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Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Dr. Michael Gottlieb, the identifier of AIDS, will speak on lessons from the HIV epidemic. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

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ACADEMICS

Three win Hertz Fellowship By Monica Chon and Angela Wang senioir writer and staff writer

Three Princeton students were among 15 recipients of this year’s Hertz Foundation Fellowship, which supports doctoral research in the applied sciences. Aman Sinha ’13, Daniel Strouse GS and Amy Ousterhout ’13 were selected from over 700 applicants to receive the fellowship, which offers $250,000 to fund research leading to a Ph.D. Ousterhout, a computer science major from Palo Alto, Calif, is the second in her family to receive the Hertz Fellowship, following her sister Kay, who received the award in 2011. Ousterhout will pursue her doctorate in computer science at MIT next year. In her senior thesis, Ousterhout studied computer vision and developed technology capable of recognizing physical objects in visual data, such as Google Maps. Her research at MIT will explore computer networks, which she also researched as a junior. “I think they’re interesting because they affect a ton of people. Almost everyone uses networks on a daily basis,” she said. “I’m interested in improving networks and systems so

they can accommodate the changes that have occurred over the last 20 to 30 years to devices that people use.” Ousterhout was co-president of the Princeton Women in Computer Science, an Outdoor Action leader and a computer science lab teaching assistant. She is also a former executive web editor for The Daily Princetonian. Sinha said that news of the fellowship will probably “settle in a little more” once he turns in his thesis on May 2. Sinha, a mechanical and aerospace engineer from Ivyland, Penn., is examining decentralized control of network systems using a model inspired by biological and sociological models for how people interact. As a freshman and sophomore, Sinha was involved with the Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering group and became president of the Tau Beta Engineering Honor Society as a junior. Sinha is a fouryear Whitman resident and is involved with intramural soccer as well as peer tutoring for Whitman. After graduating from the University, Sinha will pursue a master’s of philosophy in engineering at the University See SCIENCE page 4

A HOLI CELEBRATION

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Students celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, with brightly colored paints in McCosh Courtyard on Wednesday afternoon. The event was organized by Princeton Hindu Satsangam.

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News & Notes Obama ’85 to speak at high school graduation first lady Michelle Obama ’85 will be the commencement speaker for Nashville public high school Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet School’s graduation on May 17, NewsChannel5.com reported. The official announcement of the school’s commencement speaker will take place early Thursday morning. Graduation will be held at Tennessee State University’s Gentry Center. Obama has visited Nashville several times throughout her husband’s presidency, most recently in June 2012 to speak at the African Methodist Episcopal Church’s general conference. Obama has spoken at numerous school graduations in the past. Last year, she delivered the commencement address at Ohio State University and Virginia Tech, as well as Oregon State University, where her brother Craig Robinson ’83 is the basketball coach. In 2011, she spoke to Spelman College and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

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Xiaoyu Pu gives a talk titled “Why China Still Can’t Have It All” in Robertson Hall on Wednesday.

The Princeton Council is in the process of negotiating a separation agreement with Princeton Police Chief David Dudeck following two closed sessions held on Monday evening. “It is not a retirement package,” Town Administrator Bob Bruschi said Tuesday. “There is no financial incentive being provided for David to retire. It is a separation agreement that allows the structuring of the time he has on the books in such a way that there is some mutual benefit.” The town is currently

waiting for a response from Dudeck regarding the separation agreement, Bruschi added, although he noted that this means they have not yet reached a resolution. “We are trying to deal with this expeditiously,” councilwoman and public safety subcommittee member Heather Howard said. “We hope to have this resolved shortly.” Howard is currently a lecturer in public affairs at the Wilson School. Councilwoman Jo Butler also said that no resolution to the matter was made on Monday. Dudeck has been out See DUDECK page 3

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

STUDENT LIFE

BEE Team gets two new Q&A: Jackson GS ’86 talks EPA hives after winter loss By Lydia Lim

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The Princeton BEE Team’s two hives are now up and running after the club lost both of them last winter to what an expert said might have been a parasite called the Varroa mite. With help from faculty adviser Bob Harris, a visiting civil and environmental engineering lecturer, the club installed its new hives on April 1, BEE Team president Ben Denzer ’15 said. Denzer explained that the queen was stored in her own box separate from the other bees because the other bees might attack and kill her before coming to accept her as their queen. The queen was released out of her box on April 4, and a visit on

Monday established that the queen is well and laying eggs. “The bees may not be at 100 percent yet,” he said, “but they’re healthy and they’re growing. To reduce the possibility of future hive loss, the club will medicate its bees to prevent the growth of parasites, BEE Team administrator Nadirah Mansour ’14 said. Chemical treatments like ApiGuard are used to control Varroa mite populations in honeybee colonies. The die-off of the BEE Team’s hives occurred after an especially bad year for American beekeepers. In 2012, it is estimated that hive losses, which normally strike about 5 to 10 percent of the total number of bees See COLONY page 5

Lisa Jackson GS ’86, who served as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2009 to 2013, came to campus to speak publicly about the “unfinished business” of the environmental movement. She spoke with The Daily Princetonian, sharing her ref lections on her time at the EPA and her plans for the future. The Daily Princetonian: How have you been enjoying your time off? Lisa Jackson: It has been wonderful. I’ve been making jokes, but it was a little bit of D.C. detox, is what I’ve been calling the program, just some time to sort of take time away from it, which allows you to ref lect on it, al-

lows you to refocus and eventually re-engage. DP: What’s it like to be back on campus? LJ: It’s always good to come back to Princeton. I’ve been very grateful to President Tilghman who, I think, through her efforts to reach out to women [alumni] and larger numbers of [alumni]. And really, I’m a part of that effort, and so it’s been wonderful to reconnect with the alma mater and to be able to do so with the community here, the Woodrow Wilson school and the Andlinger Center, doing exactly the kind of work that I’ve been working on in the policy arena, has been fun. DP: What accomplishments at the EPA are you most proud of? LJ: When you look back at the four years, I’d like to cite

two, and they are very different in many ways. The first is a scientific finding that led to major policy changes, so it’s sort of that sweet spot of science and forming policy. The endangerment finding, the scientific finding that I was able to sign in December 2009, found that emissions of greenhouse gases are endangering public health and welfare. The finding itself was a scientific one, but because of the way the Clean Air Act is written, the finding is the basis for action. Once EPA makes a finding that a pollutant is actually endangering public health and welfare, EPA is obligated to act to address it. So the president’s clean car standards are based on that finding, and any future regulation of power plants for greenhouse gases would See ALUMNA page 2

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be based on that finding. And the second one is totally different. One of our several priorities was expanding the conversation on the environment and working for environmental justice. It was essentially the idea that the environment was from the start a populace movement: It was built on listening to and activating the concerns of the American people about the safety and health of their environment, the cleanliness of our water or air. My belief is — and I think many people agree now — that broadening the basis for environmental issues is extremely important. This includes bringing new voices into the coalition, committees of color, communities that might be marginalized, and also, everyday people who might not say, ‘I’m an environmentalist,’ but who respond and resonate when they hear how environmental issues affect their prosperity and their health.

DP: In December, the Washington Post reported that your name was f loated as a potential candidate for the Princeton presidency. What was your reaction to this article? LJ: I smiled. Who wouldn’t smile at humor like that? It’s certainly not a bad thing to

“I think Princeton has some great [Presidential] candidates, and so, as flattered as I am, I don’t think that’s the likely next thing for me.” Lisa Jackson GS ’86 be thought of as among the core people that would ever even be considered, so it’s lovely. But I knew then that it

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was just speculation. DP: Would you potentially be interested in the Princeton presidency? LJ: I think Princeton has some great candidates and so, as f lattered as I am, I don’t think that’s the likely next thing for me. That’s not because of the lack of care and concern for this university. I hope to be able to, in my now post-public service time, try to be impactful on the community and helpful to it. DP: What is your opinion on the articles recently published by Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 and Susan Patton ’77? LJ: I definitely read Slaughter’s. I haven’t read Patton’s. I can’t believe it, so I’m not going to comment on them except to say that it’s just funny to me that those are the loudest discussions coming out of this campus right now. Maybe it’s just some pent-up things people have needed to say but I’ve got a feeling that Princeton women and men can speak for themselves on those issues. DP: What’s one part of your

a truck operated by Predator Trucking Company caught fire on Route 206 on Wednesday afternoon, Princeton Patch reported. The fire forced police to close the road for over two hours. Princeton Police received multiple emergency calls reporting the tractor trailer on fire a little after 1 p.m. Officers found that the truck had ignited while transporting scrap metal and had been abandoned by its driver. Route 206 remained closed between Hutchinson Drive and Lovers Lane, diverting drivers to Mercer Street. Princeton Fire Department, Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad, PSE&G and Trenton Hazmat responded to the scene.

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DP: Where do you see yourself going after your time off? Have you received any other offers for the future? LJ: I’m hoping that I’ll be making some decisions and then some announcements. Or at least, decisions. I don’t

“My belief is ... that broadening the basis for environmental issues is extremely important.” Lisa Jackson GS ’86 know if we’ll be doing formal announcements, and I’ll sort of decide on the path forward in the next weeks, so more to come. DP: Has anyone from the Princeton presidential search committee contacted you? LJ: [Laughs] Yes, but that

is an unfair question. I was honored as many Princeton [alumni] were to have a chance to talk to the members of the community. They did a nice sweep in Washington — just gauging from alumni — and it was just an honor that they came to talk to me, [saying,] “What do you think is important in the next president?” And I know they were very involved in doing that with students as well. So kudos to them on the process, which is very open and participatory. But it makes it sound different than it is to say ‘Yes, I was contacted,’ because that was the nature of it. DP: Do you see yourself getting more involved in New Jersey politics? LJ: You know, you never say never, but right now, the issues that I have given my career to thus far, which are the environment and the broader issue of sustainability, are the ones that animate me. And so I know that anything I do next is going to be about those issues because I think they’re vitally important to our health and our economy and our future as a country.

News & Notes Vehicle fire forces police to close Route 206

Huiwen Ji GS speaks about religious persecution in China at Princeton Students for Human Rights in China’s screening of “Free China.”

agenda you weren’t able to accomplish as EPA administrator that you wish you had? LJ: Part of the decision [I made] with the president about timing and leaving is being able to reconcile yourself with the fact that it’s a road and a journey, it’s not a destination … And so I wish the president’s nominee, Gina McCarthy, all the best — another woman from a neighboring state. I can name any number of things, but if I were staying, I know that the priorities would switch. We would continually work to broaden the conversation and bring more people into working with the environment and giving communities voices at the table. Some of [the challenges] were fiscal, obviously. [Washington’s] convulsions around sequestration make it difficult. So the only thing, in some ways, I regret is more that the agency is going through — like much of federal government — tough times. I worked there for 22plus years altogether, and you think of your colleagues and former colleagues and you just wish them well as they go through this time.

TCNJ student reported missing on Tuesday

a senior from The College of New Jersey in Ewing, N.J. was reported missing on Tuesday. Paige Aiello, a member of the TCNJ women’s tennis team, was last seen on Tuesday at 1 p.m. according to the Hillsborough police, the Times of Trenton reported. Aiello is a resident of Hillsborough, N.J. Aiello’s parents, who were the last people to see her, reported her missing, TCNJ’s Vice President for College Relations and Advancement Matt Golden told the Times. She was on campus on Tuesday morning, then left Ewing. The Hillsborough police told the Times that there were no signs of foul play, but declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.

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of the office since Feb. 26, when accusations of administrative misconduct were raised against him. The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office is also reviewing the allegations. Since the case was leaked to the local press, local officials have not released many details about the case and Dudeck has not returned voice mails left on his cell phone. Meanwhile, Dudeck, an alumnus and longtime head football coach at the Hun School of Princeton, is still coaching at the Hun School despite the allegations against him, a school official confirmed. The school’s communica-

“It is not a retirement package ... There is no financial incentive being provided for David to retire.” Bob Bruschi

garding Dudeck, but the statement did not address

whether he was currently coaching students. Hun School Director of Communications and Marketing Maureen Leming declined to comment beyond the statement when reached Wednesday and did not provide a copy of the statement to The Daily Princetonian despite repeated requests. “We are aware of the allegations of misconduct against Dave Dudeck in his role as Princeton Police Chief,” part of the statement read, according to Princeton Patch. “Our expectation is that every member of our staff conducts himself with honor on and off campus. Because we have no first-hand knowledge of the allegations, we await the outcome of the current process.”

Captain Nick Sutter, who is the next in command at the police department and is currently handling all matters of the department, said that there is no indication that he would take the position of full time chief once Dudeck leaves the department. He declined to comment on the potential separation agreement. Dudeck has served on the Princeton police force since 1983 and was designated the chief of the Borough police department in 2009. He became chief of the consolidated police department this year following consolidation. As of now, Dudeck’s absence from the department totals over six weeks and it is unclear whether he will return to his post.

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BIOETHICS PAST & PRESENT

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John Evans of the University of California, San Diego and Elizabeth Chiarello, a postdoctoral fellow in the Wilson School, take part in “The History and Future of Bioethics,” an Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminar.

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of Cambridge for a year on a Churchill Scholarship. He will specialize in the field of information engineering, which he explained deals with how we “understand, manipulate and learn from large data sets.” Sinha said he will use the Hertz fellowship post-Cambridge by pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University. “It was a really tough choice,” Sinha noted on choosing where to go for his Ph.D. studies. “I thought Stanford was the best fit in terms of the research program and the general environment.” Sinha, who said he would like to merge academic research with applied possibilities in the tech industry, said he views the merging of academia with industry as natural. “You’re not going to just be doing stuff in a darkroom staring at books. All of these problems that people are looking at are motivated by things people actually care about,“ he noted. Strouse, a first-year Ph.D candidate in physics from Newark, Del., said he received an email last week that notified him of his selection. “I couldn’t breathe. I just started jumping up and down,” he said. Before coming to Princeton, Strouse studied physics as an undergraduate at the University of Southern California and re-

ceived his master’s degree from the University of Cambridge on a Churchill Scholarship. He said that the application process for the Hertz Fellowship was very unique in its tworound interview component in addition to required essays and letters of recommendation. “They want to see how you think on the fly, so they’ll often give you tricky puzzle problems that you may not solve on your own necessarily right away. They want to watch you think,“ Strouse said. “I actually found the process to be a lot of fun.” Strouse plans to study the biological processes that occur in the brain when people make predictions and inferences. He said he hopes to develop a set of laws or core principles to create a simple explanation of biology. “The more we learn about biological systems and, in particular the brain, the better we’ll be at fighting different kinds of diseases or learning from biology and designing our own machines,” he said. In addition to the monetary support of $250,000 per fellow, the fellowship also has a strong alumni network. “The Hertz foundation does a great job getting current and past fellows together to discuss scientific and engineering issues,” Strouse said. “I’m really looking forward to meeting a lot of great scientists and engineers across many different disciplines and seeing what they’re doing. I think it’ll be a lot of fun in that regard as well.”

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The FUSE Dance Collective rehearses for its spring choreographers’ showcase, ‘7 Happenings,’ in the Hagan Dance Studio at 185 Nassau.

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The FUSE Dance Collective showcase will feature work by Tess Bernhard ’14, AJ Brannum ’13, Casey Brown ’14, Patty Chen ’11, Grace Li ’14, Nicole Sato ’14 and Aminata Seydi ’14.

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kept nationally, eliminated nearly one third of the total bee population kept in American hives. The BEE Team’s losses could be a part of this national trend, but may not be exactly the same, according to Penn State entomologist Elina Lastro Nino, who visited the BEE Team’s hives in late February. During her visit, she determined that the Varroa mite may have caused the die-off. “It’s really not well understood what’s going on,” Nino said of the possible reasons for the heavy losses beekeepers sustained in 2012.

“Honeybees face so many issues that it could be any one of them, or, what is most likely, a combination of all of them.” Mansour said she believed that the BEE Team’s losses were likely due to factors specific to the Princeton area, rather than to any national die-off trend. These factors included mites, which she said were problematic this year, as well as a shortage of medication. Mansour added that the club had not lost a hive prior to this year and that it is normal for a beekeeper to lose hives. “We’ve taken good care of them for a while,” she said, referring to the bees, “and it’s sort of natural for them to die off.”

Both Denzer and Mansour said that the die-off has not significantly impacted the activities hosted by the club. As the club members do not wish to harm the bees by exposing them to the cold, they said, the club does not usually take people around the hives during winter. However, Mansour said that the club will not be harvesting any honey this year. This year’s harvest will instead be used to feed the young hive, she added. The BEE Team is a studentrun organization that was founded in 2009 with one colony and has since expanded to include two colonies. In addition to hive visits, the club organizes events such as

honey-making sessions and movie nights. Even though the club lost both of its hives this year, Denzer said that the die-off has, in a way, been beneficial to the club. He explained that prior to the die-off few members of the team had experience with building a hive. Furthermore, the die-off has helped spread awareness of the club and its activities, he said. “That’s really what this club is all about,” Denzer explained. “Giving students an opportunity to learn about bees as an interesting insect that is integral to our lives and to give them hands-on beekeeping experience that they can use in the future.”

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James Di Palma-Grisi columnist

Genetic fatalism in mental disorders

n the spirit of keeping the conversation on mental health going, I would like to draw your attention to the way we think about genetic-based serious mental illnesses. These illnesses, as a class, involve the most psychologically intrusive disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. In the treatment of SMIs, it is at times appropriate to prescribe medications and institutionalize patients without their consent. The resistance to being treated, the argument goes, is a symptom of the disorder — a patient would want treatment if that mental disorder weren’t clouding his or her judgment. There’s even a name for it: anosognosia, not understanding that one has a mental disorder. Indeed this lack of awareness is the major dividing line between credible refusal and symptomatic delusion. Someone in possession of self-awareness, however, is considered by practitioners to have “insight.” While a prerequisite to writing advance directives, insight is also critical to active management of disorders, which can affect patient outcomes to a greater extent than the insight/anosognosia divide might suggest. Elyn Saks, a professor at the USC Gould School of Law, who has schizophrenia, collected management strategies from several dozen schizophrenia patients. The strategies, mostly thematic, vary with the individual person and the individual case of schizophrenia. One common strategy is to restrict the amount of sensory input that flows into the schizophrenic brain. One patient had no decorated walls, loud music or television in his home. Another deliberately listened to loud music to drown out his hallucinations. Would both of these strategies work in either patient? While genetics are the first mover, SMIs in particular interact with an individual psyche, and how that psyche respond — either tempering, shouting down, or tiptoeing around — will vary by person and, in principle, by disease case, as there is no one genetic cause of schizophrenia. The study of these disorders often stops at the psychology 200-level, and some freshmen seminars offer mental health-related topics. Seeing themselves in a broader social context is helpful, whether through work or faith. Perceiving value of oneself and depersonalization can oppose symptoms or subsume the patient to a larger, less personal structure and self-image. One can easily imagine the role stigma, including on this campus, would play in alienation (and the subsequent worsening of symptoms) of patients with SMIs. Steps can be taken at the societal level, too. The justice system in particular may be doing both harm and good when evaluating mental competency. Stressful situations and isolation are both major risk factors for bipolar disorder, and can cause or worsen intense episodes. For a school with a major policy focus, we ought to have a few campus organizations tailored to mental health and public policy. Just as SMIs interact with patients, the broader world interacts with the disorders. In one salient example, a patient with bipolar disorder, Linda Bishop, was arrested for drunk driving and imprisoned for eighteen months for refusing to pay a $500 bail. The stress and social isolation undoubtedly worsened her symptoms, and these triggers might have caused the judgment that she was mentally unfit for trial, since she was a border case before the driving incident. If mental disorders are thought of negatively, especially as signs of personal weakness, those with bipolar disorder might discredit diagnoses entirely or blame themselves, owing in part to the symptoms of mania and depression, respectively. For students grappling with these disorders, seeing SMIs as interacting with psychological persons can inform their own sense of place and responsibility. Indeed, stigma might be the toughest obstacle, paradoxically attributed both to the “sick person” with no control and the “weak-willed person” with total control. Ousting these images can only improve the lot of those suffering from SMIs. Inter-disciplinarily inclined students should be interested in a holistic survey course on the public perceptions of mental health — something which might serve as a bridge to the wider world of practical, nation-level studies for students accustomed to studying individual minds. Understanding SMIs as part of a larger personality, and personalities as part of a larger social context, is essential both for active management on the part of the patient and in forming a body politic versed enough in these public health problems to actively manage them. We have the good fortune to have a fully funded psychological counseling service for students, but other universities — simply google “In Sight, Out of Mind” for a particularly salient example — do not extend the same generosity. Nor do we go far enough in understanding these disorders for what they are — a missing piece in an otherwise equally complex and dynamic puzzle. James Di Palma-Grisi is a psychology major from Glen Rock, N.J. He can be reached at jdi@ princeton.edu.

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Picking Princetonians Richard Daker Columnist

he admission officers here do not have an easy job. They are charged with the task of sifting through thousands of applications and admitting just a sliver of the total applicant pool. The goal of this process is to make sure that the next class to grace the lecture halls of Princeton is the very best that it can be. There are different conceptions of what the makeup of this “best” possible class would be like, but I don’t think it would be wrong to say that the goal of the admission officers over in West College should be to admit a class that creates the best possible academic environment on campus — one in which students learn best together and engage in meaningful discussion. If there is any truth to the common saying that much of what we learn in college is from our classmates, then the people that we attend college with are going to have a large impact on what we’re going to get out of our four years. There is a bit of controversy, however, over just what it is that admission offices should be looking for when selecting an incoming class. If creating the ideal intellectual community is the goal, how should that goal be achieved? Princeton and peer universities seem to operate under the assumption that the best academic environment will be created by striving for a certain amount of intellectual diversity on campus. They seem to believe, as I do, that one of the best ways to attain this intellectual diversity is to admit students with diverse backgrounds: our experiences in life seem inextricably tied to the beliefs we hold and the lenses through which we see the world, so diversity of backgrounds seems like it should lead to intellectual diversity in a rather direct

way. The university clearly sees the good in admitting a diverse array of students, as evidenced both implicitly by its commitment to diversity in admission and explicitly by encouraging new students to ensure that they “encounter ‘the other’ ” during their time here. Considering the backgrounds of applicants remains a very controversial practice, however. There are many opponents to the practice of incorporating diversity into admissions decisions (including the high school senior who penned the recent Wall Street Journal op-ed “To (All) The Colleges That Rejected Me”), believing that the fairest way to admit a class is by focusing not on the backgrounds of the applicants at all, but solely on the credentials. And on the surface, this seems like a fairly intuitive way to create the best possible class; admitting the students with the most impressive credentials seems like it would lead to the creation of an ideal intellectual environment. A completely merit-based system of admission would not achieve this goal better than one that takes applicants’ backgrounds into consideration, however, precisely because there would be no plausible way to ensure the degree of intellectual diversity that is necessary for a good academic culture on campus. Admitting the 1,300 brightest students in the nation is not going to create an ideal intellectual environment if they are all from the same geographical, socioeconomic and racial background. Such a class would likely engage in very lively and meaningful discussion with one another and they would certainly learn quite a bit, but they would always be lacking the type of different perspectives on the world that can only come from students with different backgrounds.

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Incorporating diversity in the college admissions process implies the need for an affirmative action policy or something similar to it. Some people see such policies as unfair, and the term “victim of affirmative action” is not an uncommon one. However, in a process like college admissions, there can be no “victims”, at least when applying to a highly-selective university like Princeton. When high school seniors apply to selective universities, they know very well that not every qualified applicant will be accepted. Princeton didn’t reject 92.7 percent of its applicants this year because none of them would be able to hack it here. To claim that some of these rejected students are “victims” of the college admissions process is to assume that certain students are entitled to acceptance. This is simply not the case. Applying to college with an impressive resume grants you a great opportunity to be admitted, but by no means is it accompanied by any guarantee. Claiming that you are a victim of affirmative action is to assume that you had some sort of special entitlement to acceptance that you were denied, but no such entitlement ever existed. One thing that we should remember is that there is a difference between admitting a student and admitting a class. Each student who receives an acceptance letter does so because they have something that they can contribute to their class, and a unique perspective can be more valuable than a higher high school grade point average. When considering college admissions, it is important to realize that the value of a class is worth more than the sum of its SAT scores. Richard Daker is a sophomore from Evergreen Park, Ill. He can be reached at rdaker@princeton.edu.

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In support of the New Jersey Opportunity to Compete Act Filipa Ioannou

Guest contributer

ast week, my Facebook newsfeed transformed as dozens of friends changed their profile pictures to the red equals-sign graphic, indicating their support of marriage equality. There are some issues — like marriage equality, fossil fuel divestment or even the muchderided Kony 2012 — that naturally find their footing as critical issues within youth consciousness. Other issues, like the staggering rates of mass incarceration and recidivism, fail to gain the same kind of traction because they lack visibility. But that’s unacceptable. It’s no secret that we lead busy lives here at Princeton. And though many students try nobly to engage with the world beyond the FitzRandolph Gates, it’s easy to shut out the issues that don’t seem to affect us directly. I’d like to take this space to challenge the idea that mass incarceration

doesn’t affect us, and to advocate for the New Jersey Opportunity to Compete Act, informally known as Ban the Box. But first, a few questions: Have you ever purchased or possessed alcohol before the age of 21? Do you have any friends who have? While Princeton’s campus has — in a way — insulated us from the repercussions of criminal activity, it’s important to remember that under different circumstances, we could find ourselves facing criminal charges for the kinds of activities we practice routinely and without fear. It’s important to remember, too, that not all young adults are presented with these same favorable circumstances. Perhaps then, we should question whether the very first thing an employer should know about you is your status, in the eyes of the law, as a criminal. Ban the Box, so called because it seeks to remove the checkbox asking job applicants about past low-level criminal convictions from job applications, is an act that will come before the New

Jersey Legislature in early May. Ban the Box seeks to decrease barriers to employment opportunities and thus break the cycle in which doors to reentry are closed before they can even meaningfully be opened for individuals convicted of nonviolent crimes. Background checks could and would still be conducted after conditional offers of employment were made to job applicants, but applicants could first be evaluated on their merits and credentials. We need to support this legislation both because of our closeness to it and because of our distance from it. I know that as a white female, it is unlikely that I will be stopped and frisked on the subway when I go home, pulled over when I drive a car or be selected for random search. I know that I occupy a world that allows these problems to remain largely out of sight and out of mind. Privilege is about the ability to not think about things if we choose not to. We should support the New Jersey Opportunity to Compete

Act, and others like it — as future members of the workforce, as taxpayers and as people conscientious of the fact that we are products of the opportunities that we have been afforded and the mistakes we haven’t been penalized for. High recidivism rates do not benefit anyone. This legislation can’t and won’t solve all the problems of our justice system. It won’t fix the fact that though white Americans use drugs at 10 times the rate that African Americans do, African Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses ten times as frequently. It won’t change the fact that there are individuals in this country serving life sentences for nonviolent crimes, or that of the 2.3 million Americans currently serving time in prison, over half are there for nonviolent crimes, or that a year in prison costs as much as a year at Princeton. But it’s a start. Filipa Ioannou is a sophomore from New York, N.Y involved in the Ban the Box NJ campaign. She can be

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ratified yet, Kosk is optimistic this ratification will happen soon. “We’ve been in close contact with Mitch Reum, the club sports director,” Kosk said. “We just had a meeting last Tuesday and the ratification of club croquet is basically guaranteed.” The two requirements for a club sport to be ratified are a national governing body and the presence of enough competition. Kosk said they “found both in the U.S. Croquet Association, which tracks competing collegiate teams and hosts a professional tournament each year in Palm Springs.”

The team will be competing in a semi-national tournament at SUNY New Paltz on April 20 and at Nationals at Haverford on April 27. Kosk says that the team is excited to get into the heart of real competition. The fact that such a young and new team is competing in Nationals is no small story. Kosk says they were asked to compete not only because the team has extensive croquet experience, but also because of “the historical tradition of croquet at Princeton.” These croquet enthusiasts are not only bringing a fun activity to campus, but also an old Princetonian tradition. The team is currently holding practices in the Forbes backyard, which is not regulation size and definitely not an

ideal practice space. However, the team is keeping a positive attitude. “Though the field is not perfect by any means, it provides a great opportunity to practice our strategy, which is without a doubt the key to success in the sport,” Kosk said, also adding that when the team gets some new equipment, they might shift practices to the field hockey field. Kosk and Vasquez have brought something new and lively to the Princeton club sports scene with their club croquet team, and they hope it will only become more popular. They will go on the road to play in semi-nationals and Nationals over the next few weeks in their first real competition against other schools.

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Tiger rally falls short at No. 1 Maryland By Jay Dessy staff writer

Going on the road to face the number one team in the country is never an easy task, but the women’s lacrosse team could not have picked a better point in their season to give it a shot. Princeton (7-4 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) came into Wednesday night’s game on a four-game winning MARYLAND 15 streak, PRINCETON 9 with two victories coming against teams ranked in the top 12. The Tigers’ offense has been the key over the streak, taking the life out of the other team with streaks of four, five or six goals at a time. Down 9-2 heading out of halftime, the Tigers needed to play their best 30 minutes of the season to come back against an experienced Maryland squad (15-0, 4-0 ACC). Princeton began to chip away at the lead with goals from junior midfielder Sarah Lloyd and senior attackers Sam Ellis and Jaci Gassaway. The Tigers closed the lead to 10-6 before junior goalie Caroline Franke surrendered another goal. “We started winning the draw controls” head coach

Chris Sailer said. “We were working well in our offense sets, opening up good looks, shooting well and controlling the ball. We started doing the things that we hadn’t done in the first half.” But the Terrapins’ first half lead proved too large to overcome. Maryland outplayed Princeton in nearly every aspect of the game in the first, but what stood out most was the shot ratio: 19 to seven in favor of the Terrapins. The Tigers played sloppily with nine first half turnovers, compared with Maryland’s two. “We didn’t adjust quickly enough to the pace that they were moving the ball and making cuts. It says a lot about the athleticism of their team. They got some great outside looks, while we were not efficient enough with the ball. We weren’t playing with the confidence that we needed,” Sailer said. Princeton hung with the number one team in the country for the entire second half, outscoring Maryland 7-6. Franke made seven saves in the half, adding on to six from the first. Another highlight for the Tigers was two-time Ivy League Offensive Player of

the Week sophomore attack Erin McMunn, who had two goals and two assists. McMunn also had nine draws, which helped spark Princeton’s momentum in the second half. McMunn is the team’s leading scorer with 28 goals and 21 assists on the season. Maryland came into Wednesday fresh from its biggest win of the season, defeating the second ranked North Carolina Tar Heels 1413. The Terrapins have maintained the top spot in the IWLCA rankings all season long. Princeton, meanwhile, looks ahead to some favorable Ivy League matchups. They face Harvard this weekend, followed by matchups against Penn and Dartmouth. Sailer is optimistic going forward. She plans to work on the areas that have provided some difficulty for the Tigers against Maryland: turnovers, ground balls and getting quality shots. “We know we can play better than we did,” Sailer said. “The bottom line is that we have to get out there and do it. We will see if we are lucky enough to play them again. Can we do it? Yes.”

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The men’s lacrosse team is 7-3 (2-1 Ivy League) and has played a lot of close games this season. Despite starting the season with a totally new defense, its only losses have come by one point to ranked teams. The Tigers’ average margin of victory has been noticeably decreasing over the last few seasons.

Freshmen start croquet club By Tobias Citron senior writer

New clubs and organizations seem to pop up just about every day. For freshmen (and the prefrosh who will be on campus this weekend), walking into Dillon Gymnasium for the Activities Fair and seeing the wide variety of extracurricular options available can be overwhelming. However, despite the wide variety of opportunities Princeton clubs offer, several freshmen saw a glaring hole in the list of club teams that needed to be filled. Freshmen Mike Kosk and Ethan Vasquez decided to take it upon themselves to fix this by founding the Princeton Croquet Club. “I played a considerable amount of croquet with my family,” Kosk said on how he got into the sport. “Their lack of ability for most normal sports naturally drew them to games and sports of strategy. For as long as I can remember, I played backyard croquet with them.” The idea to start the club came to Kosk and Vasquez because of a strong desire to play a competitive sport at Princeton. Vasquez competed in croquet before going off to college, and he wanted to engage in a sport competitively. The two friends took up squash when they got on campus, attempting to join the club team. However, according to Kosk, this attempt was unfulfilling. “Ironically the idea of club croquet came up when my close friends and I all decided to take up squash as a sport here at Princeton,” he said. “We tried joining club squash but were turned off by the dues and lack of a club culture, which rugby or club soccer have.” Croquet became an option for them as an alternative to squash. It was initially a joke, but progressively became a serious idea.The combination of a lack of excitement about other club sports and the fond memories of these friends’ personal experiences has led to the founding of the Princeton croquet club, which currently has six members. Although the club has not been See CROQUET page 7

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