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News & Notes Eating clubs welcome new presidents, more women elected to office The six bicker eating clubs – Cannon Dial Elm Club, Cap & Gown Club, Cottage Club, Ivy Club, Tiger Inn and Tower Club – have recently elected their officer elections.

Three women were elected as officers of TI, which was the last club to admit women in 1991.

Hap Cooper ’82, president of the TI Graduate Board, stated in an email on Thursday that the club elected Grace Larsen ’16 as president, Maria Yu ’16 as treasurer, and Victoria Hammarskjold ’16 as safety and communication chair.

Ivy, which was the second-to-last club to admit women in 1991, elected Eliza Mott ’16 as the new president.

Ian McGeary ’16 was elected as president of Cannon, Tyler Rudolph ’16 was elected as president of Cap, Forrest Hull ’16 was elected as president of Cottage and George Papademetriou ’16 was elected as president of Tower.

The sign-in eating clubs elected their presidents last year. JeanCarlos Arenas is the president of Charter Club, Ed Walker ’16 is the president of Cloister Inn, Swetha Doppalapudi ’16 is the president of Colonial Club, Lucia Perasso ’16 is the president of Terrace Club and Mitch Shellman ’16 is the president of Quadrangle Club.

Arenas is a former chief copy editor for The Daily Princetonian.

STUDENT LIFE

Dining halls close in response to measles

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

The University notified certain members of the faculty and staff on Thursday that they will be required to provide proof of protection against measles before they are allowed to return to work.

The University previously said on Wednesday that a student had been diagnosed with a suspected case of measles.

The notified faculty and

staff were born after Dec. 31, 1956, and may have been in buildings where the affected student visited while contagious.

Only dining operations have been affected so far by the requirement that employees provide proof of immunization, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. It is currently unknown whether classes will be affected, he said, adding the University should have a clearer picture of how campus operations

will be affected by Friday morning, since most notified employees received the message late on Thursday.

Forbes College Dining Hall, the C-Store, Café Vivian, Studio 34 and the Witherspoon Café were closed Thursday evening, Mbugua said. Thursday night late meal operated in a limited capacity, he added.

Whitman College Dining Hall, Forbes College Dining Hall, Studio 34 and the Frick See MEASLES page 3

LOCAL NEWS

Board of Health to raise tobacco purchasing age to 21

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

The Princeton Board of Health plans to introduce an ordinance that will prohibit stores from selling tobacco products and electronic smoking devices to anyone under 21 years old.

The ordinance is set to be in-

troduced by the Board of Health on March 26 and may be adopted

by April 21.

The Board of Health was concerned with the problem of youth smoking, Charles Rojer, a member of the Princeton Board of Health, said.

“I think, if hopefully passed, [the ordinance] will prevent a

significant number of teenagers from becoming involved in smoking, which, along with obesity, is one of the two main problems that we encounter in our society that causes so many health problems,” Rojer said.

“Anything we can do that could cut down the likelihood of teenSee TOBACCO page 2

STUDENT LIFE

USG launches pilot operation to develop meal exchange app

By Katherine Oh staff writer

The Undergraduate Student Government, Campus Dining and the Office of Information Technology are creating an application that would allow upperclassmen in eating clubs and students on residential college meal plans to exchange meals on their mobile devices.

USG expects to begin the pilot operation this spring and launch the app for use by the fall of 2016, USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said.

While the number of students who will participate in the pilot has not been determined, Cheng said the focus is to include students from all the different eating clubs, rather than having a large number of students.

Plans for the project began last fall, and the developers of the app met last Friday with representatives from USG to discuss progress on the app.

Former USG president Shawon Jackson ’15, who was at the meeting, said the meeting gave USG members the chance to voice their opinions.

“We were trying to understand what the next steps would be and ensure that the members on the technology side had all the information necessary,” Executive Director of Dining Services Smitha Haneef said,

adding that Campus Dining is frequently working on projects with OIT. Currently, students in eating clubs have to use slips of paper to exchange meals with students outside of eating clubs.

Cheng explained that these meal exchange slips expire at the end of the calendar month, which was hard for students to remember or keep track of.

“It’s very easy for students to lose those cards,” Cheng said.

“The natural progression was to move it online, or to move it to a mobile app, so that it’s accessible by phone.”

The longstanding hosting arrangement between eating club and meal plan students is not only difficult for students to use, but also for Campus Dining to supervise and monitor, Haneef said.

The idea for a mobile meal exchange app is relatively recent, because it was suggested only a few years ago when mobile phones became more widely present on campus, she explained.

“Coming into my role and talking about priorities, this seemed like one of them. We’re working on some options,” Haneef said. “It’s still in a preliminary phase. There is a lot of programming still to be done.”

The piloting process schedSee APP page 2

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Summers talks secular stagnation, possible solutions

By Chitra Marti senior writer

The most profound macroeconomic challenge of the next 20 years is secular stagnation, or the idea that the economy has equilibrated to downward growth, Lawrence Summers argued in a lecture on Thursday afternoon.

Summers served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton and Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama.

He is also President Emeritus of Harvard and a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Summers opened the lecture by crediting the close ties between government and academia as the reason why the

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Lawrence Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of the National Economic Council, spoke on campus on Thursday.

most recent recession had not turned into a depression, naming many of his friends from both fields in the audience.

The United States has not had sustainable, genuine macroeco-

nomic growth in at least half a generation, Summers said, which motivates a debate over different macroeconomic theories to encourage such growth.

Previous explanations could

be categorized as “financial network failure theory,” in which a sudden shock “turned out the lights” on the economy. However, these explanations took the view that once the lights were

back on, the economy would not only recover rapidly, but also grow, due to a natural period of playing catch-up, he said.

“That was five years ago that See LECTURE page 2

Q&A: Jose Manuel Barroso Former president of European Commission discusses economic policy

By Olivia Wicki staff writer

Former President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso joined the faculty of the Wilson School on Feb. 1. The Daily Princetonian had the opportunity to talk to him about his career and thoughts on European policy.

The Daily Princetonian: In a reflection on your 10 years at the helm of the European Commission, at the Chatham House in October, you stated, “Had Greece left the euro, the economic and financial damage would have spilled over throughout the single market. Politically, the euro and the European Union would

have been shaken to their very foundations.” Could you talk a bit more about the EU handling of the eurozone debt crisis?

José Manuel Barroso: It was in fact a crisis of great magnitude because it started as a financial crisis, but it also became a sovereign debt crisis and an economic crisis, and in some countries a social and political crisis. There was a problem of confidence, so it required a great effort both from the European institutions and from the governments of our member states to respond to that crisis. But I believe that the European Union, having gone through this stress test, the biggest test since the integration process that started in the ’50s

of last century, has proven its resilience. We were able to put behind the existential threat to the euro. We created complete new instruments, like the European stability mechanism. We have come forward with new regulation for the financial sector and new rules for the economic governance of the euro area, and in fact it’s also interesting to note that the way forward was always for more and not less integration, namely for the euro area.

DP: Were you met with resistance for these new, different economic developments?

JMB: There were many resistants, first of all because the

positions of the different countries were not the same, and so our task in the European Commission and my own task as president of the Commission was always trying to push for what I believe is a common European interest. Let’s say that from Finland to Greece the economic perspectives are quite diverse. Sometimes even between France and Germany they are diverse. So, you can imagine that it was not easy to unite all those governments from different countries, sometimes different political backgrounds, around the current plan. But in the end, I think it has worked — not as quick and not in such, let’s say, a bold way as myself and the

European Commission would have desired. But you have to understand that the European Union and the euro area are by definition complex. Just to give a figure, the year I became president of the Commission in 2004, we were 15 member states. Now, we are 28. It means that we have almost doubled membership through this crisis. Today, we have, in the euro area, we have 19 countries, so more than there were in 2004 in all the European Union. So to do all this in the middle of this enlargement was really an extremely challenging task. But I believe, as I said, that the European Union has shown that it’s capable to overcome See Q&A page 3

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agers getting involved [with tobacco] would be worthwhile.”

There is also empirical evidence to support an ordinance raising the smoking age from 19 to 21, he added.

“It has been shown in other states to be effective to move the [tobacco purchasing] age from 19 to 21,” he said.

The other members of the Princeton Board of Health did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Councilwoman Heather Howard, liaison to the Board of Health, also did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

If the ordinance passes, Princeton will become the fourth town in New Jersey to have this kind of restriction on tobacco purchasing, along with Englewood, Sayreville and Teaneck.

New Jersey raised the minimum age for buying cigars, cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 19 in 2006, making it one of five states to do so. In June 2014, lawmakers in the state legislature introduced legislation to raise the tobacco buying age to 21. The measure passed the state senate by a vote of 23-10 and is pending in the assembly.

Students interviewed expressed skepticism of the ordinance.

“I don’t use tobacco products, but I feel like after you’re 18, it’s kind of your own business,” Maya Wahrman ’16 said. “It doesn’t really matter whether you wait

until you’re 21 or not, which is what we’ve seen with drinking on campus.”

Allie Diamond ’18 said she agreed a ban on smoking would likely be ineffective.

“I’m not necessarily a supporter of tobacco, but I don’t think that banning it to people under 21 will do much,” she said. “The legal drinking age is 21, but people under 21 still manage to drink alcohol.”

However, there could be potential empirical benefits to such a policy, Elly Czakowski ’15 said.

“As far as health implications go, I think that people shouldn’t smoke,” she explained. “If you have less access at an early age, you’ll be less likely to get addicted. Tobacco, from my understanding, is about as addicting as alcohol, so why not make it the same age to get? … I think it would be better to raise the age to help decrease the amount of people getting addicted at a young age.”

While the potential effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the ordinance was a concern for some students, Tim Livingstone ’18 said 18-year-olds should be treated as full adults.

“I think [the age for buying tobacco] should be lowered to the age of 18, because at the age of 18, I think you’ve got the freedom to choose to smoke, or, in my opinion, to drink as well,” he said.

The ordinance, if passed, could also affect student traffic at the Wawa. Wawa Inc. did not respond to a request for comment.

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the lights have been turned on, and we have not caught up at all,” he explained.

In Europe, Summers said, the picture was worse, displaying a graph that compared Japan in the period from 1983 to 2013 and Europe from 2000 to today.

“It would be a rough summary of macroeconomic[s] in this decade to say that Japan is the old Japan and Europe is the new Japan,” Summers said.

Evidence of secular stagnation is clear in both decreases in real interest rates and decreases in inflation, which tend to correlate with lower output, Summers said. Savings remain high relative to investment, he added, allowing secular stagnation to persist.

The main reason for this is likely that capital investment

has become both cheaper and less necessary, he said, offering the example of Sony, a company with large investment needs in order to sustain its business, as compared to Snapchat, a type of company that requires very low investment.

“When you can start a company for nothing and with nothing [but still] have the possibility of wealth creation without investment … [that] reinforces the [reduction] in savings over investment,” Summers said.

Rising inequality — the theme of the conference — and rising corporate profit shares also lead to “more money in the hands of people who have high savings propensities,” Summers said, referring to wealthy individuals.

These factors combined lead to a low investment rate and high savings, which is not conducive to economic growth, he explained, adding that the econ-

omy is thus left in stagnation, as deflationary expectations persist and are fulfilled.

Turning briefly to alternative strategies to increase growth,

“[A healthy adult is one who] doesn’t know how they’re going to die yet.”

Larry Summers Former Treasury Secretary

Summers proposed structural reform, reduced real interest rates and increased spending in both the private and public sectors. In particular, Summers showed an International Monetary Fund publication that showed a one-percent increase in

GDP debt-financed infrastructure today would increase GDP relative to debt by six percent within five years.

“It is certainly possible that exogenous variables will change in the future — in fact, I hope they will,” Summers said, giving the example of World War II helping to pull the United States out of the Great Depression. “But that is the task of economic policy.”

Summers was also posed a question about whether the economy was healthy. “[A healthy adult is one who] doesn’t know how they’re going to die yet,” Summer said.

“In that sense, the economy is healthy.”

The lecture, titled “Finance, Inequality and Long-Run Growth,” took place in Dodds Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. It was the keynote address of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance’s Fourth Annual Conference.

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uled to take place later this spring is designed to generate student feedback, Cheng said.

“I think it will have a huge impact,” Cheng said. “With this system, what’s great about it is that you actually have alerts, and you can invite people to confirm exchanges.”

While the app is intended to facilitate meal exchanges between eating club members and non-members, the app might include an option for members of different eating clubs to make switches in the future, Jackson said.

However, the student body appears to have varied responses to the idea of the app.

While Josh Morrison ’17 said

he thought it was good to have options, Katie Perez ’16 said that she did not know how useful the

“It’s still in a preliminary phase.

There is a lot of programming still to be done.” smitha Haneef

Director of Dining Services

app would be.

“We already have two swipes a week, and I don’t use any of mine,” Perez said. “I feel like it would be really advantageous for underclassmen to visit eat-

ing clubs even if they didn’t have affiliations, but for an upperclassman in an eating clubs, I

don’t know how much they’d use it, except if it was for late meal.”

“It’s kind of inconsistent in my case. There are some weeks when I go [to dining halls] more, and other weeks I don’t go at

all,” Dinara Gabdrakhmanova ’16 said.

Campus Dining and OIT have heard from students who want to use a meal exchange app, Haneef said.

“There has been student feedback, and OIT is trying to incorporate most of those, as much as they are able to,” Haneef said, “For campus dining, the vision is ensuring that, when there is a request from students, trying to at least listen to it, understand it and come up with solutions that meet their needs.”

OIT Lead Developer George Fleming and Dave Herrington of OIT declined to comment.

Jaysen LeSage, senior application developer at University Services, and Joshua Thomas, associate director of information technology at University Services, did not respond to a request for comment.

ment of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, Penn created the position of sexual violence investigative officer, lowered the burden of proof for a student to be found guilty of sexual assault and stopped allowing lawyers of accused students to cross-examine witnesses.

“We do not believe that providing justice for victims of sexual assault requires subordinating so many protections long deemed necessary to protect from injus-

tice those accused of serious offenses,” the sixteen faculty members wrote, adding that OCR’s approach violates basic safeguards of the lawmaking process.

The professors recommended upholding access to lawyers in preparation for and during the hearing, the right to cross-examine witnesses against the accused student the ability to present defense witnesses and evidence and the right to a fair and unbiased hearing panel.

“With this system, what’s great is that you have alerts and you can invite people to confirm exchanges.”

Ella Cheng USG President

News & Notes

Penn law professors condemn new sexual misconduct policy Nearly one-third of law professors at the University of Pennsylvania wrote a letter criticizing the school’s new procedure for handling sexual misconduct on Wednesday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

In response to guidelines for enforcing Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination, from the Depart-

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such difficult challenges.

DP: So the euro currency will survive?

JMB: No doubt about it. The euro is one of the two strongest currencies in the world, and in the short period, it has [been] established as a credible and stable currency.

DP: You left your post amid British EU-skepticism but steady European economic recovery.

Where do you think the European Union is going in the future?

What is the future role of the European Union on the political world stage?

JMB: I think the European Union is going to consolidate itself, namely because of globalization. You know that the European Union started as a European community after the Second World War, basically as a means toward peace among former enemies. The original project was to achieve political goals through economic integration. Today, in the 21st century, it’s quite obvious for me that even the biggest countries of the European Union on their own do not have the leverage to deal with some global issues.

They also want to engage with such important partners as the United States, the traditional ally of Europe, and also China and other major powers. And so, only together will these countries be able to protect the interests of their citizens and promote their values. This is the main reason why I am confident about the future of the European Union, even if we know that some political accidents may occur so that the configuration may be adapting itself. For instance, it’s possible that we have increased flexibility inside the European Union.

For instance, there will be more integration for the euro area countries, those that share a common currency, and not so much for others that are not members of the euro.

DP: What are Europe’s greatest short-term and long-term challenges?

JMB: In the short term … of course to consolidate the recovery. But it’s still timid, even across Europe. And we have a huge problem, which is employment, especially the employment of young people. So we need stronger levels of growth.

For that, most countries have already engaged an ambitious process of structural reforms.

This, I believe, is the most important challenge in the short term. Politically, I believe it is important that the mainstream political forces from the central left to the central right, those that are basically committed to the European ideals, have the courage to fight the extremists that we have been seeing sometimes recently, that appear in the political spectrum from the extreme right to the extreme left that indeed are putting some times in question, some of the achievements of these last decades. In the more longer term, of course, the European Union has other partners in the world, the challenges of keeping peace, both in Europe and outside. To fight climate change, which

is an existential threat to our planet. In Europe, specifically, there are worrying demographic trends. It’s a continent that is aging on average. There are some specific concerns also with energy security and energy supply.

These are challenges that the European citizens in general are aware of and for which I believe the European Union needs to be better equipped. From my point of view, it will be more successful if our member states work in a more coherent and integrated manner.

DP: And in the Chatham speech you also mentioned that “the way that the Americans, the Chinese or the Russians look at us today is completely different.” Could you comment on this evolution of international relations and perspective under your leadership?

JMB: I was comparing the situation, for instance, in the early ’90s when I was foreign minister, and so I can make that personal comparison. It is true that today in Europe, it is very fashionable (I call it the “intellectual claimer of pessimism”) to speak about decadence or the decline of Europe, but people are forgetting one thing among others.

In the ’90s, the European Union or the European community was only a very small part of Europe. We were 12 members.

Now we have a truly continental nature. And so I don’t agree with those who say that Europe is declining. If you look at the history since the Second World War, look at the progress — not only no more wars in Western Europe, the longest period in history in Europe without wars in that part of the continent, but also all of the countries are now democracies. There was the wave of democratization of the south of Europe in the seventies and most recently the countries of Eastern Europe, including the Baltic, got rid of totalitarian, communist regimes. So how can people today say that Europe is worse than 20 years ago? I mean, this shows that in fact they are lacking some historic perspective. So Europe has problems, yes, and in some cases, difficult ones to deal with. But I believe that, as a union, we are stronger now than we were before, even if some countries have been losing some, let’s say, positions.

DP: What do you think are the greatest differences between the United States and EU in regard to political culture?

JMB: Oh there are many differences. Many, many differences.

We need a new Tocqueville to write a great essay like the one he wrote, “De la démocratie en Amérique.” Of course, basically, we are democracies and, in fact, American democracy and the country is basically a product.

I hope my American friends accept that of the European civilization. And basically, from the English and French thinkers, the Enlightenment, the Revolution, these were, let’s say, the ideas of the founding fathers of the United States, and they were very much influenced by, let’s say, European philosophers. So genetically, we are indeed very close. Having said that, the United States were and still are a country where there is this spirit of a new frontier, the big space.

They are more individualistic certainly than the European

Union countries where we have what we call social market economy, which presents some instant differences. There is probably more entrepreneurial spirit in America and in some cases innovation is certainly stronger here. On the other side, there are stronger mechanisms of welfare and solidarity in Europe. No regime is perfect. Basically we share the same values, namely the value of open societies and open economies, and this is very important when we see a world where we see real threats to freedom, to human dignity. There are cultural differences that are explained by historical developments, European nations, most of them being very old nation states and the Unites States being a relatively young country.

But I believe, if you look at the evolution of the world globally, the commonalities are stronger than some differences.

DP: What advice would you give to students seeking to pursue careers in diplomacy?

JMB: Basic advice is to study.

To work. You can get nothing in life if you don’t work. But specifically, for those interested in diplomacy and international relations I would give probably three [pieces of advice]. One is to travel. It’s great. Look — it’s great. This generation also has the possibility of traveling all over the world, which the previous generations did not. Not only for financial reasons sometimes, but because there were not the means of transportation that today we have. Second, I would say learn foreign languages. It’s great that we have English as a lingua franca today in the world, for people can communicate in a common language. But to really know and understand what is going on in other parts of the world, we need to learn other languages, so I would advise those who are interested in foreign policy or in diplomacy at least to know well two other languages apart from their mother tongue. I know it’s an effort, but it’s rewarding. Third, enlarge your horizons, from a cultural point of view. I think today it’s more and more important, the broad cultural view than the over-specialized studies in a topic. Why? The world is changing really fast and what we need is not always information.

Often what we need is exactly the capacity to delete the information we don’t need. You see?

So knowledge of the process by which we eliminate useless information and that comes with critical thinking. That’s why, for instance, I advise students to reserve some time for literature and philosophy, seeing good films. By the way, there are excellent European films; I know that probably they are not as easy as most Hollywood ones, but I think it’s important. So, my strong advice is to enlarge the cultural horizons, embracing disciplines out of your main field of study, namely the arts, literature, humanities. I think this is important so that we have people with the capacity to adapt to different circumstances. Because the only certain thing is uncertainty. I could end my answer with a quote from U2.

There is a song in their album, I think called “Zooropa:” it goes, “Don’t worry baby, it’s gonna be alright, uncertainty can be a guiding light.”

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Chemistry Café will be closed on Friday, Mbugua said.

Campus Dining director Smitha Haneef deferred comment to Mbugua.

Other offices or work units will reorganize shifts and assignments to ensure they continue operation, Mbugua noted.

Much of the Forbes staff has to cover shifts temporarily in other dining halls around campus that have been left vacant, Patrick Caddeau, Dean of Forbes College, said in an email to students.

Caddeau did not respond to a request for comment.

The University is responding to the town health department’s requirement that

anyone who may have been exposed to the case of measles not work on campus until they prove they are protected against the virus. The New Jersey Department of Health also made a similar recommendation.

Town health officer Jeffrey Grosser and the New Jersey Department of Health did not respond to a request for comment.

Notified employees will have the option of showing proof of immunization or taking a blood test with University Health Services or their physician, Mbugua said.

The list of buildings in which people may have been exposed to the virus has expanded since the University sent its first notice on the

suspected measles case on Wednesday. New additions include Butler College Dining Hall, Wilson College Dining Hall and Rockefeller College Dining Hall.

The University is also providing specific times of day at each building during which the affected student was known to be there.

Lianne Sullivan-Crowley, vice president for human resources, Deborah Prentice, dean of the faculty, John Kolligian, Jr., executive director of University Health Services, and Peter Johnsen, M.D., director of Medical Services at University Health Services did not respond to a request for comment.

News editor Jacob Donnelly contributed reporting.

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CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of the Feb. 19 article, “Mississippi physician: well-being of patients most important in abortion cases,” incorrectly transcribed a quote said by the student who self-identified as a member of Princeton Pro-Life. Due to incorrect information provided to The Daily Princetonian, the Feb. 19 article, “Student Cultural Groups: Asian American Students Association” misstated the name of the former director of the Third World Center. His name was Stanley Kwong. The ‘Prince’ regrets the errors.

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Letter to the editor concerning Willie Parker

EDITORIAL

Electing Honor Committee representives

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Zach Horton

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he Daily Princetonian coverage of abortionist Willie Parker’s Wednesday lecture reads like a transcript of Parker’s remarks.

It failed to give a balanced account of the extremely controversial event. Unmentioned were the more than 35 prolife students and faculty present and respectful throughout the event. Unmentioned was Parker’s disparaging of pro-life activists and avoidance of tough questions.

Notably, the ‘Prince’ misquoted my question to Parker and failed to report his response in full. I urged Parker to show empathy and suppose for a moment that he believed, as I and many others do, that abortion is tantamount to murder — the deliberate ending of innocent human life. I asked, “How would you act? Would you regard that belief as a private moral opinion and do nothing? ” Parker avoided the force of the question, only eventually responding that he would simply have to give up his day job. His answer, however, was damning.

Only refusing to commit genocide is not to fight genocide. Likewise, simply refraining from performing abortions is not to fight abortion. To my second question, then, Parker implicitly answered “yes.” This indicates his gross unwillingness to recognize the moral gravity of abortion, and it betrays his absolute refusal even to attempt to understand why we, the members of the pro-life movement, do what we do to fight it.

Most deplorable, however, was Parker’s perverse use of civil rights language to promote abortion — the biggest civil rights crisis of our day. Abortion is the widespread discrimination against — and commonplace extermination of — a class of human beings: namely, those still in the womb. There is even more pronounced discrimination against developing human beings with medical conditions (especially Down’s Syndrome) and those of a culturally-unfavored sex (notably women in China and India). It is appalling that this discrimination and total degradation of the dignity of human life would be defended with civil rights rhetoric and the very words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

he Honor Code Constitution designates as members of the Honor Committee “the presidents of the sophomore and junior classes, former sophomore and junior class presidents, a member of the freshman class to be appointed by a subcommittee comprised of four members of the Honor Committee and the Undergraduate Student Government president, and members to be appointed by a selection committee from the student body at large until the committee consists of twelve members.” The Editorial Board believes that the practice of including current and past class presidents in the Honor Committee membership should be discontinued in favor of independent elections, held simultaneously with class council elections, for Honor Committee representatives.

This system would build an Honor Committee membership better suited to the organization’s particular challenges and would enhance the student engagement on which the Honor Code depends.

The qualifications of class presidents do not necessarily align with the skills required of Honor Committee members.

Candidates for class president often appeal to the student body by flooding the campus with campaign posters, or by leaving candies at dorm room doors. The Board believes that the social focus of class president elections is not the most appropriate way to choose members of the Honor Committee. The

importance of the Honor Committee, as well as its many challenges, make it more sensible to consider candidates specifically for spots on the Committee, rather than to choose Committee members indirectly — and based on the criteria for a different job. The Board recommends the adoption of measures to guarantee candidates’ seriousness of purpose, dedication to the Honor Code, and qualification: candidates should (1) be required to attend multiple information sessions on the Honor Code and its enforcement before being eligible for election, and (2) be allowed to advertise their candidacy to the student body solely through basic biographical information and short personal statements. The Young Alumni Trustee election, which involve similar regulations, provide a good model for Honor Committee elections to follow.

Not only would such a structure give students a say in who should represent them on the Committee, but it would produce a group of candidates focused first and foremost on the Honor Committee, rather than on the role of class president.

The Honor Code is a central part of academic life at Princeton, one which students should feel they have a stake in upholding. It was students who established the Honor Code in the late 19th century, and it is students who have respected, enforced, amended and introduced new Princetonians to the Code ever since. Holding independent elections of Honor Committee representatives would go a long way toward ensuring that students remain

invested in the Code’s protection and trust that the Committee and Code are responsive to their collective values and priorities. This has been a challenge in recent years; a number of opinion pieces in The Daily Princetonian have illustrated a growing feeling of estrangement on the part of the undergraduate student body. In May of last year, the ‘Prince’ reported on concerns over Honor Committee transparency, and in September the Board called for a review of Committee practices to be made available to the student community. Elections focused specifically on the Honor Committee would increase student confidence in the Honor Code system.

The Honor Committee is important enough to academic life at Princeton to be the subject of independent elections. Conflating Honor Committee appointments with class president campaigns not only compromises the focus of the Committee’s membership, but decreases the direct involvement of the student body in preserving the Honor Code. Honor Committee members should be selected by students based on the requirements of the Honor Committee alone.

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s someone who has endured multiple concussions, has founded and continued to manage a comprehensive Countywide Concussion Care program, and has helped pass youth concussion legislation in Florida, I saw an immense amount of value in the wise words and lessons that were shared at the Concussions in Youth Sports Discussion on Sept. 26, 2014.

Annegret Dettwiler-Danspeckgruber of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute chaired the event along with the Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey; panelists included professional Pro Football Hall of Famer Harry Carson, ESPN Magazine writer and League of Denial contributor Peter Keating, Columbia University Medical Center expert James Noble and University professor of economics Uwe E. Reinhardt. I learned a tremendous amount from this forum and am sure that all those sitting in the packed auditorium could say the same. Following the panel, I had a couple of specific thoughts about concussions in youth athletics and on our campus.

The University has a tremendous opportunity to be a leader in how academic institutions handle

concussion management. Different departments — academic, social and health-related — work together across many spheres of life to give University students a comprehensive and well-rounded experience. If the Office of the Dean of the College, University Health Services, the Department of Athletics, for instance, worked in a similarly integrated manner to create a modernized support system for concussion management, it would greatly benefit students both athletically and academically by coordinating their recovery in a way that reduces stress, keeps academic work at a pace that is sustainable for an injured athlete, gets athletes back into competition in a safe and efficient way, and allows students then to return to their full capacity to all of their activities. Additionally, the University will be admired by its peers for taking such a proactive stance on this critical issue. While individual professors do work with concussed students to make individual arrangements to ease the academic workload, it would be essential to establish a more formal process at the University to allow concussed students to spread out their workload and exams so that they have other options aside from taking a full-year leave from school.

The University does have policies

to allow for extensions for papers in the case of head injuries, but there is room for more progress to be made in terms of accommodating injured student-athletes. One measure that the University could take would be to allow concussed students to reschedule exams for a later date, once their symptoms have subsided, so that they do not have to take a full-year leave from school. The University’s willingness to host the discussion was a positive step toward spreading concussion awareness management. A great next step would be to create concussion management policies, with the help of experts such as the panelists, to enable the University to take the lead in giving students the support they need.

Handling concussions is one problem, but another is preventing them by altering the culture in youth sports. Every adult in a youth athlete’s life plays a role in his or her protection from concussions. Every person involved in youth athletics — parents, researchers, coaches, clinicians, educators, athletic trainers, athletic directors, doctors and referees — is responsible for ensuring that young athletes in the present and future are protected. It takes a total team effort to ensure that kids are properly educated, diagnosed and rehabilitated in the proper manner. Every adult involved

in youth athletics should have a proper education and understand the risks of keeping young athletes on the field after suffering a brain injury. It should also be mentioned that it is not the players who are pushing themselves to return to play, but often the coaches and parents who push them. It therefore seems to be of great importance to ensure that coaches and parents are aware of these risks because of the critical role they play in the lives of young athletes. The Department of Athletics puts a premium on safety and concussion prevention, but this level of awareness should be consistent throughout the entire school.

Lastly, there must be a better way to find concussion specialists to help with treatment. When I suffered my most recent concussion, it took me months to find local doctors who treated concussions on a consistent basis with clinics devoted specifically to managing these injuries. It turned out that the doctors who helped me finally feel normal again after four months of suffering worked for the university three minutes from my house, but I had no way of knowing this without searching for several months.

Over the past couple of years, I have heard countless stories of injured young athletes, including several University students, not knowing where to go for help. Young

athletes with brain injuries must see specialists to aid them in their recovery, and yet these specialists are presently too hard to identify.

I propose that there be a free online database that young athletes can use to quickly look up local concussion specialists. This measure would eliminate large amounts of time during which injured young athletes unnecessarily suffer. If the University could create such a database as a resource for its students here and become part of the effort to develop a similar contact list on a broader scale, it would be providing an essential service to its student body and beyond.

In addition to listening to the panelists, I also had the honor of participating in the discussion as a representative of Countywide Concussion Care and as the voice of a youth athlete who has suffered concussions. My contribution was well received by both the panelists and the audience, and it was a true honor to play a part in such an amazing event. My appreciation for this event is immense because it spread so much useful knowledge about a critical issue to which I relate personally. Hopefully more panels such as this one occur in the future at the University and more progress is made in terms of protecting young athletes from brain injuries.

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Tennis to face off against strong opponents in upcoming matches TENNIS

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Tennis Classic and will have its first crack at Mississippi State on Friday at 11 a.m. The two games that follow this matchup on Saturday will not be any easier either, as the Tigers will have to face off against Clemson University, ranked No. 35 in the nation, and Alabama, ranked No. 49 in the nation.

“It’s nice to finish the event with another quality win,” Pate said, regarding the team’s performance last weekend. “We’ll make some

adjustments and be ready to get back at it this weekend.”

The women’s team had a much more uneventful run up to the tournament, easily dispatching Rutgers University on Tuesday to the tune of a perfect 7-0 sweep. This was, however, only the Tigers’ second win so far this season, but it marked an encouraging sign for the side. This was also Princeton’s 19th win against Rutgers on the trot, extending the streak that started in 1996.

The women’s team has a much tougher road ahead of it than the men’s team does, however, first facing No. 49

DePaul University on Friday at 9 a.m. However, the team that will prove to be the biggest challenge will be No. 8 University of Alabama. However, after the Alabama game, the Tigers will have a bit of respite, facing off against unranked Boise State in a game the Tigers are expected to pick up a win from.

After this tournament, the two teams will diverge in its destinations, as the women’s team will head to Memphis, Tenn., the weekend after, and the men’s team will face off against Penn State before returning home for a four-game home stand.

Tigers have work cut out for them M. B-BALL Continued from page 6

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The incredible women’s basketball team will likely continue to dominate against Ivy League opponents.

Women likely to win this weekend W. B-BALL Continued from page 6

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Brown and Yale in which Tarakchian netted her sixth and seventh double-doubles of the season. Tarakchian leads the Ivy League in three-point percentage (50.0 percent), is second in freethrow percentage (81.4 percent) and rebounding (8.9 percent), and ranks ninth in field goal percentage (46.7 percent).

Junior guard Michelle Miller also has made a huge impact on the successes of

the Tigers this season with consistently strong showings. Miller averages 12.1 points per game with 4.5 rebounds per game, shooting .482 on field goals and .484 on three-point shots. Junior forward Alex Wheatley averages 10.8 points per game and 5.0 rebounds, shooting .607 on field goals.

Earlier this season, the Tigers faced off against the Big Green and came away with a 83-65 victory. Dartmouth is currently ranked No. 7 in the league with an 11-11 overall record and a 2-6 record against Ivy League

opponents. Dartmouth split its games last weekend, falling to Cornell on Saturday but rallying to beat Columbia in overtime on Sunday.

When the Tigers last faced the Crimson on Jan. 30, they came away with a 96-46 win.

Harvard comes into the weekend tied for No. 5 in the Ivy League, with a 1012 overall record and a 3-5 record against Ivy League opponents. The Crimson also split their games last weekend, falling to Columbia on Saturday but beating Cornell on Sunday.

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It will also greatly boost Princeton’s chances if it can disrupt Mitola as it did in the last meeting. Princeton held the Dartmouth guard to a mere 5 points on 1-8 shooting. Princeton will of course have to make sure to contain the reserve players; at times during the season, the team has been able to shut down its opponent’s star player, only to get scorched by lesser known members of the opposing squad.

Such was the case when Princeton battled No. 1 ranked Harvard at Jadwin Gymnasium a few weeks ago. While Princeton kept Harvard’s star Wesley Saunders in check, the Tigers were ultimately scorched by the combination of reserves Corbin Miller and Jonah Travis, who combined to score 33 points on the game (their season averages are 9.1 and 5.7 points, respectively).

The Crimson (17-5, 7-1),

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currently tied with Yale for the No. 1 spot in the league, is on an absolute tear as of late.

It has won its last six games in a row, having only lost to the aforementioned Big Green. The team has built its success on a stalwart defense, ranking first in both points allowed (57.2) and opponent field goal percentage (38.9 percent). This is certainly one team that is able to stifle the Tigers’ strong shooting.

As always, the main question for the Tigers is how to handle the Crimson’s talented guard combination.

Complementing Saunders is junior point guard Siyani Chambers, who makes up for his mediocre production in points with his strong playmaking ability. Anchoring the defense is big man Steve Moundou-Missi, whose ability to rebound and block shots makes up for his often inconsistent performance on offense.

Princeton, for its part, will most likely look to its core trio of sophomores Spencer Weisz and Stephen Cook, at

the wing positions, and junior forward/center Hans Brase to step up in these next few games. Cook has been particularly impressive as of late, averaging 15 points per game in the last three outings.

Outside of the three regulars, freshman Amir Bell will certainly be looked to at times to attack the basket and create for others. Bell has had a strong first season, averaging 9.3 points and 2.6 assists per game. Off the bench, senior guard Ben Hazel and sophomore wing Henry Caruso have had spectacular moments across the season.

Caruso in particular has really been a firecracker, at times barely visible during a game, and other times exploding with over 20 points.

The Tigers will face every other team in the league just once more before the regular season concludes. As they play their next four games on the road, every result counts as they look for that automatic NCAA tournament bid.

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Men’s cagers continue to reach for Ivy League title

By Miles Hinson sports editor

The Tigers certainly have their work cut out for them if they want to claw their way to the top of the Ivy League.

With only seven games left in the regular season, the Tigers will hit the road this weekend to play the Dartmouth Big Green and the Harvard Crimson.

These two games begin a defining stretch for Princeton’s season — the team will play its next four games on the road, as it stands 2.5 games out of first place in the conference. The Tigers (11-12 overall, 4-3 Ivy League) will open this weekend in Hanover, N.H., as they take on a Dartmouth team that has been rather underwhelming this season.

No one expected the Big Green (2-6, 9-13) to dominate the league, but it currently stands tied for last in the league — not particularly encouraging as the season winds down. Moreover, it does not appear that any

one player on their roster has really stepped up and established himself. The leading scorer, Alex Mitola, averages a mere 13 points per game and shoots below 40 percent a game. As a whole, the team’s offensive performance has not been stellar, ranking sixth in the league in terms of free throw percentage and seventh in points scored per game.

Moreover, the Tigers have already had success against Dartmouth earlier in the season. Key to Princeton’s victory in that game were the aggressiveness in getting to the hoop and the ability to hit from behind the arc. The Tigers can be sure to perform well in the same areas, as Princeton currently leads all Ivy League teams in threepointers made and ranks second in three point percentage. The team has also continued to remain solid in the free throw department, ranking second percentagewise and in the top half of the league in total free throws See M. B-BALL page 5

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The men’s basketball team has their work cut out for them this weekend as they continue to work in pursuit of an Ivy League title.

TENNIS

Tennis heads to Alabama hoping to boost rankings

By Tom Pham associate sports editor

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While the men’s tennis team has had considerable success in recent matches, the women have gotten of to a rockier start this season.

The men’s and women’s tennis teams will travel to Montgomery, Ala., this weekend to play in the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic. Both teams will come into this tournament after an encouraging set of games last weekend, and will look to face off against higher-ranked opponents and hope for a few upsets.

The men’s tennis team is currently No. 50 in the nation, jumping seven spots after last weekend’s performances at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament as they beat No. 63

Cornell 4-3 and No. 68 Brown 4-2, but fell to fierce rival No. 30 Harvard 4-2. This performance gave Princeton a third place finish in the ECAC Championship. Last weekend also marked the first time in four years since Princeton last won two games at the ECAC Championship, showing that the team is making marked improvement under head coach Billy Pate. The team also extended its record to an impressive 7-1, marking the team’s finest start since 1979 when it started an impressive 14-0.

Princeton will move to outdoor play this weekend at the Blue Gray National See TENNIS page 5

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

No. 16/17 women’s basketball look to further extend unbeaten run BySydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

This weekend, the unstoppable Princeton women’s basketball team will look to extend its undefeated record as it hosts rivals Dartmouth and Harvard as the first part of a four-game homestand. The Tigers (23-0 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) are the only women’s team in the nation still undefeated and are ranked No. 16 in the nation in the Associated Press Top 25 poll and 17th in the USA Today Coaches Poll. The Dartmouth

and Harvard games will be played at 6 p.m. in Jadwin Gymnasium on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

The Tigers currently have the highest national ranking of any Ivy League team in conference history and have one of the statistically best offenses and defenses in the country. The Tigers have the highest three-point shooting percentage in the nation (42.5 percent), rank second in field goal percentage (49.8 percent) and are third in scoring margin (25.7 points). The Tigers are also ranked 13th in scoring (77.9), 19th in

assists (16.8) and 20th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.17). The Tigers are coming off of a pair of wins on the road last weekend at Brown and Yale, respectively.

The Tigers have a deep and talented roster, led by senior guard Blake Dietrick.

Dietrick has the 15th highest three-point field goal percentage in the country (44.1 percent) and leads the Ivy League in assists per game (5.0). Dietrick has been named to the Nancy Lieberman watch list for an award given to the best point guard in the nation and the Naismith Trophy Midseason

30, given to the best collegiate basketball players. Dietrick has also received five Ivy League Player of the Week awards this season and is the first player in program history to have been named the United States Basketball Writers Association National Player of the Week, receiving her second honor on January 6th.

Junior guard/forward Annie Tarakchian was named Ivy League Co-Player of the Week this week after standout performances in last weekend’s matchups against See W. B-BALL page 5

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