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In Opinion Former Tiger Inn member Alexandra Scheeler ‘11 argues that Tiger Inn’s culture needs to change, and the Editorial Board argues for the creation of a First Generation Center.

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Today on Campus 2:00 p.m.: Xi Feng, president of the Horizon Institute of Global Development Power and a professor at Peking University, will deliver a lecture called “Chinese Corporate Soft Power and Business Opportunities.”

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No impact expected from grading change

By Christina Vosbikian contributor

Most professors do not think the repeal of the grade deflation policy will have a marked effect on their grading, according to close to 50 interviews conducted by The Daily Princetonian in the days since the faculty voted to strike down the policy.

While grading may not be affected, a slight majority of professors across multiple disciplines said they agreed with the conclusions of the Faculty Committee on Grading’s report. The report concluded that the number of A-range grades given at the University had decreased in the years immediately preceding the implementation of the grading policy. In addition, it said that there was a marked difference among departments between low and high-level courses.

The University’s new grading policy, which allows each department to determine its own grading standards, emphasizes the quality of feedback to students rather than a numerical quota. The Faculty Council on Teaching and Learning was formed concurrently to assess such student

feedback.

Out of 46 professors interviewed, 27 said they supported the repeal of grade deflation, while five said they opposed it and 11 said they were neutral. Three said they had not read the report so they abstained from answering. Out of 43 professors who gave an answer on changing grade policies, seven said that the new policy would impact their grading, while 19 said the policy would have no impact and 17 said the policy would have some impact, but a very small one.

No humanities professors, three social science professors and four STEM professors said they opposed the new policy Thirteen professors from humanities departments said they supported the new policy, along with seven from the social sciences and ten from STEM departments.

As for whether a repeal of grade deflation would affect grading, four humanities professors said it would impact their grading, while 11 said the policy would have no impact and four said it would have some impact but not much. Analogous numbers See GRADING page 3

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Sally Frank ‘80 filed a complaint against the University and the three remaining all-male eating clubs with the New Jersey Civil Rights Division. She cited cooperative food buying and meal exchanges as among the links tying the clubs to the University.

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News & Notes

U. to reexamine 11 cases of sexual misconduct

Documents shed light on mental health cases

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. Jean-Carlos 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.

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Princeton will have to reexamine at least 11 cases of sexual misconduct, all of them adjudicated internally by the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline during the past three academic years.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced on Nov. 5 that it had found the University in violation of Title IX. As part of its resolution agreement with OCR, the University agreed to reexamine all cases, including acquittals, brought before the Committee in the past three academic years.

In that time period, 11 cases of

sexual assault were brought before a subcommittee of the Committee on Discipline that deals with sexual assault, according to the University’s annual discipline reports. Students were found responsible of sexual assault in seven of those cases.

University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said that the same administrators who originally reviewed and decided the outcomes of these cases will not be re-examining them. He said that other administrators will be assembled and placed on panels for this purpose.

Mbugua explained that the process is ongoing and that the administration will go through

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every case carefully. The target date for the conclusion of the reexamination process is February 2015.

“At this time, it’s too early to tell what that process will determine, or any action or steps that will be taken,” Mbugua said.

Mbugua added that the University is not expected to reinvestigate or rehear matters that have been finally resolved under University policy.

Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students Victoria Jueds, who is the secretary to the Committee on Discipline, declined to comment. Title IX coordinator and vice provost for institutionSee TITLE IX page 2

In March 2012, Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey gave a student who had attempted to commit suicide a month earlier an ultimatum: Take a voluntary withdrawal sometime in the next four days or be forced to do so.

“I do hope … that you will reconsider and take a voluntary withdrawal by no later than March 30, 2012,” she wrote in the final paragraph of a two-page letter. “If you do not choose to do so, I will require you to withdraw, which would then be ref lected on your transcript.”

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Earlier in the letter, Cherrey had cited seven distinct sources of medical information she had personally reviewed, including a summary of treatment written by Counseling and Psychological Services and which, she said, had been released to her with the student’s permission.

Her conclusion, in consultation with Dr. John Kolligian, the director of University Health Services, was that the student posed an “unacceptably high risk of intentional self-harm and the demands of a rigorous academic program in an intense university context See HEALTH page 4 FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Petition calls Students leave class to protest Ferguson shooting for end to

By Lorenzo Quiogue senior writer

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The Dalai Lama met with students when he visited campus on Oct. 28.

Close to 500 students, faculty, administrators and staff participated in a protest on the lawn north of Frist Campus Center at noon on Dec. 4.

“We seek to interrupt the daily routine of Princetonians to symbolize the constant interruption racism plays in the lives of people of color,” protest organizer Khallid Love ’15 announced at the protest.

Love explained that the organizers had been planning the demonstration for several days as a strategic response to recent national events. The protest comes a day after a grand jury declined to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer whose chokehold

on Eric Garner, an AfricanAmerican, led to his death.

A protest was also held on Nov. 26 to protest the failure of a grand jury to indict Darren Wilson, a Ferguson police officer who shot and killed unarmed AfricanAmerican teenager Michael Brown.

Protestors gathered in Frist the night of Dec. 3 to write signs in preparation of the protest on Dec, 4, with many of the signs listing names of African-Americans who had been killed, such as Garner, Brown, Tamir Rice and Trayvon Martin.

The protest started at 11:30 a.m. when participating students silently walked out of their classes with their hands up and congregated in several areas, including McCosh Courtyard, the See PROTEST page 2

Bicker process

By Jacob Donnelly news editor

A student began collecting signatures for a referendum petition to end the Bicker process on Wednesday.

The referendum, which was drafted by Ryan Low ’16, specifically calls for each eating club to end Bicker not later than the first day of the 2019-20 academic year, to establish an ad hoc USG committee to facilitate ending Bicker and to call on the Interclub Council to appoint a nonvoting member to the ad hoc committee to work with it to facilitate ending Bicker.

Low presented the referSee BICKER page 5

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al equity and diversity Michele Minter was away from her office and said she was unavailable for comment.

A spokesperson for the OCR did not respond to a request for comment.

Title IX is part of the United States Education Amendments of 1972 and states that no person can be excluded or discriminated by any “educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” The OCR concluded Nov. 5 that the University did not provide a prompt and equitable response to complaints of sexual harassment.

In the 2011-12 academic year, one student was given disciplinary probation for verbally engaging in sexual harassment, according to that year’s disciplinary report.

For the 2012-13 academic year, there were seven infractions and three students penalized. Specifically, there was a disciplinary probation for a “significant act of sexually inappropriate conduct that created a demeaning and threatening environment,” in addition to a suspension and a withheld degree for two cases of nonconsensual sexual assault.

This past year, three students were held responsible for sexual misconduct cases; two suspensions and one expulsion.

The suspensions were for an “egregious act of sexual exploitation” and nonconsensual sexual

assault, respectively. The expulsion, which was the most severe penalty given in the past several years, was for an assaulter who deliberately targeted a victim and took steps to isolate her from peers who could help before assaulting her.

Also included in the report was a graduate student’s disciplinary probation for sexually inappropriate conduct, though that was not included in the total number of sexual misconduct cases.

As part of the resolution agreement, the University will institute a number of new measures in the next academic year, including training staff to recognize and report incidents of sexual harassment, as well as holding information sessions for students designed to create awareness and understanding of sexual misconduct.

The University also launched an overhaul of its sexual assault policies over the summer in anticipation of the OCR’s determination. As part of the review, the University decided to lower the standard of evidence from “clear and persuasive” to “preponderant of the evidence,” give both complainant and accused the right to appeal and implement a panel of professional investigators to replace the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline in sexual assault hearings.

For every measure, the University will provide the OCR with a description of the measures and evidence that they have implemented. These updates will continue until Oct. 15, 2017.

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A student was diagnosed with a suspected case of measles but has now recovered and is no longer contagious, the University announced in an email to students on Wednesday.

The preliminary medical test results were received on Tuesday, and more tests are currently being conducted.

More than 99.5 percent of University students have been vaccinated for the disease, the email said.

Faculty and staff who have not been vaccinated for the disease may be at risk if they were in Whitman College dining hall, Baker Hall, Holder Hall, McCosh Health Center, Frick Chemistry building, Wallace Hall, Blair Hall, Friend Center, Spelman Hall, 1938 Hall, Frist Campus Center, Dillon Gymnasium or the New South Building from Feb. 4 through Feb. 8.

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Students held a “die-in” (above) and a march (below) to protest the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and New York City in November.

Measles can be spread when a person talks, coughs or sneezes and can be transmitted starting four days before and ending four days after the onset of a rash. The virus can live on surfaces and in the air for up to two hours, the email said.

Symptoms include a fever, runny nose, cough, red eyes and sore throat, which are followed by a rash.

Measles has recently received national attention after 102 measles cases spread in the U.S., mostly linked to Disneyland, CNN reported. The outbreak resulted in a national debate over whether vaccinations should be mandatory.

John Kolligian, director of University Health Services, deferred comment to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua, who deferred to the email.

Director of Medical Services Peter Johnsen did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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lawn south of Frist, Scudder Plaza and Cannon Green, before marching to the central location north of Frist.

Protestors then stood on the lawn and chanted “Hands up, don’t shoot,” “No justice, no peace,” “Black lives matter” and “We can’t breathe,” the latter chant referring to Garner’s final words before he died.

At 12:01 p.m., the time of Brown’s death, organizers of the event asked all protestors for a moment of silence, which went on for four and a half minutes, to represent the four and a half hours for which Brown’s body was left on the streets of Ferguson, Mo. Over 200 protestors then staged a “die-in” by lying on the ground for 45 minutes, again to represent these four and a half hours.

Love then read from a prepared statement, which was included in the press release.

“The Princeton call to action stands in solidarity with

the people of Ferguson and others demanding an end to radicalized state violence,” Love said. “By remaining silent we are all complicit in this violence. We challenge our campus to stand in the nation’s service and fight for justice by rejecting the culture of apathy and reviving Princeton’s tradition of protest.” Students who attended the demonstration all agreed that this was both a national and a community-wide issue.

“As a Christian, I believe that when you see that there is hurt in the community and people are crying out, you must stand next to them and offer your support and your grace,” Antonio Nunes ’17, who attended the demonstration, said. “Seeing the passion and the grace exhibited by the members of the black community, and the Princeton community, has just really inspired me to be even more active and be more aware of the situation.”

“As a white guy from Florida, I haven’t really been exposed to the kind of prejudice that a lot of the

other protestors have experienced, and it wasn’t until I came here that my awareness grew deeper,” he added.

“It was important for me to be here and show solidarity, since this issue involves everyone.”

Overall, Love said that he was satisfied with the turnout of the protest.

“I was hoping it would be diverse, and it was. I was hoping it would be substantial, and it was. I was hoping it would be powerful, and it was,” he said.

Deputy Dean of the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne, who was present at the protest, explained that he was informed of the intention to stage the protest last night and helped the students coordinate several aspects of the demonstration.

“Our office helps them work through logistics and gives them the fullest range of ideas where we can be in support of free speech,” he explained. “The reason we have our staff present at this demonstration is to really show our support for free

expression.”

Dunne said that it was the first time during his time at the University that he had ever seen a “die-in” and added that it was really encouraging to see students engaged and involved in national issues.

“This fall, seeing the march on the Street and the protest today — they’ve definitely been the largest crowds that I’ve seen,” Dunne explained. “There’s a lot of activity and engagement here, and I’m happy to see students expressing themselves.”

Love added that while he was not sure if there was another upcoming demonstration in the near future, it was important for the protestors to continue to make members of the campus community aware of the issues currently facing them.

“We all have to be in that crusade for justice and that crusade for a better world,” he explained. “This is a national crisis — it’s larger than Princeton, larger than Ferguson. It’s a quintessentially human problem.”

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7 alumni successful in bids for Congress, 3 unsuccessful

By Jacqueline Gufford senior staff writer

Seven Princeton alumni won bids, for Congressional seats in the Nov. 4 midterm elections of at least 11 who were up for election, as of midnight on Nov. 5.

The winners include Rep. John Sarbanes ’84 of Maryland’s third district, Rep. Terri Sewell ’86 of Alabama’s seventh district, Rep. Leonard Lance GS ’82 of New Jersey’s seventh district, Rep. Derek Kilmer ’96 of Washington’s sixth district, Ken Buck ’81 of Colorado’s fourth district, and Senator Jeffrey Merkley GS ’82 of Oregon, and Rep. Jared Polis ’96 of Colorado’s second district.

Sarbanes, Sewell, Merkley, Kilmer and Polis ran as Democratic candidates, while Lance and Buck ran as Republicans.

Of the seven recently elected alumni, all have previously served in Congress with the exception of Buck.

However, the candidates who recently were re-elected to another term have differing levels of experience.

For Sarbanes, this election marks the beginning of his fifth term in Congress, for Sewell her third term and for Lance, Polis, Kilmer and Merkley their second terms.

Three alumni also lost bids for Congress in the midterms, including Rep. Nan Hayworth ’81 of

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New York’s 19th district, Paul Clements GS ’96 of Michigan’s sixth district, and Greg Orman ’91 for Kansas’ Senate seat.

Of the three who did not secure seats in Congress, only Hayworth had previously served as a representative on the federal level.

Though the alumni represent a diverse set of states and personal backgrounds, jobs and the economy, healthcare and affordable college education were popular points in their campaign platforms.

Their intended approaches to solve these issues in Congress according to their campaigns, however, differ.

For example, Sarbanes and Sewell stated on their campaign websites that they support the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, to provide their constituents with affordable healthcare coverage.

On the other hand, Lance openly supports the repeal of Obamcare; Kilmer and Merkley also mentioned supporting affordable healthcare for their constituents in their campaign platforms but were less explicit in their support or intent to repeal Obamacare.

Nearly all the representatives support providing quality, affordable education for collegeage students. Another issue that was popular in the alumni’s cam-

paigns was addressing the debt burden, with candidates from both parties advocating better allocation of government spending.

The victorious candidates also all either studied in the Wilson School or majored in politics during their time at the University.

In phone interviews with The Daily Princetonian prior to election day, several candidates mentioned students should recognize the influence they can have on issues that are important to them by voting.

“They need to connect the dots between issues they care about and the political arena influencing that area. They have an opportunity, and an obligation, to think to the next level,” said Sarbanes of the responsibility University students bear in voting.

Several also noted that their Princeton experience was influential, inspiring or further developing a desire to serve in government, and that the University has a culture of service.

“A lot of people self-select to Princeton because they want to go to a university that has an ethic that is focused on service … but Princeton is unique in the degree to which it teaches students to positively impact our community, our country and our world,” said Kilmer regarding his opinion of how the University instills a culture of service in its students.

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for other departments were three, two and seven for social sciences and four, seven and nine for the STEM departments.

The questions about grade def lation were not done as a survey; professors were instead individually asked about what their reactions to the policy were and whether or not it would change their grading.

“I think the committee’s report was excellent. It makes a lot of sense,” Slavic languages and literatures professor Olga Hasty said. “Approaching student work from the perspective of having a quota to fill can shift the focus of attention from the individual performance of the student to the quotas that are being filled. That can’t be fair. It’s not good for intellectual development. It’s not good for encouraging students.”

History professor David Bell said he thought the report made a great deal of sense and basically reinforced everything he himself had been thinking — the disadvantages of the grade deflation policy outweighed the advantages.

The main disadvantages of the grade deflation policy, according to professors, were the stress it provoked in students and the ill fit of one blanket policy for the diverse departments across the University.

“It’s been confirmed by our own experience that we have some of the most brilliant students in the world here at Princeton. I’m not prepared to be told that the moment this highly selective group of students gets to Princeton that all of a sudden, [some fixed number] are going to be Cstudents,” professor emeritus of English John Fleming said.

Fleming added that grade def lation was implemented to give a false or illusory impression of academic rigor, but that professors know how to be rigorous anyhow.

However, some professors did disagree. Economics professor Uwe Reinhardt noted that not having a single standard of grading could cheapen the value of individual courses.

“In the grading scheme, price is one over grade,” said Reinhardt. “So, if I give a lot of A’s, taking my course has a low price. Think of a downward sloping demand curve.

To attract more students, I charge a lower price, meaning you can get an A from me for less work,” said Reinhardt.

A majority of professors, when asked if the repeal of grade def lation will affect grading, replied that it would not or that, if it did, the effect would be minimal.

“This is ‘new policy,’ but it’s the policy that was in effect before the 2004 change to ‘new grading policy,’” Slavic languages and literatures professor Ellen Chances said.

“If you have a whole class that is really good, it discrimi-

nates against students to say that only 35 percent can get in the A-range. I always graded according to what the students deserved rather than having any kind of statistical grading policy. [Grade def lation] didn’t make sense ethically.”

Other professors do not believe the changes in grading policy are particularly noteworthy.

“I kind of think it’s been a big kerfuffle about very little.

I’m not sure that our students have really been disadvantaged in graduate school and careers by grades that are slightly lower than elsewhere.

The students that I know still seem to do extremely well,” history professor Anthony Grafton said.

Faculty members voted on Oct. 6 to repeal the grade deflation policy that had first been implemented in 2004.

The Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing announced in August that it would review the ad hoc committee’s report and bring the recommendations to the faculty for a vote in October, and the University had announced an Ad Hoc Committee to Review Policies Regarding Assessment and Grading to examine the effectiveness of the policy in October 2013.

“I think it’s really important that Princeton be known for the quality of its teaching rather than for the severity of its curve,” University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said previously in a Daily Princetonian interview.

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would only increase that risk.”

The letter is part of a set of four previously confidential pieces of correspondence released by the University the week of Oct. 6 as part of a federal court lawsuit challenging its mental health practices and policies. One of the letters is a match almost word for word to a letter published in The Daily Princetonian last spring that detailed the conditions for readmission following a leave of absence for mental health reasons.

The letters were sent almost a year apart, one in 2012 and the other in 2013.

The documents, as well as interviews with the plaintiff and one other student who is currently taking a leave of absence for mental health issues, shed light on the controversial and often ambiguous process the University uses when considering cases of mental illness. Most notably, they show just how insistent the University can be in requiring withdrawal when it has determined it is in the best interest of the student, and how blurry the line between voluntary and mandatory withdrawal can be.

The University does not comment on matters of pending litigation.

The Letters and the Meetings In late February, the student, who uses the pseudonym W.P., swallowed 20 Trazodone tablets and then immediately began to try to vomit them out. He let less than a minute pass, he said, before he sought help at McCosh Health Center and was transferred to the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro.

W.P.’s first meeting took place while he was still at the hospital, with then-Wilson College Director of Student Life Michael Olin. In an interview, the student said that he was then told he was now banned from campus. Soon afterward, another meeting was held during which, W.P. alleges, confidential medical details were disclosed by then-CPS Director Anita McLean, and he was informed that the “universal

outcome” in such cases was voluntary withdrawal, even after presenting letters from his off-campus psychologist that recommended he stay enrolled.

“I was informed that it was the universal result in all cases like this, that there were no exceptions, that I must take a year off,” he explained.

In a letter sent to W.P. about a week after the suicide attempt that summarized the first few meetings that had taken place, Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan informed him of the results of his “formal post-hospital evaluation” performed by McLean and a

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University psychiatrist. In it, Deignan wrote of the “substantial behavioral instability” W.P. exhibited during his first meeting with Olin in the hospital, the University’s “profound concerns for his safety” and the improbability of another evaluation yielding different results.

In addition, the letter said W.P. seemed to be at “extremely high risk of having another dangerous episode” and noted that this was the student’s third suicide attempt in the past 14 months.

Furthermore, it stated W.P. had cut short his treatment at UMCPP against medical advice and had not engaged in psychological or psychiatric treatment following the incident.

If the student were to request a new evaluation to determine his mental health, Deignan wrote, they would perform it under the condition that the student release his medical records within and outside the University for the past 12 months.

Overall, four letters addressed to W.P. were released by the University. Two of them detail the back and

forth leading up to his decision to accept the voluntary withdrawal condition, while the other two letters explain the readmission process.

Requests for alternative accommodations outside campus were denied, and in appeal meetings he was told that off-campus accommodations or a reduced courseload would “fundamentally alter the nature of a Princeton education,” according to one letter. The University’s defense has used the exact same wording in court papers in response to a claim alleging housing discrimination.

W.P. said administrators never tried to define what they meant, and he compared the experience to Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

“Everywhere you go you’d try to say something logical, and you’d be met with this wall, this firm ‘that doesn’t fit with the Princeton experience,’ ” he said. “What they eventually used to get me out of school was pretty clever.”

W.P. said he was informed that he had missed too many classes to pass his Writing Seminar and his Spanish class, and that he would be better off withdrawing from the University. Finally, three weeks after he was first asked to withdraw, Cherrey’s letter asked him to voluntarily withdraw or be forced to do so within the next four days.

“I understand that you sincerely feel that you are able to return to your academic studies,” Cherrey wrote in the letter. “I disagree.”

“I almost have respect for how clever it was,” W.P. said in response.

A different student, who last academic year wrote an anonymous op-ed in The Daily Princetonian describing her experience with the University’s mental health process, described the series of events leading up to voluntary withdrawal as a “cookiecutter … [one] that seems to be very rigid and inf lexible,” one that made her feel violated and ostracized.

Unlike W.P., she said, she had never attempted suicide and yet was treated in the almost exact same way.

“It seems like they ignored those details, and that’s what makes them so scary,” she said.

Both students received nearly identical, word-forword letters during their

year off with instructions about the readmission process, a letter the female student included in her op-ed in the ‘Prince’ last year.

“Prior to your readmission, you must undergo a readmission evaluation at the University’s Counseling and Psychological Services,” both letters read. “It will also be necessary for you to sign two copies of the ‘Authorization for Release of Information’ form: one authorizing your treatment providers to discuss your progress with our clinical staff at CPS, and one authorizing CPS to discuss your readmission evaluation with us.”

However, W.P.’s letter included an additional section describing the extent to which he would be allowed to visit campus during his time off. Although he would be allowed to visit public events such as athletic events and theatrical performances, the University did not “expect” him to visit dormitories, dining halls or other locations meant for the campus’ residential community.

“If you wish for us to make an exception so that you, for example, might visit a friend, we are willing to entertain an occasional request to that effect,” read the letter signed

by Olin and then-Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Cole Crittenden In hindsight, both students said the process was unpleasant.

“It was a process that made me feel alienated, like they don’t want me there, like all of a sudden I’m gone,” the author of last year’s op-ed said.

“It’s like they’re saying, ‘You need to prove to us that you deserve to be back.’ ” “I felt bulldozed – they played hardball,” W.P. said. “I did not expect them to boot me for a year, kick me off campus, to really screw me quite so hard.”

Off-Campus vs. CPS The female student said she was already planning to take a year off in fall of 2013 but had heard so many negative stories about her peers’ experiences with CPS that she refrained from mentioning it was for anything more than “medical reasons.”

Both the author and W.P. say they had been regularly visiting off-campus treatment providers for their mental health issues. Both highly

recommend that students choose this route whenever possible. When asked if students should ever visit CPS, both said it should be a last resort.

“It’s easier for students to be completely open if they don’t have to check their words,” the author said. “My only fear is that students won’t want to be completely open because they’re scared of the process – it’s hurting their ability to get better.”

W.P. said that if he ever donates to Princeton, he would like to set up a branch of CPS that is unaffiliated with the administration.

“I’d donate like $3 billion for that shit,” he said.

“We can’t have unprofessional people who are just flagrantly violating their professional oaths around an institution higher learning like this.”

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However, both did visit CPS a few times, and both say their records were not kept confidential – in fact, they say they were forced to waive their right to the records during the withdrawal process.

“They didn’t even know the severity of what I was going through, they just knew that I was depressed,” she said, adding that, at that point, “everything changed.”

Moving Forward Managing a lawsuit against the University while also a student here, W.P. said, is like “an extra class that I have a very, very intense personal interest in.”

Though he is representing himself pro se, both W.P.’s parents are law professors and have helped him navigate the process.

He said his hope for the lawsuit is that it changes the standards for how the University handles cases like his own.

“We can’t have unprofessional people who are just f lagrantly violating their professional oaths around an

institution of higher learning like this,” W.P. said.

“Princeton is obviously in a business of intimidation here.”

As the suit moves forward, W.P. said he plans to amend the complaint in response to a motion presented by the University the week of Oct. 6 seeking to dismiss a number of claims and to remove former University President Shirley Tilghman as a defendant altogether.

A hearing for this motion will be held in early November.

The female student said her main issues with the process were in its rigidity and inf lexibility – that the University became a foe rather than a friend. She said it is this aspect of the process that often keeps students from coming forward with their illness – a “matter of life and death,” as she said in her article.

Both W.P. and the female student said that, despite everything the administration put them through, they do still love the University – in particular, the students and the professors – and want to be here.

The author emphasized that she does believe the University has the students’ best interests at heart and is merely unequipped to properly handle cases of mental illness.

“They way they’re doing things now, it sends the message, ‘If you come to us, we’ll kick you off campus. This applies to everyone no matter the severity level.’ ” Her suggestions include weighing input from outside psychologists more and working with students after they have left to make them feel like a continuing member of the community.

“I love Princeton. I believe that their motives behind this are pure – I believe that they do look out for the students, but I’m not a fan of how they’re doing what they’re doing,” she said. “I just have this perfect, idealistic scenario in my head of how they could be doing things to become more of a friend, instead of a foe.”

“I’m not fond of the administration, but my professors and my friends showed me an outpouring of respect that I didn’t expect, maybe didn’t deserve,” W.P. said. “Not everyone here is out to crush me.”

JANUARY 11, 2015

U. receives near-record number of applications for Class of 2019

By Corrine Lowe Senior writer

The Office of Admission has received and processed 26,976 applications for the Class of 2019 as of Jan. 6, the second highest in the University’s history, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said.

Though some regular decision applications are still being processed into the system, this number accounts for both regular decision and early action applications, Rapelye said. In total, 3,850 students applied early.

The number of applications received this year marks an increase of just over 1 percent from the 26,641 applications received for the Class of 2018.

“It’s very hard to predict how big the applicant pool will be,” Rapelye said. “We’re very pleased with this applicant pool. We know we can handle the volume because it’s about the same as last year.”

The number of applications was only surpassed by the Class of 2015, which received a record 27,189 applications.

The number of applications has remained approximately constant, between 26,000 and 27,000, since 2010.

Because applications are still coming into the system, the Office of Admission has yet to process the demo-

graphic information of applicants.

“We have seen an increase in the quality as well as the volume. We’re also seeing more students applying from a wider socioeconomic background or array of backgrounds,” Rapelye said. “And we welcome that. We want Princeton to be accessible to students from every background.”

The University has already offered admission to 767 single-choice early action applicants, with a target number of 1,308 students in the Class of 2019. While the Office of Admission offers more spots than are available based on their yield predictions, approximately 541 slots are available for applicants in the regular decision pool should all of the students admitted early choose to enroll in the Class of 2019.

The University has rejected fewer and fewer applicants in the early action round over time while increasing the number of deferred students.

According to figures reported by The Daily Princetonian, 23 percent of applicants were rejected early for the Class of 2016, 7.9 percent of applicants were rejected early for the Class of 2017, 1.3 percent of applicants were rejected early for the Class of 2018 and approximately 4 percent of applicants were rejected early

for the Class of 2019.

Rapelye attributed the drop for the Class of 2018 to the technical failures of the Common Application website around the time when applications were due for early action that year.

“There’s no formula. We approach it differently each year. We’ll look at the deferred applicants in the context of the regular pool,” Rapelye said, explaining that the decision to defer rather than reject more or fewer students is a decision approached independently of past years each new admissions round.

Rapelye reported that there is a high yield from the group of students who are deferred to regular decision and subsequently admitted, but said there is no advantage or disadvantage to being deferred.

Harvard admitted 16.5 percent of its 5,919 early action applicants for its Class of 2019. Five hundred forty-one, or 9.1 percent, of these early applicants were rejected, and 72.5 percent were deferred to regular decision.

Meanwhile, Yale admitted 16 percent of its 4,693 early action applicants to the Class of 2019; 57 percent were deferred, while 26 percent were denied admission.

Neither Harvard nor Yale has released data on the total number of applications received yet.

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JANUARY 6, 2015

CPUC launches special task force to address diversity and equality

By Katherine Oh staff writer

The Council of the Princeton University Community Executive Committee has launched a Special Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, University Provost David Lee GS ’99 announced in an email to all undergraduates on Dec. 12.

The task force will consist of a steering committee and three working groups for policies and transparency, academics and awareness, and structures and supports.

The task force was launched after University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 asked the CPUC Executive Committee to develop recommendations to improve University policies and practices on diversity, inclusion and equity, as well as events to promote constructive conversations about racial equality and diversity on campus and beyond.

The formation of a separate task force was necessary to ensure that a representative group was working together on the issue, Lee said, adding that it is important for students of all backgrounds to have adequate representation on campus.

“This is brought on by heightened attention and awareness of events that have happened across the country that have to do with race issues,” Lee said. “I think it’s a very good opportu-

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nity. I’m very glad that there is heightened awareness. I think we can really make a positive impact in making the campus more inclusive.”

Joanna Anyanwu ’15, who spoke at a campus walkout in December, said that the administration had given students ample support during on-campus protests after grand juries in two separate incidents had announced rulings against indicting police officers who had killed unarmed black men – Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y. “I don’t think there’s been an occasion when we felt stifled,” Anyanwu said.

The establishment of the task force follows an Undergraduate Student Government senate resolution passed on Dec. 7. Proposed by U-councilor Sol Taubin ’16, the resolution consists of a series of recommendations on how the University could improve students’ experiences relating to diversity, equity and inclusion. The resolution was sent to several administrators, including Eisgruber and Lee. USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said that USG members are very pleased to work with the administration on the issue.

“They were glad the USG senate passed a resolution, and the CPUC Executive Committee is going to explore the recommendations proposed, in addition to

other recommendations from students,” Jackson said.

The task force will provide periodic updates to the University community about its work, and it plans to release a report by the end of the semester.

The CPUC is encouraging students to voice their thoughts regarding the task force, either through the website or by contacting Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity Michele Minter.

Minter deferred comment to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

According to Mbugua, the Executive Committee is currently focusing on forming the steering committee and working groups. On Jan. 5, Lee sent an email encouraging students, staff and faculty to nominate themselves or others to serve on the task force.

Lee said the task force will work to identify both shortterm and long-term developments that could make campus safer and more inclusive for the University’s diverse population.

However, Lee noted that the task force would not make all relevant decisions immediately and that some would take longer than others.

Jackson noted that, while the creation of a task force is an important step in enhancing inclusivity at the University, students could benefit from other solutions as well.

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endum and began collecting signatures Wednesday evening at the Mental Health Initiative’s meeting.

The proposed referendum requires 500 signatures before students can vote on it, U-council chair Zhan Okuda Lim ’15 said.

Low coordinated with the Undergraduate Student Government to draft the text of the proposed referendum.

USG assists students in drafting referenda they are interesting in running, but the referendum is not endorsed by USG, said OkudaLim, who assisted in drafting the resolution’s text for conformity to USG’s typical style.

The process toward creating the referendum began in late January, Low said, when a Counseling and Psychological Services counselor told him that early February was a busy time of year in their offices due to Bicker. Low added that he thought Bicker and its relationship to mental health should be a bigger discussion on campus than it has been.

“This entire atmosphere of not wanting to talk about this huge issue on campus needs to change,” Low said.

“Over the past two and a half weeks, I’ve been meeting with two or three people a day for many days now, and getting their input and from all those conversations. … The end result is this referendum.”

The interest in reforming the Bicker process is broader

than just among those who bickered unsuccessfully, Low said.

“I think a lot of people in Bicker clubs don’t like Bicker, but they don’t want to talk about it because they don’t want other people in the club thinking less of them for not liking Bicker,” he said. “But now with this referendum, hopefully people will come out of the shadows more and talk about this process.”

He added one of the primary goals of the referendum is to get people to talk about the Bicker system, although he noted that he expected the referendum to pass. “[People] feel like there isn’t a space for them to talk about what’s happening,” he said. “They feel like they’ve been left behind by the rest of Princeton. … It’s not OK to perpetuate a system that unnecessarily makes people feel that way.”

Some people who still get into Bicker clubs and have to “hose,” or reject, their friends also feel negative about the process, Low said.

Both successful and failed Bickerees have expressed support for the proposal to him, he added.

A complete abolition of Bicker would be unlikely, Thomas Fleming ’69, chair of the Graduate Interclub Council, said, adding that the Interclub Council doesn’t have authority to tell a club it can’t engage in the Bicker process.

“I think the most important think to recognize about the governance of the clubs is that there are 11 eating clubs that are not only independent from the University but in-

dependent from each other,” Fleming said, adding that the clubs have historically been largely open to new ideas, such as dual Bicker and computerizing the admissions process.

“I don’t think any club would want to ignore student desires, but I think that one of the benefits of the current system at Princeton is that students have a choice,” he said.

Clubs, including Cap & Gown Club, of which Fleming is the graduate board chair, have been continually revising the Bicker process, Fleming said.

“The selective clubs are significantly oversubscribed now, so I think the market is saying that students, or at least a significant number of the students at Princeton today, value that experience, so I would be surprised if there was an overruling referendum saying to get rid of Bicker,” he said. “The numbers of how many showed up during admissions week for selective says enough. If that changes, I think no club can arrogantly say that we’ll never change, because that would be a shortsighted statement.”

Interclub Council chair Joe Margolies ’15 and Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students Bryant Blount both declined to comment, saying that they did not yet have enough information on the referendum.

Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan and Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey did not respond to a request for comment.

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MAKINGMU SIC This week, S treet explor es the stude nt music sc ene on

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riginally based in manhattan Beach, Calif., a bustling beach city just outside of Los Angeles, Riley “noclip” Thomasson ’15 has spent his past three years at Princeton juggling electrical engineering and EDM. As a senior, Thomasson has begun to taste breakthrough success, with his most recent track “world-01” just released on Diplo’s Mad Decent label and EDM.com — a deal he struck by sending his music out to EDM outlets from the Terrace Club library on a whim. “world-01,” a chiptune track saturated with an auditory nostalgia, will transport any 20-something back to the childhood euphoria of playing video games. The happily retro vibe made with new synthesized sounds was born of Thomasson’s unrelenting creative process. A casual gamer ever since he was little, Thomasson has always approached producing music by capturing what he feels in the moment no matter what else is going on, even if that means putting schoolwork and sleep aside to have a late-night producing marathon.

Thomasson has always been engaged with music — studying piano up until college, playing percussion in Mira Costa High School’s prestigious music program and taking music theory classes while there and also at the University. As for his musical influences, Thomasson has always loved the constantly evolving music scene happening just beneath mainstream music, whether it is alternative rock or EDM’s diverse offspring of subgenres.

Perhaps a late start by today’s standards, Thomasson’s foray into EDM began in junior year of high school, when a friend of his showed him Excision’s “Wasted,” a prototypical dubstep track. Soon after, Thomasson started to produce his own works after concluding, as many aspiring producers do, that “somebody made

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this on a laptop; I can do this.” With that, “Synapsis” was born — the first of Thomasson’s many stage names.

When he got to college, Thomasson continued to progress through genres, exploring house and downtempo through his first EP released independently under his new name “Rize.” The summer after freshman year, Thomasson gigged all over Southern California and released his second EP through Into the AM Records during sophomore year. Thomasson explained that his inspiration “comes in waves,” so after that busy summer, he decided to take a break from producing while waiting to discover his current muses.

This transition was accompanied by most recent third name change to “noclip,” a common video game cheat that enables players to move through physical obstructions. Under his newest moniker, Thomasson has continued to explore electronic music, currently drawing inspiration from future bass as well as other innovative sounds from artists such as Porter Robinson, Mr. Carmack and Lindsay Lowend.

As for his future plans, Thomasson already has a desk job awaiting him after graduation, but he said he is also open to whatever EDM has in store for him. When asked about EDM’s recent mainstream popularity, Thomasson replied with enthusiasm towards the broader implications for electronic music, saying “every week someone is putting out something new, and something that is evolving so fast. It is kind of a waste to just listen to the same thing over and over.”

For now, this means we can look forward to hearing more fresh sounds out of Thomasson soon. In the meantime, though, you can check out some of his work on Soundcloud or catch Thomasson tearing it up live on campus, as he regularly performs at Terrace and other eating clubs.

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ovey Coles ’15 and Hawa Sako ’15 are a powerhouse duo of music production and composition.

When Coles and Sako met four years ago at the end of their freshman years, they began collaborating with different beats and new sounds. Eventually, the pair formed their band, BROWNI. Before coming to Princeton, both Coles and Sako said they had expressed interest in music and songwriting.

“Since high school, I’ve always wanted to be part of something really musical,” Sako explained. In addition to writing, Sako provides the lead vocals for the group.

On the other hand, Coles, who creates the beats, did extensive work with production and songwriting in high school.

However, he ceased dedicating as much time to making music after coming to Princeton.

“I’m terrible at songwriting, and I have a lot of music without words. Meeting Hawa was a perfect connection of songwriting and music production,” Coles said.

The band, which now has ten released songs on their SoundCloud, got off to a ca-

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sual start, releasing only one or two tracks at the end of each school year.

“From freshman year to sophomore year we were kind of making music, but it was only once a year — at the end of the year when classes were done,” Coles explained. “So freshman year we made one song, then at the end of sophomore year we made another song. It was really informal, just for fun for a while.”

In the fall of their junior year, the two became more serious about producing and performing, even presenting one of their songs for an in-class presentation.

They explained that at that point they wanted to take their music to another level. Even though both Coles and Sako studied abroad during the spring semester, they corresponded using social media to continue collaborating and producing songs.

“Even while we were abroad, I would make a music track without words or a melody and email it to her [Sako]. Or she would email me an a capella version of a song,” Coles said.

This creative process — making music separately and combining their efforts —

has worked wonders for the group. Only recently have Coles and Sako begun sitting in the same room to create beats, melodies and lyrics.

Since junior year, the band has produced more than eight eclectic songs and has had its debut performance at Colonial Club in early November. Coles and Sako recently dropped a new song, “Libertine,” and continue to release new work weekly on their recently implemented “New Single Sundays.”

Looking toward the future, the group hopes to expand its number of followers through its Facebook group and SoundCloud page. After graduation, the duo hopes to continue collaborating and making music.

“We could still collaborate, even after graduation. We’ve worked long distance over the summer and when we were studying abroad,” Sako said.

“It also depends on this semester and how the rest of this year goes,” Coles added. “We are also going to try to make more music, have more performances and possibly reach out to record labels to release our songs.”

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Left to right: Riley Thomasson ’15 performing with Matt “Tenr” Goldsmith ’15.

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aking its name from an inside joke related to one of the band’s member’s roommates calling “San Pellegrino” (a type of soda) “San Peligro” (St. Danger in Spanish), St. Danger is a student band that will blow you away with their enthusiasm and musicality. Previously part of another student band named Moxie, the trio of Conor McGrory ’16, Doug Wallack ’16 and Kenny Hulpach ’16 define their sound as “classic rock meets indie rock.”

Guitarist McGrory, bassist Wallack and drummer Hulpach have been playing together since freshman year and haven’t stopped making music since.

They cite Dr. Dog, The Beatles, Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth as musical influences for St. Danger and its sound.

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that Wallack summed up as “there’s a bunch of singing that happens.” In addition to this, Wallack also said that, as a band, “we’re really trying to work on our harmonies.” McGrory noted that it has been a unique and helpful opportunity to grow with a fellow group of musicians.

“You learn what the others need,” Hulpach added. St. Danger is constantly growing as a band and as a group of musicians, some of whom started playing their individual instruments after arriving on Princeton’s campus.

Songwriting is a group effort for the band. Wallack and and McGrory tend to work through ideas for songs together, while Hulpach occasionally writes whole pieces alone.

The band is starting slowly, with more casual performances on campus

as they get a sense of their new sound and direction. St. Danger performed an outdoor show under an arch during Princeton Arts Weekend in October.

They stated that they plan to continue building their repertoire and put finishing touches on songs so that they are prepared to play more shows in 2015.

St. Danger is interested in collaborating with other musicians and groups on campus, and the members are currently finding inspiration in various artists.

Their list includes Wilco, Elliott Smith, Starfucker/STRFKR, and alt-J. “A lot of these artists write some great words,” McGrory added to explain what these artists have in common and how their work influences St. Danger.

The band is working hard to write more songs and consolidate their sound.

Watch out for these talented men next year and their indie-rock-meets-classicrock vibe.

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hen your band includes a c o n s e r v a t o r ytrained violinist on lead guitar, a lead vocalist with an obsession for Carole King and jazz and members who formerly belonged to soft indie and screamo groups, you can only imagine the musical mélange brought to the table but also the possible difficulties of coming together harmoniously.

Psychobaby, however, tackles this head-on and utilizes its diversity to their advantage in creating a unique sound.

“All of us are coming together from different musical backgrounds, and as a result, our sound synthesizes a lot of disparate influences,” lead vocalist and co-founder of the band Juliet Garrett ’15 said.

Psychobaby is currently comprised of five University students — Garrett, Godfrey Furchtgott ’16 on guitar, Stanley Mathabane ’17

who plays the keyboard as well as other auxiliary instruments, Ashwin Prasanna ’18 on drums and Josh Leifer ’17 on bass. The band as well as the unorthodox group name were the brainchild of Garrett and Furchtgott a year and a half ago.

“Juliet had a pretty large repertoire of songs she wrote herself between the ages of 15 and 18, and I wanted to play guitar in a band, which is something I hadn’t done up until that point, so it seemed like a natural fit,” Furchtgott said.

The group classifies themselves as “indie rock pop” and incorporates synthesized electronic sounds into their music alongside its live instruments and vocals.

Although the band describes its creative process as an expressive outlet that allows for freedom and collaboration among all of the members, they maintain that when it comes to actual performances, their joint focus is staying sincere in their music and appealing to their audience.

“We are not a jam band. We focused mostly on crafting these

songs that are self-contained units — something you would listen to and enjoy,” Mathabane said.

“There is an emphasis on playing live, and I think we are working on coming at the writing process with an ear towards the live show.”

Just as varied and interesting as their musical stylings, the inspiration behind the lyrics for songs spring forth from a variety of different topics and emotions.

“We each have different bags that we tend to write from — love, loss and I think Godfrey writes a lot about post-adolescent disaffected youth — growing up and finding your place in the world,” Garrett said.

Psychobaby released its first extended play “Battlefield” in July and are hoping to soon begin work on a music video. They have plans for upcoming gigs on the Lower East Side in New York, N.Y., at Arlene’s Grocery and in Washington, D.C. at Black Cat in the spring. Despite being established for some time, the members explained that they still find themselves exploring their sound to look outside of their current “poppy sound with rock instrumentation.”

“We aren’t totally there, but we are almost there,” Garrett said.

“We’re looking at more synth stuff, more groove stuff. We are getting dirtier, and that’s exciting.”

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actus karma is a relatively young band that brings together student musicians from across the Princeton music scene. Their specialty as a group is a unique and original mix of R&B with some jazzy horns, hip-hop and soul music, bringing a new sound to campus.

Cactus Karma is a collaborative effort of students who also perform in various other groups on campus. Pianist Logan Roth ’15 and drummer Arjun Dube ’15 are also members of the band Honeyhead, vocalist Pam Soffer has performed on campus and released several solo tracks under the name Uma and alto saxophonist Divya Farias ’15 is also a member of longtime local band Sensemaya, a group whose membership changes fluidly as members graduate. Trumpeter Spencer Hadley ’17 is a student in the Princeton University Jazz Program, one of two such programs

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harlie baker ’17 and Lachlan Kermode ’17 became friends last year during rehearsals for Grind Arts Company’s “Sweeney Todd.”

“When we had nothing to do, we would pass the time by singing random stuff together. But we didn’t form a band until this August, when Charlie invited me out to stay with his family in Montauk, which is a small beach town,” Kermode said.

After coming in from the water one day, they pulled out their guitars and started jamming. The very first song they played together was the middle school-era classic

BAKER&GOODS “Thnks fr th Mmrs” by Fall Out Boy. “That’s when we realized that our voices sounded really good together,” Baker said.

Both members write songs individually. “Generally, our songs are about girls. Keep it a nice, focused subject. We want to get into the complicated stuff like politics and religion, I swear, but you just can’t cover that business in three minutes,” Kermode said. Their next project may be a “concept album,” for which they have yet to decide the actual concept.

Because the two spend most of their free time together, rehearsals are informal, except when a show is coming up. According to Kermode, “We just rehearse in my room in Witherspoon, usually pretty late at night when our schedules are both free. I think some of our neighbors get riled up sometimes.”

Baker added, “We often hear banging on the floor and ceiling, but we like to think that it’s just people expressing their appreciation. Apparently, we have lots of

fans. P-Safe likes our music so much that they often show up to our rehearsals!”

When asked the meaning of the band name, they answered they were originally going to call themselves “Professor Jeff,” after their favorite English professor Jeff Nunokawa. “We decided against it so that Professor Nunokawa wouldn’t sue us,” Baker said. “But we were brainstorming names one day, and I said it would be funny to have a band called ‘Baker and the Goods’ at some point in my life.”

Kermode liked the idea and suggested shortening it to “Baker & Goods,” which gives the sense that they are a duo.

They have performed at the Murray-Dodge Café, the Nassau Literary Review launch party at Small World Coffee and Tower Club, where they opened for Caroline Reese and the Drifting Fifth on Princetoween.

“Murray-Dodge Café has actually made us their official ‘Artist-inResidence,’ which is pretty dope,” Baker said.

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wo years ago, logan Roth ’15 struck out on finding “something to do” during the summer.

“So, being the sort of antsy dude that I am, I filled my time by working on a series of hip-hop beats,” Roth said.

Roth then sent these beats over to Max Crawford ’15, whom he knew was a writer.

“From there, he wrote some verses, and I called a bunch of great musician friends of mine together to play the beats with real instruments. Thus the band was born after our first jam,” Roth added.

This was the origin of Gorilla Gorilla, a student band founded in 2012. The band included students from the classes of 2016, 2015 and 2014, all united in the pursuit of quirky, groovy and occasionally improvised music. Following the graduation of guitarist Molly Bolten ’14, the band has undergone a transformation and changed its name from Gorilla Gorilla to Honeyhead. Featuring Roth, Arjun Dube ’15, Max Crawford ’15 and Conor McGrory ’16, Honeyhead is more rock focused than the hiphop leaning Gorilla Gorilla.

Honeyhead has performed

HONEYHEAD at various venues and events in Princeton this fall including a show at Colonial Club with fellow Princeton duo BROWNI. Honeyhead has also graced the stage at Terrace, a hotspot for both established and up and coming musical talent.

“Terrace is easily the best venue. The sound is good and the crowd always gets down with us.”

Crawford said. “Ultimately, the crowd is what makes a good show, and Terrace brings the heat.”

Crawford recalled a particularly memorable show at Terrace that lived up to the rowdy rock and roll standard.

“I was dancing with an audience member during a song section in which I wasn’t singing, and we were getting a bit dirty,” Crawford said. “She pulled off my shirt and started to take off my pants.

It was wild, but I had to stop her.

Ultimately, the show is about the music and not spectacle, so if I was naked and performing it wouldn’t have been as effective — though it would have been very fun.”

Honeyhead’s creative process

involves quite a bit of fun but also serious commitment to the craft.

All of the band members contribute to songwriting.

“We all write our songs,” Roth “They usually start as a groove on one instrument, and then we craft it into a whole structure and build parts off of that.”

Honeyhead typically practices twice a week for two hours, but rehearsals run longer if they have the time and it is going well. Extra rehearsals are added the week before a gig. The group includes time for random jams to keep practices spontaneous, and particularly good jams are often developed into songs. Crawford noted that there is also plenty of joking and tomfoolery throughout rehearsals, which is an attitude and approach the band brings to both practice and performance.

“We always try to have fun with our music,” Dube said. “It gets tough rehearsing in the weeks leading up to performances, but we always make sure to keep up the good vibes. If we’re having fun, the audience probably is too.”

in the Ivy League, and bassist Noah Fishman ’16 also plays in the Princeton University Orchestra. Cactus Karma brings these artists and their respective talents and styles together to bring a interesting hybrid sound to the Princeton scene.

“It [the variety] is also fun for the audience,” Soffer said. “They can pick something they enjoy in the music, and vibe with that.”

Formerly known as No Soap Radio, the group decided on the new name of Cactus Karma when they realized a New Jersey band had already claimed the title “No Soap Radio.” The band explained that the naming process was much like their song writing process — complicated, spontaneous and creative.

“I’m excited about it [the name] — I think creating visual representations will be fun, and the sound of the name makes it really interesting,” Roth said. “We didn’t want something that was blunt.”

The band formation was an organic process, as most of the members knew each other through various capacities outside of mu-

sic. They said they were all friends before they became “musician friends” but also that their friendships grew with the addition of music and the creation of the band.

“Cactus Karma started when we began casually jamming together,” Roth said. “It was great and we were like, well, why not start a band?

This iteration of the band happened after we did a gig with Pam — we thought that was awesome and we had a ton of fun, so why not play with her permanently?”

Cactus Karma is currently completing a recording and plans to release the finished product later this winter. In the near future, the group also hopes to perform throughout the Princeton area.

Cactus Karma is also looking into organizing an East Coast tour at the beginning of summer.

“We play together as often as we can,” Hadley said. “This is something all of us want to do, and we all get along really well. Even if we never had any shows, we would still be really happy making music together.”

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hese days, devon naftzger ’16 is known for her outstanding viola skills in the Princeton University Orchestra and New York String Orchestra, but she didn’t always play the instrument. Naftzger entered the world of music on the violin.

Four-year-old Naftzger saw a Christmas concert and immediately fell in love with strings. She asked for violin lessons from her mother, who promised she could take lessons once she turned five.

Her mother assumed the obsession would just be a phase, but by her fifth birthday, Naftzger hadn’t forgotten. She took up the violin until high school, when she switched to viola.

“It has all the same mechanisms and technique, once you learn to press harder on the C string,” Naftzger explained.

The viola, unlike violin, has a more limited repertoire. The sparser corpus made it easier for Naftzger to “progress exponentially.”

However, it wasn’t always easy to stay motivated. Devon confesses that she almost quit several times and owes much of her commitment to her mother, who would come up with various incentive structures. These included rewards and punishments, such as the threat of paying for her own lessons.

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Naftzger played in her high school orchestra and also participated in other groups such as the Midwest Young Artists which met on Saturdays. Music opened numerous doors for her. With the Midwest Young Artists, she toured China and Korea, among other places. In 2012, she was selected as a prestigious YoungArts National Winner. She was the only violist chosen that year, giving her the opportunity to attend a week of classes and workshops with musical masters in Miami, Fla. More recently, Naftzger worked with world-renowned violinist Joshua Bell. As part of the YoungArts alumni network, she was contacted to participate in a followup to the 2007 Washington Post social experiment, during which the Grammy Award winning classical musician Bell played as a normal busker in a busy train station and was largely ignored. As part of the followup, Naftzger performed Bach and Mendelssohn for a crowd

of hundreds with Bell and eight other YoungArts students. This time, the audience knew about the performance — and each performer’s talent — beforehand, unlike the 2007 incognito study. What was it like to work with Bell? “Awesome,” Naftzger said, who added she has idolized the violinist since she was young.

On campus, Naftzger still plays viola for the Princeton University Orchestra and is majoring in politics. She added she believes she made the right choice in attending a liberal arts school rather than a conservatory. Still, music will always be a big part of her life, she said of the skill that has surprised her with many transferable skills.

“One thing which has always struck me is the idea of a universal language,” Naftzger said. “Even when I’ve played in Germany or China, I have always been able to communicate to the people I’m working with, even though I don’t speak their language.”

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Create a First Generation Center

Anna Mazarakis ’16

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n August 9, 2014, an unarmed Black teenager named Michael Brown was shot at 12 times by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Six of those shots hit their mark. Brown’s dead body remained on the ground for four and a half hours before it was collected. In the four months since his killing, protesters in the city of Ferguson, Mo., have taken to the streets to demand an indictment. They have been repressed, brutalized and denied their basic human rights.

Their voices have been censored; their bodies attacked with excessive violence and chemicals unsanctioned in acts of warfare. Protesters suffered the same violence after Ferguson’s grand jury decided not to indict Darren Wilson at 9 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014.

As Princeton students, we had the privilege to suffer no such violence. On the night of the “no indictment” verdict, we were able to protest on a campus where the local police force did not teargas us. Instead, they protected our rights to assemble as we marched in front of peers who chose to proceed with “Dranksgiving” celebrations on Prospect Avenue. Princeton has become a site for violence by inactivity. We have allowed it to serve as a safe haven for ignoring systemic injustices.

This is no longer excusable.

Yet, we do not protest now because we have suddenly realized that Princeton degrees do not make the Black students at our University any more bulletproof than Tamir Rice or Trayvon Martin were, their necks any less hangable than Lennon Lacy’s, or their skulls any less breakable than Tanisha Anderson’s. We protest now because Black bodies are still being perforated, lynched and broken because of their blackness. We protest now because we are sick and tired of the ongoing dehumanization of blackness; it is systemic, intentional and it demands our response. We are declaring war on these bigoted structures and ideologies that terrorize the human race.

In 2013, 86 percent of people stopped by Ferguson police were Black. Once stopped, Black people’s vehicles were searched 1.77 times as often as White people’s.

Their contraband hit-rate was less than two-thirds of White people’s, but they were arrested twice as often. Of the 12 individuals on Michael Brown’s grand jury, nine (coincidentally, the number necessary to form a verdict regarding his killer’s indictment) were White. This does not stop at St. Louis city limits.

The U.S. criminal justice system is a race-based institution that directly devalued Michael Brown’s life, devalues the lives of protesters in Ferguson, and devalues all Black life.

It not only fails Black people but works vigorously to target and punish Black lives more aggressively than white lives. Institutionalized racial inequality is housed in America’s local, state and federal courts, a phenomenon dating back to the Dred Scott case of 1857.

Historically, protection of Black bodies has not been a primary concern for the juridical system. Racial bias is evident in virtually every aspect of the criminal justice system — from drug policies and legal representation to term lengths and parole. Yet it does not stop at our justice system.

The notion that Black lives are worthless is entrenched in the psyche of America. Systemic racism continually damages our subconscious. A Black child — however innocent — will often be deemed guilty until proven valuable. Black boys, starting from around age 10, are judged by law enforcement as older than they really are. When a child is perceived as a man, that child is viewed as more capable of criminal activity.

When a child is understood to be a Blackman, that child is assumed to be already involved in criminal activity, and perceived as violent. This only further embeds the implicit biases in law enforcement and the criminal justice system.

We protest because we have to. We shout “Black Lives Matter” because the trope of the ever-dangerous Black child must disappear. We discuss, demand and criticize because the only way to break down systems and dismantle subconscious racism is to be fervently anti-racist.

Call to Anti-racist and Anti-oppressive Action Step 1: Get educated. Learn about people’s lived experiences by listening actively and openly. There is a time and place to play devil’s advocate — it is not when marginalized people are sharing their stories. Participate in dialogues and attend lectures hosted through CAF or by one of Princeton’s many cultural groups.

Read the essentials, including Beverly Tatum’s “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race”, Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow” and James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time.”

Consider taking one of the following courses next semester: AAS247/POL382: The New Jim Crow: US Crime Policy from Constitutional Formation to Ferguson, WWS331/SOC312/AAS317: Race and Public Policy or SOC236: Race Is Socially Constructed: Now What?

Step 2: Be an ally. Stand up for issues that do not directly impact you. Challenge the caricaturization of blackness, even if it makes you and other people uncomfortable. Remember that being an ally means amplifying the voices of the oppressed — not being at the forefront.

Step 3: Fight in the trenches. Stop being risk-averse — continue past “dialogue.” Make fighting racism and oppression a priority — not having the time because of Princeton’s workload is not excusable. Participate in protests, rallies, boycotts and campus or organizationwide events.

Step 4: Use your Princeton privilege. We as students, faculty and administrators have a responsibility to challenge inequitable ideologies, practices and policies … “in the nation’s service, and the service of all nations.”

Authors Destiny Crockett, Khallid Love, Briana Payton, Sol Taubin Editors Kovey Coles, Yoselin Gramajo, Terrence Fraser, Asanni York Proofreaders Aisha Oxley, Teri Tilman Editor’s note: This article has been updated to capitalize the words ‘Black’ and ‘White’ at the request of the authors.

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ver the last several decades, Princeton has become a more diverse place, matriculating a student body that includes women, students from diverse cultural backgrounds and students with a wide array of socioeconomic experiences. As Princeton has diversified its student body, it has made steps to become more inclusive. The University strives to be a welcoming community for all students and to provide all students with the resources that will help them succeed, regardless of their background, interests and needs. To this end, several centers that provide resources to specific groups of students have been created, including the Women’s Center, the International Center and, most recently, the LGBT Center. However, one growing voice in the student body has not been represented: first-generation college students. The Editorial Board believes more could be done to support first-generation students on campus and advocates for the creation of a First Generation Center.

Last spring, 13.8 percent of students offered admission to the University would be the first in their families to attend college. It is a testament to the efforts of our Offices of Admission and Financial Aid that more students from first-generation and low-income backgrounds have the opportunity to attend Princeton. However, this is not enough. First-generation students often face unique challenges when arriving at college.

Beyond this, unlike many of their peers, they may not have the same access to advice and support from their families, simply because their parents cannot relate to their college experience. This can put first-generation students at a disadvantage in making important decisions such as selecting courses, searching for summer internships and seeking post-graduation opportunities.

Creating a center for first-generation students would allow the University to organize many pertinent resources in one easily accessible location. The Center would provide opportunities for students to meet and share their experiences with other students from similar backgrounds, providing a support network for their time at and after Princeton. It would also provide resources and advising that would help first-generation students. This could include academic support and advising as well as assistance in searches for jobs and internships, with which many students receive informal help from their parents and families.

The Board believes that the ideal location for the center would be Frist Campus Center — the location of the Women’s Center and the LGBT Center. Being in such a neutral and central location, helps to eliminate concerns that such a center would have the isolating effect of the old “Third World Center.” Because students go to Frist frequently, they would have exposure and easy access to the Center.

Creating a center would also bring more awareness to the chal-

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lenges faced by first-generation students. A center would help increase the dialogue surrounding class and socioeconomic background on campus. In addition, it would bring more understanding of the issue to campus leaders such as residential college advisers.

During training, RCAs listen to presentations from various groups and centers on campus, including the Fields Center, the Women’s Center and the LGBT Center. Each group explains their mission and the resources they can provide to students. If there was a centralized resource for first-generation students, RCAs could learn more about the challenges that firstgeneration students face, how to support them and what resources are available to them.

Princeton is no longer the homogeneous community it was only decades ago. While the University has played a commendable role in making that possible, it is important that the University uses its resources to support the needs of all members of a diverse student body.

Creating a First Generation Center for students who are the first in their family to attend college or are from low-income backgrounds is an important step toward a more inclusive and supportive Princeton.

Zach Horton ’15 and James Haynes ’18 dissent.

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At Tiger Inn, women are the punch line Alexandra Scheeler ’11 guest contributor

Published on December 3, 2014

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hat do Ivy members and tampons have in common?

That was the question printed on T-shirts designed by my eating club, Tiger Inn, in honor of the TIIvy Olympics my senior year. The answer, though, not written on the shirts, was: Both are stuck-up cunts.

Olympics T-shirts made by the two rivals tend to rib jovially about club stereotypes — TI is full of meatheads, Ivy Club is full of snobs, at least we’re not in Cottage Club — nothing too serious or pointed, so I was surprised when I heard the plan for that year’s design. “Cunt” is not just a vulgar term; it’s a sexist term. Calling a woman a cunt is a way to dismiss her agency and individuality by reducing her to her gender. The T-shirt was supposed to make fun of Ivy members, so why did I feel

like I was the punch line?

I brought my concerns to the officers. I questioned their decision-making process and explained why I felt that “cunt” was a derogatory term that ref lected poorly on the club. I pointed out that they would never imagine using a racial slur as a punch line. In response, I was told that I was being insensitive for drawing a parallel between the black and female struggles for equality. The T-shirts weren’t going to change. I was told that I should lighten up, that I shouldn’t take it too seriously — after all, it was just a joke.

It was meant as a joke. I don’t think the officers, who remain my close friends, or the membership intended to demean women with those T-shirts. But they should have taken my concerns more seriously. What began as an ignorant and tasteless joke became a real problem when, after hearing a woman’s perspective, they then displayed a willful lack of empathy and understanding.

Only about 10 TI members — all women as far as I can remember — refused to wear the shirt on the day of the Olympics. Most

members slipped them on without a second thought. During the following Bicker cycle, the first anonymous joke that was read out to the assembled members went: “What do Ivy members, tampons and Alex Scheeler have in common?”

I was motivated to write about this experience after reading about the far more troubling emails from former TI officers Adam Krop ’15 and Andrew Hoffenberg ’15 excerpted in The New York Times on Monday. I am encouraged to hear that they have been removed from their positions, but I want to make clear that this is not a case of a few bad actors in an otherwise functional system. A fundamental change must take place in the club’s culture.

A culture that is demeaning to women can exist without anyone maliciously intending to demean women. It happens when female voices are ignored, ridiculed and told repeatedly that “it’s just a joke.” It happens when club-wide emails bemoan the burden of gender equality and encourage members to boo Sally Frank ’80.

Women shouldn’t be a punch line,

and I don’t want TI to be a punch line when we talk about sexism at the University.

I am not advocating a politically correct police state. I joined TI for its rowdy, laid-back atmosphere and I want to preserve that sense of irreverence, but sexism cannot be its essential ingredient. Suits and Sluts, Cowboys and Sluts, FifteenthCentury A.D. Ottoman Aristocrats and Sluts — this trope is tired and lame as well as sexist. We need to recognize that when jokes repeatedly and consistently mark women as second-class members, they are no longer funny.

I loved my time at TI. I hope current and former members understand that my intention is not to shame the club, but to encourage members to speak up and advocate for an inclusive and affirming community, rather than shrugging off recent events as jokes or isolated incidents.

Electing a female president would be a great place to start.

Alexandra Scheeler ’11 was a TI member from 2009-11. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in religion at Harvard.

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blocked by the Hawks keeper Christen Piersanti. Senior forward Allison Evans’ rebound effort found the back of the opposing cage at the 9:54 mark.

Princeton would relinquish its early lead, conceding an equalizer at the 20:51 mark, when Hawks senior forward Meg Donahue picked up a cross from her linemate Trish O’Dwyer and directed it to the back of net. Just over seven minutes later, O’Dwyer picked up her second assist of the day as her penalty corner insertion found the waiting stick of back Julie Laszlo.

Three Tiger goals followed their opponents’ unanswered pair. Just 93 seconds before the halfway mark, sophomore forward Teresa Benvenuti’s strike off a penalty corner beat Piersanti to equalize.

A fast-break five minutes into the second period yielded Benvenuti’s second score of the afternoon, as her backhand shot from distance found its mark. Princeton and then Monmouth would score once again following this game winner – the Hawks’ third tally came off a penalty stroke with 13 seconds remaining in regulation.

This New Jersey showdown, though tightly contested, will likely prove a meager test of Princeton’s abilities. Maryland, Big Ten champions, re-

mains one of the country’s most imposing sides. After being bounced by the Tigers in the 2012 NCAA tournament semifinals, the Terrapins have won three straight games in the series and hold a 6-19 overall advantage.

During the course of Princeton’s October loss to the Terrapins, just three Princeton players managed a shot on goal, with only sophomore midfielder Cat Caro testing the opposing keeper more than once. Her second attempt, coming with 21:59 remaining in the second period, resulted in her side’s lone successful effort.

At that point, however, Maryland’s lead had become insurmountable. The scoreboard read 4-1 in favor of the visitors. Less than five minutes later, the Terrapins’ forward Katie Gerzabek converted her first shot of the game for her team’s fifth score. The No. 2 side proceeded to add four more goals before the fulltime buzzer sounded. Midfielder/ forward Maxine Fluharty, a first-team all-ACC selection last year, led all players in shooting and scoring with nine attempts and three goals.

Junior goalkeeper Anya Gersoff faced a barrage of shots throughout the contest. During the 70 minutes of play, she was called upon 19 times.

She saved 11 of her opponents’ shots on goal, which falls one short of her career high of 12.

Maryland totaled 28 shots,

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After climbing to the top of the Ivy League, the Tigers’new foe in the NCAA playoffs was Maryland, who had already beaten the Tigers earlier in the season.

nearly twice the season average allowed by Princeton.

The loss to the Terrapins also tied Princeton’s largest historical margin of defeat.

One of the other seven-point differentials came during a five-game 1984 losing streak in the form of an 8-1 Temple University win over the Tigers.

Saturday’s tilt against Maryland, scheduled for 11:30 a.m.,

will demand the entirety of the Tigers’ effort and poise.

Though improbable in the light of the aforementioned defeat, victory remains far from impossible.

Postseason awards: Kirby, the team leader in points scored, was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year earlier this week.

This marks the third consecutive year in which a Tiger has earned that honor, with Katie Reinprecht ’12 and sister Julia Reinprecht ’13 taking home the award the past two seasons.

Kirby’s classmate, forward Allison Evan,s likewise found a spot on the all-Ivy first team.

During Wednesday’s contest, Evans’ goal put her career point total at 101, mak-

ing ninth Tiger to surpass the 100-point mark.

Three more Tigers saw their names on the second team: sophomore midfielder Cat Caro, junior forward Kate Ferrara and sophomore back Annabeth Donovan. In her first year, forward Ryan McCarthy, also earned an honorable mention nod from the conference award committee.

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going 8-0 on that run. After a quick three from Brown’s Megan Reilley and a layup from teammate Natalie Ball, the Tigers managed to hold Brown scoreless again for almost four and half minutes, leaving the score 22-13.

A jumper and a three from Brown’s Ellise Sharpe and a pair of Jordin Alexander free throws closed the point difference to 12, but a series of free throw shots topped off with a pair of layups and a three pointer from Berntsen followed by a three points from Dietrick allowed the Tigers to solidify their lead, 51-31, going into the second half.

The second half opened with a 6-0 run from the Bears and Wheatley responded to the Brown push with a jumper and layup to kick the Tiger gears into action. After a Miller three and jumper, the Tigers continued their dominance over the Bears, extending their lead to as much as 30 points with 1:23 left on the

clock off of a three from sophomore guard Taylor Brown.

The Tigers shot 59.3 percent during the first half of the game, shooting 48.3 percent overall. The Tigers held the Bears to 33.3 percent, showing how far their defense has come this season.

The Yale game saw Tarakchian net her seventh doubledouble of the season with 14 points and 11 rebounds, netting all five of her free throw attempts. Wheatley scored a game-high 18 points, with Dietrick and Berntsen each scoring seven points.

The Tigers found themselves down 7-4 six minutes in, battling Yale to regain ground. Most of the first half was composed of the Tigers and Bulldogs gaining and losing the lead with the largest difference in points occurring with 2:53 left on the clock and the Bulldogs up by four points. Luckily, a Dietrick layup and free throw accompanied by Berntsen and Wheatley layups allowed the Tigers to regain control with 30 seconds left in the period to come out of the first half up 22-25.

Carrying forward with the momentum that put the Tigers up at the end of the first half, the Orange and Black opened with an 8-2 run. Yale’s Jen Berkowitz stopped the Tiger run, closing the point difference to only three points on a pair of triples. Although the Tigers managed to stay ahead for the entire second half, the point difference was as low as one point three times, the last of which occurred with only four minutes left on the clock.

Saturday’s game against Yale marked the first game of the season in which the Tigers didn’t manage to build a double-digit lead during the entire game. The Tigers also shot uncharacteristically poorly, shooting 42.5 percent and a more astonishing 12.5 percent on three pointers, even more remarkable because the Tigers entered the game with the highest three-point shooting average in the country.

The Tigers held the Bulldogs to shooting 30 percent overall and 38.9 percent on three point shots.

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along to the others.”

Marcoux has used her first weeks on campus to meet as many people as possible and learn as much as she can.

“I’ve been doing a lot of speaking, not only within the athletic department, but throughout campus. I’ve met with people involved in campus life, administrators, human resources. I’ve worked with coaches, alumni, supporters.”

Facilitating those relationships will be crucial to maintaining a smooth relationship between the athletic department and the rest of campus, something that predecessor Gary Walters ’67 struggled with in his early years. The issue

of student-athlete admission is particularly vexing right now, as Harvard has overtaken Princeton as the premier athletic institution in the Ivy League amid allegations of lowered academic standards for its athletic recruits. Marcoux, however, stressed cooperation with the rest of campus and inward, rather than outward, focus.

“The admission officers are partners with us. It’s not a battle to fight. We need to work collectively to figure out how to get the best student-athletes here. We’re not necessarily focused on Harvard, but on us. We’re working on being the best we can be.”

Other issues Marcoux cited included retaining Princeton’s coaches and filling a couple new positions that

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Ask anyone who played under him or worked with him, and one can see that the championships don’t reflect the kind of influence 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.”

opened up. She also stressed marketing in order to raise attendance and awareness as a primary objective.

She has attended every home athletic contest so far this year and is excited about the prospects of Princeton’s fall sports. She appears to be enjoying every minute in her new position.

“I’m optimistic about our teams, and I’ve enjoyed watching them play. Water polo is undefeated, volleyball won their tournament, soccer is coming around.

Field hockey has a great team; they’re just getting their legs under them.”

“I’m absolutely loving being back and being part of the Princeton community and athletic department. We have a lot of great things going, and I’m thrilled to be a part of it.”

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Bob Callahan ’77, famed squash coach, dies at 59

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Former Princeton men’s squash coach Bob Callahan ’77 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 cham-

pionships 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, Callahan 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.

However, as with all great coaches, the story goes beyond just the awards and victories.

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Late Princeton squash coach Bob Callahan ’77 left his mark on the game, and was a legend in the squash community around the world.

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Marcoux ’91 transitions to athletic director role

By Eddie Owens senior writer

On Aug. 4, Mollie Marcoux ’91 began her first official day as Princeton’s new athletic director. Her first order of business? One-onone meetings with each of Princeton’s 34 head coaches.

After spending at least an hour with each coach, she noticed a few things they all had in common.

“Our coaches have a lot of creativity, and they’re focused on performance in all areas of life, not just on the field. They’re teaching value systems and upholding our athletic department’s motto of ‘Education Through Athletics,’ ” Marcoux said.

“Each coach has their own approach to their team. My job is to take the good from each program and pass it See MARCOUX page 9

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Field hockey team again earns NCAA playoff berth

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The women’s basketball team has produced amazing results, standing as one of only two undefeated basketball teams in the country.

Perfect Cagers down Brown, Yale

By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

This weekend was an important one for the women’s basketball team as they extended their undefeated season to 23-0 with a 7-0 record in the Ivy League. The Tigers, ranked no. 16 in the AP poll (18 in the USA today poll), put on strong showings in an 86-58 victory over Brown on Friday and a much tighter 56-50 victory over

Yale on Saturday.

The game against Brown saw the Tigers break the program record for the most consecutive wins (22) in program history, and the Tigers extended that record in the game against Yale.

The Yale game also saw Tiger head coach Courtney Banghart notch her 161st career win, which leaves her only two wins away from tying former head coach Joan Kowalik for the most wins

(163) in program history.

Six different Tigers scored in the double digits during the game against Brown for the second time this season.

Senior guard Blake Dietrick led the team with 18 points, seven rebounds and four assists. Junior guard/forward Annie Tarakchian posted her sixth double-double this season, posting 13 points and 10 boards. Junior guard Amanda Berntsen, junior guard Michelle Mill-

er and senior forward Mariah Smith each also scored 12 points, a career high for Smith. Junior forward Alex Wheatley rounded out the group with 11 points of her own.

After finding themselves down 8-6 a few minutes into the game against Brown, the Tigers settled into a groove on a Dietrick three-pointer and held the Bears scoreless for almost three minutes, See W. B-BALL page 9

Ivy League champions, Women’s field hockey, (8-10 overall, 6-1 Ivy) earned their 10th straight invitation to the NCAA tournament with a win over Penn. Princeton’s turnaround was prompt, as it traveled on Wednesday to West Long Branch, N.J. for its playin matchup with Monmouth University (13-8, 4-1 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference).

A 4-3 victory for the Orange and Black meant its next postseason stop would be College Park, Md. The No. 2 Terrapins (18-3, 7-1 Big Ten) will host a rematch of the Oct. 15 regular season contest which saw Maryland dominate the Tigers on Bedford Field by a score of

8-1.

The October’s showdown marked just the third time the two teams had met. Princeton emerged victorious in 2006 and again in 2007 with dominating scores of 8-1 and 9-1, respectively. Saturday’s contest proved far more competitive, with the game-winning goal coming 40 minutes into the contest.

The Tigers dominated early in the game, earning three of their five attacking penalty corners within the first 10 minutes of play. The third of those opportunities led to the game’s first goal. Sophomore back Hailey Reeves inserted the ball, which was first struck by midfielder Sydney Kirby and subsequently See FIELD HOCKEY page 9

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