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Today on Campus 9:30 a.m.: Mindfulness and Eating helps students develop healthy eating habits over the holiday season. McCosh G20.

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Dec. 12, 1974 Job classification data reveals that only two out of the 270 fulltime professors at the University are women.

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ACADEMICS

New class examines Islam in America By Elizabeth Paul staff writer

A new seminar course, AMS 339: Religion and Culture: Muslims in America, will be offered next semester and has already become overenrolled with interested students. It will provide for the first time an overview of the long history of Islam in the United States, dating back to the slave trade in the 17th century, in addition to discussing this history’s implications for American culture and policy. Aly Kassam-Remtulla, associate director for Academic Planning and Institutional Diversity and the course instructor, said he designed the course out of a desire to talk about a piece of American history that had not yet been addressed in Princeton’s course offerings while providing insight into the culture of people who identify as Muslims today. “My course offers one dimension of the present reality,” Kassam-Remtulla said. “It provides insight into the past reality that a lot of people are unaware of — the history of Muslims coming to this country as far back as the 17th century.” Kassam-Remtulla has been discussing his vision for this course with Muslim Life Coordinator and Chaplain Sohaib Sultan for about one year. Sultan emphasized that this course would allow students to understand the history of Islam in America and how it has contributed to the present political climate. “Ever since 9/11 … Islam and Muslims are constantly in the headline news,” Sultan said. He explained the importance for students to “get an understanding of the realities beyond the headline news.” See AMS page 5

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Lewis ’55 known for assertive decision-making

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News & Notes UCSB demands access to meningitis vaccine

as the emergency meningitis vaccine campaign at the University enters its fourth day with 4,361 students and select community members vaccinated, the parents of students at the University of California, Santa Barbara want their children to receive the vaccine as well, NBC News reported. Four students at UCSB have fallen ill with meningitis caused by a bacterial strain slightly different from the one that has caused the Princeton outbreak. One student had to have both feet amputated because of complications from the disease, according to NBC News. Health officials at UCSB and the local public health departments have been flooded with calls and emails urging them to offer the vaccine at the Santa Barbara campus. Both outbreaks were caused by meningococcal bacteria type B, a group of bacteria for which there is no vaccine currently licensed in the United States. The University’s current vaccination campaign aims to vaccinate 6,000 students with Bexsero, a vaccine produced by Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis that has been licensed in the European Union, Australia and Canada. Upon consultation with the CDC, state and local health authorities, the University has imported 12,000 doses of the vaccine on an emergency basis for use only at Princeton.

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Peter Lewis ’55 was a donor to the University and supporter of marijuana legalization.

Peter Lewis ’55, who, as the CEO of Progressive Insurance, was notable for being a champion of individuals taking charge of their own decisions, conveyed the same message as a young eating club officer at Princeton. As treasurer of the now defunct Dial Lodge Club, which occupied the building that now holds the Bendheim Center for Finance, Lewis once resolved a conflict by appealing the president to make a decision, rather than wait for an informal consensus to be reached. “We had a difficult problem with a lot of hemming and hawing where different solutions were proposed,” Richard May ’55, then-Dial Lodge president and a classmate of Lewis, said. “And he just said, ‘One person’s got to make the decision. You’re the President. You do it.’ ” After that statement, May explained, the meeting concluded and he made his decision. The incident, he said, demonstrated one of Peter Lewis’ most notable traits: his tendency to make an individual decision and stand by it, rather than to hide behind a bland committee solution.

More than a dozen interviews and a review of his student records show that Lewis was an independent thinker unafraid of sharing unpopular thoughts. At the University, he was a member of the varsity crew team and wrote his senior thesis about auto insurance, an industry in which his family owned a small business of only 40 employees at the time. Lewis later took over the firm, Progressive, growing it into the giant it is now. Although Lewis’ college yearbook biography called him a Republican, he later became an outspoken supporter of progressive causes. Lewis reportedly has directly funded the passage of almost every marijuana reform in the past couple decades and began using marijuana after he had a leg partially amputated in 1998. However, a friend said that Lewis’ marijuana use was not always strictly medical and that it even played a role in family interactions. Lewis, who died on Nov. 23 at his home in Coconut Grove, Fla. at the age of 80, was also the most generous trustee in recorded history, having donated $233 million to the University throughout his lifetime. He was born in Cleveland in 1933 and attended Cleveland Heights High School

before coming to Princeton. He was also a generous donor to Ohio-based charities. “Progressive may be the greatest company in the history of the world,” Lewis’ long-time philanthropic adviser Jennifer Frutchy said in her eulogy at Lewis’s funeral, “but what is not disputable, is that he was one of the greatest human beings in the history of the world.” A thesis on auto insurance When Lewis was a senior majoring in the Wilson School, he requested a special permission in order to drop a course, Chinese Art, in order to have more time to complete his senior thesis. His thesis adviser backed him up. “He has had a very strong and earnest interest in pursuing his study beyond the normal limits of a senior thesis,” his advisor, former politics professor Marver Bernstein, wrote in a letter on his behalf. Lewis’ thesis was titled “The Financially Irresponsible Motorist: A Problem in Practical Politics” and was submitted jointly to the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School. The thesis was a study of “compulsory automobile insurance and related problems of public See TRUSTEE page 2

ACADEMICS

After program restructuring, fellowship numbers remain similar By Regina Wang and Ruby Shao senior writer & staff writer

In December 2009, the University drew criticism when it fired then-Associate Dean of the College Frank Ordiway ’81, who oversaw postgraduate fellowship advising. Ordiway’s firing prompted numerous statements of support from the University community, including support from past scholarship winners and a letter to the Daily Princetonian signed by 34 faculty members expressing their “deep disappointment” with his departure. The controversial move prompted a debate over the effectiveness of campus fellowship advising. In a Princeton Alumni Weekly story after the firing, University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69 noted that Princeton “has not performed as well as we would have liked” in the Marshall and Rhodes programs. In the same article, then-Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said she be-

lieved Princeton “should be competitive over the long term with peer institutions for top scholarships such as the Rhodes, Marshall and Gates” and that the planned changes should help with this. Durkee and Malkiel declined to comment for this story. In the decade prefacing Ordiway’s firing, the University had 29 Marshall and Rhodes winners, compared to 52 from Harvard, 39 from Stanford, 38 from Yale and 24 from MIT. This year, Princeton had three winners of the Marshall and Rhodes scholarships, while Harvard and Yale each had seven. Although the University’s fellowship advising system saw heavy restructuring in 2010, which was at least partially motivated by the lagging number of Marshall and Rhodes Scholarship winners, its performance in these programs has not improved significantly. From 2008 to 2010, the University had six Rhodes winners, according to the Rhodes Trust, and it had the same num-

ber from 2011 to 2013. Meanwhile, Harvard had nine winners from 2008 to 2010 and 13 from 2011 to 2013, while Yale had four and 11, respectively. Meanwhile, the number of Princeton Marshall scholars has increased under Director of Fellowship Advising Dr. Deirdre Moloney, from three from 2008 to six from 2011. Harvard saw six in the first period and five in the second, and Yale saw six and then four. Moloney declined to provide the number of students who applied for University endorsement for the Rhodes and Marshall and the number who received endorsement. Yet members of the advising office explained that the University’s performance in major programs may be influenced by institutional factors that are hard to overcome. While the initial impetus for the restructure was partly motivated by Rhodes and Marshall statistics, the current priorities of the fellowship advising program suggest they may not be the appropriate benchmark, and

that the program should not be driven or evaluated based on quotas of winners. A controversial firing The University replaced Ordiway with Moloney as director of fellowship advising in April 2010. Under Moloney, fellowship advising is now part of the Office of International Programs, rather than the Office of the Dean of the College. In addition, advising has focused specifically on earlier and broader outreach to prospective applicants. As Associate Dean of the College, Ordiway was one of 12 fellowship advisers specializing in 20 fellowships. He personally advised half of the fellowships, including the Gates, Marshall and Rhodes scholarships. Meanwhile, the Office of International Programs, headed by Senior Associate Dean of the College Nancy Kanach, coordinated the Fulbright Scholarship application process, the Ito Foundation grants See ORDIWAY page 3

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$120K public litigation trust funds tax exemption, Dinky relocation challenges against U. By Patience Haggin news editor

A pending lawsuit challenging the University’s property tax exemption is funded by a trust for litigation in the public interest. The trust was established in 2010 by the estate of local resident and attorney Eleanor Lewis in the amount of $120,000, and has also been used to fund three suits challenging the relocation of Dinky Station. As an educational nonprofit, the University is exempt from property taxes on most of its property. The suit challenges this status on grounds that the school collects and distributes profits generated by patent products developed in its research facilities. It is expected to go to trial in September, according to Bruce Afran, the president and attorney of the trust. One of the fund’s initial trustees has ended her relation-

ship with the fund because of the tax challenge against the University. Jane De Lung, an old friend who met Lewis at Community Park Pool in 1980, said she left her position as trustee of the fund last year because she disagreed with the challenge. “They were asking too much of the University,” De Lung said. “I just did not feel that it was productive for society. I do believe that the issue of the University paying property taxes on places where they generate revenue is a legitimate question, but I think it’s very difficult to parse out.” De Lung said she left the trust in August or September of 2012. She added that she strongly supported the suit over the move of the Dinky Station because she feels the relocation has created a serious inconvenience for all local residents. The trust has previously been used to fund three lawsuits challenging the Univer-

sity’s decision to relocate the Dinky station, all of which are currently pending. These suits challenge the approvals given by the local planning board and the local governing bodies to allow the project to go forward. Afran said he expects both cases to be resolved this spring. The third case is an injunction to halt work on the project until the zoning case is resolved. All three are currently pending. University Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee ’69 described all of the lawsuits filed by the trust as “without merit and an unfortunate waste of time and money.” Lewis planned the Dinky challenges during her lifetime and even conceived of the tax challenge in an early form. She and the trustees of her fund considered challenging the University’s tax exemption on grounds that faculty often used their campus offices for nonUniversity employment. As the University allows faculty mem-

bers to work for for-profit companies a few days a week, many faculty members who work in industries, such as consulting, use their University offices and utilities to do so. They decided against suing on these grounds. “Bruce and I decided that this was really sort of nickel-anddime petty stuff. So as it turns out, we didn’t pursue that,” Ken Fields, the fund’s secretary and treasurer, explained. Fields was a friend and neighbor of Lewis. After the tax challenge is resolved, the fund’s trustees plan to launch a few more suits out of the fund. One is a challenge to New Jersey’s electoral college system, which currently allocates its electoral votes in a winner-take-all fashion for the presidential election. Under the current system, the presidential candidate who receives the majority of votes in New Jersey receives all 14 of the state’s electoral votes. This suit would challenge the winnertake-all distribution under the

state constitution’s equal protection clause, which requires that all citizens must be treated equally by the government, Afran explained. “It’s not treating those voters equally to say only one candidate’s voters get credit in the electoral college,” Afran said. The fund’s trustees also hope to launch a suit on behalf of students who are born in New Jersey to parents who are undocumented immigrants. “The state university has a policy of denying children of illegal immigrants in-state tuition,” Afran said. “What this means is that children of illegal immigrants are effectively barred from state universities.” The trustees are currently looking for a student in this position who is willing to become a plaintiff for the case. They also plan to challenge the tax-exempt status of religious institutions out of the trust. Lewis’s will also named Krystal Knapp, her friend and

founder of the hyperlocal news site Planet Princeton, as a trustee of the fund. Knapp declined to become a trustee, explaining on Planet Princeton in January 2012 that it would create a conflict of interest with her role as a local journalist. She was not a trustee of the fund at any time. Lewis, an attorney, also worked as a consultant for the federal government regarding affirmative action in college admissions. She was the first executive director of New Jersey Public Interest Research Group, a group for local organizing and advocacy founded in 1972. Lewis took great interest in community affairs and used to attend every meeting of the Borough Council, according to Knapp. She died of ovarian cancer in 2010, according to a StarLedger obituary. “She was always involved in trying to help right wrongs,” said De Lung, who also described Lewis as having “a wonderful wicked sense of humor.”

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policy,” Bernstein wrote. In the case of Lewis, automobile insurance ran in the family. Lewis’ father, Joseph Lewis, had founded Progressive in 1937 with business partner Jack Green. Throughout his time at the University, Lewis took classes in subjects including economics, English, politics, philosophy, sociology and physical education, which at that time was required of all Princeton students. He was enrolled in the Air Sciences program during freshman year, but left the program in 1952, noting that after the accidental death of his younger brother, his connection to the Armed Forces was causing his parents an undue amount of worry, a letter he submitted to the program read. Classmate Markley Boyer ’55 explained in an interview that as the Korean War was going on at the time, every student at the University had to enroll in the sciences program of the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Lewis’ roommate was Paul Sigler ’55, a renowned molecular biologist at Yale who died in 2000. Robert Haselkorn ‘56, now a professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, explained that he was very good friends with Sigler and, by extension, also became good friends with Lewis. Haselkorn added that he knew Sigler through chemistry; as they were both chemistry majors, they would often meet together to work on chemistry. “Pete learned his chemistry by osmosis,” Haselkorn said, joking about the friendship between the three. Haselkorn explained that he also knew Lewis through their mu-

tual participation in varsity crew, where Lewis was a letter winner. Lewis was the team’s manager at the time, Haselkorn added, and had the responsibility of organizing the trips to and from the team’s various games. Princeton undergraduates were not allowed to have a car on campus at the time, but Lewis had successfully applied for that privilege citing his managerial position on the crew team. “He was a great guy,” Haselkorn said. “Very friendly, very helpful, very social. I counted him as a great, great friend.” Lewis was also involved in the Dial Lodge eating club, which he joined in the spring of his sophomore year. He was treasurer from March 1954 to March 1955, and his classmate May, the then-president, said that as treasurer, he ran the business end of the club, which included managing people’s meal plans, making sure the help got paid and paying the bills. In addition to crew and Dial Lodge, Peter Lewis participated in intramural softball, intramural basketball and the Hillel Foundation. Lewis applied to The Ohio State University College of Law for the Fall Quarter of 1955, although it is unclear if he got in. In any case, he never enrolled. “Mr. Lewis has participated widely in extracurricular activities and has been an excellent citizen of the undergraduate community,” then-Dean of Students, William D’O. Lippincott, wrote in a letter to the law school dean of The Ohio State University. Following graduation, Lewis joined his late father’s company, who died when Lewis was a junior in high school, as an underwriting trainee. Back in the family business As CEO of Progressive, a posi-

tion he assumed in 1965, Lewis had a soft spot for colorful annual reports, complemented by “fine art.” Mark Schwartz, president of the design firm Nesnadny + Schwartz, which produced Progressive’s annual report for more than 30 years said that from the beginning of their business relationship, Lewis wanted fine art to be part of the company’s annual report. “It’s kind of a metaphor for what the company was about,” Schwartz said. “Creativity and problem solving and thinking outside the box, changing the status quo. Peter had that vision.” Under Lewis’ leadership, Progressive grew from 40 employees to the fourth-largest private passenger auto insurance group in the United States. As leader of Progressive Insurance, Lewis revolutionized the auto insurance industry by focusing on insurance for high-risk drivers who had often been rejected by other insurers. Current Progressive CEO Glenn Renwick said that Lewis’ innovative business model was a reflection of what he knew from his father’s establishment and subject matter that interested him. Before working at Progressive, Lewis had already done research on the problem of financially irresponsible motorists, culminating in the senior thesis he wrote. Under Lewis’ leadership, Progressive continued to set new standards for the auto industry. In 1990, Progressive launched “Immediate Response,” which provided customers with personal service immediately after they reported a claim. The company also became the first auto insurer to launch a website in 1995. Renwick noted that Lewis always created a work environment where people could fully achieve their objectives. For example, he

noted, a Progressive employee who is responsible for the auto results in Iowa gets to price those results and live with the consequences. “A lot of lack of clarity in business comes when multiple parties believe they have a stake in an issue,” Renwick said. “It can be true, but ultimately there has to be a decider.” Renwick explained that he thought that Lewis’ willingness to try new things was what made him an effective business leader, along with his honesty in admitting when his ideas were not working. Renwick also said that Lewis was an effective leader because of his transparency; he never had to second-guess any person or proposition. After Lewis retired from the CEO position in 2000, he continued to serve as chairman of the board of Progressive. Lewis, Renwick said, had a lifetime of experiences with the company, and so he could serve in an advisory role both as chairman of the board and through an ongoing friendship with Renwick himself. “He was, as he would often say, the biggest cheerleader of the company,” Renwick said. Renwick added that Lewis would have retired from the Board in May 2014 due to the company’s age limits, but that it was the company’s hope and expectation that he would remain as director emeritus. Peter Lewis became head of Progressive Insurance after he and his mother completed a leveraged buyout of the company in 1965. The company’s name was a reference to the progressivism of President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Marijuana support Lewis has attracted controversy for his outspoken support for the legalization of marijuana. The National Organization for the Reform

of Marijuana Laws has estimated that Lewis has spent over $40 million in support of legal marijuana since the 1980s. Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML, said in an interview that Lewis had directly funded the passage of virtually every major marijuana reform, particularly voter initiatives. St. Pierre added that while NORML was once the only major drug policy reform group around, twenty or more have now sprung up. He explained that while Lewis did not donate directly to those groups, he donated to institutions with grant-making capability, such as the Drug Policy Alliance of New York, that could then decide which drug reform groups to endow. “Many of the drug policy reform groups today exist because of Peter’s philanthropy,” St. Pierre said. In 1996, Lewis worked with magnate George Soros, former Men’s Wearhouse CEO George Zimmer and University of Phoenix Founder John Sperling to fund California’s Proposition 215, the first medical marijuana ballot initiative in the country. But the more substantial relationship, Ethan Nadelmann, director and founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, said, involved bringing Lewis, Soros and Sperling into a seven-year partnership in which each of them contributed $10 million to a couple dozen policy initiatives around the country on legalizing medical marijuana, providing required treatment instead of incarceration for people arrested for drug possession and reforming asset forfeiture laws. Nadelmann explained that Lewis felt a “personal connection” to the cause of medical marijuana law reform because of his desire to change public perceptions of the issue and his longtime connection to the American Civil Liberties

Union. “He always had a strong political commitment to civil liberties ideals and principles of personal autonomy,” Nadelmann said. Nadelmann explained that Lewis’s connection was mostly because of his own personal use of marijuana, which he regarded as not always necessarily medical. Not only was Lewis a stakeholder, St. Pierre said, but Lewis also thought his use of marijuana helped him become closer to his children. “As the kids got older, some of them enjoyed when Peter was using See LEGALIZATION page 5

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, the Dec. 10 article “Appiah leaves for NYU” misstated how philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah’s soon-to-be-vacant position will be filled. The University will be responsible for filling the vacancy. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

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and a number of undergraduate scholarships for study abroad. Many fellowship applicants who worked with Ordiway voiced disapproval at his firing, including 2007 Rhodes scholar Christian Sahner ’07, 2008 scholar Sherif Girgis ’08 and 2009 scholar Timothy Nunan ’09. “Of course we weren’t privy to the reasons that they left but we had the impression that it was because of numbers in the previous few years and we thought if that was the reason, it was an unfair basis and we thought that, as much as anyone can be expected to, they did an excellent job of preparing us,” Girgis, who co-wrote an article an article with Sahner in Princeton Alumni Weekly in support of Ordiway and his fellowship advising team, said. Ordiway did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Ordiway’s assistant, Traci Miller, declined to comment for this article. As part of his advising process, Girgis said he met with Ordiway and Rhodes faculty advisor and classics professor Joshua Katz at the end of his junior year to begin preparing materials over the summer and to discuss his strengths and weaknesses going into the process. Throughout the summer, they provided Girgis feedback on his drafts, and in the fall helped him prepare recommendations for the endorsement process. Katz, a former columnist for The Daily Princetonian, declined to comment for this story. Once he received the University endorsement, Girgis said “the process really ramped up” as he got closer readings of application materials and recommendations, specific tips and two mock interviews conducted by committees that included Princeton faculty as well as Ordiway and Katz. Nunan — who also wrote an article supporting Ordiway — told the ‘Prince’ that though he was personally pleased with his advising experience, he knew some students were dissatisfied with Ordiway and Katz’s “tough love” approach and rigorous editing style. “But because the actual interview was very critical and tough,” Nunan explained, “I think that having that sort of no-BS approach from the getgo was good because that was just the way it was going to be, you know, through this process.” However, Nunan said the system could have improved by encouraging students with high grade point averages to seriously

consider fellowships earlier on, as he received almost no information until junior year. He said the increased involvement of graduate students, faculty and past winners would have enhanced the process. A change in direction When Moloney was hired in April 2010, fellowship advising was moved from West College to OIP, effectively unifying all fellowship advising under one program. “The idea of bringing fellowships here was that a lot of them are international. We already had a lot of connections with our Oxford exchanges and with other kinds of international programs,” Kanach said. While Ordiway, as Associate Dean of the College, also oversaw the Freshman Scholars Institute and other programs, Moloney serves specifically as Director of Fellowship Advising. Kanach said Moloney’s role is the first position fully dedicated only to fellowships at Princeton. The University also changed key faculty advisers for the Rhodes, Marshall and Gates scholarships, replacing Katz (who went on sabbatical in the 2010-11 academic year) with politics professor Alan Ryan as Rhodes faculty advisor and replacing classics professor Constanze Guthenke with politics professor Melissa Lane as Marshall faculty advisor. Both Ryan and Lane have extensive previous experience in the UK. The office also added another Marshall and Rhodes faculty advisor. 2012 Goldwater Scholar and current postgraduate fellowship applicant Gene Katsevich ’14 noted Moloney’s “active role” in the application process. Additionally, 2014 Rhodes Scholar Adam Mastroianni ’14 said she “really does everything, and what she doesn’t do, she can connect you to someone else.” While much of the application process remains the same under Moloney, the fellowship advising program has undertaken efforts to reach out to students earlier and increase the diversity of fellowship applicants. Specifically, Moloney was tasked with increasing the number of female applicants and broadening awareness of the fellowship program, she said. Reaching out Moloney reaches out to students as early as their sophomore years and then hosts a series of information sessions for juniors in February. Candidates meet with Moloney at least twice before the end of their junior spring if they are serious about applying for fellowships, she said. The outreach efforts include

increasing avenues of communication, including a fellowship advising website developed by OIP, a Blackboard group and social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. Moloney also cited the priority of demystifying the process to make it less intimidating to students. Victoria Solomon ’13, a 2013 Marshall Scholar, said Moloney encouraged her to apply despite initial doubts about her qualifications. “In my case, I was nervous to apply because like many Princeton students, I had suffered a serious hit to my confidence from attending Princeton. [...] So part of what she did was just build up my confidence and help me to realize that, like, yes, I was a worthy candidate,” she explained. Emphasis on diversity Gender disparities may be a broader issue in scholarship selection committees, according to Wilson School visiting professor Nannerl Keohane, who served as chair of the 2009 Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership and acts on the Marshall Scholarship screening committee. “If interviews give very significant weight to self-confidence and presentation of self, one of the things we discovered in the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership is that this is an area where men are more likely to do better than women,” Keohane said, adding that the current advising process seeks to address this by making sure women think through their answers and prepare to present themselves directly and strongly. While the actual numbers of male and female winners each year vary significantly, Lane said that in the past few years there had been a roughly equal number of women and men who applied, were endorsed by the University and were ultimately selected for interviews. Moloney said gender balance has also improved among fellowship winners, especially for Fulbright candidates. While the University has made efforts to encourage female students to apply to fellowships, Ryan noted that it could be difficult to start women on leadership tracks early enough in their Princeton careers. “It is a slightly tricky exercise because what a lot of this stuff — things like the Rhodes and Marshall — are looking for is qualities of leadership, and if women are hesitant about chucking themselves into student government four weeks after arriving on campus, it’s quite hard then to pick it all up later,”

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Ryan said. When Solomon, an electrical engineering major, was applying for fellowships, she said Moloney helped her capitalize on her strengths as a female engineer. “I might not have known to sort of capture that angle of being the female engineer, as opposed to just being an engineer, and so she was very astute in recognizing that, and actually even in convincing me about why it is truly important to be decidedly female as an engineer,” Solomon said. Besides addressing gender disparity, efforts have also been made to make the whole fellowship application process more inclusive, according to Lane. “That includes people from a wide range of subjects, a good gender balance and geographic diversity, so I think that, in the outreach to everyone, we’re conscious of trying to make a very inclusive process in general,” Lane said. Moloney currently brings in minority applicants by emailing and attending meetings with groups that contain students of varying backgrounds, she noted. Some of the changes came from sources other than formal fellowship advising. 2012 Rhodes scholar Elizabeth Butterworth ’12 established a peer mentoring system between students interested in UK fellowships and recent fellowship winners. “Everyone was really great about reaching out and making sure that they were connecting and consistently available,” Butterworth explained. Moloney noted an increase in the number of applicants throughout her tenure, attributing the uptick to the outreach efforts of the Office of Fellowship Advising, faculty, staff, administrators and past applicants. However, Moloney said she could not provide exact numbers of University students who applied for the fellowships, as many do not require institutional endorsement. “When I see a student, often that student has gotten an email from me, but one of those students, or someone in Turkey who’s a friend or an acquaintance, has also urged them to see me, so that sort of thing is sort of a snowball effect of lots of people telling them that they should be considering a fellowship,” she said. ‘The oddity’ of Princeton Despite the changes instituted by the restructure of the advising program, the numbers of University Rhodes and Marshall winners have not improved significantly. Since Moloney took over fellowship advising in 2010, the University has had 14 Rhodes

and Marshall scholars, while Harvard has had 25 and Yale 22. However, Lane suggested that direct comparisons among the universities may not be appropriate because of the different student body sizes and demographics, while Ryan noted that the three universities have different structures. Although she did not have statistics on Harvard or Yale, Lane noted that Princeton’s class is significantly concentrated in the northeast, so that the majority of Rhodes and Marshall applicants are in the same region and are thus competing for the same few spots. Harvard and, to a lesser extent, Yale, also have larger student bodies and thus statistically should generate more winners regardless of other differences. Lane also noted that it was inappropriate to have target numbers of Marshall or Rhodes winners since applicants need to have particular reasons for wanting to study in the UK. “Our goal is to make sure that everyone who might potentially have an interest in doing that is supported through the process and gives it their best shot, so of course we are delighted that the more people that win, the better. But there wouldn’t be any point in having a target, if there aren’t students that have that interest,” Lane said. Ryan also noted structural differences between Princeton and peer institutions that are less favorable to fellowship applicants. “I think here it’s harder to make it work and that’s because of the oddity of the Princeton sort of organization of social life, compared to the sort of HarvardYale picture,” Ryan said. While Harvard’s residential house system and Yale’s college system have attached faculty members, allowing students to really get to know professors who can write recommendation letters, Ryan said. Princeton’s eating club system makes it more difficult for students to think of professors they are close to who are also senior enough to carry weight with the Rhodes and Marshall selection committees. Although Ryan noted that this is partly counteracted by junior paper and senior thesis advisors, it is less likely that particular faculty members will encourage students to apply and offer to write recommendation letters, a process that is facilitated by the Harvard house system. In their 2009 PAW article, Girgis and Sahner also noted that some other universities had large, well-organized fellowship programs with multiple employees who worked with underclassmen. Although the Uni-

versity has somewhat expanded advising, the system is still relatively small and works primarily with upperclassmen. However, Girgis noted that there are also costs associated with increased focus on fellowships at an earlier stage in students’ academic careers. While earlier support would make it easier for students to organize, cultivate useful connections and shore up weaknesses, it could also lead students to specialize early on and thus miss out on some of the opportunities associated with a liberal arts education. “It sets you up to a very particular and improbable goal so for likely disappointment, and it might warp your experiences in college that makes it too instrumental to specific, concrete goals that makes it less about a liberal arts education,” Girgis told the ‘Prince.’ Going forward The OIP is interviewing candidates for a new Assistant Director of Fellowship Advising position this year, according to Moloney. The new employee will work mainly on the Fulbright, Truman and Goldwater fellowships, and will help systematically reach out to students earlier. Besides addressing gender disparities, the program will also aim to include a more diverse population socioeconomically, racially and ethnically, “to basically make sure that we’re getting a really good representation of Princeton students,” Moloney said. Increased outreach may also include more collaboration with residential colleges and faculty to contact students who might be interested at an earlier stage in their academic careers, Moloney said. The peer-mentoring system established by Butterworth will also be expanded. Ryan noted that a four-year residential college system provides a means for faculty to be more closely associated with students in their junior and senior years, but he noted that this was a slow process. “The notion of certain people cheerfully hiking into their res college in the hope of meeting some professor or another is a fairly uphill struggle,” Ryan said. Nonetheless, Ryan noted that the University is making progress in this direction. For example, when the University writes letters of endorsement, the dean of the student’s residential college — who has followed the student’s progress — signs off on the letter. “I think it has made a difference,” Ryan said. “I think eventually it might make more.”

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Prianka Misra

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think if you ask anyone on campus if Princeton is diverse, you would hear a resounding “yes.” It’s not easy to overlook the multitude of student organizations we have here that embrace cultural affinities: the Chinese Students’ Association, South Asian Students’ Association, Black Student Union and the Taiwanese-American Students’ Association immediately come to mind. When you come to Princeton, you can join Mas Flow, Naacho, Ballet Folklorico, Triple 8 or a number of other cultural dance groups. You can sing in Umqombothi, V-Tone, Kindred Spirit or Koleinu as you choose. If you want to be a part of any of these groups, you can take your pick and affirm an identity. So then why was I surprised when the Carl A. Fields Center sponsored an event called “My Princeton,” designed to embrace diversity and shared the voices of myriad students from a variety of groups and cultural backgrounds? Probably because it was one of the first events I had seen that allowed students to come together, rather than promoting the unique attributes of one specific group. Sure, there are plenty of talks about ethnicity and diversity. But how many events put these concepts into practical application and actually showcase what students from each group are really doing? The busy schedule of a Princeton student does not allow us to stay up-to-date on the

enjamin Franklin once said, “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” Allocating $120,000 in her will to “corrupt” educational institutions, it seems that Eleanor Lewis took his advice seriously. Ms. Lewis, who passed away recently, asked in her will that the money she left behind be used to fund a lawsuit against Princeton University on the claim that it is a corrupt institution. Granted that sometimes the words “privileged,” “detached” and even “elitist” may come to mind when one thinks of Princeton; “corrupt,” however, definitely raises a few eyebrows. Yet her premise does not seem so far-fetched. While the whole lawsuit is varied and complex, addressing multiple issues including the usage of University buildings for supposedly “commercial” purposes, the basic premise is that the school is a for-profit institution and thus does not deserve tax-exempt status. In particular, the lawsuit targets the University’s patent royalty sharing policy. In the past decade alone, Princeton has received over $524 million from a patent on Alimta, an effective drug invented by Princeton professor Edward Taylor in 2004, used for treating certain types of lung cancer. With such a large amount of profit, it is easy to see why local residents would think it’s fair that the University shoulder more of the local tax burden. The plaintiffs of the case argue that they allegedly pay “at least one-third more in taxes” as a result of the school’s current tax exemptions. They are not claiming that the University isn’t entitled to a part of the cuts. After all, the school provided the facilities, backing and materials needed for such research to be conducted in the first place. The real question is whether or not this money should be taxed. As plaintiff attorney Bruce Afran argues, “If they wanted to act like a traditional university, they would put the patent into the public domain and let everyone benefit from it equally.” If not, he adds, the University should register as “a commercial entity and need to pay their taxes like any other commercial entity.” When dealing with the town-gown relationship, questions naturally arise over whether Princeton’s educational purpose warrants the burdens placed on local taxpayers through tax exemptions. Expanding this to say that tax exemptions can be justified on grounds of being innovative or trying to benefit human health and society appears to set a dangerously ambiguous precedent. In response to criticisms, the University cites the Bayh-Dole Act, which allows universities to own patents on intellectual property. However, I think the patent system can be justified on more than just legal grounds. The money is linked to the University’s ability to provide quality education. Although Princeton does make a lot of money, it is important to keep in mind that the University is not aimlessly working toward good, but rather is a societal institution aiming to educate. It is undoubtedly a state interest to have an educated citizenry, and universities play a crucial role in fulfilling that need. The plaintiffs argue, however, that this aim has been tainted through the profits Princeton has made off of patent royalties. It would seem that Princeton is not prioritizing its money properly, citing increases in faculty salaries. Yet, this money also goes toward other ends. The most direct Ryan Dukeman effect is Princeton’s generous financial aid columnist program, which helps many who could not otherwise pay the school’s costly tuition. The average financial aid award for the Class of taffing a historical 2017 was almost $42,000. With a class size of committee at PMUNC, 1,291 students, the University spends about Princeton’s high school $54,220,000 on freshmen alone. The money Model United Nations tourspent to help eliminate financial hurdles that nament, this past weekend, I inevimight otherwise prevent middle- and lowertably got asked some pretty weird class students from attending is undoubtedly a questions by the delegates of my worthy use of the school’s resources and seems 14-person Berlin Conference simuto fit its mission of education. lation. “Can the delegation of BelPrinceton should strive to assist those who gium stage a democratic revoluwant to attend the school but are not able to due tion to overthrow the King so that to financial circumstances beyond their control. I don’t have to vote for this treaty?” After all, is it really a student’s fault that his parents do not have the funds to send him on “Can you look up some stats on the their own? Pouring resources into making weapons manufacturing industry education affordable for all definitely fits under in Denmark in the 1880s for me?” the University’s educational mission. “Is it OK for me to reference ‘Heart While Princeton is able to pay for some of of Darkness’ even though it wasn’t its financial aid through alumni contributions written until 50 years after this and federal aid, it cannot rely on outside help conference?” to carry such a burden. It is through patent By far though, the most royalties, which on face seem profit-seeking, that awkward questions weren’t about allow the University to create an educated public the conference. They were the that is more determined by merit than class. unavoidable questions about Granted, the University should perhaps spend college admissions, especially more of the money it receives through royalties since about two-thirds of the to accomplish this goal and less on other ends, members were either high school and its admission process is not flawless in juniors or seniors. After some of terms of acquiring a perfect representation the committee sessions, delegates of the American public by class in its student would come up to ask me or my bodies. However, this is no reason to tax the chair what our top-choice schools University if it is at least working toward this were, what to say in an alumni worthy goal. interview or to recite the list of colleges to which we applied and Benjamin Dinovelli is a sophomore from Mystic, Conn. He can be reached at bjd5@princeton.edu. got accepted. The question that

great things that each affinity group does, so this type of cultural expose (that doesn’t use food as its main marketing strategy like the TASA Night Market) is crucial to a greater understanding of Princeton’s eclectic array of cultural happenings. Granted, the primary goal of an affinity group is not only to introduce itself and its traditions to the greater Princeton community, but also to provide activities for its own members. I believe the internal and external aspects of these groups are equally important. But how do biracial students feel? Or those who come from two faiths? Or someone who doesn’t quite fit into any of these affinity groups at all? Even if they are welcome to join any of these groups, it’s certainly not fair to make people choose one over another. Just as we don’t define our identity in one way, we shouldn’t have to use one group to showcase who we are. There need to be more opportunities, student groups and events that embrace who we are on the whole, not just in pieces. But at Princeton, we don’t have a lot of events that encourage us to bring all of these identities together, to embrace a greater spirit of diversity. We have plenty of ways to side with one (or two, or possibly three) religious or racial aspect(s) of ourselves, but we must do so on separate planes. The Carl A. Fields Center is dedicated to equality and understanding and seeks to “create and promote a sense of belonging that permeates throughout all aspects of the Princeton community” and “foster [its] growth and unity,” but does it really? In my opinion, it mostly provides a venue for groups to showcase their own individual work — SASA’s Diwali Eid Banquet, for

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example, does not incorporate the traditions of any other group. How easy is it for them to pair up with Pehchaan (the Muslim Students’ Association), Princeton Hindu Satsangam or the Asian American Students’ Association to collaborate? And how often is this encouraged? CSA’s Around the World event seems to get at this idea of clumping together, but I’m imagining these kinds of events on a much larger scale. They should be promoted campus-wide and should target faculty, graduate students and greater Princeton community members as well. In high school, I was part of a group called the Diversity Council. Even though we had a small student body, we were constantly focused on having discussions, fundraisers, and events that promoted diversity — which means, in my opinion, celebrating every facet (not just one or two or three) of every individual. I would love to see a model like this at Princeton, that understands the truly intricate meaning of diversity. On one hand, this means reaching out to those of other backgrounds, and collaborating with them to foster a greater sense of understanding of what each group does. On the other, promoting diversity means seeing people as more complex than mere embodiments of one identity group or another. I think that if we really think hard about what it is that defines each one of us culturally, we’ll see that we aren’t just one shade of human. We each have so many hues, and we need to let them mix together. Prianka Misra is a sophomore from Castro Valley, Calif. She can be reached at pmisra@princeton.edu.

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“What’d you do to get into Princeton?”

surprised me the most of these though was, “What’d you do to get into Princeton?” When he first asked me, I tried to reconcile the standard feelings that the question elicits: Scrambling to try to say something super impressive-sounding and inadequacy in wondering why I even belong at Princeton. Trying to avoid attempting to answer a question I obviously don’t have an answer to, I asked the delegate to be more specific and a few minutes later found myself having to list my SAT scores and high school leadership positions. After a while, I realized that it’s probably better not to think about questions like these, and more importantly, that it’s probably better not to know the answers. In not knowing why I got accepted to Princeton, what specific accomplishment or impressivesounding recommendation put me ‘over the edge’ in the admission committee meeting, I don’t feel defined by any single accomplishment. While it’s probably not the case for the majority of students, for some, there very well may be that one special accomplishment that almost single-handedly got them into Princeton. For me, not feeling like I have an easy answer to “Why are you here?” makes me instead

feel that I don’t have a mantle to uphold in any specific area and can have some flexibility in my choices. I didn’t win the Intel Science Award, I didn’t manage a gubernatorial campaign and I’ve never been nominated for a Grammy. As such, I don’t feel that I have some unbelievable standard to live up to, in one very concentrated area. For most people applying, past a certain point of grades, accomplishments, extracurriculars, etc. the admission decisions are effectively a lottery system, and the decision cannot be solely accredited to one individual thing. Not knowing why my admission letter began with “Congratulations!” is also motivating. On some level, a bit of insecurity is a good thing. To put a positive spin on it, “insecurity” can simply mean feeling like I have to “earn my place.” I don’t at all feel like I’m entitled to be here or that my accomplishments make my presence here an inherent right. It would be quite easy for Princeton to find another me; in fact, probably hundreds of people who had the same qualifications, interests and background as me applied to Princeton (as a white male from New England who went to private school and wants to be a Wilson School major, I’m literally positive this is true). It makes

me work harder and incentivizes me not to give anything less than a full effort, even despite the crushingly busy schedule we all face. In not knowing that I got accepted only because of one particular accomplishment, which I would obviously feel obliged to continue and live up to, I have a freedom to try new things. If I had won an Intel Science Prize, I would feel guilty being a complit major. Had I started a multinational charity that runs schools for orphans in some impoverished country, I would feel guilty giving it up to pursue a club sport I’d never tried. But I didn’t. So when a high school kid asks me what I did to get into Princeton, I could list off the grades and scores I got or the extracurriculars I did and led, but I think now that I’d proudly say that there was no one thing that got me here. Instead I would advise that student to present himself honestly, and not try to be a superstar at the expense of cherished interests. Because as I now know, there’s at least some space open at Princeton for people who are still waiting to make their mark. Ryan Dukeman is a freshman from Westwood, Mass. He can be reached at rdukeman@princeton.edu.

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“There was a sense that there would be strong student interest in the course,” Kassam-Remtulla said. Fifteen students had registered for 12 openings in the course at the time of publication. Although she is not enrolled in the course, Muslim student Sarah Qari ’16 said she saw a need at the University for a new perspective on Muslim-American culture. “A lot of courses that are offered in the University setting, they often tackle themes of how Islam tradition — and how the religion — interacts with modernity,” Qari said. “This course really gets at what Muslims are facing in their daily lives as Americans.” Qari explained the role of this

course in discussing issues applicable to the diverse Muslim community in American society, including female participation and political identification. Among the many courses offered at Princeton that discuss Islam, this one will be unique in its focus on the long history of Muslim culture in the United States that is often overlooked, Sultan said. “Often times when people think of Islam, they think of it as a geopolitical reality in another part of the world, namely, the Middle East,” Sultan said. “The lived experience of Muslims is that Islam is a religion that is lived as theology, as a moral and ethical framework. Therefore, it is a religion that can be lived everywhere and it is lived everywhere.” The course will feature a historical survey of Muslims in the United

States, including the history of Muslim African slaves, immigration and Muslim converts. The second half of the course will cover various sociological topics including Sept. 11 and its aftermath, diversity within Muslim communities, Muslim youth and the experience of women within Muslim communities, Kassam-Remtulla explained. The course is offered through the Center for African American Studies, American studies, anthropology and religion, according to the Registrar’s web page. This is because a significant portion of African slaves were Muslim, and because the United States has seen several African Americanpredominant Muslim movements, Kassam-Remtulla explained. “There’s a much richer history that a lot of people are not aware of,” Kassam-Remtulla said.

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marijuana,” St. Pierre said. “He had a good and interesting relationship with his children that he thought few of his peers did.” Lewis’ use of marijuana attracted public controversy in 2000, when he was arrested in New Zealand on three counts of drug possession after customs officials discovered “significant” amounts of hashish and marijuana in his briefcase. Lewis was released after one night in jail, and during his trial his lawyer noted that he used the marijuana on the advice of his doctor following a partial leg amputation in 1998. St. Pierre said that he thinks that Peter’s legacy is bittersweet, sweet in the sense that he was the movement’s biggest and most important donor but bitter in the sense that some drug reform groups have become so dependent on his wealth that they did not look to other grassroots sources. He added while that although other wealthy men such as Zimmer and Shawn Parker, one of the founders of Facebook, have pledged money to the cause of drug reform, their contributions have not been as large as those of Peter Lewis. There are two tiers of people to replace Lewis, St. Pierre explained, stakeholders and funders who may even come from within the industry itself. St. Pierre noted that in 2010, a medical marijuana dispensary operator named Richard Lee gave millions in support of the California voter initiative to legalize marijuana, while Peter Lewis and his fellow corporate executives only gave their contributions six weeks before the voting occurred, when they could no longer do any good. Nadelmann said that he is optimistic that Lewis’ children will carry on his legacy, as they are aware of and respect their father’s commitment to the issue of legalizing marijuana. Nadelmann noted that Lewis had told him that he “now regarded [marijuana law reform] as his number one philanthropic commitment and passion.”

Lewis “did not see the University through rose-colored glasses” Lewis’ most significant monetary contribution during his tenure as a trustee was the Lewis Center for the Arts, for which Lewis gave $101 million. In addition to funding the Center itself, Lewis’ gift provided support for an initiative to increase the number of arts programs as well as the number of artists teaching and collaborating at Princeton. Former University President Shirley Tilghman explained that Lewis’ contribution grew out of a conversation she and Lewis had about what she thought were some of the gaping holes in Princeton’s portfolio “I don’t think Peter was particularly interested in theater and dance, although he was passionate about the visual arts,” Tilghman said. “But I think he saw this as an area in which Princeton needed to become much better, and I think he was willing to make a historic gift in order to make it happen.” Lewis also endowed the Lewis Library, which contains reference materials on the science and mathematics disciplines and was designed by internationally known architect Frank Gehry. Lewis and Gehry had by this time become great friends, Tilghman explained, adding that one of her first actions as president was to fly to Los Angeles with Lewis to discuss the construction of the building with Gehry. Lewis’ first large gift, Tilghman said, was to endow the Lewis-Sigler Institute, housed in the Carl Icahn Laboratory, for $35 million. The Lewis-Sigler institute was established to do pioneering work with respect to the relationship between modern biology and the more quantitative sciences, and Lewis asked that the institute be named for his recently-deceased friend. Haselkorn, the classmate and long time friend, explained that he thought this tribute to be the ultimate sign of the friendship between Peter Lewis and Paul Sigler. “He was a benefactor of the old school. He believed that the University knew best what the University needed, and he was willing to support whatever the University thought it needed most,” Tilgh-

man said. As a University Trustee, Peter Lewis served on the Grounds and Buildings Committee, fellow trustee Charlie Gibson ’65 said, adding that the Grounds and Buildings Committee is responsible for authorizing and overseeing new building projects. Gibson noted that work done as part of the Grounds and Buildings Committee included overseeing the five to six year process to achieve zoning approval for the Lewis Center for the Arts. Other committees Lewis served on included the Committee for Student Life and the Honorary Degrees Committee. “When I went on the board,” Gibson said, “I didn’t know a whole lot about being on the board, so I tried to find a couple of board members that I thought I could emulate and before I knew that Lewis was a contributor, or about Lewis Library or any of that, I thought, this is a guy who shoots from the hip and whose judgments are well-considered and who is not afraid to speak out.” One of Lewis’ great strengths as a trustee, Tilghman explained, was that he “did not see the University through rose-colored glasses,” instead seeing it as an imperfect institution that needed to be improved. Current Chair of the Board, Katie Hall ’80 said that she considered Lewis to be particularly valuable as a trustee because he was an independent thinker who always challenged people to do things better. Former University President Harold Shapiro explained that he suggested Lewis as a potential trustee in 1998 because Lewis had independent ideas and brought up issues from a different angle. “He struck me as someone who expressed his ideas,” Shapiro said, adding later that “he didn’t take it as an insult or something if one of his ideas was turned down or he ended up on the losing side of an issue.” Shapiro also added that Lewis, as a businessman, wanted to be sure that the University was wellrun. “One of the reasons he became a big donor was that he came to the view that the University was wellmanaged,” Shapiro said.

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NUMB3RS

1997

The last year the men had a start as good as their 7-1 start to this season

Number of players on the men’s team who average double digits in points

Number of players on the women’s team who average double digits in points

41.7

Freshman Spencer Weisz’s field goal percentage from beyond the arc

65.8

Sophomore Taylor William’s field goal percentage, best in the league

10.6

Turnovers per game the men’s team allows, best in the league

16.6

Assists per game for the women, good for 1st in the league

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BASKETBALL RECAP PRINCETON

MEN (7-1)

OPPONENTS

72.1

POINTS PER GAME

62.9

45.6

FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE

43.1

40.1

3-PT FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE

30.3

33.5

REBOUNDS PER GAME

30.6

14.9

ASSISTS PER GAME

9.3

BLOCKS PER GAME

1.6

4.8

STEALS PER GAME

6.3

ASSIST/ TURNOVER RATIO

1.4

REBOUND RATIO

2-POINT/3-POINT RATIO

.94

PRINCETON

WOMEN (5-4)

75.8

POINTS PER GAME

69.4

47.7

FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE

40.6

34.1

3-PT FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE

OPPONENTS

32.5

42.1

REBOUNDS PER GAME

33.9

16.6

ASSISTS PER GAME

12.3

3.3

BLOCKS PER GAME

2.2

4.9

STEALS PER GAME

5.9

ASSIST/ TURNOVER RATIO

1.13

REBOUND RATIO

2-POINT/3-POINT RATIO