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In Opinion

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Julia Case-Levine emphasizes the efficacy of protesting, and the Editorial Board argues for internal eating club evaluations. PAGE 4

The Archives

Dec. 12, 1978 More than 70 students marched to the house of former University President Bill Bowen GS ’58 in belowfreezing temperatures. Sponsored by the People’s Front for the Liberation of Southern Africa, the march was in protest to Bowen’s connection to the NCR corporation, which does business in South Africa.

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The number of TI members charged with violation University policy. It’s more than one, said University spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

News & Notes Rush Holt bids adieu to the House of Representatives

Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ) gave his farewell address on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The congressman, who represents Mercer County and is former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, argued against those who are cynical toward government, saying that democracy is working in the House of Representatives. “I present a vision for a government, not that vanishes, but works for its citizens,” Holt said during his 8-minute speech. “Of course, not all problems can be fixed by government. But it can be reassuring and uplifting to people to know that other people have their backs and can help.” He also noted some of the bills he supported while in office, including laws for science education. After his retirement from Congress, Holt will become the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a nonprofit organization that publishes Science Magazine. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) was elected to replace Holt in November after he announced he would not be seeking reelection last spring. See NOTES page 2

BEN KOGER :: PHOTO EIDTOR

Several members of Tiger Inn were charged with violating the University’s sexual discrimination and sexual misconduct policies.

TI members charged with violating U. policies By Christina Vosbikian contributor

Several members of Tiger Inn, a private eating club on Prospect Avenue, have been charged with violating University policies regarding sexual discrimination and sexual misconduct, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua

said Thursday. The students will now have a chance to respond to the charges. A University student had photographed a female student performing oral sex on a male student in October. The photo was then circulated to the whole of the TI membership by then-club vice president Adam Krop ’15.

Krop was fired from his position about six weeks after the photo was distributed to the membership and after the case received considerable media attention. Krop did not respond to requests for comment. The University announcement comes a few days after the See TI page 2

A petition proposed by the Princeton Sustainable Investment Initiative “asking the University to manage its endowment in a manner that reduces its financial support of environmental degradation” was accepted for review by the Resources Committee of the Council of the Princeton University Community during its monthly meeting on Thursday afternoon. Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni compose the committee, which reviews general policy concerning procurement and management of the University’s financial resources. The Resources Committee will explore the issues raised in the proposal and will likely invite the PSI leadership to have a conversation in the near future, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. The petition circulated by PSI gained nearly 1,300 signatures when presented to the Resources Committee, including 950 undergraduate students. Alumni, faculty and staff also expressed support. The petition was also endorsed by the student groups Students United for a Responsible Global Environment, Students for Prison Education and Reform, the Princeton Wilderness Society, the Princeton Animal Welfare Society, Greening Dining, the Whitman Book Club, the International Student Association at Princeton and The Princeton Progressive. “The urgency of climate change, the severity of biodiversity loss and water pollution issues calls for colleges to do something,” Dayton Martindale See PETITION page 2

STUDENT LIFE

Diehl ’15, Beacom ’15 named Sachs Scholars By Paul Phillips associate news editor

William Beacom ’15 and Brett Diehl ’15 have been named Sachs Scholars, the University announced Thursday. The Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship is an award given to seniors who are considering careers in public affairs. Recipients study at Worcester College at the University of Oxford to pursue a specific degree program. The Global Scholarship

in particular supports an independent project at an institution abroad. Beacom, a concentrator in the Wilson School from Calgary, Alberta, has received the Sachs Global Scholarship. After attending the Middlebury Language School to study Russian, he will spend a year in five Central Asian nations — Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia — studying the way in which China has influenced authoritarian regimes there. He will be looking at

ACADEMICS

Princeton University Press releases Einstein’s papers By Zaynab Zaman contributor

The Princeton University Press recently released digital editions of thousands of crucial papers by Albert Einstein that span the first 44 years of his life, director of the press Peter Dougherty said. He explained that the approximately 5,000 documents include crucial scientific papers, as well as professional, personal and administrative correspondence. There are currently 13 print volumes, with a 14th volume scheduled to be published in January, Dougherty said, adding that many of the volumes

published over the last 30 years are in their original German script. “All these documents are now available on a digital platform, accessible globally by anyone with Internet,” Dougherty said. He said that although there are already 14 published print editions of Einstein’s papers, science researchers all over the world who need Einstein’s works cannot access any of the print editions due to location. The aim of last week’s digital release, Dougherty said, was to make the collected papers available to researchers, historians of science, physicists and See EINSTEIN page 3

the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a political, economic and military organization founded in Shanghai by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Beacom explained that he first received exposure to Asian politics when he received a scholarship to study at Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong in high school, where he began taking Chinese. His focus on Central Asia, he said, came from a paper he wrote for a Chinese class, which

made him realize that connotations of key terms in the English translations of official declarations differed from those of the Chinese versions. He also noted that he spent a month in Central Asia during summer 2014. “I realized how difficult it was to do research in that part of the world, and I realized I needed more time,” he said. Another strong influence, he said, is his position as a research assistant in the EUROFORT project, a partnership between the

University and the Berlin School of Social Sciences at Humboldt, for which he conducted economic research in Southeast Europe. This internship, he said, allowed him to learn more about how economic integration can happen and the general problems associated with it. “The European Union is often seen as a template for regional organization,” he said, “and some of that knowledge I brought to my understanding of the Shanghai See SACHS page 2

WINTER SOLSTICE

MONICA CHON :: PHOTO EDITOR EMERITA

Princeton University Ballet performed its winter show, Winter Solstice, on Thursday in Frist Campus Center.

LECTURE

Panel discusses recent African-American deaths, grand jury decisions By Corinne Lowe staff writer

Professors applauded the protests in the wake of Michael Brown’s and Eric Garner’s deaths in recent weeks, and clarified the practices and legal processes that help explain their deaths and the

lack of indictment in a panel discussion on Thursday. Associate Professor of African American Studies Naomi Murakawa, Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs Kim Lane Scheppele and sociology professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies Didier Fassin were on the

panel. Fassin noted the significance of public discussion and protests that have occurred in past weeks that he contrasted with the “moral anesthesia” typical of the United States. “The most remarkable fact is that, for the first time for many years, the death of a

black man has not remained buried in the news and public consciousness,” Fassin said. Fassin offered three major observations about the response to Brown’s and Garner’s murders: that the wave of protests is a rupture in the indifference to what police call “justifiable death,” that

recent protests have been almost exclusively peaceful, and that the response is national, crossing color lines and social classes. Fassin also discussed how racial criminalization compares in other nations, comparing this incident to an See RACE page 3

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MONICA CHON :: PHOTO EIDTOR EMERITA

Princeton University Ballet’s winter show, “Winter Solstice,” was performed in the Frist Film/Performance Theatre on Dec. 9 and Dec. 11.

Princeton Police Department officially closed its own investigation into the matter after interviewing all parties involved and reviewing the contents of the photograph, which the police described as non-explicit in nature. Mbugua declined to comment on how many students have been charged, but said it was more than one. The announcement is unusual as the University does not usually disclose details about internal disciplinary cases. The University has been investigating the case since it was first reported in November as a case of sexual exploitation, which includes, among other things, the taking and distribution of sexual photographs without the consent of all parties involved. Mbugua noted that the University’s review and disciplinary process are entirely separate from a criminal investigation conducted by the police. The Princeton Police’s municipal investigation was closed Friday. “The University is committed to conducting the investigations in a way that is prompt, as well as full and

fair,” Mbugua said. Two TI officers have been fired since the photo was released. The second officer sent an email proposing that members “boo” Sally Frank ’80, whose activism forced the club to start accepting women in 1991. However, this email was presumably

“The University is committed to conducting the investigations in a way that is prompt, as well as full and fair.” Martin Mbugua University Spokesperson

not a violation of University policy. More than 100 TI alumni signed a letter last week condemning recent behavior by club members. TI graduate board president Hap Cooper ’82, TI president Oliver Bennett ’15 and PPD did not respond to requests for comment.

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Cooperation.” Beacom said he plans to join the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development after finishing his year abroad, noting that he might either start working immediately after finishing or go to graduate school to obtain a degree in international relations. Diehl, a history concentrator from Charlottesville, Va., will be going to the University of Oxford for two years of graduate studies. He intends to obtain a one-year master’s degree in economic and social history, followed by a oneyear master’s degree in criminol-

ogy and criminal justice. Diehl explained that one major influence on his desire to study social and economic history was his participation in the Bridge Year Program, through which he spent a year in Peru. He explained that this year abroad exposed him to the inequality and social injustice problems present in Latin America. Noting that a lot of economic and social history is in fact rooted in Britain, he said he plans to learn more about British and Western European history and politics while incorporating perspectives from the Americas into his studies. His interest in criminology and criminal justice, he said, comes from his participation in criminal justice and incarceration reform

on campus. He has provided tutoring to prison inmates through the Petey Greene program and is the president of Students for Prison Education and Reform. Diehl said he hopes to return to the United States after his time at Worcester College to attend law school and become a public defender. He noted that he wants to attend a law school with many social justice clinics, saying that he will use what he sees there to try to address the problems in the criminal justice system. “In the long term, I hope to bridge the gap between practice and theory by continuing to work as an attorney, while also engaging in academic policy debates about how to create a more just nation and world,” Diehl said.

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’15, a PSI leader, said. “We need to leverage the University to send a message to the world — the message that at Princeton, we will not channel resources to environmental degradation.” According to Martindale, many peer institutions have expressed their support for environmentalism under student pressure. Stanford University divested from several coal companies, and Harvard and Yale signed the UN Principles of Responsible Investment. The University has taken divestment measures in the past. The University partially divested from apartheid South Africa in the 1980s, and in 2006, it also stopped investing in “companies complicit in genocide in the Darfur region.” Student activism and demand were key in

both instances to instigating change, Martindale said. “Although we are motivated by similar concerns to student divestment movements at other universities, we are not calling for fossil fuel divestment,” Renata Diaz ’15, another PSI leader, said. “Instead, we are asking the University to work with us in a long-term, holistic process of reflection that will bring the investment of the endowment back into alignment with the University’s stated principles and preserve the integrity of the endowment in the long run.” Diaz is a former Street contributor for The Daily Princetonian. The petition urged the University to adopt the UN Principles of Responsible Investment, sign onto the Carbon Disclosure Project to encourage transparency of emissions, calculate and publish the endowment’s carbon footprint annually, es-

tablish a student committee to monitor environmentally damaging practices and require all of the endowment’s asset managers to implement the committee’s plan. Harvard adopted the UN principles earlier this year. In an email distributed to initiative members, PSI said that “by ignoring the sustainability impacts of its long-term investment strategy, the University sends a message to students that is inconsistent with the values we teach, including ‘do no harm’.” PSI added the University cannot ignore the findings of its own scientific communities regarding climate change and environmental degradation when making investment decisions and that it need to consider impacts on other communities when making investments which benefit the University community.

News & Notes HBO series depicts fictional sex scandal at U.

COURTESY OF OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS

Brett Diehl ‘15 (left) and William Beacom ‘15 (right) are the winners of the University’s Sachs Scholarship.

A recent episode of “The Newsroom” portrayed a fictional Princeton student who had been raped at a nameless eating club. HBO’s “The Newsroom” is a TV series about a fictional news channel. The campus rape episode, titled “Oh Shenandoah,” aired on Dec. 7 and has since generated much controversy. In the show, a Princeton student Mary says she was raped by two men. When the police takes no action, she creates a website where women victims can point out the names of their rapists. The news channel ACN plans to have a debate between Mary and a man accused of rape. An executive producer, Don, has an extensive conversation with Mary, arguing

that Mary’s website has the potential to ruin the lives of innocent men. Don claims that he has a moral obligation to consider the alleged rapist’s point of view. Mary, on the other hand, believes that her website could prevent more sexual assaults from happening. Some viewers have criticized the episode for Don’s “mansplaining” point of view in his conversation with Mary.

20 males streak through lecture, prompt police response

About 20 male students allegedly streaked through an ECO 101: Introduction to Macroeconomics lecture on Thursday morning in McCosh 50. The 20 individuals were allegedly wearing nothing but scarfs, ski masks and sneakers, University spokesperson Martin Mbu-

gua said. The incident was reported to the Department of Public Safety at 11:15 a.m. DPS is still investigating the report, and none of the individuals have been identified. The males immediately left the room. Streaking through large lectures is a common pledge exercise for some fraternities on campus, although it is unclear if DPS has been called in to investigate the matter in the past. Pledge members, who are sophomores, must complete a series of challenges before being initiated into frats. It remains unclear which, or how many frats, currently make their pledges streak in one way or another in order to obtain membership. Lewdness is a disorderly persons offense in New Jersey. The University banned freshmen from joining fraternities or sororities in 2012.

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incident in December 2005 in France in which two innocent black men were brutally killed by police after a theft had been committed in an area close to where they were walking. He said that, following the incident, massive protests took place, a state of national emergency was declared, and that at the time, one of his colleagues expressed that this sort of event would never happen in the United States, where black lives are lost every day without the public taking notice. Scheppele discussed the prejudice present in grand juries, noting that federal juries failed to bring an indictment in only 11 out of 162,000 federal cases in 2010, and that this is to be expected because grand juries only hear the one-sided account of the prosecutor. She said that this trend of almost always indicting cases is reversed whenever the defendant is a police officer, in which she said juries are inclined to not indict. Grand juries are typically presented with the charges

“They’re creating an administrative apparatus around police militarization.” Naomi Murakawa African American Studies Professor

they are supposed to apply, Scheppele explained, but in Brown’s case, no charges were set forward — only the Missouri law stating that a police officer is justified in using deadly force if an individual poses significant threat to the officer or others. Scheppele said that Missouri state law was largely responsible for Brown’s shooting. Although the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in Garner v. Tennessee to shoot fleeing persons who carry no immediate threat, she said, Missouri never changed their laws and permits officers to shoot just to effect an arrest. In Garner’s case, Scheppele said that she questioned whether the grand jury was ever told that chokeholds are not permitted by the New York Police Department. Murakawa said that there is

an inequity of incarceration rates between white and minority groups, noting that, of every 100,000 incarcerations, 2,300 are accounted for by African-Americans and 947 by Latinos, orders of magnitude greater than the numbers seen in peer nations. Murakawa added that cur-

“For the first time for many years, the death of a black man has not remain buried in the news and public consciousness.” Didier Fassin

Sociology Professor COURTESY OF TECHANALYST

Approximately 5,000 of Albert Einstein’s personal and professional documents have been released online in the past week.

rent suggested reforms to improve policing will likely be unsuccessful, and that she doubted that the national task force to review policing practices would enact any change. She said that she critiqued the study that came out last week on demilitarization of local police, which concluded the tools being given to police officers are working very well and now there needs to be a database to track tools and more police reports. “They’re creating an administrative apparatus around police militarization,” Murakawa said, adding that this was just added bureaucracy, and not reform. Although she noted that the suggestion for body cameras on police officers might be somewhat more promising, she said that she rejected the guidelines against racial profiling because they will reinforce racial and ethnic profiling along lines of nationality on the grounds of addressing security threats. Murakawa also said that she applauded the protest efforts of students at the University. “To the more than 500 students who walked out and died in, your actions start to become the anecdote to the poison on this campus,” Murakawa said. The discussion, entitled “No Indictment, No Justice?” took place at 4:30 p.m. in McCormick 101 and was sponsored by the Pre-Law Society in collaboration with the Black Leadership Council, the Black Men’s Awareness Group and the Program in Law and Public Affairs.

CORRECTION Correction: Due to reporting errors, the Dec. 11 article “Danspeckgruber, self-determination advocate, plays outsized role in international affairs” contained a series of inaccuracies. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated how Wolfgang Danspeckgruber got to know the Lichtenstein family. He first met a relative of Prince Hans-Adam II. An earlier version of this article misstated a quote by Danspeckgruber. Some people call him the godfather of self-determination, although he attributes that title to Arthur Watts. An earlier version of this article misstated the date of a meeting about security in West South Asia. The meeting took place in May 2001, not after 9/11. An earlier version of this article misstated the date when Danspeckgruber received a phone call to train future Afghan leaders after 9/11. The call happened two weeks after the attacks. An earlier version of this article misstated the title of a class Danspeckgruber co-taught in the Fall of 2008. The title of the class was “Topics in International Relations – International Crisis Diplomacy.” An earlier version of this article did not properly describe the book “Building State and Security in Afghanistan.” The book was co-edited by Danspeckgruber and Ambassador Robert Finn GS ’78. Clarification: the article has been updated to clarify that Ambassador Robert Finn GS ’78 worked at the LISD between 2004 and 2012. The ‘Prince’ regrets the errors.

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anyone else who might need access to them. Having both digital and print versions of the same papers will allow researchers to go back and forth between the published version and the original documents, and easily navigate the two sources, Dougherty said. “It’s just a wonderfully robust and convenient resource for researchers,” he added. The reason that all these documents have only now been digitally released, Dougherty said, was that the necessary technology was not available until recently. Ten years ago, he said, any digital release, if there was one, would have looked very different. Now, Dougherty noted, many people have complimented the quality of presentation of the digital papers,

as well as the efficiency of navigating the database. He added that the volumes, which include edited versions, reflect all aspects of Einstein’s scientific work and correspondence. “Einstein was a many-faceted person,” Dougherty said. ”He was a great scientist, but he was also a pacifist, a citizen of the world and a colleague to his fellow scientists.” Diana Kormos-Buchwald, the director and general editor of the Einstein Papers Project and a professor of history at the California Institute of Technology, explained that this project has been very long in the making, beginning around the time of Einstein’s death. Einstein’s secretary served as the creditor of his literary estate, and after his death, reached an agreement with the University Press that it would publish Einstein’s collected pa-

pers. Kormos-Buchwald noted that the realization of this project took several decades. Dougherty noted KormosBuchwald’s role in the general publishing process, explaining that she currently leads a team of editors to collect papers from archives and people all around the world and then organizes them according to chronological periods in Einstein’s life. John Norton, a member of the advisory board for the Einstein Papers Project, said that the digital release of the documents will be a tremendous boon to future research on Einstein. He added that the edited Einstein volumes are a crucial resource for anyone interested in doing serious Einstein scholarship and digitalizing these resources will greatly help many researchers. Norton has also been a contributing editor to several Ein-

stein volumes and currently teaches in the history and philosophy of science department at the University of Pittsburgh.

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