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By Jean-Carlos Arenas contributor

The Undergraduate Student Government was asked by the University’s Priorities Committee on March 22 to nominate several students for the committee. USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 and USG vice president Carmina Mancenon ’14 are responsible for reviewing the applications, conducting interviews of finalists and selecting which individuals USG will recommend for consideration by the Priorities Committee.

The Priorities Committee makes recommendations to the University president about decisions that affect the University’s operating budget, such as those regarding tuition, room and board, and staff and faculty salary pools. Members of the Priorities Committee are expected to attend approximately hour-and-a-half-long meetings that take place twice a week from mid-October to mid-January.

USG received 15 applications and selected seven finalists to be interviewed.

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AASA submits proposal for Asian American Studies

By Kristen McNierney staff writer

Members of the Asian-American Students Association and Asian-American Studies Committee have submitted a formal proposal to the University outlining their specific requests for the creation of an Asian American Studies certificate program by fall 2015. The report, which

was released on March 26 — exactly 20 years after the release of a similar report by the Asian American Task Force in 1993 — follows the recent renewal of a push for the administration to improve its academic offerings in Asian American Studies.

According to Linda Zhong ’15, AASA co-president and report coauthor, the idea for the proposal was prompted by seniors

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program to campus, and we feel like it would be an asset to the intellectual atmosphere here,” Zhong said.

In the report, AASA calls for the University to create a “formal, designated certificate program in Asian American Studies” that would support a minimum of eight classes per year. In addition to the estabSee CURRICULUM page 2

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politics professor AnneMarie Slaughter ’80 has been elected the next president of the New America Foundation, two NAF board members told The New York Times. The New America Foundation is a nonpartisan public policy institute based in Washington, D.C. Slaughter is currently a member of the foundation’s board of directors. She will replace Steve Coll, who has been the foundation’s president for the past five years.

Coll was named the new dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism last month.

Slaughter garnered international attention for an article she published in The Atlantic last summer, titled “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” on the challenges that women face in achieving career-family balance.

On its website, the New America Foundation describes itself as interested in “work that is responsive to the changing conditions and problems of our 21st Century information-age economy.”

Slaughter served as Director of Policy Planning in the U.S. Department of State from 2009 to 2011. The Office of the Registrar’s website indicates that she will be teaching a course on campus next semester.

Charles Du ’13 and Tara Ohrtman ’13, who approached AASA with their interest in campaigning for a certificate program. The report is a formal attempt to demonstrate campus interest in an issue that, according to AASA, has gained increasing importance on campus since 1970.

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The University has not had a fire marshal for more than a year, ever since former marshal Robert Gregory left his post to work for emergency services in Princeton Borough, which has since been consolidated into the single Princeton municipality. The position has been vacant since at least early March 2012, according to an old version of the Department of Public Safety’s directory.

In an interview last week, Executive Director of Public Safety Paul Ominsky said that a preliminary search for a new fire marshal was implemented after Gregory’s

departure but turned out to be unsuccessful in producing a “quality candidate.”

As University fire marshal, Gregory explained, he was mainly doing code enforcement work, managing the volunteer fire program and working with the facilities department.

The University currently relies on Assistant Fire Marshal and Manager of Library Security Twylen Hicks for the job. According to Hicks, he has been working as the “acting fire marshal” since Gregory’s departure.

He added that his responsibilities have grown to cover the entire campus, including management of fire inspections and fire See SAFETY page 3

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U. physicist Polyakov wins $3 million prize Planck data supports view of simple universe

By Elizabeth Paul contributor

By Greta Shum contributor

Princeton researchers working with the European Space Agency have received groundbreaking data from the Planck satellite launched by the ESA in May 2009. The Planck data are unprecedented in accuracy and precision, receiving worldwide press coverage and public attention.

In processing the Planck data, scientists including Princeton physics professor William Jones ’98 have been able to confirm an existing hypothetical

framework for how exactly the universe behaves.

This model was based on research done before the satellite, including the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which gave astrophysicists a clearer understanding of the distribution of galaxies in the universe, and Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe, which gave the world the now-iconic “baby picture” image of the universe, displaying the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. With these previous projects, scientists had formulated a See THEORY page 5

Physics professor Alexander Polyakov was awarded the 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize for his contributions to string theory and quantum field theory on March 20. Polyakov was chosen to receive the award by a selection committee consisting of the nine inaugural laureates, including four members of the Institute for Advanced Study.

At $3 million, the Fundamental Physics Prize is currently the most lucrative academic prize. It was established by the Yuri Milner Foundation in 2012 in order to recognize outstand-

ing research in physics and to inspire young people to pursue science, according to

described, Polyakov was chosen from among the three winners of the Physics Frontiers Prize, which he won in December last year. Other candidates also included Joseph Polchinski ALEXANDER and joint winners Charles POLYAKOV Kane, Laurens Molenkamp Physics and Schoucheng Zhang. professor “Polyakov is someone who really has an outstanding the foundation’s website. As perspective on theoretical the father of an autistic son, physics,” Maldacena said.

Polyakov explained that he “He has a very unique way would like to use the award to approach problems.” money for his son’s treatMaldacena explained that ment and for autism sup- Polyakov was the first to port and research at large. show that the same type of As selection committee theory could be applied to member and IAS Professor describe both phase transiof Theoretical Astrophys- tions and particle physics. ics Juan Maldacena GS ’96 See PHYSICS page 5

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lishment of an Asian American Studies certificate program, the report also encourages the University to hire more faculty and administrators of Asian-American descent.

According to University Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83, the University has been in discussion with various faculty members about their interest in fields related to Asian-American studies and the possibility of expanding particular course offerings. Eisgruber said that while AASA’s proposal clearly demonstrates a high level of student interest in the issue, ultimately the level of demonstrated “faculty commitment and scholarly inquiry” will determine the future of an Asian American Studies program at the University, emphasizing that the strength of that scholarly inquiry an important factor.

Although efforts to establish

a program at the University began in the 1970s, the campaigns gained momentum during the mid-1990s when a similar campaign for the development of a Latino Studies program led to visible student protest. In 1995, a 36-hour sit-in at Nassau Hall resulted in an official promise from the University to hire new faculty members in the areas of Asian-American and Latino studies. A Latino Studies program was created in 2009; however, no formalized Asian-American program exists.

After an ad hoc meeting on diversity provoked controversy in January when AASA and English professor Anne Cheng ’85 called attention to the absence of prominent Asian-Americans in attendance at the meeting, the AsianAmerican community, alumni, faculty and students expressed their concern for what they described as the University’s lack of response to issues of AsianAmerican presence on campus.

In 2008, Cheng submitted a proposal to the University urg-

ing the administration to implement a formal program in AsianAmerican studies. According to Cheng, the 10-page document, which was accompanied by an alumni-sponsored petition of support, did not receive a response from the University.

Eisgruber said that while a proposal like Cheng’s is a good indicator of the level of interest among faculty in issues related to Asian-American studies, individual faculty members must be willing to commit their time and effort to teaching additional courses within the department.

“The most important thing for a certificate program or for expansion in a curricular area is a proposal from faculty members or a faculty unit,” Eisgruber said.

According to Eisgruber, gateway classes funded by the 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation and Undergraduate Education will be a useful first step in establishing this kind of commitment. This fall, Cheng will be teaching a gateway class titled

“Too Cute: America’s New Asiamania.”

In addition to faculty commitment, Eisgruber also noted that funding plays a significant role in University discussions on curricular and departmental changes. According to AASA’s report, the Asian-American Alumni Association of Princeton was turned down by the University when it tried to donate funds for the creation of an Asian American Studies program. While Eisgruber said he did not know enough about the specifics of the donation to comment on the University’s reasons for turning it down, he explained that it is often very difficult to approve donations of this nature because funds are often insufficient or too specific in their aims.

In the midst of the financial crisis, Eisgruber said the University was hesitant to commit itself to the establishment of the program Cheng outlined in her 2008 proposal. He added that the University is prepared to provide

resources to departments that are interested in hiring faculty or creating classes related to AsianAmerican studies.

“The most important thing is that we continue to reach out to interested faculty members and help them to work with us to find a right path moving forward,” Eisgruber said. “This is an incremental process — what we need now is a set of faculty members who are willing to say, ‘We’re willing to take leadership on behalf of this proposal now, including committing our own time to it.’ ” In its report, AASA urges the University “to act and to bring to Princeton a program of study that has been advocated for by several generations of Princetonians.” The report devotes a section to the history of AsianAmerican studies on college campuses across the nation, arguing that Princeton is lagging behind other leading universities like the University of Pennsylvania that have established formal programs and have hired

numerous faculty members in those areas of research.

“There is the least amount of institutional support [at Princeton] for any kind of classes or academic research in the field,” Asian-American Studies Committee chair Evan Kratzer ’16 said. The Committee’s purpose is to advocate for the creation of an Asian American Studies program.

Among other Ivy League schools, only Columbia has designated an Asian American Studies major, according to the report. Kratzer said that even schools like Harvard and Yale, which have no formal program or major, offer students an opportunity to explore AsianAmerican studies through an ethnic studies program and clearinghouse for Asian-American studies classes, respectively.

“They at least have some minimal program that tries to cultivate it,” Kratzer said. “It shows that they at least recognize that there should be an institutional home for it on campus.”

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As a result of the failed replacement search, Ominsky explained that DPS has decided to take some time for “benchmarking” and has since redefined the job description of the University fire marshal. DPS expanded the job requirements to include more community outreach on the part of the fire marshal’s office.

“The fire marshal’s job description is still growing,” Hicks explained, adding that it is not ready for advertisement to the public due to its “evolving” state.

DPS Director of Operations Stefanie Karp said that her department is working with Human Resources and plans to begin advertising the fire marshal position in the next couple of weeks.

“I’m keeping my options open,” Hicks said, explaining that he is not sure whether he will apply for the fire marshal position. “I want to know what the final job description is.”

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If he did apply and was selected for the job, Hicks said he would step down from his current position as assistant fire marshal, creating a new vacancy in the department that someone else will then have to fill.

Meanwhile, Gregory explained that he left the University because the Borough’s offer to manage the town’s emergency services gave him the opportunity to “move up and get more responsibility.” Gregory is now responsible for the town’s entire fire department, as well as the emergency management duties that he enjoys being in charge of, he said.

Gregory said that he came back to the University as a “courtesy” to help Hicks in the planning stages of this year’s bonfire.

Working in conjunction with Hicks is a “casual hourly employee,” Hicks said.

Diane Borsuk works at the University part-time to perform fire safety inspections in all the academic and office buildings around campus, looking for potential fire hazards.

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Friday, according to Jackson.

Last year, more than 70 students were nominated to the Priorities Committee by USG members, staff and faculty, according to Secretary to the Priorities Committee Aly Kassam-Remtulla, who is also the associate director for academic planning and institutional diversity. USG nominated four of these candidates, and one of them, Gavin Schlissel ’13, was ultimately chosen to join the committee, according to former USG president Bruce Easop ’13.

“We’re looking for students who are representative of the student body,” Kassam-Remtulla said. “Our goal is to really bring as diverse a group of students as we can to the table.”

The open application process, which allows all students to apply for USG nomination to the committee, started last year under the leadership of Easop, according to Kassam-Remtulla.

“Previously, USG just picked

people, but they hadn’t sent out a call for nominations,” he added.

The Priorities Committee contacts a number of stakeholders on campus, some of whom include administrators and the USG president,

“Our goal is to really bring as diverse a group of students as we can to the table.”

Aly Kassam-Remtulla Secretary to the Priorities Committee

for nominations every year, Jackson said.

“Once I received that request, I decided to send out an application to the student body so we could give as many students the opportu-

nity to receive a nomination, and that’s kind of following the transparent model that USG has been taking on, which Bruce did last year as well,” Jackson said.

The Priorities Committee is chaired by the Provost and includes the Dean of the Faculty, the Executive Vice President, the Treasurer, six faculty members, four undergraduate students, two graduate students and one other member.

“We find it really valuable to have undergraduates on the committee … It makes our discussions much richer,” Kassam-Remtulla said.

Mancenon identified three important characteristics that she and Jackson have been looking for in candidates.

“First is a very strong work ethic. Second is the ability to speak with administrators because the Priorities Committee is comprised primarily by administrators. The third is being able to critically analyze situations, understanding the nuances of making large, important campus decisions,” she said.

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simple six-parameter model for the entire universe, otherwise known as the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model.

Big Bang cosmology followed this model and was the dominant theory until Planck.

While the Planck scientists’ model worked as far as the measurements could tell, Jones explained, “There are some very natural things that you might think are missing.” Planck was able to go even further than WMAP by answering the question: Are there other extensions to that model – are scientists missing anything in their explanation of the largescale structure of the universe? Planck uses much higher statistical power and much finer angular resolution. “You can ask about some basic questions – about the initial conditions of our universe but also the constituents of our universe that the previous data couldn’t constrain at all,” Jones said.

The satellite is so sensitive that the scientists were expecting to see something weird, Aurelien Fraisse, a postdoctoral fellow in the physics department working on Planck, explained.

“The first shocker is how beautifully simple the model of the universe we need to describe the data is.” According to Fraisse, there is a whole host of variations to this model that would seem very reasonable. “You add them one by one, and you see that you don’t need any of them.”

The data from Planck are able to con f irm th is simple model. “It isn’t just

consistent w ith a simple un iverse, it is a simple universe, and it’s not complicated. And that’s new.

A nd that’s quite remarkable that we’ve got such a fundamental understanding of so many areas of physics,” Jones said.

The statistics of the project arise from the assumption that the universe we have today is one possibility in a host of possibilities given these six parameters.

Jones likened it to tossing dice, not knowing exactly if or how the dice are loaded.

One way to understand this property of the dice would be to toss a whole bucket full of the same kind of dice, or the same one repeatedly, and see exactly the distribution of values.

“The problem with the universe is that we only have essentially one roll of that die. We only get to observe our universe, not a bunch of similar universes. And so the thing that fundamentally limits our ability to make inferences about the underlying theories is that: Our sky, which we believe is a Gaussian random process, is just like rolling a die,” Jones explained.

A second diff iculty in analyzing the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is the imperfection of the instruments.

Planck sharpened the image that scientists had received from WMAP and essentially eliminated all the “noise” or “blurriness” from the data. “One of the fundamental ly different things about the Planck instrument is its angular resolution, so what that provided was a consistent measu rement of these f luctuations on scales that extend from the full sk y all the way dow n to

the amplitude of f luctuations that are separated by a few arcminutes,” Jones said.

The team at Princeton worked extensively on data collected from Planck’s detectors. When a signal from the background radiation of the Big Bang was picked up, it behaved the way a f lashlight shines in the dark, except that the filament, instead of giving off light, received it.

The intensity is brightest at the center and falls off with distance.

“The problem with the universe is that we only have essentially one roll of that die.”

William Jones ’98 Physics professor

“We’re trying to actually map out that intensity profile as well as possible,” said Jon Gudmundsson, a physics graduate student who worked with Jones.

Gudmundsson established the framework for calibrating the detectors from the very large scale to the small scale. He did so by using in-f light data from planets in our own solar system, which shine with known values.

Alexandra Rahlin, also a graduate student with Jones worked on ensuring the robustness of the system itself, said, “It’s amazing.

Questions like these are why

I became interested in cosmology.”

The data from Planck are now helping to discriminate between a class of theories that explains the universe more fully. With the satellite’s accurate reading of the universe, scientists must now examine what seeded the initial conditions of the Big Bang and must explain the cause of those early quantum f luctuations.

A class of theories called single field inf lation theory spans from quite simplistic models to more contrived models. Planck has begun the process of determining how these theories work.

Fraisse explained that “Because it’s so simple, it makes it very hard to build some models that require some more complications,” referring to the early stage of the universe that dictated this six-parameter universe.

Scientists are now using the amplitude of the gravitational waves produced in the early universe to pare down these theories. According to Jones, the simplest of the models tends to predict more gravitational waves than are seen, but there is no solid limit on that.

In the basement of Princeton’s Jadwin Hall, this team is now building a new instrument called Spider, to be launched in Antarctica this December. Using thousands of detectors instead of Planck’s eight, Spider is designed to be a very sensitive probe of this gravitational wave background and focuses on larger scales on the sky.

Jones and his team will present results from the Planck satellite and introduce Spider in a talk on April 16 in McDonnell Hall.

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During his academic career, Polyakov has attacked a variety of problems in theoretical physics, including the theory of turbulence, quantum chromodynamics and several advances in gauge theory and string theory.

One of these theoretical models aimed to explain the problem of quark confinement. Quarks, the elementary particles that compose protons and neutrons, are not found outside of the nucleus, Polyakov explained, and the force that contains these particles within the protons and neutrons can be described using a string-like model. “Imagine that there is some string or thread connecting these particles,” Polyakov explained. “When you try to remove the quark from the proton, the string gets stretched and doesn’t allow it to go.”

Although Polyakov said that he often confronted failure during his academic career, he maintained an excitement for theoretical physics because of its intrinsic universality. “You can apply the same ideas to very different problems,” Polyakov said. “That is what is really most exciting in theoretical physics: the feeling that I keep following one problem which is developed on top of some universal language for describing nature.”

Polyakov added that the announcement of his receipt of the prize was unexpected. “You see, there are always a number of highly talented people who de-

serve the prize,” Polyakav said. “It’s somewhat like a lottery at the end. I didn’t expect to win this lottery at all, but of course I was pleased.”

Graduate students of physics at the University of Pennsylvania, James Stokes and Zain Saleem, met Polyakov through a Princeton physics course and are collaborating with him on a research project. Stokes described Polyakov as both a passionate and encouraging teacher.

“On the one hand, he’s clearly a genius, but on the other hand, he’s a very approachable and nice guy,” Stokes said.

“Science has become a profession — publishing for the sake of publishing — but not for Polyakov,” Saleem said.

“When you talk to Polyakov he doesn’t treat it as a profession. It’s more like a passion.”

Saleem and Stokes both said they were not surprised to hear that Polyakov was awarded the Fundamental Physics Prize. “He has so many achievements in physics that it’s almost not really a surprise that he got it,” Stokes said. “When I heard that he was on the list of finalists, I was sure he was going to get it.”

Polyakov is currently working on the problem of the cosmological constant.

Astrophysicists have observed that the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, although physicists previously believed that gravitational forces would slow down this expansion.

Polyakov explained that he is developing a theoretical model that may help explain this cosmological acceleration.

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n the Wednesday before spring break, my dissertation adviser turned 80, an occasion I marked by sending him a card and a couple of recent articles. That Friday, I f lew to Oregon to deliver a paper at an annual conference that he and his wife, another great teacher of mine, always attend. But because he’d been ill for some months, this year she went on her own. And we did what we’ve always done, but without him: We gave our talks (mine was on the attempts by linguist Ferdinand de Saussure to uncover anagrams in Vedic poetry), went to our colleagues’ talks, talked about the talks and about our colleagues and enjoyed ourselves over food and wine. Since he seemed to be getting better, our mood was cheerful, and I departed on Monday morning optimistic that the three of us would be getting together again soon.

Two days later, that next Wednesday morning, he died.

No one needs me to explain that, thanks to nature and nurture, all of us inherit and take on traits, good and bad, from our parents. But there are academic parents, too, and their inf luence, which can naturally have a profound effect on any student, is typically of particular importance to those of us who choose to follow seriously in their intellectual footsteps and join the educational guild ourselves.

I was astonishingly fortunate in my teach-

ers, both in college and in graduate school, and it would be wrong of me to name any one of them as my most important inf luence: I study what I study, teach what I teach and in many ways am what I am because I am a mutt, the son of all of them. Nevertheless, when one’s Doktorvater — that wonderful German word for Ph.D. supervisor, literally “doctorfather” — is the single most prominent scholar in the field, and when that scholar is also a deeply kind person who has no truck with hierarchy, it would be wrong to downplay the extraordinary role he has had in shaping one’s career. And that’s the case with me: My Doktorvater was Calvert Watkins, the leading historical and comparative linguist and IndoEuropeanist of our times — and, my word, he would be having a jolly time right now seeing just how much trouble I am having getting the tenses right. Which is, of course, one of the smaller problems one can expect to have when dealing with the newly deceased.

Having parents as simultaneously distinguished and loving as Calvert and his wife Stephanie Jamison — the latter first taught me, brilliantly, when I was a college freshman and would go on to be a member of my dissertation committee — is as terrifying as it is wonderful. On the one hand, instruction from and letters of recommendation by the best of the best do have a way of increasing both one’s knowledge and, to put it crassly, one’s marketability. On the other hand, though, most of my siblings and I — Calvert and Stephanie’s children — have long had to come to terms with the fact that we will never have what they have: genius.

But it isn’t because of his genius that I loved Calvert. I loved him because he had a fantastic sense of humor, because he was the consummate host, because he had a thing about black-eyed peas, because he introduced me to Myers’s Rum with a splash of tonic and a wedge of lime, because he devoured mysteries, because he wasn’t pretentious and yet wore a pocket watch and because he really and truly couldn’t understand how anyone could claim to be educated without being able to read cuneiform. During my years as a graduate student, few days passed when I didn’t have at least one formal or informal class with him, few days when we didn’t have at least one informal meal or drink together. In and out of the classroom, day after day, he taught simply by being himself.

One of my main interests is intellectual history: who inf luenced whom, who learned what from whom. On the Monday right after spring break, I was scheduled to give a lecture on the history of linguistic thought in the 300-level TRA course “Imagined Languages” that I am co-teaching with Michael Gordin. The announced topic was “Plato, Saussure, Chomsky, and Others.” The day before, I inserted a photograph of Calvert into my presentation right after one of Saussure, who was the greatest linguist of his age — he died a century ago, in February 1913 — and the teacher of the greatest teacher of one of Calvert’s greatest teachers. The pursuit and advancement of knowledge is a traditional craft, in some ways not unlike blacksmithing and the production of stained glass, and giving a lecture of this kind is a neat way of demonstrating to students that they are part of a tradition. As for me, it was a bittersweet way to salute my dear mentor and friend.

Joshua Katz is a professor in the Department of Classics. He can be reached at jtkatz@princeton.edu.

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Anthropomorphized mediocrity Zeerak Ahmed columnist

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ediocrity is an old, bitter foe. For years my greatest fear has been to take mediocrity as my companion, one that would forever hold me back from the longed-for Land of Greatness.

All this time I have fantasized about drawing out my sword and defeating Mediocrity in one swift, fatal battle. That is the battle I must face, the challenge that separates me from greatness. Perhaps going to college will do it, or joining a big company or going to grad school is the answer — something, anything.

But whatever I do, however hard I try, no matter how fast I run, Mediocrity always seems to be around. At every point of success I look around, convinced that the final battle has occurred. But Mediocrity reappears to remind me that it has not. The fight continues.

Over this long struggle, Mediocrity and I have shared some heartfelt moments. At the turn of an apex, in the glow of a little success or in the face of a grand challenge, I embrace Mediocrity as a partner. I’m done with it all, I say. Done with the tiring day and the sleepless nights, the constant struggle, the will to continue fighting. Today, Mediocrity, I embrace you as one.

We shall settle together in a life of ease.

But this is a dejected, fleeting partnership; the specter of ambition kicks in soon enough. Lo and behold, I declare the battle with Mediocrity open once again. Like bitter lovers, we start it

all anew — I run away toward the Land of Greatness but somehow run back into Mediocrity. I must be running in circles, and the only answer must be to get rid of Mediocrity once and for all, to do something so unquestionably great that it must certainly take me to the Land of Greatness. But I fail.

After many nights of panic and anger, I have realized that I give Mediocrity (and myself) too little credit. I haven’t been simply walking in circles after all. I have been walking toward the Land of Greatness, but Mediocrity has slyly been following me.

As I have grown, Mediocrity, too, has learned and taken on new forms.

I look back on my dreams from four years ago. I was so stupid. Not that I’m not stupid now, just less so. I used to want to be an entrepreneur — to one day come up with a great idea, make it, sell it and change the world. It doesn’t seem that simple now. The complexity of the world seems to fit my growing mental capacity. There’s a strange, unlikable entropy at work: The same points in life now seem farther away, the path to get to them more complicated.

As I have met greater, smarter, more accomplished folks, I have begun to see myself as unassuming and static while the world around me keeps moving to better things. But I am not static. I’m just moving more slowly than I thought I would as a kid because I underestimated how far away the Land of Greatness was. It just appears that I am static in relation to the new heroes I now aspire to be. And it’s even easier to forget that Mediocrity is on my tail, moving just as I am.

As time goes by, my relationship with Mediocrity grows too. I have learned to see Mediocrity not as a monstrous

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enemy but as a competitive rival, a friend who eggs me on to move faster, to see if I can do what I once thought.

I haven’t failed by befriending Mediocrity — it has just grown with me.

I used to have very simple dreams.

They were easy to follow, easy to play up.

Today I feel that those dreams are gone; it’s not as easy to convince myself of a direction. But while the dreams appear less real, the world appears more so. I see the problems more clearly — the solutions less so. It’s easy to stereotype this as stagnation, but that’s just a lazy way of understanding ourselves. We now know more clearly that the dreams are harder to achieve. But to convince ourselves that they are now unattainable, that we must have stagnated in the process, is just an easy way to divest ourselves of the responsibility to keep fighting. I am not out to defeat Mediocrity in one epic duel. We will slowly struggle together toward the Land of Greatness.

People used to tell you and me to go change the world. We used to tell ourselves to go change the world. But nobody seems to say that anymore.

The hope has dried up, the dream has faded; we seem to have failed. But we haven’t. We’ve just gotten a little smarter, a little less naive, a little more aware. Today I stand with you, and I will watch you go change the world. It won’t be one swift battle, but I will watch you change the world, one step at a time. I may be far away, but your friend Mediocrity will keep you on your toes, will keep you fighting and will be there for a cup of tea when the chips are down.

Zeerak Ahmed is a computer science major from Lahore, Pakistan. He can be reached at zahmed@princeton.edu.

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vents of the past week have caused me to reflect quite a bit on what going to Princeton means. The reality of the Class of 2017 prompted me to think back over my four years and what Princeton means to me. And the national news attention reminded me about what it can and does mean to others.

There have been — and will continue to be — many responses to Susan Patton’s Letter to the Editor, addressing her message or how she made her argument. Despite how I set out, my column, too, ended up being influenced by my thoughts about Ms. Patton’s letter. I find myself annoyed with how Ms. Patton seems to have thrown Princeton’s reputation under the bus with her innocent — or not — piece of advice. So here’s one of my takeaways from the week on how we should or shouldn’t tout the Princeton name.

When Princeton extended offers of admission to the Class of 2017 this past Thursday, my senior heart took in the news with a twinge of nostalgia. Every year the news that a new crop of prefrosh have been selected, the new freshman class will be formed, forces students to remember how quickly their own time here is moving along. But — at least for

my freshman through junior years — that moment of saddened or nervous reflection was quickly surpassed by the excitement for what would come next in my Princeton experience, and an excitement for new freshmen who would play into my Princeton story, and, of course, start their own. As a senior, though, it wasn’t the same excitement, no longer one for peers who would share with me this wonderful place but a more distant happiness for someone whose story I won’t factor into; I won’t be helping them get passes, or giving them directions, or advising them on room draw.

I’m thrilled for the incoming freshmen. I can’t even begin to put into words what an amazing treat they have in store. I remember being happy when I got my admission letter. I was relieved, thrilled, excited. Four years later, I realize I didn’t even have a clue the happiness, fulfillment and sheer day-to-day joy that lay on the other side of the wardrobe door I had just been invited to open. Thinking about each and every one of them, the Class of 2017, discovering all of that over the next year is a pleasant comfort as I accept that my leaving is a necessary element in that cyclical progression.

But I’ll save my musings and words for the Class of 2017 until a later time, the traditional senior’s last column.

For now, I want to focus on one particular moment of my freshman year, a thought set in motion as I read “Great Expectations” for a course that spring. Just like young Pip of Dickens’

classic, I began to feel that I, too, had been endowed by a magnanimous benefactor. I had been transported from my home to a new world of possibility, thanks to Princeton. Princeton has connected us to vast resources, a phenomenal alumni network and an identity that seems to elicit attention and commentary everywhere from the local bar to the national news circuit. It is a powerful realization to think how unique and powerful that can be, something I’m reminded of every time national attention zooms to our campus.

And, as the Class of 2017’s astoundingly low acceptance rate affirmed, our place here is a highly coveted and hard-to-get spot. The identity we take on at Opening Exercises during our first-ever frosh week is lifelong; we carry it with us from the Pre-Rade to the cavalry of Old Guard golf carts. We are incredibly lucky to be given that opportunity to go to a school so nurturing and loving, to join a family of peers and alumni united not just by an association but by a diehard love of orange and black and to be constantly reminded and aided by all involved to pursue our loftiest goals. All these things play into what Princeton means to me — it has been the greatest development of my life, and I’m constantly astounded by my luck in receiving such an opportunity. It is a privilege, and it ought to be treated as such.

One of my mother’s greatest wisdoms passed on to me was that an

opportunity and privilege should always be used not just to better yourself but also to help the world around you. When students or alumni use that for their own betterment at the expense of others — especially while touting their Princetonian identity — it especially hurts our little community. And it opens the door for incredibly harsh and demoralizing criticism from the broader public. Far too often, it is this latter use of Princeton’s name, network and resources that has called outside attention to our institution. Such abuses have come to flavor what those outside the Princeton community think of it, of us. It has shaped the reception we often receive when announcing our alma mater to new acquaintances or coworkers.

There will never stop being alumni who use the Princeton name and fame — even school newspaper — to advance their personal agenda; it will likely always give students a biased leg up in their pursuits beyond the Orange Bubble. But if we each make a concerted effort in our personal lives to use the advantage from our generous benefactor to help the world around us and honestly acknowledge the luck such inherited benefits play in our life, we can slowly but surely begin to change that public distrust and disdain.

Lily Alberts is an economics major from Nashville, Tenn. She can be reached at lalberts@princeton.edu.

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transition has been pretty challenging for me because I didn’t have any fall time and I haven’t been at any of the spring training until now. We’ll see how it goes; I’m still very indecisive about how the future’s going to play out. It’s more the five-class thing than anything else. I feel like a freshman all over again, trying to figure out my place on the team and where I stand with my teammates and stuff like that.

AG: I definitely think it’s a lot harder for Blake because going back-to-back seasons is really tough. With field hockey we were fortunate enough to go basically until the end of November, but then I had a month of preseason workouts for lacrosse that was really helpful for me because I was able to go to captains’ workouts and practices. Academically, it hasn’t been too hard. I mean, obviously there is a lot of workload, and I have a lot of commitments, but that’s how my whole life’s been. I’ve always been busy with so much to do so it really doesn’t bug me that much.

Q: What do you consider the best moment of your sports career?

BD: I think Anya can answer that one.

AG: Definitely when we won the national championship with the field hockey team in the fall. That was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. Got to say that, for sure.

BD: I would say for high school, scoring my 1,000th point with my best friend in the same game. In college, I would say playing two Sundays ago in the NCAA tournament.

Freshman year I didn’t play in the tournament, so actually getting to play and contribute to my team’s unfortunate loss, but still being able to say that it was my loss and that I was part of it, was really exciting for me.

Q: What is your hidden talent?

BD: I have played the flute since I was six or seven. I was in band in the wind ensemble in high school. [My dad] made me bring my flute to college.

Freshman year he was like, “Yeah, you’re just going to play in your room or find people to play with.” I knew I wouldn’t have time for it, but I humored him and brought it anyway, and it gathered dust under my bed. So I didn’t bring it this year. But I think that’s really the only thing I do outside of sports.

AG: Yeah, I have absolutely no hidden talents.

Q: Are there any you wish you had?

BD: I wish I could sing and dance.

AG: Yes, I would second that.

I wish I could sing and dance, for sure.

BD: Our coach wishes we could sing and dance. She has mentioned that before.

Q: Do you have a pregame ritual?

AG: I have a lucky shirt that I wear to bed the night before every game, and I wear it as long as possible up until the game until we have to put on our warm-up T-shirts and stuff.

And usually before the game, I’ll eat a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich as my last thing.

BD: I don’t have a lot. I really haven’t figured out what I do for lacrosse yet. But before basketball I listen to a couple of songs that I always play. I listen to “Defying Gravity” from “Wicked,” which is kind of a weird song to listen to before a sporting event, but it gets me excited. And besides that I don’t really have much except a dribbling routine that I make sure to go through during warm-ups.

Q: What kind of shirt is it?

AG: Well ... it’s kind of a long story, but it’s a jersey T-shirt of a lacrosse player that I’ve followed since middle school.

Q: Who is your quirkiest teammate?

AG and BD: [both laughing] Definitely [midfielder] Erin Curley.

BD: She’s a sophomore, and she’s the sweetest girl ever, but standing on the sidelines during games listening to some of the stuff she says, you wonder how she thinks of it. It’s awesome and so funny. She’s really unique.

AG: Yeah, she’s definitely one of my favorite kids on the team but I’d definitely say she’s the quirkiest. Everything she does is just kind of funny. You have no idea what’s going on in her head.

Q: What are you studying?

BD: I’m majoring in English, but I’m taking a lot of econ courses, so I’ll hopefully pursue something in business. I just really like English, so I want to do my independent work about English.

AG: I don’t know exactly. I think I want to do something with international relations and maybe be an intelligence analyst or something like that. But that sounds difficult, so we’ll see how that goes.

Q: What’s your favorite movie?

AG: I have not seen a lot of movies; I can tell you that.

BD: I’d have to say “She’s the Man” is one of my all-time favorite movies.

AG: That is a great movie. I’d have to go with “The Guardian.” I love that movie.

Q: Is there anything you’d like to add?

BD: I really appreciate how the coaches have been and how the team has been.

They’re making it as easy for me as they possibly can.

AG: They’re definitely a welcoming group. I think we’re very fortunate to have the leadership that we do on the lacrosse team. It made my transition easier back in the fall. It’s been pretty smooth.

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and they push themselves, and they push us to be better, and we push them to be better, and I think everyone as a whole team is just gelling really well. There’s a much better confidence this year.”

Peyton, who was recog-

nized as the Ivy League Pitcher of the Week after her games this weekend, hit a home run in the second inning that put the Tigers on the scoreboard. Her season total now stands at six. Senior Candy Button also crossed the plate in the second thanks to a single from junior Maddie Cousens. Princeton’s other two runs came from senior

Lizzy Pierce, who scored in the third while sophomore Alyssa Schmidt gave her time to make it to home plate with a rundown between first and second. Pierce also scored in the fifth inning, bringing Princeton to its final score of 4-1.

While Villanova managed to score a run against Princeton in the third, putting the score at 2-1, the

Wildcats failed to build the momentum necessary to defeat the Tigers.

The team has high hopes for the remainder of the season.

“We have a whole different outlook this season, and we’re playing well as a team,” Peyton said. “We have much higher expectations, and we’re pushing ourselves and doing a lot

more this year. We expect more out of ourselves, and as a team we’ve really come together, and we’re working really hard.”

The team gets back into

the Ivy League with two series — one against Harvard and one against Dartmouth — lined up for the coming weekend in its first away games of Ivy League play.

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The softball team got off to a solid start in Ivy play on its home turf last weekend with doubleheaders against both Brown and Yale.

PRINCETON 4 The TiVILLANOVA 1 gers won three of their four games, sweeping Brown but losing the second game against Yale in extra innings. The successes of the weekend

put the team at the top of the standings, tied with Penn for first in the Ivy League South Division, and the Tigers rode the momentum when they played Villanova Tuesday afternoon at the Class of 1895 Field.

Princeton took the lead in the second inning and held on, winning 4-1.

Freshman Shanna Christian pitched all seven innings, letting Villanova score only once and giving up a total of nine hits, with

no hits in the last three innings. Christian is one of several underclassmen who have been exceeding expectations on a team that sees a lot of contribution from younger players.

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Sophomore Blake Dietrick and freshman Anya Gersoff are on the lacrosse team but also play basketball and field hockey, respectively.

Sophomore Blake Dietrick and freshman Anya Gersoff spend a lot of their time at Princeton in season — more so than most athletes. Both play for the women’s lacrosse team, Dietrick as attacker and Gersoff as midfielder, while also being part of a second varsity team. Dietrick is a guard for the basketball team, where she most recently hit back-to-back threes against the Seminoles in round one of the NCAA tournament, and Gersoff is a goalie for the field hockey squad that won this year’s NCAA national championship. The ‘Prince’ sat down to talk with Dietrick and Gersoff about hidden talents, lucky lacrosse jerseys and

Q: Where are you from, and what is it like there?

Blake Dietrick: I’m from Wellesley, Mass., just outside Boston. It’s a small town. My mom works at the college there, and I’ve had access to the gym and fields since I was little, so that really helped me develop my love for my sports.

Anya Gersoff: I’m from Greenwood Village, Colo., which is a suburb just outside of Denver.

It’s kind of interesting being from Colorado because it’s not really a hotbed for field hockey or lacrosse, so I’ve had to travel a bunch.

Q: Have you played these two sports for your whole lives?

BD: I played soccer, crosscountry, basketball and lacrosse growing up. My dad played lacrosse in college, so he always pushed lacrosse. I’ve been playing lacrosse and basketball as long as I can remember. I had a stick when I was born because my dad insisted on buying me one. Both sports have been a part of my life for a really long time, and it was really hard to imagine giving one up. So I didn’t.

AG: I’ve played lacrosse since around first grade, which is a pretty long time, especially coming from Colorado. I’ve played field hockey since seventh grade, but soccer was the first sport I ever played. I played soccer until my sophomore year of high school, and I also played basketball and ice

hockey until my sophomore year. It just became too much eventually, so I just went with field hockey and lacrosse because I thought they’d give me the best opportunities in the future.

Q: Is it tough to balance two sports with academics here at Princeton?

BD: Yeah, I’m stressing at the moment. I’m taking five classes at the moment, and I’m transitioning right now because basketball just ended so I’ve been really stressed out right now. And this is my first year doing it, since I didn’t play lacrosse last year. So Anya and I are basically in the same place in figuring out how this is going to work. I would say the See ON TAP page 7

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The men’s lacrosse Ivy League standings are quite volatile at this point in the season. With multiple ties in the standings, conference games coming up this weekend are critical in determining the final standings. Below, we fill you in on the race so far: Cornell (9-1 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) The only unbeaten team in the Ivy League at this point in the season, Cornell owes much to its offensive output. The Big Red sits atop the league in goals per game (14.70) but also plays well defensively and has the fewest goals allowed on average (7.60). This weekend’s game against Harvard will be critical in Cornell’s hunt to win the Ivy League: Should the Crimson upend the Big Red, Princeton and Cornell could be locked in an intense battle for first.

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Princeton (6-2, 2-1) Princeton saw strong performances from two players that helped extend its winning streak to two games. Senior midfielder Jeff Froccaro’s four-goal game against Brown earned him Ivy League Co-Player of the Week, while freshman attack Ryan Ambler’s role in five Tiger goals earned him Ivy League Rookie of the Week. While Princeton’s upcoming matchup against Syracuse is a non-conference game, the No. 7 Tigers’ performance against the No. 8 Orange will tell whether Princeton is up to the test to challenge league heavyweight Cornell later this season.

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Harvard (4-5, 1-1) The Crimson are second-to-last in the league in goals per game with 8.67, a point of serious concern for Harvard considering that it plays Cornell this weekend. The Big Red, which has the fewest goals allowed per game in the Ivy League with 7.60, has the ability to slow down a Harvard offense that has already gotten off to a sluggish start.

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Brown (5-3, 1-1) The Bears played the most inconsistent game that the Ivy League saw this weekend. In its 15-8 loss to Princeton on Saturday, Brown led Princeton 2-1 in the first quarter before watching the Tigers make an impressive 10-0 run. But when Brown ended the onslaught of Princeton goals, it did so with a vengeance — the Bears scored two goals in 10 seconds and then three in 31 seconds, but it was too late. If Brown intends to stay in the top half of the league, it needs to work on a more concentrated and consistent offensive drive.

Penn (5-3, 1-2) Penn was unable to keep its conference record above .500 after a tough OT loss to a struggling Yale squad last weekend.

The Quakers were outshot by Yale 27-40 for the game, and if Penn wants to prevent a drop in Ivy standings, it will need to seriously increase its offensive output.

Yale (4-3, 1-2) After dropping its first two conference games, including a close 9-10 loss to Princeton, Yale picked up its first Ivy win over Penn. If the Bulldogs can build on the momentum of the much-needed win, as well as the offensive prowess of Ivy League Co-Player of the Week Brandon Mangan, then Yale can make a jump in the standings over the next few weeks.

Dartmouth (2-6, 0-2) The Big Green not only sits at the bottom of the Ivy rankings but is also last in goals per game at 8.50, almost half of Cornell’s 14.70.

It doesn’t help that Dartmouth is on a four-game slide, and if it doesn’t pick up a win this weekend, its chance at making the Ivy tournament will essentially be over.

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