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Prison divestment generates debate at CPUC meeting

By Audrey Spensley staff writer

Divestment from private prisons was again a main topic at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday. University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said at the meeting that the Trustees had envisioned that discussions about divestment may take multiple years, and regard this as a virtue of the process.

At the final CPUC meeting of this academic year, University architect Ronald McCoy GS ’80 discussed the University’s Campus Plan for architecture and expansion, the Naming Committee gave updates on their work, and the Resources Committee discussed divestment from private prisons.

Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Michael Littman spoke about the standards for divestment adopted

by University Trustees in 1997, in a follow-up to the CPUC meeting where Princeton Private Prison Divest held a walkout of the CPUC meeting.

Littman explained that the guidelines maintain that divestment requires “considerable, thoughtful, and sustained interest on campus” and “consensus on how the University should respond to the situation,” while taking into account “the magnitude, scope, and representativeness of the expressions of campus opinion.” He further explained

that the guidelines also require that the investment contradicts core University values, and state that divestment implies dissociation. A proposal

by PPPD called for divestment from 11 companies associated with private prisons.

According to Littman, the CPUC Resources Committee met with the proposers in March 2016, November 2016, December 2016, and March 2017. The Committee decided in a March 10 meeting that “the current proposal did not meet the high bar to recommend action,” Littman said. At the March 27 CPUC meeting, the Committee gave an interim update, during which PPPD held a walkout.

In a new development since the last CPUC meeting, the Committee met with African American studies professor Naomi Murakawa on April 17 to discuss divestment. “[The meeting with Murakawa] encouraged us to go further in the area of fact finding,” and the issue of private prisons in general, Littman said, adding that the issue remains under active consideration by the Committee.

“Fact-finding, review, and deliberation will continue next year,” he said. “A final report for feedback to PPPD, which they had requested, will come later this month.”

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Princeton Citizen Scientists met with members of Congress on Capitol Hill.

Citizen Scientists visit D.C.

By Rose Gilbert staff writer

Members of the Princeton Citizen Scientists find the lack of American lawmakers with science backgrounds shocking, so on May 1, the group traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for evidencebased policymaking and met with 22 legislators or their staffers.

Krupa Jani GS, an organizer for the trip, said she hopes engaging with representatives will “lower the activation barrier for scientists to get involved in policy.”

Eighteen graduate students, undergraduate students, and postdocs traveled as part of PCS, an organization of graduate

students studying physical sciences, engineering, and social sciences dedicated to supporting the public’s access to scientific knowledge with the goal of promoting a better-informed democracy. Conceived as a follow-up to PCS’s March 6 Day of Action, a campus-wide day of teach-ins, town halls, and tabling led by faculty, students, and alumni, the trip furthered the group’s goal of promoting the use of knowledge for the common good.

PCS members said they had two goals for their trip: to help train the next generation of University scientists to understand and affect policy, and to advocate for policies that

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Ben Baldanza GS ’86 delivers talk about piloting airlines through turbulent times

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Baldanza spoke to students about his experiences in the airline industry, where he implemented sweeping reforms to save companies.

In Opinion

Columnist Jessica Nyquist argues against the University’s proposed expansion, and Carrie Pritt calls for greater diversity in the books chosen for Princeton Pre-read. PAGE 4

From 1986 to 2006, Ben Baldanza GS ’86 worked at multiple airlines on turnaround projects, such as talking US Airways through bankruptcy proceedings.

“That wasn’t so great, but you learn a lot,” he said in a talk to the Entrepreneurship Club about his turnaround of low-cost Spirit Airlines and his take on the current state of the airline industry in the United States. Baldanza has spent roughly 30 years in the airline industry, and it is this experience that has enabled him to pilot airlines through turbulent times.

Baldanza was the CEO of Spirit Airlines from 2006 to 2016 and helped make the airline profitable after years of consecutive losses in the early 2000s. Prior to joining Spirit Airlines, Baldanza was an executive at American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Continental Airlines, US Airways, and TACA Airlines in Central America. Currently, he teaches a course on airline economics at George Mason University and is a Managing Member for Diemacher, LLC. Baldanza began his talk

describing his first foray into the transportation field, which was an internship at Amtrak in Washington D.C. He spent a semester working at Amtrak, and he noted that he enjoyed the complexity of the industry as a whole.

“There’s big government interests, there’s big capital, you have to buy expensive equipment,” Baldanza said.

“It just seemed to me like there were a lot of things you could do that would be interesting.”

After graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in economics, Baldanza joined the Wilson School’s MPA program.

He noted that the Wilson School allowed him to craft a transportation policy focus because the program was not overly structured.

He took both economics and transportation policy courses and joined American Airlines upon his graduation in 1986.

“It was a really great place to work, there were a lot of smart people,” Baldanza said about American Airlines. He added that following the airline industry deregulation of the late 1970s, American Airlines pioSee BALDANZA page 3

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benefit research communities.

In the weeks leading up to the trip, they split into teams of three to five people focusing on policy issues like science funding, climate change, and immigration. PCS supports immigration rights because they believe it facilitates the f low of scholars and information across borders. In addition to conducting research, each person on the team called their U.S. Representative to set up a meeting.

While in the capitol, the teams met with legislators or their staffers, including both senators from New Jersey and members of both parties, in order to See PCS page 2

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Q&A with conductor Sir Gilbert Levine ’71

By Emily Spalding senior writer

Sir Gilbert Levine ’71 is an American conductor whose work has been featured on stages around the world and on television in various PBS concert specials. He has garnered the nickname “the Pope’s Maestro” for his enduring friendship with Pope John Paul II. In addition to his musical recordings, several profiles on his life have been broadcast internationally, including a recent feature on “60 Minutes.” A film screening of Levine’s travels and performances, followed by a Q&A, will take place in McCormick 101 on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.

The Daily Princetonian: How did you first become interested in music? At what point in your life did you realize you wanted to be a conductor?

Sir Gilbert Levine: Well, those are two different questions. I became interested in music, or I should say music captured me, when I was maybe three years old. There was See LEVINE page 4

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provide expert opinions on scientific issues while humanizing their cause.

One of the organizers of the trip, Christopher Tokita GS, said that the meetings were friendly and that the policymakers they spoke with were receptive. Tokita attributed this geniality to the omnibus spending bill, which was passed the night before and increased sci-

entific funding for most agencies.

For many of the participants, this trip was their first direct interaction with their representative, demonstrating how important PCS is in increasing scientific engagement in politics,Tokita said.

Charles Copeland ’19, one of three undergraduate students who went on the trip, said that undergraduates can support evidenced-based policymaking by contacting their representatives.

“I came away motivated,” Copeland said.

The group also met with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an international non-profit whose mission statement closely resembles PSC’s, to learn about their policy, engagement, and science writing programs. Significantly, the AAAS also has policy fellowships for scientists, an avenue Jani said was important for her fellow scientists to be aware of.

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hour with the chair of the Resources Committee, students sought more detail about the divestment process. One student asked Littman to clarify what the fact-finding process refers to.

“There’s plenty of examples,” Littman said. “I’ll give you one off the top of my head, which is the proposal has to do with private prisons and organizations that support private prisons, it doesn’t have to do with employers of private prisons and legislators.”

Littman added that the Committee would meet with experts to gain a broader understanding of the issue.

“One example is the issue of campus consensus,” Littman said, citing the ‘Prince’ editorial arguing against divestment.

He added that the distinction between private and public prisons must be considered.

Another audience member asked what an appropriate method of demonstrating student consensus would be, noting that the ‘Prince’ Editorial Board consists of far fewer students than the number that voted in favor of divestment in a 2016 USG referendum.

Littman responded that consensus should include alumni input.

“The Resources Committee also involves alumni,” he said. “This involves the endowment, which alumni contribute to very generously.” Littman asked if that clarified the student’s concern, and she responded it did not.

“I don’t know what constitutes consensus [among undergraduates],” Littman then said.

He noted that the USG referendum received about 30 percent participation, while a formal resolution requires onethird of the student body to support the change.

Another audience member asked if Littman had faith in the Committee’s ability to reach a resolution if it continues its current decision-making process. Littman responded in the affirmative, adding that the examination has caused him to rethink the process of divestment, and made him better informed on the issue.

“The Committee meets rarely and it meets for an hour and a half behind closed doors,” the audience member said. “What ends up happening is you have PPPD on one hand saying this is what happened, this is what we provided, and then on the other hand you have the Resources Committee defending itself, saying ‘no,’ we’re very reasonable.”

Littman added that the Committee is neutral on the issue, with no advocates for either side serving as members. One Committee member suggested that the Committee should have a comment period in the future when issues are brought to its attention.

“The referendum need not be a be-all and end-all discussion,” Eisgruber noted in response to an audience member’s concern about students being deterred from voting in the referendum.

Littman added that since divestment implies dissociation, divesting might prevent Students for Prison Education And Reform from volunteering at private prisons such as through the Petey Greene Program. However, Eisgruber stated that he does not believe dissociation would preclude students from volunteering at private prisons because such volunteer work would not entail supporting the organizations.

The CPUC meeting also highlighted recent administrative changes such as the naming of campus spaces. Chair of the CPUC Naming Committee, history professor Angela Creager, began the meeting with a report on the committee’s work over the past year, highlighting the renaming of two build-

ings on campus.

After receiving proposals from over 210 individuals and meeting three times, the Committee renamed West College after University Professor Emerita Toni Morrison and Dodds Auditorium of the Wilson School after former University Professor Sir Arthur Lewis.

“We wanted to focus on individuals with an eminent connection to the University and who would diversify the range of eminent individuals recognized on campus,” Creager said.

Creager added that the Committee sought to recognize figures whose contributions to the University had generally come to a close and who weren’t in the midst of building a career.

“We also considered if the figure’s name and accomplishments were suited to the spaces being considered,” Creager added. She said that the committee will continue to welcome opportunities to name other buildings in the next few years.

McCoy also presented the proposed 2026 Campus Plan.

McCoy said that the proposal for campus expansion is still in its planning stages and is taking place under long-term considerations. He explained that there is an intermediate horizon of 10 years and longer-term horizon of 30 or more years.

“We want to make sure we don’t realize later we have a better use for the land we pick,” McCoy he added. He McCoy also stressed that the Campus Plan is intended to serve the University’s larger strategic framework, and has required input from many components of the campus community and the communities surrounding the University.

“Throughout all of these phases we’ve had a variety of touchpoints,” McCoy said, explaining that this included the undergraduate and graduate student body, all academic departments, the town of Princeton and neighboring towns, and local and state agencies.

The process included an online survey with over 1,900 total responses targeting each of these groups.

The survey found, among other conclusions, that the most popular places on campus for social activity and serendipity are Frist Campus Center, Dillon Gym, Prospect House, Firestone Library, Small World Coffee, the Engineering Quad, and the Carl Icahn Laboratory.

“The results also reinforced the sense of how important the lake is,” McCoy said. He identified land south of Lake Carnegie and north of Tiger Lane as an area with capacity for graduate housing expansion and potentially other buildings such as athletic facilities.

McCoy also detailed plans for a new residential college, potentially located south of Poe Field and east of Elm Drive.

“We have tested the site against the criteria that makes the residential experience so valuable,” McCoy said, mentioning building height, courtyards, vistas, views, and pathways as some of the architectural features that make the residential colleges unique.

Finally, McCoy identified an area between Prospect Street and Ivy Lane, adjacent to Washington Road, as a usable land for buildings in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and for Environmental Studies.

“We want to promote a bicycling and walking culture on campus,” McCoy added, stressing the plan’s focus on connectivity.

McCoy and his team, who are nearing the end of a three-year research and analysis process, will begin compiling their campus plan this month and continue into the fall of 2017.

The Council of the Princeton University Community meeting was held on May 1 at 4:30 p.m. in Friend Center 101.

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neered frequent flyer programs and computerized reservation systems, which are still in use today.

Baldanza was hired by Spirit Airlines in 2005, then a struggling airline that had recently been bought by a private equity group. In order to turn the company around, Baldanza and the Spirit leadership team analyzed the financial data of all the airlines in the world and plotted the product quality of the airline versus the ticket price of the airline. They found that most of the airlines offer a medium product at a medium price, but these airlines had lost money in 20 out of the last 30 years.

“They made a lot of money in good years, but gave it all back and more,” Baldanza said. “By the end of 2014, the US airline industry since Orville and Wilbur [Wright] had been a net loss industry.”

In contrast, he noted that the analysis showed that there were two classes of airlines that were profitable in 27 or more of the past 30 years. One class was the higher quality/higher price airlines, like Emirates Airlines and Singapore Airlines. The other class was the lower quality/lower price airlines, like Southwest Airlines in the 1980s and Ryanair in Europe. Baldanza noted that the only airlines that made money “didn’t try to offer everything to everyone.”

In 2006, Baldanza explained that there were few airlines fighting for the lower quality/lower price segment in the United States, so he and the leadership team at Spirit Airlines decided to reshape the airline to serve this market.

“We’re going to compete for customers on the basis of price, rather than on the basis of a physical product,” he said. “We saw ourselves as fitting the world where price and product were the same thing.”

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To accomplish this, Baldanza worked to cut costs at the company and started to “unbundle” fares. For example, since not everyone checked bags, the airline would charge more money to those who checked bags.

As a testament to this approach, Baldanza noted that when oil prices skyrocketed to around $140 a barrel in 2008, the US airline industry lost $10 billion, but Spirit Airlines made a profit of $100 million.

“We said, ‘We’ve got to figure out how to keep this company profitable at high energy prices,’” he explained. “We shrunk the airline by 20 percent; we returned seven airplanes to a lessor prematurely.”

Baldanza noted that in hindsight, Spirit Airlines acted much faster than the rest of the US airline industry, which reduced Spirit’s losses. In addition, Spirit had a higher number of seats on its planes, so the fuel price per seat was lower than that of its competitors.

This statistic enabled Spirit to increase its fare by a lower amount than its competitors.

Baldanza said that as CEO, he worked to hire people who not only were good at their job, but also believed in the mission of the company. This second facet was especially challenging, since Baldanza noted that Spirit was portrayed unfavorably by the media. In addition, he noted that while there are numerous statistics that leaders can use to evaluate their businesses, they have to figure out which statistics are useful to measure so they are not overwhelmed by data.

“We defined the business in a very quantitative way,” he explained. “We were very relentless about the regular ongoing measurement of, ‘Are we doing better?’”

Baldanza’s talk, titled “An Unconventional Spirit of Entrepreneurship,” occurred at the Entrepreneurial Hub at 6:30 p.m. and was hosted by the Entrepreneurship Club.

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Diversifying Princeton Pre-read

Carrie Pritt

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ike most universities, Princeton is committed to the “robust expression of diverse perspectives.” But there is little value in the expression of diverse perspectives, if they are not also rigorously entertained. We should actively encourage students to consider views they are disposed to reject, lest our many avowals of the value of free discourse amount to empty platitudes.

The Princeton Pre-read is an ideal opportunity for us to do so.

Each year, President Eisgruber chooses a book for all incoming students to read and discuss. The small-group discussions are often unstimulating, but not because students are intellectually incurious; their thirst for knowledge and debate is what led them to Princeton, and they are never more eager or passionate than at the beginning of their journeys. These discussions are dull because many students find the texts tedious and arid. By assigning a reading that challenges students

to consider views strikingly unlike their own, Princeton could induct students into a culture in which they are expected to engage openly and rigorously with the best arguments for views they reject.

We would thereby promote one of our most important ideals – the free debate of diverse perspectives – and transform students’ introduction to scholarly and residential life.

In place of awkward silences punctuated by one or two dominant students, the Preread might provoke students to challenge one another rigorously on questions of immense significance.

In practice, this will mean embracing one of two options.

Ideally, Princeton should assign two texts each year, one to represent either side of a relevant issue. But this may not be practical. The other option is to sometimes – perhaps, once every three years – assign an engaging, scholarly book that argues for a nonliberal position. Happily, there is no shortage of such books.

For example, Thomas Sowell’s work on culture and race is as controversial as it is thoroughly argued, and any one of his

books would challenge Princeton students to think lucidly about difficult arguments and to reflect on the values that undergird them. To take another example, social psychologist Lee Jussim’s “Social Perception, Social Reality,” which argues for the rationality and accuracy of stereotypes, would contrast fruitfully with the former Pre-read, “Whistling Vivaldi,” which argued for the harmfulness of stereotypes.

For some students, the challenge such texts present may be enough reason to avoid the Pre-read, but they will not be many. There are few things more intellectually invigorating than seemingly cogent arguments for heterodox views about issues of great ethical significance. It is precisely because students won’t all agree on these arguments that they are certain to provoke passionate, generative debate. It may be objected that a controversial Pre-read would divide the Class of 2021, but the exact opposite is more likely. Princeton students can discuss contentious topics respectfully, and Pre-read discussions are moderated by senior students trained to encourage produc-

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tive conversation. There is little reason to fear hostility.

The robust debate of diverse perspectives, and not their mere expression, is the lifeblood of our university. Students will not leave unopened texts like Heather MacDonald’s “The War on Cops,” or Ayann Hirsi Ali’s “Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now.” And few who read their first pages will be able to resist reading the rest. Inevitably, students will wish to debate these ideas. Their conversations will be heated, but there is little danger that Princeton students will not apprehend their value. Moreover, these conversations will not end on the night of the official Pre-read discussions; rather, they will fill Princeton’s dining halls and dorm rooms for months. And we may hope that the spirit of fearless, open-minded debate will inform all of our students’ years at Princeton as they confront the most difficult questions of philosophy, politics, and life.

Carrie Pritt is a freshman from Frederick, Md. She can be reached at cpritt@princeton.edu.

Expanding class sizes will diminish campus culture Jessica Nyguist

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rinceton plans to expand the undergraduate student body size and just published initial plans for the changes to campus. In its 2016 strategic planning report, the University cited its “growing leadership responsibilities that accompany Princeton’s increasingly distinctive capacity to contribute to the world” as motivation for increasing class size. But I am unsure that the University can increase in size without losing its unique campus environment.

The administration claims this expansion will not sacrifice the quality of the University.

With plans for adding faculty members and facilities, I am confident that the University will maintain its academic integrity.

The report ensures it will preserve “the distinctive character and value of the Princeton experience,” but the campus culture and its unique sense of community and tradition cannot survive expansion fully intact.

As a tour guide and a host for prefrosh, I sell Princeton’s social tightness and cohesion as one of its primary strengths, especially among the Ivies — and I’m afraid that will change with the expan-

sion.

First, class sizes may not change, but department sizes will. As a computer science major, I do not identify with my program of study because I have not frequently personally interacted with faculty members in my first two years. The program is robust and well-taught, but I do feel like I missed out on the iconic liberal arts tight-knit academic community.

The small campus size also allows students to enroll in most of the classes they want. This means students can effectively choose the professors they engage with and determine their own academic paths. But with increased student body size, students, especially freshman, would find it more difficult to enroll in desired classes, diminishing students’ ability to engage in personally compelling courses.

Many of the perks of the frequently discussed “undergraduate focus” — rather than graduate focus — result from the undergraduate population size. Starting from their freshman year, students can meet, get meals with, and even work under their professors without competition from a large graduate school population. A larger undergrad population would

also decrease opportunities for students to engage with specific professors, especially for advising, diminishing the powerful environment of faculty accessibility.

But expansion would also transform the social climate of the University. Princeton’s sense of community and strong tradition sets it apart from similarly academically rigorous institutions. The “Orange Bubble” nickname sometimes connotes negative aspects of the Princeton experience like insulation and disengagement from the real world. But the Orange Bubble also describes the innate sense of community in the student population formed from common experiences. Just think about how many students find their best friends in their freshman hall. Our entire community bonds from inhabiting the same spaces and living the same experiences: running on the towpath, hoarding food at Frist late meal, or counting down to Forbes Sunday brunch. As the student body expands and the campus grows, our comradery from simple proximity would be lost.

Princeton’s alumni support and investment personify this commitment to campus. Alums stay connected to and engaged with campus because of the com-

munity environment. Students are involved because they feel like their contributions count, as opposed to feeling drowned out in the crowd, fostering a unique university community uniting diverse interests and groups.

Lastly, Princeton’s social structures are not equipped to handle an increased student body size, and the administration did not demonstrate efforts to address this issue. Eating clubs already struggle with problems of exclusivity, and increasing the size of the student body without making changes would exacerbate these issues.

The bicker process already leaves many students out, and an expanded class size would cause more students to compete for the same amount of spots.

Princeton’s unique campus culture depends on a tightly integrated student body. Though the University could maintain rigorous academics with more students, the closeness and community focus would diminish.

Expanding the University is motivated by noble interests, but the undergraduate culture is at stake.

Jessica Nyquist is a computer science major from Houston, Tex. She can be reached at jnyquist@princeton.edu.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Princeton IDF veterans support the decision of J Street U to host Breaking the Silence Guest contributors

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s members of the Princeton community and as veterans of the Israel Defense Forces, we, the undersigned, support J Street U’s decision to host Breaking the Silence.

In these times, when basic freedoms are under threat in the United States and abroad, it is imperative that campuses and Jewish communities serve as beacons of tolerance and understanding, and that we allow for conf licting points of view, some of which may be challenging, to coalesce in one com-

munity. While not all of us agree with the entirety of Breaking the Silence’s work or positions, we understand the value of their mission and feel that it is important that Princeton students be exposed to their stories.

Having served in the IDF and having lived in Israel for much of our lives, we have all witnessed the profoundly complex and tragic reality of the IsraeliPalestinian conf lict. It is our belief that it is of utmost importance for Israelis and North American Jews to confront the different layers of the conf lict with honesty and openness.

No single organization

or person can fully address every viewpoint and every experience that relates to an issue as complicated as the Israeli-Palestinian conf lict. The exhibition of Breaking the Silence is, of course, similarly limited, yet it will provide the student body with an important window into the realities of life in the West Bank as the occupation soon enters its 50th year. We strongly encourage everyone to visit the exhibition.

Yitz Landes, GS1, Religion Teddy Fassberg, GS3, Classics

Iris Samuels, ‘19, Politics

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a spinet piano in my house and I heard my mother playing folk songs on the piano. And then when she was gone I simply stood on tippy-toes and reached up and began banging out notes that only I thought were beautiful and played and played and played.

And then eventually, a couple of years later, my parents finally gave in and got me lessons. But it was love at first hearing really.

And I come from a home that was not very classically musically oriented at all — we had literally three recordings of classical music in my house. But it was just something that came to me. And when I was pretty young, maybe nine or ten, I saw Leonard Bernstein conducting his “Young Persons Concerts” on the television and was just absolutely captivated.

And from then on I had in the back of my mind that this was something I might someday conceive of doing, but I was extremely interested in just getting as good as I could get at on the instruments I was studying. At the age of 12, I began studying the bassoon really seriously, first with the principal bassoon of the New York Philharmonic and then with the principal bassoon of the Metropolitan Opera.

And in fact, to close the Bernstein loop a bit, my mother was completely befuddled by the fact that I was so taken with music, she didn’t think this was something that was a profession for a serious person. And she wrote a letter to Leonard Bernstein … because he was the most famous classical musician in the United States, maybe one of the most famous in the world at the time, and probably never expected to get an answer.

But she got an answer. The question was, ‘What do I do with this kid? How do I find out if he’s got what it takes to really make it as a professional musician?’

And Bernstein wrote back to her, astoundingly, and said, ‘Take him to someone of impeccable credentials and have him audition and [don’t] take no for an answer.’ So he was thinking this was a stage mother, and that she would be looking to push me into music, and in fact the opposite was true. So she was the one who made the outreach to the principal bassoon of the Metropolitan Opera and said, ‘I

want your honest answer.’

And she didn’t tell me, and I went off and auditioned for this guy, just tumbled off and played for him and he didn’t say a word. Then when I left his studio, he called her up and said that ‘It’s okay, it’s safe.’ And she wrote back to Bernstein with great thanks for his advice. And from I guess the age of 13 or 14 on, I absolutely wanted to become a conductor and conducted my first concert I guess when I was probably 18 or 19, really.

DP: You write about your friendship with Pope John Paul II in “The Pope’s Maestro.” What role did music play in this relationship? What has this friendship meant to you and your career over the years?

GL: As a Jewish kid being brought up in Brooklyn, believe me, the last thing I imagined was that I would meet the Pope. I met the Pope … two months after I arrived in Krakow, completely out of the blue.

The Cardinal Archbishop there made arrangements for me to meet the Pope, and it turned out the Pope wanted to meet me because he couldn’t believe that somebody would be so crazy as to go into the Communist world from the West. And he wanted to find out, I think, what crazy person this was. But the Pope was, of course, one of the great spiritual leaders of our time, maybe one of the great Popes of history, but he was also an artist.

He had been an actor, he had written poetry, he was a person with an artistic soul. And I think he saw in my going to Krakow a possible bridge of all kinds, I think. But using the art, my art, maybe, I think he had the notion that maybe music could be a bridge for him, a bond. So I came as a professional musician and one who had gone to his home country, and I think he came as one of the great spiritual leaders, but also somebody with an artistic soul. I think he put two and two together certainly long, long before I did about how that could come together, about how that might serve his larger purpose of bringing the world together in peace. Over the course of the years that I knew him, that effort, that search for peace on his part, which was literally ceaseless, became intertwined with my musical life in a way that I could not have imagined, my art serving this incredible overarching need on the part of the Pope for

peace among peoples of all the world. It was truly a partnership — I still to this day can’t understand, because some of the most audacious concerts that we did, the Papal Concert to Commemorate the Shoah, the Papal Concert of Reconciliation, were my idea . . .

DP: You have been known to honor those who have had profound impacts on your life, such as in the instance of you honoring Edward T. Cone ’39, who served as one of your many instructors.

With this in mind, who or what inspires your work?

GL: I feel that I’ve been unbelievably lucky to have encountered great mentors at almost each of the stages where I needed them, they came forward.

So that bassoonist from the Metropolitan Opera was the first really great teacher I had — Stephen Maxym was his name. He brought to me a sense of what the wonder could be, because he wasn’t just a great bassoonist, he was a remarkable bassoonist, but he loved life and he loved music and for all the right reasons. And he was in his own way, as the bassoonist in the Metropolitan Opera, a humanist.

I needed to see that connection, and he brought that to bear. I then had this crazy thing happen where I went down to take a job for the summer at Princeton to input computer cards … I did punch cards for a computer project that was being done

by Kenneth Levy [GS ’55], a member of the faculty.

And all I did was punch.

I took notes and I made them into computer cards and I filed them away.

Into my life at that time came a professor named Lewis Lockwood [GS ’60], who was one of the great Beethoven scholars in the world. He said, ‘What are you doing up at Juilliard?’

I said, ‘Well it’s maybe the best conservatory in the country, and I feel privileged to —’ ‘Nah. You’re not feeding your brain, you’re not feeding your mind. You have a mind.

Why not come down here and we’ll feed your mind, we’ll get those brain cells going?’ I don’t know why he took it on himself to do this. And I did what, as you know, almost nobody does, and I transferred from Juilliard to Princeton. Nobody does that, and certainly at Juilliard they didn’t understand what I was doing that for.

I came down and Lewis showed me around the de-

partment, and showed me the wonders of the Music Department at the time.

You could study twelvetone with Milton Babbitt [GS ’92]. You could study Bach with Arthur Mendel.

You could study medieval music with Ken Levy. And you could study analysis and form with Edward T. Cone. As well, of course, as studying Beethoven and Mozart with Lewis Lockwood. And Lewis became a mentor and Ed Cone became a mentor. He wasn’t teaching very much in the department anymore, he was sort of a homebody and a loner and a little bit of a crusty guy. And he also somehow decided that he wanted to take me under his wing and invited me to his home, which was a very, very private place, and gave me the most incredible insights into that nexus between the natural musicianship which he saw in me and this deep analytical mind that he brought to bear . . .

DP: Since graduating from Princeton in 1971, you have been an active alumnus, particularly within the Music Department.

Why is it important to you to maintain a relationship with the University?

GL: I want to give back.

It’s given me so much, it gave me so much, it’s continuing to give me so much, and I want to give back. I want to be able to touch the lives of students.

To talk about Edward T. Cone, I am so delighted to have been able to honor him by conducting the [Psalm 91] on PBS. It may be the first time a Princeton composer has been on PBS, it doesn’t matter to me that it was the first time. It was the first time that Edward T. Cone’s work had been on PBS, and millions of people came to know that man’s work.

That’s part of my debt to Princeton … and my debt to Ed Cone, of course. But I feel it very, very strongly.

I think it’s simply a great university, and it’s gone through so many changes since I was there.

DP: A slew of your performances as well as pieces focused on your life have been showcased on television. How has film served as a factor in your career? How do you view the ability to broadcast music around the world?

GL: First of all, it started with Bernstein. Because if, as I mentioned, I saw a conductor on the television for the first time, and it was Leonard Bernstein at a Young Persons Concert. So I kind of got the

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idea that if I was sitting in my home and watching this, that you could communicate that way. I think the other aspect is you reach so many people with your art. It is such an incredible medium to be able to conduct a concert in Germany … and have it seen literally all over the world. I did the concert with the Staatskapelle Dresden, one of the great orchestras of the world, in Krakow. We did Brahms’ “Requiem” to commemorate the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and that concert was seen all over the world. It was just an amazing experience to conduct Brahms, and at that concert we also did … Gorecki … with Gorecki himself in the audience, and you can see him on television — they somehow found a camera angle that was looking through my conducting to the swaying visage of Gorecki going back and forth, listening to his own music. That’s priceless. There’s also an aspect to television which gives the viewer and the listener, if it’s done well, an experience of the music that they cannot get in a live auditorium . . .

DP: Would you speak about the film that you will be screening on May 2?

GL: Well what I want to do is — I thought that the way the screening was framed, sort of following the travels is important. What I’m going try and do is do excerpts of … relatively brief excerpts of some of the concerts I’ve done with some of the great orchestras around the world to give an idea of what it means to conduct different orchestras, orchestras from great traditions, some in works they’ve done hundreds of times and some brand new works. And we’ll do a part of … concerts I’ve done in Krakow and in Rome and in Washington and in various places, and give a sense I think as a peripatetic conductor, as someone who has traveled the world conducting wonderful ensembles, what those ensembles are like to conduct and talk about the experiences I’ve had with them. And then I’m really very, very much looking forward to the fact that Wendy Heller, Chair of the Music Department, is going to do a Q&A with me and talk to me.

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{ www.dailyprincetonian.com } TRACK AND FIELD

Successful weekend for track and field

By Viraj Deokar Staff Writer

The Princeton men’s and women’s track and field teams competed at the 123rd Penn Relay Carnival, held in Philadelphia, and at the 2017 Lion’s Invitational, held at TCNJ, this past weekend. Both teams saw a good weekend of competition and will rest up for the HEPS Championships which will be held Saturday, May 6, and Sunday, May 7, at Yale.

At Penn, the women’s team brought home a victory in section 2 of the 4x800m relay on Saturday.

They got out fast, with senior Zoe Sims splitting 2:11.01 on the first leg to give Princeton the early lead.

From there, the Tigers never looked back, with each leg increasing their lead on the field. Taking the baton from Sims, sophomore Anna Jurew clocked 2:11.60 on the second leg. She then handed off to freshman Madeleine Sumner, who split 2:13.19 on the third leg before finally handing the baton to sophomore Jackie Berardo, who finished in 2:13.21 on the anchor leg.

The Tigers finished the 3200m relay with a time of 8:49.00 — nearly five seconds ahead of second place Georgia Tech who finished in 8:53.56.

A day earlier, on Friday, the women competed in the Championship of America section of the distance medley relay.

Faced with some of the best teams in the nation, the Tigers held their own

and finished 7th. Senior Katie Hanss led the team off with a 3:30.52 split in the 1200m leg. Senior captain Elisa Steele then took the baton and clocked 54.18 for the 400m leg before handing off to sophomore Jacqueline Berardo who split 2:10.41 on the 800m leg. Finally, senior Lizzie Bird clocked 4:41.30 on the 1600m anchor leg. The Tigers finished the relay in 11:16.41.

Continuing the successful weekend for women’s team, senior Julia Ratcliffe won the championship hammer throw for a record third time in her career. No other woman has won the Penn Relay hammer throw three times. She won comfortably with a mark of 65.69m (215-6 ft.) — more than three meters ahead of second place Veronika Kannuchova of Florida State who finished with a mark of 62.18m (204 ft.). Ratcliffe is currently ranked second nationally in the hammer throw. She won the 2014 National Championship for the hammer throw and was the runner-up in 2015.

At TCNJ, senior Allie Harris won the pole vault, clearing a season best 4.03m (13-2.75 ft.). She looks to keep building momentum like her successful indoor season where she placed 9th at NCAA Indoor Nationals.

The men had solid performances in the relays against some of the best teams in the nation. On Friday, April 28, they competed in the Champion-

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Both men and womens track and field proved victorious at Penn.

ship of America section of the distance medley relay, placing ninth. The race started out tactical, and Princeton got stuck in a bad position. Afterwards, the race opened up, but Princeton was never able to make up the lost ground.

Junior Noah Kauppila led off with a 2:59.02 split on the 1200m leg. Taking the baton, freshman Connor Matthews ran 48.36 on the 400m leg. Junior Josh Ingalls then split 1:50.15 on the 800m leg before handing off to senior William Paulson, who finished with a 4:05.15 split on the 1600m anchor leg. Princeton finished the relay in 9:42.67.

The next day on Saturday, the Tigers raced in the

Championship of America section of the 4x800m relay. Princeton placed 12th with a time of 7:26.18. Junior Josh Ingalls led off the team with a 1:51.42 first leg.

Sophomore Franklin Aririguzoh then took the baton and split 1:52.73 on the second leg. Paulson split 1:51.79 on the third leg, and junior Noah Kauppila finished with a 1:50.24 split on the anchor leg.

Like Ratcliffe on the women’s team, sophomore Adam Kelly had another stellar performance, with a runner-up finish for the National Championship in the hammer throw. Kelly was just edged out by Clarence Gallop of South Carolina who had a mark of

67.35m (220-11 ft.) compared to Kelly’s 67.14m (220-3 ft.).

Kelly currently ranks No. 20 in the nation.

The season is almost to a close for the track and field teams. The HEPS Championships will be a challenge for both teams, but Princeton has confidence to build off of. The women are coming off a great weekend performance, and the men are the indoor champions. The women have won eight Ivy League Titles, and the men have captured seventeen Ivy League Titles. After HEPS, the two teams will have their last home meet, the IC4A/ECAC Championships the following weekend.

BASEBALL

Tigers finish season with 4-game split

By Chris Murphy Staff Writer

While the Princeton baseball team may not be hoisting a banner this year, the Tigers can look towards the future with much anticipation and optimism.

Princeton ended their season this weekend with a four game split against the Cornell Big Red. After finishing their home slate with two great wins over the Big Red, they traveled to Ithaca to close out the season where they were stumped by Cornell’s stingy pitching and were defeated in the double header by scores of 5-1 and 13-1.

The second game featured only one hit for the Tigers.

However, despite finishing the season with consecutive losses and being unable to extend their tenure as Ivy League champions, the Tigers can look forward knowing their future is bright, as many younger players made important impacts on the team this season, receiving significant playing time and developing both the skills and experience to win at the college level.

The Class of 2018 features infielder Asher LeeTyson and a trio of pitchers: Kevin Thomsen, Ben Gross, and Nick Brady. LeeTyson — already a regular

day starter for the Tigers — had a successful junior season, registering 33 hits and 19 RBIs while batting a respectable .264 in 2017.

He will look to anchor the infield next season and continue to be a force at the plate. On the pitching side, Gross contributed heavily: he pitched 49.1 innings and struck out 48 while allowing only 14 extra base hits all season.

Take out a game against Penn earlier in the season, and Gross finished with an impressive ERA of around 3 — something the Tigers hope he will be able to replicate or even improve next season while continuing to be a workhorse on the mound. While Thomsen and Brady did not pitch as much, they showed improvement and will look to become important cogs in the relief rotation next year.

The 2019 class features two catchers, Max West and Alex Dickinson; all purpose player Max Machiorlette; infielder Joseph Flynn; outfielder Jesper Horsted; and pitchers Ryan Smith, Trey Ramsey, and Tanner Kliewer. Horstead was impressive near the top of the batting order all season; he hit .281 for the year and just recently went 3 for 4 with 4 RBIs in Friday’s win over

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Cornell. Weber and Dickinson split time behind the plate pretty evenly and will probably do so next year as well. While Machiorlette recorded only 9 at bats this year, his ability to play almost every position will make him a valuable tool as Princeton looks to configure lineups, especially on days with double headers. Flynn played in about half of the Tigers’ games this year and showed brilliance in the field; he assisted on over 30 outs throughout the year while committing only 5 errors, and will be a key playmaker in the field for Princeton next year.

Smith was one of the few middle inning pitchers in the Tiger’s rotation where he posted 35 strikeouts and an ERA of 3.82 over 35 innings. He will be called upon next year to either start or continue to be a valuable workhorse in getting from the starter to the closer. Finally, relief pitchers Ramsey and Kliewer will look to add valuable innings to a rotation that already looks to be pretty deep.

The 2020 class was massive for the Tigers; the 9-player freshman class is second only to the graduating 2017 class in terms of team makeup. And all of them received valuable

minutes this season, some of them were even key contributors to the team on a daily basis. Infielder David Harding was one of the best hitters on the team, posting a .318 batting average and driving in 19 runs for the season.

Ramzi Haddad also logged extended minutes for the Tigers, posting a .248 batting average and hitting 7 doubles across 29 games played. On the mound, James Proctor logged 46 innings of work and struck out 20 batters in his inaugural season as a Tiger.

Eli Kimbell — who just picked up the win Friday with almost three scoreless innings — went 23 innings over the course of the season, striking out 21 and preventing inherited runs from scoring many times. Meanwhile Conor Nolan proved his multidimensional talent, batting .259 in 24 games and also spending 11 innings on the mound. And these players are not alone; pitchers Andrew Gnazzo, Eric Rojas, and Chris Davis, as well as catcher Brendan Galvin will join them as they look to begin solidifying their legacy and filling in any holes left in the team.

But while the Tigers look toward the future, they made sure to give the seniors their proper

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goodbyes. And the seniors added to it themselves as many played some of their best baseball in the final homestand this Friday. Senior Cody Phillips went 2-2 and scored 3 runs in the first game of the double header. Pitchers Chad Powers and Chris Giglio each went almost six innings as the starting pitcher with Giglio getting the win in the first game on Friday. Nick Hernandez blasted a two run shot in the 5th giving the Tigers a 5-1 lead late in the game.

Zack Belski hit a sac fly in the second game to open the scoring for the Tigers.

And finally, Paul Tupper had the game of his career, going 3 for 4 and tallying 6 RBIs (just shy of the record set by Belski) and scoring 2 runs of his own. These players, along with Bryce Keller and Blake Thomsen — who did not play in the Friday homestand — said their goodbyes to Powers field and walked away with two great wins to close out their time playing at home. While they may not play again, the Class of 2017 will forever be a part of one of the greatest titles in Princeton’s history, and their legacy will live on as the Classes of 2018, 2019, and 2020 look to match their successes.

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