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By Joseph Sheehan staff writer
Today on Campus 7:30 p.m.: The film “Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars” will be screened. The movie will be followed by a discussion with Alka Pradhan and Josh Begley. Whig Hall Senate Chamber.
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News & Notes Class of 2018 assigned “Meaning in Life and Why It Matters” as Pre-Read book University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 chose Susan Wolf’s book “Meaning in Life and Why It Matters” for the Class of 2018 Pre-Read. Members of the Class of 2018 will receive a free copy of the assigned book for their first college assignment in the mail this summer. During freshman week, Wolf will participate in a panel discussion about her book with other faculty members. Throughout the academic year, the Class of 2018 will have many opportunities to engage in intellectual discussions with their peers and with Eisgruber in the residential colleges. The Pre-Read began at the University last year as one of Eisgruber’s first acts as president. The practice of assigning a specific book to incoming freshmen has been in place at many institutions, such as Harvard and Cornell. For the Class of 2017, Eisgruber assigned “The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen.” The book was published by philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, who has since retired from the University to move to New York University.
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Students wait for Logan Roth ’15, USG social chair, to announce the spring Lawnparties headliners. He announced that GriZ and Mayer Hawthorne will be performing as the main acts at Quadrangle Club.
GRiZ, Mayer Hawthorne to headline Lawnparties By Ruby Shao staff writer
Electronic music artist GRiZ and soul musician Mayer Hawthorne will perform at spring Lawnparties, the USG announced with a video presentation in Frist Campus Center’s gallery Monday night.
GRiZ is a Detroit-area musician and producer of electronic music. He has described his musical style as “electrosoul” and mixes urban genres to create a futuristic sound. GRiZ is an up-andcoming artist who has performed in the past at musical festivals such as the Coachella Valley Annual Music and Arts Festival, the Electric Forest Festi-
val and Lollapalooza. GRiZ is famous for his most recent album titled “Rebel Era.” Mayer Hawthorne is a singer and songwriter from Ann Arbor, Mich. who debuted in 2008 and has since produced hip-hop and soul music. He has worked with celebrities including See LAWNPARTIES page 2
Passes for Late Meal — a website that connects students with Late Meal swipes with students with eating club passes in order to trade them — was taken down by its creators on Monday evening following discussions with the University administration about its permissibility under current dining regulations. They will not be subject to disciplinary sanctions, one of the creators said. Mike Caddell, a media specialist at the University’s Office of Communications, declined to comment on the specific case, but said that exchanging Late Meals is against the meal contract students sign with Dining Services. The University’s dining hall contract, which all students on residential meal plans are required to sign, does not discuss whether students are allowed to exchange their meal swipes, according to a review of the contract by The Daily Princetonian. In addition, the “Meal Plan Terms and Policies” section of the Dining Services website also does not discuss the subject of exchanging meal swipes, but it does say that “Misuse of the late meal program will result in a guest meal charge to the student’s account.” It remains unclear whether students who exchange their Late Meals through Passes for Late Meal will be charged extra meal charges. View this document on Scribd Utsarga Sikder ’15, Nihar Madhavan ’15 and Junya Takahashi ’15, the creators of the website, said they were in talks with the University about the future of the website. “The University, they weren’t okay with the site in the current form that it was, and they didn’t expressly tell us to take it down, but the changes they See WEBSITE page 4
U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S
No new measures against meningitis at Reunions By Sarah Kim contributor
After a meeting with University administrators late last week, the Alumni Association has decided to encourage those attending Reunions to take extra precautions in light of the meningitis outbreak. A similar statement was made last year, when the Alumni Association posted a “note of caution” online in light of the four cases of meningitis that had been reported at the time. More recent-
ly, the University decided to ban overnight stays for Princeton Preview, a move that left up in the air whether more severe restrictions would be implemented during Reunions this year. “We would take similar precautions as last year,” Associate Director for Reunions Mibs Mara ’62, said, noting that they would doubly emphasize the need for precautions. “We’re just going to make sure that we do the best job we can with getting the information out, whether it’s around campus, during Reunions or before-
hand, on preventative measures that can be taken.” She explained that the Alumni Council would work closely with the alumni class presidents, the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni and the Reunions chairs to actively communicate the decision. “The meeting’s primary purpose was about making sure that participants receive relevant information that would help them join the University community in helping stop the spread of illness,” University Spokesperson Martin
Mbugua said. Mbugua also noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and health officials have not recommended making changes to or canceling the events on campus. Organizers also encouraged participants to take preventive measures against the disease during last year’s Reunions, which followed the official announcement of a meningitis outbreak at the University. Information on prevention was printed and disseminated in last
year’s Reunions program and will be printed again in this year’s. The program is also available online. Mara noted that last year’s Reunions participants were very receptive to this information, and that she hoped the participants would be as cooperative in this year’s. “From what I understand it, the University is going to try to find a way to communicate some of the risks associated with meningitis,” CDC spokesperson Jason McDonald said. “Of course, we support See REUNIONS page 3
LOCAL NEWS
Princeton Police Department Captain Nick Sutter sworn as new chief By Chitra Marti staff writer
Princeton Police Captain Nick Sutter was voted to be sworn in as the new chief of police of the department at a town council meeting on Monday. Sutter has led the department for the past year as acting chief, following the retirement of David Dudeck, and has seen the department through the consolidation of Princeton Township and Princeton Borough. Sutter will earn a salary of $161,366, with a longevity payment of $6,455, the Princeton Packet reported. Each of the council mem-
bers had the chance to speak to Sutter and ask him questions during the course of the meeting. Two council members, Lance Liverman and Patrick Simon, chose not to ask questions, and instead praised Sutter’s performance in leading the department over the last year. “I have very rarely seen a police department as together as this department is today,” Liverman said. Councilwoman Heather Howard asked Sutter about his plans for the future of the department, in particular the Safe Neighborhoods Bureau. “I think that the job that unit has done speaks for
itself,” Sutter said, adding that the unit accomplished a lot in the past year and that it “want[s] to build on that momentum going forward.” Councilwoman Jenny Crumiller asked Sutter how he plans to maintain communication with both the community and with the council. “Communication is pivotal to the department, internally and externally,” Sutter said. Sutter also said he is happy both with the relationship the department has with the council, and with the University’s Department of Public Safety. “We’re honest, open and have accomplished a lot
in those meetings,” Sutter said, referring to monthly meetings the Princeton Police Department holds with DPS. Councilwoman Jo Butler asked Sutter how he had changed and plans to continue to change the culture of the police force, particularly with regards to gender equity and acceptable behavior within the force. Sutter said the department has worked to set expectations and values of honor, integrity and respect. “Policies are clear, expectations are clear,” Sutter said. Mayor Liz Lempert said in an interview prior to the
meeting that the town council members felt that Sutter was the best candidate for the job because he was the highest ranking officer. “He came into the position at a difficult time for the department, for many reasons. There had already been a tremendous amount of change, with Consolidation and the bringing together of the two forces, and he’s done a tremendous job,” Lempert said. “The department, under his leadership, has started to build bonds and trust with many of the different groups and neighborhoods within the community, which is so imporSee POLICE page 3
LOCAL NEWS
Theological Seminary awarded $1.1M grant for confirmation research By Ray Mennin contributor
The Princeton Theological Seminary has received a $1.1 million grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc. to fund The Confirmation Project, Christian Youth: Learning and Living the Faith. Lilly Endowment, Inc. is a private foundation from Indiana that
supports advancements in religion and education. The focus of the research project will be on how confirmation, a rite of initiation in several Christian denominations, and equivalent practices build lasting faith and discipleship in youth. The project will study five Protestant denominations in North America: the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church in America and the United Methodist Church. The Confirmation Project has reported that its primary objectives in the study include identifying the congregations with the best practice for further research,
developing new educational approaches for confirmation that account for modern media and the influence of social networking, and discovering innovative examples of confirmation and equivalent practices nationwide that can then be utilized by other congregations. Professor Richard Osmer of the Practical Theology De-
partment, who is one of the codirectors of the project, and representatives from the Lilly Endowment did not respond to requests for comment. Postdoctoral fellow Katherine Douglass, the other codirector of the project, explained that the program will consist of both site visits and a national survey, noting that See RELIGION page 3
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Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar, and is known for his original songs “The Walk” and “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out,” as well as covers of songs by other artists, including his rendition of “Royals” by Lorde. “I’m really excited about these two because they’re both up-andcoming, and I think, in a year, they’re going to be really huge, and people are really going to be happy they saw them at Princeton first,” USG social chair Logan Roth ’15 said. “The best part, of course, is that they fit into our budget, that they’re available and that they’re down to come and play.” Additionally, this year, partial funds from spring Lawnparties will benefit a Newark-based charity called TEAM Charter Schools,
Roth said. USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said he is looking forward to this year’s event as a chance to
“People are really going to be happy they saw them at Princeton first.” logan roth ’15,
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bring students together for an entertaining day. “I’m really excited about the main acts this year,” Jackson
said. “What I’m especially excited about is that some of our funds from Lawnparties will be going toward a charity this year.” The donation money for TEAM Charter Schools will be coming from raffle ticket and merchandise sales. “No money that would have otherwise been used towards the Lawnparties event is going to be going to charity,” Roth said. “The only money that is being donated is coming from raffle and merchandise sales.” But many of the students who went to Frist to hear the announcement were unfamiliar with headliners GRiZ and Mayer Hawthorne. “I saw the first name and said ‘Who?’ and then I was like ‘Okay, they said ‘and,’ so maybe there’s something better, and then they said the name, and I was like ‘Who? I’m sorry what? This is re-
ally funny. April Fool’s part two, right? Right? No? No. Wow.’ ” Clarissa Lotson ’16 said. “Yeah that was more or less my reaction. I hope the different artists that the other clubs get are better. Question marks all around.” Dan Mozley ’17 shared Lotson’s disappointment. “Shock … not the good kind of shock,” Mozley said. “I’m not pleased. I’m still excited, but I was hoping for a better main event.” Like Mozley, Hema Lochan ’16 is unfamiliar with both artists but said she thinks they will still put on a great show and is excited for Lawnparties. On the other hand, Namkyu Oh ’16 said he is a fan and looks forward to hearing the music. “I don’t know who GRiZ is, but I am a really big fan of Mayer Hawthorne, so in that respect I am definitely really excited,” Oh said.
The USG social committee’s main deciding factors regarding headliners for Lawnparties included price and availability, ac-
“Who? I’m sorry, what? This is really funny. April Fool’s part two, right? No? No. Wow.” Clarissa Lotson ’16,
cording to Roth. “A lot of people think that these decisions are based on connections or something,” Roth
said. “Really, what it comes down to is, ‘Are they in our price range?’ and ‘Are they available that day?’ ” Before choosing GRiZ and Mayer Hawthorne, the USG social committee explored many different options, Roth said. “We looked at a lot of super high profile people who were in our budget but could not come, and then there were some people that were just too expensive,” Roth said. “I’m still really excited because I think these guys are really cool, and I think students on campus are really going to like [them].” The USG Lawnparties website, where students can find more information about guest tickets, raffle prizes, tickets and merchandise should be launched within the next couple of days, Roth said. Lawnparties will take place on May 4.
FILM POLITICS
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Frederic Mitterrand, the former French Minister of Culture, spoke about the prolific film industry in France and his time in office.
CORRECTION The April 7 article “Entrepreneurship Club hosts 80 teams in TigerLaunch competition” contained a number of inaccuracies. Due to an editing error, this article misstated the name of the company mShiksha. Due a reporting error, this article misquoted portions of statements given by Charlie Jacobson ’16. Due to a reporting error, this article incorrectly indicated the number of teams that passed on to the second round Social Entrepreneurship track. The ‘Prince’ regrets the errors.
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they will visit 25 churches across the United States. “It’s not just visiting churches in the area,” Douglass said. “For example, in the Presbyterian Church, there are over 30,000 congregations, so we’ll be sampling from five different denominations, each of which has at least in the thousands [of congregations]. So it’ll be quite large.” Douglass explained that the research is intended to benefit three primary groups, the first of which is the family. “We want them to benefit most directly by having the practice become something maybe more meaningful, and something that is not a relic from the past,” she said. Douglass added that the research is also intended to benefit ministers and churches, as the provided data should set a base from which further research can be conducted. The last beneficiary group, she said, is the academic world. “We’re really hopeful that the academy will be able to
use our research methods as an example of other research,” she said. The 20 “best practice” congregations will be identified nationwide after all the data is collected and will represent all five of the denominations
“We want them to benefit most directly by having the practice become something maybe more meaningful.” Katherine douglass, project codirector
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studied. Graduate research assistants from around the country will be paired with these congregations as they work to share each congregation’s confirmation programs on The Confirmation Project website. The Confirmation Project plans to finish its project in December 2016.
The Princeton Theological Seminary, which is located on Mercer Street a block away from the University’s campus, has received $1.1 million to research confirmation practices.
News & Notes
Class of 2014 Pub Night rescheduled due to rain The 2014 Class Council postponed its Pub Night scheduled for Monday evening due to rain on Ivy Inn’s facilities. In an email addressed to the
members of the senior class, Luchi Mmegwa ’14, the president of the 2014 Class Council, announced the rescheduling of the event, which allows seniors of legal drinking age to consume alcohol together at a bar that the Class Council
reserves. A previous Pub Night this year was held at the Triumph Brewery on Nassau Street. An Ivy Inn representative explained that the Inn has an outdoor patio at the back, which the Class of 2014 had
originally intended to use for the event. However, since the patio is not covered, the seniors could not use it in the event of rain. The rescheduled Pub Night will take place at Ivy Inn on April 14, starting at 11 p.m.
POLICE
council should consider lieutenants as well who had previously applied for the position of captain. “We’ve had a lot of trouble in both the Township and the Borough police departments,” Butler said. “I think our concern is not as much about Captain Sutter as it is … making sure that some of the problems of the past have been addressed and are at least in the process
of calming down and going in a different direction.” She noted that they would want to avoid another situation like Dudeck’s retirement amid allegations of harassment. About 50 members of the police department, nearly the entire department, were in attendance at the meeting. “Is there going to be a fight for who gets to make the motion?” Lempert asked
jokingly. The motion to appoint Sutter as chief of police was made by Howard and seconded by councilman Bernard Miller. He was voted in unanimously. Lempert said an official swearing-in ceremony will take place in the next few weeks. “This is a proud day for the Princeton community,” she said.
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that. We think it’s a great idea.” Although University events and activities in general had not been altered in light of the outbreak, this year’s Princeton Preview program saw changes. The University decided to cancel overnight stays for Princeton Preview to ensure the health
safety of the admitted high school students. The meningitis outbreak began in March 2013. The University offered two doses of the meningitis B vaccine, currently only licensed for use in Europe, Canada and Australia, to eligible undergraduate and graduate students in December 2013, February 2014 and March 2014. Reunions will take place from May 29 to June 1.
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tant for people to do their jobs well and for the community to feel like they’re being supported by the police department.” Butler, who at first expressed reservations about considering only Sutter for the position, said that, at the time, she thought the
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did require, we felt would [alter] the site so much, and we weren’t willing to compromise and do that,” Sikder said. The University wanted them to remove all mentions of partying from the side, Skyder said. The site was widely visited across campus, Sikder noted. 1,500 unique users vistited the website on the first day of the launch and 100 pairs of people got matched. Sikder said inspiration for the now defunct project came naturally. “My friends and I were thinking, and we realized there was just this inherent asymmetry in the way the school works,” Sikder said. “Upperclassmen had passes which underclassmen really wanted, but underclassmen have something that upperclassmen want, too, which is Late Meal. And
we thought a lot of people would be interested in doing that.” Sikder explained that the website was created for a class, COS 333: Advanced Programming Techniques, but added that the idea gripped them so much that they wanted to make the website more than a month before the deadline so students could make
“I think everyone agrees that the pass system is kind of ridiculous.” Utsarga Sikder ’15, cocreator
use of it. Some students have criticized the site for facilitating the trade of food with real monetary value for social capital, but the creators
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said they don’t think Late Meal is necessarily like trading cash for passes. “I think if the site was passesforcash.com, that would be a lot more controversial,” Sikder said, “but Late Meal is silly enough of an item that it really doesn’t matter. I think everyone agrees that the pass system is kind of ridiculous, so we were sort of trying to poke fun at the system and have a little fun with it.” Others have criticized what they see as a disadvantage for sign-in club members. Sikder said the creators had given the issue some thought. Sikder is in Terrace Club, a club that does not generally issue passes. “We wish there was a way to make the site more fair to sign-in clubs,” Sikder said. “I think we were of the opinion that for our initial launch to the public, keeping it as simple as possible was the way to go. There’s a lot of other things we can do, like club passes, guest meals.”
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Katherine Zhao
Perfection Paradox
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Abolish the SAT
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very university-aspiring high school student has gone through the ritual of spending four hours on a Saturday morning filling in tiny bubbles in a test booklet labeled “The SAT.” With the College Board’s recent announcement of an overhaul to the SAT which will enact changes in the spring of 2016, I was reminded of an important question: should the SAT be required for college admissions at all? Years ago, before the rise of high-powered review courses and coaching sessions that teach students how to take the test, the answer was “yes.” It was a way to level the playing field, to create a standard to balance out every high school’s different and possibly inflated GPA calculations. Now, wealthier students with access to resources that prepare them for the SAT have an advantage over less privileged students, often resulting in discrepancies of hundreds of points. With the former scoring higher than less privileged students of similar standards of aptitude and work ethic, the SAT playing field is no longer level. In my standardized testing preparation experience, most of my friends took an SAT class by the Princeton Review or hired a private SAT tutor. When everyone in the class was benefiting from private instruction, it was hard not to cave into the pressure and sign up for personalized instruction. The SAT has a huge impact in a college admission officer’s evaluation of a candidate. An increase of a hundred points can push a student from outside the normal accepted range to within that range. However, this may not be the best indicator of intelligence or future academic performance, because the SAT score is no longer entirely reflective of a student’s ability. The SAT score may vary due to different methods of preparation, which may be extensive, as parents with the available resources are sending their children to test prep agencies as early as sophomore year of high school.
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Azza Cohen
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hen we walk through the FitzRandolph Gate, we walk into a mold — take advantage of all the opportunities Princeton has to offer you. If you’re not happy here, then you’re in the minority. Love it or learn to. We are expected to work hard but not struggle. Get good grades and do a million activities, but also sleep and be social. Time and logistics become elusive friends. It’s a simple inequality — the hours required to excel in class and activities alone tip the scale away from the hours necessary for sleeping and socializing. I call this the “perfection paradox.” My favorite moment this year did not have a grand beginning. I had pulled an all-nighter and showed up to work obviously exhausted, beginning to lose my voice and not subtly wearing the same outfit for two days in a row. I’m not proud. My boss asked, “How are you?” Before I could respond, however, she said something to me that radically changed the way I view this question: “Azza, just take a second. You don’t have to say that you’re feeling great, because you’re great just the way you are.” I find that, when asked how I am doing by family or friends, I catch myself in superficiality. When I call my mom and she asks how things are, I’ll instinctively reply that I’m doing
fine, that my classes are great, that my friends are great and that I’m sleeping enough. Usually, however, only three-quarters are true at any given time. I should feel more comfortable casually replying, “Actually, now that you’ve asked, I’m feeling very behind in my classes, am worried that my friend hasn’t called me back, am overwhelmed with work, and am really hoping Firestone has this book that I need for my JP … ” This is usually reserved for a time when I feel truly unbalanced. I don’t believe we need to pour our hearts daily, but I’d like to raise the question: how often do you lose your sincerity by hiding yourself behind an orange-tinted mask of perfection? Mental Health Week is an excellent spark to this conversation — encouraging dialogue is always the first step to addressing any issue. But the conversations I’m talking about are not only the conversations we have with each other, but the conversations we have with ourselves. Why do I feel obligated to tell others that I love everyone and everything and am totally in control, and why do I feel obligated to tell myself too? We are all incredibly accomplished, and, more than that, we are constantly told about how accomplished we are. It’s a natural extension of this pride to feel that complaints are unwarranted, and that we should be able to always easily juggle all the pieces of this Princeton puzzle. We certainly should recognize that we are very lucky, and whenever I leave class
inspired by a professor’s passion for teaching, meet an interesting new person or walk past Nassau Hall lit up at night, I feel grateful this is a place I get to call home. And for all those nights I’ve felt sick with worry about finishing a project, for all those hours I’ve spent feeling like I didn’t deserve to be here, for all those class periods I pinched myself to stay awake because I didn’t sleep enough the night before, I feel grateful, too. In these moments too, we are great. We are great when we are exhausted and far too caffeinated. We are great when we are grumpy and ignore our emails. We are great when we check out the Counseling and Psychological Services website or call home or cry. Greatness is not a state, but a process. Perhaps, with this in mind, if you ask me, “How are you?” I can reply, “I’m great!” with absolute clarity. I am great because it’s a gorgeous day, and the snow is finally melting, and I just met with my adviser and feel inspired about an essay, and I’m heading to lunch with a friend; I am great because I am scared about a forthcoming exam and really need a nap, and I’m feeling behind and tired and a little lonely. We needn’t feel stuck in the perfection paradox — for we all are simultaneously fumbling and failing and dreaming and succeeding. Azza Cohen is a history major from Highland Park, Ill. She is a U-councilor for the USG, which was involved with organizing Mental Health Week. She can be reached at accohen@princeton.edu.
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Now, wealthier students with access to resources that prepare them for the SAT have an advantage over less privileged students ... of similar standards of aptitude and work ethic ... The SAT’s importance is so significant that the ranges of accepted students’ scores are published under admissions statistics, so that potential disadvantaged students with lower scores may not even apply if they are in the lower range of scores. An SAT score is too definitive of a number. Too often people define their intellectual abilities with their SAT score, and measures of other talents pale in comparison to the definitive nature of a numerical score. It puts a numerical stamp on people’s ability to take tests, whereas there is no such definitive measure for other abilities such as musical performance, speaking ability or athletic performance, all of which are important factors for an admission officer to consider when evaluating a candidate. As SAT scores may still provide a (limited) scope of students’ ability across different schools’ grade calculations, they should not be banished across the board. They may still offer some standardizing information to admission officers, and the new SAT is now a better indicator of performance in college classes. Colleges should consider adding an option to make submitting standardized testing scores optional so that submitting scores would only help, and not submitting scores that are lower than the admitted students’ ranges would not cause the student to be evaluated less based on his score. Grades throughout four years of high school would be used as the indicator for future academic performance, as records from four years of hard work are more telling than a single-session three-hour test. Katherine Zhao is a freshman from East Brunswick, N.J. She can be reached at kz2@ princeton.edu.
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wanted to know what all the brouhaha was about “Marry Smart,” the book recently written by Susan Patton ’77, so I bought it as an eBook last week, figuring that I would transfer the least money possible from my bank account to hers (thankfully, my local library did not waste a dime of its budget on the book). To say she gives mixed messages is an understatement. Marriage and career are not, as we have all discovered, mutually exclusive. Like Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80, many of us raised in the 50s and 60s have come to believe that “you can’t have it all,” but I feel like my friends and I have come pretty darn close. Those of us educated in the late 60s and early 70s at Ivy League institutions like Princeton stood on the shoulders of our mothers and grandmothers who went to college and, in some cases, grad school, but graduated with no career opportunities due to their gender. The outstanding women from classes
of the 90s I met at the Women in Leadership Conference at the University last week are standing on our shoulders, confident and ambitious, taking the goal of professional and marital success for granted. They chair foundations, practice law and medicine, head divisions of major entertainment corporations, preside over institutions of higher learning and are now sending daughters of their own to Princeton. The undergraduates I met at the conference were confused and offended by Ms. Patton’s message — but more confused than offended, as it’s hard to take a sophomoric self-help book terribly seriously. I’m not surprised. It’s a confusing message, and it took me a while to sort out in my own mind why so, exactly. Apart from the multitude of deeply offensive and simplistic advice and attitudes expressed in her little Miss America-like manifesto, her major claim of somehow representing the women of Princeton University in the 70s just isn’t
honest. She simply trades on the fact that she attended Princeton, which therefore qualifies her as an authority on life’s most vexing issues, much the same way that she boasts of having a best friend in college who was a wealthy White Anglo-Saxon Protestant from Fairfield County, Conn. A friend of mine who was the dean of students at a New England preparatory school complained once, “The trouble with so many of the parents I deal with here is that for them [the school] is just another BMW in their garage.” That says it all. For Ms. Patton, Princeton, like her Westport wasp, is just another BMW in her garage. Her fine liberal arts education seems simply a red herring, totally irrelevant to her distasteful drivel. I am a mother and a college health center physician. Adolescence is confusing and challenging enough as is without returning it to the 1940s. Regrettably, Ms. Patton’s mother did not have the opportunity
to attend college. She was busy trying to stay alive in a concentration camp. My mother, who attended Vassar College in the early 1940s felt under constant pressure to find a husband from the meager group of men too old or disabled to go off to war, and said she felt like the oldest woman in the world when she married at age 22 and gave birth to me at 25. Ms. Patton needs to speak to some of these women and reconsider her revisionist views of the good old days of 1940s American collegiate life. If you have issues with intimacy, seek the professional care of a therapist. If you have issues with infertility, go to a reproductive endocrinologist, but please, oh please, do not go to Ms. Patton for any reliable advice whatsoever on how to plan your life during or after Princeton. Sincerely yours, Katherine P. Holden, M.D.’73 P’13 Litchfield County, Conn.
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Freshman Megan Curham got things going for the women’s side on Day 1 of the Sam Howell Invite, as she cruised to a 16:30.06 in the women’s 5,000-meter run. Her time was more than 20 seconds ahead of the rest of the field. Freshman Lizzie Bird placed seventh in the 1500 elite race with a time of 4:29.07, and sophomore Brielle Rowe threw 38.88 meters for a top-10 finish in the discus. Sophomore Julia Ratcliffe stole the show on Saturday, as she highlighted the Ti-
gers’ Day 2 performances with a distance of 68.71 meters in the hammer throw. The mark is not only Ratcliffe’s best throw this season, but also the best throw in the NCAA thus far in 2014. After throwing 66.31 meters at Monmouth University last weekend, Ratcliffe has made it the second straight weekend in which she has set the NCAA season mark in the hammer throw. Saturday’s throw landed just under four inches short of her personal best. Sophomore Meghan McMullin led the Tigers on the track, as she recorded a time of 1:00.97 to place second in the 400 hurdles. She was also the first leg of the 4×400 relay that placed second in a field of 21, as she, juniors Emily Broyles
and Kim Mackay and senior Kristin Smoot clocked in at 3:50.33. Mackay also recorded a 2:13.66, good for the day’s top collegiate time in the 800-meter run. Other team members recorded strong performances over the first weekend of April competition, as senior Beth McKenna and sophomore Kerry Krause placed fourth and seventh, respectively, in the 100-meter hurdles. Freshman Allison Harris and senior Samantha Anderson both cleared 11 feet to place third and seventh, respectively, in the pole vault. Sophomore Taylor Morgan and Inka Busack went 5-6 as both cleared 1.60 meters in the high jump, while sophomore Sara Ronde placed fifth in the long jump with a leap of 5.38 meters.
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Columbia as opponents. Women’s golf team unable to capitalize on strong stats at Trump national Senior Kelly Shon held a lead over the field after the first day’s 18 holes at the Seton Hall Pirate Invitational. Played at the Trump National Golf Club, the event featured six Ivy League schools, missing only Harvard. Hopes were high for the Tigers in the nearby contest, but they could not hold on to their slight advantage during day two of competition. Princeton, +59 as a team through with a total score of 635, was edged out by Columbia and Yale after more or less falling apart on the second day. In the standard NCAA stroke play, the four best scores from each team are counted. Currently, the Tigers have only four golfers available for play, which puts a great deal of pressure on those remaining. Sophomore Alexandra Wong, who sat tied for sixth after the first day, earned her first career top five finish, tying with teammate Shon in fifth place. Wong’s score of 76 was one of the second day’s best marks. Jarmas and Dombrowski place in the top 10 for Princeton The men had two top 10 finishes in the Met Intercollegiate held this past Saturday in Purchase, N.Y. Senior Greg Jarmas and freshman Alex Dombrowski tied for seventh place with scores of 153 over 36 holes. Two Ivy League sides in Yale and Harvard, with respective scores of 613 and 618, bested Princeton’s four-player mark of 633. First-place Georgia dominated the event, with Bulldogs posting five of the best 10 scores. Worthy of note was the brilliant round one mark of 64 set by sophomore sensation Lee McCoy, who had one of the best rookie seasons in the nation last year. The one spring home event comes this weekend for the
Princeton men, provided the forecast improves. Saturday and Sunday will see teams compete in the Princeton Invitational at the beautiful Springdale Golf Club. Fourth-ranked lightweights shine in San Diego Currently ranked fourth in the nation, the women’s lightweight crew team opened its 2014 season in strong fashion at the San Diego Crew Classic. Princeton placed second in the Women’s Collegiate Lightweight grand final on Sunday afternoon with a time of 7:08.59. Top ranked Stanford, the four-time defending national champion, won the race in 7:03.10. Both Stanford and Princeton were far ahead of third-place Tulsa, which clocked a 7:32.40. Most impressive for the Tigers was the nearly five-second deficit they cut between their runner-up placement to Stanford between Saturday’s prelim heat and Sunday’s final. After extensive travel, the lightweights will stay in the Garden State for the next three weekends of competition, starting next weekend on Lake Mercer for a chance to grab the Knecht Cup. Seventh-ranked open women split on Lake Carnegie The seventh-ranked open weight women split a threeteam regatta on Saturday on Lake Carnegie. The varsity eight picked up its first Ivy League win of the season over Columbia, while it fell by three seconds to third-ranked Virginia. Coming off of last weekend’s split against Brown and Michigan State, the varsity eight is now 2-2 overall and 1-1 in the Ivy League. Both of the Tigers’ losses have come to teams ranked in the top five in the latest national rankings. Princeton’s second varsity eight continued to dominate on the season, moving to 4-0 after going undefeated during the 2013 season. The Tigers avenged the varsity eight’s three-second loss to Virginia with their own threesecond victory over Virginia’s second boat. The open women will travel to Boston on Saturday to compete against Harvard and Cornell for the Class of 1975 Cup.
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bully Sanschagrin and his defense on clears. Although the talented Tigers should approach every opponent with confidence, the pressure will remain very high throughout the men’s final three contests. Currently tied for fifth in-league with Brown, Princeton is on the outside looking in at a postseason berth. Four teams make the Ivy League tournament, and to be one of those teams, Schreiber and company will likely have to run the table of their upcoming opponents. Although the Princeton women (7-3, 3-1) currently ride a six-game winning streak, the toughest tests of the season lie before them. They will face No. 2 University of Maryland (13-1, 4-1 ACC) at home this Wednesday evening. Slated to face three currently top 20 opponents over the next five games, the Tigers will have to play at increasingly higher levels to find the form required for postseason success.
Maryland has won the last eight contests in this series and holds the all-time lead 26-8. Last season, the College Park machine quickly established a 4-0 lead in what would be a 15-9 Princeton loss. The Terrapins only loss this season came this past weekend against in-conference rivals No. 1 University of North Carolina. ACC lacrosse is, by any account, the premier showcase for both men and women. Offensive firepower has been abundant of late for Princeton. From the attack, junior Erin McMunn and sophomore Alexandra Bruno have tallied 18 goals each. Junior midfielder Erin Slifer together with her freshmen linemates Anna Doherty and Olivia Hompe all have 20-plus points. The way in which they dispatched Yale demonstrated that, when playing in tandem, the Tigers can score at one of the highest rates in the country. Junior goalkeeper Annie Woehling leads the defensive unit of senior Colleen Smith, sophomore Liz Bannantine and freshman
Madeline Rodriguez. Woehling has a Goals Against Average of 8.39 through her six winning starts and two additional appearances. While playing 13 games to Princeton’s 10, Maryland’s top scorers have registered approximately twice as many points as the highest-scoring Tigers. Maryland’s star attack Taylor Cummings was last year’s ACC Rookie of the Year, as well as being a first-team All-America selection. Her 54 points on the season rank second only to midfielder Kelly McPartland’s, who has recorded 40 goals and 21 assists. “The goals and expectations for every one of these games,” McMunn said in a televised interview after the Yale win, “are to play a full 60-minute game and put together all the little pieces we’ve been working at to get better all year long.” If the Tigers can realize their potential, it is certainly possible that this will be the year they finally overcome the Terrapins. However, it will be far from an easy task.
earned runs, though he settled down after allowing three runs in the first two innings. However, after he started the sixth inning with a single, a walk and a hit batter, sophomore Luke Strieber replaced him, but Princeton had already put him in position to earn his third win of the season. The Tigers started their half of the third with sophomore shortstop Danny Hoy reaching on error and scoring on a two-out single from freshman first baseman Zack Belski. Brown miscues resulted in what turned out to be a decisive inning, as freshman infielder Paul Tupper walked and later scored on another error. Junior catcher Tyler Servais and junior outfielder Peter Owens both singled in runs to keep the rally going. Princeton added two more in the fourth, and Keller knocked in two runs in the fifth. Strieber took the hill with a seven-run cushion and, though he allowed three of Powers’ runners to score, he worked the next four innings without allowing an earned run. The righty gave up just one hit and struck out three as he shut the door on the Bears.
The next day, it was back to pitchers’ duels. In the first game, sophomore lefty Cam Mingo walked two batters and hit three, but let up only one run through the first seven innings. Bulldog (1213, 5-3) starter Chris Lanham was equally effective, allowing just one run on a Baer single. Reliever Cale Hanson was even better, taking over for Lanham in the seventh and eventually earning the win after letting up just one run. The game went into extras, 1-1 after seven frames, when the wheels quickly came off the Tigers’ cart. Mingo and his defense both faltered, allowing the leadoff hitter to reach second base on a single and error. After he moved to third on a sac bunt, Mingo ended his day with two straight walks to load the bases. Forced to enter the game under stressful circumstances, senior reliever Jonathan York walked the first and only batter he faced, giving the Bulldogs a 2-1 win. The afternoon game started off right for Princeton as Servais plated Alec Keller, who had stolen third, in the first and the Tigers manufactured a run after a leadoff walk in the second. Freshman pitcher Keelan Smithers was solid through two, striking out the side in the sec-
ond, but Yale tied it up with two sac flies in the third. He settled down for two more innings, but the Bulldogs got his number in the sixth, and catcher Robert Baldwin broke the game open with a two-run double. Smithers never allowed more than two hits in an inning, and his six walks did not come back to haunt him, but those two innings were enough damage. The Bulldogs’ David Hickey found his rhythm and prevented the Tigers from getting another opportunity, striking out six in six-and-a-third innings. Chris Moates earned a two-and-a-third-innings save in relief. Moates allowed Princeton to load the bases in the seventh, and for a brief moment it looked as if the Tigers would tie it up when Hoy hit a line drive down the first baseline, but it was caught and thrown to first for an easy double play. Another double play would end the game two innings later with Yale still ahead 4-2. The Tigers are now second to Penn in the Gehrig Division of the Ivy League. Divisional play starts this weekend as they play four games at Columbia, but the Tigers play a non-league game Wednesday, taking on Monmouth at 3:30 p.m. on Clarke Field.
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Out of league home games fall midweek By Andrew Steele sports editor
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Sophomore attack Alexandra Bruno has a share of the team lead with 18 goals. Her offensive unit will need to be sharp to beat Maryland.
Wins came for both Princeton lacrosse teams this past Saturday at Class of 1952 Stadium’s Sherrerd Field. They face quick turnarounds before this week’s matchups. The men (5-4 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) saw strong performances from across the classes this past Saturday. Senior midfielder Tom Schreiber reached career milestones of 100 goals and 90 assists, making him the first ever Ivy League middie to reach both marks. Junior goalkeeper Eric Sanschagrin, in his first start and first win of the season, tallied a career high 14 saves. Sophomore attackman Ryan Ambler had five points on five goals, while freshman faceoff specialist Jack O’Brien crucially managed to out face Rutgers star Joseph Nardella at the X during the second and third quarters. This form should help them get past the visitors from Lehigh University (9-3, 5-2 Patriot League) Tuesday night. Though riding a three-game win streak, the Mountain Hawks have dropped their last two to Ivy League sides. A month ago, they fell by a crushing score of 10-2 to Yale’s Bulldogs. In its pregame report, GoPrincetonTigers.com notes the somewhat bizarre nature of this particular ri-
valry. According to Princeton, the teams have met 13 times. According to Lehigh, that number is 15. Such are the recording disparities that come when a series begins in 1888 and ends before America’s involvement in WWII. With an overall offense ranked No. 9 in goals per game, Princeton’s special teams have been perhaps the country’s best this season. Their man-up unit has converted 55.6 percent of the time, thanks to head coach Chris Bates’ mobile and efficient extra-man scheme. This mark comes is second only to the absurd 68.3 conversion percent of Detroit. Their man-down defense tops Division I, killing penalties at a rate of 79.3 percent. Though the Mountain Hawks do not play against competition as consistently strong as Princeton’s, their 6.5 goal against average is remarkably good for second best in the NCAA’s top division. Lehigh’s attackmen Dan Taylor and Patrick Corbett have been some of the best goal scorers in the Patriot League during their three years in Bethlehem, Pa., registering respective stat lines of 23g 16a and 23g 3a this season. Both hail from Canada and weigh in at around 200 lbs, which stereotypically indicates that they are toughriding players who will attempt to See LACROSSE page 7
TRACK & FIELD
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Tigers excel on East and West Coasts
Columbia gets edge by slightest margin
By Jack Rogers associate sports editor
Bendtsen, Udland Shine at Stanford Invitational The men’s track and field team took some of its brightest talent out west for the Stanford Invitational, and the Tigers did not disappoint in the Golden State. Seniors Chris Bendtsen and Tyler Udland highlighted Princeton’s performance, as the two distance runners surpassed the school record in the 10K with times of 28:49.08 and 28:57.25, respectively. Those times rank sixth and ninth all-time in the Ivy League, and surpass the 25-year record of 28:58.90 set by Joe LeMay ’89 at the 1989 Penn Relays. Senior
Alejandro Arroyo Yamin was not far behind in the 10K, clocking a 29:19.09. Outside of the 10K, junior Eddie Owens slipped under nine minutes in the steeplechase with a time of 8:59.26, and senior Michael Williams finished the first section of the 1500 meter race with a 3:45.55. Sophomore Sam Pons rounded out the men’s strong performance out west with a 14:21.48 in the 5K. Eddie Owens is an associate sports editor for The Daily Princetonian. Hopkins Leads Men to Strong Showing at Sam Howell Invite In its first day of 2014 competition at Weaver Stadium, the men’s track and field team began
Day 1 of the Sam Howell Invitational in strong fashion. Senior Jake Taylor threw for eighth place in the hammer throw with a distance of 53.93 meters. Sophomore Bryan Oslin followed with a clearance of 4.35 meters in the pole vault, good for fourth place in the event. Freshman William Paulson stood out the 1500 elite race, as his time of 3:49.51 was only two hundredths of a second behind the winner. Junior Matt McDonald and sophomore Michael Sublette concluded the Tigers’ Friday showing with a 6-7 finish in the 10,000-meter run. On Saturday, the Tigers picked up where they left off, recording strong performances that included five Princeton victories for the day. The 4×100 relay of sopho-
mores Dre Nelson and John Hill, junior Daniel McCord and senior Tom Hopkins won the event with a time of 41.63. Hopkins was one of only two long jumpers to jump beyond seven meters, as he took the event with a distance of 7.34 meters. Junior Bradley Paternostro stole the show in the 1500, clocking a 3:53.41 to top the field of 45 competitors. Senior Damon McLean dominated the triple jump with a jump of 15.62 meters, making him the only competitor to clear 15 meters. Princeton assistant coach Justin Frick ’10, who continues to compete as an unattached athlete, won the high jump handily, clearing just over seven feet with a jump of 2.14 meters. See TRACK page 6
BASEBALL
New England trip sees baseball sweep Brown, get swept by Yale By Stephen Wood senior writer
The baseball team has scored more than four runs just once since March 16, and, in four games this weekend, there was just one exception. Only once did a low-scoring game go the Tigers’ (9-14 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) way as they swept Brown and were in turn swept by Yale. It was small ball all the way as the first game got underway in Providence, R.I., when the Tigers plated two runs in the third inning thanks to four consecutive singles. Sophomore third baseman Billy Arendt’s home run in the next inning would be all the cushion senior starter Michael Fagan would get, as the Tigers managed just the three runs despite getting 12 hits.
Last year, that cushion might not have been enough for Fagan, but the lefty continued to prove that head coach Scott Bradley was right to stick with him. Fagan improved to 3-1 on the season with a dominant complete game performance, allowing two runs on just four hits and striking out 11. After finishing last season with a 7.99 ERA, he brought his season mark down to 2.48. Both offenses found their rhythm in the later game. The Tigers got off to a good start with a leadoff single from freshman centerfielder Danny Baer and a subsequent RBI double by senior second baseman Alec Keller. The Bears (6-14, 0-8) answered back with two in the bottom of the first. Freshman righty Chad Powers was ultimately tagged with six See BASEBALL page 7
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Sophomore Cameron Mingo gave up four hits in a close loss to Yale.
By Jack Rogers and Eddie Owens associate sports editors
Tenth of a second separates Columbia lightweight crew from Princeton The term “photo finish” is used to describe a result remarkable for its closeness. Not often is actual photographic evidence required to differentiate two sides at the finish line. On Saturday, Princeton’s and Columbia’s lightweight varsity eight were separated by just a tenth of second. But that determination could only be made when the Ivy rivals referred to the video, which made apparent that Columbia had won with a time of 6:03.2. Although they did not pick up a first place finish, the Tigers defended possession of the Murtaugh Cup with a win over Navy. In two of the three remaining races, the Princeton boats pulled off wins by 4.5 seconds in the second eight battle and 2.7 seconds in the third. Navy’s fourth boat won its race with a 7.6-second edge over Princeton. Lake Carnegie will be the site of Princeton’s next two regattas, which will include competition against Ivy League foes Cornell and Penn. Men’s heavyweight crew tops Navy in annual showdown Princeton opened its official racing season Saturday in Annapolis with an exciting 1.4-second victory over the Midshipmen. Racing in the “1952” boat named for the year of a memorable Olympic trials showdown between the two schools, the Tigers’ top varsity squad edged out Navy’s “The Great Eight” 6:06.2 to 6:07.6. “Navy’s a strong crew and put up a great fight, so were excited to bring home the Princeton Navy Cup again this season,” senior Dave Mackasey said. “We got out to a quick clean start and were able to maintain our lead, something we set out to do and have been working hard on at practice this spring.” No. 4 Tigers also stole the second varsity race over No. 12 Midshipmen by an even narrower margin, 6:09.3 to 6:09.5. Next up for Princeton is the Childs Cup, the oldest collegiate rowing trophy in the nation. The race will take place Saturday morning on the Schuylkill River and features Penn and See SHORTS page 6
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