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In Opinion The Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct explains why it is important to have data on campus sexual misconduct, and columnist Ryan Dukeman advocates using endowment money to eliminate tuition. PAGE 4

By Shriya Sekhsaria staff writer

Today on Campus

Writers from DC Comics and Marvel Comics sat on a panel on Friday afternoon in Dodds Auditorium to discuss the comic genre and where the art form is headed next.

Thomas Muza, former Triangle Club accountant and McCarter Theatre general manager, pleaded guilty on Friday to embezzling more than $240,000 from the club between January 2008 and February 2013.

The specific charge was second-degree theft by unlawful taking.

Muza declined to comment.

Triangle’s Board of Trustees was originally unhappy with Muza because he was not doing

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

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

In hopes of high response rate, U. advertises WeSpeak survey heavily to students

Pao ’91 loses 3-year venture capital discrimination suit

4:30 p.m.: José Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of the American States, will present a public lecture titled, “Collective Challenges in the Americas.” Robertson Hall.

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The Archives

March 30, 1953 Albert Einstein published an addition to his theory of relativity. The Princeton University Press issued the 74-year-old scientist’s “Generalization of Gravitation Theory” as Appendix II of his book, “The Meaning of Relativity.”

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News & Notes Yale Spanish and Portuguese department faces anonymous allegations of discrimination

Yale’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese is under administrative review following anonymous allegations about the department’s academic and social environment, the Yale Daily News reported.

An anonymous letter was distributed to members of the department and university administrators on March 6. The letter, purportedly written by a group of graduate students, contained a number of complaints about the “highly negative atmosphere” in the department, including issues with curriculum, inconsistent tenure policy, communication problems and accusations of discrimination and sexual harassment.

The letter specifically alleged Spanish professor Roberto González Echevarría as the “main assailant,” accusing him of discriminatory and harassing behavior and remarks toward secretaries and female graduate students.

The letter also accuses the department of not granting tenure.

The letter does not actually specify who or how many people wrote it, although a number of students interviewed shared the concerns in the letter.

responsible financial reporting, Marc Segan ’77, chairman of the board, said.

“We found it not easy to deal with him because we wanted to get clear financial information, and I guess that was because he had things to hide,” he said.

Muza was Triangle’s accountant between 1993 and 2013, and received an annual salary from Triangle of $4,000.

In September 2012, Muza was named Esquire magazine’s employee of the month, which is part of a feature the magazine See MUZA page 2

By Christina Vosbikian staff writer

The University has been advertising heavily for students to take its survey about the climate for sexual misconduct on campus because it wants to conduct the survey in future years, Daniel Day, the University’s acting director of communications, said.

A high response rate this year would give the University a good baseline for later comparison, he

explained.

“We’ve had a good initial response,” he said. “What we’re really hoping for is that we can get as close to 100 percent as possible.”

A number of emails, including from University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and Undergraduate Student Government president Ella Cheng ’16, have been sent to the student body asking students to take the survey. The emails emphasized the importance of the survey to the University, the little

STUDENT LIFE

USG senate addresses accessibility of campus recreation, new referenda

By Katherine Oh staff writer

The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed making campus recreation more accessible and the Bicker referendum during its weekly meeting on March 29.

USG has been working with Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Campus Recreation David Leach ’88 to provide more convenient access to the fitness center by adding a side door, chief designer William Aung ’18 said.

“We broached the subject of having other entries to Stephens Fitness Center, and after talking to him, he didn’t really seem to be in support of it now, because of the way that it’s constructed,” Aung explained.

“Right now, we’ll probably table

that for next spring.”

Aung noted that there will be a construction on the A floor in the future, when accessibility to the fitness center could potentially change.

According to Aung, Leach also suggested creating an outdoor recreational space and providing funding for students on financial aid for fitness activities.

“I think we need to keep student priorities in mind,” Ucouncilor Dallas Nan ’16 said.

“I know the desire was to look into more access to the Stephens Center. I know these are projects [Leach] wants to work on, but I think we should be cognizant of whether students would want this.”

The major budgetary concern related to adding an enSee USG page 2

amount of time needed to complete it and that students do not have to have had direct experience with sexual misconduct to share their thoughts.

“I think President Eisgruber sending out the email was the main reason I took the kind of long-ish survey,” Michael Kim ’16 said.

He said that the advertising of the survey made it seem like the University cared about getting a complete picture of sexual See SURVEY page 2

By Cassidy Tucker contributor

Ellen Pao ’91 lost her threeyear discrimination lawsuit against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers on Friday.

A jury found that Kleiner Perkins did not discriminate against Pao on the basis of gender and did not retaliate against her for reports of gender discrimination that she had filed with senior staff at the firm. Attorneys for Kleiner Perkins

had argued that Pao, now the interim CEO of Reddit, was fired for poor performance and being difficult to work with.

Neither Pao nor Kleiner Perkins responded to requests for comment.

In 2005, Pao joined Kleiner Perkins as the chief of staff to a general partner at the firm and took on the role of a junior investing partner in 2010. Pao was fired on Oct. 1, 2012.

Throughout the trial, See PAO page 3

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Students cover themselves in pigments and sweat in a Team U fundraiser for Shoe4Africa.

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

FERC commissioner discusses duty to supply electricity to general public

By Kristin Qian staff writer

Utilities employees who operate an electrical grid and the regulators who oversee the grid have a duty to the public to make sure that the electricity comes on if the light switch is flipped, Tony Clark, Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said at a lecture on Saturday.

“Job number one, almost invariably, is reliability,” he said of the FERC’s priorities.

Energy reliability has evolved a lot in the last decade, Clark noted.

Up until 2005, all reliability standards in the country were voluntary standards. They were the industry’s best practices and were neither mandatory nor enforceable by the federal government.

Flaws in the transmission

system were exposed through the Northeast blackout of 2003, which changed how the public perceived utility regulation and opened up legal questions about energy, Clark said.

Coming out of that event, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 emerged and granted the FERC new authority over market manipulation and improved reliability standards. The standards

are now mandatory and include penalties that regulatory agencies like the FERC can enforce through its relationship with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation.

After this policy change, the FERC worked on improving the grid visibility from the operator standpoint, training the people running the grid, trimming trees around the grid and creating pro-

tocols to prevent any widespread outages in the future.

Through making such core changes, the FERC discovered other threats to the grid.

The issue of cybersecurity has become more prominent in recent years and the FERC has been “working aggressively” on these issues, Clark said. The FERC, through its relationship See LECTURE page 3

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misconduct on campus.

Students need to understand the importance of the survey, English professor Deborah Nord, a member of the committee, said, adding that the information will not be as valuable if survey response does not reach a certain critical mass of the student body. She said the target response rate is between 30 and 50 percent of the student body.

As far as what may happen if not enough students respond to the request for survey, committee members interviewed said they were not anticipating this problem, but would adjust accordingly if it arose.

The survey was mandated by the University’s 2014 resolution agreement with the Office for Civil Rights, which settled allegations of Title IX violations against the Uni-

versity. The survey was designed by the University in contrast to its original plan to use an Association of American Universities survey, over which USG expressed concerns about transparency and customization of questions.

The University has allocated about $2,000 for promoting the survey, Carl Adair, English professor and committee member, noted.

The survey process is exciting because it is largely student-led, unlike the previously proposed Association of American Universities survey, Alyson Neel GS, a member of the Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct, said.

“It’s because of students, because of the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Governments pushing the administration and saying, ‘We don’t want to be part of [the Association of American Universities] survey,’ ” she said. “ ‘We want Princeton to administer its own survey, and we

want the results to be transparent.’ ” The student response so far has been good, Nord said.

“The student response has been healthy,” she said. “It increases a little bit every day. We are hoping that, with various reminders, there will be an even greater increase than the average daily one.”

Vice Provost for Institutional Research Jeb Marsh declined to disclose the number of students who have participated thus far saying that, at this stage in the survey, numbers are constantly fluctuating, making any number inaccurate by publishing time.

Elsa Welshofer ’18 said she has not yet had the time to fill out the survey.

“I want to make sure that, when I do fill out the survey, I give my best attention to it,” she said.

News editor Jacob Donnelly contributed reporting.

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trance at the side is the need to hire someone to man the new entryway, Aung said.

The senate referendum regarding Bicker will be put to a vote on March 30, chief elections manager Grant Golub ’17 said, adding the results will be released by noon on Friday.

Golub is a staff writer and staff copy editor for The Daily Princetonian.

Another referendum about divestment from firms that benefit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank is in the making, he noted.

“Just to be clear, USG does not take a stance as a body about these two referenda,” President Ella Cheng ’16 said, adding that USG is obligated to follow whatever the majority of the voting students decide.

Cheng is a former staff writer for the ‘Prince.’

When asked if either of these

referenda go through, and if the majority of the voters agree but that majority represents only a small percentage of the whole population, U-Council chair Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15 said USG is obligated to form an ad hoc committee and take action if the Bicker referendum were to pass.

For the divestment referendum, on the other hand, there is no provision for the USG senate to do anything, he added. Instead, the opinion of the undergraduates would be passed onto the trustees of the University and PRINCO. The senate also voted to approve a retroactive fund request for the South Asian Student Association dance competition event that took place on March 28. Projects Board co-chair Naman Jain ’17 presented the request.

“Currently in the Senate Constitution, it makes very clear that Projects Board cannot grant or approve an expenditure of over $1,000 of USG sen-

ate allocated funds until you’ve gotten approval from the senate,” Okuda-Lim said. “Retroactive approval ties our hands.”

Cheng said that she will be meeting with executive director of Campus Dining Smitha Haneef in the coming week.

This meeting is not specifically focused on students with special dining needs, Cheng said.

“In terms of communication with groups with very specific stakes in food, from my understanding, [Haneef] actually meets very regularly,” Cheng said.

Treasurer Hunter Dong ’17 said USG should publicize opportunities for interested students to share their ideas with Campus Dining.

Dong also presented a recap of February spending of the senate. Major expenses for the month included Mental Health Week programming, the Leadership Education and Diversity Summit and the concert series.

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runs regularly about impressive employees across the country.

Triangle would have been better off had this never happened, but is still fine, Segan said.

“Triangle was hurt financially, but not mortally wounded by any stretch,” he said.

The state will recommend that Muza pay restitution of $240,000, including $200,000 at sentencing, according to the state’s plea agreement with Muza. The state will also recommend that Muza be sentenced to three years in prison.

Muza stole much of the money by writing Triangle Club checks directly to himself and cashing them, depositing them into his personal bank account and making direct payments on his personal credit cards, according to information contained in the plea agreement.

He used the money primarily to pay his living expenses, including credit card debt, mortgage payments and utility bills.

“The reaction was shocking disappointment,” Allen Jackson ’78, vice chairman of Triangle’s Board of Trustees, said of the Board’s reaction to the discovery of the thefts.

While some trustees spent considerable time working on the case, a majority of the work was done by their attorneys and the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Jackson said.

“I do not believe that this case affected the activities of the club in terms of the undergraduates who write, produce and perform our shows,” he added.

The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General did not respond to a request for comment.

Muza’s guilty plea seems logical and appropriate, Segan said.

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Thomas Muza pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement last week.

“Tom Muza did a terrible thing and seems to be paying the price,” he said. “So it seems like an acceptable result.”

The club has implemented additional internal accounting controls to prevent future theft, Jackson said.

“We are very grateful for what the Attorney General and the attorneys have done to arrive at this [conclusion],” Jackson said.

“Most of all, we’re glad to be able to move on, to focus our full attention on creating great shows and for our club members to put on great shows for our audiences.”

Muza was dismissed from both his jobs at McCarter and

Triangle on Nov. 19, 2013, following reports from a law firm serving as counsel for Triangle that initially uncovered the thefts.

Muza was initially charged by the Division of Criminal Justice on Nov. 27, 2013 and was indicted on June 2, 2014. Sentencing for the case is scheduled for Sept.

4, 2015.

Triangle president Victoria Rinker ’16 deferred comment to Jackson.

During the time period of the crime, Triangle had an approximate total revenue of $1,319,000.

The club also reported assets worth $1,591,129 in the 2013 fiscal year.

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with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, updated rules regarding the critical infrastructure of the grid. These standards represent the “ecosystem of security” that is needed to prevent hacking into the grid, Clark added.

This process is still ongoing, Clark noted.

In light of the April 2013 Metcalf incident, in which power lines were cut in San Jose, Calif., the FERC realized there were still many physical weaknesses in the grid that needed to be addressed, according to Clark.

The FERC has imposed mandatory physical security standards so that the bulk electric system maintains its reliability.

The FERC’s latest effort concerns geomagnetic disturbances and electromagnetic pulses. Utilities from different regions require different treatment since the stability of each grid depends on factors such as latitude and soil type, Clark noted. Therefore, the FERC plans to study the vulnerabilities of these grids, create operating protocols and produce mitigation

strategies to prevent grid-wide electric disturbances.

Nevertheless, the overall grid is now much more secure than before, but still a work in progress, Clark added.

He said the Commission is very focused on grid infrastructure, as the grid begins to generate more electricity from natural gas and renewable energy. Unlike nuclear resources or coal, which can be kept in a stockpile and flexibly managed, natural gas has to flow at the exact time one needs it, and renewable sources like wind and solar energy are unpredictable, so the system must be more responsive.

“The problem of constraints or lack of infrastructure is reflected through prices,” Clark said, giving examples of varying prices of natural gas along a pipeline network.

Clark noted that futures contracts on natural gas for winter last year differed from region to region. Much natural gas can be found in southwest Virginia and West Virginia, so the cost was between $2 and $3. If you went a little north, to New Jersey or Southeastern Pennsylvania, the price became “relatively expensive” at $9. Entering New England, the

price was $21 to $22. This significant difference works its way into consumer bills and into electricity prices, because energy cannot move around efficiently, Clark explained.

The FERC is therefore under pressure to work on strengthening infrastructure, Clark added.

“Energy is the lifeblood of modern economy — [the economy] does not work without access to reliable, affordable energy,” he said.

Clark noted that these energy problems affect not only the United States, but also other countries.

“Energy poverty is a huge issue,” Clark said, since without energy reliability, people cannot have access to clean drinking water or basic communication infrastructure that is needed in the modern world.

He closed by saying that the energy field needs bright, articulate, creative workers, whose impact can extend across the globe.

Clark gave his talk, titled “America Energy Today: The View from FERC,” in McCormick 101 on Saturday at 2 p.m. as the keynote speaker for the Princeton University Energy Association’s Spring Energy Conference.

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Ellen Pao ’91 lost her three-year discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers last week.

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Pao’s attorneys portrayed Kleiner Perkins as a boys’ club that promoted all-male outings and routine harassment. Her attorneys alleged the prestigious firm was a business in which associates talked of things like pornography and Playboy bunnies on business trips. Kleiner Perkins said the testimony was hearsay.

Another former female partner of Kleiner Perkins testified that a male colleague touched her with his leg under a table and also appeared at her hotel room one night in nothing but a bathrobe. Kleiner Perkins said that relationship was started mutually.

This past Friday, the 12-member jury consisting of six men and six women, found that Kleiner Perkins did not discriminate against Pao on any of her claims.

The verdict in the case, which some media outlets treated as a referendum on how welcome women are in Silicon Valley, was not sur-

prising, Tracy Thomas, a law professor at the University of Akron and a co-editor of a blog about gender and the law, said.

“Gender discrimination cases are very difficult to win,” Thomas said. “Discrimination is often subtle and indirect — a compilation of comments and circumstances rather than an overt statement or hateful misogyny that our legal standards of evidence prefer.”

Fran Maier, the founder of TRUSTe, an online privacy management services provider, and a co-founder of Match.com, has experience working in the male-dominated technology industry.

Women make up only 23 percent of the technology workforce in San Jose, Calif., and 21 percent in San Francisco, Calif., the two largest cities in the Silicon Valley region.

Maier said the loss was a big disappointment, because a win for Pao would have sent an important message about the importance of women in technology. She added that there is reason for optimism, though.

“The train has left the station,” Maier said. “These firms have been given a wake-up call, and there will be more lawsuits.”

There is no question that women have too small of a presence in venture capital and in the larger technology sector, said John Kang, a professor at the St. Thomas University School of Law who has written about masculinity and the law.

“The gender disparity in such firms does make you wonder why [the disparity] exists and whether it’s justified,” he said, “and to that extent, Pao’s case has provided a useful catalyst for public discussion.”

Even though Pao lost her case, Thomas said she is still hopeful the suit will make people realize that change is needed in the technology industry. “[This case] did much in exposing the kinds of discriminatory treatment that women still encounter,” she said. “So much of employment is not publicly transparent, it helps to have modern reminders to ignite the demand for change.”

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everal reports in the past year have rightfully pointed out that Princeton (along with Stanford, Yale and Harvard) earns enough in investment returns on its endowment each year to more than cover annual operating expenses (with significant amounts of money left over to spend on capital projects or put back into the endowment) and that the University could therefore make tuition 100 percent free for everyone and still make a massive profit.

By the numbers, Princeton’s annual rate of return on endowment investment has been between 15 and 20 percent for the past few years, and has averaged, 10.5 percent per year over the last 10 years (a period that includes the worst financial crisis in modern times).

Last year, the 19.6 percent return equated to $2.8 billion, and in future years a similar rate would yield an even higher absolute number. Princeton’s Provost David Lee GS ’99 put the point of this growth best, saying on the University website that it was “crucial to our ability to sustain the excellence of our teaching and research mission and to continue providing generous financial aid that makes Princeton’s education affordable to any student who is admitted.” Thus one of the explicitly stated missions of the enormous investment machine Princeton runs is to make Princeton affordable to its students (the quote above even originally linked to the Undergraduate Financial Aid website).

By contrast, Princeton’s operating budget has been roughly $1.6 billion per year over the past few years, and it grows at a much slower rate than the endowment does. In raw terms, then, assuming an average endowment growth rate of 10 percent (which is very conservative and assumes that a Great Recession-level drop in the endowment will happen far more frequently than it ever has), the University can cover its operating expenses exclusively off endowment returns, and still have over 40 percent of the endowment returns to reinvest. The University could, to use last year’s numbers, put $1.6 billion of the $2.8 billion in endowment returns to entirely pay off all operating costs, and still have more than a billion dollars leftover to reinvest into the endowment or use on one-time capital projects like new facilities.

And as a nice side-effect of that spending plan, none of us would owe a dime in tuition, room and board or fees.

The benefit to students of this plan seems obvious — students and parents alike would have more money in the present, and wouldn’t be saddled with loans that take decades to pay off. But this system also has some key benefits for the University that merit attention.

The first and most obvious is competitiveness in admissions. Princeton continues to enjoy record-breaking admissions numbers nearly every year, and is at no shortage of applicants. Yet it continuously lags far behind Harvard and Yale in admissions yield (the percentage of accepted students who actually enroll). An easy, dramatic and incredibly effective way Princeton could make itself far more attractive relative to other schools is by becoming free seemingly overnight. (Note: Harvard, Yale and Stanford could also afford to become free, though by a much smaller margin and are therefore less likely to do so).

A talented, sought-after student admitted to multiple schools, trying to decide which one to attend, is going to be far more likely to come to Princeton over its competitors if his or her family won’t be saddled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills.

Beyond raising Princeton’s yield immediately, a free Princeton education would also reap more in alumni donations. The endowment would grow more slowly if this system were in place (since roughly 60 percent of the growth in the endowment wouldn’t be put back into it), but part of the decrease in endowment size would be offset by increased alumni donations. Instead of alumni having to pay off student loans (with interest) to banks (as both Michelle Obama ’85 and Ted Cruz ’92 have admitted to doing, and most of us will never be as rich as either of them), they could instead afford to give (more) money to Princeton. Additionally, young alumni who aren’t saddled with debt have more money to use in starting a new business or pursuing graduate school, both of which can lead to much higher salaries and net worths over the course of their careers. It should go without saying that a richer alumni network will give more to their cherished Old Nassau, especially one that gave them the incredible and unique gift of a free college education.

By taking financial aid to its extreme (but financially viable) conclusion and making Princeton free for all of its students, the University can become an even more attractive option for the talented students we recruit, and can leave its students and alumni free of an enormous burden that allows them to more fully realize their career potential.

Ryan Dukeman is a sophomore from Westwood, Mass.

He can be reached at rdukeman@princeton.edu.

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Offering historical tours

he Continental Army fired cannonballs at Nassau Hall during the Battle of Princeton, and Albert Einstein taught in what is now the Frist Campus Center.

These moments in Princeton history figure prominently in the typical Orange Key campus tour attended by many undergraduates when they were prospective students. Less well-known is that the world’s first telegraph line was set up between Joseph Henry’s Princeton home and his laboratory in the University’s Philosophical Hall or that Pete Conrad ’53, commander of Apollo 12, brought small Princeton flags to the moon in November 1969.

Currently, no outlet for sharing these aspects of Princeton lore with interested Princeton students, community members and other campus visitors exists. To address this programming gap, the Editorial Board proposes that Orange Key creates and advertises a weekly Historical Tour focused on Princeton’s architecture, history and traditions. Furthermore, we recommend the Admission Office offer tours of this nature during the upcoming Princeton Preview days for admitted students and their families.

Orange Key offers admissions tours throughout the year that anyone may join without pre-registration. Only groups of 10 or more need to pre-register with the admissions office and when they do so they may indicate that they would like their tour to have a histori-

cal focus, which is primarily done by groups of adults from outside organizations. However, this option is not advertised on the the office’s website. At a minimum, the website should state that historical tours are available upon request so interested groups know to take advantage of this opportunity. Yet this still does not meet the needs of individual community members or visitors in smaller groups who may be interested in Princeton’s history. While these individuals may attend a regular Orange Key campus tour, according to Orange Key’s Guide for Guides, any tour that has at least one prospective student must focus on Princeton’s academics and student life.

Therefore, the Board proposes the development of regularly scheduled Historical Tours that include information about the history, architecture, and traditions of many locations on campus beyond just Nassau Hall (the primary historical focus of current Orange Key tours). We recommend offering such a tour once or twice a week and advertising it on the admissions website as open to any members of the public and University students. Finally, we propose that the Historical Tour be offered during Princeton Preview for prospective students and in particular for their parents or siblings who may have already taken the regular Orange Key tour (which will be offered during Preview) and want a new option for Preview.

There is great value in regularly

providing such Historical Tours. For residents of Princeton and surrounding areas, they may learn more about the University with which they share a home. Providing community members with greater access to the University fosters improved town-gown relationships, which is always in the University’s interest as it seeks to continue its positive collaboration with the town of Princeton. For students, education need not end in the classroom, and creating an environment rich in learning experiences is one of the University’s goals. That current campus tours focus in part on historical facts demonstrates that Orange Key and the admissions office share our belief that such information is of interest to campus visitors and important to be shared. We urge the University to provide an additional educational opportunity for interested students and the 700,000 people who visit Princeton each year by instituting regularly scheduled Historical Tours and making this an option for Princeton Preview activities.

Jeffrey Leibenhaut ’16 and Jill Wilkowski ’15 abstained from this editorial.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor and the Editor-In-Chief.

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Why does #WeSpeak matter?

he Footnotes are in. diSiac is in. International Relations Council is in. Your roommate is in. And we’re in.

We’re taking the WeSpeak survey this week because sexual violence at Princeton matters. It isn’t a women’s issue.

It isn’t a Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education issue. It’s a Princeton issue. When anyone on this campus is a victim of sexual violence, our community suffers. When anyone on this campus commits an act of violence, our community must ask what more we could have done to prevent it and how best to serve justice.

Sexual violence is coming to matter more and more on college campuses nationwide. In Congress, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has condemned a nationwide “epidemic” of sexual assault. Princeton was under federal investigation for four years; last fall the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released a resolution agreement which included new reforms to Princeton’s policies and practices that would put Princeton back into compliance with Title IX. The issue has been covered extensively in the media, from The Daily Show’s witty puncture of the myth of false reporting of sexual violence to The Wall Street Journal’s recent story on lawsuits young men have filed against their universities for a disciplinary process they felt was prejudiced against them.

It’s clear that sexual violence is a contentious issue here at Princeton and nationwide. There is a wide array of views and arguments to be made, and Princeton’s policies need to attend to this wide range of concerns.

WeSpeak is a crucial chance for students to tell the truth of their experience and to guide the policy decisions that the survey data will inform. Every thinking and feeling person would agree that one incident of sexual assault is one too many. The question is: Where is Princeton starting from as we all work together toward a campus culture that reflects that agreement?

Here are some dramatic numbers you may recognize from the “Dear Colleague” letter published in April 2011: On college campuses nationwide, one in five women are sexually assaulted or escape an attempted assault. For men, it’s one in 17. For our own campus, data from a American College Health Association assessment found that one in nine Princeton undergraduates experiences some form of interpersonal violence in a 12-month period. You may also recall a 2013 ‘Prince’ article on the results of a 2008 survey in which 1 in 6 female undergraduates reported experiencing non-consensual vaginal penetration during their time at Princeton.

However, in all these previous surveys on our campus and others, only a small percentage of students participated. This means the full community

was not represented. With low rates of participation, there’s no way to know if the incidence of sexual misconduct was underreported or overreported. With WeSpeak, the University hopes to collect and publish the results of one of the most representative surveys on this issue nationwide, results that reflect all of our experiences and opinions.

You may personally feel that the pervasiveness of sexual misconduct on college campuses has been grossly exaggerated. You may believe that our own University has been far too tolerant of a pervasive rape culture. Or your feelings may lie somewhere in between. Unfortunately, no one knows the complete picture. And we won’t until we get everyone’s input.

The WeSpeak survey is designed to answer two big questions: First, what are students’ attitudes toward sexual misconduct? Do students think it’s a problem on campus? Do students talk about what consent means — that yes means yes? Do students know where on campus victims and their allies can seek help, and where any student can learn more about how to talk to their partners about what they want and don’t want?

Second, what is the prevalence of sexual misconduct — of any kind — in this campus community? Sexual misconduct is notoriously underreported to campus authorities nationwide and for many complex reasons. But the data from this survey can help Princeton

better address two of those reasons.

First, some students may not trust the University’s disciplinary process to take care of them or their friends when they have been assaulted, harassed or stalked. Second, some students may not trust the disciplinary process to reach a decision that is fair to the respondent (the person accused).

We believe that every Princeton student deserves a community that is safe, inclusive, and just. We all need to know where we’re starting from as we build toward that goal over the next few years. We want to be part of a campus known for having great sex, the kind that both partners can feel good about the next day. We want to be part of a culture of prevention where we look out for each other when the night gets crazy, a culture where people talk with their partners about what they each want and what they’re just not into, a culture of respect where there is no substitute for a clear, enthusiastic yes. The University needs to know what students have experienced to find out what obstacles stand in the way of the culture we all deserve.

Carl Adair GS Rebecca Basaldua ’15 Brandon Holt ’15 Alyson Neel GS The authors are members of the Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct.

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Saturday saw Brown throw six shutout innings for the first time, breaking a previous personal record of four innings. Saturday was the second time that Christian threw seven shutout innings in her career. The Tigers have now either swept or split the past 18 doubleheaders against Brown, with Princeton sweeping for the third pair of games in a row.

Riding the momentum from this successful weekend, the Tigers will return on Tuesday at 4 p.m. to face off against Rider. After this

After [playing against Rider], they enter the most crucial part of their schedule, playing almost exclusively Ivy League teams until they reach end of the season. their schedule, playing almost exclusively Ivy League teams until they reach the end of the season.

the dedication and intensity that Banghart brings to the sport, and the deep connection she makes with her players.

“Coach Banghart is an incredible leader. She is able to get each person to buy into the success of our team and to bring her best each day,” junior guard Michelle Miller said about her coach. “Her constant energy and motivation have allowed us to grow as a program and to have an incredibly successful season this year.”

Junior forward Annie Tarakchian spoke to Banghart’s ability to coach her players on an individual level.

“She gets to know you, genuinely cares about you and the team,” Tarakchian said. “By getting to know you, she knows how you work and respond to feedback, and what feedback maxi-

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Kemp, who finished with two goals and an assist on four shots and created several other fast breaks, and it took the Tiger’s most of the first half to adjust, even after taking a timeout.

In settled situations, Princeton’s defense played incredibly well. Brown entered the game averaging 16.88 goals per game, with the leading scorer in the league, Dylan Molloy, averaging more than five goals a game. Junior defender Brian Pickup shut him down for the game, playing a very physical game that left Molloy frustrated and taking low angle shots. Pickup held Molloy to no goals on 12 shots

and caused two turnovers in the marquee matchup.

“Overall it was a team effort on defense,” Pickup stated after the game, “I’m glad we could shut him down as a unit.”

Senior goalie Eric Sanschagrin also had a great game, matching Kelly with 15 saves, including several acrobatic doorstep stuffs, and controlling the clears against a tough Brown ride.

Brown’s defense also played very well in the game, getting out on Princeton’s shooter’s hands and contesting shots. This defensive effort was not, at first glance, ref lected in the box score — Princeton would outshoot their visitors 51-45 overall on the game.

However, Brown’s players slid early to Princeton’s

midfield dodges, and recovered well after the slide. In a change from the norm, Brown put their LSM on Zach Currier, holding him to one goal, and covered senior captain Kip Orban with a short stick. The strategy worked as Orban finished the game with no goals and no assists on 10 shots in a rare off-day. Princeton’s offense only found its groove in the fourth quarter of the game when it made a threegoal run to close out the game, and almost came back to within one with several promising looks in the final minute of the game.

The Tigers will look to get back on track on Saturday at Stony Brook (7-2), a team that has already improved much from their 6-10 record of last season.

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mizes your potential.”

Tarakchian did note that Banghart had the ability to be critical when necessary.

“Last year, before we left for

“She’s by far the most positive influence in my life. I’ve gone in and talked with her beyond the coaching standpoint.” annie tarakchian, junior forward

[a road] trip, I was being super passive [in practice], not looking to score. She stopped a drill and ripped me,” Tarakchian reminisced. She considers that par-

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ticular interaction with Banghart critical in her development as a player. “After that moment, I really got into myself … it really was the turning point in my career.”

According to Tarakchian, one of Banghart’s great qualities is her ability to guide players both

on and off the court.

“She’s by far the most positive influence in my life,” Tarakchian stated. “I’ve gone in and talked with her beyond the coaching standpoint. I can go and talk with her about my Junior Paper.

She’s so much more than coaching.”

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Banghart named one of world’s top leaders

By Tom Pham associate sports editor

An unprecedented 30-0 regular season for the women’s basketball team has not only led to plaudits from the sporting world, but has led to Fortune Magazine naming head coach Courtney Banghart as one of the world’s greatest leaders in the magazine’s second annual list.

Coach Banghart was ranked 43rd on the list by Fortune Magazine, making her the highest ranked leader in women’s sports, and the third ranked individual in the sports industry, behind only former Houston Rockets center Yao Ming and four-time NBA MVP LeBron James.

Coach Banghart was ranked ahead of well-known names such as Travis Kalanick, CEO of

Uber, Jimmy Fallon, host of the Tonight Show, and most notably, Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner.

“It was not enough to be brilliant, admirable, or even supremely powerful.” The magazine stated,”Coach Banghart was a perfect fit for the following description of “effectiveness and commitment and for the courage to pioneer.”

Coach Banghart took over an unsuccessful program eight years ago, and in that time, she has earned a 169-67 record and a 92-17 record in the Ivy League.

She has guided the team to five Ivy League Championships in the past six years as well as its first ever NCAA Tournament win this season, where the team was seeded 8th and defeated Green Bay in the first round be-

fore falling to top seed Maryland in a heartbreaking defeat, their first and only of the season.

Banghart said she was shocked to receive the news.

“I was on the way back from a recruiting trip, and you can imagine I was literally speechless,” Banghart said in an interview on Saturday. “I was so grateful to be mentioned in the same breath as some of those people.”

Coach Banghart’s plaudits do not end just there, as she is a front-runner in the race for the Naismith Trophy Coach of the Year award and has already been named the Ivy League Coach of the Year for her success this season.

Members of the Princeton women’s basketball attested to See W. B-BALL page 5

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In her time as Princeton’s head coach, Courtney Banghart has led the Tigers to a 169-67 record.

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MEN’S LACROSSE

Men’s lacrosse falls against Brown in defensive struggle on Sunday

By Grant Keating

Tigers sweep Brown in weekend double-header

By Sydney Mandelbaum associate sports editor

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Two of the country’s most talented offenses faced each other in the Class of 1952 Stadium in front of 1,746 people on a crisp, sunny Sunday morning as the men’s lacrosse team played Brown (8-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) in its third Ivy League contest of the season. However, it was both teams’ defense that shone in the contest, as the Tigers fell 10-8 in an uncharacteristically sloppy game. The loss moves the team to 2-1 in the Ivy League and 6-2 overall.

Brown started the game off quickly with a 4-1 run, in large part caused by Brown’s long stick midfielders and goalie play. Brown’s left stick middie Larken Kemp scored the first goal of the game with a 15-yard rocket to the top of the goal,and scored the last goal of the first period on an identical shot.

Brown’s goalie Jack Kelly played unbelievably in the the entire game. He recorded five saves in the first quarter alone, 15 in the game, and

YICHENG SUN :: PHOTO EDITOR

The defeat against Brown on Sunday marks the Tigers’ first loss against a fellow Ivy League team.

consistently pushed transition. Brown felt incredibly comfortable letting their defensive players push offensive situations, forcing

Princeton’s offensive middies to either get back and play defense or give up fastbreak opportunities while substituting. The strategy

worked well, as Brown got most of its offensive production in unbalanced situations, often pushed by See M. LAX page 5

The Princeton softball team swept a doubleheader against Brown on Saturday, finishing both games with a final score of 1-0. The Tigers (9-13 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) came out of the weekend in first place in the Ivy South division.

The first game opened with a home run in the bottom of the first from senior infielder Alyssa Schmidt to give the Tigers the 1-0 lead they maintained for the entire game. Junior pitcher Shanna Christian is back and better than ever after putting on an incredible showing, pitching the entire game while giving up only four hits to help the Tigers clinch their victory over the Bears. The game was a close one, with both the Tigers and the Bears seeing three innings with a runner left on third base, but a strong Tiger showing kept Brown off the board.

The second game saw freshman pitcher Ashley LaGuardia start on the mound, giving up only a

single and a walk. Senior pitcher Meredith Brown gave up two singles in the second inning with only one out before two outs in the infield ended the inning and kept Brown from scoring. After Brown catcher/third baseman Emily Springfield hit a f lyball to the outfield in the top of the third, neither team got on base until another Brown single in the top of the fifth inning.

The heat was on in the seventh inning as neither team had yet managed to get on the board . Brown utility Grayson Metzger advanced to third base in the top of the seventh before a third out put the Tigers at bat. A single to the left by freshman outfielder Kylee Pierce gave the Tigers the momentum they needed, with a grounder from Schmidt and a bunt from sophomore infielder Haley Hineman giving Princeton a run to win the game. Pierce went three-for-six on the day and marked the second time the rookie had a two-hit game as a Tiger.

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MEN’S SWIMMING

Men’s swimming team unable to compete in NCAA Championships

By Miles Hinson sports editor

After a fantastic performance at the Ivy League Championships, the Princeton men’s swimming team will be unable to compete at NCAA Championships, men’s swimming head coach Rob Orr said.

“While the past 48 hours have been extremely tough for our team and alumni, I am blown away by their maturity, positive attitude and camaraderie and support that they all have displayed in such difficult moments,” Coach Orr stated when reached for comment. “We win as a team, we

struggle as a team and we will get through this as a team.”

The two stars from Princeton’s Ivy League championships victory, senior Harrison Wagner and freshman Corey Okubo, were both unable to compete in their respective events. Individual success was what allowed each to qualify for this stage — Wagner with his first place performance in the 50-yard freestyle, Okubo with first place in the 400-yard individual medley.

In Iowa City, Wagner was forced to withdraw from the event entirely due to a high fever. Okubo defaulted in his

200-yard IM race due to a miscommunication in the race’s start time.

In addition, the relay team of seniors Connor Maher and Michael Strand, junior Jack Pohlmann and freshman Zach Buerger will be unable to compete in the relay portion of the championships.

The NCAA prohibits a team from the relay portion of the championships if no there are no swimmers from that team competing in individual contests. The team had competed in the 200 free relay but due to this rule is barred from competing in the remainder of the tournament.

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Due to various misfortunes, the Tigers could not follow up their Ivy League title with an NCAA Championship.

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