Council of the Humanities.

“A chance to work more closely with the Humanities Council is just like a dream to me. I have really enjoyed my teaching there, and my work is interdisciplinary,” she said. “I enjoy the conversations that I have with colleagues there and the students of the Humanities sequence are just marvelous.”

Schor added she will only begin teaching HUM next spring, but is already enjoying being in on the inner workings of the program and having conversations to plan the second half of the sequence.

Crown said that the Council is currently accepting applications from tenured University faculty for the second Behrman professorship, scheduled to begin next year.

Crown said that the addition of the Humanities Mentors, Symposiarchs and Scribes came from an awareness that students in the Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities certificate program were already informally advising students about the course, and from a desire to make this ad-

vising official.

“I’ve been turning to [the certificate students] for advice about the HUM sequence, the program, the students,” she said. “So it sort of naturally evolved.”

Crown added that the positions of Humanities Mentors, Symposiarchs and Scribes were propelled by the energy created by the certificate students’ active engagement in interdisciplinary courses, interdisciplinary independent work and interdisciplinary theses.

Claiborne said that the entire setup is very informal and mostly consists of helping current Humanities Sequence students with their work. She added that she thought being a Humanities Mentor would be a good way to use the skills that she had acquired as a Writing Center fellow and also complement her academic interest in the humanities.

Claiborne explained that there are 15 Humanities mentors, most of whom are alumni of the sequence. The others are certificate students who have taken other humanities courses at the University.

“It seems clear that our first-year students would also be able to benefit from hearing about the paths they’ve taken, the choices they’ve made and how they’ve worked,” she said.

Crown explained that Symposiarchs are essentially social chairs who were in charge

of things like getting food and drinks, sending out invitations and getting people together. Claiborne said that Symposiarchs looked into planning the student-led informal symposiums in addition to the workshops, which are planned by Crown and attended by professors. “[A symposium] is like having your own personal study break that can also be used to have a second pair of eyes take a look at what you’ve already worked on,” she explained.

Crown said that Scribes are humanities interns who will work with the Council’s Communications Specialist to create web resources and information for other students, who seem to be getting all their information on the web or on social media.

Symposiarchs and Scribes will be paid on an hourly basis while Humanities Mentors will not be paid, Crown said.

Lavinia Liang ’18, a potential Scribe, said that the Humanities mentors, Symposiarchs and Scribes will be of great help to the current students.

Liang is a former opinion writer for The Daily Princetonian.

“I just really want people to get the same rewarding experience of HUM and I don’t want them to feel like if they’re struggling, then they should just drop out or something,” she said. ”They should know that we’re here as resources.”

She added that even though she had a great experience with the sequence last year, it was not always easy.

“It was definitely painful,” she said. ”There were times when I felt like everyone else understood the material and I didn’t, or that everyone else was getting ahead, but overall it was very rewarding.”

Crown said that while she did not know if these teams would reduce the student drop-off between the fall and spring semesters in the sequence, she hoped it would.

“If possible, we love to see that most students possible get the benefit of the full year experience, but we also just know that not everyone can continue,” she said.

Liang added that these positions were a great way to keep the Humanities sequence alumni connected with each other and with the Council of Humanities. She said that many of her friends from the sequence were also returning to take up one of the three positions.

“Everybody is coming back to it and giving back to the program for everything that it gave us,” she said. ”It’s a great community to have, no matter what your major, or your eventual department is, this part of the program still brings you all together.”

According to Claiborne, the first Symposium was held on Sep. 27 at Chancellor Green

Rotunda, and approximately 40 to 50 students attended the event and participated in mini writing conferences with mentors in the library section and informal chat sessions in the space outside the library.

“There were actually lines of HUM students waiting to talk with us about their ideas and to get general feedback,” Claiborne said from her perspective as a mentor at the Symposium.

Crown said in the long term, the Council is also looking to create Humanities@ Princeton mentors, who will advise humanities students about issues beyond humanities classes. “[Students] have experience and knowledge and information to share much more broadly, beyond any particular course,” she said. ”So we would like to think about how they might advise more broadly about courses in American Studies or Judaic Studies or Latino Studies, you know, that have a humanistic background.”

Crown added that the Council may even set up a similar structure for the journalism program someday.

“I think the future for humanities at Princeton is bright,” Schor said. ”There are challenges and we’re trying to meet them in resourceful and new ways. But we have a lot of good minds on this.”

SYMPOH

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Sympoh hosted a breakdancing jam, called Princeton Breaks 5, during which competitors from various states battled to sick beats.

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enteen people bickered Cannon in fall 2014, with nine accepted for an acceptance rate of about 53 percent.

Cannon president Ian McGeary ’16 did not respond to a request for comment.

During the spring of 2015,

Cannon took 105 out of 200 students for an acceptance rate of 53 percent. Cap took 100 out of 227 students, about 44 percent, while Tower accepted 120 out of 151 bickerees for an acceptance rate of 79 percent, significantly higher than its acceptance rate during this fall.

Seventy people bickered in the fall last year among

Ivy, Cap, Cannon and Tower.

Forty-four people bickered either Tower or Cannon last year.

Though the Interclub Council changed the bickering policy in 2013 to allow students to bicker two clubs in the spring at Cannon, Cap, Cottage and TI, students are only allowed to bicker one club in the fall.

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appointed as the new chief elections manager at the USG meeting last week.

U-Councilors Ethan Marcus ’18 and Miranda Rosen ’18 raised concerns that when initially announcing a referendum has been called for, the email first sent to students might make it very easy to propose and agree with something and much harder for someone to organize a group to oppose it.

“We’re not trying to hyper-regulate,” USG president Ella Cheng ’16 added, noting that the proposed changes to rules were based on an analysis of election rules at multiple peer institutions,

including Harvard and Yale.

Cheng is a former staff writer for the ‘Prince.’

Regarding her meeting with University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 this past week, Cheng noted that Eisgruber encouraged discussions about possible changes to the academic calendar.

“It’s a very long-term conversation,” Cheng explained. “But hopefully we’ll get some traction this semester.”

During the meeting the senate members voted to approve new members to the University Student Life Committee, Mental Health Initiatives Board, Social Committee and Academics Committee.

For committee updates,

University Student Life Committee chair Kathy Chow ’17 said that pursuing many different projects was not intended to step on the toes of student initiatives that might already be happening.

Social committee chair Simon Wu ’17 added that his committee is trying to fill niches that aren’t already filled by groups like Princeton Student Events Committee or the Alcohol Initiative.

The senate additionally approved a $3,000 Projects Board funding request for Fuzzy Dice Improv group’s show. Fuzzy Dice is bringing in Upright Citizens Brigade, a professional comedy group, for an improv workshop and performance.

SIKHS OF PRINCETON

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Students participated in the Hackademics event in Mathey on Saturday to create Principedia.

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ley, a writing tutor held a consultation right outside of my door. Listening to her, I was blown away by how much she knew and what she was bringing to the consultation,” he said, noting that many of the things the tutor said were not part of her training. “She was a senior that was leaving and I thought to myself, ‘Where is

all the knowledge going to go to?’ ” Voge also said that the University offers many challenges through the difficult nature of its curriculum, and the value of Principedia comes through allowing students to figure out how to learn for a particular course.

He added that he hopes that the next generation of Principedia will get more faculty and administrators involved and feature dia-

logue between administrators and students.

“Princeton students want to contribute to the quality of their Princeton experience.

There is a sense of possibility; such as ‘Wow, there is much to learn here,’ ” he said.

“I think Princeton students think very hard about learning. They are expert learners.

That is why they were picked to come here.”

The event was held in the Mathey College Common Room.

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Open parties: Making eating clubs slightly less restrictive

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et me just put this out there: I’m not a fan of the eating club system. I’m especially not a fan of Bicker. I would prefer not to segregate people in any manner for the social functions of eating and partying. I think we should allow people to eat and party with whomever they want, whenever they want without having to jump through any hoops. I simply don’t approve of any system that unnecessarily divides and excludes people, especially when the criteria for entrance are based on subjective reasons rather than legitimate merit. Whether we intend or not, such exclusivity breeds elitism, and it unquestionably creates real divisions among the student population.

I also recognize that the eating clubs aren’t going away — at least not in the short term. One issue is that the University’s dining system wouldn’t be able to handle the influx of additional students. Plus, it takes time to dismantle a system so ingrained in our college culture. However, there is one change that could happen almost immediately that would exact a huge impact on the exclusive nature of eating clubs were students to agree to it. We can and should move eating clubs to an open party system.

Currently eating clubs allow people in for parties based on one of four systems. The parties are either open to anyone with a Princeton ID, anyone with a pass, anyone on a guest list established by members or open to members only. I propose we get rid of passes and lists. They are unnecessary and create more harm than good.

As I mentioned before, I’m against unnecessary exclusion. Lists and passes fit under that category.

They continue to divide upperclassmen among the clubs just to drink and dance. Though going out with friends should just be fun, passes and lists force friends to plan ahead and jump through an unnecessary hoop or two to spend an evening together.

The existence of lists and passes not only divides upperclassmen in different clubs from each other, but it also has a huge impact on underclassmen.

Since many club parties are often based on lists or passes, rather than just being open to any Princeton student, underclassmen have to find an upperclassman friend to help them get in. Granted, perhaps this works fine for someone active in some club where they know juniors and seniors, but those without those connections are unfairly left out.

One might claim networking is a useful skill to learn and this is simply one way of teaching freshmen how to do it. However, there are ways to learn to network without having an unfair balance of power and your supposed social life and reputation depend on it. Moreover, these relationships can become exploitable since underclassmen can’t particularly offer anything in return. This tension is only heightened in a situation where the “cool,” or even just “normal,” social activity is to go and party at certain clubs. Especially since a website that allowed trading passes for late meal credit was taken down in spring 2014, the relationship relies more on generosity and is potentially more exploitable as there are fewer options available for the outsider to offer in return.

Getting rid of passes and lists avoids this additional need of having to know someone on the inside to get in. Open parties knock down one layer of exclusivity. Anyone can party with anyone, no matter who you know.

One might argue that this change will overwhelm the system. Everyone will crowd one or two clubs and no one will have an enjoyable evening. However, this speculation appears unfounded. Other schools have significantly more open systems without any backlash. Dartmouth, for example, has about 70 percent of its eligible students involved in Greek life (students can’t rush until their sophomore year). That number is roughly representative of eligible Princetonians in eating clubs. They have three types of parties: their organization only, a mixer between one fraternity and one sorority, or parties open to anyone with a Dartmouth student ID. There are no lists or passes.

Parties that are open to more than just one fraternity and sorority are published to all Dartmouth students on a weekly basis (and apparently, according to my sister who just graduated from there, if someone came to one of those smaller mixers who wasn’t from one of the hosting groups, they’d still be allowed in.

It’s just rare because those mixers aren’t published to the entire student body). And Dartmouth parties don’t get flooded; the student body naturally divides itself up among open events, probably because people go out to have fun and if one place is crammed wall-to-wall, people leave. Equilibrium is achieved naturally; feasibility arguments simply aren’t substantiated.

Of course, some limitations might still be justified. Certainly limiting parties to Princeton students for liability concerns is important; one wouldn’t want an entirely open party where local high-schoolers can attend. And though I don’t support the eating club divisions at all, one can argue that since they do exist, perhaps club-only events are justified. However, creating a social scene that largely relies on who you know simply to participate at all is unjust; it unnecessarily punishes outsiders without giving them a real opportunity to change their circumstances.

Whether you support the existence of Bicker and/ or the existence of the eating clubs, I hope we can all agree that unnecessary division hurts our community as a whole more than it helps any subset of individuals. In that vein, I think that those who oppose and those who support eating clubs alike can agree that a more open party system can only benefit our student body. By dismantling one unnecessary barrier, we can go a long way to creating a fairer, happier, more united student body.

Marni Morse is a a politics major from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@princeton.edu.

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A response to the WeSpeak survey

ast week, the University released the results of the WeSpeak survey. In the survey, 34 percent of undergraduate women reported being victims of sexual misconduct broadly defined, while 27 percent of undergraduate women reported unwanted sexual contact or assault. To address the unacceptable pervasiveness of this disturbing problem, we must both double down on our commitment to swift and proportionate punishment for offenders and look for new ways to combat misconduct. In light of the survey results, the Editorial Board recommends implementing mandatory bystander intervention training for leaders of student organizations. Additionally, the Board calls upon all Princeton students to take action on an individual basis to discuss and address these problems.

The Board has previously endorsed efforts to expand bystander intervention; we now suggest implementing mandatory bystander intervention training for all leaders of official student organizations, as well as captains of sports teams. The University should ensure that student leaders who host social gatherings and are respected by their peers be empowered to intervene in potentially dangerous situations. We also recommend involvement by athletic coaches, residential college advisers, and anybody in a position of authority to address the problem from as many angles as possible.

Crucially, this training must be a serious improvement from the status quo.

Students currently lack the necessary resources to be effective at bystander intervention in the wide variety of potentially dangerous situations one might run into at a pregame, on the Street or walking around dorms. Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education provides guidance with the “Three Ds” of Direct, Delegate and Distract. Yet often there is a very narrow window for intervention in cases of potential sexual assault, and the threat of misreading the situation is often too difficult for bystanders to overcome.

Having a more specific protocol or a social script would greatly help facilitate bystander intervention in situations of potential sexual misconduct. Public Safety could bolster these efforts by implementing a hotline for assistance during such situations.

Additionally, students must take the lead in fighting these problems. Discussion in public or private settings is a great place to start. The next public forum to discuss the survey results will be at the upcoming Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Oct. 12 at 4:30 p.m. at 101 Friend Center.

Judging from a similar event held last week, student turnout has a long way to go: only a handful of students attended the WeSpeak forum on Wednesday night. Privately, students should discuss what constitutes enthusiastic consent and effective bystander intervention with their peers. Such discussions serve to educate students, demonstrate support for victims and signal to predators that their behavior is not tolerated.

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It is important to note that many students are already making commendable efforts to address these issues on campus. The Board applauds students who have made an impact on campus by involving themselves in SHARE programming, the Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Assault and other venues for effective action. The Board also supports students who have specifically taken action to create alternative social events without alcohol. While students should feel safe from sexual threats no matter how much they’ve had to drink, the WeSpeak Survey’s finding that alcohol was involved in the vast majority of incidents is alarming. Increasing the number of alcohol-free social venues and separating sex from alcohol can play an important role in making some members of the community feel safer.

British author G. K. Chesterton once said “the true soldier fights not just because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” Students should certainly hate the problem of sexual assault, but should fight the battle against it primarily because of a love for and duty to our classmates, whom we should always seek to protect. By taking these measures, the Board believes we take a step forward in fighting this serious epidemic.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor and the Editor-inChief.

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Gun control: A waiting game?

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un violence should be shocking. Gun violence should rile up unimaginable levels of fear, terror and pain. Gun violence should be so intolerable to our society that we enact laws to try to prevent it from ever happening again.

But I don’t feel that way anymore. When news broke of the shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, I was sitting in Cafe Vivian, eating sushi and waiting for my last class of the week. As I opened my laptop, I saw The New York Times headline that some school shooting had occurred somewhere.

I felt fear, realizing that the victims were probably completely unaware of the fate that was about to befall them. But I felt not so much than when a man had opened fire at a movie theater in Lafayette, La., this past summer, killing two and injuring nine. Lafayette is a city only two hours away from home and one hour away from Louisiana State University, which some of my best friends attend.

I felt terror, but not so much as when young white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — people who had been seeking the love and

comfort of the church.

And I felt pain, though I cannot say how much, when I remember Sandy Hook and heard about the massacre of 20 innocent children and their teachers.

These emotions are real, but they have become all too familiar.

In President Obama’s 15th address in regards to a mass shooting, Obama expressed similar feelings — sentiments of grief and anger.

But he had admitted something far most devastating that I had been afraid to admit to myself earlier — a numbness that has crept into all of our hearts, as these shootings steadily became common incidences.

Yet what is even more devastating to me is not the mass shootings, but rather the gun violence that happens in multiple forms every day across this country.

We see it when stray bullets take the lives of our children, just because they happened to be walking home at the wrong time. We see it when American guns help fuel Mexican violence, with weapons “often bought in the U.S. through ‘straw man’ purchases, who acquire arms on behalf of others with the intention of being trafficked to Mexico.” We see it when people succeed in taking their lives 85 percent of the time when guns are used, a much higher statistic than when other methods are used.

I understand how easy it is to

push off the responsibility of these massacres, by legislators and responsible gun owners alike. Many see the harm in the individual and not the tool used to commit these horrific acts; coming from the South, many of my classmates and neighbors fall into the latter category. I know when hunting season had begun by the change of profile pictures. I’ve seen camouflage vests worn to prom. I’ve driven behind cars with National Rifle Association bumper stickers saying, “It’s not the guns, it’s the criminals, STUPID.” I cannot blame them for feeling that way. There are thousands of Americans who use guns responsibly every day. But it is not black and white. Strongly favoring gun rights does not mean that we just shrug our shoulders every time one of these tragedies happen.

Just this past Friday, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was asked about his views on the Second Amendment in light of this tragedy. His response? “Stuff happens.” He cautioned that, in the light of a crisis, there is always the fear of overreacting, that “the impulse is to do something, and it’s not always the right thing to do.”

I do not necessarily disagree with the sentiment. Laws fueled on emotion, laws that are not well thought out, can carry unintended consequences. The presence of new legislation, in and of itself, is not necessarily the solution. And we

should be cautious when new laws may conflict with already existing constitutional rights.

But I am wary of this frequent Republican response to just wait.

From Newtown to Aurora to Charleston to Lafayette, we wait so long that citizens forget the raw emotion that these tragedies initially brought, and why they necessitate new policies. They fade from the forefront, merging together, slowly becoming just a statistic. But we have to fight this feeling. We cannot forget when these incidences literally occur on a daily basis.

I find that laws are created through two central avenues — through the potential threat of something in the future, or to address a threat that has occurred.

Gun violence has fulfilled both.

It has taken thousands of lives in the past. And I have no doubt that, if unaddressed, gun violence will continue to do so in the future.

Having to carefully balance rights should not be a roadblock to progress. Until such legislation is made, the extraordinary will remain everyday. I will almost unknowingly take note of movie theater exits. And I will continue to reassure my parents that I am safe, despite my safety being out of my hands.

Lea Trusty is a politics major from Saint Rose, La. She can be reached at ltrusty@princeton.edu.

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run down the middle and a shot from freshman defender Jeremy Colvin in the 16th minute nearly tied the game up.

However, what appeared to give the Tigers’ their greatest chance resulted not from their own offensive push, but from a Dartmouth lapse in judgment. Kunateh, the aforementioned player with the go-ahead goal, received a red card in the 26th minute, and the Big Green would be fighting a man down from there on.

However, while clearly providing Princeton a tangible edge, the red card forced a change in the Dartmouth scheme that did not quite play into the Princeton’s hands. Instead of continuing an offensive push and scoring more, the 10 men of Dartmouth backed up, trying to wall Princeton off as much as possible.

“The red card probably hurt us more than it helped us because their mentality after getting the red card was ‘We’re just going to pack everybody behind the ball.

We’re going to drop all 10 men and defend like crazy,’ ” senior goalkeeper Ben Hummel said.

“We couldn’t figure a way out, figure out how to cut them apart. We tried to get the ball down the flank and get the

“We couldn’t figure a way out, figure out how to cut them apart. We tried to get the ball down the flank and get the ball into the middle, but they had ten people in the box at all times.” ben hummel

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ball into the middle, but they had 10 people in the box at all times, and that makes it really, really difficult.”

This change of style became quite more obvious as play went on. Princeton had gotten off just three shots total (one from Colvin, the others from senior forward Tom Sanner and junior midfielder Vikram Pothuri), compared to Dartmouth’s five. In the

second half, Princeton outshot Dartmouth a whopping 8-1. In particular, header opportunities from Sanner and junior midfielder Mark Romanowski, as the 80th minute drew near, came close to evening things up.

With the loss, the Tigers return home for their next contest, as they take on nearby Seton Hall on Tuesday. Next Saturday, they will have an opportunity to get their first Ivy League victory in Providence against Brown.

The consequences of the Dartmouth loss, especially after the end of last season, weigh on the Tigers now more than ever. Every result is critical as they hope to climb into the Ivy League title race.

“Now, having lost to Dartmouth again, we’re experiencing a little of what we went through last year, which was ‘We have a loss in the Ivy League.’ The only surefire way now to even to put ourselves in contention is to make sure we don’t lose another game,” Hummel said. “That definitely makes it urgent — it puts a lot of pressure on us, but the team being as veteran and as old as it is, I think we will have what it takes to pull it out here.”

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just about the midway point of the first. Junior wide receiver Trevor Osborne would follow up, taking a shovel pass from sophomore quarterback John Lovett to make his way down the right side for a sprint to the endzone.

From the beginning, one could see how the rain was impacting the Tigers’ offensive game plan. The Tigers rushed for 127 total net yards on the day and threw for just 56. It was a stark contrast to the 363 yards and 265 yards the Tigers earned from passing against Lehigh and Lafayette, respectively.

At the 2:45 mark, Princeton would tack on to that lead with a field goal from senior kicker Nolan Bieck.

Bieck remains perfect on the season in field goals at four of four.

From there on, the highlights would come almost exclusively from the defensive squads. The Tigers, coming off a strong defensive performance against Lehigh, opened up the second quarter with a bang. In the first drive of the quarter, a pass from Lions’ quarterback Skylar Mornhinweg bounced off the hands of his intended receiver and into the hands of junior linebacker Andrew Frisby. The

following Columbia possession, freshman linebacker Edward Rudinski, playing in his first collegiate football game, sacked Mornhinweg and forced the fumble, as sophomore defensive linesman Khalil Bryant got the recovery.

The woes didn’t stop there — the third play of the drive, Mornhinweg saw another one of his passes picked off, this time by se-

From the beginning, one could see how the rain was impacting the Tigers’ offensive game plan. The Tigers rushed for 127 total net yards and threw for just 56. nior back John Hill.

However, despite the many mishaps on offensive, Columbia was able to keep its composure. The Lions put together a strong drive at the end of the half that resulted in a field goal, narrowing the gap to just seven points.

As the third quarter opened with 3-and-outs for both teams, the Tigers faced

a near disaster on their second drive. Preparing to give the ball back to the Lions, junior punter Tyler Roth was blocked by the Lions’ Max Keefe. In the ensuing scramble Keefe nearly came up with the recovery in the Tigers endzone. Indeed, many of the Lions’ players on the field began to celebrate, thinking they had scored a touchdown. However, the referees, seeing part of Keefe’s body just out of bounds, ruled the play a safety. The Tigers escaped what could have been a catastrophe still on top, holding a 10-5 lead.

Following the safety, neither offense was able to make much headway. The majority of Princeton’s drives thereon were 3-and-outs — Columbia, though with slightly longer drives, not faring much better. Indeed, Mornhinweg would throw his third and final pick of the night, this one falling into the hands of senior back Khamal Brown. The Tigers’ defense would continue to remain stalwart, as the Lions would travel no further than just beyond midfield in the final quarter.

Having grabbed this gritty win, Princeton looks forward to the third and last of their games in this homestand, as they host the Colgate Raiders next Saturday in Princeton Stadium at 1:00 p.m.

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Despite rain, football wins 10-5 at home

By Miles Hinson sports editor

It was a stark contrast from the previous game.

Last weekend, the Princeton football team was greeted by a brisk fall wind and a plethora of Tigers faithful, eagerly awaiting their team’s home opener. This time, the wind, the rain and the band were their closest companions, as a daylong downpour kept even the most devoted of football fans to watching the game from inside.

However, despite the drastic change in weather conditions, one thing remained constant for Princeton — victory.

Opening Ivy League play in such conditions, the Tigers (3-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) defeated the Columbia Lions (0-3, 0-1) 10-5 at Princeton Stadium this past Friday. The Tigers are off to their best start since the 2006 season, in which they went 9-1 overall and 7-1 in league play.

In the first quarter, Princeton, despite the inclement weather conditions, started out seeming to continue the high-scoring performances fans saw in their first two games. Senior running back DiAndre Atwater made the difference early on, busting past the Columbia defensive line for a 47-yard run at See FOOTBALL page 5

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After 40-point and 52-point games to open the season, the Tigers had to grind it out in a low-scoring performance at Princeton Stadium.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Tigers take down Dartmouth 3-2 in OT, go to 2-0 in Ivy League play

By Tom Pham

associate sports editor

After an impressive 3-0 win at home against Yale last weekend where the players dominated their opponents, the Tigers (7-3 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) headed to Dartmouth with high hopes to continue their unbeaten start against Ivy League opponents. This was to be a tough matchup for the Tigers, however, as they have not been able to win at Dartmouth since 2007.

Dartmouth (7-2-2, 0-1-1) had also been in fine defensive form this season, having not conceded more than one goal in any of their matches this season. In fact, the previous time the Big Green conceded more than two goals was early last season against Washington.

However, this did not faze the Tigers, as they went out on the attack early in the game, and were soon rewarded when freshman forward Mimi Asom scored in the 14th minute after a fine assist from sophomore defender Katie Pratt-Thompson. However, the Tigers could not hold their lead for long, allowing Dartmouth to pull even in the 27th minute, before the Big Green added another one just before half time. Both goals were scored

by Jill Dayneka and assisted by Brittany Champagne, and both came from corner kicks.

A 2-1 deficit did not prove to be an obstacle for the Tigers, as they roared out at half time. It was the same name on the sheet when Asom found the back of the net again, capping a wonderful performance as she opened her account for the Tigers in fantastic fashion.

This time, the assists came from junior defender Jesse McDonough and sophomore forward Beth Stella.

Although the freshman has already impressed in earlier games, this was Asom’s

MEN’S SOCCER

Men’s soccer falls to Dartmouth Big Green 0-1 in Hanover

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Princeton has endured its fair share of hardships against Dartmouth in previous seasons. For the Orange and Black, this past Saturday featured more of the same, as they fell to the Big Green in Hanover 0-1 in their Ivy League opener.

The Tigers (3-3-1 overall, 0-1-0 Ivy League) went into this one looking for revenge, after a heartbreaking loss to Dartmouth (3-3-1, 1-0-0) at Roberts Stadium last season, a loss that ultimately cost them a shot in the NCAA Tournament. Based on their previous games, both these teams had reason to be confident going into

this one — Princeton having gone 1-1 against former No. 19 American University, and Dartmouth having won 3-0 against current No. 23 Hofstra University.

Drawing from their previous games, the Tigers knew the key focus was to keep the intensity for all 90 minutes.

However, an early lapse in their defense immediately threw their plans into jeopardy. Off a cross toward the middle, Dartmouth’s Eduvie Ikoba managed to slip it to Amadu Kunateh, who tapped in it for the goal. With nine minutes having passed, Princeton already found itself in a hole.

The Tigers, however, responded with vigor. A strong See M. SOCCER page 5

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With this weekend’s victory, the Tigers stand with Harvard atop the Ivy League standings.

finest performance yet.

However, despite controlling the game and outshooting their opponents 17-10, the Tigers were unable to score again in regular time, so the game was forced to overtime. And this was when the Tigers’ mettle showed through, with Natalie Larkin scoring in the 95th minute with a header after some scrappy play in the box to claim a 3-2 victory for the Tigers. This was Larkin’s second goal in as many games,

marking the first time in her career that she has scored in consecutive games.

The Tigers’ fantastic offensive performance was quite impressive as this was the first time an Ivy League opponent has scored three goals against the Big Green since 2011, and it was Princeton’s first time scoring this many goals against Dartmouth since 2004.

This was a fantastic result for the Tigers as it allowed them to remain on top of

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the Ivy League standings against perennial rivals Harvard, who defeated Yale 4-0 this weekend. Cornell is the only unbeaten team left in the Ivy League, but they have drawn one of their games, so it remains two points behind Princeton and Harvard.

The Tigers look to continue their fine run as they host West Point at home on Oct. 7 before heading out to Rhode Island to play Ivy League opponent Brown.

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The Tigers couldn’t capitalize on an early Dartmouth red card.

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