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The Archives

March 27, 1973 The Undergraduate Life Committee meets to discuss the future of Cannon Club, which closed earlier in the year due to financial problems and low membership.

On the Blog ‘Columnist Conversations’ weighs in on the discussion of sexual assault on campus.

On the Blog Jarred Mihalik puts together a second playlist in honor of The National’s new album, due to come out in May.

News & Notes

ACADEMICS

Three seniors win $30k Labouisse Prize

By Austin Lee

“The spirit of this award is that it’s for students who want to go out and work with local orgaA joint project in Sierra Leone nizations and local individuals

by Shirley Gao ’13 and Raphael to improve local living condiFrankfurter ’13 and a project in tions,” Katz said. “It seemed to us Brazil by Courtney Crumpler ’13 that these two sets of applicants were awarded this year’s Henry were the ones that have the greatRichardson Labouisse ’26 Prize, est chance of leaving something which provides graduating se- behind.” niors $30,000 to pursue work in In Sierra Leone, Gao, a Wilthe developing world. son School concentrator, and The two judges, Wilson School Frankfurter, an anthropology professor Stanley Katz and histo- concentrator, will work with the ry professor Janet Chen, selected Wellbody Alliance, a non-profit the winning projects because which works to provide accesthey best fit the award’s mission sible healthcare in the Kono Disto support hands-on efforts to trict of Sierra Leone. Both Gao help the developing world that and Frankfurter are earning are likely to succeed, Katz said. certificates in global health and health policy.

“There’s a lot of gaps in the healthcare system [in Sierra Leone],” Gao said. “There are drug shortages, infrastructure probSHIRLEY lems, human resource shortages GAO ’13 — that’s what I’m writing my thesis about, health and human resources in Sierra Leone — lack of communication between different levels.”

Frankfurter has worked with Wellbody for the past three summers, and Gao worked with them this past summer. In the coming RAPHAEL year, they will help develop a new FRANKFURTER maternal healthcare coordinat’13 ing center for the organization, Gao said. They have a variety of goals in mind, from hiring an additional nurse for the center to developing a training curriculum for medical technicians.

Crumpler, an anthropology concentrator also earning a COURTNEY certificate in global health and CRUMPLER health policy, will be moving ’13 to Rio de Janeiro to work with the nonprofit Catalytic See AWARD page 2 staff writer

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Students rehearse “Circle Mirror Transformation,” a Theatre Intime production directed by Annika Bennett ‘15.

STUDENT LIFE

Students call for firearms divestment

By Kristen McNierney staff writer

In response to a faculty petition urging the University to divest from assault weapon manufacturers after the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown, Conn., the founding members of the Student Anti-Violence Effort have initiated a student statement of support that will be sent to the Resources

Committee for review in April.

The statement, according to SAVE co-head Molly Fisch-Friedman ’16, is meant to show student support for the cause, which has gained a large following on campuses across the nation.

“We were very shocked by the shooting, and we wanted to do something instead of just being a bystander,” said Fisch-Friedman.

“We wanted to try and make a

difference on a national and local scale.”

As of Tuesday, the statement, which was circulated to students through residential college listservs, had received 353 signatures.

The faculty-led petition authored by professors Caryl Emerson, Marie-Helene Huet and Simon Morrison was sent to the Resources Committee for review in February See SAVE page 5

ACADEMICS

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

Oates will retire in 2015

U. creates new position for emergency procedures

By Alexander Jafari contributor

Nationally renowned author and creative writing professor Joyce Carol Oates said she will retire from her teaching posi-

tion at the University in July of 2015. She will teach her last creative writing seminar in the fall of 2014.

Oates said she is not sure whether she will teach at another institution following re-

Princeton police officer settles wrongful termination suit with town

A princeton police officer will receive a settlement of $87,500 to end his suit alleging retaliation by the police department for his whistle-blowing, courts decided this week, according to the Princeton Packet. The municipality itself is responsible for $33,500 of this settlement.

The suit was filed in September 2011 by Police Sergeant Kenneth Riley, who alleged wrongful termination by the Borough Police Department.

The municipality’s insurance carrier, Municipal Express Liability Joint Insurance Fund, settled the case on the town’s behalf, municipal attorney Edwin Schmierer told the Princeton Packet. The insurance fund will pay the first $20,000 of the settlement, then 20 percent of the remaining balance.

Riley’s legal battles with the town began in 2008, when he reported that a fellow sergeant had illegally permitted a suspected drunken driver to urinate in public. After presenting police video footage of the incident to other members of the police department, he was suspended. Riley then sued for wrongful termination and was rehired, with a compensation package of around $400,000 in backpay and legal fees.

The current suit began in September 2011, when Riley alleged retaliation against the department for his previous reporting of the incident.

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Joyce Carol Oates speaking at Labyrinth Bookstore on Monday afternoon during a reading for her new novel, ‘The Accursed.’

tirement.

Oates, 74, is the recipient of numerous accolades, including the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently spending the semester teaching at the University of California, Berkeley.

Princeton Alumni Weekly reported that Oates received a retirement package encouraging her to teach one semester per year for three years before retiring. According to PAW, she accepted the package “reluctantly.” Oates is currently in the second of those three years.

Oates has taught at Princeton since 1978. She said her students and colleagues throughout the three decades she has taught here have been “wonderful.”

“My students have all been at a uniformly high level,” Oates said in an interview shortly before beginning a discussion of her newest novel, “The Accursed,” at Labyrinth Books on Monday.

Margaret Fox ’13, who took Oates’ introductory creative writing seminar in the fall of 2010, describes Oates as a really good instructor and said she is sad to see her retire.

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By Loully Saney staff writer

The University has created the position of associate director for emergency preparedness planning in order to begin a thorough review of existing emergency response plans and protocols in mid-April. Current senior human resources manager Rhonda Hospedales has been appointed to fill the new position in the Office of the Executive Vice President.

While the University regularly reviews emergency and procedure protocols following natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy and other emergency situations, this more comprehensive review will take one to two years, Director of News and Editorial Services Daniel Day said.

Day explained that the review will start in mid-April, when Hospedales takes up her new post, and will allow for a more collective review that evaluates cooperation and coordination between various University resources.

Four main University departments — Environmental Health and Safety, University Services, the Department

of Public Safety and the Facilities Department — will be involved in the project.

Hospedales and administrators in these departments deferred comment to the Office of Communications when contacted by The Daily Princetonian.

These departments, in coordination with Hospedales, will look into the University’s preparedness for all types of situations, including weather and natural disasters, crime prevention and response and environmental issues, such as air quality and water quality, Day explained. He added that the review process may even involve looking into network security for the computer systems on campus.

In her current position in the Office of Human Resources, Hospedales works closely with a wide range of campus departments and administrators, including Facilities, Environmental Health and Safety and the Department of Public Safety, Day said.

As part of her HR duties, Hospedales is currently an “Employee & Labor Relations Team Contact” for several See PLANNING page 4

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Panel explores gender limitations that women face in society

By Anna Mazarakis staff writer

In an event held on Tuesday evening in recognition of Women’s History Month, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society hosted a panel on whether women are limited in society, especially in relation

to Freud’s claim that “anatomy is destiny.”

The panelists included Wilson School professor Nannerl Keohane, Italian professor Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, Director of Student Life for Butler College Alexis Andres and Women’s Center director Amada Sandoval.

Andres began the discussion by explaining the research she conducted for her dissertation on the concept of effortless perfection for women at the University of Virginia, which was based on a survey conducted by Keohane at the Women’s Initiative Steering Committee at Duke University.

She shared responses from students she interviewed who said that women felt pressure to do well in school, participate in multiple extracurricular activities and maintain a nice body but never show their exhaustion or stress.

Sandoval added to this by discussing the double stan-

dard women face in terms of personalities and body issues, saying that women are constantly scrutinized on the basis of their looks and behavior.

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Communities, a group that works to help favela communities, or the slums where public services are not provided, by pushing for more integration between these communities and the rest of Rio de Janeiro.

These efforts are particularly relevant in light of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. With the upcoming Olympics, Crumpler said, these favelas face the threat of gentrification as the city’s efforts to improve its image and safety cause property values to rise.

Using both her experience as a field organizer in the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns and her interest in public health, Crumpler said that she hopes to explore how her background in anthropology might fit in with community development efforts and help contribute to this movement in Rio to protect and assist threatened communities.

“My overarching goal is to keep exploring the ways that the people-centered research methodologies that I have learned as an anthropologist can be relevant to social justice efforts, to public policy, but also to nongovernmental activities,” Crumpler said. She explained that she will observe “how are people

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listening to and incorporating the perspectives of those that are actually affected by social interventions, by urban planning interventions, into the strategies that are being deployed.”

The Labouisse Prize is what made the move to Rio de Janeiro possible for her, Crumpler said, as the organization has the financial means to support her there.

It’s really what’s going to make moving to Rio possible for me.

Courtney crumpler ’13 “It’s really what’s going to make moving to Rio possible for me,” Crumpler said. “The organization that I’m working with [has] a staff of three, so increasing their staff for an entire year by one full person — and I’ll work full-time for them — that’s going to be huge, but they didn’t have the resources to pay me. So certainly, it’s a game changer in my future plans.”

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Ken Hiltner speaks in the inaugural podcast of the Environmental Humanities series sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute.

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U. researchers study effects of climate change on water trade

By Lillian Dattilo contributor

Experts studying the global food trade rarely consider how the trade of food encompasses a virtual trade of the water required to produce the food. In a recent study, a team that included University researchers used an economic approach to forecast through the lens of the global food trade how the global water trade will adapt in response to climate change.

The study, headed by civil and environmental engineer Megan Konar GS ’12 at the University of Illinois, combines a hydrologic model with an economic trade model to examine the future of virtual water trade. It was presented by civil and environmental engineering professor Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe at the annual meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

Hydrology is central to any study of virtual water trade, as the amount of food produced in a country depends on a region’s climate and soil composition. By altering temperature and rainfall patterns, climate change influences crop yields.

The researchers took expert projections of how crop yield in the five staple crops — wheat, corn, barley, soy and rice — will change over time. They then used those projections, along with an existing economic model forecasting international trade between particular world regions, to map out virtual water trade through the year 2030. While the study’s researchers expect the total amount of virtual water trade to decrease, they predict that the wheat trade will reorganize to become more water-efficient.

The team’s economic approach is novel in the field of hydrology.

“A lot of hydrologists look at the impact of climate on crop

yield. As far as I know, this is the first study looking at the impact on virtual water trade,” Konar said.

Rodriguez-Iturbe’s inspiration for examining this relationship came from a freshman seminar he taught for years titled “Water: Keystone for Sustainable Development.” In the seminar, which he most recently taught this fall, students discussed the relative levels of access that various countries have to water, along with the resulting policy implications.

“I wanted to come up with both a descriptive model and, beyond that, an explanatory model,” Rodriguez-Iturbe said.

“I am really interested in the potential for systems that already exist to help us adapt to climate change because these will be relatively cost-effective,” Konar said, noting that the study shows how trade patterns will naturally adjust to the effects of climate change.

Coupling these two models presents some major challenges because the economic model is not necessarily geared to consider the impacts of climate change.

According to Rodriguez-Iturbe, quantitative analysis was the most difficult part of the research because the study required a new model to account for variables such as the number of trading partners a country has and the quantity of water traded.

“We need to not just look at the natural system in order to understand hydrologic processes, but we also need to understand how humans modify the flows of the hydrologic cycle,” Konar said. The team’s research contributes to the emerging field of socio-hydrology, which examines the feedback between social and hydrologic systems.

The researchers said they hope that awareness of water flow will inform policy decisions by encouraging trade ministers to

consider the natural resources embodied in the products they trade. Agricultural economist Zekarias Hussein of Purdue University, who coauthored the paper, said he thinks this and further studies will allow nations to synchronize their policies in order to best exploit available water.

Although the study analyzes trade primarily on a global scale and does not take policy interventions into account, it does make some specific predictions. The researchers forecast that the United States will remain the top virtual water exporter due to its efficient agricultural methods, while China and Japan will continue to import the largest volumes of virtual water.

The team plans to further study the implications of policy, hoping to create a new model that incorporates governments’ policy decisions about importing and exporting, allowing policy makers to predict the effects that potential trade policies would have on water trade.

“We want to clarify the decision-making process so that people can have as clear as possible an understanding of policies’ consequences,” Rodriguez-Iturbe said.

“The goal is to try to incorporate as much as we can, quantitatively, the decision-making process that different government levels have.”

The new model might allow researchers and decision makers to understand the impacts of free trade policies on water and land use as well as the effects of policy interventions by developed and developing countries on the global water trade.

Denise Mauzerall, a professor in the Wilson School and in the civil and environmental engineering department, also contributed to the project, as did National Institute for Environmental Studies researcher Naota Hanasaki.

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Frank Bruni, columnist and former restaurant critic for The New York Times, speaks Tuesday afternoon on a panel called “Writing, Food, Intimacy,” which featured food writers and chefs.

— spend on policing their own bodies and policing the bodies of other women is just a waste,” Sandoval said.

Marrone-Puglia discussed her personal story of how she came to work at the University in 2001. Colleagues at other institutions told her that she shouldn’t apply for a job at Princeton because she wouldn’t have a chance as a woman. She was offered a position at the University and began her tenure as one of the first female professors at the time. She said that she and other women at the University had to work hard in order to have their work recognized during their early years at the still mostly-male University.

“Women work hard. So do men, but I think men are more strategic at ascending and projecting their work,” MarronePuglia said. “I don’t think you can have it all, guys, either.

How can we have it equally, fairly? That’s what we want.”

Keohane cited personal experiences and quoted from Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex,” Shulamith Firestone’s “The Dialectic of Sex” and Toril Moi’s “What Is a Woman?” in order to address the limitations of women in society.

She addressed the fact that women and men are different

because men can choose when to foreground their masculinity, whereas a woman’s sexuality is almost always foregrounded against a woman’s will. As an example, she explained that a woman working as a chemist is referred to as a female chemist, while a man is just referred to as a chemist.

“That means in that sense that our anatomy keeps shadowing us, keeps stalking us and makes it hard for us to operate our life.”

Keohane then brought the conversation back to Princeton in 2009, when the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership held a survey entitled “Realizing Potential” that studied how female undergraduates and recent alumnae felt about leadership.

The survey found that women do think about leadership here at Princeton as undergrads but do so differently than men.

“It’s not that women don’t want to lead, but women want to lead in positions that they think they can make a difference for a cause that they care about, where they have a position of impact, not a position with a high profile,” Keohane said.

The discussion, titled “Are Women Limited in our Society?: Women’s History Month Panel,” was held on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber.

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University offices, including the Office of the Executive Vice President, the office that will soon supervise her in her new job.

According to her profile on

the HR website, Hospedales joined the University in 2008 and is currently a member of the Clients Services Team where she “provides employee and labor relations consultation services to Princeton’s management, employees and unions.”

She holds a law degree from Indiana University

Bloomington.

Working in conjunction with Hospedales, an “emergency preparedness review steering committee” will be created as a subcommittee of the existing Emergency Preparedness Task Force and will review existing procedures and protocols, accord-

ing to the EPTF website.

Formed in 2001, the task force consists of “fairly wideranging group of University officials that review public safety operations and the general well-being of the campus,” Day explained.

The steering committee will be chaired by Assistant

Vice President for Safety and Administrative Planning Charlotte “Treby” Williams ‘84, and will consist of five members, representing the four main University departments that are involved in this project. The members will be Director of the Office of Environmental Health and

Safety Robin Izzo; Assistant Vice President for Facilities, Operations Roger Demareski; Executive Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky; Director for Operations, Public Safety Stefanie Karp; and Executive Director of Campus Services and Planning Amy Campbell.

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and contained 113 signatures.

The Resources Committee, a subcommittee of the Council of the Princeton University Community, handles objections to the University’s financial policy and can make recommendations to the Board of Trustees, which supervises the investment of the endowment.

Although the Resources Committee did not specifically request to see student support for the cause, committee chair and psychology department chair Deborah Prentice said that the petition will be reviewed alongside the faculty’s in an upcoming meeting this April. While the committee has met with the three faculty members who organized the original petition, no formal meeting has convened to discuss the divestment requests.

“It was not necessary to have students’ support, but we thought it would be more meaningful and more powerful,” Fisch-Friedman said.

The Resources Committee had indicated that it planned to meet in February to review the University’s investments, but now it has decided to reschedule the meeting to April, Prentice said.

In addition to the faculty petition and student statement calling on the University to divest its holdings from companies involved

in firearm production, the committee is also reviewing a petition initiated by Students United for a Responsible Global Environment about divesting from fossil fuel companies. SURGE is a student organization dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Last year, USG called for a referendum to encourage the University to invest its endowment in “socially responsible” ways. The referendum, which was sponsored by the Princeton Coalition for Endowment Responsibility, sought to improve transparency in University investments and encourage dialogue among students about responsible investment strategies.

After over three years of campus controversy, the University announced in 2012 that it would stop investing in the hospitality firm HEI Hotels & Resorts, which was accused of workers’ rights violations. However, PRINCO President Andrew Golden told The Daily Princetonian in March of that year that the decision to withdraw its investments from the firm was “based purely on business reasons.”

Fisch-Friedman said she and the other SAVE co-founders, Joshua Stadlan ’16 and Leora Friedman ’14, thought a student petition would be the best way to show support for the faculty’s cause. The three came up with the idea for SAVE in December immediately following the Sandy Hook shooting. FischFriedman said the goal of the organization is to raise awareness

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on campus about gun violence and “memorialize the victims of school shootings in recent history.”

“Certainly having the students sign on reflects that the interest in the issue extends beyond the faculty who signed this petition,” Prentice said.

The Princeton Coalition for Endowment Responsibility, a student group committed to improving the function of the Resources Committee on campus, has not officially endorsed the petition, according to member Lily Adler ’15. While Adler herself has signed on, she said that PCER believes it would be a conflict of interest for the organization to sign the petition since PCER is more concerned with making reforms in the Resources Committee guidelines than supporting individual divestment aims. “[PCER is] less concerned with whether or not a particular issue is a violation of Princeton’s core values. We’re not making judgment calls on specific issues — that’s not what our group does,” Adler said.

In a continued effort to promote anti-gun violence, SAVE will also be hosting an event on April 24 with Colin Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting, who will give a talk about strengthening gun laws in America. Following the talk, there will be a panel discussion and a screening of “Living for 32,” a documentary on the Virginia Tech shooting.

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and would assign more work than in other creative writing classes,” Fox said. “But you knew that when she praised your work she really meant it.”

Fox added that Oates made students think about the characters in their work before beginning to write and that Oates’ presence at the University provided more visibility for the creative writing department.

The creative writing department is larger and consists of more tenured faculty than in the past, according to Oates.

Karis Schneider ’13 said that she wanted to be in Oates’ class so badly that in her freshman spring, she showed up to wait in line at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 10 a.m. a day before course sign-ups to make sure she got into Oates’ class.

Schneider said that she knows of many students who applied for creative writing classes mainly because they wanted to take a class with Oates.

“Anytime you were given a good comment, you just got so excited because she’s so famous,” Schneider said.

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Acting Director of the Lewis Center for the Arts and creative writing professor Chang-rae Lee, who has been a colleague of Oates’s since he came to the University in the fall of 2001, said she is an inspirational figure within the creative writing department.

“She’s a force of nature,” Lee said. “The creative writing

“Anytime you were given a good comment, you just got so excited because she’s so famous.”

Karis Schneider ’13 program certainly won’t be the same without her.”

Oates has produced a sizable volume of work even while teaching and going on book tours at the same time.

“She’s always working on something,” Lee said, “You

would think between all the reviews and tours that she wouldn’t have enough time.”

Eric Silberman ’13, who took Oates’ introductory creative writing course in fiction in the fall of 2010, said he was impressed by how she is able to keep up with everything between writing books and reviews. Nevertheless, he said he had to get used to her teaching style, which he called novel and exciting.

“She was different than any teacher I’ve had before,” Silberman said. “She would give comments at the spur of the moment when we would read our work out loud.”

Silberman said he enjoyed the “forced practice” technique she used through weekly assignments based on prompts.

“She’s gotten a lot of people in the door of creative writing and has inspired so many people to write,” Silberman said. “She’s a name that people know, and people are proud that she’s teaching on campus.”

Silberman said he hopes that Oates will be a continued presence on campus and that she will become an even more prolific writer following her retirement.

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ews of the Newtown tragedy united America in grief. My mother was in a state of disarray for days; our commander-in-chief broke down in front of the nation, not so much as a president, but as a father. In an op-ed published on Monday, Benjamin Dinovelli reinvigorated those emotions in order to call for reforms to curb gun violence. He and I would agree, I suspect, that the cooler heads dedicated to preventing future massacres should look to the origins of the different perspectives on guns in order to reach consensus. But sorrow alone is only productive insofar as it catalyzes reasonable discourse and clear thinking, and it certainly has no place dictating Princeton’s investment policies.

Sons and daughters who grew up hunting with their fathers view guns very differently than those who survived childhoods in innercity war zones. Self-ref lection in public is awkward — no one likes to feel naked on stage — but appraising the contextual roots of differing opinions may be the only way to reach common ground. Still not sold?

It’s all right; I’ll go first. My own opinions do not completely fit into either side of the discussion. Perhaps from a place of ignorance — I grew up in a weapon-free home and have never fired a gun myself — I detest guns. But anyone who commands a deadly instrument with prowess demands respect, and the Supreme Court’s affirmation of an individual’s right to bear arms was a victory for personal safety.

I attribute my own distaste for firearms to the blessing of growing up in a safe environment, a privilege, though shared by us today as Princetonians, too many Americans endure without. For some who are not fortunate enough to live in secure communities, owning a gun is not a luxury but a necessity. Meanwhile, even the Supreme Court’s conservative wing, in the process of carving out a historic victory for gun rights, deliberately left room for certain curbs. These two realities do not have to exist in tension: Hunters and patriarchs can rest easily in their constitutional guarantees and also support meager alterations in restrictions.

In January, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel bullied TD Bank and Bank of America with an open letter prodding them to leverage their lines of credit with gun manufacturers to encourage reform. What was Emanuel’s grand indictment of Smith & Wesson, the firearm manufacturing company with which the banks do business? One of its products, the AR-15 assault weapon, was the destructive instrument brandished in the Aurora, Colo. movie theater massacre.

A lawful product abused by a deranged outlier does not implicate the corporation that brought the device to market.

Similarly, Princeton’s investment in gun manufacturers neither enables nor endorses violence.

Back on campus, the Resources Committee, charged with overseeing Princeton’s holdings, will soon review a petition signed by 113 faculty members that calls for an end to the University’s investment in gun makers.

Thankfully, the Board of Trustees has the final say, and I hope these wiser minds will quash this potentially harmful idea. Is a self-congratulatory exercise really worth a reduction in our University’s unmatched resources? Princeton should not divest its holdings from gun manufacturers in order to protect its robust endowment and all the benefits that come with it.

Today, the University stands as one of America’s greatest instruments of social mobility. In an age when the average student debt tops $26,000, Princeton graduates young professionals with negligible financial burdens. According to a new study by the Urban Institute, the oppressive specter of what may be our generation’s defining economic burden has the potential to delay millennials’ abilities to accumulate wealth by decades. For those who earn admission, Princeton is a safeguard against this slide into a diminished future. As far as I’m concerned, the trustees should only divest an asset when it is no longer profitable.

It’s not sexy, and it’s distinctly nonidealistic; call me a cold utilitarian, but there is far more benefit in maintaining our trove of money, no matter how politically incorrect it may be. Even if this particular selling of assets does not cause great harm, don’t think for a moment that guns will be the only push.

Every new issue du jour will induce cries for Princeton to cleanse itself of any association with the latest offending industry. Rather than sacrificing funds in indulgent pageantry, let’s buttress and build on the already enviable resources that Princeton provides. Endlessly showering students with funds and opportunities might seem selfish as a singular goal, to which I say: You bet.

David Will is a religion major from Chevy Chase, Md. He can be reached at dwill@princeton.edu.

Will’s father, George Will GS ’68, is a member of the University’s Board of Trustees

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s visits for admitted prospective graduate students roll around this year, current students rally to convince prospective ones that, despite its isolation, life in Princeton really does have its benefits. It may not be New York or San Francisco, but it offers a uniquely cohesive, welcoming and incredibly supportive graduate community. This is largely because, unlike at other universities, social and intellectual interactions among graduate students are encouraged and enhanced by living together on campus.

Despite this, the University’s Housing Master Plan, currently being enacted by the Housing Office, mandates a decrease in the amount of on-campus housing available to grad students. We believe that this policy threatens the exceptional sense of community at Princeton, and we cannot understand why it is necessary.

On-campus apartments have long been available to almost every grad student who wished to live in one. The Housing Office has not publicized the difference between its new projected rate and the historical percentage of students accommodated, but before the demolition of the HibbenMagie complex in summer 2012, it was extremely rare to meet a grad student who had been denied on-campus housing.

The Housing Office states that it will continue to house “a large majority of graduate students” under its new Master Plan, but it’s clear that the number will be significantly decreased. In recent emails, the Housing Office has said that, going forward, on-campus living will only be guaranteed for the first three years of grad school and described it as highly unlikely after the fourth.

The assumption, clearly stated on the Housing website, is that the local rental market will solve this housing shortage.

However, Princeton doesn’t offer a typical college-town, or even big-city, rental market. There isn’t much affordable housing available in the township, let alone within walking distance of campus. A quick look on the off-campus housing website set up by the University shows only a few options in Princeton, priced far beyond the on-campus rates, with the remaining options being a substantial distance away.

One of the components of the Master Plan is that “apartments for low- and moderate-income families will be incorporated throughout Merwick and Stanworth [a site currently housing grad students]. The units will be available to the general public, with no preference for applicants who may be affiliated with the University.”

This is a laudable mandate of the University — one we strongly believe it should pursue. Yet it raises the question

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of why the University would decide to decrease graduatestudent housing (and subject students to a market they recognize as inhospitable) rather than maintain graduate housing while increasing low-income housing for nonaffiliates. A solution to this problem would be to allow graduate students to continue living in the low-budget Butler complex, but Housing has said that this will be demolished, with no replacement, in summer 2014.

No one graduates with a Ph.D. from Princeton in fewer than five years, and many students take six or seven years.

The later years, when fellowships and stipends start to run out, are a particularly tough time to force students to move far and wide. Plus, a lengthy commute to campus on New Jersey Transit or along Route 1 would inevitably make preceptors less available to their students, and grad students would be less able to attend the conferences and guest lectures that enrich academic life at Princeton.

We were told that the Housing Master Plan (initiated in 2005) was developed through extensive consultation with members of the Princeton community and comparison with the policies of other universities. But Princeton is not like other universities, in terms of either its location or intellectual community. And the only consultation that current students have been asked to provide has focused on facility preferences (laundry, gyms, etc.) at the new Lakeside complex currently being built as a replacement for the Hibben-Magie Apartments.

Throughout all of these changes, the Housing Office has evinced a general lack of communication and a repeated dismissal of reasonable requests from students. For example, Housing only let graduate students know about the decision to kick students out of Butler Apartments in May of next year via an email sent two weeks before the deadline to submit housing preferences for 2013-14.

We’re not expecting privileged treatment; graduate students have happily chosen to live in run-down, 60-yearold temporary structures. We are only asking for clarity and an acknowledgment that the unique graduate community at Princeton is worth preserving. Given that it is well within the University’s ability, why not commit to accommodating all grad students who wish to live on campus? Grad school can be a time of deep isolation, and the benefits provided by a supportive community are, in the face of that, innumerable.

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f there’s one thing I’m asked more frequently than where I’m from, it’s whether or not I’m going to stay in the United States after I graduate. Granted, my questionably f luctuating accent and ethnically ambiguous looks confuse even the keenest observer. If my limited Korean and even sparser knowledge of K-pop isn’t confusing enough, I’ve even had people on campus ask me if I was from “East or West Korea.” However, despite my seemingly superficial ties to South Korea, never once have I conceived of working in the United States post-graduation.

For the past decade, South Korea has been struggling with one of the fastest rates of brain drain in the developed world: The vast majority of South Korea’s youth, at least those who can afford it, has chosen to be educated in the United States and remain there. Cultural biases have favored an American education over a South Korean one, and even those pursuing degrees in the most prestigious of South Korean

The case for going back

universities choose to study abroad and only return for graduate school.

The South Korean government has been grappling with incentives to keep its educated youth within the country, yet, sadly, it’s been fighting a losing battle.

On the f lip side, the United States has been doing a fantastic job of bringing in foreign students and keeping them in the country.

For many international students like myself, America’s number-one commodity is its education. Prestigious institutions like Princeton value international students because they create diverse student bodies, and these students, in turn, value the opportunity to jump-start their futures. The result is rather symbiotic. So why would I even conceive of returning to a country with backward cultural practices and an aging population?

There’s something to say for the fact that South Korea values Ivy League degrees much more than most American companies and would therefore offer higher positions and more prestigious jobs to those returning to the motherland. Confucianism has always valued the educated more than any

other philosophical system, placing scholars above all other social classes. To top that off, a sense of national pride, no matter how superficial, makes me feel obligated to contribute something to my own country.

The fact that my family and friends all live in South Korea, as well as the sheer familiarity of Seoul, are just a few basic yet critical factors to take into consideration.

To be honest, it is difficult to pinpoint which factor inf luences me most, as it is a combination of all four. South Korea may be known for its advanced technology sometimes bordering on the absurd — like the new Galaxy phone that purportedly allows you to scroll down menus with your eyes — but its social values and culture are ridiculously anachronistic. We’re talking about a country that just elected its first female president, whose first order on the agenda is banning miniskirts in Seoul. Seeing as “pretty boys” are valued to the point of androgyny, I don’t know what the government expects people to wear in the future. In a way, condescending as it may sound, I feel an obligation to my country to modernize and liberalize a staggeringly backward

society. This isn’t just applicable to South Korea but to any nation, especially the developing and recently developed.

It is also important to note that in order for America to improve its foreign relations, it is first necessary to accurately assess what is happening abroad. No matter how much the United States may want to keep tabs on South Korea for regional and domestic security issues, it is impossible to do so without knowledgeable experts advising the White House on the best course of action. This could have serious policy implications, as the United States cannot make critical decisions based on partial knowledge.

By sending those educated in the United States back to their native countries, we not only provide these nations with a chance to see eyeto-eye with the United States, but we also have an invaluable source of information to make better decisions in Washington. It may be one thing to act in our nation’s service, but it’s equally valuable to do so through the service of other nations.

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Q: Who are the freshmen with the biggest impact?

A: The whole freshman class are studs, which is good looking forward to the next two years I’ll be here. The sophomores and freshmen are going to carry a strong crew tradition. There are three or four freshmen that put up outstanding times. One of those is Cam Howie, who’s in the first varsity boat now, which is a big deal because this is the first year they’ve allowed freshmen on varsity boats.

And then there’s Greig Stein, who is just like butter — he’s slick. He’s stroking the 1V right now and killing it. He’s pretty essential to the boat, and he has quite a way with the ladies.

He slays them with eye contact and FIFA skills alone.

Q: What sort of extreme dieting

do you have to do?

A: You have to drop the pounds. A lot of guys on the team are a little above weight during the winter to do well on the erg. Most guys are pretty good about it, throwing an extra workout here and there.

Princeton is notorious for being pretty good about weight, but, that said, there are some stunts that have to be pulled.

You have to sweat out a good amount on Fridays, and you stick to the salad bars during the week. The worst time is thinking about it months before and realizing you’re going to have to be 15 pounds lighter.

Q: Do you have a worst weather moment?

A: We went to the Schuylkill; the ground was covered in water. It wasn’t snowing yet, but we had to trek up to the dock.

We were missing an original member of the boat, so we had a new guy thrown in there.

We were barefoot, carrying a

boat, so it wasn’t fun at all.

After that, we got on the water, freezing, and at the starting line, it starts snowing. The best part of the day was actually racing. We had to haul the boat back through snow and rain. That was the point where I thought it was game over and I was not going to make it out of Philadelphia.

Q: If there was one race that people should turn up for, what would it be and why?

A: I would say HYP [the Harvard-Yale-Princeton race], which will be at Princeton in May. It’s a must. People will be flying in from all over the world to see this matchup. It’s going to be something unlike anyone has seen in many years.

After last year, it’s pretty heated competition. We’re all going to be pretty eager to go for gold. Everyone should make it down, right on the front steps of Carnegie. This is the one you want to see.

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Sports Shorts Baseball: Stiff competition in the southern roadtrip The Tigers are now 2-16 after a rough stretch over spring break.

Princeton has suffered several blowouts, the worst being a 16-0 loss to No. 1 North Carolina, but many of the losses have been very close. The Tigers lost to Georgetown by one run twice, and one of those games was a 12run marathon in which junior starter Mike Ford went nine innings and let up only two runs.

Ford has a 1.38 ERA this year, and senior starter Zak Hermans’ is only 2.53, but the pitchers have generally struggled — the team ERA as a whole is 6.10. Their record isn’t pretty right now, but this is not as unusual as it would appear — the Tigers always head south to face tougher competition before starting Ivy League play and were 6-9 at this point last season. They open Ivy League play at home against Yale and Brown this weekend.

Softball: Tigers on streak entering Ivy play The softball team had its plate full this spring break, playing a total of 13 games. It started off play at the UMBC classic in Baltimore, Md. The Tigers performed well during the three-day event, going 4-1 against Hampton, Copin State and UMBC, including a dominating 21-3 win over Copin State. Princeton then trav-

eled to the D.C. area, where its fortunes turned as it lost two games to Georgetown before losing another two to James Madison. The Tigers halted the losing streak by beating George Washington 7-3. Princeton then ended the weekend with the Delaware State Epilepsy Awareness Tournament in Dover, Del. The Tigers were scheduled to play four games, but they ended up playing only two as their last game against Delaware State was canceled and they won their game against Lafayette by default due to injuries to the Leopard squad. They won their two matches against Colgate, however, to finish their spring break road trip on a four-game winning streak. Princeton will now host Brown on Saturday to begin Ivy League play.

Women’s golf: Princeton falls four shots short of first The women’s golf team kicked off its season with a secondplace finish at the Low Country Intercollegiate in Hilton Head, S.C. The Tigers were just four shots short of Western Carolina, which took first. Junior Kelly Shon was also four shots shy of defending her title, which she claimed at last year’s tournament. Freshmen Alexandra Wong and Sydney Kersten joined Wong in shooting 10 over 82, with the trio tying

for eighth. The opening round of the tournament, which was supposed to be held on Sunday, was canceled, resulting in Monday being the sole day of competition.

Men’s volleyball: Tigers sweep EIVA weekly honors Before what will be the one of the biggest weekends of the men’s volleyball season, a pair of Tigers swept EIVA honors.

Junior outside hitter Pat Schwagler was named the Offensive Player of the Week for the second time this season, and senior middle blocker Michael Dye earned Defensive Player of the Week honors. Schwagler is sixth in the nation in points per set with 4.66 and sits just on the cusp of the top 10 at number 11 in kills per set with an average of 3.84. Schwagler recorded 20 kills against the No. 14 Loyola Ramblers and 16 against No. 7 Lewis. In Princeton’s sweep of Rutgers-Newark, Dye added five blocks and nine kills, also recording four blocks against Loyola and two in the match against Lewis. Dye is in the top 25 in the nation in blocks per set and was First-Team All-East last season. The Tigers will host St. Francis on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Penn State on Friday at 7 p.m. Both matches have EIVA playoff implications for Princeton.

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On Tap with ... Bo Peard

By Crissy Carano staff writer

Sophomore Bo Peard, who rows on the second varsity boat for the men’s lightweight crew, sat down with the ‘Prince’ to explain the crew experience, discuss the general quirkiness of the team and set the record straight by revealing that he’s really just a nice guy.

Q: I found a very old article in The Harvard Crimson with common misconceptions about crew, which stated that people row because they desire pain, suffer from a mental illness, like to stay in shape, want to impress women and have an attitude. What do you have to say about those things?

A: The first one was the pain? I feel like everyone on our team is at least a little bit crazy in having to hang in through winter. I don’t know if you’ve ever been on an erg, but don’t.

Anyone who goes down there for the entire winter has to have a little bit of craziness going on. Mental illness — I’m not sure about that. Staying in shape — that’s a good thing.

I’m not sure where staying in shape and being 10 pounds underweight even out, but, yeah, it’s a thing. And impressing women — that’s the number one for everyone on our team.

That’s what our coach trains us for. Winning is second; impressing women is number one. Attitude-wise, that’s probably a Harvard thing. We’re not about that. We’re down to earth on the Princeton team.

Q: What would you say the most notorious quirk is on the team?

A: I’m labeled as a troll. I don’t really know why. It began last year. People think I’m insincere; they think I’m not being serious with them. I am. I’m just trying to be a nice guy, but I’ll walk up to people and say, “How are you doing?” and they’ll be like, “Bo, shut up.”

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labeled me “Boseph J. Buttworth III” because apparently everyone at Choate has to have an extremely white name like that.

Q: Did you do anything specific that earned you this troll label?

A: There was a senior last year — I was being nice to him, and he thought I was trolling him. He couldn’t take the kindness.

Q: Might it have anything to do with physical appearance?

A: Woah. Absolutely not. Pleasing women, including appearance, is our number one thing.

They wouldn’t allow me to stay on the team.

Q: Favorite thing to do when not rowing?

A: We are in dry season right now, so the highlights are doing a lot of sitting around in dorm rooms. A lot of Mario Kart — it’s become a favorite on the lightweight crew team. I watch some pretty low-quality TV. I’ve gotten into “Prison Break,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Workaholics.” I like hanging out, and Mario Kart is really going to be my main social enterprise this spring.

Q: Who is the quirkiest member of your team?

A: I think [sophomore] Will Dalton is at the top of quirk. It’s hard to single out the quirkiest member; there’s a lot of quirk on the lightweight team. But Dalton is never really seen without a neon vest, eating strictly Coke and Hoagie Haven or occasionally gracing the boathouse with his legendary erg dancing.

Then there’s [sophomore] Casey Ward, who brings a whole other thing to the table with his general colorfulness, whatever’s going on up there with his mullet/new age thing and his general appearance as a toucan.

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AROUND I V I E S The softball season is well underway, but Ivy play does not begin until this weekend. Harvard and Penn won division titles last year, with the Crimson sweeping the Quakers in the championship series, but much has changed since then. Here’s a look at how the teams stack up as they begin the hunt for the title: Princeton (14-8) The Tigers finished 8-12 in the Ivy League last season, but it’s hard to imagine the 2013 squad not doing better. One of only two teams in the Ancient Eight with a winning record, Princeton boasts the number-one hitter in the league, sophomore infielder Alyssa Schmidt, as well as senior outfielder Candy Button, who leads the league with 20 RBIs. With three pitchers with sub-three ERAs — including freshman Shanna Christian — the Tigers look capable of winning their first South Division title since 2008.

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Penn (10-10) Penn won the South Division last year thanks largely to then-freshman Alexis Borden, and the Quakers appear to have only gotten better. Borden continues to impress and was named Ivy League Pitcher of the Week last week after a career-high 12 strikeouts against Holy Cross. Freshman catcher Korinne Raby is tied for the league lead in home runs. The Quakers have proven that they have the ability to dominate games but will need to piece more hits together in order to defend their divisional title.

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Cornell (10-12) A perfect game from Penn’s Alexis Borden ended the Big Red’s streak of three consecutive South Division wins last season, but the teams finished with identical Ivy League records. Much of Cornell’s talent has returned — including juniors Christina Villalon and Lauren Buccolo, both of whom are looking unstoppable at the plate — and some has been added. Freshman Meg Parker is tied with Villalon with a .373 average, seventh-best in the league. If it continues producing like it has, the Big Red could make it a very interesting three-way battle for supremacy in the South Division.

Harvard (7-12) The Crimson won the Ivy League last season but is off to a mediocre start without last year’s leaders. Rachel Brown ’12 led the team with a miniscule 1.40 ERA while Jane Alexander ’12 led the offense with a .381 batting average, and so far they have had trouble filling the void — only two Crimson players are hitting above .300. Harvard will need to lean on its freshmen, at least one of whom has proven up to the task. Rookie starter Morgan Groom’s record sits at a mere 3-5, but she leads the team with a 2.24 ERA and 42 strikeouts.

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Columbia (10-9) The Lions finished last in the South Division last year, going 6-14 in league play. So far, they are looking capable of doing more this season. The team’s overall ERA is just 2.05 so far, and the offense is led by a pair of junior Emilys — Emily Snodgrass and Emily Caruthers — who combined for 15 hits and nine runs in five games last week and are hitting .352 and .328, respectively.

Dartmouth (10-11) Harvard ran away with the North Division last year, and the Big Green provided little competition, finishing tied for second with a 7-13 league record. A good season from senior Morgan Wharton and the addition of freshman Katie McEachern, however, may be enough to make this division interesting again.

McEachern was named the Ivy League Co-Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week after going 12 for 23 over a seven-game stretch. She is currently leading the team, hitting .381, but Wharton is right behind her at .348.

Brown (6-8) Trying to improve from a mediocre 2012, the Bears are having a little trouble scoring runs.

They have the worst batting average in the league despite the outstanding start of senior Stephanie Thompson, whose .424 batting average is second in the Ancient Eight. Brown is going to need help from a bullpen that may not be up to the task. Sarah Ropiak, whose 2.96 ERA is 11th-best in the league, is the only Brown pitcher who has shown the ability to consistently get batters out.

Yale (3-13) Last year, the Bulldogs won only five games in the Ivy League, and their prospects do not look much improved this year. Kristen Leung leads the league in ERA, having allowed just one run in 13-andtwo-thirds innings, but it’s a steep drop-off from there. Yale’s next-best pitcher, Chelsea Dunham, has a 5.95 ERA and has allowed seven home runs in nine games. Though capable of scoring runs, the Bulldogs have suffered several blowouts, including a 13-6 loss to Rhode Island last weekend.

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