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In Opinion Anthony Grafton opines about theses and Jill Dolan responds to Patton’s column on marriage. PAGE 6

7:30 p.m. The Premedical Society hosts MEDTalks, a TEDtalk-like event connecting premeds with professors. Schultz 107.

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April 1, 1921 The Life Saving Club opened applications to the student body. The club provided life saving training for class credit.

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News & Notes Mercer County receives over $1 billion in tourism

for the second consecutive year, Mercer County received more than $1 billion in tourism spending, according to data collected

by Tourism Economics, the Princeton Packet reported.

Total tourism spending for 2012 is up 3.9 percent from 2011, when the county received $1.072 billion in tourism spending. In 2010, Mercer County received $973 million in spending.

Food and beverage accounted for the largest portion of the spending, netting $299.4 million, followed by transport, retail, and lodging and recreation.

Additionally, “direct tourism employment” in 2012 remained stable, decreasing by only 14 jobs from 2011 for a total of 11,148 tourism-related jobs.

The University has been a large source for this tourism, with more than 750,000 visitors each year. New Jersey had over 82.5 million visitors statewide in 2012.

“We know that the Princeton campus is a major draw for visitors that includes not only those families looking to enroll their children here, but others who come here for conferences, athletic camps, recreational events and many other activities,” Dan Day, the University’s director of news and editorial services, told the Packet.“And we are pleased to contribute to the overall economic and cultural welfare of the region and the state of New Jersey.”

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Former Executive Director of the Center for Jewish Life Rabbi James S. Diamond, who died on Thursday, was admired by friends, colleagues and relatives for his ability to bring together Jewish individuals of all backgrounds.

Diamond died in a triple-car accident about one mile from campus. He was 74.

Diamond served as director of the CJL from 1995 until his retirement in 2003. Previously, Diamond was executive director of Hillel at Indiana University Bloomington from 1968 to 1972 and subsequently at Washington University in St. Louis from 1972 to 1995. In total, he served as a Hillel rabbi for 36 years.

“He really was the director of the Hillel Center for Jewish Life at a crucial time when we were building up the new Center for Jewish Life,” Wilson School professor and former President of the CJL Board of Directors Stanley Katz said.

Katz praised Diamond for a “superb” job of institutionalizing a new and larger Hillel operation on campus by making the experience for Jewish students on campus more meaningful and productive.

Shifra Diamond, one of Diamond’s two daughters, said it was very important to him to bring together Jewish students from different backgrounds. She explained that he was very attentive to making sure that everyone had a place at the CJL and could find meaning in the community.

Katz described Diamond as “a scholar, a Ph.D. in comparative literature and an international expert in modern Hebrew poetry.” He added that Diamond was both an intellectual and religious figure on campus, contributing to the University academically through the classes he taught, and religiously in his capacity as a rabbi.

At the time of his death, Diamond was working on translating the works of S.Y. Agnon. Stanford University Press will publish one such novella by Agnon as translated by Diamond, Shifra explained.

Executive Director of the CJL Rabbi Julie Roth said Diamond devoted his entire career to Hillel and is considered one of the greatest Hillel directors. Roth explained that in mentoring her, Diamond had an amazing ability to advise her in a way that gave her enough space and allowed her to “take the reins.”

“Different parts of the Jewish community very much felt at home at the CJL,” Roth explained. “It wasn’t true when Jim started; it was something that he made true.” She explained that Diamond allowed for all members of the community, no See RABBI page 3

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Princeton admitted 1,931 applicants to the Class of 2017. Over the past decade, there has been a 68 percent increase in applicants.

U. admits record 7.29 percent

By Sarah Can staff writer

A record low of 7.29 percent — or 1,931 of the applicants — were admitted to the University for the Class of 2017 on March 28. An analysis of admission statistics released by the Office of Admission between 2003 and 2013 reveals the increasing selectivity of the University’s admission pro-

cess, which is largely in line with the falling admissions rates at other Ivy League institutions.

Over the past decade, the University’s admission rate has dropped from 9.9 percent in 2003 to 7.29 percent in 2013. This 26.3 percent decrease in admittance has accompanied a 68 percent increase in the number of applicants.

For the Class of 2017, 10,629 of

the 26,498 applicants — or over 40 percent — had 4.0 grade point averages. Of those who were admitted, 97 percent are from the top decile of their class, among high schools that rank.

About half of the admitted students identify themselves as people of color, including biracial and multiracial students, and about 11.4 percent are international students See SELECTIVITY page 3

STUDENT LIFE

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OIT launches Princeton Mobile

Students compete in E-Club’s HackPrinceton

By Paul Phillips contributor

Princeton Mobile, a new mobile website containing interactive information about the University for students, faculty, staff and visitors, will replace the current iPrinceton mobile app, the Office of Information Technology announced.

Princeton Mobile contains 16

interactive menus, including a library catalogue and information on residential and retail dining. The app can be used on a variety of different devices, including laptops, iPhones, iPads, smartphones and tablets, OIT Associate Chief Information Officer and Director of Academic Services Serge Goldstein said.

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By Catherine Duazo senior writer

An anti-procrastination application and a robot that can be controlled by an Xbox Kinect won first-place prizes in the software and hardware categories of HackPrinceton’s Spring 2013 Hackathon on Sunday evening.

“We combined two of our favorite things in the world — Tamagotchi and trying to make ourselves a little more productive on the web,” Tam-

agetitdone team member Michael Toth said, referring to the Japanese handheld digital pet.

The application is a Google Chrome extension in which a Tamagotchi sits on the bottom-right hand corner of the web browser and sends alerts when the user spends too much time on one of the websites on its “unproductive list.”

The Tamagotchi then goes around the screen and begins eating the links, pictures and video files on the website. Us-

ers can set the threshold time limit for this to occur.

Another feature of the app is that it stops the user from visiting sites on the “unproductive list” after a certain amount of time.

“If you’re on Facebook at 3:00 in the morning, it will actually pull down a curtain on the screen and tell you to go to sleep,” Toth said.

Tamagetitdone is made up of three students from Lehigh University. Toth said they See CODE page 4

STUDENT LIFE

USG votes to alter meeting attendance policies, hears SHARE initiatives

By Anna Mazarakis staff writer

USG officers voted to make constitutional changes that would alter the existing officer attendance policies for meetings of the Student Groups Recognition Committee and heard a presentation about new initiatives to educate students about sexual assault on campus at Sunday evening’s meeting.

The debate over SGRC meeting attendance policy continued from last week’s meeting. The members voted on

changes that would cease to require that the USG president, vice president and treasurer attend the meetings of the SGRC, but would allow them to attend the meetings as non-voting members, which would update the constitution to conform to current practice.

Senate members expressed confusion over the proposed changes, including what the role of the president and vice president would be in regard to the SGRC and what the changes to the constitution meant.

The confusion and disorder of USG members speaking out of turn resulted in vice president Carmina Mancenon ’14 using her gavel to call for order and president Shawon Jackson ’15 asking for the members’ attention.

“It’s really just to make it so the current practices line up with the constitution,” communications director Richard Lu ’16 explained, since the president, vice president and treasurer have not attended SGRC meetings in recent history.

Despite the changes that

the USG voted on, it was noted that there would still be differences in the mandates of the USG constitution and the SGRC charter.

“It’s documentary hierarchy: The constitution trumps all,” U-Councilor Elan Kugelmass ’14 said.

When the vote was taken, 14 members were in favor, five were opposed and two abstained. SGRC chair Benedict Wagstaff pointed out that a lot of the changes that were discussed last week with regard to the constitution also passed, so the senate would

need to vote on constitutional changes again next week.

“This is a farce, guys,” University Student Life Committee chair Greg Smith ’15 said.

“We should just table this to executive session and use that time to continue discussing this.”

Wagstaff then moved on from the debate by introducing Thaigers, the newly approved Thai student group on campus.

Thaigers hopes to promote a better understanding of Thai culture, provide assistance to those interested in traveling to See CONSTITUTION page 2

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Thailand and create a network of Thai Princetonians.

The USG also heard a presentation from Isabelle Laurenzi ’15, the president of Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising Resources and Education, on the recent campus-wide debate regarding sexual assault and the USG’s theme of access for information and resources. Jackson had invited Laurenzi in response to inquiries from students about what the USG was going to do in response to the data regarding the incidence of sexual assault on campus disclosed in a Daily Princetonian story in early March. In response to these inquiries, Jackson has also met with SHARE Director Jackie Deitch-Stackhouse.

Shreya Murthy ’13 and Kellie Valladares ’13, two of the authors of a recent petition for an updated survey regarding sexual assault on campus, were also in attendance.

Laurenzi introduced SHARE’s current initiatives to the USG senate, including the hiring of a new SHARE staff member to serve as a Prevention Coordinator and a prevention workshop, “Stand Up,” scheduled for Tuesday.

Laurenzi also discussed ini-

tiatives aimed at incoming freshmen, including revisions to “The Way You Move,” SHARE’s presentation during freshman orientation, and the suggestion of creating an online orientation program educating incoming freshmen about sexual assault similar to the alcohol education module AlcoholEDU. Laurenzi also discussed a new initiative by SHARE that seeks to place liaisons in each of the eating clubs and the residential colleges. Laurenzi explained that SHARE currently has a liaison in most of the eating clubs, but not all.

Campus and Community Affairs chair Trap Yates ’14 will serve as liaison between SHARE and the USG, Jackson announced.

Yates is a former associate Street editor for the ‘Prince.’

The USG also approved a $2,000 funding request from Projects Board co-chair Jared Peterson ’14 for the Asian Night Market. In an update about the upcoming Class Council elections, chief elections manager Rachel Nam ’15 explained that the elections timeline would be altered this year to allow the elections to begin on Sunday, April 7, rather than on the traditional Monday. Nam also discussed the possibility of placing voting stations in Frist to increase voter turnout.

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Unlike the previous app, Princeton Mobile has a search function that allows users to run a search through the entire website rather than through individual menus.

Goldstein cited improved accessibility as a reason for transferring from iPrinceton to Princeton Mobile. The iPrinceton app, Goldstein explained, was originally written for the iPhone and had limited functionality for anything other than the iPhone.

OIT also wanted to make the development of its Princeton Mobile app “in-house,” explained Mary Albert, the manager of the project office for OIT Academic Services.

Goldstein said OIT collaborated with outside company Blackboard on iPrinceton, which was “closed-source,” meaning Blackboard did the coding itself and OIT could not see the code.

With an “open-source” collaboration, Albert explained, “we can more quickly respond to requests from our partners or any of our constituents.”

OIT’s open-source collaboration for Princeton Mobile was with Modo Labs, a startup company that works on mobile software for universities, companies and hospitals. Modo Labs CEO Andrew Yu said the company created

Kurogo, an open-source web development framework currently used by many peer institutions including Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth. With Kurogo, OIT could control the code itself while still being able to consult with Modo Labs, Yu explained.

Many departments had input in the compilation of Princeton Mobile, Goldstein said, including the Facilities Department, Event Services and the Office of the Registrar. Albert explained that OIT collaborated with these departments via data feeds.

“We simply pulled their information from the framework and displayed it in the mobile application,” Albert said.

Albert added that OIT will continue to develop Princeton Mobile. Although the immediate goal of Princeton Mobile was to recreate iPrinceton as much as possible, OIT has been receiving inquiries from students about potential changes. OIT also chose to use Kurogo because of the flexibility for changes, she said.

“We do see potential for growth,” Albert said, “and we are looking for input.”

Goldstein also broached the possibility of further development and said that although the new Princeton Mobile app is easier to use and more functional, it is slower than an app designed specifically for one device.

Long-term plans for the

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Princeton Mobile includes 16 interactive menus and is the product of open source collaboration between campus departments.

app include the implementation of information that requires a log-in, such as the University’s college facebook, Albert said. Princeton Mobile currently only includes information that is publicly available, and log-in information is what Albert called “the next step.”

Albert added that OIT, which already has a liaison with the USG, hopes to receive input from students on its new mobile application. “It would be helpful if students do have ideas and requests that we work through the USG and pull that information together,” Albert explained.

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matter how religious they were, to always feel included and welcome at the Center.

Renee Altman, a close friend of the Diamond family and a self-described conservative Jewish member of the CJL at the University, described Diamond as someone who was “non-judgmental.”

“He accepted you however you are, and he didn’t try to change you,” she said.

Altman said Diamond was a humble individual who never flaunted his background or knowledge and always encouraged his followers to research, learn and read the Torah.

“He was just a good soul that wanted to do good in the world,” said Ruth Getter, a student in Diamond’s Talmud class and a close friend. Getter described Diamond as a strong listener and a rabbi who was always accepting of people.

“He was so supportive of every expression of Judaism and every other group at the CJL,” Chair of the CJL Board of Directors Rabbi Darcie Crystal ’97 said. “He embodied the spirit of pluralism that is so central to the culture of the CJL.” Crystal currently serves as a reform rabbi in New York City at the Tamid Synagogue in Tribeca.

Crystal explained that while she was at Princeton she expressed her desire to become a rabbi to Diamond and was received with

enthusiasm and encouragement.

“He was a great force on campus,” Katz said.

Former Director of Student Services of the Union for Reform Judaism Terry Cohen Hendin said Diamond never promoted his own personal interests or agenda. She described him as a very modest, open and accepting person whose guidance enabled many young people to pursue their desires and interests.

“There are very few people like him in the world,” Altman said.

Diamond is survived by his wife, Judith; two daughters, Shifra Diamond and Gila Shusterman; and his son, Etan Diamond.

Funeral services were held Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Jewish Center on Nassau Street in his honor.

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Students gather Sunday morning for a Sunrise Sermon. The event was one of a number of sermons held across campus to celebrate Easter.

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from over 140 countries.

Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian last week that one of the Office of Admission’s goals for each incoming class is to achieve diversity.

“We’re always building a multicultural community of talents and a diversity of backgrounds and interests,” she said.

About 61 percent of the admitted students attended public schools, and 13.9 percent will be the first in their families to attend college.

Additionally, 9.7 percent of the admitted applicants are children of alumni.

About a quarter of the admitted students applied as prospective engineering students, 47.5 percent of whom were women. This ratio almost matches the 49.8 percent of women accepted in the overall class.

Rapelye explained that the record number of female engineering students resulted from the University’s desire to achieve a relative balance in genders.

“The challenge we face is a national one,” she said.

“There are many more men and many fewer women who want to study engineering, so we pay particular attention to those women who do say they want to study engineering.”

Michele Hernandez, a col-

lege consultant from Hernandez College Consulting, a private college counseling service, said she believes that the first goal of college admissions at Ivy League schools is to select the highest scoring students and then to look for points of differentiation.

“Having high scores or high grades don’t guarantee that you get in, but having lower scores or a lower GPA will guarantee that you won’t get in,” she said. “As a minimum, you need to have high scores and high grades.

Then everything else comes from subjective things, like if you have any hooks,” such as a particular talent or an interesting background, she explained.

The early admission rate this year was 18.3 percent, and the regular admission rate was 5.44 percent. Moreover, 1,395 applicants were placed on the wait list.

Hernandez said she predicts that the record-low admission rates of Ivy League institutions over the past several years will have bottomed out and will remain relatively stable for the foreseeable future. She said these low rates ref lect a growing number of applicants for a relatively constant class size.

However, Dave Berry, a senior advisor at College Confidential, said the rates might in fact rise in the next few years if the applicant pool shrinks.

“The number of applicants may indeed go down this coming year because

of the tremendous discouragement that [students] see with a five or seven percent admissions rate,” he said.

More reasonable acceptance rates, Hernandez said, would result if all the Ivies had early decision policies instead of the single-choice early action round that Princeton, Harvard and Yale offer.

“If it were really all about fairness, all the schools would have early decision and say that they’re only taking 25 or 30 percent of their class in the early round,” she said. “That way, people who really wanted to go to Princeton would apply to Princeton, people who want Harvard would apply to Harvard. Then they would be removed from the pool when they got in, and the regular decision would still have 70 percent of their spots open.”

She said that in her view, if rejected or deferred from single-choice early action, a large number of strong applicants would reduce their admission odds during regular decision because many early decision schools would have filled up much of their classes.

Admitted students will be able to visit the University during one of the two Princeton Previews, which will be held Thursday, April 11 to Saturday, April 13 and Monday, April 22 to Wednesday, April 24. They must then respond to the offer of admission by May 1.

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Students picked up free houseplants from the Botany Club Saturday afternoon on the Frist South Lawn. Students could choose between sunflower, basil, sensitive, and snake plants.

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however, and the Tigers were unable to continue their offensive momentum. They went just 7-for-35 in the game and left 12 men on base as junior pitcher Mike Fagan left after recording only three outs and allowing two runs. Freshman Cameron Mingo came in to pitch five innings in relief and gave up no earned runs, but three Bulldogs crossed the plate due to errors.

All in all, five Princeton pitchers combined to allow nine runs while the Tigers could score only once, when Ford was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the final frame.

The Tigers looked much more consistent on Sunday, and head coach Scott Bradley never had to go to the bullpen as they swept Brown, winning both games by a score of 3-1.

“We’ve definitely had a tough time finishing games this year ,but this weekend was good because it showed we can win

close games,” Keller said. “We always have known we have the talent to win a lot of games in the Ivy League, and our expectations have not changed.”

Ford pitched a complete game in the morning, allowing one run on five hits, while also scoring for the Tigers. Senior right fielder Steve Harrington started off the scoring with an RBI single in the first. After Ford scored on a wild pitch, the score remained 2-0 until the seventh, when Brown notched its first run. Keller then scored off a fielder’s choice to bring the margin back to two runs. Overall, Keller scored twice, went two for three at the plate and showed off his speed by taking two bases on a wild pitch.

Senior pitcher Kevin Link recorded the afternoon win, allowing just one run over a full nine innings in his first career complete game. Link showed remarkable control and endurance, although he walked four, and allowed only three hits.

Brown almost started a rally in the sixth, when Will Mar-

cal singled into left field with a runner on second and two outs, but senior left fielder Johnny Mishu got a good jump on the ball and made a perfect cut-off throw to sophomore shortstop Blake Thomsen. Thomsen then fired the ball to sophomore catcher Tyler Servais, who stood his ground as J.J. Franco slid into home and tagged him out to end the inning.

The Bears’ lone run came in Link’s only bad inning, when he recorded two walks and a hit batter. After a sacrifice fly, Link settled down and forced two more fly balls to get out of the jam.

Despite their strong performance, the Tigers are currently last in the Lou Gehrig Division of the Ivy League behind Cornell, Penn and Columbia, all of whom are undefeated. However, they are still fourth overall, as Yale leads the Red Rolfe Division with a 1-3 mark.

The Tigers will next be in action on Wednesday against Seton Hall in South Orange, N.J., at 3:30 p.m.

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“Throughout the game we see what the opponent is doing at every rotation,” Shweisky said. “They made a few changes and substitutions that changed the original pattern that they’d been doing, so we are constantly changing blocking patterns in response. These kids are really smart and great at making changes on the f ly.

It’s amazing what you can do tactically with Princeton kids.”

The home crowd provided a spark for the Tigers that helped them get out to an early lead. The stands in Dillon Gymnasium were completely packed, forcing people to stand around the perimeter. “It helps 1,000 percent,” Shweisky said. “It was the best home crowd we have had in my three years here.”

The Tigers left the game with some good news, however, as a Saint Francis loss to George Mason clinched a berth for the Tigers in the

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EIVA postseason tournament. The Tigers have their eyes on the EIVA championship, which would be the first for Princeton since 1998.

Their road to winning the league crown would probably

Championship trials in June. The team will then be back and training in the fall to try to win the Ivy League Championship for a sixth straight year.

“These kids are really smart ... It’s amazing what you can do tactically with Princeton kids.”

“More than anything, we’re just proud of the way our guys got up and raced.”

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go through Penn State, which has won the conference every year since 1981 except for Princeton’s lone 1998 victory.

Princeton’s upcoming games against Harvard and Sacred Heart on Friday and Saturday will be important in determining the Tigers’ seed in the conference championship tournament that will take place in late April.

“We just need to continue to be hungry, and we need to want to continue to improve,” Strand said. “We had a great team atmosphere this year, so we really need to continue that, we need to continue training hard. I feel like as long as we’re motivated to get the sixth one, then it’s not going to be as hard to get it as it would be if we weren’t motivated and just thought we could win it and not deserve to win it.”

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t’s the end of March, and this year, as usual, professors are sleepless in New Jersey.

Every morning for the last couple of weeks, I have risen from my comfortable bed at an even more ungodly hour than usual, padded to the kitchen in search of caffeine and then plunked myself in front of the computer to see what my seniors have sent me.

Most days, the catch is plentiful: One or more long chapters, packed with material, appear, attached to an email sent between 4 and 6 a.m. Sometimes the chapter actually comes in just after I start work for the day.

As the sun rises and the birds start to chirp, I click on “Track Changes” and set to work.

There’s a reason for all this activity. Bernard of Cluny explained it well, around AD 1140: “Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt: vigilemus.”

(The hour is late, the times are bad: Let us be on guard.) Or as my department website puts it, more prosaically: “Senior theses are due by 3

p.m. on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, in 128 Dickinson.”

This spring, as in the past, my seniors are completing a long march that began more than a year ago, with junior papers that opened up big topics and problems. Library and archive web pages were consulted. Requests for research funds went to the University and the department. And then they were on their way, to spend their summers gathering unique materials from archives — still vital for research even in the digital age.

Over the years, I have seen a lot. I have supervised seniors whose organizational abilities I deeply admire, but can’t emulate, and watched with admiration as they researched, wrote and revised their theses, week by week, never stopping and never hurrying, and completed work a week or two ahead of time. And I have supervised seniors whose organizational abilities resemble mine, and watched with concern as they worked intensively all year and still found themselves scrambling to assemble, interpret and polish all that wonderful material in the last week.

Seniors have written theses for me over a whole year and inside of a week — and sadly, for anyone who believes that the universe is just, some of the latter have been surprisingly lucid and elegant. Seniors discover amazing new material in Russia and Turkey, Brazil and Cuba; write up press coverage of the 2002 Olympics; explore documents that haven’t even been catalogued, much less published; and download a few sources that turn up on Google (as, back in the day, some wrote from the few sources that turned up in Princeton’s card catalogue).

There are stealth theses, in which modesty almost conceals that the student has found sources that the professional scholars missed or read them with insight that the professional scholars lacked; stunning theses, full of completely new information (for example, the very interesting history of the Princeton senior thesis in history that came in some years ago); and Potemkin Village theses, in which clever titles and elegant introductions don’t disguise the emptiness behind.

Sometimes the whole ritual reminds me of the long-abolished Nude Olympics. It’s distinctive: Colleagues at other schools rarely believe me when I tell them that every liberal arts student at Princeton writes a thesis — much less how long many of those theses are. It’s distracting: Many seniors, though not all, disappear from courses or attend them in body alone, holloweyed and silent, during the thesis crunch. And it suggests that Princeton is a very odd place, populated by obsessives of one sort or another.

Every year, I find myself wondering if the whole system makes sense. Some of our sister universities reserve the thesis for students who are seeking honors. Others allow all, or almost all, students to write theses, but set a very modest page limit. My own senior thesis at the University of Chicago wasn’t altogether terrible, though it was only 30 pages long. It contained a modest historical discovery drawn from Renaissance texts in Latin. And it left me wanting to read and write more — not a feeling shared by every senior I have worked with at Princeton.

Yet from the moment I arrived in New Jersey, I have enjoyed nothing more than watching a couple of seniors each year as they buckle on their bungee harnesses, waving as they jump and waiting for them to bounce back. It’s impressive to stand by as undergraduates undertake and complete massive and demanding projects. It’s rewarding to talk with them, week after week, through months of research and thinking and writing, which are different in every case, and through what my colleague Dan Rodgers calls “The Seven Terrors of the Thesis,” which are always the same (for example: “My thesis needs a thesis!”). And it’s fascinating to see what they’ve achieved, in February and March, when the chapters come in before daybreak.

Since I came to Princeton in 1975, almost everything seems to have changed. The carrels in Firestone, once crowded with seniors pounding away, have mostly gone dark. The piles of books that filled them have increasingly been replaced by digital sources. And the squads of professionals who once typed theses for the archive have given way to laptops and printers. But the journey remains: expensive, sometimes wasteful, always distinctive and its outcome happily impossible to predict.

Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History. He can be reached at grafton@ princeton.edu.

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s of thursday, 1,931 Princeton applicants received their acceptance letters and can officially be called “prefrosh.” The tables have turned, as the University must now convince these prefrosh to choose Princeton. An important aspect of this decision process takes place during the two Princeton Preview sessions, which, this year, will take place on April 11-13 and April 22-24. The purpose of Princeton Preview is to provide admitted students insight into campus life through interactions with current students, attending classes and getting a feel for the campus culture.

While at Preview, prefrosh are exposed to an array of social events that are, in many ways, not representative of a typical Princeton weekend. This disparity is primarily a product of the lack of exposure prefrosh receive to the eating clubs, which form an integral part of Princeton’s culture and social life.

Although the clubs are mentioned briefly on campus tours and prefrosh are permitted to tour certain clubs during the Preview sessions, these experiences fail to adequately capture the eating club experience. As such, the Board believes that the University, rather than shield students from the eating clubs, ought to take more proactive steps to enable prefrosh to learn about the eating club system.

Eating clubs, for better or for worse, are the center of Princeton’s social system. Denying Preview students a representative experience of the eating clubs is deceptive and perhaps unfair; admitted students may require this type of information in order to make an informed decision. Uncertainty or misinformation about the social aspects of Princeton may deter students from attending, and it may ultimately lead to an unhappier student body. The Board believes that students who choose to attend Princeton when fully informed about all of its idiosyncrasies are more likely to enjoy their time as students.

While the admission office has an interest in maximizing yield, it also has an interest in producing a class that will enjoy their time at Princeton. That latter goal is more easily accomplished if prefrosh leave Princeton Preview with a full understanding of our social life. While the University successfully informs students about the formal aspects of eating clubs by

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addressing such topics as cost and financial aid through information sessions at Preview, it fails to adequately introduce students to the more informal, social aspects of the clubs.

The Board recognizes that the administration has legitimate reasons for not promoting further access to the Street during Princeton Preview. In particular, we sympathize with the University’s concerns about alcohol consumption by prefrosh and the possibility that prospective students might negatively react to the exclusivity of certain clubs. Accordingly, the Board suggests that eating clubs remain open for Princeton Preview, under the condition that no alcohol is served. If offered alcohol-free social events at the eating clubs, prefrosh would be able to learn more about eating club culture without the University assuming the risk associated with consumption of alcohol by prefrosh. In addition, the University should consider sponsoring meals for admitted students at eating clubs.

Much like the current program that randomly assigns sophomores to meals at the eating clubs before Bicker, this program would enable prefrosh to learn more about the clubs. Because events for admitted students are sponsored by the residential colleges, this initiative would have the added benefit of promoting interaction between upperclassmen and prefrosh. The Board does not, however, believe that clubs should be compelled to host such events. Instead, we believe that it will be in the interest of certain clubs to host these events because it would increase interest in their club. We further believe that once a few clubs offer these events, a group dynamic will lead to an even greater number of clubs willing to participate — provided, of course, that the University encourages these events.

In her welcoming speech, Dean of Admission Rapelye tells accepted students that they cannot touch alcohol while on campus, or their applications will be rescinded. As long as it is made clear to students that they may not have any alcohol, going to the Street would be a positive, informative experience for these students. The University thus ought to work with the clubs to find additional means by which admitted students can visit the Street in an informative but safe fashion.

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istory is being made. I would say you would have to be living in a bubble to not know about the Supreme Court’s examinations of Prop. 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act. But even in a bubble like ours, it would be virtually impossible to not know at least something about what’s happening — you’ve either seen many friends’ Facebook profile pictures change to an equal sign, seen talks and coverage on the news in Frist or witnessed the ongoing cases through another form of media. An argument as central as same-sex marriage is pervasive even here because its outcome will so greatly affect the future for LGBTQ Princetonians and allies.

This fight represents many different things. For the LGBTQ community and its supporters, it is a milestone in the ongoing battle for civil rights. For many religious persons, it is a sign of how far man has strayed from the word of Christ.

But this fight also represents the turmoil of the groups of people who are daily integrating the two communities — those who are religious and queer or those who

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are religious and support queer rights.

Though I cannot speak for the former party, as a part of the latter group, I can say this stance is a battle all its own, as I have struggled to reconcile my spiritual and personal beliefs while, at times, facing criticism from other religious persons.

I am not always extremely vocal about my social stances, spiritual beliefs and any causal relationships between the two. I have found that when asked about my view on same-sex marriage by other religious people, a decent number of inquirers display either thinly veiled disappointment or blatant indignation.

The very brash go so far as to question my relationship with God. People who judge others’ faith in the name of selfrighteousness make it easier to dismiss them. It’s those who sincerely wonder how I can support same-sex marriage and be a practicing Christian that help to grow the seeds of confusion, doubt and selfreproach.

Because it’s not like I can lie to myself and say I only support same-sex marriage legally, since religious beliefs should not determine citizens’ civil rights where church and state are supposed to be — key word, “supposed” — separate. It would be simpler to have this view. But I

genuinely believe in the concept of samesex marriage, the idea that two people in love should be able to express that love in the highest form of legal unity, no matter their gender.

While the Bible does speak of how a man should not lie with another as he does a woman — the meaning of which is heavily debated among scholars — it does not speak on homosexual marriage. One may ascertain the former transcending the latter, as one of the essential purposes of marriage as defined by the Bible is to “be fruitful.” But I see marriage as more than sex or as a means of procreation. Like the Bible, I also see it as union in “steadfast love.”

Love is perhaps the most powerful force known to man. Two of my favorite verses about it are from 1 John and 1 Corinthians — the former, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God,” and the latter, “Three things will last forever — faith, hope and love — and the greatest of these is love.”

The former verse, for me, is the most powerful case for the support of any relationship where there is love. When you love someone, you know God. Why? Because the highest act of love was when

God let His only son die for our sins. God needs you to know love, any love, in order to know Him: the maternal love a mother has for her child, filial love between lifelong friends or romantic love two people, regardless of their gender, share. Love is everlasting — technicalities like the form of love and with whom love is shared are insignificant in the grand scheme of anyone’s life and relationship with God. Loving another person is one of the greatest expressions of God through man.

It precedes and transcends all. This may be why marriages in general have been failing — love has not been preceding it. While many would scoff at love being the only necessity for a marriage, as the Bible defines it, it is. Love is patient, kind.

It is not proud or envious. It endures. For those who argue marriage is essentially a partnership, I agree. And by love’s definition, its qualities are those found in the most prosperous partnerships.

With love comes understanding, truth and faith. The foundation of a successful marriage does not depend upon a special combination of X and Y genes. All you need is love.

Lea Trusty is a freshman from Saint Rose, La. She can be reached at ltrusty@princeton.edu.

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Response to “Advice for the young women of Princeton: the daughters I never had” Susan Patton is, of course, entitled to her opinion and to her priorities. And as a 1977 female alum, she was among Princeton’s gender pioneers.

But I regret that her rhetoric encourages current Princeton students toward a version of higher education that was

popular in the 1950s which assumed — to everyone’s detriment — that female students enrolled only to find husbands — that is, for an MRS degree.

Ms. Patton might have used her time with our students to urge them to practice the work-life balance that hounds so many of us — men and women — as we struggle to find a comfortable equilibrium between professions we love and friends and family we adore. That

dilemma formed the crux of the inspiring conversation between Wilson School professor Anne-Marie Slaughter and President Shirley Tilghman, which Ms. Patton attended but didn’t seem to fully hear.

Instead, Ms. Patton suggests Princeton women consider their four years of higher education as a competition ground for finding a husband. She assumes that all Princeton undergraduate

women want to marry men; that they want to marry at all; and that they don’t have different priorities for how to organize their professional and personal lives.

In 2013? What a shame not to imagine more choices for our spectacular students.

Jill Dolan Director, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Princeton chalked up most of its goals while on its unanswered streak, contributing to an interesting statistic in its history against Brown.

Since the 1964 season when the Tigers first faced the Bears, Princeton has now scored 15 goals only four times. Prior to 2013, the Tigers achieved the feat in 1975, 1996 and 2001.

Thanks to goals from a wide range of players and from at least one member of every class — from Ambler, Schreiber, senior captain and shortstick defensive middie Chris White, Froccaro, sophomore offensive middie Kip Orban, sophomore attack Mike MacDonald and breakout freshman offensive middie Jake Froccaro — the Tigers left the field at the end of the third with a seemingly insur-

mountable 10-2 lead.

Jake Froccaro went for more immediately at the start of the final frame, and his aggressiveness around the net led him to his first career three-goal game. His second goal came off a pass from his older brother 29 seconds into the final quarter.

But just when it looked like the game was out of reach, Brown came back with a vengeance. After 38 minutes and 18 seconds of getting absolutely nothing past freshman goalie Matt O’Connor, one of 11 freshmen in the top 50 NCAA goalies according to save percentage, Brown’s Bailey Tillis led a forceful counterassault against the Tigers less than two minutes into the final 15. Two shots went past O’Connor in the span of 10 seconds, and, frighteningly for Princeton, a short time later three went past him in just 31 seconds.

Still, Brown narrowed its deficit to no less than five, doing so twice, but failed to reach the Tigers’ lead. The two teams gave the fans plenty of entertainment in the fourth quarter, scoring a combined 11 after putting a combined 12 into the nets throughout the first three quarters. Brown gave Princeton its best effort, taking 17 shots on O’Connor in the last 15 minutes while only taking 14 on him throughout the first 45. O’Connor has made 67 saves in his 402 minutes in the cage this season, lending him a save percentage of .519.

After a display of depth from attack to goal, from the freshman class to the senior class, the Tigers head into the final five games of the regular season with two top-10 opponents left on their schedule.

They will host No. 9 Syracuse in the first of those games Saturday at 5 p.m.

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attack was scoring when the ball got to our end, but we had a few turnovers in transition and short possessions on the attack end.”

Coming out of the locker room, Princeton dominated the second half on both ends of the field. Defensively, the Tigers held the Big Red attack scoreless for over 22 minutes after the final goal of the first half as they went on a five-goal streak. Junior attacker Mary-Kate Sivilli set up McMunn for her second goal of the afternoon, and Slifer netted her second on a successful free position shot one minute later. McMunn assisted senior attacker Jaci Gassaway on back-to-back goals.

Davis scored the final goal for Princeton at 12:18 to put the Tigers ahead 12-8. Cornell finally broke through the Princeton defense and snuck two shots past junior goalie Caroline Franke to narrow the margin to 12-10 with over nine minutes left to play.

“We really took care of the ball in the second half, and that gave us those possessions that we needed to go

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on our run,” McMunn said.

“We were winning draws, defense was making huge stops, and attack was having long scoring possessions.

We had a lot of fun with the way we played in the second half. We stepped up our game from one end of the field to another, made the changes we needed to make at halftime and came away with a great team win.”

After a timeout, the Tigers took their time working the ball around on offense and made sure to maintain possession, knocking four minutes off the clock. Though Cornell had a few more opportunities, big plays by the Tigers prevented them from finishing their comeback.

Franke stopped a free position shot at 8:40, and junior defender Colleen Smith drew a penalty with less than a minute to go.

Franke matched her career high in goal, tallying nine saves for the Tigers.

“She had so many big saves for us yesterday that were absolutely game-changers,” McMunn said about Franke.

“We have so much confidence in her, and she has just absolutely shown up to play every game. She plays with composure and confidence, and it rubs off on the people

around her. She puts in so much extra work, and it’s really paying off for her.”

Cornell had the edge in shots, 24-22, and in ground balls, 19-14, but Princeton had the advantage on the center circle, pulling down 14 of the 24 draws. Lloyd and Smith each grabbed four draws to help their team earn possession.

Looking to add a second road win to its record and maintain its position atop the Ivy League, Princeton will travel to Yale on Saturday for its fourth conference game of the season. The Bulldogs (6-4, 0-3) have yet to win an Ivy League game this year, with losses to Dartmouth, Penn and Harvard.

Last year, the Tigers topped Yale 12-4.

“These wins have been huge for our confidence,” McMunn said. “We know that there are still a lot of ways that we can get better, but we’re proud to see all of the extra work and extra time that we’re putting in start to pay off. We’re working to get better everyday, and I think that resolve is going to be even stronger now that we’re seeing it start to pay off. Our team is in a really good place right now, and we’re going to run with it.”

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Tigers go 3-1 to start Ivy play

By Beth Garcia senior writer

By Hillary Dodyk staff writer

The baseball team began Ivy League play at home this weekend, splitting Saturday’s doubleheader with Yale and taking both games against Brown on Sunday. A trio of pitchers went the distance for the Tigers (517 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) in their first home games of the season.

Saturday started out well for the Tigers as senior pitcher Zak Hermans pitched all seven innings, recording five strikeouts and allowing only three hits in a 4-0 shutout.

Junior center fielder Alec Keller had a strong day at the plate, leading off with a home run to left field in the first Princeton at-bat of the 2013 Ivy League season. It would be the first of two runs for him in game one. Freshman second baseman Danny Hoy and junior first baseman Mike Ford also added a run apiece in the victory.

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Sophomore catcher Tyler Servais tagged out J.J. Franco at the plate to kill a rally in a 3-1 win over Brown.

The women’s lacrosse team stunned No. 11 Cornell on Saturday, winning its first road game of the year and staying perfect in the Ivy League as it defeated a top-20 opponent for the second time this season. The Tigers (6-3 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) extended their win streak to three games and remain undefeated in conference play, tied in first place with Dartmouth and Penn.

Despite trailing 8-7 at halfPRINCETON 12 time, the CORNELL 10 Tigers rallied and came out strong in the second half, scoring five unanswered goals and holding Cornell (6-3, 2-2) scoreless for almost 20 minutes.

“We’re incredibly proud of the way we played on Saturday,” sophomore attacker Erin McMunn said. “We really just wanted to focus on playing with intensity and poise at the same time. We knew Cornell was a very good team and that they would scrap the whole game,

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and we knew we needed to match that fight. I think we absolutely brought that on Saturday. We played with composed intensity and really just loved being on the field together.”

The Big Red opened the game with two goals in the first four minutes of play, but Princeton soon answered back to even the score. Freshman attacker Alex Bruno finished the first goal and assisted McMunn on the second. The teams traded goals for the remainder of the half and kept the game close, neither getting ahead by more than two points. Bruno, senior midfielder Charlotte Davis, junior midfielder Sarah Lloyd, sophomore midfielder Erin Slifer and senior attacker Sam Ellis each added an unassisted goal for the Tigers.

At the end of the first thirty minutes of play, Cornell held a one-goal advantage, 8-7.

“At halftime, we really just put a focus on taking care of the ball,” McMunn said. “Our defense was making huge stops, and the See W. LAX page 7

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Princeton falls short against No. 13 Penn State in Dillon Offense shines in

By Jay Dessy staff writer

After taking the first set 25-20, the men’s volleyball team kept the pressure on Penn State in the second as they pulled ahead to a 16-11 lead. The Tigers had good ball movement, strong defense and consistent serving that controlled the tempo of the game. Behind an energetic home crowd in Dillon Gymnasium, Princeton seemed poised to upset the 13th-ranked Nittany Lions. However, the upset attempt ultimately fell short.

It was the middle of the second set when the momentum began to shift in favor of Penn State (17-6 overall, 11-1 EIVA). The Nittany Lions put together a stretch in which they won six of eight points and grabbed the lead on one of sophomore middle hitter Aaron Russell’s 18 kills at 2221. They would take the set 25-23 to even the score at one apiece.

Princeton (10-7, 8-3) would never fully recover from the swing in the second set. While they hung tight with the Nittany Lions in the beginning of both the third and fourth sets, the Tigers ultimately came up short, 25-18 and 25-20.

“They turned up their service pressure,” head coach Sam Shweisky said. “They did a really nice job serving much more consistently and strongly than they had been in sets three and four, and we didn’t respond quite as well as I would have hoped with our reception. A lot of the game is about serving and passing. In sets one and two, I feel that we served well and passed well.”

Princeton was led by junior outside hitter Pat Shwagler, who finished with 16 kills. Shwagler also dominated on his service, thanks to a powerful serve with a lot of spin. Sophomore outside hitter and reigning EIVA Newcomer of the Year Cody Kessel, who was playing in just his second game since returning from an injury, added nine kills and six digs of his own. Senior middle blocker Michael Dye added six kills and four blocks as well.

While the Tigers came up short on Friday, their success has come in their ability to adjust their game plan for each opponent. They use a lot of statistical analysis in preparation for and during the game that allows them to focus on the weaknesses of the other team.

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By Ali Goedecke senior writer

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Princeton fell 3-1 in front of a capacity crowd at Dillon Gymnasium.

The No. 8 men’s lacrosse team topped No. 19 Brown in dramatic fashion Saturday. The Tigers (6-2 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) had a comfortable 15-8 lead by the end of the game, but not without unfavorable PRINCETON 15 numbers on the scoreboard in the first frame and a scare in BROWN 8 the final quarter.

Freshman attack Ryan Ambler kicked off a streak of nine unanswered goals against Brown (5-3, 1-1) in the middle 38 minutes. Ambler, one of several freshmen who has answered early-season questions regarding Princeton’s depth and youth, sits fourth in the points column so far, having notched 10 goals and 12 assists for a combined 22 points.

The duo of senior attack Jeff Froccaro and junior offensive midfielder Tom Schreiber posted numbers in just about every stats column. Schreiber’s first of two goals also helped the Tigers recover from a 2-1 deficit in the opening minutes. He tied the score at 2-2 with 5:48 remaining in the first quarter, though the goal resulted from a pass that every teammate in Schreiber’s vicinity missed rather than a shot on goal. Fortunately for the Tigers, the ball bounced past Brown’s goalie, bringing about a significant change in the game’s dynamic.

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Young team gains experience at NCAA championships, places 6 in top 30

By Anna Mazarakis

best recruiting class in the country, and the class of 2016 was the fifth best.

“Our freshman and sophomores kind of carried the team for us at Ivies, too. They were our largest point scorers there, so it was kind of the natural team we could make for NCAAs,” Dalton said.

The Tigers competed in eight events over the course of the championships, including three on Thursday, three on Friday and two on Saturday.

On Thursday, Sanborn finished 60th in the 200-yard individual medley in 1:48.69, and Wagner placed 30th overall in the 50 freestyle with a time of 19.82. Sanborn, Wagner, Strand and D’Alessandro competed together in the 400 medley relay and timed in at 3:14.43, an Ivy League

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The men’s swimming team left the three-day NCAA Championship Saturday without scoring any points but ready to get to work to make it back next year.

The Tigers (6-2 overall, 5-2 Ivy League) sent a young squad to Indianapolis that included sophomores Connor Maher, Michael Strand and Harrison Wagner and freshmen Byron Sanborn, Sandy Bole and Teo D’Alessandro.

Assistant coach Mitch Dalton noted that the young NCAA team is a result of very strong recruiting classes — the class of 2015 was the 13th

best at 27th.

The relay team was back on Friday for the 200 medley relay and was able to finish 25th overall with a time of 1:28.13. Bole and Maher then joined Sanborn and D’Alessandro for the 800 free relay, in which they placed 25th at with a time of 6:29.89.

Sanborn also competed in the 100 breaststroke in 54.60, finishing 39th.

Saturday saw Sanborn add to his three top30 finishes of the championship, finishing 27th in the 200 breast with a time of 1:57.59. Bole, D’Alessandro, Maher and Wagner then teamed up to clock in at 2:55.83 for the 400 free relay, placing 23rd overall.

Though Princeton was not able to make it back

WEEKEND SCOREBOARD After no home games were played over spring break, several Princeton teams hosted competition this weekend:

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to any of the evening finals, the team finished in the top 30 in six of its events.

“More than anything, we’re just really proud of the way our guys got up and raced the fastest people in the country and also in the world,” Dalton said. “To have our young guys really get up there, gain some experience, it’s all we could ask for. They really put it on the line and gave it everything they had, and it’ll be good for us down the road.”

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