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Student arrested on 2 charges on Thursday By Do-Hyeong Myeong associate news editor

Mbugua. At approximately 5 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, a female student reported to DPS that an unknown hooded person entered her room in 1915 Hall. The door to her room was unlocked at the time. The student reported that the individual had his arm around her when she woke up, and the individual fled when she screamed. DeBlasio said that Fan was released on his own recognizance and is scheduled to appear before Princeton Municipal Court on Nov. 23 at 1 p.m. Mbugua said that Fan was banned from campus.

Students celebrated Diwali, the festival of lights, outside Richardson Hall on Wednesday evening.

A student was arrested on Thursday on charges of third-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office Public Information Officer Casey DeBlasio said. According to DeBlasio, an investigation by the Department of Public Safety identified Ronbo Fan ’18 as a suspect in an incident that took place on campus on Oct. 31. Fan declined to comment, and DPS deferred comment to University Spokesperson Martin

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9.4% increase in early action applications for Class of 2020

4 sexual misconduct cases reported this year

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The University received 4,164 applications for admission to the Class of 2020 under the singlechoice early action program as of Nov. 11, reflecting an approximate 9.4 percent increase from the number received for last year’s early action program on the same day, according to Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye. Rapelye explained that the increase in number of applicants can be partly attributed to the U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

U. to launch new coalition application platform By Jessica Li staff writer

The University, joined by over 80 other colleges and universities including all members of the Ivy League, is part of the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, which aims to create a new college application and portfolio platform for high school students. The new system involves the creation of a platform for high school students to create an online portfolio, allowing them to think more about the college application process at an early age and have more access to counseling from college admissions officers, University Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said. Rapelye added that the participating institutions will be issuing a new application, and that the application is in the preliminary stages. The coalition is open to public institutions with affordable tuition and need-based financial aid for in-state residents and private colleges who provide sufficient financial aid for all domestic students they admit. Participating public institutions also need to have a six-year federal graduation rate of over 70 percent, director of admission at Pomona College Adam Sapp said. “The Coalition believes that more than one platform will

serve all students and colleges more effectively because competition is a positive force for change,” Audrey Smith, a board member of the Coalition and the vice president for enrollment at Smith College, said. Sapp said that conversations for a new system began a few years ago, as many deans believed that there should be more than one way to apply to highly selective colleges. Rapelye explained that though the idea for the new system originated after multiple colleges observed limitations to the electronic Common App, the renovations also reflect an effort to increase outreach and recruitment of low-income students. “We are all looking for ways to help low-income students to put together their application[s] and reach out to them,” Rapelye said. “The research was that there is a whole group of students whose background makes going to a place like Princeton [out of consideration]. Many students are under-matching in terms of their abilities, they can shoot for higher but they are not. We are hoping that we will make the application available to more schools going forward.” She further explained that due to funding shortage in certain school districts, particularly those in rural areas, many See APPLICATION page 2

take the subject tests,” Rapelye said. “It’s hard to know whether this change affected the pool, but it is something new this year.” Rapelye noted that as applications were submitted on Nov. 1, the Office of Admission has not compiled data on applicant demographics. Rapelye also noted that within a reasonable timeframe, the admission office will also consider late applications from students with extenuating circumstances. Rapelye also noted that some See 2020 page 2

By Maya Wesby There have been four reported campus-related incidents of inappropriate sexual conduct during the first six weeks of the 2015-16 academic year, according to Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky. The first case was when an unidentified male grabbed the buttocks of a female student near the Friend Center on Sept. 17. The second case on Sept. 20 occurred between Whig Hall and MurrayDodge Hall, when a female stu-

dent was fondled by an unidentified male. The third case was one of lewdness that occurred on the towpath between Washington Road and South Harrison Street on Oct. 23, when an unidentified man exposed himself to a female University student. The most recent case occurred in 1915 Hall on Oct. 31, when a female student reported that she woke up in bed with a stranger who had his arm around her. A student was arrested on Thursday on burglary and sexual contact charges related to the Oct. See INCIDENTS page 4

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Honor Committee makes constitution changes By Samvida Venkatesh contributor

The Undergraduate Honor Committee has made an amendment to its constitution to allow it to be more accessible to students, Honor Committee chair Dallas Nan ’16 said. The amendment was approved on Oct. 25 by the Un-

dergraduate Student Government senate. Nan, who is also a U-Councilor, noted that the revisions do not involve any substantive changes in the constitution’s contents. “There are no substantive changes to the Honor Constitution at all,” Nan said. “The revamping of the document needed to happen in order to structure things more logi-

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cally, and to delete repetition and things that were out of date. It’s just to make it easier for people to parse through the text.” Honor Committee member Carolyn Liziewski ’18 also said that the goal of the reconstruction was to make the Honor Code more comfortable to read, See HONOR page 3

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admission office’s increased outreach initiatives this year. The admission office staff traveled and visited more cities and expanded its domestic and international outreach efforts, Rapelye said. Rapelye also noted that though it is recommended, the SAT Subject Tests were not part of the application requirement this year for the first time. “Our goal with that was that we wanted to make sure we included students who may not have had good [college] counseling to know that they needed to

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students may consider joining the regular decision pool to include grades from their first semester senior year in their profile. Applicants have until Dec. 1 to inform the admission office if they do not wish to be considered for early admission or would like to join the early pool after checking for regular decision, she said. “It is a hard process, and so if they change their mind, we will honor that,” Rapelye said. When a file comes into the admission office, at least two adjudicators will review it and make evaluations, Rapelye explained. The Office of Admission temporarily hired 35 to 40 readers from outside the University this year. The files with the most promise will be brought to the committee, which is composed of members of the admission office charged by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, the Board of Trustees and the faculty with putting together the next class. “We will read out what the

readers have written on each file and vote on the candidate,” Rapelye added. “We take our jobs very seriously.” Rapelye explained that the admission office does not have a quota or target for admission offers. “We will go through the committee and see if we have the right mix in terms of institutional priorities,” Rapelye said. “We apply exactly the same standards in early decision as we do in regular decision, so it’s not necessarily easier to get in early though the [applicant] number is lower.” Applicants will receive their admission decisions by mid-December, according to Rapelye. Last year, 767 early action applicants were admitted to the University’s Class of 2019 for an admission rate of 19.9 percent. The early action acceptance rates were 18.5 percent for the Class of 2018 and 18.3 percent for the Class of 2017. “We will give all of the candidates every consideration in this process. We are always looking for reasons to admit students and will read their applicants with great interest,” Rapelye said.

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potential applicants do not have equal access to guidance and counseling. The details of providing counseling through the University’s end are still in discussion, she said. Rapelye also noted that the University will keep the Common Application and the Universal College Application after the new system is implemented. “We know that high schools across this country are not equal. We felt that we need to, as an institution, make a statement about college access and equity,” Sapp said. Though the application is still in its preliminary stages, many colleges, including Smith College, are considering finalizing and launching it the summer of 2016 or 2017, Smith said. Rapelye noted that the University has not yet made the decision when to release the new application. According to Smith, the redesigned application itself represents a diversion from the trajectory of post-secondary institutions toward using a universal system. “The new application will allow for greater personalization by colleges of their application[s], which should support each institution’s singular values in selecting candidates for admission,” said Smith. “For example, what is right for Princeton may not be right for Smith, or Emory or the University of Maryland, or any other Coalition member.” Furthermore, according to Sapp, the students’ locker is an

additional, free-of-charge feature of the new system that allows potential applicants to document exemplary academic work as early as ninth grade. Colleges will not be able to view the locker until the applicant grants them permission. This feature provides tools for better organization, Sapp said. The locker function will be available in April of 2016, Sapp said. Rapelye noted that despite major reforms, the new system is unlikely to ease the competitive edge or greatly alleviate the mental tolls of applying to college. “Applying to college is serious and difficult,” Rapelye said. “It will always be serious and challenging for students as they apply. If this helps students organize themselves a little more and if this allows us to reach out to low-income students more, then that’s a good service. I don’t think [this] will take the stress out of the process.” Nonetheless, Stephen Farmer, vice provost for enrollment and undergraduate admissions at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, stated that the platform may change communities where a college-going culture is absent. “Some students aren’t stressed enough about their college choices, or they feel like they shouldn’t be stressed because college is out of reach for them,” Farmer said. “The coalition helps people at a younger age that enrollment at [one of our] schools is possible.” According to Rapelye, members of the coalition are still working to solicit feedback from high school counselors.

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and there is no new content added. She explained that the committee wanted to ensure that incoming freshmen have clear knowledge about their responsibilities, what they can do and what they cannot do. Liziewski serves on the Editorial Board of The Daily Princetonian. Nan also said that for those students who might have to face the Committee for an infraction, the redrafted document makes many of the processes clearer and easier to understand. Nan said that the conversation started over a year ago with several referendums that went through the senate. “The USG did a report on extended student leave, which was a combination of narratives from students on extended leave from the University, either of their own accord or because they were sent home,” he said, adding that some of the students who were suspended talked to the USG about their experiences and made the USG want to move the Honor Committee forward in a more progressive way. USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said that the committee has done a great job of laying out the changes and ensuring that there were no substantive edits. “There was very little debate over it in the senate — it was a nearly unanimous decision to pass the change,” she said. However, she said she is doubtful whether the student body will be able to appreciate the edits, because of all the mythology that shrouds the committee. “I think the future classes

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of 2020 onwards, who will not come in with any presentiments about the Committee, will really benefit from the change,” she said. “They’ll have a much easier time of reading the Honor Code before coming in.” Cheng is a former staff writer of The Daily Princetonian. Nan said that Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Victoria Jueds, liaison to the Honor Committee, helped with the rephrasing and legalities to ensure that the changes being made were only stylistic and not substantive. Jueds did not respond to a request for comment. Nan added that the committee also wanted to make itself a resource for students and not just a body that sends students home. He explained that in order to achieve that goal, the committee has launched a partnership with residential colleges, with two members of the committee as liaisons to each residential college. “They will be in direct contact with students, answer their questions, go to study breaks and in general be the face of the Honor Committee to students,” he said. The committee has also appointed a director of community outreach starting this academic year, according to Nan. “It’s mostly being more careful about how we do training within the Honor Committee, how we do the academic integrity sessions at the beginning of the year and allround being a better support system for students,” Matthew Silberman ’17, current director of community outreach in the Honor Committee, said. “It’s about transparency and stress reduction.”

News & Notes News & Notes: New U. of Missouri president named following protests Former law professor Michael Middleton was announced as the interim president of the University of Missouri on Thursday after Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin stepped down voluntarily on Monday as a result of campus-wide student and faculty protests at the school’s Columbia campus, according to CNN. The protests were the result of a series of reportedly racist incidents that occurred at the school this fall. A number of African-American students re-

ported being called racial slurs on campus, and a standoff ensued between these students and the administration when the administrators took time to respond to these incidents. Many minority students on campus have also reported receiving death threats, and a student at Northwest Missouri State University was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a death threat posted on Yik Yak. College students across the United States have since started a Facebook hashtag to express solidarity with the students at the University of Missouri.

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31 incident. These four incidents occurred a year after changes to the Clery Act required universities to comply with new safety and security requirements designed to curtail stalking, domestic violence, dating violence and sexual assault. University faculty members voted last year to lower the standard of evidence in sexual assault cases from “clear and persuasive” to “preponderance of the evidence.”

“There’s no relationship between any of the cases,” Ominsky said. “There is nothing to suggest that [the cases] are related in any way.” Compared to the three fondling incidents and one lewdness incident since the beginning of this semester, there were five reported fondling incidents in the entirety of 2014 and none in 2013, according DPS’s 2015 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report released in September. Ominsky added that there are no known factors within the University or the larger Princeton community that would trigger

the rise in these reported assaults. While all of these cases are ongoing investigations by DPS, he added that the Oct. 23 case is also being investigated by the Princeton Police Department, with which DPS works closely. “While we have a very safe campus, it’s an open campus and such things can happen,” Ominsky explained. “We always hope they don’t happen, and we investigate every incident that’s reported to us fully. So we’re continuing to investigate those incidents.” Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse, the director of the University’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education office, noted the importance of bystander intervention. “There are so many individuals on this campus who have the capacity to observe problematic behavior and take action when they see it,” she said. “Raising awareness and getting people talking about it would be a precursor to [stopping interpersonal violence]. But it doesn’t stop there.” She adding that educational

opportunities such as awareness months, programs and study breaks are all means to get people talking. “The ‘doing’ is about prevention,” Deitch-Stackhouse said. “You need to tune enough people in at the awareness level so that a good portion of them can join in the prevention effort.” Deitch-Stackhouse added that awareness is the first step, but not the ultimate goal. “The ultimate goal is to have more and more people in the community — a critical mass, if you will — involved in addressing the risk factors and protective factors that would result in the reduction of interpersonal violence on our campus,” she said. When asked what DPS will do in the future to make the campus safer, Ominsky replied that DPS will respond immediately to students’ calls and follow up adequately. Ominsky added that for the University to be safe, the community needs to work with Public Safety should anyone notice sus-

picious behavior. “We want people to see something, say something,” he said. “We rely on the community to be our eyes and ears.” Stefanie Karp, the director of operations at DPS, explained that it is best for students to take caution. She noted that students should be abstaining from activities that can distract one’s alertness, especially at night, and stay within safe routes to their respective dormitories. “We also advise all students to keep their doors locked — don’t prop your doors, don’t put tape or magnets on your doors. There’s a reason for that. Don’t let someone without an I.D. follow you in,” Karp added. The Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life deferred comments to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Mbugua deferred comments to DPS and SHARE. Amada Sandoval, director of the Women’s Center, declined to comment.

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Recent emails sent by Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun reminded the student body of the resources available from UHS’s Counseling and Psychological Services and encouraged students to “function as a community of care and responsibility” in looking out for one another’s well-being. The Editorial Board commends Vice President Calhoun for the tone of these messages and recognizes the excellent work of CPS, the UMatter campaign, University administrators and many individual students in addressing mental health issues at Princeton. Nevertheless, there is more we can do: the Board suggests a number of measures to help create a safer and more comfortable work environment and to raise awareness about the availability of mental health resources at the University. An important step would be to give mental health initiatives a more prominent place in the University’s academic calendar. Whereas the University currently sponsors one Mental Health Week per year, the Board suggests there be two such weeks, one per semester. In addition, to increase the visibility of mental health resources when they are needed most, the Board recommends the University place a UMatter table in Frist Campus Center during the two weeks leading up to midterms, as well as during final exam and reading periods. Residential college advisers and the Undergraduate Student Government should time messages on mental health resources and counseling services to coincide with these same segments of the academic year. Although the workload at Princeton unavoidably produces year-round stress, it is clear that certain times pose particular challenges: as these periods roll around, it is worth reminding students of available resources. The Board would also encourage the University to rethink the availability of due date extensions for students dealing with over-

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whelming workloads. Students with papers or take-home exams who make appointments with CPS should, by policy, be granted extensions equal in duration to their appointments. This would ensure that no student avoids reaching out for counseling due to concern that he or she will lose much-needed time for work — students should never feel a disincentive to seek psychological support, and certainly not during the weeks of tight deadlines when help is sometimes urgently required. The University should also set up an independent review office within CPS to which students could submit mental healthbased extension requests. Extension notes sent to course instructors through this system should be indistinguishable from other health-based extension requests so as to protect the student’s privacy. Students would not be obligated to go through this process; they could always contact course instructors directly. However, the availability of a review office would relieve students’ apprehensions about raising such matters before their deans. Students fear that seeking non-confidential resources for mental health might put them at risk of being forced to withdraw (if only temporarily) from the University. As Vice President Calhoun explained eloquently in her emails, partnership and community action are crucial. Simple as it may sound, it is worth reminding ourselves that looking out for others — whether in eating clubs, dorms, classes, residential colleges or student groups — can go a long way toward creating a climate in which students feel more comfortable seeking informal support or professional counseling. The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor and the Editor-in-Chief.

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An unfortunate disconnect Samuel Parsons

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here was a certain magic to frosh week. We all remember the feeling, whether like me, this year’s was your first, or whether you’ve experienced it from the enlightened perspective of a frosh week veteran. However, time has passed and that magic is now gone, the unique sensation that permeated the week now a distant memory. What changed? Well, an inundation of problem sets, essays and other responsibilities that prohibit daily prolific consumption of alcohol to start. But, there’s something else. There is a stark difference between the social dynamic of Princeton in the first weeks of the year and in the weeks that follow. This difference is in the way we approach each other, specifically people we don’t know yet, and our generally declining openness to interact with people we don’t already regard as familiar. Through the first fortnight of this year, it was socially acceptable, even encouraged, to strike up a friendly chat with a stranger. Any seat in the dining hall was fair game. Every face was an open book, and the campus vibe beckoned and called for us to start reading. For freshmen, over those days we met more people than we could possibly remember and did so with no fear of being social intruders. Even upperclassmen, who already know a great multitude of people, had the opportunity to meet a new class of undergraduates and even some of their own class in the

free-for-all environment in the early days of fall semester. I remember marveling at the wealth of experience and diversity in our student body. How much I would learn; how many new interests I might discover! I remember being grateful that I had four years to be immersed in the people of this university. The difference now, simply, is that it’s harder to meet people. Interactions with random people tend to be courteous and shallow. Many will sit alone rather than join a group of new people, for fear of being an unwelcome interruption. A chat in class rarely strays beyond class discussion. Yes, we do meet new people every day, but how often do we really pay attention? It’s our loss. Half the perk of being at a place like Princeton is the chance to be surrounded by people who have as much to teach you as your professors. This campus provides an opportunity for the live, instantaneous sharing and cultivation of ideas between brilliant people. It provides us with the chance to find in others traits, abilities and experiences that we may be inspired to instill in ourselves. It provides a chance for us to share and develop all that we have to offer, with a new, receptive and capable audience. We might as well be taking college online in a public library if we fail to capitalize on this privilege. There are obvious reasons why these social barriers may emerge. Of course, our community is subject to fairly logical and clearly set divisions. Between class years, sports teams, cocurricular clubs and residential colleges, many of us have

our own little clique. These relationships are important. I’m not saying that we should be making new best friends every day, if that’s even possible. However, we seem to fall into the comfortable yet detrimental trap of socializing only with the friends we already have, friends likely to be found within convenience. It may also simply come down to the fact that we’re so busy, our spare time so scarce, that even socialization must be strictly scheduled and thus we are less open to any random social experience (in our eyes, an adversity). In living like this, we make ourselves unapproachable. Perhaps it’s just a case of pluralistic ignorance; we all believe that no one’s interested, and thus we don’t try strike up new conversations, exacerbating the sensation that no one’s interested. It seems to take a catalyst like frosh week to snap us back into the belief that we’re all actually quite excited to be around each other. The change that needs to occur is not a shift toward having many shallow friendships instead of a few deep ones, but rather a change toward a less cliquey, exclusive vibe. At a time when the ethical obligations of an intellectual community are being debated, we have the opportunity to enhance our intellectual and social community on a more basic level. How would Princeton be different if we held on to that social activity and openness of frosh week? Who knows who we’d meet, what we’d discover, what we’d create. Sam Parsons is a freshman from Wangaratta, Australia. He can be reached at samueljp@ princeton.edu.

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n this column, I argue that freedom of expression is a good and worthwhile thing. It is an uncontroversial stance on the face of it, for our country guarantees the freedom in its Constitution. It should be altogether less controversial at academic institutions where freedoms are yet more important. There is, however, a growing call from university students who demand severe restrictions to individual expression and the cultural crossover that results from it. I will address the specific claims of these students soon. But first I challenge you to think of a single instance in history where denying or discouraging freedom of expression has caused a good and desirable outcome, except in the case of bans on obvious hate symbols. An example of this is hard to conjure; counterexamples are easy. The people of North Korea know well what a country looks like when it is closed to other cultures. Song Eun-byul, a refugee who fled the country two years ago, recounted to the Guardian her story about the time she was stopped by the Socialist Youth League for wearing boots that looked too “foreign.” To escape and avoid the labor camps that fashion dissidents can be sent to, she gave the authorities a fake name, just as a fake name for her has been given here. Different parts of the world censor expression for different reasons. In Saudi Arabia, “religious police” patrol the streets enforcing restrictions. There, men may not cross-dress, and women are prohibited from dressing in too revealing a manner. I am not equating the culture cops of college campuses to the authoritarian regimes of North Korea and Saudi Arabia. Rather, I am pointing to them as the extreme conclusion of this ideology. If we begin to go down this path, we must do so carefully and be sure that our reasons for it are good. For we have already begun on this path. The posters displayed on Goheen Walk for the week leading up to Halloween represent the restrictive ideology well. One showed a picture of a cross-dresser with the warning, “My gender identity is not your costume.” “My culture is not your costume,” another poster read. The way these catchy slogans misinterpret the purpose of Halloween — which, after all, is about spending a night as someone other than yourself — is almost beside the point. The really alarming thing is how they call for Americans to restrict themselves to the same narrow avenues of expression afforded to the people of totalitarian states. And for what good? Who does the woman hurt when she dresses as a man? The best I can gather, from extensive conversations with students who support the movement, is that there is offense in the mere act of wearing an item normally associated with another identity. They call this “cultural appropriation.” The term is a misnomer. At least, it is not what the academics who invented the phrase meant by it. They were referring, instead, to the commercialization of minority culture by white artists. Think Elvis. There was profit to be made from rock-and-roll, but white consumers wanted a white singer. The black musicians who developed the genre were cut out of it. In a case like this one, it is easy to see the way minorities are hurt. There is a thing — money — that they are deprived of. It is not easy to see the harm in wearing an outfit on Halloween or another day. Imagine that I, a non-Hispanic white, wear a sombrero. There is nothing that Hispanic whites are deprived of. They have the same access to their cultural identity as they did before. I have not “stolen” their culture because culture cannot be stolen. There is, of course, a kind of hurt that does not involve the loss of anything tangible. I could put on a sombrero and purposely engage in behavior that reinforces negative stereotypes of Hispanic whites. This behavior is rude and certainly should be avoided. But the question at hand is this: If someone puts on a sombrero and acts respectfully, are Hispanic whites harmed? There is a simple answer to this question. No one is deprived of a physical thing; no stereotype is reinforced. Nobody is hurt, unless he or she chooses to be. Our society must realize this and then choose what it will do. We can either encourage people to find offense and demand that expression be restricted, or we can encourage people to accept others who express themselves as they choose. The first option is preposterous. There is no reason to encourage people to look for ways to be offended, for this can have no effect but to make their lives worse. Further, they will spend energy fighting these meaningless things; this energy would be better spent addressing the real issues of economic inequality and lingering oppression. Too often, discussions of urban segregation, poverty and police brutality are eclipsed by talk of “microaggressions.” The way these important discussions are eclipsed should concern us. Perhaps the threat of losing our freedom should concern us even more. Take a look at the countries that restrict expression in the world today, and decide if you want those same things happening in America. I, for one, do not. Newby Parton is a sophomore from McMinnville, Tenn. He can be reached at newby@princeton.edu.

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Player of the Year, Dietrick led team in points per game and was the team’s primary ball handler and catalyst for much of the offense. “Blake has left some really big shoes to fill, and I don’t think one person on our team can fill them,” senior forward Alex Wheatley said. “All five people on the floor are going to have to step up, in productivity on the offensive end, in energy, and [in] being vocal on the defensive end, in being gritty and being tough … it will be a different dynamic, certainly, but one that we’re accustomed to.” Wheatley, scoring 10.9 points per game on a lights-out 56.2 percent clip, will most likely be one of the seniors to whom head coach Courtney Banghart turns toward to lead this team. With a team bringing in six freshmen (out of a roster totaling 17), a strong upperclassmen presence will be critical as the team

strives to maintain its level of success from last season. “[As a senior,] you develop a new role. You have to add something to your game every year that makes you better than last year,” senior forward Annie Tarakchian said. “I think that for our senior class, [it’s about] doing it within our offense.” One of the most important tasks for the team, Tarakchian notes, is to not fixate on reaching the postseason and beating last year’s mark but to win its next game and continue the day-byday development “It’s a totally new year, new team,” Tarakchian said. “We take it game by game. I think it’s hard for us to look in advance so much.” Trying to look too far into the future has its pitfalls when the challenges directly ahead can be so intense. In particular, the Tigers have little reason to underestimate the Eagles, who gave them one of their closest battles out of the entire 2014-15 season. In a season when Princeton at times seemed to crush other

teams at will (with margins of victory as large as 71 points), American lost only 63-56. Moreover, the Eagles held the Tigers to without a field goal in the final 10 minutes. Indeed, against American, Duquesne and every game afterwards, the Tigers play with a target on their backs. In addition, they’ll be watched intently from all sides — fans, opponents and media. But if there’s anything the Tigers love, it’s stepping up to the challenge. “We know we have a long way to go at this point still to get to where we want to get this year,” senior guard Michelle Miller said. “Being ranked preseason and just coming off of the year last year, we will get a lot more media attention … but I think, at least speaking for myself and my class, that we’re ready for that and we’re excited about it.” “We’re trying to see last year not as some sort of anomaly or a fluke,” Miller said, “but as something we can build on as a program.”

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junior outside hitter Cara Mattaliano said. “Cornell and Columbia are good teams and so we will have to continue to bring our A game to beat them.” While the season is certainly up for grabs, the Princeton squad will be focused on its individual games and try to end the season on a successful note. “We are not focusing on the outcome, winning or losing the Ivy League, because right now all we can do is focus on winning the individual games,” Mattaliano said. “Cornell and Columbia are tough teams, like all teams in the Ivy League, and we are going to go out there with confidence and give it 100 percent to finish out the second half of the season undefeated.” In order to qualify for the NCAA championships, Princeton will need to tie or overtake the Crimson. In other words, this Friday and Satur-

day, the Tigers will have to win at least one more game than the Crimson, who will travel to Yale and Brown this weekend. If Princeton completes its remarkable comeback it will claim a spot in the NCAA championships for the first time since 2007. If Princeton manages a tie with Harvard, the two teams will play a deciding match for the top spot. While the team will be facing unfavorable odds, this season has proven anything but predictable. Regardless of the outcome, the women’s volleyball squad will have plenty to be proud of as it finishes off a captivating season. “The season has been crazy. So many unexpected things have happened and I am proud of our team for not getting caught up in the standings and pulling it together toward the second half of the season,” Peterkin said. “The four of us seniors have had such a fun year and we couldn’t be more proud of this team for making that happen.”

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Princeton men’s basketball has grown since the last meeting between the two schools. On Friday, the Tigers will showcase the strength and experience of a full cast of returning starters, who are hungry to build upon last season’s victories. The returning starters are: junior guard Spencer Weisz, senior forward Hans Brase, junior forward Steven Cook, sophomore guard Amir Bell and junior center Pete Miller. Every one of the above players started at least 23 of last year’s 30 games. The combination of a young starting squad with last year’s experience of starting mostly as underclassmen creates a special opportunity for an already promising group. In terms of accolades, two of the five, Weisz and Cook, earned second-team All-Ivy honors last year as sophomores. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Friday’s game will also exhibit the debuts of four rookies on this year’s team: guard Myl-

es Stephens, guard Devin Cannady, forward Noah Bramlage and guard Elias Berbari. With high school championships and records in hand, the incoming class will provide immediate impact on a young and eager team. Turning to Rider, the Broncs return this year without last season’s leading scorer and rebounder Matt Lopez. Instead the second-place conference championship contenders will rely on three guards: Teddy Okereafor, Jimmie Taylor and Zedric Sadler. Comparing the rosters, Rider possesses a relatively older team and leadership with seven upperclassmen. The two teams also wield different strengths, as the Tigers outshoot while the Broncs showcase greater rebounding, averaging over 34 per game compared to Princeton’s 31. Victory or loss; shooting or rebounding; experience or youth; Friday’s game ultimately culminates a summer of reflection, training and preparation. The momentous occasion marks the initiation of another season of Princeton basketball, and Friday’s game will be the first step in a much longer journey.

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contention for the Ivy League title, but they cannot afford to dwell long on it. After all, they have a new opponent to worry about: Yale. The Bulldogs (5-3, 2-3) share an identical record with Princeton and present an offense that averages over 374 yards per game. Coach Bob Surace ’90 highlighted the similarities of Yale’s attack to the offensive schemes of the Tigers’ previous opponents. “They’re obviously coming off of a great win over Brown,” said Surace, referring to Yale’s 41-14 victory last week. “They have a quarterback, Morgan Roberts, who is certainly one of the best players in the league. Last year they had a terrific year, despite a lot of injuries to their offense, but they’ve got a lot of those guys back — their running backs are terrific. Kind of like last week, we’re going to see a dual-threat quarterback, a very explosive offense.” Additionally, Coach Surace emphasized the size and formidability of the Yale defensive unit. “Their defense — they are really big,” he observed. “It’s probably the strongest defensive front seven we’ll face just in terms of size and physicality, those types of things. And they’re very athletic on the back end. Cole Champion, one of their safeties, is one of the most physical players in the league.” Against this determined front, Coach Surace noted that his team would have to

ready themselves for a focused game in the trenches. “We’re going to have to be terrific with our responsibilities and finish on defense,” he stated. “We’re going to have to do a great job with our fits and staying low and driving our legs, because they’ve really dominated the lines.” Junior quarterback Chad Kanoff also emphasized the importance of intensity in practice in preparation for this opponent. “It’s all about practicing hard,” he said. “Making sure

“It’s all about practicing hard. Making sure we are executing and controlling what we can control. Just making sure we’re not making careless mistakes ” chad kanoff,

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that we are executing and controlling what we can control. Just making sure we’re not making careless mistakes, jumping offsides and things like that, and practicing really hard.” Although the loss to Penn has proved bitter, Kanoff has noted that the Tigers are ready to move on from last week and embrace the challenge. “I mean, I guess that was a tough game, a close game,” he remarked. “But it was a

good experience, gave us a lot more fire, and we’re just ready to play hard.” Coach Surace also expressed confidence in his team’s ability to regroup and move forward from last Saturday’s disappointment. “I mean, obviously, right after the game there’s disappointment and frustration because the guys have played so hard and played so well,” he said. “But it’s no different than any other game. When we get together on Sunday we move forward, and we make the corrections we need to make and hopefully we get our issues fixed, and then it’s on to the preparation. But our guys — our seniors — have been terrific with our attitudes and how we approach things, and they know the importance of the next game and how important Yale is. So we’re going to go out there and have great preparation.” A win for Princeton would move the team to 6-3 and even its in-conference record. The Tigers will play in a contest steeped in tradition: Yale and Princeton played their first game in 1873, and have met 126 times since; Yale holds the overall series lead, 68-4810. Additionally, this weekend’s game serves as homecoming for Princeton — with its accompanying festivities and significance. However, Coach Surace continued to emphasize focus on the contest at hand. “The significance [of the contest] is that they’re a really good team and that they’re the next game,” he observed. “That’s where your mindset has to be.”

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Football takes on Bulldogs at Homecoming By Nolan Liu contributor

The Tigers look to pull themselves back to .500 in Ivy League play at the annual Homecoming game.

After dropping a heartbreaker in overtime to Penn, the Princeton Tigers will look to even their record in the Ivy League as they take on Yale in the homecoming game. The Tigers (5-3, 2-3 Ivy League) were neck-to-neck with Penn throughout their last game, clawing their way to a 20-10 lead by halftime. However, the Quakers (5-3, 4-1) would even the score at

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20 by the end of the fourth quarter. Ultimately, the game would come down to a 35-yard field goal attempt by Princeton with four seconds to go. Senior kicker Nolan Bieck had gone 10 for 10 on the season, but on this occasion a Penn surge thwarted him. The Quakers blocked the field goal to send the game to overtime, when they would go on to win 26-23. The loss stings for the Tigers and removes them from See FOOTBALL page 7

Women’s basketball opens with weekend at home By Miles Hinson sports editor

The campaign starts anew for the women’s basketball team, as it opens the season at home against American University on Friday night at 7:00 PM and Duquesne University on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 PM. Anyone who paid attention to Princeton sports last year knows this team had a season for the ages. Not only did the team go 30-0 in the regular season but

it also put together unbelievable numbers throughout, particularly on the offensive end. The Tigers outscored opponents by an average of 23.2 points per game, and their efficiency was through the roof — shooting 49 percent from the field and 40 percent from the three-point line. Their defense, moreover, was also no small part of their success — the Tigers held their opponents to 52.6 points per game last season, a mark good for 6th in the NCAA. This season, the Tigers look

poised to make their mark yet again. They come into the 2015-16 season with the no. 25 ranking and return with three of their four leading scorers from last year. However, the Tigers don’t enter this season lacking questions to answer. Of particular importance for this team will be continuing their streak of success without superstar point guard Blake Dietrick ’15. The unanimous selection for Ivy League See W. B-BALL page 6

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Women’s volleyball comes into this weekend on a five-game win streak.

Women’s volleyball seeks NCAA bid in crucial road trip through New York By David Xin contributor

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The Tigers will take on nearby Rider to open the season, a team with whom they have a history of exciting games.

Men’s basketball to open 2015-2016 season with road game against Rider By David Liu staff writer

The wait for the 2015-16 Princeton basketball season finally comes to a close this Friday as the men’s team prepares for its season opener against neighbor rival Rider University. In contrast to the multitude of other opponents located

throughout the eastern seaboard, the team will travel just down the road to Alumni Gymnasium in Lawrenceville, N.J. to face the host Broncs. A budding rivalry will follow the teams into Alumni Gymnasium as the Broncs and Tigers have now met in season openers for two consecutive years. Last season, the Tigers defeated Rider by

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a score of 64-58, further fueling the developing rivalry between the neighbor schools. In fact, the Tigers have won three straight over the Broncs: the last time the two teams met in Alumni Gymnasium, the Tigers won via a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from Mack Darrow ’13. Even with the victory, See M. B-BALL page 7

This Friday and Saturday the women’s volleyball team will travel to Cornell (2-10 Ivy League, 6-16 overall) and Columbia (5-7, 7-14) respectively to conclude Ivy League play. The Tigers, fresh off a fivegame winning streak, will be looking to transform their current momentum into two wins away from home. These last two games will be crucial for Princeton as it seeks to claim the top in the Ivy League and qualify for the NCAA championships. The Tigers (8-4, 13-8), currently ranked no. 2 with Dartmouth, are one win away from current table-leaders Harvard (9-3, 13-9). This is particularly remarkable considering the Orange and Black started the season in a 0-3 hole and were under the .500 marker halfway through the Ivy League season. Since then the Tigers have won eight of their last nine games, defeating all the teams that beat them at the

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5-0 The women’s volleyball team has gone 5-0 in the second half of Ivy League play, after starting 3-4.

start of the season. This includes a victory over five-time defending champions Yale and a sweep of Harvard. “I’m so proud to have beaten some pretty tough teams, especially Yale,” senior right side hitter Kendall Peterkin said. “We haven’t beaten them since 2011, so to be able to do it my senior year is really special. Our morale is high right now and we plan to ride it out until the end.” Clearly, the Tigers have plenty to be confident about as they make the journey to Ithaca and New York this Friday and Saturday. Indeed, the Tigers swept both the Big Red and the Lions 3-0 during their first encounters. Still, Columbia and Cornell have proven to be tough opponents in the past and Princeton will need to maintain its usual focus and energy in both matches. “Our plan this weekend is just to focus on the game at hand and play with as much urgency and intensity as we have been the past few weeks,” See W. V-BALL page 7

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