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Haldane wins Q&A: F. Duncan 2016 Nobel Haldane, Nobel Physics award laureate in Physics

By Emily Spalding contributor

The Daily Princetonian sat down with University professor F. Duncan Haldane. Haldane was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for “theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.” He joins the likes of Philip Anderson, Joseph Taylor, Daniel Tsui, and David Gross as University faculty members who’ve received a Nobel Prize in physics. Haldane is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics.

By Emily Spalding contributor

Samuel Oh contributor

University professor Frederick Duncan Haldane was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics on Oct. 4 for “theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.”

Haldane, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, will share half of the prize with John Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University. The other half was awarded to David Thouless of the University of Washington,

Seattle.

“They have used advanced mathematical methods to study unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids or thin magnetic films,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in its press release.

Haldane earned his B.A in 1973 and Ph.D. in 1978, both from the University of Cambridge.

He was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research fellowship from 1984-88, and has been teaching at the University since 1990.

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

Terroristic treats report “not credible”

By Alice Vinogradsky contributor

The Department of Public Safety responded to a report of “terroristic threats” incident on Sept. 28, 2016.

As noted in the Clery Crime and Fire Log, the events took place near Peretsman-Scully Hall and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute complex at some time between Sept. 1, 2016 and Sept. 28, 2016.

Further investigation on behalf of Public Safety revealed that the threats were “not credible,” University spokesperson John Cramer said.

Cramer stated that the threats came about as a “disagreement between two University employees,” both of whom were staff members at the time of the incident.

Reported to Public Safety at 3:34 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, the case was closed by the following morning.

Cramer could not comment on the nature of the threats themselves, the investigative process, or the form — speech, text, etc. — in which the statement to Public Safety was made. Additional information about the incident has not been released.

According to New Jersey Criminal codes, a person is

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guilty of a crime of the third degree if she/he threatens to commit any crime of violence “with purpose to terrorize another or to cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of public transportation, or otherwise to cause serious public inconvenience.”

Cramer did not disclose what differentiates a credible threat from one that is “not credible” in legal terms.

Yet, Section 1.2.1 of Rights, Rules, Responsibilities reads, “Respect for the rights, privileges, and sensibilities of each other is essential in preserving the spirit of community at Princeton. Actions which make the atmosphere intimidating, threatening, or hostile to individuals are therefore regarded as serious offenses.”

Similarly, Section 1.1.3 explains that while “the University is committed to free and open inquiry,” a statement “that falsely defames a specific individual, that constitutes a genuine threat or harassment, that unjustifiably invades substantial privacy or confidentiality interests, or that is otherwise directly incompatible with the functioning of the University” may be restricted.

The editorial board discusses the unionization of graduate students, and in a letter to the editor, the Princeton clay project and refugee project outline the successes of recent community engagement regarding the Syrian crisis. PAGE 4

of almost guaranteed way of sending stuff without the information being destroyed.

That’s the most remarkable thing. That was already discovered in what’s called the “quantum Hall effect,” but there you needed these giant magnetic fields, a huge institution with giant amounts of power and a tiny little sample.

The remarkable thing, which, I guess, is the second of the two things I kind of cited, was that they just didn’t need all these giant magnetic fields, and you could actually get it just to the property of a kind of crystal structure. The fact that you could get all these interesting effects, just as a kind of materials property in See HALDANE page 2

U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S : : L O C A L N E W S

U. releases trial date, witness list for upcoming property tax trial

By Jessica Li head news editor

Marcia Brown associate news editor

The trial brought against the University over its tax exemption status will begin on Oct. 17, over a week later than the original scheduled start date of Oct. 6. The Property Tax Trial will take place in the Tax Court of New Jersey.

Brought by four residents of the town of Princeton, the trial concerns a lawsuit about the University’s overall status as a nonprofit for tax exemption purposes. Included as a defendant is the Town of Princeton, as the town’s municipal tax assessor approved the University buildings in question for tax exemption status. The asses-

sor approved the University’s claim that the buildings are used to fulfill its educational mission.

The plaintiffs are challenging “the exemptions granted by the municipal assessor to the University for tax years 2011, 2014, and 2015,” according to a University document. The burden of proof currently falls on the University. The challenges from all three years will be trialed altogether later this October.

“As this trial goes forward, there will be many people who are paying attention. This trial has great implications for people doing research and managing nonprofit organizations,” said University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69.

In a previous motion, Judge Vito Bianco ruled that, although the University is the defendant, it will bear the burden of proof in this trial. Bianco has not ruled in favor of the University in seven previous motions concerning this trial.

In July 2015, Bianco ruled in a case brought by the town of Morristown against the Morristown Medical Center that certain sections of the hospital are not entitled to tax exemptions. However, Durkee explained that unlike the Morristown case, the Town of Princeton is not a plaintiff.

Currently, the University’s witness list includes President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, Durkee, Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice, Dean for See TRIAL page 3

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Q&A: Sonya Satinsky, Director of Health Promotion and Prevention Services

By Ruby Shao news editor emerita

Sonya Satinsky began serving as the director of health promotion and prevention services for University Health Services on Sept. 26. She sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss her personal perspective on health, sexuality, and gender issues, and a holistic approach to wellness.

The Daily Princetonian: What are some of your healthy habits?

Sonya Satinsky: That’s a great question. I like to drink a lot of water, and I like to eat a lot of vegetables, and I like to talk to my friends on the phone a lot because I think social health is sometimes just as important, if not more important, than some of the

physical health behaviors.

Those are three things that I do pretty frequently.

DP: How has your career influenced your lifestyle over the years?

SS: I entered the field because of my particular interest in gender and sexuality.

So that was my academic interest, and then I applied it to the field of health. When I was in college, I did a practicum doing sex-ed with young people who were in a juvenile detention facility. And it was a really interesting experience because there were a lot of young people in there who were already sexually experienced, some of them already had kids, and yet they hadn’t received basic sex education.

So I think the connection between my field and my personal life is that it’s im-

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portant to me, as an individual, to be an advocate for the sexual, gender-related rights of other people. That’s an important part of my identity: trying to promote well-being for folks of all sexualities, genders, races, et cetera.

DP: How did that interest in sexuality and gender start?

SS: It was an area that I found interesting because it’s relevant to pretty much everyone, and yet there are so few people that are really comfortable having public dialogues about sexuality and sexual health in particular. So I think I was drawn to the idea that I could really contribute because it was something that was fascinating to me, and it was fascinating to most other people even if they weren’t necessarSee SATINSKY page 3

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The Daily Princetonian: As you mentioned in an interview with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences earlier today, “we have a long way to go to discover what’s

possible. A lot of these things were things one wouldn’t have initially dreamed were possible.” What dreams do you have for the future of the emerging field of topological physics? How do you hope to see your discoveries applied in the future?

F. Duncan Haldane: Well, I’m not sure how far it’s going to go, but it’s taking off in lots of different directions. I mean, my own thing, which I would like to see turned into something really practical, is that you can make signals and information and energy f low around the boundary of something in one way only, which means … you can make the boundary curve and do all kinds of things and it doesn’t disturb it, so you have a kind

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principle, was what generalized everything to just thin layers to three-dimensional systems and all the stuff that Bob Carver and people are making here. But this thing, where everything goes in one way without the possibility of turning back, has always appealed to me and is something that should have some useful technological [application], maybe for transmitting bits of information between units of a quantum computer or something. And so created materials now start to do this.

Now, people have made stuff that should do it with light also. So far, they’ve made it by building the crystals to be about the centimeter size … and it works with microwaves. And I think that’s probably the most potentially useful thing, because to be able to send light beams around rather bent tracks — light usually wants to go in straight lines — you could put it in optic fibers and they can bend a bit, but there is always some chance of getting scattered. If you make a kind of topological optic fiber that couldn’t — that didn’t — degrade, that would be something amazing. And right now, the principle is being demonstrated by building things about little units and making a crystal where the basic structure is about [the size of a quarter], rather than light, which is microwave scale. So I would be very happy to see something emerge from this so-called topological photonics, which is kind of one of my babies.

Otherwise, we’re trying to understand something called entanglement in quantum mechanics, and that’s turned into one of the things I started quite re-

cently, about five years ago.

That was something called the “entanglement spectrum.” So that’s one of the most deeply mysterious areas of quantum mechanics and that’s one of the most actively researched areas right now — the issue of entanglement, which is what Einstein calls “spooky action at a distance” that he didn’t like — Einstein came up with the idea of entanglement to prove that quantum mechanics was wrong. He was saying quantum mechanics predicts this weird stuff, which can’t possibly be right. But his proposed experiment was great, and quantum mechanics does do all that weird stuff, right?

So we don’t really know how far we are going to go with quantum technology, but I think quantum information processing is in its very infancy, but I think it’s got a long way to go, and it’s got a lot of potential. And a lot of people are putting money into it right now.

Engineering departments, our [electrical] engineering department, has people working with the thing. So it’s really spread out from physics … Mathematicians are working on this too, trying to invent … the programming language for quantum computers and protocols and things. So there’s all kinds of developments in this and somehow there is a very fruitful marriage of new ideas coming from quantum information theory and material theory. It’s been a very fruitful cross-fertilization.

DP: You have been with the University since 1990.

How has being on Princeton’s campus affected you?

Do you find your work is at all shaped by the presence of students in your daily life?

DH: It’s a great department, great colleagues, great students, and very supportive. We’ve managed to build

up — when I came, there was not so much condensed matter … Now we’ve built up a very focused group on all these new kind of physics.

Now the Chemistry department moving next door is very good, because we have a very fruitful collaboration with people in chemistry who are making these materials. So for all this stuff to progress, it actually needs cooperation; there’s an underlying deep mathematical principle to this, but rather abstract. Then there are these kind of toy models which could demonstrate the system — you could actually do a calculation with and show this stuff could be real. And then there are the people who transform this into actual — you know, they grow some crystals that do this unexpected stuff and that’s been a very fruitful collaboration. So Princeton’s built up a very good group and we have a lot of graduate students that were mentioning this stuff. It’s a very good atmosphere.

DP: You said this morning that you consider topological physics to have been “completely overlooked” in the past. What initially fueled your pursuit of this lesser known field?

DH: Well, I stumbled into it. I mean I found with these little toy models, simplified models of matter and when trying to understand how they behave, I discovered the things did something strange. I didn’t know at the time this was topological, right? So I discovered they did some quite unexpected things, were possible, and then later it merged — both my work and David Thouless’ work too. And the kind of mathematical — this stuff was very robust, it was stable against messing it up, and it turned out to be that the principle was this topological stability. There were

various kind of mathematics — so a lot of very powerful mathematics about this, very abstract mathematics had happened. In fact, earlier no one had made a connection to the physics. Then there was a huge insight when someone pointed out that this stuff was behaving that way because it related to a mathematical structure.

So, I guess the mathematics is too complicated to an abstract, a mathematician probably wouldn’t have known what this actually meant, this abstract theorem.

So it turned out that the underlying principles then started emerging, [about] why these things were possible. So it required one to interact with others — in fact, I got inspiration from talking with [Edward] Witten [GS ‘76]. I learned something about particle theory which I didn’t know and turned out to be precisely relevant to these things, and then there were these — David Thouless learned from. Actually, from someone who used to be, at the time, at Princeton; Barry Simon [GS ’70] was a mathematical physicist professor who was joint with mathematics and physics at Princeton at the time. He actually pointed out to David Thouless, the other person who got this prize, that what he found could be translated precisely into a known and deep mathematical example.

It takes lots of different people to come together, and I don’t think anyone could do it by themselves.

DP: What advice would you give to students looking to research emerging fields?

DH: I would say go with — well, if you go with the exciting field there’s more competition, of course. Of course, the thing to do is go with the field that is going to become exciting next year, then you’re in it at the begin-

ning. It’s hard to say. I think you just have to follow your gut feeling, basically. When you start research, you don’t know where you’re going to go, you don’t know how it’s going to turn up, and a lot of it is grasping the opportunity. One hopes the opportunity, something, comes up. My advice to people is to go to lots of seminars, when people come around, at least a few of them will be interesting, right? Some of them you might not even understand the work, but I don’t think it matters. You’ve got some feeling about what people are interested in and you need to get a feeling for what’s going on and what’s good at the time, and maybe things work out. But I think you just have to follow your instinct in some way.

DP: Is there anything else you would like to add?

DH: Take full advantage of Princeton, of the opportunities. At Princeton, we have lots of people coming through, giving talks, and you’ve got a lot of exposure to what’s going on. I suppose when you’re starting out, talk to as many professors as you can. It’s hard to say, you can’t really tell what’s going to happen, and life is making the most of whatever turns up, really. I think you can’t really go wrong with a Princeton physics degree, even if you end up on Wall Street. It gives you a lot of valuable training for thinking about problems.

And maybe you don’t end up discovering some fantastic new thing. Whatever. Lots of people end up doing lots of different jobs after physics, but it gives you some kind of training for looking at problems and trying to think about them.

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Tuesday afternoon in Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Physics Department Chair Lyman Page, Jr. noted the pioneering nature of Haldane’s research.

“In a department of unusually creative people, Duncan stands out,” Page said, noting Haldane’s deep scholarly insights, as well as his humorous personality.

He went on to note that Haldane is a reminder of the importance of environments like Princeton, where pursuit of knowledge enables scientific discoveries to flourish.

“We all look forward to seeing what this work leads to,” Page added. “There is more great science to come.”

“At this kind of university, there are lots of things that create special days, but I think there are very few days that are as special as one where we get to celebrate a Nobel Prize like this,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said.

“It’s wonderful to have an opportunity to celebrate the extraordinary research that Duncan Haldane has done, and also to celebrate the tradition of scientific research that makes

basic discoveries that are going to expand our understanding of the universe, and at the same time potentially produce applications that will matter to society,” Eisgruber added.

Haldane noted that in the future, he plans to turn his attention from quantum topology to quantum geometry. He is currently developing a new geometric description for the fractional quantum Hall effect that introduces the shape of the “composite boson.”

After the press conference, there was a reception where friends, family, and colleagues of Haldane celebrated. Haldane posed for selfies and a formal toast was given in his honor.

Haldane joins several other University faculty members who have received the Nobel Prize in Physics, including Philip Anderson, Joseph Taylor, Daniel Tsui and David Gross.

Among his many other accolades, Haldane is the recipient of the 1993 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize of the American Physical Society, the 2008 Lorentz Chair for the Lorentz Institute at Leiden University, and co-recipient of the 2012 ICTP Dirac Medal and the 2013-14 Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics.

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ily willing to admit it or talk about it. I could play a role in facilitating more comfortable conversations.

DP: As the director of health promotion and prevention services, what are your big project goals for this year?

SS: My first big project goal is to understand our community better. I’m new to Princeton, I’m new to New Jersey, and every community has its own ecosystem. If you think about health in terms of the individual level, the community level, the social level, you have to learn what your community is like. And so, for me, it’s understanding how this University works – who the students are, and what their needs are. I don’t want to go rushing headlong into anything … Health promotion works best when it’s responsive to what folks say they need and want.

DP: That is to say, you will develop programs that are more concrete as you learn about the needs of Princeton students?

SS: Exactly. And we have some programs that are already in place that [will continue with my support].

We’ve got the Peer Health Advisers and the BASICS [Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students] program that’s available to anyone who’s interested in having a conversation about substance use … We’re also part of the UMatter initiative … It’s really focused on alcohol, harm reduction related to alcohol, mental health promotion, sexual assault prevention education, and consent … Sorry, I can’t give you a big, “This is what we’re going to do in the next year!” because I think that’s one of the problems with certain public health initiatives, is they’re so top down, rather than bottom up. They don’t pay attention to what folks’ needs actually are. And when you do that, it doesn’t work very well.

DP: What are your ideas surrounding sexuality and sex education?

SS: There are ways in which talking about sexual health needs to be tied into much larger conversations.

We could have conversations about, “These are the steps for putting on a condom.” But unless we have a conversation also about, “And this is how to talk about using a condom with your partner,” then you’re probably not going to get to the point where you understand you’re supposed to check the air bubble first before you open the package, right? It doesn’t happen in isolation. For undergraduate students in particular, this can be a very formative time in terms of relationships, and so [we are] tying the discussion of sexual health into, “What kind of relationships do you want to have? What does a healthy relationship look like?” And for folks who are in a transition, either because their sexual orientation is changing or their gender identity is changing, that can complicate and overlaps with sexual health needs …

One of my research areas was the impact of body image on sexual health, and I think that’s an area that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough.

Being sexual with a partner means you’re exposing parts of your body that you may not share with anybody else, so how you feel about that, how you feel about yourself, can necessarily impact how you relate to someone else sexually.

DP: What do you see as the most effective strategies for helping college students who struggle with eating disor-

ders and appearance-related insecurities?

SS: I think it’s multifaceted … engaging with professional support, a counselor who specializes in eating disorders … but I also think I’m a proponent of “Health at Every Size,” this idea that you love and care for your body at whatever size it’s at, and starting to understand and accepting your body can be an important part of eating disorder recovery.

DP: What do you most want to bring to Princeton from your previous position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst?

SS: The things that were really successful at UMass Amherst were community engagement around alcohol in particular. We create a culture that drinking happens within, so is it expected, even for people who aren’t interested in drinking? How does the town interact with the campus? That’s one thing.

Another thing is just trying to have a student-centered approach to health promotion and prevention … Really promoting the UMatter initiative is also going to be really important. I think there’s great information in there, and students, from what I understand, have really bought into what UMatter can do, because students care about taking care of each other too .

DP: The posting for your Princeton job sought someone to lead a “socio-ecological approach to health promotion and harm reduction.”

What do you take that phrase to mean?

SS: Individuals don’t live within a vacuum. Many health promotion initiatives are just about what you can do as an individual, right? Do you drink enough water? Do you eat enough vegetables?

The socio-ecological model really takes into account [that] there’s the individual and they’re situated within a social environment, a community, a culture, and those interact with each other. It’s all well and good to say, “You should get more physical activity!” to someone who lives in a neighborhood where it’s not safe to go outside. It’s about paying attention to the built environment and the social environment and the ways that an individual interacts with each of those levels to build their health and wellness. How do we create an environment in which the healthy choice is the easiest choice, and we’re making space for people to be their healthiest selves, individually and with each other? …

DP: Is there anything else you’d like to add?

SS: I’m really hoping that our office continues to be collaborative with all of the other departments and student groups on campus. I think that’s how we do our best work. Health promotion is really everyone’s business.

Health is so all-encompassing. It can really take into account so many different factors, offices, initiatives.

But I also would want people to know that we’ve got professionals here in our office who are really skilled in health behavior theory – [for example,] so why do people do what they do? – creating good interventions, evaluation, and that we would like to be partners with folks who are interested in doing those kinds of things. So if a student group wants to create a health and wellness event, come to us and let’s talk about it, and we’ll help support that.

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Research Pablo Debenedetii, University Treasurer Caroline Aisnley, and Director of Campus Planning Paul LaMarche.

LaMarche is expected to give an exceptionally long testimony in order to explain the purpose of each of the University’s 173 tax-exempt buildings. The witness list will also include two expert witnesses who are professors at other schools who specialize in nonprofit research. The total list includes between 20 and 25 witnesses.

Bruce Afran, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, said as of this Monday that he does not have a witness list for the trial.

However, Afran is expected to cross-examine many of the University’s witnesses.

The University currently

pays taxes on certain buildings not exempted by New Jersey laws, such as the Garden Theater. The state’s constitution has established non-profit educational institutions’ right to property tax exemption.

The trial concerns the University’s overall property tax exemption status under state law as well as individual University buildings’ statuses.

The University also voluntarily pays property taxes on other buildings, such as nondormitory graduate student housing. However, Durkee said he personally thinks they would also probably qualify for tax-exempt status. Additionally, the University also voluntarily makes contributions to the town, according to a University document.

The University also makes contributions to the town for capital purposes, such as the

purchase of a new fire truck, a recent $500,000 donation to the first aid and rescue squad, and the maintenance of nine miles of private roads that allow for public use.

Durkee also said that the University collects its own trash and has its own police officers in part to make sure that the University doesn’t put an “undue burden” on the township.

The trial is expected to continue into early 2017.

Durkee also noted that even in the event that the judge does not rule in the University’s favor, financial aid programs for students will not be impacted.

Furthermore, Durkee did not rule out the possibility of a settlement with the plaintiffs.

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An Open Letter from Princeton Clay Project “We are facing the biggest refugee and displacement crisis of our time. Above all, this is not just a crisis of numbers; it is also a crisis of solidarity.” – Ban Ki Moon, United Nations Secretary-General To our fellow Princetonians,

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he Princeton Clay Project and the Princeton Refugee Project began working last year, in a joint effort of undergraduate and graduate students, to sponsor a Syrian refugee student’s education in a Jordanian university.

The refugee crisis has had a devastating effect on Syrian students. Before war turned their world upside down, these students’ lives looked much like our own: high school seniors planning their college path; second-year nursing students studying for exams; graduating college seniors only credits shy of their degree. War has deferred their dreams and put their lives on hold.

In host countries like Jordan, many Syrian youth have been living in refugee camps for more than four years – enough time to complete a full university degree – without any higher education opportunities.

The Princeton community came together to support this cause through the Jusoor-Amal Scholarship fund. Together, we organized everything from films to speakers to yoga classes in order to raise awareness about the needs of Syrian refugees and gather funds to provide the scholarship. Many of you gave your talents, energy, and funds to these events; we came together to try to make a difference for a fellow student.

We are happy to say that, thanks to your support, we have provided our first scholarship this year to an inspiring Syrian refugee youth in Jordan!

Nowar, a 28-year old female student living in Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan has been selected as our scholarship recipient. Nowar was born in raised in Deraa, Syria. She’s the oldest of six, and after high school, she worked to support her family, while holding onto her dream of continuing her education. She saved money and prepared herself to attend university.

Yet, as the war broke out, those plans fell apart. Deraa became a place full of violence and danger, and Nowar fled with her family to Jordan in 2012.

Nowar quickly became a young leader in the Za’atari Refugee Camp community. She splits her time between heading a leadership program for

adolescent girls, and volunteering at a clinic for children with disabilities.

She supports an inclusive theater program that engages children in theater as a means to build confidence and promote more inclusive communities for people with disabilities.

Nowar held onto her dream of continuing her education, even as the years passed in the camp. She took advantage of all the informal education courses offered in the camp, from English Language, to Conflict Resolution, to Office Management.

With this scholarship, Nowar will attend Zarqa University in Jordan.

She plans to pursue a degree in English Language and Literature, with the aim of pursuing a career in international relations. Nowar hopes to use her education to serve her family, community, and country.

We invite all of you, our Princeton community, to celebrate this wonderful news at our kick-off event this Thursday, Oct. 6, 8 p.m. at Murray Dodge Cafe. Come to learn more about Nowar, the Princeton Clay Project and the Princeton Refugee Project while enjoying live music and spoken word poetry.

The success thus far reaffirms the ability of Princetonians to break the stereotype of the insular orange bubble, to notice and care about larger events going on around the world. We hope that more of our fellow classmates will join us in our efforts in order to make future scholarships truly a shared undertaking of the entire community.

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Questions on graduate student unionization

AST WEEK, the Graduate Student Government announced that it would create a committee to conduct research on graduate student unionization.

The formation of the GSG committee comes in the wake of the National Labor Relations Board’s August ruling that graduate students who work on campus, such as preceptors or research assistants, have the right to unionize.

Any opinions about unionization of graduate students at Princeton must, to some extent, be speculative, given the scarcity of graduate student unions at peer institutions and the absence of a concrete unionization proposal.

Nonetheless, since graduate student unionization would likely change the fabric of the University community, the committee should include considerations outside the scope of the graduate student experience. The Board urges the GSG committee to examine the broader implications of unionization on graduate

students’ relationship with undergraduates, faculty, and the administration.

The GSG committee must explain the far-reaching consequences of joining a union on current and future graduate students. A decision to unionize would be momentous in that it would involve almost all graduate students. New Jersey is not a right-to-work state, which means that the University and the union could enter into an agreement to compel graduate student workers to either join the union or pay an agency fee to the union. As a result, all graduate students who work for the University, even those who would not be members of the union, may be required to pay union fees.

This, in turn, would mandate that all wage increases negotiated by the union be sufficient to compensate for new union fees. The GSG committee must investigate how to structure an agreement such that graduate students would see direct benefits from these union fees.

Furthermore, decertifying

a union is complicated from an administrative and legal standpoint. Current graduate students who elect to form a union will likely graduate in a few years; however, future graduate students will still be bound by their decision. It would be far more difficult for future graduate students to decertify a union than for current graduate students to certify a union.

A graduate student union could turn into an external third party that would negatively affect relations between graduate students and others in the University. The GSG committee investigating unionization should clarify whether or how a union agreement would affect more casual work done by preceptors.

After all, many unions limit the amount of work that their members are allowed to put in per week. This could make it harder for a preceptor to meet with undergraduate students outside of the precept without violating union rules. While some graduate students may

support such a change, this would likely mar the undergraduate experience. A onesize-fits-all policy for working hours is inadequate for Princeton’s learning environment.

In addition, the presence of a union would likely require the administration to negotiate with its graduate student union representatives. These negotiations, which could potentially include the threat of strikes, would likely result in a much higher administrative burden than having each department negotiate agreements with their own graduate students, since it would likely entail the hiring of more sophisticated negotiators for the University, and additional legal advice on labor issues.

The GSG committee should investigate how the University administration is likely to respond to the formation of a union. It is possible that under certain union agreements, the University would reduce the amount of work opportunities to compensate for higher costs.

More drastically, the Univer-

sity could even be required to reduce the size of the graduate student body. Once again, the consideration of these outcomes is completely speculative, since there is no information on how a graduate student union would be structured.

Still, the GSG committee must recognize that the University’s response could create its own set of challenges for students, and these potential responses must be considered.

The Board trusts that graduate students, as they contemplate the decision to unionize, will consider how their decision affects the University as a whole. We are heartened that GSG has decided to investigate unionization from a neutral standpoint, and we hope that their work will be productive and informative.

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-in-Chief.

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anything and just dealt with issues as they came.

DP: How have you stayed in touch with your family?

VM: Every time I go back to Serbia, I try to spend as much time with them as possible. In particular, I want to be there for my younger brother who plays on the Serbian national team. In fact, one of my favorite memories in life is playing with my brother on the senior club team back in Serbia.

DP: What are some of your passions outside of the pool?

VM: I really love traveling. I have a lot of favorite places. I would love to live in California, because it’s always sunny there.

To have fun, I really love Milan in Italy – the city of fashion. The city that I really enjoy as a tourist is Paris, because everyone is really warm.

DP: We did an On Tap with

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you almost exactly two years ago. If you could go back in time, what would you tell your freshman year self?

VM: I would tell him to relax more and not to search for answers that will naturally reveal themselves in the future.

For example, when I came here freshman year, dropped into a new world, I was pursuing lots of answers, such as how the education system works. I had so many questions on my mind.

You also have to remember that my first class taught in English was on the Princeton campus.

DP: How do you manage to stay so happy while being so busy?

VM: When I wake up in the morning, I tell myself that there is nothing I can do to change what happened yesterday. I also believe that you only have one chance to live and you should pursue any opportunity that appears before you. What keeps me going is a certain hunger to prove myself.

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wanted to get a great education, so when Coach Carril came and recruited me out of all the other schools, I loved Princeton because I had a great experience my sophomore and junior summers at an enrichment program in Lawrenceville.

DP: Can you describe your collegiate career as a student-athlete and your professional career as a professional basketball player?

BT: The challenge to go from a school like Perth Amboy High School to Princeton was a steep one. But I was a good student. I had a good work ethic, so I was able to survive academically and to enjoy the diversity of the courses that I was taking.

Basketball was a tremendous time because we were really good. Basketball was disappointing as a sophomore. We had a good team, but we were young and inexperienced.

Going into junior year, our expectations were even higher, and we met them head on. It was a place of excitement my junior year. I played well enough that the professionals came calling. They offered me an opportunity to play professional basketball right away, so it was a big decision whether I was going to accept this large offer or if I was going to stay and finish my senior year.

I decided to be one of the first guys in history to leave college and play professional basketball with the Nets, an ABA [American Basketball Association] team.

Everyone was critical. They said I wasn’t good enough to leave college early, that I was an imbecile for leaving, and I surprised everyone when I became the Rookie of the

Year in the ABA in my first year, and went on to have two really great seasons after that. I also had the chance to play with the famous “Dr. J” Julius Erving and to play on the Kansas City Kings, the Denver Nuggets, and then four years on the San Diego Clippers, which gave me a ten-year career and a torn Achilles tendon. But it was pretty good that I was able to last ten years, when people thought I wouldn’t last one.

DP: Did you go back and get your college degree?

BT: After I hurt my Achilles tendon, I came back to Princeton and got a political science degree in 1984 with a certificate in African American studies. That was probably the smartest thing I did, completing my journey and being able to say I have a Princeton degree. It was really special and quite an experience to see the changes over a decade.

DP: Do you have any funny, weird, or otherwise memorable experiences from your times at Princeton that you want to share?

BT: One story that I think is really funny and that we still laugh about to this day was that I would lotion up from head-to-toe before every game, so I would be really shiny. The team would always laugh and joke, ‘Is that what makes you jump so high? ’ They just got a kick out of that.

DP: What have you done since the NBA and graduating from Princeton?

BT: I went into business, and then I transitioned into being an educator. A friend of mine and I started our own charter schools. We started with seven kids, and next thing we know, we have fifteen schools serving 4,000 kids in Los Angeles.

We built five elementary

schools, five middle schools, and five high schools, and we delivered great education to kids who otherwise were not getting that. After building those schools, I went to Phoenix, Arizona to be an executive director of another charter school.

I’m also a goodwill ambassador to the United Nations, so I will be doing projects on an international basis.

And now I’m back! I’m doing mentorship programs with between Princeton athletics, the Daily Princetonian, and the men and women’s basketball team of my high school and some other schools in New Jersey.

I was going to retire, but I have more chapters to write and to live, so I came back home to do it.

DP: Are there any qualities that Princeton has instilled in you that you, in turn, want to instill in the children that you teach, coach, and administer?

BT: There’s no special pill to achievement. It’s the work ethic, organizational skills, the passion, and the desire to succeed. I want kids to understand that there will be no achievement if you don’t put your dreams and your goals into action.

DP: Do you have any advice for current Princetonians and student-athletes?

BT: It’s about people and interpersonal skills. It’s important to know and meet as many people as possible, and to understand that there will be many obstacles, but that’s all a part of the journey. Be good human beings, and just go for it. There will be a lot of transitions in life, but if you build the fundamentals now, you’ll be able to overcome anything.

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Beyond the Bubble: Brian Taylor ‘84, former NBA player and educator

By Miranda Hasty staff writer

After a notable collegiate and professional basketball career, Brian Taylor ’84 has returned to Princeton to direct new mentorship programs between on campus groups and students from neighboring New Jersey towns. He sat down with the Daily Princetonian to talk about his experience as a student-athlete and a professional basketball player and what he is doing after his retirement.

The Daily Princetonian: Where are you from and how did you get into basketball?

Brian Taylor ’84: I’m from Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

Basketball was a sport, in which Perth Amboy had several different leagues. Even as a kid, they had a lot of recreation leagues. But it all O N TA P

started in elementary school where we had a physical education period. Our teacher taught us fundamentals of sports, and one sport they spent a lot of time on was basketball. So I learned the fundamentals early on and loved it. Our public housing had a recreation center, where I was allowed to go and play after I finished my homework. That’s where it all started, playing in school and after school.

DP: What led you to play at Princeton?

BT: I had a pretty outstanding high school career. I was a high school All-American, and I was sought out by over a hundred colleges for football and basketball. It just so happened that the legendary Pete Carril reached out to me and recruited me. I See TAYLOR page 5

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“Be god human beings, and just go for it,” advices Brian Taylor ‘84 to Princetonian students.

On Tap with Vojislav Mitrovic

By David Liu sports editor

Junior goalkeeper and co-captain Vojislav Mitrovic and the Princeton water polo team (11-6 overall) are on a roll this season. Despite losing a few close early games, the Tigers are determined to defend their CWPA Eastern Conference Championship.

Former conference defensive player of the week, Mitrovic sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss water polo, traveling, and his future outlook.

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Vojislav Mitrovic is co-captain of the men’s water polo team.

The Daily Princetonian: How is this season going?

Vojislav Mitrovic: Currently the season is going well. Usually, the Princeton water polo team is known for progressing through the season and peaking at the CWPA Eastern Champion-

ships; our goal is to make the NCAA tournament at the end of the year.

At the same time, we are still in a process of synchronizing our plays and playing more like a team. Our strength right now is that we always have someone standing out when the team needs it.

DP: How do you view your leadership role on the team?

VM: For me, it’s a balance between knowing when to lead and letting my teammates be leaders in the moment themselves.

DP: Can you describe the team mentality this season?

VM: We see each other as brothers, and at the end of the day, it comes down to playing as a family. We know that no team in the program has won back-to-

back championships. To do that, we have to play for one another, not just ourselves.

DP: Did you watch the Olympics?

VM: Because I’m Serbian, I really enjoyed watching my home country play tennis, basketball, and water polo. In particular, with water polo, it was really nice to see them get together and improve throughout the course of the Olympic Games.

DP: What are major aspects of your identity beyond water polo?

VM: I am currently an ARCA in [Rockefeller College] and executive director of the yearbook.

Combined with junior year independent work, I’ve got a full plate.

DP: What pushes you to

maintain such a busy schedule?

VM: The bottom line is that I’ve had a really hectic schedule since I was 15 – practicing eight hours each day for my club and national team. Currently, I am involved in so many things because I want to give back to Princeton after all that the school has given to me. This semester, I’m going all in.

DP: In the past two years, how has your transition to the United States been?

VM: When I arrived on campus two years ago, I knew that I would be the only Serbian on campus. So, I personally clicked with [senior co-captain] Jovan Jeromic because he has a mindset that aligns with mine. When I came to campus, I didn’t expect See ON TAP page 5

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BALLROOM DANCE

Princeton Ballroom Dance Club: Small yet full of talents

By Claire Coughlin staff writer

Founded in 1983 by the late dancer and volunteer instructor Neil Clover, the Princeton Ballroom Dance Club was established with the goal of promoting both social and competitive ballroom dancing on campus.

Current club president and senior Steven Tsai said that one of the best parts of the group is that it is a “dance club, but also a sports club, which means we don’t have to host auditions, so if you want to learn, all you have to do is come to our practices.”

Most of PBDC’s members come in with little-to-no experience, so the club truly encourages a friendly and pleasant environment for those who simply wish to learn the skill.

The PBDC teaches international, standard, and Latin style dances, which include waltz, foxtrot, quickstep, tango, Viennese waltz, rumba, cha-cha, samba, jive, and Paso Doble.

The club uniquely consists of both undergraduate and graduate students, but comparatively speaking, Princeton’s team is rather small as the University’s

graduate school has fewer students than many of the other competing schools. For example, the University of Pennsylvania’s ballroom club is the largest student group on its campus because many of its members come from its many graduate schools.

While the Princeton team is relatively small, the club holds a tremendous amount of talent.

The team has about 15 veterans from last year and approximately 25 newbies, with a near-perfect gender ratio for couple dances.

Last year, two then-junior dancers, Frank Jiang and Ya-Sheng Lin, won first place medals in the Novice Ballroom Dance and the InterVarsity Dance Competitions at the England Blackpool Championships, the largest ballroom competition in the world.

On Saturday, Oct. 8, Princeton is set to host the Sixth Annual Ballroom Dance Competition in Dillon Gymnasium. When asked how the Princeton team matches up to the competition, Tsai said, “In past competitions, our members have done really well in terms of our members being able to place consistently and also move on to the higher levels.” Sophomore team cap-

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tain Joshua Khuvis is very excited to be competing in the annual competition for his second time. Previously limited to just the cha-cha, Khuvis is thrilled to also be dancing in the samba event and is “really looking forward to moving up to the bronze round” of the tournament this weekend. Tsai is psyched for the newbies, who are lucky enough to experience the “home-court advantage” at Dillon this weekend and watch some “really talented dancers.” He recalled his first competition as a freshman, when seniors encouraged him to compete in dances that he didn’t think he was adequately prepared for. This was when he realized how well the team practices and coaches prepped him for competition.

Tsai encouraged Princeton students to attend the competition because of the high-quality dancing that “you might not otherwise get to see or you might otherwise have to pay for.” Doors open at 8:30 a.m., but the best dancing will start around 6 p.m., when the championships begin.

Best of luck to all the Tigers dancing this weekend!

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