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April 25, 1983 The ICC decides that the eating clubs should stop purchasing alcohol following the rise in the legal drinking age to 21.

On the Blog Teddy Schleifer discusses 5 signals that the selection of Chris Eisgruber ’83 as president sends.

On the Blog Karen Jin previews the glorious return of Arrested Development.

News & Notes Petraeus GS ’87 to teach public policy at CUNY

former cia director David Petraeus GS ’87 will begin teaching at the City University of New York as a visiting professor of public policy on Aug. 1, the Los Angeles Times reported. The announcement comes only five months after Petraeus resigned from his position at the head of the agency after evidence of an affair with his biographer became public.

At CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College, Petraeus will teach a seminar on the global economic downturn and said in a statement that he looked forward to working with the undergraduate body, noting that, like himself, 60 percent are the children of immigrants.

At Princeton, Petraeus earned a Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School and was thought to be a contender for the University presidency, to which Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 was appointed on Sunday.daughter, son, eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

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Gerson Leiva ’16 grew up in Trenton, N.J. — a city that has reported extremely low high school graduation rates — and attended its public schools through the ninth grade. In 2012, the Trenton public school system had the lowest high school graduation rate in the state at 48 percent, according to the New Jersey Department of Education.

“Day in and day out, there were fights left and right,” Leiva said. “It was just a really 80 bad environment to be in. I wasn’t really surrounded by individuals who wanted to push 70 themselves.”

Coming out of middle school, Leiva applied 60 to two prestigious private college preparatory schools: the Hun School of Princeton and the 50 School. He was denied by LawLawrenceville renceville and, given his annual household 40about $45,000, could not attend the income of Hun School due to the amount of financial aid he would30 require.

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“Peddie was just completely different. When I got there, it was a new world to me. I was with students who were really, really dedicated to their studies, to their athletics and just everything in general. At Trenton High, good athletes were mostly bad students,” Leiva, a long-time soccer player, said.

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In the first year of non-selective admission to the Wilson School’s undergraduate concentration, 162 sophomores had declared the School’s program as their major as of Wednesday afternoon. This makes the program, which is undergoing significant changes in its curriculum this year, the largest major for the Class of 2015.

All sophomores pursuing a Bachelor of Arts were required to declare their concentrations

by Tuesday. The Wilson School, which ended its selective admission process last year, and the politics department were the concentrations that showed the largest changes from last year’s enrollment.

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By Sarah Cen staff writer

As the president-elect of the University, Christopher Eisgruber ’83 has a list of tasks including selecting a new provost.

Though Eisgruber said he has not yet begun the selection process, he hopes that the new provost will be in place by the time he leaves the position to become president on July 1.

Eisgruber, the second-longest serving provost at the University, was appointed by President Shirley Tilghman in 2004. He is the University’s 11th provost since the position was created during

the 1966-67 academic year.

The provost serves directly under the president as the chief academic and chief budgetary officer. The position involves the financial planning and coordination of the University’s academic initiatives.

Among other duties, the provost chairs the Academic Planning Group and the Priorities Committee, which evaluates the University’s operating budget.

He or she also regularly meets with the University Research Board and the Faculty Advisory Committee on Appointments and Advancements, consisting of 11 top University administra-

tors who determine professor tenures.

According to Eisgruber, the University’s process for finding a provost is informal. The University does not form a selection committee; rather, the president himself appoints the provost, accepting suggestions and nominations from colleagues.

When asked if he will nominate a colleague with whom he has worked in the past, Eisgruber said he is open to all options as long as the candidate satisfies his desired qualities.

“The important thing is to find somebody who appreciates See COMMITTEE page 2

By Jean-Carlos Arenas staff writer

The Communiversity Festival of the Arts, presented by the Arts Council of Princeton, will take place on Sunday, April 28, instead of on a Saturday, when the event has traditionally been held. This change has increased the event’s costs because workers need to be paid for overtime.

Communiversity was moved to Sunday at the request of Princeton merchants, according to Jeff Nathanson, the executive director of the Arts Council. “[The Princeton merchants]

thought it would probably be better for business to have a lot of people coming downtown on Sunday rather than Saturday,” Nathanson said. “We realized that there might be some issues with that with the churches and the town, and we decided it was worth exploring.”

Director of Community and Regional Affairs Kristin Appelget said that Saturday is generally a big day for business in the downtown, and Communiversity normally draws a crowd of approximately 40,000 who come primarily for the event. She also See NASSAU page 5

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all sectors of the University, somebody who is capable of being a good administrator and a good manager, somebody who has the values of this University thoroughly at heart and somebody who can work very closely with me and with other colleagues in the cabinet as well as with the faculty and staff throughout the University,” he explained.

Eisgruber also noted that he would prefer appointing some-

one who currently works at the University.

Eisgruber’s predecessor as provost was Amy Gutmann, who left the position to become president of the University of Pennsylvania.

Before selecting Eisgruber, who received an A.B. in physics at the University and a law degree from the University of Chicago, Tilghman said she had hoped to find someone from the social science or humanities. However, Eisgruber did not indicate that he is looking for a provost from a specific discipline.

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, the April 24 article “Over 120 choose Wilson School” made several inaccurate claims about the history department’s enrollment and course schedule. There are currently 78 juniors enrolled, and the department has not cancelled any of its junior seminars. Also due to a reporting error, the same article incorrectly stated the number of junior economics concentrators. There are 134. Due to an editing error, the same article article misstated the title of Stanley Katz.

He is a professor in the Wilson School and the current director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.

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“When you get to a classroom where the teachers are good, the students are really on top of their game, and I’m just like ‘Damn, I’m surrounded by academics,’ ” he explained. “When I grew up, I wasn’t really pushed toward the books, I was pushed more toward sports. So I didn’t spend that much time reading or anything like that so obviously the more you read the more sophisticated your vocabulary is. So when I got there, I hear these kids speaking huge words and some of them are younger than me.”

According to the Committee on Background and Opportunity III report released in fall 2012, Leiva falls into the 14 percent of students at the University whose annual household incomes fall below $50,000.

The survey, conducted by the Undergraduate Student Government during the summer of 2011, was taken by over 1,800 students from the Classes of 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

The survey identified each student by his or her background and compared it to his or her campus experiences and opportunities. The background of each participant was evaluated using 13 categories such as race, geographic region, household income and gender. Life at the University was then measured using 12 categories, like employment, academic life and eating club membership.

The results show that students from wealthier economic backgrounds are overrepresented at the University.

A third of students reported household incomes of over $200,000, compared to 3.8 percent of households nationwide according to the U.S. 2010 Census. Despite the fact that so many students’ households were clustered among the nation’s highest incomes, only 10 percent of students described themselves as upper class, while close to half described themselves as upper middle class.

In addition, about 40 percent attended private high schools compared to 7.7 percent of high school students nationwide, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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fortable in academic environments than students with lower income levels, report lower levels of stress and are more likely to bicker an eating club, as well as more likely to bicker successfully.

Of students with household incomes over $200,000, 75 percent reported being accepted to a bicker club, while among students with reported incomes under $75,000, slightly over half were successful.

Comfort levels Leiva, now a freshman at the University, described Princeton as similar to Peddie, the private high school he ultimately attended. He noted that though he has become more accustomed to the much more “preppy,” academic-focused environment, he finds that his background does influence his comfort level in, for example, a classroom.

“I was intimidated just by the fact that now I’m in a room with people who know what they’re talking about,” he said.

According to the survey report, students like Leiva feel less comfortable in precepts or seminar discussions than students with self-reported annual household incomes greater than $200,000. A similar trend was found with students’ incomes and their levels of comfort with professors.

Earlier this year the University created the Trustee Ad Hoc Committee on College Access in order to increase the access for lower-income students to higher education.

In the committee’s initial statement, President Shirley Tilghman acknowledged that students from the top 5 percent are overrepresented in the University’s applicant pool and that more can be done to diversify the student body.

The committee is expected to meet twice before the end of the 2012-13 academic year.

In the comments section of the COMBO survey, a student noted that socioeconomic status visibly affected how comfortable others seem to feel at the University. Despite expressing comfort at the University, the student noted different feelings among lower-income students.

“I have noticed that students who come from less financially successful families, who are of racial minorities or who are academically unprepared do not feel that they fit in initially at Princeton, and

I don’t think their condition improves that much over the four years,” the student wrote.

Another student, who did not report feeling very comfortable at the University, said the dissatisfaction that is expressed as resulting from status or class divisions can be

“One doesn’t have to spend very much time on the Princeton campus to see that it exudes wealth -- you just have to look at the architecture of the buildings.” thomas espenshade sociology professor

misinterpreted.

“When I was young, my family was much, much less well off than it is now, which has inf luenced me in some ways,” the student wrote. “I used to point to that fact a lot when thinking about why I don’t fit in here. As much as I’d like to blame my discomfort here on others and act like the social stratification here is a result of general hostility on the part of people from nicer backgrounds, I sort of suspect it’s more the result of some of my own innate problems.”

USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said he thinks students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds may face extra stressors that result in a generally lower level of comfort in the classroom.

“One thing that I may suspect is that students from a lower socioeconomic background may feel an added pressure if they have to work and, in addition, go to class, so they might not be able to devote their full attention to that, which may lead to a lower level of comfort in the classroom,” Jackson said.

He added that the USG and the University should focus not only on attracting students to come to the University, but also on making sure

they stay.

The University currently has a 98 percent retention rate from freshman to sophomore year, according to its latest data set.

Richard Polo ’16, a freshman from Calabasas, Calif., attended both public and private schools before coming to Princeton.

“In public school, classes were, on average 35 to 40 kids, at least for me,” Polo said. “So, the class environment wasn’t one in which the teacher would call on students — it was more of a pure lecture.”

Whereas in public school, the classes were mostly lectures, with little room for teachers to call on students due to the size of the classes, Polo said, private school provided students with opportunities to get used to visiting and speaking with teachers.

“Here, Princeton has office hours and kids are encouraged to go visit their teachers whenever they have problems.” Polo said. “[Coming from private school], we had no problem speaking up with teachers — you are already used to it. But I think, for kids who didn’t have that in high school, that’s something they really have to get used to and learn to use throughout their time here.”

While the survey shows that students from private high schools are overrepresented at the University, the COMBO report did not find a strong relationship between these students and their experiences at Princeton.

A campus that “exudes wealth” Based on a study that he published a few years ago of academically selective colleges and universities, sociology professor Thomas Espenshade said there are strong correlations between both the academic performance and overall satisfaction of students and their social class backgrounds.

In his study, students coming from higher social class backgrounds were more likely to be highly satisfied with their college experience, and that satisfaction is a big predictor of whether students graduate on time or not, Espenshade said. He said he believes a large part of this difference may be due to the very nature of universities, which are of far more luxury and wealth than some students may be used to.

“One doesn’t have to spend very much time on the Princeton campus to see that it exudes wealth — you just have to look at the architecture of the buildings,” Espenshade said. “These institutions were, in some sense, wealthy from the get-go, and because of that, those students who come from a more modest economic background can be in Princeton, but not necessarily of Princeton.”

In addition, there was a similar relationship shown between academic performance and social background, Espenshade said, with higher graduation rates and class ranks correlated with higher social class backgrounds.

“Upper-middle and upperclass students are overrepresented in the highest quintile [in graduating class rank], and working class students are overrepresented in the bottom quintile,” Espenshade said.

Bickering Princeton “Eating clubs are still prohibitively expensive for students who don’t qualify for financial aid, but whose parents feel social expenses should be paid by the student,” a student who filled out the survey wrote in the comments section.

The COMBO report shows that wealthier students are more likely to bicker an eating club and be accepted. While 21 percent of students in the lower middle socioeconomic group bickered an eating club, 44 percent of students in the upper socioeconomic group bickered. Moreover, the percentage of students who were accepted into an eating club was 58 percent and 77 percent for the same categories, respectively.

The University currently offers an extra $2,000 in financial aid for all juniors and seniors on aid. While the intention is to offset the higher costs of eating clubs compared to the University’s dining halls, the total amount offered still falls short of the cost of most eating clubs.

Because the eating clubs are independent from the University, the USG cannot directly inf luence eating club policies. However, former USG president Bruce Easop ’13, who oversaw the COMBO survey, noted that one of the purposes for releasing the report is to inform the student body about campus life in order to bring students to reflect on,

for example, the Bicker process.

“There is a reputation that bicker eating clubs are more welcoming to students with a higher socioeconomic background,” Easop said. “There is some data to reflect a greater level of comfort for students from higher socioeconomic background with bicker clubs.

It’s important to have that data because it makes the student body reflect and think, more than just the reputation, that there is some basis in terms of the perception that students have.”

More directly, the level of a student’s family income may also influence his or her summer plans, according to the survey. During the year, students receive financial aid from the University, but for the summer, lower-income students noted a struggle to accept job or internship opportunities that require additional financial support such as housing.

“I had to forgo an internship in D.C. this summer because I could not afford housing, whereas for other students, housing is a nonissue. All they have to worry about is securing the internship,” a student wrote in the comments section. “I just wish Princeton had more resources for low-income students like myself. While they help us out during the school year with generous financial aid, the same cannot be said about summer plans. I also feel that people who don’t need these grants are the ones who receive them which defeats their intended purpose.”

Easop said he hopes that once more COMBO surveys are performed, the USG will be able to see trends in student backgrounds and campus life over time. The ultimate goal, he said, is to make sure University resources are not directed only at a certain set of students.

“One of the things for me that the data shows is that students from different backgrounds experience Princeton differently and they also receive information differently from the University,” Easop said. “Making sure we’re conscious of how resources present themselves to students and making sure that that messaging is accessible to students from a variety of backgrounds so that they’re appealing to not just a certain demographic of students is important.”

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News & Notes Davis, philanthropist and U. donor, dies at 106

kathryn wasserman Davis, philanthropist and one of the main donors to the University’s Davis International Center, died Tuesday at the age of 106, Bloomberg reported.

In 2007, Davis and her husband Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 donated $200 million to the Davis International Center, which offers support for international students and initiatives. Davis’ son Shelby W. Davis ’58, a University trustee, helped initiate the endowment.

To celebrate her 100th birthday in 2007, Davis gifted an initial $1 million to the Davis Projects

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for Peace, which challenges undergraduates at American universities and in the Davis United World College Scholars Program to design grassroots projects that contribute to a better world. She has since funded the projects each year.

Davis held a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College, a master’s from Columbia University and a doctorate from the University of Geneva. She was the author of “Soviets at Geneva,” and worked as a researcher for the Council on Foreign Relations.

Davis is survived by her daughter, son, eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

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explained that merchants who do not participate directly in Communiversity say they see a dip in sales during the event.

Princeton merchants noted that major events generally organized by the Palmer Square Management — which oversees businesses and events in Palmer Square — that have been held on Sundays, such as JazzFeast, have not seen this same dip in sales as businesses not participating in Communiversity do on Saturday, Appelget said.

“In an effort to be responsive to that concern, the Arts Coun-

cil started a discussion ... right around the time that we finished with the last [Communiversity] to start to think about whether or not we could hold the event on a Sunday rather than on a Saturday.”

The Arts Council contacted various parties, including officials from the town and University and representatives from the Princeton Merchants Association and the Princeton Clergy Association to evaluate the pros and cons of moving the event to Sunday, according to Nathanson. He said there was an overwhelmingly response in favor of changing the day.

Communiversity is a University-town collaboration, but

there are two tracks of events, campus and town, funded separately by the appropriate entities, Nathanson said. The Arts Council of Princeton covers town expenses using corporate sponsorship, booth fees and ticket sales, while USG funds the University’s event-related expenses.

This year’s USG budget for Communiversity is $7,600, an increase from the allotted $5,000 last year, according to USG Campus and Community Affairs chair Trap Yates ’14.

Yates is a former associate editor for the Street section of The Daily Princetonian.

“The primary driver behind that decision was just that the event was traditionally more

expensive than the budget allotment has been, so last year we could have used the extra money anyway,” Yates explained.

The shift from Saturday to Sunday will increase labor costs for the University, Yates said.

“We might be shifting around who we hire to do what when, so I don’t know what the net change will be,” he said. “I just know it’s made it something that we need to be more conscious about with overtime pay.”

These labor costs pay employees of University Building Services, Public Safety and the attendant at the dunk tank, Yates said.

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crease of 70 concentrators.

Enrollment in the politics department experienced a significant decrease in comparison to last year, falling from 115 concentrators in the Class of 2014 down to 62 new concentrators in the Class of 2015.

Politics and Wilson School professor Nolan McCarty, who chairs the politics department, said the leading factor for the decrease in the number of politics concentrators was the Wilson School’s new open-enrollment policy.

“Oh, I suspect that it’s that the Woodrow Wilson School has 70 more than they had the previous year,” McCarty said when asked the reason for the reduction in politics concentrators.

McCarty explained that he expects the numbers of concentrators between the politics department and the Wilson School to fluctuate for some time until students get a better understanding of the different opportunities offered by the two departments.

“I think there’s a lot of uncertainty right now among students about what the new Wilson School curriculum will look like relative to the politics curriculum,” McCarty said.

McCarty, who chaired the Wilson School undergraduate curriculum reform committee from the academic year 2010-11, said that as he analyzed what types of classes Wilson School majors were taking, he found that the students’ course loads largely resembled those of politics majors. “[Wilson School] students were primarily politics majors

in terms of the types of courses they took and the types of theses they wrote,” McCarty said.

“They were doing basically exactly what the politics majors were doing.”

Before the reforms in the Wilson School curriculum, many students viewed the department as the more prestigious version of the politics major, according to McCarty. Because students still believe this is the case, more sophomores chose to major in the Wilson School this year with an admissions cap absent, McCarty said.

Wilson School professor Stanley Katz also said that speculations of waning interest in the Wilson School after it went nonselective were “wrong.”

“I think this should surprise no one,” Katz said. “It was exactly what I and a number of others predicted. You’d have to guess that the first year after we removed the selection process, you’d get the same number of applicants that we traditionally get. And they normally run from about 150 to 180. So that’s pretty much what we got.”

Katz explained that the drastic increase in the number of sophomore concentrators will affect the Wilson School’s capacity to provide classes and resources at the same competence as in previous years.

“We will need more or less twice the number of junior seminars, and we don’t have twice the number of faculty members,” Katz said. “So we have to find a way of dealing with that problem.”

Katz said that he preferred the Wilson School’s selective admission process because it was more feasible to manage fewer stu-

dents and it also meant the level of talent among the accepted students was high.

“I was in favor of selectivity because I think it did two things: It gave us a manageable number of students — although 90 was a lot, by the way. It was difficult to manage 90 students — but it was a much more manageable number of students on the one hand, and I think on the whole, we thought that being selective meant that we got a better group of students,” he said.

The quality of students’ work in the department is “likely to suffer” as a result of a broader range of students joining the Wilson School this year, according to Katz.

McCarty said that numbers between the two departments are expected to fluctuate in the next few weeks.

“Now, the new Wilson School has a very different curriculum,” McCarty said. “It’ll take some time for students to figure out whether they can do the same things within the [new] curriculum that they wanted to do originally.”

He explained that the politics department would not make any changes in its own program in the short run until students collectively get a better sense of how the new Wilson School curriculum is different from that of the politics department.

Another department that saw a large change in its enrollment was ecology and evolutionary biology, which fell from a class of 74 concentrators among the Class of 2014 to a class of 42 among the Class of 2015. Enrollments across most other A.B. departments remained relatively consistent with enrollments from last year.

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Imagining a collective experience

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rinceton is a strange place. For decades, thousands of people — graduates and undergraduates, staff and faculty, American and foreign — have descended upon this patch of land to learn and teach about themselves and the world. Princeton is a community of immigrants. Even as we are here, we are constantly moving offices, dorms, classrooms; and sometimes we just move on.

But all of us immigrate in some form to Princeton knowing that our time here is limited. Despite this seemingly predefined end to our experience, we find common purpose with a mass of people we’ve never met and perhaps may never meet in the future. We are here to move the world forward and to try and catch up as it does so.

Somehow we form bonds that make us part of this congregation.

Princeton is an imagined community, to use author Benedict Anderson’s term. It is not about the buildings, and it is not built around face-to-face contact. It is a community built around something we believe in.

Something we believe in strongly enough to leave our homes, leave the families that have raised us in the hope of understanding or fulfilling some higher cause. It’s all in our heads.

But being part of this intellectual, imagined community requires that you experience it in person first. Only when you see and live it can you believe in the spirit of the Princeton imagination. To get the real thing requires that you have lived in the rooms that many before you have occupied, to work with others who choose to also establish abode on this ground.

This is akin to understanding gravity through a falling stone — what is intangible becomes clear through a lived event. We have to animalistically, physically experience this community to really get what it entails. Even if you feel unhappy or disillusioned, you decided to take the plunge with the rest of us. There must be something to that collective leap of faith; something to explain our shared delusion. Maybe we’re all mad.

The great thing about an imagined community is that it can be what we want it to be. We see Princeton as we want to see it, and it becomes a part of us the way we want it to be. No one may truly understand what Princeton means to us, or what we mean to Princeton. But this also means Princeton will form part of us in a way that it forms part of no one else. Princeton, in some ways, is a ref lection of ourselves.

This also means that we may graduate, we may move somewhere else, but we never really leave. Princeton will continue to accompany us as long as we continue to imagine — continue to imagine that we are out to work for a higher cause, that we had the honor to meet great people who taught us how to do this in the first place and that it is our job to try and do the same. Implied in the constitution of this belief in moving the world forward is that we must move forward to make it happen — make our personal worlds bigger and contribute to humanity in some meaningful way. For all we know, that may bring us back to Princeton, as it has brought back many others. For the moment, however, this premise requires that “we have to go away and dream it all up again.

I don’t like saying goodbye. There seems to be a finality attached to the act of saying goodbye that scares me. This presumed termination of common experience has a way to spark both sadness and existential crises that I like to avoid. As a kid I didn’t have the words to describe this feeling, so I would cry at airports instead. At some point I decided that I would protest to visiting family members returning to their homes by not dropping them off at the airport at all. I’ve gotten better at dealing with seeing people leave but conveniently still don’t drop people off at the airport.

It used to be different f lying away myself — airports were places of wonder.

I used to collect model airplanes, and airports were marvels of engineering and depots of exploration. There was an adventure waiting somewhere, and I got to f ly there. But for the past few years airports have taken on a more grim existence. The memories now are of turning your head that one last time with tears in the ducts, to say goodbye.

To avoid this, I have almost convinced myself that there is no such thing as a final end to common experience. I like to believe that somewhere, someday we shall meet when our roads again connect.

The experience continues in our imagination, till we see each other again, perhaps in Princeton, or maybe perhaps, in my Pakistan.

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

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Lauren Davis

Go with your gut

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hen making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however... the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves.” — Sigmund Freud When faced with a complex decision, as intelligent Princeton students, most of our immediate impulses would be to retreat to a quiet room and think consciously about the solution for as long as possible. I remember creating endless spreadsheets and Googling frantically for hours when choosing a major, convinced that relentless cogitation would lead me to the answer.

This kind of decision-making behavior is based on an assumption ingrained in us from birth — one that has dominated Western economic and political thought for hundreds of years — that our ability to reason deliberately is the highest form of activity of the human mind. But this assumption, to put it bluntly, is hugely flawed.

Ongoing research in psychology and neuroscience, as cited in “The Social Animal” by David Brooks for example, suggests a story far different from the one told about man as Homo economicus. The unconscious mind may be more powerful than the conscious one — not just as a deep cavern of primal, unpredictable emotions, but as a finely tuned processor and synthesizer of information. It may be a bridge builder and calculator with a much higher capacity than our active reasoning processes, which are very limited. (Working memory can only hold, on average, a maximum of seven

items at a time.)

So the old adage “go with your gut” might soon need to be taken seriously not just around the dinner table, but also in economics courses. I’m convinced I could have saved myself a whole lot of anxiety about my major choice if I had gone with my gut earlier on in the process and trusted my unconscious to lead me to the right choice. By overloading my conscious capacity with too much information, I was coming no closer to resolving the problem.

Unconscious thought theory is an exciting line of investigation into the thinking processes of the human mind, and while still contentious, reveals some key flaws in our understanding of how humans make decisions. In 2006, Dutch researchers showed that conscious thought can actually lead to worse choices on complex issues.

For example, when choosing which car to buy when each participant had 10 different characteristics, one group was told to think actively about their decision, while the other was presented with the same information, then distracted with some other task, unable to think consciously about the cars.

At the end of the time period, those who were distracted and allowed their unconscious mind to do the work not only made more correct decisions about the best car, but also felt happier about it.

Obviously, a small number of studies are by no means concrete proof that we should all be spending more time distracted. Other experiments have found conflicting results, so this is not at all a resolved question — I’m not condoning procrastination on Facebook in the middle of a problem set. I have yet to research the matter, but common sense suggests to me that the types of activities we do while our unconscious mind is churning would

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affect its abilities, and that perhaps the best thing to do when faced with a hard decision is nothing at all, or even sleeping, which is theorized by many scientists to be a time when our brains make all kinds of crucial connections.

It also seems likely that all the training we do of our active reasoning processes in schools and at college contributes to the networks and abilities of our subconscious. I doubt any scientist is suggesting that we can just sit around lazily and let our unconscious do all the work. However, there is an incredibly complex and potentially powerful interplay at work between the conscious and subconscious, between reasoning and emotions that if understood more clearly, could revolutionize the way we view our own thinking and working habits. Perhaps, when making complicated life decisions, like which summer internship to take, we should all set limits on the amount of information-gathering and active grappling we do (a challenging task, given our generation’s impulse to scour Wikipedia and Google endlessly) and just sit back and allow ourselves to listen to what our gut — our unconscious mind — is telling us.

It’s clear that some big questions remain unanswered, but we should all pay close attention to the research as it unfolds. How exactly does the unconscious work? What kinds of activities can we do to optimize the functioning of our unconscious mind?

What kinds of thinking are appropriate for different kinds of decision-making?

Should we be redefining the word “think”? The verdict is far from in, but it’s certainly something worth pondering (or not).

Lauren Davis is a sophomore from North Hampton, N.H. She can be reached at lhdavis@princeton.edu.

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An open letter to Suzy Lee Weiss Morgan Jerkins Columnist

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ou know, Suzy, I was very skeptical of writing a piece in response to your open letter to all the schools that rejected you. For one, I didn’t want to add to the attention that you undeservedly gained from your highly offensive but cathartic letter in The Wall Street Journal. Why should I take the time out to respond to a young woman who goes to Taylor Allderdice High School, which was ranked in 2010 as one of the top U.S. high schools

by Newsweek? What would my voice add to those of so many other columnists?

But when I read over your letter for the umpteenth time and saw your interview on the “Today” show, I was compelled to say something. Because for a young woman who gloated about being accepted in the big 10 schools, receiving a 2120 on the SATs and achieving an astounding 4.5 GPA, it baffles me how blind you are to a term that perhaps may or may not have crossed your mind before you wrote your letter. Would you like to know what it is?

It’s privilege. Even though you were rejected from elite universities and you

have a right to be mad about that, do not forget to understand that you don’t have to deal with the prejudice of being a minority.

You have reaped the benefits of privilege by seizing an uncommon opportunity to rant in one of the nation’s largest newspapers in circulation because you didn’t get into the colleges that you wanted. Do you not realize that there are millions of other students in this country who are not even given a platform to voice their concerns when they are not accepted into any university, let alone afford to matriculate at one after being accepted due to financial constraints? Let’s put this in perspective: You regretted not coming to school in a headdress in order to have more diversity that would attract admission officers. According to the American Indian College Fund, in 2011, one-third of all American Indians live on reservations and have remote access to higher education. Compared to other racial and ethnic groups, American Indians account for less than 1 percent of those who earn a bachelor’s degree, compared to 71.8 percent of whites. Not only were your comments racist and insensitive to an entire group of individuals, but they were also baseless. You can’t assume that minority status ensures acceptance to a university on lower standards when a considerable amount of these people will not have

access to higher education.

But it gets better! Actually, no, it gets worse. You then flippantly add, “Show me to any closet, and I would’ve happily come out of it.” Are you aware of how much discrimination LGBT students face both before and after college matriculation? Joyce Slayton Mitchell, an acclaimed college counseling guru, published a book, “Winning the Heart of the College Admissions Dean,” in 2005 in which she admitted that gay admission officers are well aware of the fact that homophobic jokes are made about college essays in which students talk about their coming out. Even more recently, there has been a lot of controversy surrounding Calliope Wong who identifies as trans woman yet was denied admission to Smith College. Being a minority is not a one-way ticket to a life devoid of discrimination. These are facts of life that no one can control.

You believe that college admission officers are judging students on things that they cannot control instead of things that they can. Well, Suzy, I’m here to tell you that that’s life and you with your privileged background will probably never even begin to fathom what others endure on things that they “cannot control,” things that will affect them far beyond a boardroom full of admission officers. There was a time long ago when African Americans, Jewish people

and even women like yourself were once denied admission for characteristics that they could not control.

You argue that your piece was a satire. Satire is funny, but it’s supposed to prove a point and provide social criticism. Yes, you definitely were criticizing the admission process, but you made it seem as though admission officers immediately accept all marginalized groups just because they are minorities. And you know what? I fault you for it, but also thank you for magnifying an existing problem. You and many others, even at Princeton, have said either openly or through anonymous comments that some people are just here because of “affirmative action” as if there were no work involved at all.

So basically, Miss Weiss, you mocked not the college admission process, but your own self and others of your particular social standing who think that way.

Suzy Lee Weiss, I’m sure that you will make a contribution in whatever you pour energy into. But please do not allow rejection of whatever it is that you wanted to deprive you of sensitivity toward those who are not as fortunate as you are.

Morgan Jerkins is a comparative literature major from Williamston, N.J. Sbe reached at mjerkins@princeton.

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after the Tigers opened their season with a 3-1 win over currently No. 7 nationally ranked UC Santa Barbara. No team in the EIVA has beaten any of the squads ranked in the top six, but Princeton has come the closest.

Since then, though, Princeton has entered a downward slide. It put up little fight in the final two sets in their first match against Penn State. Princeton failed to win critical matches against conference opponents, including its second against Harvard, and both matches against secondseeded George Mason — matches that would’ve earned the Tigers a higher seed, and would’ve spared them from playing Penn State in the semifinals.

The Tigers offense has faltered. In their most recent game against the Patriots (15-11, 11-3), Princeton was dropped in three straight by a George Mason team that held junior outside hitter Pat Schwagler to a -0.40 hitting percentage. Princeton has only won two of the last five of its conference matches, in no small part to an offense readjusting to

having sophomore outside hitter Cody Kessel, last year’s EIVA Newcomer of the Year and a first team All-EIVA selection this year, return from an injury to his hand that kept him off the court for three weeks.

The Tigers will also most likely enter Thursday’s match without sophomore middle blocker Will Siroky, who has been out with an ankle injury. Siroky has been a centerpiece of the Tiger defense this year. He is second on the team in total blocks with 73, right behind senior middle blocker and second team all-EIVA Michael Dye with 76. Siroky also leads the team in blocks per set, with 1.06, good to put him in 21st in the nation.

To make it past Penn State, Princeton will need to rely on the offensive spark that it showed early on in the season. Schwagler must step up and play to the potential that the former EIVA Newcomer of the Year and firstteam all-EIVA has displayed in the past. He is 12th in the nation in kills per set, with 3.70, and knows how to put points up on the scoreboard — he is No. 7 in points per set with 4.54, and only one other EIVA player, Logan Patterson of St. Francis, joins him in

the top 20 at No. 13. Junior setter Davis Waddell will give his hitters plentiful opportunities to make an impact. Waddell is 16th nationally in assists per set, with 10.05. Freshman outside hitter Devin Stearns will be looking to make a difference in his first collegiate postseason and continue to build on a strong season. The rookie follows Schwagler and Kessel in kills per set with 2.56.

Defensively, the Tigers will rally behind Dye, as well as rely on sophomore libero Tony Ensbury to continue to cover the court and make key digs. Junior middle blocker Brad Howard, who has been average 0.77 blocks per set, will likely step in for Siroky to round out the defense.

Penn State has not lost the first set of a match in the semifinals since 1999 — the year Princeton stormed its way to the championship and the last time any EIVA squad besides the Nittany Lions made an appearance in the NCAA tournament. For Princeton to repeat that success, it needs to go back in time: back to the offensive talent and cohesion it showed earlier this season. If the Tigers want to win, they need to start at the beginning and win that first set.

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surprising ease,” Lande wrote in an article on “six players who helped their draft stock the most” over the course of the week. “Able to consistently beat the offensive tackle around the corner and inside allowed him to regularly pressure the quarterback in every drill.”

At Princeton’s Pro Day, Catapano’s draft stock rose further as he showed he was physically on par with the top talent in the draft. He bested several players projected to go in the first round, running the 40-yard dash in 4.75 seconds — 0.08 seconds faster than Bjoern Werner of FSU, whom scouts have compared to Osi Umenyiora of the Atlanta Falcons — and reaching 37.5 inches in the vertical jump — 0.5 inches higher than Barkevious Mingo of LSU, who is expected to go in the top 10 picks. He

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projections have Catapano going anywhere from the third to seventh rounds. Regardless, it looks as if he will be the first Princeton player to be drafted since Dennis Norman, an offensive tackle, went in the seventh round to the Seahawks in 2001.

The draft kicks off on Thursday night and will continue with the second and third rounds Friday night and the fourth through seventh rounds on Saturday. It will be covered live on ESPN and the NFL Network, and Catapano will be watching with the people who have supported and guided him through the draft process.

“I’ll be watching it at my house with a small group of family members and friends that helped me get to this point,” he said. “Just celebrating getting here — it’s been tough, there have been a lot of obstacles. I never would have gotten here without such a strong backbone of support.”

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Junior middle blocker Brad Howard is third on the team in blocks per set with .77 and has 34 blocks this season.

also bench pressed 225 lbs 33 times — three more times than Sheldon Richardson, the big Mizzou defensive tackle projected to be in the top five.

Catapano’s strength, speed and production are NFLcaliber, but some scouts are unsure which position best suits him defensive end or outside linebacker. But Catapano believes he can fit into whichever team drafts him and that his potential to play multiple positions makes him a more appealing prospect. “[What position I will play] depends on what team drafts me,” he said. “In a 4-3 I would play what I played in college [defensive end]. Other teams saw me very suited to that 3-4 outside linebacker position.

That’s something that definitely helps my value — my versatility.”

Alan Herman, Catapano’s agent, has said he expects Catapano to go in the fifth round. However various draft

runs of the day, scoring twice and driving in three runs in his four-hit performance.

Down 8-4 going into the bottom of the ninth, Princeton refused to go quietly, as Keller quickly walked and then scored when Hoy doubled to left field. Singles by senior Alex Flink and junior first baseman Mike Ford brought Hoy into score. Down by two and with two men on, though, senior outfielder Johnny Mishu flew out to centerfield to end the game.

“It was a tough game since the errors were costly, but we battled all game,” Hoy said.

“Down four runs in the last inning, we still threatened

and scored runs even though we came up short. A disappointing loss, but we definitely showed some fight.”

The Tigers now look toward the weekend, as they face a

“We’re going to play like we have nothing to lose. We can’t worry about what Columbia does.”

Johnny Mishu ’13

four-game series against Cornell in their final conference

series of the season. Columbia holds a three-game lead in the division with four conference games remaining for both teams. Columbia needs to take just two games off of Penn, which stands in last place in the Lou Gehrig Division of the Ivy League, to clinch the division title.

Despite their destiny lying out of their hands, the Tigers know they need to take at least three of four games from Cornell to have any chance of tying Columbia by the weekend’s end.

“We’re going to play with nothing to lose,” Mishu said.

“We can’t worry about what Columbia does. We’re going to come out loose on Friday, try to get two wins and hope that Penn can help us out. It should be a fun weekend.”

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Tigers face major challenge in semifinal

By Victoria Majchrzak

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The last time the men’s volleyball team played Penn State in the EIVA semifinals was April of last year. The Tigers were sent home from State College, Pa., in a three-set loss. The time before that, in 2007, Princeton fell to the Nittany Lions yet again just before the final in another winless match. And in 2003, it was — you guessed it — another Penn State sweep of Princeton in the semifinals.

But the Tigers’ semifinal record against the Nittany Lions is nothing to be surprised at.

Princeton is just one of the long list of teams that has fallen victim to Penn State’s dominance.

Since 2000, the EIVA powerhouse has won every single semifinal match it has played, only losing two of the 41 sets it has have played in that span.

On Thursday, Princeton (139 overall, 9-5 EIVA), the fourth seed will play the seemingly perpetually first seeded Nittany Lions (21-7, 13-1) in the semifinals.

The last time Penn State lost an EIVA champion was 1998, when Princeton handed Penn State its last semifinal loss of the millennium and earned a ticket to the finals, which it won against Rutgers-Newark. Since then, however, Penn State has been virtually unstoppable in the conference.

Earlier this season, it was an entirely different story. Penn State’s chances of being first-seed were highly questionable after a series of huge upsets. Harvard (17-8, 10-4) swept the Nittany Lions in February to end their 51 consecutive game winning streak in the EIVA. Princeton in turn beat Harvard, which is the third seed in this weekend’s playoffs, 3-1 on the Tigers’ home court. That was after Princeton had already demonstrated the threat posed to Penn State’s reign

In a year when the NFL draft is lacking in top-tier offensive talent, teams will be looking to the defensive side of the ball.

Last year there were three quarterbacks taken in the top 10 — Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III and Ryan Tannehill — but this year’s top quarterback prospect, West Virginia’s Geno Smith, could easily slide to the end of the first round. The only offensive players most mock drafts have in the top 10 are left tackles. But this year’s draft is full of talented defensive ends — and Princeton’s Mike Catapano is one of them.

While he has not gotten the hype of FCS products like Oregon’s Dion Jordan or LSU’s Barkevious Mingo, Catapano is nonetheless expected to be the first Ivy League player drafted this year. He led Princeton football’s turnaround with a stellar senior season, leading the league with 12 sacks and winning the Bushnell Cup as Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year.

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Senior defensive end Mike Catapano has interested several NFL teams and could be drafted this weekend.

His ability to rush the passer and his relentless motor have been turning scouts’ heads all season. Catapano says he does not model his game after anyone in particular, but admits one player he does admire is the Minnesota Vikings All-Pro defensive end Jared Allen.

“I definitely admire Jared Allen. Just because he’s so relentless and focuses on all the little things,” Catapano said. “He’s not too flashy — he just gets the job done.”

Catapano was also invited to play in the East-West Shrine Game along with 54 other outstanding seniors from across college football. Many scouts questioned how he would perform against elite competition, coming out of the Ivy League, but Catapano had a solid day and drew praise from Russ Lande of the National Football Post, who pointed to Catapano’s knack for getting to the quarterback as his greatest strength.

“Quick off the ball, Catapano displayed strong and aggressive use of hands to jolt and defeat pass blocks with See DRAFT page 9

BASEBALL

Princeton comeback falls short against Rider

By Jack Rogers staff writer

In a season in which its offense has been streaky to say the least, the baseball team provided an offensive outburst in yesterday’s game against Rider, as the Tigers (12-26 overall, 9-7 Ivy League) scored more runs than they did during last weekend’s entire four-game series against Columbia. But four errors and the Broncs’ (24-15, 9-3

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) consistent run production were too much for Princeton, as the Tigers fell 8-6 in their final non-conference game of the regular season.

The Tigers struck early, as senior right fielder Steve Harrington drove in two runs on a single in the first inning.

Princeton’s sophomore lefthander Tyler Foote showed a strong start, as he kept Rider scoreless through the

first two frames. But Foote was unable to work out of a third-inning jam, in which he loaded the bases with one out. After Rider senior third baseman Adam Wayman popped out for the second out, junior designated hitter Jerry Mulderig smacked a bases-clearing triple to put the Broncs ahead 3-2.

The Tigers’ defense struggled in the fifth inning, when two consecutive fielding errors led to another run

for Rider and put men on second and third with one out. After sophomore Nick Donatiello replaced Foote on the mound, an unearned run made the deficit 6-2. The bullpen showed its depth and tenacity, as Donatiello, junior Michael Fagan and sophomore Danny Thomson combined for 4.2 innings of two-hit ball.

“We had a good performance, but we gave Rider a few opportunities with extra

outs, which cost us because they capitalized,” freshman shortstop Billy Arendt said.

“But our offense was pretty strong today. [Junior centerfielder] Alec Keller had a great day at the plate.”

Keller went three for four at the plate and scored three runs, while freshman second baseman Danny Hoy continued his strong rookie campaign at the plate. Hoy accounted for all of Princeton’s See BASEBALL page 9

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