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In Opinion Steve Swanson talks about discrimination and Will Rivitz argues that pervasive anti-Jewish sentiments need to be addressed. PAGE 6

Today on Campus 4:30 p.m.: Writer Akhil Sharma and poet A.E. Stallings read from their work. The event is part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center.

The Archives

March 11, 1946 The Daily Princetonian adds two female reporters to its staff to write feature stories of married couples on campus. This event was the first time the ‘Prince’ added female reporters since its founding in 1876.

LOCAL NEWS

Cop cites over 100 outside Varsity Liquors

By Chitra Marti senior writer

A Princeton police detective on a plainclothes detail operating outside of Varsity Liquors has made at least 20 arrests of University students and over 100 arrests in total over the past two years, police and court records show.

In just the last two weeks, at least five more students were arrested, as noted in weekly Princeton Police Department press releases. In the past, department officials have noted that the press releases are not a comprehensive lists of arrests, suggesting that even more may have taken place.

An examination of police and court records by The Daily Princetonian showed that in most cases, the detective, Adam Basatemur, observed students walking into the store and followed them as they left. If alcohol was purchased, Basatemur stopped the students and demanded identification.

In one narrative from an arrest made in November 2014, Basatemur wrote that he had made over 100 arrests in the Varsity Liquors area for alcohol-related offenses. Many of these involved Basatemur following the students from Varsity Liquors to a better-lit area — often St. Paul’s Church — and asking to search bags and see identification there.

In nearly every case, more than one student was stopped, with either one student above the age of 21 having bought alcohol and another student under 21 holding the alcohol at the time of the arrest, or with one student in possession of false identification and both students in possession of the alcohol.

Arrests were generally made on charges of underage possession of alcohol, serving alcohol to minors and, in cases of false identification, tampering with public records. All three offenses are categorized as

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Over the past two years, an undercover Princeton police officer has arrested more than 100 people outside Varsity Liquors.

disorderly person offenses, which carry a maximum sentence of six months in prison and minimum fines and probationary periods.

Every case examined was dismissed in court, most following payment of fines or completion of community service. Some students were also able

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

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Graduate school dean stresses importance of career path programs

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By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

Graduate student workers reach agreement with NYU, end strike

Graduate student workers at New York University affiliated with the United Auto Workers Local 2110 union averted a strike after signing a deal with the administration, according to an email sent from NYU President John Sexton to students. The move comes after a petition signed by 614 NYU graduate students was circulated.

The petition explained that while graduate students had voted with a 98.4 percent majority in December 2013 to unionize, the administration had not settled a contract with them since then. Graduate students had been on strike since December 2014, and the petition said that if the administration did not offer a better contract to graduate workers by Tuesday, NYU students would go on strike with them.

The petition said NYU had made $399 million in “profit” in 2013, although as a nonprofit organization the term technically does not apply.

The petition urged the administration to provide graduate student workers with increased annual wages, Ph.D. tuition remission, a shorter contract length for workers, 100 percent health care coverage and family health care and child care benefits. Students noted that NYU creates more student debt than any other American university.

Details of the actual agreement were not immediately available and were expected to be released on Wednesday.

to get their records expunged, meaning police narratives are no longer available.

The ‘Prince’ spoke to several University students who were arrested near Varsity Liquors in the last two years. These students were granted anonymity See ARRESTS page 2

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N.J. Senator Robert Menendez is preparing to face federal criminal charges for corruption.

Justice Department prepares charges against N.J. Senator

By Jacob Donnelly news editor

The Department of Justice is preparing to bring criminal corruption charges against New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, CNN reported on Friday.

Documents that were mistakenly unsealed by a federal court show that prosecutors allege Menendez illegally advanced the personal business interests of a donor, Florida ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen. Investigators have also focused on gifts given

by Melgen to Menendez that Menendez failed to report for years on ethics disclosure forms as evidence of intent to be bribed.

On Tuesday, Menendez told Politico that the source of the leak of information to CNN should be investigated, while federal officials have reiterated that they expect a grand jury in New Jersey to indict Menendez in the next few weeks, Politico reported.

Menendez did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Melgen and a Department of Justice spokesman

also did not respond to requests for comment.

Experts interviewed said that while Menendez has a number of potential legal defenses available to him, prosecutors may have additional evidence they have not yet disclosed or may even have Melgen as a cooperating witness.

“This is not the first case to involve payments which may or may not be in good faith to a politician or in bad faith with the expectation of a quid pro quo,” Juliet Sorensen ’95, See MENENDEZ page 3

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

The Council of the Princeton University Community discussed graduate student career paths, the Princeton Perspective Project and the Special Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at its meeting on Monday.

“Graduate student placement and professional development is an area that’s been increasing in importance,” Dean of the Graduate School Sanjeev Kulkarni said.

The Graduate School has a number of programs for professional development that work in cooperation with the Office of Career Services, the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and specific academic departments, he said.

“Since 2008, our appointments for graduate students and walk-in students has increased 63 percent,” Associate Director for Graduate Student Career Services Amy Pszczolkowski said. “They come to see us for both academic and non-academic career situations.”

Roughly 30 specific professional development skill programs are currently offered for graduate students, Pszczolkowski noted, adding that Career Services’ Graduate Student Advisory Board wants to further explore ways in which it can be of assistance.

Students pursuing non-academic jobs still receive dispro-

portionately low support, philosophy professor Sarah-Jane Leslie said.

“When we actually look at the numbers, though, at most we place about 50 percent of our students into academic jobs,” she said. “We need to ask the question of how we can best support our graduate students and not have that answer be how to place them in academic jobs.”

Placement strategies specific to the economics department include helping students make use of alumni networks and alumni support, economics professor and department placement officer Stephen Redding said.

Mark Esposito GS said that a career symposium for molecular biology graduate students was held this fall to help students secure careers, adding that alumni connections and support for the molecular biology department have been growing.

CPUC members noted there were talks in place to discuss how to improve several facets of the job placement process for graduate students in response to questions from the audience about how best to get placement officers in more departments, how to increase transparency regarding to whom students can reach out for help with career placement and how to convince faculty members to change their mindset regarding See CPUC page 4

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Wilson College announces hiring of new Director of NSA discusses Director of Student Life to fill vacancy accountability, privacy

By Zoe Toledo contributor

Wilson College announced Aaron King as its new Director of Student Life in an email to students last Monday.

The Director of Student Life is responsible for the non-academic aspects of undergraduate life within a residential college.

Former Wilson College DSL Regan Crotty ’00 is now the Title

IX Administrator for the University.

Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin, who took part in the hiring process of Aaron King, said King’s experience in residential education and attention to diversity and inclusion was a strength that made him stand out.

“He brings experience in areas supporting students, in both long-term and crisis situ-

ations and in supporting community standards,” Olin said.

King was previously a program manager at Stanford’s Office of Residential Education who oversaw the Row, the upperclass housing system at Stanford.

King said that being a DSL appealed to him due to both the ability to support students broadly by working with the See WILSON page 4

By Grant Golub staff writer

The National Security Agency must acknowledge its mistakes, be accountable to citizens, not cut corners and follow the law in the course of its duties, Admiral Michael Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, said in a lecture on Tuesday.

Rogers began his remarks by explaining the roles of both the U.S. Cyber Command and the NSA in national intelligence.

The Cyber Command is a part of the Department of Defense, and its primary mission is to defend the DOD’s cyber network, to provide cyber capabilities for the department and, under direction from either President Barack Obama or See LECTURE page 5

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to freely discuss the subject, as their cases have been dismissed and in some cases expunged.

Arrests were not limited to students. In one case, a 59 year-old man was arrested after being given money by two juveniles to have vodka purchased for them. Two Hun School students were also arrested in November 2014.

Basatemur, who made every arrest considered for this article, has had a rocky career with the Princeton Police Department; though he was named 2005 Princeton Borough Officer of the Year, he was also suspended without pay for two months in 2007 after allegedly forcing a woman he had pulled over for speeding to defecate on the side of the road while he watched.

The Borough eventually paid the woman $67,500 to settle her originally multi-million dollar lawsuit.

At a town meet-and-greet, one police officer said there may have been a grant in place to station Basatemur outside of Varsity Liquors.

Town police chief Nick Sutter and public information officer Steven Riccitello declined to comment. Riccitello noted he could not comment on either police operations or whether there is a grant in place to fund the undercover cop.

Varsity Liquors owner Arun Goel did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Valentine’s Day In February 2014, one Uni-

versity student, who was of legal age, was arrested with a younger friend.

She was buying alcohol for several of her friends, who were also of legal age, she said, and her friend, who was 20 at the time, had come along to help carry the alcohol since she had a stress fracture.

The two were careful during their trip, she said. The younger student had first decided to wait outside but later entered the store and waited near the entrance because it was cold outside.

“That was the first big mistake,” she said.

After making the purchase, the shop clerk warned the two that she had only checked the identification of the 21-yearold and that only she could carry the alcohol.

As the two were walking home, the student said, it became clear that the box was too heavy for her to carry alone. They then took the alcohol out of the box, placed some in each of their backpacks and walked back to the store to return the box.

“All of a sudden, out of nowhere, this undercover cop comes up,” she said. He was wearing a crewneck sweatshirt and a jacket, she said, and she believed he had followed them to the store, waited outside the store and then waited for them to transfer the liquor.

According to police records, the officer stood on the north sidewalk in front of Varsity Liquors and looked through the front window.

“In my opinion, [the students] both looked to be under the legal age of 21 to purchase

alcoholic beverages,” Basatemur wrote in his report.

He also wrote that he had followed the two as they switched the liquor from the box to the backpacks but only stopped them when they reached a well-lit area near St. Paul’s Church.

The narrative also notes that the student had informed the cop of her injury, and that the student had provided him with the list of friends for whom she was buying the alcohol. However, they were both arrested, the 21-year-old for serving alcohol to a minor, and her friend for underage possession. They were both handcuffed and taken to the station.

The student said the officer told her and her friend, “How do I know you girls aren’t going to go home and get hammered?”

“You can’t just say that to someone, that’s just obnoxious,” the student said. “I managed to control my temper, but I was just looking at him, like, ‘I don’t know what trouble you’re trying to stop, but this isn’t it.’ ” The student said she was dressed up for Valentine’s Day and believed she looked over 21. Her friend, the 20-year old, also looked slightly older for her age, she said.

“We were two nonviolent females on Valentine’s Day at 8:30 p.m.,” she said.

She made several court appearances and was told that her case would be dismissed once she completed 30 hours of community service. One appearance was on Dean’s Date, she said, and she electronically submitted one of her papers

for class from court.

The Department of Public Safety was also notified, and she said she had to go through an alcohol education program at McCosh Health Center. She was placed on first-time disciplinary probation for three months, the same as if she had an alcohol violation on campus. Such probation is noted on the student’s permanent record at the University but is only disclosed in response to inquiries with the student’s consent and not on their transcript.

She was also offered the opportunity to expunge her record, which she said would have required an additional $2,000 in legal and court fees, but chose not to, she said.

“The feedback I’ve gotten from employers has not been remotely negative,” she said.

“There’s something useful about being able to be open about something.”

When she asked the cop what they could have done differently, she said, she was told that if the 20-year-old had not held the bag, or even if they had both held the bag together, they would not have been arrested.

Fake IDs In one case in November 2014, two students, both age 19, were near the store. Basatemur’s narrative says he noticed the two when they were still across the street, more than a block from the store. He watched one enter the store and, upon his exit, followed the two back for several blocks.

When confronted, the students both admitted that they

were 19, the narrative says, and the student who had entered store admitted to buying liquor with a false New York driver’s license.

Their case has since been dismissed, and both students paid $250 in fines.

In another case from October 2014, three students, two of whom were 18 and one who was 17, were spotted by the officer in the alleyway of Varsity Liquors. Another 17-yearold came up to the three and handed one of the 18-year-olds a brown paper bag.

The cop followed the four up to a bus stop about a block away, where he observed the same 17-year-old giving the 18-year-old another 12-pack case of Bud Light beer.

According to the narrative, the 17-year-old told the 18-year-old, “Keep it in this bag [the brown paper bag] if you don’t want it to be seen.”

The group continued to walk up Nassau St. and were confronted by the officer outside of St. Paul’s Church. The 17-year-old handed the cop two forms of identification: one a real New York driver’s license and the other a fake Connecticut license.

Only the 18-year old and the 17-year old who had alcoholic beverages on them were arrested, and the other 18-year old was released since he was not carrying any alcoholic beverages.

A Busy Day On just one day in May 2013, the detective arrested six University students.

One student who was arrested on that day was 20 at the time and was with a team-

mate who was over 21. The student has since had her case expunged, so police narratives are no longer available for that case. A press release at the time said the students had been arrested during a pedestrian stop by Basatemur on the 200-block of Nassau St. The two walked up to Varsity Liquors, but only her teammate entered the store, the student said. Once her teammate exited the store, she offered to carry her backpack for her, which had the three bottles of champagne and a fifth of rum just purchased.

The cop, who was wearing jeans and a button-down shirt, followed the two from the store and then asked to search the backpack, the student said. When asked, the student was upfront about her age.

“I had no fake ID. I didn’t even realize I was going to be in trouble,” she said. “In my mind I wasn’t doing anything wrong.”

The two were placed under arrest, the 20-year-old for underage possession and the 21-year-old for providing alcohol to a minor, and were taken to the police station. They later made two court appearances and were told to complete 10 hours of community service each in exchange for the case being dropped.

“On campus itself, [the] legal drinking age isn’t such an issue, but the second you step outside of what is strictly campus, people should be more careful,” she said. “Those were the three most expensive bottles of Andre that I never got to drink.”

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a law professor at Northwestern University and a member of the American Bar Association’s Global Anti-Corruption Task Force, said. “Our own former governor, Rod Blagojevich, was convicted of a similar thing, and his defense [that gifts were made out of friendship, not as part of a quid pro quo] was very similar to what it appears Senator Menendez’s defense will be.”

Menendez may or may not also benefit from the speech and debate clause in the U.S. Constitution, Sorensen said.

She noted that this clause is meant to protect legislators from unwarranted influence from the executive branch, including prosecutors, federal investigators and FBI agents, and applies to oral communications and written documents.

“It appears that it may be limited to activities that take place in Congress,” Sorensen said. “I would be very surprised if that includes a jet to the Dominican Republic [which Menendez allegedly failed to disclose]. It is occasionally litigated, and that would be a pre-trial issue for the judge to decide, whether it’s proper for the executive to use this as evidence against Senator Menendez.”

In general, corruption cases are difficult to prove, Sorensen noted.

“The executive branch, when possible, likes to have a controlled aspect of the investigation,” she said. “With the Blagojevich case, it was tape recordings pursuant to a court-authorized wiretap.

In other cases, you have cooperating witnesses who may be wearing a recording device pursuant to the cooperating witness’s consent.”

Prosecutors are also running up against the statute of limitations, she noted, adding there are likely to be older allegations that are simply historical and based only on verbal and written statements and records instead of having been actively investigated by the government through recordings.

The combination of relatively weak campaign finance laws with acquiring a number of powerful committee assignments over time can lead to the appearance of financial conflicts of interests, even in cases where there were no inappropriate intentions, she added.

Melgen’s residency in Florida instead of being a direct New Jersey constituent of Menendez does not necessarily complicate a friendship defense, Richard Briffault, a former member of the state of New York’s Moreland Commission on Public Corruption and a law professor at Columbia University, said.

“No longer acting on the part of your constituents might be a political mistake, and might even be unethical, but it’s not clear that it’s criminal,” Briffault said. “The criminal thing is to do it corruptly, which means for money.”

That Menendez did not report in a timely fashion some gifts he received from Melgen could be used by prosecutors to establish evidence of intent to cover up an ongoing quid pro quo with Melgen, he added, noting that the government may have stronger evidence than what is already known.

“If there is evidence of nondisclosure, that is likely to be helpful to the government, but just how helpful is not clear,” he said.

While testimony Menendez may have made on the floor of the Senate or in committee hearings might be inadmis-

sible in court, Briffault noted, testimony from his aides may or may not be subject to the same protection.

He added that such testimony could include a committee meeting in which Menendez is alleged to have pressured then-Secretary of Health and

“There’s likely to be some fighting about what counts as evidence and what’s constitutional in this case.”

Richard Briffault

Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to make changes to procedures that would have been helpful to Melgen. “[The speech and debate clause] is not an immunity from prosecution,” Briffault said. “There’s likely to be some fighting about what counts as evidence and what’s constitutional in this case.”

Briffault said that while Menendez’s lawyers could try to bring up allegations of improper timing in the filing of the case in relation to Menendez’s recent opposition of President Barack Obama’s negotiations with Iran, the legal standing of such arguments is unclear and might only have an effect on public opinion.

Wilson School lecturer Stanley Katz said he was surprised by news of the charges because while the allegations have been circulating for some time, he didn’t believe anyone had enough evidence to successfully prosecute Menendez.

“It’s quite extraordinary that it’s public at this stage,” he said.

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residential college advisers and meeting with students one-onone.

“At the individual level I hope to raise awareness [of issues] that are invisible to others,” he said, explaining that he hopes to connect to students using his own experience as a first-generation college graduate.

Crotty said the best part of her previous job was working with RCAs and interacting with students.

Wilson College RCA Jack Jenkins ’15 said the RCAs’ relationship with Crotty as DSL had

been marked by her availability and interest in individuals.

“We basically all joked that Regan was the RCA of the RCAs in addition to being our boss,” Jenkins said.

Diversity-related programming for the RCA training week and encouraging RCAs to hold diversity-related events were notable elements of programming while Crotty was DSL, Jenkins said.

King recently met with RCAs to plan a week-long series of dinners featuring different aspects of diversity, Jenkins added. The series will include four different dialogues on diversity related to religion, class, admissions and race.

King said he respects the path that Crotty established but hopes to bring his own style to the Wilson community.

“I want to learn about the culture that is here and what conversations are happening here,” said King.

King added he values the commitment of Master of Wilson College Eduardo Cadava to social justice and hopes to establish a community in which individuals are willing to learn from one another.

Cadava did not respond to a request for comment.

“For me I think about who is all involved in the community,” King said. “Does everyone feel connected? Does everyone feel

accountable? Do people watch out and care for one another? … The opportunities to connect beyond surface levels is a beautiful thing.”

Dean of Wilson College Anne Caswell-Klein said King’s prior experience will help him in his new role.

“He has had to deal with challenging student situations, and it was clear that he handled them beautifully,” CaswellKlein said.

She added that she plans to work with King on further developing the non-academic side of college life and thinking more extensively about the role of Wilson College in the campus community.

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not investing energy in students not dedicated to academia.

Former Undergraduate Student Government president Shawon Jackson ’15 and Butler College Director of Student Life Alexis Andres then led a discussion about the Princeton Perspective Project, a new initiative that looks to challenge the culture of “effortless perfection” on campus.

“How do we, as administrators, change the culture and the conversation around failure and setback?” Andres asked. “How do we normalize it?”

The Princeton Perspective Project’s website is home to student testimonials, a list of resources on and off campus and information about campus events such as retreats and speaker series, Jackson said. By December, the website, which only people with University login credentials can access, had

over 3,000 unique hits.

“At the highest level, our goal is to eliminate this culture of effortless perfection,” Jackson said.

Students have also submitted poems and drawings to share their stories, Andres noted.

The Princeton Perspective Project used social media, traditional media and meetings with University administrators to raise awareness of the project, and is now working on collecting more stories and creating more opportunities for dialogue, Jackson said.

“This has truly been a collaborative effort,” he said. “We do hope that by tapping every aspect of the community that we can really get the word out there.”

The meeting concluded with University Provost David Lee GS ’99 providing an update on the Special Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and its working groups.

“Since [December] we have set up a number of groups: a steering committee and three working groups,” Lee said. “We are aiming to produce a report

by May.” Working groups are currently

researching topics that include the accessibility of the University’s policies and procedures for addressing racial bias, the existing data about demographics and how it can or should be shared, the experiences of individual students in regards to whether bias is occurring on campus, the resources that exist for students who feel like they are experiencing bias and the skills that are needed to work on addressing bias.

“We’re planning to start a process where we can gather more information from focus groups to get more texture behind some of the concerns we’ve heard on campus,” Lee said, adding that public programming is being planned for the coming months.

Revising discrimination reporting is not a topic the CPUC has discussed, he added.

The University has had mechanisms to address bias in place for years, but it’s important to draw attention to them, Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity Michele Minter said.

People who think they are experiencing discrimination or bias should start by consult-

ing a confidential resource — including Sexual Harassment/ Assault Advising, Resources & Education, the Ombuds Office, a chaplain or Counseling and Psychological Services — or to make an official complaint, they should go to her office or use the EthicsPoint system for anonymous reporting, she said.

University community members should also visit the “Inclusive Princeton” website, she added.

U-Council chair Zhan OkudaLim ’15 asked how the University determines delays and closures, why announcements are made at 6 a.m. and whether the University would consider an earlier announcement time during a question and answer period during the meeting.

Decisions are made by a group with representation from a dozen work groups on campus who have members stay up through the night to make a decision, University Executive Vice President Treby Williams ’84 said.

“We’re willing to stay up all night to make a more accurate call the following day,” she said.

The meeting took place at 4:30 p.m. in Betts Auditorium.

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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, to defend “critical” U.S. infrastructure, he said.

The NSA’s goal is to conduct foreign intelligence and to develop systems to protect classified information for both the government and the private sector, he explained.

After a brief lecture of approximately five minutes in length, Rogers then shifted the program to a Q&A session.

The first question dealt with U.S. citizen privacy concerns and how citizens can be sure that the NSA is respecting the rule of law.

“We have a legal framework we have to operate in,” Rogers said.

In response to the abuses in American intelligence agencies investigated by Senator Frank Church and the Church Committee in the 1970s, he explained, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978, which created the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Every time the NSA wishes to spy on a U.S. person in connection to a foreign entity, he said, it has to gain approval from a judge on that court. The agency has to show there is a link to alleged criminal activity to receive the warrant, he added.

“There is also congressional oversight from both houses [of Congress] of the NSA,” he said.

“How can we create confidence in what the NSA is doing and not doing? Our confidence in our institutions is now questioned by our citizens, and it’s a fact. We need to stick to the four rules I have outlined earlier.”

The conversation then shifted to how the NSA interacts with private American companies and foreign organizations as a whole.

“We understand that every nation uses its intelligence capabilities to understand the world around them,” Rogers said. “We do not share private insights with companies to give them an advantage. That’s wrong for countries

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Admiral Michael Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency, discussed the leaks by Edward Snowden and the effectiveness of protecting against cyber attacks.

like China to do that. It is not in our interest to do that.”

The U.S. should respond proportionally to cyber attacks, such as the attack on Sony Pictures last year, and the countermeasures should be “specific and discrete,” he said.

“We need to think more broadly than just cyber,” he added. “Just because someone comes at us in the cyber arena doesn’t mean we need to respond there.”

Many of the following questions dealt with data collection of American citizens. The NSA is not allowed to collect data on Americans

“whenever it wants,” Rogers said.

According to an email sent out on Monday by organizers of the Facebook group called Guarding Liberties Against the Security State, the group planned a protest for the event “to express discontent with the NSA’s current policies, specifically the incredible overreach of their surveillance the lack of leniency for whistle blowers like [Edward] Snowden, and the NSA’s role in the broader moral and practical failures of the War on Terror.”

Participants were instructed to wear orange shirts to express support for the protest and to ask

pointed questions for Rogers to address the group’s concerns.

However, only one of the questions asked during the conversation stemmed from the list of possible ones circulated by the group, and it dealt with the Edward Snowden controversy. Snowden, a former private NSA contractor who leaked classified information to the mainstream media starting in June 2013, is now living in Russia on temporary political asylum.

“Are we to interpret your previous comments as supporting whistleblower leaks like Edward Snowden’s?” the audience member

asked in reference to Rogers’ previous remarks explaining that the NSA does not support abuses of its own powers.

“I’ve lost capability to defend U.S. citizens around the world as a result [of the leaks],” Rogers said.

“If you believe something is wrong or immoral, use the multiple tools at your disposal to bring it to our attention.”

After the event, Dayton Martindale ’15, who sent out the email on behalf of GLASS, said the protesters didn’t want to be disruptive but wanted to let Rogers know that “someone was watching the watch-

er.” Rogers’ security personnel asked the protesters to put down their video cameras, he added.

The protesters were concerned about the NSA’s lack of accountability, the amount of data the government collects on citizens and the fact that the NSA appears to be embarking on a public relations tour to campuses across the country, Martindale said.

The conversation, titled “Challenges and Opportunities in an Interconnected World,” was a part of the G.S. Beckwith Gilbert ’63 Lecture Series and took place in Richardson Auditorium at 4:30 p.m.

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atching the premiere of “Fresh Off the Boat” with the Asian American Students Association, I came to a startling conclusion about my own upbringing: I felt as if I wasn’t truly Asian-American.

While most of the students in the group laughed along with some of the jokes in the show, based on their own experiences growing up in Chinese or Taiwanese-American families, I found myself unable to relate. Even though I identify as a Chinese American, I realized that many of those experiences were altogether different from my own. Granted, I knew and understood the cultural references, such as the difficulty immigrant parents faced with strong Chinese accents. However, these were things that I had not personally experienced. Both of my parents were born here in the United States. Growing up in the Detroit area, they have always spoken English at home.

The experiences of Chinese-American immigrants in the United States vary wildly.

Much of this disparity can be attributed to the Chinese Exclusion Act and the subsequent National Origins Quotas that all but choked off Chinese immigration in the first half of the 20th century. As a result of those policies, it is estimated that only about ten percent of the Chinese-American population in the United States consists of third-generation people like me. Most Chinese Americans are first- or second-generation.

Admittedly, “Fresh Off the Boat” presents only a slice of the Asian-American experience, depicting a Taiwanese-American family with first-generation parents and second-generation children. Neither South Asian Americans nor other East Asian Americans play roles in the show.

As a third-generation Chinese American, I am about as far-removed from the immigrant experience as most white or black Americans, whose families have also lived here for generations. Dealing with the language barrier or the pressures of assimilation are simply not things that factor into my life due to growing up stateside. “Fresh Off the Boat” does nothing to depict that part of the generational immigrant experience.

Yet, I came to realize that “Fresh Off the Boat” is still an immensely important show.

The scarcity of Asian Americans in American media was something that has always stood out to me. In a room full of people at a recent AASA meeting, we struggled to name more than a few Asian-American actors and actresses from our childhood that were not cast in femme fatale or martial arts roles.

As American society has changed, the role of Asian Americans in media has changed as well. For example, before the rise of actors like Bruce Lee, Asian men were frequently cast in emasculated, subservient roles like coolies or sidekicks to heroes, while women played hyper-sexualized roles. This stereotyping of Asian actors and actresses into specific niche roles only furthered the otherization of Asian Americans as “perpetual foreigners.”

I don’t necessarily share the same cultural experiences as many other Asian Americans who are from more recent immigrant generations, but I, like many other Asian Americans, can relate to the number of times that we have been told “your English is really good,” and then asked, “how long have you been in America?” or, “where are you really from?”

Those kinds of experiences are based less on cultural experiences insomuch as they are a reflection of ingrained racial attitudes about Asian Americans.

And that is why a show like “Fresh Off the Boat” is so important in the discourse of American media. It does not represent all of the different possible immigrant experiences, but that is not a bad thing — if a show were to do that, the Adult Swim skit “Too Many Cooks” would be an apt comparison. Some parts of it are certainly problematic — the forced accents and the casting of a Korean-American man to play a Taiwanese-American man, for instance.

Yet, the very fact that it stars an Asian-American family and increases the footprints of Asian Americans in a prime time TV slot on a major network is groundbreaking.

Striking a balance between embracing its cultural roots while still appealing to a larger American audience, “Fresh Off the Boat” could potentially create a new role for Asian Americans in the discourse of the overall American experience. By showing the experiences of the Huang family, the show can help dismantle the notion of Asian Americans as “perpetual foreigners” and shatter the stereotypes for Asian-American actors, allowing them to play “normal” roles. “Fresh Off the Boat” is not a perfect piece of television. But it doesn’t need to be. It is a step in the right direction toward more equitable representation in media, and that’s enough. Asian Americans are currently the fastest-growing census demographic, growing from a population of 11.9 million in 2000 to 17.3 million in 2010, constituting a 46 percent increase — a larger increase than any other demographic group. Asian Americans are increasingly becoming a growing voice for change. Almost eight million people watched the premiere, and it heralds better things to come.

Nicholas Wu is a freshman from Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. He can be reached at nmwu@ princeton.edu.

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Trending through difficult places Will Rivitz columnist

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f you’ve been active on social media over the past few days, you may have heard word of a brief but concentrated burst of anti-Semitism which appeared on the campus of UCLA recently. A brief rundown: in mid-February, a second-year economics major named Rachel Beyda was up for confirmation for the UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board. Some of those involved in confirming her nomination debated for over 40 video-recorded minutes whether her involvement in various Jewish groups on campus would constitute a “conf lict of interest” when dealing with certain topics the Judicial Board – essentially UCLA’s equivalent of the Supreme Court – would come across. (One council member put it bluntly: “Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community, how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?”)

The incident and its resulting fallout have slowly been gaining national traction over the past few weeks. Many have slammed the students involved for their anti-Semitic remarks, and the council members involved have issued an apology for “remarks made” at the confirmation hearing.

I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I’ve been privileged to have been raised in a largely Jewish suburb of Boston for most of my life, and I don’t think I can remember a single time when I’ve been the specific target of anti-Jewish sentiments.

This mostly stems from the fact that my Jewishness is not the most visible tenet of my identity.

Though I wholeheartedly identify as Jewish, I’m very much a “cultural Jew” — my religion is important to me not because of my belief in God but because I’m able to gather with other Jews at brisket-laden holiday meals in celebration of our shared heritage. As such, in terms of societal oppression I’m viewed primarily as white, male and straight instead of primarily Jewish, and the anti-Semitic discrimination

I’ve seen (especially in the U.S.) pales in comparison to the staggering amount of discrimination I’m able to avoid due to my race, gender and sexuality.

On the other hand, though, some of the statements made in the confirmation hearing strike me as particularly ominous.

There’s the obvious, like the aforementioned quote. Then, there are the other highly-unsettling statements recorded at the hearing — things like “For some reason, I’m not 100 percent comfortable.

I don’t know why” or “[Beyda is] part of a community that is very invested in… very specific outcomes that judicial boards make decisions on every year.”

“This column, then, intends to be less an indictment of what happened at UCLA than a clarion call for continued dialogue to ensure that the pervasive anti-Jewish sentiments expressed there don’t surface here.”

What’s more, the apology issued by the students involved does little to mollify the situation. It focuses specifically on the “words used during the meeting” as opposed to the actual attempt to block Beyda’s confirmation based on what we can only assume is her Jewish identity, as those students haven’t named any other reason they might have opposed her. This seems akin to, say, Lululemon’s CEO apologizing for the “repercussions of [his] actions” (“actions” here refers to controversial remarks he made on Bloomberg TV regarding complaints of too-sheer leggings) instead of apologizing for the sexism it conveyed. It feels as though the council members, instead of owning up to their words and actions and emphasizing the power of the “learning experience,” issued a vague, somewhat sanctimonious declaration that their “intentions were never to attack, insult or delegitimize the identity of an individual or people.”

As Princeton students, we have

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a responsibility to tackle this kind of bigotry head-on. What happened at UCLA is relevant to life here because it prompts us to think critically about our own latent biases. I very much understand my position of privilege in society, but at the same time I don’t doubt that, sooner or later, I will run into the kind of virulent anti-Semitism I’ve seen and heard accounts of manifesting almost everywhere, even in other students’ experiences at Princeton.

Ideally, we can use these events to spark discussions — whether campus-wide or on a smaller scale — about what it means to be Jewish and what we can do to ensure such public displays of anti-Jewish sentiments don’t happen even closer to home. I realize I’m an outspoken advocate for the power of dialogue, but I really believe in its power for “engaging [people] in cross-cultural exchange.” If we’re willing to engage with our peers on a human-to-human level, we can discuss our differences in a way that is constructive and healthy for all involved.

This column, then, intends to be less an indictment of what happened at UCLA than a clarion call for continued dialogue to ensure that the pervasive anti-Jewish sentiments expressed there don’t surface here. The student council members’ poor decisions must act as a sort of public learning experience for all of us. Especially in light of the unacceptable video footage that has come out of the University of Oklahoma over the past few days (which I haven’t covered up to this point in part because I feel wholly unqualified to present anything more than a complete condemnation of the events), we need more than ever to grasp the reins others are unwilling to hold. If we want to be able to rid ourselves of bigotry and oppression, we must be willing to take what we’ve been nurtured to think and review it in the harsh light of the negative actions of others. As the young people who will inherit control of our world very soon, the less pervasive and deeply-rooted we can make our bigotry, the better we all will be for it.

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Will Rivitz is a freshman from Brookline, Mass. He can be reached at wrivitz@princeton.edu.

Disparate impact, disparate treatment and multiculturalism Steve Swanson contributor

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hat exactly does “discrimination” mean? Considering how prominently it features in American history and modern social policy, you might imagine the definition to be fairly well-settled. However, two related but distinct definitions of discrimination have been quietly battling in the legal world for decades, largely unseen by the general public. While this definitional debate may seem technical and legalistic, the stakes are high: when applied outside the narrow field of judicial interpretation, both definitions call for far-reaching but mutually contradictory courses of action. This makes it vital for anyone who considers himself or herself an informed citizen to understand the meanings and consequences between these opposed theories of discrimination.

The first definition, known as “disparate treatment” theory, is likely more familiar to most people. In this theory, when a person or policy treats people differently based solely on their membership of a “protected class” (e.g. race, gender and, more recently, sexual orientation), illegal discrimination has occurred. Disparate treatment jurisprudence is what brought about desegregation of public accommodations in the South, as well as the ending of genderselectivity in our own eating clubs in 1990.

The second definition is known as “disparate impact” theory and isn’t quite so clearly defined. Subscribers to this theory hold that illegal discrimination need not have any such overt intent; rather, it occurs whenever a policy,

neutral or otherwise, ends up having systematically different effects across protected classes. A key example of the disparate impact theory’s application can be seen in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Freeman (2013) in which the EEOC alleged that the use of criminal background and credit score checks for hiring purposes was illegal because of its “discriminatory effect” on African Americans, Hispanics and males. While this case was shot down, largely because of its cherry-picked and dishonest evidence, it is indicative of the EEOC and other organizations’ belief that racially neutral, rational policies are discriminatory if they cause a disparate impact.

While these theories have their minor wins and losses in lower courts, the Supreme Court compromises between them: if a plaintiff proves that a policy leads to a disparate impact, the defendant must demonstrate that the policy is a “necessity” or “manifestly related” to their business. At the highest judicial level, then, they are reconciled — disparate impact raises red flags for disparate treatment but is not discrimination per se.

However, popular discourse is never so consistent and clear-cut. Indeed, it seems that many who wouldn’t recognize the phrase “disparate impact” implicitly accept this definition of discrimination. The number of arguments that point out disparate impact without an attempt to demonstrate disparate treatment seems to grow every day: partisans present aggregate statistics broken down on protected class lines about wealth, salary, incarceration rate, life expectancy, etc., but end their arguments there.

To the extent that people consider these differences across protected classes to be wrongs in and of themselves, it seems they are implicitly adopting disparate

impact theory.

The problem with emphasizing disparate impact in this way is that the United States prides itself on being multicultural — a pluralist society with no orthodox culture or value system. Further, cultures tend to divide along protected class lines: for obvious reasons, most cultures today are made up of people from similar ethnic backgrounds.

While sometimes cultural differences are fed by disparate treatment, past or present, many cultural differences exist apart from any kind of discrimination: the National Criminal Justice Reference Service’s “Potential Cross-Cultural Pitfalls and Dangers” presents a fascinating overview of differences in communication style, values and worldview by culture. Logically, if cultures are allowed to prescribe their own value systems and modes of behavior, cultural pluralism will lead to systematic differences in the behavior of different groups of people.

It is here that the irreconcilability of the two definitions of discrimination is most clearly seen. As long as cultures tend to divide people along protectedclass lines, leading to different patterns of behavior, it is impossible to advocate for multiculturalism while demanding an end to both disparate impact and disparate treatment. Any two make the third impossible: if we seek to apply policies neutrally (i.e. without disparate treatment) to a multicultural society, these policies will cause disparate impacts because of differing cultural attributes; if we want neutral policies to have equal impacts across protected classes, we must stamp out cultural differences; and if we desire equal impacts of policies for a multicultural society, we must give different groups disparate treatment.

Fitting such neat logic to the messy realities of society is a radical simplifi-

cation; regardless, the inconsistency of upholding all of these three goals at once is clear.

Our own school provides testament to the tension between disparate treatment and impact. Princeton adopts something like the disparate impact theory, albeit for a different reason. Rather than considering differences across protected class lines to be discriminatory, the administration tries to achieve parity between groups because of an avowed commitment to “diversity” and “inclusivity” for ostensibly educational purposes. “Diversity,” to the Trustee Ad Hoc Committee On Diversity, is “a precondition for academic excellence.” This drive to balance University participation along protected class lines has led to unquestionable disparate treatment in admissions, as pointed out by Newby Parton in another of his much-maligned columns, among others. Clearly, the University has found that it cannot achieve equal impacts of uniform policies when dealing with a heterogenous population.

The irreconcilability of these three cornerstones of liberal social policy by itself says nothing about what ought to be done. Certainly, those policies which seek to end explicit discrimination benefitting privileged groups — disparate treatments deepening disparate impacts — should continue to be refined and strengthened. However, the endgame is very much in question: if we can’t achieve all three goals, which do we focus on? How do we balance them? It is imperative that this debate happen, both in the public sphere and in the minds of the policy-makers of tomorrow.

Steve Swanson is a computer science major from Vienna, Va. He can be reached at sswanson@princeton.edu.

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