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Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Judge Janice Rogers Brown, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, will give the Herbert W. Vaughn Lecture on America’s Founding Principles titled “Snuffing the ‘Celestial Fire’: From the Constitution of Conscience to the Politics of Compassion.”

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Feb. 3, 1975 Economics professor Albert Rees is appointed and confirmed the fourth University provost. Prior to his appointment, Rees was director of President Gerald Ford’s Council on Wage and Price Stability.

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USG referendum regarding winter break length goes live

By Linda Song staff writer

An Undergraduate Student Government referendum calling for a three-week winter break during the 201516 academic year opened for voting online on Monday.

The vote, which ends on BEYOND THE BUBBLE

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The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Novartis’ meningitis B vaccine, Bexsero, which had been used to vaccinate University students.

The vaccine is now approved for use in 10- to 25-year-olds in an effort to prevent the disease from spreading.

Seven students and one visitor were diagnosed with and survived meningitis B in 2013. A Drexel student died from meningitis B after coming into contact with University students on Drexel’s campus in March 2014. In response to the outbreak, the University increased awareness of the disease’s modes of transmission on campus, offered Bexsero vaccinations to students and removed the overnight component of Princeton Preview.

Bexsero was not FDA-approved at the time of the outbreak, but the University began a vaccination pro-

News & Notes Dartmouth bans hard liquor

Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon announced a campus-wide ban on hard alcohol on Friday, The Dartmouth said.

The ban will be enforced at the beginning of spring term, along with the mandatory presence of third-party bartenders and bouncers at parties hosted by Dartmouth-recognized organizations.

Some experts questioned the sensibleness of banning hard alcohol – defined as beverages containing more than 15 percent alcohol by volume - without banning all alcohol. Others have noted that most alcohol intoxication incidents involve hard alcohol rather than beer or wine.

A similar ban is in place at Bowdoin, where some students say it is ignored.

Hanlon said that the Greek system will continue at Dartmouth, but its existence might be revisited in the future.

The specifics of the ban, including the timeline and enforcement structure of its implementation, have yet to be made clear.

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ing to that call for a second faculty vote,” Cheng said, referring to the first faculty vote that approved the 201516 academic calendar. “We really need this for there to be movement … There is a huge majority of students who want this to be changed, See REFERENDUM page 3 U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

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Wednesday at noon, is not binding.

USG president Ella Cheng ’16 said a demonstration of student support is necessary to convince the faculty and University to work on revising the calendar.

“The purpose of the referendum is to really give back-

There will be a tuition increase of 3.9 percent for the 2016 fiscal year, the University’s Priorities Committee announced in its annual operating budget report released on Monday.

The increased budget also includes a 7.4 percent increase in the University’s financial aid budget to $140.2 million for next year. This is in accordance with a “stay-even” financial aid budget designed to protect financial aid recipients from the effects of an increase in tuition.

Despite the tuition increase, the University’s total cost of tuition, room and board will still be $630 below the cost of the current year’s closest competitors, including all of the Ivy League institutions, Stanford and MIT, the report said.

According to the report, the average net tuition, room and board is $13,072 for students receiving financial aid today, which is 31 percent lower than in 2001.

The current 2014-15 tuition

sits at $41,820 but will be raised to $43,450 next year. The overall fee increase is also 3.9 percent, including a 4.6 percent increase in room and a 3.1 percent increase in board costs, according to the report.

This will result in an overall fee package of $57,610 next year, compared to the current $55,440.

The Priorities Committee made its recommendation based on national labor markets and other inflation rates.

The Priorities Committee and the Committee on Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid predicted an increase in the fraction of students on financial aid from 58.6 percent to approximately 60 percent for the class entering this coming fall.

“The good news story from my perspective is that Princeton remains really one of the most affordable deals in higher education, and that’s an extraordinary thing,” University Provost David Lee GS ’99 said.

“Even for students who don’t receive aid, our tuition is really at the bottom of our peer See BUDGET page 4

gram on campus with special approval from the FDA in order to prevent further cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA imported thousands of doses of the vaccine to the University, and immunizations started on Dec. 9, 2013.

Novartis and the FDA did not respond to requests for comment.

Bexsero uses a two-dose regime with a f lexible dosing schedule that allows a month to pass between the administration of the doses, according to a Novartis press release.

Although Bexsero has been approved in Europe, Australia and Canada for more than a year, the United States approved it on Jan. 23.

After initial approval in Europe, over one million doses have been distributed outside the United States, according to the Novartis press release. In 2013, Canada launched a large-scale vaccination campaign with Bexsero. This was the first See MENINGITIS page 2

Political Contributions University employees follow the state trend of leaning Democratic. Sixty-two percent, or $379,825, of the contributions were made to Democrats, 36 percent or $216,830 to Republicans and the remaining two percent or $11,850 to independent organizations.

In 2014, U. faculty and staff made

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Democratic - $379,825

36%

Republican - $216,830

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Independent - $11,850

171 donations, for a total of $88,625 donated, with an average donation of $518

In 2014, U. trustees made

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U. individuals accounted for 1.5 percent of N.J. political contributions in 2014

By Shriya Sekhsaria staff writer

Political contributions from University faculty, staff and trustees, including individual contributions to political action committees and candidates, made up 1.47 percent of the total political contributions in the state of New Jersey in 2014.

The trustees, faculty and

staff together made 237 contributions over the course of the year, leading to contributions of $608,505, according to a search of a Federal Election Commission public database.

The average size of contributions from University-affiliated individuals was $2,567.

Sixty-two faculty and staff members contributed a total of $88,625 over 171 donations, for an average faculty and staff

contribution of $518. Of the 37 current trustees, 16 contributed a total of $519,880 through 66 donations, with an average contribution of nearly $7,900.

Since the FEC only displays contributions equal to or above $200, this number may not account for all of the contributions made during the year.

The Princeton Plasma See DONATIONS page 2

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Ottoman history scholar discusses role of nationalism in Balkan Wars

By Durva Trivedi senior writer

The Albanian conflict and nationalist ideologies both played key roles in bringing about the Balkan Wars, Nader Sohrabi said in a lecture on Monday.

Sohrabi is a scholar of Ottoman and Iranian history currently conducting research at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Sohrabi explained that, within scholarship on Turkish nationalism, there are two popular views with regards to

Balkan history: orthodox and revisionist.

According to the orthodox view, the Ottoman Empire broke down because of the irrational nationalism of the Committee of Union and Progress, a well known political organization in the region.

According to the revisionist view, however, Turkish nationalism is an entirely new idea — a product of the republic — while the empire’s identity was religious, local, hybrid and Ottomanist.

“I counter both,” Sohrabi said. “I claim here that CUP is

going somewhere that is close to an assimilationist stance. It continued to be Ottomanist, but at the same time Turkist.”

Sohrabi explained that this is not contradictory, because while Turkists became the ethnic core of the Ottoman nations, they were willing to leave room for religious, linguistic and national autonomy.

“There is an ethnic core of Turkism: around it is Islam and around that is Ottomanism,” Sohrabi said. “But of course, the picture can be much more complicated. This

is the universe according to the Young Turks between 1908 and 1912.”

He added that the region saw a transition from traditional empire, which stands for institutional inequality, to nation-states, which were more keen on equality and uniformity. The CUP distinguished itself from the old regime and stood firmly behind centralization and equality for all citizens.

Sohrabi then elaborated on the sorts of reactions this transition sparked in Albania.

“Of course, this is an em-

pire, so everything in one part affects the other parts,” Sohrabi said. “Turkish, Arab and Albanian nationalism are interacting matters and should be considered as a whole.”

By superimposing maps from before and after the conflict over one another, Sohrabi was able to show the change over time in Albania. Albania wanted unity for the four provinces but ended up with a much a smaller land space, he said.

Sohrabi said a trend could be seen in four years of rebelSee LECTURE page 4

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trial of its kind globally, and it reached 81 percent of the targeted population within the first three months. This study showed that Bexsero is generally well tolerated, according to the Novartis press release.

Lynn Bozof, executive director of the National Meningitis Association, said that the University’s experience with Bexsero likely reinforced perceptions of the safety of the vaccine for the FDA and helped the FDA in its review process to allow the vaccine to be administered nationwide.

She added that the price of a dose Bexsero for Novartis divided by the cost of the vaccine over three to five years amounts to only pennies a day.

“Who wouldn’t pay pennies a day to save their child?” she said.

Although she said there

are potential side effects of any vaccine, most commonly a sore arm, she added that she has full confidence in the safety of the drug due to the FDA’s approval.

“I would have it myself, if I were in the right age group,” Bozof said. ”Even though this is a rare disease, I would take advantage of every opportunity to protect myself.”

Meningitis B is rare in the United States, compared to other countries. Meningitis B causes up to 90 percent of meningococcal disease cases in some European countries and is responsible for more than 80 percent of cases in Canadian infants, according to the Novartis website.

Bozof said that meningitis B is still of significant importance and that people should still take measures to protect themselves against it.

University spokesperson Martin Mbugua declined to comment on behalf of the University.

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Physics Laboratory had the highest total contribution, with a total contribution of $11,300. Nine out of the 62 staff and faculty who contributed in 2014 belonged to the physics department. This was the largest number of contributors of all departments.

“I would only speculate that the role of government in funding the activities of those units is particularly clear and perhaps also uncertain, and that might be at least one reason that could explain those larger contributions,” politics professor Martin Gilens said.

PPPL employees contributed $9,300 to Democrats and $2,000 to Republicans. The PPPL was closely followed by the Wilson School, with a total contribution of $10,875 solely for Democrats.

Twenty-eight departments of the University chose to contribute, of which 24 contributed only to Democrats.

Politics department employees split their $2,500 total into $1,750 for Democratic candidates or groups, and $750 for Republicans. Ed Zschau ’61, the sole contributor from the Keller Center, contributed $7,800 to Republicans. Princeton Environmental Institute employees recorded a sole contribution of $250 to the non-partisan Mayday PAC. Zschau did not respond to a request for comment.

The percentage of contributions to Democrats from the state of New Jersey was 59 percent — the ninth highest in the nation, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Almost 39 percent of the contributions were to Republicans, the 42nd highest in the nation.

The University follows these trends of leaning on the Democratic side. Sixty-two percent,

or $379,825, of the contributions were made to Democrats, while 36 percent, or $216,830, to Republicans. The remaining two percent, or $11,850, were made to independent organizations.

Tom Byrne ’76, former chairman of the New Jersey Democratic Party, said these results were not surprising as Democrats tend to be progressive and envision more of a role for government in bringing about positive change in society, which is in line with the interests of many academics.

“A lot of people in academia or associated with academia see the Democrats as a party that is progressive on things like education, and the environment and issues of personal freedom. ” Tom Byrne ’76

former chairman of the new jersey democratic party

“A lot of people in academia or associated with academia see the Democrats as a party that is progressive on things like education, and the environment and issues of personal freedom,” Byrne said. “So there’s a natural alignment of interests there.”

Staff and faculty leaned more toward Democrats than trustees did, with 88 percent of contributions from faculty and staff going to Democrats while 58 percent of those from trustees went to Democrats.

Gilens said University faculty, including politics professors, subscribe to diverse political views.

“I would like to think that

there is a variety of political outlooks that are conveyed in the materials that faculty use in their courses [in the Department of Politics],” Gilens said.

“Having said that, it would be surprising if the political leanings of anybody didn’t have some influence on the kinds of topics that they research and the kinds of issues that they find to be of interest and importance.”

The largest contribution from the group of University staff and faculty came from Andrew Golden, president of the Princeton University Investment Company. His four contributions totaled $8,800 and were all to Democratic candidates.

Golden declined to comment.

Twenty-three percent of all Democratic contributions, totaling $88,150, were made directly to candidates while organizations like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, DNC Services Corporation, ActBlue and EMILY’s List received the remaining $291,675.

Thirteen percent of all Republican contributions, totaling $27,130, were made directly to candidates, while the remaining $189,700 was distributed among organizations like the Massachusetts Victory Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican National Committee.

Byrne said that more contributions were given to organizations rather than individual candidates, probably because of the stricter limits on contribution size to individuals.

“It’s also true that organizations can help elect a lot of people who might share your general interests, and so donating to organizations can be a way of helping a lot of candidates that you care about rather than just one,” he said.

Byrne added that all members of the community, including members of institutions

like universities, should contribute to the election process.

“It’s important for as many people as possible to be involved in the political process and to inform themselves and to take it seriously, because elections really do have consequences for what kind of a nation we are,” he said.

Gilens said that politicians pay attention to the sources and employers that individual contributions come from, because they convey the degree of interest and assistance people in different industries, corporations and institutions are willing to provide.

“Analysts have shown very clear patterns when particular kinds of legislation, for example, are being considered: that contributions from people in the affected industries tend to increase,” he explained.

The organization that received the largest contribution was the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, receiving a total contribution of $57,800.

The candidate who received the largest contribution was Democrat Bill Foster, representing Illinois’ 11th District. Foster received 27 contributions, or 11 percent of the number of contributions from Universityaffiliated individuals, totaling $14,950.

The most active months for contributions were September and October, when 48 and 37 of the total 237 donations were made, respectively.

Byrne said this trend was natural because campaigns heat up in the fall, which is also when people really start reading about them and a lot of the fundraising events occur.

“On the other hand, politicians would like to get the money earlier so that they can plan their campaigns more carefully and have the money in the bank that they know they’ll need,” Byrne said.

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so I take that stance as well, and I support [passing the referendum], too.”

Cheng noted that it might be difficult to have the 201516 academic calendar altered due to it being a short-term issue, but that part of the purpose of the referendum was to also have the formula determining the calendar revised for years to come.

Currently, winter break begins on the Friday in the week of Dec. 12-18 and ends on the Sunday in Jan. 2-8, meaning that winter break varies annually from being approximately two weeks to approximately three weeks in length.

The academic year begins on the Wednesday falling in Sept. 10-16.

USG vice president Aleksandra Czulak ’17 said turnout was crucial to the success of the referendum in prompt-

ing change.

“More students need to vote so that, when we bring it to the administration, we have more to show for it,” Czulak said.

Czulak noted that the November referendum calling for transparency in protocols and practices relating to student withdrawals and readmissions for mental health-related reasons had an overwhelming 95.5 percent approval rating from student voters.

“I think two weeks for a winter break is too short, especially since finals is afterwards,” David Gilhooley ’17 said.

Kendall Bedford ’17 said that a three-week winter break was preferable and would allow her to spend more time with friends.

But other students, like Stacey Park ’17, said that they did not mind having a shorter break.

“I didn’t think the break

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was that short,” Park said.

“Reading period is stressful, but that also feels like a break to me. I don’t feel like we really need a three-week break, and I like when school starts.”

Reasons listed in the referendum resolution for maintaining a three-week winter break included allowing international students and students from lower-income backgrounds the opportunity to spend more time with friends and family at the same fixed cost of travel, giving students more time to complete classwork and assignments before reading period and allowing seniors with thesis deadlines in January an additional week of work.

“USG doesn’t have the power to change the calendar, but what the referendum would do is call upon the USG senate to collaborate with students, faculty and administrators,” Czulak said.

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group.”

As far as expenditures, funding for the Office of Information Technology and the Art Museum will also be increased by 4.3 and 6.9 percent, respectively. The Art Museum hopes to provide universal access to digital images and scholarly documentation of its collection and OIT submitted a request for a new position in high-performance computing, which the Committee approved.

Additionally, more resources will be granted to the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and the Freshman Scholars Institute.

The budget will also accommodate a push to improve the diversity of career opportunities made available through the Office of Career Services, with a goal of transitioning from a transactional model in which Career Services primarily helps upperclassmen find jobs and internships to a model that better assists students craft visions for their career goals.

Other recommendations the Committee made include an increase of graduate stipends of 3 percent and an aggregate salary pool equivalent to the pools of the last two years for faculty pay. Lee said that remaining competitive with peer institutions in faculty salaries was essential to prevent losing faculty.

The Committee also released projections about budget deficits in coming years, predicting a $20 million deficit in fiscal year 2018 and a decrease of $2 million each year after that.

“Those numbers are not unusual historically,” Lee said of the predicted deficits. “1.7 billion dollars is the operating budget, so it’s a tiny percentage.”

Lee said the Committee felt confident with its investments this year and aims to use its financial resources to ensure the most effective and consequential investments are made.

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and numerous members of the Priorities Committee did not respond to requests for comment.

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lion in Albania.

“Small-scale rebellions looking for restoration of rights all the way to full rebellions demanding independence [dotted the period],” he said.

Albanian rebels in 1912 weren’t asking the government for their old guns back, Sohra-

bi explained, but were instead asking for new guns. “[That] government saw hundreds of thousands of rebellions goes to show that this is a very serious crisis that the Ottomans are facing,” Sohrabi said.

Sohrabi ended the lecture by explaining that this is often where the narrative stops, but he said he thinks it should go on.

Sohrabi questioned whether there could be an Albania without an Albanian nationalist movement and said much could be learned from the interacting and connected study of nationalism in different parts of the region.

The talk, titled “Reluctant Nationalists: Albanian and Ottomans on the Brink,” took place in Jones 202 at noon on Monday.

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Matthew Choi Taitano is a freshman from Yigo, Guam. He can be reached at mtaitano@ princeton.edu.

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y mom cried when I showed her that I had a bed of my own in my dorm room. She cried because I spent almost my entire life sleeping on either the floor or the living room couch. She said, “God has blessed my baby with a bed of his own.” I didn’t think much of it at the time, until I woke up from my first night at Princeton and felt more rejuvenated than ever. The dull ache in my back to which I had become accustomed wasn’t there anymore. I ran my hands across my bed sheets and felt a newfound sense of ownership. These were my sheets, and this was my bed. I began to feel very sentimental and gave a short prayer of thanks to God for affording me this opportunity, at the number one university in the United States. I was excited to tackle my first semester at Princeton and to be exposed to the academic richness that the University had to offer.

This excitement began to dwindle as the semester went on. Instead of being intrigued by the work from my classes, I felt anxious about what I needed to remember for my quizzes and exams in order to get good grades. I was always comparing myself to other people who seemed to handle the workload much better than I did. I felt intimidated by those who said that their high schools prepared them well enough for some of the classes that they were taking at Princeton. My high school was ranked one of the worst schools in Guam, so I didn’t have the resources that I needed to prepare myself for college. Moreover, as a first generation college student, my parents didn’t have the abilities to advise me on what I needed to do in order to succeed in college.

The first semester of college is difficult for all students, but it tends to be more difficult for low-income first generation students. Many students here feel the pressure to succeed because their parents expect them to. However, many low-income first generations feel the pressure to succeed because their parents need them to. In fact, many of them have worked hard throughout high school to attend a school as prestigious as the University so that they can provide a better life for their parents and siblings. This creates more pressure for these students because they might feel that their failures will have negative repercussions not only on themselves, but also on their families.

When I went back home for winter break, I was reminded why I worked so hard in high school to get into a school like Princeton. Revisiting the poor conditions in which my family and many others in Guam continue to live after being exposed to the abundance of resources offered at the University made me recall the ambition and motivation I had as a high school student to succeed. At first, I thought this was a feeling specific to me; however, after talking to my friends about our breaks when we came back to campus, I discovered that many of them felt the same way. One of my friends said that when he went back home, he remembered that he was poor— the exact same thought that I had.

One of the reasons that low-income first generation students have a difficult time during their first semesters, and even throughout all of college, is that they feel as though they are not good enough.

Also, they might feel that their success in college will not be enough to provide for their family. They might think, “Well, my family has been poor my entire life.

How is my success in college going to change that?” This belief that the rich remain rich and the poor remain poor creates an environment in which those who have been subjected to poor conditions are almost dissuaded to better their lives.

However, we, as Princeton students, must remember the power a Princeton degree holds. As pretentious as it may sound, Princeton has an alumni network that traces back to some of the most powerful people in history. We cannot let others, and especially ourselves, get in our way.

Moreover, we must not doubt the reasons we were accepted to the University.

Many people might believe that students like myself got in because of where we came from and that the poor conditions in which we have lived might have made us seem more “interesting.” Low-income first generation students must realize that they are more than their socio-economic status. We deserve to be here as much as any other person on this campus, and we should not feel discouraged when concepts do not come to us as quickly as those who went to better schools than we did.

Instead, we should use this fact as motivation to work harder and to showcase our capability to succeed despite the conditions in which we have grown up.

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here are over 129 million different books, according to engineers for the Google Books project. That’s so many books! If you read one book an hour without sleep, it would take you 15,000 years to finish them all.

But a super reliable source (Wikipedia) tells me that approximately two million new titles are published each year, so you would need to read 228 books every hour just to keep up. I can’t read that fast. Not even University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 can read that fast, and he has superpowers.

No one should blame Eisgruber, then, if he does not choose the perfect book for Princeton Pre-read. He has other presidential duties and can’t spend all his hours book-picking. It’s a wonder he finds time to book-pick at all. But he does. The Class of 2018 got bubble-wrapped copies of “Meaning in Life and Why It Matters” by Susan Wolf GS ’78 when we were little pre-frosh.

“I hope that it will introduce the freshmen to the kinds of scholarship they will encounter at Princeton,” Eisgruber said of the Pre-read program. Wolf’s book was well-suited for this. More philosophical than practical, it reads a lot like a dissertation.

She defines terms like “subjective” and “objective” worth and asserts that goldfish-gazing is not a meaningful

way to spend our lives. (Shucks.) Her 63-page argument is followed by 70 pages of critical comments, which teach the conventions of academic dialogue. As a work of philosophy, “Meaning in Life” is probably really good, which I can say with authority because I took one philosophy class when I was 15 years old.

However, I don’t think that “Meaning in Life” was as great a pick for non-philosophers. Wolf did not imagine that her audience would be 18-year-olds bombarded with the distractions of summer. She especially did not imagine that she would have to compete against bubble wrap for her reader’s attention. I, for one, do not have a heart stony enough to choose highbrow books over bubbles.

I am not alone. According to a deeply scientific survey that I conducted within my zee group, more than half of freshmen did not read the entire book. Among participants who did, not one said it was useful to them. This is so sad! Libraries are filled with useful books, and even though we will never find the perfect one, we should still try to find a book that will move people, help people or change their lives somehow. The summer before college is a critical time for us. We are still impressionable. Work and stress do not constrain us. The books admitted students read will influence the way they think forever, and Eisgruber must consider this when selecting a book for Pre-read.

Maybe this year he will pick “The

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Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou or “How to Win Friends and Influence People”

by Dale Carnegie. Or a biography of Benjamin Franklin, or a book about time management or “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families” by Philip Gourevitch a first-hand chronicle of the genocide in Rwanda. These books are readable, and they can favorably shape or change the way a person acts and thinks.

Of course, my proposals are imperfect because I cannot read 228 books an hour. Someone who reads more than I do can suggest better books.

Eisgruber himself is better read than I will ever be, so I am trusting him to pick a good book for the Class of 2019.

When picking, I hope he will keep in mind the audience and where they are in their lives. “Meaning in Life” was a treat for academics, but admitted students are not academics yet. They are children. Erudite treatises will put them to sleep. I understand the desire to introduce us to scholarship early, but have faith in the University.

Our professors and our curriculum will do the introducing soon enough.

Instead, let’s give the Class of 2019 something engaging and inspiring — a book they’ll want to read and which will move them more than the magic of bubble wrap.

Newby Parton is a freshman from McMinnville, Tenn. He can be reached at newby@princeton.edu.

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’d like to think that most people at the University know and care about the recent trial in Tennessee, in which two former Vanderbilt University students were convicted of the gang rape of a fellow student. (Two additional former students are awaiting trial for the same incident.) After all, despite being states away, we too have recognized that sexual assault is a problem on campus, as evidenced by the reforms adopted by the administration this past fall that sought to improve the school’s ability to respond adequately to such crimes in accordance with Title IX obligations. However, I fear that Princeton students, like those at other universities around the United States, tend to ignore and dismiss these problems that don’t directly involve them.

Unfortunately that blissful ignorance, highlighted by the attitudes of Vanderbilt students toward this horrific rape case, seems to exist here, there and all around, perpetuating the existing rape culture and preventing fundamental change.

The Vanderbilt case involved four football players who took turns assaulting an unconscious classmate, whom they then dragged into a dorm room while other students watched but failed to intercede or report a problem. The assailants even documented their attack by taking video and pictures. Many by-

standers were aware of the assault as it occurred, and more knew of the attack in its aftermath, but all of them failed to do anything about it. Rather, the defense of one assailant was that he was too drunk to remember and that the partying atmosphere on campus contributed to his actions.

The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt’s student newspaper, found that two weeks ago, right before the trial commenced, “many students were not even aware of it.” More telling, however, as The New York Times noted, was that most Vanderbilt students appeared to take one of two polar opposite attitudes towards the situation: either that Vanderbilt “is not the sort of place where such things happen” or “they happen everywhere — and either way, no one should point a finger at Vanderbilt.” Apparently, students “find it hard to square what happened with their views of this elite university as an oasis from a harder world.”

Both of these attitudes are extremely problematic. First, to suggest that these issues don’t exist at an elite institution such as Vanderbilt (or just about any other university in the United States) is more than just an ignorant perspective; it is dangerous because it can encourage active denunciation of rape victims’ claims and facilitate bystander inaction. Regardless of which statistic you believe is an accurate representation of the prevalence of sexual assault and rape on campuses, it is clearly widespread, and universities must be proactive in

confronting the issue.

The second viewpoint is just as troubling. Even though it at least recognizes the existence of sexual assault as prevalent and problematic, it uses its pervasiveness as an excuse to avoid addressing the issue, rather than as a call for massive change around the country.

An understanding that no university is immune to these problems is important; just because sexual assault hasn’t been covered in the local or national news does not mean it is not an issue.

And with cases of sexual assault, these low public numbers are usually more troubling, since they reflect a culture of underreporting. However, this understanding is not enough unless it translates into a call for change everywhere.

And unfortunately, as the Vanderbilt case shows, it typically doesn’t.

I don’t think Vanderbilt is unique in this way. When allegations of sexual misconduct at Tiger Inn came to light this past fall, many students on campus treated the issue superficially, dismissing what happened as a non-issue. And when people did take a strong stance in response by graffitiing the TI premises, their actions were almost always criticized. Although admittedly this was because that person resorted to vandalism rather than trying to promote structural change within the system, it seemed that few people were willing to even discuss the problems of rape culture that this response was highlighting. The entire controversy was shortlived, downplayed and not particularly

widespread. People try to protect their university’s reputation, rather than accept the fact that their school, like all others, is imperfect and would benefit from certain changes. Perhaps this is because the students’ own reputations are tied up in the school’s image; to much of society the school is a representative of each student, and vice versa. And while such a generalization is wrong to begin with, it is even more problematic when it is used to excuse or belittle serious problems that exist on campus.

If University students don’t think that sexual assault is happening here, then they are sorely mistaken and turning a blind eye. While it might be easier to pretend that these crimes don’t happen here, or that when they do, they are isolated cases, this is simply not true.

Those who use the prevalence of these felonies as an excuse for inaction are also taking away the wrong message. These attitudes are not conducive to inspiring massive cultural changes, both at the University and nationally, which is what is really necessary to curb the occurrences of sexual assault and to push society to better respond to cases.

Vanderbilt is not an exception when it comes to sexual assault. The University is not an exception when it comes to sexual assault. Neither of these realities means it’s an acceptable excuse to sit back and let sexual assault happen.

Marni Morse is a sophomore from Washington, D.C. She can be reached at mlmorse@princeton.edu.

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Thompson, two-thirds of Albany’s former unstoppable family trio, along with Duke graduate Jordan Wolf, a 2014 Tewaaraton Trophy finalist.

Orban, whose 26 games scoring at least one goal mark the second-longest streak in Division I lacrosse, has emerged as one of the NCAA’s strongest distance shooters. This skill becomes even more valuable at the professional level, where players have the opportunity to score two points for a shot outside a 16-yard arc.

The Hounds finished eighth of eight teams in 2014, dropping four of their 14 contests.

“They had somewhat of a down-season last year, but in the past they’ve been a serious contender,” Orban said. “They’ve had some great talent, and the coach seems like a great guy. I heard his interview during the draft. At that level every player will have the opportunity to contend for a championship.”

The MLL, founded in 2001, does not have as much media exposure as other professional leagues. As a result, recruitment of amateur players involves far less hype than, say, an NFL fan would expect. Orban recalled that he had talked with his head coach Chris Bates about organizations that had reached out to him.

Emails communications from teams asked if players would be interested in playing at the next level.

“It was pretty lowkey,” Orban said. “I actually didn’t receive a call prior to getting drafted. I was watching at home with my parents and

my name just popped up on the screen. A low-key process, but exciting nonetheless.”

MLL players, on average, earn $10,000-$25,000 annually, which leads many players to find additional sources of income. Orban plans to work outside of lacrosse while traveling with his team on weekends.

“It’s definitely a growing sport, now that it’s moving out west more,” he explained. “More college and high schools are getting teams out on that coast.

Although it’s not as widely

“I was watching at home with my parents, and my name just popped up on the screen. [It was a] low-key process, but exciting nonetheless.”

Kip orban ’15,

men’s lacrosse captain

publicized, the guys in the league have some tremendous skill and play with the kind of intensity they had growing up.”

“It’s a good balance,” he continued, “because I’ll be working, but still I’ll have the opportunity to blow off steam and play the game I love and grew up playing.”

Tom Schreiber ’14, an offensive midfielder and twotime Tewaaraton Trophy finalist, highlights the recent crop of Princeton lacrosse professionals. The Long Island-native was drafted first overall by the Ohio Machine in 2014 and was one of two rookies selected for the past season’s All-Star Game.

On the other side of the ball, two Princeton players won Defensive Player of the Week honors in 2014. First was defenseman Chad Wiedmaier ’12, who was recently traded from the Machine to the Boston Cannons. Second was goalkeeper Tyler Fiorito ’12, who split time in cage for the Chesapeake Bayhawks.

Orban identified Schreiber and Wiedmaier as two players he looked forward to playing against.

“Chad was a senior when I was a freshman,” he said.

“He was a stud of a defenseman, all-American talent.

He continued to make waves in the MLL. He’s a great player and a great friend of mine.

And Schreiber, we’ve run on the same middle line for three years. It’ll be very different to play against him, but very fun nonetheless.”

Future Hall of Famer Ryan Boyle ’04 has experienced perhaps the most professional success of any Princeton athlete. He announced his retirement from the MLL back in September after 11 seasons spent with the Philadelphia Barrage and the Boston Cannons. Four championships came for the attackman, whose 272 career assists rank most all-time.

The 2015 Princeton men’s lacrosse season begins Saturday, Feb. 14 as the Tigers host Manhattan. In spite of some of the nation’s premier talent, the program has not reached the NCAA tournament since falling to Virginia in round one of the 2012 bracket. Losing Schreiber to graduation means losing one of the Ivy League best-ever talents. Orban and MacDonald, as evidenced by their recent selections, will be looked to for more of the productivity and leadership that have thus far characterized their collegiate careers.

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Both the men’s and women’s track teams had their ups and downs in their meets over Intersession.

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Challenge Cup. Women’s Track and Field In the Tiger Open, women’s track and field had their fair share of success, achieving first in four events.

Junior Julia Ratcliffe picked up right where she left off before finals period. Her first place finish in the weight throw marks her third straight victory in the event. Joining Ratcliffe in triumph was sophomore Allison Harris, who finished first in pole vaulting.

The results in both the 500m run and the distance relay were also excellent. The Tigers claimed four of the top five spots in the former, with juniors Cecilia Barowski and Meghan McMullin, sophomore Elisa Steele and senior Emily Broyles claiming first, second, third and fifth, re-

spectively. Broyles was also part of the first place distance relay team, along with sophomore Zoe Sims, freshman Ashley Forte and junior Katherine Fluehr.

The following week was certainly busier, with the team

Women’s track and field had its fair share of success, achieving first in four events.

competing in both Penn State Nationals in State College, Penn., as well as in the Armory Invitational in New York. At Penn State, junior Taylor Morgan placed first in the indoor pentathlon, setting a Princeton record with her score of

3,777. Along with junior teammate Kerry Krause, Morgan also was part of a three-way tie for first in the high jump.

At the Armory Invitational, the Tigers saw solid results but a dearth of first place finishes.

Senior Erika Fleuhr, sophomore Lizzie Bird and freshman Melissa Reed finished 13th, 23rd and 28th respectively in the 3,000m run.

The relay races at the Armory were also not as strong as they were the previous week. In the 4x800m, sophomore Katie Hanss, senior Emily de la Bruyere, Sims and Bird finished fifth out of 12 in their meet. The 4x200m and 4x400m teams would go on to finish 10th and 17th, respectively.

As with the men, women’s track and field will have only a week to rest. They also head out to State College to compete in the Sykes and Sabock Challenge Cup this weekend.

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arty to the program. He leads all active coaches in the NCAA in win percentage after coaching seven years at Division III

school Adrian College in Michigan. The team had a difficult season in 2013-14 and was hoping to have a bounce-back season this year with the induction of a revered head coach.

There is other goods news for Princeton, in that four of the

top five leading scorers on the team will be returning to the Tigers next year. Additionally, Colton Phinney has also shown flashes of brilliance with a 0.911 save percentage on the season and has two more years of eligibility remaining.

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Bulldogs. Kang and Osborne both won their matches at the one and two positions, and sophomore Ben Leizman also came away with a win. Kang

won in three straight sets, while Osborne and Leizman both won 3-1.

The women came away from the weekend with a huge boost in their confidence. Knowing that they are capable of beating a team as strong as Yale bodes well

for their performance in the Howe Cup in two weeks. The men fought hard and will continue to do so when they face Columbia on Friday.

Both the men and women will take on the Lions at Jadwin Gymnasium at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., respectively.

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the previous day’s losses, the Tigers returned on Sunday for an intense battle against Harvard. Princeton proved its Ivy league status by winning Sunday’s first three events: the 200 medley relay, 400 IM and 100 free. In fact, the team’s performance in the 200 medley relay set a new pool record.

After the first three events on Sunday, the Tigers had overcome their deficit and earned a 124-117 lead.

However, the Crimson came right back and won five consecutive events afterwards.

Following the meet, Wagner said, “It wasn’t as disappointing as the score ref lect-

ed. I think we had a lot of great swim, with close races that swayed the lead. I think we laid it all on the line.”

The Tigers finished the meet on a high note, winning the 400 free relay, their first win in the event in over four years and capping off an impressive weekend of relays. In fact, the Tigers won three out of their four relay races at the meet.

For the players and coaches, though, this weekend was not only a physical game also a mental one. Freshman Corey Okubo explained, “The 200 yard butterf ly [on Saturday] didn’t go the way I wanted it to go, but on the second day, I had a confidence boost, and my mental state was much better.” Further encouraging this posi-

tive mentality, Buerger said that he personally tried to “make sure the energy was high throughout the entire team.”

Moving forward, the Tigers hope to carry this mentality on to the rest of the season and the ultimate prize: the Ivy League championships. While the team certainly plans to train tirelessly, assistant coach Mitch Dalton noted, “The only way to win with such talented athletes is to focus on ourselves.” With emphasis on team congruency and energy, the Tigers promise a must-watch sequel.

The team will visit Columbia this Friday before hosting the Ivies at Princeton’s own DeNunzio Pool Feb. 26-28.

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } MEN’S SWIMMING

MEN’S HOCKEY

Men’s hockey earn win, loss, draw as season enters the final stretch

By Chris Grubbs contributor

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In their last meet, the Tigers faced an intense battle against Harvard on the Crimson’s home turf, with the Bulldogs left behind.

Tigers dominate Yale, fall to Harvard in HYP meet

By David Liu Contributor

The three powerhouses of the Ivy League collided in Harvard’s Blodgett Pool this past weekend for the annual Harvard, Yale and Princeton men’s swimming and diving meet. With all three teams putting undefeated Ivy League records on the line, the everlasting rivalry intensified. The Tigers accumulated an early lead over the Bulldogs, going on

to win 267.5 to 85.5, but lost 160 to 193 against the Crimson in a battle until the very end.

Despite Yale’s impressive record, the key matchups foreshadowed a PrincetonHarvard showdown. True to form, the 100 back, 200 back, 100 breast and 200 IM all featured matchups between Princeton and Harvard. Coming off a dual double meet sweep over Brown and Penn, and carrying the most impressive

undefeated record, Harvard certainly presented a formidable challenge for the Tigers.

Starting at 6 p.m. on Saturday night, the HYP kicked off with a Princeton victory in the 200 free relay, consisting of seniors Harrison Wagner and Connor Maher, sophomore Julian Mackrel and freshman Alexander Lewis. With Yale making it into the top three in only one of the first eight events, the tension between Princ-

eton and Harvard emerged early in the meet. Freshman Zach Buerger then led Princeton to victory in both the 200 f ly and IM, with the Tigers sweeping the latter highly anticipated event.

Unfortunately, the Crimson won the contested 100 back and 100 breast matchups, and swept the 1 meter diving event, ending the day with a manageable 10284 lead over the Tigers.

Determined to overcome See M. SWIMMING page 7

While most of the student body was off enjoying a break from the stress of finals and Dean’s Date, the men’s hockey team kept working during Intersession as it travelled along the East Coast for a three-game stint. The Tigers (3-15-2, 1-12-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference) played Army, Yale and Brown. The team finished the week with a 1-1-1 record.

The team began its week by playing at home against nonconference opponent Army (517-2), a team it had not played for 16 years. The Tigers beat the Black Knights 4-1 at Baker Rink with four different goal scorers in the game. Senior Tucker Brockett, junior Michael Ambriosa, sophomore Ben Foster and sophomore Tommy Davis all lit the lamp for Princeton.

Additionally, three players had a multipoint game thanks to the Tigers’ sleek passing.

Princeton also proved extremely successful on the penalty kill, going an outstanding 7 for 7.

Later that week, Princeton travelled to New Haven for a game against Yale (12-6-3, 7-5-2 ECAC). The Bulldogs, a Division I powerhouse, are currently ranked 16th in the nation and sit in fourth place in the strong ECAC. Yale was able to come away from the game with a 4-0 victory over the Tigers. Princeton surrendered all four goals in the second period. The Tigers struggled on both ends of the rink as they went 0-3 on the power play and gave up 40 shots to the sharp-

shooting Bulldogs.

The following night, the Tigers bounced back from the loss and played the Brown Bears (4-16-1, 1-12-1 ECAC) and finished with a 2-2 tie. The Tigers got off to an early lead against their ECAC opponent in the first period with a goal from freshman Eric Robinson. Brown, however, scored two goals within 42 seconds of each other to gain the lead in the second period. Princeton responded later in the period with a goal from junior Jonathon Liau. The teams were stuck at a stalemate from that point on as sophomore goaltender Colton Phinney made an impressive 31 saves during the game.

The Tigers heads to New York on Feb. 6. The team faces off against Colgate University (14-9-3, 6-5-3 ECAC) in Hamilton, N.Y. and then travels to Ithaca, N.Y. to play the Cornell Big Red (9-9-3, 7-6-1 ECAC) the following day. Cornell and Colgate are tied for 6th place in the ECAC compared to the Tigers, who are currently in 11th place.

Additionally, Colgate is ranked 17th in Division I. The Tigers played both of these teams earlier in the season in back to back games. Played at Baker Rink, Princeton beat Cornell 2-1 and then lost to Colgate the next day with a score of 5-1.

Princeton hockey plays in arguably the best conference in Division I hockey as the ECAC has had three of the four national championship representatives the past two seasons. This year the team welcomed head coach Ron FogSee M. HOCKEY page 7

MEN’S LACROSSE

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Two Tigers drafted into Major League Lacrosse

Track and Field teams experience mixed results in Intersession meets

By Andrew Steele senior writer

Major League Lacrosse will gain some offensive firepower next season, following the selections of Princeton senior captain and midfielder Kip Orban and senior attackman Mike MacDonald in the 2015 MLL Collegiate Draft last Friday.

The Charlotte Hounds selected Orban, who tallied 21 goals and 8 assists last season, in the third round with the 19th pick. MacDonald, who led the Tigers with 22 assists in 2014, went 44th overall to the Rochester Rattlers in the sixth round.

A recent release by Princeton Athletic Communications gives a good account of the seniors’ player profiles. MacDonald, a native of Georgetown, Ontario, possesses a prodigious ability to finish on the crease.

His consistent positioning and soft hands make him an outside feeder’s dream target.

Rochester finished last season with the league’s top record before falling in the semifinals to the Denver Outlaws, the eventual champions.

MacDonald will join their attack unit which features Ty and Miles See M. LACROSSE page 6

By Miles Hinson Sports editor

It appears that finals period did nothing to slow down the Princeton men’s track and field team.

After a two-week layoff, the Tigers had solid performances in both of their meets over Intersession. At the Tiger Open on Jan. 24, the Tigers were able to place first in six events.

Sophomore Christopher Cook and freshman Mitchel Charles took first and second place respectively in the shot put, with Cook setting a personal best with his 18-meter toss. Prince-

ton also dominated the 60-meter dash, with junior John Hill, freshman Carrington Akosa, and junior Dré Nelson claiming the top three spots in the event.

Akosa would prove to be instrumental in Princeton’s success at the Tiger Open, going on to win 200-meter dash later that day, with sophomore Brent Albertson coming in third. He was also part of the winning 4×400 relay team, along with sophomores Bryant Switzer, Greg Leeper and Ray Mennin.

Akosa wasn’t the only Tiger to earn multiple victories. The

aforementioned Leeper came first in the long jump competition, with teammate Lane Russell tying for third in the same event. The last of the men’s six victories in this meet went to senior Nana Owusu-Nyanteki, who took first in the triple jump.

The following week at the Armory saw fewer first place performances for the Tigers but nevertheless strong showings overall. Three Tigers placed in the top 10 in the mile run, with sophomore William Bertrand coming in fourth, and freshmen Kenan Farmer and Zach Albright coming

in 7th and 9th, respectively.

Princeton also fared well in the 3,000-meter run, with senior Matt McDonald and junior Sam Berger coming respectively in 3rd and 6th place.

The relays were unfortunately not as successful at the Armory as they had been the weekend before. The Tigers managed 6th in the 4x400m, 8th in the 4x800m and 10th in the 4x200m.

Overall, the two weekends of competition proved solid for the Tigers. They return to action next week to compete in Penn State’s Sykes and Sabock See TRACK AND FIELD page 6

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SQUASH

Women’s squash sweeps, men’s team goes 2-1 in matches over Intersession break

By Christine Kong contributor

This weekend, the men’s and women’s squash teams had a busy travel weekend, taking on Stanford, Brown and Yale. The women were able to sweep the weekend, defeating all three of their opponents. The men split their match-ups, defeating Brown, but falling to Yale.

The women opened their

weekend on Friday with a bang, routing Stanford in a 9-0 sweep. The match was held at Brown, and it was the first match Princeton had away. However, this clearly did not phase the Tigers, who won all their matches but one in three straight sets. They played in a two-shift format, with positions two, four, six and eight competing first, followed by one, three, five, seven and nine. The first

shift’s success set the momentum of the match in the right direction for the Tigers, and the second shift was able to ride it out for the win.

On Saturday, the Tigers stayed in Providence to take on the Bears. The women had another sweep, beating the Bears 9-0. They played the same two-shift format on Saturday as they did on Friday. Sophomores Maria Elena Ubina, Alexandra Toth,

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and junior Tara Harrington earned 3-0 wins. Junior Rachel Leizman also came out with a 3-1 win. Seniors Nicole Bunyan and Hallie Dewey, as well as Olivia Fiechter and Isabella Bersani, were all able to win in three straight sets.

Freshman Kira Keating also came away with a 3-1 win.

The men were also able to defeat Brown 7-2. The win did not come easily with four of the individual matches last-

ing four games. Junior Sam Ezratty rallied to a win over five games. Seniors Samuel Kang and Tyler Osborne both swept their matches at the one and two spots respectively. Princeton won all its matches from the fifth spot and below.

On Sunday, the women upset the Bulldogs 5-4 in New Haven. Going into the matchup, Princeton was ranked fifth, and Yale fourth.

Fiechter and Ubina won their matches in three straight sets at the one and two positions.

Keating and Toth were also able to win their matches at the eighth and ninth positions. Senior Nicole Bunyan proved her incredible mental strength as she rallied through five sets for a win that put the Tigers into the lead.

The men fell 6-3 to the See SQUASH page 7

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