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Froman ’85: TPP negotiator, political advisor

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

Michael Froman ’85 studied in the Wilson School before negotiating the TPP. ACADEMICS

Study finds rising middle-aged mortality rates

By Betty Liu contributor

Mortality rates have been increasing for middle-aged white Americans since 1998, according to an Oct. 29 study

by Woodrow Wilson School professors Angus Deaton and Anne Case.

Deaton was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for his work on consumption, poverty and welfare on Oct. 12.

The paper noted that mortality rates had been steadily decreasing for decades prior to 1998, but that this trend reversed for white Americans aged 45-54. No other developed country or racial group in America has seen a similar turnaround.

Morbidity rates – rates of illness and pain – have risen along with mortality rates, according to the paper. Middle-aged white Americans have shown higher levels of drug use for pain, beginning in the 1990s, and they have also seen higher instances of suicide and drug abuse.

This study shows that the major causes of death for middle-aged white Americans are suicide, drug poisoning, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. Though white males among all levels of educational attainment saw an increase in mortality rates, those of a lower educational background saw the most marked increase in mortality rates.

Deaton and Case conducted this study by analyzing See STUDY page 3

STUDENT LIFE

Listserv analysis shows free food distribution

By Christina Sue contributor

Free food is most likely to be distributed on Friday at either Frist Campus Center or at former Murray-Dodge Café, according to an analysis of free food listserv emails conducted by Felix Xiao ’16.

Xiao published a blog post on the Data Science Club website on Sept. 30 predicting where free food is most likely to appear on campus. The article says he analyzed over 900 emails during the 2014-15 academic year using the programming language R. “The chief idea is that there are certain times and locations where the probability of free food is higher, and you

can take the past history of emails and analyze them to come up with which target days are good for finding free food,” Xiao explained.

Findings indicate that Frist and Murray-Dodge have been some of the most popular locations for free food. The results also showed that the listserv experiences more traffic on Fridays than on any other day.

“I didn’t expect that there’d be many more emails sent on a Friday than Monday,” Xiao said. “Why would the weekend mean there’d be more emails sent out? There was nothing that would have led me to expect that.”

Another question that the analysis might answer is See FREE FOOD page 2

Trans-Pacific Partnership According to the United States Trade Representative website, the TPP is a trade agreement that intends to open markets, set high-standard trade rules and address 21st century issues in the global market.

The TPP will eliminate over 18,000 taxes that various countries impose on exports made in the United States, according to the White House, which added that import taxes on U.S. auto products will now be cut in member nations.

Froman said that the TPP is the most ambitious trade agreement in decades, noting the challenge of coordinating

and working a diverse array of 12 developed and developing countries from across the Asian and Pacific regions.

“Collectively, we have set new, higher standards for the global trading system and so we’re breaking new ground in various 21st century areas like digital economy and stateowned enterprises,” he explained. ”We are raising labor and environmental standards around the world with this agreement, and we’re making sure that we tear down barriers to U.S. exports so that our workers and farmers and ranchers here can benefit from the global economy.”

Froman noted estimates that the TPP will produce hundreds of billions of dollars of additional economic activity for the global economy, and it is estimated to increase U.S. exports by over a hundred billion dollars.

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

Faculty meeting approves proposal for new music theater certificate

By Christopher Umanzor contributor

The Committee on the Course of Study recommended approval for an undergraduate certificate in music theater, which was presented by Deputy Dean of the College Elizabeth Colagiuri during the faculty meeting on Monday.

According to the working papers released at the meeting, the certificate would be a collaboration between the Program in Theater and the Department of Music. The proposal explained that the University should not create a music theater track within the certificate program in theater because the University wishes to signal a more robust collaboration between the music and theater units. A certificate program in music theater would signal to prospective students and the world that the University sup-

ports musical theater, the proposal said.

The proposal stated that Stacy Wolf from the Program in Theater is prepared to head the program, but added that someone from another department could follow her.

Because the proposal came from a standing committee, the floor was quickly opened to vote. The faculty unanimously voted to pass the motion with no members opting against.

Dean of the Graduate School Sanjeev Kulkarni also discussed the recent changes in curricula for a series of doctoral programs. Kulkarni particularly suggested adding new courses in Art and Archeology, Chemical and Biological Engineering, East Asian Studies, Electrical Engineering, Finance, Geosciences, Music, Religion, Sociology and the Wilson School.

Kulkarni’s proposal, which also came from a standing

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committee, also received a unanimous vote with no faculty members voting in opposition.

After being called to order

by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, the faculty turned their attention to physics professor A.J. Stewart Smith for special remarks on the late Val L. Fitch, professor of physics emeritus who passed away last February.

“We shall never forget Val Fitch, by any measure the most exceptional scientist and human being,” Smith said as he finished his speech. Eisgruber moved for a moment of silence in name of the late professor.

Registrar Polly Griffin presented the report of opening enrollment for the 2015-2016 academic year. The report includes the sizes of each class as well as their corresponding gender, ethnic and degree candidacy ratios.

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U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman ’85 announced on Oct. 5 that the United States and 11 Pacific Rim Nations had reached an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Froman was nominated by President Barack Obama as the U.S. Trade Representative on May 2, 2013 and stepped into the position on June 19, 2013.

Froman received an A.B. in Public and International Affairs from the Wilson School in 1985. He then earned a Ph.D. in International Relations/Affairs from Oxford University in 1989 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1991.

Economics professor Alan Blinder ’67, who met Froman during the first part of the Clinton administration when Froman was on the National Economic Council Staff under Robert Rubin, said that Fro-

man is very smart and serious.

“He’s very well organized and the kind of person you’d meet and say he’s a very solid citizen, somebody with judgment, who’s trustworthy and has focus,” Blinder added.

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whether it was feasible to live off the free food listserv, Xiao added. He said that on average, the listserv sent out two emails per day. However, further analysis revealed that a third of the days of the school year did not see emails for free food.

Xiao said that the idea for analyzing the free food listserv came from Data Science Club officer Evan Chow ’16.

“We were looking for a fun application of data science to something Princeton-related, and free food is of interest to everyone, I think,” Xiao added.

Xiao’s analysis may see the nature of free food start changing throughout the University, Chow said.

“If people start using Felix’s research a lot, the way free food is distributed around campus and the way it is publicized will change,” Chow said.

He explained that possible outcomes might be that less food left over for the public since people might be more attuned to the food alerts, and that by the time people send out emails, others might be expecting food already.

“The thing about data science is that once you start implementing the findings, the process generating the data itself might change,” Chow explained.

The free food listserv was founded in 2011 by former Undergraduate Student Government president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 and created by former USG IT committee chair Rodrigo Menezes ’13.

Yaroshefsky did not respond to a request for comment.

“Yaro[shefsky] was really into IT projects. One thing that he realized was that a bunch of tech projects had the potential to affect the campus,” Menezes said. “It was really funny, because I didn’t really take it that seriously, because I knew [making the listserv] was going to take me five minutes; it was a listserv, sign me up!”

Menezes said that from that moment, the campus was extremely receptive to the new listserv. He noted that there were at least a dozen posts within the first week the listserv was active.

“It’s so funny, because everyone still loves it!” he added.

As a former member of the IT committee, Menezes added that the listserv could be quite difficult to manage at times, and a surprising amount of effort was needed to manage the emails, especially when people were sending out a lot of emails unrelated to the purpose of the listserv.

USG IT Committee Chair Zachary Liu ’18, who is currently in charge of the listserv, did not respond to a request for comment.

USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said that the listserv itself has not experienced much of any change over the last four years of its existence.

“It’s a very autonomous listserv now, and it’s been running very well,” she said. “I imagine there’s a lot of food waste on campus and the best way to distribute it around campus is to have people use this listserv.”

Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

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mortality data from the Center of Disease Control, and they gathered morbidity data from various national surveys in the United States.

Case did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Deaton explained that he came across this project when looking at general morbidity rates and suicide rates for the American population. He added that he began to look at overall mortality rates and discovered the results that he would eventually publish in the paper.

It is possible that the increase in mortality rate, especially for those with lower education, is tied to economic malaise and the increased availability of pharmaceutical drugs, Deaton said. However, he noted that at this state in the study, these possibilities are purely speculative.

One issue the study raises is addiction to prescription drugs, Deaton said.

“It is important to make sure that pharmaceutical companies behave well and do not give drugs to people who don’t

really need them,” Deaton said.

He added that many effective ways to treat addiction do not currently exist, which can be very devastating for families.

Jonathan Skinner, a professor of economics at Dartmouth who was involved in reviewing the study but was not involved in its research, said that this study is significant because it starkly shows that despite improvements in health care technology, people are still showing declining health.

“It was a brilliant study,” he said. “Case and Deaton are amazing and deserve to be recognized. Princeton is very lucky to have them.”

Deaton said that he and Case plan on continuing this research by investigating the geographical distribution of increasing mortality rates and the relationship it has with economic decline. He added that they will look at other age groups in future studies.

This research was carried out under a grant from the National Institute of Aging and a grant from Princeton’s Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Nov. 2.

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“Those exports support good, well-paying jobs in the U.S., jobs that pay up to 18 percent more on average than non-export-related jobs. This is all about opening markets and leveling the playing-field by raising standards,” Froman said. “We can have more and better jobs here in the United States, and that’s what we set out to do.”

Froman said that the TPP is one of the elements on the trade agenda that he executed.

“I was very excited about the trade agenda that we were pursuing and felt very, very lucky when the President asked me to take over the USTR to execute on that agenda and to make sure that it was fulfilled,” Froman said.

University Days Froman explained that he attended the University largely because of the Wilson School, adding that he wanted to study and pursue public policy and

was deeply impressed by the undergraduate program at the University and the University’s overall focus on undergraduates.

In addition to the Wilson School, he said that he spent most of his time at Tower Club.

“I seem to have spent most of my time crossing the street between Tower Club and the Wilson School,” Froman said.

He said that he worked closely with recently deceased Wilson School professor Richard Ullman, doing research and developing and helping to lead a policy conference with him. Froman said that the University environment is unique in that the undergraduate students are able to easily access their professors He said his biggest challenge at Princeton was that there was so much going on around the campus that he sometimes felt he didn’t have the time to take advantage of it all.

However, the Wilson School and the relationships he made at the School were central to shaping his later career, Fro-

man said. He noted the beneficial approach of the Wilson School of trying to bring practical policy-making into the classroom through task forces and policy conferences, bringing people from government to the campus to interact with the students and give people a sense of how to link the research and the work that they’re doing to real policymaking.

Though Froman has never practiced law, he said he has found it very useful in understanding the legal framework behind government and policy-making. Law school gave him a structure for thinking through issues that he found extremely useful both in government and in business, he explained.

Froman also noted that he met President Barack Obama while at Harvard Law School.

“We worked closely together on [Harvard] law review and developed a relationship there,” Froman said.

Wilson School professor Stanley Katz said that he knows Froman because of Fro-

man’s connections to the Wilson School and because Ullman, Froman’s thesis advisor, was a close friend of Katz.

“Froman has exactly the kind of career that Ullman hoped for all of his students, which is to say that he is an incredibly intelligent and publically committed sort of person whose work that he’s done on the TPP, Dick would’ve thought, was the culmination of a terrific career,” Katz said. ”He’s still a pretty young guy, so Mike is sort of everything we’d hope a Woodrow Wilson student would be.”

Both Katz and Dean of the Wilson School Cecilia Rouse also noted that Froman was a part of a group of family and friends that came up with and are supporting the Ullman Fellowship and was also a speaker at Ullman’s memorial service.

“I know he’s deeply grateful for his Princeton experience and for his relationship and mentoring from Richard Ullman and is trying to provide those opportunities for other students as well,” Rouse said.

In the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations Froman became a member of the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium after graduating from Harvard Law School. He then worked for the American Bar Association in Albania providing technical and legal assistance to the newly elected democratic government.

He explained that he helped to provide assistance and bring in experts for the Albanian government to be able to work on its constitution and civil code, set up courts and train lawyers, among other things.

“It was terrific. It was really one of my favorite jobs,” Froman said. “This is a country that had had its first election and we arrived a week later.”

Froman served as Director for International Economic Affairs on the newly-created National Economic Council and the National Security Council under the Clinton administration from January 1993 to December 1995.

Paul Blustein, nonresident fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution and former staff writer at the Washington Post, where he mostly covered economic policy and related issues, said that he first met Froman when he was covering economics for the Post and Froman was Robert Rubin’s chief of staff.

Rubin did not respond to a request for comment.

Blustein said he and Froman both went on a trip with Rubin to Brazil, where he got to know Froman more closely, and recalled that Froman was always very professional.

“I just thought the world of him. He was always professional and there was no question whose side he was on,” Blustein said. ”He was working for the U.S. Government, particularly for his boss, the U.S. Treasury Secretary. It was the same when he went to work for the Obama administration.”

Froman then served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Eurasia and the Middle East for the U.S. Treasury from January to December 1996. He was the Treasury Chief of Staff from January 1997 to July 1999.

Froman said that he had a terrific experience in Washington.

“Washington is a place where recent graduates can have a disproportionate amount of responsibility,” he said, noting that he worked incredibly hard in Washington, but that his work was incredibly worthwhile.

Froman worked at Citigroup from December 1999 to January 2001. He explained that while at Citigroup he studied and wrote on negotiations out of his interest in economics.

He noted that one of the reasons he had gone to Harvard Law School was their program in negotiation, and that this interest in negotiations, once he entered government, morphed into an interest in trade.

Froman advised Obama during Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign and eventually served on the advisory board of the Obama campaign’s transition team. After the 2008 election, Froman served as assistant to the president and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs.

Froman explained that he worked for the first four and a half years at the White House doing international economics including trade among other things, such as helping to coordinate trade policy.

Rouse, who knew Froman from when she spent two years at the beginning of the Obama administration working at the Council of Economic Advisers, said that he was always extremely thoughtful, had a great perspective in thinking through many issues and had good questions whether or not he was directly knowledgeable about an issue.

“He always had really good questions and that’s what very much impressed me, along with how carefully and thoughtfully he approached the topics,” Rouse said.

Blustein noted that he had a chance to interview Froman a couple of times when Froman was with the Obama administration.

“I was very flattered. [Froman] asked my opinion about some trade issues and asked me to have lunch with him because I had done a book about the World Trade Organization,” Blustein noted. “He’s one of those guys who is obviously very comfortable with reporters.”

Blustein explained that, unlike many in Washington who want to ingratiate themselves with reporters or, conversely, despise reporters, Froman stood out from the pack.

He noted that Froman never sought self-aggrandizement, something that Blustein deeply respected as a reporter.

“Mike was the kind of guy who really was the goldilocks perfect, not too hot and not too cold,” he said. ”He was a very personable guy, but he never seemed to be looking out for number one. He really was a guy who cared about doing a good job in whatever job it was.”

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In the defense of the Christakises Beni Snow

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ou may have heard about Erika and Nicholas Christakis, the associate master and master of Yale’s Silliman College. A few days before Halloween, The Yale Intercultural Affairs Committee sent an email containing guidelines on how students should dress to avoid wearing costumes that may contain offensive stereotypes.

In response to the guidelines, Erika Christakis sent an email describing her and her husband’s reservations about the university telling students what they should wear and how they should express themselves.

Following that email, the Christakises have been confronted by mobs of students denouncing their statement. Nicholas Christakis is an eminent sociologist and was named to TIME Magazine’s list of most influential people, yet he is facing calls to resign over an email that dared to declare that “Free speech and the ability to tolerate offence are the hallmarks of a free and open society.”

When students actively stifle debate, proclaim that a university’s purpose is “not about creating an intellectual space” and argue that the Christakis’ opinion is not worth listening to, any shred of the intellectualism that should be the foun-

dation of education is lost.

This is just the latest in a series of controversies revolving around two competing ideals: the right of free speech and the right to not be offended. I believe that the so-called right to not be offended loses every time.

Are there Halloween costumes that are offensive? Absolutely.

Would I ever consider wearing one of them? Never. But, to paraphrase a well-known biographer of Voltaire, although I may disagree with your offensive outfit, I nonetheless support your right to be offensive.

The ideal of free speech, even offensive free speech, is necessary for an open society. Whether it involves college students wearing offensive costumes or a neo-Nazis group’s desire to march together in public, free speech is essential, even if it can be difficult to tolerate.

If we stop open discussion of ideas, even ideas that offend, progress becomes impossible. Offensive costumes are a legitimate form of expression, and no one should have the authority to regulate what someone says or what they wear, no matter how insensitive.

Many, if not most, students will never consider wearing offensive costumes, any more than they would express patently offensive ideas.

However, if they chose to take that path, it is theirs to take. Their freedom to express offensive ideas and stereotypes needs to be protected, no

matter how unpopular.

As Erika Christakis wrote in her email, “American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.”

This censorship worries me far more than any racially or ethnically offensive expression ever will. Unlike most censorship, which can be thought of as “top-down,” i.e. the authority policing the thoughts of the populace, this particularly worrying form of anti-intellectualism is “bottom-up.”

This phenomenon of “bottom-up” censorship is incredibly dangerous, since it only allows the forms of expression that mob rule allow. Who is to say what forms of expression the majority will want to ban tomorrow?

When Alabama Governor George Wallace refused to protect the rights of civil rights protesters during the famous Selma Marches in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson stepped up and ordered the army to protect those protesters’ right to express their beliefs. Most people in Alabama did not agree with what those protesters had to say, yet the president felt strongly enough about their freedom of expression that he deployed the U.S. military.

If speech that diverged from what is thought of as “correct” were to have been banned in Alabama in 1965, the

civil rights marchers would never have taken their first step. Many people believed that civil rights were abhorrent, unnatural and Biblically forbidden. Of course, we now view those people as the bigots, but at the time, if the majority had silenced the minority, then the civil rights story would have had a very different end.

I hate to draw a comparison between civil rights, something I wholly support, and insensitive clothing choices, which I do not, but that is the whole point: it is not about whether I support it or not. It is not about whether the speaker is “right” or not. We cannot pick and choose what forms of expression are allowed.

Yale’s own students have taken it upon themselves to label certain ideas as beyond the pale of contemplation, and anyone who dares to express these ideas as not meriting to remain employed. These students, who I assume are outspoken proponents of diversity, have forgotten one of the most essential aspects of diversity: diversity of thought.

The ideal of free speech is not to protect speech that everyone agrees with, but to protect speech that offends. After all, what is the point of a liberal arts education if the only ideas that can be expressed are ones with which we already agree?

Beni Snow is a freshman from Newton, Mass. He can be reached at bsnow@ princeton.edu.

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A constructive alternative to inter-publication bickering Will Rivitz

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issent among campus publications is a hallmark of the prose, opinion and editorial scene at Princeton. We’ve all seen it: a “Princewatch” column in the Nassau Weekly here, a “Tory-watch” column in the Princeton Progressive there, and calls to arms asking publications to “duke it out” more frequently. We’ve all heard the justifications, too: stimulating, cogent and fiery debate is the cornerstone to healthy intellectual life on campus. If we are to learn as much as possible from our time here and keep the quality of on-campus discussions as high as possible, many argue, we need to be willing to tackle the ideas of our peers head-on.

However, here’s what I’ve found: by publishing critiques of certain pieces in certain publications in other tangential publications, all we’re doing is talking past each other.

Let me explain: I’ve got a little experience with on-campus criticism. I’ve published a rebuttal to an article in the Princeton Tory in these very pages. The most recent “Princewatch” published by the Nass targeted one of my own columns, to which I wrote a 2000-odd-word response.

After thousands of words of criticism and criticism of criticism and all that nonsense, this is what I’ve concluded: inter-publication and interpersonal bickering set in print is some of the least effective “constructive debate” available on this campus. At no point during any of the cross-publication sniping I’ve witnessed — whether that sniping involved me or not — have I seen any of the pertinent students’ opin-

ions change. It’s a perfect example of all relevant parties blustering as loudly as they can without pausing to take in any of the other side’s story.

If you’re writing for a larger campus audience rather than a particular person, that person can — and does, most of the time — ignore you with impunity.

Of course, this culture is the culture of the Internet at large. A corollary to the laws of “outrage culture” that have taken place is this: a publication, despite what the article might say on the tin, almost always publishes for the largest possible reader base. When a publication is trying to stoke flames of rage, they’re not doing it for the benefit or edification of their target — they’re doing it for the readers. When Jezebel publishes an article with the lede “Losing presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich is an asshole, and he’s worked tirelessly to build that reputation from the ground up,” they’re not doing it so that Kasich — or any of his supporters, for that matter — will change his ways. They’re doing it so that readers who could be angry at Kasich’s remarks will get pissed, which means more clicks (and therefore money) for the site.

To be honest, I’m not sure why publications on this campus dig into other publications with the ferocity that they do. People have their own reasons, and there isn’t one overarching driving force behind every column. I know that I published my response to the Tory piece because I had a column due in two days and needed a topic. I’ve heard students mention the artistic integrity of the Nass as well as the simple joy of bashing things when justifying Princewatch columns.

What I do know is that when a publication pushes out a piece slag-

ging the words of another student on campus, it’s not for clicks. There are very few paid editorial positions on this campus, especially paid editorial positions that allow for unsheathed claws. When I write, I do it for the joy of writing — for free.

Same with writers at the Nass, at Tiger Mag, at the Progressive, at the Tory, at Nass Lit. There’s no tangible benefit to doing this stuff other than the satisfaction derived from a decently constructed argument (and, arguably, the resulting resume boost, but in my experience, those who write just to build their resume drop the publication within a year or two). We do it because we love expressing our opinions, ideas, and wit loudly, for everyone to hear, because we’re narcissistic or believe we’re doing a public good or just want to have fun. Point is, writing on this campus is a passion project, much like most exchanges of ideological currency.

As such, this entire campus is very different than most of the Internet blogs and journals that so love to hate.

Since we have such a different approach to writing than that of the Internet at large, we are at liberty to treat differently the way we respond to content we deem retrograde or questionable. We’re not boxed into turning a profit and establishing our own publication’s dominance over the market — we’re a campus where the exchange of ideas (especially cross-cultural and cross-personal ones) still reigns supreme.

Moreover, we’re a campus within which a lot of students are still coming to terms with how they’ll approach the world as a whole. We shouldn’t have concretely-set ideas yet, even if we’re allowed to express those beliefs that we do feel are worth expressing, and we should be willing

to engage on a direct, personal level with others in order to change and be changed. Talking past each other by means of indirect contact is one of the worst things we can do if we are to actually convince the other that what they’ve said isn’t appropriate for whatever reason. As such, I’d like to suggest something to do in lieu of a public, published complaint: Take the person you’d like to critique out to lunch. This is almost certainly the best way to get others to listen to you, and almost certainly the best way to make them understand the full force of their words.

Immediately after sending in my response to the Princewatch article for publication, I emailed the author of the original column and invited her to lunch with me. I’m not sure how much of an impact it had on her — she was a senior and the exeditor-in-chief of the Nass, I was but a lowly frosh — but I think that after I explained to her in person how I thought she misinterpreted my column and discussed her further qualms with her, she left feeling a little less sure of her article’s backbone.

If you are to explain to a student what, exactly, their article did wrong, a mealtime meeting is especially effective for three reasons.

First, it forces them to listen to you.

If you’re skipping the middleman of another publication, you’re giving them your ideas as viscerally as possible. It forces them to adjust to you in the moment, and it forces you to adjust to them, which makes for far more effective communication than asynchronous text could ever be.

Second, it defuses a potentially tense situation a little bit. If you can mollify your words in person in a way that you wouldn’t on a Word document, that’s more effective communication.

Third, and probably most importantly, it forces you (and the other party) to realize that there is a living, breathing person behind the ideas expressed on a page. It’s easy to forget that almost all ideas expressed come from a valid place no matter how hateful or backwards they might seem, and that if we are to change the way we think as a society, we have to take the assumptions of everybody around us into account, too.

We can’t change the world around us if we can’t speak at the world’s level first, and having an interpersonal, verbal interaction achieves that gapcrossing miles better than any other approach does.

After all, as much as it may be difficult to embody this at times, we’re all on this campus together. We all have ideas that are sound and correct about certain things and that are unsound and harmful about others, and it’s up to those among us who are willing to shoulder the burden of educating our peers (which should be all of us) to better the state of campus discourse as a whole. And, to do that, we need to be able to hold each other personally accountable for whatever beliefs of ours might be unsound — emphasis on “personally,” within which the impersonality of exterior campus publications is not included.

None of us is perfect, and we’re bound to say some stupid things during our time at Princeton. However, talking past the person saying the stupid thing is just as bad as not saying anything at all — which is why, in order to truly embody that spirit of healthy debate we crave so deeply, we need to cut out the middleman of inter-publication bickering.

Will Rivitz is a sophomore from Brookline, Mass. He can be reached at wrivitz@ princeton.edu.

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Tigers look to continue strong offense in NCAAs W. SOCCER Continued from page 8

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Ivy League Rookie of the Week six times this season, with 10 goals thus far, the same number that Lussi scored her freshman year. Sophomore Vanessa Gregoire has had an

Freshman Mimi Asom has also left her mark this season, and has been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week six times this season, with 10 goals thus far. impressive season as well, and is currently ranked 32nd in the NCAA for assists per game and 39th for total assists.

Junior goalie Hannah Winner has conceded only 1.05 goals per game this season, playing in 15 out of 17 games this

season.

Boston College (11-6-2 overall, 5-3-2 ACC) finished the season on Nov. 1 with a tie against the No. 3 ranked Florida State, the team that knocked the Eagles out of the tournament quarterfinals in 2013, its last championship tournament appearance.

The Eagles are ranked 47th in the nation for scoring offense, 53rd in total goals, 62nd in saves per game and 69th in points per game. Junior Mckenzie Meehan ranks in the top 20 in the NCAA in five different categories, 10th in goals per game, 11th in total goals (16), 15th in total points and points per game and 20th in shots on goal per game. Meehan is also ranked 26th in gamewinning goals and 28th in shots per game. Junior Haley Dowd also has had a strong year, and finished the regular season ranked 32nd in total goals, with 12 of her own, ranking 37th in goals per game and 40th in shots per game.

If the Tigers win, they will continue on to play the winner of No. 4 seeded Southern California and Cal St. Fullerton on Nov. 20 or 22.

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lead, but a save from Penn goalie Liz Mata kept Princeton at bay.

Ultimately, Penn would get the last three scoring opportunities of the half, but with two shots wide and one blocked made little threat to senior goalie Anya Gersoff.

The second half featured fewer shots slung than the first; outside of a pair of attempts by Copeland and Penn’s Rachel Huang in the first five minutes, neither side was able to make much headway on offense. However, the fortune of the Quakers changed as the end of the game drew near. Penn’s Selena Garzio, taking the pass from Elizabeth Hitti at the top of the circle, knocked it into the left corner of the goal and past Gersoff’s extended arms for the tying goal. Thus, despite holding the lead for over 60 minutes of game time, the Tigers found themselves forced to battle Penn in overtime.

Once overtime had commenced, however, the women of Princeton found their groove just at the right time. During the 73rd minute, freshman striker Sophia Tornetta made the deci-

sive play, cutting deep through multiple Penn defenders to make a cross pass over to the right side of the goal. Sophomore striker Ryan McCarthy, running up as well, took the pass and sent the ball into a wide open goal. Mata had been drawn too far to the left side by Tornetta to make any play to stop McCarthy’s goal.

Thus, the Tigers walked away from Penn with a 2-1 victory, and away from Ivy League play at a perfect 7-0.

Though the Tigers have much to celebrate, their real journey is only just beginning. This coming Saturday, they will compete in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, against a school they know only too well — the University of Maryland. The Terrapins, ranked No. 7 in the country, have beaten the Tigers in all five of the teams’ matchups from the 2013 season onward, and knocked the Tigers out of the NCAA Tournament in both the 2013 and the 2014 seasons.

However, things would certainly bode well for the Tigers if they end up taking Maryland down. The last time the Tigers defeated Maryland was in the semifinals of the 2012 NCAA Tournament — the same tournament in which the Tigers made themselves NCAA Champions.

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— both their own and those of outsiders — continues to be a constant focus for Banghart.

“I think we did a good job of proving that the ranking was underseeded. I was proud of how our kids handled it, and how they responded to it.”

Banghart said. “We know it’s a matter of what we do through the course of the year. Last year’s success, both in the tournament and before the tournament, will bode well, if we give ourselves that chance again.”

The determination to not rest on the laurels of last season and to continually build on

successes, is one of the ways Banghart is turning around the women’s basketball program.

Her first season, in 2007-2008, saw a program still in the midst of rebuilding, and the team finished just 7-23. Within two seasons, she took the team to 26 wins and hasn’t dipped below 21 wins since.

When asked about how the program has changed, Banghart emphasized the quality of players in the program and the importance of developing them in a winning system. She highlighted that the continued growth of the program depends not only on her recruitment of great players, but also on her pushing them as far as they can possibly go.

“The players that have been here have been singularly focused on getting better. You’ll see an improved version of last year’s team in the pieces that are back.” Banghart said. “The culture of progress and the culture of commitment depends on the development of the players. So we first get really good players and we get them better.”

Indeed, if there’s one thing Banghart seems bent on doing, it’s making sure her team knows that any limit, or any ceiling, on their potential success is long gone.

“Last year’s crew, I got them to where they surpassed their limits too,” Banghart said.

“That’ll be my job again this year.”

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Women’s soccer to face BC in NCAA opener

By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

The Princeton Women’s Soccer Team will begin play in the NCAA tournament when it hosts Boston College on Saturday, Nov. 14, in its first NCAA tournament game since 2012. The match is the first NCAA tournament game in Princeton since 2004 and the first at Roberts Stadium, which opened in 2008.

The Tigers, ranked 34th in the NCAA RPI, received a favorable bracket, and will start off against No. 39 Boston College (11-6-2). The Tigers received the automatic Ivy League NCAA bid after finishing the season as the outright Ivy League champions, three points ahead of the second place team, Harvard. The Tigers received recognition for their strong performance this season just last week, when Princeton broke the top-25 on the NSCAA national poll, with a No. 24 ranking, the first time since the first week of the 2005 season the that the Tigers have been ranked.

Princeton is 13-3-1 on the season and 6-0-1 in the Ivy League, one of just four teams in the country to remain unbeaten in away games at the

end of the regular season after last week’s tie at Penn on the road, before which the Tigers were the only team in the country to win all of its away games. The Tigers rank in the top 10 in the NCAA in four different statistical categories, ranking third in assists per game, sixth in points per game, eighth in scoring offense, and tenth in shots per game. The Tigers are also ranked 12th in total assists, 17th in win-lost-tied percentage, and 22nd in total points.

The Tigers have a deep and talented roster, led by junior and 2014 Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, Tyler Lussi, who is tied for second place in the program’s all-time list for most goals, with 41 thus far.

Lussi has also been named Ivy League Player of the Week four times this season and seven times in her career, both Ivy League records. Lussi also is ranked second in the NCAA in shots per game (5.88), ninth in shots on goal per game and 17th in both points per game and goals per game. Lussi is also 23rd in the nation in total goals and 27th in total points. Freshman Mimi Asom has also left her mark this season, and has been named See W. SOCCER page 7

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Both a slew of offensive threats up front and an improved defensive effort were key to the Tigers’ NCAA bid.

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Field Hockey wins overtime thriller to go 7-0 in league play, look to NCAAs

After magical season, Banghart is ready for more

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Certain things at Princeton seem constant. Problem sets, lack of sleep and a craving for Late Meal. One can probably add one more thing to that list — the Field Hockey team’s constant domination of the Ivy League.

With their overtime victory against the University of Pennsylvania Quakers this past Saturday, the No. 18 ranked Tigers (10-6 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) complet-

ed a season sweep of the Ivies and guaranteed themselves a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the 11th straight year. The team hit their mark of perfection after the “blip” of last season where they went 6-1 in league play.

Heading into their final regular season battle, the Tigers, while guaranteed at least a share of the Ivy League title, needed the win to take it outright. Indeed, the team against which they were playing, the Quakers (13-3, 5-2), needed this win to get

said share of the title.

The Tigers would get on the board quite early, as senior striker Maddie Copeland continued her scoring onslaught on the season. Senior midfielder Teresa Benvenuti got the ball right in front of the goal to Copeland, setting her up for the tap in to give Princeton a 1-0 lead, just under seven minutes into the game. The Tigers would remain aggressive thereafter — Benvenuti looked to double the Tigers’ See FIELD HOCKEY page 7

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With the victory over Penn, the Tigers will play Maryland in the NCAAs the same team to knock them out last year.

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The Naismith Award. A perfect regular season record. The No. 25 ranking going into the season. The program’s first victory in the NCAA Tournament.

Women’s head basketball coach Courtney Banghart has earned her fair share of accolades before this season even starts. But this year, as with every year, the end goal remains the same: a championship.

Last year’s unprecedented level of success certainly does nothing to dampen expectations for her team. After going 30-0, the team saw the second round for the first time after beating University of Wisconsin–Green Bay and fell to the Maryland Terrapins, a Final Four team in the tournament.

Of course, with incredible success for the program comes unprecedented media attention. One of the remarkable things about Banghart, however, is the extent to which she seems to appreciate the growing media coverage. And she wants to instill the same attitude in her team.

“I told [the team] that they’re ready to share a great story. We want to do all we can to share a great story. Last year’s scrutiny

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13 goals Tyler Lussi scored 13 goals this season, good for 1st in the Ivy League.

made for a really great story, and they were followed for it,” Banghart said. “Now the ranking is the result of the trust we’ve earned in our program.

It has nothing to do with this year’s performance yet. We want to honor the respect that we’ve gained and the trust we’ve gained as a program, and make sure it’s a story that people want to follow.”

“I think for the fan base, and for the media, in a good way, people are excited to see how the group responds to 30-0. But for me, how do I get this particular group exceeding their expectations,” Banghart said.

There’s no doubt this team generated buzz around the nation after their streak of success. But at times, earning attention and earning respect may seem like two very different tasks. As an Ivy League team, respect might seem hard to come by, even after achieving literal perfection in the regular season. Having reached as high as the No. 13 ranking last year, the Tigers found themselves a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament, which many thought was relatively low for a team of their caliber.

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