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In Opinion A Princeton student speaks out on her experience with sexual assault, and Cameron Langford calls for a reduction of the “confidence gap” between men and women. PAGE 5
COURTESY OF PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY
Paul Sigmund, politics professor emeritus, died at 85 of pneumonia.
Former politics professor Paul Sigmund dies
In Street Street gives you the Lawnparties breakdown and #TBT to past houseparties, as well as a look into the Princeton-Blairstown Center. PAGE S1
By Sarah Kim contributor
Today on Campus 3:30 p.m.: Economics professor Alan Krueger will give a Last Lecture to the Class of 2014. McCosh Hall 10
The Archives
May 1, 1986 In its first year of selective admissions, the politics department accepted all 97 sophomores who applied to join the department. Notifications came by mail.
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News & Notes Student accepted to all Ivies chooses Yale
high school senior Kwasi Enin has decided to attend Yale this coming fall after being accepted by all eight Ivy League schools: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Yale, CNN reported. He announced his decision to accept Yale’s offer at a news conference in the gymnasium of his school, William Floyd High School. Enin said that his visit to Yale’s campus in New Haven, Conn. in April for their newly admitted students’ “Bulldog Days” helped solidify his decision. He said that the friendliness of the student body is specifically what attracted him. Enin is 11th in his class at William Floyd High School, which is located on Long Island, New York. He also scored a 2250 out of 2400 on his SAT, which placed him at the 98th percentile nationwide for students taking the SAT. He has indicated an interest in majoring in biomedical engineering at Yale, adding that he is hoping to pursue a career in medicine. He added that he is also interested in the rigorous music program that Yale has to offer.
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Kingston Xu ‘16 studies one of Julia Meng’s paintings at her Visual Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition in Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. The show, open weekdays from 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., closes May 3. STUDENT LIFE
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity establishes chapter at U. By Lorenzo Quiogue staff writer
The Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, a nationally chartered organization, has established a local affiliate at the University and has 13 members, according to the ADPhi national fraternity website. Jake Scinto ’16, the president of the fraternity’s Princeton affiliate, explained he got the idea to form the organization from visiting his brother, who is a member of the fraternity’s chapter at the University of Connecticut. “I went down and visited him, and I met a lot of different people from all over the country and the whole national organization, and I had always wanted to be a part of it, but I couldn’t think of a way to contribute to it,” he explained. Scinto and his roommate, Henry Pease ’16, whose brother is a member of ADPhi at Dartmouth, then decided to get in touch with the national charter of the organization in late Oc-
tober to look into establishing a local chapter. Bill Bronson, the director of ADPhi, explained that the fraternity had been at the University in the 19th century, so the creation of the local affiliate was actually a “restart” for the organization. “[The national organization’s board] seemed really excited about the whole thing, and they were really a huge help to us. The whole thing went really smoothly after that,” Scinto said. “They wanted to see a cohesive group of guys who were determined to make an impact in their community in a positive way — not just the school community, but also the surrounding community.” The national charter monitored the on-campus organization, and after a few months, the local group was given the opportunity to speak to the Board of Governors. “We would give them feedback after meetings every week, and eventually, they invited us down to give a presentation on why we See FRATERNITY page 2
Paul Sigmund, professor emeritus in the politics department, died at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro on Sunday from pneumonia, his family confirmed. He was 85. An expert in medieval political theory, comparative politics and Latin American — particularly Chilean — politics, Sigmund began his career at the University in 1963 and retired in 2005. During his tenure, he developed his work on Chilean politics into an expertise in liberation theology, particularly in Central America, in the 1980s. He also helped establish the Latin American studies program at the University and served as its director for seven years. Rubén Gallo, a professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures and the director of program in Latin American studies, described Sigmund as an “oldfashioned gentleman scholar” who
was an active, integral member of the program. “He was someone who would come to lectures and have very intelligent questions,” he explained. “He was able to go in and make a perfectly composed comment or question. He would try to raise the intellectual level of the discussion. It wasn’t the question of being for or against — it was trying to think of political ideas.” Gallo said he and Sigmund would often have dinner with the guest speakers of these lectures, calling him “a very smart dinner companion.” In discussing any political topic, he said, Sigmund was elegant and lucid, a “careful thinker and true intellectual.” John Londregan, professor in the politics department and in the Wilson School, praised Sigmund’s dedication to research in Chilean politics. “He’s been making research on South America since the early sixties and kept at it right until the See SIGMUND page 4
ACADEMICS
Professor publishes study on perception of wartime atrocities By Ray Mennin contributor
Assistant psychology professor Alin I. Coman has published a one-year study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, assessing the effects of wartime atrocities on people of different social groups. The study indicates that their association with a certain social group may influence the ways in which they recall actions committed by that group. “Essentially, if people are motivated to retrieve information
in addition to what the speaker has to say in conversation, then that motivation will drastically impact the memories of the listeners,” Coman said. “If there are no additional motivations in play, we predict that the typical retrievement-induced forgetting mechanisms are going to be in play.” Co-authors for the study included Charles Stone of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Emanuele Castano and William Hirst of the New School for Social Research. The study was conducted to See RESEARCH page 2
LECTURE
Falleti discusses participatory democracy in Latin America By Jacqueline Gufford staff writer
Participatory democracy is a work in progress, Tulia Falleti, associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, said in a lecture Wednesday on the introduction, spread and evolution of local participatory democracy in Latin America. Falleti is a fellow with the University’s quarterly political science journal, World Politics. She is also a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, a recipient of the Latin American Studies Association’s
Donna Lee Van Cott Award and a former professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. To provide a larger context for her findings, Falleti discussed the “explosion” of neoliberal democracies and economic institutions in Latin America in the last 30 years and noted that recent research on participatory democracy in Latin America has produced conflicting results. Some studies, she noted, indicate that higher-class citizens have a greater impact on participatory democracy in Latin American countries, while others find that lowerclass, or need-based citizens, are more likely to participate
and have an influence. These conflicting results may be the result of various factors such as a stretched concept of participatory democracy or an urban bias in previously conducted studies, Falleti said. However, resolving this issue is important because it can shed light on which groups are mainly involved in local participatory democratic institutions and help researchers determine if these new institutions are having a positive effect on addressing the needs of local Latin American communities, Falleti noted. Initial case studies that she
has conducted in Bolivia and Ecuador indicate that mainly lower-middle-class citizens are involved in participatory democratic institutions in Latin America, Falleti said. The implementation of certain elements of participatory democracy, however, remains contentious. Falleti particularly noted the “ineffective” recognition of prior consultation, or the right of a community to be consulted before natural resource extraction in its environment is conducted, in Bolivia and Ecuador. The national government’s economic interest in capital brought in by natural resource extraction, combined
with its capacity to control or construct regulations on the conduct of prior regulation, removes power from the hands of local communities, Falleti argued. For example, Bolivian President Evo Morales has supported legislation that expedites the process of local consultation. “This takes away the only resource that communities have against corporations during these consultations, which is time,” Falletti said. Nevertheless, mobilization in national efforts to improve the implementation of prior consultation is making a See LECTURE page 4