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Former U. professor resigns from teaching position following allegations of sexual misconduct By Caroline Lippman staff writer
Former molecular biology professor Jason Lieb resigned in January from his position as a Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago after allegations of sexual misconduct. Lieb, who joined the University’s faculty in July 2013 and served as the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, resigned from the University seven months later in February 2014. The reasons for his resignation were unspecified at the time. His resignation was effective July 2014. Lieb did not respond to requests for comment. Assistant Provost and Director of the Office for Equal Opportunity Programs at the University of Chigago Sarah Wake, who issued the letter on the school’s investigation, deferred comment to Jeremy Manier, Acting Associate Vice President for Communications at Univer-
sity of Chicago. Manier deferred comment to a statement, which read that the University of Chicago’s Title IX Coordinator concluded in January that Lieb’s conduct violated the school’s Policy on Harassment, Discrimination and Sexual Misconduct and recommended that the institution terminate Lieb’s employment. According to the New York Times, an investigation made by officials at the University of Chicago found that Lieb made unwelcome sexual advances on several female graduate students at an off-campus retreat of the school’s molecular biosciences division, and that Lieb had engaged in sexual activity with a student who was incapacitated due to alcohol. Lieb’s resignation came before any disciplinary action was taken in response to the allegations of his misconduct. The statement noted that See RESIGN page 4
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U. dietitian Mirota promotes healthy eating habits By Abhiram Karuppur staff writer
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Campus Wellness Dietitian Melissa Mirota seeks to help the University community make healthy diet choices as a food consultant across dining halls. Since she joined the University’s campus dining staff in 2014, Mirota has worked with the dining staff to develop menus and has been in charge with activity tables and food allergy programs. “She thinks about how might the food program nourish our campus community to be their healthy best both on and off campus,”Executive Director of Campus Dining Smitha Haneef said. Mirota’s job involves working with dining staff to design and finalize campus dining menus that adhere to the “Culinary Principles,” a criteria devel-
oped by the Culinary Institute of America and the Harvard School of Public Health to encourage healthy and sustainable eating. The principles recommend plant-derived foods, which are rich in nutrients and environmentally friendly, she explained. “The nutrition education that I do is based off of the culinary principles,” she explained. “I try to get people to incorporate more vegetables into their meals.” Mirota said that her favorite part about her job is running the activity tables in the dining halls, where she gets to interact with students and faculty. “I love discussing nutrition and health with students and faculty,” Mirota said. “It’s cool to see students come up to me with questions about how to eat and
what to eat.” Mirota also noted that often, there’s a need for a balance between taste and nutrition. However, students can fine-tune their appetite to appreciate dining hall foods better. “We can basically re-wire our taste buds to appreciate the deliciousness of meals like fresh acorn squash topped with nutmeg… for example our taste buds will appreciate the flavor of cinnamon atop a bowl of oatmeal, or Butler-Wilson’s vegan porridge more if we eat less sugary cereal,” she explained. Mirota also runs activity tables in the University’s retail dining locations, such as the Chemistry CaFe in the Frick Chemistry Laboratory, as well as administrative buildings located off campus. Haneef noted that Mirota See HEALTH page 2
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Forbes College Dining Hall implements changes after sustainability initiative
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Changes have been implemented in the Forbes College Dining Hall to reduce the food waste following last December’s Food Waste Awareness Week. The Food Waste Awareness Week initiative took place between Dec. 9 and Dec. 15 and was led by Greening Dining, a University student club that works with University Dining Services to make dining areas more sustainable, in collaboration with both Campus Dining and Forbes College. During the week, students in Forbes College dumped all of their uneaten food in one large, weighted bin to raise awareness of mindful eating. Sarah Salati Bavuso, Senior Special Projects Manager in Campus Dining, noted how pizza in Forbes is now cut in
smaller slices and pancakes are now 3 inches wide instead of 4 inches, as a result of the Greening Dining campaign. The project also encouraged dining hall staff to monitor the food produced every day and what goes in the compost bins. “What you may not notice is that the sausage produced and not consumed at breakfast appears in the specialty scrambled eggs the next day or as pizza toppings too. These are all examples of how the dining hall staff recognized and reacted to areas of opportunity to reduce food waste at the kitchen production level,” she said. According to Anastas Belev Jr. ’16, a student organizer of Greening Dining, he and other student organizers kept track of how much food was wasted during every meal. Sheets with the recorded data
were posted in the Forbes dining hall during the week. The data notes that the total amount of food wasted ranges from 115.3 pounds, or 2.40 ounces per person, on Sunday brunch, and 11.2 pounds, or 0. 7 ounces per person, onWednesday breakfast. The most waste occurred during dinner for five out of the seven days. On average, 34.6 pounds of food was wasted per meal. Belev explained that having uneaten food be collected in one bin whose weight was then shown on a displayed scale was meant to show students just how much food is uneaten during meals, thereby encouraging non-wasteful habits. “We think that this [initiative] might have a pretty big impact on people’s mentalities. Maybe next time when they go and take their portion, they’ll be See WASTE page 6
By Christopher Umanzor staff writer
Several Princeton students will be launching a studentproduced television show, titled ‘Princeton Tonight,’ in late February. The show will feature guests in a talk show style format and will be programmed for the University’s local cable channels, available in New Jersey on Comcast and Verizon networks. “Princeton Tonight is Princeton University’s first completely student-run broadcast television program,” showrunner Jordan Salama ’19 said. “That means that we are all students – we have a production department, a writing department and a business department.” Salama explained that he came up for the concept for the project after having visited the
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studio at the University’s Broadcast Center. “During the first week of school, I saw an advertisement for an open house in the Princeton University Broadcast Center. We, the students, had not yet been able to use the Broadcast Center, a fully functional TV studio. So, I said, well, there was some potential here.” Salama explained that he and Ryan Ozminkowski ’19, the show’s producer, met at a screening event for Princeton Film Productions. Ozminkowski noted that the two of them were both inspired by the broadcast center, and started the project from there by assembling a team and filming a pilot of the show. The project eventually would become very much a collaborative effort among many stuSee TV page 5
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ran an activity table dedicated to carrots in January, and an earlier one dedicated to making guacamole during Latin heritage month. “She makes a side item that is nutrition dense into something fun and inspiring for all of us,” Haneef said. Furthermore, Mirota runs a food allergy program where she makes sure those with allergies know what the foods being served contain, and also provides advice to athletes on healthy and energizing snacks. “I encourage [students] to snack on ‘real foods,’ which are foods with one ingredient or less, like carrots,” Mirota said. “You’ll have a better feeling of fullness than if you eat something that is more processed.” After receiving her bachelor’s degree in political science, Mirota first became a resource coordinator for Hunterdon Prevention Resources, a New Jersey nonprofit dedicated to prevent-
ing alcoholism, drug abuse and bullying. During her time there, she primarily worked with high school youth in tobacco cessation programs and conducted general prevention programs in the local high schools and elementary schools. In 2008, Mirota started working for Ridgewells Inc., a catering company in the Washington, DC region. There, she took charge of catering for thirty corporate suites for the Washington Redskins. While in Washington, she was also an accounting assistant for the Southern States Ball and Staff Ball at President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Event in 2009. “I helped put out the hors d’oeuvres for the President, which I thought was pretty memorable,” Mirota said. Mirota said that despite the regalia of working for the President, she felt a desire to go back to a career where she could help people. One day, when she was leaving a metro station in Washington, she saw an advertisement
for a 16 week-long vegan diet study of how diet choices influence skin health. As part of the study, she met with dietitians and nutritionists, and eventually became interested in their work, she explained. “I thought this was a nice hybrid, because I’ve always liked food, and I appreciated the idea of eating for your health,” she said. The dietitians and nutritionists Mirota met encouraged her to return to school and become a registered dietitian. In 2009, Mirota started pursuing a degree in nutritional sciences and dietetics at Rutgers. Rutgers University Dietetics Instructor Barbara Tangel highlighted her non-traditional background. “It was a real turnaround for her to go from theology and philosophy to the hard sciences,” Tangel said. Sue Shapses, a Rutgers Nutritional Sciences Professor, said that Mirota, showed her commitment to helping others with her work during her time at Rutgers, by conducting research
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with her in the New Jersey Obesity Group. Her work included editing an educational booklet on patient summaries that was distributed to local hospitals. She also conducted research in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, where she surveyed physical activity in low-income populations. Specifically, she studied individuals who participated in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education. “I would ask the participants questions about their diet and the availability of specific foods,” Mirota explained. She also served as a Nutrition Health Educator for Rutgers, where she visited fifthgrade health classes as a guest speaker. “We were concerned that the students weren’t getting enough calcium in their diet,” she said. “I told the kids which foods were high in calcium and how their families could get affordable options.” Upon completing her degree from Rutgers in 2012, Mirota
joined Eurest, a food service company that advises clients on nutrition and other food-related topics a s a corporate dietitian to spread wellness awareness among employees. She explained that she worked with chefs to make sure their menus had balanced offerings, such as dishes with low sodium and vegetarian options. Kerry Cowart, Eurest Eastern Division Wellness Director at the time, highlighted Mirota’s ability to work with other people and educate others on wellness initiatives. “Melissa has well-rounded experience include food service operations and nutrition expertise,” Cowart said. “With her experience and expertise, Melissa implemented and ran wellness programs, to meet her client’s wellness needs and goals.” Mirota noted that she love giving people the tools to see how much difference a balanced diet makes. “The more I stay in the field, the more I’m grateful, because I feel there is power in how we choose to eat,” Mirota said.
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Due to an editing error, a version of Feb. 02 article on the University’s Strategic Planning Framework inaccurately stated that success of the initiatives will be reviewed by an externally commissioned task force. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.
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Lieb, prior to his hire, had informed the University of Chicago about an allegation at an institution he worked for previously. The institution where the allegation took place had conducted an investigation but did not find Lieb to have violated sexual mis-
conduct policies. The statement did not specify the name of the institution. Prior to joining the University , Lieb taught at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 2002 to 2013 and served as the director of the school’s Carolina Center for Genomic Sciences. University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan said that the reasons for Lieb’s resignation
remain unknown, and declined to further comment on his personal file from his years at the University. “We don’t comment on personnel matters at all,” she said. Pullan declined to confirm whether allegations of sexual misconduct were ever brought against Lieb while he was at the University. University Molecular Biol-
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ogy Department Chair Bonnie Bassler did not respond to comment. Lieb is a recipient of several federal grants and fellowships, including the 2007 $7.2 million modENCODE grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute. He received a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill and a doctoral degree in genetics from the University of California at Berkeley. He completed his postdoctoral work at Stanford University. The University has recently re-examined its policies on consensual sexual relations between students and faculty, which is reflected in a change to “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” enacted in December.
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dents, Salama explained. He noted the show’s extensive network of student workers. “I really want to emphasize that we are an open organization. We are open to anybody who wants to get real-world experience in this television and video production industry to get involved,” he said, “We have over 25 students right now that are working on it. Everybody has a very important role. If anything, we are all in this together.” Salama also noted the talk show premise of Princeton Tonight, adding that he plans to bring guests in the entertainment industry and other fields for on-air interviews.
According to Salama, the University itself has given a big help to the show by providing key funding through Princeton Film Productions and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students. “That is how we are getting all our funding right now,” Salama said. Dan Kearns, a Broadcast Engineer for the University Broadcast Center Studio and the Technical Director for Princeton Tonight, said that there was an earlier attempt at a television broadcast about four years ago. “We made a show called ‘That’s Debatable.’ It involved students who were working at WPRB, the radio channel, but then they all graduated so that didn’t continue,” he said, “What I’m very happy about Princeton
Tonight is that there are mostly freshmen involved and they are very enthusiastic.” Ozminkowski further explained his hopes for expanding the project. “We’re hoping to branch out in the future. We’re going to be adding sketch comedy, a “stocktalk,” which would be a comedic take on the stock market – everything from reviews to hopefully eventually branching out to a little mini-series.” Ozminkowski added another vision for the series in which Princeton Tonight actually serves the students. “I want this to be a production where students can get a job in the industry not because we’ve made connections but because the work we’ve done is so good,” he said.
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more mindful of the possible waste,” Belev said. Belev explained that Greening Dining hopes to eventually reach every residential college dining hall though such an expansion may incur logistical challenges, noting how Whitman College’s dining hall may not have the space to support a large bin and that a bin the Buter-Wilcox dining hall may get in the way of ample foot traffic during lunch hours. A similar campaign already took place in the Rocky-Mathey dining hall in May 2015, he added. Patrick Caddeau, Dean of Forbes College, noted the campaign’s timeliness given the emerging national awareness of the environmental harm of food waste. “The reason I was very excited about the project was it gave us the opportunity to share, in a very active way, how you can take steps towards reducing food waste in your own life with students in the Forbes community. The project seemed to be positively received in Forbes,” Caddeau said, adding that residents of Forbes College have been enthusiastic about previous environmentally-conscious programs such as Do it in the Dark and recycling awareness. Caddeau said he is welcome to the idea of Forbes hosting a waste awareness campaign again in the Spring semester,
adding that he hopes nonwasteful actions will be enforced. “One of the things that we’ve seen is that Forbes does really well in those competitions…but research also shows that when the competition is over, the rates of consumption go back up to their normal level,” he said, “so one of the things we really wanted to think about was how can we encourage people to not only think about this in terms of a competition, but how can they embrace it as a habit that they make a part of their daily routine or their everyday lives.” Tamanna Ananna ’18, a resident of Forbes, said that the campaign made her more aware of the amount of food she threw away after meals and therein encouraged her to only take from the servery what she could finish. Natasha Turkmani ’18 said she shares this sentiment. “I think [the campaign] sends a powerful message about how easy it is to waste. By thinking about what we take from the dining hall, we recognize that our food choices make an important difference for the environment,” she said, adding that people should have proactive attitudes towards waste reduction every day. Bavuso noted that, although the campaign is over, students should remain mindful of nonwasteful habits. “Take what you want, but eat what you want. You can always come back for more,” she said.
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here is no dearth of articles explaining why the Princeton academic calendar should be changed. I am here to tell you they are all right, and unlike most students, I have the experiential evidence to prove it. Just a few weeks ago, Imani Thornton wrote about the loss of the month of January, a month that should symbolize new beginnings and transitions. That is just the kind of January I had — backpacking across Patagonia, where I went on incredible hikes, watched the sun set and rise over snow-capped peaks and swam in crystal-clear glacial lakes. I’ll explain. Sometime in the middle of last semester, we were emailed a schedule of finals period. As I skimmed the list of exams, I realized a wonderfully surprising fact: I had none. About at the same time, I found out that two of my closest friends from back home, in Israel, would be traveling in Argentina during the exact dates that coincided with the long stretch between Princ-
eton’s winter break and the beginning of spring semester. A couple Google searches showed that joining them would be cheaper than flying home, and a plan was set in motion. When winter break began and students joined their families for the holidays, I remained behind and wrote all my Dean’s Date assignments within a few days on Princeton’s empty campus. The day following Christmas, I boarded a plane to Buenos Aires. I returned the night of January thirty-first, just in time to get some sleep before my first spring semester class. During the five weeks I spent away from campus, I was barely aware of Princeton’s schedule. When winter break came to an end and students began writing their essays and studying for their finals, I was hiking to a frozen lake in Tierra del Fuego. Upon returning from a fiveday trek in Chile, I was vaguely surprised to learn from a friend’s Facebook post that it was Dean’s Date. I am not telling all this to make you feel bad for the hours you spent in the library during the past month. I am saying this because it offers proof that there is an alternative
to the strange succession of breakstudy-break that Princeton bestows upon its students each winter. What if Princeton’s academic schedule would be just as I had experienced it — a week of finals and paper writing at the end of the semester, followed by a month free of academic concerns? The greatness of this alternative is that it reminded how much I love Princeton. Immediately following the end my grueling first semester, I was ready to board the Dinky without so much as a glance back. But as the date of my return flight loomed nearer, I became excited to reunite with friends, attend classes and read books that challenged my thinking and even write an essay or two. The absence of Princeton from my life actually did make my heart grow fonder. I will also address how much this alternative simplified the logistics of my break. Before I discovered that I didn’t have finals, I was planning to fly home and then return to campus for the entire month of January, during which I would write my papers, complete my exams and then remain stranded on campus,
unable to return to my distant home. While students who live nearby (or who are not burdened by financial concerns) can return home multiple times, many students do not have that luxury. By having an uninterrupted and extended break, students could choose to spend more time with their families, spend a month reading books and watching Netflix in the comfort of their own beds, or they could even choose to travel to distant countries. The options become endless. The argument in favor of the current schedule seems to revolve around the notion of “tradition.” But it seems to me that this is as good a time as any in this institution’s history to rethink tradition, and ask what opportunities Princeton should grant its students. On top of allowing us to utilize the month of January to its fullest, such a change would allow us to view winter break as an opportunity to travel far and wide, and to let the heart grow fonder. Iris Samuels is a freshman from Zichron Yakov, Israel. She can be reached at isamuels@princeton.edu.
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anuary’s blizzard dumped an impressive snowy deposit for New Jersey. Casting my mind back to that wintry Friday night, I remember that the falling snow did nothing to dwindle the number of eager partygoers flocking to Prospect. Princeton students are a persistent lot. The storm did not really pick up until midnight, so many students left their dorms or pregames without the warm, snow-proof attire that they would desire later in the night. In a disgraceful turn of events, many of those who did come prepared ended up walking home coatless anyway because of solipsistic — or perhaps simply
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s a Classics major here at Princeton, at times I have wondered whether my education has given me a limited or narrow worldview. Even though I was born in Korea and lived there for 11 years, I can name more Roman emperors and their achievements than those of Koreans. I know even less about other regions. I have tried to extend my horizons by taking a class in the Near Eastern Studies Department and Program in South Asian Studies, but the fact remains that I have had an incredibly Eurocentric education up to this point. When I think about it, it seems obvious that I ended up majoring in Classics. In high school, I studied Spanish and read Greek tragedies. During my freshman year at Princeton, I took the HUM Sequence, be-
A social Honor Code
inconsiderate — people who feel entitled to steal from their peers, colleagues and fellow ravers. Any upperclassman would advise a freshman not to take an expensive winter coat to the street because it is apparently common knowledge on our campus that we cannot trust each other. We lock up bikes like we’re protecting our firstborns, and we’d consider the person who leaves their laptop unattended in Frist to be a fool. Yes, strangers can steal a bike, and any malicious visitor to campus could take a laptop, though its unlikely that these relatively prevalent acts of dishonesty are entirely the product of outsiders. Eating clubs, at the least, require a PUID, so we as a student body are exclusively responsible for the theft occurring in the weekly jacket exchange.
I don’t aim to instill guilt by drawing attention to these issues, nor do I necessarily aim to convince the perpetrators to stop — though it would be widely appreciated. Rather, I’d like to raise a question of honor. We live, as students and scholars of Princeton, by the Honor Code, which obliges us to a standard of academic integrity and honesty. But the concept of an honorable education moves us beyond “obligation.” Rather, it genuinely compels us to be honest students. I have not yet met anyone who empirically disagrees with the tenets of the Honor Code, and I have met many who are proud to be trusted and respected by the administration. If we are responsive to honor in the context of academic integrity — if we find “cheating” so
morally abhorrent — then why do we stomach the fact that we can’t trust each other to bring our own darn jackets? In our consideration of honor, we should look at all of the moral challenges of our day-today lives, not just our final exams. Having said this, it is difficult to convince a thief to stop with a few quick words. But the Honor Code has two mechanisms of operation, and so can our solution to campus theft. Honor compels us to be honest in our studies, but it also compels us to keep our peers honest too. We have no proctors in our examinations. Rather, we have a social expectation to do the right thing, and the knowledge that our community won’t tolerate anything else. When we see someone careless-
ly take another’s coat off the hook or straddle a bike that they clearly don’t own, we should be motivated to intervene by that same desire for an honorable Princeton. In most cases, a quick word is all it takes to help someone remember their civility. I don’t believe that our campus is riddled with bad people; I think that we have simply forgotten the broader meaning of honor. Recovering that honor will allow us to trust each other more, and it is possible with practical steps: being proactive witnesses rather than passive bystanders and holding each other accountable to a social honor code. Samuel Parsons is a freshman from Wangaratta, Australia. He can be reached at samueljp@princeton.edu.
Thinking about Names and Classics cause it seemed to be a continuation of my previous studies. I had never even heard of many of the works taught in the East Asian Humanities Sequence, so it never occurred to me to consider that. In HUM, I fell in love with the Classics and decided to start Latin, as well as continue with Spanish. My own academic path up till now has made it easier for me to fall in love with Classics. A recently published article “Redefining the Classics at Harvard,” written by The Crimson staff writer Mayukha Karnam, made me think more about my own academic path and the Classics Department. In this article, she notes her initial surprise after finding out that Sanskrit was not taught in the Classics department. She writes, “The opening line of the description of classical languages in the Languages at Harvard booklet reads ‘Greek and Latin provide access to the two cultures and literature that have profound-
ly influenced the development of Western civilization,’ conflating ‘classical’ and ‘Western civilization.’ However, ‘classical’ also refers to the foundations of many cultures outside of Europe that Harvard doesn’t acknowledge in the current study of classical languages.” She believes that languages such as Sanskrit, Classical Chinese and Arabic should rightfully be considered and taught within the Classics department. I do not actually agree with Karnam that Sanskrit and Arabic should be offered in the Classics department because of logistical concerns. It makes more sense to take related courses in one department and major in it. For example, it would make more sense for someone specializing in Sanskrit to take ancient Indian history courses within the same department. If we combine Arabic, Classical Chinese, Latin, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit,
as well as the histories of relevant cultures, we would end up with a major too massive and unfocused. However, she brings up an interesting point about the power of language. In calling the Classics department thus, we conform to the mindset that the Greco-Roman culture constitutes our roots, that they are the “classical” roots of our society. Conversely, in categorizing Sanskrit under South Asian Studies, we create a geographic and cultural barrier in our head between our culture and theirs. In other words, when we call those “classics,” we own it as ours; on the other hand, giving ancient cultures names like East Asian Studies and South Asian Studies make them sound foreign and different from our own culture. A lot of departments have misnomer names. For example, Near Eastern Studies used to be called Oriental Languages and Literature until scholars moved away from
the word. Perhaps it is the time for my own department, Classics, to consider the power of its own name and reevaluate whether or not the department is truly the Classics for all of us here at Princeton. Even though I love Classics and recognize the power of this discipline on the Western world, I do not find it to be my own classical roots. I am sure that many others share my feelings. We should recognize the multiplicity of our classical roots instead of thinking of the Greco-Roman one as the only or primary root. Rethinking the name of the Classics department could achieve this goal. Just like Sanskrit belongs to South Asian Studies, maybe the study of Latin and Ancient Greek literature should be renamed as Greco-Roman Literature. Erica Choi is a sophomore from Bronxville, NY. She can be reached at gc6@princeton.edu.
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U. Men’s Swimming Dive into Victory by Jack Mazzulo :: Staff Photographer and Corey Okubo :: Contributing Photographer For the first time in four years, the University Men’s Swimming and Diving team has won the annual, highly-anticipated Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet. The Tigers obliterated all competition this weekend by winning 15 of the meet’s 19 events. The crucial, historic victory improves the Tiger’s season record to a perfect six victories, all over Ivy League rivals. More importantly, the Tigers, defending Ivy League champions, sent a cautionary message to last year’s runner-ups, Harvard and Yale. Only one meet against Columbia University stands between the Tigers and their campaign towards a repeat championship.
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This week, Street Editor HARRISON BLACKMAN considers the history of bicker, the process of admitting new members at selective eating clubs. A glance back at the ‘Prince’ archives reveals bicker’s fascinating and often controversial history. Evolving from a five-week process to the weeklong, co-ed system present today, bicker has seen high and low points over the past century.
JUNE 6, 1958 MARCH 3, 1914
An anonymous column published in the ‘Prince’ criticizes the bicker reforms put in place in 1914 - “accomplish[ing] the impossible” - reducing bicker from an astounding five weeks to the modern, single week system.
APRIL 17, 1916
This column from 1916 observes that the topics of most bicker sessions amount to two things: “athletics and sex.” While athletics are interesting, the columnist observes, “sex is a world old problem which probably will remain unsolved for some time.”
This entry for the Class of ‘62 freshmen dictionary explains bicker in a frank way.
MARCH 5, 1953
These cartoons express the nervouseness of a bickeree (above image) and what is named “Mr. Bicker at Work” (below image).
JUNE 6, 1969
Bicker loses popularity as sign-in clubs surge in popularity, causing this ‘Prince’ writer to herald bicker on its “deathbed.” Perhaps to the surprise of the article’s author, bicker would prove to survive this low point.
FEB. 3, 1976
This article cites the lack of African-American participation in bicker at the time a result of blacks not wanting to be alienated from the University’s black community, as well as the traditional “whitness” of the clubs.
JULY 25, 1975
This freshman issue from 1975 outlines many of the reasons students bicker today -dining superior to that of “Commons” [modern day Rocky-Mathey dining halls] and an organized social life.
FEB. 5, 1981
In this curious example of invistagative journalism, Stona Fitch ‘ 83 describes his experience bickering the five selective clubs. In Fitch’s terms,“Bicker divides the campus into yet anothe set of factions: those who bicker-and those who don’t.”
FEB. 4, 1991
Coed bicker begins at Tiger Inn, the last eating club to admit women, doubling the number of candidates at the club.
OCT. 5, 1998
This article heralds the successful launch of dry fall bicker at Cap and Ivy, building on a trend to separate bicker from alcohol consumption.
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IN DEFENSE OF NO SNOW DAYS DANIELLE TAYLOR Associate Street Editor
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e thought winter would never come. But then it did. This Intersession, winter came with a vengeance — and serendipitously, there was not a snow day in sight. The forecast for Winter Storm Jonas was announced during the last week of fall finals, alerting students to the first heavy snow of the school year and forcing Floridians, such as myself, to quickly book flights back home before the storm ar-
rived. It came during the one week in which there are no classes — not that the University gives a lot of snow days to begin with. When southern states like Georgia get an inch of snow, everything shuts down, while Princeton students bundle up and try to make it to their 9 a.m. classes by traversing the frozen gothic tundra that used to be known as Princeton University. Now, while most students would complain about having class when Princeton resembles Elsa’s ice palace from “Frozen,”
there are quite a few benefits in regard to Princeton’s lack of snow days. 1. Blizzards offer their own brand of workout routine: survival. Was your New Year’s resolution to be more fit and go to the gym? Now you can get a workout without having to use any machinery or, even worse, run. Instead, you can work out your mind and body as you contemplate every single step that you take to avoid slipping on ice, bruising your pride and bottom. Navigating campus like Bear Grylls, you work out your legs as you take careful quick steps around icy patches, or perform your best version of a grand jeté over a muddy puddle (making you wonder if you should audition for Princeton University Ballet). 2. Get closer with friends. A lot closer, e.g., “penguin huddle.” Not having snow days allows you to get closer to your fellow students, both mentally and physically. The usual chatter of a morning walk is silenced as students trudge through the ice and snow in solidarity, wonder-
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ing what it is like at Stanford right now. In those moments, there is no separation between students; we are all one force trying to overcome the terrain. Also, as we try our best to walk only in the snow and stay away from ice, we feel really close to our fellow students as we literally walk in their footprints and follow them closely, to the point when body heat is almost shared between a pair. Sometimes even a group of students can be seen huddling for warmth in the manner of emperor penguins, famous for their miraculous tap-dancing abilities — and marching to Morgan Freeman’s golden voice.
the subjects will be delighted, making repeated calls of “It’s snowing! It’s snowing!” and will even venture to play in the snow. Those happy days will, sadly, not last for long. By the third day of below-freezing conditions, the subjects will come to the conclusion that snow is just ice. Ice that is falling on your face and into your eyes. And when ice forms on the ground? The frustration is quite apparent on the subjects’ faces, especially when they encounter black ice. Now, next year, when they are warned that winter is coming and the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros face civil war, they will feel an appropriate sense of anticipation and horror.
3. Blizzards at Princeton offer, unsurprisingly, research opportunities. Remember to get IRB approval! The first couple days after heavy snow are great to perform psychological experiments. The subject? New students from tropical or subtropical regions. It feels like you are watching a documentary on PBS that starts out with the subjects leaving their natural habitat of a heated room to investigate the cold white stuff in the air and on the ground. For the first day,
In conclusion: It’s for the best, and rightfully part of a comprehensive liberal-arts education. In sum, the University truly has our best interest at heart when we are forced to face a white abyss of ice to make it to our lectures, labs, precepts and independent work. It’s just another opportunity Princeton offers its students: the experience of a new Ice Age. It may have been fleeting, perhaps, but it was nonetheless a shocker for the students from the sun belt.
UNFAMILIAR STREET
Picadilly Road, London, England VICTORIA SCOTT Senior Writer
“Unfamiliar Street” is a travel series in which we introduce you to streets from all around the world, far from the well-trod gravel of Prospect Avenue. et’s jet across the pond to one of the most famous streets in London: Piccadilly. All right, maybe this street is not so unfamiliar if you know the famous roads of London, have played British monopoly or listened to the song “Good Life” by OneRepublic where the road is referenced within the first thirty-five seconds of the song. However, unless you’re staying at the Ritz Hotel in London or trying to catch the tube from either Green Park station or Piccadilly Circus station, chances are you don’t know that much about Piccadilly. Don’t make the rookie mistake of confusing Piccadilly Road with Piccadilly Circus. As the names might suggest, the first is a straight line and the latter is a circle. Piccadilly Circus is a round, plaza-like space that connects Piccadilly Road and Regent Street. Named after the piccadills, stiff lace col lars that Robert Baker sold on the street in the 1600s, Piccadilly, located in the borough of the City of Westminster, is now surrounded by other wel lknow n locations, including Hyde Park and May fair. Piccadilly ranks w ith other famous London streets, such as Baker Street where the fictional character Sherlock
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Holmes resided, and Abbey Road, associated w ith the Beatles and their hit album of the same name. If you start at Hyde Park Corner and look to the right you’l l see an impressive stone monument, the Wellington Arch. The Wellington Arch is a hollow victor y arch w ith three f loors of exhibits commemorating the Duke of Wellington’s defeat of Napoleon. If you continue walking east you’l l notice that one side of the street is busy w ith people walking in and out of beautifully designed buildings. The other side of the street is relatively quiet w ith no buildings because it hugs Green Park. Before crossing the street to Green Park, a Royal Park of London, note that the Brits drive on the other side of the road and remember to look left (and right for good measure) . There is much to explore in Green Park, but we w ill stay on Piccadilly for now. If you continue walking east you w il l begin to see plent y of business people descending below ground to the Green Park tube station. Ever y time I visit London, this tube station is my starting and stopping point for exploring the city. The London Underground is the cleaner, friendlier, more efficient version of New York City’s subway system. Ever y
morning during my stay, I bought a cup of tea from the nearest cafe and hopped on the tube at Green Park to any of the 270 stations around London. A two minute walk from the Green Park tube station takes you to The Royal Academy of Arts, part of the Burlington House, a private mansion now open to the public. The intricate stone architecture now serves as a center to enjoy and appreciate the visual arts through exhibitions, education, debates and other events open to the public. I went to the Jean-Etienne Liotard exhibition which
closed on Jan. 31. Starting Jan. 30, however, and lasting until April 20 2016 is Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, an exhibition to explore to the role of gardens in the evolution of art. Just across the street from the Royal Academy is Fortnum and Mason, the most famous shop on Piccadilly, founded in 1707 by William Fortnum and Hugh Mason. Fortnum and Mason used to be an elite grocery shop until it was converted to an upmarket department store selling everything from luxury teas to kitchen appliances. In Fortnum and Mason, I sat
at The Parlour for a glass of champagne and croissants. When The Parlour is closed, you can go to the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon on the fourth f loor where you can enjoy a spot of afternoon tea. Piccadilly is one of London’s principal shopping streets with many famous shops and hotels, including the Ritz and Park Lane Hotels. With its beautiful architecture both old and modern, buildings that have stood since the 18th century such as Fortnum and Mason and newer buildings, Piccadilly serves as a reminder of London’s rich histor y.
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rinceton University Concerts may be soon approaching its 125th anniversary, but its new concert series nicknamed “PUC125” is all about trying something innovative and experimental that breaks away from the traditional classical concert format. PUC is short for Performances Up Close, as the series presents an opportunity for the audience to sit on the stage with the performers. Six PUC125 concerts are scheduled for the 2015-16 school year, with performers ranging from an accordion player to a Renaissance vocal ensemble. Feedback for the first three concerts has been extremely positive as audience members have praised the unique presentation and setting. Another reason for its popularity among Princeton students is its abridged format. As a one-hour concert at either 6 p.m. or 9 p.m., it offers the perfect study break. The fourth concert featuring the Ébène String Quartet is scheduled for Mar. 9. PUC125 was initially conceived as an experiment that would break down the perceived barriers of formal concert settings which are used in the Thursday night Concert Classics Series, Princeton University Concerts’ longest running series. Currently, this series is in its 122nd season. “One of the biggest [barriers] was that when you’re sitting in a concert hall and you’re staring up at a stage… you do feel a certain distance, like a psychological curtain between the performer and the audience,” Director Marna Seltzer said. “So the first thing we wanted to do was remove that and make people feel like they’re really a part of the process.” PUC125 also manages to overcome a given audience member’s discomfort of not having any prior musical knowledge. “People think there are unwritten rules to being in a concert hall... They feel like they have to have some prior knowledge before they listen to an event, which isn’t the case, but people feel that,” Seltzer explained. “What I believe is that when you take away that barrier and you just put the artist on the same level as the audience and you ask the artist to talk to the audience and tell them not only about the pieces that they’re playing but a little bit about themselves and their background...it draws people in.”
The main challenge of creating PUC125 is being able to redefine the space so that 200 audience members can sit on the stage and still feel like the experience is intimate and unique. However, moving the audience closer into a circle around the artist and having the artists interact with them creates an immensely different experience according to Marketing and Outreach Manager, Darya Koltunyuk ’15. “You see almost to an uncomfortable COURTESY OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERTS extent the sweat and emotion behind the This past fall, pianist David Greilsammer played works by Domenico Scarlatti and John Cage. music,” Koltunyuk said. “It becomes a very intimate experience, and talking with the audiing out how it all works,” Seltzer said. concerts we ask people to fill out a ence members afterwards they often “People wouldn’t leave the stage, they comment card and many people are say that they’ve never experienced were fascinated by what had hapreally into continuing the conversamusic like that – it’s like listening to a pened.” tion,” Koltunyuk said. “It’s amazing live performance in your living room, PUC125 has also enabled Princeton to go to a classical concert and see that which is how I would describe it.” University Concerts to bring in art80 percent of the audience are stuOne particularly memorable perforists that they have never been able to dents. I think that’s something that mance happened in December when before. I’ve dreamt about so it’s something a pianist named David Greilsammer “The programming on the Thursthat’s very exciting for us that we presented an unusual program which day night series is just a little more hope will continue.” combined sonatas by Domenico Scartraditional, and we have to invite artAlthough the PUC125 experiment latti and John Cage. ists who not only can capture the athas been a resounding success, Direc“Those are completely different tention of close to 1000 people but tor Seltzer still has more plans for tonal worlds and he sits on a swivel who are that far along in their caimprovement next year. chair in between the two and literreers,” Seltzer explained. “This allows “We need to see this series as our ally just plays one, throws the music us to present younger artists and prolaboratory and be more experimental off, turns around and starts playing grams that are a little more off beat than we already have been. What we the other one,” Seltzer said. “He disand eclectic.” did this year was that we took certain covered connections between the two These eclectic artists are also introbarriers away from the traditional composers that no other person would ducing many different genres of muconcert format,” Seltzer said. “Now have.” sic to the audience, which varies from we’re looking for artists who are reJohn Cage’s music requires preparaccordion music to atonal music, and ally open-minded and pretty much ing the piano by placing objects on students have taken well to it. game for anything, with some dream or between the strings in a way that “We’re trying to make it a conversain the back of their mind that hasn’t changes the sound of the piano, and tion about what the future of classical been realized, to participate in these thanks to the PUC125 concept, audimusic should be like. After all of our performances,” she added. ence members were able to walk up to the piano and see exactly how the piano was altered for the performance -- something they would not have been able to do in a traditional concert setting. “It was so cool to see people gathered around the piano, looking inside, check-
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Gallicantus, a Renaissance vocal ensemble, opened the “Performances Up Close” series.
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“The Vagina Monologues” to showcase female experience ANGELA WANG
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monologue called “Angry Vagina,” a relatively comedic piece. “It’s been a different experience,” Ibekwe said. “I haven’t actually been around a femaledominated group or environment since I played varsity lacrosse in high school.” Ibekwe is a dancer and a stepper, and belongs to a predominantly male friend group at Princeton. “I’m putting myself in a situation that I haven’t been in a while, and it’s nice to be with other women who think about the same things,” Ibekwe said. Like many of the actresses, the directors are new to their roles, and like all performances there are some obstacles to overcome. When asked about her concerns for the show, Robbins expressed a need to publicize. “The first challenge is to publicize it and make sure we are bringing in a new audience,” Robbins said. To achieve crossover appeal, the directors and producers have invited many fraternities and male sports teams to come see the show, and have asked each actor to bring at least one male friend to the performance. “Men should support women on campus by coming to the show,” Robbins said. “I think they will find it funny and they will find it moving and will hopefully learn something.” “The most difficult part, which is simultaneously the most reward-
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ing part, is the material of the show,” Cohen said. “The script is both inspiring and devastating to read, rehearse and feel the range of female experience.” Cohen performed the opening piece “Hair” herself two years ago. It’s a story where a husband cheats on his wife because she refuses to shave her pubic area, creating a simultaneously hilarious yet serious dramatic situation. According to Cohen, the transition from being on stage to directing the show is a step up by a large order of magnitude. “I think the change from going from actor to director is like going from being a piece of glass to a whole mosaic,” Cohen said.
Melanie Ho ’18, a co-producer of the play, emphasized how ticket sales will be donated to Womenspace, a local organization dedicated to preventing domestic and sexual violence. “All the money we raised will be donated to Womenspace, which is another reason to get your ticket and come to the show!” Ho said. In addition to the show’s charitable mission, SHARE peers will host a Q&A session after the show ends. In between monologues, statistics from the 2015 “We Speak” survey on sexual assault at Princeton will be displayed on a screen. “This way, the audience is not just charged to learn about the female experience in theory, but on more immediate, sobering terms,” Cohen said. With passionate directors and producers, a diverse cast on stage, special guests appearing each night, SHARE peers providing more information and hopefully a great turnout in the audience, “The Vagina Monologues” is aimed at stimulating conversation about feminism and gender equality on campus. “You will laugh, you will love our characters, and you will learn about the simultaneity of womanhood,” Cohen said. COURTESY OF OLIVIA ADECHIE
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he vagina becomes a site for women’s empowerment and individuality among women,” Olivia Robbins ’16 said, in reference to the play she is co-directing with Azza Cohen ’16, Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.” Ensler, the play’s author, interviewed over 200 women about the female experience and compiled them into her 1996 play. An annual show at Princeton, “The Vagina Monologues” will be performed Feb. 11-13 in Theatre Intime. Princeton’s version of “The Vagina Monologues” consists of several monologues based on and adapted from Ensler’s script. Normally each monologue features one person, but some have two or three people involved. “[The play] offers some, and certainly not all, narratives of womanhood – what it’s like to have a vagina,” Robbins added. Both Cohen and Robbins, the play’s directors, are directing for the first time and many of the cast members have never acted before. However, the majority are not strangers to the stage, since many have previous experience in dance and music. “There’s an amazing energy to acting on stage for the first time, and a pure, raw evocation that I am so proud of our actors for creating and sustaining,” Cohen said, in an email statement. Take Dominique Ibekwe ’16 for example: an actress with no previous acting experience, Ibekwe will perform a
Thursday february 4, 2016
RIKES CAMPUS UPDATED: SNOWSTORM ST HOOL THE ONE WEEK WITHOUT SC
Princeton town to make Unicycle Master Plan with Schwinn input
First round sign-in ends, ICC not releasing numbers but the truth is out there
Looking at Snapchats from warm locales. Wishing you could leave your house.
Looking at Facebook photos from South Africa. All shoveling and no play make Jack a dull boy. REDRUM. “Here’s Johnny!!”
CAMPUS PICKS THEATER LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS SOPHOCLES’ “ELEKTRA” Mathews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau Friday, Feb. 5 at 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 6 at 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 11 at 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m..
Watch one of the world’s oldest and greatest plays in a Lewis Center senior performance that breathes new life into a tale of revenge and familial tragedy. Evelyn Giovine ’16 will perform the title character with direction from Alexandru Mihail, co-sponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. See this play this weekend and next.
READING CWR LECTURER DISCUSSES DEBUT NOVEL Princeton Public Library Common Room Tuesday, 7 p.m.
Next Tuesday, Idra Novey will read and talk about her debut novel, “Ways to Disappear.” Novey is a lecturer in Literary Translation for the Creative Writing department, and has published several books of poetry. Stop by her reading/book signing to celebrate the launch of her first novel! Even more reason to do so if you’ve never been to the Princeton Public Library — it’s easily one of the best public libraries in the country.
DANCE SYMPOH PRESENTS “FLOOR DISPLAY 4” Wilson Black Box Theater Saturday, 6 p.m. This Saturday, Sympoh will hold its annual winter breakdancing competition, “Floor Display 4,” from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Top breakdancers from throughout the area will battle, tournament-style, to DJ Kanton’s great beats for a cash prize. Doors will open at 5 p.m. with a $10 entry fee, but feel free to just watch — it’s free with PUID.
OPEN HOUSE BAC SPRING AUDITIONS Dillon Gym Multi-Purpose Room Sunday, 2 p.m.
Princeton’s premier hip-hop dance company, BAC, is holding auditions this Sunday. BAC aims to diversify Princeton through various styles of hip-hop, both technical and cultural. If you loved their past show, “The Motive,” and you’re interested in joining the purple family, go to the Dillon MPR from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. No dance experience required!
OPEN HOUSE WILDCATS OPEN HOUSE Bloomberg Hall 053 Friday, 10 p.m.
Back from their fall break tour to Portugal, the Wildcats, one of Princeton’s all-female a capella groups, is holding an open house this Friday from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. Auditions are from Sunday, Feb. 7 to Tuesday, Feb. 9 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Interested freshmen and sophomore girls can sign up for auditions on a WASS calendar.