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Nov. 13, 1891 Tickets for the Southern Club dinner were on sale for $2.75. Professor Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, was expected to speak.
On the Blog Intersections critic Nina Wade reviews the film ‘12 Years a Slave.’
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The cost of the last liquor license sold in the Princeton area, to restauranteur Jack Morrison.
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News & Notes U. Library acquires medieval Egyptian coins
the friends of the Princeton University Library have made a new acquisition for the Numismatic Collection: a set of coins issued by Egypt’s Mamluk Sultanate, The Times of Trenton reported. The gift was bequeathed by the estate of Richard E. Undeland, a foreign service officer who spent the majority of his career in the Middle East and avidly collected coins and stamps. The Library aims to compile a comprehensive collection of coins from the medieval Mediterranean. The Mamluk Dynasty ruled Egypt from 1250 to 1517. A series of coins commemorates each Mamluk sultan who ruled.
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The Anonymous Ensemble performed an interactive adaptation of ‘The Odyssey’ in the Lewis Center on Tuesday. ACADEMICS
Exam scheduling reformed By Anna Mazarakis staff writer
Students who have a final exam at night followed by an exam the next morning will now be able to reschedule their morning exam for the afternoon, according to the Office of the Registrar’s website. “Students who have an in-class night exam (7:30 p.m.) followed by an in-class
morning exam (9:00 a.m.) the next day may request that the morning exam be rescheduled to the afternoon (1:30 p.m.) of the same day,” the policy reads. The change is the result of efforts from the USG Academics Committee, whose chair Dillon Sharp ’14 presented a series of recommendations for the final exam period to the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing on Oct. 4. The change to the overcrowding
policy was announced on the Registrar’s website last Friday after Sharp met with University Registrar Polly Griffin. “The request by Dillon on behalf of the USG was a reasonable request and well-received in the Committee on Examinations and Standing,” Griffin, who also sits on the committee, said. Griffin explained that the timing “just worked out” for this proposed See FINALS page 4
Juniors and seniors undertaking their junior papers and theses will now receive additional guidance from the Office of the Dean of the College’s newly published Guides to Independent Work, the University announced last week. These departmental resources establish guidelines for junior papers, senior theses and independent projects. The guides contain department-specific expectations for written work, overviews of the research process and objectives of independent work, adviser information, campus resources, a timeline for submission and grading standards, according to a University press release. The motivation behind the guides is to provide students with a document they can consult, Pascale Poussart, director of undergraduate research, said. “We had heard over and over from students that they were looking for more information about independent work, both junior papers and senior theses,” she explained, adding that prior to last year, only seven or eight departments had existing guides. ODOC asked how it could improve the situation so that students are better equipped for their independent work, she said. Poussart helped coordinate the University’s 34 academic departments to develop working guides for independent work. Each department wrote its own specific document, loosely modeled off the existing guides. While the thesis is a long-standing University tradition, not everyone knows exactly what the process entails. The guides have helped familiarize both students and new faculty advisers with independent work, according to members See WORK page 2
U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S
U. to hire chief information security officer By Warren Crandall senior writer
Princeton recently began a search to appoint an inaugural chief information security officer to lead and oversee University policy and strategy for its informational security, according to a recent job posting. The University currently employs an information technol-
ogy security officer, Anthony Scaturro, although he is not a “chief.” University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua declined to compare the newly created position with the old one, arguing that such a comparison wasn’t useful. He also declined to confirm if Scaturro’s current job post will respond directly to the new CISO. The University also an-
nounced the appointment of an inaugural executive director of Career Services on Monday. The new position will outrank Career Service’s current highest officer, Director Beverly Hamilton-Chandler. Mbugua explained that the two security positions will complement each other and provide the University with much-needed additional resources to serve
its community. Scaturro deferred comment to Mbugua. Mbugua also declined to comment specifically on whether or not Scaturro was under consideration for the new CISO position, citing the need to keep the personnel search process private. Whoever fills the position will, according to the job
ad posted on the University’s employment website, “play a critical role in addressing the larger institutional issues of information security policy and practice, data governance, risk assessment and business continuity.” Mbugua characterized the creation of the CISO position as “yet another step” in improving See CYBER page 3
LOCAL NEWS
Arts and Transit Neighborhood restaurants seek liquor license By Elliott Eglash contributor
A restaurant that will be located in the Arts and Transit Neighborhood is attempting to obtain a liquor license, even though the state has already given away its maximum number of licenses to the town of Princeton. To get around the lack of available licenses, Raoul Momo, head of Terra Momo Restaurant Group, applied for a concessionaire’s permit, a special kind of permission granted to businesses that the state deems to be of public benefit. MetLife Stadium, for example, has received a
concessionaire’s permit. The restaurant will be owned and operated by Terra Momo Restaurant Group, which also owns a number of other restaurants in the area, including Mediterra, Teresa Caffe and Eno Terra. “We feel that this is a project that is very important to New Jersey,” Momo said. “Theater, restaurants — they’re revitalizing that whole area of the town and creating a new area of vitality for commerce.” He added that “it’s very complementary to have a great meal accompanied by a nice bottle or glass of wine.” Momo sought the help of Princeton Mayor Liz Lem-
pert, who wrote a letter to the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, which grants liquor and concessionaire’s permits, on behalf of Terra Momo Restaurant Group. The letter noted that the Terra Momo Group has an established relationship with the Princeton community and said that she expected the group’s University site to operate on the same fine food- and wine-based model of business, according to reporting by Planet Princeton. Lempert said that she didn’t know if her letter would have any effect on the ABC’s decision and that “ultimately, it’s
their decision.” This is the first time Lempert has written a letter on behalf of a business for the express purpose of obtaining a concessionaire’s permit, although she has written letters to support Princeton businesses in other ways, she said. Lempert, whose husband, Kenneth Norman, is a psychology professor at the University, said that she did not see any reason not to intervene on behalf of the Arts and Transit development’s restaurant. “The University didn’t ask me to write the letter,” she said, adding that therefore she had no worry about a conflict
of interest. Lempert has recused herself from Universityrelated votes of the town council in the past. She has recused herself from ongoing negotiations of the University’s annual payment-in-lieu-of-taxes. It is not uncommon for public officials to write letters attesting to the good character of various businesses, though it is less common for letters to be sent for the purpose of obtaining a concessionaire’s permit, ABC public information officer Zachariah Hosseini said. He said that his office had not yet received Terra Momo’s application. Hosseini said that granting See ALCOHOL page 2
ACADEMICS
Practical ethics precepts universally give to developing world over U. By Konadu Amoakuh contributor
In an academic exercise with real-world applications, students in CHV 310: Practical Ethics were asked to determine whether charitable donations could be better used by the University or by charities that provide aid in the developing world. Almost all of the course’s precepts chose the organizations that support people in less-developed nations last week. None of the precepts donated their allotted $100 to
the University. Out of 36 of the course’s precepts, 17 precepts voted for the Fistula Foundation and 17 for GiveDirectly. One precept decision resulted in a tie and will split the money between the two organizations. The last precept will decide next Monday. One of the course’s preceptors, David Nowakowski GS, said he wasn’t surprised the student vote was split between two charities that provide aid to developing countries. “GiveDirectly and the Fistula Foundation were by far the two
more likely of the options,” said Nowakowski. “People have already given tens of thousands of dollars to Princeton by the fact that they’re here.” Nowakowski added that he thought the charity options not based in developing countries, Princeton University and the Future of Humanity Institute, did not prove credible options when compared to GiveDirectly and the Fistula Foundation. “It was interesting because they were different kinds of charities. If we had something
like a charity that provided early childhood education in poor urban cities in the U.S., that might have been a more credible alternative than Princeton,” said Nowakowski. “The game may have been stacked a little bit in that regard to make the point that there are really good choices to make in the developing world. The choices that we had in the more developed countries don’t seem like the best places you could’ve donated your money even once you had decided to give in the U.S. or in Europe.”
Peter Singer, the professor of bioethics who leads the course of 299 students, agreed that choosing Princeton University as the representative for domestic donation may not have been specific enough for students to feel that donating to it would make a difference. “In hindsight, I think it might have led to a better, more specific discussion about whether we have a reason to give locally even if you have a situation where you can get more for your dollar in a See SINGER page 5
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concessionaire’s permits “is not common.” He added that “it may happen as a matter of course, but those are usually exclusively only for establishments that are on state-owned property.” The Arts and Transit Neighborhood will lie on University property.
Momo said that he wanted to expand his restaurant group because “the market could definitely use more restaurants on busy nights. It becomes a fight for seats.” He added that he was excited by the prospect of being able to serve the crowds who flock to McCarter Theatre. Terra Momo Restaurant Group did not consider purchasing a liquor license from
a business that currently possesses one, as Momo said that it would be prohibitively expensive. The last sale of a liquor license in the area, to the restauranteur Jack Morrison, cost about $1 million. Momo said that the restaurant will be accompanied by a small cafe, also owned by Terra Momo, which will share the concessionaire’s permit if it is granted.
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of the University community. “As a new faculty member, it’s been really helpful because I didn’t have the same seniorthesis experience,” assistant English professor Sarah Chihaya said. Chihaya arrived at the University this year and is advising students on their independent work for the first time. “I came from an undergraduate institution where I only had a one-semester senior project, so for me, it was really useful to learn [from the guides] about the department and learn what is expected from this kind of work,” she said. Chihaya noted that the independent guide was also very helpful for her students, who are currently working on developing their projects. “At the current moment, I can already see that it’s been very helpful to students who are working on the planning and organizing phases of the project,” she said. Assistant politics professor Omar Wasow, also a first-year faculty member, said he finds the guides helpful in setting standards for advisers and advisees. “It’s a framework that
helps to set expectations of both the professors and their students,” he said. “Each advisee, with consultation from the adviser, defines goals and expectations for their own work.” Another benefit of the guides is the timeline they provide, according to Wasow. “Because this is a long project for students and for their advisers, having a schedule that can be more or less agreed upon and understood from the beginning is important,” he explained. One of Wasow’s advisees, Ryan Kang ’14, said that it was reassuring to have a work guide that he could consult for a project that greatly differs from the written work he has done before. “We have an idea of how shorter papers are written, but for longer papers, it’s helpful to have information to write different parts, such as method or literature review, which normally don’t come up in term papers.” Prior to the guides, many departments conveyed information about independent work through individual meetings between students and professors, according to students from various departments. But the guides are not meant
to be a replacement for the one-on-one interaction between students and advisers that is core to independent work, Poussart said. She noted that many independent work guides provide information on navigating the adviser-advisee relationship and are merely a starting point to the road that lies ahead. “While there is wide variety of such advising interactions, the guides … lay down some of the basic advice the student can absorb before going to meet with their faculty in terms of setting expectations,” she explained. Julie Gerek-Sefa, undergraduate administrator of the chemical and biological engineering department, said that her department constantly revises past guides to meet the current needs of students. The CBE department is one of few departments that has had senior thesis guides prior to this initiative. Gerek-Sefa said she believes that other departments will similarly be looking to revise the guides to better assist juniors and seniors. Poussart explained that these independent work guides are in their first phase and may be revised based on student feedback.
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Relationship between Bush, Cheney nuanced, Baker argues By Jacob Donnelly contributor
The relationship between former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney was much more contentious than is commonly believed, Peter Baker, White House correspondent for The New York Times, told a nearly filled Dodds Auditorium in a Tuesday evening lecture. The lecture was organized to promote Baker’s new book about the Bush administration, “Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House.” “Cheney rewrote the rules,” Baker said of the vice president at the outset of his first term. Baker noted that, since the vice president was only given an office in the White House once Jimmy Carter became president, most vice presidents remained marginalized in policymaking until the Bush years. In contrast with his predecessors, Cheney made an agreement with Bush to be able to attend all top-level meetings and access the administration’s important documents. Echoing themes from Barton Gellman’s book, “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,” Baker recounted an anecdote in which Cheney, asked by a reporter how many times he had met with Bush, “pulled his schedule out of his pocket, and counted two, three, four, five, six, seven times — today.” “Harry Truman’s vice president only met with him twice during his entire time in office,” Baker added. Bush raised Dick Cheney’s profile further in the White House during the 9/11 attacks when he reportedly stated, “I’m going to call Dick,” while Air Force One lifted the president to safety. Bush also made the final decision to invade
Iraq with only Cheney in the room, according to Baker. Nonetheless, by Bush’s second term, Cheney and Bush were largely estranged politically, Baker explained. By this point, the two were “on opposite sides of North Korea, Iran, Russia,” “the auto bailout,” “[Supreme Court nominee] Harriet Myers,” “climate change,” “[former Secretary of Defense] Donald Rumsfeld” and “federal spending,” among other issues, he said. “Of the 275 sources I interviewed,” Baker said, “not one of them told me Bush did something that he didn’t want to do.” Indeed, Bush became more independent and confident in his views as the second term approached, fleshing out a worldview separate from Cheney’s, according to Baker. “Bush begins thinking about his second term. What can he do to change the trajectory of his presidency?” Baker said of the demarcation between Bush’s first and second terms that some commentators, including Baker, have noted. “Under pressure from the news media [and] Congress,” Bush “gets buy-ins from surveillance and detention, closes the CIA black site prisons overseas [and] got more prisoners out of Guantanamo than President Obama has in the five years since.” The tension between the two came to a head by the end of the second term, at which point Cheney lobbied continually for the pardon of his friend and former aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. “Bush didn’t like the pardon system to begin with,” Baker said. “He was more conservative with pardons than any president in a century, other than his father.” In the final week of their second term, Cheney harshly and unchar-
acteristically remarked to Bush, “You’re leaving a good man on the field of battle,” Baker said. “Cheney was asking for one last validation of their partnership over eight extraordinary years, and Bush wouldn’t give it to him,” Baker said. “Cheney’s public battle with Obama was a proxy for his private battle with Bush,” he explained, alluding to the vice president’s interviews after leaving office that were critical of the Obama administration. “President Bush left behind a program that Obama could, more or less, live with,” Baker said, citing a threeyear withdrawal plan from Iraq and a bailout of General Motors that Bush might have ultimately opposed had he had more time in office. “Some Bush administration friends have suffered PTSD” as a result of reading “Days of Fire,” Baker said, joking, explaining that he felt the need to write it because “we [reporters] get about 10 to 20 percent of what’s going on at the moment.” In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Baker also added that Bush’s record on African aid was “undeniably positive” but that one of the take-home messages of his book for future presidents was that “reliance on an inner circle” can lead to worse decision-making than otherwise would occur. Baker also took issue with characterizations of Cheney as a “neoconservative,” stating that he was instead a “strong [traditional] conservative” who argued against Bush’s own plan to remain in Iraq indefinitely to rebuild its government. Baker promoted his book on “The Colbert Report” on Monday and traveled to Seattle after presenting at the University. The lecture was sponsored by the Wilson School.
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the University’s technological safety in the ever-changing and volatile realm of information technology. “It’s important to have someone who is responsible for information security, and in an organization the size of Princeton it … absolutely makes sense,” computer science and public affairs professor Edward Felten said. “The University does a lot of different things — it’s an employer, it has student records, it has health-related records, and there’s a lot of research that people on the outside might want to get outside access to as well.” The Harvard Crimson recently published an article exploring how Harvard, which already employs a chief information security officer, is under a constant barrage of attacks by hackers. “We’re seeing things in the tens
of thousands a day,” Harvard IT Department Chief Information Security Officer Christian Hamer told The Crimson. Felten said he didn’t doubt that Princeton faced a similar volume of attacks on a regular basis. “Any big institution is going to be constantly under attack, whether it’s a university or a company,” he said. Mbugua didn’t elaborate on the number of attacks that Princeton experiences. He also said, however, that the University’s creation of the new CISO position was simply a logical and natural “next step” in further developing the University’s IT security, rather than a response to these attacks. “As you can imagine, no institution can claim to be immune … from attacks,” Mbugua said. “[These attacks] are expected and that is part of the reason why IT security is an important part of what the University does.” According to the job ad, the
CISO position will only directly oversee one staff member from the Office of Information Technology, although the ad noted that the resources and responsibilities of the position were expected to grow in the future. The ad also said the CISO would spend a lot of time collaborating with the University’s leadership as well as departmental, technical and administrative staff. Like Harvard, fellow Ivies Dartmouth College, Yale University and Columbia University all have dedicated “chief information security officers,” while Brown University, Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania have “chief information officers.” Mbugua said that Princeton’s decision to create the new position was based on internal factors independent of the IT security situations at other universities. “Each institution has its own set of unique needs and circumstances,” Mbugua said.
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policy change because the committee received the recommendation for the expanded definition of overcrowding as the Office of the Registrar was in the process of creating the final exam schedule. “The committee said, ‘Why not, if there’s room in the schedule for that?’ and that was sort of the end of the discussion,” Senior Associate Dean of the College and secretary of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing Claire Fowler said. “It was a very easy fix.” The final exam overcrowding policy previously only allowed students to submit a request to reschedule a final exam if they had two scheduled on the same day. If
the request was granted, one exam would be moved to the next day. “The proposal was to modify that overcrowding policy to include a night exam followed by a morning exam,” Sharp said, “because, as you can imagine, that situation would be even more stressful than two exams on the same day because not only do you not have a lot of time to study between exams, but that time that you have you’re also supposed to be sleeping.” The new policy gives students with a night exam followed by a morning exam the chance to sleep and study the next morning. By only pushing the morning exam to later in the day, Sharp said the “domino effect” of conflicts with other final exams would also be avoided. According to Griffin, 28 students are scheduled to have a night
exam followed by a morning exam during the upcoming final exam period. In total, 61 students have exams that fall under the entire overcrowding policy. “I would think, in particular, those 28 students — whom we will email to tell them of the change to the overcrowding definition — they’ll be thrilled,” Griffin said, noting that it’s difficult to have two exams in a row. Griffin could not say how many students have been previously affected by having one exam at night and another exam in the morning because her office did not look at that number before this semester. “I’m extremely happy,” Sharp said. “It’s rare that such a significant change can have such a quick turnaround, but I’m extremely excited that it’s going to become pushed for this semester’s exams.”
recent discovery of Higgs boson By Corinne Lowe contributor
The recent discovery of the Higgs boson, a previously onlytheorized particle whose existence would validate the currently accepted model of why things have mass, has had enormous implications for physicists’ understanding of how particles acquire mass, Harvard physics professor Lisa Randall explained in a public lecture on Monday evening. In March, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, identified a particle bearing the attributes of the proposed Higgs boson. Theoretical physicists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert received the Nobel Prize in physics last month for their 1964 proposals of the particle. Randall explained that the discovery will pave the way for new research in particle physics. “It really was a spectacular discovery that gives us insight into the Standard Model of physics,” Randall said of the discovery. Randall began her lecture by
showing the hall several pictures of the Eiffel Tower at different resolutions, providing an analogy about the importance of scaling in scientific inquiry as well as the need to examine phenomena at both a large and small scale. Randall emphasized the importance of small scaling in scientific examination and how crucial it was to the research being conducted at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle. When Higgs boson particles were discovered, scientists didn’t see the Higgs particles themselves, but rather the particles they decayed into, Randall explained. From there, scientists worked backward to prove the existence of the Higgs boson particle. One of the biggest implications of this discovery, Randall asserted, was that it has helped scientists understand how elementary particles acquire their mass. But, she explains, there’s still plenty to learn. “None of us believe that the Higgs boson is the final word,” Randall said.
Going forward, Randall hopes the Large Hadron Collider will help physicists discover new symmetries that will unveil the existence of even more particles and even the existence of a fourth dimension, which would clarify why some particles are lighter or heavier than scientists would expect. “So, that’s where we are now,” Randall explained. “We’ve discovered the Higgs boson, we’re waiting for the Large Hadron Collider to turn on, and there are a lot of exciting ideas to explore.” Another topic Randall discussed in detail was dark matter, which is matter that doesn’t interact with light, she said. Despite the fact that dark matter comprises 21 percent of the energy in the universe while normal matter comprises just 4 percent, scientists still don’t fully understand what dark matter is. It could potentially be composed of multiple particles or may be denser than physicists currently believe it to be, Randall explained. The lecture took place in McCosh 50 and was hosted by Princeton Public Lectures.
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Lisa Randall, a Harvard physics professor, gave a lecture hosted by Princeton Public Lectures in McCosh 50.
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developing country,” Singer said. “I think the Princeton example didn’t test this very well because people talked about how well-endowed Princeton already is.” Chemistry major Ian Tamargo ’14, who voted to give to the Fistula Foundation, also agreed that both Princeton University and the Future of Humanity Institute didn’t seem as credible as the other two options. “In the class, they taught us about effective altruism, which is just how to get the most benefit for the amount of money that you pay. Those were the two clear choices because you only had $100. So if you give $100 to GiveDirectly, that money could go a long way,” Tamargo said. “If you give to Princeton University or the Future of Humanity Institute, $100 doesn’t really make that much of a difference.” Nowakowski said he thought the way the students chose related directly to Singer’s lectures. “It relates to some of the things that Professor Singer has lectured about in terms of having the greatest marginal difference. There is such a great good that can be done for such a small cost in those parts of the world that it becomes a very easy decision to make a choice to help people in those circumstances,” Nowakowski said. “Your dollar goes a lot farther in those developing countries than it does here in the U.S.” Nowakowski added that he wasn’t sure if Singer’s arguments in favor of donating to developing countries had influenced the students’ decisions because the options available created a situation in which the two most credible charities
were in developing countries. Singer also said he was not surprised by how the students chose to donate. “Like the students, I would’ve chosen either the Fistula Foundation or GiveDirectly. I am moved by the condition of women with obstetric fistula … but I like GiveDirectly because I think it’s trying something new and it’s very transparent,” Singer said. “I like both of these organizations, and I do in fact give to both of them.” Though the precepts chose between two charities in developing countries, Nowakowski said, to his surprise, one of his precepts came very close to choosing to donate to Princeton University. “They wanted to give a very special targeted gift to fund a new chair in ethics to do more of the kind of work that Peter Singer is doing,” Nowakowski said. “They had a very specific goal in mind because they thought that would help their peers become more ethical and to give more money to charity by hearing the lectures.” Nowakowski said this example showed him that Singer’s lectures clearly did have an impact on the student’s decisionmaking process. Singer said he would repeat the exercise when he teaches the course in future semesters, though he may include a local charity with a more specific cause in the future menu of options. A Path That’s Clear, an organization that offers similar “giving games” on its website, currently holds the CHV 310 donation money. After the last precept chooses its charity on Monday, A Path That’s Clear will donate roughly $1,800 to each of the two charities. These funds will provide almost two $1,000 money grants to two families in Kenya through GiveDirectly and about four surgeries for the Fistula Foundation.
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The real economics of choosing a major
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henever today’s college students tell people back home (especially of older generations) about what they’re majoring in, the inevitable response (either direct or implied by snide facial expressions) is usually either “good for you; that’ll really put you on the fast track” or “what are you going to do with that after you graduate?” For most people whose major is not an obvious moneymaker, a common justification (though certainly not the only one) is moral or philosophical, something along the lines of “life’s too short” or “I’d always regret it.” I think a better justification can be found in economics. Before the mid-20th century, conventional economic wisdom said that most people behave as “wealth-maximizers” and, given a choice, would choose the path that gave them the most expected money. But in 1944, two economists, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, said that people behave instead as “utilitymaximizers” and will, in many cases, sacrifice wealth (present or potential) for other things that make them happier. Modern economists have since found exceptions to this rule, where rational actors do things that don’t maximize their utility. But even so, post-WWII economics tells us that if people behave as “utilitymaximizers” instead of “wealth-maximizers” — which, in the case of choosing a college major, I believe most people do — then they will choose the major and subsequent career that they believe will make them “happiest,” whatever that personally means to them. In picking a college major, most millennials seem to have adopted the von NeumannMorgenstern model of economic value, whereas most of their parents and grandparents have retained the older, finance-based definition. Both are justifiable, as some level of financial success is an important and necessary consideration for everyone, but I believe that, in this case, happiness-maximization should be prioritized beyond that arbitrarily defined level. We should encourage people to choose their majors based on the newer model, instead of forcing an antiquated definition of “success” onto everyone facing this life decision. People fundamentally value different things. If you value money the most, which is totally understandable and does not need to be apologized for, then pursuing a career based on its expected financial return is logical and proper for you. But many of us place a higher value on other things. Anyone who has taken high-school English classes has been conditioned to value intellectual satisfaction, moral success or familial happiness. I don’t disagree that these are worthy aims; I simply believe that there are others that are equally noble, or at least equally rational. As someone who is considering politics as a career, it could be said that I most value power, influence, advancing my moral goals, advocating for others or a variety of more cynical things. Different people have different goals and want different things, and money doesn’t have to be the top priority for everyone. This system is self-correcting as well: Everyone’s utility at some level depends upon money, and as their wealth approaches zero, they prioritize it more. This means that most people, if they take the financial “risk” of pursuing a so-called “impractical” major and despite attaining their own definition of success are completely poor, will “self-correct” out of necessity and try to make more money. At some self-determined level of being “backed into a corner” financially, everyone will, out of sheer necessity, do something to bring themselves more income, even if that means sacrificing some level of happiness in other areas. I don’t necessarily mean a complete career change; take, for example, a politics major. If he repeatedly runs for elected office — say, on a local level — and never wins, he may well decide to look for work in marketing or political consulting, even if that’s not exactly what he wants to be doing. Given enough negative incentive, people may not change what qualifications they have, but they probably will change what they do with them. I don’t think that most people have such stubborn drives that they’d rather be completely indigent than compromise their goals even one bit. I understand that it is not a perfect world, and many people can’t simply make a job change whenever they want. But given the educational opportunities we’ve been fortunate enough to receive, a change is usually possible in some way or another. Realistically speaking, most people will not graduate from Princeton into permanent abject poverty. What all of this means is that parents sending their children to Princeton should probably stop worrying — or at least worry less — about their son’s or daughter’s financial success afterward. Everyone can define success in their own way, and who are we to stop them from or judge them for pursuing it, especially provided a “safety net” of selfcorrection? If success to you is money, go for it. If it’s influence, charity, artistic exploration or intellectual achievement, go for it. Act in your own self-interest, but, at the very least, allow yourself to define what that self-interest is. Ryan Dukeman is a freshman from Westwood, Mass. He can be reached at rdukeman@ princeton.edu.
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efore I came to Princeton, I thought of college as it was portrayed in the movies. Perhaps naively, movies like “A Beautiful Mind” or “Mona Lisa Smile” came to mind. Some students would lie around chewing pencils and discussing current events; others would be arguing over brainteasers the professor introduced as an extra challenge on a whiteboard in their common rooms. Students could just gather together and think in an unstructured way, learning through self-initiated discourse. Granted, I knew Princeton wouldn’t be about highbrow intellectual discussion all the time, but I thought there would be more time to just sit around and think. When freshman year came around, all those preconceptions went out the window. Between four to five classes a semester, extracurriculars, room-cleaning and dinner-eating, there was little opportunity for anyone to engage in intellectual discussion. Little bits of free time with friends were for small talk and joking around; there weren’t usually large enough blocks of time for friendly conversations to turn into deep-thinking discussions. A lot of precepts involved academic conversation, but only in a structured way that adhered strictly to the class syllabus, rather than letting the conversation organically reach different topics. In a sociology class, for instance, we only discussed the book or the topic the preceptor assigned, not connections drawn from other sources. The preceptor usually guided the conversation in a way that would “help” students realize a predetermined principle,
probably one that was discussed in lecture, by the end of the precept. Math and science precepts were, from my experience, mostly about homework problems or examples that were similar, so those classes were similarly formulaic in terms of content. By the end of freshman year, I figured that perhaps there wasn’t need for intellectual discourse if I was already spending so much time learning through class time. I had learned exactly what was in the syllabus, as promised. I didn’t realize what I had been missing until I led my first Outdoor Action trip in September of this year. My group of randomly selected eight freshmen taught me more through trail discussions than some of my classes did. With several free hours every day just to talk, we ended up devoting a morning to metaphors in “The Stranger” by Camus and its relation to “Waiting for Godot,” we discussed the nature of infinity and the proof of how all rational numbers made up a countable set, and we evaluated the rise in popularity of electronic music. We came up with an idea for a murder-mystery novel inspired by a dangerous-looking hiker we encountered on the trail, using dramatic devices like Chekhov’s gun and red herrings. It stretched the bounds of my knowledge just to keep up with them and contribute. With enough free time, like my group had on OA, I think any randomly assembled group of people could find a way to learn outside of the bounds of a curriculum through discussion with one another. It just takes an uninterrupted block of time and a group of smart, curious people. The problem is that we simply don’t have the time. Deluged by papers to write about the books we’ve
read, we don’t have time to connect them to other books or discuss an alternate ending the author had considered or the story behind how the author came up with the characters. With weekly computer programming assignments, complete with APIs and formats we have to follow exactly, we don’t have time to come up with anything on our own. They come predictably, week after week after week, with no downtime. Everything is precisely structured. We are, to some extent, fed what we are meant to know. Since OA, I’ve never had another discussion quite as mind-bending as the ones I had on my trip, and I certainly feel like something is missing. Sitting around and thinking with classmates and friends is just as important a part of education as sitting in class and listening to a professor is. Unstructured discussion is about coping with uncertainty. We don’t know what the answer is off the bat, so we have to argue and make a decision, just like in real life. There’s no grader to say who’s right or who’s wrong in a boardroom meeting. This type of conversation is about learning to think outside the confines of what a textbook or academic authority has to say. It’s true that learning the fundamentals in class is important, and it can be easiest to learn those fundamentals in a methodical way. But unstructured intellectual discussion still should have a bigger place on campus than it does now. Whether that means cutting down on assignments or holding these kinds of discussions in precepts, we just need some time to think. Barbara Zhan is a sophomore from Plainsboro, N.J. She can be reached at barbaraz@princeton.edu.
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On your mark Morgan Jerkins columnist
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had a rough start one morning, so I decided to catch the bus from Whitman to Clio Hall to make it to my opening shift at Marquand Library. As soon as I stepped off the bus, I started to walk rather briskly toward the library when an older woman came up alongside of me and said to me, “Isn’t it beautiful?” I was rather confused, but then the older woman stopped and turned toward Dillon Gymnasium and Edwards Hall. I followed her lead, and my eyes widened when I saw a lush green tree. It was standing on its own, and in the background there were several trees with yellow leaves. The woman told me that this was a ginkgo tree and that she takes time every morning to look at that particular tree, even if she has to hurry to work. As many times as I have walked or taken the bus up campus this fall, I have never once stopped and looked at this tree. I admitted this to the woman. My only justification — if one could call it that — is that I’ve always been in a hurry. She f lashed
a warm smile and told me that it doesn’t take too long to look. She told me to just count: “On your mark ...” Then she giggled. She meant that, since I seemed so busy, I should set a mental timer and look quickly. Afterward, we wished each other a good day and parted ways. I don’t know if I will ever run into that woman again, but she made me wonder about my inattention to the beauty that is Princeton’s campus. Perhaps I need to take a moment to ref lect, whether it is by gazing at a tree or by making brief contact with someone else. I, as well as many others, create a private space even while walking around campus. We wear headphones large enough to block out the loudest of noises. We do this not only to listen to our favorite tunes but, perhaps, also to stimulate our internal gears in order to keep walking quickly to our destination. I, for one, generally wear earphones every time I walk out of my dorm. But there have been many times when I miss someone saying hello to me and need to ask that person to repeat him- or herself so that I can pause the song that’s playing. Now I’m starting to wonder if I do this in
order to send a signal to others to not talk to me at all. “I’m in the zone,” so to speak, or, “I need to get to my destination, and I need to remain focused.” Coincidentally, the day I met that woman who had a special affinity for Princeton’s trees, one of my earphones was not working so I could not listen to music. I believe that if I were listening to music, she probably would never have approached me or imparted her knowledge about taking it easy and enjoying what’s all around us. I’ve noticed that my Facebook friends are uploading Instagram pictures of magnificent trees all over campus. Although I’ve been in the locations where those photos were taken plenty of times, I cannot deny the sense of foreignness that I get whenever I look at them. I ask myself, “Why haven’t I seen those trees before?” Fall tends to be a brief season, and I haven’t been taking advantage of it, nature-wise. My faulty excuse is that I have been in a hurry, I walk really quickly and I wear earphones to block out stimuli. But, in fact, those stimuli are what enliven my surroundings. It makes me realize that I am here traversing these footpaths like other
students, employees and faculty members. I’ve been missing out on a sense of community. And just think that it took one person to remind of my negligence in participating in the community around me. Ever since that one encounter, I haven’t worn my earphones around campus as I walk from point A to point B. Now it feels like I am experiencing the campus with a clearer perspective. I can hear the sounds of squirrels rustling in the bushes, people on skateboards, conversations from afar, birds chirping and the wind. All of these amenities were so easy to attain, and it seems laughable that it took me this long to really be mindful of them. Before I met that woman, “on your mark, get set ... go” meant hurry up and get to class. Now, that phrase takes on a whole new meaning: Hurry up and experience the environment around you. Let it absorb you. You’re not running a race alongside anyone else, and there is no finish line. Just go ... and have a look. Morgan Jerkins is a comparative literature major from Williamstown, N.J. She can be reached at mjerkins@ princeton.edu.
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don’t touch the bottom of that pool. I felt like any breath could be my last.” Clement was not the only one with an aversion to DeNunzio’s waters. Junior guard Ben Hazel began cramping up during the first workout and resorted to the frowned-upon practice of laneclinging in order to stay afloat. His teammates jumped at the opportunity to jest about the newly discovered weakness in the starter, who knocked down three three-pointers and grabbed five rebounds this weekend in the team’s first contest on land. “Ben Hazel is the worst swimmer I have ever seen in my life — and I have lifeguarded for two years,” junior guard Clay Wilson said.
Hazel’s teammates ribbed him for his suspiciously timed illnesses and junior paper adviser meetings that began to conflict conveniently with their workouts. Hazel denies allegations of feigning sickness to shirk his swim duties. “Not true, but it did come at a good time to miss pool workouts,” he said. While the players may have preferred their maritime performances to remain private, overlapping practice times in DeNunzio often gave them unwanted audiences. Swimmers, divers and water polo players alike had plenty of chances to watch their land-loving varsity counterparts struggle in their nautical environment. Senior utility Molly McBee of the women’s water polo team was so entertained by the team that she began scheduling her
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skaters out at the beginning of the final period due to the penalty. Fifteen seconds into the four-on-five, Lowell’s Derek Arnold put the puck past a Princeton defender and Bonar’s glove to give his team the first lead. This goal would prove to be the gamewinner. Both teams saw a number of opportunities in the final period, but neither converted. Staunch Lowell goalkeeping — and defenders being opportunely in the way –
prevented a number of Princeton chances. The crossbar saved a third River Hawks goal with two minutes left. The last 60 seconds provided riveting intensity as the Tigers pulled Bonar from the net and threw an extra skater on the ice in a final attempt to score. A number of equalizing opportunities skewed just wide of the UML cage. Princeton will attempt to end its losing streak this weekend as it hosts Ivy League rivals Dartmouth and Harvard this Friday and Saturday, respectively, at 7 p.m.
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workout times to coincide with theirs. She explained that watching oversized athletes with no speedos, no goggles and no swim caps don kickboards before cautiously approaching the pool was a rare sight that she and her teammates enjoyed. “It was hilarious,” McBee said. “It was just such a struggle for most of them.” McBee suggested to DeVincenzi that the basketball team scrimmage her team in water polo for their final workout, just as men’s hockey and men’s swimming had done in recent years. DeVincenzi turned down the proposal, citing a lack of preparedness and fear that his players would end up injuring themselves during the matchup. One particularly intrigued women’s water polo player, junior utility Ashley Hatcher, decided to stick around after
practice one day and approach Clement and Hazel. She had seen them finish last too many times and offered to meet them for per-
“It was hilarious. It was just such a struggle for most of them.” senior water polo player Molly McBee
sonal tutoring in the pool. For Hazel, 45 minutes per week was already too much pool time — he declined the offer, while Clement accepted it. When Hatcher first took Clem-
ent under her wing, she recalls, he was a work in progress. “He could make it back and forth all right; he was just making it a lot harder on himself,” she said. “He just needed to learn the basics.” Hatcher decided that increasing Clement’s endurance in one lesson would be a lost cause — her focus was to improve his technique enough that he could keep a respectable pace relative to his teammates. “The hardest thing for him was keeping his head down and keeping his hips up,” she said. Following their 90-minute session, Hatcher continued to keep a close eye on her protege during his next workout. Practicing in her own lane nearby, she would call out momentary cues to help Clement recall the techniques she had coached him on. Hatcher was pleased with
Clement’s progress — and so was he. “I definitely wasn’t coming in first place, but I was coming in last place with grace this time,” he said with a laugh. “It was a transformation.” While Clement recognizes the cardiovascular benefits of his time spent in the pool, he was relieved when 2013’s final pool workout ended on Oct. 22. “I get out of bed Tuesday mornings and can really just smile knowing that I’m most likely gonna see the end of the day,” he said. “It’s a good workout; it’s light on your joints, but just the possibility of death for some of the teammates, I think, outweighed that.” Hatcher added that after witnessing the progress Clement made, Hazel conceded to her that maybe — just maybe — he regrets his decision.
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No. 16 UMass Lowell bests Tigers on home ice By Andrew Steele staff writer
The men’s hockey team proved unable to stall its early-season five-game losing skid. Hosting No. 16 University U-MASS LOWELL 2 o f PRINCETON 1 M a ssachusetts Lowell, the Tigers (1-6 overall, 1-5 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference) tasted defeat in their sixth consecutive contest. Last season’s national semifinalist River Hawks (6-4, 2-1 Hockey East) — the particular river being the Merrimack — entered the game holding the edge in the series with five wins to three losses. A first period of fairly even play demonstrated that Princeton could play with its elite opponent, who demonstrated physicality and
precision throughout. For a majority of the contest, the Tigers held strong when it mattered and withstood the River Hawks’ offense. UML goalie Doug Carr made a skillful glove save against an odd man rush 14:56 in on what had been the best opportunity for the Tigers to that point. 3:15 remained in the first period when junior defenseman Aaron Ave ripped a shot from the blue line that ricocheted into the UML net to give Princeton a one-goal advantage. He notched his first goal of the year and third point. This marked the first time that the Orange and Black have had a lead over their opponents since their Oct. 25 season-opening victory over Dartmouth. This lead proved shortlived, however. Princeton surrendered a power play
with 2:22 left in the opening period. The Hawks possessed and passed around the cage to find a UML defenseman standing with an open look and beating senior goalie Sean Bonar glove-side. Princeton looked to regain the lead on its first power play with 12 minutes left in the second period but couldn’t convert against an aggressive Lowell defense. Neither offense could capitalize in the second. As the 20 minutes wound down, both teams had players incurring penalties, resulting in two minutes of four-onfour with 1:07 left in the period. Sophomore defenseman Kevin Liss committed a tripping infraction just as time expired to stave off a UML scoring chance near the cage. The Tigers sent only three See M. HOCKEY page 7
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Princeton will hope to end a six-game losing streak against Dartmouth on Friday at Baker Rink.
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Changing lanes: men’s basketball hits the water By John Wolfe senior writer
Since Jadwin Gymnasium opened in 1969, the men’s basketball team has won 17 of its 26 Ivy League Championships. The Tigers boast a 408-114 record on Carril Court, going 260-53 over league opponents. Indeed, the Tigers have enjoyed an illustrious reign over Jadwin Gym since its creation.
This fall, however, they were forced to chart new waters — literally — as they attempted to take on a new arena: DeNunzio Pool. During every Tuesday of their preseason, the Cagers would trek down to the pool at 8 a.m. for their brand-new aquatic conditioning program. The workouts were designed to improve anaerobic and cardiovascular capacities without delivering the
punishment of repetitive jointpounding on the hardwood. Perhaps too symbolically, the Tigers were not clad in their usual black-and-orange University-issued gear. Players brought their own swimming trunks from home, found some on campus or just dove in wearing their basketball shorts. The players’ preparedness varied widely across the team in both gear and skill. To senior
guard Chris Clement, who had never received any formal swim training, the landscape was especially foreign. “[When you saw] people that came into the first workout with goggles already, you were like, ‘Dang ... you’re a little advanced,’” he said. As the preseason went on, crafty players quickly observed how much unpleasantness could be avoided with a pair of goggles
and began securing their own by networking with some of the water sport athletes. Once dressed, the players were thrown into the water at the mercy of their strength and conditioning coach, James “J.D.” DeVincenzi. DeVincenzi instructed the Tigers to swim laps, tread water and kickboard around the pool, all while consistently offering one piece of helpful technical advice from deck:
Go faster. The trainer emphasized on day one that his goal was to get the players in shape — not to give them swim lessons. This prospect was especially frightening for the team’s inexperienced swimmers like Clement. “You’re looking down, and you see 18 feet of water beneath you. It’s a long way down,” he said. “In the big picture, the goal in going to the workout was just See M. BBALL page 7
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Now that every team has played its first game, we’ve gotten our first look at how Ivy League women’s basketball will shape up this year. Princeton has dominated in recent years, but it is by no means the only contender in the Ancient Eight this season. Princeton (0-1): Things won’t be the same without Niveen Rasheed ’13, and that was evident from the tip-off of Princeton’s seasonopener against Rutgers. After ceding two points before the game had started due to an error on the team’s roster, the Tigers fell 79-65 to a team they beat 71-55 last year. Senior forward Kristen Helmstetter, who scored 8.8 points per game as a starter last season, will now attempt to lead an inexperienced but explosive team to the NCAA tournament for its fifth straight year.
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Harvard (1-1): The Crimson handed the Tigers their first Ivy loss in 33 games last year and finished second in the league just two games behind Princeton. Harvard returns three starters, including two-time All-Ivy guard Christine Clark, and defeated Cal Poly convincingly Saturday after losing by 22 to DePaul in its season-opener. Penn (0-1): Despite a rough start in which the Quakers lost at home and went 2-21 from three-point land, Penn will be a serious contender this season. Last year’s team had one of the school’s best seasons in recent memory, making it to the semifinals of the Women’s Basketball Invitational, and all five starters are returning for 2013-14.
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Yale (2-0): The Bulldogs notched a win in their opener, defeating Monmouth by 11. Though that game was unimportant in and of itself, the Bulldogs pulled down an amazing 59 rebounds and let up only 55 points, showcasing a defense that Yale hopes will remain tough throughout the season, though its starters are relatively untested.
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Dartmouth (1-1): Hungarian sensation Fanni Szabo led the Big Green in its first win of the season with 31 points against Vermont in New Hampshire. The win came after a throttling of Dartmouth by Holy Cross in Massachusetts. Dartmouth has a cold and difficult stretch of games ahead of it, as the Big Green will travel to Syracuse and host Providence before searching for warmer weather with a trip to American. Cornell (1-0): Senior forward Allyson DiMagno picked up where she left off last year, when she won four Player of the Week Awards. DiMagno was the first Ivy Leaguer to earn the honor this season. She put up 20 points, nine rebounds and five assists as Cornell routed Colgate to begin its season. Brown (0-1): The 2013 season started with a heartbreaker for Brown, which lost its opener 70-69 at home against Lafayette. The Bears will hope to rebound on the road as their next five games will take them away from Providence, but they can take solace in the fact that their defense managed 13 steals and had the best turnover margin of any team in the league. Columbia (1-1): The Lions have played two close games so far with different results. Though not expected to do much offensively this year, they have averaged 65 points per game so far, tying with Princeton for third in the league in that category. Columbia freshman Carolyn Binder has had a solid start to her career, averaging 18 points per game.
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