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In Opinion Zeena Mubarak argues why we need to care beyond just Black History Month and Vice Provost Minter clarifies the role of the new Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 12:30 p.m.: The Global Health & Health Policy Program will hold an open house for interested freshmen and sophomores. Bowl 2, Robertson Hall.

The Archives

March 3, 1972 The $15 increase in undergraduate room rates was challenged by students organizing a referendum. Students said the Priorities Committee’s recommendation was made based on misguided budgetary assumptions.

PRINCETON By the Numbers

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The number of students running for Class of 2015 Young Alumni Trustee.

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

U. faculty dismiss motion to revise copyright policy

By Linda Song staff writer

The faculty discussed a motion to accept revised guidelines regarding online courses under the University’s copyright policy at the faculty meeting on Monday.

The motion was rejected due to a lack of consensus and deferred for later discussion.

The University began offering noncredit courses online in April 2012 on Coursera and launched its

first massive open online course that summer.

The University’s copyright policy says it does not normally make claims on the copyrights of the products of the teaching and research of its faculty. However, it says the University is entitled to reimbursement of some share of the income derived from these copyrights if faculty use “substantial resources specifically designated for the development of intellectual property.”

According to a letter passed out to members of the faculty during the meeting, “The main point of the proposed changes is (a) create the presumption that use of the Broadcast Center counts as the use of ‘substantial resources specifically designated for the development of intellectual property’ and, (b) to specify a mechanism for recovering costs.”

The University is entitled to reimbursements generated from See COPYRIGHTS page 2

Focusing on charity’s outcomes and educating girls will help to effect positive change in the world, University Trustee and former New York Times editor Sheryl WuDunn GS ’88 and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof said at a panel discussion on Monday.

The panel was held to discuss Kristof and WuDunn’s book, “A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity,” which focuses on problems faced by women and girls around the world and what can be done to expand their opportunities.

Though some aspects of giving and charity are done well globally, there are also a number of things the charitable world does not do well, WuDunn said.

“We believe that the charitable world is in need of a revolution,” WuDunn said.

There is a need for an increasing focus on outcomes, she said, noting the new trend toward socalled effective altruism.

The story of a nonprofit executive, Dan Pallotta, whose foundation raised around $72 million for breast cancer and AIDS relief in 2002 but was taken over by the Avon Products Foundation after criticism surrounding the level of the executive’s compensation, was an example of having the right intentions but leading to an ineffective outcome, WuDunn said. Contributions the next year totaled only around $11 million.

The story of Rachel Beckwith, a 9-year-old girl who began a fund for clean drinking water internationally through charitywater.org, was also significant, WuDunn said. She originally set a goal of $300, but once she was involved in a severe car crash, her fund raised thousands of dollars. When Rachel died, WuDunn explained, fundraising for the cause increased exponentially, eventually totaling $1.2 million, which broke the website’s record for fundraising. The money was used to give more than 30,000 people access to clean drinking water, she said.

“In Rachel’s life there was an abundance of purpose and meaning,” WuDunn said. “I hope all of you will have an abundance of purpose and meanSee NON-PROFITS page 4

ACADEMICS

News & Notes

Students discuss differences in COS degrees

Lempert recuses herself from 7-Eleven vote

The computer science department’s offering of both an A.B. degree and a B.S.E. degree is rooted in the engineering prerequisites being less applicable than they are to other engineering majors, according to department chair Andrew Appel ’81.

The department offers both tracks because many topics and applications within computer science do not rely on required B.S.E. courses like multivari-

Mayor Liz Lempert said she would recuse herself from a vote on a proposed 7-Eleven because of a conflict of interest, the Princeton Packet reported.

The Planning Board has a hearing on March 19 to discuss 7-Eleven’s proposal to move into the former West Coast Video property at 259 Nassau St. Lempert explained that she had received legal advice to recuse herself from the voting since the University, her husband’s employer, owns a driveway that goes through the site.

Lempert is married to psychology professor Kenneth Norman.

In addition to Lempert, three other board members are recusing themselves from the vote. Two of them, Wanda Gunning and Fern Spruill, are also married to University employees. Board member Gail Ullman will recuse herself because she lives within 200 feet of the property.

In December 2014, the town council voted 4-3 to pass an ordinance requiring businesses bordering residential zones from being open between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. Under the ordinance, 7-Eleven is required to revise or retract its original proposal of being open 24 hours a day. Lempert has maintained the ordinance was not targeting the 7-Eleven.

Town planning director Lee Solow told The Daily Princetonian in February that the issue of businesses staying open late had been a concern for years among residents.

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able calculus, he explained.

“Historically, about a quarter or a third of our majors have been A.B.s and the rest B.S.E.s,” he said. “I think it works for those students. The track within the major is pretty similar.”

While both A.B. and B.S.E students must complete eight computer science departmental courses, A.B. students are not required to take the B.S.E. degree’s prerequisites of physics, chemistry and multivariable calculus. They also must take one fewer math course than is required of B.S.E. stu-

dents. While B.S.E. students must complete 36 courses in order to graduate, A.B. students need only 31, but B.S.E. students do not need to fulfill a foreign language requirement.

“They’re very close, ” A.B. computer science major Bobby Ullman ’15 said. “As somebody who started out in the integrated science curriculum, I could’ve really done either.”

He said that he chose his degree based on how he was feeling that day.

Some of the differences also lie in research interests, Appel

said.

“Some of our best A.B. majors are interested in things like computational biology, and, as such, they’re likely to take a fair amount of chemistry, but they don’t necessarily take as much physics, for example,” Appel said.

A.B. majors must participate in four semesters of independent work that does not count towards their required courses, complete two semesters of junior independent work and write a year-long senior thesis.

“You could do a theoretical

thesis about research entirely,” Ullman said regarding the A.B. computer science degree. “For example, my thesis is about poker. I’m running some simulations in poker while writing a paper about that. But some people do more technical things where they build some kind of project and write about it.”

B.S.E. majors are required to complete one semester of independent work, which counts as a course.

Siddhartha Jayanti ’17 said he chose a B.S.E. degree in comSee COS page 3

LECTURE

Fogarty lectures on Dear World Project for Mental Health Week

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

The Dear World photography project is designed to help people express their life stories, photographer Robert Fogarty said in a lecture on Monday.

Fogarty was on campus on Monday to photograph students for his project as a part of Mental Health Week and will be at the University throughout the week.

“We’re here to celebrate your voices,” Fogarty said.

Fogarty began the lecture by sharing stories of people he has met over the years through Dear World, including children he met in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, former professional football player Steve Gleason and his struggle with ALS and survivors of the Boston Marathon.

He started the project in New Orleans in 2009.

Five University students also discussed their personal experiences at the lecture, including Briana Christophers ’17, Ryan Fulmer ’16, Leea Driskell ’17, Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15 and Christina Rice ’17.

“You have to go through these things to connect with other people,” Rice said.

As each student spoke, their picture taken from earlier in the day was projected on a screen. Most of the photographs had subjects pose with a message of their choice written somewhere on their bodies, which was true to Dear World’s typical form.

“As you watch [the students], I’d love for you to think: What are the stories behind their [written] mesSee HEALTH page 4

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Students were photographed on Monday as part of the Dear World project, which is part of Mental Health Week.

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the materials, Gideon Rosen GS ’92, a philosophy professor, chair of the Council of Humanities and chair of the ad hoc committee on revisions to the copyright policy, said.

The proposed changes were minor and would set some guidelines that would aid in clarifying existing policies, he added.

“I wouldn’t want us as a faculty to get into the habit of chewing on any proposed change of this sort,” Rosen said, adding the guidelines would be worthwhile to the faculty. “It’s beneficial to the faculty for there to be standard terms … to clarify existing policies.”

Accepting the proposed guidelines would be a logical step in the process, Jeremy Adelman, a history professor and also a member of the faculty ad hoc committee recommending the changes, said.

“I never understood the teaching that I do as locked in,” he said. “My courses change all the time. I teach in order to learn. I just see this as a deepening of the process that we’ve been involved in for many years.”

Another letter handed out to the faculty and signed by a number of faculty members urged the faculty to vote against the motion to adopt the changes.

“There is nothing in this motion that benefits the faculty,” the letter read. “The motion in question comprises revisions to the Rules and Procedures of the Faculty claiming a tax on royalty income you might generate from online course materials. It also, for the first time, would establish a University right to use your scholarly output at Princeton without your permission.“ Robert Sedgewick, a computer science professor, said he did not see a need for a contract with the University regarding intellectual property.

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“Having been an author of a best selling textbook for many years, I know the academic industry. This is not a money-making activity” he said. “I don’t understand the need for a contract … We have a relationship that is based on trust in a thousand dimensions. The University is trusting me to use the course materials that I’ve developed.”

The guidelines proposed by the ad hoc committee had been used for some time when University President Emeritus Shirley Tilghman appointed the committee, but there was no formal meeting to approve the guidelines, Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice said.

“Other universities are grappling with this issue too, of who owns the intellectual property of [these online courses],” she said.

“Nobody makes money off these courses. It’s all free.”

The meeting was valuable in revealing the differing opinions on the matter, Prentice noted.

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puter science because it had fewer additional classes beyond what he would normally take.

“In B.S.E., research credits are courses, so [the number of classes A.B. and B.S.E. students take] comes out to approximately the same thing,” he said.

The total course load is relatively similar between the two options, and students can switch their decision about pursuing an A.B. or B.S.E. degree any time before graduation. As long as a student has satisfied the requirements for either degree, that student can

switch from one to the other just by filling out a form.

“Most people end up A.B. if they decide too late to easily take all the prerequisites [for B.S.E.],” Ullman said. “That’s probably why A.B. exists, because they don’t want to prevent anyone from taking computer science just because they decide that, in sophomore year halfway through, they started as a history major, but actually they like computer science.”

“The reason I chose A.B. and the reason I can tell you that most people choose A.B. is that I came in as a different major.

I came as a math major,” Dale Markowitz ’15 said. “I had so many requirements done for A.B. that I figured I might as

well just do that.”

She added that concentrators’ post-graduation goals may also determine which degree they choose.

“If you just want to work at a software company, [the A.B. thesis requirement] is just unnecessary stress,” she said.

Capella Yee ’15 said when she was picking her degree, some people were not sure what they wanted to do and hoped to shop around.

“I think a lot of it was just that I was just worried about some of the B.S.E. requirements,” Yee said. “I really just didn’t want to take physics.”

Computer science professor Andrea LaPaugh said she does not believe students are swayed

by any one deciding factor.

“Part of it may be when they came in, before what they decided what the major was, if they came in as A.B. or B.S.E,” she said. “The two degrees are so fluid, though, that that’s not the main reason. I think it may depend upon interest or just the kind of program that’s mapped out for the A.B. versus the B.S.E. in terms of University requirements.”

The programs offer the same kinds of opportunities, LaPaugh added.

“I can’t tell, when I’m talking to a student whether it’s an A.B. student or a B.S.E. student, unless we’re talking about some requirement that has to do with only that degree,” she said.

Elizabeth Bradley ’17 said she found the B.S.E prerequisites helpful.

Bradley is a former copy editor for The Daily Princetonian.

“I felt the B.S.E. prerequisites for math and physics would really prepare me for the kind of problems I might tackle in the field,” she said. “I can take a semester and find out if independent work is for me. That option is what I find incredibly freeing.”

B.S.E. majors, if they choose, have the option to continue with their independent research work, she noted.

At Harvard, students who concentrate in computer science majors get an A.B. or joint A.B./master of science degree.

Yale’s Department of Computer Science offers both Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts majors in Computer Science and a combined bachelor’s/ master degree program. It also offers joint majors with electrical engineering, mathematics and psychology. The University of Pennsylvania’s department lets undergraduates get a bachelor’s of applied science degree or a B.S.E. degree. Dartmouth offers an A.B. degree in computer science, Columbia says most of its computer science majors, but not all of them, come from its engineering school, Brown offers a bachelor’s of science and Cornell offers a bachelor’s of science in computer science.

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sages?” Fogarty said.

Themes discussed included finding strength in things they love, finding their voice, learning to love themselves and struggling

with homelessness.

“It’s really insightful that we got to see you guys for only a day, but the way you opened up to us was so humbling,” Dear World producer Jonah Evans said.

The presentation ended with a slideshow of student portraits taken earlier in the day.

“I hope the photos serve as a brief moment into someone’s story,” Fogarty said.

“The words that people write are the first lines to a much greater story, and what I hope is that someone sees the portrait of a friend of a friend, or a classmate, or a colleague, and asks them, ‘Hey, what’s the story behind that?’ ” The Dear World project was brought to the University to offer something different for the fourth annual Mental Health Week, Naimah Hakim ’16, a member of the Mental Health Week Committee, said after the lecture.

“In light of the legacy of photography we’ve had in mental health weeks past, I think we wanted to find something else that would fill that niche,” she said.

“Dear World in so many ways exceeds our expectations.”

Okuda-Lim, a member and past chair of the Mental Health Initiative, explained after the lecture that he heard of Dear World through friends at the University of Nevada, Reno.

“Sharing stories of hope and stories of struggle and stories of a brighter day, that theme of a photography project would be something to bring here to Princeton for Mental Health Week 2015,” he said.

The lecture took place in Frist 302 at 8 p.m.

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Nicholas Kristof spoke on campus on Monday with Sheryl WuDunn GS ’88 about charities and education.

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ing as well.”

Giving back is seen through a much broader lens than in previous times in that now it incorporates volunteering or things that can be incorporated into daily life rather than solely monetary donations, Kristof said.

Many of the circumstances in today’s society, particularly in the United States, are far less cost-effective than they could be, he said. Thirty percent of American girls become pregnant by age 19, and though American and European teenagers are equally sexually active, American girls are three times more likely to become pregnant, he said.

Europeans also have more comprehensive sexual education, something that is cost-effective, he added.

“Every dollar invested in these

programs for at risk teenage girls saves about five other dollars, yet we tend not to invest in that,” Kristof said.

Increased education and women’s empowerment do have a real impact, partially due to demographic circumstances, he said. A high number of youths in a population correlates very strongly to instability in that society and is also tied to the gender gap, he explained.

“How do you reduce the youth bulge in the population 50 years from now?” Kristof said. “You educate girls today.”

Statistically, educating boys in today’s society will have a moderate impact on the number of children he will be expected to have, he said, but educating a girl will create a huge impact. This is an enormous advantage, because education is extremely effective, he explained.

Kristof gave the example of education as a contrast to deploying soldiers in a war, saying

that education is far more costeffective and productive than the latter situation.

“For the cost of deploying one US soldier abroad for one year, you can start … 20 schools and fund them for 3 years,” Kristof said. “That’s the tradeoff I think we tend to miss.”

The view that problems need be solved domestically before looking at international issues is also flawed, he said, because even though there are real needs and injustices in the United States as well as abroad, they should not be pitted against each other. Society has the resources to address issues both at home and abroad, and so there should not be a conflict, he said.

“At the end of the day, our compassion, our empathy, shouldn’t depend on the color of somebody’s skin or the color of their passport,” Kristof said.

The panel took place at 4:30 p.m. at Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall.

News & Notes 28 seniors run for Young Alumni Trustee The online primary voting process for a Young Alumni Trustee for the class of 2015 will start on Tuesday, according to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua.

Twenty-eight seniors are running in the primary election this year.

The seniors are Tumi Akinlawon, Jimmy Baase, Elise Backman, Samisha Bansal, Ray Chao, Christina Chica, Albert Choi, Katherine Clifton, Gavin Cook, Catherine Dennig, Laura Harder, Zach Horton, Rana Ibrahem, Shawon Jackson, Adam Klosowiak, Joe

Margolies, Zack McCourt, Sydney Montgomery, Phil Mooney, Zhan Okuda-Lim, Cordelia Orillac, Stephanie Rigizadeh, Paul Riley, Hannah Rosenthal, Misha Semenov, Jillian Wilkowski, Tiana Woolridge and Carolyn Yang.

Backman is a former opinion columnist for The Daily Princetonian. Cook is a former writer for Street. Horton is a member of the Editorial Board.

Mooney is a former opinion columnist. Wilkowski is a former Editorial Board chair and current Editorial Board member.

To be eligible for the primary election, each candidate has

to submit a petition signed by 50 eligible seniors.

The primary voting will take place from March 3-12. All seniors are eligible to vote.

The three candidates who earn the greatest number of votes in the primary election will be eligible to run for the general election, in which every member of the Classes of 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 is eligible to vote.

The Young Alumni Trustee will serve a four-year term on University’s Board of Trustees and provide a perspective on issues before the Board based on their recent experience as undergraduate students.

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The beauty of silence

More than just a month

Zeena Mubarak

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Julia Case-Levine

hat is it about silence that is so unsettling and deeply irksome?” I wonder as I spit out some trite retort to a friend’s comment to avoid having nothing to say.

Silence makes me so anxious that I instinctively fill it with some equally meaningless remark. This is a longstanding ref lex of mine, the need to honor someone’s ref lection with a response.

Maybe this impulse is a vestige of my years being coached to participate and assert myself; a remnant from the days I was graded on classroom contribution.

As long as I can remember, I have believed silence is akin to having nothing of importance to say. Silence is a sanctuary for those without opinions and original thoughts. Silence is for those who did not finish the reading.

But maybe my discomfort with silence is damaging in its own right. I wonder what I have missed out on while worrying about what I have to contribute.

I wonder what I would have learned if I allowed myself to ref lect on what had been said instead of wondering what was left to add.

This is a profoundly challenging concept to comprehend for a student growing up in an environment obsessed with speed, where being fast is equated to being intelligent.

But lately I have been engaging in a personal experiment to question the value of silence. I have made an effort to listen in order to understand, not in order to formulate a response. I have relieved myself from the pressure of an immediate reaction and allowed myself to embrace and embody this nation’s most feared state: being slow.

As soon as I began allowing room for silence I found I was listening instead of hearing. The questions I asked myself in daily conversation shifted; instead of the perpetual self-ref lection — did I sound smart? Did I convey something important? What did I add to the conversation?

— I had room to consider what I was being told.

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lack History Month has just ended, so I believe now is the perfect time to look at the goals and intentions of the month, and how they fit into the history of the University.

In honor of the month, Shriya Sekhsaria has been writing a very informative series in The ‘Prince’ about the history of African Americans on this campus, from the very first evidence of an African American student, way back in 1792, to the feelings of current students with regards to race relations at Princeton. I learned a lot from reading the series, and I am glad it was written.

The ‘Prince’s Black History Month series perfectly encapsulates the purpose of the month: time was taken to honor people who are normally forgotten, because of their race. However, I think we should remember these people year-round, not just in February.

I am not arguing against the existence of a Black History Month.

Rather, given the current state of racial tensions that were so clearly highlighted in recent months, something like it is needed all the more. In general, historical trends have shown that the majority of people are not predisposed towards honoring the achievements of black people. Something like this month forces them to do so. This ends up highlighting stories that may have otherwise disappeared.

For example, I never would have learned about the potential existence of an African American student at the University all the way back in the eighteenth century, had Black History Month not provided

a platform for that information to be shared.

However, I think that this is a short term solution to a larger problem. The end goal was never to confine the history of Black Americans to the month of February. The existence of Black American history should be celebrated all year round, as part of the larger category of American history. Although Black Americans have had a unique experience in this country, they are still part of the larger American experience.

Again, the point is not that Black History Month is not needed today.

Rather, it is necessary more than ever – and the fact that it continues to be needed to this day poses the real problem. Instead of relegating the achievements, the lives, the accomplishments and the histories of Black Americans to a single month of the year, perpetuating a tradition that began in 1976, we should really be working towards making the whole concept of a single “black history month” redundant in the future.

As a country, we would need to work on this from an elementary school level and work our way up.

The stories of people like Martin Luther King, Jr. shouldn’t be told only during February. He should be taught as a great American, simply put. Black History Month mainstays such as George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington should be taught as what they were, scientists and great thinkers, not just answers to trivia questions that only come up once a year.

This is not to say that the race of these men should be ignored and erased, only that it shouldn’t define them.

Black History Month is necessary right now. However, I hope it isn’t in the future. Because if we ac-

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cept this status quo, without even thinking of changing it, we are accepting a world in which Black accomplishments can only be recognized one month out of twelve.

We are accepting that the people we honor in February accomplished great things, but only relative to their race. I hope that doesn’t have to be true, and that such artificial separations between different types of American history become unnecessary. I want the Black experience to be honored throughout the year, and not only in one month.

We can start on a small scale, by creating monuments or displaying portraits of important African Americans from throughout the University’s history. At a private institution like the University, it is an unfortunate truth that those who are remembered are normally those who are wealthy or come from wealthy families, because they have the money necessary to build buildings or commission plaques with their names. This necessarily precludes many of the early African Americans associated with the University, such as that potential first student, back in the eighteenth century. We can combat this by deciding to honor them anyhow. Displaying portraits of Black Princetonians would have an important symbolic meaning, showing their role in our history, a role that should be acknowledged during all the months of the year.

This would hopefully be one small step towards reimagining our understanding of race and our acceptance of the diverse society that we live in.

Julia Case-Levine is a freshman from New York, N.Y. She can be reached at juliacc@ princeton.edu.

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139th managing board news editor Jacob Donnelly ’17 opinion editor Benjamin Dinovelli ’16 sports editor Miles Hinson’17 street editor Lin King ’16 photography editor Yicheng Sun ’16 video editors Leora Haber ’16 chief copy editors Caroline Congdon ’17 Joyce Lee ’17 design editors Austin Lee’16 Julia Johnstone’16 prox editor Rebekah Shoemake ’17 intersections editor Jarron McAllister ’16 associate news editors Ruby Shao ’17 Jasmine Wang ’17 associate opinion editors Jason Choe ’17 Shruthi Deivasigmani’16 associate sports editors Sydney Mandelbaum ’17 Tom Pham ’17 associate street editors Harrison Blackman ’17 Jennifer Shyue ’17 associate photography editors Tiffany Chen ’16 Christopher Ferri ’18 Sewheat Haile ’17 associate chief copy editors Chamsi Hssaine ’16 Alexander Schindele-Murayama ’16 associate design editor Cailin Hong ’17

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I wonder what I would have learned if I allowed myself to reflect on what had been said instead of wondering what was left to add.

Perhaps the most profound revelation I’ve come across is how silence (and the active listening resulting from such behavior) frees us to question our opinions.

Without the burden of having to present my thoughts to prove I have them, and allowing myself time to ref lect on and consider what I am hearing, I have been able to meaningfully challenge a lot of my biases.

There is an important distinction between knowing things and having opinions. We all absorb facts; we are surrounded by information from our parents, friends, teachers and books. Often these facts are presented to us packed in personal bias, and growing up we have become predisposed to accept a particular set of these analyses. We see things through a very distinct lens and many of us will go through our lives without this lens ever being questioned.

But taking time for silence, taking time to listen to someone and process a dissimilar perspective before responding, means taking time to question these lenses. I think I posses a great deal of information that does not equate to knowledge. Actual knowledge is how we interpret and analyze the facts we are presented with. However, if we spend too much time caught up in our own ideas, if we are always speaking instead of listening, then we struggle to understand what has been said and we are never forced to confront and challenge our previously cemented positions.

Listening is how we gain knowledge, how we test what we think we know and how we ultimately form our own truly individual views. Thus, to be responsible and informed opinion-holders we owe it to ourselves to embrace silence.

Ultimately, I found that embracing silence did not mean I became mute; in fact, I found I had a lot more to say.

Anna Mazarakis ’16

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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On the Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

am writing to clarify some points raised in the March 2, 2015, article about the work of the Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

The Task Force is working to identify ways to help Princeton enhance the campus experience of respect and fairness for people of all identities. It’s important to note that the Task Force is an advisory group; it makes recommendations but does not have the authority to “require” actions

from the University.

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a quartet of Strand, Pohlmann, Wagner and Maher would also set an Ivy League record in the 200 medley.

Princeton’s control over the relays was very evident on the day. They would add to their list of victories a win in the 800 free, as the team of D’Alessandro, Bole, Maher and freshman Zach Buerger would finish more than a full second ahead of second place Yale. D’Alessandro achieved more individual success along with his victory relays: he helped increase

Princeton’s lead as he got second place in the 200 IM. Princeton’s lead had extended to over 150 points as they entered the final day of competition. While scoring fewer first place victories overall, they would still extend their lead to over 200 points by the end of the last event, garnering 1519 points by the end. Manhard and Makarewicz would finish 3rd and 6th in the three meter dive, as Manhard would conclude his collegiate career.

Jack Pohlmann would earn 3rd place in the 200 breast, while Okubo, Buerger and Bove would finish 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the 200 f ly. Wag-

ner would also add to the lead, finishing 3rd in the 100 free.

As usual, Princeton would take over in relays. A team of Bole, Wagner, Mackrel and Maher would claim first in the 400 free relay, wrapping up one of the best relay performances by a team in many years.

The Tigers certainly came into this weekend with something to prove after losing their title last year.

They did so in style — an absolutely crushing performance for a team that has proven itself to be at the top over the league over nearly a decade’s time.

DANIELA COSIO :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

After a rocky start, the women’s tennis team has found its stride, winning four of their last five matches.

Both teams have fair share of tight struggles in weekend matches TENNIS

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RAYE KESSLER :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Though ranked 12th in the conference, the men’s team will still get a chance to compete for the ECAC title.

Women’s season concludes; men’s team prepares for ECAC playoffs HOCKEY Continued from page 8

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period, however, the Bobcats struck first on a goal from Connery. Newell managed to keep the game competitive with a superb effort in goal, stopping 29 of 30 Quinnipiac shots in the first two periods alone.

The final period of the game — and the series — proved to be the Orange and Black’s best.

The Tigers limited their opponents to just six shots — all of which Newell turned aside — and put some pressure on the Quinnipiac goal in a desperate attempt to keep their season alive. However, Laden and the Bobcats held tight, and when Nicole Brown sent the puck through Princeton’s vacant net with 12 seconds to go, Princeton’s season was suddenly over.

It was the last game in Princeton colors for the team’s four seniors, Ali Pankowski, Brianna Leahy, Brianne Mahoney and Ashley Holt. The Tigers finish with a 15-14-2 overall record, including 13-8-1 in ECAC play (6th place) and 7-2-1 in Ivy League action (2nd place).

Men’s Hockey North of their female counterparts, Princeton Men’s Hockey (4-21-3, 2-18-2 ECAC) dropped both of its final games of the regular season weekend, falling in road battles to Dartmouth (1510-4, 12-8-2) 3-1 and No. 16 Harvard (15-11-3, 11-8-3) 5-0.

In their meeting on Friday in Hanover, N.H. Princeton and Dartmouth offered a taste of what is to come in the opening round of the ECAC postseason.

Princeton, finishing twelfth in the ECAC, will travel back to the Granite State next weekend to take on the fifth seeded Big Green in a best-of-three opening round series. If the Tigers are to pull off the upset, they will have to improve upon Friday’s performance.

Playing for ECAC seeding as well as a chance at the Ivy League championship (which Yale won on Saturday), Dartmouth came out strong on Friday night. Playing in front of 3,618 fans at Thompson Arena, Carl Hesler and Brandon McNally scored fewer than two minutes apart — at 12:36 and 14:20 in the first period — to put the home side on top. Despite twelve shots on goal, the Tigers could not beat Dartmouth netminder James Kruger in the opening frame.

Junior Michael Zajac cut the deficit in half at 8:35 in the second period, netting his first goal of the season — an unassisted effort. However, with freshman Matt Nelson in the penalty box for boarding, the backbreaker came with just one second remaining in the middle period, as Grant Opperman’s power play goal extended Dartmouth’s lead back to two.

The Tigers managed to win the shot battle, firing 10 shots to Dartmouth’s two in the final period. Despite this offensive

flare, Kruger and the Big Green shut the door, and the game ended with a 3-1 win for the home team. Kruger finished with 26 saves on 27 shots, while sophomore Colton Phinney made 19 saves on 22 attempts on the other end of the ice.

The following night, the Orange and Black met with rival No. 16 Harvard to conclude the teams’ respective ECAC and Ivy League conference schedules.

Once again, the Tigers found themselves in a hole early. With Nelson in the box for slashing, the Crimson’s Kyle Criscuolo opened the scoring with a power play goal at 6:49. Tyler Moy found the back of the net at 9:05 and 17:15 to give the home team a comfortable 3-0 advantage after 20 minutes of play.

After a scoreless second period, Jimmy Vesey’s shorthanded goal at 15:22 and Devin Tringale’s tally at 17:31 in the third period put the result of the game beyond a doubt. Phinney stopped 23 of 28 Harvard shots, while Harvard’s Steve Michalek denied all 27 that he faced in a shutout effort.

The 5-0 final in Cambridge, Mass. closed the door on Princeton’s regular season, but there is still at least one more weekend of Princeton Hockey yet to be played this winter. The Tigers will return to Hanover on Friday to start a best-of-three ECAC Tournament opening round matchup, squaring off at Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 7 p.m., and (if necessary) Sunday at 5 p.m.

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The women had a less eventful weekend, as they travelled South for one match against out-of-conference opponent Memphis. Princeton took the doubles point with ease with decisive victories at the two and three doubles spots. Junior Amanda Muliawan and sophomore Doro-

thy Tang rolled in their match at second doubles 6-1. At third doubles, junior Emily Hahn and freshman Katrine Steffensen took their match 6-3.

In singles, the women proved their depth by taking the matches at the four through six spots, while dropping the top three spots. Sophomore Caroline Joyce started it off by winning her match easily 6-0, 6-0. Tang took a little longer, but ultimately came away

with a 7-5, 6-4 victory. Finally, Steffensen, after clinching the doubles point, clinched the match for the Tigers with a winning score of 3-6, 6-3, 6-0.

The women are done with matches until their spring break trip with the men to California. The men, however, have another doubleheader to look forward to next Sunday against Army and Binghamton before heading West.

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING

Men’s swimming & diving team claims Ivy League Championship

By Miles Hinson sports editor

It was complete domination this weekend for the Princeton men’s swimming and diving team as they claimed their 30th Ivy League championship. The Tigers came out of the gate hot in this one and never looked back, leading by over 100 points by just the end of the first day.

The victory this weekend is sweet revenge for the Tigers, as they reclaim the Ivy League championship title that was ceded to Harvard in 2014. Prior to that, Princeton had taken first place at this competition five years in a row.

The first day couldn’t have started off better for Princeton. In the 200 free relay, the Tigers broke a meet and Ivy League record with their time. The four-man squad consisting of seniors Harrison Wagner and Connor Maher, junior Sandy Bole and sophomore Julian Mackrel finished with the time of

1:17:35 for the race.

Moreover, Wagner’s feats were not over for the day.

The veteran would win the 50 free individual, a title he last earned in 2013. He would be part of another first-place relay, as he, senior Michael Strand, junior Jack Pohlmann and freshman Corey Okubo would also set an Ivy League record, this time in the 400 medley relay.

In addition to Wagner’s brilliant performance, junior Teo D’Alessandro would finish first in the 200 Individual Medley, holding on to the title he earned last year.

The event overall would be a microcosm of the day — the Tigers completely outpaced the competition in this one, as four of the top five finishers came from Princeton’s squad. D’Alessandro was accompanied by junior Marco Bove in third, Maher in fourth and junior Byron Sanborn in fifth.

Success was certainly not lacking for the diving team.

Senior Michael Manhard, sophomore Nathan Mara-

kewicz and freshman Liam Fitzgerald would all qualify for the ‘A’ final, with Fitzgerald and Manhard earning sixth and seventh on the day for Princeton. Marakewicz in particular would impress, coming in second place on the day.

The Tigers would end the day with 488 points, with the second place Harvard coming in at just 385. That lead would only continue to grow with more excellent performances the following day. Okubo would make his mark as he set an Ivy League record in his 400 IM victory.

Along with Okubo, sophomore Sam Smiddy would also perform excellently in the race. Smiddy was the defending 400 IM champion from last year, and despite finishing second to Okubo, he was still a full second faster than the rest of the competition.

In addition to Okubo, other strong performers from Friday’s races would help add to Princeton’s lead, as See SWIMMING page 7

JACK MAZZULO :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Men’s swimming and diving reclaimed their Ivy League championship title after coming in second last year.

HOCKEY

TENNIS

Men’s and women’s tennis go 3 - 1 combined

By Chris Grubbs contributor

RAYE KESSLER :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

While the women’s season may have ended, the men’s team has the opportunity to keep their season alive in the ECAC playoffs.

Both men’s and women’s hockey teams experience difficulties over weekend

By Mark Goldstein contributor

Women’s Hockey Goaltender Chelsea Laden of the No. 6 Quinnipiac (26-73, 15-5-2 Eastern College Athletic Conference) recorded her nation-leading 15th and 16th shutouts of the season as the Bobcats swept Princeton (1514-2, 13-8-1) in a best-of-three ECAC quarterfinal matchup this weekend, ending the Tigers’ season.

In Hamden, Conn. the Tigers and Bobcats skated their way through two very different games that had one important aspect in common — the “0” on the visitor score sheet.

In Friday’s postseason opener, the Tigers endured their worst period of hockey of the season, as Quinnipiac raced out to a 4-0 advantage after 20 minutes of play. Emma Woods, Taylar Cianfarano, Lindsey West, and Erica Udén Johansson all notched goals for the

home side, putting the game out of reach early. Cianfarano added another tally in the second period, as the Tigers managed only two shots on goal to the Bobcats’ 17 in the frame. Shiann Darkangelo and Nicole Connery put the finishing touches on the game with scores in the final period of action. Junior goaltender Kimberly Newell stopped 37 of 44 shots in the losing effort, with Laden stopping a paltry 13 Princeton attempts on the

other side of the rink.

After a disheartening 7-0 result in game one, it would have been reasonable to expect a similar thrashing in game two. To their credit, the Tigers and head coach Jeff Kampersal would not let that happen.

The Tigers held tight in the opening period of Saturday’s contest, as the score remained goalless after 20 minutes despite just three Princeton shots on goal. At 4:24 of the second See HOCKEY page 7

The Princeton men’s tennis team achieved its highest ranking in the past 35 years last week, yet was given no break as the team was forced to take on yet another ranked opponent this past weekend.

The No. 23 ranked Tigers (113) matched up against No. 39 Penn State on Saturday and had a doubleheader on Sunday against unranked opponents University at Buffalo (8-4) and Monmouth University (4-5). The men suffered a tough 4-3 loss to Penn State, but bounced back on Sunday and swept the two outof-conference matches. The Princeton women’s team (4-6) won its only match this weekend against No. 60 University of Memphis (7-7).

The men’s team started the weekend by travelling to State College, Pa. for an out of conference match against the Nittany Lions. Princeton dropped the first doubles match at the third position, before fighting back to take the top two spots in doubles and ultimately gained the doubles point for an early 1-0 lead. Freshman duo Luke Gamble and Diego Vives won at second doubles 8-4, while sophomore Tom Colautti and senior Zack McCourt clinched the doubles point with an 8-6 victory at the first doubles spot. Princeton was then able to build on its lead by taking two of the first three singles matches to finish with wins from McCourt at one singles and sophomore Alex Day in the fourth position. They took their matches 6-3, 7-6 (3) and 6-4, 6-4, re-

spectively. The fourth point proved to be unattainable for the Tigers, however. The men needed to win only one of the final three singles matches still on to win the entire match. However, sophomore Josh Yablon, freshman Kial Kaiser and senior Dan Richardson all lost their matches.

Yablon lost in a third set that was stretched to a tiebreaker.

Yablon led this tiebreaker 6-4, giving him double match point. Yablon, however, dropped the next four points to lose his match 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-6 (6).

The Tigers had little time to think about the loss, however, as they travelled home on Sunday for a double header against the Buffalo and Monmouth. The Tigers allowed number one singles and doubles player McCourt to rest for both matches and shook up the entire roster for the matches. This gave the starters a little rest and gave the deep bench an opportunity to win some matches. The team took the doubles point to jump out to an early lead against Buffalo. Usually the starting number two singles player, Colautti was ready for the challenge as he filled in for McCourt. With Princeton and Buffalo tied at three matches apiece, Colautti won his match in thrilling fashion, 6-3, 6-7 (9), 6-2. Unwilling to be complacent, the Tigers then rolled to a decisive 5-0 victory against Monmouth later that afternoon. Day, Kaiser, Gamble and Vives all won their singles matches in straight sets after the doubles clinched the point earlier in the match.

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