Street: The Real Students of NAssau Street

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Student employment outside the Orange Bubble We all have work, and more work after work. But not all of it is confined to the boundaries of this Orange Bubble-defined campus. This week, Associate Street Editor HARRISON BLACKMAN talked to four students who have worked jobs at establishments on Nassau Street, with an interest in discovering what it means to work in downtown Princeton while being a student.

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hen Naomi Lake ’17 decided to pursue a parttime position at Olsson’s Fine Foods and Cheese, part of her reasoning involved a desire to experience a little bit of life outside the Orange Bubble.

“Instead of finding employment on campus … I wanted to do something that got me out of the Princeton bubble a little bit, especially for employment purposes,” Lake said. “It’s nice to be considered a twenty-something in the workable, real world, as opposed to being a Princeton student who had a job.”

Jobs. Princeton students always seem to be looking for them, in New York, Washington, California and elsewhere, perhaps not fully aware that Princeton itself is a regional locus for employment. The largest employer in Mercer County, Princeton University employs 6,000 benefits-eligible employees. According to Princeton’s student employment guide, over 2,400 students work part-time or temporary jobs on campus to help pay for their education, make a little money on the side and learn skills applicable to other careers. That said, while much of the Princeton experience can involve working on campus, in libraries and thinking about post-graduation employment, we don’t often think about what it means to work on the other side of Nassau Street.

For Victoria Liu ’17, a former employee of Infini-T Café & Spice Souk, what makes working at Nassau Street establishments alluring is the ability to fulfill a role that has an instant, measurable impact on others.

“There’s something incredibly charming or satisfying about being to able to make someone’s day by just handing them a cookie,” Liu said. “It’s so nice to have a

place with such tangible product to your work, especially when you’re at Princeton every day, and you put so much emotional energy and stress into these papers, and you don’t ever see the end of it; you don’t ever feel like you’re making an impact.”

The instant gratification of giving someone a cookie is just one reason to work on the other side of Nassau Street. Other students are more into gaining casual expertise in the industry.

Case in point: Zachariah DeGiulio ’18 works at Rojo’s Roastery once a week in a long seven-hour shift. Perhaps fittingly, his favorite thing about the job is the coffee. “[Working at Rojo’s] definitely takes a huge portion of my time relative to most other activities, so it’s kind of something that I do more about the enjoyment of coffee than anything else,” DeGiulio said. “It’s just another thing that I schedule into my week. I don’t see it as a job … so it’s something that I like having in my schedule.”

While DeGiulio’s experience may not feel like a job for him, for Lake, working off-campus is an exercise in balancing school and work.

“I only work 12 hours a week, which might sound like a lot upfront, but it’s mostly hours that I would otherwise be spending with people on campus vaguely studying and not getting anything done,” Lake said. “Right now, since my schedule is very front-heavy in the beginning in the day, I tend to work afternoons that I have off, and by the evening I’m getting dinner with friends and involved in campus life again with the evening.”

Lake explained that though her schedule sounds stressful, she appreciates the ability to experience a different side of living and working in the Princeton community.

“It sounds really stressful to balance between the two worlds, but it’s really nice to have two worlds to choose from,” Lake said. “The owners are a husband-and-wife team, with kids that come in, so it’s just a different ecosystem.”

Interacting with the side of Princeton outside campus is something Emily Kamen ’17 is quite familiar with.

Kamen teaches two yoga classes a week at YogaStream, a yoga studio on COURTESY OF SPOON UNIVERSITY the corner of Tulane and Storefront of Olsson’s Fine Foods and Cheese, where Naomi Lake ’17 works.

Spring Street.

“I really like getting to know people that live in the town and the surrounding area,” Kamen said. “People are always bringing me books to read, or articles, or snacks that they made, or sometimes I’ll babysit [the kids of] people who work there.”

Similarly, interacting with customers at Rojo’s allows DeGiulio to connect with a variety of customers — predominantly townspeople, graduate students and tourists — in a different way than is COURTESY OF INFINI-T CAFE & SPICE SOUK possible on campus.

“You kind of get to Interior of Infini-T Café, where Victiora Liu ’17 worked last spring semester. connect with people that you don’t necessarlike it.” about Liu’s background, she ily get to connect with as often The need to take a break from would explain that she studied on campus, which I really like, the career-oriented mindset of at Princeton and would field too, because it provides a feel- ambitious, competitive students questions about her life, a prosing of grounded-ness … because who see their peers as a roster of pect that was much more pleasPrinceton at times can feel super qualified rivals is something that ant and contrasted with her isolated,” DeGiulio said.

Liu considers an important aspect experience of how Princeton Moreover, talking with a wide of working off campus as well. students tended to size up one range of people can serve as a “It’s very strange, because nev- another on campus. valuable dose of perspective from er on campus do we just stop and “It was very cool just talking the fast lane of Princeton student let people be people,” Liu said. to random people who came for a life. Kamen explained the per- “Here, it’s like what are you ma- cup of tea,” Liu said. spective she’s gained from work- joring in? What’s your goal in The social implications of serving with the students in life? What’s your career path? ing Princeton students notwithher yoga class, who can What classes are you taking? Are standing, the off-campus work range from 18 to 70 years you dying from midterms? We’re experience can be very valuable of age. never like, what’s your deal? … for both sides of the equation, as “People are always re- What kind of person are you? We is the case for Kamen. ally interested in what I’m never ask anyone what kind of “I think it’s really nice to see learning about at Prince- person you are.” how appreciative everyone in this ton, so that kind of makes According to Liu, there’s an yoga community is,” Kamen said. me more excited about my inherent tension to being in the “[Yoga] students are very thankclasses too, getting to talk position of serving Princeton ful for me for just doing this job. about them with some- students, however.

They paid for this service and I’m one who doesn’t have the “I was very weirded out by the doing it, but just they don’t seem experience of attending perspective of waiting on Princ- to look at it that way; it’s like, classes here,” Kamen said. eton students,” Liu said. “I be- wow, thank you for taking your “It kind of offers me a came very oddly invisible when time out of your day to teach me fresh perspective of like, I stepped behind the counter…. this class.” wow, I’m really lucky to it was very weird to know that In essence, for Kamen, it’s a be here. And at the same [there] were Princeton students win-win situation. time, wow, there’s a life and have them not consider that I “And I’m like yeah, cool,” KaCOURTESY OF NJ.COM beyond Princeton, and it was a Princeton student.” men said. “I love doing it, and I Rojo’s Roastery, a coffee bistro where Zachariah DeGiulio ’18 works once a week. seems cool, too. So I really When customers did ask got paid for it. It was awesome.”

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UNFAMILIAR STREET

Rua Sá Ferreira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil JENNIFER SHYUE Associate Street Editor

‘Unfamiliar Street’ is a column series in which we take you around the world and introduce you to a cool STREET far from the well-trod gravel of Prospect Avenue. s soon as I told our airport taxi driver the name of the street I would be living on for the next four weeks — “Rua Sá Ferreira,” I said, the unfamiliar whooshy h-like rr’s of Portuguese tumbling gracelessly out of my mouth — he nodded. “Ah, I know where that is,” he said. “In Copacabana.”

On our way there, the driver pointed as we passed to the Sambódromo, where Rio’s fa-

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mous Carnival parades take place every year; the Estádio do Maracanã, where Rio’s World Cup games had been played the summer before; and Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, the lagoon in the middle of the city whose curves we followed as our car thrummed toward our destination. I was surprised when we arrived at Sá Ferreira to see that it was lined with tall, well-maintained apartment buildings — from the way the taxi driver had recognized it instantly, I would’ve thought it was a bustling street in the middle of the metropolis.

After the guard sitting in the

lobby buzzed me through the gate — virtually all the buildings on Sá Ferreira had gates, and watchful guards sitting behind desks — he helped me roll my suitcases into the elevator and sent me up to the sixth floor. In apartment 604, two silent cats greeted me at the door, tails curled around their feet. I would later find out that the white one’s name was Frank (for Frank Sinatra, whose blue eyes he shared), and the orange-striped one’s name was Fubar. Their owner, my host mother, was Lalá.

Within a few days, I was comfortable enough to leave

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A common summertime weekend scene of bustling crowds at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro.

the building and explore the surrounding area accompanied by just one other Princeton in Brazil student. The asymmetrical white mosaic tile of the street was broken by square patches of dirt, out of which solitary trees grew.

They were tall. The occasional fruit would fall down and land splat on the sidewalk; once, other students in our group who also lived on Sá Ferreira told us they saw a fish hurtle down from above, probably launched by a mischievous tree-dwelling monkey.

On one end of the street was a dead-end bend to the left and an entrance to the General Osório metro station. We rode the escalator down into its depths on free Thursday afternoons, on Friday nights, on Sunday mornings, and took the metro to tourist places; to leafy, grassy outside places; to lightsoaked, art-filled places; to dark, loud, people-filled places.

On the other end, the street extended for two, three more blocks until it hit Copacabana Beach. Sometimes we walked to the beach at night, shoulders tightening as we walked past the bulky bodies of the gun-slung police officers who stood on either side of an entrance to the favela next to Copacabana. As we waited for the light to change at that corner, we would look up at the squat houses brimming over the edges of streets cut into the hills surrounding the heart of

Rio and wonder at the tricks of fate that had put us (Asian, white, Latino — but American) down here and them (“them”) up there.

At the beach, the nondescript white mosaic tiles of the floor morphed into black and white tile waves, one of many things for which Copacabana Beach is famous. Beyond the tiled walkways, there was sand, and then there was sea.

At the end of June, in the taxi on our way back to the airport, I noticed I was feeling a strange, unexpected ache. Four weeks wasn’t supposed to be enough to fall in love, but here I was, the stone in my stomach swelling heavier the farther we got from Rua Sá Ferreira. We passed Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, whose still waters I had finally seen up close for the first time in our last week; the Estádio do Maracanã, where a group of us had swayed along with the roaring crowd at a soccer game; and the Sambódromo, where my host mother Lalá, now, at 70, past her competitive samba years, had once danced every year with her samba school.

“I’ll be back,” I’d told new friends before hugging them goodbye. “I’ll be back,” I told my companion in the taxi, the now-friend with whom I’d shared the ride from the airport. “I’ll be back,” I repeated to myself, silently. How could I not? Portuguese h-like rr’s were finally starting to roll off my tongue more naturally.

Q&A AUTHOR, VETERAN AND HODDER FELLOW PHIL KLAY Interviewed by

ANGELA WANG Contributor

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hil Klay is a veteran of the Iraq War, having served as an officer in the Marine Corps. His 2014 collection of short stories, “Redeployment,” won the National Book Award for Fiction and has since been heralded as the next Tim O’Brien by critics.

Klay is a 2015-16 Hodder Fellow in the Lewis Center for the Arts. In an email interview, Street asked Klay about his

wartime experiences, writing style and future projects.

Daily Princetonian: What made you want to join the Marines after college?

Phil Klay: I joined because we were at war. There’s a tradition of service in my family, though not necessarily military service. My father was in the Peace Corps. My mother has worked for years in development, mostly in international medical development though more recently at the Children’s Defense Fund.

And my maternal grandfather was a career diplomat.

If you’d asked me in high school what I was going to do with my life, I likely would have told you that I’d follow in his footsteps and become a diplomat. But we were at war, so the Marine Corps seemed to be the best way of serving my country.

DP: What are some of your most unforgettable experi-

ences in Iraq?

PK: My most memorable moments from Iraq: barbecuing with my Marines, an Iraqi sheik showing me his bullet wounds and the aftermath of the suicide bombing in Habbaniyah, when they brought the injured into the surgical center on my base and there were so many injured the doctors ran out of trauma tables and ended up doing surgery on the floor.

DP: Some people call you the new Tim O’Brien. Did you have a hard time transitioning back to normalcy like O’Brien did? What about your experience is similar to or different from O’Brien’s experience after the war?

PK: I didn’t have a hard time, personally, returning to normalcy after the war, though of course I didn’t experience anything like what O’Brien did.

What did take me a long time, and what I’m still grappling with, is how to morally reckon with what the war means. How do I make sense of myself, not only as a Marine who served in the war but as a citizen responsible for what my country does and doesn’t do?

I admire O’Brien tremendously, and I think there is plenty of continuity between the types of feelings he explores and the experiences of modern soldiers, but at the same time it’s a remarkably different war.

When I was overseas, the mili-

tary strategy of the counterinsurgency was drastically different from the kind of bodycounting attitudes common in Vietnam. Everybody was a volunteer, and so the troops tended to be highly professional. We came home to a warm reception, albeit one from a public that seemed not to [be] paying too much attention, perhaps because there was no draft and therefore no reason for them to have to.

DP: How is your book structured? What are the main themes/motifs?

PK: The book is composed of twelve stories, all in the first person, from different narrators with different jobs. There’s an infantryman, a chaplain, a mortuary affairs specialist, an engineer and so on. Oftentimes I return to the disconnect between veterans and civilians, the different ways we choose to remember what happened or what we’ve done, the raw emotions sparked by killing or ex-

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posure to death and how those become processed or communally understood.

DP: In the future, are you planning on writing more wartime stories or move on to a different genre? If so, what is the new focus?

PK: I’m working on a novel about the U.S. involvement in Colombia. It’s difficult to tell exactly what the shape of it will be at this time, though it will also deal with the aftermath of war.

I don’t necessarily expect to only write about war for the rest of my life, but it is something that I’m still trying to understand better.

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SPEAR: CAMPUS VOICES ON PRISON REFORM CATHERINE WANG Contributor

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or 23 hours between Oct. 22 and 23, many students crowded curiously around the outside of Frist Campus Center, watching a University student sit motionless and alone inside of a 7x9 foot box. Word spread quickly, and many students soon knew about the performance, also known as “7x9”; the box represents the size of cell that prisoners in solitary confinement live in. What some students may not have known was that “7x9” was planned by a student organization called Students for Prison Education and Reform.

SPEAR was formed four years ago, and for the past three years it has performed the solitary confinement piece, which has also been done at several other colleges.

“Solitary confinement is an issue we worked a lot on, because it’s one of the most profound problems of the criminal justice system, and it’s one of the easiest to explain to people,” co-president Daniel Teehan ’17 said. “We wanted to do it in a thoughtful and meaningful way ... and we wanted to put a seven foot by nine foot space in a place where people wouldn’t normally see it.”

However, SPEAR’s work is not just limited to protesting against solitary confinement. There are five committees: Events, Research, Advocacy, Communications and Education, which each have their own specific projects including workforce preparation programs and letter-writing campaigns. But what defines SPEAR as an organization?

“SPEAR draws crowds of people who are interested in social justice issues,” Teehan said. “But having a group that’s specifically focused on issues of mass incarceration

is important, because prisons are a place where many of the most profound issues in our society, be it systemic racism or problems with integration, surveillance, policing, are all coalesced in the criminal justice system.”

Co-president Clarissa Kimmey ’16 initially found herself interested in the educational aspects of the prison system through the Petey Greene Program, which is a University tutoring program that works with incarcerated students in two youth correctional facilities, helping them prepare for their high school equivalency exams.

“I really got interested in advocacy against mass incarceration, because I was working with people who had been impacted by our justice system in really problematic ways ... who were really smart and talented, but were facing many challenges because of their criminal history,” Kimmey said.

Kimmey then got involved with SPEAR’s Education Committee because she hoped to help give incarcerated persons a chance to achieve their goals, specifically in regards to presenting themselves to future employers and schools.

Much of her efforts have gone into the creation of a workforce preparation program, also known as Princeton Reentry Preparation Program, that is run at three correctional facilities.

“We do resume-writing, interview skills, creating a space to think about the job search and future employment goals,” Kimmey said. “In the prison system, your achievements and agency and potential isn’t recognized … so to create a space where people could recognize all the cool things they had done with their life was great.”

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On Nov. 16, SPEAR hosted a public lecture by Anthony Ray Hinton, director of the Witness to Innocence Project, who was on death row for 30 years prior to his exoneration.

One educational reform SPEAR is working on which relates directly to the University is the Admissions Opportunity Campaign. The goal of the campaign is to remove questions about criminal history from applications to the University.

“We think it’s really problematic to include the question on the application because it is so prejudicial, and admissions officers aren’t necessarily trained on how to deal with those kind of questions,” Kimmey explained.

The Admissions Opportunity Campaign is working within a national coalition called Abolish the Box, which is directing its efforts to removing questions about criminal history on the Common Application.

This week, SPEAR launched

another campaign called “Who Do We Kill?” which is both a memorial to those who have received the death penalty and a protest against the institution of capital punishment.

“On the day that someone is scheduled to be executed, we will send out an email that will include biographical information about the person which isn’t available in the media,” Kimmey said. “We’ve also written to people on death row, hoping to give them a chance to share their voice and not just writing about them. We’ll also have pictures of them, a letter or information about them in Frist.”

SPEAR invited Anthony Ray Hinton, who was on death row for 30 years before being exonerated, to speak on Monday before launching the campaign. Stu-

dents who wished to get involved wore a black ribbon distributed as a tribute to those who have died after receiving the death penalty.

Kimmey and Teehan encourage students looking to get involved to come to their full-group meetings, which take place on Monday at 8 p.m. in East Pyne 111.

“There is a lot going on. This year we had someone who was affected by solitary confinement Skype in, we had someone who runs a program focused on women’s incarceration come and speak to us, and we’re having a graduate student who has worked a lot on incarceration issues come and speak to us — so they’re very educational and as a social justice group, we try to be very inclusive so anyone who is interested can come at any time,” Kimmey said.

‘Zoyka’s Apartment’ achieves diverse, symbolic production OLIVER SUN Senior Writer

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his weekend, the Princeton Program in Theater presents “Zoyka’s Apartment,” a play by Kiev-born Mikhail Bulgakov. Performed by Princeton students enrolled in THR 451: The Fall Show and directed by professional Alexandru Mihail, “Zoyka’s Apartment” takes place in a Soviet Russia trying to reconcile centuries of imperial tradition with the dawn of the New Economic Policy era.

Zoyka, the title character, was a wealthy woman before the Bolsheviks came to power, and under the NEP she struggles with the government’s demands for industrial production. Through clever

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“persuasion” of the local committee chairman, she secures permission to maintain possession of her spacious home, inhabited only by her and her maid, who the chairman believes to be her niece. Evelyn Giovine ’16 plays Zoyka, who ostensibly runs a needlework school that is actually a front for an illicit speakeasy. In a performance reminiscent of her role as the actress Vanda in Theatre Intime’s spring 2014 production of “Venus in Fur,” Giovine as Zoyka is alternately beguiling and innocent, as she plies her charms on the chairman yet seeks to keep up appearances as the director of a legitimate institution in Stalin’s economic program. She

asserts her dominance over easily manipulated yet surprisingly sympathetic petty bureaucrats, while presenting herself as an ever-gracious host to her not-so-legitimate guests.

One of the stated casting goals was to create “an ensemble as diverse as possible.” While the show takes place in 1927 Moscow, the cast features actors from different racial backgrounds as well as cross-

gender casting. For instance, Gandzalin, a Chinese man who runs a laundering business, is played by Kathy Zhao ’17, who wears a fake Fu Manchu moustache. On the f lip side, several women models are played by male actors.

Bulgakov’s decision to include a racially diverse cast and use cross-gender casting serves “to make a point that theatre and performance transcend all social categories,” according to the description on the Lewis Center’s website. This theme of a fluid social order meshes well with the themes of “Zoyka’s Apartment.” In the play, social order in 1927 Russia has been inverted by the rise of the Communist Party and the strict quotas of Stalin’s NEP, and Mihail’s production emphasizes this with its nontraditional casting choices. This bold decision pays its biggest dividend in a scene where three ladies, played by Carey Camel ’17, Justin Sansone ’19 and Luke Soucy ’19, discuss fashion. Many of the play’s wealthy characters languishing under Stalin’s regime dream of an escape to Paris, which is thought of as a capitalist utopia. This scene with the three “women” seems to serve as a commentary on the Russians’ perceptions of Paris: splendid, lavish and ultimately fantastical.

Symbolism plays a major

role in Mihail’s production.

Just as casting choices ref lect the play’s themes, the set and props are also important. The set is dominated by Zoyka’s apartment, which materializes as a large wooden frame on wheels. Curtains divide rooms, and characters open and close them to symbolize private conversations. In one scene early on, several characters rotate the apartment so that instead of facing the audience directly, the apartment is askew. The decision to include a physical “building” rather than the open “rooms” more typical of theatre productions is a conscious choice that both ref lects the show’s title and provides the characters with another symbol of upsetting the social order.

Overall, “Zoyka’s Apartment” is a success. While the cast delivers great performances and the set is welldesigned, the real treat in this production is the symbolism inherent in the casting choices and the props. Mihail succeeds in driving home Bulgakov’s points about the turbulent times facing Russian bourgeoisie at the beginning of Stalin’s regime.

5 out of 5 paws.

Pros: Strong symbolism; well-designed set Cons: None

BAGHDAD THROUGH THE EYES OF A TIGER

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heatre Intime’s “Benghal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” closes this weekend. The play, written by Rajiv Joseph and directed by Mariel VanLandingham ’16, follows the ghost of a tiger wandering the streets of wartime Baghdad as he meets Americans and Iraqis searching for understanding, redemption — and a stolen toilet seat made of solid gold. The show will run Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m.

Photos courtesy of Wesley Cornwell ’16.

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Things to be thankful for It’s still pretty warm outside.

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More-secular-than-usual Starbucks cups.

Star Wars is one month away.

Kung Fu Panda 3 is two months away.

Pies, pies, pies.

The squirrels are getting fatter.

Cold weather = fewer bugs.

Big sweaters.

It will soon be acceptable to only listen to Michael Bublé’s holiday album.

It’s still pretty warm outside!?

CAMPUS PICKS COMEDY FUZZY DICE IMPROV COMEDY PRESENTS “SIDEKICKS” Theatre Intime Thursday and Friday, 11 p.m.

ASK THE SEXPERT

This week, we discuss protection for oral sex.

Dear Sexpert,

I recently learned that you can catch STDs from oral. I had no idea and now I need to know: how I can protect myself from them during oral sex?

Dear Lips,

— My Lips Are Sealed

Many people are not aware that oral sex of any kind increases risk for sexually transmitted infections for both partners, so kudos to you for learning this and for thinking about reducing your risk. As you may know, STIs are types of bacteria, viruses or parasites that are transmitted during sexual contact. They can be transmitted via bodily fluids or via skin-to-skin contact.

The bodily fluids include not just semen, vaginal fluids and blood, but also saliva.

When giving or receiving unprotected fellatio (oral sex performed on the penis), cunnilingus (oral sex performed on the vulva) or anilingus (oral sex performed on the anus), you are exposed to one or more of these fluids. Skin-to-skin contact also occurs during unprotected oral sex and can result in the transmission of some STIs. Some of the most common STIs contracted during oral sex are Human papilloma virus or HPV, Herpes Simplex Virus, Syphilis, Gonorrhea and Chlamydia. While you can lower your risk of HPV transmission by getting vaccinated, once contracted, HPV may go away on its own or if un-

treated, could lead to other diseases such as genital warts, or in some extreme cases, cancer. Herpes HSV-1 and HSV-2 both cause blisters and sores, but HSV-1 is mostly present on and around the mouth, while HSV-2 causes sores on the genitals. However, both types can be present on either area. There is no cure for herpes, but there are medications to reduce the likelihood of transmission. Herpes can be contracted even when sores or blisters are not visible. Syphilis also appears as sores on the genitals or around the mouth and can cause severe complications if untreated. Gonorrhea and Chlamydia can be contracted in the throat from a partner who is infected. Both could be asymptomatic, but gonorrhea can also cause strep throat-like symptoms. Finally, there is the risk of contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which travels in blood, ejaculate, vaginal secretions and other bodily fluids. The risk of catching HIV from oral sex is lower than for vaginal or anal sex, but is still possible.

Luckily, there are many options for reducing risk during oral sex and many of them come in a variety of flavors. When performing or receiving oral sex, use a barrier between the mouth and the genitals. For fellatio, use an external “male” condom on the penis. For cunnilingus or anilingus , use an internal “female” condom (for anal use, take out the inner

ring and let the end hang out of the anus), a dental dam, or you can cut open a nonlubricated latex condom and use it as you would a dental dam. Do not use the same side of a dental dam over multiple areas and do not flip the dental dam over and apply to other areas. You can write your name on one side so you use only one side.

Each of these barriers should be used only once and then properly disposed. Dental dams and condoms are available from the front desk at McCosh Health Center as well as at the LGBT Center.

If you have any more questions about practicing safer oral sex, I encourage you to make an appointment with Sexual Health and Wellness at UHS. The clinicians there can provide you with more useful information and demonstrate how to use each barrier method effectively so that you can reduce your risk.

Some refer to them as “scrubs” or “newbs” (alternatively, “n00bs”), but Fuzzy Dice would like to introduce their new members as “sidekicks.” Sidekicks aren’t lame; they’re necessary for bringing out the awesome in the superheroes they will eventually become.

Don’t miss out on these Robins before they take over for Batman and, by extension, become way too cool for you to sit with at lunch. Tickets are on sale at the Frist ticketing office.

POETRY SONGLINE SLAM PRESENTS “LOST & FOUND” Class of 1970 Theater Thursday and Saturday, 8 p.m.

Weeks ago, we told you about Songline’s new members arch. Now, they are all grown up (as far as weeks of growing up go) and ready for their first “real” show of the year. Come find every emotion and every pretty word you’ve ever lost — or never knew you needed — at Whitman’s Class of 1970 Theater this weekend, entirely free of charge. Just bring your ears, your snapping-ready fingers and your love for spoken word.

— The Sexpert

Information included in this article and more information on STI’s can be found at bedsider. org and cdc.gov.

Interested in Sexual Health? The Sexpert is always looking for members of the community to join the team of sexual health educators who, along with fact-checking from University health professionals, help write these columns. Email sexpert@ dailyprincetonian.com for more information and questions about sexual health.

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Admission office sees 9.4 percent the increase in early action applications; god vengeful U.S. News & World Report reportedly appeased

MUSIC PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ROCK ENSEMBLE PRESENTS “GOING DOWN SWINGING” Frist Film/Performance Theatre Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 8 p.m.

It’s official: Fall Out Boy has made the most unexpected comeback of the 2010s, and we’re happy to go down swinging with them — with help from PURE. The concert will also feature covers of a wide range of contemporary classics and rock legends, including Muse, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Stevie Wonder and more. Tickets are $8 for students and $10 for general admission.

EVENT PRINCETON MUSLIM STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION PRESENTS “MUSLIM MONOLOGUES” Wilson Black Box Friday, 8:30 p.m.

It is always easier to generalize cultures than to understand them. Given traumatic events in recent history and the present day, it is perhaps especially easy to do so about Islam. But it is much more productive to try to understand rather than to draw unfounded conclusions, and this Friday, Muslim Students on campus will share their stories “uncut and unedited.” Go, listen to their stories, and learn.

This event is one night only Tickets are available free of charge at the Frist ticketing office.