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In Opinion Benjamin Dinovelli discusses how his race affects him at Princeton, and Marni Morse advocates for more women to lean in.

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News & Notes Firewall issue prompts partial online services outage a number of University websites, including Blackboard, were down Tuesday afternoon due to a firewall issue.

The services were restored in the evening, although the specific problem remains to be identified, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.

Blackboard, campus printing and PeopleSoft, the parent service that hosts SCORE and other administrative services, became unavailable during the outage, Mbugua said.

The University’s Undergraduate Office of Admission, Office of Information Technology, TigerApps and Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students websites were all reported down.

The Princeton homepage was available throughout the outage.

The OIT website reported an Internet connectivity outage between 2:50 and 3:04 p.m. Tuesday. As of press time, OIT had not tweeted or reported the evening outage.

LOCAL NEWS

Lawsuit against Dinky heard by court

EXPRESSIONS DANCE

By Patience Haggin news editior

A suit challenging the University’s decision to move the Dinky station as part of its development of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood went to court on Friday. Judge Paul Innes of the Mercer County chancery court heard arguments from both sides in Trenton and will release a decision later this month.

The University is in the process of relocating the station about 460 feet south of its previous location. The move, which has provoked ire from locals over the past several years, is part of a $330 million complex that will include rehearsal and performance spaces. The Arts and Transit Neighborhood is scheduled to open in the fall of 2017.

Local advocacy group Save the Dinky and several other local residents have sued to permanently bar the University from moving the station.

The group has also filed for a stay on the University’s construction until the suit is resolved.

The suit is one of six pending lawsuits challenging the move of the Dinky station.

Other suits challenge the various legal approvals that local authorities granted for the project and the University’s process of obtaining them.

The University purchased the Dinky station from NJ Transit in 1984 with plans to move it roughly 100 feet to the south, the location where it stood until this See CONSTRUCTION page 3

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U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

U. extends early action deadline due to Common Application glitches

By Carla Javier senior writer

For the third year in a row, the University will accept applications after its Nov. 1 early action application deadline, this time due to technical difficulties with the newly revised Common Application, according to a press release posted on the University’s Office of Admission website and announcements via its Twitter and Facebook last week.

The technical problems, which ranged from an inability to submit payments to formatting difficulties, caused over 50 schools with Nov. 1 deadlines to extend their application periods, including Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth and Yale, The Washington Post reported. In 2011 and 2012, Princeton delayed deadlines for applicants affected by a major hurricane and Hurricane Sandy, respectively.

“Please be assured that we will be flexible if you are unable to meet our Nov.

1 deadline for single-choice early action because of technical issues,” an automatic email reply from the Undergraduate admission office read. The office will accept applications until Nov. 8, after which applicants will need to request an extension.

The technical difficulties were the result of a rebuilding of the Common Application, which was launched on Aug. 1.

The relaunch was executed by technology provider Hobsons.

According to Scott Anderson, the senior director for policy for the Common Application, the online admission platform anticipated some technical issues “because [the rebuilding] was a massive technology change.”

The changes to the application were intended to handle an increase in both applications and application materials, Anderson explained.

Students and counselors were experiencing difficulties with the revamped site throughout the fall, prompting the

University to begin accepting the lesserused Universal College Application on Oct. 10, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

In the days prior to the original Nov. 1 deadline, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South senior Michael Byrnes said the Common Application would change the formatting of his essays. After 45 minutes, however, Byrnes corrected the problem himself and did not need to reach out for help from the Common Application’s support center.

Despite the initial glitch, Byrnes said he was able to submit his early action application to Princeton without any problems.

“I was relatively lucky, from what I heard,” Byrnes said.

Meanwhile, last Thursday in Tallahassee, Fla., Lawton Chiles High School senior and Princeton early action applicant Jimmy Zhang was logged out of the Common Application site multiple times while he See DELAY page 2

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

ACADEMICS

Christie wins second term as governor

CHV 310 precepts to donate $100 to chosen charities

By Konadu Amoakuh contributor

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Christie defeated his challenger in the Nov. 5 general election, winning his second term as governor.

By Hannah Schoen staff writer

In a race that ended as lopsided as it started, Republican incumbent Chris Christie defeated his Democratic challenger, New Jersey State Senator Barbara Buono, by a margin of 60.5 percent to 38 percent with 98 percent of precincts reporting in the Nov. 5 general election to win a second term as

governor, the AP reported.

Christie was widely expected to claim victory Tuesday night.

Christie delivered his victory speech to a crowd in Ashbury Park, N.J., after 10 p.m. while his family, including Andrew Christie ’16, stood by his side.

Though Christie’s 40-point lead in early February had narrowed to 19 points in the week before the election, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson poll taken between Oct. 24 and Oct. 30, the chances that he’d be upset by Buono were slim.

“It’s pretty much a foregone conclusion,” politics professor and department chair Nolan McCarty told The Daily Princetonian the day before the election. “Unless [these polls] are the worst polls in the history of polling.”

Christie’s supporters also felt confident that their candidate would win his reelection challenge prior to the announcement of the official results.

“I’m predicting him to win by a landslide,” Princeton Plasma See ELECTION page 4

This week, students in CHV 310: Practical Ethics face an intellectual question with realworld consequences: Which of several charitable causes is most worthy of their support? Each of the course’s 32 precepts has been given $100 to donate to an organization of students’ choice.

The exercise, which forces them to choose between organizations that benefit people in developing countries and firstworld academic organizations, supplements the course’s discussion of the ethics of charity and effective altruism.

Bioethics professor Peter Singer, who instructs the 390-student course, said he got the idea from A Path That’s Clear, an organization that conducts “giving games” on its website in order to show people how they can solve ethical problems that society faces today.

“Why not give [students] an exercise to do in the precepts

that actually makes a difference to the world, rather than just doing it in a theoretical way?”

Singer said.

The students are allowed to choose between four charities: The Fistula Foundation, GiveDirectly, The Future of Humanity Institute and Princeton University.

Both the Fistula Foundation and GiveDirectly are charities that aim to aid people in developing countries. The Fistula Foundation provides surgery to treat obstetric fistula, a debilitating condition common in developing countries that can affect a woman when childbirth becomes disrupted, according to its website. GiveDirectly transfers cash payments directly to people who live in extreme poverty, according to its website.

Singer explained that he chose to include these organizations because giving to developing countries can be seen as the most effective kind of philanthropy.

“There’s a good argument for See CHOICE page 4

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was entering his information.

His teachers experienced difficulties with the application as well.

“The main problem was with the recommendations.

My teachers could not upload their recommendations easily,” Zhang added.

He said he reached out to the Common Application through the help center email but did not receive a reply.

Anderson said the Common Application does respond to every single question received. He added that Hobsons brought on and reallocated staff to address customer support and technical issues, though he did not know the exact number of additional in-

dividuals brought on.

“If a student feels like he or she did not hear anything from us, that does not in any way coincide with our practices,” he added.

With the Nov. 1 deadline looming, Zhang emailed the University’s admission office.

He said it responded quickly, giving Zhang an alternate email address through which his teachers could submit his recommendations.

The Office of Admission directed comment to Mbugua.

“We are doing all we can to help students, counselors and teachers as they fill out the application forms this year,” Mbugua said.

Mbugua said he could not provide a number of applications that had been submitted and received by the University as of press time. When asked

if the Office of Admission has begun reviewing applications already submitted, he said he could not go into specifics about what is being done on any given date.

Zhang was able to submit his application by the Nov. 1 deadline, though he said that if he had known he had more time, he would have looked over his Princeton supplement and Common Application essay again.

The next major college application deadline is Jan. 1, when most schools stop accepting applications for regular decision.

Anderson said he did not anticipate technical problems arising for this next deadline.

While there were individual problems, Anderson said the new system was able to handle a large volume of documents

submitted for the Nov. 1 deadline.

Anderson, who was a school counselor for nine years before joining the Common Application, apologized on behalf of his organization.

“I know applying to college is a stressful process to begin with. To the extent that we added to that stress, we apologize.

We take responsibility for that.

We apologize for the frustration, and we are confident that the big issues are behind us,” he said. “We will continue working as hard as we can to help every individual with whatever problem they are facing.”

The University will continue to accept both the Common Application and the Universal College Application for the Jan. 1 deadline. Early action applicants will be notified of their status in mid-December.

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News & Notes Town receives AAA bond rating from Standard and Poor’s the town of Princeton has received a AAA bond rating from the financial services firm Standard & Poor’s, its first credit rating since the Borough and Township consolidated in January, The Times of Trenton reported.

The bond rating, which is an indicator of fiscal health, will allow the town to borrow money at lower interest rates. In 2012, the Borough was assigned a AA+ rating and the Township a AAA rating.

Three percent of the state’s 565 municipalities, or 17 other towns, earned a AAA rating from Standard and Poor’s, the highest mark the firm awards.

Vanderbei named fellow of the American Mathematical Society

professor of operations research and financial engineering Robert Vanderbei was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society on Monday.

The fellowship honors those who have made outstanding contributions to

the advancement of mathematics.

AMS honored Vanderbei for his contributions to linear programming and nonlinear optimization problems, the organization said. He was one of 50 fellows named this year.

Vanderbei is also a member of the Bendheim Center for Finance and has courtesy appointments in mathematics, astrophysics, computer science and mechanical and aerospace engineering.

A map Vanderbei created to depict the results of the 2000 presidential election, called “Purple America,” received national attention and was reprinted in U.S. News and World Report. The map depicted the county-by-county results in the 2000 election by coloring each county with a shade between true blue and true red. Vanderbei has since created similar maps for each of the subsequent presidential elections.

Vanderbei worked at Bell Labs as a team member for AT&T from 1984 to 1990. He has also worked to develop high-contrast imaging systems for the eventual aim of direct imaging planets outside our solar system.

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past summer. The purchase agreement requires that the University maintain a station platform at least 170 feet long and states that the University may “move the existing terminus of the rail line southward coincident with the location of the minimum reservation of platform space.” Representatives of NJ Transit have affirmed their agreement with this interpretation.

Philip Rosenbach, attorney for the plaintiffs, challenged this interpretation at the hearing, arguing that the terms of

the purchase do not grant the University the right to move the station. He contended that the agreement only allowed the University the right to move the station southward by a maximum of 170 feet, the length of the platform.

Jonathan Epstein, an attorney with Drinker Biddle & Reath, argued on behalf of the University that the contract only requires the University to construct and maintain a new platform of 170 feet in the event of a move. Kenneth Worton, deputy attorney general of NJ Transit, also appeared in court since NJ Transit is named as another defendant in the suit.

Innes noted that the lan-

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guage of the 1984 purchase agreement appears to contradict the contention that the seller, NJ Transit, intended to place limits on the University’s alterations to the property.

The University filed a motion to have the case dismissed this past May, arguing that the plaintiffs did not have legal standing to make their challenge. Innes denied this motion in June. He said at the Friday hearing that he had expected to hear more arguments concerning the issue of parking, as plaintiffs have previously expressed concerns that the University may not uphold its parking obligations in its redevelopment of the area.

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saying that [giving to developing countries] is likely to be the most effective thing you can do with charitable donations because, given the difference in purchasing power that exists between countries like this one and developing countries, you do make a greater impact on people’s lives,” he said. “We put the other [charities] there to get people to consider whether that’s right.”

The Future of Humanity Institute is an organization at the University of Oxford that takes an interdisciplinary approach to research issues important to the future of the human race and aims to promote informed public engagement regarding these issues.

In each precept, students rank their choices for the charities. If no charity receives a majority of first-place votes in the first round, the students’ second-choice votes are consulted.

Singer said the students were given only four choices in order to focus their discussion.

However, Tai Hirose ’15 said he wished the types of charities had been more diversified. His Monday precept chose to donate to GiveDirectly.

“In my opinion, the four organizations that were listed made it so that GiveDirectly was sort of a natural choice,” Hirose said. “We had a unanimous decision. It would have been more interesting if we had included other organizations mentioned

by GiveWell, like the Against Malaria Foundation.”

The students were introduced to both GiveDirectly and the Fistula Foundation in a lecture given before break by an organization called GiveWell, which evaluates the effectiveness of charities. Via video link, one of the cofounders of GiveWell, Holden Karnofsky, spoke to the class, Singer explained. “[GiveWell] are the leaders in rigorous assessment of charities,” Singer said.

Seven course preceptors contacted for this article did not respond to a request for comment.

Jans Klenner GS, a preceptor for the course, could not be reached for comment by press time.

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Physics Laboratory Deputy Director for Operations Adam Cohen, who donated to Christie’s campaign in April, said. He explained that he decided not to donate more because he thought that Christie was “far and away the leader in terms of the campaign.”

Cohen noted Christie’s “war chest of funds,” which contained $13.2 million raised as of late October, according to NJ.com, of which he has spent $9.2 million. By contrast, Buono had raised $2.8 million as of the same date, spending $2.5 million.

Both candidates accepted matching public funds from the state, which under New Jersey law will provide $2 in public funds to gubernatorial candidates who raise more than $380,000 for every $1 raised from private sources, according to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Committee’s website.

Despite Christie’s overall lead in fundraising, among Universityaffiliated faculty, staff and administrators, donations went overwhelmingly to Buono.

McCarty explained that these funds were not enough to help Buono because New Jersey is a relatively expensive state to campaign in.

“New Jersey’s a tough state to come from behind in because of how expensive the media markets are and how fragmented they are across Philadelphia and New York,” McCarty said. “There really wasn’t much of a competitive campaign.”

Besides his polling and fundraising advantages, Christie also secured many endorsements from public figures, including key New Jersey Republicans, the Republican National Committee, celebrities such as “Cake Boss” star Buddy Valastro and more than 50 New Jersey Democrats, who have been dubbed “Christiecrats” by the Christie campaign.

“I’m a lifelong Democrat, but I see in Governor Christie someone who actually does the things that he says he’s going to do,” Cohen said. “While I don’t necessarily agree with everything, I think he’s been a very good governor for the state, and I’d like to see him continue.”

Cohen added that he particularly approved of the Governor’s response to Hurricane Sandy. He explained that he felt Christie really cared about the state of New Jersey.

But physics professor Chiara Nappi, another Democrat, explained in an interview before the election that she donated to Buono because the self-described underdog “had the guts to run against Christie.”

Buono said in a Sept. 12 interview that she was very committed to her gubernatorial run despite

the hard race ahead.

Buono explained that her frustration with the lack of opportunities for those in the middle class compelled her to run for governor.

She added that she was also unhappy with New Jersey’s high unemployment rate and low job creation rate, which she says have left 400,000 New Jerseyans out of work.

“People are suffering,” Buono said. “This governor’s policies have hurt the middle class, and he’s turned his back on them, and they need somebody to go to bat for them, and I understand the struggles because I’ve lived them.”

Will Mantell ’14, president of the College Democrats, said in an interview before the election that his organization supported Buono’s candidacy.

“We think Governor Christie has been bad for schools. We think he’s been bad for jobs. And we think that Buono is the right candidate on those and a plethora of other issues,” Mantell said.

Despite the fact that New Jersey has 700,000 more registered Democrats than registered Republicans, Christie won an easy and overwhelming victory.

Earlier on Tuesday, Holt Dwyer ’15 cast his ballot for the state’s next governor at Carl Icahn Laboratory.

“I just feel like it’s a responsible thing to do if you have some stake in the governance of New Jersey for the next four years,” Dwyer said. He

added that the lack of competition in the gubernatorial race did not impact his decision to vote.

McCarty explained that it was not unusual for a governor of one party to win an election in a state dominated by the other party.

“Governors are really sometimes in a pretty good position to govern in a bipartisan manner, which gives them an opportunity to get themselves known by the public and basically win reelection not by their partisanship or their ideology but by their performance,” he said. “[Christie] won reelection because most people approve of his performance, and he governed in a fairly bipartisan way and is not identified by the New Jersey public as a hardcore Republican extremist.”

McCarty said that the next step for Christie after his reelection would likely be a presidential run, though he said it was unclear whether Christie could compete against other Republicans in the primary.

“He’s obviously more moderate than most Republican primary voters. His appeal is really that he can attract Democratic votes, and [he has] a fair amount of support from minority voters,” McCarty said. “So he’d be a very strong general election candidate, but whether or not he can get through the primary, where the decision’s going to be made by much more conservative voters, is an open question. I think he has some chance.”

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Time for Princeton women to lean in

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Marni Morse is a freshman from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@princeton.edu.

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elcome to the 21st century, where women and men are supposedly treated equally and enjoy the same opportunities.

Princeton’s Class of 2017 is almost equally divided between men and women, as are other Ivy League freshman classes. Women and men have an equal opportunity at Princeton to apply for leadership positions. So half of the clubs and organizations should be led by women, right?

Wrong.

When I walk into a Whig-Clio debate, all the speakers are male. And USG leadership, either campus-wide or class-wide? The same.

When you look at the overall leadership numbers, the problem is even more staggering. At the beginning of coeducation, the “leadership gap” wasn’t much of an issue. Women were eagerly reaching for and attaining prominent roles on campus.

Across high-profile campus posts, including president of the student government, chair of the Honor Committee, editor-in-chief of The Daily Princetonian and president of the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes, six women in the 1970s held those positions, 18 in the 1980s and 22 in the 1990s.

But in the first decade of the 21st century, there were only 12 women filling these roles.

These numbers grabbed officials’ attention at the University two years ago, when the school convened a blue-ribbon committee and issued a report known as the Keohane Report.

Quite frankly, after acknowledging the female leadership void, the report offers little in the way of innovative recommendations to change the status quo. There is no urgency in its tone. Indeed, the report only recommends that the issue be re-examined in 10 years. But just by looking at the numbers or merely attending campus events, it’s nearly impossible to miss the problem. And, as the report notes, it is not just an issue at Princeton. The problem exists on many other college campuses. This is a cultural problem around the United States and the world. Understanding the broader problem, I acknowledge that, in the pursuit of leadership equity, there is a limit as to how much the school or the law can do. Nevertheless, Princeton could do more than it is currently doing.

The university, legally and ethically, must ensure an environment of equal opportunity.

Women must have the same options as men.

And we do. No one can stop me from applying for or attaining a leadership position. And I certainly wouldn’t want to attain such a title because the school had forced clubs to set aside a certain number of leadership roles for women. I want to earn a position as a result of all I’ve accomplished and the skills I’ve acquired.

As the report recommends, the University’s Women’s Center holds events to empower women on campus and tries to encourage leadership. There are mentorship programs both among women students and female professors. In this respect, the school is pulling its weight. The school has a responsibility to guarantee equal opportunity and ought to try to encourage women to be more ambitious. After all, they were accepted to Princeton just like the men. Of course, more can always be done, but the fact that there are resources going to these programs is a start. And, hopefully, it will help put a dent in those statistics over the next decade.

But what is really needed is for everyone on campus, male and female, to take a hard look at ourselves and our attitudes. The report found that women here at Princeton consistently undersold themselves, while male students stressed their accomplishments.

Women need to take initiative and ownership of the problem and not look to anyone else for a hand up. Lack of female leadership has been and will continue to be a problem, both on and off campus, until women put forth a conscious and united effort to change it. That is the argument of Sheryl Sandberg, current COO of Facebook, in her book “Lean In.” Sandberg notes that women have to make a genuine effort to try to change perceptions and the norm. Women have to apply for positions even if they are not sure they are qualified and speak up about their opinions in corporate meetings.

In her New York Times review of the book, University professor emerita Anne-Marie Slaughter extends this responsibility to both women and the corporate culture as a whole. And both are right. We all need to work toward change. Students and the University have a responsibility to reverse the trend of inequality among student and faculty leadership. The school could do more to make this an issue on the forefront of everyone’s mind, here and outside the Orange Bubble. Princeton should not only sensitize women to this issue but also faculty, staff and male students. Frequent lectures or public discussions among administration and students can encourage people across campus to take action to change the status quo. College is just the place to start molding future leaders — future leaders of both genders.

Opinion

Benjamin Dinovelli

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ome people forget their jackets on the Street. Others forget to turn in their problem sets on time. I forget that I’m Asian.

It may seem like a confusing confession, but with a last name like Dinovelli, it’s easier than you’d think.

However, as an anxious freshman, worried about the difficulties of writing sem, it was the least of my concerns. Hurrying to the writing center one winter morning, I hoped to receive some sage advice to keep my essay from going the way of the Titanic. Unsurprisingly, I was the only one in the room early on a weekend morning. Writing my name on the sign-up list, I took a seat and waited my turn.

My solitude was brief. Soon after, another student entered the room, looked at the clipboard and sat down.

Assuming I was not the only one taking advantage of the morning rush (or lack thereof), I paid little attention to her occasional stares. However, after a minute or two of silence, she approached, asking, “Hi, do you know a Ben Dinovelli? I’m supposed to have a meeting with him.” She was looking for me.

It wasn’t the first time, nor the last, but rather one of a myriad of instances where my name has presented itself as a source of confusion for others. As an Asian adopted by white parents, I am no stranger to the dreaded question: “I know where you’re from, but where

are you really from?” Trust me, the awkwardness doesn’t go away with time.

Having been raised in a predominately white town by white parents, it’s easy for me to forget that my name and appearance do not naturally mix. After all, how many Asian-Italians have you met recently?

When comments are made about Asians, it doesn’t always instantly click that sometimes I’m the one being referred to.

Throughout my life, I’ve always felt like a Red Sox fan with a Yankee jersey eternally glued to my chest, having been judged for and associated with my race despite my predominately white upbringing. I have been jokingly called a “Twinkie,” as if being called “basically white” could placate me.

And I’m not the only one.

It seems that many Asian-American students at Princeton face a binary conflict between either embracing, or distancing, themselves from their “Asian” culture. Although rarely spoken aloud, being around large groups of other Asians is seen as a personal promotion of “Asian-ness.”

Some embrace their Asian-ness and surround themselves with large groups of other Asians, joining cultural campus groups, such as CSA, KASA and AASA. I found it embarrassing and tried to completely sever ties to my ethnicity; I hid behind a veil of racial blindness and said my race didn’t determine who I was.

As an incoming freshman, there was a pressure on campus to assimilate to the Princeton culture, which is historically and predominately white. As Asian American Studies advocate Frank Odo

’61 mentioned in a recent interview with The Daily Princetonian, one of the biggest challenges he faced on campus was trying to “fit in with a whole bunch of white guys.” While the racial composition of the campus has changed dramatically over the years, this mindset of trying to belong still exists.

The desire to fit in indirectly influenced the friends I made and the activities to which I committed myself.

Although I didn’t count the number of Asians every time I sat down at a table, I felt weird being in a large group of Asians — as if by virtue of being there I was placing a large neon sign above my head. I feared being stereotyped.

I feared being defined by my race. I feared that others would assume that I was someone I was not.

While most students at Princeton are not adopted, many, especially those from backgrounds that include other cultures, still have to choose how much they should integrate themselves when they come to campus. Unfortunately, for many this means choosing a side and thus abandoning some part of themselves in the process. Maybe I should be upset at myself for not embracing my “true” Asian culture, or maybe I should be more grateful for being an “honorary member” of Team White.

To be honest, I am still at a loss regarding how to express my identity.

However, perhaps I don’t have to forget a part of myself in order to embrace the other. Maybe the two can be reconciled.

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

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trangely enough, if you were to ask me right now what the most difficult part of Princeton has been for me thus far, my answer would not include workload, grade deflation or organic chemistry. Granted, these aspects have not been easy for me in any stretch of the imagination. I struggle with time management, grades and amine functional groups just as much as the next guy. But on a day-to-day basis, these are not the things I worry about most as a Princeton student. What I struggle with most is simply deciding what to study and where to focus my future after Princeton.

College is arguably the most important time in our adult lives. It’s a sort of crossroads, an intersection that can take you anywhere in life you want to go. And when one considers an Ivy League institution like Princeton, that crossroads becomes much, much larger. From the first week on

campus, one thing is pounded into our heads again and again — entering Princeton as a freshman means that your options in life are limitless.

From medical school to law school, nonprofits in Africa to Wall Street investment companies, electrical engineering to classics, anything you can imagine doing is possible, and that is simply terrifying.

This phenomenon has been noted in psychological studies before, a phenomenon sometimes referred to as choice overload. Simply put, past a certain point, an increasing number of options presented to a person can result in less satisfaction with the outcome. Having more options results in greater anxiety about missing the optimal choice. There will always be the leftover “what if” feeling, especially after decisions as important as what college to attend or what career path to follow. With this in mind, it is essential to ask, “What is the optimal amount of freedom to allow students?” More importantly, when does the amount of freedom cease being beneficial for the student?

As a liberal arts institution,

Princeton encourages you to explore many different fields of academics over your first two years. As I see it, the combination of distribution requirements paired with the mandatory two years before declaring a major has two main purposes. First, it is to promote interdisciplinary thought and well-rounded students through an exploration of many different subjects. I admire this goal and fully support it. The second is to allow students to discover new subjects that they could pursue academically, ones that they may not have otherwise focused on. But is this really conducive to a richer and more fulfilling major choice? Initially, that was one of the most appealing aspects of Princeton to me, that I could delay the inevitable choice of a career another two years, and that the answer would eventually just come to me after getting a bite-sized portion of an assortment of classes and subjects.

In retrospect, I don’t see any benefit from delaying a major choice for two full years.

It’s because of this that I question whether the academic freedom of

Princeton has really been beneficial to me. The liberal arts aspect of Princeton is, in many ways, effective.

While many students attempt to circumvent the requirements with easy classes, many students do genuinely explore areas that they never would have before. This is great for producing well-rounded students; however, this does not necessarily facilitate better major choices. Often, this does not make choosing a major easier but, in fact, more difficult.

Perhaps intentionally delaying major choices until the end of sophomore year offers an unnecessarily excessive amount of choice. Entering Princeton as a freshman already comes with a huge amount of options. Do I really need another two years to add to the long list of choices I have? If I had declared a major during freshman year, I would have saved myself two more years of stressful decisions that, in the end, would not make me any happier.

Christian Wawrzonek is a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pa. He can be reached at cjw5@princeton.edu.

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Pyne Prize nominations I write to solicit nominations for the Pyne Prize, the highest general distinction the University confers upon an undergraduate, which will be awarded on Alumni Day, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.

In thinking about nominations, I would ask that you consider the following description: Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize. A prize awarded annually to the senior who has manifested in outstanding fashion the following qualifications:

excellence in scholarship, character and effecdent of the University, the dean of the college, tive support of the best interests of Princeton the dean of undergraduate students and the secUniversity. Founded in 1921 in remembrance of retary of the University. We are eager to receive the life and character of M. Taylor Pyne, Class of nominations from members of the University 1877, trustee of Princeton 1884-1921, by his cousin, community. Please direct such names and, prefMrs. May Taylor Moulton Hanrahan, the prize erably, letters of nomination to my attention at is the highest general distinction the University 313 West College by Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. confers upon an undergraduate. The prize consists of the income from this fund up to the prevailing comprehensive fee for one academic year. Kathleen Deignan The prizewinner will be selected by the presiDean of Undergraduate Students

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Tigers fall 2-0 in Hummel’s 2nd start Wrestler talks bowling, the Black Pearl M. SOCCER Continued from page 8

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Now in the homestretch of the Ivy League season, the Tigers are shaking off the loss and looking forward to a mustwin match on Saturday at Penn (6-8-1, 3-1-1). Anything other than a win will put the team’s chance of an Ivy League title and NCAA Tournament bid in serious doubt.

“All we need to focus on now is getting the three points on Saturday.” sophomore Nico Hurtado

“All we need to focus on now is getting the three points on Saturday,” Hurtado said.

“That’s our season, and we have to leave it all out on the field on Saturday.”

“Tonight’s loss is a good motivator for Saturday’s game against Penn,” Doar said. “We’ll see where we made mistakes tonight and get ready for them.

One thing in particular is that we need to come out fast and come out straight from the tap.”

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sometimes very early.

Q: What’s your major?

A: I am in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Q: What do you want to be when you’re older?

A: I think I want to be an astronaut to follow in the footsteps of my beloved AST 205 teacher Gaspar Bakos.

Q: If you were trapped on an island and you could only bring three things with you, what would you bring?

A: Keira Knightley — lover of Jack Sparrow — the one and only Black Pearl and Emily Ratajkowski.

Q: Who is your quirkiest teammate?

A: Our quirkiest teammate - well, our quirkiest former teammate is [former assistant head coach] Andy Lausier, now head coach of SHU wrestling (Sacred Heart University wrestling). He’s quirky for his unorthodox

style of coaching, including, but not limited to, the practice on the patio and the SHU wrestling fan of the week drawing, in which he draws names from a used wrestling shoe.

Q: What’s the most embarrassing song on your iPod? A: I would say the most embarrassing song on my Zune is “Photograph” by Nickelback. Every time I hear it it makes me laugh.

Q: What’s your favorite thing to do when you’re not wrestling?

A: My favorite thing to do when I’m not wrestling is head over to Colonial Lanes, in North Brunswick, New Jersey, and bowl 10, possibly 20 frames depending on the team, as a team, with their five-man fishbowls.

Q: Are you good at bowling?

A: I mean, I don’t want to brag, but they call me “Twinkletoes.” I don’t know if that makes me good or bad, but you can just ask my teammates, I guess.

Q: What’s your favorite movie?

A: My favorite movie is probably “The Expendables 2,” starring Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone.

Q: Did you compete in an event during this year’s annual hockey-wrestling competition?

A: I did the tire flips. It was a team effort, but I think they chose me due to my massive thighs and my explosive nature, and I think it really paid off for us.

Q: If your team had to compete in a triathlon, who do you think would win?

A: I would say [senior] Garrett “Oliver Bennett” Frye due to his high bone density and large upper back. He’s well-suited for the water, unlike most members of the team.

Q: Were you ever afraid of getting caulif lower ear?

A: Yes, I was afraid, and then I just wore my headgear and never got it. But I do have very minimal caulif lower ear from a few lapses, but it’s enjoyable to play with, so I feel like I could have just a little bit more. It’s hard, and it makes you look tough.

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Princeton drops final non-league match

By Jack Rogers staff writer

In its final non-conference game of the regular season, the men’s soccer team fell 2-0 at home AMERICAN 2 T u e s d a y PRINCETON 0 night to American University (6-7-5 overall, 3-32 Patriot League). It was the Tigers’ (6-8-1, 3-1-1 Ivy League) first shutout loss at Roberts Stadium since September.

The first half proved frustrating for the Tigers early on.

Receiving his second start of the season, sophomore goalkeeper Ben Hummel received a challenge from American’s offense less than two minutes into the match. Just four minutes later, the Eagles found the back of the net, as senior midfielder Patrick Mehlert received a ball from 20 yards out and slipped through the Tigers’ defense to cap his third goal of the season. The rest of

the half belonged to the Tigers, as Princeton put up five shots to American’s one over the last 25 minutes of the half. But the Tigers’ effort was to no avail, as the Eagles’ sophomore goalkeeper Dylan Hobert put up three saves to give American a 1-0 advantage at halftime.

The second half saw a continuation of the fast-paced tempo of the first half, with back-and-forth action that gave no clear advantage to either side. With 20 minutes

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left in the half, though, the Tigers surged, with sophomore forwards Thomas Sanner and Nico Hurtado creating several close opportunities for the equalizer.

“At halftime, we thought we had the game under control,” sophomore midfielder Andrew Doar said. “We came out in the second half and played uninspired soccer. If you look at the stat line, they had two shots on goal, both of which were goals. It especially hurts when

you miss those breakaways because you work all game for those chances.”

The 77th minute mark saw the Tigers’ momentum come to a sudden halt, as a seemingly harmless free kick from American midfielder Charlie Hunter went untouched from 25 yards out and curled into the left side of the goal to give American a 2-0 lead. Hobert and American’s defense held strong through the remaining 10 minutes of the match, with

Hobert denying a breakaway effort by the Tigers’ freshman midfielder Greg Seifert.

“Tonight was a disappointing performance, I think; we didn’t play with the intensity we needed,” Hurtado said.

“Maybe it was because we are focused on winning on Saturday at Penn. We started off slow, giving away an early goal, but then we played better in the first half. The second half we just didn’t play well.”

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On Tap with ... Ryan Cash

By Victoria Majchrzak

Q: Did you play any other sports growing up?

A: Yeah, I played a lot of baseball.

Q: A lot of your teammates have tattoos. Do you have one?

A: I don’t, but I’ve always kind of thought about getting a tattoo on my right butt cheek.

Q: Why did you stick with wrestling instead of baseball?

A: Because people started hitting the ball really hard and throwing really fast, and I got scared of the ball.

Q: What would you get?

A: I’m not sure. Maybe Chief Wahoo, logo of the Cleveland Indians, our beloved mascot, or ... yeah, no, Chief Wahoo.

Q: If you could play any other sport professionally, what would you play?

A: I would definitely play golf. Golf is chillin’: You walk around the course all day, you hang out and then you get to go to the club house and relax afterwards.

You make a ton of money, and you can play until you’re really old.

Q: What are your favorite and least favorite things about being an athlete at Princeton?

A: My favorite thing is the huge crowds of support we get to come to all of our matches and the multitudes of ladies too. My least favorite part is probably the frigid 15-minute walk down to Jadwin. At least once a day, sometimes twice,

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The wrestling team is set to open its season this Sunday at the Binghamton Open in New York, and junior Ryan Cash will be back for his third year wrestling for the Tigers in the 125-pound classification. The Daily Princetonian sat down with Cash to talk about tattoos, bowling and caulif lower ear.

Q: Where are you from, and what is it like there?

A: I’m from Aurora, Ohio.

Aurora is like Princeton with a lot of snow. It’s essentially Suburbia, U.S.A. Q: When did you start wrestling?

A: When I was a young whippersnapper at eight years of

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VICTORIA MAJCHRZAK FOR THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN

Ohio native Ryan Cash returns for his third year wrestling for the Tigers in the 125-pound classification.

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As the end of the men’s soccer season approaches, Harvard is in the lead but has by no means locked up the Ivy League title. Here’s how the Ancient Eight stacks up with two games to go: Harvard (5-7-2 overall, 4-1 Ivy League): The Crimson only has Columbia and Penn left to go before the end of the season. The Quakers pose the only realistic threat to the Ivy League Championship that is in Harvard’s reach, and even then Harvard’s multitalented roster is a force to be reckoned with — 12 different Crimson players have found the back of the net this season.

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Princeton (6-7-1, 3-1-1): The Tigers let a Harvard second-half comeback get the best of them last week and suffered their first Ivy League loss of the season. Princeton will now have to rely on half luck and half skill. The only chance the Tigers have at sharing the Ivy crown is if they win out the rest of their conference games against Penn and Yale and if the Quakers pull out a victory over Harvard on Nov. 16.

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Penn (6-8-1, 3-1-1): The Quakers find themselves in the same precarious Ivy position as the Tigers. Their only league loss so far this year was to Brown, which has a formidable program this year and has a good chance of dashing Penn’s hopes. The Quakers will continue relying on forward Duke Lacroix, who is tied for most goals in the Ivy League with seven and leads the Ancient Eight in points with 17.

Brown (6-6-3, 2-1-2): The Bears deserve a lot more credit than they’ve been given this season. This year Brown has taken an Ivy League team to double overtime three times, tying two of those games and winning one. Brown has no chance of winning the league this year but has definitely been of the most persistent Ivy teams.

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Yale (4-9-2, 2-1-2): The Bulldogs were the only Ancient Eight team capable of defeating Harvard so far this year. They are, however, going into their final games of the season on a two-game losing streak during which they weren’t able to get their offense going. Both Brown and Princeton, their final two matchups, will be tough opponents, and the Bulldogs will need to see more out of leading scorers Peter Jacobson and Cameron Kirdzik.

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Columbia (7-4-3, 1-1-3): Like Brown, the Lions’ key feature this year has been persistence. They too have taken an Ivy team to double overtime three times this year and have tied on all three occasions. With technically only one league loss, Columbia is trapped in an awkward position toward the bottom of the standings despite being one of the toughest teams in the Ivy League to beat this year.

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Cornell (6-5-4, 0-4-1): Cornell has been unable to pick up an Ivy victory at all this season, which is a huge turnaround from its 2012 Ivy League Championship on a 6-1 Ancient Eight season. Before scoring a lone goal against Princeton in a loss last week, the Big Red hadn’t scored a goal in three games. It sits at the bottom of the league in goals scored overall this season with 12, which is less than half the number of times that Penn has found the back of the net this season, 25.

Dartmouth (5-6-4, 0-5): The Big Green keeps Cornell company in the winless column, which is ironic because it finished second in league play last year, just behind the Big Red, with only two Ivy League losses. This coming weekend Dartmouth will face off against Cornell, where both teams will be attempting to end their seasons with at least one notch in the victory column.

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