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To “personify Japan” remains the goal of the program “Walk in U.S., Talk on Japan,” according to Professor Tomohiko Taniguchi of the Keio University Graduate School of System Design and Management.

In a small room in Jones Hall on Thursday, a fourperson panel gathered to discuss this program, as well as the overall political and cultural bond between the United States and Japan.

Taniguchi, who attended the University on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1991 and 1992, moderated the panel. Taniguchi currently works as a Special Adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet.

Founded in 2014 by Abe, the program “Walk in U.S., Talk on Japan” tours the United States with a diverse panel of Japanese citizens.

The organization’s mission is to encourage Americans to examine their connection with Japan.

Of the four members of the panel discussion, Paul Kazuo Okura spoke first.

The president of CMIT Solutions of Southern Westchester, N.Y., Okura worked

in international banking with the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ and the Bank of New York Mellon for more than 30 years.

Okura discussed his desire to combat negative misconceptions about Japan’s economy and business.

“Japan is a very attractive and extremely profitable market for many foreign companies, due to a large population base and ample disposable income,” said Okura.

Following Okura, Jun Uchigami, a translator and writer of international news scripts for Kyodo News in Tokyo, spoke about the evolution of women’s status in Japan. Originally a TV anchor, director, and reporter for several TV stations, Uchigami acknowledged that male culture in Japan has dominated business and politics for decades.

However, Uchigami also asserted that the young women of the world are “very active and powerful,” adding that she’s confident women will soon break the glass ceiling.

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The Warrior Scholar Program consists of one- to two-week training programs intended to introduce veterans to academia and to college life.

U. welcomes first year of Warrior Scholar Program

By Benjamin Ball contributor

A new nonprofit organization has marched its way onto campus this year, emphasizing a focus on developing new leaders: The Warrior Scholar Project.

As a national nonprofit, the Warrior Scholar Project focuses on helping GIs and Veterans transition into college life and make full use of their skills in the civilian setting of academia. Many of the veterans assisted by the project have been on active duty for four or five years minimum, and some are retired after 20 to 30 years of active duty.

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Victoria Yu and Jes Norman are the two most recent additions to the Carl A. Fields Center staff.

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This July, the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding welcomed two new faces to its staff. Jes Norman and Victoria Yu are three months into their time at the University, but they are already making huge strides in promoting diversity and understanding on campus.

Tennille Haynes, the Director of the Fields Center, has nothing but praise for the two.

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and these really complex texts, but the result, it’s kind of built into the curriculum.

It turned many people, including myself, on to the subject.”

The program hosted at Princeton took place during the last week of June and was attended by 15 active duty service members from the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. University faculty led classes, daily study sessions, and writing workshops during the week; workshops also focused on helping the veterans to better prepare for and navigate both the college search and financial aid processes.

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The project consists of a one- or two-week immersive academic boot camp; these boot camps are hosted at many of the top universities in the country, from Yale to the University of Chicago.

This year, the program has come to Princeton for the first time.

“I took the one-week course that focused on the humanities,” said Tyler Eddy ’21, a participant at Princeton. “As a STEM major, that really opened my eyes to that world. A lot of people would think it’d be difficult, you know, to take all these veterans who don’t have much of an education and throw them into, like, Herodotus

“Both have been working hard and really engaging more with students,” she said.

“They’re doing an amazing job at helping to provide a space that is welcoming and inclusive, as well as creating that community that we thrive for at the Fields Center.”

Jes Norman Just three months in, Norman has been influential in catalyzing greater intersectional appreciation. At the See CAF page 2

Columnist Jared Shulkin asks us to reconsider how we rank colleges, and contributing columnist Rachel Kennedy advocates for a different view of the NFL protests. PAGE 4

On Thursday, the University Art Museum hosted a discussion panel on the design and functionality of the new Lewis Arts Complex, part of the new Arts and Transit neighborhood on the southern edge of campus. The panel discussed the architectural conceptions of form and function that Lewis Center for the Arts designer Steven Holl used, as well as the ways in which the Lewis Center interacts with its users and the existing Princeton campus.

University Art Museum director and discussion moderator James Steward introduced the three panelists in order of appearance: Ron McCoy, university architect since 2008; Paul Goldberger, architecture critic and educator; and Monica Ponce de León, Dean of the University School of Architecture.

McCoy opened the discussion by giving an architectural background for the Lewis Center from the perspective of function, movement, and University tradition. He explained that the Lewis Center, at 23 acres, is the largest physical development the university has ever developed.

It is expected to serve 150–250 patrons per event at 50 events per year.

The Lewis Center serves as two different academic homes, for both the Department of Music and the Lewis Center for the Arts, which encompasses theater and dance.

Though the Lewis Center is divided into three sections based on these disciplinary distinctions, they are connected by a below-grade forum which “is meant to be a space discovered and used by all students” and reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the arts.

McCoy discussed the connections that the Lewis Center draws between itself and the existing University campus.

He showed how the Lewis Center continues the tradition of portholes and passageways on campus in a new and refreshing way, explaining how it reimagines the dimensionality of old campus.

In his comments, McCoy diagrammed how Blair Arch is geometrically anticipated by the Lewis Arts Tower and how the Lewis Center Black Box is based on Richardson Auditorium.

In addition, McCoy noted, the Lewis Center’s outside courtyard is constructed “in the tradition of three-sided courtyards that are tradition on Princeton’s campus,” such as McCosh Courtyard.

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Today on Campus 9 a.m.: Opening of the multi-day Festival of the Arts includes concerts, dance performances, art exhibitions, and community workshops planned in celebration of the new Lewis Center for the Arts complex. Wallace Dance Building and Theater.

By Hannah Wong contributor

The Princeton Poetry Festival, though still young, will enjoy another beginning — this time in the Lewis Center for the Arts.

On Thursday, Oct. 5, the third biennial Princeton Poetry Festival kicked off the grand opening for the new Lewis Center of the Arts complex with a lyrical bang. Free and open to the public, the Festival brings together a diverse and highly acclaimed group of 12 poets from around the world to the Berlind Theater in the McCarter Theater Center. During the event, which will continue on Oct. 6, the poets read their work aloud and share their experiences in discussion panels called Verse and Adversity.

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people, presented on his experience as a sake sommelier. To the laughter of the audience, he began his speech in Spanish and ended his presentation with the line that “Koji came to here to talk about koji,” an essential element in sake.

When an audience member asked the panelists about the current political climate’s effect on their respective industries, Okura asserted that the Japanese love Americans and that relations between nations are not solely about leadership.

Taniguchi spoke, too, of how the alliance between Japan and the United States

runs much deeper than recent politics.

“In Japan, you may find an accumulated memory’s knowledge, wider and deeper, of the United States than you could find in any other country,” said Taniguchi.

In an interview with The Daily P r i nce t on i a n ,Ta n ig u ch i expressed the difficulties that have defined his career as a foreign policy speechwriter. Having to cater to many different governmental departments and heads of state, he noted, has often proved trying.

Taniguchi also emphasized once more the significance of the United States-Japan friendship and the hardship that has been needed to achieve that

bond.

“Without the interventions made by the Americans those days, Japan’s prosperity, Korea’s prosperity, Chinese prosperity, the prosperity of Asia we now see couldn’t have materialized and those are the things you could easily forget ironically,” said Taniguchi. “If you could try to remember why and how your parents’ generations intervened into those conflicts and shed blood, sweat, and tears, then you could perhaps easily imagine how important the alliance relationship is between Japan and the United States.”

The talk took place from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Jones Hall on Oct. 5.

Although Norman has only been on campus for three months, she already feels a great connection to the students and the various perspectives that they bring.

“This school year, I really hope to create more space for storytelling because it can be so powerful,” Norman said. “The more that we engage in conversations about our stories and our experiences, the more that we are able to understand and connect more with others.”

State University and received her master’s degree in higher education and student affairs.

For the past three months, Yu has also worked as the student transitions and mentoring program coordinator. So far, she has contributed to Orientation events as well as Fields Day planning to welcome first-year and returning students.

“I’ll also be helping out with senior celebrations, such as pan-African graduation celebration and Latinx graduation celebration,” Yu said. These events simultaneously commemorate students of color in the graduating class, as well as these students’ cultural backgrounds.

One goal in particular that Yu hopes to accomplish in the coming months is to meet more students and learn their stories.

“I’m really hoping to support students in any capacity that I can,” Yu said. “I’m hoping that with the Fields Center, we can increase visibility and accessibility and just make the Center more approachable for students to come visit and share ideas that they have.”

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Fields Center, Norman serves as the education and outreach program coordinator. Her main project is the Fields Fellows Program, which encourages peer education and awareness of various intersecting topics on campus.

“I was born and raised in California,” Norman said. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University, Norman moved to New York to pursue a master’s degree in higher education at Syracuse University.

In addition to work on the Fellows Program, Norman also plays a major role in organizing the Conversation Circles.

“Each Sunday, students from the Fellows Program facilitate conversations on campus,” Norman said. These events are held weekly and encourage discussions and dialogues about personal identities, systemic injustices, and everything in between.

Victoria Yu Yu serves as the main coordinator for the Princeton University Mentoring Program. This program focuses on helping students from minority groups transition culturally, academically, and socially to the University. Freshmen and upperclassmen are paired together and are encouraged to have active mentor-mentee relationships during the academic school year.

Hailing from Columbia, Mo., Yu attended the University of Missouri for her undergraduate studies. Following graduation, she attended Pennsylvania

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“It’s a race against time,” said Her Excellency Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, president of the Republic of Mauritius, about the African continent’s efforts to conserve its unique biodiversity and the rich tradition of natural medicine that follows from it.

On Oct. 5, the University hosted Gurib-Fakim as part of Campus Dining’s Food and Agriculture Initiative, a multi-faceted effort to explore the complexities of global food-related consumption, production, and distribution. Gurib-Fakim discussed the subtle connections between the changing climate, the rapid loss of biodiversity in Africa, and the annual reduction in crop yields, showing how the conservation of plant and animal life in Africa offers a promising solution.

This is what happens when you have a biologist leading the nation, interjected Daniel Rubenstein, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University. As director of the Program in Environmental Studies, Rubenstein is one of the intellectual forces driving the cross-disciplinary initiative.

According to Gurib-Fakim, the only practical way of ensuring food security in the future is to protect life on land now, the conservation of which is most threatened by the degradative effects of climate change and anthropogenic actions.

Today, only two percent of native forests remain, and many African plant species are going along with the land, disappearing before we can learn about their medicinal properties and use them for pharmaceuticals, according to Gurib-Fakim.

In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Gurib-

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Fakim revealed that one way to combat those effects is to diversify our food palate.

“According to our current food pattern, 90 percent of our needs come from fifteen plants and five species of animals,” said Gurib-Fakim. “Yet, there are about 250,000 plant species on this planet.” The untapped potential explicit in this statistic makes Gurib-Fakim’s bold proposition seem like a natural recourse. Having a plant species repository cultivated away from typical food resources would be an important backup source in the case that regular harvests yield less, added Gurib-Fakim. This conservation, Gurib-Fakim quickly indicated, is not a project limited to the Republic of Mauritius or the continent of Africa — rather, Her Excellency articulated the need for a universal biodiversity index to document all plant species.

In addition to threatening food systems, the fourdegree temperature rise that is expected by the end of the century will bring an economic loss that “Africa simply cannot behold,” said Gurib-Fakim. As such, reforming food systems to nourish the people and the environment is key to meeting the sustainable development goals of eradicating hunger, addressing climate change, preserving life on land, and not least of all, promoting sustainable economic growth.

Gurib-Fakim’s lecture ended as it began, linking the venerable African culture with the pressing sustainability issues of the day, closing her speech with an African proverb: “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

The lecture took place in McCosh 50 at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 5.

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What’s the deal with college rankings?

Jared Shulkin columnist

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n Sept. 12, 2017, U.S. News and World Report released its annual Best College ranking lists for 2018. For the seventh straight year, Princeton has topped these rankings. But what — if anything — should we as an institution be proud of?

For Adam Conover — host and executive producer of the show “Adam Ruins Everything” on truTV — these rankings aren’t to be trusted. In a segment posted to the show’s YouTube channel this August, Adam claims that these flawed rankings have “rewarded schools that lie, cheat, and manipulate the system,” citing U.S. News and World Report’s inception as a “popularity contest” in 1983 and its current use of a complex formula with subjectively weighted categories.

Has the University cheated its way to the top of the rankings? Given the emphasis that the University’s faculty and students place on integrity, including through the Honor Code, I personally believe it’s unlikely; however, there is certainly incentive to do so.

To better understand the significance of U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings, we must explore its methodology.

According to the organization’s website, U.S. News collects data from each school that it ranks “in up to 15 areas related to academic excellence.” The Best College rankings assess academic quality using statistical indicators from seven general categories in particular: “first-year student retention and graduation of students, peer assessment, faculty resources, admissions selectivity, financial resources, alumni giving, and graduation rate performance, which is the difference between the proportion of students expected to graduate and the proportion who do.” Because U.S. News only evaluates academic quality, nonacademic considerations — like campus safety, athletics, and access to housing — are not factored, according to the organization’s website.

These school-specific data are then entered into a formula with weighted categories, based on U.S. News’s own judgments about the significance of each measure of quality. Colleges are then ranked using the overall numerical output from this formula.

Change to a school’s rankings from one year to the next happens for one of two reasons — either the school has “improved” in one of the seven categories mentioned above, or a slight change in the formula works in favor of that school. Per U.S. News, re-

finements in the methodology are made for just one reason: improvement. Following the ongoing debate on education quality metrics closely, U.S. News considers and implements better ideas as they arise. For example, the rankings have recently “put far less emphasis on input measures of quality — which look at characteristics of the students, faculty, and other resources going into the educational process — and more emphasis on output measures, which look at the results of the educational process, such as six-year graduation and firstyear student retention rates.” This change has paralleled the greater emphasis put on results by educators, researchers, and policymakers when assessing the quality of educational programs.

But where exactly does the information on each school come from? According to U.S. News, an extensive questionnaire is sent each year to all accredited fouryear colleges and universities to be filled out. This process of selfassessment undoubtedly creates space for unmonitored dishonesty. For example, when submitting these questionnaires, schools looking to benefit undeservedly could fabricate their responses in order to receive a boost in the rankings.

Are the contents of this questionnaire kept in mind as the

University Office of Admissions carefully selects students to admit? As the Office of Alumni Affairs plans events and solicits donations? As the Undergraduate Financial Aid Office decides how to allocate its financial resources?

If we understand the methodology behind these rankings, what’s stopping us from tweaking our practices to produce the greatest results?

It’s clear how schools that cheat or manipulate the system can easily benefit in the rankings, but what’s incentivizing these behaviors? In his video segment, Conover mentions that schools are under intense pressure to keep their rankings up because if they fail to do so, schools’ number of applications received, research funding, and alumni donations may all decrease considerably.

Generally, the U.S. News Best College rankings carry as much weight as we give them; nonetheless, until we all collectively see through the subjective methodology and ease of manipulation, the rankings will — for better or for worse — retain some level of significance for universities across the country. Rightfully or not, the University sits at the top and we’re certainly reaping the benefits.

Jared Shulkin is a sophomore from Weston, Fla. He can be reached at jshulkin@princeton.edu.

The NFL protests were not procivil rights, they were anti-Trump

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t a rally in Huntsville, Ala., last month, President Trump urged NFL team owners to fire players who choose to kneel during the national anthem. The next day, more than 200 players protested during the anthem by joining arms or kneeling.

While I respect these players’ efforts, I am cautious of giving the NFL too much credit. I viewed the protests as more opportunistic than earnest, as the NFL is now comfortable with Colin Kaepernick’s method of kneeling during the national anthem, as long as the protest is not about a racial issue.

Kneeling this past Sunday signified an alliance to Roger Goodell, Robert Kraft, and other members of the NFL establishment who criticized President Trump. President Trump’s comments essentially shamed players for exercising their right to free speech, an ideal most Americans rally behind, regardless of skin color or socioeconomic status.

Speaking out against a President with a 39 percent approval rating is easy.

Speaking out against police brutality and racial inequality is not. Colin Kaepernick’s journey through the NFL stands as a more telling example of the NFL’s commitment to civil rights than the recent anthem protests. Reviving the legacy of black athletes protesting during the national anthem, Kaepernick had stated that he refused to stand for a flag that does not protect all of its citizens equally, citing instances of police brutality against people of color as what prompted him to kneel.

Many commentators, coaches, and players bashed Colin Kaepernick for using football as a venue for “political” protest. The backlash that Kaepernick received had a major impact on his career, revealing how little the NFL truly wants its players to be outspoken members of society. Kaepernick did not play most of last season, and he is currently not signed to an NFL team as a result. A few NFL players joined him in protest last year, but most remained silent through the season.

These players remained silent until protesting the flag shifted from a racial statement to an antiTrump one. Those same coaches and players who chided Kaepernick’s racially minded protest last season linked arms and knelt on Sunday. Their willingness to participate this time in a “political” demonstration does not speak to a growth in conviction, but rather increased convenience.

Actively participating in racial politics is more controversial at this point in U.S. politics and culture than speaking out against Trump. None of the players who participated last Sunday have been benched. None of the players who participated last Sunday have had their contracts reviewed.

They did the same thing Kaepernick did; yet it appears that because he was protesting strictly along racial lines, his outcome was a bit different.

Trump’s comments took the risk out of protesting for many players, but also gave the NFL the chance to appease communities of color by emulating Kaepernick’s approach, while echoing recent rallies from the alt-right

that have defended free speech.

As America’s sport, football was smart to find a way to represent varied opinions held by the people of the United States all in one day.

Well played does not mean brave, however. The protests this weekend were not as much of a risk as players are touting them to be; but, at least these players are doing something. If there is any corporation with the ability to influence the U.S. public, it is the NFL. I will be looking on to see whether the NFL’s socially conscious streak endures. I have a feeling that as national anthem protests fade from being trendy hashtags, the NFL will take note and put its idealistic moment behind. These demonstrations may have appeared to be encouraging, but they do not signify the NFL growing into a champion for movements such as Black Lives Matter or any other platform for racial equality.

Rachel Kennedy is a first-year from Dedham, Mass. She can be reached at rk19@princeton.edu.

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tary by referencing historic architect Ralph Adams Cram’s 1911 master plan of campus, which he described as “classical principles held together with the vocabulary of functional strategies.”

“Steven has done this with modern architecture,” he concluded.

McCoy received his Master’s in Architecture in 1980 from the University and has worked in the Philadelphia-based architecture and planning firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates.

Next to offer commentary was Paul Goldberger, who focused on the duality of the Lewis Center, describing it as “a campus within a campus, a destination on its own with an urbanism of its own, reflecting how Princeton is a collection of outdoor rooms.”

He explained that architecturally, the building is intentionally ambiguous and displays duality in several ways.

Its “conceptual intentions have always been to create a double reading with a strong sculptural independence and a functional support of the pro-

gram,” Goldberger noted.

“It is so beautifully balanced, poised as a community all its own and as a gateway to a larger campus,” Goldberger added.

“He responds to the power of classicism with the power of modernism,” Goldberger said of the Lewis Center’s designer, Steven Holl. “He is deferring to existing conditions, in a way that is never literal, never involves mimicking, but is deeply and profoundly respectful of what’s there,” noted Goldberger.

Goldberger explained that the Lewis Center is unique in its choice of primary users.

“It is not an audience-based project, but a place for the musicians and dancers themselves,” he continued. “It is rare to give serious architectural consideration to a building full of studios and musicians and dancers, one that exists secondarily for audiences and primarily for the creative people themselves.”

Goldberger said that his favorite parts of the Lewis Center are the “beautifully indented staircases” and the music practice rooms, which he described as “wooden instruments behind a curtain wall of glass.”

Goldberger is a current Van-

ity Fair contributor and a former author of The New Yorker Skyline column from 1997 to 2011. He is also a former dean of the Parsons School of Design and Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism recipient.

Ponce de León continued the discussion by explaining the role of the imagination that pervades the new Lewis Center buildings.

“It’s an art that materializes the aspirations of our community, an architecture [projecting] that which could be. He actually opens up possibilities for the rest of us to imagine, what being interdisciplinary could be and should be,” Ponce de León explained.

She commented on Holl, saying that he “understood how to balance identity for the arts, with the necessity of belonging.” She added, “He does this not through the materials, but truly through scale, size, and arrangement of spaces. It’s not just the stone and glass, but the space, the volume. It’s really what we inhabit, as humans, every day.”

She encouraged students to “explore these relationships and the circulation of the building.”

Ponce de León is a former faculty member at the Univer-

sity of Michigan and Harvard University, and is a pioneer in robotic technology for architectural fabrication.

The discussion also covered the way in which users and the community will move through and participate with the Lewis Center.

“It says to art students, we treat you seriously and with respect. [It] in turn encourages students to take their work seriously. It tells you that you must do your best,” Goldberger explained. “The building can project that air of seriousness without being intimidating or stiff. The materials are not soft and cushy, so it says that the art you produce in here should also be rigorous,” he added.

Ponce de León explained that participation in such a building is sometimes just stopping to wonder at it. “It cannot be decoded quickly,” he said.

McCoy further elaborated on Ponce de León’s point, stating that visitors are often stymied by the Lewis Center’s opaque glass elements, which deviate from standard conceptions of windows.

“The building puts you in a translucent space that forces you to move inward, and later, into transparency that causes you to move outward,” McCoy

said.

McCoy explained that the Lewis Center has also created a welcoming entrance to campus.

“You always felt before, that you felt that you shouldn’t walk through campus [from the Princeton Station], but up around campus. Now it feels like there is a real way in there, that has all the dignity of a great entrance to campus.”

Planning proposals for the University’s Arts and Transit neighborhood began in 2012.

The Lewis Center is on track to receive a LEED silver rating, and is one of the most sustainable buildings on campus. It’s almost entirely heated and cooled by a geothermal field under Baker Field.

The discussion took place on Thursday, Oct. 5, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in McCosh 10. The event was open to all members of the Princeton community.

The Lewis Arts Complex officially opened on Thursday, Oct. 5. Opening activities, including open dance rehearsals, concerts, and spoken word poetry, will be taking place through Sunday, Oct. 8 as part of the Lewis Center’s Festival of the Arts. The schedule can be found at lcaopening.princeton. edu/schedule.

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“There’s an element of intentional baptism by fire that they’re asking these students to do, which will really serve them well as they move on to their next institution,” said Dr. Keith Shaw, one of the co-creators of the academic writing components of the course and the University’s director of transfer programs.

“There was a four-hour workshop session, which was a combination of taking the texts they had been reading and talking about it in the sessions with the faculty and thinking about how to break them down as philosophical or political arguments,” Shaw explained. He noted that the students were also asked to take positions on competing arguments, a skill that is typically only required for 300- or 400-level classes at the University.

“It was really high-level work,” Shaw continued.

“What we were trying to teach them was the principles of academic argument that they would need to be able to execute on the page.”

More than just getting students re-accustomed to academia, the program seeks to make full use of the skills that students developed during their time in the military.

The organization believes

that leadership skills, time management skills, and life experience, if honed properly, can give the veterans an edge in the academic world.

Indeed, past mere academic tools or assistance with civilian adjustment, the organization’s primary goal is to provide hope.

“As someone who started in the Marines, it really opened my eyes to where I could go to school and what I could be able to do,” Eddy added. “The list of schools that I applied to was because of [the] Warrior Scholars Program,” he said. “A big part of what they do is open the eyes for military members that it’s realistic to be accepted to these types of institutions.”

“It’s one piece in a broader effort... that Princeton is taking very seriously to increase the presence of student veterans on campus,” Shaw added. “We had five who matriculated this year and we are very excited about being able to increase that cohort going forward,” he continued. “It has been a really great way to consider how to diversify the student body socioeconomically,” he noted.

Of the five veterans who matriculated to Princeton this year, two were a part of the Warrior Scholar program. The other student that participated did not respond to request for comment.

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Rodríguez-Núñez, and So- tool in developing broad, nizer of the Festival, which lie. The day concluded with sophisticated perspectives. is unique in its showcasing Pinsky and musician Lau“Poetry is a way of helping of poets from a variety of rence Hobgood performing us understand who we are backgrounds and cultures.

PoemJazz, a collaborative and what we’re doing here,” “As a poet myself, I spend act that brings together po- he said. “It incorporates hisa lot of time traveling the etry and jazz music. tory, sociology, psychiatry, world, often attending poOn Oct. 6, the festival physics and chemistry. It’s etry festivals in far-flung will begin at 2 p.m. with got it all!” spots,” Muldoon wrote in an readings from Pope, Ristović , Every semester, Muldoon email. “I meet a lot of poets and Sjón, move into a panel teaches an advanced poetry on my travels, and I sign discussion with Knibbe, class, one of several poetry the really interesting ones Madzirov, Pinsky, Pope, Ro- courses offered to students to come to Princeton.” dríguez-Núñez, and Solie, via the Lewis Center’s creThe roster includes four and end with readings from ative writing program. The poets from the United Kassir, Longley, and Zang. construction of the new States: Eleanor Goodman, The poems themselves complex will usher in an Amal Kassir, Robert Pinsky, probe a multitude of dif- era of unprecedented access and Jacquelyn Pope. On the ferent topics, from mother- to the arts at the University, international side, the Fes- hood and inclement weath- and Muldoon expressed entival features Zang Di from er to estranged romantic thusiasm over the elevated China, Hester Knibbe from relationships, political dis- quality of future artistic edthe Netherlands, Michael unity, and bedbugs. During ucation and opportunities.

Longley from Northern Ire- the event on Thursday, the “I’m very proud to have land, Nikola Madzirov from poets occasionally recited had a role in developing Macedonia, Ana Ristović from their works in their native the Lewis Center,” he said.

Serbia, Víctor Rodríguez- languages, in addition to “As its first Chair, I had to Núñez from Cuba, Sjón providing English transla- think through the ideas befrom Iceland, and Karen So- tions. In addition, the Fes- hind much of what is now lie from Canada. tival’s Verse and Adversity a reality. It’s very exciting.

“I like the fact that poetry discussion panels explore Princeton students are now takes so many forms around how the poets navigate cri- spectacularly well served the world,” said Muldoon, ses and disasters in the con- not only in the courses noting that poetry can in- text of their profession as they’re able to take but in clude “spells, prayers, curs- writers. the settings in which they es, [and] political stump Poetry is an ancient and take them.” speeches.” enduring literary art that The festival took place The Festival commenced emerged hand-in-hand with yesterday and will continue at noon on Oct. 5 with po- the invention of literature today from 2 to 6 p.m. in etry readings from all 12 itself. When asked about the Berlind Theater and Mcpoets and a panel discus- its significance as an ar- Carter Theater. sion with Kassir, Longley, tistic medium in both the Ristović , Sjón, and Zang. This Princeton community and

ON CAMPUS

University purchases 48 new Steinway & Sons pianos for new Lewis Center for the Arts complex

By Ariel Chen staff writer

When the new Lewis Center for the Arts officially opens this weekend, 48 new Steinway & Sons pianos will be among the complex’s new features.

Selected and purchased over the course of two years, these instruments were specifically chosen from a pool of 200 possible instrumentswy University faculty and students, according to the University Office of Communications.

Andrew Or GS and Nico Toy ’18, both in the computer science department, traveled with music lecturers Margaret Kampmeier and Jennifer Tao to select the pianos. Beginning at the Steinway factory in Queens, N.Y., the group also tested pianos in Lawrenceville, N.J. and Philadelphia, Pa.

Along the way, they were able to observe the piano assembly process — a task that takes a year — in detail.

To build a piano, wood is conditioned over the course of several months and molded into a grand piano’s familiar curved shape. The piano is then constructed around the curved frame.

“I thought it was interesting how much of the process is entirely handmade versus put into machines,” Or said, according to a press release.

Henry Valoris, production manager for the University’s music department, said in the press release that the piano selection process began in 2015, noting that the instruments have slowly been narrowed down to the final purchases at present.

Toy and Valoris did not re-

spond to requests for comment at the time of publication.

The pianos were tested in two rooms, in order to hear their range of expression in different environments.

“The qualities that we are looking for would be the pianos that have a wide range of expression,” Tao said in the press release.

The pianos will allow greater opportunities for independent practice, as well as complement teaching in the arts.

Student groups such as the Princeton Pianists Ensemble will remain in the Woolworth Center for Musical Studies in the near future, according to PPE president Kevin Zhang ’18. However, PPE is certainly not limited to Woolworth, and several PPE members have already used the new practice

rooms and pianos.

Gloria Yin ’18, PPE President emerita, said “the fact that there are many more practice rooms with shiny new pianos makes a big difference.”

“The pianos are in amazing condition, and the practice rooms are really spacious, with a view,” PPE Social Chair Tony Chen ’20 added.

The pianos are located in a variety of settings, from teaching studios to practice rooms to rehearsal halls to dance studios to theaters. Their presence should enhance the ability of the entire Lewis arts complex to promote artistic life on the University campus.

Four of the pianos will be in action this weekend when the Princeton Pianists Ensemble performs on Saturday, Oct. 7 at 9 p.m. in the Lee Music Performance and Rehearsal Room.

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Kanoff eyes all time yardage record as Tigers host the Hoyas

By Owen Tedford staff writer

This weekend, Princeton football (2-1 overall) heads up to face its final non-conference opponent, Georgetown (1-3), on Powers Field at Princeton Stadium; kickoff is set for 1 p.m. on Saturday. Last year when these teams encountered one other, Princeton’s defense was dominant, forcing five turnovers and only allowing one third down conversion on 12 attempts.

These teams have only played eight times, a series that the Tigers lead 7-1. However, the one time the teams met on Powers Field, the Hoyas got away with the victory.

Princeton will rely heavily on its passing attack again this week, as it has been tremendously successful so far this season. Senior quarterback Chad Kanoff will likely continue throwing the ball as well as he has so far this season, closing in on the second-place spot on the all-time passing yards list at Princeton (Kanoff is 246 yards away from Matt Verbit’s mark set from 2001–04). Kanoff was also named a semifinalist for the William V. Campbell

Trophy earlier this week.

The trophy is one of the top scholar-athlete honors in college football, with candidates required to demonstrate a minimum GPA of 3.2, outstanding football ability as a firstteam player, and strong leadership qualities.

Kanoff’s favorite targets this season so far have been junior wide receiver Stephen Carlson and junior wide receiver Jesper Horsted. Carlson has 292 receiving yards so far this season and Horsted has 262, marks that are good enough to put them at second and fourth in the Ivy League, respectively. In addition, both have caught four touchdown passes so far this year, including a three-touchdown performance from Carlson in the season opener against San Diego. Both Carlson and Horsted could have chances at 1,000-yard receiving seasons this year, something that has only been done three times in the history of Princeton football.

Last week against Harvard, Georgetown struggled to hold onto the ball, turning it over four times in the first half. This weekend, look for an active Princeton defense to

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Senior quarterback Chad Kanoff is 246 yards away from the all-time passing yards record set by Matt Verbit ‘04

try to put pressure on the Hoyas’ offense and force them into making mistakes. In particular, keep an eye on junior linebacker Mike Wagner, who has had back-to-back, multiplesack games over the last two weeks for the Tigers.

His sack total of four has

tied him at the top of the Ivy League for most sacks so far this season.

If you are unable to make the trip down to the stadium for Saturday’s game, there are a few other ways that you can watch the game. NBC Sports Philadelphia will be carrying

it live and both ESPN3 and the Ivy League Network will have live streams available through their online platforms. Radio coverage will also be provided on 103.3 FM, which can be accessed through the TuneIn Radio application.

MEN’S TENNIS

Men’s tennis set to host threeday Farnsworth Invitational

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Junior Jimmy Wasserman expects success as he competes in the number 2 singles draw this weekend.

By Molly Milligan staff writer

Tennis might be a spring sport if you consider the NCAA’s championship calendar, but you can still find the men’s tennis team competing this weekend on the southeastern edge of campus.

The Princeton men’s tennis team will take on players from 14 different schools

as it hosts the three-day Farnsworth Invitational — named after tennis alumnus and naval lieutenant Ted Farnsworth ’84 — Oct. 6–8 at the Lenz Tennis Center.

The three-time defending NCAA champions, the Virginia Cavaliers, are among the schools playing in the tournament, so the Tigers and all other challengers should expect some strong competition. This will be

Tweet of the Day “Congratulations to @minnesotalynx on another championship. Winning is hard - and you keep finding a way to be the best. Mad respect” Courtney Banghart (@ CoachBanghart), basketball

the fourth tournament the Tigers have played this fall and conditions should be ideal throughout the weekend.

Athletes will be competing in four singles draws and three doubles draws. Senior Diego Vives, junior Jimmy Wasserman, and first-years Kabir Sarita and Noah Agarwal are set to compete on behalf of the host Tigers.

Sarita and Agarwal, who

will play at number 3 and 4 singles respectively, have each had initial struggles in their starts to collegiate play, falling in a few close matches. The underclassmen will look to build on their fall seasons against largely regional competition at Lenz.

Wasserman also had a tough outing two weeks ago, finishing 0–4 at the Ivy Plus Invitational, but will look to turn it around in the number 2 singles draw.

Teammate Vives will also compete in number 2 singles, setting up a potential all-Princeton matchup in the final.

Vives and Sarita will pair up in the number 2 doubles bracket, while Wasserman and Agarwal will see action at number 3 doubles. These new combinations should help head coach Billy Pate to develop more consistent doubles pairings.

So far this fall, the Tigers have been led by first-year Ryan Seggerman and his 6–1 singles record, though he is not set to play this weekend.

Seggerman competed in the top draw for the Tigers at Ivy Plus invitational two weeks ago, and he suffered his first loss of the season on the final day of play, 6–4, 6–3 to Constance de la Bassetiere of Penn State, who is ranked number 18 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Asso-

Stat of the Day

554 yards Junior WRs Jesper Horsted and Stephen Carlson have combined for 554 receiving yards in 3 games.

ciation.

Sophomore Davey Roberts has also put together a rising fall campaign, sitting at 4–3 in singles matches so far. Roberts won his most recent match, 6–0, 6–4 against Vidit Vaghela of Buffalo to close out Ivy Plus.

At the finish of Ivy Plus, Pate was optimistic that three players who had been dealing with injuries would be back to play this weekend. Of those players, sophomores Eduardo Paz and Payton Holden are not scheduled to play in the Farnsworth Invitational, but they may be back on the court next weekend at the ITA Northeast Regional Tournament in New Haven.

Holden started the season strong in tournament play at Duke in mid-September, going 2-2 in singles matches. Senior Luke Gamble, a second-team All-Ivy League honoree in doubles last spring, has yet to compete this school year.

This weekend’s matches will serve as a final tune-up before players head to Connecticut late next week for ITA regionals. Following that event, the Tigers will see action in two more tournaments before the conclusion of the semester.

Play begins Oct. 7 at 8:30 a.m. with two rounds of singles and one round of doubles.

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