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Today on Campus 8:00 p.m. The Taiwanese American Students’ Association presents its annual Night Market. East Pyne courtyard.

In Opinion Columnist Tehila Wenger suggests improvements to Orange Key tours, and Columnist Susannah Sharpless reflects on Princeton Preview. PAGE 4

On the Blog Columnist Conversations: Does Preview mislead prospective students?

On the Blog Rachel Klebanov spotlights DJ MORRI$, who performed at Terrace Club on Thursday.

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Bowen GS ’58 suggests online courses

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SHARE hosts focus groups

By Anna Mazarakis staff writer

By Sarah Cen staff writer

University president emeritus William Bowen GS ’58 published a book this month arguing that the growing costs of higher education, caused by inefficient academic structures and competition from wealthier universities, could be addressed by cost-cutting measures like a greater reliance on online courses. In “Higher Education in the Digital Age,” he writes that rising expenses have caused a greater stratification among educational institutions, with wealthier institutions like Princeton at the top of the heap. But now the University may be helping to close the gap described

by Bowen by seeking to develop online courses that other institutions may offer for credit.

In his book, Bowen argues that the overarching problem of the labor-intensive education sector is that educational institutions cannot simply increase productivity by replacing human labor with capital — a phenomenon he terms the “cost disease.” Yet because the cost of employing competent professors, See COURSERA page 2

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Nihar Madhavan ’15 dons spirit stripes to welcome admitted students.

STUDENT LIFE

ICC releases results of Bicker survey

By Seth Merkin Morokoff contributor

Based on a recent survey of sophomores who participated in the eating club admission process this year, the Interclub Council will work in conjunction with the Graduate Interclub Council — a committee consisting of the presidents of each eating club’s graduate board — to create a new website that will

aggregate certain information about each eating club.

This information will reflect what survey respondents felt would prove most useful for future participants in the process. The club presidents discussed the results in a meeting on April 3.

A hundred and ninety-five of the 1,096 sophomores who registered on the new ICC website took the survey. Of this number, 78 percent re-

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have not planned any other reforms as of yet.”

The ICC plans to complete the website before rising sophomores begin the eating club admission process, according to Clegg. The new site will include updated information on the six areas that respondents most frequently marked when asked what additional information they would have found helpful See PROSPECT page 3

Identifier of AIDS talks today’s political response

By Michael Granovetter senior writer

Chamber of Commerce to redesign Nassau Street kiosk

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sponded that a website would function as the most useful forum to learn more about the eating clubs, according to the press release.

“We thought the most important takeaway from the survey was definitely the request for a central website that has all of the information,” ICC president Connor Clegg ’14 noted. “We’ll definitely be moving towards that. Other than that, we BEYOND THE BUBBLE

News & Notes the princeton regional chamber of commerce will redesign and maintain the message board kiosk on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon Streets this summer as part of a compromise between local officials, the Princeton Packet reported.

Chamber president and CEO Peter Crowley told the town council that the town’s kiosks are in “serious need of being cleaned up.”

The chamber requested to manage the kiosks and monitor their notices through public posting, municipal information and paid advertisements.

The chamber estimated the upgrades would cost $15,000 to $20,000.

With the six-member council split on the plan, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert proposed that the chamber fix one of the two kiosks on Nassau Street.

The other, located in front of the Garden Theatre, will remain the responsibility of the town.

The chamber proposed to pay a $1-a-year lease to the town on the kiosk.

Princeton’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education program hosted a session of focus groups on April 2 to get student feedback on a new online orientation program about sexual harassment and prevention for incoming students.

SHARE director Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse said the focus groups were part of a partnership between the SHARE office and the Equal Opportunity Programs office, run by director Cheri Lawson.

Much like the current AlcoholEdu program that all students must complete before arriving on campus

freshman year, the SHARE program would educate students about sexual assault issues.

The focus group was held in order to get student feedback on whether the program would be effective and which out of three potential programs were the best.

“There are two major factors to consider,” DeitchStackhouse said. “Is the content something we want to put forward, [and] is it of value to our students? And the other major factor is, are students likely to engage with that online training to the extent that they can get something from it? So we have to sort of make a call that looks at all of this.”

To form the focus group, See PREORIENTATION page 3

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The former Frick Laboratory will be renovated to house the economics department and other programs.

University plans to remodel old Frick

By Austin Lee staff writer

The University is preparing to renovate the former Frick Laboratory at 20 Washington Road and convert it into a center for the economics department and various international programs.

The project, slated for completion and occupancy by fall 2016, will entail a complete remodeling of the interior, University Architect Ron McCoy said. The entire building will be stripped down to its concrete frame — with the exception of two heritage rooms with historic detailing, the entrance lobby and a library — and the external walls of the building

will be restored to ensure that it is functionally sound.

“We’re going to retain those two rooms — the heritage rooms — and the rest of the building gets gutted to its concrete frame,” McCoy said.

The redesigned building will be transformed to include two large atria, McCoy said, which will serve as entrance rooms and hubs for the entire building, alongside a variety of new rooms. Three glass pavilions will also be added to the rooftop of the building to serve as seminar rooms, and two additional main entrances facing Shapiro Walk and Scudder Plaza will be created.

“It’s the equivalent of building a new building,” University

President Shirley Tilghman said. The original building opened in 1929.

The project has recently completed the design development phase, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said, and the University is now in the process of completing its construction documents. This stage should be completed by late summer, Mbugua said, and construction is projected to begin in January of 2014.

The renovation cost would be in the neighborhood of $150 million to $160 million, Tilghman said. Some gifts are being raised for the project, with the rest to be covered by the University’s 10-year Capital See RENOVATION page 3

Dr. Michael Gottlieb, the first identifier of AIDS, discussed the evolution of public opinion and political response to the disease in a packed Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall on Thursday afternoon.

Gottlieb made the first AIDS diagnosis in 1981, a time when the identification of new diseases was not a high priority for the American public, he said.

Gottlieb noted that many people can remember where they were when they first learned about AIDS, adding, “There was something mysterious and ominous about it.”

Gottlieb emphasized that

scientists at the time understood the risks of the growing AIDS epidemic and discussed the obstacles in the way of swaying public opinion.

“Even though the public has general faith in science and supports biomedical research with tax dollars, people also have conf licting fears and biases,” he said.

“And politicians are highly sensitive to the emotions of the folks who elect them.”

Gottlieb discussed the government’s failure to adequately address the growing AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. He noted that he waited seven years to hear President Ronald Reagan mention the disease in public, and he said that several See DISEASE page 2

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Michael Gottlieb, who identified AIDS, spoke on campus on Thursday.

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for example, remains high, spending at these institutions rises.

In addition to these inefficiencies in the academic structures, such as universities’ inability to shift faculty between fields and the maintenance of outdated programs, cost pressures can also come from the competition between colleges, which drives up spending in the name of educational excellence. Wealthier institutions, Bowen writes, can afford these costs, but their actions put pressure on other institutions lacking adequate revenue to also increase spending.

Bowen addresses the “cost disease” by proposing that universities suffering from funding problems begin to offer online courses produced by other institutions, a move that, he argues, has the potential to reduce costs while preserving the quality of education.

These online courses would be produced by wealthier educational institutions, such as Princeton. The University currently partners with the online course producer Coursera to offer seven educational courses that are free and open to the public.

University Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said that the University’s partnership with Coursera resulted from an effort to increase the interaction between faculty and students.

“A lot of what we do with the online area is basically designed to increase that level of engagement,” Eisgruber said. “Our faculty who are involved with Coursera, for example, are delivering their lectures, but they’re delivering their lectures online with the goal of being more accessible to students and having

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more engagement in the actual classroom sessions that take place.”

In the fall of 2012, history professor Jeremy Adelman taught HIS 201: A History of the World Since 1300 through Coursera. In addition to his students at the University, international students watched his courses and participated in “global precepts” through a Google+ hangout.

Adelman said the use of the web allowed his students to better understand class material.

“The state university system is just under massive attack.”

William Bowen gs ’58 University President Emeritus

“What I wanted to do was bring the world into the course so that students would learn about the globe globally, opening up channels of communication with other students in the world,” he said.

But Bowen said in an interview that online learning requires careful consideration.

He explained that the current online courses are designed for individuals, not large institutions like a university.

Before adopting a policy of online education, information on the learning effectiveness of online courses and on its cost implications must be studied, he said.

For the University, implementing an online course program has increased spending by approximately $250,000 annually, according

to Eisgruber. He said that, at the University, he does not foresee online courses reducing spending because online courses will not serve to replace the classroom but, rather, to supplement it.

In 2000, Bowen delivered the Romanes Lecture in Oxford in which he argued against the use of online education to reduce costs and increase productivity. At that time, studies did not show an efficient application of technology to education, but Bowen said that he now supports a selective use of online education due to dramatic changes in the technology and education environments.

“One is tremendous improvements and advances in the technology,” he said, giving examples such as speed of communication, Internet access and social web interactions.

“The second thing that has changed is that there are far greater cost pressures on the educational system than there were when I had the Romanes Lecture,” he said. “The state university system is just under massive attack. Funding is being reduced while more is expected of these systems. They’ve just got to find more ways of doing more with less. And the pressure to do that is much greater now than it was 10 years ago.”

Dean of Faculty David Dobkin also said he believes that online education is rapidly changing, and the University’s current partnership with Coursera is experimental and not necessarily permanent.

“This is an experiment that Princeton seems to do every 10 years or so, and it fails,” Dobkin said. “I think it’s different this time, but I don’t think that we’ll think about online courses in 10 years the way we think about Coursera now.”

Dobkin said that the number of online course offerings will most likely remain the same next year and that the University’s use of online

education depends on the results of this experiment.

Should the cost of higher education continue to rise or be inadequately addressed, the United States will lose its position relative to other countries in educating its citizens in a highly competitive

“They’ve just got to find more ways of doing more with less.”

William Bowen gs ’58 University President Emeritus

world economy, Bowen said.

He explained that the second risk would be reducing the country’s ability to provide real social mobility. According to Bowen, the gap between the haves and have-nots would continue to widen and compromise the chance for the genuine equality of opportunity that — in the United States — relies on higher education.

Bowen served as University president from 1972 to 1988, after which he became president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a nonprofit corporation that provides grants for fields such as higher education and energy conservation. During this time, Bowen helped found JSTOR and Ithaka, partner organizations that use information technology to enhance research and education. He is currently on the board of trustees for both Ithaka and JSTOR. Bowen’s book was published by Princeton University Press on April 7 and is being sold for $26.95.

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of Reagan’s advisers had a religious-based bias against gay men. Instead of demonstrating compassion, they shunned victims of the disease, he said.

But Gottlieb also attributed this relatively slow advancement of AIDS treatment to a “social stigma” that he said existed in the public then and that continues to persist in some ways today. Now, he said, AIDS is not only perceived as a “gay disease” but also in parts of the United States as a “black disease.”

Gottlieb also discussed the positive lessons learned from the epidemic of a disease that was once considered untreatable. He attributed the advancements made in AIDS treatment to a “small community of committed activists.”

“It wouldn’t have happened without people lying in streets, chaining themselves to buildings [and] starting community-relief organizations,” he said, adding, “Silence did equal death in those days.”

The physician said that AIDS treatment in the United States and around the globe has made many advances. About a decade ago, he said, only a few HIV patients in Africa were being

treated, but today, nearly 8 million African AIDS victims receive medical attention.

At the same time, however, Gottlieb said that his audience should step out of the “media cocoon,” explaining that common public misconceptions exist as a result of the media’s silence on the subject.

“A little success can lead to a major loss of urgency.”

Michael Gottlieb Aids Researcher

“We’re now learning the dangers of complacency,” he said. “A little success can lead to a major loss of urgency.”

Gottlieb asked the audience to continue fighting the social stigma toward AIDS. “The hardest part is yet to come,” he said. “The fight to sustain, the fight to persevere will be longer and more challenging. Yet I think we can face these new challenges with optimism.”

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about the clubs, Clegg said.

The site will also provide a history of the eating clubs and general information on the process of joining, Clegg said.

Respondents most frequently indicated that they would have found information regarding each club’s policies on shared meal plans, details about meals, cost of membership dues, membership size, social activities and facilities most relevant to their decision to join a club.

Fewer than 20 percent of respondents requested more information regarding music

events, community service opportunities, computer facilities or intramural sports sponsored by each eating club.

Students could previously use the Princeton Prospect Foundation website as a resource to learn more about each eating club, but some of the information listed on the site was outdated, according to Clegg. The new informational website will remain separate from the ICC website that students use to indicate which club they would like to join during the actual selection process, Clegg said.

The ICC has not yet discussed whether the eating clubs will individually choose what information to share on

the website or whether the ICC would take a more central role in compiling each club’s information, Clegg added.

Forty-five percent of the survey’s respondents reported they would be more likely to participate in multi-club Bicker if all of the selective clubs joined the new system.

However, the ICC has not discussed instituting any changes besides creating the new website at this time, Clegg said.

“As we move forward, it will be each individual club’s choice to decide if they would like to participate [in multiclub Bicker],” Clegg said.

“With that said, all of the clubs are definitely behind

the broader ideal of distributing more information to the sophomores to make it a more welcoming atmosphere.”

Currently, of the six bicker clubs, only Tower Club and Ivy Club do not participate in multi-club Bicker. Tower president Doug Stuart ’14 declined to comment on the results of the survey, and Ivy president Thatcher Foster ’14 did not respond to a request for a comment.

Thirteen percent of survey respondents replied that the new eating club admission process made them more interested in joining a club.

Seventy-nine percent reported that their attitude remained unchanged by the new pro-

cess.

Of the respondents who reported they decided to bicker only one selective club, 56 percent said they did not participate in the multi-club Bicker process because they did not feel comfortable joining another club. Although those surveyed could select the response that they chose not to bicker two clubs under the new system because they were afraid it would hurt their chances of gaining admission to either — a belief that Clegg said is misguided — the ICC did not provide statistics on how many students chose this answer.

“The response was actually negligible. I’m not positive

about the actual percentages off of the top of my head, but it wasn’t enough to raise a horrible concern,” Clegg explained. “That said, we’re going to continue to get accurate information out there. That’s what the website is for.”

The survey also asked students if the possibility of bickering more than two clubs would make them more likely to participate in the multiclub Bicker process; however, the ICC did not provide information regarding their responses either.

“We included that out of interest,” Clegg said. “All avenues of change are open, but right now, the most concrete way is the website.”

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SHARE emailed student leaders on campus, including residential college advisers, athletic captains, eating club officers and USG members.

According to DeitchStackhouse, the student leaders were contacted as a follow-up to a lecture and training session with psychologist David Lisak last Sept. 27-28, when he met with key stakeholder groups on campus, including the seven student leaders in the SHARE focus group.

“Leaders tend to take a more active role and tend to be more responsive,” SHARE president Isabelle Laurenzi ’15 said with regard to why only student leaders were chosen to take part in the Lisak training session and subsequent focus group, adding that the leaders have a valuable perspective and opinion because they know the student body well. “It’s

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a good place to start; otherwise, you’re kind of randomly picking people.”

Brian Reilly ’14, an RCA in Rockefeller College who took part in the focus group, said the group was shown short segments of three different programs and discussed the effectiveness of the programs.

“There was one that I thought was stupid,” Reilly said. “I thought it completely missed the most important elements of sexual assault that happen here at Princeton, and it overdid a lot of stuff such that it wouldn’t be believable or taken seriously [by] or relatable to the majority of Princeton students.”

He said the other two programs were good but different, so each of the group members gave feedback based on the style and content of the program he or she preferred.

After evaluating each of the programs, the group then answered questions about whether the programs were sensitive to students

who may have had problems with sexual assault in the past, addressed issues specific to the University, were entertaining and whether they kept the viewer’s attention, among other questions, Reilly said.

The feedback will be reviewed by Deitch-Stackhouse and Lawson in the next few weeks, DeitchStackhouse said, and then the two directors will write a proposal to administrators in order to purchase and implement the program for the incoming class of 2017.

“Absolutely, we recognize that ‘one-time-and-done’ is not an effective means of addressing these very important issues,” DeitchStackhouse said. “The hope is that if you can sort of get exposed to some of that in our online training, then you’re seeing it live in person in a student-acted play and you’re debriefing about it in the first week of school, there’s going to be a lot of conversation about this issue in a proactive way.”

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Plan, which establishes project grants and budgets for new building projects and major renovations.

“There isn’t a broom closet left on this campus that hasn’t been assigned.”

Shirley Tilghman

University President

Currently, the economics department has its headquarters in Fisher Hall, but economists are scattered across campus, including the Bendheim Center for Finance, Wallace Hall and the basements of Firestone Library, Department of Economics chair Gene Grossman said.

“Most importantly, it’ll provide a home that can house all of the various parts,” Grossman said. “The department is currently spread over, depending on how you count, five or six buildings, and that certainly impedes our interactions and our random meetings over coffee.”

In addition, the building will include various spaces created for the department to hold seminars and meetings, as well as new classrooms, Grossman said.

Likewise, the project will also give the various international programs, including the Office of International Programs, the Council for International Teaching and Research, Princeton in Asia, Princeton in Latin America and other similar programs a central location on campus, which Tilghman said she hopes will help improve the accessibility of the various programs for students.

“Our motivation is really to create one-stop shopping for students,” Tilghman said.

“So when a student is thinking about, ‘Gee, I want to

study abroad’ or ‘I want to do a summer internship’ or ‘I want to take a global summer seminar’ or ‘I want to be in the Bridge Year Program’ — any of these things that we’ve created to increase the likelihood that a student will have an international experience, we’re going to try and consolidate in this building.

So, you don’t have five places to go when you’re thinking about it. You have one place to go.”

By moving the economics department and the Office of International Programs into this new location, a lot of much-needed space will also be freed up throughout campus, Tilghman said, as much of campus is extremely packed at the moment.

“We often say that, right now, there isn’t a broom closet left on this campus that hasn’t been assigned,” Tilghman said. “This is going to really create the ability for a lot of different programs to finally have a little breathing room so that they don’t continue to create offices in broom closets.”

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his weekend, prospective students will stroll across campus in droves, trailing a real live Princeton student doing the trademark Orange Key backwards walk. The articulate, personable and finally-paid guide will punctuate his or her description of social and academic opportunities on campus with engaging anecdotes about the architecture. That high school junior in the tour group will ask questions about volunteering opportunities with the feeble hope that the tour guide will remember his name and exert some imaginary influence in their favor on the admission system.

Those already accepted will space out, half-listening to the guide, watching Princeton students pass and checking their watches.

I remember my own tour as a prospective student; specifically, I remember leaving early. The only portion of the tour I can still clearly recall was when a member of Fuzzy Dice interrupted us with a megaphone to advertise his next show. After heckling the group for a few minutes, he mockingly wished us “good luck getting into Princeton” while our Orange Key guide hovered around looking distressed.

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Guides are articulate and passionately enthusiastic about Princeton, but there’s a critical element missing from the tours that could make the heavy dose of information much more palatable. The tours glaringly lack any sense of humor about the University. Guides can be funny in a self-deprecating sort of way, and there are a few cute stories about college rivalries that tease out polite chuckles from the audience. But in my own prefrosh experience and throughout the numerous tours I observed for my unfinished guide training last year, never once did a guide poke fun at the University. Throughout the Orange Key training process, future guides are discouraged from making any reflection upon the school that could be understood in an unflattering light.

A classic example of this is the warning Orange Key trainees receive about offering their opinion on the aesthetic faults of the architecture building.

Guides used to point out the irony of housing the architecture school in the ugliest building on campus. Their joke was clearly an exaggeration: Whether we’re discussing aesthetic value or structure, the math building’s hideous brown walls and endless staircases are second to none. But the comment gave a human aspect to our school. We proved that we know how to laugh at ourselves. Now, in guide training, trainees are warned away from the joke. Unadulterated positivity rules the day.

This attitude is absurd. No one is going to take Princeton less seriously if a tour guide gently mocks a prestigious department. Our current representation of the University as perfect is only fooling prospective students for as long as the unmitigated praise can hold their attention. Is this approach of unvaried positivity really the best way to sell ourselves? No one believes that Princeton, or any school for that matter, is a flawless institution.

We choose to hide our weaknesses through a forced sheen of positivity, when we could recommend ourselves so much more strongly by owning our flaws with a laugh.

I’m not saying Orange Key should mercilessly rip into the ridiculous or unsavory aspects of University traditions and campus culture, but a little affectionate humor would go a long way. Why not make a joke about the architecture building? Or, if you happen to think architecture gets a bum rap, what about the Woody Woo fountain, so ugly it’s almost beautiful? Why not poke fun at the Orange Bubble mentality? Our ability to laugh at ourselves is guaranteed to make more of an impression than uniform positivity. It’s the joke about the Street, rather than the student-teacher ratio, that prospective students will remember from their campus visit.

Tehila Wenger is a sophomore from Columbus, Ohio. She can be reached at twenger@princeton.edu.

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elcome to Princeton, prefrosh! If you are reading this article, you have begun to explore the bustling campus that we call home. You have worked long and hard to get here, and now you have an important decision to make: where you will spend the next four years of your lives.

During Preview, you will encounter Princetonians who will share their love of this university and fellow prefrosh who are beginning this journey with you. You will have to consider many factors while making your choice — academic opportunities, campus culture and, of course, the students who will study, discover and grow alongside you. This can be daunting, although it shouldn’t be — we think Princeton is clearly the right choice. So today, the Editorial Board dedicates our editorial to helping you make the most of your visit.

First and foremost, this is a university, so you should explore as many classes as possible. There is a wealth of lectures to attend, on topics ranging from American Economic History (ECO 370) to the Literature of Food (ENG 223) to Thermodynamics (CBE 246). And while lectures are a great way to get a taste of the academic experience, Princeton’s seminars and precepts are especially distinctive — so ask your host to take you along or email the professor if you are interested in attending (we promise they won’t bite). On that note, feel free to ask professors questions after lecture; they will likely be happy to speak about specific classes, departments and opportunities.

Besides our classes, Princetonians are passionate about their extracurricular activities. There are hundreds of clubs on campus, and you’ll find students doing everything from juggling to chess, debate, beekeeping (seriously) and improv comedy. You can get a taste by attending the Student Activities Fair in Dillon Gymnasium. Cast a broad net and talk to students who participate in activities you have enjoyed in the past or always wanted to try — this is your chance to do something new.

“This Side of Princeton,” a showcase of our performing arts groups, is an unforgettable opportunity to see what Princetonians do when they’re

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out of class. Even if you aren’t interested in dance, singing or theater, you should attend — this is truly one of the most anticipated shows of the year.

Beyond this, get a feel for what our school is all about. The best way to do this is to talk to students — your hosts, their friends or just students you see around campus. Of course, there are myriad panels that will give you information on everything from study abroad to dining options. Attend the discussions that interest you, but sometimes the best way to gain an understanding of life at Princeton is just to ask students. Reach out to upperclassmen; although they might seem intimidating, they also want to share their Princeton experiences with you, and they can offer you a wealth of information.

Make sure to walk around and explore. Princeton is a beautiful town with a lot to offer. Visit local favorites like Thomas Sweet, Olives and Hoagie Haven to see what life is like when you step off campus. Try to get a feel for the campus and campus life by investigating the residential colleges and touring the eating clubs. These smaller communities within Princeton will serve as your homes away from home during your time here.

Ask about the things that matter to you, and ask students what has made their Princeton experiences unique. Writing a thesis? The residential college system? Tiny seminars with worldrenowned professors? Princeton certainly provides the opportunities and the support to make your dreams a reality; just ask any student who has traveled for research and worked side-by-side with a professor on independent work.

We are excited to welcome you to campus, and we hope that you will come to see what makes Princeton distinctive. The University’s focus on undergraduate education creates unique opportunities that truly enrich our lives academically.

Beyond this, Princeton is a community of passionate students who love what they do, both inside and outside the classroom. Welcome to Princeton, and we hope you will join us in the fall to experience all that this incredible school has to offer!

Luc Cohen ’14

editor-in-chief

Grace Riccardi ’14

business manager

EDITORIAL BOARD chair Ethan Jamnik ’15

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he Editorial Board recently ran a piece rightly criticizing Princeton Preview and emphasizing that its unilateral shutdown of all the eating clubs presents an unrealistic picture of what life on this campus is like. As the weekend’s name suggests, Preview is supposed to give students a teaser of what it means to be a student here, which, of course, it does not.

The Board proposes that the eating clubs offer meals to prefrosh and hold social events without alcohol, which sounds pretty lame, but I guess it’s the best they can do.

At the very least, I’m glad it’s been suggested that some effort should be made to emphasize the role that the Street plays in the Princeton experience, but this is treating the symptom of what makes Preview so lame, not the cause. The Street needs to be a part of Princeton Preview for the same reason it needs to be a part of Princeton: It’s where the fun is.

Preview, as it exists right now, is almost entirely empty of fun. If

you’re the kind of prefrosh I was, the only kid from your high school here, and you don’t have a pack of friends and friends of friends from other high schools to run around with, and you don’t know anyone from scholarship weekends at peer institutions, and you don’t have any older siblings, you’re going to spend a lot of time during this weekend feeling lonely. There’s “This Side of Princeton,” open houses and barbecues, but they’re mostly awkward and mostly things that are Preview-specific, saying nothing about what Princeton students actually do on a weekend, let alone during the rest of the week.

The best things I did during my own Preview were the ones that weren’t in the brochure. Two moments stand out: The first was when, searching for the comp lit open house, I got lost. Somehow, I found myself in the junior slums, and I was walking around, rotating my map, when a good-looking soccer player noticed my lanyard and my plight and offered me a ride in his golf cart back up campus.

During this, he assured me not to take this weekend too seriously, that Princeton was not normally like this, which was nice. Also

nice was the fact that, miracle of miracles, I was talking to a college boy.

The second was when my mother, in a moment of extraordinary helicopter parenting, arranged for me to meet with a professor who talked to me at length about the creative writing department. As we spoke, she realized that there was a small seminar being held upstairs about Spenser’s “The Fairie Queene.” After asking the professor if it would be OK if I sat in on it, she led me inside. It was a six-person class, two boys and four girls, each of whom was friendly, articulate and intelligent. I was in awe and had, for the first time, some idea of what it means to be a student here, surrounded by people like this, studying important works of literature.

Other than that, I was bored.

The only classes I was interested in were on Thursday, so I spent the rest of the weekend wandering around with a group of boys who already knew each other, having spent last weekend at MIT Campus Preview, where they stayed up all night and ran around on rooftops and had an amazing time. In comparison, my Preview experience

seemed pathetic. Even as I decided Princeton was the place for me, a deep panic took root: Who would be my friends? What would I do here?

Would I ever have any fun?

The answer, of course, was yes.

Though this year, prefrosh will have to take my word for it, I hope that in the future, Princeton does something to make the weekend more fun — maybe by putting prefrosh in groups for an hour or two and playing stupid icebreakers, maybe by having a more coherent schedule of events, maybe by matching host and prefrosh more effectively. My only hint, prefrosh, is to be brave: Talk to us. See what we look like, where we hang, what we do, because we’re the ones who know what it’s like here, and not all of us are the dancers and singers and comics Princeton will parade across a stage for you, as good as they look and as talented as they are. There’s a lot to do here, a lot to learn and see, and, if you search, you’ll be able to find it. And, if you try hard enough, it might even be kind of fun.

Susannah Sharpless is a sophomore from Indianapolis, Ind. She can be reached at ssharple@princeton.edu.

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their defensive predilections apply to the hardwood as well. Mark Strabo gave his brother the slight edge on offense.

“I’m pretty good at defense.

But don’t give me the ball,” Mark Strabo said.

Princeton isn’t the first context in which two of these families have intersected.

The Strabo brothers hail from Arlington, Va. and the Landon School, both captaining the lacrosse team their senior years. Thirty or so minutes south — depending on D.C. traffic — the deButts brothers made their home in Alexandria and represented Landon’s rival Episcopal High School in football, basketball and lacrosse, likewise serving as lax captains.

The deButts brothers are by no means the first in their family to make their mark on Princeton athletics. Their sister Lindsey deButts ’12 started every game at defense for the women’s team during her four years at Princeton.

But the legacy stretches back further to 1980, the graduating year of their parents, who both attended Princeton. Their father, Boota, and their mother, Shelley, captained the men’s lacrosse and women’s soccer teams, respectively.

The Froccaros hope their high school sophomore brother, Joey, can continue their legacy.

“If your lips aren’t moist, you can’t play.”

Jake Froccaro “It would be the same age difference as me and my brother,” Jake Froccaro notes.

“I’d be a senior when he’d be a freshman. We’re hoping for that.”

Jeff Froccaro — only able to respond by email — wrote, “We are all brothers and have very similar personalities, so I think Princeton is an appealing place for him as it was for me and Jake.”

Indeed, this aligning of stars was no coincidence.

Each freshman identified

having an older brother at Princeton as a contributing factor to his final decision.

Mark Strabo cites a family presence as a clincher.

“For me, it was huge. It was definitely one of the main things that made me want to come here,” he said. “I was deciding between Princeton and a few other schools, and having a brother here made it a pretty easy decision.”

During the March 1 telecast of Princeton’s tilt with Johns Hopkins, ESPNU had fun combining the Froccaro brothers into a single statistic. Similarly, should Jeff and Jake’s stat lines be merged today, the result would be the NCAA’s leading scorer. As expected, the sibling pair demonstrates superb chemistry on-field.

Via email, Jeff Froccaro explains their familiarity produces a solid rapport.

“We run plays all the time on the field that the two of us have practiced at our house in the backyard for years,” he said. “The plays aren’t strategically complicated, but it takes a practiced timing that is hard to garner.”

“As Coach [Chris] Bates says, he does the thinking for me,” Jake Froccaro added selfdeprecatingly. “Sometimes I don’t really think on the field, so I’ll have to ask him if I’m doing the right thing.”

The sibling dynamic is at once recognizable and impossible to pin down. No two relationships are identical, and each is entirely knowable only to its constituents.

For example, Hunter deButts explains a classic sibling moment as only one involved could.

“Austin and I, we fought a lot. He was always my kind of test dummy,” he said. “One time we were at the top of the steps. And I put him in this brown box, this cardboard box. It was a pretty tall staircase. But I put a couple of pillows in there and padded it up. He had a helmet on ... ” Suffice it to say the story ends, approximately, in “thud thud thud crash!”

The younger Strabo explains his and his brother’s inexplicable shared humor.

“There are a lot of times when we’re just laughing our asses off,” Mark Strabo said.

“We’ll be walking around and see each other and start laughing. Everyone’ll be like, ‘Goddamn, Strabo brothers.’”

Jack Strabo also points to their inexplicably shared

sense of fashion.

“There are a lot of times, too, when we show up to the same place and we’re literally wearing the exact same thing,” he said.

Jake Froccaro identifies his and his brother’s on-field quirk.

“The weirdest thing that me and my brother do that everyone makes fun of us for — mainly Coach Bates — is that we have ChapStick, or at least I do, every single game.

I keep it in my sock,” he said.

“We run plays all the time on the field that the two of us have practiced for years.”

Jeff Froccaro

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which doesn’t directly correlate to just Penn but will help us against all teams,” Hoy said. “Penn has a really good team this year, so we’re just trying to improve the small ball game on the defensive end.”

“In our second game against Dartmouth last weekend, our defense wasn’t too strong, so we’ve been working on fielding performance,” freshman shortstop Billy Arendt said. “Errors are inevitable in baseball; it just comes down to minimizing errors and quickly recovering from mistakes.”

The weekend provides a promising spectacle on the

mance is against Penn as it begins divisional play.

“Penn’s our first divisional opponent, and we always have a good competitive series against them,” senior centerfielder Johnny Mishu said. “So anything can happen. For us, our at-bats have gotten much better, so if we continue to swing it, and if we continue to get quality starts from our staff, we should have some success this weekend.”

“Ultimately, we need to win at least three games this weekend,” Hoy said. “We didn’t use up too much pitching against Monmouth, and our hitting has been great, so we’re confident and ready to go this weekend.

“Everybody’s within a game, so if we take care of business, we control our own destiny.”

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“My bro will ask me for it, which is key. If your lips aren’t moist, you can’t play.”

Earlier this year John Harbaugh coached the Baltimore Ravens against his younger brother Jim and the San Francisco 49ers. Dubbed the HarBowl, the game provided the media with endless fodder for family talk. Who was daredevil child growing up? Would they shake hands or hug after the game?

Similarly, the sports world inquires into backyard pigskin dynamics whenever the Manning Bowl rolls around.

Competition between brothers seems to have a special resonance in sport culture.

When asked about his experience playing alongside his older brother, the younger Froccaro identifies an idea central to the understanding of camaraderie in sports: One doesn’t need a team of blood relatives to be surrounded by brothers on the field.

“It’s just special; that’s the best word for it,” Jake Froccaro said. “To be on the feld with [Jeff] every game is just an unbelievable experience.

But I think I’ve built a brotherhood with just about everyone on this team. I love every one of my teammates the same way.”

Responding to the elder deButts’ mocking — in classic brotherly form — Jake Froccaro added, “Everyone except for Hunter.”

mound, as both teams sport strong pitching staffs. The Tigers’ junior right-hander Mike Ford has been dominant, with a 3-0 record and a 1.12 ERA, while senior Zak Hermans already has 32 strikeouts on the season and boasts a 1.78 ERA. Ford or Hermans will likely face off against Penn’s sophomore ace Dan Gautieri, who is 5-0 in six outings and has surrendered just six earned runs over 39 innings on the mound.

“Penn has a strong rotation, but our starting rotation is amazing,” said sophomore pitcher Nick Donatiello. “Our guys just need to keep stringing hits together like we have been, and our pitchers will always keep them in the game.”

The team is all too aware of how crucial a strong perfor-

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and we give up too many errors, which is a challenge facing pitching as good as Penn’s.

We need good, consistent defense to stay in the game as

“We have lots of strong hitters, and on any given day, anyone can have that RBI or at-bat.”

Tory Roberts

much as possible.”

Practice time has been dedicated specifically to preparing for this big weekend and figuring out the team’s weak-

nesses. “[We’re] definitely taking a different approach in practice this week,” Roberts said.

“We’ve been doing a lot more defense and defensive work, and doing it with consequences, so we’re running and doing push-ups. We’re working on cutting off errors and then not letting things topple when we do have errors. So we’re developing a lot more discipline.

Also, something we’ve been doing differently is that we’ve been working specifically on the types of pitches that Penn pitches, namely riseballs and change-ups, so we can have a lot more discipline at the plate.”

While the teams have similar batting averages, Princeton sophomore infielders Alyssa Schmidt and Rachel Rendina have the second- and seventh-best individual batting averages in the league, respectively, while Penn’s best batting comes in at 10th with Stephanie Caso.

“I think we have a stron-

ger lineup one through nine,” Roberts said. “We have lots of strong hitters, and on any given day, anyone can have that RBI or at-bat. Having such depth in the lineup puts us at an advantage.”

Last season, the Tigers lost three of their four games to the Quakers and were kept out of Ivy Championship play. The match-up has a personal competitiveness to it as well, as current Princeton head coach Lisa Sweeney came to coach the Tigers this season after two years as an assistant coach for the Quakers.

“Probably the benefit of being in our position is that Penn is the one that has something to lose, and we’re the ones going after that,” Roberts said. “We’re fighting for every game, and we have a bit of a chip on our shoulder.

They have to play defensively, and they have everything to lose, as this will determine if they’re going to have it easy the rest of the season or have to fight the whole time.”

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points, the fourth-best total in program history, and is fifth in the record books in both scoring average and field goals with 16.7 and 604, respectively. She is also third in rebounds with 860 total, despite missing the first half of her sophomore season due to injury. Rasheed concluded the 2012-13 season with seven Ivy League Player of the Week honors, the second most in league history for a player in a single season, and she has racked up three first team All Ivy selections and two unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year awards. She was also the 2010 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and a recipient of the WBCA Division I Coaches’ All America Honorable Mention this year.

Given the short WNBA season, Rasheed will look to play overseas regardless of what happens with in the draft. However, in the past few months she has been named on the Nasimith and State Farm watch lists, among others, indicating there is a chance that an American team will take her.

The WNBA draft will take place on Monday, April 15 at 8 p.m.

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Rasheed looks to go pro after Princeton

By Hillary Dodyk staff writer

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Senior guard Niveen Rasheed was named an AP All-America Honorable Mention, the first in program history.

enior guard Niveen Rasheed of the women’s basketball team has accumulated many honors throughout her four years as a Tiger and has become one of the most decorated players in Ivy League women’s basketball history.

She hopes to extend that impressive career beyond NCAA competition in the weeks to come as she looks forward to the WNBA draft and anticipates the opportunity to play professionally in some capacity.

Since Rasheed came to Princeton, the women’s basketball program has won four straight Ivy League titles and qualified for the NCAA tournament every year, despite never having been to the tournament before. Rasheed has played a large part in turning the program into an NCAA tournament competitor, and she recently became just the third Ivy Leaguer to become an AP All-America Honorable Mention honoree.

“Basketball was a huge part of my coming to Princeton, and knowing that I got the best kind of education and had the opportunity to play for a toptier basketball team was the best of both worlds, which I didn’t know was possible coming in freshman year,” Rasheed said. “I didn’t know what to expect, so being able to help contribute to make this team a nationally known program

Brothers team up for Tigers

By Andrew Steele contributor

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In Princeton’s victory over Brown, senior middie Jeff Froccaro had four goals while younger brother and fellow middie Jake had three. The Froccaros have a combined 41 goals on the season.

Rutgers blanks Princeton, Tigers to visit Penn this weekend staff writer

After a 0-4 shutout loss to Rutgers on Thursday in its second-tolast game of the season against a non-league opponent, the softball team (20-12 overall, 5-3 Ivy League) looks forward to what is quite possibly the biggest weekend of its season. The Tigers have a four-game series against division rival Penn on tap for Saturday and

Divisional battle to begin with fourgame stint at Penn

By Jack Rogers

SOFTBALL

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Leading the offense at 1952 Stadium against Ivy League foe Brown earlier this season, senior attack Jeff Froccaro earned his 100th point, joining only 26 others in the program’s storied history. What’s more, his milestone accomplishment came on an assist from none other than his younger brother and freshman midfielder Jake Froccaro. Brothers playing on the same nationally ranked varsity team would seem rare, but at Princeton, it’s anything but — the duo comprise but one of the men’s lacrosse team’s three sibling pairings.

While the Froccaros sport an offensive flair, junior midfielder Jack Strabo and freshman defenseman Mark Strabo have proved integral to the Tigers’ defense. Similarly, junior and freshman middies Hunter and Austin deButts join the defensive rotation.

Jeff Froccaro could not attend a joint interview with The Daily Princetonian and thus could not respond to the various accusations leveled against him. For example, consensus held that Jake Froccaro would rout Jeff Froccaro in a game of one-on-one basketball.

To add insult, Hunter deButts describes the senior attack as having “the oldest old man knees,” explaining that “this guy is icing more times than he’s not icing.”

The Strabos and deButtses concede that

is amazing, and I’m very proud of that accomplishment.”

“Niveen has been an instrumental part of our program since the first day she arrived on campus,” head coach Courtney Banghart said. “She plays the game with relentless effort, a fierce competitive spirit, versatility on both sides of the ball, always with a winning mentality and with the humility of a great champion. She has done things the right way, and we’re so appreciative to the committees for honoring her impact.”

As she prepares for the WNBA draft next Monday, Rasheed has been focused on playing and keeping in shape, working on what is in her control, as well as deciding on potential agents. She attended a pro combine in New Orleans last week, which also hosted professional scouts and agents. While she hopes to be invited to team tryouts in the United States, she has remained humble throughout the entire process and says she would appreciate any opportunity to play professional basketball.

“It’s so competitive [in the States, and] there aren’t a lot of spots offered and not a lot of teams, so anywhere I get the opportunity I would be happy, honestly,” Rasheed said. “I can’t be greedy; I’m not in that position.”

Although she now downplays her chances of getting drafted, Rasheed ended her Princeton career with 1,617

Sunday.

Penn is currently the numberone team in the South Division standings with a 7-1 league record.

Princeton follows in second place, making Penn the team Princeton needs to beat to make it to the championship.

Princeton leads Penn as far as batting averages go, with the Tigers averaging .309 and the Quakers .269. In pitching, Penn is also ranked just above Princeton.

The Quakers’ ace Alexis Borden has an ERA of 1.56, while Princeton senior Alex Peyton pitches a 1.78. Peyton will most likely pitch the first games each day, while the other two games will be split among senior Liza Kuhn, freshman Shanna Christian and sophomore Meredith Brown.

Penn’s only league loss so far this season was the first game of a doubleheader series against Dartmouth (14-17, 4-4). When Prince-

ton faced the Big Green, the Tigers also split their games, losing the first game 1-4 but winning the second 9-7.

In preparation, the Princeton team is focusing on defensive work, specifically on minimizing errors.

“We have to strengthen our defense,” junior second baseman Tory Roberts said. “We have a bit of a hard time with consistency, See SOFTBALL page 5

As the weather gets warmer, the heat of Ivy League play will continue to mount this weekend for the baseball team as it travels to Penn for a four-game weekend series.

A strong weekend will be vital for Princeton (8-20 overall, 5-3 Ivy League) if it wants to keep pace in the Lou Gehrig Division of the Ivy League baseball standings. The Tigers and Quakers (19-11, 5-3) are currently in a three-way tie with Cornell for second place in the Gehrig Division. Columbia’s 6-2 record in conference play gives it a one-game lead.

Strong offensive performances from the entire team will be necessary if Princeton wants a result that is similar to last year’s, when the Tigers took three of four games against Penn at Clarke Field. Freshman second baseman Danny Hoy, who went 4-6 with five RBIs and a home run in Wednesday’s 9-7 win over Monmouth, is looking to maintain consistency at the plate as the team heads to Philadelphia.

“We’ve been getting into an offensive rhythm lately, which is great,” Hoy said. “Guys are swinging the bat now, and when hitting becomes contagious, we can get the results that we’re looking for. And [junior centerfielder Alec] Keller’s recent return from injury is huge for us, since he’s such an important presence at the plate.”

But the Tigers will have their hands full with the offensive threat that Penn poses. The Quaker squad is led by senior centerfielder Ryan Deitrich, the returning All-Ivy selection who currently leads Penn in batting average (.456) and is already only two hits shy of matching his total number of hits from last season (49). The Quakers’ slugging is not to be underestimated, either, as Deitrich and freshman second baseman Mike Vilardo have already combined for six home runs on the season. The offensive potential of both sides only adds to the importance of defense this weekend.

“We’ve been working a lot on bunt defense, See BASEBALL page 5

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