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In Opinion Columnist Prianka Misra suggests that the University offer academic credit for internships. PAGE 6

In Street Love and Lust is back!

Street previews all the bands of Lawnparties and bids carrels adieu. PAGE S1

Today on Campus 7 p.m.: The students of VIS 219: Art for Everyone present their final presentation, “Got Art?” Lunchables provided.

Butler Gallery.

The Archives

May 2, 1979 300 people attend a rally on Cannon Green in protest of nuclear war and the draft. The rally was sponsored by The New Resistance, an antiwar group.

On the Blog Chelsea Jones muses on freedom of speech in light of preacher Michael Stockwell’s arrest for preaching on Prospect Ave.

STUDENT LIFE

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Slaughter ’80 remembers student years

Terrace to raise funds for renovation

By Hannah Schoen

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Terrace Club has begun planning for renovations to its clubhouse through the Terrace Future Campaign, which seeks to raise $3.5 million from about half of the 4,000 living alumni of the eating club.

The renovations include redesigning and modernizing the servery, expanding the existing dining room, building an allpurpose room mainly intended for musical performances, constructing a new staircase and an elevator, adding a bedroom to the officers’ quarters and greening the clubhouse, according to the Terrace Future Campaign’s case statement.

Terrace and its alumni began considering the renovations in late 2010, according to Terrace Future Campaign Committee Chairman Sandy Harrison ’74.

Harrison explained that he and other Terrace alumni considered the renovations after becoming aware that other clubs were undertaking capital campaigns to renovate their own clubhouses.

“After spending some time really talking to alumni, and really figuring out what our situation is, we concluded that it was worth exploring,” Harrison said. “We realized that we had a pretty strained clubhouse that’s had a lot of deferred maintenance, a lot of things that just need attention, and we also discussed about some possible expansion plans, not as See FUTURE page 4

Before she became the first female director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department and before she tried to “have it all,” Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 was an undergraduate in the Wilson School, drank a lot of coffee and pulled all nighters — but not because she procrastinated.

“When she would study for a course, there were times she wouldn’t sleep and sometimes we used to call it ‘work herself into a coma’ because she was such a hard worker,” classmate PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES Hovey Brock ’80 said. “We used Slaughter was a Wilson School major during her time at the University. to tell her it was okay, that she U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

U. concludes week of aerial drone usage

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The University concluded an aerial photography program to take pictures and videos of the campus for admissions purposes last week, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. The images, captured by a drone, will be used for various University publications, including the Viewbook and admissions brochures.

The Princeton police issued a press release on April

19 announcing that the admission office would be deploying an aerial drone to take photos and videos of the campus and surrounding town. In light of the recent Boston Marathon bombings, Sergeant Michael Cifelli told The Daily Princetonian that his department released the information to ensure citizens that the drone would pose no danger or threat to the community.

The aerial drone was operated by a freelance photographer who was not affiliated

MUSLIM-JEWISH BBQ

By Allison Kruk staff writer

Two months ago, the University offered seven houses that it owns on Alexander Street free of charge to any buyer willing to incur the cost of transporting them to an alternate location by April 30. Since no one has yet taken them, the houses will be slated for demolition to make room for the construction of the new Arts and Transit Neighborhood.

In March, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said that the University received in-

Dollar amount sought

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aircraft systems less than 400 feet above ground level as long as the drones are operated during daylight hours and remain in clear sight. The FAA is the only organization in the country that currently has jurisdiction over drones, Barber said.

The FAA announced in February that it would be developing privacy policies to cover the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or aerial drones, over the next year. According to Barber, privacy concerns See DRONES page 2

No offers made for Alexander Street houses

$3.5 million

university president Shirley Tilghman and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ’86 were named two of the 500 most powerful people on the planet by Foreign Policy magazine this month.

The list includes politicians, CEOs, public servants, journalists and religious leaders from a variety of industries and countries.

According to Foreign Policy, the list was created by consulting authoritative rankings for a given industry, including existing lists compiled by Forbes magazine and World University Rankings.

Joining Tilghman as American university leaders on the list are Harvard president Drew Faust, Yale president Richard Levin, Stanford president John Hennessy and University of Chicago president Robert Zimmer. The chief executives of Oxford and Cambridge are also named.

with the University, Mbugua said. The specific model, designed by DJI flight controllers, was made for aerial photography, search and rescue team and surveillance, according to DJI’s website. Mbugua said the device, which has a maximum hover time of 16 minutes, was only used during daylight hours.

According to local attorney and privacy advocate Grayson Barber, current regulations outlined by the Federal Aviation Administration permit domestic use of unmanned LOCAL NEWS

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Tilghman, Bezos ’86 on Foreign Policy’s list of 500 most powerful

would probably get the grade she wanted without having to work so hard, but she was one of those people who had a lot of drive, had a lot of focus, would never let up.”

The Wilson School professor and former Wilson School dean will leave the University at the end of the academic year to become president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank, in Washington, D.C. But unlike her two-year public service leave from the University to work at the State Department, this time Slaughter has no immediate plans to return.

During her 10 years at the See AMS page 2

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Students enjoyed a Muslim-Jewish barbeque on Wednesday afternoon to encourage dialogue.

quiries about the houses from “as far [away] as California and Haiti.” However, no offers have been made.

Since no buyers have been willing to move the houses, the University plans to bulldoze them in the upcoming weeks, Mbugua said.

He said that the homes needed “significant work before anyone could live in them.” The feasibility and cost of relocation were largely unknown and very few contractors in the area have the required insurance to move the buildings, The Daily See FREE page 4

JEFF NUNOKAWA

STUDENT LIFE

Truman & Fulbright Scholar White ’12 self-publishes guide to winning grants

By Angela Wang staff writer

From the depths of the Amazon jungle comes an Amazon. com “Hot New Release” by Haley White ’12, titled “Receive tens-of-thousands of dollars to travel, volunteer, or go to grad school.” White, who is currently working as an English teaching assistant at the Universidade Federal do Oeste do Para in the Brazilian Amazon as part of a one-year Fulbright Scholarship, recently published an e-book geared toward students applying for postgraduate scholarships and fellowships. The book is also available in paperback.

“I don’t like to call this a book so much as I like to call it a peer-

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to-peer guide,” White said. “In many ways, I’m looking at these processes with the same eyes as my readers, but I think I’m in the position to write this book because I have a lot of experience in scholarship and fellowship competitions, and I’ve had a fair amount of success.”

In addition to the Fulbright Scholarship, White has also won the Truman Scholarship, a

U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship and the Spirit of Princeton Award.

White said that she was inspired to write the book last month when she realized that there was no low-cost book on the market that introduced students to the scholarship and fellowship application process.

She wrote and published the book while working in the Amazon and edited it with a fellow Fulbright Scholar working with her and a close friend, Briana Wilkins ’12.

“It provides a really strong checklist of things you should do if you’re interested in applying for fellowships. There’s a lot of just good general advice on See E-BOOK page 2

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The Formal Services Agency offered students the opportunity to try on and rent tuxedos in preparation for this weekend’s Houseparties.

have become increasingly important as aerial drone technology becomes more widespread.

While the FAA permits the use of non-weaponized drones for domestic purposes, Barber stressed the importance of transparency and accountability to ensure that privacy laws are not breached by aerial drone use.

“The technology itself is pretty neutral,” Barber said.

“But the University needs to establish what the purpose is — say, you know, ‘This is what we’re using the drones for’ — and to establish guidelines for using them.” Barber added that a set of rules should be in place for how the University would respond if the drones were used for anything other than their intended purpose.

“If somebody feels that their privacy has been invaded because of drones, what would the punishment be?” she asked.

Center of Information Technology Policy Director Edward Felten said that while

the use of drones for aerial photography did not pose any direct threat to the community, he said he would be concerned if the drones were used for an extended period of time.

“There’s been a history of problems with security cameras becoming visible to people over the Internet,” Felten said. “That’s a risk you take when you set up video surveillance.”

Mbugua explained that the University used the drones for solely benign purposes and that the aerial photography was well within the guidelines of the FAA. The admission office did not use the drones for surveillance or monitoring purposes.

“Something important to note here is that the use of the word ‘drone’ conjures up images of something else. It’s very similar to a remote-operated toy helicopter,” Mbugua said. “This is not the type of drone that people have in mind when they think of wars abroad.”

The University does not have plans to use the drone again in the near future, according to Mbugua.

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how to write clearly and write persuasively, how to present yourself,” Wilkins said.

A key idea in the book is how an applicant can present a compelling story about himself or herself through the application, according to White.

“Think about what sort of story, what overall description you want to project about yourself throughout the application,” White said. “Think about what stories you can tell in your essay that can help you highlight the key points in that description of yourself.”

White notes that her book is not only for college students, but also for anyone looking for an opportunity to do something different.

“I think it could be a great resource for high-achieving young adults because actually, not all of the opportunities I

describe require you to have a college education,” White said.

“I think it’s a great resource for people who are interested in doing something a little different, something new, and don’t have access to a scholarship or fellowship advising program.”

White said that in addition to independent research for opportunities, she worked closely with the University’s fellowship advising program, especially her advisor and Director of Fellowship Advising Deirdre Moloney.

“I think her approach to making your voice distinctive is really important,” Moloney said regarding White’s book. “She showed the thought process a student might go through.”

A concentrator in the Wilson School, White was a member of Charter Club and a chair of the Pace Council for Civic Values and the Priorities Committee as an undergraduate. White is a former opinion columnist for The Daily Princetonian.

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University, Slaughter expanded the focus of the Wilson School, saw the school through the Robertson family lawsuit and left for two years to become a member of the State Department and also spent a year in Shanghai. She stirred the national debate on balancing a fulfilling career and family life and was speculated as a front-running candidate in the recent University presidential search.

According to interviews with former classmates and a search of Princeton’s archives, Slaughter was a studious undergraduate at the University. She earned the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship at the end of her senior year, which is awarded to students who wish to pursue careers in politics or public service. She also participated in junior varsity rowing, theatre activities and wrote for a campus publication. Despite her current political background, friends said that Slaughter was not involved in student politics or in student government and that, while she did express a passion for foreign policy, she did not consider herself a leader.

In an interview last week,

Slaughter admitted that, while several people asked her to put her name forward for the University’s presidential search, she refused every time. Currently, Slaughter explained, she is not in a position to accept a 10-year job.

For the past seven months, provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and Slaughter were considered the frontrunners for the University presidency that ultimately went to Eisgruber.

She also noted that she was first asked to consider applying for the post of dean of the Wilson School by Eisgruber, a fellow lawyer. At the time, Eisgruber served in the search committee that eventually chose Slaughter for the position.

“Anne-Marie colored glasses” Slaughter was an undergraduate student at the Wilson School and received a certificate in European cultural studies before returning to the school 22 years later as its first female dean.

Slaughter explored international relations during her undergraduate years at the University through both academics and activities. She was an intern on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the summer between her junior and senior years and, upon her

return to campus, published a guest column in The Daily Princetonian about SALT II, one of the nuclear arms disarmament programs considered at the time.

In the midst of the Cold War years, Slaughter took German classes and wrote a thesis titled “Creativity and Change: The Cultural Opposition and Soviet Reform: Implications for United States Human Rights Policy.”

Brock, who met Slaughter when they lived in the same entryway in Pyne during freshman year and dated her during their freshman and sophomore years, said he recognized her interest in foreign policy early on when they both took a survey course on foreign relations through the 20th century.

“I enjoyed the course, but I could tell that this was really what she was passionate about,” Brock, a working painter living in New York City, said.

Freshman-year entrywaymate and sophomore-and-junior-year roommate Nora Joffe ’80 — whom Slaughter thanks in the acknowledgement of her thesis for helping her type her thesis — agreed that Slaughter’s passion as an undergraduate was already in public policy and international relations.

It was also a general consensus among Slaughter’s peers that she was driven, hard work-

ing and particularly strongminded.

“The joke was that she saw everything through what we called ‘Anne-Marie colored glasses’ because she had a very specific take and would be surprised if anybody else would disagree with her,” Brock explained.

She was known to frequently stay up late to perfect her school work.

“If she did an all-nighter, it was because it was already really good and she wanted to make it great,” Elizabeth Sacksteder ’80 said, who met Slaughter when they lived in the same entryway in Pyne during their freshman year. She is now the Global Head of Litigation and Regulatory Investigations for Citigroup Inc. Slaughter also remained busy outside of the classroom.

She was a Residential Advisor during her senior year, a poetry editor of the Nassau Literary Review, an editor of social sciences and history for the Princeton Journal of the Arts and Sciences, a stage manager for theatre productions and a junior varsity rower.

Sacksteder noted that the effort that she put into rowing, which was something she had never done before coming to Princeton, was representative of the intensity at which she engaged in everything.

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The Tokyo String Quartet concluded its 44-year history with a final performance of works by Mendelssohn and Bartok at Richardson.

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But on top of her busy schedule, Slaughter did manage to maintain a social life and enjoy many of the same activities that current Princeton students engage in.

“She drank a lot of coffee,” Sacksteder said. “She drank other things as well from time to time, and she had a variety of boyfriends over the course of our four years at Princeton.”

Joffe, who Slaughter describes as her “best friend,” remembered the “endless cups of coffee in the student center” and impromptu trips to New York.

“I think the remarkable thing for both of us when we look back is frankly we could fill any amount of time we were given together,” Joffe said. “Obviously we don’t have that kind of time, but it feels like we slip back into it when we are together, and that’s what I cherish most.”

While friends remembered Slaughter, a Charlottesville, Va. native, as a Southerner, Slaughter said she disagrees with that perception though she admits that there is a Southern ease about her. However, she said that she identifies much more with her mother’s Belgian heritage.

Her father, Edward Slaughter ’53, who also was an undergraduate student in the Wilson School, met her mother in Brussels while there on a Rotary fellowship.

Slaughter was briefly a member of Colonial Club and Cloister Inn until she ultimately went independent with Joffe because she is “the kind of person who doesn’t like eating in the same place every night,” Slaughter said.

However, Slaughter said it was hard to cook while living on campus at the time and said that she and Joffe “ended up living on M&Ms.” Joffe noted that Slaughter did not consider herself a leader when she was an undergraduate, not getting too involved in student politics or student government. An advertisement in the ‘Prince’ archives shows that Slaughter was a member of the USG Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Residential Life, which addressed the structure of social and dining options on campus.

As a senior, she was named the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholar, which enabled her to study

From the Wilson School to law school and back After receiving her M.Phil., Slaughter went to Harvard Law School and graduated in 1985. She returned to Oxford and received her D.Phil. in International Relations in 1992.

While working on her D.Phil., she served on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School before joining the faculty of the Harvard Law School.

Slaughter said that as an undergraduate, she would not have expected to return to Princeton. She explained that in 2002, she accepted the position at the Wilson School to be a dean and not to teach foreign policy. Had the administrative position never been offered, she would have probably remained at a law school.

“As much as I love Princeton and the Wilson School, it is not my intellectual home,” Slaughter said. “I would probably not have been able to stay here long-term as a scholar.”

Slaughter explained that she identifies more with law than she does with political science, even though she had academic experience with foreign policy as an undergraduate. She noted that there is a difference between practicing foreign policy and being a scholar of foreign policy.

“I’m trained as a legal scholar,” Slaughter said. “I think differently than political scientists and economists, and it’s just a different discipline and it’s my home discipline.

If Princeton had a law school, then who knows? Maybe I’d stay.”

Although there are a few lawyers on campus, the lack of a law school at Princeton has meant that Slaughter hasn’t found a scholarly community at the University.

But even the initial decision to go into academia surprised her, Slaughter said. She went to law school intending to work at a big law firm in New York and go in-and-out of government.

The way to do foreign policy was through law. After working for a summer in a New York law firm, she realized that she was not interested in practicing corporate law.

“I really didn’t know what I was going to do, but I knew what I didn’t want to do,” she said.

Prompted by a need to financially support herself, she reapplied to Oxford to receive

a D.Phil., which made her eligible for a predoctoral fellowship. However, she stressed that her entry into academia was through law.

Eisgruber, who convinced Slaughter to enter her name for consideration for the position as dean of the Wilson School, said that he called Slaughter one day to “source” her about potential candidates and suggestions about the future trajectory of the school. Because of her insightful responses to the questions, Eisgruber said he asked Slaughter at the end of the call whether she would rule out being a candidate herself.

A major factor in her decision to accept the position, Slaughter explained, was the opportunity to work with Shirley Tilghman and the opportunity to make changes that she saw were necessary for the Wilson School.

Slaughter became the first woman to hold the position of dean of the Wilson School, a post she assumed in 20002. Under her tenure, she expanded the faculty of the department, successfully recruiting faculty members from a variety of disciplines to the Wilson School.

She was also instrumental in the creation of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative fellowship in 2006.

“She was absolutely critical to our strengthening the field of international relations in Princeton, which had been less strong during the 90s,” Tilghman said in an interview.

Slaughter was also the dean when the Robertson Foundation — representing the $35 million gift given by Charles Robertson ’26 to the school — filed a lawsuit against the University challenging the direction of the Wilson School and financial management of the foundation’s assets.

The Foundation argued that the Robertson gift was intended to support an educational institution dedicated to public service, but the family believed that too few graduates were actually pursuing careers in the public sector. They intended to reclaim the money and give it to a different university.

The University settled in 2008 and agreed to pay $50 million plus legal fees.

“Her ability to navigate or lead the school during that difficult time was absolutely critical,” Tilghman noted.

Slaughter left the position in 2009 when she was appointed to be the director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department by Hillary Clinton.

Slaughter was also the first woman to hold this position.

In 2011, she returned to the University as a professor in the Wilson School.

Transitioning to a think tank Slaughter’s new position outside academia will allow her to return to her original interests, she said.

“I looked at New America and thought, really this is much closer to what I’ve been passionately interested in all my life than what I’m doing now as a scholar,” Slaughter said.

She describes New America as an “idea incubator.” The position will involve working with academics in connecting their work with the policy process, in effect being one step closer to the policy process than working in the Wilson School.

“We’re nimble. We’re new.

We look for big ideas that are beyond left and right and really have an impact,” Slaughter said.

Slaughter had previously served on the board of directors for New America and when the previous president Steve Coll announced that he was stepping down in June 2012, Slaughter’s name was submitted to the presidential search committee by a number of people.

The search committee was chaired by fellow New America Trustee David Bradley, who is also the owner and chairman of Atlantic Media — the parent company of The Atlantic — the magazine that published Slaughter’s blockbuster piece, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” last summer.

However, New America Interim President Rachel White explained that Slaughter’s name was considered before her piece was published in The Atlantic.

Slaughter — who is a selfproclaimed entrepreneur — said she recognizes in New America the same things that originally attracted her to the Wilson School. She looks forward to shaping a young organization and “taking it to the next level.”

“Having it All” Slaughter’s cover story in The Atlantic last summer has become the most read in the magazine’s history since it first went online. The article has also catapulted Slaughter into prominence in the debate about women and work-family

balance.

But her undergraduate peers said she never explicitly discussed her thoughts on having a family while they were students together. However, they believed that Slaughter’s family had some expectations for her personal life.

“I did get the sense that she came from a background… where it was expected that a woman would have a family, make a home and be an ‘attractive’ woman,” Sacksteder said.

“She struggled with that a little bit because that’s a lot of pressure to take on along with wanting to direct geopolitical policy for the United States.”

Slaughter explained that not having children was never explicitly part of her plan, but she did not consider the logistics of when and how she would have children until she was 35. Joffe, her best friend, noted that their discussions about trying to balance a career and family occurred long after they graduated from Princeton.

“I spent a couple of really terrible years thinking that I had sacrificed my kids to my career,” Slaughter said.

After speaking to female University students, giving talks on the issue and being urged to write about her experiences with family and career, she said she realized that this was a conversation that young women should be having. Despite the early expressed interest, the public’s response to the article surprised even her.

“I didn’t know that they were going to want to have [the conversation] 2 million strong,” Slaughter said. “Not for a minute did I think it would go viral.”

In the process of writing the article, she consulted a group of women and a few men who were colleagues, former students and mentors to share their own experiences with balancing family and a career.

Among these were Tilghman and former Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel.

The piece was inspired by Slaughter’s experience working with the State Department in Washington, D.C. on public service leave from the Wilson School while trying to raise teenage sons in New Jersey.

Splitting herself between her dream job and her family, she reached a “powerful, life-changing experience” in which she realized that she — someone who was so career-driven — was making “a lateral move back” instead of

remaining in Washington and advancing professionally.

“I realized that the things that I had assumed all my life were not true, even for me,” Slaughter said. “Thus I had a very different perspective on the choices that many of my friends had made over the years.”

She added that once her two teenage sons go to college, it will open up new career possibilities that she has not had before.

“I conclude[d] that I didn’t want to have the kind of time commitment that a high-level government job requires while my kids are home,” she added.

While she credits her husband, politics professor Andrew Moravcsik, in the cover story for taking on a large share of the parenting duties while she was in Washington, D.C., she was in turn also the primary caregiver for a period of time. Moravcsik and Slaughter taught at Harvard together but Moravcsik maintained his Harvard job when Slaughter first came to the Wilson School, commuting to Cambridge, Mass. from their new home in Princeton.

“That was fun,” Slaughter said. “I was a new dean, and I had kids who were three and five and a husband who was gone three days a week.”

After two years of that routine, Moravcsik became a Politics Professor at Princeton in 2004.

Slaughter is working on finishing a book to follow up on the article by September. In the book, she wants to reframe the debate from a women’s issue to an issue that includes men in the focus on family.

As dean of the Wilson School, she worked on a principle in which “family comes first,” she said and she hopes to continue working with family-centered policy at New America.

“That’s one of the reasons why I thought New America was such a good fit,” she said.

“Because it has a social policy of work and family and foreign policy and education, so I can actually do both. I can actually keep going after the book is out to see if I can push real change.”

“I am not in a position to commit to a 10-year job,” she added. “I don’t know what will happen in 2016. I don’t know what will happen in 5 years when my kids are out in school, but I’m not in a position to commit to 10 years.”

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grandiose as some of the other clubs though, which we don’t need or want, but we’re looking at some of that.”

In the past four years, Ivy, Tiger Inn and Cap and Gown Clubs have all undergone multimillion dollar renovations. Ivy finished its renovation in 2009 and added an extra wing to the clubhouse that hosts a grand dining hall. Cap and TI inagurated their renovated clubhouses in 2011 that also included new dining facilities as well as expanded taprooms. In addition, Charter and Colonial clubs also renovated their facilities, although they did not add new wings to their respective clubhouses.

According to the Terrace campaign’s case statement, though the Terrace clubhouse was reconstructed in the wake of a 1987 fire with emergency funding from alums, this reconstruction did not address infrastructure or expansion needs. The Terrace clubhouse

has not had a full-scale renovation since the 1920s.

Harrison explained that Terrace has been working with an architect, who is identified in the case statement as former University professor Terry Smith ’79 of Richardson Smith Architects in Princeton. Smith has developed building plans for the renovation, which can be viewed on the Terrace Club website.

“They’ve come a long way.

They’re not final because we just keep getting input and feedback from alumni as they become aware of it,” Harrison said. “We’re looking at it as evolutionary, but I’d say that it’s pretty far along as far as basically what we want to do, in terms of both renovation and some modest expansion.”

Harrison said that the Terrace Future Campaign Committee has also begun working on fundraising from alumni, who have responded positively overall to the campaign.

“The overwhelming majority of alumni who are aware of what is in the works feel that they think we need to do it,”

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Harrison said. “If there’s one overall consensus, we want to stay where we are, we want to fix up the place we have, and we don’t want to change the character of the building — the Tudor style, the look and feel of it.”

Harrison said that the campaign still has fundraising to do before the renovations can begin, but he hopes that the clubhouse’s renovations will start “maybe by summer of next year.” However, he explained that there is not yet a deadline for the completion of the renovations.

“There’s no external or internally imposed time frame to get this done. We could’ve decided to do nothing, but it’s very clear that the clubhouse needs work, and we want to make sure we’re around for another 50, 100 years,” Harrison explained.

“We’re not after marble flooring or mahogany woodwork,” said Harrison. “That’s not what we want. We don’t need it, we don’t want it.”

Terrace president Neal Donnelly ’14 declined to comment for this article.

CORRECTION Due to an editing error, an earlier version of the April 30 article “COS 126 drops P/D/F option” misstated the number of students enrolled in ECO 100 this semester.

There are 422 students enrolled. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

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Princetonian reported in February.

The Princeton Historic Preservation Commission expressed interest in preserving the houses, but could not acquire the necessary funds to relocate them since the houses are not located in the designated historic district, historic preservation officer Christine Lewandoski said.

Out of what she described as concern for the architectural value of the homes and the “historic fabric” of her community, Princeton resident Kip Cherry said in March that the Universi-

ty should undertake the relocation itself and move the homes en masse to a basin at the end of Alexander Street. The University could then make the homes available to faculty or staff at reduced mortgage rates, Cherry said at the time.

However, the University did not consider this alternative, Mbugua said.

The houses, which were built in the 19th century, “represent a period of growth in the Princeton area that came with the construction of the canal,” Cherry said in an interview this week.

“These houses were not grand houses of great wealth,” Cherry added. “They belonged to people who economically

benefitted from the infrastructure of the time and probably were employed by the canal.”

According to Cherry and Lewandoski, the homes are part and parcel of a bygone era invaluable to Princeton’s municipal development and growth.

Both said they were disappointed that offers to move them did not emerge and that the University was not considering options other than demolition.

Cherry noted the University’s long legacy of moving buildings in the past to make room for new construction projects and said she felt it was feasible for the University to consider alternatives to the full destruction of the homes.

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Jumping ship: (Not) giving credit where credit is due

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he fluorescent lights of Woolworth 104 did their best to keep me and my peers awake and participating in our Writing Seminar on a stormy Wednesday night. As is the case with most night classes (from what I have heard), we unloaded the baggage from our entire day right as we dropped our backpacks and book bags, slumping into the wooden chairs that would serve as our foundations for the next 1.5 hours.

To liven up the scene a bit, my professor asked us each week to introduce ourselves by name, and then to state a specific fact, wish or other piece of information. Some weeks it was guilty pleasures, other weeks it was favorite food or our vacation spot. This week it was summer plans.

I immediately began to dread my turn at this introduction. After around five or so humble, toned-down announcements of international visits and prestigious opportunities — New York, China and Germany to name a few — we arrived at myself. I sheepishly replied, “I’m not sure what I’m doing yet.”

Don’t get me wrong. The lights didn’t flicker and the class was not agape. I’m not trying to pretend that my professor pointed a chalkboard eraser at my head, banishing me to the furthest corner of campus (Forbes — just kidding). But the mixture of my own bitterness and the change in his reaction to my explanation that I was still looking for internship opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area — my hometown — produced a sour taste. How was he supposed to react? How was anyone supposed to pretend that “still looking around” was as exciting of a response as “South Africa?”

This was already a sore subject for me as the road had already been rocky enough. Just days earlier, I was forced to reject an internship offer because, due to University policy, I could not receive academic credit for it. My heart sank as I read an email that stated that the company of interest could not offer me a position if I did not receive academic credit for my work — “otherwise we would hire you as an intern in a heartbeat,” they said.

As I grimly continued my search for unpaid internships with nonprofit and government organizations, I realized that this was part of a much larger problem at Princeton. The University, without exceptions, does not offer academic credit for jobs and internships in which students participate. Many companies, without exceptions, do not offer positions to candidates who cannot receive academic credit. Many companies offering unpaid internships seek to give studentss something for their time and effort, so as not to be perceived as using a major swath of the American population as a free work force. The semblance of an unfair labor transaction is a scar that no organization wants to sport.

To be fair, when this situation arises, Career Services can write a letter of support indicating that it approves of students’ unpaid participation in such internships, essentially giving employers the green light to hire students without compensating them (monetarily or with academic credit). But for many, as in my case, a letter of support is simply not enough.

The problem here is, with the lack of reconciliation between two disparate philosophies, the students get left behind. I have looked through countless pages of internships with reputable organizations, and the same language serves as my instantaneous obstacle: “applicants must receive college course credit, no exceptions.” I’m still looking for something to do in my area this summer.

When neither side is willing to compromise, what are the students to do? Companies are missing out on a qualified, accomplished free workforce. Students are barred from the opportunities they wish to pursue. Since the “for credit” policy is so widespread among various organizations and companies, it seems unlikely that the change will come from their side. Perhaps the University could offer academic credit for these unpaid internships, but limit the number of “for credit” internships that may be taken during the four years at Princeton. Alternatively, students could receive credit for internships only after applying to do so. Such an application process could involve writing an essay or explanation that makes a case for why the student feels he or she should be rewarded credit. Even more options exist: the University could give credit to students only if they performed their duties for a certain amount of time — perhaps around the number of hours that a course would take up during a semester. Finally, if the University wanted to make sure students were not replacing their courses with summer internships, it could still give students course credit for these opportunities and jobs, but allow credits to be used only as supplements to coursework, rather than replacements.

There are a variety of options here, but I feel that the University should consider at least one of them. A reformed or less rigid policy would allow us to pursue any opportunity we wanted, rather than having to automatically skip one offer after another — much as I had wished my professor skipped my introduction in class that day.

Pr ianka Misra is a freshman from Castro Valley, Calif. She can be reached at pmisra @ pr inceton.edu.

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Thank you to the peanut gallery Lauren Prastien columnist

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hen I first came to Princeton, my mother showered me with the routine barrage of advice, ranging from remembering to get a decent amount of sleep to cleaning my room before I had a precept of dust bunnies under my desk. However, one piece of advice stuck out to me as particularly strange.

“Lauren,” she told me, after perusing Princeton’s web-based materials, “promise me: Whatever you do, don’t write for The Daily Princetonian.”

Although I initially found her advice to be bizarre, I soon realized what had motivated it: The shark tank of anonymous diatribes lingering below every article like a trapdoor.

I dutifully obeyed my mother for three years, but after being asked to apply to Opinion at the beginning of my senior year, I caved.

Since then I certainly have had my fair share of experiences with the peanut gallery. In the comments section of my first article, I was purported to be sleeping with the entire cast of a play because I had given them a positive review. In another, I was called an annoying feminist. And finally, I was accused of being arrogant, trashy and meta.

I can assure you that all of these are completely and totally true.

But for all the attacks, I also owe the peanut gallery a thank you for providing some wonderful encouragement and, more

importantly, for teaching me a very valuable lesson. At Princeton, self-preservation seems to sometimes be the name of the game. If campus reactions to Suzy Lee Weiss’s article in the Wall Street Journal have left us with anything else besides the bitter taste of white privilege in our mouths, it’s the fact that we as Princetonians feel the need to justify that we are not merely an admissions mistake. And so we are left with a visceral fear of screwing up or being criticized.

Although we are bombarded by disingenuous assurances that students of all experience levels are welcome to apply to dance groups filled with people who could jete before they walked, we are conditioned to avoid those situations that can bring about embarrassment and rejection. Certainly, we see this enough when half of the infamous CHM 303: Organic Chemistry I class vanishes after the first exam. I saw this when I watched a friend drop a class because she recognized that she knew the least about the subject of everyone in the precept and saw another exclaim on the final day of a gender studies seminar that she wished she would have taken more classes like it at Princeton. I myself am graduating with two pass/D/fails I have never used for fear of looking like a bumbling idiot in classes that certainly intrigued me but that I feared would challenge my academicallyweak areas. While I enjoyed the courses I took in their place, I wish I had been a little more fearless about opening myself up to a variety of activities and courses that would have been frightening but also enriching.

When my mother discouraged me from writing for the ‘Prince,’ she was hoping to protect me from a medium

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that would ultimately try its hardest to bruise my ego in a school that sometimes seems as if it is in the business of kicking its students’ butts. However, writing for this newspaper has helped me not only treat criticism as water off a duck’s back, but it has enabled me to experience the joys of expressing myself that I would not have felt had I been too shy to endure the worst that the peanut gallery had to offer.

I leave Princeton with such love and gratefulness for the experiences I have had.

I am thankful to the ‘Prince’ for this opportunity to be able to express myself and grow a thicker skin, to no longer fear criticism and baseless attacks on my character, to find humor in the fact that a bunch of over-caffeinated, stressed-out students were unable to realize that my use of the made-up word “pangustatorial” was a joke.

When I was asked to write this goodbye column, I wondered what I would be able to offer up as 800 or so words of parting sentiments that would not seem pedantic or masturbatory. So what I have written is a product of wishing I had more than just two semesters at the ‘Prince’ to reflect on and a sincere hope that you all will find some way to throw yourself into the firing line.

Whether it be joining one of our school’s grab-bag of a cappella groups or taking a class so far removed from your major that you may not even have known that such a thing existed, I hope you are fearless in the face of possible failure. And I hope that you will not wait until you are seniors to do so.

Lauren Prastien is an anthropology major from Fair Lawn, N.J. She can be reached at prastien@princeton.edu.

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to mention the persistent stress that can the strong sense of community here, both plague even those students who aren’t among current undergraduates as well depressed. I hate the Princeton in which as the eccentric yet amazingly faithful independence is lauded so much so that alumni. I love the access to professors, the e have to feel the needing God, desiring a spouse or even overall professionalism and excellence universe at once as simply being vulnerable with friends is maintained by the University and the an ogre’s castle, to often seen as foolish. I hate the Princeton blend Princeton strikes as a major research be stormed, and in which social interactions on the Street institution with a liberal arts spirit. yet as our own cottage, to which we can re- are fairly homogeneous, focused on Feeling the independent and fierce turn at evening. No one doubts that an orsocial climbing, hooking up and getting pull of both emotional categories, love dinary man can get on with this world: but drunk. And I really hate the Princeton and hate, is helpful. As Chesterton says we demand not strength enough to get on that espouses a false open-mindedness so well, the danger is allowing the two with it, but strength enough to get it on. in which it’s fine to believe whatever you emotions to mix and produce a “surly Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet want, as long as it’s not certain social or contentment” that accepts the status quo love it enough to think it worth changing?” religious views. and neither rejoices in the good nor seeks While G.K. Chesterton, in his tour de But I also love Princeton. I love the change for the bad. We must, to some force, Orthodoxy, directs these words intellectual depth of the student body and degree, separate the different components toward Christian life generally, his faculty, as well as the incredibly rich course of our Princeton experience or we risk powerful words can be a helpful lens for offerings. I love the periwinkle sky that so understanding them wrongly. all Princetonians as we think about our often provides an elegant backdrop for the To that end, I encourage you — in University specifically. How can we take gentle, interweaving plant and stone that whatever arena of campus life you feel it issue with all that needs to change about characterize our campus. I love Princeton’s — to fervently hate the problems with that Princeton, while simultaneously enjoying commitment to helping undergrads aspect of Princeton so that you can usher all that is very good about it? travel abroad and pursue exciting in a better Princeton down the road. Let Hating and loving Princeton is a independent work. (Conducting my thesis your hate be motivated ultimately by an tension I — and perhaps you — face research in the rain forests of Costa Rica abiding love for Princeton that drives you daily. I hate the success-hungry Princeton was a major highlight of Princeton for to make it the best place it can be. In the culture that contributes to 43 percent me, and I’m constantly amazed at the same way that good friends can show love of students feeling depressed often or ways Princeton opens similar doors for by firmly pointing out one another’s flaws, sometimes (COMBO series article), not hundreds of other students.) I also love I think we love our University community columnist

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What does intense love and hate for Princeton actually look like? It could look like a social scene that encourages diversity in clientele and activities for the purpose of creating more dynamic Saturday night options, or a truly openminded dialogue about religion in which it’s okay to criticize religious traditions in a frank but civil way (rather than sidestepping massive differences in worldview and painting them as different paths up the same mountain), or a culture in which women can feel equally accepted whether they choose grad school, a high-powered job, or motherhood upon graduation. Do something that allows you to lean on both fountains of passion, hate and love, so long as the result is sincerely pointed toward the betterment of Princeton.

Let’s then seek the good of our University, because in its welfare we may just find our own.

Dave Kurz is a 2012 graduate from Maryland and current intern at Princeton Faith and Action. He can be reached at dave.kurz@ gmail.com.

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Regarding “40 freshmen unable to board class boat cruise due to delayed bus arrival” (Sunday, April 28, 2013) “Class Council will provide a full refund” read the expected email I received the next afternoon, along with the 39 other forgotten freshmen, whose days of preparation, weeks of anticipation and hours of travel culminated in a spectacular view, from the pier, on a clear, New Jersey night, of our class cruise setting sail for the New York harbor.

Class Council will provide a full refund, they’ve assured us. But, in truth, there were several unforeseen, perhaps unforeseeable, circumstances that exacerbated an already poorly

organized situation, and without any of which, there likely would not have been anyone left behind — let alone us all.

I would like a refund for the confidence placed in you all, and for the deception that followed. For the nonexistent contact “throughout the night” with student bus captain James Weldon ’16, who did demonstrate admirable leadership, even as he was blamed and harassed for a situation completely out of his control. For the illusion that there was actually an organized apparatus for managing the situation, that it was our arrival after the “strict deadline” that caused our inability to board. We merrily, casually, strolled down the pier in search of our cruise,

arriving well over seven minutes before the boat began to depart. Why, given this “constant communication” between our bus captain and certain members of the 2016 Class Council, were we not informed of this imminent deadline, or at least just told to hurry up? Or else, why would the Council not have a contingency plan already in place, given pre-existing awareness of the 12:45 deadline, and the likelihood of us not making it?

Because there was no such communication. Bus Captain James called after we saw the cruise leaving us, literally yelling “We’re not on the boat,” to which the councilmember responded with utter surprise and confusion.

And yet, the impression given by the

Council has suggested that they were actually on top of the situation as it transpired, pleading for the cruise crew to await our arrival.

Guidance and direction in times of need is expected from those elected to lead. Instead, excuses and misdirection is what awaited us in the days since this misfortune. I find your actions disingenuous and ill-fitting of the positions Princetonians of the Great Class of 2016 have entrusted you with. Likeability is no substitute for leadership. For the Forty Forgotten, what needs to be refunded, is our trust.

That said, I’ll still take my $25.

AJ Sibley ’16

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to 29th of 126 players. Now Shon will look to be the first

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by Auburn from May 9-11.

In order to qualify for the NCAA Championship, held in late May, Shon must place within the top two individual spots on the leaderboard; the spots do not count individual leaders that are at the Regional championship as part of a team that places in the top eight.

In 2011, as a freshman in her first year competing, Shon finished 52nd. A year later, as a sophomore, she moved up on the leaderboard

Shon, who was also named first-team All-Ivy selection, is one of six individual golfers to earn a bid to the East Regional.

Princeton player since Mary Moan ’97 to move on to the NCAA Championship.

has probably been the greatest moment so far. Our relay wasn’t expected to win, but we just went out and had a really good race. It was the first time I’d won anything in my time at Princeton.

Q: Do you have a most embarrassing moment from your career?

A: I don’t have a specific embarrassing moment. I’m a very klutzy person, so over the last few years I’ve been dubbed among the most spastic on the team. I just cut my hand today doing baton handoffs; I didn’t even know that was possible. During a 4x100 relay last year, my teammates ran into me during the baton exchange, which would’ve been inexcusable for any other sprinter on the team. But my coach knows I’m a spazz, so he wasn’t that mad.

Q: If not track, what sport would you do, and why?

A: I would probably play squash, because you don’t have to run much and it’s limited inside a box. It also seems like a great way to get a lot of stress out of the way.

Q: Favorite track teammate?

A: That’s a tough question.

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Q: Weirdest member of the track team?

A: Well, we have a lot of weird people on the team. I think the cake goes to our sprinting coach, Coach [Thomas] Harrington. He sends us regular emails with random motivational things that have included Beyonce music videos and Disney songs. He wrote us a poem for Valentine’s Day, in which he spoke from the perspective of a woman who feels underappreciated by her man. All the sprinters got a copy of it. We love Coach Harrington, but that was just really weird.

Q: Are there any particular rituals that you and your teammates have before racing?

A: Our sprinters are a very ritual-y group. It’s pretty funny to see us getting on the racing blocks, since it’s always a huge OCD spectacle.

Before I race, I normally just listen to music and then tend to jump a couple times and do a couple kicks before getting on the blocks.

Q: What is one thing that you dominate in off the track?

A: I win every argument I get into. I always have to be right. I probably dominate

any other physical activity that I’m in against my friends, since most of them aren’t athletes and think that I can kill them.

Q: Rumor has it you take your bedroom decor rather seriously.

Your thoughts?

A: I take my decorating very seriously. I’ve lived in a single both years at Princeton because I’m very neat, and will be rooming alone next year, too. Being in a single lets me create a color scheme for each school year, so that things like my bedspread, carpets and curtains all match. Last year, my color scheme was blue, this year it’s pink and I’m still deciding what to do for next year.

Q: If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

A: Do magical powers count?

Q: Uh, sure.

A: Ok, I’d love to be able to talk to animals. I’m a big animal person. I’m friends with actual dogs on Facebook.

Q: You must be a big “The Wild Thornberrys” fan then.

A: Of course. I remember almost every episode. My friend used to do a great impersonation of Nigel Thornberry.

Q: Do you have a spirit animal, then?

A: Yes, but it isn’t that simple. I like to think I’m a mix of three animals. I’m partrabbit because I apparently have a bounce when I walk.

I’m also part-lion, because I’m pretty argumentative in nature and can be aggressive.

Finally, I’m part-sloth because I like sloths and think they’re funny.

Q: So, track has [Heptagonals] coming up this Saturday and Sunday, [and Princeton is hosting]. What are your thoughts going into the weekend?

A: I’m really excited for Heps.

We have a lot of good runners who can score well if they set their minds to it. [Freshman thrower] Julia Ratcliffe is one person that comes to mind who should score us a lot of points. Some of our mid-distance runners can score too, and hopefully our 4x100 will pull it together this weekend like we did last spring.

Q: Thoughts on missing Lawnparties?

A: Normally, I would say that it certainly sucks to miss Lawnparties. But this year, if I were to choose between listening to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, or going to one of the most exciting track meets of the season and watching people run around with almost no clothes on, I think the choice is pretty easy.

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The first is protecting the safety of athletes, and in particular, preventing concussions. In 2010, the Ivy presidents formed a committee to study the effects of head-tohead collisions in football, which led to the passing of several new measures in the summer of 2011, including a limit on the number of allowable full-contact practices. The following year, similar rules were approved for men’s and women’s lacrosse and soccer; as a result, the Ivy League now has some of the most advanced concussionprevention regulations in organized sports.

But much is still unknown about the causes of concussions and the best preventive measures. Last summer, the Ivy League and the Big Ten Conference announced collaborative plans to research head injuries in sports; as these findings are revealed, the league presidents may have to reconsider their existing regulations.

Eisgruber said concussions and player safety were topics about which he particularly feels the need to learn more information.

“I think the safety and

well-being of our athletes always has to be a priority, but beyond saying that, I can’t be much more elaborate,” he said.

Another concern of Ivy League presidents is the “intensification” of amateur athletics around the nation, according to Tilghman. With athletes expected to perform at higher skill levels and commit more time to training, she said, Ivy League schools must make sure that they are still able to have a full academic experience.

“I do worry ... that the intensification in athletics that we have seen over the last 25 years is something that the Ivy League has to continually contend with, if it is going to sustain the student-athlete ideal,” Tilghman said. “What is happening off-season is continual training, and that includes the summers. Those are the kind of expectations around performance that didn’t exist 25 years ago.”

One area in which Eisgruber does have some experience with the athletic department is its funding. As provost, Eisgruber chairs the Priorities Committee and makes budgetary recommendations to the president and the Board of Trustees. The University spent nearly $21 million on athletics in 201112, according to data released

under the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act; while some of that sum is funded by sponsorships and booster groups, the majority comes from the University’s general operating budget.

Eisgruber said he believes the University’s current balance between spending on athletics and other priorities is “fine.”

“All the issues there have been around the margins,” he said.

Eisgruber may still be learning about the main issues in Ivy League athletics, but throughout his term as President, he will have no shortage of voices offering him advice. Some may be fervent supporters of the athletics department, such as the hundreds of football alumni who signed a letter to Tilghman urging her to “personally act to help restore Princeton’s winning

football tradition” last summer, according to the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Others may be faculty or community members who are critical of the Ivy League’s current athletic environment.

For his part, Eisgruber said he feels varsity athletics are very valuable to the University, because of the benefits they provide participating athletes as well as the ways they unite people from all parts of Princeton.

“There are lots of ways in which our campus community comes together, but one of them is through athletic events,” he said. “I’ve enjoyed that, first as a student and as a faculty member. You get things like the bonfire — that’s a very special moment on the campus, and it’s wonderful to see the town, and the students and generations of alumni coming together around that.”

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For junior Kelly Shon, the end of this year’s golf season was a mix of old and new. On Tuesday it was announced that for the third consecutive year, Shon had been selected to play in an NCAA Regional golf championship. While the tournament will be nothing unfamiliar for Shon, the announcement was preceded by something entirely new.

On Sunday at Trump National in Bedminster, N.J., Shon won her first ever Ivy League individual championship and, with the victory, was named the Ivy League Player of the Year, just the second Princeton women’s golfer to win the honor.

Shon narrowly bested the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Harvard’s Christine Lin, in a one-hole playoff to finish first on the individual scoreboard at two over.

Her performance has markedly improved from previous years — as a freshman she tied for fifth, and last year, she took seventh. Shon is the ninth Tiger to win the individual title since 1997, when the Ivy Championship first began, and is the first to win since Susannah Aboff

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As a whole, the squad put up an impressive showing, barely missing the top spot in what was the closest margin of loss in a women’s Ivy League golf championship since 1998. After 54 holes and more than 900 shots, Harvard finished the tournament at 45 over, while Princeton trailed behind by just one at 46 over. The Tigers had entered day three trailing the Crimson by four shots, but with a 13 over Sunday from Princeton and a 16 over from Harvard, the squad just missed edging its way into the lead. Princeton finished twenty shots ahead of third-place Yale and 34 in front of Columbia.

Each of Princeton’s golfers finished in the top 20, with senior Anna Jang earning second team All-Ivy for her 10th place finish at 17 over.

Rookie Sydney Kersten followed just one shot behind to finish 11th, and classmate Alexandra Wong tied for 14th at 21 over. Senior Tiffany Dong rounded out the squad at 26 over, tying for 18th.

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When Shirley Tilghman took over as University President in 2001, she had very little experience with intercollegiate athletics. A former molecular biology professor, Tilghman said much of her learning about sports at Princeton was done “on the job.”

Twelve years later, her successor expects to have the same experience. When he begins his term in July, newly appointed University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 will take on a number of athletic-related responsibilities, such as setting University policies that affect athletes on 36 varsity teams and having a key role in all proposed Ivy League regulations. And on many of those issues, Eisgruber says, he has a lot of learning to do.

Eisgruber was not a varsity athlete when he attended Princeton three decades ago; his former roommate Charles Johnson ’83 has characterized him as “not remarkably athletic.” Still, Eisgruber said,

he felt the athletics department contributed positively to his experience as a student.

“One of the things that made Princeton attractive to me — by comparison to places like MIT, where I could have gone as a physics major — is I wanted to come to a place where there were athletic events that I could attend,” he said. “I was a big fan of our basketball team in particular when I was a student here, just as I am now.”

Soon, Eisgruber will become much more than just a fan — as an Ivy League president, he’ll have a very important role in determining league-wide athletic policies.

Most of the Ancient Eight’s distinctive features were conceived and implemented by university presidents, including the Academic Index, a tool for quantifying and regulating the academic qualifications of recruited athletes, and the league’s ban on postseason play in football, which dates back to the original Ivy Group Agreement of 1954.

In Tilghman’s 12-year ten-

ure, the Ivy League presidents have been involved in several high-profile policy discussions. In 2002, they instituted a seven-week moratorium on organized practices for out-of-season teams, which was criticized by athletes and modified the following year. In 2006, football’s postseason ban was upheld despite a swell of opposition from the Ivy Council as well as players, coaches and athletic directors. And in 2011 and 2012, the Ivy League passed presidential-driven reforms aimed at reducing concussions in contact sports.

Despite the fact that half of the Council of Presidents will have changed in a two-year span — with Brown’s Christina Paxson having started her term in 2012 and Eisgruber, Yale’s Peter Salovey and Dartmouth’s Philip J. Hanlon set to begin in 2013 — Tilghman said she does not anticipate any dramatic overhauling of Ivy League athletics in the near future. But she named two issues which she believes will be priorities for the Ivy See EISGRUBER page 7

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Sophomore sprinter Emily Easton harbors a fear of distance running and wins every argument she’s in.

By Jack Rogers staff writer

Emily Easton is a sophomore sprinter who lives in Wilson College. When she’s not on the track, the history major from Long Island enjoys animals, online shopping and taking a break from running. One of her greatest fears is distance running, which for sprinters consists of running for more than twenty minutes at one time or of crossing the finish line

more than once in a single track event. Emily recently sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss her pre-race rituals, “The Wild Thornberrys” and a preference for racing over going to Lawnparties.

Q: Where are you from, and what’s the best part about being from there?

A: I’m from Manhasset on Long Island. The best part about it is probably the fact that it’s not New Jersey.

Q: When did you start running?

A: I started running in 10th grade, after quitting lacrosse. It was really dramatic at the time, probably the biggest decision I ever had to make up until then.

Q: What’s been the greatest moment of your track career so far?

A: Winning the 4x100-meter relay at the Ivy League Championships last year See ON TAP page 7

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