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In Opinion Lauren Davis tries not to over think things, and Barbara Zhan discusses the bright side of making mistakes. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Hodder fellows Katy Didden and Adam Ross will read as part of the Althea Ward Clark Reading Series. Berlind Theatre.

The Archives

Sept. 25, 1972 Gay Alliance holds first meeting in an effort to gain recognition on campus.

By the Numbers

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Total number of donations to University Annual Giving campaign.

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News & Notes Prosecutor’s Office downgrades drug possession charge in ecstasy case

The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office has transferred the case of the freshman charged with drug possession back to the Princeton Municipal Court, Casey DeBlasio, a spokeswoman for the Prosecutor’s Office, said Tuesday. The Prosecutor’s Office downgraded the charge against Joseph Gauvreau ’17 from possession of controlled dangerous substances — the initial charge made by the University’s Department of Public Safety earlier this month after searching the student’s Holder Hall room — to failure to dispose of CDS. The new charge is considered a disorderly persons offense under New Jersey law. The Municipal Court had originally elevated the case to the Prosecutor’s Office because of the nature of DPS’s initial charges. DeBlasio also released a copy of the complaint against Gauvreau that indicates he was allegedly found with “Molly,” a name for ecstasy usually found in powder or crystal form.

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Aquinas Institute moves By Ella Cheng staff writer

The Aquinas Institute, a local Catholic chaplaincy that provides services to Princeton students, relocated to a newlybought house on 24 Charlton St., north of the Friend Center, on Aug. 17. The move was made in order to address student and ministry concerns about the distance of the old house from the University campus, chaplain Father David Swantek said. The Diocese of Trenton sold the Aquinas Institute’s historic old house on 65 Stockton St., the former home of German novelist Thomas Mann, for around $4 million to a private developer, Swantek added. He explained that funds from the sale were used to buy the new house for $1.8 million. The Stockon Street house is still listed by real estate company Cassidy Turley at an asking price of $4.2 million. A Cassidy Turley representative could not be reached as of press time to confirm that the house has in fact already been sold. The new four-story house is currently undergoing repairs and renovations, including the installation of new furnishings as well as a new security system to allow students access using their PUID cards, Swantek said. He added that the house is not projected to be fully operational until the spring semester and is now being used as his private residence, as well as providing office space for the Catholic campus ministry and a space for limited ministry activities, including Thursday fellowship nights. When the renovations are completed, the house will perSee HOUSE page 3

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This year’s Annual Giving campaign raised $57,019,138, the second-highest total in the program’s history. Source: Annual Giving.

Highest contributions come from undergraduate alumni By James Evans staff writer

The University’s last Annual Giving campaign raised $57,019,138, the second-highest total in the program’s history in nominal terms, just short of the $57,246,302 mark set the previous year. The 44,871 total donations set an all-time record, with 36,825 coming from undergraduate alumni. “The remarkable thing about Annual

Giving is that it starts from zero every year. It starts from zero in one class after another, and every single one of those classes has to perform in order for annual giving to be successful,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian last week. Eisgruber also attributed some of this year’s success to a particularly strong final month of giving. Annual Giving is measured on a year-to-year basis according to

the University’s fiscal schedule, which begins July 1. “Different classes tend to have different patterns, almost like distance runners,” he said. “Some get out of the blocks early … and some have a tendency to really turn it on at the end,” he said. “The numbers were very good as we hit June 15, but from June 15 to July 1 they went from very good to amazing.” See CAMPAIGN page 4

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Candidates stress ties to U. By Hannah Schoen staff writer

While Gov. Chris Christie and New Jersey State Sen. Barbara Buono seek to emphasize their differences in the run-up to the Nov. 5 gubernatorial election, they have at least one thing in common: Both are closely connected to the Princeton area, and, in Christie’s case, to the University. As governor, a role which entitles him to an ex-officio seat on the University’s Board

of Trustees, Christie has supported the University’s efforts on the Arts & Transit Neighborhood, according to Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69. “When we presented [the Arts & Transit] project to the community, we had a very strong statement of endorsement from him,” he explained. “[He] appreciated the importance of that project for the state and particularly for this region.” Christie has also appreciated the University’s efforts

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Gov. Christie attended a home Princeton baseball game against Columbia in April of this year.

to further economic development in the state of New Jersey, Durkee said. He added that Christie comes to and participates actively in the meetings that he is able to attend. “I would say that Governor Christie has been actively involved. His schedule is such that he certainly can’t make every meeting, but he makes meetings when he can,” Durkee said, noting Christie’s presence at the special meeting on April 21 when Christopher Eisgruber ’83 was elected as the University’s 20th president. That week, Christie also spent time on campus watching his son Andrew Christie ’16, who is a catcher for the University’s baseball team, play in the team’s game against Columbia. “He loves the team, and he loves the school,” Christie said of his son in an interview with The Daily Princetonian during his visit. “So it’s been a great first year.” Christie, who said at the time that he had been attentively following his son’s first season, analyzed the Tigers’ biggest challenges. See ELECTION page 2

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BuzzFeed president Jon Steinberg ’99 spoke in Whig-Clio Tuesday.

BuzzFeed president assesses media trends By Monica Chon senior writer

“If someone says they don’t like the cute animals on BuzzFeed, you should turn to them and ask if they are a robot,” Jon Steinberg ’99, the president and COO of BuzzFeed, said jokingly during a lecture he delivered on Tuesday night. But it was not just a joke. BuzzFeed has become known for its posts involving ani-

mals, which are often widely shared through social media. Animals are part of the company’s plan, he said. To explain this rationale behind BuzzFeed’s strategy, Steinberg asked the audience to look to the history of The New York Times. Many years ago, The New York Times rolled out “leisure” sections such as Style, Arts and Home next to its hard news in order to capture a See LECTURE page 3

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

First female editor of the Times’ editorial page discusses women’s rights By Carla Javier senior writer

The birth control pill, the economy of the 1970s and the civil rights movement were the three factors that made the boom of women’s rights between

1964 and 1972 possible, New York Times columnist and former editor of the Times’ editorial page Gail Collins said in a lecture on Tuesday. Discussing her 2009 book “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American

Women from 1960 to the Present,” Collins shared anecdotes from various women who were part of the women’s rights movement. “A vision about the way things should be that had existed for millennia, ever since the begin-

ning of Western civilization, with women in the home taking care of kids while men were outside running the public world — that vision changed overnight,” Collins said. In 1960, women faced social pressure if they weren’t engaged

by their junior year of college, Collins said, adding she believes this expectation existed because effective birth control was not available. Once the birth control pill became available to women, female See COLUMNIST page 4

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“It all comes down to defense for this team,” he said. “It’s about getting timely hits, but it really comes down to defense.” Christie also showed his support for Princeton by wearing a Princeton polo shirt during an Aug. 25 visit to Long Branch, N.J., according to The Star-Ledger. When Christie was asked about his choice of attire, he told The Star-Ledger that he was getting ready to pay his son’s tuition. “My son is a sophomore at Princeton, and I have to send the tuition checks there, so I send the tuition money and I get a shirt,” Christie said to a small crowd at the event. “It’s the most expensive damn shirt I’ve ever gotten in my life.” Meanwhile, State Sen. Buono also spends some of her free time in Princeton. “I’m a runner, and can I tell you, my favorite place to run that I’ve ever run is in Princeton on the towpath,” Buono said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. Buono explained that she used to stop in Princeton to run on the towpath on her way to and from the State House in Trenton. “I have had some amazing experiences on that path, especially if you do it really early in the morning or at dusk,” Buono said, recounting the times that she saw a deer running alongside her or a bald-headed eagle in the tree. “It’s a beautiful refuge, and I love it.”

Buono said that she resided in Princeton for a year after completing law school and while working as a law clerk in the New Brunswick Superior Court. She rented a house from a professor who was on sabbatical.

“My son is a sophomore at Princeton ... so I send the tuition money and I get a shirt. It’s the most expensive damn shirt I’ve ever gotten in my life.” Chris Christie

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Though Buono now lives in Metuchen, she said that she still knows people who live in Princeton. “I have a lot of friends at Princeton, that live in Princeton,” Buono said. Buono’s candidacy has support from various groups in Princeton, including the College Democrats and the Princeton Community Democratic Organization. PCDO president Jon Durbin declined to be interviewed for this article.

“We think she’s a strong candidate who would take New Jersey back in the right direction after what has been four years of Christie that have not been as good for New Jersey as they could and should have been,” Will Mantell ’14, the president of College Democrats, said of Buono. Mantell added that the College Democrats would be doing canvassing and phone banking on behalf of both Buono and Senatorial candidate Cory Booker, who recently made a campaign stop in Princeton with Rep. Rush Holt. Christie’s candidacy has also received support from members of the Princeton community, including the College Republicans. “This past Saturday, College Republicans members fanned out across New Jersey to campaign for Governor Christie’s reelection,” College Republicans president David Will ’14 said. “We had a few members [...] over to the Hamilton office, and still more of us went up north to an office in Flemington. And at both locations, we were making phone calls and going door-to-door on behalf of the campaign.” He added that the group plans to spend more Saturdays and a portion of Fall Break campaigning for Christie’s reelection. In a recent poll conducted by Richard Stockton College from Sept. 15 to Sept. 21, 55.4 percent of respondents said they would support Christie in the Nov. 5 election, while 31.8 percent said they would support Buono.

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form functions similar to those of the Center for Jewish Life, serving as a place of fellowship and ministry, Swantek said. “The CJL, the Chabad House, Procter House — it’s good to have a place where you can engage your faith a little deeper and integrate your spiritual life and academic life,” he explained. The idea of moving started around three years ago, when Swantek first became the Aquinas Institute’s chaplain and noticed the distance of the old house, which the institute has owned for over 50 years, from the main campus. “When I came to Princeton, I kind of saw that the house that we had wasn’t really working,” Swantek said. “We had an incredible piece of property, an incredible house, but it wasn’t being used.” “The house that we had was too far away. It would take 20 or 30 minutes to hike over there,” Ministry leader Katie Horvath ’15

added. “It’s a mansion. It’s way too big for what our campus ministry needs.” In fact, the old house has more than 4,000 square feet, compared to 1,390 square feet for the new location, according to Mercer County property records. Despite the property size difference, the smaller house on Charlton Street was assessed in 2012 at $1.57 million, a slightly higher figure than the old house on Stockton Street, which was assessed at $1.50 million, according to the same records. Bishop of Trenton David O’Connell first approached the University to ask about its potential interest in purchasing the old house and properties that it could lease to the Aquinas Institute for a 99-year lease, Swantek said. No deal came through, as University properties were either slated for development or not on sale, according to Horvath, and the University was unwilling to purchase the old house because of its distance, Swantek said. After independently looking at several private properties through a real-

tor, the Institute found the house on 24 Charlton St., Horvath said. To gather student input, student ministry leaders received a tour of the house and responded positively to the new property, Swantek said. Now that the property is gradually opening to students, the space will aid ministry programming and be “a place for kids to integrate their spiritual, social and academic lives,” Swantek noted. He added that the Thursday fellowship nights have had good turnouts and that students who have seen the space “love where we could go with this.” “It’s a really neat house. The architect made really wonderful use of the space. It feels really tall and spacious,” Horvath said. “It would be incredible if over the next couple of years this turns into a place where, on a regular basis, groups of friends who know each other from Mass or our other programming events just start going there. I intend to go there all the time with my friends.”

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more leisure-inclined audience, he explained. Steinberg believes that animals are another such “leisure” topic for BuzzFeed’s young audience. “The concept of having entertaining content adjacent to hard news content is very traditional, actually,” Steinberg said. “It’s just the content has to be new.” It is this understanding of media that successfully puts BuzzFeed on the media radar, he said. He explained that BuzzFeed is further expanding the range of “verticals” it covers, with sections devoted to politics, business, tech, celebrity, food, video and more. However, Steinberg noted that BuzzFeed does not jump into new topics blindly. Sec-

tions such as politics and business were only launched after the company found the right people to lead and develop them, he said. When it comes to media trends, Steinberg said he is acutely aware of just how fast the velocity of change is in the online media industry. As content is increasingly accessed through mobile phones, Steinberg said, “social is mobile.” In part because consumers increasingly prefer to access most social media on mobile devices, BuzzFeed has pursued a content-driven advertising model rather than the more established, directsold-banners method of advertising, Steinberg said. He explained that banners “don’t work; people hate them, [and] they’re intrusive,” noting that many people who click

on these banners on their mobile devices often click unintentionally. Instead, Steinberg said that BuzzFeed has been able to provide “digital word-ofmouth marketing” content that has a click-through rate many times that of banner ads by embracing contentdriven advertising. Steinberg concluded his talk with a final thought: Content and distribution will eventually be completely separate. “If you want to go into content creation, it is wide-open right now,” Steinberg said, explaining that in the future, people in the media industry will either be in the delivery business or the content business, but not both. “The essence of media and entertainment is that it has to be the next thing,” he said.

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The Aquinas Institute, a local Catholic chaplaincy that provides services to Princeton students, relocated to a newly-bought house on 24 Charlton St., north of the Friend Center, on Aug. 17.

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The Annual Giving campaign does not include large, one-off donations made to the University to fund specific projects. For instance, the $15 million donation made by Jeff Bezos ’86 and MacKenzie Bezos ’92 to the new Princeton Neuroscience Institute did not enter in the Annual Giving campaign’s figures for the 2011-12 school year. This year’s Annual Giving came on the heels of the University’s Aspire Campaign, a five-year fundraising push which began in 2007 and ended at the end of the 2011-12 school year, raising a total of $1.88 billion. Aspire appears to have succeeded in jumpstarting Annual Giving: After adjusting for inflation, the most successful Annual Giving campaigns bookended Aspire, in the 200708 and 2011-12 school years. But despite the small dropoff from last year, this year’s total is still the third-largest amount raised, in real terms, since 1990. The steady increases in giving to the University over the past few years could mirror broadening confidence in market conditions. Annual Giving has closely tracked the performance of the stock market for the last 20 years, dipping slightly in response to the 2002 tech bubble and the recent financial crisis.

Eisgruber also acknowledged the influence of the economy on patterns of giving. “There’s no doubt that the economy has something to do with it. We track giving overall at Princeton, and ironing out some small irregularities, the numbers do vary up and down with the economy,” he said. Nonetheless, George Brakeley ’61, Executive Chair of Brakeley Briscoe Inc., said he believes the University’s ability to fundraise in times of financial stress distinguishes Princeton from many other institutions. “Our 59, 60, 61 percent participation rate is rock solid. Even in the bad times, we’re right up there,” Brakeley said. “Giving to Princeton is a little different from other kinds of philanthropy. Giving to your local symphony is an intellectual decision; giving to Princeton is an emotional decision.” The alumni participation rate has indeed hovered around 60 percent for the past 10 years, peaking at 61.3 percent in 2010-11. Following the financial crisis, participation dropped to 57.7 percent in 2008-09 but quickly rebounded to 60.8 percent the following year. Brakeley, whose grandfather George Brakeley, Class of 1907, helped found the University’s Annual Giving campaign in 1939, attributed this resilience to Princeton’s unique culture of giving. “We are inculcated with the

culture of giving back to the University from day one,” he said. “They sat us down in Alexander Hall on the second day we were on campus and said to us, ‘You wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for generations of Princetonians. When you leave, you have the same obligation.’ ” As a result, one of Princeton’s greatest fundraising strengths, according to Brakeley, is its ability to cultivate a spirit of giving among young alumni. “I work with a lot of small, emerging colleges, as well as public, liberal arts universities … and they are killing themselves to get to 25 percent or 30 percent [participation],” he said. “Our numbers are just off the charts.” The participation figures of recent classes in Annual Giving campaigns seem consistent with Brakeley’s hypothesis. The youngest five classes achieved a 76.8 percent participation rate, ahead of the 71.9 percent of the oldest 10 classes. 90.1 percent of the Class of 2013 participated in the most recent Annual Giving campaign. In total, undergraduate alumni accounted for just over 80 percent of all gifts to the Annual Giving campaign. By contrast, 3,097 graduate alumni donated a total of $1,859,038, another record high. The Class of 1988, the 25th reunion class, achieved a participation rate of 77.6 percent and led all classes with a total of $9,001,988 in donations.

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applications to law and medical school soared, according to Collins. Thus began the sexual revolution, which she calls “the most popular revolution.” But the biggest influence on the women’s rights movement, Collins argues, was the civil rights movement. “It was a defining moment in American life. It defined the women’s movement and all movements for liberation following it,” Collins said. “Once the country digested and understood what had happened, it became very sensitive to issues of fairness.” Other key factors in the women’s rights movement included economic conditions, she said. After the economy took a tumble in the 1970s, families had more incentive to put wives to work to

support their lifestyles. Collins, who was the first female editor of the Times’ editorial page, said she doesn’t know what to say when asked about

“A vision about the way things should be ... that vision changed overnight.” Gail Collins

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hurdles she encountered as a woman pursuing a career in journalism. “There weren’t any,” Collins said. “I came one second — his-

torically speaking — behind the women who filed the petitions, who got in their bosses’ faces, who filed lawsuits and made their bosses see the light.” Members of the audience asked Collins about today’s women’s rights issues, including connotations associated with the word “feminism” and her view of the next frontier in gender equality. Collins also discussed what she calls today’s political war on women, which she argued presents a unique opportunity to draw attention to key women’s issues. She cited Hillary Clinton’s potential role in the 2016 presidential election and the way women and men today are dividing domestic duties, as both have become large players in the workforce, as the major women’s rights issues of the present. The lecture was given in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall and had over 175 attendees. It was hosted by the Wilson School.

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Mass. Gov. Patrick endorses Booker for N.J. Senate By Lydia Lim senior writer

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick endorsed Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s senatorial campaign at the American Whig-Cliosophic Society on Tuesday, saying he’d vouch for Booker even “if [he] was running for dogcatcher.” Patrick said he approved of Booker’s reforms in public education, telling the story of his own underprivileged upbringing and the scholarship program at Milton Academy that moved him significantly higher up the social ladder. “I went to a big, broken, overcrowded, sometimes violent public school,” Patrick said of his childhood. “I don’t remember a time I didn’t love to read, but I don’t remember actually

owning a book of my own until 1970, when I got a break through a program called ‘A Better Chance.’ ” The program enabled him to achieve his American dream, he explained. Education is the key to making the American dream possible, Patrick said. Booker is a politician who is interested in restoring public schools in Newark and across New Jersey, he explained. Patrick also said he supported Cory Booker for avoiding abstract policies and pursuing policy “where it touches people.” During the question-andanswer session after the speech, Whig-Clio president Matt Saunders ’15 asked how Booker would encourage Democrats and Republicans in the Senate to work together on different issues. “There are examples in

C o r y ’s work as mayor, reaching ac ros s d i fferences and working with people who come from a different point of view,” Patrick said. “He takes some heat for that from time to time, but frankly, that’s the kind of leadership we need.” Patrick further noted that politicians should get past the division of Republican and Democratic ideas and together “push the good ideas forward” and “the bad ones aside.”

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Privacy in the Internet age dward Snowden’s leaks, and subsequent quest for asylum, transfixed people around the world. America’s response has been, at best, muddled. It’s hard to put up a united front when the scandal’s underlying issue of privacy divides the public. Lawmakers are also split, but support for the status quo endures. For once, what’s preventing action in Congress isn’t partisanship. There is plenty of anger and respect for Snowden on both sides of the aisle. What separates leaders and everyday citizens on the issue is less political than generational. Our generation’s overexposure online fuels the perception that young people today do not value privacy. Twitter and Facebook attract an entire generation’s unbecoming photos and fleeting thoughts. Millennials who chronicle their most embarrassing escapades on social media seem unaware that these postings are publicly preserved. Young people largely, it seems, can’t comprehend the future repercussions of what they share online. Yet they are, by and large, angry about the National Security Administration’s surveillance programs. The contradiction stems from a belief that behavior on social media is inconsequential, but that more private activities — everything from emailing to banking — are important. But this false distinction does not discount the fact that Millennials were raised in a unique environment, one that informs their outrage at the NSA. For older and middle-aged Americans — a demographic that includes the leaders who run the spying agencies — technology is something that came later in life. The Internet sprang up and revolutionized basic interaction and communication. Anyone who was around when the Internet arrived had to adapt. There was no other way to harness its ever-expanding force and influence. By contrast, Millennials came of age along with the Internet. To us, it’s organic. Young people today possess an innate appreciation for technology’s pervasiveness. Developing technological proficiency is akin to learning a language. There’s a unique fluency that develops in children from early and constant exposure. Millennials’ lifelong experience with technology is sufficient, but not necessary, for one to appreciate how electronic communication permeates every aspect of modern life. Technological skills don’t break cleanly along generational lines. There are plenty of tech-savvy baby boomers and tweens who have no command over the latest gadgets. Politicians of all viewpoints — from the libertarian Rand Paul to the far-left anti-war activist Dennis Kucinich — fully appreciate the privacy violations that the NSA perpetrates. The common element among critics of America’s spying regime is a recognition of technology’s expansiveness and, subsequently, privacy’s importance. American officials spin Snowden’s leaks to imply that every newly discovered surveillance program is legal and limited. The administration, for example, assured the public that the government doesn’t comb through the contents of private communications. In fact, that is untrue. Without warrants, the NSA sifts through huge swaths of the emails that come in and out of the United States. Analysts scour crossborder communications for information about individuals under government watch. Somehow, the expansiveness of the NSA’s phone call dragnet is supposed to be a comfort. The sheer amount of data stored, proponents of the NSA argue, makes it cumbersome for analysts to uncover deeply personal information. The government does not directly listen into phone calls under this program. But the stream of numbers, times and dates that are logged often expose a call’s substance and intent. Princeton professor Edward Felten, in a court brief filed on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, points out that organizations like Planned Parenthood receive contributions via text message. Many older Americans view technology as a distinct aspect of their lives. Electronic communication takes up a defined space. To many baby boomers and Gen-Xers, any inappropriate government encroachment on their digital privacy amounts to a targeted breach of their rights. By contrast, Millennials view online privacy more profoundly because they are more dependent on it. Electronic communication consumes every facet of a younger person’s existence. The prospect of the government reading citizens’ emails and tracking their phone calls alarms young people especially because more of their lives are digitized and therefore vulnerable to intrusion. The privacy debate has raised profound questions in the wake of the NSA leaks. Just how many intimate details must a free people part with in the name of safety? When has privacy been compromised so greatly in the name of security that there is little left to protect? The country will continue grappling with these vexing questions, perhaps with no resolution. In the meantime, the voices of those who are most personally invested in digital privacy should not go unheeded.

Opinion

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Thinking too much Lauren Davis columnist

have always been, as my mother and I fondly call it, “an over-thinker.” This, as with most things, has its good and its bad sides. Here at Princeton, thoughts are the currency that buys success. The more you churn them out and arrange them in a convincing way on a page, the better. The entire purpose of our being here is to engage and exercise our brains, to educate them and widen the horizons of the variety and types of thoughts we can have about the world and ourselves. But how much thinking is too much? I’m aware of the irony that in writing this piece I am thinking about thinking: metacognition, if you want to get fancy. But overthinking is the same as over-exerting yourself physically — you’re just using neurons instead of muscles. Often I feel as though at Princeton we are asking our minds to run marathons, every day, without enough down time in between. There are clear guidelines for how we should take care of our bodies when we exert ourselves physically — proper nutrition, stretching, warming up — and, normally, the results of excess physical exertion are obvious. But the thing about an overstrained brain is that it is harder to recognize from the inside and the outside. Especially in this age of technology, when we have no constraints on the amount of time we spend absorbing information by surfing the web or texting friends, our brains are becoming frazzled and exhausted, and we don’t even know it. In the brain, the basic gist is that information from all of our senses must be processed at various levels

of sophistication before being integrated and stored throughout as memories or traveling out to be manifested in the body as physical feelings. Each of us has a different capacity for how much information we can cope with at one time, but whoever you are and whatever your makeup, there is a limit. When we overload our brains by reading, working or thinking too much — which includes not just active deliberation, but even just letting our thoughts run wild beyond our consent — the proper integration of information is disrupted. We also deplete the energy stores in the brain without leaving them proper time to recover (thinking is an energyexpensive process). Because of this stressful overload our bodies click into anxiety mode, activating the fear response and heightening the emotional areas, preparing our bodies for fight or flight, even when we don’t need either. According to the current theories of many psychologists and neuroscientists, this constant state of elevated mental stress serves as the root of many mood disorders that the nation suffers from today. Over-thinking is the human curse. No animal on this planet — with the exception, perhaps, of certain monkeys or dolphins, though it is hard to know for sure — thinks so much that it causes itself harm, the way humans can. Our brains create emotional turmoil in reaction to stimuli that are not tangible. We think ourselves in circles, ignoring the physical reality around us in the present moment. The mere idea of something in the past or future can cause us to panic — our hearts to race and a knot to tie itself up in our bellies. There’s a reason that we gain so much comfort from being surrounded by small children or pets, whose realities are much more confined to the sensory outside world than the world of thoughts. The older we get, the more we realize the gift that they unwittingly have, and long

to return to that childlike state of peace of mind. The world of thoughts can be a scary place. There are some dark corners that we all have within us, areas of thought whose existence is inevitable, but perhaps best left only lightly explored. Sometimes we may choose to take a flashlight into these corners, to speculate about some of the unanswerable questions about who we are and why we are here, or why there is so much suffering in the world — through philosophy, perhaps, or through religion or spirituality — but, as I have experienced, sometimes thoughts from these dark corners will assault us unbidden and leave us fearful and paralyzed. Intensive, active, academic study of these areas can provide our fearful minds with too much fodder and in some cases actually turns out to be counterproductive. There is a limit to how much I personally can take on thinking about these big existential questions, as I recently discovered. I’ve said it before, and I’m saying it again to myself now: Balance is the key, balance between exercising and resting both the brain and the body to find contentment. For me, perhaps that means dropping a class when I can’t cope with the amount of thinking required, or risking a worse grade by not planning my essay a week in advance, as I once used to do before my mind became more easily overwhelmed. The costs of overtaxing our brains are high, so make sure you give yours some R&R. As the beautiful fall weather settles around campus, try putting down your smartphone, sitting quietly and letting your mind drift contentedly in the present moment — no thinking required. Lauren Davis is a philosophy major from London, England. She can be reached at lhdavis@princeton.edu.

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It’s not how hard you try Barbara Zhan columnist

ife was easy in elementary school. As long as we paid attention, didn’t fight other kids and dutifully recited our ABCs, we were good. We were smart, and we were praised for it. The same thing went on in middle school and, even to some extent, in high school. Even if you went to a challenging high school that was academically rigorous, the effort you put in was taken into account in one way or another. For most people, there was partial credit — even if the answer was wrong, as long as your steps looked somewhat logical, you got a few points back. The longer the essay, the better the score it was likely to receive. Sometimes just completing the homework was enough. Accuracy didn’t matter. At Princeton, things are different. Professors don’t look at long essays and think about how long it took to write, they just look at the content. If it’s terrible, so will be the grade it receives. It doesn’t matter if you studied for eight hours and your friend looked at the syllabus 20 minutes before the test. You have a better

shot at getting a better grade, but depending on how smart your friend is you two may get the same exact grade. Dance groups across campus say they’ll take people with zero dance experience — sure, if you’re preternaturally f lexible and can come up with your own improv choreography on the spot. Despite what they say at the club fair, a Princeton dance group or a cappella group or orchestra is not for the “interested” or “enthusiastic” — it’s for the good. Because no one cares how hard you try. It’s all about the results. Take that principle up a notch, and you have the summer internship fair. There, of all places, it becomes abundantly clear that all that matters is how good you are. How good you are could be measured in the number of programming languages you know and your proficiency in them, in how f luently you can speak multiple languages, in how good your interpersonal and communication skills are. But no matter the metric, companies care most about what skills you have, not whether you tried really hard in math but couldn’t get the hang of it, whether you wrote some poems for a lit mag but they didn’t get accepted. As a sophomore who is not skilled at the moment, I

was definitely turned away by the majority of companies there who were looking for experienced upperclassmen, and I accept that. I’m simply not good enough right now for the internship positions they’re looking to fill, but I’ll strive to change that for next year. It feels like there’s almost no room for error. That’s because there isn’t. That’s how it is at Princeton and even more so in the real world. If you make mistakes, you will pay for them, either with a hit to your grade or with your job. That’s not to say every little mistake will cost you everything you have, but every little mistake will make a difference. There will be employers watching, and it will impact your reputation. As we get older and older, we have progressively fewer opportunities to make mistakes and still get away with it. While we’re still in college, perhaps it’s OK to make a number error on a problem set; perhaps we’ll still get a little bit of partial credit. But in the future, when Princeton students get real jobs, human error will be a big deal. It could mean millions of dollars, servers crashing, a man dying on the operating table. The funny thing is that all

this cynicism was inspired by a very trivial matter. Last year, I locked myself out of my single and had to visit the housing department for a temporary prox 17 times. This year, the housing department is charging $30 for temporary proxes after the third use. There is a monetary penalty for my forgetfulness now; if I make mistakes, I have to literally pay for them. At first I was indignant about this new policy, just as I was indignant about the exclusivity of extracurriculars last year and about the scrutiny with which COS TAs graded program comments. But that’s just what college does. It makes you realize your mistakes in ways you might not have in the past. But the good thing about this is that even if mistakes matter now, it’s still not real life yet. If I lock myself out of my room again, it’ll cost me $30, but it’ll only affect me. It won’t affect my coworkers, my company, my clients, my patients or my students. In college, it’s still all about the results, but the results don’t have to be perfect just yet. Even though our mistakes will start to hurt now, we still have time to

make them and learn from them. Barbara Zhan is a sophomore from Plainsboro, N.J. She can be reached at barbaraz@princeton.edu.

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team by a margin of three goals. Lussi, a freshman from Lutherville, Md., also leads the team with 23 shots this season. She is averaging almost one goal per game and has converted on over one quarter of her shots. The Tigers will now focus their attention on the beginning of Ivy League competition, which kicks off for Princeton this Saturday, Sept. 28, when the squad will take on Yale in an important home matchup. The game will be played just over a year since the last time the Tigers faced the Bulldogs, in New Haven last Septem-

ber. In that game, which was also Princeton’s Ivy League opener, the Tigers defeated Yale 2-1 in overtime. A defensive miscommunication resulted in a Yale defender heading then-sophomore forward Liana Cornacchio’s long throw-in into her own net. This season Yale (4-3) comes into Roberts Stadium on a two-game losing streak. Despite opening the season 4-1, the Bulldogs have since lost close matches against Sacred Heart and Fairfield. Yale lost both games by one goal, falling 2-1 to Sacred Heart on Friday and 1-0 to Fairfield on Sunday. The Bulldogs also lost to Georgetown by a notable 8-0 score earlier in September.

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actually takes a lot of energy. We dive on the f loor a lot, and you gotta have quick feet, so we are getting a good workout even though it might not look like it. Q: Do you have any pre-competition rituals? A: Before every home game we all get in a circle and sing “Sweet Caroline” and dance to it — it’s really awesome. [Sophomore] Francie [Jenkins] does her dance in the middle. That’s always a great routine. She kind of bounces around in there, and then we’re ready to go. Q: Are you superstitious at all?

A: Now that we’re wearing black knee pads — last year we were wearing white — I’ve been wearing these black knee pads that I got in fourth grade. They’re great quality, and they’re really lucky. Q: They still fit you from fourth grade? A: They still fit me; they could not be in better shape. Q: Weirdest thing that’s happened to you during a game? A: In high school our local TV station was at our game. This was when I played front row and I was blocking, and I missed the block. The ball hit me in the face, and then it went back over the net and I got a kill. They got that on TV, and I got a free jacket, I got invited to a banquet and I got awarded Player of the

Week. Q: All for getting hit in the face? A: Yeah, for getting hit in the face on accident. There’s an embarrassing video on YouTube from it. Q: If you were going to do a different sport, what would it be? A: I would probably play tennis. I loved going to tennis games with my family when I was little, and my parents are both tennis teachers. On the West Coast it’s all outdoors, and I like that. Q: What is your favorite thing to do when you’re not playing volleyball? A: My favorite place in the summer is Lake Tahoe. That’s kind of what I look forward to the most. I really like boat-

ing and just hanging out at the beach and relaxing, so that’s probably my ideal class if I wasn’t playing volleyball. Q: What’s the best class that you’ve taken at Princeton so far? A: I would have to say my freshman seminar. It was called [FRS 141:] Forgiveness. I wasn’t really sure what I was getting into, and it turned out to be really interesting. Professor [Olga] Hasty was really nice and I really felt like, because it was a small atmosphere, I could participate and contribute.

with the funniest cheers. Some of them are so weird, but everyone is just dying of laughter at what they’re saying on the court. Q: If you were stranded on a island what three things would you bring?

A: I’d bring [sophomore teammate] Victoria Hammarskjold for entertainment. I’d bring my Nutella — that’s my favorite food, so that’s my number two, and I’d bring some speakers so I could bump some music on the beach.

Q: Quirkiest teammate? A: I would have to say [sophomore] Annie Ferlmann is the funniest. Her and one of our freshmen, Cara [Mattaliano], together they just come up

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This week, the ‘Prince’ sat down with sophomore libero Sarah Daschbach of the women’s volleyball team. The Tigers’ Ivy League opener is on Friday against Penn in Dillon Gymnasium. Daschbach chatted about “Sweet Caroline,” Lake Tahoe and getting hit in the face. Q: Where are you from, and what is it like there? A: I’m from Atherton, California. It’s kind of near Palo Alto. The weather’s really nice; it’s a fun place to be. Q: How did you start playing volleyball? A: In fourth grade I was on the training team, and I was pretty good at it back then, so I decided to take it on and go try out for a team and see what it would be like. I was really surprised when I made the team. I kind of just kept playing from there, loved it ever since. Q: What is the most common misconception about volleyball? A: Maybe because it’s not a cardio sport, people think we don’t work very hard, but it See ON TAP page 7

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Sophomore Sarah Daschbach started all 14 Ivy League games at libero last season, averaging 4.2 digs per set. She currently leads the team in digs with 26.

A f lurry of activity during a three-minute span late in the women’s soccer team’s matchup against Fordham solidified FORDHAM 1 a Tiger victory in PRINCETON 3 the Bronx on Tuesday night. Freshman forward Tyler Lussi scored two goals only three minutes and three seconds apart, blowing open a tightly-fought contest and lifting Princeton to a 3-0 lead by the 78th minute. Lussi’s two goals, the first unassisted and the second scored on a pass from junior midfielder Lauren Lazo, provided a solid cushion for the Tigers, allowing the team to win despite giving up a late goal with only a few minutes remaining on the clock. Senior midfielder Erika Hugland also scored for Princeton, earning her first goal of the season in the 30th minute of the game. With the victory, Princeton (4-1-2 overall) capped off

a strong early-season showing against non-league competition. The Tigers have lost only one matchup this season, falling to Rutgers (71-1) 5-1 on Sept. 15. Besides that game, Princeton has not lost this season and has allowed only two goals on the year. The Tigers outscored their opponents 10-2 in those games, including four shutouts. Fordham (2-5-2) entered the matchup on a streak of solid soccer. Since losing three consecutive games to open the season, the Rams have lost only once, falling to Dartmouth 4-0 earlier in September. Since losing to Rutgers 3-0 on Sept. 1, Fordham was 2-1-2, including shutout victories over Iona and Vermont. But Fordham’s defense could not stymie Princeton’s strong offense, which has been reenergized this season with the emergence of Lussi as a valuable offensive weapon. Lussi’s goals were her fifth and sixth of the season, a total that leads the See W. SOCCER page 7

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AROUND I V I E S The Ancient Eight kicked off their seasons last weekend, and, though they had a late start, some of the Ivy League teams have already made a big impact. Below, we try to make sense of the Ivy League’s season openers:

Penn (1-0): The Quakers only won by six on opening day, but they were in command of Lafayette throughout. The Leopards threatened with two touchdowns in the final quarter, but the game only got close because Penn built up such a comfortable lead thanks to star quarterback Billy Ragone, who was picked off in his first attempt of 2013 but quickly rallied, going 21-28 for 218 yards and two touchdowns before leaving the game after the third quarter. The defending Ivy champions looked equally good defensively, recording six sacks and picking off two passes. Harvard (1-0): Fans of the other seven Ivies may have been dismayed by how quickly junior quarterback Conner Hempel filled the hole left by Colton Chappel. In his first career start, Hempel threw for 345 yards and four touchdowns as the Crimson led the University of San Diego throughout and left California with a decisive 42-20 victory. Harvard proved it had not missed a beat in its passing game, with four receivers gaining more than 50 yards, and got 64 yards on just six carries from tailback Paul Stanton, one of several candidates to replace former standout Treavor Scales.

Cornell (1-0): After going down 10-0 early, Cornell outscored Bucknell 45-3 in the final three quarters for an authoritative win in rainy Ithaca on Saturday. The Big Red’s running game didn’t look too threatening — the team accumulated just 49 rushing yards — but quarterback Jeff Matthews put the offense on his back, throwing for three touchdowns, and kicker John Wells put the team on his foot, making six PATs and three field goals despite the conditions. The formidable defense was led by the aptly named Lee Marvel, who had 10 tackles.

Brown (1-0): The Bears delivered a powerful blow to Georgetown this weekend, defeating them 45-7 thanks in part to the return of tailback John Spooney, who returned to football from the track team this season and accounted for 126 yards and three touchdowns on Saturday. Defensive end Michael Yules, a preseason All-Ivy pick, had two sacks against the 1-3 Hoyas, whom Princeton will face at Georgetown this weekend. Wide receiver and return specialist Alexander Jette won Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors in his first week of college football, averaging 20.5 yards per punt return.

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Dartmouth (1-0): Quarterback Dalyn Williams threw for 228 yards and ran for 123 more and a touchdown while running back Dominick Pierre ran for 95 yards and three TDs as the Big Green showcased its multidimensional offense in a 30-23 victory at Butler. The scoring was enough to overcome a less-than-fantastic day for Dartmouth’s pass defense, which let up almost 400 yards and a record number of completions to the 2-2 Bulldogs. Princeton (0-1): No. 17 Lehigh was arguably the toughest opponent faced by an Ivy League team last weekend, but that may not be much consolation to the Tigers after their one-point loss. A surprisingly effective Princeton offense dominated the first half before a combination of mistakes by the defensive backfield and an extraordinary display from Lehigh’s quarterback felled the Tigers in the final quarter. Junior quarterbacks Connor Michelsen and Quinn Epperly both led drives that greatly encouraged Princeton fans, but the pass defense was much less encouraging, especially given how many potent passers there currently are in the Ancient Eight. Yale (1-0): Though 0-4 Colgate wasn’t the toughest opening-day opponent, the Bulldogs handled the Raiders surprisingly well given a 2012 campaign they’d like to forget. In his first game as a Yalie, Henry Furman provided his team with something they lacked last season — a quarterback — throwing for a respectable 129 yards and running for 60 yards and three touchdowns, while running back Tyler Varga, who took some snaps last year for lack of a better option, did what he did best, rushing for 236 yards and a TD. The Bulldogs now have half as many wins as they did all last season, when they lost eight games. Columbia (0-1): The Lions are the only Ivy team with little to celebrate after the first weekend of action, having lost 52-7 to crosstown rival No. 16 Fordham. Columbia let up 606 yards while gaining a total of 258. Marcorus Garret, the running back who was one of few bright spots in the Lions’ 3-7 2012 campaign, ran for 89 yards, and wide receiver Ryan Flannery went over the century mark, but just about everything else looks like it needs a lot of work.

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