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April 2, 1969 The University’s Office of Admission prepares dual coed application replies for the first women to be admitted.

On the Blog Shannon McGue photographs the effort that goes into making a nontraditional senior thesis: a historical opera.

On the Blog Rachel Klebanov compiles an inspirational mid-semester playlist filled with upbeat songs.

News & Notes Harvard Committee on Academic Integrity proposed Honor Code

harvard college committee has proposed a five-point honor code and the creation of a Student-Faculty Judicial Board that would become the sole body to handle academic dishonesty cases, The Harvard Crimson reported.

For the first time in Harvard’s history, the board would give students a role in adjudicating cases of academic dishonesty.

The proposal, which was scheduled to be delivered formally to Harvard faculty on Tuesday, was drafted by the Committee on Academic Integrity, a body created in fall 2010 that includes students, faculty and administrators.

The announcement comes eight months after news broke of a cheating scandal in which roughly 125 students in the government department’s “Introduction to Congress” course were accused of inappropriately collaborating on the course’s take-home final exam.

Harvard’s existing Student-Faculty Judicial Board has heard just one case since its inception in 1987.

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Susan Patton ’77 in a photo that was taken in April 1977. Patton’s advice to young women has received international attention.

Letter from alumna receives national attention

By Anna Mazarakis and Ronan O’Brien staff writer and contributor

Susan Patton ’77 made international headlines over the weekend in response to the letter she wrote to the editor of The Daily Princetonian, published on Friday.

The letter encouraged female Princeton students to find a husband at the University before graduation, stating that they would never again be surrounded by such a concentration of intellectually stimulating men.

The letter received immediate attention from students, alumni and the blogosphere, receiving an estimated 2,000 views on The Daily Princetonian’s website before the site became unavailable Friday afternoon. It also received about 1,000 views on the ‘Prince’s’ temporary website. The letter was republished by a number of national news outlets and blogs, including The Huffington Post, ABC, CNN and Jezebel.

Patton told the ‘Prince’ in an interview that she wrote the letter because she wanted

to diversify the current advice being given to women at Princeton and other universities, which she said is geared only toward professional aspirations and development.

“The truth of the matter is, work-life balance means it’s not just work,” Patton said.

“All I’m saying is to look around now because if you invest the first 10 years after college doing nothing but developing your career, you find yourself in your early 30s with a wonderful career and nothing to balance it with.”

The issue of work-life balance, which attracted international attention after Wilson School professor Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 published an article in The Atlantic last summer titled, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” was discussed on campus during a public conversation between Slaughter and University President Shirley Tilghman on women’s leadership in February.

“Princeton is an educational institution. It’s not a marriage bureau,” Tilghman told the ‘Prince.’ “The purpose of See MARRIAGE page 2

The Office of Information Technology has launched an investigation into the origins of what Housing and Real Estate Services has referred to as a “fraudulent email” that was sent to the student body on the morning of April 1 posing as an official communication from Housing and Real Estate Services.

The email falsely stated that all residential college and upperclassman housing room draw assignments would be reassigned because several room draw groups had received incorrect point values. The sender has not been identified yet.

Housing and Real Estate Services and OIT confirmed that the email was fraudulent in announcements on the

Housing and Real Estate Services and OIT websites and in an email sent by Lisa DePaul, Associate Director of Student Housing, to the student body at 11:15 a.m.

OIT has not set a deadline for the investigation and has not yet reported any findings, including the identity of the email’s sender, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

“This is an ongoing process, and therefore, there are no updates to report at this time,” Mbugua said. However, he said that the email was sent from a server outside the University.

The email was sent from opshusg@princeton.edu via the online mail server SendGrid instead of Housing and Real Estate Services’ real email account, ushsg@princeton. edu. SendGrid is a server that

can be used to deliver mass emails on behalf of a company. Because of SendGrid’s cap on the number of emails a user can send in one day, the fraudulent emails were sent in multiple batches from the early morning to the early afternoon.

Mbugua said that no actions or disciplinary consequences will be considered until after the investigation has concluded. He said that disciplinary consequences were “not unlikely” but that he could not speculate about such consequences or the outcome of OIT’s investigation at this time.

Will Harrel ’13 responded to the incident with his own April Fool’s joke, posting a Facebook status at 5:14 p.m. claiming that he had sent See JOKE page 5

{Presidential Search}

Chair of the Board, Hall ’80: Comfortable in her own skin

By Patience Haggin news editor

One of the most influential individuals involved in choosing the next University president, Katie Hall ’80, the chair of the board of trustees and the chair of the presidential search committee, is the chief executive officer of an asset management company that is worth more than the University’s endowment.

Her company, San Francisco-based Hall Capital Partners, has assets under management of around $22 billion. Meanwhile, Hall sits at the head of the board of a university which manages an additional $17 billion.

Hall, who graduated cum laude in the economics department, is potentially the single most important person in the impending presidential selection, which is expected to come to a close this spring. She declined to comment on the search for this article.

A manager of the family assets and foundation endowments, she has never managed University funds through Hall Capital, sources said, although she was involved with the Princeton University Investment Com-

KATIE HALL Chair of U. Board of Trustees

pany (PRINCO) from 1998 to 2011, the last three years as chairwoman.

She became a trustee in 2002 and the chair of the board of trustees in 2011.

According to over a dozen interviews with friends, professors and colleagues, Hall was a fun and social student at the University. A member of the Cap & Gown Club, she most recently donated a taproom together with her longtime friend Bill Powers ’79. In addition, she has six piercings in each ear, as well as several tattoos, her friends said. She was a supporter of the Obama campaign, donor records show, and she drives a gray Honda hybrid, according to the San Franciso Business Times.

As a student, both studious and social Hall, who is one of eight children, grew up in Rye, N.Y. and entered the University

as a prospective electrical engineer in 1976. There, she swung between disciplines.

After deciding that engineering wasn’t for her, she said she considered studying English but ultimately settled on the math track within the economics department because she loved problemsolving.

At the University, Hall was a part of a tight-knit circle of friends whose core members lived together in the same draw group for three years.

In her senior year, she lived in a draw group of eight that had a cluster of rooms in Dod Hall.

“She could honestly go from being very serious and insightful about something to being very silly,” Lisa Townsend Raber ’80, one of Hall’s former roommates and close college friends, said.

The two met only a few weeks into their freshman year while they were both studying on the C floor of Firestone Library. According to Townsend Raber, they were both “hiding away” from the distractions of socializing because they were both “very, very social people.” They became friends, working for Business Today, See INVEST page 4

STUDENT LIFE

Interclub Council releases survey about eating club admissions

By Seth Merkin Morokoff contributor

The Interclub Council released a survey via email on March 25 designed to collect feedback from sophomores who registered to participate in the eating club admissions process this year based on their experiences joining a club or using the updated ICC website.“We’re

always looking to explore ways to improve the club admissions process, and an important part of that effort is getting the feedback of people who participated,” ICC president Connor Clegg ’14 explained. “That was the main idea behind releasing the survey.”

The survey includes 11 multiple-choice questions with additional space for

participants to submit comments in addition to their responses and a final prompt encouraging students to offer any suggestions that might guide the ICC in improving the eating club admissions process.

The questions ask students to rank how easily they navigated the new eating club admissions web-

site, what additional information about the clubs they would have found useful at the time of application, why they might have chosen to abstain from the new multiclub Bicker process and whether students would feel more compelled to participate in multi-club Bicker if the process allowed them to bicker more than two eating clubs.

According to Clegg, the ICC had no specific reforms in mind when they developed the survey and said that any discussion of changes would prove premature before the ICC understood how the sophomores who were directly involved in this year’s eating club selection felt about the process.

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

Faculty vote to approve changes to Thanksgiving break, fall semester

By Hannah Schoen contributor

Thanksgiving break will begin on the day before Thanksgiving starting this fall, after a unanimous vote by the faculty at a University faculty meeting on Monday.

As a result, the fall 2013 se-

mester will now begin on the second Wednesday of September, rather than the second Thursday of September.

The changes to the calendar come after University President Shirley Tilghman asked Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin and Dean of the College Valerie Smith to

engage students in conversation about the academic calendar last semester. According to a March 3 memo sent by Dobkin and Smith to the Faculty Advisory Committee on Policy, Tilghman proposed to gauge student interest in canceling class on the Wednesday before

Thanksgiving break through student focus groups after 83 percent of respondents to the USG’s Academic Life Total Assessment survey for the 2011-12 academic year indicated that they supported the idea.

In the memo, Dobkin and Smith said they reviewed

the findings of the 14 focus groups, which conducted their reviews in November and December. They concluded that students strongly supported adding a Wednesday to Thanksgiving break and making up the lost day by starting the fall 2013 seSee CALENDAR page 3

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a Princeton education is not to find a spouse; the purpose is to prepare yourself for a meaningful life. While it is the case that there are lucky individuals who find their life partner very early in life, I think, in general, the likelihood that you are the ages of 18 to 22, ready to make that decision, seems extremely unlikely to me, for most people.

There are exceptions, and we celebrate those exceptions.”

University alumni have also expressed their views on Patton’s letter. Lisa Belkin ’82, a senior writer at The Huffington Post, was highly critical of the letter as a guest on the CBS show “This Morning.”

“If you do happen to meet your soulmate in college, wonderful,” Belkin said on the show. “That’s wonderful.

But to say this is a test and here’s the finish line, and if you haven’t done it by the time you’re a senior, somehow you’ve ruined your life, I mean what kind of advice to the daughter I never had is that?”

Patton, however, said that Belkin missed the substance of her advice.

“I’m certainly not saying that if you don’t find a husband during your undergraduate years that you somehow have failed — clearly not.

I’m not saying anything like that,” Patton said in response to Belkin’s television appearance. “We obviously see this differently, and that’s OK. One of the things the women’s movement has afforded us is the empowerment to voice our opinions and make choices, even if those choices, to some, seem retrogressive. I don’t see that there’s anything retrogressive about the desire to have children and be married, but Lisa Belkin seemed to think it was something 1950s about my advice.”

Slaughter, whose February dialogue with Tilghman was referenced by Patton in the letter, said she thought Patton’s thinking was behind the times.

“I think that this takes us firmly backwards,” Slaughter said. “The idea that you go to college to find a husband is something the women’s movement escaped long ago,”.

Belkin said that between the work of Slaughter, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, the women’s movement is facing a potentially pivotal moment for work-life change.

Director of the Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies Jill Dolan said public discourse should focus more on the issues that came up in Slaughter and Tilghman’s conversation rather than the contents of Patton’s letter.

“What I think is unfortu-

nate about the whole thing is that the Slaughter-Tilghman conversation was actually really wonderful … for Susan Patton to reduce it to ‘You should be at Princeton to find a husband’ just seems to me really to throw the whole conversation onto a tangent,” Dolan said.

Former Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel, who is currently writing a book on the history of coeducation at Princeton, said she found Patton’s words surprising.

“I was perplexed that an alumna would choose to write in this fashion in 2013. It reminded me of the way people were thinking and speaking a half century ago,” Malkiel said. “My generation in college in the 60s was being told, ‘Not so fast; take advantage of the educational opportunities, grow up, turn into a mature, fully-formed human being. Marriage and family will come if you want them, but there’s a lot more to going to college than finding a mate.’”

Mary Gilstad ’15 said that she was not impressed by the national response condemning Patton.

“I see the article as the valid opinions of a recently divorced woman who did not get the intellectual stimulus she needed from her relationship and now wants to tell younger girls that they should not make the same mistake she did,” Gilstad explained.

She said she knew of other women who shared the sentiment and suggested that Patton might mean to advise female students to develop personal relationships with their peers to maintain their dating prospects in the future, when both parties are

ready for marriage.

“In other words, finding a husband at Princeton does not mean marrying him at 22,” Gilstad explained. “It means finding men you like and want to stay in touch with so that when you are ready for marriage, you already have a circle of friends you are still in contact with and who are more likely to share your love of and aptitude for learning and engaging with the world on a high intellectual level.”

Wardah Bari ’16 said she saw Patton’s advice as elitist above everything else.

“I don’t think the Princeton name automatically makes people here better than anyone else,” Bari said. “Intelligence is a lot more than just having a degree from a namebrand school. Personally, I would want to marry someone who is not only intelligent, but also somebody I can relate to and have silly conversations — someone funny and witty.”

Tilghman also noted elitism in the letter’s problematic conclusions.

“I also find it difficult to absorb the elitist overtones of that letter, which appear to suggest that there are no people out there in the world who are smarter than Princeton graduates, and that you’d better strike while the iron’s hot and while you’re surrounded by lots of very smart people,” she said. “All of those views strike me as throwbacks to an era that I thought was well behind us.”

Most students, both male and female, are so heavily invested in their classes and extracurricular commitments that they don’t often plan for their personal life after grad-

uation, according to Bari.

“I don’t think she necessarily understands that so many people on campus aren’t considering marriage or longterm relationships at this stage in their lives,” she said. “Most people here have so much going on that it’s really hard to even think about finding someone to settle down with.”

But Belkin said she doesn’t necessarily think that students have lost track of any romantic desires.

“The most important choice you make in your life is who you are going to spend that life with,” Belkin said. “It’s not unimportant and, yes, you shouldn’t lose track of that fact in the march toward professional glory. But I don’t think any [Princeton students] lost track of that fact …

I don’t think anyone at Princeton has forgotten that they would like to be in love.”

Patton’s letter also argued that female students should start looking for husbands earlier since they lose a class of potential mates every year, alluding to the fact that women cannot date younger men.

Namkyu Oh ’16 said that he thought Patton’s claim that women would ultimately marry older men was legitimate but noted that he had never consciously chosen not to date an older woman.

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with guys dating women who are older than them,” Oh explained.

“But because there’s a norm that women aren’t usually the older ones in relationships, it sets up this dynamic that men don’t hang out with women who are older than them, making it hard to date them in general.”

Though the article has elicited negative public reactions — including claims that Patton’s letter is anti-feminist and retrogressive — Patton said she has also privately received positive feedback.

“I have been warmed by the number of letters I’ve gotten from women who are on campus and women who are on other campuses saying it’s exactly what they’ve always thought, but it’s so politically unpopular to say such a thing that they haven’t been having the conversation, but now they are,” she said.

“I’ve also gotten so many letters from parents saying that this is precisely the conversation they wanted to have with their own daughters and didn’t even know how to begin; they didn’t even know how to broach the topic.”

Instead of focusing on the idea of Princeton women finding a husband, Dolan said she wishes that Patton “had made other suggestions about how Princeton students, in general, can see themselves as part of a larger social framework.”

Regardless of the reactions on both sides, Patton said she is not swayed.

“The response doesn’t change my thinking; it doesn’t change my opinion,” she said.

“This is, again, advice, and the nature of all advice is take it, don’t take it.”

Patton, who is an executive coach and human resource consultant, said she gives advice professionally. In the future, she said she would like to have a radio talk show to continue to give advice to a larger audience.

Contributor Seth Merkin Morokoff contributed reporting.

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mester one day earlier.

At the meeting, which lasted about 10 minutes, Tilghman invited Dobkin to explain the proposed changes to the calendar brief ly.

In response to a faculty member’s question about how the proposed changes could affect freshmen, Smith said that the University would make the necessary adjustments to the preorientation and orientation schedules.

The changes to the academic calendar will allow students to attend classes that meet on Wednesday during the first week of the fall semester and will afford an extra day for Thanksgiving travel.

According to the USG’s Thanksgiving Focus Groups Report, students participating in the focus groups unanimously supported changing the first day of class and having Thanksgiving break begin on the Wednesday before. The report also found that students believe the calendar changes would result in a “more uniform policy” on class meetings. Previously, some faculty have taught on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, while others have canceled or rescheduled class.

Though the Faculty Advisory Committee on Policy originally considered eliminating fall break in favor of a week-long Thanksgiving break, the USG report stated that the focus groups under its purview found students

value fall break, both as a way to travel and engage in extracurricular activities as well as to relax and catch up on work after the stress of midterms.

The faculty also made nominations of members to various committees, who will be elected through electronic ballot to serve beginning in the fall.

Four professors were nominated to the Committee on Conference and Faculty Appeal, which investigates faculty members accused of violating University policy.

The nominees are civil and environmental engineering professor Catherine Peters, economics professor Harvey Rosen, assistant physics professor Thomas Gregor and assistant English professor Russell Leo.

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attending football games and Cap parties together, as well as living together for three years. “[She] used to like to walk home in her socks, even if it was wet out,” Kathy Button Bell ’80, another of Hall’s roommates explained. Button Bell described Hall as a fun, sociable roommate who was “game for anything, fearless.”

Hall joined Cap and eventually became the club’s treasurer. She has continued to be involved with Cap, most recently funding their new and expanded taproom together with Powers as part of a multi-year capital campaign that has renovated and expanded the clubhouse.

Described as a “generous donor” by the current chairman of the Cap Graduate Board, Tom Fleming ’69, Hall returned to campus the weekend of the bonfire to attend the celebration of the end of the club’s fundraising campaign.

As a freshman, Hall also became involved with the publication Business Today, first joining the advertising team. Though she initially joined the organization as a way to earn money, she became increasingly involved in the magazine’s editorial and management sides in later

years. At the time, she did not see the publication as a preparation for a career in business.

Her senior thesis, titled, “Future Markets: a Study of Treasury Bill Futures,” was advised by economics professor emeritus Richard Quandt. He described Hall as a “terrific student” in the mathematical track of his department.

“[She] used to like to walk home in her socks, even if it was wet out.” kathy button bell ’80, hall’s former roommate

In the acknowledgements page of her thesis, she thanked her roommates for their support.

From Morgan Stanley to her own “as flat as possible” firm After graduating, Hall took a job in mergers and acquisitions with Morgan Stanley in New York. She also helped

recruit Princeton students for the company, according to ads published in The Daily Princetonian in the early 1980s.

She then earned an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business, graduating in 1984, according to her company biography. She returned to Morgan Stanley for two years working in the risk arbitrage and mergers and acquisitions departments before becoming a partner at the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, then at Laurel Arbitrage Partners. Hall then served as chairman of the board, cochief executive officer and chief investment officer of Offit Hall Capital Management.

While not intending to found her own company, Hall said that at one point she began managing the assets of a single family. When other families also became interested in her services, Hall eventually turned her asset management services into her own business in 1994.

“She really got involved with them on their side of the table, trying to help them work through a number of issues surrounding their great wealth,” Rick Grand-Jean, a senior adviser at Hall Capital, said. He emphasized how closely Hall worked with her clients, even acting as their “out-sourced [Chief Investment Officer].”

Her clients now include a large number of wealthy families, along with the endowments of educational institutions and foundations. Hall Capital, which today has 135 employees, is two-thirds employee-owned and one-third owned by individuals, GrandJean said.

Despite the focus on endowments, sources within the firm said Hall Capital has never managed the money of an organization that Hall did philanthropic work for, such as the University.

“We’ve really tried to have an organization that is as flat as possible,” Hall said. “It can’t be completely flat. But it is rooted in the viewpoint that every job is an important job and deserves respect.”

Hall explained that her firm works to promote the feeling of equality among its employees as a reaction against the harsh culture of the financial services business in general.

John Fisher ’83, a member of the board of Hall Capital Partners and the president of investment and management office Pisces, Inc., described Hall as someone able to understand and appreciate creative concerns.

He gave the example of a large investment that Hall Capital Partners recently made in an equestrian apparel company called Aries. Hall originally became attracted to the firm because she appreciated the product and the creativity of the firm’s executives, he said.

“You’re looking at boots or clothing, and you either love or you don’t. It is a very personal, creatively driven busi-

ness,” Fisher explained. “Fundamentally, she looked at the business and said, ‘I like this business. I like the people.’

Even before she looked at the numbers, she had reached a conclusion about it being a high-quality business and a high-quality product.”

Hall, a well-respected figure in the finance industry, was profiled in Top Hedge Fund Investors: Stories, Strategies, and Advice, a 2010 book about leaders in the hedge fund industry.

Cathleen Rittereiser, who coauthored the book and wrote a profile of Hall, called her “one of the most well-known, well-regarded pioneering women in the hedge fund industry.”

“We’ve really tried to have an organization that is as flat as possible.” kathryn hall ’80,

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A member of the board Hall joined the University’s Board of Trustees in 2002 and became its chair in 2011.

According to former trustee and PRINCO head, Steve Oxman ’67, they were both “tapped” the same year by a trustee development committee that seeks out alumni with the appropriate experience to make them potential trustee candidates.

This committee initially nominates between 10 and 15 candidates and then narrows the selection down to the number of new trustees needed, Oxman said. The final nominees are voted on by the full board.

Oxman described the role of board as one of “noses in, fingers out” where trustees have to avoid encroaching on the administration’s role or overstepping their authority.

“One important factor is truly understanding the difference between governance on one hand and management on the other,” Oxman said. He added that Hall really understands this principle.

Hall was chairwoman of PRINCO at the time of the 2008 recession.

“It was a very, very stressful time, and Katie deserves a lot of credit for just keeping all of us on the PRINCO board kind of focused on the task and dealing with one step at a time,” PRINCO president Andrew Golden said.

Since becoming chair of the board, Hall has estimated that the University takes up about 20 to 25 percent of her time and even more over the past few months due to the presidential search.

As chair of the board, she emphasized the importance of maintaining the Universi-

ty’s commitment to its tradition of liberal arts education, particularly at a time when its tradition is under criticism in the political arena.

“I think that we can and should provide the leadership to continue to model both the success and importance of that kind of education,” Hall said. “Education is one of the great sources of social mobility in our country.” She cited the University’s financial aid resources and its ongoing efforts to strengthen its commitment to diversity as things that make her “excited and proud” to serve the University, although research funding remains a challenge.

In addition, Hall said she saw this year’s new multiclub Bicker practice as a major improvement to the clubs’ selection processes.

“I was really proud that Cap was one of the clubs that embraced that early on,” Hall said.

Recruiting the new president Hall declined to comment on the ongoing search process, saying only that her team is working to choose the best leader for the University.

The committee is expected to announce their pick in the next coming weeks, at some point this spring.

Friends described Hall’s recruiting skills.

“She knows what Princeton needs,” Quandt, the thesis adviser, said, noting that Hall is familiar with the academic needs of the faculty. “She knows what the institution needs.”

Fleming recalled observing Hall’s ability to take input at a forum where 60 to 70 alumni

“One important factor is truly understanding the difference between governance on one hand and management on the other.” stephen oxman ’67, former u. trustee

discussed the presidential search this past fall.

“Everybody realized that we weren’t going to find a clone for Tilghman, but there sort of was a lot of positive comments about President Tilghman,” Fleming said of the alumni meeting. He said Hall showed her characteristic talent for listening to and accepting feedback.

“She definitely listened,” he added. “Her response, while being non-committal, was kind of right on the money.”

Fisher echoed this ability of Hall’s to consider input from many different sources

in the process of making a decision, often seeking out views that contradict her own or playing devil’s advocate herself.

Even more importantly, he said, she is unafraid to voice her opinions.

“She’s not going to bullshit me,” Fisher said. “I always know that when I’m with Katie, I’m going to hear it straight.”

Hall praised Tilghman for her strategic thinking and communication skills, as well as her “understanding and empathy both for and of many different groups within the University.”

“I always know that when I’m with Katie, I’m going to hear it straight.” john fisher ’83,

hall capital partners trustee

A CEO with piercings and tattoos Hall has four children with her husband of 25 years. Her wedding featured a battle of the bands competition, her former roommate Bell, who also described her as the “ultimate hostess,” said.

“I think she’s very comfortable in her own skin,” fellow Cap member Shelley deButts ’80. “She inspired me to get a tattoo.”

Hall has a number of tattoos and piercings but declined to offer any details about them.

“She does have a lot of piercings in her ear,” deButts explained. “But she also has a lot of tattoos, which she started to get with a friend of hers when she turned 40.”

In her spare time, Hall is an avid reader of fiction, with self-described tastes “from Marquez to Game of Thrones.”

She said she recently enjoyed the science-fiction novel Replay by Ken Grimwood, which was recommended to her by Miguel Centeno, a sociology professor who serves with her on the presidential search committee.

During her time as an undergraduate, Hall was acquainted with and shared mutual friends with AnneMarie Slaughter ’80, current Wilson School professor and author of the popular Atlantic piece “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” “I think one of the great things that we all face as we go forward in our careers, in our families, in our trajectories, is choosing what we want to do,” Hall said in response to Slaughter’s article. “I personally think that every kind of different path, of which there are many good paths, involves trade-offs.”

“I think life is a series of choices,” she added.

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the email and apologizing for causing any inconvenience.

“My announcement is totally fake. It’s just an April Fool’s prank,” Harrel explained. “I read the email and thought it was interesting because I’m a senior, so I didn’t think I should be getting an email, but I realized it was probably fake.

After nobody had been caught doing it, I thought it would be a fun April Fool’s joke to take credit for it.”

When asked about possible suspects, Harrel said, “I have absolutely no idea who did it.

I doubt it’s a freshman, and it’s probably someone who knows their way around computer systems and email.”

“My announcement is totally fake. It’s just an April Fool’s prank.”

Will Harrel ’13, senior

believed the prank email.

“My reaction was that it was probably true at first because

no one thinks that Housing is going to pull a joke on students,” Nikitas Tampakis ’14 said. “I know that some people who were affected were pretty angry.”

David Dworsky ’15 also said that both he and a student he is drawing with initially believed the prank email.

“Especially because they messed up last year, I thought they would have fixed up their act this year,” Dworsky said.

Dworsky is a former sports writer for The Daily Princetonian.

Last year, the housing website crashed on one of the days that rising sophomores had been assigned to draw into the residential colleges. Affected students had to select their rooms for the coming year in person in New South.

STUDENT LIFE

La Source screening raises $7,784 for school building in Haiti

By Lydia Lim staff writer

On Saturday night, 264 students filled McCosh 10 for the screening of “La Source,” a documentary that follows Whitman College janitor Josue Lajeunesse’s return to his native Haiti after 2010’s devastating earthquake to provide clean water to the 5,000 people in his home village, La Source.

The screening served as a fundraiser for Lajeunesse’s next project, the construction of a school in La Source. It raised a total of $7,784.

Three weeks ago, the Class of 1986 pledged to donate $19.86 for every student attendee if 300 or more students attended the screening. As the event did not reach its attendance goal of 300, the class did not donate the pledged amount per student. However, the class made a $5,000 donation, and additional pledges from five individual alumni contributed another $1,584.

Including individual donations from the student attendees of the screening, the Saturday event raised a total of $7,784, almost half of the $15,000 needed to build the school in La Source.

The timing for building the clean water system in La Source was “amazing,” said Florence Hsiao ’13, who was the chief organizer of the screening event.

“Right after the water system was built, the cholera epidemic hit Haiti because of the earthquake, and no one in [Lajeunesse’s] village got cholera because of the clean water system,” Hsiao said. “If that wasn’t there, they would have been drinking water from the same river that was giving everyone else cholera.”

Lajeunesse’s project to de-

liver clean water to his village was supported by Generosity Water, a nonprofit dedicated to ending the water crisis, and the University community.

He actively worked with many students and organizations on campus to raise money and awareness about the clean water delivery project, which was implemented in 2010.

“I can’t believe that Princeton students were able to pull this off,” Hsiao said. “It’s like a testimony to Princeton’s motto of ‘In the nation’s service and in the service of all nations.’ And we really don’t have to wait until after we graduate to start making that kind of impact. We can do it now, as students.”

Jordan Wagner, executive director of Generosity Water, said his visit to a village in northern Uganda in fall 2008 motivated him to start his organization. Half of the 1,000 inhabitants of the Ugandan town had died from a cholera outbreak a month before Wagner’s visit.

“And then they [the villagers] explained to us that for $5,000, we could have drilled a water well that would have provided fresh clean drinking water to everybody in that community, so I’m thinking to myself, ‘Man, if we would’ve gotten here a month earlier with $5,000, we could have saved a thousand people’s lives,’ ” Wagner said. “And those numbers just didn’t equal up.”

Wagner returned to the United States, raised $6,000 and returned to the Ugandan community to build the first water project by Generosity Water. In the last four years, the nonprofit has raised almost $5 million and has built over 400 water projects around the world that have around

300,000 people get access to clean water, he said.

“If more people would have seen what I saw, they would do what I do,” Wagner said, explaining his motivation for creating the documentary on Lajeunesse. “I think that Josue is such a hero in this community and everywhere we go — people are so inspired by his story.”

Lajeunesse explained that the water project, after its implementation in 2010, has been faring well “because we’re not just building the system, and then letting it go.”

His brother Chrismedonne, who lives in La Source, has put together a water committee that collects the American equivalent of 25 to 50 cents a month from every family that uses the water project, which is used to fix any problems or damages with the water system, Wagner said.

Generosity Water, Manna Christian Fellowship and students on campus are continuing to raise awareness for Lajeunesse’s school-building project.

The children in the village have to walk miles to get to the nearest school, and often, the river that they must cross to reach the school is flooded, making it impossible for them to go to school, Hsiao noted.

“Josue just sees so much potential in the people in his village, and he just knows that if they can just get access to education, it could change the way they live,” Hsiao said.

Wagner said that he hopes to see La Source five years down the road “completely transformed.”

“I really want to see kids coming out of there flourishing and coming back, bringing change to the community,” Wagner said.

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“All options are on the table right now. There has been no specific talk about changing the system,” he said. “A big part will be the opinions of people who went through the process.”

Eating club officers encountered few problems with the new multi-club Bicker system designed by the ICC during its inaugural year, according to Cap & Gown president Justin Perez ’14. He explained that there were a couple of mistakes in notifying bickerees of their placement, but he said those were human errors and could not be attributed to failures in the program itself.

Although one of the questions asked if the possibility of bickering more than two

of the selective clubs at one time would encourage students to take advantage of multi-club Bicker, Perez said he doubted the ICC would implement a change this year.

“A big part will be the opinions of the people who went through the process.”

Connor Clegg ’14, icc preisdent

“I think in the near future,

we’ll probably just stick with two,” Perez said.

However, both Perez and Clegg emphasized the importance of reviewing feedback from the sophomores who participated in the eating club admissions process before changing any policy related to it.

Making the Street a more attractive option for sophomores is one of the goals of the recently released survey and a goal of the ICC itself, according to Clegg.

“We love to encourage people to keep answering those questions because the answers will all be taken into account in the decision of how to move forward best,” he added.

Representatives of the other four bicker clubs either could not be reached by press time or declined to comment for this article.

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vy wunderkind and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stares at me through a metal mask, his curly hair and huge grin somehow rendering the image more sinister. The caption, in Facebook’s characteristic blue color scheme and simple font, reads, “Faceborg: Resistance is futile.”

I first saw the image more than a year ago, but there was something so striking about its presence on my News Feed that it has stuck with me. Critiquing Facebook on Facebook is no contradiction. This seeming paradox simply shows that it is the go-to site for our every musing, even those criticizing its very role. Nor is the idea unique — a simple Google search for “Faceborg” yields all manner of memes, screenshot statuses and cartoons espousing the same idea.

See, whatever value Facebook provides us, we — the users — are actually its product. The advertisers are the real customers. This is no secret, but it is often presented as a shocking scandal, as if Facebook is some sort of vampiric people-farm straight out of The Matrix, selling the life force of legions of prisoners to advertisers. The fact is we’re providing our time and attention voluntarily. And that makes sense; Facebook provides a valuable service, by keeping us connected to friends and allowing us to share and collect our own information.

There is, in fact, a cost for us, though. Facebook clamors for our time, our information and our attention — resources that are rather limited given our busy lives. Yet, according to Psychology Today, the Internet capitalizes on our brains’ reward circuits to ensure that we comply — the endorphin rush provided by an unread email from a listserv, the Taylor Swift goat video, an article on capsaicin I found while Googling endorphins always seems better than finally getting started on that problem set or that column for the ‘Prince.’ It requires conscious effort to break out of this loop, and this is no accident. Every post provides more data to keep the real customers — the advertisers — happy.

So though our participation in these communities is voluntary, we are being subtly convinced to spend more time there and less time out here. We are not oblivious to this problem. Various methods try to balance this dynamic — SelfControl for Macs helps users avoid distracting websites, and many, including myself, find it productive to turn off their computers’ Wi-Fi while studying.

Facebook in particular is targeted by many of these efforts — come exam time, News Feeds are full of friends bidding farewell to the virtual world until the end of exams.

Lent — the six weeks before Easter that are often used among Christians for deliberate self-improvement — is another common time for attempted separation from the Faceborg. One night at somewhere around 3:30 a.m., I noticed that I had been passively scrolling down my Facebook News Feed for the past two hours — hours much better spent sleeping. Worse, I wasn’t even engaged; I really care very little what middle school classmates at the bottom of my News Feed have to say. It became clear that I needed to take some time off. I decided to make the leap this Lent.

But it’s not so simple. Giving it up completely would be severing myself from parts of Facebook necessary for campus life, so I allowed myself continued access on my phone.

Especially for college students, Facebook is an invaluable means for keeping in touch with distant friends, and it acts as a day-today productivity tool. It’s not only a social instrument, but also a combined class discussion board, event calendar and means of asking favors of acquaintances whom you wouldn’t be able to track down otherwise.

Zuckerberg has created a social architecture that is now inseparable from “real” life.

It is no longer possible to maintain disconnection in a hyper-connected world. We can no longer leave our online communities — Facebook, email, blogs, Tumblr and Reddit — than we can walk out of FitzRandolph Gate, never to be seen again. These are our homes now. Quitting would be leaving our friends, our news sources and a large chunk of our lives behind.

This is not to say that there’s no point in critically examining our online presence. Just as school breaks allow us to come back to campus for a fresh start, and a week in the woods without phones allows so many freshmen to start life at Princeton with new perspectives, my voyage into the electronic wilderness made me think carefully. Is that video really worth sharing with hundreds of people? Does that political post really add to the discussion? Even after my time away, the answer will still often be yes. However, I have begun to acknowledge that since we can’t — and don’t want to — escape Facebook’s world, we would be well-advised to be mindful of how we shape it. The difference between being a user and being used is the difference between procrastination and productivity, ignoring our surroundings or engaging them, unquestioning assimilation with the Faceborg and calculated resistance.

Bennett McIntosh is a freshman from Littleton, Colo.

He can be reached at bam2@princeton.edu.

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Luc Cohen ’14

Rebecca Kreutter

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Holt Dwyer

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This column is a satirical response to Susan A. Patton’s Letter to the Editor, “Advice for the young women of Princeton: the daughters I never had” published March 29, 2013.

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s Susan Patton astutely pointed out in her Letter to the Editor, Princeton women are savvy, empowered and smarter than the male riff-raff we see outside of the Orange Bubble. Yes, we should snap up a husband, and soon, lest we be left with someone uglier, dumber or — gasp! — younger than ourselves.

The mind, and a brainy one at that, boggles.

I need a man with whom I can debate Islamic concepts of political freedom and the comparative merits of modern stagings of Euripides’s Hippolytus. A man who knows the difference between synecdoche and schadenfreude. A man I can curl up next to as we solve the Sunday crossword and prove Fermat’s Last Theorem. A man who won’t be intimidated when he Googles my name. A man who won’t embarrass me at Reunions with his bluecollar job and his crude jokes. If he doesn’t understand, as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains, “Karl Jaspers’s adoption of Schelling’s non-identitarian model of cognitive life, which views true (or truthful) knowledge as obtained through acts of positive interpretation and revelation at the limits of rational consciousness,”

he’s not the man for me.

Ladies of Princeton, it is unquestionably true that once we walk out of FitzRandolph Gate, we will have walked out on our best opportunity to find a perfect intellectual match.

Where do you think you will meet him? At work? Please. I don’t encourage men who try to sleep their way to the top. When you work for me, dear American men (as you inevitably will), you will know that I am your superior.

But why stop at Patton’s distinction between Princetonians and everyone else? After all, if I am to be so discerning to dismiss non-Princetonians in order to find a man who is “at least [my] intellectual equal,” I should be just as discerning on campus. Why draw the line at the Bubble? Not every man here on campus is “worthy” of dating Mensa’s best Flamenco dancer. Given that “the cornerstone of [my] future and happiness will be inextricably linked to the man [I] marry,” I can’t resign myself for just any Joe USG senator. Why should I settle for the bumbling, oafish recruited athletes or rich, airhead legacies? No sir, 2350 SATers can keep to themselves. Vice presidents of their high school student government need not apply. Really, you volunteered in high school? Don’t make me laugh.

In fact, I applaud President Shirley Tilghman for her institution of grade deflation, which helps us Tigerettes separate the 35 percent wheat from the lifelong-bachelor chaff. If there’s anyone who can appreciate the need for an intellectual equal it is President Tilghman, who became the first female president of Princeton and who is stepping down having found no men on campus who could best

her in a game of “Go” even when she wasn’t looking at the board.

But despite Tilghman’s best-laid efforts to distinguish the brightest minds among us from the admission mistakes, the University isn’t doing enough to promote the optimal pairing of undergraduates.

For example, why fill out a roommate survey that asks irrelevant questions about drinking habits, music preferences or sleep schedules? Fill the halls based on GPAs so that zee group co-mingling at the beginning of frosh week will maximize connections between the best-suited pairs. Send the pity admits to Forbes, set up a wine and cheese mingler and be done with it.

I shouldn’t have to ruin my chances at lifelong happiness because the guys across the hall smoke pot.

The goal of 49 percent of the undergraduate population is to graduate happily married or to be engaged to our suitably older, sufficiently intelligent Princeton match.

Yet, the University keeps harping on us about a liberal arts education, work-life balance and an interest in science and engineering. But why?

I’m looking for a wedding ring, not a class ring, and I’m aiming for a P-rade down the aisle. At Commencement, when you toss up your cap, be sure to catch my bouquet.

Mr. Rebecca Hollingsworth Kreutter ’15, I will look for you, I will find you and I will marry you. Mark my well-articulated, tastefully chosen words.

Rebecca Kreutter is a sophomore from Singapore, Singapore. She can be reached at rhkreutt@princeton.edu. Holt Dwyer is a sophomore from Montclair, N.J. He can be reacheed at hdwyer@princeton. edu.

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Response to “Home improvement or home alone?”

(March 27, 2013) The University recognizes the importance of offering housing to support graduate students and help generate community. For that purpose, Princeton is proud of and committed to maintaining a residential community that fosters social and intellectual interactions. A key tenet of the Campus Plan of 2008 was for the University to continue to house a majority of its graduate students – hence the commitment to house approximately 70 percent of enrolled graduate students. This goal has been a long-standing target for Princeton that far exceeds those of our peers.

We are developing new housing for graduate students at the former Hibben & Magie site, to be named Lakeside Apartments. This residential complex will offer apartments

and townhomes ranging from onebedroom to four-bedroom units that will accommodate a diversity of housing needs. This property has been developed with careful consideration and input from various vested partners, including graduate students, over the past few years. This represents a significant investment and our commitment to providing high quality graduate housing on campus.

Lakeside will provide housing for more than 700 graduate students in 74 townhome units and 255 apartments. Also included will be a “commons” with a fitness center, lounge, computer cluster with a printer and a children’s playroom. The complex will feature outdoor common areas including a patio for barbecuing, basketball and volleyball courts and a parking garage with over 400 spaces for Lakeside residents. We are looking forward to the opening of Lakeside during the summer of 2014.

With the opening of Lakeside comes the closure of two of our older complexes that house graduate

students: Butler and Stanworth. The planned closures of Butler and Stanworth have been communicated over many years and have always been represented in the plan. While the Stanworth Apartments will be redeveloped and modernized for use as faculty/staff housing, the Butler Apartments, which were built as temporary housing in the 1940s, are no longer viable as student housing.

Our commitment to keeping students informed about these plans has led to publication of details and timelines about the plan periodically over the last seven years.

Frequent updates on progress are posted on the Housing and Real Estate Services website. When Room Draw information was posted on February 4, it included a reminder for students that this was the last year housing could be selected in Butler and Stanworth. Additionally, a few weeks prior to the application deadline, another reminder was sent to confirm the closure dates. All of this information has been shared with student representatives from

the GSG and the residential committees, via focus groups, and at town hall style meetings and sessions over the past several years.

We also offer a clarification on the inclusion of public affordable housing units in the Merwick/Stanworth project. Including this community resource in non-student housing developments is required by ordinance, and the University would not be able to expand its housing for faculty and staff without it. The University has a long history of supporting affordable housing in Princeton, as a founding member of Princeton Community Housing and in other ways. Links to information about eligibility for regional affordable housing are available on the Housing and Real Estate Services website: http://offcampushousing.princeton.edu/index.php.

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varsity and varsity four races were also tight, but the Tigers came up short in both, finishing second and third respectively.

The varsity eight victory is even more important this year than in years past in light of a recent change in the qualifying procedure for the NCAA tournament which created a 22-team bracket for which at least 11 bids must be at-large.

Princeton, which lost last year’s Ivy Sprints even though it went 7-0 in the Ivy League, will need to either improve on last year’s Sprints finish or continue racking up wins over good teams. In addition to races against their Ancient Eight competitors, the Tigers will get another chance to bolster their case for the NCAA championship when they meet Michigan later in the season.

The last race of the day belonged to the men’s lightweights in the ninth battle for the Fosburgh Cup, which has been held between Georgetown and Princeton since 2005. The Tigers

crossed the line in 6:08.8 to beat Georgetown by eight seconds and improved their record to 2-0. Princeton reclaimed the Cup after losing to the Hoyas for the first time in the Cup’s history last year.

“Everyone had that single goal in mind,” senior Gordon Eccles said. “It’s been a Princeton-dominated Cup in the past, and last year was a pretty big blow to lose it. It means a lot to bring it back home.”

The Tigers got out to an early lead over the Hoyas.

Unlike its race against Navy last weekend, Princeton continued to push the pace throughout the entire race, and the result was a nearly 20-second improvement.

“We didn’t have a great piece against Navy,” Eccles said. “Going into this race, our goal was to win but also to prove to ourselves that we could row better, and we absolutely accomplished that this time around. I don’t think we necessarily peaked yet, but this [race] showed the potential of this boat.”

The women’s lightweights rounded out the weekend on Sunday with a matchup against rival Wisconsin.

Princeton’s varsity eight

cruised to a more than 13-second victory over the defending Eastern Sprints champions to open its season on a high note. The Tigers also got a strong performance from their second varsity team, which defeated the Badgers by just under three seconds.

Though the varsity eight victory is a very good sign, it is still early in the season, and the Badgers will be a much more formidable opponent in the future than they were this weekend due to the unusually limited water time that they have had so far season. Nevertheless, the win is a confidence boost for the Tigers, who look to return to their 2011 EAWRC championship form after going through a rebuilding year last year.

The lightweight women will travel west to compete in the San Diego Crew Classic this weekend, while the men’s heavyweights will host Navy for a dual race and the women’s open crew will travel to Ridgefield, N.J. to take on Columbia.

The men’s lightweights will have one week off before heading to Cornell for the 50th Platt Cup regatta the following week.

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Sophomore Kelsey Henderson followed up 10 minutes later with Princeton’s second try, and the Tigers got a little help from across the pond at the very end of the first half when Oxford exchange student Madeleine Karn, a senior, blocked a kick and managed to get the ball to junior Lelabari Giwa-Ojuri for another try. After a conversion

by Lauren Rhode ’12, a graduate student, the first half ended with Princeton up 17-5.

The Bears did not go quietly, however, and made up the deficit in short order to tie the game at 17 with 15 minutes into the second half. Garard and Signes both chalked Brown’s scores up to miscommunication on the part of the Tigers.

“The tries that they did score were when we let up, and they capitalized on our mistakes,” Garard said.

With about seven minutes left, Rhode was tackled while carrying the ball but managed to get it down in the in-goal to give Princeton a 22-17 lead.

‘We had been rocking the scrums the whole day.’ olivia Garard Senior captain Focusing on ball control, the Tigers were able to prevent another comeback. They won the

scrum on the final play, and with it, the Ivy championship.

“We had been rocking the scrums the whole day, so we never gave them a stable platform from which to win the ball,” Garard said.

As the winner of the Ivy League tournament, the Tigers will receive an automatic bid to the U.S. Round of 16 (dubbed the “Sweet 16” but not officially called this as it is not an NCAA event), which will take place in Pittsburgh in two weeks. They found out Monday that they will be facing Army in the first round.

“All of the military academies are always very physical and very fit teams, which definitely counts for rugby,” Garard said. “We’re looking forward to that, and we know that we have what it takes. It’s just a matter of executing.”

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Tigers were up 3-0 — one point away from clinching the win.

With McCourt down a set and 5-2 and Bloom down a set and 4-3, however, the Tigers looked to either Carcione or junior Dan Richardson to clinch the win. With a strong second set, Carcione won 6-4.

Once it was too late to win, Penn made it close, taking the next three singles matches to make the final score 4-3.

The women’s team, ranked 65th in the nation, traveled to Penn to open their Ivy season. Princeton lost its first doubles match as sophomore Joan Cannon and freshman

Emily Hahn fell 8-5. However, the Tigers rallied back to win the next two doubles matches. The third doubles team of senior Monica Chow and sophomore Katie Goepel won first with a tight 9-7 victory, and the second team of junior Katherine Flanigan and sophomore Lindsay Graff beat the Quakers to clinch the doubles point with a score of 8-6.

The women dominated the singles competition, only allowing the Quakers one point. Graff ran away with the first singles position, winning her match easily 6-2, 6-0. Cannon followed suit at sixth singles, also winning all but two games to win 6-1, 6-1.

The only loss for Princeton came at third singles, as Chow fell to Penn’s Sonya Latycheva 6-2, 6-3. A short

time later, however, the Tigers won when Hahn took the fourth singles match 6-2, 6-4.

Flanigan took her match with a similar score of 6-3, 6-2. The fourth singles match was close and went to a third set, but Goepel pulled out a 7-6 in the tiebreaker to improve the Tigers’ win with a score of 2-6, 6-2, 7-6(6) to wrap up a 6-1 Princeton victory.

Both the men and women will play Yale and Brown next weekend, with the women at home at Lenz Tennis Center and the men on the road.

Both teams will play highly anticipated matchups as the No. 52 men will play the No. 56 Yale team, while the No. 65 women will be the underdogs as they take on the No. 36 Bulldogs.

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Tigers hold off Brown to win Ivy title

By Stephen Wood sports editor

The women’s club rugby team went as far as taking turf from its home field with it to the Ivy League championship this weekend, and though the action unfolded in Providence, the Tigers played as if they were back in Old Nassau. For the first time since 2005, they won the Ivy League tournament. Playing at Brown after Princeton’s bid to host the tournament was rejected, the Tigers demolished Radcliffe to earn a spot in the final, in which they defeated the Bears 22-17.

“This was the kind of game that makes old coaches worry about the condition of their heart,” head coach Emil Signes told parents and alumnae of the team in an email after the

game. “But it was a true championship caliber game.”

Radcliffe — some of Harvard’s women’s teams bear the name of the women’s college that became part of Harvard in 1999 — managed to put up only five points to Princeton’s 49 in the Tigers’ first match of the tournament on Saturday.

Things were not so easy against Brown.

“We knew that they were going to be a very physical team, but as long as we were just as physical as they were, we had better rugby skills,” senior captain Olivia Garard said.

The Bears got on the board with a try just 41 seconds into play. The Tigers got back into the game in the 21st minute, when junior Dot Mittow scored on a pushover try from a scrum.

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This weekend, Princeton beat Radcliffe in a resounding 49-5 in the semifinals before winning the Ivy League championship 22-17 over Brown.

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Quadruple victory for Princeton crew

Top quarterback drops Vanderbilt commitment to join Tiger offense

By Gina Talt staff writer

All four of Princeton’s men’s and women’s crews competed at home over the weekend — the only time they will all be on Carnegie Lake at the same time this season, and all four varsity boats came away with firstplace finishes.

The men’s heavyweights

opened up the weekend with a scrimmage sweep of Syracuse and Georgetown on Saturday morning.

Princeton’s varsity eight finished the 2k race in 5:47.2 to comfortably defeat the Orangemen and Hoyas by nine seconds and 12 seconds, respectively. The race was the Tigers’ season debut, and with the win, they avenged last year’s loss to

Syracuse in the IRA semifinals. Princeton also captured decisive wins in the second, third and fourth varsity races.

The next race of the day was much closer and had a championship feel to it as the third-ranked Princeton women’s openweight squad defeated sixth-ranked Ohio State and 13th-ranked Brown to open up its sea-

son. The Tigers won the race in 6:40.7, only three seconds ahead of the Buckeyes (6:43.8) and less than four seconds over the Bears (6:44.5). With the win over Brown, Princeton earned its sixth straight Class of 1987 Trophy and extended its Ivy win streak to 24 to continue its conference dominance. The second See CREW page 7

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All four of the men’s and women’s varsity boats finished in first place. It will be the only time all four crews race on Lake Carnegie in one day.

TENNIS

Men and women open Ivy play with wins over Penn

By Andrew Sun contributor

The men’s and women’s tennis teams played Penn on Saturday to open their Ivy League season. Both teams got off to a good start against the Quakers as the men’s team won 4-3, and the women’s team 6-1.

The men’s team, ranked 52nd in the nation, came out with the lead early on as

the third doubles combination of junior Augie Bloom and senior Matt Siow defeated Penn’s Jeremy Court and Kyle Roth. Bloom and Siow captured an early break point to take the lead 5-2 and never let up to take the win with a score of 8-2. The first doubles combination of senior Matija Pecotic and sophomore Zack McCourt played strong tennis against Penn’s Nicola Kocovic and

Mark Milbrandt to seal the doubles point with another score of 8-2. On court two, junior Dan Davies and senior Matt Spindler kept the game close until 5-4, when the two took the lead against the Quakers to sweep the doubles matches with a score of 8-5.

The singles matches started off very close, with no team gaining an advantage of more than a point.

However, Princeton showed some confidence after freshman Jonathan Carcione took the first set of the singles lineup to win 6-4. With this small lead, Pecotic finished his match quickly with a solid 6-3, 6-4 win. Spindler also triumphed, barely winning a close 7-6 first set but dominating in the second, winning 6-0. With these two wins by the seniors, the See TENNIS page 7

By Hillary Dodyk staff writer

Players and coaches have claimed for the past several seasons that Princeton football is on the rise and that the program is being successfully turned around, and it is now possible that potential recruits are taking notice as well.

Though he had committed to Vanderbilt last May and signed an NCAA Letter of Intent in February, quarterback Chad Kanoff reversed his decision in mid-March and will wear orange and black instead of black and gold next year as a member of the Princeton University Class of 2017.

“Vanderbilt is a great school, with a strong football program and a terrific coaching staff, and I’m grateful for the opportunity that was offered to me.

However, after thoroughly thinking it through, I believe that Princeton is the best fit for me as a studentathlete,” Kanoff said in a statement released by his high school, Studio City Harvard-Westlake. Kanoff could not be reached for comment.

The California prospect was given four stars by ESPN.com and ranked No. 29 on the Rivals.com list of the top pro-style quarterbacks in the country. He was also offered scholarships by San Diego State and Syracuse, among others.

Although he gave no reason other than his official statement for his decision to rescind his commitment to Vanderbilt in favor of Princeton, he would have been the number two quarterback in his recruiting class at Vanderbilt.

For the Tigers, the addition of Kanoff adds even

more depth to an already deep quarterback position.

Head coach Bob Surace ’90 declined to comment, citing official team policy not to comment on any individual recruit until he is officially enrolled in the school and begins practicing with the team.

Surace has previously spoken about his approach to recruiting and his goals for incoming classes.

“When I evaluate our roster talent-wise, there are just as many all-conference type players at Princeton as at other schools,” Surace said in an interview with the Princeton Football blog about the Class of 2016 last year. “What we don’t have is the depth.” “[W]hen Tommy [Wornham ’12] got hurt, it was indication that of the 125 schools in the FCS, we would have been down near No. 125 at the quarterback position,” Surace said in that interview.

“Now, for two years in a row, we have been able to get the No. 1 quarterback on our list. [Sophomores] Connor [Michelsen] and Quinn [Epperly] know the offense and had great springs. But [freshman] Kedric [Bostic] is good enough to come in and compete with them. He is a highly competitive kid who will put himself in the mix. So we have gone from what I believe was the last program in the country to being pretty good there.”

Epperly and Michelsen shared time taking snaps this season, but Bostic also saw playing time in the season finale against Dartmouth. There are currently seven quarterbacks on the official Princeton roster, and Kanoff likely will not be the only recruited quarterback in the Class of 2017.

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