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In Opinion The Editorial Board discusses the Freshman Scholar’s Institute, and Sarah Sakha analyzes the demise of opinions. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 12 p.m.: The Office of Religious Life will be hosting a Meditation and Discussion Series titled “The Fine Art of Living,” in which participants will reflect on the six recesses of the human heart. Murray Dodge 22.

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March 9, 1966 The post office creates a stamp with Albert Einstein’s face on it to honor the work he did at the Institute for Advanced Study. A ceremony marking the first appearance of the 8-cent stamp was held the following Monday.

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News & Notes Penn men’s basketball head coach resigns following game against Tigers on Tuesday

The University of Pennsylvania’s men’s basketball head coach Jerome Allen has announced his resignation, which will go into effect on Tuesday night after Penn plays Princeton in its last game of the season, according to Ivy League Sports. The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that Penn athletic director Grace Calhoun had informed Allen last Monday that he would be fired at the end of the year. A press release on Sunday said that Allen had decided to resign. Allen coached the Quakers for five full seasons beginning in 2009, following his retirement as a professional player, according to the Associated Press. The Quakers are 9-18 overall and 4-9 in the Ivy League. Allen was a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year for the Quakers in 1993 and 1994. His only winning season as coach was the 2011-12 season with a 20-13 record, helping the Quakers place second in the league in 2012. According to ESPN, Calhoun is currently looking into potential candidates to replace Allen, including former Cornell and current Boston College head coach Steve Donahue.

LECTURE

Ex-Israeli ambassador discusses legislative elections

DANCING

By Kristin Qian contributor

Israeli elections occur too often, Danny Ayalon, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, said about the upcoming Israeli legislative elections which will take place on March 17, in a lecture on Sunday. Although proportional representation makes the Israeli government more democratic, elections occur approximately every two years, he said. Elections happen all the time because to form a government, a prime minister only needs a simple majority, there is only one house, and the entire country represents one district. Moreover, anyone can run, and for that reason, there can be close to 50 parties involved in a single election, he said. The Knesset, the legislative branch of the Israeli government, has the power to vote out the prime minister by a no-confidence vote, and this impeachment process happens quite frequently, Ayalon added. However, this also means public officials have to be responsive to public opinion, he said. “If they’re not watching, if they’re not performing, they can fall,” Ayalon said. Due to these quick changes in government, from an “insecure” cabinet to the minister’s constant preoccupation with political survival, long-term planning remains difficult and uncertain, he added. “We live in a very unforgiving surrounding, and we cannot afford making a mistake,” he said, adding that Israeli politics remain quite animated. Two ideas for political reform in Israel could be helpful, Ayalon said. First, the prime minister could serve securely for four years, which would give the Knesset a chance to make mistakes and correct them if needed, he said. If the KnesSee ISRAEL page 3

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Raks Odalisque belly dancing troupe debuted its spring production, “Arzu,” last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

In response to recent ‘Prince’ coverage, U. Provost denies anonymous reporting system By Jacob Donnelly news edtior

University Provost David Lee GS ’99 said the University is not creating a new anonymous discrimination reporting system, according to an email sent to the entire University faculty on Wednesday in response to a March 1 article in The Daily Princetonian. According to the article, the University might create a system for students to anonymously report discriminatory comments by professors. Lee called the article an “errone-

ous story” and alleged that it was “filled with errors” that led to concerns within the faculty. The article quoted Asanni York ’17, cochair of the Council of the Princeton University Community’s Working Group on Structure and Support, who described ideas for a reporting system to the ‘Prince’ and provided examples from a survey he said was taken of students. York has not recanted his account. In response to an interview request for this article, York deferred comment to Lee, who

is also the chair of the CPUC Executive Committee and the Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Vice Provost for Institutional Diversity and Equity Michele Minter. Lee and Minter both declined to comment for this story. “We’re trying to work towards creating a platform where we can report professors and preceptors who might say racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic things and not have it affect our grades,” York said in See FACULTY page 3

STUDENT LIFE

‘Say Hey’ campaign aims to end awkward encounters

USG senate talks LEAD summit, bathroom locks

By Cassidy Tucker contributor

A new student-run campaign hopes to create awareness about awkward social dynamics on campus by encouraging students to acknowledge other people. Founder Joe Benun ’15 said the idea came to him when he realized that familiarity was dictating whether students would greet each other in passing, which he said he believes leads to awkward encounters on campus. “In order to flip the social

dynamic, one individual cannot do it all, which is precisely why I thought to start this campaign,” he said. The campaign launched on March 1 and has its first event this week. Say Hey is organizing “Reclaim Midterms Week,” in which students are encouraged to wear a nametag on campus through the entire week of midterms. The goal of this is to create more opportunities for students to say hello to each other by name, Benun said. Justinas Mickus ’18 said he thinks the campaign could be

successful, but for the most part, “the kinds of people who will be doing this are doing it already.” Tigist Menkir ’18 said he thinks that those who are already outgoing would most likely participate but that those who are not will probably not participate. “It will be the same old same old, but maybe it will work if it is marketed well,” he said. Both Menkir and Mickus said they planned to participate in reaching out and saying hello to other students. See SAY HEY page 2

ME TOO

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The “Me Too Monologues” debuted at Theatre Intime last week as part of USG’s Mental Health Week.

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The Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed the 2015 Princeton Leadership Education and Diversity Summit and held an open forum on the University’s bathroom lock policy during its weekly meeting on Sunday. Last weekend, the Diversity and Equity Committee sponsored the LEAD Summit at the Pocono Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania. Former USG president Shawon Jackson ’15, Albert Choi ’15 and Ozi Obi-Onuoha ’16 presented a brief summary of the conference. “The LEAD summit was a three-day summit, and the purpose of it was to give students diversity and leadership training and also to highlight why diversity is important in the context of leadership,” Jackson explained. Programming during the summit included several keynote speeches and a series of workshops on the topics of race, class, sexuality and gender. Jackson noted that feedback regarding the summit has been very positive. In response to inquiries by U-councilor Dallas Nan ’16 on whether the event could have been held on campus or could have been less costly, Jackson explained that much of the money was spent on events that were open to the whole school, as well as on providing transportation for eight to 10 speakers. “We thought the event

would be more successful off-campus because you are physically and mentally removed from the Orange Bubble,” Jackson added. The senate also discussed possible options for changing the bathroom lock system on campus. These options include having bathrooms that don’t have locks, that have locks that open with University ID cards or that have the usual combination locks, University Student Life Committee chair Kathy Chow ’17 explained. “We’re trying to design a questionnaire that would capture the different options that we have and more objectively evaluate what students actually want,” Chow said. USG president Ella Cheng ’16 explained that the PUID locks on bathrooms would allow students of any gender to access any gender bathroom, while still leaving a record in case any incident were to happen. “It’s definitely not going to be one gender having locks. The reason why this came up in the first place was because of a gender equality issue,” Cheng said. She added that 40 percent of the student body said in the preliminary survey that they still want some form of a lock. “If the majority of girls feel like they want locks and the majority of boys feel like they don’t want locks, I don’t feel like that’s a problem,” Class of 2018 senator Rohan Patlolla said. “I don’t feel like that’s equality, just that each gender gets to decide what they See USG page 2

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The campaign hopes that the small conversations between acquaintances develop into caring and real conversations between friends, Erica Tsai ’16, a Say Hey ambassador, said. “This campaign is also about deepening our already existing friendships and not letting them become superficial,” she said. Lessening awkward interactions is a goal of the campaign, but more of an importance is placed upon the effects that saying hello can have on individuals. “It is not just about ending the awkward moments for you, but it’s also about the person on the receiving end who is waking

up in the morning and having a person recognize who they are and saying hey,” Benun said. The campaign’s ultimate goal is to help Princeton become a more welcoming place, Benun said. He added that the biggest challenge that those spearheading the campaign faced was having too many ideas for promotions and initiatives right off the bat. Before deciding what to do next, Benun said he wants to see more input from the student body. “We don’t have a specific path carved out, or a direction that the campaign will go,” Jessica Ma ’15, a Say Hey ambassador, said. “The student body will decide and change will come organically.” The campaign plans to continue encouraging students to

challenge existing social dynamics at the University, Benun said. In addition to organizing “Reclaim Midterms Week,” Say Hey has also been selling Tshirts online. “The T-shirts are a low-risk way of promoting the campaign vision,” Benun said. “I want to spread the message of making Princeton a more welcoming place, more vibrant place, more happy faces and smiles out there on the streets, [so] it will feed into itself to the point where it will just be a part of campus culture.” There’s still a lot of work to be done to improve campus social dynamics, Fiona McKenna ’17 said. “Sometimes things get awkward,” she said. “Really, really awkward.”

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THEO DIMITRASOPOULOS :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Students talk about the difficulties they face every day at the “Me Too Monologues.”

want for their own personal needs.” U-council chair Zhan Okuda-Lim ’15 explained that the University administration first decided to install locks in the 1970s, when a series of sexual assaults took place in women’s bathrooms. During the meeting, USG vice president Aleksandra Czulak ’17 discussed the Eating Club Accessibility Project. Czulak explained that the Interclub Council consists of all eating club presidents and Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students Bryant Blount ’08, who collaborate on sponsoring events such as TruckFest. “It’s an opportunity for

all the clubs to get together and have a discussion about what’s going on on the Street,” Czulak said. The project will explore ways to make more information about Bicker available online. Cheng added that the new ICC president Jean-Carlos Arenas ’16, who is also the president of Charter Club, has been looking into possibilities for collaboration between eating clubs, such as allowing more meal exchanges and looking into financial aid. Arenas is a former Chief Copy Editor for The Daily Princetonian. Class of 2017 senator Chris Shin presented an update on Princeton Public Works, a group working to support artistic endeavors on campus. USG treasurer Hunter Dong ’17 said that because arts proj-

ects already have outside sources of funding readily available to them on campus, including Projects Board, the Lewis Center for the Arts, as well as departmental funding, USG funds should not be the first resort for projects of this kind. Chow also proposed the USLC body image project, which would entail putting posters up on campus with anonymous quotes about people’s experiences with eating disorders, in addition to information about resources available for those struggling from similar issues. U-councilor Jacob Cannon ’17 said it would be important for this project to “have a really clear reason for working on it, so it’s very focused and has a clear target audience that you’re appealing to.”

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Ayalon cites ideas for political reform

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set is not working properly after four years, then there would be the opportunity to change the government leaders. The second idea consists of more direct elections, in which people vote for representatives directly, instead of parties making back-door deals based on their allotted number of seats, he said. However, in some ways, who is in power is only a secondary concern, given Israel’s strength in its strategy, economy, culture and defense,

he said. “The civil society in Israel is strong, and almost no matter who is in government there are some things that keep the balance,” Ayalon said in response to those who worry about the political instability in Israel. He added that he hopes this election will result in “a government that will last its term.” The last change in government occurred on Jan. 22, 2013. Current Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will likely remain in power in this round of elections, because it will be easier for him to form a coalition, Ayalon said. Netanyahu’s first choice would

be to call on the Labor Party to join him in a national unity government, he added. Although the concept of a national unity government may be unfathomable to most politicians now as they prepare to run for the elections, necessity will prevail, he said. “National solidarity is our main asset,” Ayalon said. The lecture, “Behind the Scenes of the Upcoming Israeli Elections,” was held at 5 p.m. in McCosh 50 and was sponsored by Chabad at Princeton University, the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination and the Center for Jewish Life.

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a Feb. 10 ‘Prince’ article about the initial plans of the newly formed Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. York said in an interview for the March 1 article that a survey was distributed to students and one of the questions on the survey asked if students thought there was a need for a new reporting system. He added that students responded with “hundreds of examples” of alleged discriminatory behavior. In the email he sent to the faculty, Lee said that the CPUC’s Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has not conducted a survey of students, alleging that the survey had been “fabricated” in the March 1 article. He also wrote that the University “has no intention to create” the new reporting system described in the story and that it was “never discussed.” Minter wrote a March 2 letter to the editor clarifying that the University already has in place “a robust system for anonymous reporting through [the University Hotline administered by] EthicsPoint.” The hotline is mentioned as an option on the University’s sexual misconduct website and its “Inclusive Princeton” website, in which the University highlights its diversity initiatives. The “Inclusive Princeton” website encourages individuals to consult a confidential resource before deciding how to report an incident. The website also notes that “the University’s ability to follow up on anonymous complaints may be limited.” “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” says that any individual may contact the EthicsPoint hotline. The ‘Prince’ contacted 89 faculty members for comment. The majority did not respond, and 12 declined to comment, citing concerns about lack of knowledge. Assistant Professor of English Kinohi Nishikawa said that students should be made aware of any existing anonymous reporting system. “This strikes me as something that could be sent out to all undergraduates at the beginning of the term,” he said. “If very few people know about it, is that deliberate, or can we afford to send out an email at the beginning of every semester saying, ‘This resource is here for students of all ranks to ensure a discrimination-free learning environment,’ and maybe even a few words about how it’s vetted, how it’s administered, how anonymity is ensured to the student?” In the March 1 article, York had noted that while there were processes for reporting discrimination in place, they could be ripe for overhaul because the format of the reporting often requires students to convince certain administra-

tors that discriminatory behavior had occurred and that complaints could be overlooked if students fail to say the right thing at the right time. The existing processes are also so unclear, arduous and time-consuming as to repel most students, and anonymous reporting may be ineffective because accountability for faculty is weak, Ricardo Hurtado GS, co-chair of the CPUC’s task force on academics and awareness, said in the March 1 article. Hurtado did not respond to a request for comment for this article. Nishikawa said that faculty should be held accountable in some way for discriminatory behavior. “Having said that, I wonder if the anonymous system is the best way to go about ensuring a discrimination-free classroom,” he said. “I’m not sure that collating through this impersonal interface is going to be the most effective way of responding to very specific comments in very specific settings.” Students should see residential college administrators, and especially their directors of studies, as

their allies, Nishikawa added, explaining he believed that discriminatory practices would be better corrected in real time through consultation with those administrators. Anonymous reporting is concerning, but students do have free speech rights, Wilson School lecturer Stanley Katz said. “You can’t and shouldn’t try to stop people from commenting on anything the faculty and staff do,” Katz said. “On the other hand, if there’s going to be a great concern about what that system is, and what kinds of consequences could follow and so forth, where do you draw the line?” He added that there is not typically a lot of communication among the faculty about University policy issues unless they receive high-profile attention, Katz said. “We don’t really have a faculty club on this campus,” he said. “There’s not really a site for this type of discussion.” Staff writer Annie Yang and contributor Catherine Offord contributed reporting.

Very special victims

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Azza Cohen columnist

he Special Victims Unit of a police department investigates cases involving domestic violence, rape, elder abuse, child abuse, victims of human trafficking and victims with developmental or mental disabilities. These victims are labeled “special” for a certain reason: they are unusually vulnerable. These crimes are exacerbated by an imbalance of power and authority, due to age or physical or mental capability. Recently, there has been a debate emerging to empower one specific set of these special victims: female college students. Students for Concealed Carry (SCC), a national organization advocating that stateissued concealed handgun licenses be allowed on college campuses, is at the forefront of this movement. Running events like the “Empty Holster Protest” and social media campaigns, SCC is trying to sell the idea that arming women on college campuses will prevent sexual assault. (That’s not to say that men do not suffer sexual assault as well; however, the SCC focuses solely on female victims.) This idea could not be more disempowering. The concept that prevention of sexual assault is the victim’s responsibility is a new type of trauma. Our lazy excuses have begged the question, “Why were you wearing such a short skirt?” These concealed carry advocates will now be asking, “Honey, why weren’t you carrying a gun?” This re-victimization of survivors of sexual assault is creating what I call the concept of “Very Special Victims.” In treating women like rare objects that need a glass case, these advocates are not only enhancing the narrative of victim blaming, but ensuring that the dialogue about this issue roots itself in the same toxicity of violence that enables sexual assault in the first

The concept that prevention of sexual assault is the victim’s responsibility is a new type of trauma.

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Creating support structures for students In three weeks, the University will extend admissions offers to the newest batch of Princetonians, and if the trend displayed in recent years holds true, the pool of accepted students will be the most diverse in the University’s history. All prospective students will have demonstrated strong academic capacity and diversity of experiences to the admissions committee — hence their admission to the University — but not all are necessarily prepared for some aspects of Princeton’s unique academic environment. Accordingly, the University hosts multiple programs meant to support first-generation students, students from high schools with fewer resources and students who will face particularly rigorous coursework during their first year. One such program is the Freshman Scholars Institute. FSI is a seven-week summer program that brings about 80 incoming freshmen to campus the summer before they are set to begin their academic careers at Princeton. Students invited to participate in the program are typically the first in their families to attend college, graduated from high schools that offered relatively limited advanced coursework and will likely face challenging circumstances during their first semester at Princeton, such as balancing an engineering course load and varsity athletics. The Editorial Board recognizes that FSI is an effective program to meet the needs of particular demographics of students and supports the Priorities Commission’s recommendation to further support the program by adding an additional

administrator. The Board further recommends that certain aspects of FSI should be developed in order to foster effective inclusion. Consequently, the Board calls on the Office of the Dean of the College to expand FSI and to create an application process for students not specifically invited to attend the program. Additionally, the Board calls for the establishment of a mentorship program for all FSI-eligible students to help them more smoothly transition from their home communities to Princeton. First, the Editorial Board recommends that the University expand the size of the FSI program and modify the total enrollment cap of 80 students. The Board understands the value of a small community but feels that the benefits afforded to new students would be greater than the costs felt by those who would have been selected with the cap in place. Moreover, community-building activities can still be arranged by residential college advisers and residential graduate students for smaller communities within FSI. Additionally, the Board recommends that all matriculating students be presented with information about and the opportunity to apply to FSI. Some students who do not specifically fit the FSI selection criteria may nonetheless benefit from participation in the program. There should be a means by which these students can demonstrate their belief that FSI will better prepare them for Princeton. Second, the Board proposes a voluntary mentorship program for students who were invited to FSI or who applied for FSI. While

FSI does an excellent job of preparing students for the rigor of a Princeton introductory course, students enrolled in four courses for the first time during their fall semester would benefit from the additional support structures offered by the program. FSI candidates face unique challenges when they arrive at Princeton that the typical support structures in place for freshmen are not always equipped to address. One of the best ways for a new freshman to understand how to confront and overcome the challenges of Princeton is to pair him or her with a successful Princeton student who participated in FSI before his or her freshman year and who has since thrived. A formal program can be especially meaningful for students who have trouble meeting peers with similar experiences and face challenges finding upperclassmen mentors through traditional means, such as shared high school affiliation or extracurricular involvement. If Princeton intends to sufficiently meet the needs of every student to whom it offers admission, the University must do more to help acclimate accepted students who would thrive with additional preparation. By expanding FSI and forming a mentorship program, the University can maximize opportunities to support young scholars from every background. 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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.................................................. place. Further, where is the logic of legality? These advocates argue that women, as potential victims, should rationalize vigilante justice, pulling a firearm on men who might rape them. The claim that more guns leads to less violence has been disproven time and again. There have been 69 mass shootings in the last three decades, many in states with concealed carry laws. A recent study from Stanford University confirmed that right-to-carry gun laws are linked to an increase in violent crime. Looking beyond the inefficiency of guns to reduce violence, let’s consider how concealed carry laws would affect campus culture. Would we, as Princetonians, feel safer knowing if a neighbor potentially hid a gun in her backpack? Perhaps it would set off the alarm at the Firestone library detector, or peek out of a pocket while she fumbles to collect her books. It’s like putting a BandAid on a heart attack — a superficial solution that does not address the depth or complexity of the problem. A campus of such extraordinary distrust not only fails the women who are seen as potential victims, but also the men who are seen as potential attackers. Are we so removed from our humanity that we shy away from combating the root cause of the problem through dialogue and nonviolent activism? Must we hide behind fingers on a thick trigger to “solve” this issue? Additionally, the sexy image of a holsterboasting young woman is rooted in an even more sexist subconscious. Take Bond girls as an example — they never were able to truly protect themselves without the help of a certain sturdy, heroic James. A tagline for “Charlie’s Angels” reads: “Action doesn’t get hotter than this.” These advocates are shamelessly hijacking the debate around sexual assault with a message of razor-thin empowerment. They are manipulating the stories of survivors by turning them into victims of a different sort – one that takes their experiences and further objectifies them. They’re pushing the glass ceiling just a little bit higher. They are preying on the deepest fears and wildest vulnerabilities to sell a product with a very special message: Sweetheart, it’s your fault if you didn’t arm yourself. This message makes these advocates no better than the attackers themselves. We are women; we are not museum exhibits that need armed guarding. Women should not have to holster the burden of threatening lethal force in order to feel safe. The root of the problem of sexual assault is with the attacker, never the survivor. Azza Cohen is a history major from Highland Park, Ill. She can be reached at accohen@ princeton.edu.

Sarah Sakha

Dealing with an existential crisis

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’ve been facing an existential crisis. But this is no ordinary crisis about the purpose or value or meaning of life (Susan Wolf already covered that). I have been grappling with the purpose or value — or perhaps lack thereof — of newspaper column writing. This pseudo-crisis was spurred by a tangential discussion that I had in my journalism class when the question of the use of opinion in journalism was posed. I held my breath. Even as the discussion continued vigorously, I could not bring myself to mutter anything. How could people question the place that opinions held in journalistic writing, a place that it has long occupied? Does what I write have any bearing? Newspapers have been publishing editorial pages for centuries. The modern op-ed page, which features opinions from people not working for the paper, appeared in 1970 in The New York Times under John Oakes, the editorial page editor at the time. This one page would revolutionize journalism, opening both print and online

journalism to a broader array of perspectives and backgrounds. Op-eds seem to be flourishing to this day. Last year, The New York Times innovation report, a 96-page internal document, was leaked. Led by Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, the publisher’s son and presumably heir to the organization, it examines the changes needed in the newsroom in order to maintain high readership levels. If anything, though, the report implies the continued, if not rising, popularity of the opinion section. In an effort to expand user-generated content, the Times is looking to “expand products around opinion” and expand the base of people from which they attract op-eds from, as analyzed by the Nieman Journalism Lab. However, according to the Pew Research Center, print newspapers are leaving less space for opinion, cutting opinion pieces from publication and personnel. From 2006 to 2013, membership in the Association of Opinion Journalists, the organization that represents editorial writers and columnists, dropped by over 50 percent. Based on this trend, newspaper columns, despite their popularity, are disappearing. Many attribute the demise of opinion to financial

reasons, but the role of objectivity in journalism seems to play a role as well. When people seek hard news stories, they seek straight facts, not the opinions of random people who deem themselves qualified enough to opine in the first place. After all, we come from a media age with a deep-rooted tradition of hard-cut reporting. Nonetheless, younger generations do not particularly find appeal in traditional news, as affirmed by Pew surveys according to the Poynter Institute for journalism. Furthermore, complete objectivity is near impossible to achieve in writing. As pointed out by the Pew Research Center, “The method is objective, not the journalist.” And with the goals of democratizing discourse among regular people from diverse backgrounds and influencing public opinion, we cannot forget about the role that subjectivity plays in journalism. There has been a greater recognition of subjectivity in journalism ever since the turn of the 20th century, according to the American Press Institute, when the concept of “realism,” or the sole reporting of facts, as opposed to objectivity, came into focus. As the journalist, editor and journal-

ism professor Victor S. Navasky points out in his book, we need more than just events that are objectively reported; we need “critical opinion.” The goal of a publication should be to “to explain the underlying meaning of the news … unrestrained by the demands of objectivity.” What journalism needs is not objectivity, but rather accuracy and honesty. We need the facts, but we also need analysis. And we need opinion — the opinions of not exclusively the columnists hired by the paper in question. Journalism may also be facing an existential crisis in this respect, but opinion will always have a place in journalism, more particularly in newspapers. Returning to the questions I posed earlier, I cannot say whether what I write here even matters because frankly, it doesn’t. But we’ve entered a new era in which plurality is valued over straight objectivity, and hopefully from a plurality in perspective and opinion can we foster more multilateral, diverse discussion. Sarah Sakha is a freshman from Scottsdale, Ariz. She can be reached at ssakha@princeton.edu.

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Vanessa Smith netting four points before another jumper from Miller. The period ended with a jumper from Marshall with less than 20 seconds left on the clock to leave the score 39-19 at halftime. The Tigers shot a scorching 65.4 percent from the floor and an insane 83.3 percent from behind the arc during the first half and held the Big Red to just 25.0 percent on field goals. The Tigers let this momentum carry them into the second half of the game, opening the period with a Miller layup, free throw and three-pointer in quick succession. The Tigers kept the Big Red in a scoring drought until 13:26 and without a field goal until 12:49. Until a layup by Cornell guard Kerri Moran, the Tigers went 26-8 to bring the score to 65-27. The Tigers led by as much as 38 during the second half, making Friday’s game the 23rd time this season the Tigers had a lead of at least 20 points and the 15th time the Orange and Black led by at least 30.

The game against Columbia had the Tigers itching to cut the nets as the Tigers secured a spot atop the Ivy League and a NCAA postseason tournament berth for the fifth time in six seasons. Dietrick was the only

[Against Cornell] the Tigers shot a scorching 65.4 percent from the floor and an insane 83.3 percent from behind the arc in the first half, and held the Big Red to just 25.0 percent on field goals. Tiger to score in double digits, leading the team with 17 points, while Tarakchian fell just short of recording a double-double, finishing the game with nine points and nine boards. Miller also was a contributing factor to the victory, finishing the game with eight points, two rebounds and two assists. The Tigers and Lions ex-

changed shots during the first few minutes of play to bring the score to 4-4, but Princeton quickly picked up steam and powered through Columbia. Starting at 17:26, the Tigers pulled together a strong run in which they went 19-6 in 7:23 to leave them up by 13 with the score at 2310. The streak started with a Dietrick layup, followed by a Miller three pointer and a pair of Berntsen layups, which allowed the Tigers to pull ahead. With just under two minutes left in the period, the Lions came within six points of the Tigers after a jumper by Columbia forward Camille Zimmerman. The Tigers responded dominantly, with Tarakchian netting a three and a layup while Wheatley scored another point for the Tigers from behind the charity stripe. The period ended with a pair of Dietrick free throws that left the halftime score at 36-23. The Tigers scored the first four points of the second period on a Tarakchian free throw and Miller three before the Lions could answer with a three of their own from Zimmerman. A three by Berntsen

and a Columbia free throw, followed by a layup by Lion forward Tori Oliver preceded a 7-0 Tiger run. Princeton led by as much as 26 points with 3:24 left on the clock after a pair of free throws by junior forward Taylor Williams.

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The game against Columbia had the Tigers itching to cut the nets as the Tigers secured a spot atop the Ivy League and a NCAA postseason berth for the fifth time in six seasons. The Tigers shot 46.9 percent from the floor and 54.5 percent from behind the arc, holding the Lions to shooting 33.3 percent on field goals and 25.0 percent on three pointers. The Tigers will close their regular season against Ivy League runner-up Penn this Tuesday, hoping to complete a perfect regular season.

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tallied with just under 90 seconds remaining in the half, by Maryland sophomore Matt Rambo may well have deflated Princeton’s morale heading into intermission. The standout attackman finished the contest with a game-high three goals, including the opening score. Second: Princeton’s offense had not capitalized on 13 of their 15 first-half shots, largely stifled by Terp goalkeeper Kyle Bernlohr, who had seven saves. In the second half, Maryland made sure that the visitors

would lack the requisite chances. A goal by sophomore attackman Bear Altemus drew the Tigers within one goal early in the third quarter. That would be the last productive offensive opportunity for Princeton. Maryland held possession for 9:17 of the third quarter’s 15 minutes, scoring five consecutive goals and establishing a 9-3 lead heading into the final period. What’s more, the Terps fired off 14 third-quarter shots (10 on target) to the Tigers’ eight (three on target). Princeton’s senior duo of midfielder/captain Kip Orban and attackman Mike MacDonald, who had constituted the heart

of the Tiger offense prior, were blanked by the top-ranked Maryland defense. Orban snapped a consecutive goal-scoring streak of 29 games. Both seniors concluded their 31-game scoring streaks. Otherwise worthy of note, sophomore long stick midfielder Sam Gravitte scored his first goal of his career and the first long-pole finish of Princeton’s season. This Saturday, the unstoppable force won out in the classic matchup against the immovable object. Despite the loss of a number of key contributors, this Maryland side has reloaded and looks poised for another deep

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tournament run. The Tigers should share that aspiration. But there’s a way to go with this young but doubtlessly talented side. Princeton continues their four-game road series at Ivy League rival No. 20 Penn. A disappointed Orange and Black squad was on the outside looking in last season, following a fifthplaced conference finish in 2014. Should the Tigers want to return to the four-team postseason tournament, they will need to bring their very best against their six Ancient Eight opponents. The contest will be broadcast next Saturday at 1 p.m. for subscribers to the Ivy League Digital Network.

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the final period to defeat the No. 8 wrestler in the country. Perez fought well in the final, but Chris Villalonga of Cornell, ranked fifth in the nation, squeaked out a 2-0 decision. Next week will also mark Perez’s first trip to NCAAs. A number of other wrestlers found their way to the podium on Saturday, including junior 197-pounder Abram Ayala (third), freshman 165-pounder Jonathan Schleifer (fifth), senior 157-pounder Rich Eva (eighth), and sophomore heavyweight Ray O’Donnell (eighth). Ayala’s third place performance was also good enough to qualify

him for NCAAs for the second straight year. In the overall team standings, the Tigers finished in the top half of the field, with a team score of 70.0 points equating to a seventh-place finish. It is the Tigers’ best finish since 2001, when the team also finished seventh at the EIWAs in Philadelphia. The result is even more impressive considering sophomore 184-pounder Brett Harner, who was seeded third going into the tournament, was unable to wrestle due to an injury sustained earlier in the week. As Laster, Perez and Ayala begin preparation for NCAAs, Eva, Harner, and Schleifer will wait until Wednesday to hear if they have received individual wild cards to St. Louis.

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the-board high performance. While Brase may have stood out in the game (scoring a careerhigh 23 points), the Tigers’ faithful saw many contributors to this exciting victory. Freshman guard Amir Bell and sophomore wing Henry Caruso would put up 11 points each, while sophomore guard Stephen Cook and senior wing Ben Hazel would post eight and nine points, respectively, in reduced minutes. The game itself came down to the wire as the Tigers clawed their way back from the jaws of defeat. After a three by Lo, the

Tigers were down 83-74 with just over two minutes to go. From there, they would go on an 11-0 streak, as Brase would prove pivotal in the closing stretch. He converted an and-one opportunity and scored the go-ahead layup to put the Tigers up by one with just 15 seconds to go. The Lions, so consistent on the offensive side for almost all of the game, would simply go cold down the stretch. Lo himself had the opportunity to win the game at the buzzer but could not sink the final three-point shot. After this heart-pounding victory, the Tigers now prepare to travel to Philadelphia for their final game of the regular season. They will take on rival Penn on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

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No. 9 Terps deliver first loss to No. 10 Tigers

Cagers still unbeaten with one game left

By Andrew Steele

By Sydney Mandelbaum

senior writer

Associate sports editor

Men’s lacrosse (3-1) suffered its first loss of this young season this past weekend. The No. 10 Maryland Terps (4-1) quelled a hot No. 9 Princeton offense — the Tigers had scored at least 14 goals in all three previous games — by a score of 11-4. An 8-1 second half Maryland run highlighted the host’s victory, while a season-low mark of four goals scored, all unassisted, made Princeton’s loss particularly harsh. With the loss, Princeton falls further in the series record to 28-7-1, with the last regular season meeting held in 1977. Between that old school contest and Saturday, the Tigers established a 5-1 advantage all with playoff wins. Very little separated the two teams after a half. The return of junior midfielder Jake Froccaro was a pleasant surprise for Princeton fans. The Long Island native was joined by sophomore midfielder Gavin McBride on the first half scoring sheet. The few things that ended up separating the teams turned out to be crucial. First: an unassisted goal,

The unstoppable and undefeated Tigers have a lot to celebrate after clinching the Ivy League title and a spot in the NCAA tournament after 70-37 and 63-44 victories over Cornell and Columbia, respectively, this weekend. The Tigers (29-0 overall, 13-0 Ivy League) have the best starting record of any team in Ivy League history and are currently ranked 13th in the Associated Press Poll and 14th in the USA Today Coaches Poll and are the second team in the nation to secure an NCAA tournament berth after Tennessee State, which won the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament a few hours earlier. The game against Cornell saw two Tigers score in double figures, with senior guard Blake Dietrick and junior guard Michelle Miller leading the pack with 15 points each. Dietrick also recorded six assists and four boards, while Miller managed to finish with three assists and eight rebounds. Princeton netted the first eight points of the game,

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TIFFANY RICHARDSON :: CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Ranked No. 13 in the AP Poll, the Tigers now look toward the NCAA Tournament later in March.

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which opened with a Dietrick layup. Junior guard Alex Wheatley quickly grabbed possession after a missed shot by Cornell forward Nia Marshall to score a jumper of her own. Junior guard Amanda Berntsen and Wheatley both chipped in with layups of their own before a Dietrick three. Cornell’s first points of the game came at 16:20 on a three-pointer by guard Christine Kline. Princeton held Cornell without any field goals for just under four minutes, after which Marshall scored two more points on a jumper to bring the score to 15-7. Halfway through the period, the Tigers found themselves up by 13 after a Dietrick three. The Tigers built up another run in which they went 12-2 in just under three minutes, further pulling ahead to build a 20-point lead over the Big Red on threepointers from Dietrick and junior guard Annie Tarakchian and two layups from senior forward Mariah Smith to lead 33-13. The first half ended with the Tigers continuing to dominate, pulling ahead with sophomore guard See W.B-BALL page 5

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Tigers celebrate Senior Night, sweep both games in season’s last homestand By Miles Hinson sports editor

In a thrilling weekend, the Princeton men’s basketball team swept opponents Cornell and Columbia in its final homestand of the season. Previously, they had split their games in the fourgame road trip. In the first game of the weekend, the Tigers (15-14 overall, 8-5 Ivy League) put in a strong defensive effort for the win. They held the Big Red to 37.5 percent shooting from the field and a paltry 19.0 percent from behind the arc. In addition to stopping Cornell from grabbing the board, Princeton also prevented the visiting squad from getting any second chances — they outrebounded Cornell 35-26 on the day. All this is not to say that Cornell (13-17, 5-9) didn’t have its bright spots. Star forward Shonn Miller did not disappoint for the Big Red, putting up 25 points and 8 board on the day, with an efficient (relative to the rest of his team) 47.6 percent shooting performance. However, the Tigers’ defense would hold the two top guards in Cornell’s rotation, Galal Cancer and Robert Hatter, to 3-of-10 and 2-of-10 shooting, respectively. A steady offensive performance for Princeton was paced by junior forward/center Hans Brase and senior guard Clay Wilson. After delivering only three points for his team in their last outing vs. Brown, Brase would put up 14 points on 80 percent shooting and 6 boards to go

along with it. Wilson, for his part, would score 15 points on 50 percent shooting, including a perfect 6-6 from the free throw line. The game was part of an upwards trend for Wilson, who had gotten into double-digit scoring in three of the four previous contests. Princeton’s offensive improvement overall is a far cry from what they had when they faced Cornell in Ithaca. There, Princeton shot only 32.7 percent from the field and were themselves outrebounded by Cornell 36-29. The day after, Princeton played perhaps its most exciting game of the season on Senior Night against Columbia. The game was an end-toend offensive explosion, as Princeton would eke out a win 85-83. Both teams stayed hot for the entire game, as Princeton shot 56.8 percent for the game, and Columbia 48.3 percent. Just as in the game against Cornell, Princeton would be forced to weather an extremely impressive individual offensive performance. The Lions (13-15, 5-9) received an incredible performance by Maodo Lo, the Ivy League’s leading scorer on the season. He would put up 37 points on 66.6 percent shooting for the game and dropped an astounding 11-15 from three point land. In addition, center Cory Osetkowski and guard Kyle Castlin, who scored 14 points each on the game, lent him support. The Tigers dealt with such strong showings with an acrossSee M. B-BALL page 5

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After this weekend’s matches in the EIWA Championship meet, the Tigers could potentially have six wrestlers at the NCAA Championships.

3 Tigers into NCAA Championships By Jack Rogers senior writer

As a walk-on on the wrestling team at Lehigh University 20 years ago, Chris Ayres quickly turned heads. In just a few short years, the New Jersey native went from not placing at the state championships in high school to becoming an All-American in college, and one of the greatest in Lehigh’s storied history. Fast-forward 16 years after Ayres’s graduation to the present day, where he now stands as the head coach of Princeton’s wrestling team. With a return to his alma ma-

ter at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships over the weekend, Ayres’s grapplers continued where he left off in Bethlehem, Pa., by turning heads of their own. Fighting for limited spots to the NCAA Championships next week in St. Louis, Mo., the Tigers posted strong performances across all weight classes, resulting in two finalists and six place-winners. Sophomore 141-pounder Jordan Laster was one match away from placing in the 2014 EIWAs, but decided to improve far more than merely placing by marching all the

way to the finals. Laster took out opponents from American, Bucknell and Drexel to clinch his spot in the finals against former EIWA champion Randy Cruz of Lehigh. Despite Laster’s strong offense early in the match, Cruz was able to counter well, and used his length to keep his distance in a 6-1 decision. Laster’s second-place finish was more than enough to qualify him for his first berth to NCAA’s. Further noise from the Tigers came at 149 pounds, in junior Chris Perez’s return to the EIWA Championships for the first time in three years. Seeded sixth overall, Perez

began Friday by defeating Thomas Quinlan of Franklin & Marshall by a 7-2 decision. The buzz around Perez picked up further, though, when he won another 7-2 decision over nationally-ranked Cody Ruggirello of Hofstra. With only three automatic NCAA berths allotted at 149 pounds, Perez punched his ticket to St. Louis on Saturday morning in a dramatic semifinal victory over CJ Cobb of Pennsylvania. Down by a point in the dying seconds of the second period, Perez scored a takedown on a quick go-behind, and was able to hold a 3-1 lead during See WRESTLING page 5

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