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STUDENT LIFE

Eating Club Sign-Ins 2015 Terrace Club again filled its entire class in the first round of sign-ins. The other sign-in clubs still have space available for second round sign-ins. Charter did not disclose its first-round numbers.

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Editor-in-Chief Anna Mazarakis introduces the 139th Managing Board, and Paul Chin ‘06 argues that more Princeton students should go into teaching careers. PAGE 4

40 early sign-ins Colonial Club

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Feb. 2, 2000 Members of the Class of 1969 launch Princeton in Africa. George Hritz ’69 and other alumni involved with the Class of ’69 community service project approached Executive Director of Princeton in Asia Carrie Gordon for help in starting Princeton in Africa.

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News & Notes Cornell U. suspends fraternity chapter

The Cornell University chapter of the Psi Upsilon fraternity suspended all social and new member education activities Friday following an alleged incident involving “alcohol and an illicit substance,” according to the Cornell Sun. Joel Malina, Cornell’s vice president for university relations, said that the purpose of the suspension was to investigate the incident and to prevent activities that could jeopardize the safety of the members and their guests.

The chapter was placed on a year of disciplinary probation in the spring of 2011 for violating Cornell’s Anti-Hazing Policy. Allegations included inappropriate activities, such as forcing recruits to sleep on a squash court for the week without bathing and to run several miles in the cold, as well as a scavenger hunt that included pornography.

The fraternity chapter was also deactivated by its alumni board in the summer of 2008, following concerns about the safety of its members.

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Quadrangle Club 26 early sign-ins Terrace Club 145 early sign-ins AUSTIN LEE :: DESIGN EDITOR

Terrace Club fills in first round of sign-ins

By Jacob Donnelly news editor

Terrace Club was “completely filled” after the first round of sign-ins, while the other four sign-in clubs had space remaining after the early round.

Terrace accepted 145 sophomores in the first round, Terrace Club president Lucia Perasso ’16 said in an email to The Daily Princetonian, which is more than the 130 who signed in last year.

Women’s bathroom codes changed after publication

By Jessica Li

55 early sign-ins

Today on Campus 12 p.m.: Nader Sohrabi gives the spring 2015 inaugural brown bag lunch talk regarding “Reluctant Nationalists: Albanians and Ottomans on the Brink” in Jones Hall 202 for the Near Eastern Studies Department.

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The club did not accept any upperclassmen.

Quadrangle Club accepted 26 first-round sign-ins, president Mitch Shellman ’16 said in an email.

Fifty-five students signed into Colonial Club in the early round, president Swetha Doppalapudi ’16 said in an email. She added the numbers were similar to last year’s numbers and that the club would continue to accept signins.

Cloister Inn president Ed Walker ’16 said in an email that Cloister accepted 40 first-round signins and would continue to accept more on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Charter Club president JeanCarlos Arenas ’16 declined to disclose the exact number of firstround sign-ins but said in an email that Charter filled half of its class in the first round and was comparable to last year’s See CLUBS page 2

Codes needed to access women’s bathrooms around campus began to be changed last Monday for security reasons, according to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

Residential college advisers have begun to inform female students of the new codes over the last week.

Mbugua explained that the decision was made after restroom codes were made public, which he said compromised student security.

The publicly available mobile application GirlCode, launched on iTunes by three University students, made the women’s bathroom codes on campus accessible to anyone.

“The safety of our students is our top priority, so University administrators, including the Department of Public Safety and Housing [and Real Estate Services], discussed the issue and decided to change the code,” Mbugua said.

The app was taken down earlier in January after a meeting between administrators and the developers, Victor Zhou ’18, Amanda Shi ’18 and Monica Shi ’18.

Despite ongoing discussions involving administrators and the Undergraduate Student Government about what should be done with the bathroom codes going forward, Mbugua said the University’s immediate priority was to change the restroom codes that were made public through the app. The discussions predate and are not related to the GirlCode app.

Incoming USG President Ella Cheng ’16 said Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin confirmed in a conversation with her that the change of codes was prompted by their release on GirlCode.

“I believe this is a reasonable decision,” Cheng said. “There is no restriction to access the app See CODES page 4

U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

U. buys liquor license for arts area restaurant

By Jacqueline Gufford senior writer

The University has entered into a contract with local restaurateur Jack Morrison to purchase a liquor license for $1.5 million, according to records obtained

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under a request from the town of Princeton.

Morrison had previously purchased the license for about $1 million, according to Planet Princeton. He declined to comment.

Terra Momo, a local restaurant group, had previously ended lease discus-

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sions with the University that had started in 2013, in which Terra Momo would have operated the restaurant and café area in the forthcoming Arts and Transit Neighborhood.

Ending the discussions was mutual and “amicable,” and the issue of obtaining

a special permit liquor license was not a factor, Terra Momo Group co-owner Raoul Momo said. He declined to specify the reason behind the termination of the negotiation.

“It was a business decision,” Momo said. “Every company has opportuni-

ties, and [Terra Momo] made a decision not to pursue this one.”

Liquor licenses in New Jersey towns cannot exceed a certain number determined by the town’s population. Although all of the liquor licenses in Princeton See LIQUOR page 2

ACADEMICS

U. lobbies on Department Five juniors awarded Scholars in the of Energy nominations in Nation’s Service Initiative awards for 2016 fourth quarter of 2014

By Annie Yang staff writer

By Linda Song staff writer

The University reported $40,000 in lobbying-related expenses on science-related nominations, among other issues, in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to a disclosure report filed by the University with the U.S. House of Representatives.

The University expressed interest in the nominations of Franklin Orr, Jr. to the position of Under Secretary for Science and Energy and Marc Kastner for the position of Director of the Office of Science, both in the Department of Energy. President Barack Obama nominated them in November 2013, but Orr was not confirmed until December and Kastner’s nomination is still pending.

The University has shown high interest in lobbying on issues that affect the funding and operations of the Princeton Particle Physics Laboratory in the past, and the Office of Science in particular supervises highenergy research projects relevant to the laboratory.

Orr founded and directed

Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy, among other faculty appointments. Kastner is a physicist on the MIT faculty.

The University is part of the Energy Sciences Coalition, also known as the ESC, which is a coalition of organizations representing scientists, engineers and mathematicians committed to advancing the research programs of the Department of Energy. Obtaining adequate research funding and hiring personnel for the Office of Science has been a major priority of the ESC. “President Obama has said that funding for research should be a priority for our country,” the ESC wrote in a letter addressed to Shaun Donovan, Director of the Office of Management and Budget on Nov. 25. “We completely agree… [W]e strongly urge you to provide robust and sustained funding for the Department of Energy Office of Science and the important research and scientific facilities it supports, and to make this funding a priority.”

The ESC also expressed See LOBBYING page 4

Five juniors have been awarded fellowships for the Wilson School’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative, a program to promote and sponsor students’ work in the federal government.

Nathan Eckstein ’16, Jamal Johnson ’16, Abyssinia Lissanu ’16, Michelle Nedashkovskaya ’16 and Alex Wheatley ’16 will spend the summer after their junior year working in federal agencies. After graduating, they will spend a summer studying a foreign language and then enter the Wilson School’s

two-year MPA program. The SINSI fellowship, which allows scholars to gain experience in service and in scholarship, is placed between the two years.

Eckstein, a Wilson School concentrator, had known about SINSI since his freshman year, and was See SINSI page 4

SUPER BOWL PARTY

YICHENG SUN :: PHOTO EDITOR

Princeton students kickback and enjoy Super Bowl XLIX Seattle Seahawks vs. New England Patriots.

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Charter, Cloister, Colonial, Quad have second-round spots remaining CLUBS

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numbers.

Arenas is a former chief copy editor for the ‘Prince.’

Terrace was the only signin club to disclose its firstround sign-in numbers in 2014, but Cloister had 32 first-round sign-ins in 2012 and Colonial had 65 in the same year. Colonial had fewer sign-ins this year than in 2012, while Cloister had more than in 2012.

Sofia Gallo ’17 said she joined Charter during the first-round sign-in process not because she had anything against the bicker process, but because most of her friends were joining sign-in

clubs.

“I went to some of the [Charter] events in the fall, and that really helped me decide between the two [I was deciding between],” Gallo said. “[Charter] had really good food, and I just liked the atmosphere a lot … I don’t really have anything against bickering — I was thinking about bickering Tower for a while — but when you don’t know that many people, it’s not worth it. But it wasn’t really like a not feeling comfortable bickering thing.”

Kei Yamaya ’17, however, said she wasn’t keen on any of the bicker clubs.

“I really couldn’t see myself going through [the bicker process], and I really

liked Terrace,” Yamaya said.

“I have a good feeling about it … I like how [Terrace] is really eccentric, and I feel like there are a lot of personalities there, and they all seem to really like it. I have a lot of junior friends there, members, and they don’t really fit into one type, but they all really seem to like the club.”

Bicker events began on Sunday, and the final deadline for ranking selective and open club choices is Wednesday at 5 p.m., although there are additional opportunities to join an open club for people who find themselves without a club.

Final bicker results will be released on Friday.

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PICKUPS

MICHAEL CHANG :: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Students enjoy the revelry at Terrace Club pickups on Sunday night. The club filled in the first round.

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are currently taken, Morrison’s license is the only one that is unused.

The Universit y w il l look both w ith in and beyond Princeton to choose another operator for the eateries, Un iversit y spokesperson Mar tin Mbug ua said.

Initial drafts of the agreement drawn between Terra Momo and the University included a clause stating Terra Momo would have to exercise “its reasonable best efforts to obtain and pay for a liquor license at its own expense,” according to documents obtained by Planet Princeton.

However, Terra Momo did not consider purchasing a liquor license from another business because it would be prohibitively expensive, Momo said in an

interview with the ‘Prince’ in October.

Momo said the restaurant group also brief ly considered filing for a special concessionaire’s permit to serve alcohol in the eateries, a tywpe of permit that the state grants to businesses that are deemed to be of public benefit.

Ultimately, Terra Momo decided not to file an application for the permit because the University, unlike most recipients of the permit, operates on public property, Momo said.

The restaurant and café were originally slated to open in summer 2015, and according to Mbugua, the search for a new operator is not expected to delay its completion.

“The project remains on track, and the specific opening date will be determined in coordination with the new operator,” Mbugua said.

CORRECTION Due to an editing error, a pull quote for the article published in the print edition on Jan. 12, “U. declines to join AAU sexual assault survey,” was incorrectly attributed to Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity Michele Minter. The quote was actually from Rebecca Basaldua ‘15. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

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interest in the nominations in a letter on the same day addressed to then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, which requested that Orr and Kastner be moved to their posts promptly by the end of the term of the 113th Congress.

The letter notes they are “two of about a dozen nominees for positions at the Department of Energy who still await confirmation.”

David Bruggeman, senior public policy analyst for the Association of Computing Machinery, has blogged about the nominations extensively.

Bruggeman said that while Orr has been confirmed for his position, Kastner’s name would have to be reentered in the 114th Congress, because his nomination was not voted on before the adjournment of the 113th Congress. Bruggeman added that the budget continues to be a concern for federal research.

“There’s been ongoing tension between the National Science Foundation and the House of Representatives between the oversight of the grants it awards,” he said.

Despite some pressure from the ESC and others for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science to be a funding priority in the 2016 federal budget, David Malakoff and Jeffrey Mervis of the American Association for the Advancement of Science noted in an article in the Science Magazine that “NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) appear to be among the winners” in a deal reached by lawmakers in December, while “research budgets at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the

Department of Energy would remain f lat.”

The duties of the Under Secretary for Science and Energy, which Orr became in December, include overseeing programs like nuclear and fossil energy and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

The Director of the Office of Science’s duties, which Kastner would assume upon confirmation, include overseeing research programs in advanced computing, basic energy sciences, biological and environmental science, fusion energy, high energy, nuclear physics and workforce development for teachers and scientists. The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs also fall under the Office of Science.

The ESC wrote in its letter to Reid that “[i]f confirmed, both of these individuals will help to steward an important component of our federal research enterprise — the Department of Energy and its national laboratories.”

“Confirmations have been a particularly sticky issue,” Bruggeman explained. He added that confirmations are not just about science and technology and that, often, these issues are not at the top of the list of pending items.

The University has previously expressed its interests in the past couple of years in fusion energy issues and higher education initiatives such as the White House College Scorecard and the President’s Plan to Make College More Affordable, and the impact of a budget sequestration on education and research in 2012. It also lobbied on intellectual property policy and tax legislation at the end of 2013 and throughout 2014.

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excited about the opportunities in public service it would offer him.

He said he had aspired toward a career in foreign service since high school.

“What’s amazing is that I can experience the career of a foreign service officer, and test my commitment to it, without ‘contracting in’ so to speak,” he said. “That’s part of what makes SINSI unique.”

He decided to apply halfway through his sophomore year just as he was accepting an internship to work at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia. He said that at the time, he told himself that if he enjoyed working in Bolivia, he would definitely apply for the fellowship.

Politics concentrator Lissanu said she first heard about the fellowship from fellow scholars in Princeton Faith and Action during the spring of her freshman year.

She added that she was hesitant on whether to apply, but speaking to a fellow PFA member and SINSI scholar solidified her desire to apply.

Johnson, a politics major, said he found the program to suit his inter-

ests in policy and in urban studies.

“When I first heard about it, a while back, I had a friend who was also a SINSI scholar, and I could tell that it was an interesting opportunity to get engaged, because you’re working in the federal government,” he said.

Nedashkovskaya, a politics major, remarked that SINSI was a perfect fit for her interests in international relations and foreign affairs, which started when she was 13.

“SINSI is first and foremost a program about service. It’s not even about getting a job; you’re supposed to demonstrate a proclivity for service not only in your career aspirations, but on a personal level,” she said.

Nedashkovskaya added that she felt that the program values personal background and interests over an applicant’s résumé and a good candidate can just be themselves.

Wheatley said she first heard about the program at the beginning of the year, and was intrigued by the opportunities it presented.

“It sounded perfect,” she said.

“SINSI is an amazing program, and the scholars that I have spoken to are great people with phenomenal stories about their time in the program. I wanted to be a part of it.”

For Eckstein and Lissanu, the essay portions were challenging.

“The longest essay asks you to sum up your commitment to and conception of public service in 1,000 words; writing this one was the hardest for me,” Eckstein said.

“There were so many things I had to leave out in order to streamline the essay.”

Students also mentioned anxiety about the interview. Johnson said that the interview, with a panel of seven interviewers, challenged him to think on his feet.

“There was one question about the website for the Affordable Care Act, healthcare.gov, which crashed, and you’re the person in charge of managing the crisis,” he said.

Nedashkovskaya added that while the process was not as difficult or nerve-racking as it may have seemed in retrospect, one of her greatest uncertainties during the application process was waiting for the results.

Eckstein said he is planning on working in the Embassy in Santiago, Chile, this summer after a semester abroad. He said that he hopes to work in the State Department again and become a foreign service officer.

Johnson said he is consider-

ing working at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Justice, or the Department of Education. He said that he wants to become more involved in municipal governments and dealing with issues in communities, such as urban poverty.

Lissanu said she would like to wwork with the Department of Education, the Department of Justice, or the Department of Homeland Security. She hopes to do work that impacts policy in a way that affects others positively and aspires to become a lawyer in the future.

Nedashkovskaya said she is most interested in the Department of State and hopes to become a foreign service officer.

However, she said that the beauty of the program is in its flexibility and hopes to be exposed to other fields such as the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice as well.

Wheatley said that she wants to work in an agency like the Center for Disease Control or National Institutes of Health, but said that she is still exploring her options.

She said that her ultimate goal is to make the world a better place through work in the public health field.

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that was launched, so anyone could’ve downloaded it, including non-Princeton students.

This creates a safety concern.

However, it would be nice if we were kept in the loop about the decision.”

Olin did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The app was not technologically complex and only took a couple hours to program,

Monica Shi said, describing its creation as a learning process, especially in relation to using the Objective-C programming language.

Monica Shi said she was not aware that the bathroom codes had been changed when contacted by a reporter.

“It is the University’s right to make this decision, but they should have informed the student body in advance,” she said.

Monica Shi also said that many of her friends had not learned about the change and

would be forced to either use a male restroom or walk through the snowy weather to nonresidential buildings in certain situations.

“I hope that this isn’t the ‘change’ that was promised during our meeting with the administration,” Monica Shi said.

The inspiration for the app arose from inconveniences with which she had coped whenever studying at her sister’s dorm building, Monica Shi said. Eventually, her sister printed out the code and taped it to her binder.

She said the situation was “ridiculous” and wished to make restroom access easier for all female students.

Shi added that she believed bathroom codes enforce archaic and institutionalized gender norms.

“Now that Princeton uses a prox system, there is no outside threat, so whom is the University protecting women from?” Shi said. “The silent finger is pointing toward Princeton men, a complication that has extensive psychological ramifications.”

Princeton Dreams

Letter from the Editor

Paul Chin ’06 is an Instructional Leadership Fellow at Uncommon Schools and a 2006 alum of Teach For America. He majored in Sociology and is currently training to become a principal in New York City next fall.

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Paul Chin ’06

ast spring, I skipped Reunions and attended a different kind of celebration. I had been looking forward to it for a while — six years to be exact.

It was the day the first group of students I had ever taught would walk the stage for their high school graduation. As I watched them snap selfies and snag congratulatory embraces, my thoughts turned to Princeton.

These kids were off to do great things; many would be the first college freshmen in their families. I had met them as middle schoolers at a charter school in south central Los Angeles. Now, some were headed to colleges like Johns Hopkins and UCLA. As I marveled at what they had accomplished, I wondered what more we Tigers could do to make moments like this possible for more low-income students in this country.

Nine years ago, I began my career as an educator. With a handful of other Princeton classmates, I joined Teach For America. I wrote my JP and senior thesis on the types of challenges schools face and how certain schools are approaching these challenges differently compared to traditional public schools. I was intent on translating the theories I had studied into practice. My parents, members of the Class of 1975, were supportive, but they had both been trained as attorneys and there was never a shortage of suggestions regarding law school as a career path instead. That all changed when they came to visit me and my students in LA. They spent the day with us and saw the impact I was having firsthand. Since then, they have asked me about law school exactly zero times.

Instead, they have talked me through countless tough moments, come to speak to my students across three states and have become the fiercest pair of advocates for the value of my work and the potential of my kids that a teacher could hope for.

All of which brings me back to my central question: can we as Princetonians do anything more to ensure that all students in this country have the opportunity to receive a quality education and attend a university like Princeton? I believe that we can. We need more outstanding educators on the front lines of our neediest schools. Currently, there are far too few Tigers in our ranks. Imagine the impact an elite team of Princeton graduates could have on our schools across the nation.

The good news is that the University is already making an effort. This fall, the administration announced several initiatives designed to increase the presence of low-income students on campus, such as expanding the Freshman Scholars Institute, a program that supports incoming freshmen who may be the first in their families to go to college or who have come from schools that did not offer advanced placement courses. Princeton is also improving initiatives to identify and recruit first-generation students in general. This is essential, invaluable work: not enough lowincome students even see Princeton as an option. However, such efforts address only a tiny piece of the problem.

Currently, our public education system prepares a shamefully small sliver of students from communities like the ones I’ve worked in — south central Los Angeles, Newark, and Eastside Indianapolis — for the rigors of a college like ours. As Princetonians, we can be a part of changing this. However, this requires an unpopular and financially difficult career choice. An Ivy League education can open doors on Wall Street, and there is a certain prestige associated with moving on from a place like Princeton to a top-tier law school or business school. Far less prestige is associated with a career in education. Nevertheless, this is the field that most directly determines our nation’s future. Some countries recognize this. Finland and South Korea consistently outperform the United States on international exams. In these countries, educators are revered and their students excel.

Attitudes are different in this country.

Teaching is not for everyone. For those who are interested in teaching but are not quite certain that they are ready to take the leap, two-year programs like Teach for America offer exclusive scholarships and benefits, partnering with top employers like Google Inc. and JP Morgan Chase and graduate schools like Harvard Law School and Johns Hopkins. I honestly wasn’t sure it was for me; then, I met my kids. Nearly a decade later, as I prepare to become a principal, I know I made the right choice for myself, and I am writing this piece now to encourage more Princetonians to give teaching a chance and work to open the doors of institutions like ours to kids who might otherwise never consider it. When I advise my students about college, I want to be able to tell stories of students like them who have attended Princeton and excelled. I want to be able to tell them just how much Princeton has done, and is doing, to make all that possible.

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ommunity is a big deal at Princeton.

From the proud alumni who f lock back to campus each June for Reunions to the thousands of enthusiastic students at athletic events, to the townies and tourists who stroll through campus and attend our events, Princeton is not complete without the community that surrounds it.

Despite coming from around the world and having varied backgrounds and interests, we all contribute to our Princeton community, even if we do so in different ways. Princeton would not be what it is today without the numerous academics, activists, actors, artists and athletes.

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Community is important to the ‘Prince’ too. We work hard because we want to keep you informed, whether you reside within FitzRandolph Gate or outside it. We are a student newspaper in a university community, so our mission of sharing the news here is pretty simple. Regardless of whether it is “good” news or “bad” news, if you’re talking about it or if we think you will be talking about it, we want to give you the facts of what happened as well as what is being said so you can form your own opinion.

This may sound like a strange way of introducing the first issue of the 139th Managing Board of the ‘Prince.’ However, as the new Editor-in-Chief, I think it is sometimes easy to forget how the newspaper fits into our Princeton community and what goes into producing the paper that you read in the dining hall at breakfast or online during lectures.

We want you to know that we plan to work constructively with you over the course of the next year. We want to improve communications between the paper and the community, and we want to represent your voice in this paper.

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Anna Mazarakis, a politics major from Montclair, N.J., is the incoming Editorin-Chief of The Daily Princetonian. She can be reached at annacm@princeton. edu.

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The willful blindness of GirlCode Will Rivitz

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irlCode was a bad idea.

For readers who missed the extensive coverage, on Jan. 7, three University freshmen released GirlCode, a mobile app containing the codes required to get into every Princeton women’s bathroom. Their message was simple: to spark a campus debate about the “archaic gender norms that Princeton” imposes with women’s bathroom codes. Shortly after, University representatives “force[d],” in the words of Amanda Shi ’18, one of the app’s creators, the students to take down the app a few days later. The bathroom codes were changed without warning several days later, leaving most of the female students on campus without bathroom access for two days.

Granted, this isn’t the first time female bathroom codes have been brought up. From former columnist Luke Massa in 2011, who referred to bathroom codes as a “relic,” to current columnist Logan Sander, who raised privacy concerns for men, bathroom codes have been a hotly debated topic. For what it’s worth, I tend to agree with the large portion of the student body here who think that codes are unnecessary for ensuring that the campus remains safe. Most of my female friends on campus have expressed frustration

with the code system, angry that it only applies to women on campus.

Many have used men’s bathrooms to shower or use the toilet when unable to access the nearby women’s bathroom. Some forward emails containing every bathroom code to friends who have complained about this lack of access.

However, all this app has done is ignore the already-existing debate.

Yes, it’s clear that, for many students, bathroom codes are an unpleasant issue, unfortunate relics of bygone days which they would like to eliminate. We know this precisely because of this discussion, discussion which not only already exists, but has been prominent the entire semester. So when the app’s creators say that GirlCode was intended to “spark much needed dialogue on campus,” they grossly misrepresent the state of the campus. Officially, University administrators and the Undergraduate Student Government (and, unofficially, almost every student on campus) have already conducted conversations, and will continue to do so until a resolution is reached. Ignoring the current dialogue wholly undermines the seemingly noble mission of GirlCode and the entire point of its existence. The USG’s bathroom code survey — sent, mind you, over two months before the launch of GirlCode — speaks to how public this discussion has been over the three creators’ entire Princeton careers.

That USG survey brings up what I interpret to be the most important problem with GirlCode’s creation: it entirely circumvents the governmental process of creating meaningful change which has proven support from at least a majority of voters or legislators. Bathroom codes are an important issue on the USG agenda, and this past semester we saw it treated as such, and it seems as though we are moving towards a legitimately sanctioned resolution. GirlCode totally avoids any form of the due process we’ve come to expect from our USG. Three students — students who have been on campus for approximately four months — should not endeavor to speak for thousands of students who have been discussing this issue for months, if not years, in an attempt to change the status quo. Frankly, it is misguided and obstinate to supersede an entire system of government and its processes, especially one as effective as our USG. No amount of diverting the conversation to the topic of gender inequality will change that.

However, despite its numerous flaws, GirlCode does bring up a good point. Three freshmen rendered null an entire security system. It is possible that two or three years down the line, more freshmen — ones who don’t know about GirlCode — will do the same. This seems to suggest flaws in the current system. Moreover, meaningful change seems like

it would be relatively easy to enact.

For instance, bathroom codes could be totally removed, or codes could be added to men’s bathrooms as well.

I’d like to propose a third solution: if the locks are to stay, make them prox-based and give all girls prox access. Though the mechanics behind the prox system are a mystery to me, I assume it would be possible to give about half the proxes on campus the ability to open these doors, and given that almost all students carry their prox with them everywhere, this proposal would balance both safety and convenience.

Now that the GirlCode incident has died down, one thing we know remains: the bathroom codes, by and large, are highly unpopular. The recent unannounced code change (likely due to GirlCode’s existence) locked many female students on campus out of their bathrooms, and there was a palpable sense of anger when the new codes took almost two days to appear in students’ inboxes after changing. I wholly support a reform of the bathrooms: a reform carefully debated by our current campus and one on which all students — not just three — can vote.

The inefficacy, willful ignorance and conceit of GirlCode’s implementation is not the way to achieve the meaningful change we seek Will Rivitz is a freshman from Brookline, Mass. He can be reached at wrivitz@princeton.edu.

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who played under him or worked with him, and one can see that the champion-

ships don’t ref lect the kind of inf luence he had. “[He was] a one-in-a-million individual who exuded kindness, generosity and character integrity,” Yasser El-Halaby, one of the

best collegiate squash players of all time, said. ”The many lessons I have learned … from Coach Callahan are not restricted to the game of squash, but encompass all aspects of life.”

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was breathing right down Harvard’s neck. With the crowd’s enthusiasm at full tilt, it seemed only a matter of time that the Tigers would overtake the Crimson.

Alas, that two-point deficit would be the closest Princeton would get to Harvard for the rest of the game. Princeton’s defensive woes cropped up yet again in the second half. In the first half, they were getting torched from behind the arc; in the second half, the problems came from Harvard’s attack down low. Another one of Harvard’s reserves, Jonah Travis, proved key in the second half; he got multiple and-ones on Princeton that helped keep the surging Tigers at bay. Ultimately, despite very strong performances from Cook, Bell and senior guard Ben Hazel who finished with 21, 17 and 15 points, respectively, the Tigers couldn’t manage to sustain their initially threatening comeback.

However, a loss like that can’t be too discouraging.

Harvard’s team is regarded by many as the most talented in the Ivy League. The Tigers looked ready to go as

they pounced all over the Big Green the following night.

Dartmouth (8-10, 1-3) didn’t make the top of anybody’s list coming into the season, but they did manage to get a surprising win at home last week over Harvard.

Unlike in the Harvard game, Princeton was in the driver’s seat for the entire

Princeton has made a very strong start in Ivy League play.

Though there are many games to go ... the Tigers could be climbing their way up the Ivy League standings. game against Dartmouth.

Forward Pete Miller was the go-to guy early on, hitting Dartmouth with moves ranging from sweeping hooks to reverse layups. After a less than stellar performance the previous night, against Dartmouth he finished with 13 points on an efficient 6-7 shooting. Sophomore wing Spencer Weisz was also critical in this

game, as he filled up the box score with his 16 points, 6 boards, 3 assists and 3 steals.

Moreover, Stephen Cook and Ben Hazel put in solid performances yet again, scoring 10 and 14 points respectively in this contest.

Dartmouth’s offense was rather interesting to watch yesterday. It seemed as if none of their players were comfortable being the goto guy at any point in the game. Even their leading scorer for the game, center Gabas Maldunas, seemed a little uncomfortable every time he touched the ball. It looked like Dartmouth suffered heavily as their leading scorer for the season, Alex Mitola, failed to produce.

The Big Green’s junior guard managed only 5 points on 1-8 shooting. Very tellingly, he scored 18 points in the team’s win against Harvard — it seems that Dartmouth really lives and dies by this player’s offensive performance.

Princeton has made a very strong start in Ivy League play. Though there are still many games to go, it looks like next week’s opponents Cornell and Columbia are more than manageable, and the Tigers could be climbing their way up the Ivy League standings.

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11 more kills on a .625 hitting performance. Kennedy again piled up the assists,

with 34, to key a solid team victory in San Diego. The Tigers open up their isvelenit ilThe Tigers open up their Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association schedule against the New Jersey In-

stitute of Technology (4-2) in Newark on Friday night at 7 p.m. After squaring off against some of the nation’s fiercest competition, Princeton should be ready to compete.

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Saturday’s game shows just how far the Tigers have come this season, working

hard on both their offense and defense to pull together a team that is gaining recognition on the national stage. Princeton is currently ranked nationally in the Associated Press poll and 24th

in the USA Today Coaches Poll. The Tigers have started off the season on an incredibly strong note and hope to carry their momentum through to their Jan. 30 game against the Crimson.

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Dietrick, women’s basketball continue to dominate season

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Men’s basketball splits games in weekend homestand

By Miles Hinson sports editor

You certainly can’t say Princeton men’s basketball team didn’t have its fair share of excitement this weekend.

The Tigers (9-10 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) completed their first full weekend of league play, falling to Harvard on Friday and taking down Dartmouth on Saturday. After these two tightly contested games, Princeton now finds itself ranked third in the league, only half a game away from overtaking Harvard for the second spot.

The loss to Harvard (12-5, 2-1) was a thrilling affair. Princeton struggled on the defensive side early on, getting torched from behind the arc. Surprisingly, the main culprit was not Harvard’s star forward Wesley Saunders but rather the reserve Corbin Miller. The backup guard

came off the bench with huge impact, scoring 5 of Harvard’s 6 threepointers (with 17 points overall) by halftime. While the Tigers were certainly not slouches on the offensive side, their defensive woes left them with a 10-point deficit going into halftime.

It was the second half, however, when Princeton began to show signs of life, with freshman guard Amir Bell and sophomore wing Stephen Cook leading the charge. Bell came out aggressive and had some strong takes to the basket, and Cook provided a great combination of playmaking and creating his own shot.

Cook was the also the catalyst for the most electrifying sequence of the game, as he ferociously blocked Harvard’s Agunwa Okolie on one end and got the tough and-one on the other end. With this play, the score stood at 47-49, and Princeton See M. B-BALL page 6

Senior guard Blake Dietrick scored a game-high 25 points and her 1,000th career point on Saturday as the Tigers upset defending Ivy League champion Penn in the opening game of Ivy League play.

The women’s basketball team, 17-0 overall and 1-0 Ivy, beat the Penn Quakers by an impressive 29 points, winning by a final score of 83-54.

Tiger junior guard/forward Annie Tarakchian netted the first basket of the game, and after Penn responded with a quick field goal, consecutive scores by junior forward Alex Wheatley, junior guard Amanda Berntsen and Dietrick capped a 7-0 Princeton run that gave the Tigers an early advantage. A 10-5 run by Penn followed, pulling the Quakers to within 2 points, but the Tigers responded and widened the score to 20-12.

With 7:39 left in the first half, Dietrick scored a three to give her over 1,000 career points. Dietrick is the 22nd player in program history to pass the 1,000-point mark.

In the final four minutes of the first half, the Tigers outscored the Quakers 9-5, extending the Tiger’s lead to 35-25 at halftime.

During the second half of the game, the Tigers shot over 65 percent from the f loor, scoring the

first 11 points of the second period to put the Tigers up 46-25. Forcing a steal, Wheatley ran the f loor to score and further cushion the Tiger lead. Penn’s Beth Brzozowski finally scored the first Quaker points of the second half, but the Tigers maintained control of the game, firing off another impressive 10-2 run and leaving the Tigers up 27 points.

Contributing to the lead, sophomore guard Vanessa Smith shot 3-for-4 from the charity stripe.

Up by 33 points with less than 3:00 left on the clock, the Tigers continued to play well through the final minutes of the game, closing the 83-54 Ivy League opener on a final layup from freshman forward Leslie Robinson. The Tigers held the Quakers to 39.2 percent shooting (20-51), while shooting 50 percent both on the f loor (33-66) and from long distance (9-18). The Tigers forced 17 turnovers while committing only eight, a season low.

Tarakchian was named MVP of the game, finishing with a career-high 17 rebounds in addition to 8 points and 4 assists. Three players scored in double digits, lead by Dietrick’s 25 points with 5 assists and 4 boards.

Junior guard Michelle Miller scored 15 points with 4 assists and 4 rebounds, while Wheatley scored 13 points with 2 assists, 3 blocks and 6 rebounds.

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MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Men’s volleyball faces ups and downs in matches against highly ranked west coast opponents over Intersession

By Mark Goldstein Contributor

While Winter Storm Juno dumped feet upon feet of snow across the Northeast last week, the Princeton men’s volleyball team (2-4) travelled for the second time this month to sunny California to take on three strong opponents.

Sixth year head coach Sam Shweisky has challenged his squad from the get-go this season, with all six matches thus far taking place across the country against powerhouses from California, including five consecutive matches against top-15 nationally-ranked teams. On the first trip west on Jan. 9-10 at the 2015 UCSB Asics Invitational, the Tigers dropped matches to No. 12 California State University, Long Beach and No. 4 University of California, Santa Barbara be-

fore winning a tightly-contested match against No. 13 California State University, Northridge to cap off the weekend. The second cross-country journey proved similar to the first.

On Sunday, Jan. 25 in Los Angeles, Calif., the Tigers fell in straight sets 25-18, 25-21, 25-21 to No. 9 University of California, Los Angeles (4-2). While Princeton could not push the Bruins to a fourth set, they did persevere in the third to knot up the score at 20 before UCLA broke away. For a team with plenty of talented upperclassmen, the performances of freshman Kendall Ratter, who registered 13 kills, and sophomore Chris Kennedy, who added 25 assists, were bright spots on Sunday night.

The following night, the men from New Jersey faced perhaps their toughest opponent of the season, falling 25-14, 25-19, 25-22

to No. 3 University of California, Irvine (8-2). Again, the Tigers showed resolve after dropping a tough first set, improving in all three periods to give the top-five program a run for their money in the third. Leading the attack for the away side were senior Cody Kessel — an honorable mention All-American last season — who contributed 16 kills, and sophomore Junior Oboh, who hit .562 on the night.

After the run of five straight top-15 opponents had concluded, the Tigers ended their second trip through the Golden State with a resounding 25-18, 29-27, 25-14 victory over University of California, San Diego (1-8) on Wednesday. Once again, Kessel and Oboh led the attack, with the senior registering 15 kills to go with six blocks and four digs while the sophomore added See M. V-BALL page 7

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Bob Callahan, Princeton squash coach for 32 years, dies after battle with cancer

By Miles Hinson sports Editor

Former Princeton men’s squash coach Bob Callahan died on Tuesday. He was 59.

Callahan passed away this Tuesday after a long battle with brain cancer. He is survived by his wife, Kristen, and his five sons: Greg ’05, Tim ’07, Scott ’09, and Peter and Matt ’11. In the four decades he was involved in Princeton squash, Bob

Callahan went on to touch and inspire players and colleagues alike.

Callahan had a large impact on squash at Princeton – the last time he was not involved in Princeton squash, Richard Nixon was still sitting in the Oval Office - and in the squash community nationwide. Callahan succeeded at every level of the game, having played on three national championship teams in his time as a student and captaining the team his senior

year in 1977.

His coaching career is what ultimately put him in the Princeton record books. Callahan arrived as a coach in 1981, and went on to coach for 32 years at Princeton, leading the Tigers to three national championships in 1982, 1993 and 2012.

“A coach’s immortality lies in leaving the vestige of oneself in the character development of one’s players,” Gary Walters, Princeton’s former athletic director, said. ”The

word ‘legacy’ is often overused in today’s society, but Bob’s body of work over a 32-year coaching career merits such a term.”

The 2012 championship was one of the highlights of Callahan’s illustrious career, as he led Princeton to victory in an upset over powerhouse Trinity College, which had won 13 years in a row.

The accolades he received during his coaching tenure certainly came as no surprise. In 2012, Cal-

lahan was inducted into the US Squash Hall of Fame, and in 2014 was also inducted into the Men’s Collegiate Squash Association Hall of Fame. Later that year, in the fall of 2014, Princeton named the men’s squash head coach position to the Robert W. Callahan ’77 Head Coach of Men’s Squash.

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