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Alumni discuss issues in public schooling

By Paul Phillips senior writer

The American public system is in crisis, alumni panelists said on Friday.

Panelists included Alan Safran ’80, president and chair of the board at SAGA Innovations; Anne

Herr ’85, director of school quality at Friends of Choice in Urban Schools; Dan Lips ’00, vice president for policy at the Goldwater Institute; and Matt Westmoreland ’10, a member of the Atlanta Board of Education.

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Q&A: David Petraeus GS ’85 ’87

By Christina Vosbikian

Chitra Marti interviews economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw ’80, and Paul Phillips covers the urban planning alumni panel.

David Petraeus GS ’85 GS ’87, decorated war general and former head of the CIA, has led a prominent career in public service and government. A graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School at the University with a Ph.D. in international relations, Petraeus took time from his busy schedule to chat with The Daily Princetonian during his 30th Reunion.

In Opinion Editor-in-Chief Anna Mazarakis invites readers to give feedback through a reader survey, and Benjamin Dinovelli discusses the privileges of attending Princeton.

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In Sports Sydney Mandelbaum interviews famed basketball player Bill Bradley, and Miles Hinson covers the Princeton Varsity Club’s Awards Banquet.

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In Street

In Street, Associate Street Editor Harrison Blackman goes behind the scenes of the Andlinger Center and Theater Intime’s “How the Other Half Loves,” and Street Editor Lin King sits down with the cast and crew of PUP’s “The Fantasticks.”

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rector of the Program in Teacher Preparation at the University. Jason Kamras ’95, chief of human capital for the District of Columbia Public Schools, was listed as a participant but could not be present at the panel event.

Safran began by saying that he can feel the despair of children

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Tumi Akinlawon ’15 won the Young Alumni Trustee election and will begin a four-year term as a University trustee on July 1, the University announced on Friday.

The general election ran from April 28 to May 20, and only members of the Class of 2015 could run for the position.

Shawon Jackson ’15 and Hannah Rosenthal ’15 also made it to the runoff election. The three finalists were selected in a primary election among 28 seniors who ran for the position.

The Class of 2015 had the largest pool of candidates since 2013, when 39 seniors vied for the position.

Last year, only 17 seniors ran for the position.

Akinlawon is a native of Ikeja, Nigeria, which is a suburb of Nigeria’s capital, Lagos. He majored in mechanical and aerospace engineering and will be working at the Boston Consulting Group’s energy and sustainability practice after graduation.

Akinlawon explained that he is interested in pushing for increased diversity on campus, including diversity among faculty, as well as improved integration of student athletes. Akinlawon explained that board initiatives are already on the way to resolve these issues.

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Daily Princetonian: Are there any memories from Princeton that stick out to you?

David Petraeus: I think what was particularly useful for me were various forums like the arms control lunch or other groups that brought students and faculty together and, frankly, taught me that there are a lot of seriously bright people in the world who come at important issues from very different points of departure. That experience was very, very salutary. It was a great dose, on many occasions, of intellectual humility.

It was also a source of very stimulating debates. Much later in my

in American public schools. He noted that the average graduation rate in American public schools has been roughly stagnant for the last 50 years and that the poverty rate of students in American public schools is up to 21 percent.

“We shouldn’t take any time arguing about whether there is

a problem with American public schools,” he said. “We should take time discussing what’s possible, and how to create the political will to get there.”

Herr discussed public education in the context of equity. Public education, she said, is supposed See EDUCATION page 2

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military career, when I was serving in foreign countries with citizens that come at the world from very different points of view than those that we might hold, it proved very useful. I went from the command and general staff college, where we thought we had serious debates on issues, but the truth was that they were in a very narrow spectrum. I came to understand the much wider spectrum of views on various issues while I was at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. In fact, when people asked me, in the first year in Iraq, in northern Iraq when I was a division commander in Mosul, when they asked me, “What prepared you for this situation, for these people who see the world through a very different lens than you do, than we do?” my response was: The best preparation I had was graduate school at Princeton University.

DP: What was the biggest challenge you faced while at Princeton?

DP GS ’85 GS ’87: There were two big challenges. [The] first [challenge was] the advanced economic See PETRAEUS page 1

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Alumni witnessed a series of physics demonstrations in McDonnell Hall on Friday afternoon.

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Panelists talk human trafficking Alumni Forum addresses

By Ruby Shao associate news editor

Human trafficking survivors have been instrumental leaders of movements to reduce economic exploitation and labor exploitation, journalism visiting professor Noy Thrupkaew said at a panel she moderated on Friday.

Elaine Pearson GS ’13, the Australia director of Human Rights Watch, defined trafficking as the movement of a person through deceptive or coercive means into a situation of exploitation.

“What makes it a situation of trafficking is that it’s a situation where people can’t just

freely get up and leave,” Pearson said, noting that today’s compulsion often involves psychological rather than physical constraints and can happen through both legal and illegal channels.

Pearson distinguished trafficking from smuggling, which she described as the illegal movement of someone across a border for a fee. She noted that smugglers provide a service without necessarily coercing anyone.

Forty-five percent of trafficking victims are men, Pearson said, noting that people often do not realize the high percentage of men because the stereotypical victim is female.

Seventy-five percent of victims are adults.

Trafficking affects about 21 million people in the world, Thrupkaew said.

Kay Warren GS ’74, an international studies and anthropology professor at Brown, noted that the traditional victim-predator dichotomy, in which an individual predator manipulates a victim who completely lacks agency, does not account for trafficking’s broader social and cultural context.

Instead, she recommended analyzing trafficking in terms of organized crime, a larger system often connected with police.

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communism in China

By Ruby Shao associate news editor

No one in China takes the concept of socialism seriously anymore, Ira Kasoff GS ’82, a senior counselor at APCO Worldwide, said at a panel on Friday.

He presented two common views of China’s place in contemporary politics.

Some believe that the Chinese Communist Party is about to collapse, a longheld view that has taken on new momentum because of David Shambaugh’s article, “The Coming Chinese

Crackup,” Kasoff said. The article argues that pervasive corruption is built into the Chinese system, such as through one-party rule and the absence of the rule of law, and that the Chinese economy is stuck.

In response to the article, Foreign Affairs magazine conducted a survey asking experts on China about the country’s future, and 19 of 26 respondents said they did not believe the Chinese Communist Party was about to collapse, Kasoff said.

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Charter schools a bright spot, says Herr Q&A: N. Gregory Mankiw ’80 EDUCATION

By Chitra Marti staff writer

After an alumni panel on inequality and economic opportunity on Friday, The Daily Princetonian spoke to panelist and Harvard economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw ’80, who is also a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

The Daily Princetonian: You do say — like Goldin and Katz [in their book “The Race between Education and Technology”] — that skill-based technological change, while a good thing, is a major driver of inequality. You also said something along the lines that technology that would make the skilled less useful and the unskilled more useful would be great.

N. Gregory Mankiw ’80: Exactly. Technology tends to be skill-biased. It tends to enhance the demand for skilled workers to use the technology and tends to replace the unskilled workers who are no longer relevant because the technology is doing things they would do. It would be great if some inventor would invent technology that had the opposite effect — it could increase equality [and] enhance the opportunities for the unskilled.

The problem is we don’t have any leverage to make that happen. Inventors invent things they think would be useful, and they’re not thinking about, ‘Oh, what’s this technology going to do to this person versus that person?’ They just try to invent stuff. I don’t think we have the policy levers to induce inventors to invent one kind of thing or another kind of thing. I was being somewhat facetious but trying to also make the point that technology is important, but we have sadly limited control over what kind of technology is invented.

DP: So that would be good for inequality, but would it be good for GDP? NGM: I think technological advance of all sorts is good for GDP. Technological advance gives us more opportunity to produce more stuff.

DP: Talking more about technology, in your essay “Defending the One Percent,” you write: “The last thing we need is for the next Steve Jobs to forgo Silicon Valley in order to join the high-frequency traders on Wall Street.” With regards to high-frequency trading, do you have any thoughts on how to prevent these kinds of arms-race technological developments, and how to prevent Steve Jobs from joining the Flash Boys?

NGM: Well I think financial regulation is the first place to go with the answer to that. I’m not an expert on high-frequency trading, but to the extent that Michael Lewis [’82] is correct in “Flash Boys,” then what these high-frequency traders are doing is basically an illegal form of front running, and it should be regulated … If he’s right, then it suggests that the regulatory system is flawed in a way that is inducing too many smart people to do something that is not socially useful. Similarly, I think too many people probably invest money in high-priced active managers. I sit on some investment committees, and I always tell them to put money in an index fund with low costs rather than paying 100 basis points for a mutual fund manager, or 220 for a hedge fund manager … It’s a lot of money to try to beat the market, which is usually not successful.

DP: In the panel, [Edward] Golding [GS ‘82] emphasized mobility, and you emphasized distribution of income —

shares for the top one percent and so on. Which do you think is better to focus on?

NGM: I think both are important to keep in mind. People forget that when they’re talking about mobility, they’re not only people at the bottom going up but people at the top going down because mobility is by its nature symmetric. The way I would think about [it is that] the most important thing to focus on is make sure that people at the bottom of the economic ladder have as many opportunities to climb up as we can give them. Sometimes it’s phrased as mobility, but I think it’s probably better to phrase it as trying to enhance economic opportunities.

DP: You’ve criticized [Thomas] Piketty’s recent work about starting up a wealth tax, saying that once you add up consumption, procreation and taxes, that dilutes his whole hypothesis, and this just leads to steady-state inequality. My question here — and this kind of came up in the panel too — why does or doesn’t steadystate inequality, in and of itself, matter?

NGM: My view is equality of opportunity is far more important than equality of outcomes. There are always going to be Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, who invent stuff and make the world a better place, and if they get rich in the process, I don’t have a problem with that. On the other hand, if there’s a poor kid in inner-city Baltimore who can’t get a decent education, then I think we’re failing him, fundamentally. And that has nothing to do with inequality per se, [although] it results in inequality. It has to do with, here’s a person whose potential is being wasted. So I think focusing on trying to provide everyone with the opportunity to reach their best is the most important goal.

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to be a leveling force in reducing inequality, but it is not functioning that way now. While the war on poverty is a critical issue, she said, not much is being done to solve it, and educators cannot optimistically wait for the problem to be solved.

“I can’t do much about urban poverty,” Herr said. “I can do something about what is in my purview.”

Lips described the public school crisis as a thought experiment in terms of one individual, a child starting school and the long odds that child has of making it through his education. The best solution for that child, he said, is to allow the child’s parents the ability to decide what schools their child can go to. His own idea was to give families direct funding for their child’s education, about $12,000 a year, and he noted that this idea has taken hold in several states.

Westmoreland noted that of 100 freshmen who enter an Atlanta public high school, 59 graduate in four years, 30 go on to some sort of post-secondary education, and 10 complete the third year of that postsecondary education. On his school board, he said, members talk continually about academic program, talent management, systems and operations and culture. He said that there is a huge problem with culture in Atlanta, as kids are not excited to go to school and teachers are not excited to teach.

Audience members raised questions involving such issues as charter schools, vocational schools and the effect of powerful teachers’ unions on the public school system. Both Lips and Herr said that charter schools are a bright spot on the American public school record, with Lips saying that charter schools encourage the whole public school system to improve.

Fifty percent of D.C. students are in charter schools, Lips not-

ed. Herr added that each charter school is different and broad conclusions do not lend themselves readily.

In response to a question about vocational schools, Herr said the country needs more vocational alternatives in the school system and that college is not for everyone, but he added that people need to be careful when we decide that a given student needs vocational education rather than college education.

“I think that’s a very important path that should be available to more students, but we have to be careful that we’re not creating a path that we funnel poor minority kids into by default just because of how they start kindergarten and how their vocabulary is,” Herr said.

The event, titled “The Crisis in American Public Education,” took place at 10:30 a.m. in McCosh 10, and was organized by the Alumni Association of Princeton University as part of the Alumni-Faculty Forums.

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Urban planning panel discusses future of American architecture

By Paul Phillips senior writer

Four University graduates now employed in occupations related to city planning and architecture discussed the future and challenges facing the American city at a panel discussion Friday.

Panelists were Ray Gastil GS ’91, director of the Department of City Planning in Pittsburgh; Peter Waldman GS ’67, professor of architecture at the University of Virginia; Ellen Dunham-Jones GS ’83, professor of architecture and urban design at the Georgia Institute of Technology; and Waqas Jawaid ’10, a partner at Isometric Studio.

The panel was moderated by Alison Isenberg, professor of history and co-director in the Program in Urban Studies at

the University.

Gastil said he and the other members of the Pittsburgh Department of City Planning wanted to look at development of the city in terms of “people, planet, place and performance.” They wanted to make sure that the people of the city — both those already there and those to come later — came first.

In terms of “planet and performance,” Gastil added they wanted to figure out good environmental metrics. He noted that the problem of managing city storm water is one that is very prevalent in his life now and was not something he discussed during his time at the University.

He explained that the final ‘P,’ place, concerns the fact that some city developments occur independently of the

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who have experienced [lack of respect] for diversity,” Akinlawon said, adding that he has a profound understanding of the challenges these students confront.

At an international students’ dinner four years ago, Akinlawon spoke to a Young Alumni Trustee and was inspired by the impact and changes one can make while serving in the position.

“The Young Alumni Trustee has the freshest voice on board.

I know what the current needs of the students are and what students would potentially need in the future,” Akinlawon said. “The other members on the board are lovely people who are very encouraging. At the luncheon earlier today [a member] encouraged me to

‘speak your mind.’ There will be differences of opinions and disagreements of course, but my opinion will be valued just as much.”

Akinlawon is a member of the men’s track and field team, participating in the 60 meter and 100 meter dashes, as well as the long jump. He previously interned with Black & Veatch, an infrastructure engineering and consulting firm. He is also a Class of 2015 co-chair of Annual Giving.

Akinlawon is also a residential college adviser in Wilson College and has certificates in materials science, sustainable energy and robotics. At the University, he has conducted research on the f low profiles of microf luidic microbial fuel cells. His senior thesis in mechanical engineering researched off-grid power solutions for commercial firms.

intentions of planners and designers and of market forces, and these interesting developments need to be accounted for in city planning.

“There has to be some room in the design of cities that it’s not some formula that we adopted but that we are actually able to listen to people,” Gastil said.

Dunham-Jones said that our ingrained idea that the future of the city consists of high-rises and imaginary downtowns is limited and outdated, and that the future of the city in fact lies with suburbs. She explained that there are currently three basic urban design strategies for retrofitting suburban properties, such as abandoned malls and office parking lots.

Planners can “re-inhabit” the space with community-

serving spaces such as a courthouse or a school, they can “regreen” the space or redesign it for environmental use, or redevelopment, which she said is the most effective, she said.

“We have one overarching goal: that everyone can see themselves reflected in the culture and design of their own city.”

Waqas Jawaid ’10 Redevelopment, she said, consists of “demolishing most of the existing suburban crap and building instead compact, walkable, mixed-use urban-

ism mostly on top of the parking lots.”

Dunham-Jones also noted that although we tend to think of suburbs as family-oriented, that is not true. Millennials, she said, are showing more preference for cities, as cities are more enjoyable and less dangerous than they used to be. She added that this phenomenon is causing problems of affordability and equity in suburbs, with suburban poverty on the rise.

Jawaid gave an account of his own experiences with architecture in cities. He said that while the goal of 20th century architecture was to promote existing social values, 21st century architecture is more subversive and is intended to represent people who couldn’t be represented otherwise.

“We have one overarching goal: that everyone can see themselves reflected in the culture and design of their own city,” he said.

Isenberg then asked the participants how their proposed changes in reframing the design or conception of the city could be brought about.

Dunham-Jones said that there is a fundamental need for infrastructure, and added that there is now a need for communication between formerly unrelated infrastructure components, such as traffic engineers and storm water engineers.

“We can’t afford to do single-purpose infrastructure any more,” she said.

The event, called “Future of the City,” took place at 9 a.m. in Betts Auditorium in the Architecture Building. It

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The Wildcats a cappella group performed at the Class of 2000’s 15th Reunion site in Wilson courtyard on Friday.

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courses that I had to take to qualify for the Ph.D. I had not taken any true economics course at West Point, so it was very interesting to be going through a basic econ text to understand the fundamentals at the same time that I was enrolled in advanced, graduate level economics courses. The second big challenge was the overload of courses that I had to take to not just complete the [master’s in public affairs] but to complete all of the coursework, general exams, oral exams, language exams and dissertation prospectus in that same two year period.

The military only allowed me to have two years at grad school, and I wanted to leave having not only gotten the MBA but having completed all the requirements of the Ph.D. including approval of the dissertation prospectus before leaving campus. I was able to do it, but it took a lot of focus, an enormous amount of hard work, and, frankly, professors that were willing to accommodate my circumstance by offering directed reading courses.

I created a whole bunch of courses for myself basically, to get ready for the general exams. Professor [Richard] Ullman was extraordinary.

The amount of time that he gave to me was just, again, truly extraordinary. My other dissertation advisors, Professors [Stephen] Walt and [Barry] Posen, were equally generous with their time.

DP: If you had to pick a favorite class that you took while at Princeton, what would it be?

DP GS ’85 GS ’87: I think it might have been, of all things, the class on international law taught by Profes-

sor Dick Falk, who, candidly, is one of those who sees the world through a different prism, but one for whom I developed enormous respect and, indeed, affection. He actually wanted me to be a TA for him even though our views on issues were quite

“A captain came into the office one time and said, ‘You know sir, winners win stuff,’ and I said, ‘That’s pretty profound,’ and it is.”

David Petraeus GS ’85 ’87 different, to put it mildly.

He was a wonderful professor and the course was extraordinary. Every single session, there would be a new intellectual experience. One day it was the global head of the coalition for nuclear disarmament; another time it might be one of [members of] the group that was arguing for no first use of nuclear weapons; another time it was an international legal scholar on the use of force.

It was just a wonderfully stimulating and broadening and enjoyable course. I wrote a paper instead of taking the final exam, and it was titled “Invasion of Granada: Illegal, Immoral, and The Right Thing to Do,” and he was quite intrigued by it. He actually gave me an A+ for it.

It was wonderful.

DP: Was there any particular moment at Princeton that you felt you had overcome a huge challenge and that you would say was your biggest success?

DP GS ’85 GS ’87: I had to take the macroeconomics exam having never stepped

foot in a macroeconomics class because of course conflicts between the MBA and the Ph.D. I found in the rule book a statement that if you took a final exam of a course and got an A- or better, you got credit for the course, even if you never attended it.

I never did attend it. I got the lecture notes and text, and I went through everything very, very carefully and assiduously. I met with the professor to nail down concepts that were particularly difficult. Keep in mind it’s all advanced math, differential calculus and so forth, which I hadn’t used in a number of years. So, ultimately, I took the exam, and I got an A- and that really was the ultimate key to completing all those Ph.D. requirements.

DP: You’ve had such an impressive career, both in academia and beyond. Where do you think your ambition and your penchant for hard work come from?

DP GS ’85 GS ’87: I think, from an early age, my father, who was a stubborn Dutch sea captain who came to the United States at the outbreak of World War II and sailed for the United States Merchant Marine throughout the war, he sort of imparted that life is a competitive endeavor. If you want to achieve something, you need to commit to it, work exceedingly hard, obviously try to do the very best you can, including, by the way, being the best team player you can be in many occasions as well. So it’s not just about being number one, it’s about helping the team as well. At the end of the day, you have to commit. You have to go all in, as you will, on what it is you’re striving to accomplish. I didn’t dream that I was going to be as fortunate as I was. Some of that is obviously luck and timing at a certain point.

But there’s also this saying

from Seneca the Younger, a Roman philosopher who reportedly said that “luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

I’d like to think that I was prepared when the call came for the three different tours in Iraq, which ended up four full years of combat there.

Prior to that, when the call came for a year in Bosnia, a tour with the United Nations in Haiti, and then, subsequently, command of U.S. Central Command, which is the whole Middle East and Central Asia, and then the command in Afghanistan, and, of course, the directorship of the CIA, which was also just a wonderful, wonderful organization and a true privilege.

DP: Has there been any kind of guiding mantra or value that you’ve kept in mind or used throughout your career?

DP GS ’85 GS ’87: When I was a battalion commander or a lieutenant colonel, a captain came into the office one time and said, “You know sir, winners win stuff,” and I said, “That’s pretty profound,” and it is. Over the years, with the units I was

“I came to understand the much wider spectrum of views on various issues while I was at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. ” David Petraeus GS ’85 ’87 privileged to lead, we did try to achieve excellence, really, and I mean truly, committed to it. And, again, some of

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David Petraeus GS ’85 ’87 from his days at the University in the 1980s.

that is excellence being the best team player as well. It’s sort of a culture. It’s a culture of excellence, a pursuit of excellence, and so forth.

There’s setbacks as well as successes. I’ve obviously had some of those, and, when you have them, you are reminded that the marking of a man sometimes is not how you deal with success, that’s pretty easy, it’s how you deal with setbacks. Again, I’ve obviously had personal experience with that, on the battlefield and in life in general. You learn what you can from setbacks as well as successes and then drive on. I had setbacks at Princeton.

I actually got, I think a D, on my first macroeconomics

exam. I mean, when I entered advanced, graduate level economics, I didn’t know that the supply curve went up and that the demand curve went down. I was going through Samuelson’s basic economics text, trying to figure that out, and then going to class and getting [economics] at the advanced level. So, there were really tough moments there, academically. Ultimately, again, thankfully, I got an A in that course, but there were some moments where you really had to redouble your efforts and stay after it. Thankfully, years of military — I’d been in the military for nine years I guess when I entered graduate school — that had helped.

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characterizes the Chinese Communist Party as aiming to replace the United States as a global superpower. Most experts do not support this view either, Kasoff said.

Moderator Rory Truex ’07, a politics and Wilson School professor who specializes in Chinese politics, said China’s international status remains unclear because of mixed signals from the nation.

Regarding security, although Chinese leaders claim to focus on achieving peace, the government has announced a 10 percent increase in military spending, Truex said. Moreover, China now has the world’s biggest economy, a largely free market economy that boasts levels of inequality rivaling those of the United States, although Chinese officials continue to employ socialist rhetoric.

“In all my years of working in China, I have never met a communist,” William Fung ’70, group chairman of Li & Fung Limited and chairman of Global Brands Group Holding Limited, said to laughter from the audience.

Kasoff described China as pushing not necessarily to supplant the United States in the world hierarchy but rather to reclaim lost glory.

“China has had a long history, several thousands of years, of being a great civilization and a great power. I think most of China, including the leadership, in the last 200 years give or take, has been an aberration, and they’re now on course to re-

gain their natural place in the world, if you will,” he explained.

Owen Nee, Jr. ’65, senior counsel to Greenbert Traurig LLP, echoed Kasoff’s claim and identified China as the central kingdom in Asia.

“If you look in the long term, China’s position in the world and what is happening now are the reassertion of what has always been the case,” he said.

Nee added that the Communist Party that Chinese President Xi Jinping oversees does not differ all that much from the emperors and mandarins who once ruled.

“If you look in the long term, China’s position in the world and what is happening now are the reassertion of what has always been the case.”

Owen Nee, Jr.’65 “We have very well-educated elite and a very tightly controlled body that basically knows the rules, follows them and that overall has done and is doing quite a good job,” Nee explained.

New America Foundation president and chief executive officer Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80, who is also a former dean of the Wilson School, expressed a more nuanced view.

She granted that China succeeds in the traditional “game

of thrones,” in which a nation leverages military power, economic power and population size to intimidate other states as much as possible.

However, Slaughter argued that in the 21st century, an effective state must also become the most networked power within a web of nations — a benchmark China has failed to meet.

China has been trying to tie its economy to the rest of Southeast Asia by giving money to neighboring countries, but the corruption of these governments prevents lasting relationships from forming, according to Slaughter.

She said China has no real allies except North Korea.

“With allies like that, I’d prefer enemies,” Slaughter said, noting that the lack of allies is extraordinary for a returning great power.

She said China’s inability to establish economic, diplomatic and people-to-people connections, such as those among civic groups and businesses, make China weaker than it appears on the surface.

“I do not think that we need to see China as a great military threat. I think in many ways they see themselves as encircled by us,” Slaughter said, though she noted that to ensure safety, the United States must prevent China from building out of territorial waters around small islands.

The Alumni-Faculty Forum at Reunions, called “What China Stands for in the New World Order,” was sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University. The event took place on Friday at 10:30 a.m. in McCosh 50.

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complain about Princeton. A lot. Only a week into summer, I still feel like I am mentally recovering from a caffeinefueled, stress-and-anxiety-filled daze from finals. With multiple exams, problem sets and papers, it becomes easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. In the long run, the difference between an A- and a B+ is extremely insignificant, but in the moment, it can seem overwhelmingly important. These smaller issues (or “first world problems” as some of my friends would jokingly say) snowball, building up to the point that it sometimes feels overwhelming.

As Princeton students and alumni, despite the stress, we are truly lucky. Yet sometimes I completely forget that.

This point especially came across to me after attending the University sponsored talk “Wealth Imbalance — What Does It Mean?” moderated by Professor Patricia FernandezKelly that discussed the state of wealth inequality in the U.S. The statistics are shocking. Since the late 1970s, incomes have been stagnant, while the richest in society have been accumulating more and more wealth.

The top .1 percent of the population, which held 7 percent of the wealth in 1978, now holds 22 percent. While we are celebrating with three nights of revelry and school spirit, millions are still struggling to get by day to day.

In light of this, the natural question is what can be done to reduce it. Almost all the panelists, despite their different backgrounds and views, agreed that providing quality education is an essential step in achieving greater socioeconomic mobility. The biggest way to move forward is to gain the advanced skills that are suitable for a 21st century workforce, matching the supply with the demand.

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hen I introduced the 139th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in my first Letter from the Editor in February, I wrote that the new group of editors planned to work constructively with the Princeton community throughout our year at the helm of the paper.

Throughout the course of this last semester, we have been hard at work in our newsroom producing content. We covered protests and petitions, referenda and reforms, admission and academics. We sought to share

the facts behind controversies and events with our readers, and we sought the perspectives and voices of members of our community.

I wrote this in my last letter, but I think it bears repeating: This newspaper cannot operate in a vacuum; we are nothing without you, the Princeton community.

That is why we are asking for your feedback. Today we are introducing a reader survey through which we would like to learn more about how you connect to us. We want to ensure that the content is easily accessible to our readers and we want to constantly strive to ensure that our content is what you want to see and of the highest quality.

All feedback is welcome

through our online reader survey, which can be found at this link: goo.gl/7yX1sV. In addition to this feedback form, we encourage you to send us an email with your thoughts on our content throughout the year at eic@dailyprincetonian.com.

This is the last paper we will print during the semester, but we will publish again during Reunions. We will then be back to our regular publishing schedule in September when classes start.

Until then, we will continue to publish online throughout the summer. Keep in touch!

Anna Mazarakis, a politics major from Montclair, N.J., is the Editor-inChief of The Daily Princetonian. She can be reached at annacm@princeton. edu.

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Ben Dinovelli is a Wilson School major from Mystic, Conn. He can be reached at bjd5@princeton.edu.

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Anna Mazarakis ’16 editor-in-chief

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES president Richard W. Thaler, Jr. ’73 vice presidents John G. Horan ’74 Thomas E. Weber ’89 secretary Kathleen Kiely ’77 treasurer Michael E. Seger ’71 Craig Bloom ’88 Gregory L. Diskant ’70 Richard P. Dzina, Jr. ’85 William R. Elfers ’71 Stephen Fuzesi ’00 Zachary A. Goldfarb ’05 John G. Horan ’74 Joshua Katz Rick Klein ’98 James T. MacGregor ’66 Betsy J. Minkin ’77 Alexia Quadrani Jerry Raymond ’73 Annalyn Swan ’73 Douglas Widmann ’90

139th managing board news editor Jacob Donnelly ’17 opinion editor Benjamin Dinovelli ’16

Reunions is truly reflective of not only the things we learned and the skills we obtained, but also the great memories and friendships from our time here too.

Coincidentally, production of strong education is considered Princeton’s best quality. With a generous financial aid package, an enormous financial endowment and top quality professors, Princeton is able to offer a great education that enables students to gain these skills. Princeton is truly the golden ticket in terms of economic mobility.

The composition of the board itself is a true testament to what the University’s alumni are capable of achieving. From a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to a famous tech investor to a Governor of the Federal Reserve, many of these men used their Princeton education to achieve great things.

Going to Princeton is much more likely to place you with the “haves,” rather than the “have-nots.”

Granted, that is not to say that Princeton students are incapable of having “real” problems. The Princeton Hidden Minority Council, created as a resource for first generation and low-income students, demonstrates the fact that even low-income students at Princeton constantly face difficulties. However, attending the wealth imbalance event, I could not help but realize how many of my own problems are fairly minor.

Three years ago, I walked across a stage to receive my high school diploma with three hundred and thirty of my friends and classmates, many of whom I had grown up with since elementary school or even earlier. At the time, many of my friends received similar test scores and grades, yet many of us ended up at vastly different colleges by circumstance and chance.

At first, what college we went to did not seem all that important. Entering this summer, however, I have started to realize how divergent three years can really be. While some of my high school friends are going to be working at investment banks, aerospace manufactures and software companies in the next few months, others are still busing at restaurants or cashiering at home. Granted, there were some differences among us, but rather than bridging these differences, they have accentuated them.

Princeton lays the foundation for a great education. Reunions is truly reflective of not only the things we learned and the skills we obtained, but also the great memories and friendships from our time here too. Despite all of the complaining I may have had only a few weeks ago, in the middle of this spectacular weekend, I cannot help but feel truly appreciative of Princeton and the privileges that I have gotten out of it.

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n Friday afternoon, an Alumni-Faculty Forum titled “Science Under Attack!” convened with a panel of five graduates to discuss the national mood regarding science and science literacy in the country today.

Seth Shostak ’65, senior astronomer and director of the Center for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research, notes that there is a culture of deprioritizing science and scientists as important leaders.

He described the current state of science not as “under attack,” but rather as “under siege.“ There isn’t as much an active debate against science as there is an inaccessibility to scientific literacy and education.

“Our heroes are not intellectuals,” Shostak said of the American prioritization of explorers and politicians. “Our heroes fought bears and were able to survive, but they were not intellectuals.” This is, according to Shostak, compounded by the fact that teachers and educators are not valued as highly in the United States as they are in other parts of the world, and the fact that there is a poor understanding of science in politics. “How many scientists are even left in Congress?” he asked.

(The answer, by the way, is two. Out of 535 senators and representatives, just two are scientists.)

Zackory Burns ’10, a Hellman Fellow in Science and Technology Policy at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, added that words matter, especially when we live in a time and place where an understanding of science is linked so closely with policy-making decisions. “No one should ask whether a politician ‘believes’ in climate change,” said Burns. “The question should be: What is the Republican solution to climate change?” Burns notes that

this is the core problem that comes with having only two scientists in Congress. The others aren’t qualified in any way to discuss the science of things like climate change, but they try anyway. It shouldn’t be relevant whether or not congressmen personally “believe” in it; it only matters what they will actively do to halt the effects it has had on the planet already.

Debra Meloy Elmegreen ’75, professor of astronomy at Vassar College, and Peter Brown ’70, former Editor-in-Chief of The Sciences and Natural History magazines, expressed sentiments about the poor state of science literacy in the country, particularly in children. Science, technology, engineering and education in schools has not caught up to STEM education in parts of Europe and Asia.

The larger goal with respect to this, however, shouldn’t be to teach members of society scientific facts, like the definition of the Higgs Boson or the practical function of a particle collider. It is more important and more useful to teach scientific thinking. It is more important to teach kids how to engage critically with information and data in order to draw conclusions organically, and to continuously analyze existing conclusions for veracity from an educated, rather than herdmentality, standpoint.

Part of the necessity for this comes from a phenomenon described by Kaiser Fung ’95, former head of data for Vimeo and Sirius XM Radio. Fung speaks about the fact that there is so much data publicly available these days that it’s easy for anyone to look at raw numbers and draw their own conclusions. This, in itself is good, but it becomes a problem when we blindly accept others’ conclusions as fact just because they are steeped in science. Even when data is analyzed using correct statistical methodology, it is still not fact. Fung noted

tylervigen.com, a website that uses correct statistical methodology to make spurious correlations: for example, there is a correlation of 99.79 percent between U.S. spending on science, space and technology, and suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation. Despite the statistics, it is highly unlikely that NASA is causing people to kill themselves.

Science is known for quantitative data and hard facts, but it can still be engaged with. The numbers and data milled from experiments are unfaltering, just like the words in a novel. However, different people might draw different conclusions from the experimental data just as different people might find different meaning in the same book. On this front, it is important to teach young people how to critically think so as to not encourage blind acceptance of all things that claim to be science: this is how we stave of the pop health fads and pseudosciencebased cultural phenomena.

Another way to do this is to place a higher premium on popular science icons such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye. Science is often dense and unapproachable to the layperson, but Tyson and Nye have been featured pundits on news panels and talk shows to the extent that they are household names. Nye is best known for his children’s television show that made science entertaining for young people. This is how we end the siege: scientists should engage more with society.

More scientists as pundits on television. More scientists in Congress.

More scientists everywhere, until the state of science in this country is one that involves educated and significant discourse from all members of society.

Shruthi Deivasigamani is a junior in the molecular biology department from Cresskill, NJ. She can be reached at shruthid@princeton.edu.

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thing that supports them and helps them. I had a little bit of a different viewpoint.

I actually thought it was great training. I really felt a lot of pressure in a positive way because I always wanted to win for my team and to represent Princeton and succeed for Princeton and be a leader both by the way I trained in the gym here but also how I performed on the strip, and with the success that I had and help my team to succeed.

DP: What was the biggest obstacle you’d say you faced in your athletic career?

ST: I’m the only fencer from San Diego to fence internationally, consistently. I grew up in a place where I didn’t have role models and coaches where it was very easy to follow behind and see what they were doing. And the other thing was injuries. I’ve had a number of really bad injuries, and they’ve definitely made it hard to compete at different times. I’ve really had to back off on my training and competitions and things like that. In fact, one of them almost ended my career, and I was able to figure out a way around it and came back and qualified for the 2012 Olympics.

Sometimes when you have a limitation, it forces you to work that much harder and think about things that much differently. In the end, that injury did make me better because I had to create a new type of fencing for myself, and that was a much

stronger fencing than I had before.

DP: What was it like coming out of retirement to pursue the 2012 Olympics after your injury, and was it difficult transitioning back and forth between athletic and professional careers?

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ST: That was an unusual thing — I was working full time, and I hadn’t been thinking about qualifying

“I was able to start experimenting with a certain methodology or approach to fencing that hadn’t been taught to me but that I had come up with myself ... I had immediate success ... at the end of the qualification period I was 7th in the world, the highest ranking I’d ever had.” soren thompson, men’s fencing

for the 2012 Olympics. Obviously it’s something everyone wants to do, so it was something I wanted to do,

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Soren Thompson placed 7th in individuals at the 2004 Olympics.

it just wasn’t my primary focus for a couple of years, so it was different. Fencing had been my primary focus from a very young age, until I qualified for the 2004 Olympics, and even through the 2008 cycle, which is when I got injured. … I was able to start experimenting with a certain methodology or approach to fencing that hadn’t been taught to me but that I had come up with my-

self and thought could be a way to perform very well despite the injury that I had. …

I really pushed this methodology for myself … I had immediate success and I went from being in the hundreds in the world to being in the top 50, 20, and ultimately at the end of in the qualification period I was 7th in the world, the highest ranking I’d ever had, and it was completely worth it.

Award, named after the sociology professor whose tenure at Princeton spanned 30 years, was awarded to Tara Christie Kinsey ’97. The award is given to the person who most embodies and promotes the importance of athletics and academics in harmony as part of a successful Princeton career.

The Class of 1916 Cup, awarded to the senior student-athlete in the highest academic standing was given to sprint football’s Chris McCord. The Art Lane ’34 award, given to Princeton athletes to honor their service to both their sport and community, went to men’s soccer’s senior Andrew Mills and women’s volleyball’s senior Tiana Woolridge.

The following award, the Class of 1967 Princeton Varsity Club Citizen Athlete Award, was given to one of the biggest names present on the night: Jason Garrett ’89, head coach of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. Addressing the crowd after being introduced by head football coach Bob Surace ’90, Garrett expressed repeatedly throughout his speech how coming to Princeton changed his life. Garrett also pointed out that his becoming a Tiger was not due to some long thought-out decision, but

rather simply because Princeton had a high octane offense. “They threw the ball a lot,” Garrett reminisced.

One of Garrett’s words of wisdom to the Class of 2015 was to know when and how to be a leader. “When you’re a leader, grasp the mantle of leadership,” Garrett urged.

He also implored the Class of 2015 to avoid “finish-line anxiety,” i.e. not to focus on their future goals so much that they forget to enjoy the experience leading up to them. “If you have the relentless pursuit of excellence and you just run, all that stuff will take care of itself.” Garrett said.

Following Garett, Courtney Banghart, head coach of the women’s basketball team was presented the Naismith Trophy. Banghart was the Naismith Women’s College Coach of the Year after leading Princeton to a 31-1 record, and the program’s first win in the NCAA Tournament.

The final awards of the night were the C. Otto von Kienbusch Award and the William Winston Roper Trophy, which are respectively presented to the female and male student athletes who have exhibited high levels of scholarship, sportsmanship and athletic performance in their time at Princeton. Senior Blake Dietrick of women’s basketball and senior Mike MacDonald of men’s lacrosse received the awards.

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with local stars — sophomore Spencer Weisz was Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2014, and freshman Amir Bell was the only Princeton player to start every single game this season. Henderson seemed very excited for another talented local product — 6’4 guard Myles Stephens, who is from Pennington, NJ and will be a freshman on the team in the 2015-2016 season.

More exciting news would follow, as assistant coach Brett MacConnell went through highlights of the non-Ivy portion of the 20152016 schedule. Next year’s team can look forward to a duel with the Maryland Terrapins, were ranked 12th in the AP Poll going into the NCAA Tournament this March. While the Tigers will have to play on the road, they will not battle the Terps at the University’s Xfinity Center but rather at the Royal Farm Arena in downtown Baltimore.

As for methods by which to improve the team, assistant coach Brian Earl ’99 gave a demonstration of Synergy Sports Technology, a company that provides popular sports analytics tools used at the collegiate and professional levels. Earl illustrated how the team is able to analyze even the minutiae of in-game situations. As an example, he showed how he can look at every time former star guard TJ Bray ’14 was scored on in a spot-up shooting situation on defense.

Access to such information comes with a price tag attached, which again underscored the importance of the involvement of Princeton men’s basketball alumni in helping the team succeed.

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ulations were written, it took a couple of years for any of the schools to realize this is serious and make changes before they were exposed to lawsuits. There was no legal action while I was here, but just knowing it had passed empowered the women who were here to believe it was ok to want to be a female athlete and go to the athletic department and say we’re not the only one saying women should be athletes and should have access to the sports, everybody was saying this and doing it. Some of our peers, rowers at Yale, while I was here, got national press because they wrote “Title IX” on their backs and stripped in the athletics director’s office with a New York Times stringer with them, and it was in the ... Times, so that got a lot of press. The male alumni at Yale were saying, “Get these women a shower.”

I’m sure that was a wakeup call, to Princeton and everybody else, we were lucky the men here didn’t do that to us. Princeton was so totally committed to embracing women as students but missed a beat on being prepared that women who wanted to come here didn’t want just part of the Princeton experience. We wanted access to everything. I learned after I graduated that they had a five year plan for women’s athletics: ... with the first year or two intramurals, and then club and then varsity, and we blew through the five-year plan in about five months. They weren’t prepared.

DP: You were on the team at

a time when women’s athletics were really gaining traction, and you were the first Princeton alumna to win an Olympic medal — what made you decide to make your Olympic campaigns?

Would you say you were inspired by a climate of change for women in sports, or was it just a natural pursuit of something you were passionate about?

CB: My Princeton experience overall definitely empowered me and gave me the confidence to go after that. 1976 was the first time women’s rowing was on the Olympic program. I didn’t even know what the sport was in 1971 so I didn’t come to Princeton saying, “I want to row and make an Olympic team.” I was part of the growth of the sport in the [United States] and internationally. The whole Princeton culture was to explore your passions, and there was tremendous support here from some of the men’s coaches. Particularly the men’s swimming coach was an inspiration to me. He was an Olympian and the women’s swimming program was more structured most of my four years here than the rowing program. He was a full-time men’s coach; he was supporting and coaching the women and the men, whereas the women’s rowing program [had] a volunteer coach, and [women] weren’t really welcome in the boathouse. It was summer of my junior year when I qualified with another Princeton teammate, Janet Youngholm, in the pair. We won nationals, and that earned us a spot on the U.S. National Team going to the World Championships. Neither of us expected that. We hadn’t planned for it, and here we

were: we had the chance to race in the USA uniform.

First, we had to raise money to get there. We walked around passing the hat at Reunions, asking, “Will you help us buy our plane tickets to Switzerland? ” ...

We couldn’t afford to take a coach. That opened my eyes to saying maybe racing in the Olympics in Montreal in 1976 is a realistic goal. Princeton was really supportive of that. I graduated in 1975 and worked out with the university. I was an [RCA] so I had a dorm room and 18 freshman boys for my advisees — they called me mom. But I worked for the admissions office and taught PE swimming classes, and I could row here and lift and train and have a place to live and support myself, so that worked out very well.

DP: How would you say Princeton prepared you for the jump to life after college, both in your athletic and professional careers?

CB: It was that feeling of confidence, of having been part of a cohort of women that came here and said, “We’re not afraid of being pioneers, of being trailblazers, of doing something different and believing I could be successful in whatever I chose to do.”

That carries over in work and parenting, and everything else. I think that’s what Princeton gives any of its students and student athletes, a balance of [knowing] you have a strong intellectual capability and there are lots of ways to apply that, and [being] OK to step off the job career track and pursue some other passion and have the confidence that you’ll find you way back to life. A series of careers and not be afraid to try something.

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DP: How would you say Princeton prepared you for life beyond the orange bubble — both in your athletic and professional careers?

BB: It gave me a great education, broadened my horizons and gave me a lifetime of friends.

DP: I’ve been a Knicks fan my whole life, going back to the Patrick Ewing days, and I have to ask — do you really think your former teammate Phil Jackson can fix the Knicks?

BB: If anybody can fix them, he can. He’s got a great basketball mind, he’s a fierce competitor, he understands human beings and how to get people to work together and he has a very clear idea of how the game should be played. Take a look, if there’s anybody who has more rings than they have fingers, you’ve got to listen to them.

DP: Who is your favorite active basketball player, collegiate or professional?

BB: Well right now, let me preface that: right now, meaning today, I like Stephen Curry.

DP: As a student, a professional athlete and a senator you were known for being very politically active. What do you think are the most important issues facing our country that Princeton students should be focused on?

BB: Well, I think the state of our economy for a large number of Americans is the number one issue, I think

making diversity a strength and not a weakness is another challenge for us, and I think that understanding that our role in the world is a lot more than deploying military forces to some far distant land.

DP: Did your aspirations for public service develop at Princeton or did you have them before?

“I think that getting power is easier than it’s ever been before for individuals because of the internet and the ability to organize on social networks, so I would encourage people to take a look at the current structure of our democracy - the clear problem is money.” bill bradley,

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BB: I think it kind of developed in high school; I thought I wanted to be a diplomat and that’s why I came to Princeton, because of the Woodrow Willson school.

Unfortunately, I didn’t do

very well my freshman year so I gave up the idea of the Woodrow Wilson school and went into History instead.

That was a great windfall for me. I came to love history, I still do.

DP: Many students and Americans are disillusioned with the political climate and the stalemates in Washington. As someone who chose a life in public service, what would you say is the case for students going into politics today and what encouragement would you give them?

BB: I think it’s the same as it always has been. That for people who want to make a difference, if you have power, you can make a difference in peoples lives. Otherwise you’re simply making nice speeches and talking.

And I think that getting power is easier than it’s ever been before for individuals because of the internet and the ability to organize on social networks, so I would encourage people to take a look at the current structure of our democracy — the clear problem is money. And the answer is a constitutional amendment because the supreme court has already locked in billionaires financing campaigns and so you need a constitutional amendment leading that effort over a period of years; it would be an incredibly important service to the country and I think plenty of other areas ranging from race in urban areas, the environment, education, those are all areas —pensions — for example, people don’t always think about them, but they’re very important.

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Q&A: Bradley ’65, star athlete and senator

By Miles Hinson

By Sydney Mandelbaum

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As commencement draws near, the Princeton Varsity Club honored its graduating seniors on Thursday evening at the annual Gary Walters ’67 Princeton Varsity Club Awards Banquet.

The event was renamed after the 2013-14 academic year to honor Walters, who was Princeton’s athletic director from 1994 to 2014.

After opening remarks by current Athletic Director Mollie Marcoux ’91, the mic was passed to senior Zack McCourt of men’s tennis. In his address to the crowd, McCourt recounted his many difficult experiences at Princeton, from the transition between high school and college athletics, to the shock he faced when receiving the results of his first math exam. Throughout his four years, McCourt pointed to the support of his teammates as crucial to his success and credits the trials he faced in tennis as instrumental to helping him succeed in academics.

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Princeton’s motto is “In the nation’s service and the service of all nations,” and very few alumni have lived up to this statement as much as former Senator Bill Bradley ’65 has.

Bradley played on the basketball team while at Princeton and went on to play professionally for the New York Knicks before becoming a New Jersey senator, a position which he held for three terms. The Daily Princetonian sat down with the former Senator to ref lect upon his athletic and professional careers at the dawn of his 50th Reunion.

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senate in 1920.

Daily Princetonian: What was your favorite Princeton basketball moment?

Bill Bradley: Beating providence in the Eastern regional finals.

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Bill Bradley ’65 was a Princeton star athlete, an Olympian and former U.S. Senator for New Jersey.

DP: What was your favorite thing about Princeton?

What was your favorite memory?

BB: I have too many of them. Maybe if we’re going to pick one, my senior thesis with Arthur Link on Harry Truman’s reelection to the

DP: Do you still follow Ivy League sports? How do you think they’ve changed since you were a player?

BB: I’m a big fan of the Princeton women’s team — basketball. Big fan; I think their coach is the best coach in America.

DP: When the women’s basketball team finished the regular season ranked 13th in the country but were only seeded eighth in the Spokane region for the NCAA tournament, there was a lot of debate on whether the NCAA takes the Ivy League seriously. Do you have a point of view on the issue?

BB: I don’t want to waste energy thinking about things that are beyond your control; I learned that a long time ago. I saw a couple of games, I spoke to the team after one game. I have tremendous respect for what they accomplished and more importantly for how they accomplished it, and Courtney’s incredible leadership and the team’s selflessness.

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Q&A: Thompson ’05, Olympic fencer

Q&A: Brown ’75, pioneer for female athletes associate sports editor

By Sydney Mandelbaum

Carol Brown ’75 was a trailblazer for women’s sports both at Princeton and on a national scale. Starting her athletic career before the implementation of Title IX, Brown championed women’s sports at Princeton and was the first alumna to earn an Olympic medal. The Daily Princetonian sat down with her to discuss the challenges she faced being in building women’s athletics at Princeton from the ground up.

Daily Princetonian: What was the hardest part of being a woman athlete in those early days?

Carol Brown: The lack of access and support from the male coaches and the athletic department. That first women’s crew program, we were only allowed to row if we weren’t seen by the men at the boathouse.

We didn’t have a bathroom, we didn’t have a shower, we had to row and be gone by 7 [a.m.] because they were afraid we would corrupt the men’s program if they saw a bunch of sweaty stinky women at the boathouse. We had to fight just to be allowed to row. We weren’t allowed to lift weights; the women’s basketball team wasn’t able to play or practice in Jadwin [Gymnasium]. It’s so hard to imagine any of this now because the women have everything. Our coach was a volunteer Princeton alum and we had to have bake sales to buy him a rain coat and a megaphone so he could coach the varsity crew team.

That formed a really special relationship. It wasn’t just the strong friendships that being part of a sports team builds regardless.

It was because we had to fight so hard just to be allowed to participate in some these sports. Tennis and field hockey didn’t have to go through this, but women weren’t supposed to row, according to the men’s coaches that were here.

DP: What impact did Title IX have on your teams and women’s sports in general at Princeton when it was passed?

CB: There was no immediate impact because, yes, it’s a law, but until all the regSee BROWN page 9

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While at Princeton, Soren Thompson ‘05 managed to balance academics with dominating the fencing world both in the NCAA and on the international stage, making his first Olympic campaign before graduation. In 2004, Thompson became the first American in 48 years to make it to the epee semifinals, defeating the No. 1 ranked fencer in the world along the way. He returned to the Olympics in 2012 after a serious injury prevented him from competing in 2008. Thompson sat down with the Daily Princetonian to discuss balancing competition with academics and the course of his athletic career.

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Brown ’75 (left), one of the founding members of Princeton women’s crew, won bronze in the 1976 Olympics.

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Men’s basketball staff hopeful for 2016

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Men’s basketball coaching staff and alumni gathered in Robertson Hall at noon on Friday to discuss the state of the team and plans for improvement going into the 2015-2016 academic year.

After head coach Mitch Henderson ’98 made opening remarks for the event, president of the Friends of Princeton Basketball group,

Jesse Rosenfeld ’97, pointed out that the league is getting more and more competitive with each year. Traditionally, the battle for supremacy in Ivy League men’s basketball has been a two-team affair between the Tigers and the University of Pennsylvania Quakers. As of the last decade, however, other contenders have risen up.

The Harvard Crimson have been outright champions the last four years in a row.

Moreover, in the three years before Princeton’s NCAA bid in 2011, Cornell had won the league three straight years.

With this in mind, Rosenfeld said that it is more important than ever for Princeton to be able to go out and recruit the best talent possible. However, as Henderson noted, that doesn’t necessarily mean scouring every corner of the country. Princeton has seen great success See COACHES page 8

Daily Princetonian: What made you decide to launch your first Olympic campaign? It must have been really difficult to decide to take time off.Soren Thompson: It was. I deferred a year before I came, so it was my second year off from school. … I was accepted class of ’03 at Princeton and took that year off, and I didn’t do that with the intention of making the 2000 Olympic team because that would’ve been almost impossible with my age and experience. But to go through that process once, that’s why I did it. So it was always in my mind that if I felt I was in striking distance, I would do that again. So I did come here for three years, then took off a year to go for the 2004 Olympic team.

DP: Was it different competing at a collegiate level after you returned from your year off for the 2004 Olympics?

ST: To some extent, all athletes struggle with trying to fit everything in, and the NCAA fencing, while great to do, doesn’t really push forward your international fencing. So for those athletes who are pushing towards an Olympic team or other international teams, some of them think of NCAA’s as being in the way, and more of a hurdle and detriment to their goals than someSee THOMPSON page 8

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Brick by Brick: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment HARRISON BLACKMAN Associate Street Editor

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t the far end of Prospect Avenue, a complex of courtyards and modern architecture is rising from a historic site. The complex, the future Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, seeks to introduce a new wave of architecture to campus, while the center’s design focuses on sustainability to demonstrate the University’s commitment to environmental initiatives.

In 2008, business executive Gerhard Andlinger ’52 donated $100 million for the creation of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (ACEE) within the School of Engineering and Applied Science, according to the ACEE website. According to Mr. Andlinger’s website, Andlinger had previously donated $25 million in 2000, which led to the creation of the Andlinger Center for the Humanities in 2004.

In 2010, the plans for the Andlinger Center facility were developed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, a New York City-based architecture firm.

Encompassing 129,000 square feet of construction, the Andlinger Center complex began construction in 2012 and is scheduled to be completed in summer 2015.

The site of the future Andlinger Center has a rich history, and balancing the issue of preservation and the projected needs of the University became a concern for architects and stakeholders during its development.

In particular, the plans for the Andlinger Center’s construction necessitated the demolition of the former

Osborn Clubhouse, an athletic training facility that was repurposed to be the Third World Center in 1971, renamed the Fields Center in 1995. The Fields Center relocated to its current location at 58 Prospect Avenue in 2009. “[The Osborn Clubhouse] was one of the last really tangible links to that golden age of intercollegiate sports,” W. Barksdale Maynard ’88 said, referring to Princeton’s role as one of the founding institutions in American intercollegiate football. Maynard is a lecturer in the Art and Archaeology Department and author of “Princeton: America’s Campus.”

Along with prominent architects Robert Venturi GS ’50 and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk ’72, Maynard supported the preservation of the former Osborn Clubhouse. According to University Architect Ron McCoy GS ’80, the opportunities provided by the new Andlinger Center outweighed the value of the preservation of the Osborn Clubhouse.

“In essence, the University since its beginning has grown by investing in new initiatives,” McCoy said. “Some of those have required one generation of buildings replacing an older generation of buildings. Today we look at Chancellor Green and East Pyne, and not a lot of people realize that that those buildings replaced other buildings.”

The complex will feature a lecture hall, a laboratory building, offices and research space, and will connect to Bowen Hall and the Engineering Quadrangle. Conforming to LEED Silver standards, the Andlinger Center’s design focuses on sustainability and its relationship with Princeton’s campus, especially through its threef loor design.

“By going down one level and then only going up one level, the building has a very intimate scale which again fits with the character of Princeton,” McCoy said.

“Going down a level also wraps the building in the Earth and takes advantage of the cooling effect of the Earth.”

Going underground also fit the needs of the laboratory, according to project architect Jonathan Reo. “Another strong reason we are below grade is because the laboratory program needs to be at bedrock,” Reo said, noting that the sensitive instruments of the ACEE lab require the stability afforded by placing a building at bedrock.

The facades’ limited use of glass windows also supports efforts at sustainability.

“The judicious use of glass maximizes the experience of the building but also makes it an energy-efficient envelope,” McCoy said, while also stressing the high energy needs required for the laboratory’s clean rooms.

In addition to sustainability, the building seeks to foster conversations and community through its design of staircases as social spaces, complementing their utilitarian use.

“The stairs … are very inviting, and open up onto lobbies and public spaces.

The stairs are very much part of the social fabric of the building,” McCoy said.

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modern innovations, the design seeks to hark back to Princeton’s history through its incorporation of gardens, visuals and historic architecture. According to Reo, the Andlinger Center will feature three gardens or courtyards integrated within the complex, a design element that pursues connection with other courtyards on campus.

“If you go into residence halls … you’ll find a similar feeling of passing through a building while still being inside a landscape,” Reo said.

McCoy highlighted the importance of building material, calling attention to the complex’s brick wall facade.

“This brick, which is on the one hand very much part of a contemporary design, also has an archaic quality,” McCoy said. “It really speaks to the tradition of masonry on campus.”

Within the building’s interior, the public corridors will feature a felt-fabric wall surface that depicts the sketches of scientists.

“They’ll be decorative but also tell a story of the history of discovery that is the world of science,” McCoy said.

As for the tension between preservation and looking to the future, it is worth noting that the historic McKim, Meade and White wall that surrounded the Osborn Clubhouse will frame the entry point to the Andlinger Center’s gardens.

“We wanted to use that wall and have it be the first moment of the building,” Reo said.

The Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment will begin to be occupied this summer and will be ready for the fall 2015 semester.

Triangle Club’s ‘An Inconvenient Sleuth’ under the magnifying glass ZOE PEROT Senior Writer

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n November, the Triangle Club faced a mystery that could only be solved by a certain sleuth. For their 124th year as a group, the Princeton Triangle Club staged “An Inconvenient Sleuth,” a play where the mayor of “Smalltown” is kidnapped and both the characters and audience attempt to discover the mastermind behind it all. This Reunions, the mystery has returned, and so has “An Inconvenient Sleuth” for encore performances during Reunions weekend.

Company Manager Maeve Brady ’15 described the production as a “crimey crime” with elements of various detective genres from film noir to cartoon classics like “Scooby-Doo.” The

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Triangle website summarizes the show as “a whodunit cluesical in Triangle’s finest tradition.”

However, this show is not entirely traditional. Brady noted that this year’s production is, for the first time, a “book show,” which means all the numbers and scenes follow one central plot. Business Manager Victoria Gruenberg ’16 expressed admiration of the coordination between the many teams that comprise Triangle Club in collaborating to create multiple sketches that all drew on the single plot while still remaining true to Triangle’s witty humor and creativity.

“Our writers and cast have handled it with grace, dexterity and impeccable comedic timing,” Gruenberg said.

“It is preposterously funny.”

Gruenberg and the other members of Triangle Club have some real-life experience with missing characters that members joke served as subconscious inspiration for this year’s missing mayor of Smalltown. While on tour last year, the Triangle bus left

Gruenberg behind at a South Carolina rest stop.

“I had to send an email from a State Trooper’s phone to the TriTour listserv that was just entitled ‘YOU GUYS LEFT ME AT A REST STOP’,” Gruenberg said. “I’ve honestly never laughed harder from happiness/relief/ ridiculousness of the situation than when the bus pulled in and the club was apologizing and grabbing me and hugging me all the way to my seat.”

Following the company’s Intersession tour, the Triangle show production process begins anew in the spring.

Triangle writers kick-start the process with brainstorming sessions and some preliminary sketch writing. Their pieces are then debuted in a “backer’s audition,” where the writers read through sketches and sing song verses for the Triangle trustees, who are Triangle alumni. Brady noted that the “backer’s audition” is an opportunity for writers to receive feedback and critique from an outside perspective.

The writers spend the summer revising, Skyping and rewriting different parts of the show. When they return to campus in the fall, there is a second backer’s audition for the updated material.

“Anyone in the club is welcome to attend [the second backer’s audition], and it’s so fun to see the show in its early stages — to see it come out of the mouths of the people conceiving and writing it,” Brady said.

A show runthrough is also performed for the director, music

director and choreographer, all of whom are professionals working with the club.

Auditions follow, and rehearsals begin shortly after. At this point, the many moving parts of the multifaceted Triangle Club spring into action. An orchestration mentor is brought in to work with the student musicians. Closer to the opening of the show, Triangle puts on a “trustee run,” which is an opportunity for current Triangle members to meet alumni and bond over a show, a meal and comedic camaraderie. Finally, just before the show opens, Triangle tech begins stage set-up in McCarter Theatre.

“We have weeks, but [the tech crew] basically has two days to pull everything together,” Brady said. “They stayed over fall break building an awesome set, and it’s so lucky for us actors.”

The week before the show opens involves multiple run-throughs as the company irons out the kinks with the inclusion of lights, costumes, props and the set. Show week is also a critical one for the club’s business team in promoting the show and selling tickets. The team, affectionately known as “Biz,” has launched unique publicity campaigns for this year’s show. Biz developed various interactive opportunities to engage students and the campus community in the sleuthing

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spirit. Inspired by the core elements and characteristics of mystery stories, the team unveiled scavenger hunts and promotional materials to bring people into the world of “An Inconvenient Sleuth” before anyone even stepped into McCarter Theatre when the show first opened in November.

“We wanted people to be able to play with us, whether that’s via our scavenger hunts — we have two: one on campus and one online — or the #TriSpy magnifying glasses that you can pick up and look through,” Gruenberg said. “Ultimately, we just want you to come laugh and sleuth with us — both in our Biz campaigns and in the show.”

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musical that reimagines romantic tropes as age-old as Pyramus and Thisbe with the music of the 1960s and runs almost uninterruptedly for over 50 years is, quite literally, timeless. In this sense, Princeton University Players’ Reunions show “The Fantasticks” could not be more fitting for the occasion.

“It’s the longest-running show in the world,” director and PUP president Cameron Platt ’16 explained. “It’s kind of an institution — a tried-and-true classic that people know well and one that’s been done the same way for a very long time.”

Platt, however, chose not to do things in the same way. “I have a lot of affection for the original production, but I’ve always thought there’s so much possibility in the text for it to really come alive in new ways.” The original puts a spin on the star-crossed lovers narrative: instead of being actual enemies, two fathers stage a family feud in order to orchestrate a romance between their children, Matt and Luisa. PUP’s production has put yet another spin on this variation through changes in the characters’ genders as well as backstories.

The main change comes in the role of El Gallo, who alternates between a narrator and a character who partakes in the action. While El Gallo is traditionally played by a man, Platt cast Sarah Cuneo ’15 in the role. “The original show only had one female role, and I wanted to give more opportunities to female actors,” Platt said.

While the change in El Gallo’s gender does not necessarily alter the plot, when combined with Platt’s hope to explore the character further, the casting decision led to a series of changes that shaped the entire show. According to Platt, in the Off-Broadway production, it is never made clear why El Gallo actively intervenes in the young lovers’ lives. “I wanted to find a way to give El Gallo a deeper emotional stake in what happens,” she said.

To explore this, Platt and Cuneo, along with Maeli Goren ’15, who plays Luisa, turned to another enigmatic character in the original production: Luisa’s mother, who does not appear in the show. However, Luisa does have a necklace of her mother’s that El Gallo takes from her for no apparent reason. Keeping in mind the possibilities made available by having a female El Gallo, Platt and Cuneo decided to pose El Gallo as Luisa’s absent mother.

This reinterpretation of El Gallo’s identity not only changes her relationship with Luisa, but also

the nature of the character. “In the original text, it’s very easy to read El Gallo as vaguely sinister because he’s an omniscient presence who’s pulling these strings,” Cuneo said. “Putting me in the mother role … it doesn’t feel sinister anymore. I’m interfering in these characters’ lives because I care about them.”

What began as a means of giving El Gallo motivation as a character, which Platt did not originally intend on making explicit to the audience, soon filtered into all aspects of the production. “It became so important to all our scene work, our choreography, everything, that we choreographed the opening number in such a way that the story point becomes very clear from the start and becomes the concept for the show,” Platt said.

Like in the opening sequence, the tailoring of the physical elements to the characters and plot pervades the rest of the production. Tying the physicality to the storyline is especially important, Cuneo explained, because the reinterpretation of El Gallo often only comes alive through the characters’ bodies instead of their lines. Thus, according to choreographer Ryan Gedrich ’16, the characters’ movement s, both in dance and otherwise, were all

created in collaboration with the actors.

“This is something that’s actually been generated by and feels very genuine to the actors … so it feels like one thing that is very solid and whole,” he said.

However, the entire process — including reimagining the characters and staging the choreography — had to be condensed into the very tight schedule of Dean’s Date and final LIN KING :: STREET EDITOR exams. Fortunately, the minimalist stag- Sarah Cuneo ’15 as El Gallo, a character who is male in the Off-Broadway production. ing of the show eased the workload. “ ‘The Fantasticks’ known among current students. complexities that even those who is pretty much meant to be done By comparison, older alumni may know the show may not anticipate. with a platform and a curtain, and be much more familiar.

Lastly, the theme of the story the score is written for a piano and “I also think that’s what makes itself is, as Platt said, “very Rea harp,” Cuneo said. “It’s a very dif- it so exciting as a Reunions show unions.” This is partially due to ficult piece for an actor, but it’s a — over the years, it’s become kind the musical’s status as a classic, very logistically doable piece.” of a cliché,” Gedrich said. “People but also because it is, at its core, Logistics aside, “The Fanta- think ‘The Fantasticks’ and they a show about memory. sticks,” particularly in this new think it’s a very simple, nostalgic “Especially in our reimagininterpretation, also caters to the show about people falling in and ing, the whole thing is rooted in Reunions audience on many out of love, when in reality, the parents and children, making other levels. Platt pointed out basis of the material is so nuanced memories,” Platt said. “Which — that, despite the show’s status as and intelligent.” The reinterpre- well, isn’t that what Reunions is a classic, it is surprisingly little tation, he hopes, will bring out all about? Making memories?”

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Steven Tran ’15 and Katherine Giordano ’18 as Mortimer and Henry, respectively.

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From left: Zach Levine ’17 and Evan Gedrich ’18 as the scheming fathers and Sam Gravitte ’17 and Maeli Goren ’15 as the lovers.

‘How the Other Half Loves’ showcases class divisions through set design HARRISON BLACKMAN Associate Street Editor

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n Theatre Intime’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s 1969 play “How the Other Half Loves,” the stage is literally divided in two halves.

“One half [of the set] is painted blue and gray; it’s got nice molding, nice wainscoting, nice furniture and it’s supposed to be for the wealthier family in this play,” production manager Rachel Xu ’17 said. “The other half is painted a hideous yellow and brown color scheme; it’s cluttered and gross, and so there is a very visual dichotomy that works well with the play.”

Concerning the implications of infidelity between three couples, the comedic “How the Other Half Loves” seeks to distinguish itself from a crowded Reunions lineup of shows by competing theater groups through an innovative

stage design and a show that appeals to both younger and older audiences.

The premise considers three couples — the wealthy Frank and Fiona Foster, the less wellendowed Bob and Teresa Philips and the innocent William and Mary Detweiller. Bob and William both work for Frank, but Bob and Frank’s wife Fiona are having an affair, while William suspects his wife Mary of infidelity. The Fosters and Philips couples have the Detweillers over to dinner on successive days to sort the mess out. Naturally, farcical hilarity ensues.

“There are very obvious parallels between the two couples,” Xu said. “A moment that happens in one of the households is sort of mirrored in the other.”

According to director Kristen Coke ’16, the show is ap-

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Alex Vogelsang ’18 as the wealthy Fiona Foster.

pealing because of the ability of the characters to be relatable.

“What really drew me to it [the show] was that I immediately was able to connect with all of the characters even though they all are older than I am,” Coke said. “I just felt like they were really real people that an audience would be able to sit down, be like, ‘Yes, I know a couple of people like this.’”

Coke is a senior writer for the Street section of the Daily Princetonian. According to Coke, the show’s timing during reunions presented challenges in recruiting a talented cast and finding housing for everyone, as well as scheduling rehearsals during finals week. But the amount of free time during dead week proved to be an asset for the show’s set design, Xu said.

“The tech schedule is a lot different because you have finals [week] before, so you can’t really do as much because people are studying,” Xu ex-

plained. “But then you have dead week, so you can do more because people are able to be around to build things. We had people in the theater until 2 a.m. the last five days putting finishing touches on the set.”

Xu added that the set for this production was one of the best Intime has built all year, and the set’s clear delineation of the backgrounds of two main couples helps establish the play’s conf lict.

“You really get different vibes just from the set,” Coke said. “From the moment you walk into the theater, you can immediately tell that two different things are going to happen [in regards to the wealthier Fosters and the Philips household, the two couples who inhabit the different houses].”

Robby Keown ’17, Nadia Diamond ’17, Erin O’Brien ’16, Adam Hudnut-Beumler ’17, T.J. Smith ’16 and Alex Vogelsang ’18 star in the production.

“Also, I think my actors all come from different walks of

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Frank (T.J. Smith ’16) corners the Detweillers (Adam Hudnut-Beumler ’17 and Erin O’Brien ’16).

life. They really come together and create these really adorable couples,” Coke said. “I didn’t really think who I [was] pairing together; [I] really [was] picking the most talented person for the individual roles.

They’ve worked so well as couples, so well as a team together. I’m really excited to see it all happen.”

“How the Other Half Loves” will run May 2830, at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday in the HamiltonMurray Theater.

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Robby Keown ’17 as the drunken Bob Philips.

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Nadia Diamond as Teresa Philips, Bob’s frequently flustered wife.