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In Opinion Evan Draim responds to the recent Opinion coverage of his Tory blog post, and David Will discusses the importance of the wall recently erected as part of the course ART 439: Durer’s World. PAGE 5

In Street This week, Oliver Sun sits down for a Q&A with conductor Michael Pratt, and Chitra Marti talks to Grind Arts Company.

Today on Campus 9:30 p.m.: Late night comedy show with, “the world’s first and only stand-up economist,” Yoram Bauman at Campus Club.

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STUDENT LIFE

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Bed bugs an ongoing AvalonBay will problem in Holder not face appeal By Ruby Shao staff writer

By Jacob Donnelly staff writer

Bed bugs continue to be a problem in Holder Hall and Forbes College. Following two reports of bed bugs last September, at least four reports were confirmed this March. The students have been temporarily moved to graduate housing, a move different from last year, when four students were moved to single rooms in 1915 hall, in Butler College. Only the infestation in Holder Hall was disclosed to students. Residents in Rockefeller and Mathey Colleges received emails informing them of the situation. “It makes sense for you to avoid visiting Holder Hall until further notice,” an email sent to Mathey students on Tuesday by Mathey College Office administrator Patricia Byrne read. Students in Forbes College did

not receive any email, according to students consulted. University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua explained that cases of bed bugs were reported in Holder Hall on March 22, March 25 and March 31. The University also confirmed another report in Forbes College on April 10, Mbugua said. Mbugua noted that all of the affected Holder Hall rooms have been chemically treated, and that monitoring of the affected adjacent rooms is ongoing. The affected room in Forbes will be treated this week, he added. However, according to an email sent to Rocky residents by Housing and Real Estate Services manager Kenneth Paulaski, at least the Rocky rooms will actually commence treatment on Wednesday morning. It remains unclear if Paulaski and Mbugua were referring to the same cases, or whether more

cases have been reported recently. “Any time there is an email, I’m assuming there is a separate room being treated,” Rohan Bhargava ’14, a Rocky residential college adviser, said, adding that he was unsure whether the Tuesday email signified that additional students would be moved out. Jacob Sackett-Sanders ’16, one of the affected students, has been living in Stanworth Apartments graduate housing for about two weeks. “It’s fine; it’s not that far of a walk,” Sackett-Sanders said. Sackett-Sanders said a friend in a different room told him he had bed bugs in his room soon after returning from spring break, but he wasn’t acting on the problem. He said he immediately reported the issue to his RCA, who passed it along to the Rocky College Office. “They got him out of his room See BED BUGS page 3

STUDENT LIFE

Discussions ongoing on development of electronic meal exchange system By Ruby Shao staff writer

The USG is in discussions with the Interclub Council and Dining Services to develop an electronic meal exchange system for upperclassmen in eating clubs and dining halls. By digitizing the system, the USG is aiming to streamline the meal exchange process, University Student Life Committee chair Ella Cheng ’16 said. Under the current sys-

tem, students have to manually fill out cards, stating the eating club and the dining hall where the meal exchange will be fulfilled. “It can record where your meals are supposed to be, and it just makes the system a lot easier, and also easier for data collection so you can know how many were used and have everything in one place, and it automatically generates the monthly report they have to do,” she said.

Cheng is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian. One of the project leaders, USLC member Alec Regulski ’16, described the current paper-based system as chaotic. “I used to work in Dining Services at the office, and I used to be in charge of matching the cards together, and stuff always gets lost; people fill out cards incorrectly, so this would just be a lot easier,” he said. “I know it’s definitely See DINING page 4

A group of local residents who oppose AvalonBay, the controversial developer that wants to build residential units at the former University Medical Center at Princeton site, will not appeal a decision that affirms the rights of the company to develop the zone. The Association for Planning at Hospital Site LLC had sued Avalon Bay on Sept. 30 but received a final unfavorable ruling from Mercer County Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson on Feb. 25. Jacobson dismissed all five counts. The group had previously not publicly announced whether they would appeal or not. “Our focus is going to be, going forward, the environmental issues,” said Areta Pawlynsky, a plaintiff and member of APHS. The original lawsuit had argued against the way zoning assignments had been changed to favor AvalonBay, the overburdening of infrastructure and the adverse health impacts that would be caused by the development. The hospital development controversy began in December 2012, when the Princeton Planning Board, which oversees local land use, rejected AvalonBay’s first application. A group of residents called Princeton Citizens for Sustainable Neighborhoods consequently formed against AvalonBay. However, legal costs caused PCSN to end its campaign in July 2013, and, soon after, the Planning Board approved AvalonBay’s second application. APHS plaintiff Evan Yas-

sky said AvalonBay has lost all credibility throughout the past years. “They’ve been duplicitous, and they’re putting forward information that’s not really accurate. They’ve said that they would address things and then never followed up on them. I mean, sort of at every turn, we feel like they have shown no interest in public health, safety and welfare, and only interest in maximizing profits,” he explained. Planning Board attorney Gerald Muller, representing one of the defendants in APHS’s original lawsuit against AvalonBay, as well as Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert, the municipality, the Princeton Town Council and the Planning Board said Jacobson’s decision validated the Planning Board’s reasoning. “We took all the recommended environmental conditions that our environmental consultant at the first set of hearings had set forth in his report, and we incorporated those as conditions in the approval at the end of the second set of hearings,” he explained. “We felt we had a pretty good set of environmental conditions that Avalon had to comply with — they were as broad as we felt we could make them. And basically the judge agreed with that, that we had addressed the environmental issues that were before us.” He noted that because no one ever presented evidence of environmental contamination prior to AvalonBay’s second application, the Planning Board lacked the power to enforce the broader testing that APHS had demanded. See HOSPITAL page 3

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

U. and PPPL receive $3.5 M grant for nuclear disarmament research By Anna Windemuth staff writer

The University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory will be pursuing nuclear research under a five-year, $3.5 million grant as part of the Center for Verification Technology. They

will use the grant to continue developing a protocol for testing whether a warhead has nuclear content. The Center is a consortium of 13 universities and eight laboratories funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration. The group investigates both the

technological and policy dimensions of nuclear disarmament, and includes a strong educational component, Alexander Glaser, assistant professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering and in the Wilson School, said. “One of the best things

about it is that Princeton is very strong in having both scientific and technical capability along with the Woodrow Wilson School,” Vice President of the PPPL A.J. Stewart Smith said. He added that he is very excited about the potential of the new development.

Top researchers in the field of nuclear treaty verification were chosen for the project, Consortium Director and Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan Sara Pozzi said in an email. She See PPPL page 2

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added that the consortium will contribute new technologies that are informed by a deep understanding of policy issues. Verifying a country’s nuclear disarmament, including the dismantlement of nuclear warheads, is a difficult task because it involves highly classified information that must not be revealed in the process, Glaser said. He explained that current inspection systems designed to authenticate nuclear warheads acquire highly classified design information through a radia-

tion measurement, producing a “nuclear fingerprint” of the device. The legitimacy of this fingerprint is ascertained by comparing it to the fingerprint of a reference item. “The problem is that you still measure classified information,” he said. Glaser said the Princeton team was inspired by the concept of a no-knowledge proof, which shows that a statement is true without revealing why. He began developing a “zero-knowledge” verification technique with astrophysical sciences professor Robert Goldston GS ’77 a few years ago to provide a means of testing a warhead’s nuclear

content without having to measure classified information. In the zero-knowledge technique, the inspector beams high-energy neutrons at a target warhead and records how many neutrons pass through it. This value is automatically added to the number of neutrons of a preloaded detector so that the total count adds up to a previously agreed-upon number. The host, or the country whose nuclear weapons are being checked, can determine the correct preload before the experiment. The same process is conducted with a known, authentic or “golden” warhead, and the total number of neu-

trons that pass through it are also automatically added to the preloaded value in the detector. If the final tallies of both detectors are equal, the warhead is confirmed as authentic. If not, the warhead is deemed a spoof and indicates that the country providing the warhead was trying to fool inspectors and may not have actually reduced its nuclear weapon count. In any case, the inspector does not need to know the actual number of neutrons that passed through a golden warhead. To prevent host nations from preloading a false value, detectors are assigned after they have been preload-

ed. Also, Glaser explained, if the host decides to cheat, it risks leaking information in the process. The Princeton team was able to run computer simulations of the process using a $162,500 contribution from Global Zero, a nonprofit organization that works to eliminate nuclear weapons, according to the University website. “That was very important to actually get something going,” Glaser said of Global Zero’s seed donation. Through its recent invitation to the consortium, the Princeton team will be able to acquire actual equipment, conduct experiments and involve additional student re-

searchers and postdoctoral candidates in the project. Nonnuclear test objects will be used for the experiments. Although the team itself will presumably not fully demonstrate the technology, Glaser said, it hopes that government laboratories in the United States or abroad will use some of their ideas to test the concept on real systems. “You really want to have joint development, say, between the U.S. and Russia or maybe between the U.S. and China, so that both parties are confident that they understand how the system works, and that there are no back doors involved,” Glaser said.

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the next day,” Sackett-Sanders said. “They came and set traps in our rooms.” Seven students and three rooms were affected in Holder by the latest outbreak, Sackett-Sanders noted, adding that he moved into Stanworth about a week after the first student did, because the traps in his room revealed the presence of bed bugs. Four students including Sackett-Sanders moved into Stanworth, whereas three went to other locations, Sackett-Sanders told the ‘Prince’. Sackett-Sanders said no bed bugs were visible in his quad, but they were visible in his friend’s room. The response of the Rocky administration to the problem has been prompt, according to Sackett-

Sanders. “Hats off to the Rocky administration. They’ve been the best part of this whole thing,” Sackett-Sanders said, adding that members of the Rocky administration met with the affected students on Monday and gave them different options for housing, including remaining in Stanworth and moving back into their treated rooms in Holder. Sackett-Sanders said he chose to remain in Stanworth for the remainder of the academic year. Thomas Kloehn ’17, a Holder resident, said he was aware of the presence of bed bugs in some rooms in Holder, but said the problem was contained to a few rooms. “It really hasn’t been [a problem] in my part of the building,” Kloehn said. David Kolet-Mandrikov ’17, another Holder resident, said he only became aware of the presence of bed bugs on Tuesday.

The Environmental Protection Agency website suggests that the best way to identify a possible bed bug infestation is by looking for physical signs, like spotted bedding and the presence of larvae and eggs on bedding. Bite marks on the skin are a “poor indicator of a bed bug infestation,” according to the EPA website. The email from Byrne advised students to contact Customer Services during business hours or the Department of Public Safety after two hours if they suspect the presence of bed bugs in their rooms, and to avoid clutter and bringing in secondhand items, such as furniture or televisions. Rocky Dean Oliver Avens deferred comment to the Housing Services; Housing Services, in turn, deferred comment to Mbugua. Staff writer Chitra Marti contributed reporting.

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AvalonBay attorney Robert Kasuba declined to comment, and Vice President of Development Jon Vogel did not respond to a request for comment. APHS legal counsel Steven Griegel said he is happy with the route APHS is taking by trying to get as many as people within the town and on the boards to be aware of the environmental issues, rather than filing an appeal. “I don’t think it’s a situation where you have townspeople just trying to create an is-

sue for no reason at all,” he said. “I think there’s enough evidence that there may be environmental contamination. You would think it would be in everyone’s best interest — the townspeople, the government, the builder — to find out the answer so they don’t build on a contaminated site.” The development plans have stopped because AvalonBay has declined to comply with the additional testing mandated by the Council. Griegel said he hopes the township holds firm and forces AvalonBay to investigate whether the site is contaminated. If the town and AvalonBay

do not resolve the impasse, additional litigation could extend the situation, Griegel added. “Through this effort, not only the small group of us that are actual members of the association, but the much wider group of people that have become educated in the issues will take that into the future and probably various actions in public life,” Yassky said. “I think that’s a great thing. Even if we ultimately don’t prevail in a legal action, I still feel very good about the work that’s been done, and it will have long lasting impact in our community.”

News & Notes MSNBC host Harris-Perry to take position at Wake Forest University Melissa Harris-Perry — who hosts the the MSNBC weekend show “Melissa Harris-Perry” and taught at Princeton from 2006 until 2010 — is now switching academic homes once again, this time to her alma mater. Harris-Perry will leave her position as a political science professor at Tulane University in order to become a presidential chair in the politics and international affairs department at Wake Forest University. She graduated from Wake Forest in 1994. Harris-Perry taught at the University where she was an associate professor, but left when she was denied a promotion to a full professorship.

Prior to her position at Tulane, Harris-Perry was an associate professor at the University from 2006 until 2010, but she left after being denied a full professorship promotion by the Center for African American Studies. “That was a very clear statement to me that my colleagues did not value my intellectual contributions,” she told The Daily Princetonian at the time. Following fire, House of Cupcakes to move to new location House of Cupcakes will reopen in a new location some time in the next month, The Princeton Packet reported. The move comes after a March 19 fire left the old building damaged. The business will now be

moving one door over from 30 Witherspoon St. to 32 Witherspoon St., the former site of the Ferry House restaurant. “Customers will have a place to sit down now and we’re bringing in additional products,” House of Cupcakes owner, Ron Bzdewka, said to the Packet. House of Cupcakes, winner of the Food Network show “Cupcake Wars,” has been open in Princeton since 2008. The store also has branches in East Brunswick, N.J. and the Bronx. “There’ll be a grand reopening with a lot of free products — a grand reopening to thank all for their support,” Bsdewka told the Packet. Orders can still be made online or by telephone to their East Brunswick location.

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a burden on the eating clubs, because it’s very hard to keep track of all of [the cards].” Interclub Council president and Quadrangle Club president Joe Margolies ’15 said the biggest problem with the paper system is that students forget to complete exchanges before the end of the month and are charged for their meals. Dining Policy Committee chair and Class of 2015 senator Nihar Madhavan approached Margolies with the proposal at the beginning of the month. They discussed the project with the other club presidents at the ICC meeting on April 2. Madhavan said most of the clubs supported the decision, but one or two resisted because they did not see the benefits. “One of the big stumbling blocks we ran into was that different clubs have different rules for what kinds of technology can be there,” Madhavan said, explaining that some clubs have student meal checkers, some have staff meal checkers and some don’t have meal checkers at all. “Because of all these variations, finding a method that could work for everyone is kind of a challenge.” Cheng said the USG is taking into account the particular needs of each club. “We have to basically get buy-in from as many eating clubs as possible,” she said, “so we’re kind of seeing this as more of a microeffort rather than just implementing a

whole system for every eating club right now.” The presidents of Tower Club, Cap & Gown Club, Quadrangle Club and Ivy Club expressed willingness to adopt an electronic meal exchange system. Tower president John Whelchel ’15 said his club could easily switch to an electronic meal exchange system because it currently uses a digital component alongside the paper cards. “But if we could get rid of the card and just sign up on the website, because we already have a person with a laptop, it would be much simpler for us,” he explained. Terrace Club president Chris St John ’15 and Charter Club president Josh Zimmer ’15 declined to comment. Colonial president Sarah Pak ’15, Tiger Inn president Oliver Bennett ’15, Cottage Club president William Hicks ’15, Cannon Dial Elm Club president Connor Kelley ’15, and Cloister Inn president Andrew Frazier ’15 did not respond to requests for comment. Margolies said he thinks all of the presidents are on board. “As soon as they talk to their graduate boards and get more information about what the clubs are willing to do, we can see some actual progress,” he said. Though the details are still undecided, Madhavan said he hopes the new electronic system will include co-ops, send reminders a week before the end of the month so that students complete their meal exchanges and maintain the

spontaneity of eating with friends at different clubs and in dining halls. Assistant Director of Campus Dining Financial Services Dave Goetz said Dining Services would want to see the program tested by one or two clubs over a semester or so before expanding the system to all upperclassmen. Director of Residential Dining Sue Pierson said she was open to the proposal. “We always try to work with the students, and if it’s an initiative that will work for them and works for us and it gets approved, we’re all for it,” she said. Margolies said he expects the ICC to discuss the electronic meal exchange system at one or two more meetings this spring. “What we’re aiming to do is have all the clubs agree on what they’re willing to do by the beginning of the summer so that the computer science side can get to work on how best to implement the system on a technical scale,” he noted, predicting that upperclassmen would start to use the system sometime next year. In September 2011, then-USG IT committee chair Rodrigo Menezes ’13 presented an electronic meal exchange system called MealChecker as a new TigerApp. According to Goetz, the students involved said they would test the system between two clubs and report their results to Dining Services, but they never did so. Menezes did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } David Will columnist

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new structure went up on campus over the weekend — which wouldn’t normally be news — but this one’s a bit different. A gigantic penis is emblazoned across it in bronze spray paint, for one thing. And then, not to be outdone, someone else drew a neon pink vagina to accompany it. Amid the genitalia — which, to be fair, only comprise a small section of the structure’s surface — are unsigned statements of angst and discontent. The edifice itself comprises seven white wooden boards, each about 8 feet high and 4 feet wide, which are linked to one another by six unpainted (and un-graffitied) wooden planks. Together, the boards zigzag to resemble a room divider. The project was launched as a part of the class, VIS 439: Art as Interaction. According to the class’s twitter feed and Facebook page, it was unveiled on the North Lawn of the Frist Campus Center on Sunday, April 13. The work is entitled “What Will You Bring to the Surface?”. It dares observers to get involved by urging passersby to jot down things that trouble them but that they are afraid to say aloud. The idea, I surmise, is to empower students to air their grievances with impunity. Based on the diverse, at times profanity-laden, complaints scrawled on the boards, it seems to have worked. Posts range from multi-sentence tirades against oligarchs to — what I would hope are — sardonic defenses of Susan Patton ’77. Substantive concerns are mixed in with digs at Vineyard Vines and boat shoes. One of the more legitimate gripes — “where are the professors of color?” — provoked a string of responses about the issue’s importance. At this corner of the board, at least, the project succeeds. It has exposed student concerns and engaged strangers in dialogue about issues that we are normally too trepidatious to address. Students scurrying from class to class stop, gaze at the structure and sometimes chat. Everyone with whom I spoke sorted the writings into three categories: the humorously raunchy, the peculiar or even offensive and the things they themselves felt but couldn’t muster the words to say. Each statement, it seemed, could be placed in any of those three boxes, depending on whom you talked to. The project’s genius is evident in its skeptics’ reactions. A friend of mine threatened in jest to vandalize it by writing something outlandish or obscene. The irony of his plan wasn’t lost on him for long. After all, carrying out his idea would mean interacting with the artwork exactly as it was intended to be experienced: as a platform through which to express criticism. The blank boards clearly fill a void left by students’ reticence to be publicly vulnerable. It is not that we are afraid, we are certainly a bold group — but above all we are ambitious and like to avoid sideshows on our paths to success. As a result, we tend to perceive everything from admissions of insecurities to political discourse as potential pitfalls that might compromise our futures. Coming to Princeton, I expected it to be competitive and cutthroat. What I found instead was a sense of individual intensity and heightened awareness of how one is perceived by others. Every Princeton student — myself included — dedicates enormous energy to cultivating their image as a Princetonian — that quasi-mythical, always elusive go-getter who has it all. None of this is healthy or sustainable. Academic and extracurricular burdens are daunting enough without students feeling as if they have to be their own public relations agents, constantly projecting a veneer of perfection over their stresses and flaws. Most, if not all of it, is self-inflicted and mutually reinforcing. Admit it: At least a bit of the reason why we constantly feign exhaustion and exaggerate our workloads and stress levels is so that when we succeed, our achievements seem that much greater. Few people are as forthcoming about their defeats, because those just don’t happen to Princetonians. Don’t get me wrong — we’re overworked, but the way to cope isn’t to puff ourselves up. Instead, we should admit our shortcomings and work together to overcome them. Doing so means rejecting the ludicrous stigma around failure that hangs over campus culture. Maybe then we’d feel freer to participate in campus-wide discourse on some of the issues raised on the boards. That is the art project’s gift to students: It’s a public forum for honesty and artistic expression. In one sense it is an interactive platform; in another, however, it’s a monument, a testament to internal struggles that we all harbor but rarely share. David Will is a religion major from Chevy Chase, Md. He can be reached at dwill@princeton.edu.

What “check your privilege” really means Mitchell Hammer contributing columnist

ince every issue of The Tory, Princeton’s major conservative student publication, is pushed underneath my door, I tend to f lip through it and scan anything that happens to catch my interest. In this particular issue, I was immediately drawn to “Checking My Privilege,” an article written by Tal Fortgang ’17. Once I got past the irrelevant, anti-liberal rhetoric — comparing the use of the phrase “check your privilege” to the descent of “an Obama-sanctioned drone” did little to help me understand Fortgang’s argument — I realized that Fortgang wasn’t wrong. He just didn’t get it. The main umbrage Fortgang and others who share his opinion take with the phrase “check your privilege” is that they take the colloquialism personally. Fortgang’s article is reminiscent of the 2013 incident at Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC), where three white males criticized Professor Shannon Gibney for how she was discussing race issues in class. The students felt personally reprimanded for structural racism because of their identity as white men. However, Professor Gibney — and anyone involved in race, gender, sexual-

ity and other identity discussions — is not directly criticizing every white male. Similarly, every white male’s accomplishments and personal family ancestry are not condemned or negated by the privilege debate. Instead, “checking” one’s privilege is meant to provide a more universal outlook and a heightened awareness of greater societal trends and stereotypes that we have each internalized. What Fortgang does not realize is that privilege does not necessarily require being able to trace your lineage back to Rockefeller or Vanderbilt. Privilege can be independent of your family’s past, of your actual socioeconomic status, of real hardship you or your ancestors may have endured. What privilege means is being able to confidently enter any social sphere without fear of rejection. Privilege means never questioning the bias of the feedback and grading you receive from your professors or employers. Privilege means living your life free from consideration and hyper-awareness of your race, gender or sexuality. Privilege does not, therefore, mean that you yourself have lived a life of complete aff luence and comfortable apathy; it is instead possessing certain attributes or traits that are regarded as desirable — or being free from particular traits that are deemed undesirable — and that have typically allowed their possessor to live a relatively advantaged life. Whiteness and maleness are two such attributes. But even as

a non-white, non-heterosexual, I am more than aware of my privilege. My family is upper-middle class, I am receiving an Ivy League education, I attended one of my state’s best public schools and I am a man. I know that although I may feel that my personal experience does not ref lect it, I am in a position of privilege. Who am I to say that, had I been female, had my family lived below the poverty line, I could have undoubtedly achieved the same standard of life with the same ease with which I did? Unfortunately, structural discrimination does exist, and it is difficult to tease apart what aspects of my life have been affected by internalized stereotypes and circumstance. The recognition of our privilege is critical for the achievement of the truly meritocratic system that Fortgang so idealistically alludes to in his article. Awareness of the historic disadvantages of others enlightens us to what advances are yet to be made and reminds us that institutions such as the LGBT Center, the Women’s Center and the Black Students’ Union are necessary as long as those for which they are meant to support believe them to be. We all need to “check” our privilege until the Equal Protection clause Fortgang mentions in his article truly does protect each citizen regardless of their identity.

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Response to Tory criticism On Monday, The Daily Princetonian published a response to a piece that I originally authored for the Princeton Tory’s online blog, entitled “The 10 Worst Courses Offered at Princeton in Fall 2014.” In his response, Bennett McIntosh eloquently argues against the assertion that certain courses at Princeton are “worthless” and articulates why Princetonians should be encouraged to be adventurous in the classes that they elect to take. Although McIntosh meant for his op-ed to serve as a response to my article, I do not disagree with the points that he makes and never meant for my post on the Princeton Tory’s blog to be taken as a serious critique of Princeton’s courses or worldclass faculty. Indeed, as the first paragraph of my post claims, the piece was only intended to provide “comedic value” for readers, which (admittedly) many people feel it failed to accomplish. While Bennett McIntosh presents a very eloquent case in

his op-ed, he seeks to ascribe a particular motive to the original piece that was never present. The Tory blog post arguably did not fulfill its comedic purpose, but no malice was intended toward any professors or their classes. Nevertheless, I take full responsibility for the purpose of my article being misconstrued. Within one day of the article’s publication (before The Daily Princetonian ever published a response), I had already requested that the Tory staff remove the article since its interpretation did not match my intended message. Within that same time frame, I also issued individual apologies to each professor mentioned in the article and offered to meet with them in person to better understand the content of the courses discussed. While I do not wish to divulge the complete details of our personal correspondence, many of the professors whom I contacted said that they realized the article was meant to be taken in jest, and I

appreciate their understanding. Princeton has afforded me so many excellent opportunities — both within and outside the classroom. I very much appreciate all of the exceptional academic experiences that the University has made possible and sincerely apologize if the article indicated otherwise. Admittedly, it was reckless to try to satirize courses without doing more thorough research into each class. However, once I realized this mistake, I quickly made sure that the article was redacted so that my opinions were not misconstrued. This was not done out of cowardice. As a contributor to other news organizations outside of Princeton, I have not been shy about defending my true convictions, even against hostile audiences or comment boards. However, the way that my article on the Tory blog was ultimately interpreted did not ref lect my true convictions about the quality of Princeton courses and

educators, and therefore I had no desire to defend it further. Hopefully, as a community, we can move forward to discussing issues that warrant real debate. Signed, Evan Draim ’16 Addendum to “Avoid these worthless classes!” As I have mentioned elsewhere, I did not mention Evan Draim’s name in my column because he removed his name and retracted the post, so I did not want to direct unwanted attention in his direction. I regret if that decision caused any confusion as to the official editorial stance of the Tory, or Draim’s position as a staffer thereof. In the meantime, I am glad that Horton, Draim and I have been able to foster discussion on this important issue. Signed, Bennett McIntosh

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have equal weight. The announcement took place in Jadwin Gymnasium, directly below a scoreboard that reads “Education through Athletics.” Outgoing director Walters began his association with Princeton athletics 50 years ago. He played point guard alongside Bill Bradley ’65 during the Tigers’ 1965 Final Four run. During his 20-year tenure as athletic director, Princeton teams have won 214 Ivy League championships. Additionally, he served as the 2006-07 NCAA Division I men’s basketball committee chair. Eisgruber spoke in highly congratulatory terms in thanking the search committee for its efforts in the long process which eventually resulted in Marcoux’s selection. He characterized the search as having been conducted “with integrity and imagination.” Furthermore, the Universi-

ty’s president expressed his appreciation for the man he first referred to as “Mollie’s legendary predecessor.” “In an era when too many collegiate athletic programs have tarnished the ideals that they purport to uphold,” he said, “Gary Walters has made Princeton’s an unsurpassed example of what a university athletic program can and should be.” “This is a huge job and huge opportunity,” Marcoux said when asked what challenges she would expect to face. “I think the whole thing will be challenging.” During the press conference, repeated votes of confidence were offered by Eisgruber and the newly-appointed Marcoux. Additionally, a number of sources the ‘Prince’ spoke with during the reception following the conference expressed the respect for and confidence in Marcoux many members of the athletic community have. “She has, I think, a deep understanding of what it means to be a student-athlete,” men’s bas-

ketball head coach Mitch Henderson ’98 explained. “We had a really good candidate pool, but she really emerged as the right fit for us.” Henderson was one of two coaches to serve on the search committee. During the reception, Eisgruber expressed his conviction that Marcoux would bring an appreciation of Princeton athletics’ traditional values and “an intense competitive fire” to her new position. Walters, when asked if the motto of “Education through Athletics” would remain for the department, said, “Absolutely. Absolutely. It’s who we are.” He spoke with this level of confidence in his accomplishments as he looked on at the alldepartment photo being taken in front of him. Marcoux was featured in the center of coaches, staff members and studentathletes alike. Now in the twilight of his career, Walters looked at the bleachers filled with orange and black knowing that he was the architect of the arrangement before him.

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London and lived in London all my life. Very much a city boy I guess. DP: What’s the best part about being from your respective hometowns? GB: I like London as a city because New York kind of scares me just because everything is so big and the scale seems so much larger. And obviously London is a huge city, but it just somehow seems a lot more livable for me. Familiar but also just more livable compared to New York. Q: You guys have been around this country a fair bit. What American practice or quirk ap-

“On a very unrelated note, I feel like Americans generally use their cutlery very differently.” sophomore fred vystavel pears the most bizarre to you? GB: There is so much I could sit here all night and say. One thing in relation to sports is the whole hands-in and “Tigers on three” thing. I mean I like it and it kind of gets me going. But when we’re at home it’s like a thing you joke about. Like “Friday Night Lights” you know: “Clear eyes full hearts can’t lose.” That’s what it always makes me think of. If you saw people in England do that, you’d be like, “Wow, Jesus!” FV: On a very unrelated note, I feel like Americans generally use their cutlery very differently. Also a lot of peanut butter being consumed in very different ways. GB: Also yoga pants. There’s a big prevalence of yoga pants. At least in my experience, compared to home. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing, just impartially saying that. DP: If you could take up a sport at the varsity level other than crew, what would it be? FV: Probably soccer I think. It’s pretty chill. I kind of miss playing it as well. And I enjoy the concept of having a real offseason as opposed to rowing where there’s no real distinction between on and off-season. And they’re a good bunch of guys. GB: I think it would be funny to be on the lacrosse team – I’m a big fan. I think it’d be quite fun just to see how that would work out. Or the football team. DP: Do your guys have any embarrassing crew related memories? GB: We call it catching a crab for some reason. It’s when the oar blade flips and catches in the water. So the handle comes back at you at the speed of the boat. So that can hurt a lot. But we’re good so we don’t catch them. FV: At school I caught a boatejector crab. That is, I caught a crab that ejected me from the boat. These were really old boats so I didn’t have the shoes on the boat to strap me in. GB: That’s awesome. That’s like the ultimate thing in rowing. If you catch an ejector crab, it means that your whole body gets ripped out of the shoes that are on the boat and you’re thrown out. Apparently Carnegie Lake is also not the cleanest. FV: [Sophomore] Mike Lindburg and I capsized. It was a brutal experience. It was super cold. GB: Him and Mike Lindburg capsized when they were rowing a pair. There used to be this senior Eric [Schwarzenbach] last year. We would play this ball game before practice with like a soccer ball, keeping it up in the air. Obviously we’re terrible at it since everyone is so uncoordinated. So anytime the ball would go in the water, Eric would just go flying off

the dock and jump into Lake Carnegie to get it. He wouldn’t even shower – he’d just do a full two hour practice covered in the rank Carnegie water. DP: On the other end of the spectrum, what have been the proudest moments of your careers so far? FV: I mean, it was tainted with loss, but it was when my boat, which was the 2V boat last year, came fourth at the IRAs [International Rowing Association]. We were in second or third the whole race and then got pipped at the line by Cal. But what was really cool was that we were part of such a competitive field. Washington won clearly but then it was Brown, who won by .5 seconds over Cal who won .2 over us who were .5 over BU. At that moment I realized I was happy to have come over to America to experience that kind of competitive rowing. Despite losing, it was — maybe not proudest — but it was a very cool moment. GB: Mine was before Princeton: my last year of high school in the national championships in the single scull. So it’s just me rowing alone. I came second. Again it’s weird because I didn’t win, but at the same time I lost to someone who was really good and I beat several people who everyone said that I couldn’t beat. And one of the guys I beat was someone who had always beaten me. So finally, at the very end of school, for four years I’d been racing that guy and came out on top. DP: Could you talk about rowing in smaller boats as opposed to a larger team effort? GB: One of the biggest things for me is the noise. Like the noise of an eight race, especially the start since all the coxes have their speakers down the boats and are shouting. Then just the noise that the oars make is

extreme. Six eights going off side by side for the start of a race is really noisy, whereas for singles, it’s completely silent. It’s weird because the loudest thing you can hear is your own breathing. But an eight is just noise and chaos. FV: The smallest boat I’ve raced properly in is a four. It’s a little bit louder, not as loud as an eight though. When you’re rowing in an eight, you’re there with seven other guys so you’re very much dependent on all eight rowing together. If you’re in a four, you feel like you’re really much more a part of the boat, so you really have to do well for the other guys. GB: I like the smaller boats

“Six eights going off side by side for the start of a race is really noisy, whereas for singles, it’s completely silent.” sophomore george bradbury – there’s much more zen somehow. DP: Who’s the quirkiest kid on your team? GB: PK. [Sophomore] Patrick Konttinen. Well, actually there are so many people on our team. I don’t know what the stereotype on campus of the rowing team is, but there are some seriously quirky guys on our team. FV: It’s kind of like “fiend.” It’s not really quirky. GB: Well PK is definitely quirky. I dunno, like everything he does is so funny. I’ve seen him do …

FV: Things that we can’t describe in this interview. GB: I’ve seen him pee into a plastic bottle in the dining hall. Inexplicably. FV: He also gets up to some weird things in the showers. GB: But just in general, I’ve never seen him get angry at anything. Everything is funny and everything is fair game. FV: You could destroy his room, punch him in the face, do literally anything to him. GB: With him there’s no sense of boundaries. He has no boundaries. And he doesn’t expect anyone else to have boundaries. FV: There was one time this year when someone one-upped PK and he was stunned … GB: But no, definitely PK. FV: All around. GB: If you’re on campus looking for a laugh, go to Patrick Kontinnen. He’ll do some weird stuff … Oh, one other thing that he does! When he’s riding his bike up to the dining hall from practice, instead of stopping and parking it, he’ll sort of get off while it’s still moving and let it keep going and crash into the bushes next to Wu. Then without looking to either side he’ll just walk into the dining hall and all the people outside are just looking at him dumbfounded. DP: Who’s the biggest weight room warrior? GB: Either Jason Kopelman, who’s a senior now, or Tim Masters, who’s a junior. Jason is just a psycho and a huge guy. But Tim is funny about it. When we’re in season the coach doesn’t like us to lift weights so, while in-season I’ll have to stand at the fountain. From there I can get a good look at who’s coming into the weight room so I can tell him if the coach is coming so Tim can stop lifting. FV: I mean there’s a good group of guys who tend to,

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you know, do some dips. Tim’s the one who does it in the most sensible way. DP: Give us some pre-race superstitions either you or your teammates have. GB: I had a lucky uni that I used to wear at school, but then it got so gross that I couldn’t even wear it anymore. The colors weren’t recognizable. But obviously here we get new unis every year so we can’t really have a lucky one. For me it’s just

“Fred would be like the fancy, potent pepper. I’d be salt, just because everyone loves a bit of salt.” george bradbury like checking everything. I’m always obsessing with checking that all the bolts are tight, that the oar is the right length. I think everyone likes to hide the fact that they’re doing superstitious stuff — some guys definitely have like lucky hats or socks. Do you know John Cena the wrestler? Tommy Linderman, who’s a senior, is a huge John Cena fan. So every race that I’ve been at Princeton he’s worn a John Cena headband and wristband. DP: If you had to be salt, pepper or oregano, which would you be and why? FV: Pepper. As much as I like salt on eggs, I think pepper is great on steaks. It packs a punch. GB: Fred would be like the fancy, potent pepper. I’d be salt, just because everyone

loves a bit of salt. DP: What are your aspirations for your Princeton rowing career? GB: More than anything, I would like to win a championship for Princeton. Either the Eastern Sprints or the national championships. Either one, they’re both like national championships. To win something for Princeton would be pretty special, I’d take that over everything. For years it’s been close but no cigar. FV: I’m the same. Post-Princeton, I think the Boat Race is something I’d quite like to do for Oxford. GB: It means a lot for all of us on the crew team, since for years it’s been close but no cigar despite the great history of the program. And last year we went up to the eastern sprints with 1V and 2V both unbeaten thinking that we were gonna win. But second varsity came second and we came fourth. So for me that was pretty gutting – to not be on the podium after an undefeated dual racing season. DP: Which one of you is the better person? GB: This is actually funny, because we were having this conversation the other day. Fred is like the nicest person. Actually the nicest person. So taking a piss out of him for being so nice, with [teammate] Ryan Barker, I’d point out things that Fred does. So he’d spill a bit of food in the dining hall and I’d immediately be like, “Oh Fred, what an asshole.” FV: In terms of on-campus presence, George is friends with everyone – especially Pi Phi. He’s the most sociable guy. He’s going to be our social chair next year. GB: An unrecognized position, but a very important one.

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Sophomore rowers on Princeton’s heavyweight crew, George Bradbury and Fred Vystavel raced and attended school across the pond before coming to New Jersey. The ‘Prince’ had the opportunity to sit down with this dynamic duo of Englishmen to discuss trans-Atlantic differences along with their respective favorite seasonings. Daily Princetonian: Where are you from and what’s it like there? Fred Vystavel: I always have different answers for this. George Bradbury: He’s the most multi-national person I know. FV: Yeah, went to school in England – rival school of George’s but never raced each other. Born in Belgium, halfDanish, half-Swedish. Live in England about a 15-minute bike ride from George in London. GB: I’m from London, England – went to school in central

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Mollie Marcoux ’91 will be the new director of athletics, the University announced at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon. Marcoux will succeed Gary Walters ’67, who held the post for 20 years and took the University’s varsity teams to unprecedented success in the Ivy League. A former women’s ice hockey standout, Marcoux earned eight varsity letters over four years in soccer and ice hockey. Worthy of note, she was named to the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference’s team of the decade. She will be the first female athletic director at the University and one of the first in the country. In 2013, only five athletic directors were female among the top collegiate athletic programs, the Chronicle for Higher Education reported. Her most recent career post was as an executive director at Chelsea Piers, a management organization which includes athletic and entertainment complexes in New York City and Connecticut. In an early-2012 Stamford Patch publication about her appointment to over-

see the company’s Connecticut complex, the company’s president was quoted saying, “She is a former collegiate athlete, a mother and a committed team player who understands how to run a business while keeping the perspective of customers and athletes in mind.” Additionally, she previously worked at the Lawrenceville School. She will report to Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey, who chaired the search committee and introduced her appointment. The appointment marks the end of a seven-month long search. The search was conducted by a special selection committee consisting of students, coaches, faculty and alumni. During his introduction, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said that Marcoux embodies the ideals of “Education through Athletics,” a motto developed by Walters which has become his signature philosophy when it comes to defending the relationship between sports and the liberal arts. He added that Marcoux understands what it means to be a scholar-athlete, emphasizing that both words should

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Princeton (8-4 overall, 4-1 Ivy League): The Tigers started off the year slow, with a 1-3 record and overtime losses to Georgetown and Brown. They have since gone 7-1, with the lone loss coming last Wednesday to No. 2 Maryland by a score of 8-7. Princeton is outscoring its league opponents by nearly six goals a game, a much higher differential than any other Ancient Eight squad. However, the pollsters have not been kind to the Orange and Black, keeping them out of the top 20 even though they rank No. 15 in the Rating Percentage Index. Reigning Ivy League Attacker of the Year junior Erin McMunn is at it again, pacing the league in conference play with 20 points. Penn (7-3, 3-0): At No. 10/11, Penn has been the most consistent Ivy League team this year, having only lost to top 10 squads. However, the closest of those contests were a couple five-goal losses to North Carolina and Northwestern. The Quakers got blown out 15-5 by Maryland, whom Princeton nearly beat, hence the order of our rankings. They are the preeminent defensive unit in the league, holding conference opponents to just 6.33 goals per game. It will be very interesting to see how that unit holds up when it faces the high-octane Princeton Wednesday night. Additionally, a recent incident involving off-the-field team activities calls into question the character of this league-leading side. Harvard (7-5, 3-2): The Crimson has managed a winning conference record despite rather poor statistics. It ranks above only winless Columbia in conference scoring with 8.2 goals per game and in save percentage at 45.6 percent. Regardless, Harvard has managed to beat Yale, Cornell and Brown by at least three goals apiece. Of course, it also got crushed 15-6 by Princeton last weekend and 17-4 against top-ranked Syracuse a month ago. The Crimson features the league’s leading goal scorer, Marisa Romeo, who has found the back of the net 39 times in the season. Cornell (6-6, 3-2): Only a couple overtime goals separate the Big Red from the top half of the league table and seventh place. The last two weekends have seen them top Dartmouth 11-10 in two extra periods and then Brown by the same score in a single overtime. Remarkably, Cornell could be sitting atop these rankings if it had edged Princeton in yet another overtime contest from three weekends ago. Much unlike Harvard, the Big Red has put together quality in-conference statistics thanks to a penchant for close games. The Ithaca women rank third in goals scored and allowed per game with 9.80 and 8.61, respectively. Dartmouth (5-7, 2-3): The Big Green had a solid look at a top-four finish this year, until a three-game losing streak mostly sunk the New Hampshire side. One-goal losses recently came at Cornell in overtime and at home against Hofstra. Their top three scorers, two attackers and a midfielder, have contributed 67 percent of their total points. Should Dartmouth manage an upset or two over Princeton or Cornell, they could sneak their way into the four-team tournament by year’s end. This scenario, however, remains quite unlikely. Brown (9-4, 2-3): An early season 14-13 overtime upset over Princeton remains the brightest feather in Bruno’s cap. Prolific attack Danielle Mastro has tallied a league-leading 54 points on 28 goals and 26 assists. Most of these tallies, however, came against fairly weak out-of-conference opponents. By virtue of 17, 19 and 21 goal efforts against lowly Iona, Sacred Heart and Central Connecticut State, the Bears have the league’s highest scoring offense. In league, however, they have been outscored 46-50. Yale (8-5, 2-3): In tandem with a pair of Princeton players, two Bulldogs were just awarded co-offensive and defensive Player of the Week awards. The latter winner, midfielder Christina Doherty, is the older sister of Tiger freshman standout midfielder Anna. While they managed to play a reasonably close 11-9 game with Penn a month ago, the New Haven laxers suffered a demoralizing 15-8 loss to Princeton. While they have remarkably tallied 237 shots on goal to their opponents’ 86, their goals per game of 10.62 is not quite enough to hang with top NCAA talent. Columbia (3-7, 0-5): According to the NCAA’s Rating Percentage Index, the Lions sit in the 81st spot out of 103 Division I schools. That’s 39 below the next Ivy side — Yale — to whom they lost in a 9-6 contest in which the Bulldogs dominated. One bright side has been the strong play of senior midfielder Paige Cuscovitch. The four-year starter has earned four Ivy League weekly honors this season, having tallied 28 points through 10 games. Columbia will not see the top of the Ivy table for some time, but such are the lacrosse limitations of a city school whose athletic facilities are located a 20-minute walk north on Broadway.

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