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In Street This week, it gets a little warmer as Street checks out the hottest spring fashion on campus, Senior Writer Zoe Perot discovers the Princeton University Language Project and Staff Writer Nicole Bunyan provides Fit Tips for your morning workout. PAGES S1-2

Today on Campus 3 p.m.: Michael Cook, Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, will discuss the topic of ancient religions and their significance in modern day politics. The event is open to the whole University community, and will be held at the Carl A. Fields Center.

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BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Oregon lawsuit highlights problems with FERPA

By Cassidy Tucker contributor

A lawsuit filed against the University of Oregon by a victim of sexual assault has brought to light a little remarked upon exception to students’ medical confidentiality rights, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on March 2.

The University of Oregon asserted in its defense that it had a legal right to use students’ college counseling center records against them.

Princeton University is also currently facing a lawsuit in

Nassau Weekly began raising funds in order to pay off their debt.

During the course of eight years, the paper had accumulated a debt of $7,500, mainly from phone bills.

News & Notes John Nash wins Abel Prize

University mathematician John Nash was named an Abel Prize winner by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on Wednesday.

He shared the honor with a colleague, Louis Nirenberg, who was formerly a mathematics professor at New York University.

The Abel Prize has been in existence for 12 years, and Nash is its second winner from the University. Last year’s Abel Prize was awarded to University mathematician Yakov Sinai, making Nash the second consecutive University faculty member to win the prize.

The award is accompanied by an $800,000 cash prize.

Nash received the prize for his novel research on partial differential equations, which have a number of applications in science and engineering.

Nash also won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994 for the concept of Nash equilibrium, a seminal concept in game theory.

His life, including his past struggles with schizophrenia, was depicted in the 2001 movie “A Beautiful Mind.”

The award ceremony for the Abel Prize will take place on May 19 in Oslo, Norway.

federal court from a student who alleges in part that the University violated his medical confidentiality.

The alleged exception to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act could apply to students nationwide, including at the University, if upheld as a valid interpretation of the law.

The Chronicle of Higher Education wrote that the University of Oregon’s defense appears to be correct.

The Department of Education has concluded universities can disclose educational records to courts without a

court order or student consent because institutions should not have to subpoena their own records and should not be powerless to defend themselves, department guidelines say.

Counseling and Psychological Services is bound not only by FERPA but also by its own policies and the laws that govern licensure for its personnel, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua noted.

CPS guidelines say that the exceptions to requiring student consent for disclosure of medical records are rare and See FERPA page 3

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Women’s History Month: Athletics

By Shriya Sekhsaria staff writer

Female student-athletes from the University have gone on to win Olympic medals, NCAA championships and multiple Ivy League titles.

However, they faced significant challenges such as lack of funding and support as they tried to establish University teams.

Early athletics Students at the University’s “sister college,” Evelyn College, were required to exercise outdoors for at least an hour every day in the late 1800s, according

to the book “Transforming the Tiger” by Catherine Keyser ’01. Gymnastic exercises were mandatory and students could also elect to play on the tennis and softball teams.

In the early years of coeducation, Marsha LevyWarren ’73 said that women had no physical education requirement due to a lack of facilities and equipment.

“So the women who were doing sports were doing it just because they wanted to,” Margery Hite ’74 said.

Elizabeth English ’75 said she recalled wanting to compete on Wilson College’s intramural hockey team as a sophomore but

was told she could not play due to her gender.

“They said I couldn’t play, ‘Because somebody is going to smash you into the board and do damage to your reproductive organs,’ ” she said. “And I said you’ve got to be joking because the guys’ reproductive organs are much more vulnerable than mine. But they didn’t think that that was very funny.”

She said she was later sent to the infirmary so that a doctor could render her unfit to play.

Sue Perles ’75 said the University was not prepared to deal with the athletic See FEATURE page 3

In a letter to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 on March 19, the president of the advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions, Edward Blum, asked the University to preserve its student admission records and to restore these documents if any part had been destroyed.

The letter was in response to an article by the New Republic reporting that Yale Law School had destroyed its admission records, Blum said.

University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said Eisgruber had not yet seen the letter.

A letter was also sent to every Ivy League college’s president except Harvard’s, because Students for Fair Admissions is suing Harvard for allegedly discriminating against students of Asian descent in its admission process.

The goal of Students for Fair Admissions is to have race become a non-factor in college admissions, according to the group’s website.

“It should go without

saying that Princeton cannot destroy evidence essential to judicial review of its admissions policies and expect to withstand strict scrutiny if and when its admissions policies are challenged in court,” the letter read, particularly for “racially discriminatory policies and procedures in administering undergraduate admissions.”

The organization provided legal counsel to Abigail Fisher, a white applicant who was rejected from the University of Texas at Austin and is the namesake of the Supreme Court decision Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, Blum noted.

Fisher lost her argument that the University of Texas’ affirmative action policies were illegal.

“Our concerns about the FERPA is that students should have access to their records, even if we had never written these letters and expressed our concerns, students should still be concerned that their records are being destroyed,” said Blum.

Blum declined to comment on whether he intends to subpoena evidence from See ADMISSION page 4

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Few students at Dean of the College discussion

By Jacob Donnelly news editor

A town hall on Wednesday night to field suggestions about the search process for the next Dean of the College was attended by just one student.

“Wow, I’m a one-person focus group, huh?” the student said to laughter from the panel.

He later said that he thought the rain might have affected the turnout to the meeting, which was advertised to students over email.

The panel included Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice, psychology professor Stacey Sinclair, comparative literature professor and Whitman College master Sandra Bermann, Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty Toni Turano, Undergraduate Student Government academics chair Ramie Fathy ’16 and U-councillor Dallas Nan ’16.

Prentice is the chair of the search committee, Sinclair, Bermann, Fathy and Nan are on the search committee, while Turano is serving as secretary to the committee. Other members of the search committee were not in attendance.

The search for a replacement for Dean of the College Valerie Smith, who is leaving to become president of Swarthmore College, is limited to internal candidates only, Prentice said.

The Dean of the College must be a member of the faculty, and even in the past when outside candidates have become Dean of the College, they had to gain an appointment as a member of the faculty first, she noted.

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Panel discussion highlights lasting legacy of Chinese Exclusion Act in America

By Evan Washington contributor

The Chinese Exclusion Act had long-lasting negative effects on the Chinese-American community, University history professor Beth LewWilliams and New York University professor Jack Tchen argued in a panel discussion on Wednesday.

Stanley Katz, a Wilson School lecturer and the moderator, said he could “think of very few episodes that are less known to today’s students than Chinese exclusion.”

There are parallels between American fear and fascination toward China at the time

and the current American attitude toward North Korea, Tchen said.

“This country now thinks of North Korea as the epitome of evil in a way that, you know, is not just about whatever is happening there,” Tchen said. “It’s very much about, you know, a larger phobia that has afflicted, that has stuck to, other groups as well.”

Tchen added that this larger phobia is or has been attached to Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Muslim people.

Public recognition of Chinese-American exclusion came from Congress in 2012 when the Senate passed

a statement of regret for the legalized exclusion of Chinese-Americans, Tchen said, which he added was a cue that Chinese Exclusion Act was still an issue that needed to be “dealt with.”

Even if Americans began grappling seriously with the Chinese Exclusion Act, stereotypes of Chinese people, things and ideas would still be deeply infused in American culture, he added.

The rise of anti-Chinese violence in the wake of the Exclusion Act seemed paradoxical to traditional scholarship on the issue, which proposed that the See CHINA page 2

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American government quelled anti-Chinese sentiment by barring most Chinese from immigrating, Lew-Williams said.

“While previous scholarship has portrayed Chinese exclusion as sort of a sudden and yet inevitable culmination of racism in 1882, I argue that the rise of Chinese exclusion was a slow, contentious and contingent process which was far from over when the U.S. erupted in this violence,” Lew-Williams said.

Lew-Williams highlighted the tales of her great-grandfather, Lew Fook, an undocumented immigrant in the United States.

“What I knew about Chinese-American history came from oral histories, from stories I heard from my family, not history books,” Lew-Williams said.

After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Lew Fook took

advantage of the fact that the fire “destroyed all birth certificates” and claimed to be a native-born citizen.

Lew-Williams said that Lew Fook’s story was not unique.

“Most of them claimed to be citizens by birth, as he did, and historians now estimate that 70 to 90 percent of those claims were fraudulent,” she said.

Katz closed the lecture by noting the role of inequality in the college admissions process, the dubious notion of equality in the American constitution and the role of history in studying and rectifying inequalities.

“One of the functions of history is to enable a people to come to terms with what it has done wrong,” Katz said.

The lecture, called “Chinese Americans: From Exclusion to Inclusion,” took place at 4:30 p.m. in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber. The lecture was co-sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society and the Program in American Studies.

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comments to the committee, Prentice said.

The committee will give three names of faculty members to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 before the end of the year for his consideration, she added, noting it is ultimately up to him to make the final selection as to who should be the next Dean of the College.

Faculty members have already shown a heavy interest in

who fills the position, Prentice said, explaining that numerous faculty have already nominated their colleagues or themselves for the position.

The search committee has not received outside direction from higher level administrators, Prentice said, noting, however, that administrators have made clear that they believe whoever becomes the next Dean of the College is a very important matter for the future of the University.

With the strategic planning process underway, Prentice said there is an opportunity for

the next Dean of the College to help think substantively about what’s important to the University and where its priorities should be.

In response to a question about how important students perceived the choice of administrators to be, the student in attendance said that most people identify the administration with residential college administrators and Eisgruber, and have only a vague idea of the roles of other administrators.

However, the choice of Dean of the College is also important

in light of concerns about mental health and sexual misconduct on campus, the student later said.

In a tie-breaker scenario, it would be good to have the next Dean of the College be a woman to interact with students more effectively on these issues, he added.

The next Dean of the College would ideally be an effective administrator as well as teacher and researcher, Bermann said, adding there was no “litmus test” for the position.

The meeting was held at 7:00 p.m. in McCormick Hall 101.

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demand for women’s teams because it did not know what to expect.

“They had developed a five-year plan in the athletics department for getting women from [physical education] classes to club teams and then to varsity teams, and that five-year plan got collapsed into about a five day plan,” she said.

The locker system at the University was not very efficient until a few women came together in the nineties and made a plea for new lockers, said Peter Farrell, who has been the head coach of the women’s cross country and track and field teams since they were founded in 1978. Before the plea resulted in women’s locker rooms that mirrored the men’s locker rooms, the women’s lockers were located in Dillon Gymnasium, which was far from Jadwin Gymnasium and the outdoor tracks where they trained.

The first sets of uniforms The first uniforms for the women’s field hockey team were “begged and borrowed” from other parts of the University like the cheering squad, Perles said.

The women’s track and field and cross-country teams had $5 t-shirts with tigers on the front and back that were bought from the U-Store for their first uni-

forms, Farrell said. The women on the teams are now given Nike-funded merchandise worth $800 upon arrival into the University, he added.

Marjory Smith ’73 said that Eve Kraft, founding head coach of the women’s tennis team, bought the team ankle-length socks with orange pom-poms to wear to matches.

“We always attract student athletes who love the challenge, have very diverse interests.

They’re not just students and they’re not just athletes.”

Kristen Holmes-Winn, head coach of women’s field hockey team

The women’s hockey team was initially given a dozen hockey sticks among other old equipment and two hours of ice time a week at 1 a.m., which was later than anyone was interested in using the ice, English said.

“We borrowed the smelly, old discarded equipment from the boys until we could build up our own,” she said.

The team funded itself through University funds and donations from parents and classmates, she added.

“They made us wear these plastic boobs,” she said. “We had to wear chest protectors so we wouldn’t all ‘get breast cancer from being smashed into the boards.’ And they were one size fits all, which you know, hardly fits anybody.”

The hockey team had its first game at the end of the year, English said, and members of the team staged a fight and piled up in the middle of the ice during the inter-squad match.

“We were acknowledged as a varsity team in the making, but we had to show that we deserved to be a varsity team,” she said.

The Elizabeth English Trophy is now presented annually to the member of the women’s hockey team who is voted by her teammates to be the most valuable player.

“It’s pretty funny, here I am, a career academic and I’m remembered at Princeton for being a jock,” she said. “But I’m enormously proud that they set up an MVP and named it after me, and I can brag that my name is in the University’s graduation program every year.”

A Historic Tennis Match Smith knew there would not be a women’s tennis team when she arrived at the University and that she would help to start it, she said, noting most of the players on the tennis team in its first year did not have any tournament experience beyond playing on the club

level.

She often practiced tennis with the men, who had equal time on the courts with the women, Smith said. She added that the tennis courts were located in front of the hill where Whitman College is now located, and that the hill would be “covered” with people watching both the men and the women play.

Smith played Jeffrey Lewis-Oakes ’75, the top-ranked men’s junior-varsity player in a takeoff on the famous 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.

“I don’t remember being crushed that I lost or anything,” she said. “It’s more like it was just a fun event and it brought out a lot of people and it was a good time.”

The women’s tennis team did not lose a single match in the five years following its establishment in 1971.

Recruiting potential athletes Farrell said that there were initially significantly fewer women who practiced and competed in track and field and cross-country in high school than there are now.

The experiences of the women on the teams in the 1980s were very different from the women on the teams now, he added, noting the team’s first spring trip involved driving 22 women down to Athens, Ga., in a van. Now, 36 women are

f lown to Orlando.

“When I first started out, these people had to prove themselves, and these people had to earn the right and they had to establish the women’s program as a viable, serious option,” he said.

Farrell said he had to adapt his coaching strategy to leading a women’s team.

“I knew that women aren’t made to endure all the training that men are made to endure,” he said. “I knew that only some women could endure 90 miles a week but almost all the men run 80 to 90 miles a week.”

Farrell said that while recruiting, it is necessary to track the best athletes possible and “sell the University” to them.

“For some reason, when you get a kid who has done their homework and is open to taking risks and just really genuine, I’m just like, ‘Oh my God, this is such a Princeton kid,’ ” Susan Teeter, head coach of women’s swimming and diving, said.

While recruiting, the University makes it clear that balancing athletic and academic demands will not be easy, Kristen Holmes-Winn, head coach of the women’s field hockey team, said.

“We always attract student athletes who love the challenge, have very diverse interests,” she said. “They’re not just students and they’re not just athletes. They have interests beyond sports and academics, whether it be

that they’re into music or the arts.”

The most disappointing part of recruiting is losing someone who would be a great fit for the University as a whole, Courtney Banghart, head coach of the women’s basketball team, said.

“I am extremely happy and fortunate that I never had scholarships to deal with and that I got to coach wonderful athletes — incredible athletes — without having that scholarship hanging over their heads,” Farrell said.

Representing the University Caroline Lind ’06 said it was surreal to represent the University at an international level and become the first Princeton rower to ever win multiple Olympic gold medals.

“I just hope that my experiences can help Princeton and can help the women that come after me, you know, to inspire them as well,” she said.

Smith said she had the opportunity to play at the U.S. Open during her time at the University.

“I always felt like I represented Princeton, and I was always very proud to be doing that,” she said.

This article is the third in a four-part Women’s History Month feature series. Check back tomorrow for a look at women and extracurriculars at the University.

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include certain circumstances, such as under court order, as required by law, in an emergency or life-threatening situations and in order to assure continuity of care for students with psychological and physical, among other situations.

The ethical policies of both the American Counseling Association and the American Psychological Association require that a therapist’s records can only be disclosed to a court under a court order, so insofar as an educational institution respects those guidelines, a student’s records are not at risk.

However, in the University

of Oregon case, the records appear to have been disclosed legally without the student’s and therapist’s consent, since the ACA and APA guidelines are not binding and the University of Oregon maintained ultimate control of medical records at its counseling center.

Education records refers to any record about a student that is “personally identifiable,” Steve McDonald, general counsel at the Rhode Island School of Design and a well-known expert on FERPA, explained.

A financial aid record, an exam score or a medical treatment record are all considered educational records, he said.

“FERPA becomes questionable with records that are only

vaguely educational records — for instance, mental health records,” Bill Koski, a litigator and law professor at Stanford University, said.

FERPA is not all bad in that it gives students the right to control the disclosure of their education records to others, inspect and review their own education records, and seek amendment of their education records, Koski said.

Universities require more access to student records in terms of mental health issues to ensure safety for students than in a normal patient-therapist relationship, Ann Bartow, a professor at the Pace Law School and a member of the advisory of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said.

“I don’t think they need quite so much [as given under FERPA],” she said. “I think the law can be re-written in a way that gives the university the access it needs to keep students safe but still is a little more reasonable and gives students some privacy.”

The case at the University of Oregon has since brought up many issues regarding FERPA. “I think this case is appalling,” Bartow said. “Students are very exposed.”

Dahlia Kaki ’18 said she thinks it is definitely a violation of a student’s privacy when a university accesses mental health records without the student’s consent, adding the limitations to the protection offered by FERPA would make her reconsider seeking

treatment from CPS. Molly Strabley ’17 also said that she feels less inclined to seek help at CPS for fear that her own private records could be made public or used against her in a courtroom.

“I find it concerning,” Strabley said.

The law is not always clear enough about when a student’s records can be shared, and FERPA inexplicably overrides patient confidentiality in the case of college students, Koski said.

The patient confidentiality law in Oregon may also be at fault, McDonald said.

“FERPA was never meant to provide medical record protection,” he said. “The real issue with the Oregon case is the patient confidential-

ity law of Oregon. This is not something FERPA was really meant to protect.”

Normally, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act provides protection for patient medical records, but according to Department of Education guidelines, HIPAA does not normally apply to college students obtaining treatment at college-run medical centers.

When asked how protective FERPA was for students’ records on a scale of one to ten with ten being the best, Bartow said, “Three at the most.”

She added that students should try to clarify with their universities their exact policy in relation to FERPA and attempt to spark change as necessary.

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“The question of diversity is one that needs some explanation,” Blum said. “Is there some benefit in extending cosmetic diversity among

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the student body? I think my answer is that cosmetic diversity doesn’t mean anything, if it does, then our civil rights movement has regressed.”

Making decisions based on the color of students’ skin when they have the same socioeconomic background brings only a minute benefit

to campuses, Blum said.

He added that the lawsuit against Harvard University is one of the most complex in the history of affirmative action litigation.

“Harvard is doing two things outside of written law,” Blum said. “Harvard has hard fast intractable quota for the number of

Asians [admitted], [and] Harvard has ratio balancing policies, the outcome of which is that every year just about the same percentage of four major racial groups [are admitted].”

These two practices are unconstitutional and Blum hopes to prove that in court, he said.

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alking through Frist during midterms, I could not help overhearing multiple students on the phone with their parents.

Whether it was discussing fears of finishing an essay on time or the pressure of studying for an exam the next day, they saw their parents as an outlet for their stress.

This may be of little surprise, given how overwhelming Princeton can be. From schoolwork, clubs and organizations, to jobs and internships, there are a lot of things happening in the lives of Princeton students. To help get through the stress, many students naturally turn to their parents, who have acted as one of the main sources of consolation throughout their lives.

Witnessing these conversations was interesting because in times of high stress I have always tended to turn away from my parents, especially my mother. It’s not because I don’t love my mother or have a good relationship with her. Rather, I have difficulty communicating with her due to language and cultural barriers. My mom is a Korean immigrant, who has always had trouble speaking English. I, on the other hand, grew up going to schools focused on English, losing my Korean tongue in the process.

At the time, I didn’t think this would lead to any serious repercussions. For day-to-day issues, I knew enough Korean and she knew enough English for us to communicate with each other. However, these language barriers have presented larger problems as our lives have deviated, and my life has become more complicated in college. Every time I try to explain to my mother what’s happening on campus or in my life via a phone or FaceTime call, I find myself getting frustrated because I wouldn’t know the appropriate word in Korean for what I wanted to say. Conversations would usually be cut off with an, “Ugh, never mind,” leaving whatever was wanted or needed to be said unsaid.

These language barriers have presented larger problems as our lives have deviated, and my life has become more complicated in college.

In the past, when we shared the same people, town and environment, it was easier to transcend these difficulties. However, the American college experience is so different from her own. For example, here at Princeton, as well as other American institutions, students comfortably and openly use psychological services to deal with the school’s intense academic rigor. Yet, my mother doesn’t know this. She grew up in a culture where mental health problems were often dismissed. Mental health problems were seen as a weakness and people suffering from them were expected to just buck up. Because of this stigmatization, if I needed to use these services, she’d be quick to disapprove, adding further stress.

Communicating with immigrant parents can be a difficult task for students. However, to help mitigate these issues, students can try to better communicate these kinds of differences to their parents in a more understandable manner. For instance, at Princeton, we have a vast network of people both among our peers and professors and some are likely to have had very similar experiences to our own. We should take advantage of this network, seeing if we can learn from others.

Additionally, students should perhaps reconsider how exactly they want their parents to respond. Do they really need their parents’ enthusiastic approval, or is their understanding enough? Taking the time to more deeply consider what we want and need out of our parents might help us to better respond to their reactions.

Finally, students should also remember that, sometimes, parents don’t need to know about everything. Students may often feel pressured to update their parents about every little aspect of their lives, making conversations more frustrating than they need to be.

However, if we focus only on what will really benefit either our parents or ourselves, we can avoid the unnecessary stress that comes with discussing unimportant topics. Granted, coming to this realization may be difficult for some, especially if a relationship has been built on this kind of detailed sharing. However, if students seriously consider what they need or want to tell their parents, rather than feel a sense of urgency to tell their parents everything, they might start being able to strike an acceptable balance with what they should tell their parents.

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

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n his recent column, “Run Dining Halls like a Business,” fellow opinion columnist Newby Parton argues that University meal plans are a “horrible and scandalous” deal that would “bankrupt a real restaurant in a week.” His strong assessment leads him to a simple conclusion: “Find the waste.

Slash it. Give dining hall incentives to cut costs. Let students opt out of the meal plan after the first semester, but offer them a reasonable price so they will want to stay. Bring in restaurateurs to help.”

Initially after reading Parton’s article, I agreed wholeheartedly with his argument. The $17.53 a meal figure did indeed appear shockingly high, especially in comparison to a meal at Yale, which averages $11.17. But after examining his methodologies, his assessment seems questionable. Therefore, in this piece I aim to first discuss Parton’s article regarding the present state of the dining halls and then move on to talk about their potential future.

Parton bases his entire argument on a figure he calculated using the Block 95 meal plan, which costs $3,330 per year. It is the smallest plan the University offers and is only available to juniors, seniors and graduate students. Parton explains in the comments section of his article that he chose the Block 95 plan “because this is a lot of meals — we would still expect economies of scale to come into play here — and its limits allow for calculating a definite number.” To give a fairer estimate, however, he should have done the math with other plans or taken an average. The Block 95 plan is designed for less frequent users who want flexibility.

Parton himself can’t even get onto this plan as a freshman because it is only offered to upperclassmen. Since this is a plan for a targeted group, its individual meal costs do not reflect the actual sum paid by an average student. It is actually the most expensive plan per meal available. It would have been better journalistic practice had Parton included figures from other Block plans and the Unlimited plan, especially given that they can tell another story. Each meal costs $14.63 on the Block 190. The cost goes down to $12.36 on the Block 235.

The Unlimited is a whole new question. Parton originally claimed in the comments section that an unlimited plan would come out to be around $12 a meal if we assume that a student eats three meals a day for 24 academic weeks. Since then, he has admitted that he had neglected to

include reading and exam periods. Each semester, reading period takes up eight days and exam period ten days. This is 36 extra days, or approximately five extra weeks. Then there are break meal plans for fall, Intersession and spring breaks, when students on the Unlimited can have two meals a day. Each of these breaks is nine days. And then there are ten guest swipes. So if a student on the Unlimited eats three meals a weekday, two on the weekends, he would eat about 615 meals in a year at a cost of only $9.84, which is lower than the average meal cost at Yale’s figure according to Parton. Additionally, I did not include late meal for the sake of simplicity. With late meal, the price is significantly lower.

(Aside: Parton’s Yale figure is calculated using guest meals, not student plans.

Yale’s Unlimited meal plan, which is comparable to what our plan offers, is $6340 a year, $290 more expensive than our own Unlimited).

Parton’s figures, which come from the Block 95, lead to exaggerations throughout the article. He uses the cost of an individual meal on the Block 95 as the cost of late meal. For instance, he writes, “I asked why a $17.53 swipe at Late Meal buys less than $7 of food. She could not comment at that time, either.” The $17.53 does not accurately reflect the cost of a late meal, but rather a meal on the Block 95 plan.

The amount he had to pay for food at Hunan is about $9.84. However, at Hunan, he would have needed to pay more had he decided he wanted spring rolls, soup or even a bottle of water. At the dining hall, he can stuff himself from soup to dessert at no additional cost.

The point is moot. The two systems are so different that they are not comparable anyway. A dining hall may not need to worry about making profit or rent, but it needs to worry about providing an incredible amount of diversity. It needs kosher, vegetarian, vegan options, skim milk, 2% milk: you get the idea. And it needs large quantities of each.

As shown, the average price of a dining hall meal vastly differs depending on the assumptions made in the calculations.

Although I disagree with Parton’s assessment, it does not mean the dining hall is flawless.

First, I agree wholeheartedly with Parton that students should not be forced to go onto a meal plan at Princeton. While I do not believe that going to Nassau Street for meals would be cheaper, I am against the idea of students being forced to purchase food from the University.

The biggest problem I see, though, is the price tag difference between the Unlimited and Block plans. The Unlimited plan offers an incredible amount of meals, but it is almost too comprehensive to fit

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the eating habits of most students. Very rarely will students eat all three meals a day and two late meals and stay on campus for all of reading period, exam period and the breaks. This is the reason we have the Block plans. However, as it stands, the University strongly encourages students to purchase the Unlimited. The Block 190, for example, is only $490 less expensive than the Unlimited a year, even though it comes with so few benefits compared to the Unlimited.

For me, I knew before coming to Princeton that I was not a big eater. The $490 difference was enough to motivate me to go on the Block 190. But given the sad fact that $490 is nothing in the grand spectrum of extravagant spending that is our college education, this difference is not enough to motivate students to go on smaller meal plans. The result is that students are enrolled in the Unlimited even when their eating habits are better fit for a smaller plan.

The dining hall has no reason to charge a student more per meal because they are on a smaller meal plan. It needs to prepare the same amount of food anyway and should not be affected by these kinds of economies of scale. Parton was right in pointing out that each meal on the Block 95 is too expensive. If a meal on each of the Block plans also costs $9.84, more students will find a stronger financial incentive to enroll in a plan that is the most appropriate for them.

Princeton should also enable the Block plan meal swipes to carry over into the breaks. Because of skipped meals, ramen and too many dollars spent on Nassau Street, I had a lot of meal swipes left by the end of the semester even though I am on the Block 190. I could have easily used them for fall break, when I decided to stay on campus. Instead, I was forced to go on a break meal plan for $180. If I had wanted to stay for Intersession and spring breaks, my meal plan would have cost more than the Unlimited, which does not sound right. Providing the option of purchasing additional meals and the option of allowing students to use their regular meal swipes would further incentivize students to find the meal plan that is most appropriate for them. It would also prevent students from going home when they want to stay on campus because they are worried about money.

The dining hall system is not the inefficient, scandalous mess that Parton makes it out to be. But it is also not perfect. The students and the administration can work together toward accomplishing a more efficient dining hall system.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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n Eileen Torrez’s recent piece about the need to examine Princeton’s commitment to the mental health of its students, it was distressing to read how completely she misinterpreted Dean Claire Fowler’s email on the day of Audrey Dantzlerward’s passing. As the dean of a residential college, I can assure you that our immediate thoughts and actions

that sad day were about all of the students who were going to be affected by this tragedy. I spent much of the afternoon and well into the evening writing to students to let them know that they should be with their friends and Audrey’s friends that night and not be writing papers for Dean’s Date.

I know my fellow deans, directors of studies and directors of student

life were doing the same. Many of us couldn’t come to the memorial that night because we were in our offices letting professors know that papers and assignments were not going to be completed. We all understood that, at that moment, we didn’t want students to choose between mourning and schoolwork.

Our grief as a community came first.

There might be other points in Eileen’s essay, such as how we communicate to the outside world when such a tragedy occurs, that were valid. But to imply that administrators were being callous that day is far, far from the truth of the matter.

Sincerely, Oliver Avens Dean of Rockefeller College

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Tigers won the first game 4-3, when the game was played for only seven innings. Clutch hitting from senior catcher Tyler Servais and sophomore outfielder Danny Baer in the 7th inning provided Princeton with the win. The Tigers combined for eight hits, with Baer having a fantastic 3-3 day with one RBI and Arendt having a three-RBI day of his own.

The second game was a 4-2 defeat despite Hernandez’s 4-4 game and junior pitcher Luke Strieber’s four innings of great pitching as senior reliever Tyler Foote gave up four runs in his

two innings of work, and the Tigers could only reply with two runs of their own, despite tallying 13 hits and getting twohit games from sophomore outfielder Paul Tupper, Arendt and Owens.

The third and fourth game provided similar results, as the Tigers lost the first game 3-1 and then responded with a 3-2 victory to clinch the tie in the series and improve their record to 3-13 after the break. In the lackluster first game, the Tigers only managed four hits and one run as Navy dominated its way to 10 hits and three runs. However, the Tigers magnificently responded in the final game, with a 2-3 performance from Arendt and a 3-4 day from se-

nior DH Mat DeNunzio as they edged out Navy for a 3-2 win.

The Tigers’ game on Tuesday would end in heartbreak, as they fell 6-5 to nearby Seton Hall after going into the bottom of the ninth up 5-3.

The game was full of swings in score — Princeton had gone into the ninth inning down 3-2, and reclaimed the lead due to two unforced errors by Seton Hall and an RBI by Tupper.

Owens, Arendt and Baer would score the runs to put Princeton up. However, in the second half of the inning, the tide began to turn. Freshman pitcher Kevin Thomsen was unable to halt the Pirates as they scored the final three runs of the game to secure the victory.

A week of baseball where the team had some encouraging victories sets up interesting match-ups against Brown and Yale in the team’s first Ivy League games. The team’s performances against Navy provide a strong indicator of how the team will perform against their intra-conference rivals, especially because both the Bears and the Bulldogs are considered much weaker opponents than the teams that the Tigers faced last week, with the Bears sporting a 3-11 record and the Bulldogs at 6-4 so far this season.

The Tigers will face Brown on Sunday afternoon and Yale on Monday, both at Clarke Field.

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the Year, scoring 15 goals in 17 games. His goal tally both led the Eastern Col-

legiate Athletic Conference and tied nationally for most individual goals. Porter finished his career as a Tiger with 31 goals. In addition, he was named first team All-Ivy in both his junior

and senior years, and was a starter in all four years of his career at Princeton.

Porter’s current recovery timetable suggests that he should be ready for play by the start of next season.

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The Tigers will send six representatives to the NCAA Championships in Iowa City this weekend.

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University and Liberty University. Both were once again heartbreaking one run losses, 0-1 against Kent State and 1-2 versus Liberty. Seven of the team’s twelve losses now come from one run games, highlighting the competitiveness of the team this season.

The Tigers now have one game against Monmouth University on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. before they begin Ivy League play. The two teams have not played each other

since 2003, and Monmouth is currently 3-11 on the season. Entering the game, junior Emily Viggers leads the team with a .316 batting average, while Jerpbak is hot on her heels with a .304 average.

LaGuardia leads the pitching front with a 3.02 ERA, and has currently almost half of the teams total innings. The return of star junior pitcher Shanna Christian from injury is helping to ease that load.

Christian currently has an ERA of 3.73, having pitched 20.2 innings to LaGuardia’s 60.1.

After Monmouth, the Ti-

gers will begin their competitive Ivy League schedule with a doubleheader versus Yale at home on Friday, and another doubleheader against Brown on Saturday. The games will be played at 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. on Friday, and then 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Yale enters the game with a record of 3-7, having already had nine of their games cancelled. Brown is currently 4-6, but will have played four more games before coming to Princeton. The two doubleheaders will be a great challenge for the Tigers, and will show a lot about where they stand in the Ivy League.

fastest time among freshman in the country and 23rd fastest overall.

For relays, Princeton qualified in the 200 yard free (finishing 9th in 1:17.35), the 400 yard free (16th, 2:53.04) and the 200 yard medley (11th, 1:24.95). Princeton earned provisional status in the 800 yard free (6:25.39) and the 400 yard medley (3:09.56), missing the 400 yard medley qualifying spot by one.

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both been Ivy League champions in their time at Princeton, and both were crucial to Princeton’s success at DeNunzio Pool. Maher was part of all three relay qualifiers and Strand led off both winning medley relays. Pohlmann was responsible for the breast leg in both relay qualifiers and Buerger was part of the winning 800 yard free relay.

The NCAA Championships will conclude a wonderful season for Princeton, in which the Tigers reclaimed the Ivy League title with a wire-to-wire victory at Princ-

eton’s own DeNunzio Pool.

Princeton took a triple-digit lead after an incredible first day and never let up, sweeping the relays to win the Championship. Additionally, eleven Princeton swimmers earned All-Ivy League honors, and head coach Robb Orr was named Ivy League Coach of the Year after picking up his 300th career win this season.

The NCAA Championships will run from March 26-28.

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Tigers head to Iowa for NCAA Championships

By Gordon Moore contributor

The Princeton Men’s swimming and diving team has six qualifiers for this year’s NCAA Championships in Iowa City. Senior Harrison Wagner and freshman Corey Okubo qualified in individual events, and the coaching staff selected seniors Connor Maher and Michael Strand, junior Jack Pohlmann and freshman Zach Buerger to join Wagner and Okubo as Princeton’s four relay swimmers. Princeton will be bringing twice as many swimmers to Iowa City as the next two closest Ivy League teams, Columbia and Yale.

The meet will be Wagner’s

second NCAA Championship appearance after competing in the 2013 NCAA Championships. Wagner earned his spot from his performance in the 50 yard free at the Ivy League Championships. He won that event in 19.39, the 16th fastest time in the country, and also helped Princeton win four of its five relay titles at the Ivy League Championship.

While Wagner’s collegiate career will come to an end at Iowa City, Okubo’s is only just beginning. The freshman has had an incredible year, setting an Ivy League record at the Ivy League Championships and winning the 400 yard IM in 3:43.95, the 7th See M. SWIMMING page 7

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The Tigers look to put the finishing touches on a season in which they had nine swimmers earn First Team All-Ivy honors.

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Cameron Porter ’15 suffers season-ending injury in MLS game

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Senior forward Cameron Porter, former captain of the Princeton men’s soccer team, has torn his ACL in his fifth game in Major League Soccer. He will miss the remainder of the season, and will be out of action for a predicted 9-12 months.

Porter was drafted in the third round of the MLS SuperDraft (45th overall) by the Montreal Impact in January. He quickly made a mark on his new team, scoring in stoppage time against the Mexican soccer team

Pachua to send the Impact onto the semifinal round of the CONCACAF Champion’s League.

Porter sustained his injury in the first half of a game against the New England Revolution, his first MLS start. According to Sports Illustrated, he had gone up for a header and made an awkward landing, leading to the injury in the left knee. The team has stated that the surgery for his knee is scheduled for next week.

During his final season as a Tiger, Porter was named Ivy League Player of See PORTER page 7

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The Princeton baseball team had several successful outings in their spring break trip, including a 2 - 2 series record against Navy.

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The Princeton men’s baseball team (3-13) will look to pick up its form in its first Ivy League matchups of the season this weekend when it faces Brown and Yale at Clarke Field in doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

Entering their spring break trip with a 1-6 record, the Tigers hoped to add to their win total as they faced off against University of Maryland (17-4), East Carolina University (16-8) and Navy (16-8) in Maryland and North Carolina. The team also faced Seton Hall University in a short away game at Short Orange, N.J. earlier this afternoon.

Maryland truly showed its dominance as the 16th ranked team in the nation in the series against the Tigers, as the Tigers were easily swept in the three-game series. The first two games proved to be a struggle for the Tigers as they

lost the first game 15-0 and the second game 5-0.

In the first game, starting pitcher and sophomore Chad Powers gave up 10 runs in 4.1 innings, all earned, while senior reliever Nick Donatiello gave up three more runs in 2.2 innings and sophomore Chris Giglio gave up two more in his one inning of work. The Maryland team combined to collect 15 hits, with right fielder Anthony Papio going a perfect 4-4 with two RBIs, while third baseman Jose Cuas went 2-3 with three RBIs. The Princeton offense was shut out for the first time this season, as the team only combined for six hits, with sophomores Nick Hernandez and Zack Belski both going 2-4 on the day.

The second game was another offensive struggle for the Tigers, as the team was shut out once again, combining for five hits in 33 at bats, three of which came from junior second baseman Danny Hoy, who had a great 3-4 day. Sopho-

more pitcher Keelan Smithers pitched a great game, going seven innings and giving up two earned runs on five hits, but the team still ended up losing 5-0.

The third game was a much better offensive performance, as the Tigers finally managed to put on some runs against their ranked opponent, losing out 13-6. Hernandez had a 3-5 day with one RBI and two runs scored, and junior DH Andres Larramendi went 2-5 with an RBI of his own. However, the pitching game could not hold down a strong Maryland offense, as they tacked on 13 runs on 15 hits. It was a tough series offensively for the Tigers, as the team had a meager .196/.261/.235 slash line for the series, with the pitchers giving up a 11.62 ERA. The series against East Carolina did not provide better results for the Tigers as the team dropped two more games, losing 11-2 and 8-3. The team committed four errors in the first

game, which led to four unearned runs for ECU, as the Pirates totaled 11 runs on 13 hits.

The offensive performance was an improvement, as the team combined for nine hits, but only managed two runs, with senior outfielder Peter Owens going 3-4 and junior third baseman Billy Arendt going 2-3 that day.

The second game was quickly over by the fourth inning, as ECU had jumped out to a 7-0 lead: junior starter Chris Bodurian gave up 12 hits and seven runs in his 4.0 innings of work, and ECU totaled 16 hits and eight runs on the day.

The offensive performance for Princeton was good, as the team plated three runs on 10 hits, with Belski, Hoy and Owens managing two hits each.

In the final series during spring break, the Tigers managed to play out a tightly contested series against Navy in Annapolis, going home after splitting the series 2-2. The See BASEBALL page 6

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The Princeton women’s softball team emerged from a hefty spring break schedule with a record of 7-12 after two tournaments and series against Georgetown University and George Mason University. In their first tournament, the Tigers had both games against George Washington canceled due to rain, and then suffered a tough 5-6 loss to a strong University of Maryland team. The team then travelled to Georgetown (12-15) to play a doubleheader.

The Tigers split the series, winning the first game 5-0 before falling in the second game 2-6. Freshman pitcher Ashley LaGuardia threw an impressive two-hit shutout in the first game, recording her second shutout of the season with the other coming against North Florida University in February. LaGuardia was later named Ivy League

Co-Rookie of the Week for her performances.

The next day the Tigers travelled down to Virginia for another doubleheader, this time against George Mason (6-14). Both games were defensive battles, which Princeton lost 1-2 and 0-1, with the Tigers’ lone run coming from a solo home run from junior Skye Jerpbak. Junior pitcher Shanna Christian and sophomore pitcher Claire Klausner both pitched excellently in the first game, while LaGuardia again played very well in the night game. LaGuardia leads the team with an ERA of 3.02.

Finally, the Tigers competed in the Liberty Tournament in Lynchburg, Va., playing five games over a three-day span. The team posted a 3-2 record in the tournament, with wins over Rider University, North Carolina Central University and Toledo University, and losses to Kent State See SOFTBALL page 7

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This week, Street brings you transitional fashion from around campus.

ROMIE DESROGÈNE ’17 Where did you get your clothes: The Limited.

Style: Bright and bold business casual Favorite season to dress for: Spring and summer.

Because everything is colorful!

BRANDON SIXTO ’17 Style: Scholar Street-Wear Phresh Favorite season to dress for: Fall because I love fall colors, scarves, outerwear, and layering allows me to wear all of my favorite clothes

PAMELA SOFFER ’15 Style: Edgy, lots of black with pops of color or patterns, and honestly I try to keep it comfy.

Favorite season to dress for: Spring because you can really wear whatever you want. You can throw on a cool coat but keep it light and floral underneath. Or you can go for all black and people will just count it as on the winter side of spring.

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Princeton University Language Project transcends borders ZOE PEROT Senior Writer

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very Thursday afternoon, students interested in translation and language enrichment in a variety of languages such as Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Arabic gather in Butler’s 1915 Room. The Princeton University Language Project, affectionately known as PULP, is a student-run group whose primary focus is serving as a free translation service for NGOs. PULP has provided services for organizations such as The Red Cross, the Smithsonian Institution, UNICEF, the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination and the Association to Benefit Children; current projects include work for EarthRights International, Azuero Earth Project

and the Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art. A typical translation session lasts about an hour and a half.

The members break off into groups based on language, and projects vary from more individual to more collaborative work.

For the most difficult work, PULP encourages collaborative translation with discussion of the best possibilities. Depending on the project, a translation can take the length of one meeting, or sometimes an entire semester for longer projects of nearly one hundred pages.

PULP also hopes to enrich their members’ language and translation with the Translation Speaker Series, where a professor or invited guest speaks about linguistics or translation over dinner. The group offers a Language Fellows Program where undergraduate and graduate students are paired to practice their foreign language skills, with each partner having native competency in the other’s acquired language. PULP also organizes

group trips to support their goals of language and translation enhancement. Last year they traveled to the United Nations headquarters in New York.

Street spoke to PULP president Bradley Berman ’16 to get the juicy details about his experiences with the organization.

During Berman’s senior year of high school, he began teaching himself Mandarin Chinese and continued his study of the language in CHI 101: Elementary Chinese I at Princeton. He said that he felt “PULP was a great way to strengthen my Mandarin language skills through personal effort and by learning from other PULP members who were my mentors.” Berman also said that he found himself interested in translation and looking into other cultures and that he “perceived PULP as a hub of cultural and linguistic exchange.”

Berman found a supportive, collaborative community in PULP and a “comfortable, selfmotivated atmosphere.” Part of this environment comes from

the fact that many of the organization’s members are not native speakers, but current language learners. The group does involve graduate students who are native speakers and undergraduates with native or high-level language competency as editors for the language groups, in order to ensure a professional product.

As translation is one of the group’s main focuses, Street spoke to Berman about his experiences. Berman said, “I enjoy translating a variety of styles of writing, including culturally rich documents, and also more technical documents.” He explained that he enjoys the cultural documents because “it’s sometimes difficult to translate certain concepts or language and culturally specific vocabulary, and I have to find a way to creatively use my language skills to achieve a similar effect in the language into which I’m translating.” More technical documents, on the other hand,

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fore to motivate you. A lot of the time when I plan on working out first thing and I don’t, it’s not because I’m too tired, but because I’ve woken up hungry.

Most of the time, if I eat even just a couple bites of a banana or a granola bar, I’ll feel a lot better and have a better workout too.

3. Don’t make it too hard, but don’t make it too easy. For most workouts, it often takes me about 10 minutes to get into the groove. This is mostly because I need to physically and mentally surpass the “barrier” where my cardio and mind kick in. Therefore, a morning workout of casual walking, biking or doing the elliptical usually doesn’t cut it. I have to actually force myself to work hard.

That being said, a brutally hard interval workout is not always the best option either. Going all-out first thing in the morning is hard both mentally and physically, especially without having eaten a proper meal yet. Your body might not have the energy to push 100%, and this could leave you feeling depressed and unaccomplished.

4. Make sure you get a good warm up in. Roughly 15 minutes before the beginning of your workout, your heart rate is at its lowest point. Bringing it up too quickly will not only make your workout seem harder, you could actually injure yourself trying to compensate for this extra tiredness.

5. Schedule something engaging that motivates you.

Whether that’s a spin class, running with a friend or a familiar favorite interval workout, do something you know you can do and that you’d be excited to do at another point in the day. By scheduling early something you

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h, the morning workout. Those “morning people” are such overachievers, aren’t they? Chances are, if you’re a night owl, you can barely fathom the thought of getting out of your bed in the morning, let alone dragging your butt to the gym to exercise.

As someone who has dabbled in the super-early morning workout (5–7 a.m.), as well as the normal-early morning workout (8–10 a.m.), I will say that neither is an easy feat, especially in college, where rehearsals, events and study groups last until the wee hours of the morning. It’s hard to imagine that the real world is even awake that early.

However, there is a reason why hard-core morning gym goers swear by their routine. There is a certain bliss that accompanies the feeling of having checked something off your to-do list first thing — not to mention the endorphins!

While most of your friends won’t actually tune into the 10 a.m. lecture until the caffeine from their latte has kicked in and the lecture is nearly over, your mental acuity will be at its peak.

You might even feel motivated to learn, rather than watching the clock tick in slow motion.

So, if you are looking to approach spring with a fresh jolt of energy, check out these eight tips to make your morning workout a success!

1. Don’t do a late workout the night before (for example, after dinner). Your body won’t have had enough time to recover, and you’ll feel like you never took a break, especially if you’re heading back to the same gym or running route.

2. Eat something small be-

are often difficult because of specific words with which Berman is unfamiliar, he said.

For both types of documents, Berman said that he finds that “the most rewarding part of translation work is not only the personal sense of accomplishment I feel when I have successfully translated a document into Mandarin, but also the knowledge that my endeavors are making otherwise inaccessible information available to a wider audience.”

Aside from that personal reward, Berman added that he also is proud of “watching a large translation come together through the collaborative work of PULP members.”

Indeed, language is a shared experience, which is a communicative and collaborative effort. PULP’s members recognize this and use vital aspects of language to advance and expand their language comprehension, assisting important international organizations in the process.

would normally dread, you’re just lowering your chances of success.

6. Set out everything you need (or at least your clothes) the night before. It’ll be easier to get out of bed when you see what you have to put on, rather than picking it out of a closet. Plus, think of the guilt you’ll feel if you sleep in and upon waking up, see your poor unworn gym clothes hanging on the chair. Then you’ll have to go to the gym to avoid the guilt!

7. Don’t go too hard on yourself mentally. If you’re setting out to run a 5k that you would usually run at a 9 minute per mile pace but can’t quite keep it up on a given morning, don’t beat yourself up about it. It will take your body some time to get used to this new routine. Be prepared to lower your standards the tiniest bit, and have a positive outlook. If nothing else, you can always tell yourself: “At least I made it to the gym!”

8. Remind yourself: “I’ll feel so much more awake after!”

Okay, I admit it’s hard to imagine that workout high when you can barely keep your eyes open, but try it! (Just make sure not to close your eyes when trying to picture it!)

I’d be lying if I said that I have mastered the art of the morning workout. However, I must say that I am genuinely looking forward to the time in my life when I consistently start my day off with a hard, satisfying workout. Every single time I leave a spin class or finish a run in the morning, I am reminded of how lucky I am to be able to exercise and start the day on such a positive note. Plus, you can’t beat that post-workout breakfast — am I right?!

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ASK THE SEXPERT This week, she discusses the pill’s effect on sex drive.

Dear Sexpert, Ever since I went on the pill, I feel like I have no sex drive. Is there something wrong with me? What do I do? I don’t want to get pregnant, but I want my sex drive back.

— ProblemWithThePill

Dear Problem, All forms of birth control have potential side effects, which vary depending on the method and the individual. You can double check the informational insert that comes with your medication; it should have a list of reported side effects.

The “pill” works by altering your natural hormone fluctuations. Although there have been many studies on the side effects of the pill, especially those side effects linked to libido, few, if any, have been “conclusive.” That said, some women have reported experiencing loss of libido while taking the pill. This side effect is most likely due to the fact that many birth control pills contain both estradiol and progestin, which lower the levels of testosterone in your system. This is the reason that most people notice the desirable side effect of improvement in acne while taking the pill; however, it can also be the cause of the undesirable decrease in your sex drive.

It is important that you find a birth control method that works for you and your life. If you continue experiencing this, or other undesirable side effects, your first step should be to talk to your health care provider — whoever is prescribing you the pill. They may suggest that you switch to a different brand of birth control.

Different pills have varying levels and types of hormones, one of which may work for you. They may also suggest an alternative method of birth control, such as an intrauterine device or implant. Although it is possible that you will still experience decreased libido with these forms of contraception, it is less likely since they do not contain estradiol.

The ParaGard IUD is a non-hormonal IUD that will definitely not have any effect on your sex drive and is another potential option you can discuss with your provider, if you feel strongly that the hormones are the cause of your decreased libido.

Because there are factors other than being on the pill that can affect your libido, including stress, sleep deprivation and physical illness, we recommend speaking with your provider before stopping the pill. You should rule out these other factors before going off the pill, especially if it is your primary (or only) means of contraception.

— The Sexpert Interested in Sexual Health? The Sexpert is always looking for members of the community to join the team of sexual health educators who, along with fact-checking from University health professionals, help write these columns. Email sexpert@dailyprincetonian.com for more information and questions about sexual health. Don’t be shy!

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TOP TEN Ted Cruz’s Princeton Aspirations

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Become President of College Democrats.

2 4 6 8 10

Join the Whig Party.

Become President of Terrace F. Club.

Become Michelle Robinson (Obama)’s Best Friend.

Become a SHARE Peer.

Become Sally Frank’s Bae. Found DREAM Team.

Intern at Women’s Center.

Join Texas Club.

Join Canadian Club.

CAMPUS PICKS DANCE Ballet Folklorico de Princeton presents “Mujeres” Frist Film/Performance Theater Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.

If you consider yourself an avid Princeton dance show attendee, your year would not be complete without Ballet Folklorico’s annual show, “Mujeres.” The colorful dresses and sombreros of the traditional Mexican folk dance group will transport you to a different time and place, where the sun is shining and the boots are a-tapping. Audiences of the Saturday show will have the bonus pleasure of seeing a guest performance by the Mariachi Academy of New York, a school for young dancers.

DANCE South Asian Student Association presents “Dance Dimensions 2015” Richardson Auditorium Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

Bollywood may not be the first word that comes to mind when you hear “dance competition,” but this Saturday, Princeton’s very own Naacho and Princeton South Asian Theatrics (PSAT) will prove that the battleground of grooves and moves is not just for break dancers and steppers. They will be joined by South Asian arts groups from New York University, Tufts University, Binghamton University, Drexel University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and South Jersey University. Don’t miss out!

LECTURE Nassau Literary Review presents “Narratives of the Periphery” Chancellor Green Library Saturday, 4 p.m.

What is the relationship between the arts and marginalized communities?

How can the arts interact with and contribute to ethical and political debate? How can the arts speak to and speak for those without a voice?

To hear what a Pulitzer-winning poet, the founder of literary magazine “N+1” and a journalist for ProPublica have to say on the subject, be sure to join Nass Lit at their first annual Edmund Wilson Symposium panel this weekend.

COMEDY Quipfire! presents “Musicals!”

Frist Film/Performance Theater Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 11 p.m.

Quipfire! Does! Musicals! Join these funny people as they do their funny, unscripted things to funny, yet-to-beimagined musical scores! See more funny people as they do more funny things on Saturday, when Fordham University’s improv comedy troupe, Stranded in Pittsburgh, will also be performing (funnily enough)! In less funny words, Quipfire! will be performing their first completely improvised musical show, and you definitely don’t want to miss out. (!)