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PICS now offers 167 paid internships

By Drew Brazer contributor

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SPEAR’s “Who Do We Kill” protest campaign began on Monday with a talk by Anthony Ray Hinton.

SPEAR “Who Do We Kill” campaign began this week with exoneree lecture

By Claire Lee contributor

Students for Prison Education and Reform launched the newest protest campaign, “Who Do We Kill,” on Monday.

The campaign is to protest the death penalty in the United States.

The campaign began with a talk by Anthony Ray Hinton, an exoneree who was on death row for 30 years.

“I have been through pure

hell,” Hinton said, regarding his experience as a death row inmate.

He noted that no one, regardless of race or gender, should ever be on death row for a crime they never committed, and urged for the end of death sentence.

“We need to put an end to the death row,” he added.

Steffen Seitz ’17, co-organizer of the campaign, said that Hinton’s experience is something that few people hear about and it’s important

for people to understand the torture of living under death row.

SPEAR co-president Clarissa Kimmey ’16 said that the first piece of the protest would be this Wednesday, when Texas inmate Raphael Holiday is scheduled to be executed.

Kimmey explained that all the students participating in the protests will wear black ribbons around their wrists.

SPEAR advocacy co-chair See SPEAR page 3

The Princeton Internships in Civic Service alumni initiative has managed to nearly double its number of opportunities in the past two years to offer 167 internships in the summer of 2016.

PICS provided 114 internships in the summer of 2015 and 93 in the summer of 2014.

“A lot of hard work went into making this expansion possible,” Chairman of the PICS Board Chuck Freyer ’69 said of the jump to 167 internships for summer 2016.

“Our team puts in thousands of hours each year to make opportunities like these happen.”

These internships cover a wide range of endeavors in both national and international organizations, Freyer said.

Freyer added that PICS has enlarged its arsenal to encompass internships in the fields of journalism, government and the arts. Traditionally, students had the opportunity to work in group advocacy, legal services, the environment, health and social services, community development and education.

These new fields were chosen based on demonstrated student interest, and the engagements of the alumni contacted through the expanded PICS outreach efforts, Freyer

said.

Prior to expansion, PICS had been known as the Class of 1969 Community Service Fund, and was composed almost entirely of Class of 1969 members who had founded it, Freyer explained. The first step to program expansion required a reorganization of the PICS board, he said.

“We needed to develop involvement with a greater number of alumni classes,” Freyer said.

The program’s name was then changed to Princeton Internships in Civic Service in 2007 as the board began reaching out to other classes to join and support the program, Freyer said. The board then networked with alumni through groups such as Princeton regional associations and partner classes.

As a result of this effort to engage alumni support, PICS now has eight different alumni classes serving on the program board, spanning from the class of 1967 to the class of 2006, Freyer noted. Likewise, PICS currently has five different classes serving as program partners — meaning that they help to sponsor one or more interns.

Freyer also explained that the Community Service Fund partnered with the Pace Center for Civic Engagement to support PICS in May 2010.

By partnering with the Pace See PICS page 2

LECTURE

Authors lecture on Medicare, Medicaid history, future

By Samvida Venkatesh contributor

The story of Medicare and Medicaid is one in which the public sector has helped to finance the growth and development of the private sector, Wilson school professor Keith Wailoo, co-editor of the new book “Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America’s Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care,” said in a panel discussion on Monday.

The panel discussed the original vision behind Medicare and Medicaid, the momentous transformation events since their initiation and how the two programs are likely to unfold in the future.

Wailoo explained that Medicare was initially designed to evade criticisms that had been built up against national healthcare.

“So the elderly were identified as a deserving part of the population, out of the workforce and unable to afford healthcare; benefits were defined very narrowly and linked to social security,” he said.

He added that the motivation for Medicaid stemmed from the federal system becoming a limiting factor; the federal government had to negotiate state by state the benefits of the program because the rubrics for benefits were not standardized.

Wailoo explained that although it was well defined what would fall under the rubric of Medicaid coverage, Medicaid ended up covering gaps that any national policy had been reluctant to cover over the decades, including HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, children’s health in the 1990s, disability and mental health.

Speaking of the challenges faced

by Medicare and Medicaid, sociology professor Paul Starr, a contributor to the book, said that there were many elderly who believed that Medicare was “their” program and were not open to the idea of it being expanded to everyone.

Wilson school professor Uwe Reinhardt, another contributor to the book, also explained that financial profit amongst private health care See LECTURE page 4

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Professor Keith Wailoo discussed his new book about Medicare and Medicaid in a panel on Monday.

STUDENT LIFE

Candidates for USG elections announced, voting begins next Monday There are 22 candidates in the upcoming USG elections, USG president Ella Cheng ’16 announced in an email to the student body on Monday.

Cheng is a former staff writer for the Daily Princetonian.

Aleksandra Czulak ’17, Grant Golub ’17 and Simon Wu ’17 are running for USG president. Czulak is cur-

rently the vice president, Golub is the former chief elections manager and Wu is currently the social committee chair.

Golub is a former copy editor and staff writer for the ‘Prince.’

Jeremy Burton ’18 and Shobhit Kumar ’18 are the candidates for USG vice president. Burton is currently the executive secretary and Kumar is currently a U-Councilor.

Hunter Dong ’17, the current trea-

surer, is running for reelection unopposed.

Patrick Flanigan ’18, David Landeta ’19 and Shannon Osaka ’17 are running for academics committee chair, and Lyon Aung ’18 and Class of 2018 senator Rachel Park ’18 are running for social committee chair.

Michael Cox ’17, the current campus and community affairs committee chair, is running for reelection unopposed, and Jenny Zhang

’18 is running for University Student Life Committee chair unopposed.

Additionally, nine students are running for the position of Class Senator.

Current Class of 2017 senators Kishan Bhatt ’17 and Cailin Hong ’17 are running for reelection.

Hong is a former design editor for the ‘Prince.’

Current Class of 2018 senator Paul Draper ’18 is also running for the

In Opinion

Today on Campus

Columnist Max Grear explains why we need to shut up and listen instead of injecting our own opinion and guest contributor Trevor Klee questions President Eisgruber’s salary. PAGE 5

6 p.m.: Paleontologist Jack Horner will talk about his research on dinosaur behavior and physiology in a public lecture hosted by the University’s Vanuxem lecture series.

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same position. The other Class of 2018 position will be appointed after the elections since there is only one candidate.

Ruby Guo ’19, Wesley Johnson ’19, Chris Kellogg-Peeler ’19, Andrew Ma ’19, Kai Xin Tai ’19 and Sarah Varghese ’19 are running for the two Class of 2019 senator positions.

Campaigning began on Monday, and voting will begin on Nov. 23, according to Cheng’s email.

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Center, the program expected to increase the number of internship opportunities available for undergraduates, while simultaneously broadening the outreach to Princeton alumni with a commitment to civic engagement, he explained. Pace has since served as a gateway through which students will become part of the PICS program.

The two main obstacles to expansion, Freyer said, were what he called “inertial resistance” and fundraising. He explained that the program had plateaued at an offering of about 75 internships for the four or five years prior to expansion, and because the board was comfortable with this number, it was initially challenging to move beyond this established norm and

overcome what he described as “inertial resistance.” To overcome the “inertial resistance,” the board needed funds, he said.

Executive Director Seva Kramer retired in 2012, having been with the program since its conception in 1996, Freyer said. Kramer was replaced by Jeri Schaefer, who has served as Executive Director ever since.

“Jeri came in as executive director with a skill set which included fundraising,” Freyer said. “Fundraising being a crucial requirement for growth.”

With a diverse board and an executive director with fundraising experience, PICS was ready to begin its journey towards expansion, he said.

Freyer explained that he proposed the goal of doubling the number of available PICS internship opportunities during a strategic board re-

treat meeting in 2013, noting that the roughly 75 internships PICS fielded annually at the time met the demand of only about 15 percent of the application pool. Freyer said he wanted to see the program include approximately 150 internships by the summer of 2016.

“I don’t think anybody really believed we could do it,” Freyer said. “But we accepted the challenge anyways.”

The internships are approximately divided on a one-third, to one-third, to one-third ratio between rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors, Freyer noted.

“I think the PICS expansion is great for students who want to explore careers in civic service,” Berthy Feng ’19 said. “I really hope that I will be able to take advantage of these awesome new opportunities.” Schaefer said that there are various challenges

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and opportunities that accompany this expansion.

She noted that PICS does not receive funding from the University, and that the majority of funds come from generous alumni and the organizations that field the program’s interns. Funding is a principal concern, she said, since PICS internships are paid, enabling every student, regardless of financial background, to participate in the career investigation opportunities. In order to meet the increased financial demands of expansion, the board reached out to long-time community partners and asked them to work with PICS to co-fund the internships.

“We are working at the height of our capacity to handle the number of internships that we currently provide,” Schaefer said.

Increasing PICS staffing to meet the increased workload of managing these internships, as well as tackling an increased application pool, is entirely contingent upon fundraising capacities, Schaefer added.

Schaefer explained that she formed the Student Advisory Council in 2012 with the intent of integrating student voices to provide feedback for the actions of the board and raising awareness of the new internship opportunities PICS offers. She said that the Student Advisory Council, under the oversight of her and PICS and Pace Center program coordinator Evan Schneider, has taken on the large role of publicizing PICS to the undergraduate community, including doorknocking campaigns and events organized on campus.

She added that all former interns who are still members of the University undergrad-

uate community have been encouraged to reach out to friends and affiliates, often through class social media sites.

Schneider deferred comment to Schaefer.

Christie Jiang ’17, who did a PICS internship during the summer of 2014 working for a non-profit in Trenton called Isles, Inc., said that the most valuable part of the PICS program is the student’s ability to gain an appreciation for how difficult, yet rewarding, non-profit work can be.

“The PICS program is really special because it creates funding opportunities for programs that might typically be unpaid internships,” Jiang said.

Jiang said her only qualm with the PICS program was that, at the time she was applying in 2014, most of the offered internships seemed to fall under legal and medical categories.

“I think that with the recent expansion, the PICS coordinators have sought to resolve this issue by bringing in a more diverse set of options,” she said.

Freyer said that the ultimate objective of the PICS program is to provide opportunities for undergraduates at the University to experience the rewards and benefits of working in the service and non-profit sectors, and that the board is gratified when an intern decides as a result of their PICS experience to pursue a career in the non-profit sector right after graduation.

“Our hope,” he continued, “is that these experiences will encourage the interns, after they graduate, to serve one or more non-profits as a board member or in some other capacity while pursuing their careers.”

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Margaret Wright ’17 said that students can get ribbons in the Pace Center for Civic Engagement.

Maxwell Grear ’18, co-organizer of the campaign, said that the goal of the campaign is to start conversation about the death penalty on campus and remind people about its continuing prevalence.

Grear is also a columnist for The Daily Princetonian.

He explained that every time a person is scheduled to be executed in the country, SPEAR will circulate information about each person and hold a protest. He said that the protests are meant to last indefinitely until the death penalty is outlawed in the United States.

Grear explained that although it seems that people are overall sympathetic to the idea of reforming the criminal justice system, they are more accepting of the status quo in terms of the death penalty.

The issue is not on the radar of most people or there is a certain sense of complacency, he added.

Wright said that what is visible in the media is only the stories of the victims in terms of the crimes that were allegedly committed.

“It’s really easy not to think about the fact that each one of these people is a human being with an entire life story,” she added.

Kimmey said that another one of SPEAR’s goals is to let the people being ex-

ecuted speak for themselves.

The campaign will distribute letters written by people on death row to students on campus.

“When you talk about drone warfare or police killings or gun violence, there are staggering numbers of people affected that brace people,” SPEAR co-president Daniel Teehan ’17 said. “With the death penalty, however, if you say the number of people that are executed, that doesn’t really register with people, and yet it’s really something that exceptional in society that we’re still allowing the killing of people.”

He added that although the number of executed people are not very large, the system is still something to be protested against.

“Even though it’s not 30,000 people every year, even if it’s just 50 people, it’s 50 people too many. I think that’s the message we’re trying to convey with the campaign,” he added.

Kyle Berlin ’18, a participant in the campaign, said, that he thinks the campaign is important because the death penalty is “an act of extreme injustice.”

“The fact that we can call ourselves civilized and then kill people, many of whom are African Americans or later proven to be innocent, is a travesty,” he said.

He said he hopes SPEAR’s protests will spur some conversations on campus so students can start talking about the death penalty and how it represents a larger system of injustice and discrimination.

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Anthony Ray Hinton spoke on campus on Monday about his experience on death row for 30 years before he was exonerated. His talk was the first event in SPEAR’s “Who Do We Kill” protest campaign.

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Wilson School professor Keith Wailoo discussed his new book in a panel discussion on Monday.

News & Notes Harvard bomb threat leads to evacuation of 4 buildings Students evacuated Harvard’s Science Center, Sever, Emerson and Thayer Halls in response to an emailed bomb threat to the Cambridge Police Department at approximately 12:30 p.m. on Monday, according to the Harvard Crimson.

Local officers, detectives and bomb squad specialists restricted access to Harvard Yard and conducted searches for several hours on the four buildings, according to the Harvard Crimson.

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providers was a strong barrier to repealing the program.

Wilson school professor Julian Zelizer, co-editor of the book, added that once the policies were in place, health spending per elderly person grew less rapidly over time compared to health spending per young person. He also spoke about doctor fee inflations, saying that what was unreasonable one year would become reasonable the next.

“Fifty years ago, no one would have said this is exactly how the system should look,” Wailoo added.

His thoughts were echoed by Starr, who said, “If we have to do it all over again, there would be some better ways to do it.”

Speaking of the way forward for

Medicare and Medicaid, Starr said he believes that the outcome is not at all stable and depends very much on which political party controls Congress in 2016. He added that there will likely be a slow degrading of the whole program if individual projects are not funded enough and highly dependent on the political climate.

Moderator Heather Howard, Lecturer in Public Affairs and Director of State Health Reform Assistance Network, added that a good test case would be the new governor in Kentucky, Steve Beshear, who has said that he opposes expanding Medicaid.

“He has been saying all along that he’s opposed to the expansion of Medicaid, but will he actually repeal it?” she said.

The discussion took place in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m., and was sponsored by the Wilson School.

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deemed the buildings “safe” and re-opened all four by about 5:30 p.m.

The investigation into the source of the threat is ongoing.

“The most important thing is our students’ safety and wellbeing,” Harvard’s Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana said in an interview with the Crimson.

Other Massachusetts schools and colleges, including Cambridge Public Schools, Fitchburg State University and Cape Cod Community College, have also received unconfirmed bomb threats since Sunday.

CORRECTIONS Due to an editing error, the headline of the Nov. 13 article, “4 sexual misconduct cases this year,” has been updated online to reflect the fact that there were four incidents of inappropriate sexual conduct in the first six weeks of the semester. Due to an editing error, the Nov. 11 article, “Tiger statues, cannon vandalized with graffiti,” misstated the work order that was submitted by the DPS officer. The work order was to remove the graffiti from the statues. Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of the Nov. 12 article, “Zwicker wins state seat after close race,” inaccurately stated that Andrew Zwicker had obtained the Democratic nomination in 2013 to replace former U.S. Representative Rush Holt. The ‘Prince’ regrets the errors.

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Speaking up about shutting up Max Grear

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t seems that each time a minority student population confronts University administrators about incidents of racial insensitivity within their communities, a predictable response emerges.

Typically, a chorus of voices from both within and outside the campus reacts against the demands of some students for policies or administrative action to punish problematic speech.

These defenses of free speech vary in tone from sympathetic to dismissive of students’ concerns.

But after a certain amount of repetition, many of these arguments start to reflect a common view on the value of speech: we’re free to talk, so let’s all speak up! An observer gets the impression that there can never be too many people speaking up for the right of everyone else to speak up. It’s as if all this talk about the dangers of silencing viewpoints has made us feel that a conversation can always use more of our own voices and more think pieces.

Sometimes we just need to shut up and listen — never through coercion, but voluntarily. This is particularly an issue when those of us who are white, and do not ourselves suffer the consequences of racism, draw attention away from the voices of people of color through over-zealous engagement. Of course, it is always important to defend the right to free speech. But the fact of this freedom’s importance shouldn’t excuse the many commentators inside and outside of campuses, on the staffs of school papers and in national publications, from making certain judgment calls: when do we over-contribute to a conversation? How do we reconcile our participation in the dialogue on race and speech with the structures of privilege that benefit us even as we make ourselves heard? When should we just shut up and listen?

As an ally to students of color, it is more important to me that I remain conscious of when to contribute to a conversation and when to listen than that I agree wholeheartedly on the specific tactics of the leaders of organizations of students of color. I asked myself when I read about Yale: if I was a student there and had heard about the upcoming protest, would I have attended as an ally?

In this particular case, I’m still not entirely sure.

I don’t think that Erica Christakis should have to

editorial board chair Jeffrey Leibenhaut ’16

step down from her responsibilities as associate master of the Silliman residential college, and I didn’t need a lengthy series of articles to arrive at this position.

But I recognize that this demand forms only a small piece of an effort on the part of students to draw attention to the gulf between students and administrators who appear out of touch with the ways that minority students experience the university, as students of color deal with profiling by police, continue to live in a residential college named after one of our nation’s most unabashedly white supremacist figures, and have seen the indifference of the administration to the departure of important faculty of color. I find it less urgent to defend an administrator currently in control of institutional resources than to lend my support to these protesting students. These students represent just the tip of the iceberg of students of color across the country who are angry that, in the words of Missouri student Abigail Hollis, “the way white students are treated is in stark contrast to the way black students and other marginalized students are treated.”

Part of being a good ally means engaging seriously with the ideas of activist students of color, through dialogue and critique. We all, allies and students of color alike, may need to stand firm against some of our activist peers, as in some cases the pressures of collective action compromise fairness to individuals, like in the unjust ousting of Claremont McKenna Dean of Students Mary Spellman, who was forced to resign after a regrettably phrased email acknowledging the reality of white privilege at the university.

But it’s important that we first support our fellow students, and remember that the media portrayals of groups of shouting students represent spaces that are wildly different from the everyday context of student life, where minority students deal alone with a majority of white classmates and professors unfamiliar with experiences of harassment and intimidation and unaware of the way that language can evoke these experiences.

So let those of us who consider ourselves allies be careful to find the right time and place for criticism, and dedicate ourselves first to active support of our peers both in Princeton and in the nation as a whole.

It’s time for me to shut up now.

Max Grear is a sophomore from Wakefield, R.I. He can be reached at mgrear@princeton.edu.

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Trevor Klee

The case for lowering Chris Eisgruber’s salary

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’m writing this column to propose that the salary of President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 be lowered to $538,667, or precisely $1 above the 1 percent income line for New Jersey in 2012 . His current salary, according to Princeton’s 2013 financial report, is about $750,000, although it’s hard to tell exactly, as he’s not yet listed as President in that report. It’s likely more than that now, assuming Eisgruber’s salary follows the trend of President Emerita Shirley Tilghman’s salary, which climbed while she was in office.

If Eisgruber’s salary were lowered to $538,667, he would still make more than 99 percent of people in New Jersey. Moreover, given that the median per capita income in New Jersey is roughly $35,000, and assuming a working career of 50 years, it would still take him only three and a half years to make what the median New Jersey resident makes in a lifetime. It would, in other words, still be a heck of a lot of money.

Moreover, think of everything that could be done with that extra $200,000! Currently, for a middle-income family, the cost of raising a child from birth to age 18 is about $245,000. That means every year, the University could save just about enough money

to give one newborn in Princeton a middleincome life, free of charge to their parents.

Eisgruber could go to the parents and say, “On behalf of Princeton University, I now give your child a trust that will provide for them until they become an adult. You will no longer have to worry about putting clothes on their back, food on their plate, or books in their backpack. You are free to skip that extra night shift. You do not have to live in the worst section of town. Your child has been taken care of financially, so you can take care of them in all the other ways.” And Princeton University could do that every year!

Unfortunately, this salary decrease would also mean that Eisgruber’s salary is no longer commensurate with the salaries of other university presidents, especially presidents of universities with Princeton’s stature. The economists among us would predict dire things, like Eisgruber being poached by a university willing to offer him more money.

However, I do not think this would happen.

You see, Eisgruber was chosen as Princeton’s president not only for his intelligence and wisdom, but for his excellent moral character. For a man like Eisgruber, being a university president is not a job, but a privilege, a chance to shape the experience and education of thousands. A man such as that cannot be swayed from a moral calling by decreasing his salary to merely $500,000,

any more so than one could buy off the Pope.

So, I call upon Eisgruber to stand up and do what is right. I want him to say, “Princeton University, as your president, I have a duty to lead by example and to do what is right. I do not need a $750,000 salary. There are many less fortunate than me who could do far more with that money. That is why, starting today, I will donate $200,000 per year to those who need that money most.”

Then, too, other Princeton staff could feel empowered to follow his lead, like David Dobkin, former Dean of the Faculty, who made $780,000 in 2013, or Jose Scheinkman, Professor of Economics, who made $770,000 in 2013. Maybe we could even encourage the directors at PRINCO to give up some of their multimillion dollar salaries, although they’re probably more attached to their money than people like Eisgruber.

When that happens, we will see a ripple effect. Across Princeton everyone will be inspired to put their money to work in the nation’s service, not just to buy food, alcohol or cell phones. Perhaps we’ll even rethink the morality of spending billions of dollars to build unnecessary huge new complexes, when there are people in need in our very town. When that happens, it will truly be a great day for Princeton.

Trevor Klee is a 2015 graduate of the University. He can be contacted at klevertree@gmail.com.

Mr. Hollande, No new wars Luke Gamble contributor

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n the days following the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, Nov. 13, the world has come together in remarkable ways to show France solidarity. Sporting events across the United States took a moment of silence to honor the victims. Facebook implemented a temporary French flag profile picture. President Obama made a statement that the United States was prepared to aid France with whatever it needed in the coming days. Here at Princeton, a candlelight vigil was held.

While this tragedy has caused extreme chaos, it has also brought about a remarkable sense of unity and solidarity, bringing people and even countries together in deeply meaningful ways that will hopefully last much longer than this crisis.

The attacks across France on Friday the 13th were not bad luck, and were outside the control of the French government. As the world mourns this attack, however, one thing is clearly within our control: our response to such crises.

French President Francois Hollande came out with a statement that the shootings and bombing constituted an “act of war” against the nation of France.

As the initial mourning process passes and the country returns to work, Hollande stated that France “will lead the fight” in the response to the attacks and that they “will be ruthless.” According to the New York Times, as of Friday afternoon Hollande had declared a state of national emergency and the French military had begun conducting major airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria.

Although the United States has done its part in showing solidarity with France, it must take care that it doesn’t let France commit the same mistake we made after 9/11. In the aftermath of that tragedy, it mattered more to Americans that something was done, than that the reaction was the proper longer-term response. In the furor of the moment, George W. Bush succumbed to the pressure to jump to quick military action to avoid looking like he was going standby and letting America get pushed around.

Instead of cautioning our ally, some of our leaders are taking the opposite approach. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, on this weekend’s “Meet the Press,” called on the United States to “declare war” on ISIS. Warning about “a caliphate the size of Indiana,” Bush and others are appealing to our emotions, rather than our logic.

President Hollande cannot make the same mistake.

No matter his government’s response in the coming weeks, the attacks of Friday will always be a black mark on his record. Will Hollande act in a way that makes sure he looks strong in the short term, or in a way that sets France — and the world — on track for a more presiding period of peace than 20 prolonged and costly years of “the war on terrorism”? When we respond with armed forces to attacks such as these, we end up causing more damage than the initial attacks did. On 9/11, 2,996 people were killed, but there have already been 4,409 U.S military deaths alone since then, in addition to the countless civilian casualties.

France’s anger is justified. I am not trying to delegitimize the anger that many, both in France and globally, are feeling. However, we also have an obligation to not let France’s response drift into the realm of vengeance. As one of France’s oldest allies and friends, we have the responsibility to provide any aid that France may need, but we also have the fundamental responsibility not to further and unnecessarily provoke France towards an aggressive response.

We need to support, but we also need to caution. France cannot become the country where the President feels like he has to declare a broad and blind war on terror so that it looks like he has political backbone.

Yes, France should carry out a thorough investigation to find out how such an atrocity could occur. Yes, France should seek what justice they can from the guilty culprits. Yes, Parisians should decide what policy changes need to be made to help prevent such attacks in the near future. But Mr. Hollande, we cannot have another war on terror.

Luke Gamble is a sophomore from Eagle, Idaho. He can be reached at ljgamble@ princeton.edu.

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After earning the victory on the road, the team looks forward to its home opener in Dillon on Saturday.

against Central Michigan in 2008. Weisz added eight assists, a career high. In addition, Miller improved his career high as well with 12 rebounds.

With a first win under their belts and many returning veterans, the Tigers are optimistic for a successful season. “We have one goal for this year and that is to win the Ivy League. We bring back a lot of experience from last year’s team and we know exactly what we have to do,” Miller said. “It starts with our work ethic, which is what this program’s success is all about. We’ve all given everything in our tanks since last spring to be as well prepared for this season as possible. We’re really excited to prove ourselves this year. I think everyone has matured as well. With the experience that we all have, we see ourselves as the only thing that can get in the way of accomplishing

our goals.”

Princeton will also benefit from the addition of new freshmen to the team.

“I think the freshmen have caught along to the way we

“I think the freshmen caught along to the way we do things quickly. They understand the level of commitment to the details of the process of becoming a good team. we’re going to count on them this year.” pete miller,

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do things quickly. They understand the level of commitment to the details and the process of becoming a good team. We’re going to count on them this year,” Miller stated.

Princeton plays their next game at home against St. Peter’s on Saturday, Nov. 21.

While the match will undoubtedly be a tough one, the Princeton squad is eager to meet the challenge.

“The game against St. Peter’s should be a lot of fun. We are going to play it in Dillon Gym as a throwback game,” Weisz said. “Hopefully, a lot of students come out and pack the gym.”

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Tigers bid farewell to nine Despite slow start offensively, Tigers seniors, shut out Bulldogs find groove in victory over American M. SOCCER Continued from page 8

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season in a six-way tie for fifth most in program history. Senior midfielder Brendan McSherry follows behind Sanner for goals this season with six, and ties him for assists this season, with five.

The Tigers closed the books on the season with three consecutive shutouts, with junior Josh Haberman in goal for the first two against Drexel and Penn and senior Ben Hummel in goal in the final game against Yale. Senior Ben Hummel had 48 saves on the season, good for the third most in the Ivy League, with a save percentage of .686.

The Tigers finish a strong season with four top-10 rankings in various NCAA categories,

finishing third in assists per game, fourth in shots per game, seventh in points per game and ninth in total assists. The Tigers also finished 12th in the nation in shots on goal per game and 13th in scoring offense. Sanner finished the season with six top10 NCAA rankings of his own, finishing fourth in goals per game and points per game, sixth in total points, seventh in total goals and eighth in both game winning goals and shots per game. The Tigers (10-5-2 overall, 3-3-1 Ivy League) finished the season ranked in fifth.

As the Tigers close the books on another season, it marks the final game for seniors Ben Hummel, Jack Hilger, Brendan McSherry, Nico Hurtado, Andrew Doar, John Kendall, Thomas Sanner, Josh Miller and Bing Lin.

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The Tigers continued to stay locked in from the outside in the fourth, putting in five in the quarter, to seal the deal handily 72-34. On the game, Tarakchian was the star with a season-opening doubledouble, with 20 points and 12 rebounds. Next leading scorers on the team were Miller and junior forward Jackie Reyneke, with nine and eight points, respectively.

While the Tigers started out slow to open the season, they faced no such problems as they took on Duquesne (1-1 overall) on Sunday afternoon.

The Tigers scored 27 points in the first quarter alone, already matching their total

from the first half against American — Duquesne responded with merely 14. The difference in performance from Friday night to Sunday afternoon was evident in the Tigers’ shooting — they shot 59.5 percent from the field and 46.2 percent from downtown in the first 20 minutes.

Their defensive effort was nothing to be scoffed at, as they held the visitors to 37.9 percent.

The Dukes did not hold the lead once over the course of the game as the Tigers rolled on to a 94-66 victory. The workload for the game was distributed across the senior class — Tarakchian repeated her strong showing from Friday with another doubledouble, posting 19 points and 10 boards. Senior guard Alex

Wheatley f lirted with one herself, putting up 16 points and seven boards on an efficient 7-11 shooting performance. Senior forward Taylor Williams added 11 to the game, and Miller would prove to be the leading scorer, with a hot night of 24 points to lead all players.

With her great performance over the two games, in which she averaged 19.5 points and 11 boards, Tarakchian was named Ivy League Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. This was Tarakchian’s sixth such award of her career.

Looking forward, the Tigers will play their first road game this Thursday at 7 p.m., taking on Seton Hall. The game can be viewed on Fox Sports 2.

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Tigers go 2-0 on weekend to begin season

By Miles Hinson sports editor

After the first weekend of the season, the women’s basketball team continues its streak of success in regular season play,opening 20152016 with wins over American University and Duquesne University.

The Tigers (2-0 overall) came into Friday night ready to repeat last year’s success over the Eagles, whom they defeated 63-56 in the previous year. The early goings of Friday night’s contest, however, were not a highlight reel for either team. A Tiger offense that was red-hot for most of last season put up a mere seven points in the first quarter. The Eagles (0-1 overall) themselves fared even worse, scoring only two through the first ten minutes. Overall, the teams were an abysmal 3-27 shooting in the first quarter. The lack of fire from the offense seemed to have extended to the crowd as well – the subdued Tigers faithful seemed to wait on edge, ready for the home team to find their groove once more.

For Princeton, these early game jitters were not indica-

tive of their performance as a whole. The Orange and Black found their groove near the end of the second quarter, behind particularly strong rebounding and offensive performance from senior forward Annie Tarakchian.

Indeed, perhaps the most aesthetically pleasing play of the quarter was Tarakchian’s slipping past the Eagles’ defense for a flip shot and-one, igniting a fire back into a Princeton crowd just waiting for their Tigers to roar.

The momentum, belonging to no one at the beginning of the first quarter, was firmly in the Tigers’ hands by the end of the second. While the Tigers only shot 25.9 percent in the first half, they still held a 27-14 lead. Moreover, they left such play far behind in the second half.

The third quarter would feature the Tigers getting it going from the outside: four three pointers came from senior guard Michelle Miller, senior guard Amanda Berntsen and junior guard Taylor Brown. By the end of the third, the Eagles looked up to find themselves in an even deeper hole at 47-22.

See W. B-BALL page 7

TIFFANY RICHARDSON :: ESNIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Tigers continue their streak of success in the regular season with wins over American and Duquesne.

MEN’S SOCCER

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Men’s soccer takes down Yale 3-0 to conclude season

Men’s basketball opens season with road victory against Rider University

By Sydney Mandelbaum sports editor

Saturday afternoon, the men’s soccer team finished out the season as the senior class led the team to a dominant 3-0 victory over Yale. The game was in honor of the nine-member senior class, and so it was fitting that the three goals of the game were all scored by seniors.

The first goal of the game was scored by senior midfielder John Kendall 20 minutes into the game after classmate and fel-

low midfielder Jack Hilger was tripped up in the 18-yard box.

The goal was Kendall’s first career goal.

It didn’t take the Tigers long to score again, as senior forward Thomas Sanner headed in a corner kick from senior midfielder Nico Hurtado, his 13th of the season and 32nd career goal. His goal on Saturday leaves Sanner in a six-way tie for sixth-most goals in a given season in program history and with a career total high enough to push him past former teammate Cameron

Porter on the program career total list, leaving him in fourth place.

Sanner also assisted on senior midfielder Andrew Doar’s goal, which came in with less than a minute left in the first half, with a pass that Doar put in for his second career goal. The assist left Sanner with 31 points this season and 79 in his career, tying him for eighth-most points in a season and third for all time points. With 15 career assists, Sanner finishes his senior See M. SOCCER page 7

JASPER GEBHARDT :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

With the victory, the men’s soccer team finishes with an even record, 3-3-1, in league play this season.

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By David Xin contributor

This past Friday, the men’s basketball team opened the season with a game against neighboring Rider University. In a gripping match, the Tigers sealed an away win, defeating the Broncs 64-56.

Princeton has now won four straight season openers, starting another year on an auspicious note.

Princeton opened the game red hot, draining their first three 3-point attempts.

On the defensive side, the Tigers’ performance was equally impressive. Rider missed their first eight shots from the field and went on to finish the half shooting just 24.1 percent (729). As the first half began to wind down, the Tigers had already built a formidable 16-point lead.

Despite the strong start, the game would prove to be rollercoaster ride of emotions. Rider rallied at the end of the first half with an 8-0 run and then began the second half 10-0 to take the lead from Princeton, 35-34.

“I thought we showed great poise in the second half when we fell behind after having a big lead,” junior forward Spencer Weisz said.

“Everyone was calm despite

Stat of the Day

50.7% Women’s basketball shot 50.7% from the field en route to 94 points in its win against Duquesne.

losing the lead. We knew they were going to come out strong in the second half and make a run, but there was still so much time left in the game that we still felt we were in a good position. I thought it showed great maturity on our part to fight through the adversity.”

Indeed the Tigers would respond with a dramatic spree of their own. With 15 minutes remaining in the half, the Tigers started a 16-2 run. From then on Princeton maintained a five-point lead before closing the game with a 64-56 victory.

“We’re really happy to get the first win of the season under our belt,” said junior forward Pete Miller. “Overall, it was a great win against a really good Rider team. To get a win like that on the road in a hectic atmosphere, we showed a lot of focus on the little things that make us win.”

The game against Rider also showcased the talents and potential of the Princeton squad with great individual performances from many members.

Freshman guard Devin Cannady scored 17 points in his debut against Rider, the most scored by a freshman since Douglas Davis’ 25 points See M. BBALL page 6

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