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Emily Carter named as Dean of Engineering School, effective July 1

By Caroline Lippman staff writer

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Emily Carter will begin her tenure as Dean of SEAS in July.

Emily Carter, the University’s Founding Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and applied and computational mathematics, has been appointed the next Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective July 1.

Carter said that she is hoping to make the Engineering School an even more welcoming place for all members of the University.

“I’m hoping we’ll get students so excited at the undergraduate and graduate level about the work going on and the kinds of ways in which students can contribute and create and invent — and contribute to serving society — that it’ll draw in a very broad demographic that looks like the rest of the population,” Carter explained.

Carter said she believes that part of what makes the Engineering School special is that it is deeply embedded in the University, where it can have an impact beyond engineering.

Regarding the role of the Dean, she said, “One very important aspect within Princeton is to continue to build bridges between the School of Engineering and the rest of campus. I worked very hard to do that in my role as Director of the Andlinger Center and I think that, now thinking in terms of a much broader portfolio of scholarship and teaching and activities, there are ways to engage really the whole University.”

She explained that one of her goals as Dean will be to look at the School of Engineering and examine ways in which its departments can think more collectively.

“I think there are opportunities within the School of Engineering to think more collectively about how we teach, and how we utilize the space we have, and just a lot of different ways in which it’ll be interesting, and a challenge, to take a fresh look at how we do what we do,” she explained.

Vincent Poor, the outgoing Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, said that he is delighted with the choice of Carter as his successor, and that he has worked closely

with her in her capacity as the founding director of the Andlinger Center.

“I would say the most important aspects of the job are the inter-related responsibilities of representing the school to its various constituencies and assuring that the school’s faculty and students have the resources they need to succeed,” he said.

Poor will return to teaching.

In terms of the Engineering School’s goals and challenges for the next year, Poor noted that engineering is a dynamic and competitive field. He explained that the next decade will involve many challenges and opportunities in fields like biological engineering, data science, robotics and sustainable cities. According to Poor, the University will need to invest its energy and resources aggressively to stay at the forefront of these and the many other important areas of research and teaching in which its faculty and students are involved.

University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan deferred comment to the University’s press release announcing Carter’s appointment, in which University President Christopher See CARTER page 4

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U. staff members honored for dedication

Pride Alliance to hold events for Pride Month

By Kristin Qian staff writer

Winners of the President’s Achievement Award and the Donald Griffin ’23 Management Award were recognized at the annual Service Recognition Luncheon on March 24.

516 members of the University staff and administration were also honored at the luncheon for their service. According to the University’s press release, the recognized staff members have dedicated a total of 9,430 years of service, from 167 employees with 10 years of service, to 7 employees with 45 years of service.

The President’s Achievement Award, established in 1997, is the highest level of recognition for employees on support and ad-

ministrative staffs. The award recognizes members of staff and administration who have been on campus for five or more years for their dedication, contributions and service.

The recipients of the President’s Achievement Award were Suzanne Burchfield of the Landscape Grounds Shop, Brandon Gaines from the Office of Finance and Treasury, Peggy Henke in University Health Services, Jo Ann Kropilak-Love of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Irina Rivkin from Office of Information Technology.

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LECTURE

By Maya Wesby staff writer

In a lecture on Tuesday, Emmy Award-winning journalist Anisa Mehdi examined the Western media’s portrayal of Muslims and how that portrayal impacts American attitudes towards Islam.

“Who are we afraid of?

What are we afraid of?” she asked the audience.

“Islam? No. Muslims? I don’t think so. Christianity?

Christians? Judaism and Jews? Are we afraid of Hinduism or Buddhism or Atheists? No. Those are generalities,” she said, adding that

people should instead be afraid of ideologies of hate, a lack of engagement between different viewpoints and inaccuracy as opposed to inquiry.

“We have this notion of Muslims as frightening… but remaining afraid is not going to do us any good, and it’s not going to further American foreign policy and, if we continue going the way we’re going, we’re not going to calm that fear,” she said.

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In celebration of the annual Pride Month, the LGBT Center and the Pride Alliance taped the staircase between the first and ground floors of Frist Campus Center with rainbow colors.

By Marcia Brown staff writer

Since the Pride Week at the University expanded to Pride Month last year, the number of activities offered and number of participants during the month has grown.

This year, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Center and the Pride Alliance are organizing 16 events in April, according to Jean Bellamy ’19 and Nicolas Freeman ’18, copresidents of the Pride Alliance board.

Pride Alliance is a group that represents the interests of the

LGBT and questioning members of the University community.

Andy Cofino, the Center’s program coordinator, explained the LGBT Center advises, supports and checks in with the program every week, though the group is very student-run.

This year’s Pride Month has many more events, as well as considerably larger expenditures and bigger ticket items, according to Freeman.

“We want to reach out more to the Princeton campus,” they said.

The events include workshops from writer Sinclair Sex-

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12 p.m.: The Princeton Latin American Studies Program will host a lunch lecture “Borges frente a Góngora” with guest speaker Martha Lilia of El Colegio de Mexico. 216 Burr Hall.

smith on gender, sexuality and trigger warnings, speed-friending and karaoke, film screenings, art exhibits, lectures and cupcake decorating with the Princeton Aces, a group for asexual and questioning students, according to Freeman.

For most events, attendance typically ranges from 40 to 70 people, with heavier attendance for the ticketed events like karaoke, Bellamy said.

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“I always think the Queer monologues are very impactful and are able to bring the community together,” Cofino said.

“I’m a real believer in art and the power of art.”

Bellamy and Freeman said that they wanted to keep the focus on artists but also Queer activists and writers for this year’s Pride Month.

Bellamy said the Board decided to focus on trigger warnings and dealing with gender in conjunction with sexuality for this Pride Month.

“We want to focus on how to address and respect trigger warnings on college campuses in situations where they tend to be viewed as a joke and how to take care of each other,” Bellamy said.

Bellamy and Freeman also noted the importance of mak-

ing the LGBTQ community seem welcoming to prospective students, adding that it is helpful that Preview occurs during Pride Month because it helps make the Queer community more appealing and visible.

Freeman said they were very partial toward the Spring Fling, a dance to happen at Campus Club during Pride Month.

“I don’t think there are a lot of times on campus where the general Queer community can come together and socialize,” Freeman said. “A number of Queer students have missed out because of our identities.”

Bellamy said that the Spring Fling is reminiscent of prom, adding that a lot of the undergraduate community wanted that in high school — to have something that’s more formal and dressy, but more accepting, than prom.

Bellamy and Freeman explained that the Pride Board, in partnership with the LGBT Center, decided to lengthen the

timeframe to a month in order to accommodate all events. Cofino noted that even before the expansion there still had been events outside of Pride Week.

“I always think the Queer monologues are very impactful and are able to bring the community together. I’m a real believer in art and the power of art.”

Andy Cofino,

LGBT Center Program Coordinator

“I think the programming is wonderful this year — as it is every year,” Cofino said.

The Pride Alliance Board is responsible for the administra-

tive side of Pride Month events and has additional committees made up of two or three people who plan for logistics such as finding space and food for events, Bellamy explained.

Bellamy added that the Pride Board’s mission is primarily social but it is beginning to take on educational and awareness efforts. “[The Board is] not affiliated with politics. It’s more of a social group,” Bellamy said. “We plan social events and do various other things to promote cohesiveness in the community.”

Bellamy added that the Board wished to balance education with a little bit of fun.

According to Freeman, brainstorming for Pride Month events happens as a Board the month before. The Board is composed of nine elected members and meets weekly for one to two hours, according to Bellamy.

The first semblance of what became the Pride Board assembled in 1972 with an ad that said “Closet Queens Unite! For information about organizations of gay men and women at Princeton call [phone number],” according the LGBT Center’s website. The meeting then became the Pride Board, according to Bellamy and Freeman.

Since then, certain traditions have been established for Pride Week, now Pride Month.

The steps to Blair Arch were first taped for Pride Month in 2013 and the steps inside Frist Campus Center are also taped in rainbow colors each year for Pride Month. Additionally, Pride Month usually has a karaoke event with about 70 people attending. Freeman called the event “Queereoke.”

“Pride Board is shifting every year,” Freeman said. “I really hope that next year whoever is on Pride Board reaches out to other communities.”

Cofino said that he likes how the events help show the diversity, depth and breadth of the community.

Bellamy added that she wanted to do something intersecting with race in the future as well, and noted that she hopes to have more transgender activism and awareness for next year’s Pride Month.

Additionally, Freeman said that the group’s plans for next semester include working with Intersecting Queer Identities, a graduate student group that is more political than the Pride Board, among other groups to examine identities and come up with several collaborative events.

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broadcaster to report on the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, and has made several films on the topic including “Inside Mecca” and “Sacred Journeys: The Hajj.”

Mehdi explained that she first got inspired to do journalistic work during the 1960s when she would listen to her father do interviews with reporters on the state of Palestine at the time. Mehdi said that, even as a child, it disturbed her when reporters would ask her father why he hated Jews.

“My father had been talking about Israel, my father had been talking about Zionism. He never mentioned Jews, he never mentioned Judaism. Anytime he burned an Israeli f lag on the streets of New York he would cut out the Star of David, and fold it and tenderly put it in his breast pocket. Because he respected Judaism,” she said.

Mehdi said that today’s media, while it’s evolving and increasing its inclusivity of marginalized groups, it does not hold the same type of respect for the Muslim community as, say, her father had for the Jewish community.

For example, she noted that in coverage of the current Syrian refugee crisis and of the plight of victims of recent terrorist attacks by ISIS, there is no mention of the refugees’ Islamic faith.

“When we learn about the misery of the migrants, typically we are not told that they’re Muslim. Now, we know that they’re Muslim.

But we’re not reminded that they are Muslim… we don’t get that empathy working the way we get the antipathy working,” she said, referring to how the Muslim identity of the refugees is rendered invisible when Muslims are

the victims.

“We are reminded when they aggress, we are reminded when they perpetrate a crime, we are reminded, regularly, that ISIS is an Islamic state. And when those boys attack… we are reminded that they’re Muslim. But when their mother are suffering in mud, they are migrants,” she added.

Mehdi noted that the mass media often disregards stories that look favorably upon Muslims and Islam, such as the story of Rachel Corrie, who stood in front of and was eventually run over by a bulldozing truck while trying to protect Palestinian homes in 2003 on the Gaza Strip.

Mehdi explained that, while it is good that the media had plentiful coverage of celebrities like Malala Yousafzai, the media has failed in its overlooking of the work done by other feminist Muslim women who focus on teaching the Quran to fellow women.

Despite this, Mehdi said she is encouraged by some most-recent portrayals of Muslims in the media, such as New York Times articles showing Muslims mourning for victims from the Brussels terrorist attack.

“Change is happening slowly, slowly, slowly. There was a time, in the newspapers, you didn’t know there was anything other than ‘Arab’. There was no distinction other than ‘Arab’.

Now, we know, there’s Libya, there’s Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, even Palestine is a word that’s used,” she said.

The lecture, entitled“Islam, Muslims, and Our Phobic World,” took place on Tuesday in Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m. and was organized by the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice. The event was free and open to the public.

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Eisgruber ’83 and Provost David Lee GS ’99 expressed their respect for Carter and excitement about her new role.

“She is a brilliant

scholar, a capable and proven administrator, and a dynamic champion for engineering at Princeton”

Christopher Eisgruber ‘83

University President

“She is a brilliant scholar, a capable and proven administrator, and a dynamic champion for engineering at Princeton,” Eisgruber said in the press release.

Carter graduated from University of California-Berkeley in 1982 with a degree in chemis-

try. She earned her doctorate in chemistry from Caltech in 1987, after which she spent a year of postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Before coming to the University in 2004, Carter spent 16 years at UCLA teaching chemistry and materials science and engineering.

Carter has applied her research in the fields of chemistry and physics to exploring materials for sustainable energy, including using oxide fuel cells to generate clean electricity, converting sunlight for electricity and fuel, using biofuels efficiently and developing materials for fuel-efficient vehicles.

Her many honors and awards include membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and the National Academy of Engineering. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

“Her intellect as a distinguished scientist and her proven experience as an administrator will be crucial to the ongoing strategic thinking about investments in the engineering school in the coming years,” Lee noted in the release.

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aging and caring for the University’s plantings. Burchfield received a degree in horticulture from the University of Rhode Island. According to the press release, she trains a new group of student employees for horticultural work every summer, leading by example to impart knowledge and demonstrate proper methods and techniques.

Gaines, who has served for nine years in the Office of Finance and Treasury, is currently manager of administrative services. Gaines has volunteered for multiple positions, events and offices, including the Admissions Office last spring for Princeton Preview and as secretary to the CPUC Diversity Task Force Working Group on Structure and Support.

Henke has worked for 20 years for the University and currently serves as office manager of Employee Health at University

Health Services.

Kropilak-Love has served as the undergraduate administrator for the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering for over two decades.

Rivkin, who has managed the PeopleSoft platform for Princeton over the last 10 years, is the director of enterprise resource planning for Administrative Information Services.

PeopleSoft is an administrative tool, which hosts TigerHub, and assists in maintaining student records, financials and other human resources data.

Burchfield, Rivkin and Henke declined to comment. Gaines and Kropilak-Love did not respond to a request for comment.

The Donald Griffin ’23 Management Award was given to two recipients, Maria Bohn and Karla Ewalt.

The award, established in the name of Donald Griffin ’23, is given by the Office of Human Resources to assist administrators whose experience indicate potential for expansion of lead-

ership skills.

The award comes with a $2,500 grant to engage in professional activities, such as leadership conferences or other professional development programs.

Bohn, program coordinator for the Community-Based Learning Initiative, works on community-engaged research and sharing knowledge to the community. The initiative involves encouraging students to synthesize their findings from their research or various on-campus projects to make it easily accessible to the general public, Bohn said.

“I was really honored just to be nominated, and it is thrilling for CBLI, for myself, and for ODOC that we won because I know that this opportunity will give us great connections to make more projects and develop them in exciting ways that I haven’t thought of yet,” Bohn said.

With the Griffin Award grant, Bohn will be attending the Lead New Jersey Fellow Program in

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2017. Bohn said that she is looking forward to meeting people from across the state to expand the CBLI network.

In addition to participating in the Program next year, Bohn said that the Office of the Dean of College is working on new initiatives, including freshman seminars in service that are being developed in response to a University task force. She will continue to work on the Derian/ CBLI summer research internship, in which students are placed in nonprofit organizations to undergo research projects and serve the information needs of the host organization.

Ewalt has served as associate dean for research in the Office of the Dean for Research since 2008.

“I’ve had the opportunity to do a lot of different things in order to foster the research enterprise and create resources that help profile the research that’s done on campus, to facilitate people to do the research that they want to do and to streamline it,” Ewalt said.

Ewalt works in research development, which encompasses the tasks of making the University more effective at competing for sponsored research funding.

Sponsored research funding is money that comes from outside the University to support research and programs that happen at the University, namely federal funding, but also money from corporations or foundations.

When a faculty member proposes a project, whether large, complex, or multidisciplinary, to the federal government, the process goes beyond the science, Ewalt explained.

She works with faculty members on grant proposals, from training grants to big-center grants, in order to put together

the most compelling proposals in a most efficient manner, she added.

“We are trying to develop a resource to help faculty members — PI’s — be as competitive as possible in competing for those dollars,” she explained.

Ewalt will attend the Annual Conference for Development Researchers sponsored by the National Development of Research Professionals in May, a three-day professional conference held in Orlando, Florida.

Ewalt added that research development is a growing field, and that over the last six to eight years, there has been a development of real expertise in how to most effectively help faculty members compete for grants.

“The sponsored dollars that come into the University affect your undergraduates who are doing research, your graduate students, your postdocs, and it’s the full scholarly life of the faculty members,” Ewalt explained.

The Office of Research works with various people from across the campus to help support projects and create strategically important grant proposals not only in the sciences and engineering, but also with the humanities and social sciences, or projects that have more of an institutional focus, according to Ewalt.

“I feel honored because we have an institution filled with dedicated and talented people at every level, so I think it’s [the award] a wonderful recognition and I feel very honored to receive it,” Ewalt added.

Jaclyn Immordino, HR communications and event specialist in charge of the Service Recognition Lunch, declined to comment.

University Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan did not respond to requests for comment.

Clarification A 4.5 article on Wilson Legacy Committee’s report noted that University President Christopher Eisgruber ‘83 did not answer to question on lack of actionable language. He addressed the question through explaining that with him and other administrators already working on some of the initiatives, that the recommendations will be implemented soon and that the initiatives will have direct impacts on campus climate.

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his past Thursday, the University Admissions Office announced this year’s admission rate has again dropped, down to 6.46% from last year’s 6.99%. To the students who just received their acceptances, this number affirms a sense of uniqueness among high school seniors.

In the race toward Princeton’s hallowed gates, they came out on top.

As I was congratulated by the orange tiger at the top of my admissions decision last year, I wondered if I, too, could become unique simply by being counted as a Princeton student.

I imagined Princeton students as a collection of stars of all varieties, on the brink of incredible contributions to humankind. The class of 2019 is indeed remarkable, but my theory about their stardom was proven wrong, if only by the eccentric posts on the class’s Facebook page.

My naïve conception could be chalked up to the fact that no one from my high school, to my knowledge, had ever even applied to Princeton, and most of my ideas of what the University was like were based on the film “A Beautiful Mind.” When I arrived on campus, I was surprised to meet an impressively normal collection of people. Sure, some students may become prominent world leaders in the coming decades, but for the time being, everything — from the culture of drinking to the separate cliques of artists, athletes and physicists — is compatible with what I had known about typical American college life.

Princeton sells its admission process as a meritocracy, in which those who are most worthy are admitted. This notion of merit is the reason why telling someone you attend Princeton almost always

prompts the proclamation “You must be so smart!” Given the numbers, shouldn’t the appropriate reaction be “You are so lucky”?

The sense of accomplishment experienced by those lucky enough to be admitted has a flip side — 27,409 students were rejected or waitlisted

by Princeton this year, and some of them may be asking themselves if this is a reflection on their personhood, imagining some inherent difference between themselves and those admitted.

Granted, not all applicants are worthy of admission. But the number of qualified applicants far surpasses the number of beds at Princeton. According to NJ.com, 12,297 students in this year’s applicant pool had a 4.0 grade point average. By some standards, being academically perfect is simply not enough.

To any disgruntled high school seniors reading this, wondering where they took a wrong turn: you have not — perhaps your “slot” was already taken. In a game of balances, Princeton can only take so many harp players, debate champions or figure skaters. This can be seen as unavoidable collateral damage in the admissions process, but Princeton does nothing to send an alternate message.

Year after year, an increasing number of applications are solicited, leading the admission rate to drop further and further. The University then parades this number in press releases and on its website as a token of its excellence.

The level of sensationalism surrounding college admissions was illustrated in a column that recently appeared in the New York Times, jokingly reporting that Stanford’s admission rate had dropped to zero percent, thus assuring that “no

other school can match [Stanford’s] desirability in the near future.” The link between a low admission rate and the desirability of a school is flawed and misleading, masking the intricacies of a school and distracting from the true reasons of wanting to attend one institution over another.

When I chose to apply to Princeton, it was mostly because of the remarkable list of novelists on its creative writing faculty. However, the miniscule admission rate also played into my decision, thinking that by procuring the thick envelope, I could somehow enter the ranks of those who are inherently “more,” whether it be smart, successful or driven. Only after arriving on Princeton’s campus did I realize how misguided I had been. Nothing about the act of being accepted had made me a better individual. It would be the opportunity to take classes with the writers I had admired from afar that would make me truly better.

There is little chance that Princeton’s admission rate will increase any time soon. More students will try their luck next year, hoping to be among the lucky ones, but the students considering Princeton, those admitted and those rejected, should not look to its admission rate as a measure of its desirability or the superiority of its students. Perhaps the press release on the admission of the class of 2021 should not begin with a percentage, but rather a statement testifying to the complexity and unavoidably arbitrary nature of the process.

Iris Samuels is a freshman from Zichron Yakov, Israel. She can be reached at isamuels@princeton. edu.

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to teach sex education because they won’t teach morality,” she said.

The consequences of sex education being left to the family — which, of course, means that the information taught in schools is wholly inadequate — are well-documented.

Sexually-transmitted diseases spread like wildfire if sexually active teens are not taught proper methods of protection, teen pregnancy rates are unconscionably high in states with mandatory abstinence-only education and officials scramble to address the staggering prevalence of sexual assault through sex ed. When we leave the sex talks solely to the parents, especially if those parents — as often happens if the quality of their own sex education was poor — are ill-informed on these topics, their kids will inevitably turn to the Internet where, as the lecturer pointed out, their anonymity will help them feel safer and freer of consequence.

The solution the presenter suggested, which entailed that we leave sex discussions within the family and attempt to scrub society of material that violates Federal Communications Commission decency laws, is a solution so limited in scope and lacking in nuance that it will never come to fruition. Removing all the porn from the Internet, much less all “sexually suggestive” content, would be impossible, both in terms of the sheer scale (think

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wasn’t expecting to agree with much of the talk on pornography and sex trafficking given this past Thursday by University of Pennsylvania psychology professor Dr. Mary Anne Layden at an event sponsored by the Anscombe Society. I went anyway, hoping I’d be exposed to new ideas or perspectives about how porn affects individuals in our society as well as in Western culture as a whole.

The statistics shown were sobering: according to Layden, men exposed to porn are more likely than those not exposed to view rape as something that women “deserve,” are more likely to have unrealistic expectations as to who has what kind of sex and so on.

Layden had argued persuasively that porn, as the powerful force it is, corrupts our understanding of healthy sex and relationships. Therefore, she concluded, it was time to start thinking about how to remove porn from our society. So I asked her: what about education? If porn is a monolithic source of sex education for so many people, as she argued so eloquently, why not increase the quality and accessibility of sex education for the people most at risk for what she termed “pornification” (i.e., corruption at the hands of porn addiction)?

This, she answered, was where the family, and the family alone, came into the conversation. “We should not be allowing the schools

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of the futile attempts to remove all illegal music- and movie-sharing websites available, and then try to imagine that working for porn) and even definition. Even the most luminary minds in America have struggled with this challenge; Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, in a 1964 case, said the defining qualities of “hard-core pornography” were impossible to describe (as he put it, “I know it when I see it”).

Destroying a system like this is completely, utterly infeasible, but the total unwillingness to loosen a rigid sense of morality in order to work with what’s practical and realistic in our society was frustrating. In some people’s ideal world, we’d all save ourselves for marriage and be able to, as Layden instructed, “keep it in our pants,” but that’s not the world we live in. Having such a simplistic, unyielding definition of what should and shouldn’t be done, as was shown by the talk, attempts to deal with perceived moral degeneracy without being willing to entertain any arguments that certain systems of ethics may not be as applicable as they once were.

At the question and answer session, the last question was less of a question than a debunking of statistics. The man asking the question argued that the speaker “was abusing statistics so badly it hurt.” He brought up a few studies which ran directly contrary to many of the statistics she presented,

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for example her claim that the average lifespan of prostitutes was 37 years and that there was a well-proven link between pornography and real-life rape.

At the risk of simplifying her response, she answered in two ways.

First, she reaffirmed that her statistics were right and his were wrong without citing any peer reviews for any of hers and asserting she knew everything about the studies he was citing. Second, she claimed her experience rendered her position unassailable. “When you’ve got thirty years of experience, come talk to me then.”

Such a refusal to engage, aside from being academically disingenuous and ideologically corrosive, was unfortunately reflective of the talk as a whole: a good thesis and middle destroyed by an inflexible, impossible conclusion.

Will Rivitz is a sophomore from Brookline, Mass. He can be reached at wrivitz@ princeton.edu.

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Lacrosse drops game to Brown amid controversy M. LAX

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With fourteen seconds left, senior Bobby Weaver scored, cutting the lead to 6-3.

The second quarter initially displayed positive results from the goalie change, as O’Connor only allowed one goal over the course of the 15-minute period. The Tigers scored three times in the second, with two goals from freshman attacker Carter Flaig and Sims’ second goal of the day, taking the game into halftime 7-6 in favor of Brown. Beyond the score, the Tigers’ defense remained strong in the first half, limiting the number-one scoring offense in the country to only 15 shots. Additionally, face-offs were split at seven apiece, which was yet another positive sign as Brown is

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also the top face-off team in the nation.

Despite a strong end to the first half, the Tigers could not stop an overpowering Brown offense in the start of the second half. Brown erupted for four goals in the first six minutes of the half, taking a commanding 11-6 lead. Princeton attempted to mount a comeback with a goal from sophomore Riley Thompson and Sims’ third goal of the day. Brown went on to score the next five goals to take a decisive 16-8 lead.

The fourth quarter had only three goals total, all coming from Brown’s side.

The loss marked the Tigers’ sixth loss in seven games.

The Tigers face off against 12th-ranked Stony Brook next Saturday in the first of two non-conference games they will play before resuming Ivy League play.

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Softball opens season against Ancient Eight rivals this weekend SOFTBALL Continued from page 8

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would fight back again, outscoring the Tigers 3-1 over the course of the fifth and sixth innings to once again even the score. The Tigers had opportunities to close it out in the final innings, including two on with one-out in the ninth, but could not convert, as the game went into extra innings. The Big Green would convert here, picking up three runs to seal the game at a 12-9 loss for the Tigers.

During the following game against the Big Green, which was intended to be played Friday but was postponed to Sunday, it was Dartmouth that ran out to the early lead. The visitors picked up two unanswered runs in the first inning and

would push the score to 5-1 by the end of the fourth.

The Tigers, however, came within a hair of completing a stunning comeback due to a two-run homer from freshman Keeley Walsh in the sixth and a solo homer from Pierce to bring the Tigers within one. Princeton, however, would find itself unable to score again, just falling to Dartmouth 5-4.

In their Saturday games, both against the Harvard Crimson (12-13, 2-2), the Tigers found themselves embroiled in much lowerscoring contests. The first game against the Crimson remained scoreless until senior first base Kayla Bose picked up an RBI to bring Waslawski home, putting the Tigers up one in the third. A sac f ly from junior infielder Haley Hineman brought freshman third base Kaylee Grant home in

the fourth to double the Tigers’ lead. With neither team scoring a run thereafter, the Tigers emerged victorious for their first win of league play.

Runs were even harder to come by in the second game of this back-to-back series — sophomore pitcher Ashley LaGuardia showed her stuff on the mound in the second game, allowing Harvard just one run the entire game. However, the Crimson’s Taylor Cabe was able to do one better, shutting out the Tigers and dealing Princeton the 0-1 loss to finish the day.

Despite the loss, the Tigers would have opportunity to finish up their homestand with a win, facing Monmouth on Tuesday afternoon before they hit the road for four straight road games this coming weekend.

Wednesday april 6, 2016

Sports

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Softball goes 1-3 against Dartmouth, Harvard to open Ivy League season

By Miles Hinson sports editor emeritus

The most critical portion of the season has begun for the Princeton softball team: Ivy League play. Defending their home field against visiting rivals, the Tigers split their weekend games against Dartmouth and fell in both of their matches against Harvard.

The Tigers (7-20 overall, 1-3 Ivy League) came into Ivy League play with every reason to feel hopeful, given that they were just coming off a three-game winning streak — two wins against Colgate at home and one against Rider on the road.

Indeed, they looked poised to open up Ivy League play once again on the right foot, after starting out 2-0 against the Ancient Eight

in the 2016 campaign.

Indeed, the first game of the weekend against Dartmouth (15-9, 4-0) seemed to indicate such. The second inning saw the Tigers race out to a five-run lead, picking up five unanswered runs from a litany of Dartmouth errors. The scoring was sparked by freshman outfielder Kaitlyn Waslawski, hitting a triple to bring two Princeton players home for the 2-0 lead.

The Big Green, however, came right back in the third, outscoring the Tigers 6-1 to bring the score back level. While sophomore shortstop Danielle Dockx and sophomore outfielder Kylee Pierce both picked up RBI’s in the fourth to give the Tigers a two-run edge once more, the Big Green See SOFTBALL page 7

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Softball went 1-for-1 against Dartmouth before dropping two games against Harvard this weekend.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Men’s lacrosse struggles against Brown

By Christopher Grubbs contributor

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The men’s lacrosse team fell to Brown this weekend, 19-8.

The Princeton men’s lacrosse team (2-6, 0-3 Ivy League) came into this weekend’s game against nationally third-ranked Brown (8-0, 3-0) after a tough 11-10 loss to first overall Yale the weekend before. After going into halftime down 11-6, the Tigers came out f lat in the third quarter, falling to a deficit of 16-8 before the fourth quarter began. When it was all said and done, the Tigers would allow three more goals, falling 19-8 and to 2-6 on the year.

Beyond the loss of the game, the Tigers have lost head coach Chris Bates for

an indeterminate amount of time after a video emerged of him shoving a Brown player as the player left the field at the beginning of the third quarter. An official press statement from Princeton to Inside Lacrosse stated “Chris Bates, the head men’s lacrosse coach at Princeton University, has been placed on administrative leave pending a review of an incident in this past Saturday’s game against Brown. The University is taking this matter seriously and will be conducting a prompt and thorough review. Offensive coordinator Matt Madalon will lead the team during this process.”

Multiple players declined to comment on the mat-

ter.

During the first quarter of the game, the Tigers fell behind 5-0 only six minutes in. Sophomore goalie Tyler Blaisdell got the start for the game; however, he was pulled after allowing the fourth goal, despite having three saves. He was replaced by senior goalie Matt O’Connor. O’Connor would allow his first goal of the day eleven seconds later before settling in for the rest of the quarter. The Tigers would trim the lead to 5-2 after two even strength goals from junior attacker Gavin McBride and sophomore midfielder Austin Sims before Brown scored again to make it 6-2.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Top-ranked women’s lacrosse scores big win over Deleware Blue Hens, brings overall record to 4-2

By Claire Coughlin contributor

This past Sunday, the No. 13 Princeton women’s lacrosse team (4-2 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) topped the University of Delaware Blue Hens (8-4 overall) in a close battle to mark their third win in a row. By contrast, Delaware, who previously won 5-0 on their home turf, have now lost three straight — all by just one goal.

Just three minutes into the game, senior midfielder Anya Gersoff passed the ball to sophomore midfielder Camille Sullivan for a pass across the front of the cage.

Although the Blue Hens were quick to respond with a goal from Shannon Hawley, this would be their only goal in the first half of the game.

The key factor in Orange and Black’s win was their strong defensive play, which only allowed the Blue Hens to put one goal on the board

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for the first thirty minutes of the game. After Hawley’s goal at 26:12, Princeton went on a five-goal run with points from players including junior midfielder Olivia Hompe, freshmen midfielder Elizabeth George and a second goal by Gersoff. Sophomore midfielder Abby Finkelston also had some major contributions in this first half, scoring a goal assisted by a side pass from Hompe to make the score 6-1. With 4:49 left in the first, Casey Lyons scored an unassisted goal and Hawley added a second to the game to make the score 6-3 at half.

Delaware continued their three-goal streak in the second half to tie the game at 6-6 with 10 minutes left. The Blue Hens had multiple opportunities to take the lead after posting nine shots (three on goal) in the final five minutes of action. Junior goalie Ellie DeGarmo, who was recently placed on the Tewaara-

ton Watch List, stayed strong in the second half and the Tiger’s defense held their own.

DeGarmo stopped a total of 13 goals and junior defensive player Amanda Leavell caused a game-high five Blue Hens turnovers and had three groundballs. At 5:22 on the clock, the Tigers’ leading scorer, Hompe, netted the game-winner, her lone tally of the game, with 5:22 left on the clock.

After five straight games on the road, the Tigers will return home this weekend for an Ivy League rivalry battle against Yale. The last time the Tigers faced off against the Bulldogs was last Spring in New Haven, where the Tigers won 7-5. Hoping to achieve the same success, Princeton will host Yale this year on Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium on Saturday, April 9 at 3:00 p.m.

The game will be available to watch on the Ivy League Digital Network.

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The No. 13 women’s lacrosse team took down Deleware.

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