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THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT STUDENT LIFE

STUDENT LIFE

Shawon Jackson ’15: “Moving forward”

Zach Ogle ’15: “Increased outreach”

In Opinion Benjamin Dinovelli critiques the media response to meningitis, and Marni Morse encourages students to be more politically active. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 8 p.m.: The Princeton Student Events Committee is hosting games of laser tag. Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

The Archives

Nov. 22, 1897 Yale defeated Princeton at New Haven on Saturday, Nov. 20, with a score of 6-0. The game was played before 20,000 people.

By the Numbers

By Anna Mazarakis

By Anna Mazarakis

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For incumbent USG president Shawon Jackson ’15, reelection would mean “moving forward” and building on his current term.

“Essentially, the message that I want to get across is that now that I’ve been on USG for about a year as president,” Jackson said, “I don’t just want to stay stagnant, but I want to learn from the mistakes that I made this past year and learn from the successes and then carry that forward into the next year.”

He added that he is running for president because he has enjoyed this past year and would like to continue working on projects in the future now that he has an understanding of what the USG can do.

Originally unopposed, Jackson faces a challenge from Class of 2015 See JACKSON page 2

Despite a late start to campaigning, Zach Ogle ’15 said he will rely on his perspectives as a student in USG and in other campus groups to win the campus vote, emphasizing the importance of increased outreach to student groups.

“I’m running for USG president because I feel like USG can do a much better job of reaching out to non-USG students,” Ogle said. “I think currently the USG does a great job of doing projects, but a lot of the projects are representing the interests of the people who are currently on the USG, and we don’t necessarily focus on projects that would have a high impact for non-USG students.”

Ogle has a lot to overcome See OGLE page 3

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STUDENT LIFE

3 of 4 USG committee chair positions to be contested

12 The number of candidates for two positions as Class of 2017 senator.

By Anna Mazarakis staff writer

On the Blog Lea Trusty discusses responsible representation and media coverage of meningitis.

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News & Notes Case of meningitis reported at nearby Monmouth U., strain unclear

a case of meningitis was reported at nearby Monmouth University on Thursday, The Star-Ledger reported. The diagnosis comes on the heels of the University’s decision to provide two rounds of meningitis vaccines to the campus community.

A Monmouth employee has been hospitalized and is “gravely ill,” according to a letter sent to the school by President Paul Brown, though a university spokeswoman said the strain of the bacteria is unknown. The bacteria responsible for all seven cases reported at Princeton has been identified as N. meningitidis serogroup B. Brown added that Monmouth has been in communication with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Monmouth County Regional Health Commission and the New Jersey State Department of Health.

Meanwhile, classes and activities will proceed as planned.

KATIE WOO :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Students for Prison Education and Reform staged a demonstration in which students sat in a 7-foot-by-9-foot space to evoke the experience of solitary confinement.

In a break from recent trends, three of the four USG committee chair positions — Campus and Community Affairs Committee, Social Committee and Academics Committee — have contested elections.

The final chair position, University Student Life Committee chair, is the sole uncontested election.

Class of 2016 senator Eduardo Lima and Social Committee member Logan Roth ’15 are running to chair the Social Committee.

Roth, a music concentrator who has organized music festivals in high school and a Battle of the Bands in India, said he knows the music industry and the entertainment industry at large. In addition to the Social Committee’s annual events, Roth said he also wants to include smaller events on campus that involve student groups.

“I don’t think the social events involve student groups enough,” Roth said. “I think we sort of do events and we either look outside the school or we just do things that don’t involve other student groups. I think

our school is really talented and we’re just looking over them for other things.”

Lima is a dancer in diSiac Dance Company and said he knows about entertainment and how to get a “party-like” atmosphere.

Lima would like to involve more student groups in Social Committee events, namely by creating what he called a “Tiger Night 2.0,” similar to the freshman week show, but open to all students.

“Social chair is more about creating a vision, and my vision is throwing the sickest party that Princeton has ever seen,” Lima said. “I’m also just very open to listening to ideas and working with the committee to think about what would be good for the campus.”

Jimmy Baase ’15 and Richard Peay ’17 are running to chair the Academics Committee.

Baase said he is interested in looking at grade deflation and academic advising if he were to be elected, since he says he thinks both have faults that can be improved.

“As a whole, it’s kind of hard for the student government to force the administration See ELECTION page 2

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Kreuger speaks about differences between policymaking and academia

By Paul Phillips staff writer

Alan Krueger, the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Wilson School and former chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, reflected on the differences between policymaking and academia in a lecture this past Thursday.

Krueger served as chairman of the CEA from November 2011 to August 2013 and came back to teach at the University this fall.

Krueger explained that although some skills, including persistence and the ability to write and communicate, are necessary for both academia and policy work, policy makers need quite different skills from academics. Policy makers, Krueger explained, spend much more time in meetings than people involved in academia. Teamwork and listening skills are, therefore, much more important for policy makers.

He added that unlike professors, who quite frequently simply return to their offices after a meeting, policy builders tend to

linger because productivity, such as a lot of agenda-pushing and compromise, continues to occur after meetings.

Furthermore, Krueger noted the importance of discretion in policymaking.

“If you’re an academic and discover something new,” he said, “you spread it to the world. In government, that could be fatal. It could be illegal.” For example, he explained, a policy maker might want to stall on announcing a policy to allow the President to receive credit for that policy.

With regard to the policy development, Krueger explained that while the policy process in general grinds slowly, development of specific policies occurs quite quickly. The rapidity with which policies are developed, he added, makes outside research input difficult to obtain and as a result, led him into policy realms with which he was not familiar. As an example, he noted that while he considers himself an expert on unemployment insurance, he had no idea of the tiers in benefit programs, which was a key component of the policy he was trying to develop.

Krueger also explained that “policies introduce constraints that we ignore in economics.”

Economists, he added, quite frequently think in terms of marginal costs and marginal benefits without reflecting on how the two concepts might be related.

As an example, he noted that the government quite frequently cannot get certain groups to agree to tax increases without also providing some sort of benefits to those groups.

During the presentation, Krueger also listed some of the policies he supervised during his time in the CEA, noting investment in infrastructure, housing policy and the Affordable Care Act as key examples.

However, he added that the defining issue that confronted him as chairman of the CEA was that of inequality and opportunity. Krueger noted that since the 1980s, a divergence between productivity and compensation has caused middle-class income to stagnate and lower-class income to decrease, while the top one percent has done extremely well.

This inequality, he said, is an even See POLICY page 3

RACHEL CHOI :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Alan Krueger, former chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, gave a lecture on Thursday afternoon.

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Cheng ’16 runs for chair position uncontested

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MERRILL FABRY :: PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

diSiac rehearses for “XV,” its fifteenth anniversary show, which will take place on Friday and Saturday evening at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.

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senator Zach Ogle, who won his appeal to run in the election Sunday evening.

“Even though I’ve been president this past year, if I am reelected, it doesn’t mean that I would do my term the same exact way as I did the past year. Instead, I would build on the successes and learn from the failures,” Jackson explained. “I have a Google Document where I track major mistakes that I made on USG, and that way moving forward, I can say, ‘How can I change that for the future?’”

When asked about some of his mistakes, Jackson noted that his experience as president taught him that he should use track changes to keep track of the original wording when working on USG amendments. He also said that he had learned not to format his student body emails so they would favor one athletics team over another when noting their achievements.

Jackson’s priorities for his next term include creating a comprehensive report of students who took time off of school and using it to make policy recommendations to the administration, Jackson said.

He said he would also like to work on external relationships with organizations like the Ivy Council, which includes the student governments from the Ivy League schools, as well as further developing and evaluating the upcoming Wintersession program, which will offer workshops for students during Intersession.

“I know that his energy will carry through to his next term,” communications director Richard Lu ’16, who has endorsed Jackson’s campaign, said. “And the fact that he has specific goals and projects that he wants to work on makes me confident that he will have a direction for where he wants USG to go next year.”

U-Councilor Mallory Banks ’16, who has also endorsed Jackson’s campaign, added that she does not think Jackson will “stay static and stay complacent” in his second term.

“I think he’ll continue to push forward with the things that he’s started,” Banks said, “and then even mold those and form those into things that are even better than what he at first envisioned them to be.”

Banks is a former staff writer for the Street section of The Daily Princetonian.

Jackson’s first term was highlighted by his theme of “access,

accountability and approachability.” He cited USG office hours and hidden links in his emails that led to ice cream dates as two initiatives that have allowed him to reach more students. Likewise, Jackson said he was successful in becoming more internally accountable by cutting unnecessary appointed positions and being more efficient with managing projects.

“What I admire the most about him is the way he really cares about the student body and getting to know everyone,” Class of 2016 senator Eduardo Lima said. “Oftentimes, it’s easy to find candidates who are running for self-interest, and I think Shawon very much always has the interests of students and generally wants to get to know people.”

Lima is running for social chair against Logan Roth ’15.

Jackson explained that he thinks one setback for the USG is the difficulty of having members “buy in” to a project, even though he said they can execute projects well once they start them. In his next term, he said he would want to meet with project teams to get members energized about the project from the beginning.

“I think what sets me apart from the other candidate is the fact that I have experience as president this

past year,” Jackson said, adding that it has given him the opportunity to develop internal management skills and external relationships with student leaders at peer institutions and administrators.

“Since I’ve already established all of those relationships with administrators, in the coming year, I would be able to more comfortably talk with them about projects, get their feedback, et cetera,” he added.

When Jackson isn’t working on the USG, he is also a residential college adviser in Forbes College, a Breakout trip coordinator with the Pace Center for Civic Engagement and a member of diSiac Dance Company.

“What I appreciate about my other activities is that they’re very diverse, and so I’m able to see different pockets of campus, and because of that, I’m able to talk to different students and administrators on a weekly basis,” Jackson said. “So whenever I come to USG and when I’m making a decision, I have different opinions that are constantly in my mind because of my day-to-day interactions and my other activities.”

Jackson is a Wilson School major from University Park, Ill. Voting for president, committee chairs and class senators start on Monday at noon.

to do anything,” Baase said.

“To rectify that, I think it’s just important to work genuinely with the administrators to come to the best possible outcome.”

Peay said his platform includes a focus on grade deflation, listening to student feedback and increasing communication and transparency by sending out monthly emails about the committee’s current projects.

“Some people have asked me, ‘Oh you’re a freshman, what do you know about academics at Princeton?’” Peay said. “Well, I feel like it’s almost a better thing that I am a freshman, because my opinions really don’t matter in what I recommend to the University and what my policies are … It has to be what the student body wants and I don’t want my personal opinion getting in the way of that.”

U-Councilor Paul Riley ’15, Julie Chong ’17, CCA member Raina Sun ’16 and Jason Cai ’17 are running to chair the Campus and Community Affairs Committee.

Riley said his platform includes getting more discounts from local businesses and expanding the focus beyond Nassau Street to finding more options for students beyond the Orange Bubble.

“We are working on tangible things that have a big impact, not just for Princeton students but for the larger community,” Riley said of the CCA committee. He added that his experience was the aspect that differentiates him most from the other candidates. “There’s no

time for on-the-job training, I think it’s time for leadership that knows what’s going on and can hit the ground running.”

Chong said her main platform is to get more affordable options for students on Nassau Street and to reach out to nearby neighborhoods and shopping centers for deals as well.

“I want to be CCA chair because I personally really enjoy spending time on Nassau Street,” Chong said. “I know it costs money – it’s not exactly affordable — and I feel like if we had a better relationship between the students and the community, we would be able to spend more time there and take more advantage of the resources the Princeton community offers.”

Sun said she wants to establish year-round deals with restaurants that extend beyond Restaurant Week, and said she is thinking about proposing a similar “Shopping Week” at local stores. As the only candidate running who is currently a member of CCA, Sun said her experience sets her apart from the other candidates.

“That gave me a lot of experience in how restaurant week works, how Communiversity works, so that will give me an advantage so I don’t have to relearn everything,” Sun said.

Cai did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Ella Cheng ’16 is the sole candidate for Undergraduate Student Life Committee chair. Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.

Voting for president, committee chairs and class senators starts on Monday at noon.

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Krueger discusses “spirit of service” POLICY

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more pressing issue than the issue of unemployment.

“It’s unfortunate, it’s terrible for those who are unemployed, it’s a missed opportunity for the economy, but it’s something that the economy could recover from,” he said. “A rise in inequality is potentially irreversible.”

Krueger concluded his presen-

tation by saying that he hopes that economists in government can bring something back to the professional community as well as contributing something while they are working in government.

“Of course,” he said, quoting former U.S. and University President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, “it is not learning but the spirit of service that will give a college place in the annals of the nation.”

Krueger has held a joint ap-

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pointment in the economics department and the Wilson School since 1987. Before joining the CEA in 2011, he served as assistant secretary of economic policy and chief economist of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 200910 and chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor in 1994-95.

He spoke on Thursday to a group of Princeton students, Princeton High School students and local residents in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall.

Ogle hopes to impact entire student body OGLE

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in the presidential election. Not only is the current Class of 2015 senator running against the incumbent USG president, Shawon Jackson ’15, but he is also running a shortened campaign since he was originally disqualified from the race.

Ogle entered the presidential race Sunday night — nearly a week after his opponent — after winning his appeal against being disqualified from the race.

Ogle had previously been disqualified for neglecting to submit a third registration document on time.

“I think Zach is a very capable and well-respected student leader,” Class of 2014 senator John McNamara, who endorsed Ogle’s appeal and has endorsed his campaign, said regarding why he supported the candidate.

Now that Ogle is officially in the race, he is working to publicize what he would do to change the USG. “The major part of my platform is just increased outreach,” Ogle said. “I think that if students don’t care enough to talk about the projects and policies the USG is discussing, then we’re probably doing something wrong.”

Ogle said the USG should be talking about projects and policies that have an impact on the

student body, and he would ensure that his administration does this by asking all members of the Senate to attend meetings of non-USG groups a few times a semester to listen to what they’re talking about, talk to them about USG projects that apply to them and get their feedback to see what the USG can do.

“I think he has a very clear understanding of why students are frustrated with USG and why they see it as an increasingly unimportant factor in their lives,” U-Council chair Elan Kugelmass ’14, who has endorsed Ogle’s campaign, said. “He’s very committed to fixing that by making genuine attempts to reach out to other groups to bring on student experts and student activists in other fields into USG and as partners with USG in a way that doesn’t try to monopolize or take credit for the work that other groups are doing.”

Ogle said he wants the USG to talk more about projects and policies that will have an impact on all or the majority of the student body. He said he wants to take advantage of the USG’s platform to reach and impact the entire student body — what he attributed to be its greatest strength.

U-Councilor Azza Cohen ’16, who has also endorsed Ogle’s campaign, agreed that it is important for the USG to connect with student groups on campus and said that is the main reason

she is supporting Ogle’s campaign.

“I think one of the things USG lacks is a comprehensive approach to reaching out to student groups,” Cohen said. “I’d like to see that happen, and I know Zach will make it happen.”

As a member of the USG, Ogle has led the Committee on Background and Opportunity in producing its fourth report. He also worked briefly with the Mental Health Project and is currently serving as a leader in planning its upcoming Violence Intervention and Prevention Week and in an unofficial capacity as a Senate liaison to Sexual Harassment/ Assault Advising Resources & Education.

In addition to his work for USG, Ogle is also a residential college adviser in Whitman College, a former lightweight rower and has worked for Tiger Call and American Foreign Policy magazine.

“I think it’s especially my time from outside the USG that gives me a perspective of what the USG looks like,” Ogle said. “I think my breadth of experience as a nonUSG member and a USG member sets me apart from the other candidate … I hope to make USG seem like a more approachable and relatable organization.”

Ogle is a Wilson School major from San Antonio, Texas. Voting for president, committee chairs and class senators start on Monday at noon.

MERRILL FABRY :: PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

diSiac members practice choreography for their fall show, “XV,” will take place in Berlind Theatre.

Marni Morse

contributing columnist

It’s not that we don’t care

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

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The media who cried meningitis

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aybe it’s because I grew up near Washington, D.C., but I naturally assume people are engaged and actively involved in politics because, simply put — Public policy impacts you and everything you do.

But, across campus, many students are not engaged in political action to try to solve the problems we face. For example, both for the special election on Oct. 16 and the general election on Nov. 5, I was expecting to wait in a long line at Icahn to vote — after all, at home I’ve waited in line for over an hour with my parents. Yet, I was in and out of the polls in five minutes. I ran across only one other voter on both occasions.

And what about the lack of student activism regarding other political issues that have plagued our government recently?

There have been no organized protests or petitions on campus, either in response to the government shutdown or the NSA eavesdropping on our conversations, to raise public awareness and show policymakers that we students care about these issues.

What about the House refusing to take up the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to end discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity? Doesn’t the lack of student protest about these issues, in addition to low voter turnout, speak to a problem on campus?

Don’t get me wrong; I don’t think Princeton students are apathetic. Go up to anyone in the library or dining hall, push the right buttons, and I’m sure he’ll go on for hours, talking your ear off about the fall of the Roman Empire or the discovery of the Higgs boson or, yes, even about his support of gay rights.

Students here clearly have issues that they care deeply about.

So, it isn’t a lack of caring in general; it’s a problem with taking political action. Why don’t those full-house political debates at Whig-Clio equate to voting or protests? Even when issues are debated, these discussions do not lead students to take action to change the situation.

Maybe students feel like they will not have much of an impact outside the Orange Bubble.

Because within the boundaries of Princeton, students are willing to take a stand. Just consider the “What Is Marriage?” talk by Ryan Anderson — the crowd was full of students peacefully questioning his traditional stance.

And other groups work to raise awareness of issues across campus — there are events, tables at Frist, etc. But that’s the problem: The discussion is often limited to campus issues.

Princeton tends to be an extremely isolated community, and the college town isn’t much better. When people feel as though they interact only with other students, they are less likely to try to break out and impact other people. But are we truly living in a bubble? In reality, we are connected to the entire national and global community. Just as the important research that happens here impacts the world, so, too, could student activism. Students might feel as though they cannot do anything because they are trapped by this mythical bubble, but, in reality, there is no actual bubble. It is the use of the phrase “Orange Bubble” that gives legitimacy to being a bystander, but this is merely a case of justifying-by-labeling, and, in reality, our surroundings are not a legitimate justification for inaction.

The limited engagement Princeton students feel with the outside world affects whether and how they take action, but it shouldn’t.

The only way people will make a difference is if they think they can make a difference.

And it’s time for students to branch out and impact a broader crowd. Just as Princeton research impacts the nation, national issues have real ramifications for Princeton students; we should care more about these broader issues because they really do effect us too. Last month the Supreme Court took up an affirmative action case, and there was barely any discussion of that across campus — an issue that clearly impacts college students. Even the government shutdown affects student life. It temporarily cut off some research funding on campus, and it certainly harms the national economy and effectiveness of our political system, all of which impacts you. Pell Grant funding?

Higher interest rates for college loans? That’s all the national government.

Princeton has prepared us well to debate problems the world faces. But talking isn’t sufficient to make a difference. Students need to take action on the issues they care about. Whether it is small local changes or joining with others to affect national politics, youth can impact change. Just think of the 2008 election, when many of the volunteers who reached out to swing voters were kids who were excited about making a difference. And the youth vote did matter. Were students to organize a protest over major issues, like NSA surveillance or affirmative action, at a school of national prominence, it would attract media interest and capture the attention of key policy makers. So, if there is an issue you care about, think about what you can actually do to make a difference. Then go out and do it.

Opinion

Friday november 22, 2013

Benjamin Dinovelli

senior columnist

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alking outside, one can see the many TV vans that clutter Nassau Street and the reporters — microphones in hand and cameramen in tow — who have invaded campus. And no, they aren’t here to cover the football team.

Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts described it as a “serious scare” and “potentially deadly.”

Time Magazine labeled it a “campus contagion.” Businessweek chose the moniker, “meningitis crisis.” The recent news of the FDA’s approval of Princeton’s decision to import a foreign vaccine has sparked an unusual amount of media attention.

While most students find the extra attention amusing, competing among friends to see who can appear in the most TV interviews or get the funniest questions about the disease from home, the media attention may be more harmful than entertaining.

The media’s colorful usage of language portrays the campus as a hotbed of some mystery disease that will lead to a real life World War Z. As if overnight, the situation on campus has erupted into a contagion that needs to be quarantined. Fears of bacterial meningitis even prompted one concerned commenter on NBC to write, “Great! Put the students

and faculty in airplanes, buses, cars, ships and trains and then send them all over the U.S. for the Thanksgiving holiday, where they can spread the disease to the entire country.”

When these descriptions are juxtaposed with reality, it is a little hard not to laugh. Granted, bacterial meningitis is no joke.

It is a serious disease and the University’s decision to import the vaccine is unquestionably a good one. That being said, it is hard not to compare the concern of family and friends in the form of extremely cautious calls and texts to our relatively unchanged everyday lives.

In light of the concern, it is important to remember several important facts. It is avoidable by taking simple precautions such as covering your mouth, washing your hands and not sharing cups or utensils. As reported several days after the coverage began, meningitis is “unlikely” to spread on campus. Only seven cases have been reported in the last few months. And between the beginning of the media coverage and beforehand, the situation has remained unchanged.

However, in the process of hearing this repeated message over and over, we contrast this image of contagion and viral disease that the media creates with our relatively normal lives. Classes are still scheduled. Student events are still being held. And on a campus of over 5,000 undergrads, not many have been personally affected.

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suits. When we see that, in fact, relatively little has changed, we will trick ourselves into easing our caution and concern.

This is evident in our amusement that competing teams refuse to shake our hands without gloves or import their own water to home games; our usage of the “Mine. Not Yours.” red meningitis prevention cups as decoration; and our labeling of the disease as the “Meng,” satirizing the darker image that the media presents. We just aren’t taking it seriously.

Yet, the worst thing we can do is put our guard down.

When we no longer see bacterial meningitis as something that we should be cautious of, but rather as something comical that can be taken lightly, or even worse ignored, we are putting ourselves more at risk than in any other way. The best way to prevent it is by doing relatively simple things. When the bar is raised, however, and the media creates this impression that we need to perform Herculean feats to avoid a relatively non-present disease, our desire to take any of the precautions at all seriously, even the smaller ones, decreases.

The real fear is that when a health problem actually arrives in the future, it may be hard to take it seriously again in light of the current response. And when the media cries meningitis again, maybe no one will listen.

Grace Riccardi ’14

business manager managing editor Emily Tseng ’14 news editors Patience Haggin ’14 Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic ’14 opinion editor Sarah Schwartz ’15 sports editor Stephen Wood ’15 street editor Abigail Williams ’14 photography editors Monica Chon ’15 Merrill Fabry ’14 copy editors Andrea Beale ’14 Erica Sollazzo ’14 design editor Helen Yao ’15 web editors Sarah Cen ’16 Adrian De Smul ’14 multimedia editor Christine Wang ’14 prox editor Daniel Santoro ’14 intersections editor Amy Garland ’14 associate news editor Catherine Ku ’14 associate news editor for enterprise Marcelo Rochabrun ’15 associate opinion editors Richard Daker ’15 Tehila Wenger ‘15 associate sports editors Damir Golac ‘15 Victoria Majchrzak ’15

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

associate street editors Urvija Banerji ’15 Catherine Bauman ’15

Paranoia

associate photography editors Conor Dube ’15 Lilia Xie ’14

Caresse yan ’15

Luc Cohen ’14

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associate copy editors Dana Bernstein ’15 Jennifer Cho ’15 associate design editor Allison Metts ’15 associate multimedia editor Rishi Kaneriya ’16 editorial board chair Ethan Jamnik ’15

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Fight with brain and brawn Bennet McIntosh

Senior columnist

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ou can hardly say I was raised on football. For me, NFL stands for “National Forensics League” and phrases like “The USS Enterprise Carrier is nearly four football fields long” were more confusing than helpful. But we did have the Broncos’ 1997 Super Bowl victory on VHS, and I shared with my boyhood peers pick-up football and the same sort of generalized admiration for Broncos stars from John Elway to Jason Elam. More important than the sport itself, though, were the rituals it begot — my family has always observed the de facto national holiday that is Super Bowl Sunday, and some of my fondest childhood memories include a football game running in the background to friendship and community.

Upon reaching Princeton, as a member of the band, I have followed (literally!) Tiger football more closely than I ever expected to. But, as it was back home, it is the communal traditions we build around football — from waking up early Saturday morning to drum cadences to (no longer) burning John Harvard in effigy — that are far more memorable and important than the day-to-day of the game itself. Ivy League football — with its dynamic players and long history of intense rivalries — is a perfect backdrop for traditions that

create a Princeton identity, from band to bonfire.

Those readers who haven’t spent much time on a football field (or even those who spend most of their time there actually playing football) may not be familiar with the rivalry between high school marching bands and football teams. Think “American Pie”: “The players tried to take the field/The marching band refused to yield.” Like the one-way rivalries between Penn and Princeton or Princeton and Yale, that between bands and football teams across the nation is played out in oft-silly self-aggrandizement on one side and indifference on the other. Bands jokingly ask what the football players are doing on “our” field or lobby for the recognition of marching band as a varsity sport, while football players … play football. Having spent most of my high school career among bandies, I recognized this sentiment and expected it when I joined the Princeton band but was surprised to find little of the bitterness, real or contrived. Instead, we do as much as possible to be the team’s best fans, in our own ironic, quirky, off-color way. With everything from ironic ignorance of the game’s rules (yelling for our offensive backs “to hit a homer”) to outright violence (“Knives!

Knives! Knives!), we support the team when other students leave. This is true whether we are cheering on the team through consecutive 1-9 seasons or staying through the fourth quarter

despite being down 24-10 to Harvard.

And it was also true watching the Tigers steamroll the Bulldogs in last week’s record-breaking victory.

It’s when football shines, though, that it becomes a rallying point campus-wide. As much as die-hards like to scorn fair-weather fans, the energy that a high-achieving football team brings to campus is exhilarating and well worth a few poor seasons.

The energy doesn’t come from mere victories, however. Princeton football this year and Ivy football in general is particularly exciting for a number of reasons. On the field, Princeton’s dynamic nohuddle offense has been a pleasure to watch, drawing notice for its record-breaking number of points this season (and still one game to go) and its mercurial habit of switching among three quarterbacks, occasionally all on the field at once.

Junior Quinn Epperly’s ability to think on his feet and make plays in and out of the pocket adds a level of excitement rare in today’s paradigm of static, well-protected passers.

It’s enough to make me relive foggy memories of John Elway’s scrambles (and recover somewhat from the failed promises that Tim Tebow brought to Broncos country).

Off the field, Ivy football has done much to limit the problems plaguing schools with richer, more successful programs. By declining to grant athletic scholarships and attaching an academic index to recruiting

practices, the league has done much to support the ideal of the studentathlete. Many, including Nathan Mathabane ’13 in his column last year, have discussed the perceived advantage that athletes have during the admission process, but such policies on the league and University scale ensure that such advantages are minor, if extant at all. And besides, it is a small-minded view of talent to claim a student-athlete spending years training mind and body is less deserving of Princeton than a student who has focused exclusively on pursuits of the mind. One Ivy policy Princeton might reconsider, though, is that of refusing bids in the FCS national tournament — officials have expressed concerns over academic conflicts for a team traveling to a national tournament in early December, but, with Princeton finals already pushed into the new year, I see no reason for the Tigers not to compete if the team is interested.

So huzzah for Tiger football — win or lose in Hanover tomorrow, they are already champions and will return to a student body cheering for the success of their classmates, for an exciting sport and victory in their long rivalries and the chance to watch the flames paint Nassau Hall and West College and Whig and Clio Halls bright Princeton orange.

Bennett McIntosh is a sophomore from Littleton, Colo. He can be reached at bam2@princeton.edu.

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“I like this group’s aggressiveness on the offensive end,” head coach Courtney Banghart said. “We’re still working on consistent pace and contact in our execution, but this is a team that can score 1-15. We take pride in sharing the ball — there is a selflessness to this team, where personal statistics aren’t important. To a person, we just want to win the ball game. That’s what special teams are built on.”

As the Tigers look to continue their winning streak, they will have to keep the fouls under control, as they committed 25 against Rider on Tuesday, and their defense will need to improve to match their offense.

“Accountability and urgency on the defensive end is something we’re focusing on and have been since early October,” Banghart said.

“Georgetown is an athletic team. We will need to defend the ball better than we did against Rider and play with

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more urgency overall on the defensive end, from the start and throughout a possession.”

The Tigers will have to look out for Georgetown freshman center Natalie Butler, who leads the team in both points and rebounds. The Hoyas have three players averaging in the double digits, but since Shayla Cooper, their secondbest scorer, will not be playing in Saturday’s game, the Hoyas can expect to see a dip in their scoring average.

As the Tigers are setting themselves up for a potential fifth Ivy title after graduating a particularly strong Class of 2013, these first games of the season are the building blocks for a successful season.

“We will have the team ready,” Banghart said. “We’ll prepare them for what they will see from this Georgetown team and for what steps will make us a better team down the road.”

After Saturday’s game, Princeton will return home on Tuesday to play St. Joseph’s at Jadwin Gymnasium as part of its Holiday Hoops Food Drive and Faculty Appreciation Night.

HOCKEY

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The men’s hockey team will play two games against No. 4 Quinnipiac this weekend as the women host Clarkson and St. Lawrence.

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The Big Green has a chance to play spoiler — of sorts — again this year, as it did last year, when Princeton beat Harvard and Yale but dropped its season finale to Dartmouth. As the school prepares for a second-straight bonfire, the Tigers said their focus is on beating Dartmouth and

earning the title outright.

“There’s many ways you can win it clean,” Surace said, referring to the fact that a Harvard loss to Yale would make Princeton the outright champion regardless of the outcome in Hanover. “I want us to play our best game.”

“We were prepared last year,” he added. “We just didn’t win.”

For the seniors, a win would be the perfect way to top off a

career that started with consecutive 1-9 seasons.

“We came to this school to win a championship,” Bhaya said.

Whether or not that championship is shared will be determined Saturday. The game kicks off at 1:30 p.m. in front of Dartmouth’s home crowd and any Princetonians who board the alumnus-sponsored buses for the trip up to New Hampshire.

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the game and good court vision.”

Senior guard Jimmy Sherburne leads the team in assists per game with 3.33 and also in turnovers and fouls per game. Though he did not see much time in the first two games, senior guard Chris Clement played 27 minutes against Lafayette, scoring

eight points.

Rice has a larger rotation, with no player typically seeing more than 33.5 minutes.

Sophomore guard Max Guercy leads the team with 13.5 points per game and 4.5 assists per game. Freshman forward Sean Obi is the team’s big man, scoring 10.8 points on .792 shooting and coming down with 8.5 rebounds per game. Other contributors include guards Austin Raml-

jak and Marcus Jackson, who are scoring a combined 22.5 points per game.

Princeton has faced Rice three times before, with the Tigers holding 2-1 advantage.

The most recent matchup was a 51-28 Princeton victory in January 2007 at Jadwin Gymnasium. Those 28 points scored are the fewest by a Princeton D-I opponent since Bucknell could only muster 27 in December 1998.

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Tigers travel to New Hampshire seeking outright Ivy title

By Stephen Wood sports editor

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Senior wide receiver Roman Wilson has 893 receiving yards this season. Saturday will be his last college game.

The Dartmouth Big Green is all that stands between the football team and its first outright Ivy League championship since 1995.

The Tigers (8-1 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) clinched a share of the title last week with their victory over Yale. Having beaten Harvard, the only team that could tie them at the top of the league, the Tigers will have bragging rights regardless of how the Dartmouth goes, but junior quarterback Quinn Epperly has made it clear that Princeton wants to go 7-0 in the Ivy League.

“We do not want to share this title in any way or form,” he said after last week’s victory.

Saturday’s game will cap off a season of rebirth for the football program. Over the course of the last nine games, Epperly has gone from essentially a backup quarterback to one of the most prolific players in recent Ivy memory, scoring 40 touchdowns while completing 71.8 percent of his passes and throwing only two interceptions.

But that is not all that has gone the Tigers’ way this season. Head coach Bob Surace ’90 and offensive coordinator James Perry have become known for using creative, often bizarre-looking formations — the most famous of which uses three quarterbacks and was recently featured on ESPN. “To play in this offense, and to engineer it, is just a dream come true,” Epperly said.

The trip to Dartmouth (54, 4-2) will be the last college game for several major offensive contributors. Senior wide receiver Roman Wilson will look to end a remarkable career, during which he has recorded 1,556 receiving yards and 15 touchdowns, on a high note, as will senior tight end Des Smith, who has shown off his hands throughout his final season.

Senior nose tackle Caraun Reid, perhaps Princeton’s most talked-about senior, will also be putting on the Orange and Black for the last time. Reid has recorded only 19 tackles and 3.5 sacks this season, but while his stats are not overwhelming, the pressure he puts on a quarterback often is.

Reid and his classmate, linebacker Phillip Bhaya, who has 62 tackles and three interceptions, will look to have one last hurrah against a Big Green offense, which has, somewhat quietly, put up the second-most yards per game of any Ancient Eight team.

Big Green running back Dominick Pierre has dominated defense this season, rushing for 12 touchdowns and over 100 yards per game.

Pierre has gotten the spotlight, but fellow tailback Kyle Bramble has proven himself to be an offensive threat as well, running for 81 yards and a touchdown in last week’s 2421 win over Brown.

Meanwhile, Dalyn Williams will lead the Big Green under center. Though Williams is not known to put up huge numbers, one little number sticks out — he has thrown only three interceptions all season. Not committing turnovers — which the Big Green has done the least in the league — will be key for the team, as many a Princeton opponent has seen a close game become a blowout after coughing up the ball during a crucial drive.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

High-scoring Princeton heads to Houston

Hoyas host powerful Princeton offense

By Eddie Owens Contributer

The men’s basketball team heads to Houston on Saturday to take on Rice in its fourth game of the season.

The Tigers (2-1), fresh off Wednesday night’s thrilling overtime win against Lafayette, are off to their best start since 2009, when they also went 2-1.

Should they win Saturday, it would be the team’s first 3-1 start in seven years.

Princeton’s offense has been potent thus far, averaging 71.67 points per game. Still, all those points have been necessary because of a relatively poor defense. Opponents are averaging 66.67 points per game against the Tigers.

“We were incredibly fortunate to win tonight’s game. I think we got a little complacent after the Butler game — it looked like we were sleepwalking out there at times,” head coach Mitch Henderson ’98 said after Wednesday’s win over Lafayette.

However, Princeton has actually been outshot slightly in the season, .438 to .432, including .477 to .449 inside the arc. Its saving grace has been three-point shooting. The Tigers have a .416 shooting clip from downtown and are attempting more threes per game than any team in program history. This deadly combination has Princeton sitting at ninth among all Division I schools in three pointers made per game. However, the Owls (2-2) have held opponents to an outstanding .246 shooting percentage from behind the arc. The game will likely go to the side that wins this battle.

Rice’s other strength is its shooting close to the basket, having made 54.5 percent of its attempted two-point field goals. Despite an abysmal .299 three-point field goal percentage, the Owls have attempted almost half of their shots from downtown. Perhaps they will change their game plan against the Tigers, who defend far

better on the perimeter than they do in the post.

The teams are quite similar in a few key statistical categories. The Owls outrebound their opponents 34.8 to 33.5, while Princeton holds a 34.33 to 31 edge over its foes. Both teams shoot close to 70 percent from the charity stripe and average 13 assists per game.

Both teams lack a center, and none of Rice’s players are over 6-foot-10.

Both teams are also relatively inexperienced. Only one of the four upperclassmen on Rice’s team is on the starting line, and only three out of Princeton’s seven primary players saw significant minutes last year.

Princeton is led by junior forward Denton Koon, who leads the team with 15.67 points per game and chips in 7.67 rebounds per game to boot.

Henderson has been using Koon as the team’s sixth man thus far, a role that he says is a little different from what he’s used to. Koon led the Tigers in field goal percentage last year but is coming off a disappointing performance against Lafayette (0-3) in which he went just 3-16 from the field.

Sophomore forward Hans Brase has been Princeton’s presence down low, grabbing 9.33 rebounds per game and scoring 10.33 points per game. He too has had trouble shooting, posting a dismal .308 field goal percentage.

Senior forward Will Barrett averages 14 points per game, mostly from three-pointers. Last year’s D-I leader in three-point field goal percentage at .516, Barrett has continued to drain them at a ridiculous .600 rate so far this season.

Junior guard Ben Hazel and freshman forward Spencer Weisz have had very similar stats so far, each averaging 9.33 points per game and 4.67 rebounds per game. Henderson was full of praise for Weisz, the first freshman starter since Doug Davis ’12.

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By Crissy Carano senior writer

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Senior guard Jimmy Sherburne is back on the court and averages 8 points per game.

This Saturday, the women’s basketball team is on the road again, heading to Georgetown for its second away game in a row. The Tigers (2-1) look to continue a two-game winning streak, while the Hoyas (1-2) have lost their past two games.

The last time the teams matched up was in the 2010-11 season, when Princeton fell to Georgetown in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

The Hoyas and Tigers have matched up only three times in the past, with Georgetown coming out on top twice.

Princeton will rely on its offense to improve its record, both against Georgetown and for the season. Junior guard Blake Dietrick leads the team with an average of 15 points per game, while both senior forward Kristen Helmstetter and sophomore forward Alex Wheatley have averages in the double digits. The team has dominated in rebounds every game so far, led by Helmstetter and sophomore guard Annie Tarakchian. With shooting averages of above 50 percent in the past two games, Princeton has a season scoring average of 47 percent, close to Georgetown’s 45 See W. B-BALL page 7

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Men’s and women’s squash begin their seasons against WIlliams at the Jadwin Squash Courts.

The last time the football team beat Harvard and Yale in consecutive seasons was when it did so three years running in 1992, 1993 and 1994.

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