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Today on Campus 12:30 p.m.: Guust Nolet, a professor emeritus in the Department of Geosciences, will give a talk, “Towards global monitoring of the ocean environment,” at Guyot 10 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Archives

Nov.25, 1970 The Undergraduate Government Assembly only made it through just half of its agenda during a two hour meeting that was called off due to fatigue, after the UGA spent most of the two hours haggling over procedural rules and committee votes.

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News & Notes U. researchers discover novel bacterial infection mechanism A team of researchers from the University and Dartmouth has discovered that Pseudomonas aeruginosa, one of the world’s most prolific bacteria, afflicts humans through the sense of touch.

According to associate professor of molecular biology Zemer Gitai and postdoctoral research fellow Albert Siryaporn, who co-authored the research with two Dartmouth researchers, Pseudomonas is the first pathogen discovered to infect people and animals merely by attaching to the surface of its host, instead of relying on chemical signals.

Pseudomona is known to cause potentially fatal organ infections, as well as many hospitalacquired illnesses like sepsis. The bacteria are largely unfazed by antibiotics. However, the research found the bacteria lose their ability to infect hosts when a protein on their surface is disabled, suggesting a possible treatment for it.

The article, “Surface attachment induces Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence,” was published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Nov. 10.

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Hundreds of students protested along Prospect Avenue early Tuesday morning, an evening when students traditionally go out to the eating clubs before Thanksgiving break.

By Michael Granovetter and Jessica Li senior writer and contributor

At its peak, over 300 students marched in protest along Prospect Avenue starting at midnight Tuesday morning chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot,“ “No justice, no peace” and “Black lives matter,” in what was probably the

largest public protest at the University in recent years.

The protest occurred the night before Thanksgiving break, a night known for students going out to the eating clubs — also located along Prospect Avenue — and partying before leaving campus for the rest of the week.

The protest looped around both sides of the Street against

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Crotty ’00 named Title IX coordinator

By Zaynab Zaman contributor

Regan Crotty ’00 has been appointed to the new full-time position of Title IX Coordinator of the University, according to an email sent by Master of Wilson College Eduardo Cadava to the Wilson College listserv on Monday afternoon.

Crotty is currently director of student life at Wilson College and a lawyer by training.

The Office for Civil Rights, the office within the Department of Education that deals with Title IX issues, found the University in violation of Title IX earlier this year. The University had had no reported cases of Title IX violations from 2002-08 but had received 12 since 2009. The University has come to an agreement with the OCR regarding three of those cases and will abide by the new terms, according to a resolution agreement signed this month.

Most notably, the University has agreed to review all cases of sexual assault adjudicated in the past three years to address any issues it may find and provide remedies, a review Crotty will most

the backdrop of a separate group of students that vied for entry into one of Princeton’s 11 eating clubs.

The protests occurred hours after a jury ruled that Darren Wilson, a policeman from the suburbs of St. Louis, Miss., will not face charges in the shooting of unarmed African-American 18-yearold Michael Brown. Wilson shot Brown multiple times in broad

deserves justice” and “Black lives matter here and everywhere.”

Students, led by Terrence Fraser ’16, Yoselin Gramajo ’16, Briana Payton ’17 and Destiny Crockett ’17, among others, organized the event shortly after the decision was made in Missouri, with emails going out to several residential college listservs an See PROTEST page 6

How are the USG elections going?

Editor’s note: The Daily Princetonian interviewed over 300 students on Monday to get a sense of how the student body is voting in the most recent Undergraduate Student Government Elections. While the results are not that of a poll they give readers a sense of how things have progressed so far. The results seemingly confirm suspicions that outsider candidate William Gansa ’16 has made an impression in the student body as a whole. However, if results progress in the same way for the next two days, no candidate will win and a runoff will take place. Voting closes on Wednesday at noon.

Who are you voting for?

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likely have to oversee in her new role. At least 11 cases of sexual assault were internally adjudicated by the University in the past three academic years, according to a review of disciplinary reports.

In addition, the University was also looking to hire a part-time investigator for sexual assault cases as of October, part of an overhaul of how internal disciplinary investigations for sexual assault violations are handled.

Crotty did not respond to a request for comment as of press time. Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity and Title IX coordinator Michele Minter also did not respond to a request for comment.

Title IX is part of the Education Amendments of 1972 and states that no person may be discriminated against based on gender See TITLE IX page 2

daylight on a residential street in August. The jury deliberated for several months, and the aftermath of the shooting featured several protests in Ferguson, Miss.

Proceedings began in Frist Campus Center shortly after 11 p.m., where students gathered to write signs protesting the jury’s decision, with messages including, “I am Mike Brown,” “Brown

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29% Gansa Stoneman Cheng 13%

Gansa Stoneman Cheng Undecided Not voting Planning to vote Already voted

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* 341 students interviewed, 210 students already voted, 78 students planning to vote HELEN YAO :: ASSOCIATE DESIGN EDITOR

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U. to review smoking policy amid national changes

By Jacob Donnelly staff writer

The University administration has been discussing potential revisions of the University’s current policy on smoking on campus, and these discussions will expand to include undergraduate and graduate students, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua told The Daily Princetonian. The working group

will also hear views from other parties on campus, he added.

“Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” delineates the University’s current smoking policy, saying that smoking is prohibited in all indoor workplaces and places of public access by law and by University policy. The document adds a variety of examples of locations that qualify under this guideline, including University-owned vehicles and spectator

areas at outdoor University events.

It also notes that e-cigarettes are included under this policy.

The University has also recently placed signs on the doors of Frist Campus Center related to its smoking policy. The signs ask people to refrain from smoking within 25 feet of an entryway or air intake and note that smoking within the building is prohibited.

Mbugua noted the signs did not

reflect a change in policy, saying the signs are simply a reminder for those who use the building. Mbugua also said the discussions also had more than one cause.

“We’ve heard from members of the University community who have expressed concerns about secondhand smoke,” he explained.

“Also, there is a growing trend to change smoking policies across the country.”

Indeed, the University’s review of the policies comes amid widespread changes in the way people approach smoking. While once uncommon, the number of “100% smoke-free” campuses in the United States has increased from 586 three years ago to 1,477 today. Mbugua noted there were a variety of options for modifying the current policy and that it is impossible to See SMOKING page 2

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predict what course of action the University may ultimately take.

In addition, the town last year expanded its smoking ban to include outdoor locations as long as they are within municipal property.

Scrutiny toward smoking policies could also affect the eating clubs, which although privately run, are still included within the scope of smoke-free laws.

Eating clubs may be subject to same rules Under the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act of 2006, almost all indoor workplaces are required to prohibit smoking. The only exceptions are tobacco shops, casinos and hotels and motels in some cases.

“Private college dining clubs are not excepted under the law,” attorney Karen Blumenfeld, executive director of Global Advisors on Smokefree Policy, which is based in Summit, N.J., said. “In 2007, state regulations also required that no outdoor smoke migrate into an indoor smoke-free workplace or public place.”

The town of Princeton prohibited smoking in “restaurants, bars, cabarets, taverns, work places, restrooms, lobbies, reception areas, hallways, elevators and all other public enclosed areas” in 2000. The ordinance, which was overturned later that year, also applied to eating clubs, according to a Daily Princetonian article at the time. The ordinance was effectively superseded by the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act. According to members of Terrace Club interviewed, the club —

which employs food service personnel, as well as an administrative and a business manager — effectively prohibits smoking in most rooms during the day. However, even during the day, some members smoke in upstairs rooms.

Terrace Club’s smoking policy was examined because a book, “Princeton University 2012: Off the Record,” published in 2011, claimed, “[Terrace] is the only club that permits cigarette smoking in the dining room.”

Blumenfeld said smoking is prohibited by law in workplaces at all times, even when employees are not present.

“The state law requires that a public place or workplace that is smoke-free be smoke-free at all times,” she said.

The law also does not make distinctions between areas within workplaces. “[T]he separation of smoking and nonsmoking areas in indoor public places and workplaces does not eliminate the hazard to nonsmokers if these areas share a common ventilation system,” the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act reads in part.

The club adopted a smoking policy in 2010, which aims in part “to adequately address the legitimate rights of nonsmokers,” according to a copy of the policy provided

by Terrace Board Chairman Sandy Harrison ’74.

The policy adds that smoking is never allowed on the first floor of the club or in the basement storage areas; that smoking is not allowed before 6 p.m. on weekdays on the second floor, except in the library by consensus or on the outdoor fireproof deck; that members must comply with any officer or em-

ployee requests regarding smoking; that additional restrictions may be enforced in special cases; and that ashtrays must be used to dispose of tobacco waste.

“Anecdotally, there appear to be considerably fewer smokers at Terrace Club than in the years right before the policy was instituted,” Harrison said.

Under the Act, local boards of health are responsible for enforcement of the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act. A representative of the Princeton Board of Health did not respond to an inquiry into the matter as of press time.

Intent of smoke-free laws ‘not to hand out tickets’ The town of Princeton enacted a ban on outdoor smoking on municipal property last year, which includes municipal buildings, parks, pools and town-owned recreation areas, becoming the first town in Mercer County to do so. The town has the ability to issue fines for violations of this ban.

Heather Howard, a Princeton town councilwoman, former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health and a lecturer in public affairs at the University, said the next step after passing the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act of 2006 banning indoor smoking was to examine outdoor smoking.

She explained vulnerable populations, such as children and senior citizens, are commonly affected by smoking at outdoor areas like parks and swimming pools.

“Our intent was not to hand out tickets: it was to normalize smokefree environments,” Howard said.

“We’ve been leading that fight for

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15 years. Smoking is the numberone preventable cause of death, and Princeton has been a community that has been leading the fight to promote healthy air and protect everyone by promoting smoke-free environments.”

Some students take issue Anna Song, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at the University of California, Merced, whose research focuses on young adult risk behaviors, said that because marketing cigarettes to children is no longer legal, the tobacco industry invests heavily in advertising to young adults.

“When you’re on a college campus, you’re looking to see what’s the norm, what’s acceptable,” Song explained. “If smoking is acceptable on campus and if it’s widely spread, you’re going to see a higher likelihood that a kid who doesn’t smoke would smoke.”

Song added that the advertising surrounding smoking has evolved significantly since the days of the cartoonish Joe Camel figure.

“You’ve got young adults wearing jackets and carrying bags and cell phone cases with cigarette company logos, and that is very much … bringing brand recognition where they otherwise wouldn’t have it,” she said.

Andy Loo ’16, president of Princeton Libertarians, said owners of private property should have the right to make their own rules and that people who disagree with those rules can avoid that property. He added that he did not agree with state and municipal efforts to ban smoking unilaterally.

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Reform would not be unique to Princeton The University of California system is one of the largest institutions of higher education to approve a smoke-free policy in recent years. Tim Pine, an environmental protection specialist at the

University of California, Berkeley and a co-chair of the tobacco-free initiative there, said the degree of compliance toward the new policy has been relatively high, estimating that 80 percent of the smokers to whom he has spoken personally have been understanding of the policy’s purpose.

“The most important thing is to get the campus police on board early,” Pine said. “Until you start hitting those hardcore smokers in the pocketbook and really inconveniencing them, they’re probably going to continue to violate.”

Pine also noted that the city of El Cerrito, Calif., where he serves on the planning commission, is considering similar ordinances.

“It’s a thing,” Pine said. “It’s sweeping the nation.”

The pharmacy chain CVS stopped selling cigarettes nationwide earlier this year.

“How are you supposed to promote health when you are dealing in products that when used as intended will kill you?” Song said.

“I see no reason why a university couldn’t also [go smoke-free].”

Contrary to national trends, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a statewide ban on smoking on public property earlier this year. Christie is also an ex officio trustee of the University.

The University approved a smoking ban in the dormitories in 2005.

Then-Vice President for Campus Life Janet Dickerson noted at the time that while a poll showed a majority of students opposed such a ban in the early 1990s, the general trend went against smoking, as New York City restaurants and airlines had become smokefree.

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late overeating, sleeping too little or hitting yourself, and that is clearly absurd,” Loo said. “If someone does not like secondhand smoke they can choose to not to go to this building because of this policy.”

Song said tobacco control is more of a balancing act.

“We believe in individual freedom absolutely, but we also believe in the freedom to be healthy, and nonsmokers don’t have the freedom not to breathe in secondhand smoke,” she said. “Even third-hand smoke hits those who are most vulnerable, namely infants and children.”

Carey Camel ’17 noted that some smoke not out of addiction, but only in certain settings.

“It’s something you can do that’s a private thing. You can walk out with someone and take a smoke and have an actual conversation during the cigarette,” Camel explained. “If you would go to Terrace, you might find people who don’t normally smoke smoking, because they’re out having a good time.”

Carey added that while he supported the ban on indoor smoking, he was skeptical of the motives behind the town’s outdoor ban.

“I think it’s class-associated,” Camel said. “I think they tend to associate smoking with the ‘grubby lower classes,’ so I think it’s silly … If you’re outside, you’re just contributing to the general atmosphere.”

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under any education programs or activities receiving federal financial aid, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

The role of Title IX coordinator is currently performed by Minter but is not a full-time position. The new position will become effective on Dec. 1 when Crotty assumes duties part-time. University spokesperson Martin Mbugua, speaking on behalf of both Minter and Crotty, said the position is part of the University’s commitment to maintaining a safe environment for all students and handling any cases in accordance with Title IX. According to Cadava’s email,

Crotty will fully transition into her role by mid-January. The Title IX Coordinator will work in the Office of the Provost and will deal with issues related to gender discrimination and sexual misconduct.

After graduating from the University as an English major in 2000, Crotty attended the University of Chicago Law School. She later practiced law for several years at a law firm, concentrating on complex commercial litigation, according to her staff biography.

Crotty returned to the University in 2011 as an administrator, working in the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students. She later became University Investigator and then the Executive Director for Planning and Administration in the Office of the Vice

President for Campus Life. In this role, Crotty oversaw issues regarding international travel as well as Reserve Officer Training Corps and Outdoor Action programming, according to the Wilson College archives.

Crotty was appointed the director of student life at Wilson College in the fall of 2012.

The Harvard Crimson reported that Harvard created a new Title IX coordinator position in 2012, while the Yale Alumni Magazine reported that Yale appointed a Title IX coordinator in the fall of 2011.

Wilson College is conducting a search for a new director of student life. Cadava’s email said the University hopes to have appointed someone by the beginning of the spring semester.

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Preview scheduled to remain one-day event for second year

By Corinne Lowe staff writer

The University has scheduled two one-day placeholder dates for Princeton Preview this spring, but it has not fully decided whether Preview will once again be a daylong event or if it will later be expanded into a multi-day form, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said this week.

Preview is currently scheduled for Monday, April 13, and Tuesday, April 28, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. The news that Preview would take place over one day again was first discussed at last week’s Undergraduate Student Government senate meeting.

The University announced at the end of last March that Princeton Preview would be shortened from a three-day overnight stay to a single-day program because of concerns related to the meningitis outbreak.

No new cases of meningitis have been reported at the University since last December. However, a female student at Drexel University died of the same strain of meningitis in March. Local health authorities said at the time that her death was linked to contact with Princeton football players who had at-

tended a mixer at Drexel. Her death prompted the University to shorten Preview last year to one day and forbid overnight stays for admitted students, even paying for hotel rooms for those who had already booked airplane tickets with a twoday Preview in mind.

“Because the University has been in touch with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the meningitis outbreak we’ve had, the University has taken efforts to vaccinate our students, but since there was a case where a student became fatally ill, that caused us to reconsider the Princeton Preview program,” Rapelye said in an interview last spring before last year’s Preview.

More recently, Rapelye said in an interview on Monday that a decision will be made at a later date this year as to whether it’s safe to hold an extended Preview.

“If at some point the outbreak is cleared, then we’re going to be able to have Princeton Preview in a more expanded version,” Rapelye said. “But until that happens, we just have the placeholders right now.”

Rapelye explained that although the Office of Admissions is being updated and is working with other offices on Preview now, the office does not make the final decision

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as to whether or not it’s safe to hold Preview in its extended form. Last year, several offices and community members collaborated to make the decision along with the input of the CDC. Although there were concerns last year that shortening Preview might have an effect on the yield for the Class of 2018, Rapelye noted that the yield actually increased.

The University reported a yield of 69.2 percent for the Class of 2018, up from 68.7 percent for the Class of 2017.

The University and students who helped put Preview together last spring had to make a number of last-minute adjustments. Students who flew in for Preview were put up in hotels in Philadelphia and Newark if their flights were scheduled to arrive the day before.

Rapelye said that the University will once again put students who fly in up in hotels if the University does have another one-day Preview event.

Rapelye noted that although a final decision on the duration and form of Preview has not been reached, Preview will at the very least occur on the two scheduled days and that a decision will be reached before the end of March.

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ROTC FALL LEADERSHIP TRAINING

By Karen Ku, Associate Photography Editor

Clockwise from top left: Tiger Battalion, which includes ROTC cadets from The College of New Jersey, Rider University, Rowan University, Rutgers University-Camden and Princeton, spent the weekend of November 21st participating in fall leadership training excercises. The weekend began as cadets filed onto UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters at Trenton-Mercer Airport and were flown15-20 minutes south to Fort Dix. For lunch cadets ate Meals, Ready to Eat commonly known as MREs. Entrées ranged from maple sausage to vegetarian ratatouille. The contents of one MRE included a package of Asian beef strips with vegetables, a package of fried rice, a cocoa beverage, a flameless ration heater, cherry Twizzlers, apple jelly, peanut butter and wheat crackers. Despite their less-than-appealing look, the Asian beef strips with vegetables were actually quite good. The vegetables even included water chestnuts. Lunch lasted all of ten minutes before cadets were gathered for a briefing on the afternoon’s land navigation mission, where cadets split into small squads and navigated the woods surrounding Fort Dix to find specific points by map, compass and protractor.

Cadets split into squads and begin plotting their assigned points on maps. Cadets were searching for small orange and white signs and must copy down the correct code marked on each sign. In many areas of the course, there are several signs clustered together to make sure that the cadets are taking precise measurements. After the days land navigation exercises cadets filed into the tactical operations center where they slept and discussed logistics for the next day’s mission. The exercise lasted from Friday to Sunday.

Some thoughts on waffle fries

Opinion

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onight, I had a conversation with a stranger in a dining hall. About USG elections.

I have never done this before.

Not once, in my now almost four years here, have I given enough thought to the USG presidential candidates to engage in a heated debate over their respective merits — let alone a debate with a student I’ve never talked to before. I couldn’t tell you who I voted for in the past couple of USG elections. Truthfully, I’m not sure I could remember if I even did vote at all. This year, though, is different.

This year, there is Will Gansa.

If you have somehow missed the brouhaha surrounding this year’s elections, here’s the deal: there are three candidates for USG president — Molly Stoneman ’16, Ella Cheng ’16 and Will Gansa ’17. Stoneman is the current USG vice president, and she is running to, among other things, promote women’s leadership and improve events programming. Cheng, current University Student Life Committee chair, wants to emphasize policymaking over programming, and devote increased focus to projects’ execution.

And then there’s Gansa. He’s unaffiliated with USG, and is running on a platform of waffle fries, hand-ripened fruit, bringing back ICE and “bike reform.”

His campaign website features spoof endorsements and a video of him eating waffle fries. His candidacy shares a lot in common with that of Samuel Clark and Gus Mayopoulos, joke candidates who ran (and won) in last year’s Harvard Undergraduate Council election.

There are many circulating theories as to Gansa’s motives. First, there’s his own rationale — that he’s combatting the USG’s “tyranny of incumbency.” Then, there’s the idea that his whole campaign is satire. In his overblown self-presentation, he’s mocking the pageantry and politics inherent in USG elections. In his seemingly inconsequential platform issues, he’s parodying the ineffectual changes that USG is able to, or decides to, effect. He may even be calling out Princeton’s collective hesitation to confront serious University policy issues, like sexual assault and transparency in mental health-related forced withdrawals. If satire is Gansa’s goal (and I’m inclined to think it is) then that’s good. Both Stoneman and Cheng have also acknowledged that USG is out of touch with students, and I know that many of my friends share that sentiment.

Critique deserves to be taken seriously. And yet.

I did not vote for Will Gansa. Whatever his reasons are for launching this campaign, however noble they may be, if he were to be elected there would only be two options for his presidency. He could follow the platform he set out and accomplish next to nothing of significance. Alternatively, as friends have suggested to me, Gansa would have an opportunity to address and remedy

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Accepting political differences Marni Morse

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s a Jewish student interested in politics, I’ve followed the divestment debate closely, and I’ve been extremely disappointed by what I’ve encountered.

Don’t get me wrong: I love the fact that students are so actively engaged with the issue on both sides. Every time I walk by the tables in Frist Campus Center with the two competing sides, pro-divestment and anti-divestment, I can’t help but smile. I love reading the various columns about the topic in The Daily Princetonian. The fact that people are seizing the opportunity to raise awareness on causes they believe passionately in is an attribute I admire and respect. However, when I’ve participated in discussions on divestment, I’ve been both shocked and disappointed by the lack of tolerance and respect people grant to those who have different opinions than their own.

I’ve yet to personally develop an opinion on divestment at Princeton, so I have not signed either student petition that has been circulating. As someone interested in international human rights, I have been following the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fairly closely and have come to the conclusion that I cannot for certain determine the “right” position, and have therefore not signed a petition. I think there are legitimate points on both sides, and even if one can reach a conclusion on where one stands on the issue, it’s hard to suggest the opposing view is completely invalid.

Nevertheless, people are offhandedly dismissing those who disagree with their opinion without listening carefully — or even at all — to what they are saying, sometimes even judging their morality. This is disheartening because it halts the legitimate discus-

sion to be had. Even if this discussion is not going to persuade one to change one’s mind, it is important for people to listen to opposing points of view. People should not be judged on a moral level simply because of their political stance.

While I recognize that often the personal and political are tied, it is a shame that relationships are being threatened because of political differences.

Regarding the divestment discussion, I’ve seen numerous examples of this. I’ve seen people make assumptions about my stance on the issue, based on other outspoken political beliefs of mine, and then refuse to talk to me about divestment. I’ve heard others explicitly say they are judging others personally simply because of the fact that they signed a petition with which they disagree. And then there was the letter to the editor published in the ‘Prince’ on Nov. 11 where the author described the writers of a piece on divestment as self-hating Jews — as if he knew their thoughts better than they did themselves. This kind of attitude toward controversial issues does not foster productive debate.

I recognize it can sometimes be difficult to talk to people with different political opinions. This is especially true with issues that people take personally, like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Admittedly, I try to avoid discussing Israel with a friend from home because we have different opinions and she gets angry with me for my view. Often, I feel that it simply is not worth the emotional wear and tear on our friendship. However, that does not mean it isn’t valuable to have these conversations, and it certainly does not mean you shouldn’t continue to respect others simply because they have different political values.

I’m not the obvious candidate to be giving this tolerance lecture. I certainly am passionate about certain issues and have a hard time remembering to let

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others speak. However, I know this is something I have to work on. When I’m not jumping down someone’s throat, I really enjoy hearing what others have to say (and rebutting their arguments).

I was extremely fortunate to participate in an organization at my high school whose entire goal is to start casual debate among people with different political beliefs. It’s why I’ve gotten involved with the American Whig-Cliosophic Society at the University; it’s one of the few settings where discussion across the political aisle is encouraged and facilitated. Through these organizations, I’ve made some good friends who have radically different political views — people with whom I otherwise would not have befriended.

Having non-political interactions with people has helped me realize how essential it is to have respectful discussions with those with different opinions, and how important it is to separate political beliefs from their personality.

You don’t have to agree with everything someone says and does in order to be friends with them, nor do you have to agree with someone to discuss an issue civilly. Keeping this in mind and separating the two to treat everyone’s opinions with respect is imperative to treating others kindly. Maybe you might even learn something from them, whether or not you change your mind.

As we break for Thanksgiving and return home to families who we likely differ with on certain political issues, perhaps we can practice tolerance with those we love. Then, when we return to campus, we can employ these values in our conversations with other students to propagate productive and respectful dialogs.

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There [is] no way to know whether these would be changes the student body would want to see. his more substantial critiques of USG and Princeton as a whole. He could begin implementing substantive changes to policy and student life. The problem is, we have no way of knowing what those changes would entail. We would not have voted for them on any platform. There would be no way to know whether these would be changes the student body would want to see.

But, even considering all of this, I keep coming back to the dinner conversation I had tonight. I think it’s important. I have heard more conversation about elections — in dining halls, on Facebook, on YikYak, even — than I have ever heard on this campus before. And because of that, Gansa’s candidacy has tremendous power and relevance. Gansa is in no way a viable candidate.

But he has us talking about USG. In observing the obvious inadequacies of a joke platform, we’re forced to critique the status quo.

Gansa’s four platform issues don’t matter. But then, the obvious question is, what issues do matter? In urging the Harvard student body not to vote for Clark and Mayopoulos in 2013, one of the other candidates wrote, “Satire can point out problems, but we’ll provide solutions.” Let’s use Gansa’s satire to rally around the problems other candidates have solutions for. Let’s keep the discussion going, and hold these other candidates accountable to their promises.

Waffle fries, bike reform — none of it is important.

So — what is?

Sarah Schwartz is a history major from Silver Spring, Md. She can be reached at seschwar@princeton.edu.

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Homoexoticism is not acceptance Isabella Gomes

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swear I’m not homophobic,” a student said defensively at dinner the other day.

“I mean, some of my best friends are gay,” he continued. Having just heard the insensitive remark he had made moments before, I didn’t know what to believe.

To an extent, the purpose of his assertion made sense. After all, at a university where levels of image and self-identity are prized and therefore vehemently protected and monitored, no student wants to be called a bigot by his peers. However, his statement sounded a lot like the phrase “not to sound offensive or anything,” a common excuse for saying something that is irrefutably offensive. When we’re called out for being prejudiced, statements like these show that we don’t hold ourselves accountable for the things we say and perhaps even the ideas we subscribe to.

Even more so, it shows how far we still have to go on the road to acceptance.

When I heard the student say this at dinner, I found myself to be the only one taken aback by his statement. Whipping out the fact that his friend group included people from the LGBTQIA community as justification for the fairly offensive comment he made beforehand still seemed

like discrimination to me. While this most likely was not his intent, it reflected the culture that still prevails today — an underlying insensitivity covered up by the appearance of acceptance. While his statement may have seemed harmless enough, we have to remember that no person ever signs up to be the token gay friend, or the token black friend, or the token female friend. Pulling out characteristics of people, like playing cards, for one’s own benefit is simply using them to feel at peace with the possibility of one’s own prejudice. It is merely an example of homoexoticism: exoticizing gay people as a platform to make insensitive comments in order to view them in a different light that is nonetheless offensive.

In the 1970s, when policies regarding underrepresentation of historically privileged groups and affirmative action were being discussed and implemented, the definition for discrimination was extended to include the concept of reverse discrimination — the act of favoring individuals belonging to historically disadvantaged and discriminated against groups. However, in the simplest sense, discrimination, to me, is the act of putting people “in their place” and deciding exactly what “place” that is.

For example, the term, “gay best friend,” coined and popularized by social media, has glamorized and exoticized the value of having homosexual friends compared to heterosexual friends. I find this phenomenon to be incredibly offensive because

behind its illusion of acceptance, it forces people into a restricted niche beyond which any real personality or value system they have to contribute is not only unexpected, but to an extent, unwelcome.

A friend once stopped me to draw my attention to a gay couple holding hands and said, “Wait, that’s so cute.” At first, I brushed it off as admiration for a public display of affection; however, I wondered if she would make a similar comment about a heterosexual couple holding hands. Would she have stopped me to take notice of an opposite-sex couple’s moment of romance as she had in this instance?

In the modern context, words like “cute” and “adorable” often refer to things that entertain us with their vulnerability, and in this way, our comments have begun to have patronizing undertones. Therefore, when we use these to characterize a homosexual individual’s relationship, it is almost as if we are delegitimizing it, since “cute” and “adorable” describe things that we rarely take seriously. In a sense, by saying these words, we show how we have transitioned from a period of homophobia to one of what I call homoexoticism: acknowledging and applauding homosexuality for what we perceive as its unconventionality. However, neither homophobia nor homoexoticism is even close to true acceptance. True acceptance entails approaching people with nonmainstream sexual orientations or gender identities in the same way we would ap-

proach someone who is heterosexual.

Even though I’ve heard students make homoexoticizing comments on campus, I do believe that the University and its student body have made exceptional strides with regard to the LGBTQIA movement.

After all, just this past Sunday, students gathered for the memorial ceremony on the New Jersey Statewide Trans Day of Remembrance to honor those who had been killed due to anti-transgender hatred and violence. A little more than a month ago, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center released a video to commemorate National Coming Out Day — a day that marks the anniversary of the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights and continues to celebrate those who have come out as LGBT or to join the community as a straight ally.

Despite these services that reflect the potential and solidarity of the student body, and the on-campus presence of institutions such as the LGBT Center, there is still so much personal work that each student must do, beyond the scope of what these events can do for them. Unless this happens, we will continue to find ourselves enabling a form of discrimination that our generation has conveniently fashioned in order to exonerate ourselves from any blame.

Isabella Gomes is an ecology and evolutionary biology major from Irvine, Calif. She can be reached at igomes@princeton.edu.

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Sophomore utility Jovan Jeremic, 2013 CWPA Southern Rookie of the Year, tallied two goals in Princeton’s championship bout with Ivy League rival Brown. He totaled 33 goals through 27 games.

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After extending their winning streak to an impressive 12 games, the Tigers (23-4 overall, 7-1 Collegiate Water Polo Association) fell to Ivy League rival Brown (27-6, 11-1) in the title game of the CWPA Eastern Championship by a score of 7-6. En route to the tournament final, Princeton dominated Johns Hopkins in the first round and then defeated their conference rival, Navy. On Sunday, the Tigers made their third championship appearance in four years but were not able to fight back from an early 3-0 deficit.

Hosted at the United States Naval Academy this year, the annual Eastern Championship pits the top 12 teams in the league together for a threeday tournament. The dominant Tigers brought their impressive winning streak and Southern Division title to the tournament. Seeded under only Brown, Princeton carried high expectations going into the tournament.

On Friday, the Tigers faced Johns Hopkins, the first step to the championship game.

Although Hopkins was seeded well below the Tigers at No. 7, Princeton had lost an away matchup with the Blue Jays during the regular season.

The game turned out to be a blowout victory for the Tigers, who finished 18-5. Princeton wasted little time and obtained a 9-2 lead heading into intermission. Princeton then sealed the win by scoring seven unanswered goals in the

third quarter.

Advancing to the semifinals on Saturday, the Tigers faced Navy at its home pool.

The Orange and Black had previously lost two championship matches against the Midshipmen, so Saturday’s game presented a much more formidable challenge. Yet, Princeton entered the game with confidence, having swept the Midshipmen in two games during the regular season.

In the end, the Tigers greatly benefited from an early 3-0 lead. The second half featured a stronger Midshipman offense, but the Tigers responded to each goal and finished the match 6-3. Notably, senior co-captain and attacker Drew Hoffenberg scored his 60th goal of the season.

At last, the Tigers made another return to the Eastern title game on Sunday. Facing top-seeded Brown, the game received much attention as the Bears hadn’t won a championship since 1985. The Tigers, on the other hand, were veterans of the championship game, with a 3-4 record in appearances since 2003. Reflecting on the weekend, head coach Luis Nicolao said, “We knew Brown was going to be one of our toughest opponents. It was a final that we predicted would happen.”

However, in a cruel plot twist from the previous night, the Tigers dug a 3-0 deficit in the first quarter. In response, sophomore utility Jovan Jeremic scored two much-needed goals in the second quarter to reduce the game to a manageable 4-3 deficit. The Tigers

then completed their comeback in the third quarter.

With little time remaining on the clock, the Bears came out of a fourth quarter timeout to score the final game-winning goal. In explaining the loss, Nicolao said afterward, “We weren’t making our shots or attacking their defense. It seemed we were rattled, and nothing was easy. For some reason, mentally, we never got into the flow of the game.”

Although the Tigers did lose their automatic NCAA Championship bid, the team nevertheless experienced an amazing season, finishing 234. The seniors on the team will graduate with an impressive three championship games under their belt. For the rest of the team, the future looks bright, with a strong nucleus returning next year.

“Championship games are hard and you need some luck.

Right now the game stings, but we had a great year and I’m proud of the guys,” Nicolao said.

One can only wonder where the team’s momentum will carry them in the years to come.

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hour before midnight, as well as an email sent to students in the Black Student Union. Fraser sent a Facebook message at around 10 p.m. to approximately 24 people in an attempt to rally support for the protest. According to Deputy Dean of the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne, present at the protest, the idea for the gathering was originally proposed at an event sponsored by the Fields Center.

The protesters began marching across central campus shortly after departing from Frist Campus Center, and the line continued to grow as the group arrived at Prospect Avenue close to midnight.

Students at the scene noted that the line of students grew each time the activists circled the block. By 12:30 a.m., enough students were present to populate both sides of the Street.

“It’s really warmed my heart how people walking to the Street have joined us,” Miranda Bolef ’18, who participated in the protest, said.

Students were not the only individuals in attendance. Dunne, with other University staff members, walked at the front of the procession, while several local police officers, as well as officers from the University’s Department of Public Safety stood by.

Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan was also present.

DPS deferred comment to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua, who explained that ODUS and DPS always become involved when campus protests occur.

“We are aware that there are students who are expressing themselves in and around campus, and, as we do during such events, we urge them to be respectful of others and their surroundings,” Mbugua said. “Our students are usually very responsive and do so responsibly.”

“We’re just here to support student protests, which is … a normal function of our responsibilities,”

Dunne explained. Dunne added that he has not directly seen this number of students participating in a campus protest during his time as dean.

The Princeton Police Department declined to comment at press time.

“The verdict is an atrocity. We are doing this because of a bunch of apathy with regards to racial brutality on campus,” said Fraser, one of the student organizers.

Fraser explained that the event was initiated by the Black Leadership Coalition during an art event last week. After the verdict came out, the coalition, a union of the Black Student Union and Princeton African Students Association, among others, used communication resources including listservs for all residential colleges and of various identity groups on campus to call for protestors. Fraser said he was grateful for the diversity of students who showed up to protest.

The protesters marched across Prospect Avenue several times, passed through Prospect Garden, paraded across Nassau Hall and finally convened in front of Robertson Hall. Organizers of the event asked all protestors for a moment of silence, which went on for 4 minutes and a half, to represent the 4 and a half hours that Brown’s body was left in the streets of Ferguson.

Xavier Bledsoe ’17 addressed the crowd of protesters, noting, “My heart is heavy, my heart is burning with anger. Nonetheless, we are not broken, but we are not satisfied. How many people have been the victims of institutionalized racism?”

Bledsoe further encouraged the crowd to persist in its desire for change, be it in the classroom or in communities.

“We are Princetonians. We need to use our privilege to make the world a better place. We have that power. So use it,” Fraser added to an enthusiastic crowd.

The protest dispersed at approximately 1 a.m. as the majority of protesters continued to lead the march to the residential colleges.

The organizers of the event also intended to poster campus with

flyers reading “#JUSTICE FOR MIKE BROWN #BLACK LIVES MATTER” throughout early Tuesday morning, according to an email by Gramajo. Gramajo asked participants that the posters be displayed across campus by sunrise.

Another protest, titled “Rally for Racial Justice and Non-Violence in Ferguson and America,” is expected to take place on Palmer Square at 6 p.m.

“It’s important to get media attention, because otherwise Ferguson will die. Mike Brown will be forgotten,” Monica Gonzalez ’16 said. “I thought that this would be a great moment to bring all these students together for this one purpose,” she added.

“It’s amazing to see the community come together in such a short amount of time,” Martin Page ’16 said. He added that he participated in the protest because of “the fact that Black lives matter and the fact that they got it wrong.”

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From top, clockwise: Students congregate on the steps of Robertson Hall, lifting signs that read messages protesting the Ferguson jury decision to not indict the police officer Darren Wilson who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown; students arrive at Prospect Avenue close to midnight Tuesday; a student marching along Prospect Avenue displays a sign that reads ”Brown deserves Justice”; protesters convened in front of Robertson near 1 a.m. before dispersing to continue protests in the residential colleges; protesters march through campus, ultimately heading to Nassau Street; students circle Prospect Avenue chanting.

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