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In Opinion Spencer Shen discusses the demolition of the Butler Apartments, and Lea Trusty explains why Princeton allows us to break stereotypes.PAGE 4

In Street Caroline Hertz reviews Theatre Intime’s weekend production of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.”

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Today on Campus 7:30 p.m.: Taize style evening service with contemplative prayer, scripture and song.

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Nov. 12, 1959 Beatniks leave poetry reading in disgust because of uninterested and loud audience members.

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

Sanghvi to head Career Services

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By Loully Saney staff writer

Just months after former University President Shirley Tilghman called Career Services “a work in progress,” the University announced on Monday the appointment of its inaugural Executive Director, who will not replace but rather outrank the office’s current Director.

Pulin Sanghvi — the former Director of the Career Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a role he started in 2010 — will take up office at the University on Dec. 1.

In his new position, Sanghvi will “set the overall vision and goals of Career Services” as well as “broaden career exploration” for students, a press release said. In particular, Sanghvi will expand offerings for students interested in the arts, nonprofit organizations and public service.

According to the latest Career Services report, 20.7 percent of the class of 2012 went on to work full-time at a nonprofit, 1.2 percent worked in “public administration” and 0.6 percent worked in “arts, entertainment and recreation.”

Sanghvi will report to Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey.

Director of Career Services

PULIN SANGHVI named as director of Career Services

Beverly Hamilton-Chandler is currently the highest-ranking official in the office. Although Sanghvi said in an interview that his position will outrank hers, he added that he looked forward to working together with others in the office.

“I certainly don’t pay a whole lot of attention to organizational structures,” he explained. “I am very focused on working collaboratively.”

Director of Career Services Beverly Hamilton-Chandler and Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey declined to be interviewed.

Sanghvi said that in his new role he will work to help students find their true calling.

“One of my inspirations has actually been the Dalai Lama,” Sanghvi said. He explained that in the search of a career path, students ought to find their “calling,” which he defined as “work that is so well aligned with who See CAREERS page 2

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U. considers challenges of partnerships in Africa

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News & Notes Estate of former U. president sold for $5.5 million a local historic property with many University connections was sold at auction for a reported $5.5 million last Thursday night, the Times of Trenton reported.

The 23-acre estate, called Tusculum, was built in 1773 for Princeton’s sixth president, John Witherspoon. It was sold by owners Thomas Moore ’73 and Avril Moore ’73 after six years on the market.

Named after the Roman city of Tusculum — “wisp of incense” — the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Witherspoon often hosted President George Washington and his wife while he lived there.

The Moores bought the property at 166 Cherry Hill Road for $3 million in 1996. In 2006, they sold 35 acres of the estate to the former Princeton Township for the below-market price of $2.9 million to prevent potential development of the land. The owners originally listed the property for $12 million in July 2007.

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Eisguber ’83 discusses the possibility of creating partnerships in Africa and expanding those in Asia.

With existing partnerships in Asia — specifically, China — established, expansion of programs in Africa poses the next challenge for the University, Council for International Teaching and Research Director and history professor Jeremy Adelman said at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday evening.

There is a lot of demand among faculty and students to create partnerships in Africa, according to Adelman, but “the approach for partnership can’t be the same [as in Asia] because the institutional infrastructure and resource distribution isn’t there [in Africa] in the same way as for other parts of the world.”

Beyond expansion of programs in Africa, another chal-

lenge facing the University’s international initiatives will be to sustain the council’s existing programs abroad. Adelman noted that council funding for the programs would eventually fade away.

“We want to find strategies that will allow departments and centers of programs to absorb, to adopt those programs. We helped them get it started, but it will be up to the units to carry them forth,” Adelman said.

On his recent trip to Asia, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 met with alumni and reached out to Asian institutions about the University’s existing and potential partnerships in the region.

“It’s clear to me that this is an area that we do and should have a high level of interest in as a university,” Eisgruber said. He See ABROAD page 3

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ACADEMICS

Priorities Committee presents finance report

Digital access to Class of 2013 theses temporarily suspended

By Lorenzo Quiogue contributor

Two of the biggest financial challenges facing the University are reduced budget flexibility and diminished federal funding for research, provost David Lee GS ’99 said in a Council of the Princeton University Committee meeting on Monday afternoon.

Lee, who chairs the Priorities Committee, presented the committee’s annual report, which included an operating budget of $1.59 billion, at the meeting.

During the meeting, Lee explained that the University used a significant portion of its reserve funds during the recovery from the 2008 economic crisis, and that this move reduced the University’s ability to reallocate resources in the event of a crisis.

Due to changes in the economic outlook, the University is now in a “new normal” where it can no longer rely on

market growth to sustain the budget equilibrium, Lee explained.

“We’re a little bit closer to having to think about trade-offs,” he added.

Lee explained that congressional gridlock and the looming need to reauthorize the debt ceiling limit in February could increase economic instability and result in further cuts to federal agencies’ budgets. A default on the country’s debt obligations could trigger an economic recession, which could harm the University’s endowment, while diminished funding for agencies could reduce the availability of federal funding for research.

Researchers and faculty at the University saw the tap of federal funding run dry in mid-October, when the government shut down for 16 days after Democrats and Republicans failed to pass legislation to continue funding federal operations.

He added that the availability of research funding plays a role in the See FINANCE page 2

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when it became clear that students, when they would click the view button, would not only see the text but Web access to the Class of 2013′ s se- also download a copy of it, perhaps nior theses was temporarily suspend- even without their knowing,” Deputy ed on Oct. 18 after the Office of the Dean of the College Clayton Marsh Dean of the College voiced concerns ’85 said. “We wanted to be very careabout the lack of adequate copyright ful and disable that functionality in protection for the theses, which were order to give us some time to bring made available for download by Mudd together the right people, to make Library on Oct. 8. sure that we’ve got [the digital theses The online theses system is being system] set up in the right way and reevaluated at the request of ODOC, there are appropriate copyright nowhich is working with Mudd and the tices and protections in place.”

Office of Information Technology to Linke said the temporary suspenresolve these concerns, University sion of the digitized theses was a Archivist and Curator of Public Pol- policy issue and not a technical issue. icy Papers Dan Linke said.

“We’re sort of in a new world here.

“After we released [the website], When you’re dealing with paper and there were some people in the Dean someone asks for a copy, we have a of College’s office that had some con- format that’s long-established,” Lincerns about the ability to download ke said. “Now we’re moving to a new [the theses] and what that meant in form, and we want to make sure that terms of copyright,” Linke said. the appropriate levels of protections “This is just a precautionary step are in place for that as well.” we decided was appropriate to take See THESES page 2 contributor

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Associate professor Henry Yu, of St. John’s College, University of British Columbia, lectures on migration in the Cantonese Pacific.

Marsh and Linke said they are not sure when the online database will allow students to regain access to the online theses.

“It’s unclear how much time it will take for us to work through some of these questions, but we intend to do so as quickly as circumstances will allow,” Marsh said. “We want to make sure we’re taking time and that we’re patient while we iron out some of these wrinkles.”

Linke said he hopes ODOC and Mudd will find a solution reasonably quickly — by the end of this year or early next year.

“What we’re looking to do is get that copyright compliance built into the online system,” Linke explained, adding that he, Marsh and representatives from OIT met last week to discuss possible copyright protection measures that can be implemented as quickly as possible.

One suggestion, according to Marsh, is to attach a permanent copyright notice to the theses.

Through measures such as this, Marsh said the group hopes to find ways to ensure users understand and appreciate the limitations of their access to the theses.

Linke said that he does not think this loss of access will prove very detrimental to current seniors conducting their thesis research.

“We had hoped to provide a greater level of service with this [online] system,” Linke said. “We would like to move forward, but we’re still providing the same service we did to last year’s students.”

In the meantime, students can still access the theses in person at Mudd and request free PDF copies of them if they sign a copyright agreement, Linke said. Students can also request PDF files of old theses for a fee, as these theses are in paper form and must be converted to PDF form.

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recruitment and retention of faculty members, since many faculty members are enticed by the research opportunities that the University provides.

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 also addressed the potential effects of a decrease in federally-sponsored grants, particularly for research funded by the National Institutes of Health. “We’re currently forecasting a decrease of two percent in the research category. I hear a lot of discussion about [National Institutes of Health] being in peril, and it’s a lot harder to get those grants,” he explained.

Eisgruber added that the threat of another sequester weighed heavily on the minds of many presidents of colleges and universities around the country in light of most institutions’ inability to replace federal grants with alternate sources of funding.

When asked about potential diversification strategies to increase budget flexibility going forward, Lee answered that the University was looking into making changes to faculty salaries and tuition.

Lee pointed out, however, that Princeton has successfully responded to the challenges brought about by the economic recession, emphasizing that the University was able to imple-

ment and maintain a plan to achieve budget equilibrium. He added that together with strong endowment results, which returned 11.7 percent in fiscal year 2013 to grow to a total of $18.2 billion, the University’s actions in response to the recession successfully stabilized its budgetary situation.

In 2008, the University cut $300 million from its 10-year capital plan in response to the recent economic downturn, postponing projects such as the construction of a new building for the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, a renovation of Green Hall and the creation of a storage facility for the Princeton University Art Museum.

On top of the continued strong

results of Annual Giving, which raised over $57 million from its latest campaign, the University has also benefited from decreases in natural gas costs and more moderate growth rates when it comes to healthcare costs, Lee explained.

Under ideal circumstances, the University should spend four to five percent of the University’s endowment every year, Lee said.

He added that net payout per unit should also ideally increase by five percent every year, but that the University has had to compensate for the lack of market growth in light of the economy’s slow recovery from the recession.

Despite the financial challenges facing the University, Lee said that the University still maintains its status as a premier research institution. “We are one of the best research institutions in the world,” he said.

“Even throughout the recession, the priority was to maintain that level of quality, and I think we’re still there because we have the resources to deal with this downturn.”

Carolyn Ainslie, Vice President for Finance and Treasurer, explained that the University was looking into new sources of revenue to make up for the lack of federally-sponsored research.

She explained that they were looking into the private sector, with added emphasis on corporations, as potential sources of partnership for funding.

Lee added that the University was always looking for new ways to be more efficient.

“Can we develop a sustainable model where we allow a little bit of a wedge to accommodate new priorities?” he said. “That’s one of the challenges, to keep examining what we do.”

The Priorities Committee will present the report to the University Board of Trustees on Jan. 24, 2014, together with a proposed budget for the fiscal year 2014-15.

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you are and what you most care about.”

Sanghvi explained that according to the Dalai Lama, those that look for a “job” are looking solely to earn a living and put food on the table, those that search for a “career” are more concerned with status and recognition, but those who find their “calling,” are those who find the ideal path for themselves.

At Stanford, Sanghvi saw the Graduate School of Business not only rise to the top of business school rankings but also to the top of the heap for starting graduate salaries. Its alumni earned the highest starting base salary in the country, taking $129,652 on average, according to the 2014 U.S. News & World report business school rankings.

Currently, 31 percent of Stanford Business School graduates go on to work in the technology industry, 26 percent work in financial services and 19 percent work in consulting, according to Businessweek.

Stanford, in announcing Sanghvi’s appointment in 2010, described him as “a seasoned management consultant, corporate recruiter, and career advisor.”

The new position of executive director was advertised on the University’s online job board starting on March 30. The position was originally expected to be filled by Aug. 1.

In September, the Priorities Committee allocated an award of $180,040 for fiscal year 2014 to hire an executive director.

The search for a director was led by Chuck O’Boyle of C.V. O’Boyle, LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in searches for higher education talent.

An “interview committee”

made up of faculty, staff, alumni and students assisted in the search, the University’s press release said. University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua declined to identify the members of the committee.

Sanghvi graduated from Yale University with a bachelor of arts degree in economics and went on to the Stanford Graduate School of Business to receive a MBA. He formerly worked for financial services firm Morgan Stanley and for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

While working at McKinsey’s Palo Alto office, Sanghvi was one of the firm’s key recruiters for Stanford, the 2010 announcement said. While working in Morgan Stanley’s New York office, he was also critical to the firm’s recruitment efforts at Yale.

“While I have spent some of my previous work in consulting and finance I have also been deeply involved with nonprofit work,” Sanghvi said pointing to his involvement in Positive Coaching Alliance, a not-for-profit organization working to develop the culture around youth sports.

Sanghvi sits on the board of directors for Positive Coaching Alliance, which was founded in 1998 by the Stanford University Athletic Department.

Sanghvi explained that he first got involved with the organization in its early steps and helped expand it nationally. “They have been a core part of my life,” he said.

After spending years in consulting and finance, Sanghvi said his life took a new direction when he worked for the Career Management Center at Stanford Business School.

“When I was starting to enter my early 30s I started to find my own voice and started to realize how much freedom I had to shape my own career,” he said.

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visited four major metropolitan areas: Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing and Hong Kong.

“Our hope is that we can deepen the channels that allow the activity to occur and reduce friction,” Eisgruber explained, noting that Princeton in Beijing, the University’s intensive summer Mandarin Chinese language program, had had a transformative impact on alumni he spoke to.

“There is a high demand running in two directions,” Eisgruber said, explaining that there are both faculty and students at Princeton who want to travel to Asia as well as researchers in other regions who want to

come to Princeton. Meeting the demand in both directions will require creative and flexible initiatives, Eisgruber said.

“China presents challenges because there is no single institution we should partner with,” Adelman said. To confront this challenge, the University has established a partnership with Tsinghua University, which will serve as the inter-university center supporting relationships with multiple institutions. In addition, Princeton is deepening its relationship with Beijing Normal University.

“Right now in Beijing Normal, we are planning an expansion of the Princeton in Beijing program,” Eisgruber said.

Pilot projects created by the University currently have researchers working on air pollu-

tion monitoring in China and Chinese public memory. The Department of East Asian Studies has proposed to expand the

It’s clear to me that this is an area that we do and should have a high level of interest in as a university.

Chris Eisgruber ’83 U. President

program to allow Princeton faculty to teach in other disciplines

News & Notes Eisgruber to hold first meeting with town officials

university president Christopher Eisgruber ’83 will meet with town officials on Dec. 2 for the first time since his installation in September, The Times of Trenton reported.

Eisgruber will meet with Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert and other town officials to discuss current and upcoming University initiatives, ac-

cording to a town press release.

Among the issues on the agenda is the development of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, which has been a continuing source of friction in town-gown relations. A suit challenging the University’s decision to move the Dinky station as part of the Neighborhood’s development went to court on Nov. 1 and will be decided by a judge in December.

The University’s voluntary

payment to the town in lieu of property tax, known as PILOT, is a contentious issue that will not be addressed in the evening meeting. Negotiations on the PILOT, from which Lempert has agreed to recuse herself, will begin in mid-November and are expected to be completed by the end of the year.

The meeting will be preceded by a session to solicit public remarks and followed by an informal meet-and-greet reception.

CORRECTION Due to an editing error, an earlier version of the Nov. 8 article “Town earns highest possible bond ratings” mischaracterized the impact the rating will have on municipal bonds. It will allow them to sell at low interest rates. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

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at Beijing Normal, Eisgruber added.

Princeton’s partnership with the University of Tokyo was one of the easiest partnerships to create because it is “a hegemonic institution”, Adelman noted.

“It stands a head above its peer institutions,” Adelman said.

Current programs in Japan will allow Princeton researchers to study Japanese politics and electrical engineering.

Last year, the University established a strategic partnership with the University of Sao Paulo and a research partnership with the University of Geneva. This week, the council is receiving its first round of applications from those proposing collaborative research and teaching ventures between the institutions, Adelman said.

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Spencer Shen is a sophomore from Austin, Texas. He can be reached at szshen@princeton. edu.

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Lending our support ast week, The Daily Princetonian published a news article about a petition circulated by graduate students that opposed the demolition of the Butler Apartments. The students worry that the demolition will leave a large number of them without on-campus housing. The petition cited concerns over the administration’s target of housing 70 percent of its graduate students on-campus — a higher proportion than that of most of Princeton’s peer schools — as still too low in a wealthy suburban town where housing prices are far too high for graduate students to afford. Moreover, priority in assigning housing is given to newer graduate students, so the 70 percent figure is not evenly distributed across all years — from their third year onward, housing for graduate students is nowhere near guaranteed. The students are also concerned that they will be forced to live far from campus in order to find affordable housing, even as they continue to serve as preceptors and instructors for undergraduate courses. Although the University maintains that the local rent market will allow graduate students to find relatively affordable and conveniently located housing, Princeton’s wealthy suburban neighborhoods seem to suggest otherwise.

Although it will be more than just a mild inconvenience to the graduate students involved, the demolition is not nearly as noticeable or as expensive as the other renovations occurring on campus, such as the extensive construction in Firestone Library or the new Lewis Center for the Arts.

The demolition of the Butler Apartments and the rest of the administration’s Housing Master Plan won’t receive nearly as much of an emotional response from undergraduates or the local community as the demolition of the Old Dinky station and the construction of the Arts and Transit neighborhood. For most undergraduates, there is little contact with graduate students outside of precepts and office hours and perhaps those juggernaut intramural teams. However, they are still an essential part of Princeton — after all, we are not a strictly undergraduate-only liberal arts college like Williams College or Amherst College. They help conduct the research that keeps Princeton relevant in academia. The professor might be the one standing behind the podium and gesturing at the blackboard, but the graduate students are the ones who grade our homework and exams. They hold review sessions and office hours and answer our questions long after our professors have gone home.

The petition against the demolition gathered over 200 signatures from graduate students — nearly 10 percent of Princeton’s graduate student body. If 10 percent of the undergraduate student body were to sign a petition, Nassau Hall would almost certainly take notice. The graduate student body seems to receive much less attention from the administration, and even less attention from the undergraduates, even as they constitute one of the key cogs that make Princeton run. Whether or not the administration is actually less attentive toward graduate students’ wants and needs is difficult to measure objectively. However, many of the older graduate students I spoke to, who are no longer given priority housing or Graduate College rooms, feel that the general atmosphere is one of administrative apathy.

Princeton emphasizes its undergraduate education but that should not happen at the expense of its graduate schools. This is not to say that we should model ourselves after Harvard and Yale and create a medical school or a law school. Princeton shouldn’t risk becoming more known for its graduate schools than its undergraduate education, but the University could surely do more to ensure that its graduate students don’t end up with the short end of the stick. We undergraduates are coddled with a constant influx of study breaks, free T-shirts, therapy puppies and many other benefits — some of them are trivial and some of them are truly helpful, but all of them are symbolic of an administration that takes its “focus on undergraduate education” mantra a little too far. Many of us complain about the long walk from our residential colleges to Frick Chemistry Laboratory or the Engineering Quadrangle — especially those who live in Forbes College — but at least we don’t have to make that walk from the Graduate College or the Lawrence apartments. Even when the University enacts a policy that ends up being unpopular among the undergraduate student body, we can rest assured that the administration will keep its ears open to our input. Hopefully, the University will consider the forthcoming petition against the apartments’ demolition. The graduate students deserve the same respect and treatment that we enjoy. The undergraduate student body should consider lending its support to the graduate students on these sorts of occasions or at least take notice of issues that they face. Even if their problems don’t affect us, it is our responsibility to look out for each other as fellow Princetonians.

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No place for stereotypes Lea Trusty columnist

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or anyone who is a fan of the dying art that is late-night comedy, you might be aware of “Saturday Night Live” member Kenan Thompson’s slightly controversial interview in which he explains why he thinks the show has yet to cast a black female. In a few words, Thompson said that the ones who audition simply “aren’t ready.”

Despite this, this past weekend, Kerry Washington — accomplished black actress and star of the show that rules my Thursday nights, “Scandal” — hosted.

For me, the funniest moment of the night was the digital short of Washington and Jay Pharaoh in a parody of the viral video, “What Does the Fox Say?” The premise of the video is simple and well-known: Washington plays the overly jealous, aggressive girlfriend who accuses her boyfriend of cheating. More than the funniest moment of the night, though, I found this to be the most annoying, too. Because while writers managed to fit Washington into almost every stereotype society has of black women — an unwavering Obama fan, even changing her into Beyonce and Oprah in the same skit to mock the fact that no other cast member could — this close-minded depiction is the most frustrating and the one I feel affects me the most.

I can admittedly say that I’m fairly sassy, assertive when need be and ultimately, I make no apologies for having the thoughts and values that I do. These characteristics probably apply to a substantial number of people on campus, but I don’t think many feel their personalities are either pigeonholed or challenged due

to longstanding societal stereotypes of them.

This is the plight of the black woman.

It’s really hard to win. I state a view passionately, and a friend may try to comically brush it off by doing a little neck roll. I’m annoyed and a little disappointed, but I let the moment pass. Later on, I may be quieter and reserved — because people are multifaceted, go figure — and someone will wonder where the sassy black woman went. I won’t say this is an everyday commonality, but it has happened often enough to make me unwillingly less outspoken or ridiculously cautious of what I’m saying to others to prove especially that I do not always fit the stereotype.

While this dangerous pattern of polarizing stereotyping can affect people of all ages, I find that it is particularly dangerous in college, as these four years are so pivotal in determining who we are and wish to be as people. Having others thrust on you a prescribed idea of who you are is completely detrimental in this search.

And do not think you’re safe if you are not a black woman. Stereotypes are so pervasive within our lives that at times they can go unnoticed. Last year, a friend commented on the fact that, to her surprise, athletes filled the first row or so of her CHM 201: General Chemistry I lecture. In the moment, we laughed. But almost immediately after, we realized how horrible it was that she was surprised in the first place, as if athletes cannot be both physically and academically hard-working. If they allowed others to pigeonhole them in this way, perhaps they would not even bother studying or attending lecture and become self-fulfilling prophecies.

My own friend of Asian descent often feels pressure to do well, simply

because of her background. And while the stereotype of overachieving seems superficially great, it can have harmful effects: One could take on a large course load that is completely impractical or avoid challenging courses so as to maintain the image of complete academic control.

None of this is to say that stereotypes hold zero truth. They must, of course, have origins. As black women have historically been a marginalized social group, outspokenness has been a necessity for them to demand their rights.

With both challenging schoolwork and practice schedules, athletes must sometimes sacrifice a bit of one for the other. And many parents of Eastern descent instill in their children the drive to succeed, as it was their own sense of ambition that led them to prosper.

But these truths can never hold true for all of those who are stereotyped, and moreover, to determine the actions and behaviors of an entire group is simply a reflection of our laziness to acquaint ourselves with the many faces of both a person and the groups with which he or she identifies.

We are in the Orange Bubble.

Typically, this is seen negatively as a source of ignorance of the outside world. But it also gives us the unique opportunity to step out of the roles society has so adamantly tried to create for us — whether it is the stereotyper or the stereotyped — and make our own. Do not waste the chance to break this mold, or in wasting your chance and choosing to acquiesce, force someone else into the same fate.

Lea Trusty is a sophomore from Saint Rose, La. She can reached at ltrusty@ princeton.edu.

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recently had the pleasure of attending a small dinner lecture delivered by W. Barksdale Maynard ’88 on the topic of Princeton’s architectural history, from which I gleaned many a delightful tidbit of information about this place that we students from all four corners of the earth have come to call home. As I sat through slide after slide of photographs from the historical record, thoroughly engrossed by the evolution of our campus from a rural pasture surrounding lonely Nassau Hall to a vibrant mecca of global scholarship and aspirational tourism, I came to a startling realization: Princeton is not a small campus anymore.

It may have been, once upon a time, many buildings and expansions ago, when the Dinky still dropped students off beneath the majesty of Blair Arch and not on a plywood platform in a parking lot. Anyone who has ever had to make the trek from Frick to Foulke or from Forbes to just about anywhere already knows that scuttling from place to place often requires much more time than the 10 minutes the Registrar optimistically allots at the end of each class period.

Though I, on my brakeless bicycle, have seen the vast expanse of this

sprawling campus hurtle by me, I was surprised to discover that somehow I had still managed to internalize the fantasy — oft-repeated in the pages of admission brochures and through the lips of Orange Key tour guides — that Princeton is some sort of intimate, intellectual country club sprung straight from the pages of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. What’s more, I realized that I myself have been guilty of describing Princeton in this way to those outside our Orange Bubble.

Perhaps this was inevitable. The first time I ever stepped foot on the Princeton campus was during my prefrosh visit, when the cheerful residential college adviser of my Preview hosts led me and a group of my fellow prospective students to the aptly-named Prospect Garden. As we admired the flowers and foliage in their soft April bloom, the RCA gestured to the Italianate villa overlooking the cobbled walkway on which we stood.

“That’s Prospect House,” she said. “It’s a little like a restaurant. You’ll only get to eat there on special occasions, like if a professor invites you or something. I’ve only gotten to eat there once, and it was the best meal I’ve ever had on campus.”

Two weeks ago, I received my first invitation to dine at Prospect House, at a luncheon with the journalist Janet Malcolm. I eagerly sent in my RSVP and reveled in my anticipation of what would undoubtedly be an incredible

experience. On the day of the lunch, I returned from my 8:30 a.m. lecture and took a nap — the first I’d taken all year — awakening with a start to realize that I’d slept through my alarm and was already 20 minutes late. I rushed madly up to Prospect House and slunk, breathless and chagrined, into the only empty seat at the long white table in the ornate upper-story dining room. I sat, hungry and humiliated, at the best meal I would ever have on campus, too embarrassed to even rise and fill my empty plate.

Each year during Preview Weekend, when the prefrosh tire of asking unsolicited questions of professors in seminars and take to grilling the undergraduates after class instead, I find myself saying some truly peculiar things. It starts innocuously, with something like “Princeton is a small campus,” and before I know it, I find myself telling well-worn half-truths designed to obstruct any comprehensive understanding of what life is really like on this side of paradise.

“I don’t really worry about this grade deflation business.”

“Everyone is more or less happy with their rooming situation, in the end.”

“You’ll end up largely where you’re meant to be, eating club-wise.”

I wonder if my habit of disingenuously sugarcoating Princeton’s flaws arises from my own

insecurities about the choice I made to attend this University. I sometimes find myself feeling as though successfully recruiting a prospective student would somehow validate my own decision to matriculate four years ago. In this way, Princeton strikes me as an elaborate pyramid scheme, each new class trying desperately to convince its successors that this is a worthwhile place to be — and no successful pyramid scheme makes a point of full disclosure. I wonder how many others are deeply unsatisfied with some aspects of life at Princeton but still smile through their teeth while they sing the praises of Old Nassau. I suspect it is quite a few.

Some time ago, a prospective freshman somehow acquainted with my brother wrote to me on Facebook asking for advice on her choice between Princeton and Harvard. I wrote her the best reply I could — lengthy, reckless and honest — the kind of language that would immediately disqualify a person from employment at a used-car dealership.

I checked up on her a few weeks later to discover she’d chosen Harvard, with its own set of foibles and final clubs.

Whatever her reasons for choosing, I hope she made the right decision in the end.

Daniel Xu is a molecular biology major from Knoxville, Tenn. He can be reached at dcxu@princeton.edu.

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Q: When did you first start playing volleyball?

A: When I was in fourth grade.

Q: Was it a big sport in your area growing up?

A: Yes, it was a huge sport, all my friends played.

A: I just love it. I feel like if there was badminton at my high school, I would potentially not be here right now. Because I’d be playing badminton somewhere else.

Q: Do you play often?

A: Nope, I almost never play.

Once a year, if that.

Q: When did you first think you could see yourself playing college volleyball?

A: Junior year was when everyone had to start recruiting, so I was like, ‘Oh, maybe I should do this also.’

Q: Who is your funniest teammate?

A: Probably [sophomore] Annie Ferlmann. She’s just ridiculous. Or [sophomore] Sarah Daschbach. She says the funniest things. Maybe they’re not supposed to be funny, but they’re all really funny.

Q: Would you rather eat 10 pounds of cheese in one sitting or a wheelbarrow of peanut butter? Why? A: Peanut butter for sure. It would be too much cheese.

Nobody needs that much cheese.

Q: Who is the funniest member of the men’s team?

A: That is a hard question.

They’re all funny in their own ways. [Junior] Will [Siroky] is really funny. He just does funny things, like pranks and stuff.

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

A: Badminton.

Q: Would you rather change gender every time you sneeze or not be able to tell the difference between a muffin and a baby? Why? A: The muffin and a baby. Well,

Q: Why?

I would also probably just have to say I’m never eating muffins again, cause that could be bad ... But I would also just never want to change genders.

Q: What is the strangest thing that’s happened to you during a game?

A: A lot of weird things happen during games. Like getting hit in the face and then you don’t know what to do because it’s an intense point so you can’t just laugh about it or play it off.

Q: Does that sort of thing happen often?

A: It actually does happen to me sometimes when the ball bounces off my face and stays in play.

Q: Best part and worst part of Princeton?

A: The community and the workload, respectively.

Q: What about being a varsity athlete at Princeton?

A: The best part is having the team, it’s an awesome experience. The worst part? The time is definitely tough to manage.

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the point on a two-minute power play. Senior forward Jack Berger and freshman forward Ben Foster contributed assists.

Senior goalie Sean Bonar relieved his freshman counterpart in the third period, and Yale could not get past him with its eight shots on goal in the final 20 minutes. Princeton managed to narrow the lead when junior forward Aaron Kesselman beat Spano for his first goal of the season, but the Tigers could not draw even.

Liss said he felt his team played with greater intensity as the game went on.

“I think we all knew that we were off to a slow start. It wasn’t something we were happy with,” Liss said. “And especially with it being our home opener, we knew that Hobey and Princeton deserved better. We knew we could do better.”

Less than 24 hours later, the Tigers took on their second Ivy opponents of the weekend.

Brown (3-2-1, 1-2-1) had handed Yale its only loss of the season at the Liberty Hockey Invitational.

Within three minutes — during a power play stemming from a Kesselman interference penalty — Brown moved the puck around the cage and Matt Lorito beat Bonar to give his team a 1-0 lead. The Tigers managed to equalize when senior forward Andrew Ammon got his stick on a loose puck in front of the cage for his second goal of the year.

Junior forward Tucker Brockett recorded his first of three assists of the night on the play.

Acting quickly on another power play at the end of the first 20 minutes, Brown’s Matt Whal gave his team a lead it would not relinquish. Within just 52 seconds of play at the start of the next period, the Bears picked up two more goals. The scoreboard

read 4-1 in favor of the away team with 19:08 left in the second.

Nineteen minutes into the period, Berger notched the Tigers’ second goal of the day on a power play. One more goal came for the home side halfway through the final period as Ammon sent a skillful cross by sophomore forward Jonathan Liau past the Brown goalie. An unassisted goal by Brown’s Mark Naclerio earlier in the period had extended his team’s scoring tally to six.

What was noteworthy was a tremendous save by Bonar, who dove back to his stick side to prevent a goal on a three-man breakaway. Against Yale, the Princeton goalies combined for 25 saves to their opponent’s 23.

Against Brown, Bonar recorded 26 saves while the Bears’ Tyler Steel notched 22. Combined on the weekend, the Tigers spent 35 minutes shorthanded while their opponents combined for 14 penalty minutes.

Liss maintained an optimistic view after this weekend.

“I think the message to take away from this weekend is that our team is very capable of performing, and this weekend will just be a small road bump in the long run,” he said.

Liss hopes that the Tigers will be able to improve upon their starts and demonstrate their peak play in more than just the final period.

“We definitely need to improve upon our starts. We’ve had two fairly good periods in the last two games, but we’ve come out a little slow. If we make plays and play within our system, we can improve our scoring,” he said. “Obviously, we weren’t happy with how we played last weekend. But it’s not getting us down. We know that we’re capable, and we can achieve better.”

The Tigers will take to Baker Rink at 7 p.m. Tuesday, looking to snap their five-game losing skid against UMass Lowell.

The women’s side faced-off

against the Bulldogs (0-5-1, 0-31) at the same time as their male counterparts in what would prove to be an exciting contest in New Haven. After a scoreless first period, senior forward Sally Butler opened the scoring on assists from junior and senior defenders Ali Pankowski and Rose Alleva. Alleva would go on to assist both of Princeton’s later goals.

Yale equalized on a power play shortly thereafter and sent the game into the third period with the score at 1-1. Senior forward Olivia Mucha notched her third goal of the season, only to have Yale tie it up shortly thereafter.

The game-winning goal came off the stick of sophomore forward Jaimie McDonell with just over nine minutes played in the final period. At the end of regulation, Princeton skated off victoriously, with sophomore goaltender Kimberley Newell earning her second win of the season, having stopped 34 Yale shots.

The next day, the women’s team continued east to Providence to take on Ivy rivals Brown (1-4-1, 0-3-1). The first three goals came off of power plays, with Brown striking first but the Tigers responding in under a minute. Alleva equalized with the extra-man advantage.

Capitalizing on Brown’s third penalized infraction of the second period and fifth of the game, Alleva notched her second goal of the day late into the second period. Sophomore forward Cristin Shanahan continued what would be a run of five unanswered goals for the Tigers. With 3:15 left in the contest, the Bears’ Erin Conway scored during a power play, but the effort would not serve to overcome Princeton’s lead. The Orange and Black remained unbeaten on the season and tallied its fourth win.

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Cara Mattaliano

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By John Bogle staff writer

As the women’s volleyball season comes to a close, Cara Mattaliano is just getting started in her college career: The freshman outside hitter has earned two Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors and is ranked second in the Ivy League in kills per set with 3.39. Mattaliano sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss cheese, badminton and muffins.

Q: Where are you from and what’s it like there?

A: I’m from Glen Ellyn, Ill. which is like 40 minutes outside of Chicago, but I just say I’m from Chicago here since no one knows where Glen Ellyn is. It’s a nice little suburban area, very Midwestern.

Q: I see you play sports. Do you like sports?

A: Yes. I do like sports. I like watching basketball — I’m a big Bulls fan.

Q: What position do you play and why do you like or dislike it?

A: I’m an outside and I like it because firstly I would just suck at everything else, I’m assuming. And I get to both hit and pass — kind of the best of both worlds.

Q: Best part of playing volleyball?

A: It’s taught me a lot of things, but mostly I like the competitiveness of the sport.

Q: What about the worst part?

A: I guess I’ve had to miss out on a lot of things just because of the time commitment.

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Freshman outside hitter Cara Mattaliano ranks second in the Ivy League in kills per set.

The men’s hockey team dropped its home opener to No. 9 Yale and subsequently stumbled against Brown over the weekend. Baker Rink has seen better weekends, as the defeats came by a combined margin of 5-11 (5-2 and 6-3). The two-loss home stand leaves the Tigers with a 1-5 record and a 0-4 mark in the Eastern College Athletic Conference.

Four more home games are up next for the Tigers. First they will take on No. 16 UMass Lowell in the continuation of a series in which the River Hawks have a 5-3 advantage.

Facing the same matchups in foreign rinks, the women’s team secured two wins over Yale and Brown. The Tigers’ (4-2, 4-2) win streak now extends to three, and they will look to continue it at home this Friday afternoon against the University of New Hampshire.

Friday night saw the men’s team take on the Bulldogs (3-12, 2-0-2). Five of Yale’s studentathletes have already had their names called by NHL teams.

Earlier this year, the Prudential Center in Newark hosted this Ivy rivalry, with Yale grabbing an early 2-0 lead and riding the advantage out to a 3-2 win in the final game of the Liberty

Hockey Invitational.

Sophomore defenseman Kevin Liss explained that his team prepared for the defending national champion the same as it would for any other team.

“We prepare pretty much the same each week regardless of who our opponent is,” he said.

“We do obviously look at tendencies of specific teams. But as far as preparation was concerned, it was just a normal week of practice. Last year’s finishings don’t really have an impact on how we prepare for games.”

Princeton struggled throughout to match up with its fast and skilled opponents. Freshman goalie Colton Phinney, in the crease for his second start, was tested early and often, with his opponents tallying eight shots on goal in the first period.

Twelve minutes into the game, the Tigers had fallen behind by two goals as their opponents dominated offensive possession with aggressive play. With 5:47 elapsed in the second period, Yale forward Stu Wilson scored what would prove to be the game-winning goal for his team, putting the Bulldogs up 3-0.

With just over four minutes left in the second period, senior defenseman Alec Rush ripped a shot past Yale tender Patrick Spano. Rush took his aim from See HOCKEY page 5

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The long-awaited Ivy League basketball season finally got underway last weekend, with most teams winning their opening-day matchups. Here’s how the Ancient Eight stacks up as the action begins again:

1.

Harvard, 136 points (17 first-place votes) (1-0) This year’s loaded Crimson team is sitting at the cusp of being ranked in the AP preseason poll. Siyani Chambers, last year’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year with a nasty three-point shot, is just getting started under the mentorship of last season’s Ivy League Coach of the Year, Tommy Amaker. Don’t forget about Wesley Saunders either. Back for his final season, it’s no surprise that the sharp shooter got six preseason votes for Ivy Player of the Year.

2.

Penn, 100 points (0-1) The Quakers will be throwing their weight behind guard Tony Hicks this season — the sophomore co-Ivy League Player of the Week put up an impressive 28 points against Temple in Penn’s narrow 78-73 loss. Penn is bringing back the majority of its players that had a major role in key wins late last year, making the team possibly the biggest threat to Harvard’s probable dominance this season.

3.

Yale, 96 points (1-1) Sophomore forward Justin Sears was on fire in the second half of the Bulldogs’ opener against Central Connecticut State. The co-Ivy League Player of the Week pulled Yale out of a 17-point second-half deficit as he scored 16 points and snagged 10 rebounds in the last 20 minutes to earn his team the 93-77 win. The Bulldogs led the league in rebounds last season, and with the 13 players on their roster listed as 6-foot-5 or taller, Yale will be looking to control the boards again this time around to be a menace on both offense and defense.

4.

Princeton, 93 points (1-0) The Tigers can let out a sigh of relief knowing that they were able to pick up an easy victory over a fast-paced team like Florida A&M without last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year Ian Hummer ’13. Princeton was still able to produce a solid 67 points to the Rattlers’ 50, but they will need to prove that their returning players as well as new faces can pick up the scoring where Hummer left off. Junior forward Denton Koon stepped up in a big way in Princeton’s season-opener, adding 20 points and recording his first career double-double.

5.

Brown, 74 points (1-0) Like many Ivies, the Bears dominated a much weaker opponent to begin their season, downing Binghamton 74-57.

Though the Bears are by no means a powerhouse, they piled on the offense on Sunday. Guard Sean McGonagill put up 22 points, going 4-6 from beyond the arc while forward Rafael Maia added 14. Brown will now face five straight road games before returning to Providence Nov. 30.

6.

Cornell, 38 points (0-2) It’s been a rough start for the Big Red, which has faced serious competition in its first two games and come up short each time. Cornell opened its season against Syracuse, another inhabitant of the frigid upstate New York region, losing 82-60. The Big Red returned to Ithaca and played a much closer game against Loyola, leading throughout before falling to 93-89 in overtime. Rookie guard Robert Hatter put up a maddening 32 points in his second collegiate game.

7.

Dartmouth, 38 points (1-0) The Big Green went a long way toward building its self-esteem this weekend, putting up 100 points and winning by 39 over Lyndon State in Hanover. Everyone on Dartmouth’s roster had at least one point, and five players went over double digits in the blowout, and the Big Green out-rebounded the Hornets 48-29.

8.

Columbia, 37 points (1-0) The Lions forgot about last year’s terrible 4-10 Ivy season when they put up 73 points to Maryland Eastern Shore’s 54 on Saturday. Columbia’s performance in the second half especially gives it hope for the upcoming weeks — the Lions sunk seven of 12 threepoint balls and hit 63 percent of their shots. If Columbia can turn this kind of an offensive performance into a regular show and shore up its defense, the Lions may very well end up much higher in the standings this year.

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