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BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Woody Allen to speak at U. on Oct. 27

Spitzer ’81 loses race for NYC Comptroller

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University manuscript curator Don Skemer, Allen’s gifts began with a suggestion from his friend Laurance Rockefeller ’32, a major philanthropist of the University. While Allen was visiting the Rockefeller family’s estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., Rockefeller suggested Allen donate his papers to the University, Skemer explained. “Woody Allen said, ‘I don’t know what to do with my old scripts,’” he said. “And Laurance Rockefeller said, See VISIT page 4

News & Notes

Prolific filmmaker Woody Allen will be speaking on campus on Oct. 27 in an event hosted by Friends of Princeton University Library. His visit is the latest marker in an ongoing relationship with the University, to which he been donating his personal papers since 1980. Allen is an Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter, most recently directing the film “Blue Jasmine.” According to

U. takes top spot in U.S. News rankings

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Just in time for classes to start, Intersections reminisces on its favorite anthems of the summer to help you through those late-night study sessions.

Princeton topped Harvard on the U.S. News & World Report’s 2014 ranking of America’s best colleges and universities, a year after the two tied for first place in the 2013 rankings. With Harvard now second on the list, the two universities have led the list for 11 years in a row. Yale was ranked third, followed by Columbia. Stanford and the University of Chicago are tied for fifth, and Duke, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania take a three-way tie for seventh. Dartmouth and the California Institute of Technology rounded out the top 10. Ivy League schools all made the top 20, with Brown and Cornell ranking 14th and 16th, respectively. U.S. News ranked schools on the basis of a range of factors that include class size, SAT scores, peer reputation, alumni giving rates and selectivity. For the 2014 rankings, the publication adjusted its methodology to ref lect changes in the state of college admissions and the postgraduate environment. Students’ high school class rank carried less weight, as fewer schools are including the mark on transcripts. Other changes in ranking factors included a reduction in the importance of the peer assessment score and an increase in weight of graduation and retention rates. The ranking of the top three liberal arts colleges was unchanged, with Williams College in first, followed by Amherst and Swarthmore.

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tion this year do not have an advantage applying the next year. Rapelye explained that the University misses approximately three states every year and this fact is unavoidable. Tessa Myren ’17 is the only student in the Class of 2017 from South Dakota and is the only student, according to Myren, to apply to and enroll to Princeton from her high school in three years. She explained that students are encouraged to attend in-state colleges by school counselors, family members and even the governor. “There was a little bit of a feeling of pariahnSee GEOGRAPHY page 3

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By Patience Haggin

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New Jersey and California together contributed to over 27 percent of the total Class of 2017, while four states — Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and Iowa — contributed no students. International students made up 12.6 percent of the Class of 2017 and came from 54 countries, according to Princeton Residential College Student Facebook. The University’s Undergraduate Admissions Office dispatches several admissions officers abroad every year to attract applicants from around the

world. In visits that average two weeks each, these admissions staff members reached 25 countries over the 20122013 academic year and are scheduled to visit 31 countries this coming year, according to the Admissions Office. The pool of international applicants for admission to the University has increased 93.5 percent over the past eight years, according to the Admissions Office. According to Dean of Admissions Janet Rapelye, these numbers do not affect the consideration of applicants the following year; students from states without representa-

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This is the early draft of Hannah and Her Sisters from 1986 by Woody Allen. LOCAL NEWS

Atheist group threatens lawsuit over 9/11 memorial By Allison Kruk staff writer

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Freshmen from Rockefeller College walk in the Pre-Rade, celebrating the start of their undergraduate Princeton experience.

The American Atheists, a nonprofit atheist advocacy organization, has threatened to sue the town of Princeton if a proposal to erect a memorial featuring a steel beam with a carved cross salvaged from the World Trade Center comes to fruition. Princeton Fire Department Chief Roy James said he conceived the idea to construct a 9/11 monument in Princeton three years ago after acquiring a piece of wreckage from the attacks. Workers clearing the wreckage at Ground Zero inscribed a cross into a steel beam as a way of commemorating the victims, he said. James said he plans to build the memorial in front of the Battle Monument at the intersection of Nassau Street and Route 206. The project will require $100,000

in funding, which he said he is seeking from private donors. Because the desired land is state property, James said he will also require state authorization to build the monument. However, the state has said that the memorial would conf lict with the existing monument in honor of those who died in the Battle of Princeton during the Revolutionary War, according to Mayor Liz Lempert. James said he is currently in the process of appealing that decision. The atheist group has argued that if the memorial were to be built on public lands, it would violate the constitutional separation between church and state. The group has requested that the beam be placed in a public “free speech zone” that accommodates memorials See CROSS page 4

Eliot Spitzer ’81, who left the New York governor’s mansion in disgrace after a prostitution scandal, lost Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Comptroller of New York City in a tight race against current Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. With 92 percent of precincts reporting, The New York Times called the race for Stringer, who received 51.8 percent of the vote. Spitzer received 48.2 percent of the vote. The comptroller wields considerable power as the city’s chief fiscal officer, managing the investments of $140 billion in municipal pensions and exercising the power to audit city agencies, according to Reuters. Stringer is expected to cruise to victory in the general election on Nov. 5, becoming the second-most powerful official in the city and launching what could turn out to be a successful political comeback. In a May 2011 interview with The Daily Princetonian, Spitzer spoke about second chances for those whose actions have cost them the public trust. “I think the American public believes in comebacks, whether it’s sports teams or individuals,” he said at the time. Following his resignation, Spitzer spent the next five years preparing for this comeback attempt, hosting political talk shows for CNN and Current TV, writing for the online magazine Slate and teaching at the City College of New York. See SPITZER page 3

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Public Safety arrests freshman for alleged possession of drugs By Marcelo Rochabrun associate news editor

An enrolled undergraduate student was arrested Sunday night by the University’s own Department of Public Safety after he was allegedly found in possession of illegal drugs in a room in Holder Hall. Public Safety has rarely arrested students for drug possession or any other offense, instead issuing what the University calls a judicial referral.

Joseph Gauvreau ’17 was charged with drug possession after Public Safety received “information about possible drugs in a room,” according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Mbugua explained that Gauvreau consented to the search of his room. “The officers found a plastic bag containing a drug,” Mbugua said, although he noted he could not specify the type of drug alleg-

edly found at the moment because it has not yet been tested. Mbugua did not specify the quantity of the drug allegedly found. Gauvreau did not respond to a request for comment. According to the latest annual crime report published by the University under the Clery Act, which governs University law enforcement record-keeping, 56 students were given internal judicial referrals in 2011 after having been al-

legedly found in possession of illegal drugs. That same year, four individuals were arrested by Public Safety for drug possession, although it remains unclear if any of them were students. Mbugua explained that the decision to arrest or not to arrest a student found in possession of drugs depends on the specific situation. “Those decisions are made on a case-by-case basis based on a number of factors, including the type or quantity

of the drug,” he said. Judicial referrals are handled by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students through the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline. These cases are not criminally investigated by Public Safety and are not considered public records. Only members of the University can be processed through this internal system. “When persons who are not members of the UniverSee DRUGS page 3

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sity engage in serious misconduct on the campus, the University has no recourse but to press charges against them in the courts,” reads the University’s Rules, Rights and Responsibilities. Cases adjudicated by the Committee on Discipline are disclosed in a separate annual discipline report that partially overlaps with the crime report. According to the University’s latest discipline report, 37 cases of drug violations were handled by the Committee in the 2011-12 academic year. “Students who were found in possession of marijuana, and or/in possession of drug paraphernalia, were placed on terms of disciplinary probation ranging from three to 12 months,” the report reads.

The report did not specify the consequences for any other drug. In the past year, Public Safety has arrested two other individuals, neither affiliated with the University, for drug possession. Last December, a man was arrested by Public Safety for allegedly having marijuana on his lap in plain sight outside the Carl A. Fields Center. In February, another man was allegedly found in possession of marijuana in Frist Campus Center and was also arrested by Public Safety on charges of drug possession. Mbugua said at the time that the man possessed “a small amount of marijuana.” So far in 2013, Public Safety has issued two judicial referrals to students, according to a review of daily crime logs. One case of drug law violation remains an open investigation.

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ess, almost, from my classmates when I told them I was going to Princeton,” she said. “I felt like I couldn’t really tell people that I was applying to Princeton because I was afraid of being discouraged and I was a little bit afraid that if I didn’t get in, it would be a total disaster.” Prior to applying, Myren explained, most of her knowledge about Princeton was obtained through the University website. She was able to visit Princeton once and attend Preview weekend after being accepted through the Early Action admission process. For many international students, however, their only exposure to the University comes from visiting its website. For Cheryne Jonay ’17, a student from Switzerland, and Vincent Karuri ’17, a student from Kenya, applying to the Princeton was

a personally-motivated decision to look outside the obvious choices for higher education that often required independently researching the college. Prior to moving in this fall, Jonay, Karuri and Mary Hui ’17, a student from Hong Kong, did not visit Princeton, which they each said was a challenge in applying as an international student. However, Jonay said she found that the University’s diminished presence in her life as a high school student proved to be an advantage. “I was a lot more relaxed about it because I didn’t feel pressure from anyone,” Jonay said. She explained that in her school, “it wasn’t like from a young age on, you know you have to go to this and this place and your parents put money aside for you to go to college. It was more like, if we get in, if we get a chance to go, it’s great but it’s not the end of the world if we don’t.” Jonay, Karuri and Hui also said they all learned about the

University through students who had enrolled in the years before them or through their high school college counselors. During the application process, their connection to the University was primarily established through these means and through an alumni interview. Undergraduate admissions officers will travel to 31 countries over the course of the upcoming academic year with colleagues from other U.S. colleges like Columbia and Dartmouth, according to Rapelye. Argentina, India, Swaziland and Turkey are all on the scheduled list of countries. Rapelye noted that the efforts to expand international representation echoed the University’s unofficial motto “In the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations.” “Princeton’s mission of being an international university means not just studying international affairs and sending students abroad, but having international students study here,”

she said. “We’re a world class university and we want to make sure we’re educating the very best students around the world, which is why we travel widely and try to touch base with as many students as we can in a given year.” In addition to taking the SAT subject tests and the SAT or ACT, those applying as international students must take the Test of English as a Foreign Language, or TOEFL, if they did not attend an English-speaking school. The University is one of six U.S. colleges that provide needblind admission and full-need financial aid to international students. Within the United States, six states — New Jersey, California, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Florida — were home to over half of the Class of 2017. Rapelye noted that the University draws a large applicant pool from those states but said that the Admissions Office does not use a quota when accepting applicants.

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When Spitzer unexpectedly entered the race early this summer, he surged to the top of the polls, enjoying a nearly-20 point lead, according to Real Clear Politics. Stringer steadily chipped away at this early advantage in a campaign that has both touted his record of 20 years in public office and caustically reminded voters of his scandal. One direct mail piece from the Stringer campaign depicts hands reaching through prison bars on the front and on the back shows a shrugging Spitzer with bold text reading, “Anyone else who committed Eliot Spitzer’s crimes would go to jail.” Spitzer countered these messages by encouraging New Yorkers to judge him by his political legacy instead of his past personal behavior, according to CBS News. The comptroller’s office would have given Spitzer a chance to brush up his political credentials as “The Sheriff of Wall Street,” a nickname he earned as New York State Attorney General for aggressively investigating improper practices in the financial industry. In 2009, 10 of the largest investment firms agreed to pay $1.4 billion in fines as well as implement restrictive new rules as a result of Spitzer’s actions, according to The Washington Post. “This is going to be an office — if I’m lucky enough to win — where we can do so much in terms of shareholder power, in terms of corporate governance,

in terms of protecting pensions, in terms of making sure the city’s money is invested well, spent well,” Spitzer said in an interview with CBS News on Monday. During his time at Princeton, Spitzer also found a political niche in policing investments. As chairman of the USG, he is best remembered for leading a campaign that demanded Princeton’s divestment from South Africa as a response to the continued apartheid system. Spitzer said at the time he believed that it was “one of the issues that defined the moment.” “The USG has consistently failed to fulfill either its potential or its purpose,” he wrote in The Daily Princetonian in April 1978 while running for class delegate. The USG, Spitzer added, must “develop a statement expressing our view of the University as a catalyst for social change.” Classmates remember Spitzer for his hard work and serious nature at school. Peter Elkind ’80, author of “Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” told the ‘Prince’ that Spitzer approached issues like “a classic Woodrow Wilson School” student. “He was very serious at a young age, and that includes student government. He applied himself to the issue of student government, which certainly, when looking back, seemed small, but it’s the seriousness that he applied to balance the budget in New York,” Elkind explained. The general election for the office of the comptroller will be held on Nov. 5.

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Members of the Class of 2016 congregated on Poe Field on Tuesday afternoon for a Back-to-School party organized by their class council.

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from members of other religions and groups — including a plaque from the American Atheists. “When you put a memorial to the dead with a religious symbol on public land, you are making a statement that those people died embraced in that faith, and that is the exercise and practice of religion by government,” counsel for the American Atheists Bruce Afran said. In contrast, James explained that the beam has historical, rather than religious, significance and that the cross does not personally offend him as a Jewish person. “It’s a part of history and a symbol of remembrance,” James said. When told of James’ assertion, Afran said that the context in which the cross would be placed gives the impression that the government is endorsing a particular religious point of view. “If it’s a piece of history, it belongs in a museum, not as a memorial to the dead,” Afran said. As precedent, Afran cited County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union, a 1989 Pennsylvania case in which the Supreme Court decided that it was unconstitutional for a nativity scene to be placed in front of a county courthouse. Similarly, in Jersey City, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a single creche placed in front of City Hall violated the separation between church and state — but that a multifaceted holiday display of both secular and religious symbols was acceptable. Afran said that his clients are opposed not necessarily to the religious symbol of the

cross, but rather to the singular Christian point of view they said it implies. “We want the town to create a zone where any group, not just Christians, can offer its expression of mourning for those who died on 9/11,” Afran said. Lempert, who received a letter threatening legal action over the memorial’s construction from the American Atheists, said that until the site for the memorial is approved by the state, the town council will make no decisions regarding the constitutionality of the monument. Lempert added that James has found an artist who would incorporate the steel beam into the memorial but obscure the cross from public view. In the new design, the beam would be placed between two stone pillars so that the cross would be facing inwards. If the memorial were to be erected on public land, Lempert said that she expects that design, or some similar variation, would be approved by the town council. She explained that it is too early for any conclusive decisions to be made about the project’s constitutionality. Nevertheless, Afran said that in these types of disputes, the specter of judicial recourse remains important. “It’s necessary to do these things because once government begins to practice religious viewpoints, it doesn’t stop,” he said. “You know, it’s a short road from posting a cross to having a prayer before the municipal council meetings each week.” Until a design and site for the memorial are approved, Afran said the American Atheists do not plan to further their plans for legal action.

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The Princeton Tigerlilies perform at an a cappella arch sing in Blair Arch on Tuesday evening, which also featured various other groups.

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‘Well, why don’t you give them to Princeton University?’ That was the story I heard.” “I appreciate your interest in my papers,” Allen wrote to Richard Ludwig, a late rare books librarian at the University in a letter dated Jan. 14, 1980. “When the idea of donating them to a university came up, Princeton was immediately thought of because of very kind interest by the school and Mr. Laurance Rockefeller.” Allen’s gifts to the University began in 1980, with a donation of several manuscripts and short stories. Since then, the series of gifts has grown to a collection of 48 boxes, including his drafts of the screenplay for “Midnight in

Paris,” his 2011 film about a contemporary couple who are transported back to Paris of the 1920s and introduced to famous artists and writers of the time. The scripts of “Midnight in Paris” are stored “a stone’s throw from Hemingway, and Fitzgerald, and Sylvia Beach, and all kinds of people who were in Paris at the time,” Skemer said. “Can’t you imagine the conversations in the dark?” As Allen works on each of his films, he sets up an office where he keeps the documents related to that film, Skemer explained. Once he finishes a film and moves to a different office he ships his papers to the University. English professor Maria diBattista will be conducting a question-and-answer session with Allen in Richardson Auditorium

during his visit. Allen’s visit to campus was arranged by Friends of PUL, which asked him to appear after learning of his gifts to the University. Tickets will be made available first to members of Friends of PUL, then to students, faculty, and staff, then to the general public. The collection contains Allen’s original scripts for such films as “Annie Hall,” “Hannah and Her Sisters,” “Radio Days,” “Sleeper,” “Zelig,” “Manhattan,” “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” “Match Point” and an early draft of what became “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” Many of his original drafts are handwritten on yellow legal paper. The collection contains mimeographed screenplays for Allen’s films “Bananas,” “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask),” “Don’t Drink the Wa-

ter,” “Stardust Memories,” “Take the Money and Run” and “Play It Again, Sam.” It also contains typescript revisions for other films, such as “Deconstructing Harry” and “Sweet and Lowdown.” Also included are galley proofs of several of his books, early drafts of his stage plays, and both completed and unfinished drafts of essays, short stories and even single jokes by Allen. In addition, the collection contains an original, un-produced script written in 1955, when Allen was 20. The collection is open to the public, and readily accessible to any University student who walks in. Photocopies are not permitted, as the archive contains much unpublished material which Allen may someday wish to revisit or continue, Skemer said.

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PRE-RADE

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Members of the Class of 2017 marched through FitzRandolph Gate on Sunday afternoon to mark the beginning of their Princeton careers, as they were cheered on by Princetonians past and present.

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No one tells us what success should look like; there is no Changing the World 101.

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Making a dent in the world his summer, my mom, one of my brothers and I went to see “Jobs.” As we walked home, we talked about visionaries, the impact Steve Jobs had made on our daily lives, the pursuit of the product and the industries he had both created and destroyed. When we got home, my brother Russ was quieter than usual. He graduated from Georgetown last spring and is getting his mind around joining “the real world” in September. “Making a dent in the world — it’s a lot of pressure,” he said. With that, he crystallized what I couldn’t quite put my finger on about being in college. When we get to college, they tell us we are the visionaries, the changemakers, the next leaders, thinkers, dreamers. The poets, the politicians, the scientists, the academics, the businesspeople, the doctors and, yes, even the consultants of the next generation. We are the best and brightest, the lucky few, the ones who will invent the solutions to the world’s problems. But what if we’re not? What if we’re the world’s next middle-ofthe-road salespeople, or paper-pushers? The next nine-to-fivers, dead-end job-ers or lateshift workers. The soccer moms, stay-athome dads or even the unemployed? There is nothing wrong with being any of these things, except that at a place like Princeton (or Georgetown) we become so used to being told we’ll do something great that most of us are afraid to “settle” for middle-class obscurity.

Opinion

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What’s wrong with cheating? Benjamin Dinovelli columnist

ophocles once said, “I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating” — but then again, Sophocles didn’t go to Harvard. A recent survey released by The Harvard Crimson, profiling the incoming freshman class of 2017, found that about 42 percent of incoming freshmen have admitted to cheating on a homework assignment. Ten percent of them admitted to cheating on a test in the past. The accuracy of the survey is questionable because of nonresponse bias, where the answers of respondents differ from the potential answers of non-respondents, and response bias, where respondents give the questioners the answer they think the questioner wants to hear. But the statistics were still shocking. While it may be fun to occasionally joke about Harvard and its controversies, as students from a fellow Ivy League institution, we should also be concerned that these statistics are not just unique to Harvard students but also part of a larger pandemic affecting peer institutions like Princeton as well. Both Princeton and Harvard are made up of students from similarly competitive high school backgrounds. It’s not farfetched to imagine that if The Daily Princetonian sent out a similar survey to this new incoming class, it could potentially get similar results. In a new technology-filled age, cheating has seemed to become more and more commonplace. This is not the first time that a correlation between technology and cheating has been espoused. In fact, studies have shown two trends in recent years: 1) cheating has dramatically increased due to it

becoming easier with technology and more culturally accepted, and 2) high achievers are more likely to cheat. Despite the evolving nature of cheating, schools like Princeton still seem to have antiquated approaches toward cheating. For example, article 2.4.7 of the Rules, Rights, Responsibilities handbook details plagiarism as “the use of an outside source without proper acknowledgement.” While the University has done a good job of detailing what it does and does not consider plagiarism in terms of written text, the definition becomes more ambiguous in other areas like computer coding, where antiquated concepts may not fit perfectly with modern day applications. The University even admits that “[e] xpectations for citing the use of code in completing a computer programming assignment may vary from course to course,” signaling the difficulty in finding the fine line in light of sizable gray areas. With this in mind, it is easy to see how students may be tempted to take advantage of these undefined areas if they believe it can give them the extra push to succeed. Alternatively, it is also easy to see how students could unintentionally be cheating, unaware that they crossed into these gray areas. The changing role of universities in society also influences the way we think about cheating. Princeton’s own charter from 1746 states that the purpose of the college would be “the Education of Youth in the Learned Languages and in the Liberal Arts and Sciences.” These words seem very similar to statements made by Harvard President Drew Faust, in light of a cheating controversy on campus last year, when she said “an emphasis on how important the act of learning and the substance of learning is in itself” would be the answer to discouraging cheating. Unfortunately, in a poor economy and an international business environment, it seems that this view is no

Benjamin Dinovelli is a sophomore from Mystic, Conn. He can be reached at bjd5@princeton.edu.

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The frustratingly f lattering thing about going to a place like Princeton is that you .................................. are constantly told that at Princeton you will find your one true passion, the problem you alone can solve and that you will leave the world a better place. Top it off with an inspirational quote from a visionary and the speech writes itself. No one tells us what success should look like; there is no Changing the World 101. Of course there isn’t. If you could teach someone how to revolutionize the world for the better, it would already be better. The most popularized success stories, the ones that end up as films like “Jobs” or “The Social Network” sell success as a scramble to the top littered with burned friends. It’s a job for a persistent renegade — with or without a college degree. Perhaps stories of a quieter sort aren’t sexy enough for mass media attention. I’m sure that there are many future newsmakers among us and that the opportunities we get at Princeton and through the association with the name Princeton will position us better than the average college graduate. However, to sell us all the idea that we are the Next World Leaders seems ironically limiting. I’ve met some impressive Princeton alumni. I’ve met many more who don’t shape the world, attracting even more investment, effect global change or make a name for Barbara Zhan but fail to capture the market. Those columnist themselves. And they are fine with that too, companies will then try to keep their even perhaps happier that they’ve escaped product afloat and re-launch new verthe never-ending race to the top that sions, until they, and their investors, brought them to Princeton in the first place. ight now, it seems like are out of money. Although the exIs the pressure to “be the change we the biggest, buzziest busiciting part of start-ups is the possiwant to see in the world” too much? I don’t ness opportunities are bility that they will become the next know. I’m too close to the issue to really coming from the startbig tech star, the fact is, Founder Inunderstand its effect on me. I don’t have up world. With the sudden prolifstitute CEO Adeo Ressi estimates the perspective that will come with time as eration of convenient smartphone that 97 percent of start-ups fail. to whether this is the way to motivate the apps that range from Venmo, a perOne main reason for the failfew future leaders among us to achieve the sonal finance management tool, to ures is the sheer glut of companies greatness they may have otherwise ignored Snapchat, the wildly popular picthat exist only to solve the most or whether this type of mentality sets up ture messaging application, it’s no minute and obscure of first-world most of us up for a future where we feel as if wonder that mobile start-ups are problems. There’s Tinder, a datwe never reached our potential. Or both. Or becoming the darlings of venture ing app that lets you “like” or “disneither. capital firms everywhere. Around like” strangers based on their proAt this moment in my life, when people campus, it also seems that students file pictures. There are apps like ask what I want to do after graduation I tell are getting excited about job oppor- Ordimo for ordering food in a resthem I want to go into energy policy. I want tunities in Silicon Valley, which are taurant so that you can bypass the to find a way to move society away from becoming an increasingly common wait for a server. There are websites carbon intensive fuel to economically and career of choice. It’s like a modern like Twitter and Instagram that ofenvironmentally sustainable power sources. day gold rush, with students rushfer more and more choices for social In my Princeton-driven view of the next ing to California to pan for the connection, no matter how redunphase of my life, I tackle big challenges and next Twitter rather than precious dant. Unfortunately, these types find solutions to the same problems that metals. of products reach the largest audihave eluded the environmental movement’s The problem is that this recent ences and monetize the most easily greatest minds of the last 40 years. Grand, excitement over start-ups is remiin the short term, which explains impressive and exceedingly cocky — niscent of the dot-com bubble that the overabundance of these compachances are I’ll never achieve half of what burst at the beginning of the millennies. A parody website, firstworldI am setting out to do. Which isn’t to say I nium. Both involve raising millions problems.biz, highlights this issue shouldn’t try. in funding based on ideas or early— you select a ridiculous probstage products alone, before their lem and it spits out a surprisingRebecca Kreutter is a Wilson School major from popularity in the actual market is ly popular app or website that will Singapore, Singapore. She can be reached at tested. They then launch with massolve it. For example, clicking “I rhkreutt@princeton.edu. sive amounts of marketing attention, need entertainment, but deciding

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longer the norm. Students are now much more apt to see college as a stepping stone, a part of a longer path toward a career instead of being a separate source of personal enlightenment. They may see cheating as a morally wrong, yet acceptable, solution to the overwhelming pressures of trying to excel in a competitive world. Now I’m not going to try to say that those who cheat are somehow justified. At the end of the day, cheating is still achieving a goal through unfair means. Still, I think it’s important for both students and administrators to acknowledge that in a changing world, the incentives and means to cheat have dramatically changed, and thus we should both work together to address this. Princeton’s Honor Code is valuable in this respect, by serving as a constant reminder and signal on the student’s part to have academic integrity — on average finding 20-30 students guilty of academic violations per year. That being said, how many students have actually read the Rules, Rights, Responsibilities handbook from beginning to end? And if you found out your friend might have cheated, would you really report him/her knowing that a one-year suspension could be your friend’s punishment? Maybe the Honor Code needs to be updated. For example, recently the University Honor Committee adopted a more lenient stance for taking extra time on tests. This could also be applied to other gray areas such as copying code or where the intentions of the student were not malicious. Sophocles is right. Honor should definitely be highly valued. But Sophocles never went to an Ivy League school in the 21st century. Maybe if he did, he would have a little more sympathy for Harvard’s newest class.

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which link to click is difficult” redirects you to StumbleUpon.com. Ultimately, there is a limit to demand for apps and websites that no one really needs. Most of these recreational but unnecessary companies aren’t going to make it. For example, Formspring, a social media site that used to be popular a few years ago, recently closed down its site. The CEO had stated in March 2013 that it had “been challenging to sustain the resources needed to keep the lights on” because the site simply wasn’t popular anymore. Although it was taken over by new management in a last-minute save, it has sunk a long way since just 2011, when it raised $14 million in venture funding and boasted 28 million users. Even startups that used to be extremely popular can fail quickly, especially without a solid monetization strategy, dragging its investors down with it. The ease with which new startups can raise capital heavily contributes to this feeling of congestion in the start-up market. With investors trying to get ahead in the investment cycle by investing large stakes in seed-stage companies (following the successful Y-Combinator accelerator model) along with the low cost of barrier to founding an app or Internet start-up, the market has

become flooded with ideas, both good and bad. This makes it harder for individual start-ups to corner enough of the market to survive. Although many start-ups have had success stories, the vast majority will fail. There are many positive aspects of working for a tech startup, but I’m sensing a confidence about the start-up industry around campus that should be tempered by caution. The start-ups that are more likely to survive are the ones that can diversify and branch out. Social media websites and mobile app companies must have a long-term appeal and a loyal customer base to keep from fizzling out the way Formspring did. Finding a good start-up to work for could also entail moving away from mobile and consumer web to enterprise software and hardware companies. These kinds of companies will have a less fickle consumer base and monetize more easily than social media and apps. The start-up world seems to be growing limitlessly at the moment, but students should refrain from jumping in headfirst. Choosing the right start-up with long-term growth potential is the only way to weather the storm when the bubble bursts. Barbara Zhan is a sophomore from Plainsboro, N.J. She can be reached at barbaraz@princeton.edu.

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After years of anticipation, Hermans learned of his opportunity to play professional baseball while sitting in a friend’s living room in New Jersey. “It was pretty anticlimactic,” he said. “I was just listening to the draft and heard my name called, and I gave a quick shout. I was pretty happy, and then the Cubs were already calling my phone a couple seconds after.” Hermans said the Cubs organization had scouts watching three or four of his games over the last year. He said that a representative of the team had

called him before the draft to make sure that he would sign if they were to draft him. “It’s hard to explain just how much hard work I’ve put into that throughout the years, playing baseball,” Hermans said. “To get the opportunity to play professionally, it’s a dream come true.” Ford, too, realized a dream, but he began the summer after having his dream deferred. Some expected Ford to be drafted in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in June, but he was passed up despite his impressive numbers – he hit .320 and led the Tigers with 38 RBIs and six home runs last season, hitting .297 and knocking in 100 runs over his three years at Princeton. He also

went 15-8 on the mound over that span, going undefeated and posting an astounding 0.98 ERA his junior year. He made history last spring when he became the first player ever to be named Ivy League Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year. “I think that from the scouts’ standpoint, a lot of the scouts just weren’t sure whether they liked him better as a pitcher or whether they liked him better as a hitter,” head coach Scott Bradley said. Ford’s outstanding summer left little doubt that he was a valuable hitter. Scouts came around after he hit .407 during his time with the Cotuit Kettleers in Cape Cod. “We pretty much told him, ‘Have a good summer, and

you’re a free agent now — all the teams can talk to you,’” Bradley said. “He just had a phenomenal first half of the season — I mean a phenomenal first half — and all of a sudden, they had a number of teams bidding for his services.” “I’ve honestly never heard of that happening,” said outfielder Johnny Mishu ’13, Ford’s teammate for three seasons. “A junior going undrafted and then signing before senior year with a team — it’s just amazing.” Ford went from Cape Cod to the Staten Island Yankees, New York’s Class A Short-Season affiliate in the New YorkPenn League. He hit .235 with three home runs and 17 RBIs. Hermans finished his profes-

sional first season with Chicago’s Rookie Arizona League affiliate with a 3.12 ERA in six appearances, recording 10 strikeouts in eight-and-a-third innings of work.

“To get the opportunity to play professional baseball, it’s a dream come true.” Zak Hermans “I feel good about the fit with the franchise. They know what

kind of pitcher I am,” he said. “I’m not going to be the guy throwing 97, trying to blow it by people, but I feel like I’m a smart pitcher ... I’m going to come in with four different types of pitches, and hopefully, I can develop, get bigger, get stronger.” Ford will not play in a Tiger uniform again, but Bradley emphasized that players who sign with professional teams complete their studies in consecutive fall semesters, taking the spring off to play in the pros. “Mike’ll be back on campus in the fall doing his schoolwork,” Bradley said. “I don’t want anybody to think that they leave, and they don’t get their Princeton degrees.”

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In addition to enlisting in the Navy, facilitating the implementation of Title IX and serving on the President’s Council on Physical Fitness under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Kazmaier followed Princeton football closely, did everything he

could to attend games and was a mentor to generations of coaches and players, including Surace. “When I got the job, one of the very first emails I got was from him, which was mind-boggling to me,” Surace said. “You get chills when you think about that.” Kazmaier spoke directly to many Princeton teams, emphasizing the importance of hard

work and encouraging them to put any adversity they faced in perspective. Coming from the scrawny third-stringer-turnedHeisman-winner, that meant something. “I think the reason that we have statues of him, and the reason 42 is retired … is not just because he was this incredible football player, but because of what he represents,” Surace said.

Sports Shorts Women’s Soccer: Tigers start season off with two victories The women’s soccer team has had a strong start to its season, winning its first two games at home against Richmond and Army. The Tigers’ first game of the season was against the Spiders. After a scoreless first half, Princeton started the second half strong, scoring the only two goals of the game within the first 10 minutes of the half, with freshman forward Tyler Lussi and junior forward Lauren Lazo netting the two scores. The Tigers did even better in their next game, as Lazo scored and Lussi added two more to beat Army 3-0. Lussi’s performance earned her co-player and rookie of the week honors. She is the first freshman to earn the Player of the Week award in almost two years. Field Hockey: No. 3 Princeton defeats No. 10 Duke The field hockey team, ranked third in the nation, started its title

defense impressively, beating No. 10 Duke at home 3-1 to give the Blue Devils their first loss of the season. Three Tigers scored in the contest and senior goalkeeper Christina Maida allowed only one goal and recorded seven saves in the contest. Princeton had a little more trouble in its second match, coming back from being down 1-0 to win the game 4-3 despite having outshot the Stags 22-6. Volleyball: Women begin season 3-1 on the road The women’s volleyball team won its first two matches of the season but failed to extend the streak to three in its first tournament of the season. The Tigers played in the George Mason Tournament, defeating the Patriots in the first match 3-1 after losing the first set. The Tigers then went on to beat Coppin State 3-0 before losing by that same score to Radford. The team was without its freshmen for the match against

Radford, as they had to go back to campus for orientation. The freshmen contributed over half of the kills against Coppin State and their presence was missed in the final match of the tournament, as the Tigers only managed 28 kills. Men’s Soccer: Tigers held scoreless in season opener The men’s soccer team had a rough start to its season, losing its first game of the season to Farleigh Dickinson University, a team that made it to the Round of 16 in last year’s NCAA tournament. The Knights scored the first goal of the match in the 27th minute and then extended their lead in the 40th minute to make the score 2-0 at the half. The Knights scored a late goal in the 86th to put any hope the Tigers had of a comeback out of reach. The one bright spot for the Tigers is that they were able to force corner kicks, as they led the Knights 7-3 in that area.

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integration … between academics and athletics is actually enhanced by the location of athletic facilities so close to the center of campus,” he said. Walters started on the 1965 men’s basketball team that made it to the Final Four and was an instrumental part of the 1967 squad that went 25-3 — then the best record in program history. He continued to turn heads after graduating, becoming the youngest men’s basketball head coach in NCAA history when Middlebury College hired him in 1970. After

a stint at Union College, he returned to Princeton in 1973 as an assistant coach and later coached at Dartmouth and Providence College as well as at the 1980 U.S. Olympic trials. After a hiatus of a little over a decade from college athletics, he took his current post. “He was a mentor to us, as coaches,” football head coach Bob Surace ’90 said. “He’s just someone who’s been involved in athletics in so many different roles.” Surace added that the “Education Through Athletics” philosophy, which became the slogan of the athletic department under Walters, was “the most attractive” thing to him when he took the job four years ago.

An 11-person search committee chaired by Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey and including men’s basketball head coach Mitch Henderson ’98 and field hockey head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn will pick Walters’ successor. Walters said that his successor will need to expand and renovate Dillon Gymnasium for recreational use and address the relatively small size of his department’s staff and office space. He credited his staff at every turn. “I’m just grateful for everybody that’s enabled me to do my job and serve the student-athletes and the coaches here at Princeton,” he said. “It’s truly been an honor.”

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Ford ’15, Hermans ’13 sign pro contracts

Gary Walters ’67 to retire after 20 years

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After taking the Ivy League by storm on the mound and at the plate, two Tigers signed with Major League Baseball franchises over the summer. Zak Hermans ’13 was drafted by the Chicago Cubs less than a week after graduating, while Mike Ford ’15 was signed by the New York Yankees in July after a successful stint in the Cape Cod League. The 6-foot-2-inch Hermans, 2012’s Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, was drafted by the Chicago Cubs. He is the third Tiger to be drafted in the last two years — fellow ace Matt Bowman ’14 and catcher Sam Mulroy ’12 were drafted by the New York Mets and Los Angeles Angels, respectively, in the 2012 MLB Draft. Hermans left his mark on the Ivy League. In the numberone slot in the Tiger rotation last season, he posted a 3-4 record with a 2.40 ERA, logging 56-and-a-third innings and a team-high six complete games. He also led his team in strikeouts, fanning 55 batters. He had 195 career strikeouts in college and an opposing batting average of .256.

Gary Walters ’67, the Ford Family Director of Athletics since 1994, announced Wednesday that he will step down after the 201314 academic year. Walters, who started as point guard on some of the most successful teams in the history of the men’s basketball program, led Princeton athletics to 48 national championships and 214 Ivy League championships so far during his tenure. “I could not have been any luckier than to be the athletic director at Princeton for 20 years,” he said. “It’s a great job.” Walters will leave Princeton having made significant marks on its athletic programs, including the creation of the Princeton Varsity Club and the Princeton Academic-Athletic Fellows program, which links athletes with faculty advisers. “When I was hired at Princeton by President Shapiro, I was asked to strengthen the ties between the academic side of the house and the athletic side of the house,” Walters said. “And that really actually fit right into my vision of education through athletics and the cognitive role, candidly, that I think athletics plays in the development of individuals.”

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Mike Ford ’15 (top) and Zak Hermans ’13 (bottom) both signed with MLB franchises over the summer.

“I think it’s actually probably been the hallmark [of my time here],” he said of the AcademicAthletic fellows program. “We have a fabulous relationship with the Office of the Dean of the College and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students. We have so many faculty members serving as Academic-Athletic fellows.” At least one Tiger team or individual has won a national championship during each of Walters’ 19 years, and Princeton has finished highest in the Ivy League in the Director’s Cup 16 of those years. Walters’ tenure has seen not only on-field success but also drastic changes to the facilities themselves. Bedford Field, Sherrerd Field, the Cordish Family Pavilion and Lenz Tennis Center, Finney and Campbell multi-purpose fields and Princeton Stadium were all built under Walters, and other facilities including Hobey Baker Rink and Jadwin Gymnasium were renovated. Walters said that this overhaul of the facilities was part of the larger goal of integrating athletics and academics. “The symmetry of our buildings and the synergy and the role that that plays in achieving this See WALTERS page 7

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Kazmaier ’52 remembered for outstanding college career By Stephan Wood sports editor

Dick Kazmaier ’52, legendary tailback and Princeton’s only Heisman Trophy winner, died in August in Boston at age 82. Bob Ruxin ’76, president of Kazmaier’s firm, Kazmaier Associates, Inc., said that the cause of death was heart and lung disease. Kazmaier was known across the country for his prowess on the field, but he was equally famous in the Princeton community for his humility, as well as for his choice not to pursue professional football despite winning college football’s highest honor in 1951. Though he was drafted by the Chicago Bears, he turned down an NFL career for Harvard Business School. He would later serve for three years in the Navy and founded Kazmaier Associates, Inc., a sports marketing and manufacturing firm, in 1975. Sixty years after his graduation, Kazmaier still holds multiple school records, including the Princeton record for highest career touchdown percentage, most career offensive yards per play, most yards per play in a season, most career passing yards per attempt and highest single-game completion percentage. His No. 42 was retired by the Department of Athletics in 2008. Kazmaier is survived by his wife, Patricia, and five daughters: Kathy L. Donnelly, Kristen Kazmaier Fisher, Michele S. Kazmaier, Susan M. Kazmaier ’81 and Kimberly Picard ’77. Daughter Patricia J. Kazmaier-Sandt ’86, who led the Princeton women’s hockey team to three consecutive Ivy League titles, died in 1990 of a rare blood disease. Kazmaier and the USA Hockey Foundation founded the Patty Kazmaier Award in her honor. Director of Athletics Gary Walters ’67 called Kazmaier “one of our most accomplished student-athlete icons of the 20th century” and “one of the most self-effacing individuals I have ever met.” Indeed, “Kaz” led back-to-back undefeated Princeton teams, yet he hardly seemed to notice that his accomplishments were exceptional. “I was neither the greatest passer nor the greatest runner, but in combination it fit very well,” Kazmaier told The Daily Princetonian when he was named No. 2 on its list of Princeton’s all-time greatest athletes. “The system was sort of right for me. I always say that I was in the right place at the right time and with the right people.” In an interview with the ‘Prince’ last fall, Kazmaier said he was more focused on winning the next game than on celebrating after his teams defeated Harvard and Yale, leading to the celebration of a bonfire. “We went out to win every game, and they just happened to be two that were part of the schedule,” he said last fall when asked about his attitude toward beating Harvard and Yale and bringing a bonfire to campus. That attitude took Kazmaier far. His Princeton football career got off to a perfectly mediocre start: At five feet 11 inches tall and

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Princeton’s only Heisman Trophy winner Dick Kazmaier ’52 died Aug. 1, 2013 at age 82. He was the last Ivy Leaguer to win the award.

155 pounds, the third-string tailback got some playing time on the freshman football squad but did nothing noteworthy. He fared better at basketball, becoming the freshman team’s leading scorer, and put his newfound confidence to use on the gridiron. After an impressive spring football season, he started every game his sophomore year and was the Ivy League’s leader in offensive yards. From the tailback position in the single-wing offense of head coach Charles Caldwell ’25, Kazmaier took snaps and was in control of the offense, using his combination of skills to rack up yardage on the ground and through the air. His 6.6 career yards per play and 8.2 passing yards per attempt marks remain the best in Princeton history, and even they may not be his most phenomenal record. On Oct. 27, 1951, Kazmaier completed 88.2 percent of his passes against an undefeated Cornell team, leading an offense of which

he was the only returning starter to a blowout victory over a team widely considered to be the best in the nation on his way to his second consecutive undefeated season. Ask “Kaz” about football, however, and you are more likely to hear life lessons or instructions on steady blocking than any of his barely-believable individual performances. “He never talked about himself as a player,” head coach Bob Surace ’90 said. “To get anything out of him, football-wise, was like pulling teeth, because all he wanted to talk about was ‘readysteady’ blocking form or his teammates.” After easily winning the Heisman, Kazmaier seemed to be on the path to the NFL, but he had other plans. Believing he had gotten everything he could out of football, he went on to become a successful businessman while staying close to his Princetonian roots. See KAZMAIER page 7

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