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USG begins event plans for coming year By Katherine Oh staff writer

Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sociology professor Charles Kurzman will discuss “Discrimination on the Basis of Citizenship.” Corwin Hall Room 127.

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Feb. 11, 1953 Three men pled not guilty to showing obscene movies to Princeton students on campus, with bail set at $500.

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While Undergraduate Student Government president Ella Cheng ’16 made only one specific campaign promise — a Chipotle study break — she said the Undergraduate Student Government will see significant change this year. “The plan was first that we restructure USG, secondly explore and execute projects, both new and old, and then getting the word out better,” Cheng said. Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian. At the USG senate retreat this past weekend, USG members discussed the results from the recent “What Matters” campaign and brainstormed projects based on that information. “In all my experience with the USG, it’s surprising to me, we’ve never actually reached out to students before going to retreats and figuring out what to do for the year,” she said. USG members will publicly announce a more detailed agenda for the year within the next week, including a list of priorities. Cheng said the goal of her campaign was to present a broader plan for how USG might carry out tasks this year,

including incorporating the ideas of students before actually starting to take action. “It’s a multi-step process, and often I think we get stuck at different parts of it,” Cheng said. “As much as I love USG and embrace it and see it as an effective platform, I also knew that it was not reaching its full potential. I really want to loop in and meet with people who are disgruntled, because I want to hear why.” There will now be six members on the communications committee who will help plan focus groups, study breaks, videos and social media. USG also plans to hold more open forums, where students who are not formally part of USG can engage with members, Cheng said. USG is also working on building a new website, USG vice president Aleksandra Czulak ’17 said, adding that she envisions a blog-like format for each committee with regular updates to increase transparency and accessibility. While USG did not begin working on new, more specific projects before the retreat, the new leadership of USG has been working on old projects in the meantime. For example, Czulak is examining why some of See USG page 2

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USG president Ella Cheng ’16 begins her term with hopes for restructuring and exploring new projects.

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PRINCETON By the Numbers

The number of museums in the new American Art Collaborative.

News & Notes Cornell student charged with murder of father

Cornell University sophomore Charles Tan was arrested Monday on charges of second-degree murder after allegedly shooting his father, Ling Tan, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. Police responded to a domestic incident at Tan’s home in Pittsford, N.Y., and found Charles Tan and his mother standing in the driveway with his father dead in the house with gunshots in his upper body. Investigators conducted a search warrant of the house early Tuesday morning and found a shotgun. Tan was subsequently arraigned at 6 a.m. and is being held without bail. Tan’s attorney told reporters there was domestic violence in the home for “decades” by the father against his wife and two sons. Police had been called to the home in the past and several neighbors confirmed this as well. Jim Tan was the president and CEO of Dynamax Imaging, a developer of imaging sensing technology. Tan is a student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Diversity task force to address campus issues By Zaynab Zaman staff writer

The Council of the Princeton University Community Special Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which was created on Dec. 8, and its subcommittees have already taken some initial steps to address campus diversity programming and policy. The University is creating the equivalent of 10 full-time faculty positions intended to

diversify the faculty as well as a number of task forces designed to examine the campus culture. Fifteen to 20 people are expected to be hired. The goal of this initiative is to hire individuals who would increase the diversity of different academic departments, Vice Provost for Institutional Diversity and Equity Michele Minter said. She noted that every department is different, so the definition of diversity will vary across departments. She added that the University

does not change or lower its standards in hiring any candidate, regardless of other initiatives. Moreover, students of color are a significant minority on campus, and they face a host of issues and challenges that the committee is trying to identify, according to Ricardo Hurtado GS, who co-chairs the diversity task force’s group on academics and awareness. He said diversity training is a possibility for work coming out of his group, though there

has been some research disputing its effectiveness. “If training is something that we pursue, we would want to make sure that it’s effective training … that maybe has a little more evidence behind it,” Hurtado said. He added he believed the timing of the initiatives is good, because he said he believes students are ready to have difficult conversations about race and diversity. He explained that students are engaging in conversations

with administrators to voice their frustrations and that students turned out in large numbers at the protests regarding recent grand jury decisions following the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, both of whom were African-Americans killed by white police officers in highly controversial confrontations. “We are at a point where we have a window of opportunity to create some institutional change, and I think that See DIVERSITY page 2

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U. Art Museum joins Panelists discuss mental health issues newly created American Art Collaborative By Linda Song staff writer

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The University Art Museum is one of 14 museums in the newly created American Art Collaborative, the Smithsonian American Art Museum announced on Feb. 2. The goal of the Collaborative is to make the museum collections more accessible and useful by connecting them in new ways, Smithsonian American Art Museum Deputy Director Rachel Allen said. The Collaborative plans to create a diverse critical mass of Linked Open Data, or interconnected bits of structured data, on the Web on the subject of American art by putting the collections of participating museums in the cloud and tagging this data as Linked Open Data, the museum’s press release said. Cathryn Goodwin, manager of collections information at the Art Museum and the University’s liaison with the Collaborative, said that the Art

Museum has been involved in this project for slightly more than a year, adding that involvement in the Collaborative was less formally organized until about nine months ago, when the Mellon Foundation funded a planning grant. Goodwin said the Smithsonian contacted the Art Museum directly to participate in the Collaborative. “We have been active in this kind of data exchange project for many years,” Goodwin said. “We are interested in this kind of research into making collections information accessible.” Allen said that the Collaborative, which began a few years ago when a small group of museums interested in Linked Open Data came together, was very excited to have several university collaborators like the Yale Center for British Art and the Art Museum. “We have large museums, small museums, we have museums that have a bigger context of support in terms of See ART page 3

Love and encouragement play critical roles in facilitating family relationships between parents and children with physical, mental and social disabilities, Andrew Solomon said in a lecture on Tuesday. Solomon is the founder of the Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT studies at Yale and a professor of Clinical Studies at Columbia University. Solomon, who was awarded the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, discussed his latest work, “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children & the Search for Identity,” recounting his work with families over the course of 11 years in regard to schizophrenia, deafness, autism and sexual identity. Solomon shared many narratives, one of which involved an individual named Clinton Brown, born with diastrophic dysplasia or “dwarfism.” Brown’s parents were told by doctors that he likely would not survive and he was given a dire prognosis.

However, his family took him home, and since then he has undergone 30 major surgeries and became the first person in his family to go to college. “The language we use around these experiences can determine in many ways the outcome,” Solomon said. Solomon also discussed his own journey in coming out as an LGBT person. “When I was perhaps six years old, I went with my mother and brother to a shoe store,” Solomon said. “My brother and I were each told we could have a balloon. My brother wanted a red balloon, and I wanted a pink balloon. She reminded me my favorite color was blue — the fact is my favorite color is blue — but I’m still gay.” Solomon said he believes most parents continue to love their children but that many have trouble with the process of acceptance. “A lot of people I talk to describe a process of coming to terms with their own identity and their children’s identity,” Solomon said. Before the lecture, a lunch symposium was held in which students asked panel-

ists questions about mental health. Solomon and the other panelists — anthropology professor João Biehl and psychology lecturer Ron Comer — addressed and discussed experiences of mental illness and depression, the representation of depression in the literature and arts, the consequences of its medicalization, the methods in which doctors and psychiatrists are trained and the role of psychopharmaceuticals in shifting the landscape of diagnosis and care. Associate professor of East Asian studies Amy Borovoy moderated the discussion, noting before the discussion that there is a “considerable amount of uncertainty about what even is mental illness.” Biehl discussed the adverse effects of drugs use to treat psychiatric conditions and the impact of medicalization on the body and the mind. “The boundaries that makes us ourselves are blurry,” said Biehl referencing Solomon. Comer noted that the median age of depression is going downward. See SOLOMON page 2

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the student body, from what I’ve seen, both undergrads and grads, have been incredibly engaged with this issue of racial equity,” Hurtado said. “I believe that if we pursue this process right, in a way that is engaging of all participants, it can really begin shifting the culture here at Princeton.” He said the classroom climate is not necessarily the most accommodating for students of color, because they may bring experiences and interpretations of issues that professors or preceptors do not know how to grapple with. He added that establishing the encouraged academic relationships with professors might be hurdles for such students because they come from very different backgrounds

from their peers. Asanni York ’17, co-chair of the task force’s Working Group on Structure and Support, explained that one way to improve campus equity and diversity would be to create an anonymous reporting system for offensive comments made by authority figures. York said that while students have complained that some professors and preceptors have made racist remarks or acted in offensive ways, they have no formal way to report such acts. “We’re trying to work towards creating a platform where we can report professors and preceptors who might say racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic things and not have it affect our grades,” he said. He added that another large goal of his committee is to alter the distribution requirements

for students, ideally adding a requirement that deals with gender and cultural identities, and potentially disability studies as well. York noted that there will be an administrative meeting to discuss and update the University’s distribution requirements in 2015 or 2016, and his committee will then try to push for this additional requirement. Harvard originally created a task force addressing diversity, inclusion and equity last year, and York presented an idea for a similar task force to the CPUC earlier this year. York explained that he likes how Harvard’s task force acknowledges racial issues on campus and makes efforts to combat them. He said the University’s committee should, like Harvard’s, involve administrative staff, rather than just students and faculty, for greater success.

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the recommendations of a 2010 task force on eating clubs have not been implemented. USG is also compiling results from a survey about eating clubs sent to students earlier in the year and plans to reach out to the Interclub Council as well as administrators afterward. In addition, some committees have already begun planning upcoming events, including Mental Health Week and Lawnparties. University Student Life Committee chair Kathy Chow ’17 said that one of her goals for the year is to reach out to different groups on campus that might have been left out before.

“Something I’m really excited about and I hope will be implemented quickly is the food request project. Campus Dining has expressed that it would be open to listening to what students want in dining halls,” Chow explained, adding that she hopes USG will focus on projects that impact students the most and that are the most feasible. “So we’re going to design a survey that will be sent out soon to identify the top five most desirable food items.” The main goal of the information technology committee is to better incorporate student feedback, committee co-chair Zachary Liu ’18 said. “One of our primary functions is to act as the student liaison between the student body

and OIT,” Liu said. “We will try to facilitate the communication between students and administrators on how to proceed with applications.” Liu said the IT Committee also plans to expand its presence on campus by taking more members. While the committee included only four people in the past, this year Liu said they hope to have around eight members to work on multiple projects at the same time. Academics chair Ramie Fathy ’16 and information technology co-chair Akash Levy ’18 did not respond to a request for comment. Social chair Simon Wu ’17 and communications committee chair Nick Horvath ’17 declined to comment.

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“Depression is much more than sadness,” said Comer. “Depression, it touches all spheres … It’s the emotional sphere, the cognitive sphere, the behavioral sphere, the motivational sphere … It’s every sphere.” Solomon noted that suicide was the third-leading cause of death among college students. Solomon explained how at one point his depres-

sion became so severe that he felt paralyzed and discussed the ambiguities surrounding the use of medication. “While the use of medication is highly problematic, not using medication is also highly problematic,” Solomon said, noting that medication has also helped him in some ways on the path of recovery. Solomon emphasized self-knowledge as one of the themes central to recovery. “The opposite of depression is not happiness but vi-

tality,” Solomon said. The lecture was held in McCosh 50 at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. The event was cosponsored by the Stafford Little Lecture Series and the Belknap Visitors in the Council of the Humanities. The symposium took place at noon at 202 Jones Hall and was sponsored by the Belknap Visitors in the Council of the Humanities, the Program in Global Health, the Center for Health and Well-Being and the Princeton University Public Lecture Series.

News & Notes Town to buy property and expand park The town of Princeton will be purchasing a property at 3133 Lytle St. in order to expand the neighboring Mary Moss Park, the Times of Trenton reported. The town will spend about $600,000 to purchase and destroy the property, which will then be incorporated into the park. The park is set to expand by 60 percent.

The current plan is to turn the wading pool into an interactive “spray ground” with water fountains and jets for children, Recreation Department Executive Director Ben Stentz said. “My number one priority is to see what the neighborhood and community would like to see there,” Stentz told the Times. “I’m looking forward to that.” Princeton Mayor Liz

Lempert said construction should begin this fall and be completed by the summer of 2016. “It comes at a really opportune time because the [Recreation] Department is in the process of making improvements to the park, and by adding this extra land, they’re going to be able to do a really exciting redesign there,” Lempert told the Times.

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computer and information sciences,” she said. “But each one brings to the collaborative a different experience, and that’s all a part of understanding and planning for what it will take to move not one or two museums forward, but all museums forward as we think about the future.” Goodwin said the Collaborative would lay the groundwork to search across collections and enhance research and scholarship. “We see a direct connection with the digital humanities at Princeton and the possibility of being able to provide much richer access to our collections than we’ve ever been able to before,” she added, noting that the Art Museum is particularly excited to be participating in this project, as the Collaborative gives the museum staff colleagues to talk to and experts to help answer questions that would be harder to answer on their own. Associate professor of art and archaeology Rachael DeLue, who focuses on American art, said the Collaborative will have a positive impact by helping to overcome one of the major obstacles to research, of knowing what information, and what archives and what

works are out there. “When museums have huge collections like ours, only a fraction of which can be on view, people at other institutions and campuses don’t have a sense of what’s behind the walls in the vaults. So making this information accessible can only advance research,” she explained. DeLue noted that the Art Museum serves as a classroom for various departments because of its encyclopedic collection, which covers relatively all geography and time periods. “As far as my experience goes, if I can imagine wanting to look at a particular object, the museum has it. So it really is a wonderful collection — it’s broad as well as deep,” she said. DeLue said that more extensive knowledge of the collections at the museums is likely to enhance teaching and lead to sparks in innovation. She added that having more extensive knowledge of and being able to work with the collections are especially useful in terms of American art, because a lot of the work is in paper, print or photographic form, and not often on view. DeLue said that while she thinks that it is a good thing to have information freely available to scholars and students, she would not want the data sharing to reduce firsthand examination of objects or the

number of visits to museums. Allen said the benefits of the Collaborative might not be instantly recognized because a lot of background work is required, although the positive impact of Linked Open Data is already beginning to showcase itself. “We are already beginning to

“We have large museums, small museums, we have museums that have a bigger context of support in terms of computer and information sciences.” Rachel Allan

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see the effects of Linked Open Data in big search engines like Google, for example, where the little boxes you see on the side are getting smarter and giving you more context and more ability to differentiate different names or different ideas,” she said. Allen said the Collaborative hopes to create a number of

applications to demonstrate the value of structuring information through Linked Open Data. She described one of these applications as almost like a public curation tool, which allows users to bring up a name and connect it to another name, and then build a little story around the connections made. The effect would be as if a docent were guiding you through the museum and linking the works of art that you see, she said. Another example of a prospective long-term application is to connect geographic locations of outdoor architecture and outdoor sculptures with the weather patterns of those areas. This application would be useful to look more deeply at the conservation of these works and their condition and get a better picture of how the environment might be playing a role in cultural resources, Allen said. “To me the exciting prospect is making those connections,” she said. “It’s easy for us to think about making them within our own sphere of influence. But what gets me excited is thinking about how they link across other disciplines, where we might find more discoveries.” Goodwin said that dedicating resources represents the biggest challenge of partici-

pating in the Collaborative, as there is a lot of labor involved. “But we have a wonderful team of people in collections

“We are interested in this kind of research into making collections information accessible.” Cathryn Goodwin

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information at the Art Museum who are all very excited about working hard on this project,” she noted. On the other hand, Allen said that the biggest challenge of the Collaborative was an educational one, as Linked Open Data is not an area where most museums have expertise. “I do think that that’s both a challenge but it’s also the benefit of working together, that you don’t have to feel like you’re alone out there trying to master something new, that we can work on this together and benefit from each other’s knowledge and understand-

ing,” she said. According to Allen, the first in-person meeting with the representatives from every participating museum took place on Feb. 4 and 5. “All of our members agreed and understood the value more deeply of doing this, and so we have an agreement to move forward and some initial next steps we need to take,” she said. Allen said that the Collaborative was undecided about its future and that it was a wonderful topic that needed to be thought about. She mentioned expanding the collaborative or providing more information so that other people could follow along with future initiatives. Apart from the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University Art Museum, the Collaborative’s members are the Yale Center for British Art, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art, the Autry National Center, the Colby College Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery and the Walters Art Gallery.

CORRECTION Correction: The Feb. 10 article, “CPUC talks plans at first meeting of semester” contained several inaccuracies. Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this article misstated that the Council of the Princeton University Community is making recommendations for campus construction. The CPUC only discussed the buildings that the next generation of Princetonians will be able to enjoy. Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this article inaccurately conflated the University’s campus plan and strategic planning and misstated that the University is partnering with an outside firm for strategic planning. The University is partnering with an outside firm for the campus plan. Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article inaccurately stated that strategic planning to generate new projects for 2026 will conclude in 2016. This timeline is incorrect. Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this article inaccurately stated that the feasibility of certain projects relies on the influx of endowments. University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said the projects depend on donors. Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this article inaccurately stated that there has been an increase in financial aid endowments. There has been an increase in the University’s budget to allow for more financial aid. Additionally, while the University is recruiting more low-income applicants, that effort is unrelated to the amount of financial aid available. The ‘Prince’ regrets the errors. Clarification: The Feb. 10 article, “CPUC talks plans at first meeting of semester” has been updated online to clarify that while the University’s campus plan does include a new child care facility, that plan was not discussed at the meeting Monday afternoon.

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With its entry into the American Art Collaborative, the University Art Museum will bring a diverse set of data to the Linked Open Data system.

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Pledge of allegiance Coy Ozias

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hy do public school children pledge their allegiance to “one nation under God” every morning despite America’s separation of church and state? In our nation’s schools, children say these words while placing their hands over their hearts, paying for their school lunches using currency stamped with the words “In God We Trust.” How has this unconstitutional endorsement of monotheism been sustained? Surprisingly, the Pledge of Allegiance did not originate with the nation’s founding. Rather, it was an invention of the socialist minister Francis Bellamy, who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892 to be used as an expression of patriotic devotion. The original pledge was written as follows: I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Notice anything missing? Yes, you’re right, there is no mention of “God.” However, it was not always that way. Rather, it was a product of the anticommunist, anti-atheist hysteria surrounding the Cold War. In 1948, Louis Bowman, an attorney from Illinois, altered the wording to include “under God” at a meeting of the Sons of the American Revolution. In the midst of a culture rife with fear

over the atheist Soviet Union, further bolstered by the rise of McCarthyism, the mention of God served as a way to differentiate the United States and reaffirm its values. As a Cold Warrior and a devout Presbyterian, President Eisenhower heavily pushed a bill through Congress under Michigan Republican Charles Oakman to make the modification official. On June 14, 1954, “under God” became part of our nation’s pledge. Some find this history surprising, but also troubling. Many irrational things happened during the Cold War. Joseph McCarthy gained popularity by wildly naming off lists of supposed communists. The country was caught in a witch-hunt hysteria. We now realize that many of the actions that took place during the Cold War era were wrong and unneycessary. But somehow, we maintain a law from this time despite its disregard for the separation of church and state. Why? I believe it is because many people are completely unaware of the history that I have just laid out. In a recent survey conducted by LifeWay Research about the public’s perception of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, only 8 percent of respondents favored removing the phrase. However, when the American Humanist Association conducted a similar survey asking the same question, but also including a brief history before the question, the results vastly differed. By including the phrase, “ ‘under God’ was only added as recently

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as 1954 in response to the Cold War and that some Americans feel that the Pledge should focus on unity rather than religion,” 34 percent of respondents said they favored removing the words. Many claim that non-believers can simply ignore the Pledge and choose to opt out. However, this creates an optout system rather than an opt-in one. In doing so, those who choose not to participate in the pledge make themselves stand out. As an impressionable high schooler who may fear being marginalized, it is easy to go with the flow instead. For instance, one of my friends in high school announced that he did not stand because of the reference to God. Every day, while the rest of us stood with our hands over our hearts, he sat alone in silence, becoming a disobedient outsider in the process. By including “under God” in the pledge, an associative chain is created that links liberty, justice and patriotism to religion. Children are indoctrinated from a young age to believe that you cannot have one without the other. They are led to believe that to be patriotic is to be religious. Many children may believe that if they do not believe in an Abrahamic God, it isolates them from the other ideals of the pledge. American children should be able to express their patriotism without having to segregate themselves on the basis of their religious beliefs. I am not suggesting a war on reli-

gion. Neither is this a crusade against Americans who believe in God. Practicing one’s own private religion freely is fully acceptable and Constitutional. However, it is not acceptable to force others to publicly pledge their allegiance to someone else’s religion and someone else’s God. Removing “under God” from the pledge would not undermine the lives of millions of proud, religious Americans. Neither does it violate any of their rights. Rather, it restores rights to those who do not believe. It also protects Christians, who are the current religious majority, from having other religions potentially forced down their throats in the future. In this way it actually would be beneficial for Christians to embrace this change. The United States is not an institutionally religious nation. While the majority of the country’s citizens may be religious in their private lives, the United States is a nation with not only freedom of religion but also freedom from religion, ever since the pilgrims f led to this country to avoid Anglicanism in England in the 1600s. The Cold War was a hysterical time, and tradition should not be used to prolong an inappropriate and antiquated phrase. The Cold War is over; let’s bring separation of church and state back to America and back to our schools. Coy Ozias is a freshman from Christiansburg, Va. He can be reached at cozias@princeton.edu.

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On expanding internship funding Barbara Zhan

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s University students, we are given access to a wide array of summer internship opportunities. It’s true — we have the International Internship Program, Keller Center internships, Princeton Internships in Civic Service, and several career fairs to help students find external internships independent of these programs. These programs are distinct, in that IIP internships stress experience abroad in all different fields, Keller Center internships emphasize engineering and entrepreneurial fields, and PICS internships offers civic service-oriented experiences. However, not all opportunities are financially accessible. Students who can’t find their own paid internships look to

University programs for additional opportunities, only to find that there is an unequal distribution of funds. Some opportunities cover housing and travel costs, others are unpaid and offer minimal stipends. This disparity in funding places some programs at a premium over others, when a student’s choice should ultimately depend on interest and fit, rather than financial concerns. IIP internships are particularly generous with financial support. The IIP website states that “All IIP placements … automatically qualify for an internship award.” For students on financial aid, this covers “airfare, … accommodation, meals, and local transportation to and from work.” For students not on financial aid, the award still includes “accommodation, meals, and local transportation to and from work.” Additionally, students looking for additional funding are permit-

ted to look on the Student Activities Funding Engine to cover any incidental costs like visas or vaccinations, regardless of their financial status. This generosity in financial support allows all qualified students to participate in the IIP program. However, most PICS internships give a $450 stipend per week. Although this stipend could be enough to cover accommodation and travel for some internships, this amount is not nearly enough for others. For example, many of the PICS opportunities are located in expensive cities, and the stipend would definitely not cover housing or travel costs, deterring students from taking these opportunities. Even more discouraging, some Keller Center entrepreneurial internships are both unpaid and offer no stipend whatsoever, leaving students to look on their own for SAFE funding or for the Keller Center to give a small fixed amount (I got

$1,500) for the entire summer. SAFE funding is not an adequate supplement for an entire summer worth of expenses, since SAFE is applicationbased and thus by no means guaranteed. This forces students to make a difficult decision — whether to shoulder the cost in order to gain more experience, or to forgo the opportunity altogether. It is admirable that programs like IIP do cover so many of the expenses of their summer opportunities, but to have more funding for IIP than for other programs puts a premium that should not exist on those international opportunities. Even if a student is truly interested in the Keller Center’s entrepreneurial opportunities or PICS civic service-related opportunities, they may apply to IIP instead because of the generous funding. This makes IIP more competitive compared to the other programs and

also attracts students who may not be wholly interested in it. If the objective of these Princeton programs is to help students gain experience in a field of their interest and to make those programs accessible to as many people as possible, funding should be expanded for PICS and Keller Center internships to match the generosity of IIP. In all other aspects of Princeton, whether it is tuition, Outdoor Action or study abroad, students who are not as financially capable are given the support they need in order to have access to the same opportunities and resources as everybody else. There is no reason that the University’s internship programs should not do the same. Barbara Zhan is an Operations Research and Financial Engineering major from Plainsboro, N.J. She can be reached at barbaraz@princeton.edu.

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the top would be far more difficult than for the women’s fencing team. Even though Princeton is ranked high, most of its opponents at the meet would be ranked even higher: Columbia (10-5) at No. 2, Harvard (7-2) at No. 5 and Penn (14-6) at No. 7. The Tigers found early on that the victories could be few and far between. In the opening match against Columbia, they were unable to win any of the sections. Sophomore Alex House, junior Jack Hudson and senior Luke Politi would all go 1-2 in the épée section. In foil,

freshman Thomas Dudley, junior Rodney Chen and senior Robert Daniluk would come close but ultimately fall 5-4. Columbia would complete its domination with a 7-2 win over the trio of freshmen Edward Chin, sophomore Peter Pak and senior Michael Wiest. The team would bounce back mightily against the Yale Bulldogs, as Princeton won all three sections en route to a 22-5 victory overall. On the day, exiting with only a loss to the top team bade well for the Tigers’ performance the next day. Princeton started out Monday quite strong, winning a heated bout versus the Penn Quakers 15-12. Moreover, after a

resounding victory over Brown 18-9, the Tigers seemed more than capable of coming back to New Jersey with title in hand. Fate, however, had other plans. Princeton’s battle versus the Crimson turned out to be the former’s undoing. Though winning épée 6-3 and losing foil closely 4-5, the sabre team found itself unable to seal the deal, with the 3-6 loss costing Princeton a share of first place. Ultimately, the men’s team would share third place for the event. Both the men’s and women’s teams get a well-earned rest this weekend and will travel a week from Saturday to compete in the Temple Duals.

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and Lunt all winning their matches in the 9-0 sweep. Every player on the team was able to win in three straight sets. Sophomore Maria Elena Ubina, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year, fought hard and remained undefeated at the number two position. Freshman Kira Keating had one of the quickest matches, dropping only 7 points at the eighth position. On Sunday, the women, currently ranked fourth, beat Cornell handily 8-1 in Ithaca. The momentum from their sweep on Friday carried over into their victory that will most likely secure them the fourth position for the Howe Cup to take place this coming weekend at Harvard. While the Tigers won by a large margin, Princeton played hard from every position. Lunt, Dewey and Keating all pushed through

five sets for their victories. Bunyan also won her match, meaning that all three seniors finished the weekend. Ubina also came away victorious, putting up a perfect regular season. The men fought hard, but came up short falling 5-4 to Cornell. Shah and Osborne were both undefeated this weekend, winning their matches the second and eighth positions respectively. Osborne had a strong performance, getting the job done quickly in three sets. Junior Michael LeBlanc and sophomore Ben Leizman both battled through five sets for their wins at number six and number nine, respectively. It was a upsetting match for the men, but they can only look ahead. “This was a hugely disappointing match because we knew a place in the top flight of nationals was potentially on the line. We had our chances to win the match, but unfortunately Cornell just performed better than

us at key moments and deserved to win,” Kang said. The men’s matchup against No. 1 ranked Trinity College this coming weekend is sure to be hard-fought. “This match is a special one, especially for the seniors, and we can’t wait to give them everything we’ve got. A few of the guys are carrying light injuries, but I think if we can get everyone healthy by then, we have a chance of doing something special on Saturday,” Kang said. The women are also preparing themselves for stiff competition this coming weekend. “Each and every team member is starting to play their best squash, which has been showing throughout the last few matches,” Bunyan said. “We’re a team of fighters, and often like to think of ourselves as underdogs. As long as we go in with a fighting, underdog mentality, I think we have a huge opportunity ahead of us.”

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The next match pitted Princeton against the team that blocked them from getting to the NCAA championships: the No. 9 ranked Indiana Hoosiers. This match was especially heated since the Hoosiers defeated the Tigers in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Championships to secure a spot in the NCAA tournament. The game would prove to be Princeton’s most intense on the day. With the game tied at 6 apiece, Hatcher would come up big again,

making the go-ahead goal to put Princeton up by one with just two minutes remaining. Unfortunately, Indiana would equalize, and in overtime would outscore Princeton by just one to win the game 9-8. Hatcher again tied for Princeton’s leading scorer in the game, along with fellow senior Jessie Holechek with two goals each. However, as any Princeton student can attest, there’s never any rest for the weary. After this overtime loss, Princeton turned around and battled the unranked Iona Gaels to complete the day. The Tigers were again locked in a tough struggle by halftime, holding just

a slight lead at 3-2. Just as in the games against Villanova and Harvard, the Tigers would flex their muscle and dominate the Gaels in the second half. They would ultimately trounce Iona to the tune of 18-6, with Hallock and freshman Haley Wan leading the team at 3 goals apiece. While the perfect home record of last year is out of the question, the Tigers certainly have reason to feel proud of this weekend’s performance. Next weekend, they travel to Lewisburg, Pa., to face three unranked opponents and have a great chance to build on their 3-1 record.

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Mixed results for fencing at Round Robin By Miles Hinson sports editor

Women’s Fencing It’s always the longest streaks that are the hardest to see go. So the Princeton women’s fencing team found out at the Ivy League Round Robin tournament that took place Sunday and Monday in New York City. The Tigers had dominated this tournament since 2009, coming into Sunday with an astounding 32-match winning streak and holding the Ivy League title for the past five years. Moreover, the women’s fencing team came into Sunday’s match ranked No. 3 in the nation, according to CollegeFencing360. With a record of 16-4 (and having gone 11-1 in a very strong field at last week’s Northwestern Duals), it had every hope of continuing the mighty streak. Unfortunately, taking a look at the competition would tell you that Princeton’s road to defending its title would be anything but easy. The Ivy League is home to many of the best teams in the country. In addition to Princeton, the confer-

ence also boasts No. 1 ranked Columbia Lions (16-1), No. 4 ranked Harvard Crimson (7-31) and No. 8 ranked Penn Quakers (14 — 6). After dispatching of the lowly Cornell Big Red 20-7, Princeton squared off against home team Columbia. It soon came for the Lions and Tigers to see who the real king of the (concrete) jungle was. Princeton certainly hit Columbia hard with the victory in the épée section, as sophomore Elizabeth Meyers and juniors Anna Van Brummen and Isabel Ford combined to go 7-2 overall. Unfortunately, the match began to unravel for Princeton right after that, as the foil trio of sophomore Ashley Tsue and seniors Sharon Gao and Ambika Singh would fall 1-8 to Columbia’s squad. Needing a decisive victory to keep its unbeaten streak alive, the sabre team consisting of junior Desirae Major and freshmen Taylor Chin and Allison Lee could not make up the deficit, as they fell with the score of 3-6, with Princeton’s streak falling along with them. The final match of the day against Yale would certainly

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be less painful, as Princeton rolled over the Bulldogs with a solid 18-9 score. Hence, Princeton was able to close the day with an overall score of 2-1, still in the hunt for the Ivy League Title. Unfortunately, despite Princeton’s solid standing going into the second day, another victory was not meant

to be. The team’s chances were severely hampered by an opening loss on Monday to the Penn Quakers. This match came down to the wire, with Princeton getting edged out by merely three wins (overall score was 15-12). Despite demolishing Brown 24-3 and getting a close win of their own over Harvard, the

Columbia Lions’ strong performance on the second day prevented Princeton of ever getting back into contention over the course of the day. The women’s team would ultimately tie for second for the tournament, a more than respectable finish given the depth of talent in the Ivy League.

Men’s Fencing While not sporting the same impressive streak as the women’s team, the men’s fencing squad is also among the best in the country. It came into Ivy League Round Robins sporting a record of 14-5, good for No. 8 rank in the country. Unfortunately, its path to See FENCING page 5

SQUASH

A bittersweet weekend for Princeton squash By Christine Kong contributor

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Princeton women’s honored four seniors and then had back-to back wins over Cornell and Columbia

It was a heartfelt weekend for the Tigers as women’s squash honored four seniors at Jadwin Gymnasium — Nicole Bunyan, Hallie Dewey, Alex Lunt and Hadley Chu. Princeton took on Columbia on Friday at home and then traveled to Ithaca for a match on Sunday. The women, currently ranked fourth, swept the weekend — routing both the Lions and the Big Red, and improving their record to 10-2. Despite

a hard fight, the men were not able to come away with a team win. On Friday afternoon, the eighth-ranked men’s team took on fourth-ranked Columbia, but fell 6-3. Senior All-American Tyler Osborne won his match at the second position, as well as freshmen Abhimanyu Shah and Komron Shayegan. Osborne won 3-0 but battled hard in each set. Shayegan was able to make a come back from a 2-1 deficit, winning 3-2. Columbia’s number one seed, Ramit Tandon, a se-

nior and a candidate for Ivy Player of the Year, defeated senior All-American Samuel Kang at the number one position. Freshman Jarryd Osborne, brother of Tyler Osborne, won his first game at the number four position, but was not able to win his match. “They are one of the top teams in the country this year, and it was a good effort by the guys,” Kang said. The women continued their winning streak on Friday with Bunyan, Dewey See SQUASH page 5

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A great start to the season for women’s water polo at DeNunzio By Miles Hinson sports editor

In a strong opening to the season, the women’s water polo team took down three of four foes at DeNunzio Pool this weekend at the Princeton Invitational. They would defeat Harvard, Villanova University and Iona College while losing to Indiana University. The Tigers certainly have the bar set high for themselves with an incredibly strong performance last season, going 31-2 overall and finishing with a perfect 5-0 record in all their matches at DeNunzio. However, while the Tigers finished with a great record, they just missed out one of the eight spots in the NCAA Women’s Water Polo

Championship last year. After ending last season ranked No. 9 and entering this one ranked No. 10, the team looks in good position to make a push to get into the tournament. At the invitational, the Tigers opened up strong with resounding victories of 16-4 and 12-6 over the Villanova Wildcats and the Harvard Crimson, respectively. Against Villanova, the Tigers gained a huge lead in the second half, as they turned what was a three-point lead into a blowout by outscoring their opponents 10-1. On the game, the scoring leaders were senior Ashley Hatcher and sophomore Morgan Hallock, who put in three goals each on the game. On the defensive end, fresh-

man Helena Van Brande stopped 11 of the 15 shots that came her way, making a huge impact in her first collegiate start. The game against rival Harvard would prove to be more of a fight, which one would expect given the Crimson enter this season ranked No. 20. The Tigers would once more finish the first half still mired in a struggle, finishing the half up only 5-3 and only later extending the lead. Hatcher again would prove instrumental, as she and freshman Chelsea Johnson would net three goals apiece. Hatcher is starting the season right where she left off — as she scored a total of 53 goals last year, en route to being Princeton’s second leading goal scorer. See WATER POLO page 5

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