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How Gary Walters won
With charm and force, athletics director fought critics back By Teddy Schleifer srnior writer
Princeton sports were in trouble. In 1992, the University’s vice president penned a study bringing varsity athletics under the microscope. In 1993, a strategic plan encouraged the University to “rethink” athletics’ role at Princeton. And in 1994, it was the Board of Trustees’ turn to scrutinize: Should Princeton be so committed to varsity athletics? Three studies in three years. The reports largely reaffirmed varsity athletics’ place at Princeton, but nothing was as declarative as what the University did next. It hired Gary Walters ’67 as athletic director. Over the past 20 years, Walters largely squashed that stream of skepticism — as often with a disarming,
tireless charm as with aggressive, brute force. Walters could pepper faculty members sympathetic to athletics with the latest reads on athletic leadership until they were sending him links. But he could also re-emerge as a competitor, outmuscling those who threatened his turf. This is Walters’ last year, and his 51st since arriving on campus as the lightning fast point guard who would in 1965 lead the basketball team to the Final Four. And a review of Walters’ tenure reveals a series of victories over both his critics and the broader criticisms of Princeton’s athletic program. By recasting athletics as a form of character education, Walters has tried to argue that what happens in the classroom and on the playing fields isn’t all that different. See WALTERS page 9 CONOR DUBE :: ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
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News & Notes University rejects participation in ASA boycott of Israel
the university has rejected the American Studies Association’s participation in a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, in spite of its membership in the ASA. In a statement released last December, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said that the boycott was “misguided” and emphasized the importance of working with academic institutions throughout the world despite disagreements with the governments under which the institutions operate. Eisgruber’s statement followed a statement issued by the Association of American Universities that opposed the boycott on the basis that it hindered academic freedom, which should be fundamental in American academic institutions and especially in research universities. See NOTES page 5
A series of controversial text messages and emails between top staff members of Gov. Chris Christie’s office discussing the closing of two lanes on the George Washington Bridge, a major artery for commuters in Fort Lee, N.J., surfaced last week, providing support for the accusation that Christie’s office caused the four-day gridlock as retribution against the town’s mayor. The governor apologized for what he described as unknowingly betraying the public in
a press conference Thursday. ”Someone I permitted to be in that circle of trust for the past five years betrayed that trust,” he said, The New York Times reported. The messages, published by The Bergen Record and several other outlets, strongly implied that the four-day gridlock was initiated to retaliate against Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich for supporting Christie’s Democratic opponent, Barbara Buono, during last year’s gubernatorial race, which Christie won by 22 points. A 2,000-page set of documents released Friday con-
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tained emails and text messages sent by top Christie administration and Port Authority officials. Friday’s release indicates that local Fort Lee officials and workers ordered to close the lanes found the orders very confusing, The New York Times reported. Christie’s administration worked closely with Princeton’s local government during the merging of the former township and borough in 2011, and offered a $340,000 grant to further the process. Former Township Mayor Chad Goerner, a Democrat, See SCANDAL page 2
Biography Past SINSI Scholars praise discusses program for its flexibility Wilson’s Scheide ’36: A century love life REBECCA TERRETT :: SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
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of music, philanthropy By Jasmine Wang staff writer
William H. Scheide ’36 turned 100 on Jan. 6, 2014. In the century since his birth, Scheide has established himself as an international leader in the music community and has spread his passion for music, particularly that of Johann Sebastian Bach, philanthropy and scholarship all over the world. Best-known as one of the most famous Bach enthusiasts in the music world, Scheide founded the Bach Aria Group in the 1940s, an unprecedented ensemble that brought some of Bach’s rarest masterpieces to audiences everywhere. Among his many contributions to the University, his principal legacy is the Scheide Library, one of the most valuable rare books collections in the world. Begun by his grandfather and expanded by Scheide and his father, the family still owns the collection but houses
it in Firestone Library, where it is accessible to scholars. On his 90th birthday, Scheide announced that he would bequeath the collection to the University upon his death. Throughout his life, Scheide has used his inherited fortune to support many philanthropic causes, particularly civil rights issues. He was one of the primary funders of the landmark 1954 lawsuit Brown v. Board of Education that ended public school segregation. He now resides in Princeton, N.J., with his wife, Judith Scheide. A childhood that taught him passion and principle Exactly one century ago in Philadelphia, Pa., Scheide was born to pianist John Hinsdale Scheide, Class of 1896, and Harriet Hurd, a singer and social worker. After being introduced to the piano at age six, Scheide has spread a passion for music See BACH page 4
By Corrine Lowe staff writer
“Wilson,” a recent biography of former University president Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, has drawn attention from Hollywood for its characterization of the late president as a passionate lover. The film rights to the book have been optioned by Appian Way, the production company owned by Leonardo DiCaprio. A. Scott Berg ’71, a University trustee and a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, released “Wilson” in September 2013 after 13 years of research and writing. Wilson has been a figure of interest to Berg ever since he first began reading about the former president in high school and even motivated him, in part, to attend the University. Berg said he attempted to distinguish his biography from existing works on Wilson by “humanizing” See BOOK page 6
Established by the Wilson School in 2006, the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative has sent students across the globe for public policy fellowships in a variety of locales, from the Tanzanian Ministry of Health to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Its alumni network stretches from Washington, D.C., to Doctors Without Borders to Twitter. With its 10th cohort selected this year, SINSI has established a reputation as a prestigious opportunity for undergraduates who want to work in the federal government. Five scholars are annually offered six-year fellowships, working at a government internship the summer after their junior year and then taking part in the “1-2-1” track. This entails a year of study in the master of public affairs program at the Wilson School, followed by a twoyear fellowship in the federal government, and concludes with a final year at the Wilson School to complete the MPA program. While one might expect a
program of SINSI’s duration and complexity to be vulnerable to logistical difficulties, the Scholars interviewed for this article consistently lauded SINSI’s flexibility in adapting to their unique interests. From nailing down prestigious placements to obtaining security clearances, the Scholars said that SINSI ensured that their movement through the U.S. government was smooth sailing. A supportive start From the moment they are selected for the program, Scholars are welcomed into a support network and provided a strong advising base. “Going in, I had very little understanding of what specific offices that catered to my interests were,” said Andrew Kim ’10 GS ’14. “[Ambassador and Wilson School lecturer Barbara Bodine, director of SINSI] really works closely with you to figure out that first placement. After that point, you naturally just find other options.” Kim is in his final year of the MPA program and has completed placements at the State Department, the Department of Defense and the See FELLOWSHIP page 2
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said he had a “very good relationship” with the administration throughout the process. Goerner said he did not feel pressured to provide anything in return for the generous contribution. “Anybody that knows me knows that I don’t get pressured to provide endorsements. I endorse people that I want,” he explained. Goerner is now a consultant. Although Christie strongly contested these allegations in September, he revised his statement after the communication was released, saying that he was “misled” by his staff and is “deeply saddened” by their behavior, according to The New York Times. Christie is an exofficio trustee of the University due to his position as Governor. Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert said she has a “positive relationship” with Christie’s staff and that they have been “very helpful” over the course of the consolidation process. She added that she suspected the allegations were true when they were first raised last year. Lempert endorsed Buono and said she was not approached by Christie during his campaign. “I had thought something like that had gone on but to actually see it in print is shocking. I was surprised to read how cavalier it was,” Lempert said, referring to the jovial tone of the exchanges. Goerner criticized Christie’s leadership and called the affair “shameful.” “To say that I was disappointed is an understatement. Being a leader means showing people the way through your actions and trying to forge partnerships where you can. Not shutting down traffic on the [George Washington] Bridge because someone doesn’t support your reelection campaign. Especially when you’re up by 20, 25 points in the polls. I think it represents politics at its worst,” Goerner
said of his reaction to the news. Although Christie confirmed that he would comply with future investigations, political strategists are beginning to assess the impact of the scandal on Christie’s 2016 election prospects. Christie has been discussed as a likely candidate for the 2016 Republican nomination by Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post and many other forecasters. “I think it’s an embarrassment. I think it’s a major challenge. I don’t think it’s disqualifying. It’ll just make things much more difficult,” politics professor Nolan McCarty said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. He added that if the investigation proves Christie’s prior involvement with the ploy in any way, “it would pretty much disqualify him from higher office.” In any case, McCarty said that speculations will hurt Christie’s platform as a straightforward, bipartisan candidate. “If it turns out the way he worked with Democrats was
“Politics ain’t beanbag. I am who I am, but I am not a bully.” Chris Christie,
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to threaten them, and then to retaliate when they didn’t come around, that’s going to undermine the message that he wanted to send to national voters,” McCarty noted. “It kind of destroys a reputation for bipartisan effectiveness that he wanted to make the centerpiece of his presidential campaign.” Christie’s Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly wrote it was “time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee” in an email addressed to Christie Port Authority appointee David
Wildstein, who replied, “Got it.” Another party involved in the incident, whose name was redacted, claimed to “feel bad about the kids,” many of whom missed school due to hour-long traffic jams. “They are the children of Buono voters,” Wildstein responded. The order to close both lanes was reversed four days later by the Executive Director of the Port
“I think it’s a major challenge. I don’t think it’s disqualifying.” Nolan McCarty,
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Authority, Patrick Foye, who said in an email to colleagues that he was “appalled” by the lack of communication concerning the alleged traffic study. Wildstein resigned once these allegations began to surface last month. Kelly was dismissed from her position this week. In an interview with MSNBC, Sokolich said Christie’s administration should reach out to those who suffered from delayed emergency vehicles rather than apologizing to him personally. Christie said he does not remember ever meeting Sokolich, but did so after his press conference to apologize. However, this incident is not the first time that Christie, a potential GOP candidate for the 2016 presidential elections, has been tied to allegations concerning political retribution. “Politics ain’t beanbag,” Christie said when asked about his reputation as a bully in a press conference following the scandal. Although he acknowledged his “passionate” character, Christie denied the accusations. “I am who I am, but I am not a bully.” Staff writer Chitra Marti contributed reporting.
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U.S. Embassy in Burma. Bodine explained that the initial internship placement is an individualized process in which she recommends several agencies that match a student’s particular interests. “I don’t sit here in the middle of my spider web and decide what’s going to happen to their lives and spring it on them,” she said. After the student has found an agency for which he or she would like to work, Bodine then contacts the agency to set up the placement. Students often go through the agency’s own application process if such a program exists, and most of the program’s help comes in the form of navigating logistics in matters like obtaining security clearances.
“I don’t sit here in my spider web and decide what’s going to happen to their lives and spring it on them.” Barbara Bodine, Director of SINSI
Annie Khoa ’13 MPA ’17 noted that she was able to obtain her security clearance in a matter of months, rather than the standard time of a year or more. “I think it would have been much more impossible if [Bodine] had not been there and had her contacts that she could have reached out to and really pushed to have my security clearance,” Khoa said. Bridging policy and academic interests While SINSI attracts more than half of its students from the Wilson School — contributing 27 out of the program’s 48 Scholars — a number of students in various other fields enter the program every year, according to the program website. Kimberly Bonner ’08 MPA ’12 was a molecular biology major during her time as an undergraduate. “Even though I was majoring in the hard sciences, I was really interested in policy. But I didn’t have a sense of how to make a transition where I could bridge those two interests,” she said. Bonner had not heard of the SINSI program until her junior year but decided to apply soon after learning of it. “I’ve always been interested in the intersection of science and policy, and how I could be a good conduit between those two worlds,” she said, adding that the SINSI program seemed the perfect program
to accommodate this interest. Similarly, Hannah Safford ’13 GS ’17 was a chemical engineering major as an undergraduate. She learned about the SINSI program at an orientation for those pursuing Wilson School certificates during her junior fall. “I’d been trying to balance those two things, the science and the policy, and was just beginning to think about, after I graduated, whether I wanted to focus more on science or more on policy,” Safford said. “When I heard about SINSI, I thought that it might be a good way to keep both those doors open a little bit longer.” Safford said that she was not very committed to the program when she applied but was happy to hear that she had been accepted. “It sort of took me by surprise that I ended up enrolling in the program, but I certainly do not regret that decision,” she said. Both Bonner and Safford cited the program’s flexibility as a unique benefit. Bonner, who wrote her senior thesis on Tanzania’s malaria control program, was able to use the program to land a fellowship organizing the distribution
“That dose of reality was much needed and will serve me well for the rest of my life -- not just these lofty ideas but seeing what it looks like in practice.” Kimberly Bonner ’08 MPA ’12
of malaria nets in Tanzania. “The experience of watching what it’s like to get 9 million bed nets out in a country where maybe 10 percent of people have a birth certificate is a logistical challenge,” Bonner said. “That dose of reality was much needed and will serve me well for the rest of my life — not just these lofty ideas, but seeing what it looks like in practice.” Safford said that her SINSI experience has been somewhat unique, citing the fact that she is pursuing a Masters of Engineering with an MPA through SINSI. She said that she is grateful that SINSI has been flexible enough to allow her to pursue both of her interests. “Increasingly, as I move forward in my academic and nonacademic career, I’m finding that I might be able to keep both those doors open indefinitely,” Safford said. When asked about her career plans, Safford said that she is still uncertain as to whether she wants to remain
in the sciences, pursue policy or enter the private sector. Navigating the government bureaucracy Once the Scholars arrive at their offices, they assume responsibilities as a fellow of a their chosen agencies, often in international offices from the Agency of International Development in Lima, Peru to the U.S. Embassy in Burma. The Scholars noted that there were challenges to working
“Sometimes it can be a little confusing to navigate the government bureaucracy.” Megan McPhee ’11 MPA ’15
in a federal agency fresh out of college. “Sometimes it can be a little confusing to navigate the government bureaucracy,” Megan McPhee ’11 GS ’15 said. McPhee is currently working as the political-military officer at the U.S. Embassy in Mali. Bodine explained that sometimes miscommunications can arise between Scholars and their agencies. “It’s a different world, it’s a different culture, and, like any culture, it has vocabulary and practices and rites,” Bodine said. The Scholars also find that they must learn to work with others with more experience and expertise in their respective fields. “What makes this program unique is there’s literally no other way that a fresh college grad can be placed into the heart of a policy-making environment,” Kim said. “It’s hard to prepare for this, but one thing you have to understand pretty quickly as a SINSI is navigating this fine line between asserting your value and what you can do and on the other hand being humble and not overly aggressive.” Beyond the basic requirements, the Scholars have the freedom to choose where and for how long they stay in each fellowship. Some have chosen to adopt a rotational structure among various locations and departments with a common policy theme, while others have devoted their fellowship years entirely to one organization. Shannon Brink ’09 MPA ’13 knew that she wanted to work in the U.S. Agency for International Development in Lima, Peru for her entire fellowship. She explained that she was given a great deal of responsibility and developed valuable expertise in her job, which will help her in her job as an economic officer for the
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Foreign Service, which she will begin this month. “I have a really good sense of what the challenges of working in the foreign service are,” Brink said. “I also
“I didn’t have a sense of how to make a transition where I could bridge those two interests.” Kimberly Bonner ’08 MPA ’12
know that I’ll be able to hit the ground running because of this experience I got through SINSI.” For those who decide to move between agencies, the Scholars found that the process was a fluid, natural transition with the SINSI title as a valuable asset. “[My second placement] sort of just fell on my lap, just because of the inter-agency
process. You bump into people. They know you’re a SINSI; they know what that means, so they tried to pull me in,” Kim said. “SINSI’s a thing now. When you go into many offices of the government, they know what SINSI is, so they won’t see it as just another intern. They know it’s a different deal, and they know what we’ve done.” In fact, many agencies have expressed overwhelming support for the SINSI program as its Scholars make their way into different agencies. “The question my last boss asked me at the end of my rotation was, ‘So, how many more SINSIs are there, and how do we get one?’ ” McPhee noted. The benefits of SINSI lie not just in the connections to government but also to one another. As the number of SINSI Scholars and alumni grows, so does the sense of community and partnership both within cohorts and between years. “A sense of cohort cohesion, I think, develops very quickly and there is — I have to say, this is one of the things I think is an amazing strength of SINSI — the incredible intergenerational community,” Bodine said. She said that starting with the first welcome reception
for newly announced SINSI Scholars, there exists a community of past and present Scholars willing to offer advice and support. “The beauty of having a
“What makes this program unique is there’s literally no other way that a fresh college grad can be placed into the heart of a policy-making environment.” Andrew Kim ’10 MPA ’14 growing network of students who have gone through SINSI is that we have a really good sense of what offices and what people are really good to work with, so I think it just gets better and better because that network is expanding,” Brink said. Brink herself is an example of that interconnectivity, as
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she had recommended that Elias Sanchez-Eppler ’11 GS ’15 work at the Lima embassy after she completed her two years there. He is currently working with the State Department in Washington, D.C. “I doubt I will have a cooler and more fun time than the one I had [in Lima] in a long, long time,” Sanchez-Eppler said. After SINSI: “a CV that will open doors for you” Following the two-year fellowship, the Scholars return to the Wilson School to complete their final year in the MPA program. The first two cohorts completed their fellowships immediately postgraduation and before starting the MPA program. The 1-2-1 structure was implemented in 2008 to give Scholars a year’s worth of basic skills to work in their placements and help them maintain connections within the government to facilitate post-graduate plans, according to Bodine. Bodine noted that although there is no official hiring process through SINSI, if an agency is interested in hiring a SINSI Scholar, she will act as an intermediary to help facilitate the hiring through the government’s official employment system. Several Scholars noted how eager their agencies were to take SINSI scholars. “All the offices that I’ve been in are so happy to have a SINSI. It’s such a great program; you’re basically free labor to them,” McPhee noted. Agencies have even expressed interest in supporting future generations of SINSI Scholars and hiring them for official employment. “I remember when I was leaving the embassy in Lima with USAID, they kept saying, ‘How can we hire you? We want to hire you; can you do like an online masters program so we can keep you here?’” Brink said.
Thomas Tasche ’13 GS ’17 said one of the greatest benefits of the program is that it allows its students to enter the world of government much more easily than other students. “By sending you out on Princeton-sponsored internships and fellowships, it lets you build a CV that will open doors for you down the road, while the masters program gives you the qualification needed to take some of the more meaningful jobs in the public sector,” he said. Tasche said that even though the program encourages its students to take jobs in public service, “the Woodrow Wilson School and SINSI take a really wide view of what public service means.” For example, Eugene Yi ’08 MPA ’13 spent his SINSI fellowship years working for
“I doubt I will ever have a cooler and more fun time than the one I had [in Lima] in a long, long time.” Elias Sanchez-Eppler ’11 MPA ’15 various organizations, such as the Department of Defense in China and Korea and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, where he was a political officer. “I loved it so much that I extended my fellowship and deferred the program to do more,” Yi said. Yi’s fellowships centered on cybersecurity, and he said that “it really inspired me to pursue that particular issue much more in depth, so when I came
back to grad school, I started learning how to code.” This led him to his current job at Twitter, where he works on public policy and internet freedom issues in Asia. “It’s a neat example of how my experiences at SINSI really got me to shape my job right now,” Yi said. Looking back, Yi said that he “had an amazing time with the program, in terms of the experiences that it afforded me and the types of people I got to work with.” He added, “I didn’t quite know what to expect because I was in the first class of SINSI. But it was a risk that paid off and had major benefits for me.” Although most of the Scholars interviewed expressed interest in working for the public sector in the future, it is not always their immediate post-graduate option. “That’s a harder part of the program because the U.S. government right now is, as you may have noticed, having some financial issues,” Bodine said. Part of that hiring difficulty is due to the government sequester that has limited the budget of many federal agencies, especially for hiring new employees. The sequester has also decreased funding for research at the University. According to Bodine, of the two cohorts that have graduated, seven Scholars work in the government, one is at law school, two are in a joint MPA/ JD program, two work with international NGOs, three work at government consulting firms and two work in the private sector. The third group of SINSI Scholars will graduate this year, and the number, quality and diversity of applicants has been steadily increasing, Bodine said. “The cohort we just selected is our 10th cohort, which is kind of a milestone that we hadn’t even recognized. That’s a lot of people,” Bodine said.
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throughout the globe. Scheide was born into a wealthy family. His grandfather, William T. Scheide, met John D. Rockefeller just as he was shifting careers from telegraph operator to oil prospector and became the national manager of pipelines for Standard Oil. Scheide’s father also worked for Standard Oil until he contracted tuberculosis and had to stop working. Scheide grew up attending Princeton Reunions with his father, according to Judith Scheide. Scheide attended a private school in Connecticut, which at the time did not require tuition, because his father wanted him to grow up with people who weren’t wealthy, said Scheide’s wife. While at the Loomis Chaffee School, Scheide was captain of the school’s soccer team. Since the University had no music department at the time, Scheide majored in history. One of his favorite professors, however, was Roy Welsh, who came to the University in 1934 from Smith College to teach two undergraduate music courses, according to the Princeton Companion. One of his favorite memories was pounding on Professor Welsh’s door and waking him up to listen to jazz musician Benny Goodman, whose music Scheide adored. Welsh found the music “absolutely diabolical,” Scheide said. Overall, however, Scheide felt very lonely at the University. Many of his friends were part of the work-study program during the Great Depression, but Scheide’s fortune allowed him to skip the program, his wife explained. He often felt excluded by the bond students in the work-study program shared. Scheide wrote music criticism for The Daily Princetonian and often attended concerts in Philadelphia and New York, according to Scheide’s wife. He was a member of Terrace Club. Scheide recalled the day when Albert Einstein showed up by surprise at an astronomy lecture at 9 a.m. on a Monday morning. The famous German scientist was in the midst of explaining relativity when Scheide walked into the lecture room a few minutes late. Scheide’s senior thesis, “Adaptations of Christianity to Chinese Culture,” discussed the pervasive Christian influences that Jesuit missionaries had brought into Chinese culture centuries earlier. His advisor was Lynn Townsend White, Jr., the father of current Wilson School professor, Lynn T. White III. The summer after graduating, Scheide took a trip to Germany with his classmate Alan Walker ’36. He said that the trip seemed only natural, since he had studied German, as well as Greek and Latin, for four years. Scheide recalled how disturbing and ominous it felt to participate in the custom of greeting nearly everyone with the salute “Heil Hitler.” “I could feel it,” said Scheide of Hitler’s power already taking root in that unstable country.
Returning home, Scheide spent nearly a year studying the family’s financial history, his wife explained. In the fall of 1937, he began studying music as a graduate student at Columbia University. His master’s thesis, which explored Bach’s music in the first century after his death, showed that he was already particularly interested in Bach’s work. He met his first wife, Lorna Riggs Scheide, at the International House of New York and married her shortly after in 1940, according to Judith Scheide. After completing his master’s degree in 1940, Scheide took a teaching position at Cornell University. Scheide and other assistant professors submitted a petition protesting an associate professor appointee whom they believed was unqualified, said Scheide’s wife. In response, the university fired all who had signed the petition. Scheide’s termination deeply upset his parents. Scheide recalls how his pastor urged him to apologize for the sake of his career — which Scheide insisted would amount to betraying his colleagues, who, unlike him, did not have the resources to go without a job.
“It wasn’t that he’d heard them played, but he played them in his mind.” Judith Scheide
“That’s not the way you brought me up. I’m not going to do that,” he said he told his parents. Scheide was the first American published in the Bach-Jahrbuch, one of the world’s most respected Bach literary periodicals, according to the American Bach Society. At the age of 28, Scheide saw both his father’s death and the birth of his first child. He and his wife returned home to their enormous inheritance, said Judith Scheide. Bringing Bach to the masses Scheide’s enchantment with Bach’s cantatas inspired him to found the Bach Aria Group, an ensemble whose mission was bringing Bach’s lesser-known music to the public. He first discovered his love for Bach as he pored over the incredibly rare compilation of Bach’s complete scores his father bought him during his college years. “It wasn’t that he’d heard them played, but he played them in his mind,” Judith Scheide explained. “And they were beautiful, and he wanted the world to see them.” In a little house in Vermont, Scheide proceeded to gather the finest performing artists in the world and began experimenting with Bach’s music. The group began with four singers and five
instrumentalists, including an oboist, flutist, cellist, violinist and pianist, according to Yehudi Wyner, composer and keyboarding artist who has served as artistic director of the group since 1968. According to Judith Scheide, Scheide used the piano rather than the harpsichord out of practicality, since pianos were much more accessible and had the ability to amplify in large auditoriums. Scheide became one of the most influential authorities on the music and history of Bach. During that time, the Bach Aria Group performed at concerts, published numerous broadcasts and recordings and ascended to the international spotlight. When the group failed to cover its expenses, Scheide often funded it out of his own pocket. “I knew about him when I was even younger than you,” said music professor emeritus Paul Lansky, who retired recently. “I used to go to the Bach Aria group when I was in high school and college. It was a really amazing experience, with some of the finest performing artists in the world. Yeah, it was very influential.” Scheide served as the group’s manager, keeping track of every performance beginning in 1946. He also ensured that the group played on the radio every Sunday morning for 15 minutes, according to Judith Scheide. They played throughout the United States at colleges, high schools and community auditoriums and toured internationally. Scheide’s laborious work for the group included thousands of hours of photocopying and Scotch-Taping scores containing the individual part for each player, as Bach’s arias and cantatas were particularly rare at the time and only accessible through Scheide’s own Bach collection, said Wyner. If a bar of music taped to a player’s score ever fell off, Scheide always knew the exact piece to which it belonged, down to the very measure, said Wyner. “He did it out of conviction, relentlessly persistent, and covered hundreds of pieces this way.” Scheide engaged some of the world’s finest singers to perform with the group. He still possesses recordings of the only times that certain renowned singers ever sang the repertoire Scheide had designed, according to Teri Towe ’70, a Bach scholar and close friend to the Scheide family. He recalled buying an LP record from the Bach Aria Group when he was 10 years old in a department store. Marian Anderson, one of the most famous contraltos of the 20th century, as well as a figure of the civil rights movement, was one of these renowned singers. Anderson was forbidden from singing at Constitution Hall in 1939 because she was African-American. Towe recalled that Scheide himself had no patience for racial discrimination, insisting that selections of Bach’s music suited her voice. “Bach wrote that for her,” Scheide said, according to Towe. The group’s members changed frequently and were
not always in perfect cooperation. Scheide sometimes felt compelled to fire singers, including famous performers such as Eileen Farrell and Jan Peerce, for coming unprepared to practice out of overconfidence in their abilities, according to Scheide’s wife. Scheide refused to let big egos get in the way of their work, unable to overlook the delay that their carelessness caused the group, said Mrs. Scheide. When Scheide himself left the group after 34 years in 1980, the Bach Aria Group lost a great director whom they respected immensely, Wyner said. “They absolutely trusted him,” he explained. “If there was a question about doctrinal things or a question about musical text, they would go to him and he
“That’s not the way you brought me up. I’m not going to do that.” William Scheide, to his parents
would have an answer.” Increasing the renown of Bach’s little-known works was Scheide’s proudest achievement, according to Scheide’s wife and Towe. “There is no one who has done more in the world, and the United States particularly, to open the door to the fantastic cathedral that is the vocal music of Johann Sebastian Bach,” Towe said. Scheide’s impact extended far beyond classical music fans. Throughout his career, he became acquainted with artists of all kinds. “This included jazz performers who became enchanted with Bach’s vocal music,” his wife explained. Scheide, however, never overlooked the importance of encouraging other, younger scholars around him to study Bach, said Dr. Robin Leaver, former president of the American Bach Society. Leaver and Scheide first met in a little tea room in Oxford, England, a meeting that Scheide himself had telephoned to set up after Leaver, only a young scholar at the time, had published a book on Bach. Leaver said, “He was this well-established person spending time with me and encouraging me to continue my work and research into Bach’s music. It was a turning point for me. I owe him a great debt because of the way he sought me out and encouraged me.” A private collection, a treasure to scholars After leaving the Bach Aria Group, Scheide then turned his attention and passion to enriching the rare books collection his grandfather had started. The Scheide Library, founded in 1964 and currently located in Firestone Library, is considered one of the finest and most valuable collections in the world, according to University Librarian Karin Trainer. His love for books was only natural considering his father’s and grandfather’s own passions. Scheide’s grandfather, William T. Scheide, began collecting rare books in his early retirement. Scheide’s father compiled and organized their private family collection, his wife said. In 1959, Scheide allowed the collection to be transported to Firestone Library and has added hundreds of items to it throughout his lifetime. He completed their collection of the first four printed editions of the Bible in 2002, making the Scheide Library the first collection to possess all four in 150 years, The New York Times reported. Other incredibly valuable items in the collection are autographed manuscripts by Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, a 14thcentury Magna Carta, a first edition of Milton’s “Paradise Lost” and letters by Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci, according to Trainer.
Other items include first editions of the original editions of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” an ancient blood-letting calendar and many slavery-era posters. “He continues to be active in his 99th year, and I expect him to be very active in his 100th year. He knows when to be bold, and he knows when to hold back,” Trainer said just a few days before Scheide’s birthday. The library exceeds the rest of the rare book collections at the University in importance, and it is the only private library housed in a university in the United States. The collection has been invaluable to the University’s scholars, Trainer said. “These are not just rare dusty items that are of no academic interest. These are things that are really tied into the academic work here and that he makes available to any student, faculty member or visiting researcher.” A lifetime of giving back Scheide’s philanthropy has included generous donations to the University, particularly the music department. “He’s given us great advice throughout the years, with us at various landmarks in our own growth cycle as a major music department. We could always count on him for … both expertise and philanthropic support,” Scott Burnham, the current Scheide professor of music history, said. In 1997, Scheide was a substantial primary funder for the reconstruction of the Woolworth Music Center. His contributions have added the Scheide Music Library, which was renamed the Mendel Music Library several years later, and endowed a professorship of music history, Burnham said. However, according to Burnham, the centagenarian never sought attention for his generosity — a humility apparent when Scheide himself petitioned to have the library renamed after one of Princeton’s great Bach scholars, Archer Mendel. “Bill’s not out to make a splash, to say, ‘This is me, Bill Scheide. I’m doing this.’ He’s quite the reverse. He will do things and will remain in the background very often,” Leaver said. Music and rare books never fail to bring out the child in Scheide, said Burnham. “He’s always very boyishly excited. You can tell he’s totally in his element.” Scheide was by no means one to be pushed around, said Burnham. “He’s very sharp and funny and on point. He doesn’t suffer fools gladly. He’s a direct, plain speaker. A bracing presence, you might say.” Scheide also donated the Scheide Caldwell House, which houses various cultural studies programs. He has also donated to the Princeton Theological Seminary and Westminster Choir College. Former University President Shirley Tilghman praised Scheide’s legacy of support for scholarship of the humanities at Princeton. “I think he has an enormous curiosity about both the world of rare books and the world of music. He has retained that kind of vibrant intellectual interest in the world around him,” she said. Scheide’s legacy has not been limited to scholarship and the arts. He recalled being asked by Thurgood Marshall, then a young chief counsel for the NAACP and later the first African-American Supreme Court justice, to help in the battle for civil rights. Scheide answered the call: He was one of the primary funders in the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education lawsuit and has supported the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund throughout his life. “He had great respect for human beings, even if he seemed to be impatient with them sometimes,” Wyner remembered. Scheide became a member of the NAACP’s national committee. He remains an emeritus member and the principal funder of the organization. He donated around $200,000 to hire poll-watchers on the lookout for race discrimination at the Florida polls in 2008 and
donates generously to various causes all over the world, said Mrs. Scheide. When asked the reason behind his passion for civil rights, Scheide said it was “the principle of freedom.” He has always felt strongly that the wealthy have a responsibility to society, particularly in their taxes, his wife explained. He avidly supports affirmative action. “Bill feels that there should be some equalization of opportunity. He’s very much for helping the downtrodden,” his wife said. The Scheides have donated to the alumni community as well, hosting yearly parties after University Reunions each year at their house. “It was a wonderful place to go on Saturday night after the P-Rade,” said Elayne Eberhardt, honorary member of the Class of 1937 and reunion chair of her husband’s class. “It was just beautiful. You wouldn’t believe they had everything outside, tables, a bar, and this is all on them. Wonderful food and the Princeton band would come and play. There would be quite
“I knew about him when I was even younger than you.” Paul Lansky music professor emeritus
a crowd there.” Having separated from his first wife, Riggs Scheide, in 1966, Scheide remarried Gertrude Corbin in 1971 until she died in 2002. Judith Scheide first met Scheide and his second wife in 1984, while she was working at the University as associate director of campaign relations. She retained the position until transferring to the Annual Giving office in 1989. She often interacted with the Scheides and began working for Scheide in 2000. In 2003, they were married. A passionate Presbyterian, Scheide’s personal and scholarly interest in religion has been constant throughout his life. He has written a number of books, including “The Virgin Birth: A Proposal as to the Source of a Gospel Tradition,” published by Princeton Theological Seminary in 1995, as well as the “The Other Mary,” which remains unpublished. “He is a religious man in the true sense,” Scheide’s wife said. “He is spiritual, but not authoritarian. He is religious in that he seeks truth. He follows the stars.” “His greatest achievement ongoing is the millions upon millions upon millions of lives that have benefited from his compassion, his scholarship, his knowledge, his love of his fellow man, and he does not care that hardly any of these people will ever read or hear the name William H. Scheide,” Towe said. Trainer and Eisgruber will be co-hosting a campus party Monday at noon in Chancellor Green in Scheide’s honor. A concert to celebrate his 100th birthday will be at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 25 in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.
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STUDENT LIFE
Terrace develops plans to renovate clubhouse, faces Planning Board By Konadu Amoakah staff writer
Terrace Club is developing plans, still in their early stages, to renovate its clubhouse. The club is still raising funds for the construction, which is not likely to begin for several years. Representatives of the club, including Sandy Harrison ’74, chairman of the club’s board of governors, presented the club’s preliminary plans to the town’s Site Plan Review Advisory Board last month. These representatives will meet with the town Planning Board on Thursday to gain official approval for their plans. Approvals at this stage focus on the changes planned for the building’s exterior, as well as its elimination of several parking spaces. A main component of the renovation is to create an additional dining room at the back of the club, which would mean eliminating some of the parking spaces in that area, according to Harrison.
“If it wasn’t for the parking situation, we wouldn’t even need to meet with the Planning Board,” Harrison said. The elimination of some parking spaces means that Terrace will no longer rent out spaces to students, but it will retain enough spaces to accommodate its members and staff. Terrace president Chris St. John ’15 said he is not concerned by the change in parking arrangements. “I think we’re just blessed to have the spaces that we do, but I think that our culture and membership would greater benefit from having this nicer, newer space than having a couple extra parking spaces,” St. John said. Vice chairman of the SPRA Board Harry Cooke said the representatives from Terrace satisfied his concerns about parking at the Dec. 11 meeting. “We found that, in fact, they didn’t really need all the spaces they had and they were allowing other people to use that area,” Cooke said.
“They would still have an adequate number to satisfy their direct need.” Cooke did, however, suggest that the remaining parking area be redesigned to accommodate the need the club would have by the time the renovations would be completed. The plans are still preliminary and subject to change at any time because the capacity of Terrace alumni to contribute the funds needed is still being assessed, Harrison explained. “If we fall short on our fundraising, we may have to scale back some of what we want to do and prioritize,” Harrison said. “We just don’t know that yet because it takes time.” The cost of the project will be several million dollars, Harrison estimated, saying he is reluctant to state the exact number the club is considering spending because it could change. The additional dining room, however, is one of the club’s highest priorities,
Harrison said. St. John said he can see a need for this additional dining space. “While I can’t speak directly to the Grad Board’s purposes, I assume [the plan for an additional dining room] is because we are the biggest club numbers-wise and we need more dining space to accommodate us,” St. John said. In addition to expanding available dining space, the club is considering many other renovations and improvements to the building. Harrison said the “most interesting” improvement would be the new area designed for musical performances in the basement space created by the additional dining room. The club currently hosts musical acts in its dining room, which requires clearing chairs and tables from the area before each performance, then putting them back afterward. “We hold more music events and host more bands than any other club. It’s a very important part of Ter-
race culture, so it’d be great to have a dedicated space for that,” Harrison said. Another possible renovation is the installation of an elevator, Harrison said. The club is interested in removing the fire escape and replacing it with an enclosed elevator and an indoor wraparound staircase for reasons of safety and ADA compliance, Harris said. “Some of the other clubs that have gone through renovations have incorporated elevators into their plans for very similar reasons,” Harris explained. “It’s not that we’re necessarily jumping on the bandwagon, but we look at what they do and say, ‘Is this right for us, too?’ and try to borrow some ideas.” The club is also considering several “greening ideas,” such as solar panels and insulated thermal windows, though these are low on the list of priorities and will not represent a major cost. “There are some greening aspects to this whole grand plan that would save our en-
ergy costs over time,” Harris said. “It’s not just to save money; we would like to be environmentally conscious too.” The SPRA Board’s main function is to advise applicants of changes they should make to their plans and then to make a recommendation to the Planning Board on their decision. While the town’s only stake in the project is the change in parking spaces, the Board made some additional suggestions. Cooke suggested that a railing be added to the roof area above the new dining room to keep people from attempting to walk onto the roof. Though SPRA Board has no legal authority to compel this change, Harris said the club was seriously considering this suggestion for safety reasons. At the earliest, construction could begin in the summer of 2015 and be finished by 2018, though the club is nowhere near ready to start preparing for construction, Harris explained.
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a princeton man has entered a plea of not guilty to charges of causing the death of former Executive Director of the Center for Jewish Life Rabbi James Diamond. Eric Maltz, 21, was indicted on charges of aggravated manslaughter, death by auto and assault by auto last October. Maltz could face up to 30 years in state prison if convicted of first-degree aggravated manslaughter, according to the Prosecutor’s Office announcement issued after the incident. Maltz pled not guilty to all three charges at a court hearing on Tuesday.
Maltz was allegedly driving a 2003 BMW at a high speed when he struck an unoccupied Toyota Camry parked on Riverside Drive. The Camry was pushed backward and hit Diamond as he prepared to enter a Toyota Prius. Rabbi Robert Freedman, a former cantor at the CJL, was in the driver’s seat of the Prius and was seriously injured. Diamond was pronounced dead at the scene. Maltz himself also sustained several serious injuries. Maltz is currently free on bail. His next court hearing is scheduled for March 6, The Princeton Packet reported - Staff writer Chitra Marti
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STUDENT LIFE
New SHARE course educates eating clubs members via games By Paul Phillips staff writer
Eating club members now have the opportunity to complete “Agent of Change,” a pilot online Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education course on powerbased personal violence. The course was designed to build on the knowledge gained through the course “Unless There’s Consent,” a new program required for all members of the Class of 2017 prior to their arrival on campus. While “Unless There’s Consent” was intended to lay an informational foundation for incoming freshmen prior to orientation week, “Agent of Change” is more interactive, providing education on bystander intervention skills, SHARE director Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse said. The hour-long course touches on sexual assault, stalking, domestic violence and degrading language, Jackie Cremos ’14, a SHARE Peer Advisor and member of Quadrangle Club, explained. It consists of a pretest followed by 10 levels of an avatar-based “game” that takes students through several conversations and scenarios involving eight recurring characters. Both the pre-test and the identical post-test give students various statements and ask them to indicate how much they agree or disagree. Deitch-Stackhouse noted that these “agree or disagree” questions allow students to see how their peers have answered. She described this feature as a “social-norming compo-
nent” that encourages students to act on their inner values. “What’s nice about the social-norming component,” she said, “is that you’re empowering people to act on how they already feel.” She added that this sets “Agent of Change” apart from many other pro-
“It was definitely great that the game tried to teach people to talk about these issues, not just educate the average student about issues of power-based violence.” Jackie Cremos ’14
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grams, which are designed to get students to change their attitudes instead of reaffirm them. Those who have already taken the course provided mixed feedback. Andrew Frazier ’15, president of Cloister Inn, said that the program’s interactive nature ensured that people would actually process the information presented in each scene, rather than just tune it out. However, he added that he
thought the course was occasionally slow-moving and that its 60-minute time was rather lengthy. Cremos said that some of the dialogue was preachy and could sometimes have been more nuanced. However, she added that she thought the program gave a good, non-textbook way of talking to people about personal violence. In most of the situations presented, there were some responses she could imagine saying in real life, she said. “It was definitely great that the game tried to teach people to talk about these issues, not just educate the average student about issues of power-based personal violence,” Cremos said. SHARE will wait to see how this pilot program goes before using “Agent of Change” again in the future or deciding whether to aim it at the junior class or the eating club population, Deitch-Stackhouse noted. SHARE developed the program with the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the Sexual Misconduct Preventions, Policies, Programs committee with funding from the Isabella McCosh Infirmary. While the deadline to complete the course was originally Dec. 31, 2013, Deitch-Stackhouse explained that the deadline is now being extended to ensure that all those who want to take the training have the opportunity to do so. “We are trying to put forward programming that is valuable to our student body,” she said, “and we want to be as far-reaching as possible.”
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A new biography of Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, titled “Wilson,“ describes him as a “passionate man.“
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Wilson. He explained that Wilson has often been portrayed as a severe Presbyterian minister’s son, which is an accurate but incomplete depiction of Wilson. “This was also a really redblooded, deeply emotional, extremely passionate man,” Berg explained, “and I really wanted to capture that for the reader.” Berg’s book describes Wilson as a romantic and sexual man, at least with his wives, Ellen and then Edith. His biography also discusses the “emotional affair” he had with a woman named Mary Peck while vacationing in Bermuda. The subject of Wilson’s love life is controversial because it is ambiguous whether Wilson was involved in an extramarital affair, said philosophy professor John Cooper, author of the definitive biography “Woodrow Wilson: A Biography.” In “Wilson,” Berg concludes that Wilson reserved his passion for his wives. James Axtell, a historian and professor at the College of William and Mary and author of “The Making of Princeton University: Woodrow Wilson to the Present,” agreed with Berg’s assessment. “There’s no doubt that
Wilson was a passionate guy, sexually driven and adventurous, but not in general; I mean only with his wives,” Axtell said. Cooper thinks otherwise. Referring to Wilson as “one hot guy,” Cooper said that Wilson very possibly had sex with his second wife before marriage and that Wilson’s relationship with Mary Peck may have been more serious than Berg concludes.
“There was certainly something there that Wilson felt very guilty about” John Cooper,
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“There was certainly something there that Wilson felt very guilty about,” Cooper said in reference to Wilson’s relationship with Peck. Now that DiCaprio’s company has optioned the biography, Berg and his publisher are currently deciding between screenwriters who will turn Berg’s book into a motion picture. Berg is not new to the film industry; his father was a writer and producer, and all
three of his brothers went into show business. Berg has also been involved in other films, like the literary drama based on his biography of Max Perkins that will be filmed next year. Berg said he chose DiCaprio’s production company because, in addition to already being on friendly terms with the actor, he was most impressed by the company’s understanding of the book and he has always had a high opinion of DiCaprio. DiCaprio will star as Woodrow Wilson in the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. While the story was well received in Hollywood, Cooper and Axtell said they had certain reservations about the book. Cooper commended Berg for being a “superb writer” and for his “unf linching condemnation” of Wilson’s close-minded policies regarding race, but he took issue with what Berg omits from his book. “It’s funny what he leaves out. He leaves out the politics; he leaves out the thought; he basically leaves out as much of the context as he can,” Cooper said. Axtell said he believes that Berg’s portrayal of Wilson’s personal life is a repetition of other scholars’ work. “I don’t think there’s anything novel about Berg,” he said.
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Putting the “propaganda” in context
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n an interview last May, former University President Shirley Tilghman told me she doesn’t believe everything the University says about itself. “If you start believing all your propaganda and believing that we’re perfect, you will fail as the president,” she said. Everything we do at The Daily Princetonian is guided by the belief that the truth shouldn’t be the exclusive possession of the people who “need” to know it in order to make policy and advance their interests. We all deserve an objective account of the University’s successes and shortcomings so that we are better placed to perpetuate the good and reform the imperfect. And yet I can’t count the number of times during my year as Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Prince’ when someone has tried to negotiate with me not to run a story that portrays them or someone they represent in a way they perceive to be unfavorable. I’ve also lost track of the number of complaints I’ve received claiming a story we’ve published is unfairly negative toward one of the parties involved. While it is important for readers to distinguish between a biased story with an agenda and a fair story that brings unfavorable information to light, engaging in these conversations will always be one of the most crucial components of the Editor-in-Chief’s job. People and organizations seek press coverage that advances their interests and try to avoid coverage that does not. That’s nothing new, and editors before me have had hundreds of the same types of conversations. But what is new is the ease with which source-produced information and content — what Tilghman would call “propaganda” — can be shared directly with its intended audience. On Facebook and Twitter, posts from news organizations are mixed in with messages straight from the source. The increasing popularity of social media has shattered the virtual monopoly the press once had on the spread of information, and it has made it easier than ever for powerful people and institutions to spread their messages, unchecked by a pesky third party like a newspaper. Many sources even have greater reach than news organization: Princeton University, for example, has 100 times more Facebook likes and 15 times more Twitter followers than the ‘Prince’ does. Some sources and readers correctly understand this source-produced information as positively spun competition to the objective press narrative, while others truly think it is the only information that needs to be out there. From what I can glean from reader comments and casual discussions, news consumers are becoming more deferential to straight-from-the-source information as they are exposed to it more frequently This is true beyond Princeton, of course. To the extent that disruption and changes in communication methods prompt news organizations to be innovative in the ways they tell stories and engage with readers, these changes are a net positive. But to the extent they allow sources promoting their own interests to bypass objective sources of information and reach their audiences directly, they pose significant dangers. Throughout my tenure, we’ve set out not to contradict our sources’ “propaganda” with “negative” stories, but rather to complete the stories our sources share themselves. We’ve published the results of a previously unreleased University survey on students’ experiences with sexual assault, described the tendency of athletes to cluster in similar majors and examined the biography of a new president whose image was being carefully crafted and protected. While we received substantial criticism in all of these instances — we have been called “sensationalist” and “intrusive” and criticized for “making Princeton look bad” — on the whole readers appreciated our objective use of hard facts to put the “propaganda” in context and complete the story. Readers have also been openly appreciative of our attempts to share the truth during breaking news events. During the Nassau Hall gunshot scare, traffic to our site maxed out our server capacity before the University had sent out a single alert. During the December gas leak, an employee tweeted, “So nice of Princeton to alert the employees!! Find out from the news!!” I’m no expert on emergency notification policy, so I’m not sure if the University’s responses were appropriate in these cases or not. But these responses indicate that people affiliated with Princeton crave information about Princeton. Those who know this information — sometimes, but not always, for good reasons — often decide to withhold it. This makes it so crucial for news organizations to provide the complete story without bias or deference to any party’s strategic interests, especially since social media and sponsored content have given readers more frequent and direct contact with officials’ “propaganda.” Tilghman was right: It’s important for officials not to believe all their propaganda. But it’s also important for us, as students, citizens and news consumers, to be skeptical of the information the University and other powerful institutions publish themselves. And as the news organization covering this campus, we will continue to work tirelessly to make sure the community has the information it needs. Luc Cohen, a Wilson School major from New York, NY, is the outgoing Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Princetonian. He can be reached at luccohen@ princeton.edu.
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Use of un-prescribed stimulants violates academic regulations
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hen prescribed, psychostimulants such as Adderall and Ritalin can play an important role in aiding students who suffer from the academic difficulties caused by ADD and ADHD. However, given the fact that these drugs have a high capacity for abuse as illegitimate academic aids, the Editorial Board believes that “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” must be amended to reflect that students who use un-prescribed psychostimulants in an attempt to gain an unfair academic advantage should be regarded as having violated RRR’s academic regulations in addition to its drug policy. It is no secret that class work can be stressful, difficult and demanding, especially during exam times, but the University is especially dedicated to maintaining certain rules and requirements to ensure that academic work is carried out fairly and productively by everyone. Violations of these academic regulations currently include plagiarism, using false data and unauthorized multiple submissions because these behaviors subvert the universal bounds within which everyone can, and is expected to, complete their work. Professors also often impose rules regarding the use of calculators and class notes in order to ensure that all students have an equal opportunity when completing an assignment. Princeton has an obligation to make its best effort to impose an academically level playing field, and the abuse of un-prescribed stimulants interferes with this effort. Psychostimulants may be used in an attempt to gain an unfair academic advantage. The Board recognizes that these drugs may also be legitimately used in other contexts by students with attention deficit disorders. However, when students use un-prescribed psychostimulants in order to enhance concentration, energy or stamina in the context of completing any academic work, this should be considered cheating, just as taking extra time on a timed take-home exam is considered cheating. Both of these infractions violate students’ and professors’ expectations that assignments are completed under conditions that are specifically and equally provided. The Board recognizes that these drugs do not make individuals more intelligent,
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but insofar as they may facilitate concentration and certain students have continuously used them because they have found them to aid in concentrating, they provide certain students with an unfair advantage. Use of un-prescribed psychostimulants is unlike other study aids, such as caffeine, and is deserving of special scrutiny. All students can drink caffeine (or another legally available stimulant if they are allergic). Those who choose to abstain from this activity presumably do so because it is not in their self-interest. Not all students, however, are willing to violate the law, and thus these psychostimulants uniquely promote academic inequality across students and deserve to be considered academic infractions. The Board recognizes that this policy would face enforcement issues. We would not be comfortable with the University employing drug tests in order to test for the use of un-prescribed psychostimulants, but we believe that the presence of multiple, reliable witnesses could be used as evidence in this kind of case. We further recognize that a host of drugs have the potential to serve as study aids, and the University must be careful not to craft a policy that would simply cause students to shy away from certain drugs and toward others. This policy may also touch on students’ privacy concerns as they relate to the confidentiality of medical information. It is worth noting that there would be some precedent for this policy. In September 2011, Duke University implemented similar measures to consider un-prescribed drug use cheating in addition to a violation of the drug policy. The two committees charged with upholding academic regulations at the University are the Undergraduate Honor Committee and the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline, and the Board suggests that both bodies make efforts to officially address the un-prescribed use of psychostimulants as academic violations in their respective jurisdictions. By categorizing the use of un-prescribed psychostimulants as cheating, the University would be able to take a small step toward discouraging the illegitimate use of such drugs and to ensure a level academic playing field.
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3,042 students, or 78.9 percent, deferred in third year of U.’s early action program.” That should have been The Daily Princetonian’s headline on Dec. 16, as that was the real, interesting story regarding Princeton’s undergraduate early action admissions. Instead, the ‘Prince’ article focused on the 18.5 percent of early applicants, 714 students, who were admitted, representing only a 0.2 percent increase from last year. That statistic isn’t a surprise at all. Moreover, Princeton falls into the middle of the pack for early admit rates among other Ivies and selective universities. Stanford admitted 10.8 percent, Yale 15.5 percent and Harvard 21 percent. But Princeton only denied 49 early admit students, less than 1.3 percent of early applicants, banishing the vast majority of the high school seniors who applied early to college-admission purgatory for another four months. Having been in that position last year, I empathize with the frustration these high school seniors must feel. It’s no fun being in limbo — and the letter you receive provides no clues as to whether you really have a chance of getting in. It merely states that you are being thrown back into the pool
of regular-decision applicants to be judged yet again. And when you look at Princeton’s numbers this year, you really feel like being deferred indicates nothing. It doesn’t suggest you have a good chance of being admitted during regular decision, as there is no way they can admit everyone later. Last year Princeton only accepted 1,931 students overall, including those admitted early. It’s time for Princeton to recognize that its admission policies do not only affect those admitted but also the thousands of students who apply and are deferred. These deferred students cannot move on and start getting excited about other schools either, as being deferred leaves the slim hope your top choice might still accept you. Understanding this reality, Princeton should limit the number of students deferred during early action decisions to those who really have a decent chance of being admitted come regular decision admissions, especially given the decreasing overall admission rate due to a larger applicant pool for a similar amount of spots. A reasonable policy still defers students, but not almost 79 percent. Part of the aim of admissions is to accept the students needed to yield a diverse class that fills the needed roles. Who knows if a better trombonist will apply regular decision, so it might be best to put one on hold from
the early pool. Reality demands for some students to be deferred so the University can have some flexibility in molding the class during regular admissions. But deferring students at the rate Princeton is doing seems far from necessary. The fact that many peer institutions are not doing the same suggests just that. Stanford was notorious for giving students from my high school a straight answer in December. Students were almost always accepted or denied. Current statistics suggest that this is true nationwide for Stanford, as its December 2013 deferral rate was only 8.5 percent. Yale’s and Harvard’s 2013 deferral rates are fairly high, coming in at 57.6 percent and 68.1 percent, respectively, but they are still lower than Princeton’s deferral rate at almost 79 percent. It would be understandable if the University could provide a legitimate reason for why our deferral rate differs so much from Stanford’s or even Yale’s and Harvard’s, but the school’s given rationale for the low rejection rate doesn’t seem sufficient. According to the ‘Prince,’ when asked why the number of rejections had declined significantly, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye responded that her office had decided to “give students every benefit of the doubt” and make sure students
had a chance to turn in all of their application materials. And it’s true that the problems with the Common Application this year might explain providing some leeway to applicants, but, honestly, most students will not change dramatically from November through March. Any rationale put forth justifying this policy only seems to value the University’s interests — interests that don’t even seem legitimate when you consider that a peer institution like Stanford doesn’t need to employ the same tricks to cultivate a diverse class. And even if there might be some real reasons for the policy, they ignore the young adult on the other end of the message, who doesn’t know whether to celebrate or cry. And given the statistics at a highly selective university like Princeton, the student likely won’t get in. Deferral makes being satisfied with your second or third choice that much harder in the spring. Unless absolutely necessary, Princeton shouldn’t subject students to that agony. And for at least some of the 3,042 deferred students this winter, it probably wasn’t necessary. Plus, just think how badly this policy makes the 49 denied students feel. Marni Morse is a freshman from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@princeton.edu.
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this year. But Penn yet again defied the trends and went on an 11-2 run in three minutes. Then freshman guard Spencer Weisz picked Penn’s pocket on three straight possessions, and all of a sudden the score was tied at 71 with just over two minutes to play. Penn ate up 90 seconds of clock on its next possession, grabbing two offensive rebounds but coming away with just a single point. A missed three from Bray led to one of Princeton’s two offensive rebounds of the half by Barrett. He missed the layup with two Quakers draped all over him, and Penn came up with the ball in a scrum under the hoop. The strong Princeton
contingent present was calling for either a foul against Barrett or a jump ball, which would have given the Tigers possession. They got neither, as a foul was called on Brase, sending Penn’s Jamal Lewis to the line at the other end. He made both, and it was do-or-die time for Princeton with 30 seconds left. Bray brought the ball up the court and drew two defenders before giving Barrett an open three, which he drained. Still, Penn had the ball and would undoubtedly milk the clock down to the last few seconds. The Quakers’ senior captain and second-leading scorer of the season, Miles Jackson-Cartwright, got the ball unguarded at the middle of the three-point line and drew a foul, making both free throws. After a couple of timeouts, some confusion and 0.8 seconds
of game time, Princeton was ready to inbound the ball from the frontcourt. In a risky play, Bray lobbed the ball to Barrett right by the basket. The pass was good, but the ball slipped through Barrett’s hands and was grabbed by Penn’s forward Fran Dougherty, and the game was effectively over. “We had tried that play a few times in practice and had gotten it, but the guy made a great play and got his finger in there just enough,” Bray said. Bray led the way for the Tigers with 19 points and four assists. Brase and Koon added seven rebounds each, and Barrett had 11 second-half points. Still, Penn, despite being outshot in the second half and turning the ball over nine times to Princeton’s four, was outscored by just two points in the period. The reason: The Quakers went
13-16 from the charity stripe and had a 21-11 rebounding edge, which included eight of-
“We had some opportunities to win the game, but I think they were the better team tonight.” Mitch Henderson
fensive rebounds to Princeton’s nine defensive rebounds. Dougherty and Nelson-Henry ended up with 34 points and 20 rebounds between them,
and Tony Hicks dropped 18 for the Quakers. “That’s crushing,” Henderson said after the game regarding his team’s rebounding woes. “We’ve been very good on the boards this year, but they crushed us. I think we’re scoring enough points to be successful, but we’ve got to defend.” The Penn-Princeton rivalry is among college basketball’s longest and most heated. Princeton holds a 26-25 edge in Ivy League titles, but Penn holds a 124-105 overall series edge dating back to 1903 and is the only league team against which Princeton has a losing record. Despite the sting of losing to a rival, the Tigers are likely more upset about the loss’s consequences. In the only league without a postseason
tournament and with Harvard expected to cruise through most of its Ancient Eight opponents, this loss means Princeton has very little room for error throughout its next 13 Ivy games. A 12-2 league record has not won an outright title in 31 of 58 seasons. From here, Princeton must either split its games with Harvard, hope the Crimson drop another game and run the table against the rest of the league, or win both against Harvard, which would allow some breathing room. Regardless, the Tigers will have a lot to think about during the two-week finals break without games or official practices. Their next matchup is against Division III Kean University on Jan. 26 at Jadwin Gymnasium before they ship off to Boston to face you-know-who on Jan. 31.
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player [Alyssa Baron].” Baron, who had entered the game averaging 13.7 points per game, shot fourof-13 from the field and missed all four of her shots from downtown en route to a 10-point total. During the victory, head coach Courtney Banghart allocated double-digit minutes to nine different players in her rotation. Helmstetter cites the team’s deep bench as a key source of its seasonlong success. “One of the reasons that our team has been so successful is that we have more than one contributor,” she said. “Each player on our team is a threat, and that’s what makes us hard to guard.”
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Dietrick posted her first career double-double during the game, finishing with 16 points and 11 rebounds. The junior shot an impressive six-of-nine from the field and hit four of her five
“Defense has become a priority for us, and I think that we were able to maintain the scout really well.” Kristen Helmstetter
three-point attempts. Sophomore forward Alex Wheatley joined Helmstetter and Dietrick as the only double-
digit scorers of the game for the Tigers, chipping in 11 points and three assists. Although Saturday’s game was one-sided by nearly all statistical measurements, Helmstetter said the Tigers remain hungry. Her team is fueled by Banghart’s constant reminders that the rest of the conference has not taken kindly to the fourtime consecutive Ivy League champions’ sustained success. “As Coach says, the only people rooting for Princeton are us,” said Helmstetter. “We have a target on our backs, and we use that as motivation. We are a young team and have a lot to prove.” The Tigers will resume that process after exams, when they will host Harvard in their first home Ivy League matchup of the year.
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going into this season, we knew we were going to be facing a very deep team on Saturday, “ Ward said. “I’m proud of how our guys fought out there. Unfortunately, points didn’t break our way at crucial moments in all of our close matches. We lost three five-game matches, including mine, by a combined seven points. We’re all aware of the steps needed to close that gap.” The women’s squad did not fare much better against the Crimson either, due in part to an injury that kept senior Libby Eyre from playing in the Tigers’ (5-1, 1-1) Ivy opener, in which No. 4 Princeton
fell 3-6 to No. 1 Harvard (6-0, 3-0). Junior Alex Lunt (No. 4), junior Hallie Dewey (No. 6) and freshman Alexandra Toth (No. 9) all ground out wins and just missed out on another victory at the No. 7 spot from sophomore Tara Harrington. The Tigers rebounded the next day in a big way with a 9-0 victory over Dartmouth. Harrington saw a tough match for the second time in two days — she fell 13-11 in the opener and was forced to claw her way to 11-8, 11-7 and 11-3 victories in the next three games to take the match. The Tigers now have almost a three-week break for finals and will return to play Penn, where Princeton will try to rebound from the third-place match loss
to the Quakers at last year’s Howe Cup. The men’s squad also had more success with the Big Green (1-4, 0-3). The Tigers took a 7-2 victory, only dropping matches at the No. 4 and No. 7 spots. Sophomore Sam Ezratty fought for an especially difficult win at the No. 8 spot, coming back from a 2-1 deficit to win. Kang had the second toughest match, being pushed to a fourth game but then easily winning it 11-0. The men will also enter a longer break and will play the Quakers upon return on Jan. 27. “Taking out Dartmouth was a step in the right direction, and I’m confident we’ll be hitting our stride with Penn and Trinity two weeks from now,” Ward said.
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fifth goal of the season to regain the two-goal lead for the Tigers. However, Rensselaer tied the game up with two more goals, one at 12:26 in the second and another early in the third. Tied at 3-3, Laing would score her third goal of the
game, achieving her first career hat trick, at 3:13 on a Rensselaer power play. Rensselaer tied the game up quickly, however, scoring on the same penalty to make the game 4-4. “It was really exciting at the time because it put us ahead in the game and it was on a shorthanded goal, which are always extra exciting,” Laing said. “But I couldn’t have
scored any goals without the hard work my linemates put in to get the puck to the net.” Going into overtime, the Tigers were unable to convert on another power-play opportunity, and the game ended in a 4-4 overtime tie. Princeton will take a two-week break for finals and host its next game against Penn State on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at Hobey Baker Rink.
Sports Shorts Men’s Hockey: Tigers pick up 4th win The men’s hockey team broke its six-game losing streak on Friday when it took down Rensselaer. The Tigers had lost to Rensselaer during their losing streak but played much better at home to claim their fourth win of the season. The Engineers got on the board first in the first period, but the Tigers tied the game up just over a minute later. After a scoreless second period, the Tigers took the lead on a goal by sophomore left wing Mike
Ambrosia. The Tigers’ success with power plays was a crucial part of the game as they converted their only power-play opportunity and successfully killed all four of the Engineers’ power-play chances. The Tigers were unable to build on their momentum the following day, however, as they lost to No. 4 Union 3-0 for the second time this season. Freshman goaltender Colton Phinney made a career-high 45 saves in the loss. D’Angelo Italian Market chosen to cater NFL’s VIP Super Bowl Tailgate
Local institution D’Angelo Italian Market will cater the NFL’s official VIP Tailgate before Super Bowl XLVIII. The restaurant was chosen after an NFL committee sampled food from D’Angelo and many other eateries throughout the New Jersey/New York area in preparation for the Super Bowl, which will be played at the Meadowlands Feb. 2. The event will be so exclusive that the NFL has asked D’Angelo not to disclose what its menu will be and a limited number of caterers will be allowed entrance.
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“If we’re not contributing to the educational mission of Princeton, we shouldn’t do athletics,” he said in an interview. “We shouldn’t do it,” he repeated. When Walters, known as a forceful personality and a garrulous intellect, announced his retirement in September, the compliments from administrators, coaches and faculty flowed. But this applause belies how controversial Walters was at times in nearly every pocket of Princeton. Faculty questioned why Walters’ recruited athletes occupied up to 20 percent of Princeton admission slots. Administrators questioned whether Princeton’s athletic accomplishments were becoming a distraction from the school’s core educational focus. Most prominently, a former Princeton president waged war on the value of big-time intercollegiate athletics, galvanizing the critics who said so privately. For a few years in the early 2000s, it looked like Walters’ narrative had begun to unravel. And for a moment, he looked for Princeton’s exit signs. But Walters — and his philosophy — ultimately weathered the criticism. Despite the skepticism of Princeton athletics that continues to lurk, the departing athletic director has navigated the academic-athletic tension and pushed Princeton into an athletic skin it didn’t know it had. What relationship? Before Gary Walters became Princeton’s athletic director, there was not a tense relationship between the athletic and academic sides of the University. There just wasn’t a much of a relationship at all. “I was never asked a question about the integration, or the connection, or the relationship between athletics and academics, or between the faculty and the athletic department,” Walters’ predecessor, Bob Myslik ’61, said. He felt the University had already integrated athletes. “Our job was to run the athletics department. Our job wasn’t to integrate student-athletes with the rest of the University,” Myslik said. Myslik was only the University’s third athletic director, a position created in 1941. Soon after he arrived in 1979, it was clear to him that the University did not fully embrace its athletic program: When Myslik petitioned the Dean of the Faculty, Aaron Lemonick, to let the Director of Athletics walk in the procession during Commencement exercises like other administrators did, Lemonick denied his request. It took the intervention of University President Bill Bowen GS ’58 to earn Myslik a spot on the stage. Lemonick, who died in 2003, may have merely been representing his faculty. Many professors at the time deeply doubted the athletic director’s educational impact or sports’ role at Princeton. “There were very few, if any, faculty members, I would bet, who would have been willing to stand up at a faculty meeting and say anything positive about athletics,” Myslik said. “And I’m not saying anybody ever refused to do that — I don’t think anybody ever would have considered doing that. Faculty members largely corroborated how Myslik remembers Princeton. “I think in the pre-Gary world — when the athletic director had much lower profile on the academic side — it was easier to think of student-athletes as shirking because you only saw one tiny part of them,” said psychology department chair Deborah Prentice, who came to Princeton in 1988. Faculty only saw them as athletes, she explained. Those criticisms wouldn’t fade. Assessing the landscape Well after Walters became the University’s fourth athletic director in 1994, Princeton faculty continued to question the need for a large athletics program — or, at least, spots reserved for recruited athletes. History professor Anthony Grafton, who served on a faculty task force in 1998 that looked at
how Princeton awarded undergraduate slots, has expressed worry that the Ivy League is taking recruiting “too far.” “What it does is to put pressure on the pool ... It’s a big bite out of the class,” Grafton said. “What appeals to me is to give the academic part of the University something of the same role in recruitment that the athletic part of the University has,” he explained. These “academic purists,” as Walters’ former deputy Erin McDermott termed them, are a loud voice at Princeton, faculty say. They appear in formal faculty meetings where professors argue for more “academic 1s” — an admission term for top students. And they appear in informal conversations with colleagues who envision a school built from scratch where varsity athletics is nonexistent. “There was certainly a perspective on campus — there is on any campus — of true academic purists, I guess I would say, who really believe that the academy exists purely for the academic pursuits and the life of the mind,” McDermott, who left in July to be athletic director at the University of Chicago, said. “I think there’s always going to be a faction who really believes that, and any other focus will seem to be maybe taking away from that.” That’s the faction that Walters has had to overcome in his two decades as athletic director. What Walters, who does not have an advanced degree, has in common with professors is a belief in the power of instruction. His approach to athletics centers on the idea of mentorship; the mentors he’s made since his playing days — most notably basketball legend coach Pete Carril, whom he played for in high school and still calls “Coach,” and the late sociology professor Marvin Bressler — watch over him in photographs hung on nearly every wall of his cluttered office overlooking Carril Court in Jadwin Gymnasium. They’re his touchstones in explaining what he sees as the transformative nature of athletics. They molded him — just like professors say they mold their students. That’s the message Walters had brought to incredulous faculty: My coaches are educating your students, too. “You’ve got a lot of people in the school who think that athletics are not important, some that think that it’s moderately important, some alumni that want it to even be more so,” said Carril as he dropped in to Walters’ office last week. “When you’re a head coach, you deal with the ones who take care of your sport. But when you’re AD, you’ve got a whole bunch of others.” During his first three years, Walters initiated a series of meetings with those “others” in departments — especially ones with large athlete populations like the history department — where he introduced himself and his athletic philosophy. But more had to be done. So Walters created the Academic-Athletic Fellows program, which pairs faculty members with each of Princeton’s 36 varsity teams. The professors provide mentorship and academic advice; in return, they get an upclose look at the lives of studentathletes. Many of the professors Walters recruited to join this corps were either college athletes themselves or had some other connection to sports. Walters’ overtures were not always greeted with open arms. But he said he wasn’t concerned with the faculty members’ protests — only his end vision. “All these kinds of things require grassroots efforts. Communication is a contact sport,” he said. “I took it upon myself to make the contacts and try to create the organizations that could fulfill the vision.” Whether his efforts to ingratiate himself with the faculty have yielded tangible results is an open question. The biggest difference is that professors are hearing from Walters in a way that they didn’t from Myslik. Walters scouts the Internet daily for the latest articles on intercollegiate athletics and the latest blog posts from The New York Times’ leadership blog, “Corner Office,” and he blasts these links to his networks of faculty and alumni — often
multiple times a day. His staff has joked about consolidating these emails into a daily Gary Walters tip sheet. The end result is that the faculty knows who Gary Walters is and what he is trying to do at Princeton. “I think his efforts to strengthen the connection to academics, they’ve certainly been real — the efforts — and I think they’ve yielded,” Prentice said, pausing, “to a certain extent.” Walters under attack Halfway through Walters’ tenure, his carefully executed game plan for transforming Princeton athletics showed signs of crumbling. Over a four-year period, the athletic director found his entire philosophy attacked by two new prominent books, lost his key ally in the administration and watched the University enact a policy seen by some as unfriendly to athletic success. And amid the commotion, Walters came close to leaving his alma mater. The unraveling began when William Bowen, the University president from 1972 to 1988, wrote two books that said what a lot of faculty members were likely thinking: that the intensification of college athletics was diverting schools like Princeton from their core missions. In 2001, Bowen authored “The Game of Life.” Two years later, a sequel, “Reclaiming the Game,” was built on new data. At the time, Bowen was the president of the Mellon Foundation, a powerful education philanthropic organization. The books didn’t call out Princeton’s problems specifically, instead focusing on the systemic forces driving selective universities. But at Princeton — and with Walters — the books touched a nerve. Bowen’s first book became Walters’ “obsession,” said McDermott, who has worked in the athletics department since 2000. The book — overstuffed with sticky notes and incessantly scrawled with his handwritten notes in the margins — became known by his staff simply as “The Book.” Bowen’s books suddenly provided cover for faculty critical of athletics’ role to emerge from the woodwork, McDermott said. “The competitor came out in him to be again the voice and advocate for student-athletes on campus,” she said. “I think in some way he had to stand up for them because, for a time, it felt like open field for being critical of being athletes as part of the campus.” For the first time in a decade, Princeton was again asking existential questions about the role of athletics in the Ivy League. Walters was incensed. “I was prepared to take on the debate,” Walters said. “The fact of the matter is you have to play offense.” Nassau Hall organized reading groups in which administrators critically read the literature. And Walters pointed out what he saw as the research’s biases and the data’s flaws. “People were upset, and I think legitimately so, by Bowen’s book because I think, as one can do with statistics, they can be shaped and molded to one’s argument,” said Chris Lincoln, who wrote a book about Ivy League recruiting in 2004. “Bowen had an argument first and had the statistics to match up to that.” More than a decade later, Walters’ sticky notes are still there. And he’s as passionate and reactive to the books as he was when they came out. For his part, Bowen continues to have harsh words for Walters, even as he declined to comment outright on him or his tenure. “I wouldn’t judge Walters — it’s not worth it,” Bowen said in an interview. “The defensiveness of some people in the athletic establishment is understandable, but I think it’s really rather sad and pathetic.” As Bowen’s research hit the shelves, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League, began to take notice. In June 2002, the Ivy League presidents determined that the intensification of Ivy League athletics was turning athletes into a class of students who had an experience radically dissimilar from their peers’. Guided by the research from Bowen’s first book, Princeton joined the Ivy League in requiring teams to ban captain- or coach-led practices for
seven weeks each year. “One purpose of the moratorium was to take a step, however small, toward underscoring the importance all of the Ivies attach to academic achievement and to finding a proper balance for student-athletes between their athletic and academic pursuits,” wrote former University President Shirley Tilghman in Princeton Alumni Weekly in 2003. Tilghman declined to comment for this article. The Ivy League presidents eventually modified the policy following protests from athletes and alumni. But it remained a partial setback for some in the athletics department, even though Walters said he supported the moratorium at the time. Ultimately, Princeton athletes would practice less frequently. “We want to be the best we can at our sports,” said soccer captain Jason White ’03 at a forum on the moratorium in November 2002. “We don’t sacrifice academics for athletics.” Retired Wilson School professor Jim Doig, who chaired the Policy Committee on Athletics and Physical Education when the moratorium was implemented, said the moratorium followed faculty worries about how the intensification of athletics had caused students to miss classes for practices and games. Professors now worry, though, that athletes have continued to practice anyway without supervision. Walters now said he believes the moratorium was a mistake. Princeton departures Even during unpromising times for Princeton athletics, Walters could count on an ally in Nassau Hall who would have his back: Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon. And just as campus attitudes toward athletics began to tilt away from Walters’ favor, Walters lost Hargadon in June 2003 when he retired following an admission scandal. Hargadon, who did not respond to requests for comment, was a fixture at Princeton athletic contests. Because of his towering height, athletes and coaches knew firsthand that “Dean Fred” was there. And more importantly, Walters knew Hargadon would do everything in his power to support athletics at the policymaking level. Hargadon’s departure left Walters just a bit more in the cold. “The support for the athletic programs at Princeton have not been the same from the admissions standpoint,” Lincoln said. “I think there was no question that Dean Hargadon was a friend of student-athletes.” Janet Rapelye, Hargadon’s successor, had the tough task of creating the same relationships with athletics that Hargadon had. But McDermott said Rapelye admitted that challenge from the beginning. “She knew Dean Fred had been at a lot of events, and she just didn’t think she could do that,” McDermott said. “If she were going to be that visible at athletic events, she’d be at something, like, every night, which Fred may have been.” As the books, the moratorium and the Hargadon departure cascaded on one another, Walters faced the toughest years of his tenure as athletic director. While attitudes hadn’t been reversed, residual attitudes had certainly reappeared. At around the same time, Walters began to entertain an offer that would take him to a place that left no doubt about its commitment to varsity sports: the University of California at Los Angeles. In April 2002, Walters advanced to the final four candidates for the position at a school that had the second-strongest Division I athletics program the year prior. Walters said he was “seriously” considering leaving Princeton for UCLA. “If I wanted to scratch the bigtime itch, that would be the place to do it,” he said. The offer also came at a moment when Princeton had just installed Tilghman, who had little experience with intercollegiate athletics. And that meant that Walters didn’t know if he had a supporter in One Nassau Hall. “What’s the uncertainty as we’re going forward?” Walters asked himself.
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Gary Walters ’67 transformed Princeton’s campus and introduced the concept of “Education Through Athletics” during his tenure.
He was ultimately not chosen for the job. Progress The Director of Athletics was forced to double down on a new cast of characters and a new set of policies. But, fortunately for him, he did not confront a new set of attitudes; the pandemonium following the Bowen books slowly subsided. “In the end, the reaction to that, I thought, became more measured and balanced, and I think Gary was instrumental in reaching that end result because he was such an advocate on campus for the value of athletics,” McDermott explained. Passions cooled, even if the diversity of attitudes persisted. Now, after 20 years of Walters’ lobbying, faculty say Princeton has changed — and that he won. “There was a time — 10 to 15 years ago when Gary first came along — when the athletes were really sort of a defined class of people whose lives were different from everybody else’s,” said Prentice, who had conducted academic research on the studentathlete experience. “That seems less true now.” Even some of the “academic purists” like Grafton said that they’re happy with current admission policies. Walters’ mentor Carril also thinks there are fewer faculty critics than during the 29 years he coached here. To him, the community’s slow change reflects the recognition of the caliber of the students. “When you’re devoid of nitwits that play college basketball, and you’re with regular guys that never felt they were more important to this school than the rest of kids, after a while they started to really think of us in a more positive light,” Carril said. Despite the progress, Walters thinks there’s still more that can be done to get Princeton to support athletics. He’d like to see Princeton open admissions slots to transfer students — some of
whom would be athletes. The University disallowed transfer students beginning in 1990. Every other Ivy League school admits transfer students. University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 has said in the past that he found athletic arguments for opening the school to transfers as “singularly unimpressive” because the school already has overwhelming athletic success, according to a 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly article. A University spokesman said that no policy change is planned. Eisgruber will have to be convinced, but athletics department officials said they haven’t interacted much with Eisgruber, which makes him very much a wild card. Despite the timing of Walters’ departure — only a few months after Eisgruber’s ascension to the presidency — officials say Walters was not forced out by Nassau Hall. Eisgruber declined to comment for this article. Perhaps anticipating Eisgruber’s reply to an athletics-based argument, the Policy Committee on Athletics and Physical Education decided last year not to have a transfer policy campaign originate with them, but rather with campus groups advocating for greater socioeconomic diversity. “It would seem so obviously self-serving that it wouldn’t get to first base,” said sociology professor Thomas Espenshade, the chair of the committee until this summer. It is conceivable that Walters, who is 68, could continue to make a push on this issue even after he leaves his office in Jadwin in June. He’s planning on keeping a foot at the University by informally advising his faculty fellows program, though corporate boards, leadership opportunities and a book on these issues potentially await him. After 20 years, he’s packing up. “This is a tough job. You’re at the intersection of so many pressures,” he said. And Walters pressured back.
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Monday january 13, 2014
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Tigers upset at the Palestra By Eddie Owens staff writer
CARLY JACKSON :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
The men’s basketball team lost a close game at a loud Palestra Saturday night, putting its Ivy League title hopes on thin ice.
Princeton’s hopes of an Ivy League title took a huge hit Saturday with a shocking 77-74 loss to Penn at the Palestra. The men’s basketball team (11-3, 0-1 Ivy League) was expected to steamroll the Quakers (3-10, 1-0 Ivy League) and go into the finals break confident about its matchup with Harvard at the end of January. Penn came into the game with a scoring margin of -7.7, while Princeton’s was +7.5. But Ivy League basketball and the PRINCETON 74 Princeton-Penn rivalry, in particular, have a strange way of throwing out the stats and PENN 77 rewarding hustle and aggression, which Penn had in excess. “They took it right to us — all the credit goes to Penn,” head coach Mitch Henderson ’98 said. “We had some opportunities to win the game, but I think they were the better team tonight. I give credit to the way they prepared themselves, and I have to take a look at how I prepare my team because it really seems like we have a lot of work to do.” Playing in front of a raucous Palestra crowd, Penn came out with guns blazing in the first half, outshooting the Tigers 56.7 percent to 40.6 percent and out-rebounding them 21-14. Penn center Darien Nelson-Henry, playing in his first game in a month following a concussion, harassed sophomore forward Hans Brase down low. Penn exploited an obvious mismatch, as Darien has three inches and 34 pounds on Brase and scored 13 points in just 13 minutes on the court in the first half. The Tigers shot 2-11 from the three-point line, their worst firsthalf mark of the year, and were lucky to be down by just five, 4338. The last time they played this badly in a first half was against Penn State, when they trailed by 12. Princeton was 2-2 on the year when trailing at the half, with both wins coming in overtime against Penn State and Lafayette. Following this year’s trend, Princeton opened the second half slowly, and Penn’s lead expanded to 11 in just 90 seconds. The lead was still 10 with under 12 minutes to play before the Tigers finally started making shots and the Quakers started missing them. Much like the game against Penn State, senior forward Will Barrett and senior guard T.J. Bray took over and scored all 12 of Princeton’s points in a three-and-a-half-minute span. A Ben Hazel layup with 7:43 left gave the Tigers their first lead in almost 30 minutes at 61-60. Finally, things were going according to plan for the Tigers, who had closed out close games almost without fail See M. B-BALL page 8
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
SQUASH
Tigers storm past rival Quakers
Both teams split weekend
By John Wolfe senior writer
The women’s basketball team kicked off its Ivy League season with an 8453 leveling of Penn on Saturday. The win marked Princeton’s (10-5 overall, PRINCETON 84 1-0 Ivy) 11th-straight successful meeting PENN 53 against the Quakers (8-3, 0-1), as well as the Tigers’ largest margin of victory of the season. After missing their first three shot attempts, the Tigers trailed early before capturing their first lead four minutes into the game and never looked back. A pair of jump shots from junior guard Blake Dietrick and sophomore guard Michelle Miller sparked a 16-0 run that left Princeton on the right side of a 21-7
split. During the hot streak, Princeton shot seven-of-nine from the field and connected on both of its three-point attempts. After a three-pointer from Miller put her team up 24-12 with 9:46 remaining in the first half, the Tigers would hold a double-digit lead until the final whistle. While Princeton dominated the rebound battle 48 to 37, perhaps the most significant contributor to its success was the ability to control possession of the basketball. Prior to Saturday’s matchup, the Tigers had struggled with an average of 16.1 turnovers per game. At Penn they committed only nine, while forcing the Quakers to cough up 17. Senior forward and co-captain Kris-
ten Helmstetter, who led all scorers with 17 while adding a team secondbest nine rebounds, noticed a difference in her squad’s composure that she thinks led to improved ball security. “We were patient yesterday and were poised on offense, which I think kept our turnovers at a minimum,” she said. The Tigers supplemented their sound offensive performance with a stif ling defensive effort, holding the Quakers to a dismal 30.5 percent shooting day. “Defense has become a priority for us, and I think that we were able to maintain the scout really well,” said Helmstetter. “[Sophomore guard] Amanda [Bernsten] did a great job defensively locking down their best See W. B-BALL page 8
By Victoria Majchizak
associate d sports editor
It was a busy weekend on the road for the squash teams, as the Tigers opened Ivy League play with mixed results. On Saturday, the Tigers traveled to Boston, where the No. 7 men’s team hoped to avenge last year’s crushing 4-5 CSA Championship semifinal loss to now-No. 2 Harvard. Princeton (3-3 overall, 1-1 Ivy League), however, came up empty-handed again as Harvard (6-1, 2-1) dropped the Tigers 9-0. Senior Dylan Ward nearly put Princeton on the board in his match at the No. 3 spot. Ward, who had clinched Princeton’s last two regularseason wins over Harvard, was up 2-1 before his opponent Dylan Murray pulled out two 11-9 wins to take the match. Juniors Tyler Osborne, playing at the No. 2 spot, and Taylor Turtone, playing at No. 8, also played tight games against their opponents, with each falling in five. Classmate Samuel Kang held his own against 2012 national champion Ali Farag, who dropped his first collegiate squash match in three years to Todd Harrity ’13. “Considering Harvard didn’t lose any players in their top seven See SQUASH page 8
WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY
Laing’s hat trick leads Tigers to tie with Rensselaer after loss By Andrew Sun staff writer
SHANNON MCGUE :: SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
The women’s hockey team was outscored 6-5 over the weekend, recording a tie and a loss.
The women’s ice hockey team spent the past weekend in New York, playing two conference games against Union and Rensselaer, tying one and losing the other. The Tigers (9-8-3, 6-6PRINCETON 1 2 ECAC) played a tough UNION 2 game against Union on PRINCETON 4 Friday night. Earlier this RENSSELAER 4 season, the Tigers played Union at home in a decisive 4-1 win. However, the game went very differently in Schenectady. In the first period, Princeton led in the shots-on-goal category, eight to four. However, Princeton’s offensive strike was countered by its penalties, with two penalty kills for hooking and tripping. After 20 minutes in the first period, the game was still scoreless. The first goal of the game came 2:26 into
the second when Union right wing Stefanie Thomson, assisted by Christine Valente and Maddy Norton, scored the game’s first goal on a power play. Less than two minutes later, Union doubled its lead with an unassisted goal from Kathryn Tomaselli. The second period ended with the Dutchwomen up by two going into the third. Freshman center Cassidy Tucker made it a one-goal game when sophomore center Jaimie McDonell found freshman right wing Hilary Lloyd, who found Tucker for a backhanded goal, her fourth of the season, with just under five minutes to play in the third period. Despite the new momentum, the Tigers were unable to tie the game. Defense was a big part of the game, as Union’s goalie Shenae Lundberg ended the game with 28 saves while sophomore goalie Kimberly Newell had 21 for the Tigers. On Saturday, the Tigers played Rensselaer, another team that they had faced and beaten
earlier in the season. Hoping to beat the Engineers, the Tigers captured momentum early. Senior center Denna Laing scored in the first 25 seconds, assisted by junior defender Ali Pankowski and senior defender Rosa Alleva. At 5:37, Laing scored again, this time assisted by left wing Brianna Leahy and senior right wing Sally Butler. Rensselaer fought back, with its first goal off of a powerplay opportunity at 9:19 in the first to make the score 2-1 going into the third. “Defensively, we need to be more disciplined in our defensive zone, and we continuously need to work on improving our penalty kill when it’s in our zone,” Laing said. “Four out of the six of the goals scored on us this weekend were power-play goals, so that really hurt us. Offensively, we need to work on putting the puck away when we have the chance.” At 4:14 in the second, Tucker scored her See W. HOCKEY page 8
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