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News & Notes U. ranked 26th most innovative university in the world

The University was ranked 26th on Reuters’ list of the world’s top 100 most innovative universities. Stan ford, whose alumni have founded Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo and Google, was ranked first, Harvard was ranked third, and Yale was ranked 44th. The most innovative university in Europe, Imperial College London, was ranked 11th in the world, with Cambridge ranked 25th and Oxford ranked 40th. Reuters ranked the University using 10 different metrics, focusing on both academic papers and patent filings. The data was compiled by the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters.

By Nahrie Chung staff writer

The University will implement a more integrative orientation program for incoming freshmen starting with the Class of 2020, according to the Offices of the Dean of the College and Campus Life. While Outdoor Action and Community Action were previously considered “pre-Orientation” and optional for incoming freshmen, all new students will now participate in either activity in 2016. To ensure full participation in OA and CA, the University will no longer charge program fees for students to attend. In 2015, CA cost $495 and OA $645, with trips fully subsidized by the University for those receiving financial aid. Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne explained that the changes arrive after a long review of the University’s learning objectives for Orientation Week, in view of broader strategic goals for student life.

“Students and administrators have looked at Orientation broadly, looked at Orientation structures at other universities and peer institutions, and thought about what we do well and where there are opportunities for improvement,” Dunne said. Presenting the four-year University experience to incoming students, some of whom have never visited campus, has proved an overwhelming, often disjointed introduction in the past, Dunne said. He explained that a new centralized Orientation curriculum would provide cohesion across activities and help various communities on campus achieve general learning targets for Orientation week and beyond. “Whether you’re doing an offcampus trip or whether you’re a fall sport athlete, regardless of where you are in the process, you’re having the same types of conversations and the same material,” Dunne explained. Fall sport athletes will be included in the new orientation experience during the pre-sea-

son training by participating in workshops and discussions that will be similar to those happening during OA and CA, University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said. According to the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s 2011 Leadership report, whose key findings guided the Orientation Steering Committee’s work, the first several weeks and months play a critical role in establishing students’ sense of community on campus. Dunne noted that both OA and CA boost relationshipbuilding from the beginning, easing the transition into life at the University. “It’s immeasurably important to get to know your fellow classmates and also to have information from upper-class students who are not necessarily your [residential college advisers] but another point of information and a point of support,” Dunne said. According to Dunne, former Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey established the See ORIENTATION page 3

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The University’s Office of Career Services has transitioned to a new version of the HireTigers online career management system. The new site, which is powered by a different vendor and offers high-tech and hightouch resources for undergraduate and graduate students, went live on Sept. 1. After launching the initial version of HireTigers, which was powered by Symplicity, last fall, Career Services continued to evaluate other vendors and collect anonymous feedback from students as well as student groups such as the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club and the Undergraduate Student Government, Career Service’s Director of External Relations and Operations Evangeline Kubu said. Social platforms are increasingly used in recruiting, Kubu said, adding that Career Services ultimately chose the new vendor, Handshake, to create a site that would look and feel more like a social and profes-

sional networking platform. Handshake is a career services management platform that uses software to help facilitate interactions between students, employers and career services. Handshake CEO Garrett Lord declined to comment. “One of the key differences is that it was developed from the ground up with social recruiting and mobile interface in mind,” Kubu said. This update of HireTigers includes automatic calendar syncing, improved navigation and personalization capability. Michelle Nedashkovskaya ’16, president of the Peer Career Advisors, has been trained on the new site. She said she thinks it has an improved interface that integrates everything a student might need from Career Services in one place. She described the HireTigers site launched last fall as similar to the beta version of HireTigers. One problem with the old version, she said, was that it was complicated for students to select their academic and professional fields of interest from drop-down menus of See HIRETIGERS page 4

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Cruz ’92, Christie spar at debate By Ruby Shao news editor

The Iran nuclear deal is the biggest issue of 2016, Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator for Texas Ted Cruz ’92 argued at the Republican debate hosted by CNN on Wednesday. In the deal, the United Nations, the United States and the European Union lifted financial sanctions on Iran in return for the country reducing its nuclear activity, such as by decreasing the store of enriched uranium over the next 15 years. “The single biggest national security threat facing America right now is the threat of a nuclear Iran,” Cruz said. “If I am elected President, I promise on my very first day in office, I will rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal.” According to Cruz, President Barack Obama has shown weakness with regard to Iran in the past six and a half years. Cruz said that the deal would make the Obama administration “the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism” in sending over $100

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The top 11 Republican presidential candidates, including Ted Cruz ’92 and N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, participated in a CNN debate on Wednesday.

billion to the Ayatollah Khomeini, and that the agreement would also abandon four American hostages in Iran as well as accelerate Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. “Most astonishingly, this agreement trusts the Iranians to inspect themselves. That makes no sense whatsoever,” Cruz said. ”And I’ll have you know … Obama is violating federal law by not handing over the side deals, and we ought to see the United States Congress stand up together and say, ‘Hand over those treaties and protect this country.’ ”

Entrepreneur Donald Trump, who expressed support for deporting all undocumented immigrants, claimed that without his presence, the topic of illegal immigration would be far less prominent at the debate. Though former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina pointed out that national discourse has focused on the topic for the past 25 years, Cruz said he was very glad Trump’s candidacy has forced the mainstream media to examine the issue. Cruz added that voting records indicate a majority of the candi-

dates onstage have embraced amnesty, while he remains the only one to have never done so. He noted that he headed the battle to stop a massive amnesty plan presented in 2013 by Obama, certain Republicans and Democratic U.S. Senator for Nevada Harry Reid. “I’ve been leading the fight in the Senate to triple the border patrol, to put in place fencing and walls, to put in place a strong biometric exit-entry system,” Cruz said. In response to a charge that his campaigns to defund Planned

Parenthood will ruin the Republicans’ chance of securing the 2016 presidency, Cruz said he is proud to stand for life. He encouraged every American to view the Planned Parenthood videos, which he called horrifying. “It is a felony, with 10 years’ jail time, to sell the body parts of unborn children for profit,” he said. “Absolutely, we shouldn’t be sending $500 million of taxpayer money to funding an ongoing criminal enterprise.” See DEBATE page 5

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

U. alumnus removed from APA following DOD torture scandal By Jessica Li staff writer

A University alumnus was removed from his position as ethics director of the American Psychological Association in July after an independent review alleged that he collaborated with the Department of Defense to enable torture. Stephen Behnke ’82 was removed from the position in which he had served since 2000. His name appeared nearly 2,000 times in the report about the APA’s involvement in post-9/11 national security interrogations, which

was authored by Sidley Austin LLP partner David Hoffman. “APA wanted to foster the growth of the profession of psychology by supporting military and operational psychologists, rather than restricting their work in any way,” the report read in part. “Behnke and [Army psychological operations chief Morgan] Banks closely collaborated to emphasize points that followed then-existing DoD guidance (which used high-level concepts and did not prohibit techniques such as stress positions and sleep deprivation), to suppress

contrary points, and to keep the task force’s ethical statements at a very general level in order to avoid creating additional constraints on DoD.” Behnke deferred comment to his attorney, former FBI director Louis Freeh. Behnke rejects the Hoffman report “as a gross mischaracterization of his intentions, goals, and actions,” Freeh said. “Dr. Behnke will consider all legal options in the face of this unfair, irresponsible and unfounded action by a few APA Board Members.” Hoffman did not respond to requests for comment.

Annie Sovcik, director of the Washington, D.C., office of the Center for Victims of Torture, said the allegations levied in the Hoffman report were very serious. “There is this false impression that governments can extract information by breaking the victims down, but really, it becomes impossible to sift through what is reliable information as the victims tell what the interrogators want to hear,” Sovcik said. “Torture is universally banned.” After the disclosure of the Hoffman report to the APA, which had commis-

sioned the report, the APA formed a special committee to review the allegations contained in the report and to consider reforming the organization’s policies. Following a month-long deliberation process, the committee recommended a handful of structural changes and stripped a handful of senior executives of their titles, including Behnke. Susan McDaniel, a member of the independent review’s Special Committee within the APA, said the organization had no prior knowledge of instances of collusion with See SCANDAL page 6

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Class of 2019 mainly from New Jersey, California, New York By Annie Yang staff writer

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The Class of 2019 consists of 1,319 students from 46 states and Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam, with a plurality coming from California, New Jersey and New York. Nearly 37.6 percent of students came from these three states, a slight decrease from last year’s 38.7 percent. Alaska, Mississippi, Nebraska and South Dakota are not represented in the class, according to Dean of Admissions Janet Rapelye. Vidur Beharry ’19 comes from New York, one of the most represented states in his class, yet was the only student accepted to Princeton from his high school, DeWitt Clinton High

School in the Bronx. He said that he applied to the University with an ounce of hope that he would gain admission, and that he had first heard about the institution through the Questbridge program. “Being a low-income student, I was scouring for scholarships to afford a top-tier education,” Beharry said. “I also had to maneuver my way around paying to send SAT/ACT scores, and find ways to send my recommendation letters because all the teachers who had written me one were removed from my school.” Daniel Han ’19 comes from Guam, one of the least-represented of the states and territories at the University. Only one other student from his high school was accepted in the past few years, but chose not to matriculate. Han said he had heard of the University’s world-class education and was not deterred from applying. “I made sure to maintain good grades throughout high school while also pursuing varied extracurricular activities that interested me, such as participating in local volunteer efforts and in a school book club,” he said. “The part of the application process that stood out most to me was probably the interview; Princeton was the only college that offered an inperson interview to me.” The Class of 2019 includes 177 international students from 51 countries, which accounts for 13.4 percent of the class. Rapelye noted that there are more international students in the Class of 2019 than in the past few years. The Class of 2018 only included 11 percent international students. Tamara Macharashvili ’19, an international student from Georgia, explained that she had heard about Princeton through her sister, a current junior, but had never visited before. She

noted that the application process was different for her because the grading system and activities did not concur with that of the U.S. educational system. “I didn’t give much thought to studying in the U.S. until the last couple of years, so most of the activities I was doing came from a natural impulse, and weren’t even intended for the application,” she said of her application experience. “I could by no means determine if they were good enough and if I had a chance.” Thirty-five students returned from the Bridge Year program and will be joining the Class of 2019, while 35 students from the Class of 2019 chose to participate and will defer until next year, according to Rapelye. Overall, 46 students chose to defer for a year, a significant decrease from the 82 deferrals from the Class of 2018. Rapelye said the University reached its goal in number of enrolled students, with seven more freshman enrolled this year compared to the 1,312 students enrolled in the freshman Class of 2018. Students who attended public schools made up 58.6 percent of the class, while 28.6 percent attended independent schools, 12.1 percent attended religiously affiliated schools and 0.7 percent attended military or were home-schooled, Rapelye said. According to Rapelye, 21 percent of enrolling students indicated that they wanted to study in the BSE program. Women comprised 40.8 percent of the 277 intended BSE students, which is slightly lower than the 42 percent from the Class of 2018. “We approach each year with a fresh perspective and we are already visiting high schools to meet potential applicants for the Class of 2020,” Rapelye said.

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Orientation Steering Committee following recommendations set forth in two separate reports by the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life in 2010 and the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership in 2011. Cherrey deferred comment to Dunne. The committee, which began with co-chairs Dunne and former Undergraduate Student Government president Bruce Easop ’13, assembled student representatives from USG, College Council members, RCAs, as well as CA and OA leaders. Administrative representation included residential college administrators, the athletics department, the Office of the Dean of the College, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the Pace Center. As part of its review process, the committee conducted several surveys to gauge how students felt the orientation experience affected their transition into college. OA director Rick Curtis ’79 said people felt the small group environment was a great way to ease students’ tension and anxiety. He also said that students who chose not to participate in CA or OA sometimes felt that they had missed out on something, particularly when other

students would talk about their experiences during Orientation Week. “A particular area of focus for us was the students who choose not to do either pre-Orientation program and come to Princeton [to] realize, after the fact, that there’s been all this community-building that happened that they didn’t take part in,” Dunne said. The committee also found that hosting two move-in dates presented a logistical challenge for the University. Dunne explained that parents and families were often confused about the official start of Orientation when the majority of the freshman class was arriving one week early to participate in pre-Orientation programs. Some students in the committee spoke of “auditorium fatigue,” the result of hours of Orientation presentations in Richardson Auditorium, Dunne said. “Students had incredibly perceptive thoughts about where we could make improvements in this process, keeping us mindful of [the] sense of being overwhelmed and the orientation schedule being too packed,” he said. One way to ease this period of rapid turnarounds, Dunne explained, would be to acquaint students with their own class and welcome them with a stronger foundation of University

life, such as the residential college experience, prior to their departure for CA or OA. “Giving more time for people to settle in and understand Princeton before they go on any small group trips is very important,” he said. Furthermore, both CA and OA have already been expanding over the years to meet increasing student demand, Director of the Pace Center Dave Brown said. Brown explained that CA has now branched into asset-based approaches to service, which seek to recognize and build on the assets that exist in communities. These approaches include groups examining civic engagement in an interfaith context or through the arts. Brown said two new projects were added this year, one addressing the history of a community and the other focusing on the role of journalism in justice issues. The goal of the new orientation program is not only to provide a cohesive introduction to the University but also to provide continued support for students into their first year, Brown said. He added that many campus resources help students follow through with interesting opportunities they encounter during Orientation. “Whether it’s through the Pace Center or the climbing wall at OA, there are a lot of ways people can do service and get

involved,” Curtis said. “I look at this [Orientation program] as the first investment and the first touch.” Curtis said OA is committed to creating an environment for students to connect on a peerto-peer level, and noted that the trip serves as a first step in students’ lives at the University. “We’ve always looked at it as an orientation experience first, and an outdoor experience second,” Curtis said. “That continues as we move into this new model.” Curtis added that the OA program has created a more diverse range of trips, from basecamporiented to sustainable farming, in order to match the diversity of the freshman class. He said that like CA, the OA program would continue to develop experiences, activities and small-group discussions in line with the broader strategic goals for Orientation week. “There are a series of learning objectives that are being identified for Orientation in general, so those will obviously trickle back down to Outdoor Action and Community Action,” Curtis said. “I think that will be an interesting process over the course of the year.” According to an email from OA, there will be a town hall meeting on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh 10 for the OA community to discuss the changes to the orientation program.

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options. “This time it’ll just be clearer and easier to handle,” Nedashkovskaya said. “You are now supposed to bring in more information about yourself, and employers will be able to see your information on there so that will make everything much easier to filter through and make opportunities that are more relevant to your interests accessible to you.” Yankia Ned ’17, who logged into the new site and explored the updates, said that although she didn’t use HireTigers much before, she might use it now.

“It’s definitely more intuitive. It’s kind of like Facebook in a way, and I kind of like that,” Ned said. “They should definitely have a more specified way of seeing things though so you don’t get flooded with information.” Viveka Mastandrea ’17, said she thinks learning how to better highlight her strengths to employers online would be helpful. “It’s so different now that people can access that more easily,” Mastandrea said. “I am kind of more in favor of being able to separate personal accounts and professional accounts, but I’m still very much a fan of social sites like LinkedIn for getting yourself out there.”

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Kubu explained that the update to HireTigers comes at the beginning of a concerted effort Career Services will be making in the coming months to educate and engage students online and across social platforms. She said she thinks most students use social media primarily for personal use, but more and more employers are looking at candidates’ profiles on different social media sites. Career Services is going to try to connect with all of its stakeholders online on sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter this upcoming academic year, she added. “We’re really going to be focusing on the nuances between professional and personal uses

of social sites,” Kubu said. “We’re going to enhance our efforts to teach students how to design a professional digital presence.” Career Services launched HireTigers in September 2014 as a replacement for the former TigerTracks system, in response to student feedback that the former platform was outdated and difficult to navigate. Kubu also noted that Career Services is constantly reevaluating the technology it uses in order to provide cutting-edge resources to students. “Students should stay tuned for additional resources that are going to be added soon,” Kubu said. “We’re actively looking at many other technologies.”

News & Notes Harvard final club becomes first to extend invitations to women The Spee Club, a previously all-male final club at Harvard, decided to send its first invitations to female members Friday, the New York Times reported. Matthew Lee, president of the Spee Club, told the Times in an email that the club had voted to admit all genders as it began recruiting members for the 2015-16 academic year. When Harvard had demanded in 1984 that its social clubs start admitting women, the clubs had responded by severing ties with the university and moving off-campus. It was not clear on Friday whether any of the other all-

male clubs would behave similarly. However, Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana told the Times that the clubs have reached out to the university about how to move the organizations in that direction. Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest theater company, also said it was discussing whether to allow women to perform onstage. Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust had been putting pressure on the clubs to admit women, criticizing the elitist atmosphere fostered by the clubs. “To have certain groups that can dispense privilege and advantage in very significant ways that exclude individuals from membership is very troubling,” she told the Harvard Crimson.

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University trustee Gov. Chris Christie echoed Cruz’s views. “Six years ago, as the brand new first ever pro-life governor of New Jersey since Roe v. Wade, I defunded Planned Parenthood, and I’ve vetoed Planned Parenthood funding eight times,” Christie said. He called for the Republican candidates to stop fighting among one another and to instead confront Democratic abortion supporters like Hillary Clinton. In addition, Christie approved of previous governmental actions in the Middle East, saying that those decisions secured America until Obama took that safety away. “I support what President Bush did at that time: going into Afghanistan, hunting Al Qaeda and its leaders, getting its sanctuary out of place and making it as difficult around the world for them to move people and money,” Christie said. “And then they went to prosecutors like us, and he said, ‘Never again … intervene before the crime happens.’ ” CNN invited the top 11 candi-

dates leading in national polls to the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. for the second of 12 scheduled Republican presidential debates. Aside from Cruz, Christie, Trump and Fiorina, the participants were U.S. Senator for Kentucky Rand Paul, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, U.S. Senator for Florida Marco Rubio, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. The program began at 8 p.m. and ended at approximately 11:15 p.m. Two hours prior, the CNN debate for less popular candidates featured Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, U.S. Senator for South Carolina Lindsey Graham, former U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania Rick Santorum and former New York Gov. George Pataki, each of whom is receiving about one percent of support in the polls. CNN anchor Jake Tapper moderated the debate, which included additional questions from Republican radio host Hugh Hewitt and CNN political correspondent Dana Bush.

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Due to an editing error, the Sept. 16 article, “Eisgruber ’83 addresses freshmen,” was printed twice. The text of the Sept. 16 article, “Class of 2019 predominantly from 3 states,“ is published in this issue on page 2. The ‘Prince’ regrets the error.

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the U.S. government. Nadine Kaslow, chairwoman of the APA’s Special Committee, declined to be interviewed but released a statement to The Daily Princetonian that said the APA apologized for its behavior and the ensuing consequences. Freeh, however, said Behnke was not given sufficient opportunity to respond to the report’s findings. He added he believed some APA board members had targeted Behnke and made false claims. “Fortunately, in America it is judges and juries who decide the law, not private organizations […] fraught with conflicts of interest,” Freeh said, adding Behnke may take legal action against the APA.

Despite his exit from the APA, Behnke retains his appointment as a part-time medical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, according to Jerry Berger, communications director of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which is a teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Several Harvard administrators contacted would not confirm or deny Behnke’s appointment, but Behnke remained listed in Harvard’s online directory as a medical ethics instructor as of press time. Berger added that Behnke does not teach on Harvard’s main campus in Cambridge. Jonathan Moreno, a professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, said that because Behnke has not been convicted of a crime, he is protected under the prin-

ciples of academic freedom and should not be deprived of any institutional titles. Moreno noted that John Yoo, who attracted controversy in 2006 for authoring memos that advised the Bush administration it was legal to use so-called enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding, remained as the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, which is one of the most prestigious titles given to faculty at that school. “If [Behnke] was in my department, he and I would go forth all the time not agreeing with each other, but I would still defend his right to be in the department,” Moreno said. Behnke was a classics major at the University and graduated as salutatorian. He was also a member of Ivy Club and the karate team.

Study abroad sucked — you should try it!

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efore I left for my semester abroad at the University of Sussex last spring, an older friend who had also spent her junior spring in England gave me advice which would ring truer than she could possibly have expected. “You can’t expect every day to be the greatest adventure of your life,” she said. “In fact, sometimes it’s going to suck — and that’s okay. That’s normal. That’s life.” My experience abroad was miserable: it was the worst semester of my life. And I’m glad I did it. I arrived in the dark gray winter, the sun barely staying up past 4 p.m. The campus was made of drab brick. While other exchange students headed into town for (legal!) drinks and friend-making, I entombed myself in my room, studying for the three exams that Princeton’s outdated academic schedule forced me to take during my first week of classes at Sussex. My flatmates ran the gamut of isolating personalities from anti-social to chauvinist pigs, and they left the kitchen and stairwell such a jungle of rubbish, mold and flies that the university regularly threatened to fine us, or worse. Less than a month in, my girlfriend broke up with me. It rained every day, and I would go weeks without seeing the sun. Isolated from my old friends and unable to make new ones, I found myself adrift academically, socially and, eventually, emotionally. There were days I felt too sick to leave bed. I never seriously contemplated suicide or selfharm, but the thought did regularly occur to me that a serious injury or sickness would allow me to escape the gray apathy that was as ubiquitous as Brighton’s wet sea mist. It should be clear that I was dealing with significant mental health problems. But this is not a column about mental health on either Princeton’s or Sussex’s campuses. Nor is it a plea for attention (at least, no more than any other of my columns). In fact, this is a column urging you to study abroad. I’ve always been stunned by the resilience of the human mind. Somehow, every year, 1,300 freshmen arrive on this campus, most without having experienced anything similar to the academic, social and emotional minefield that is Princeton. It is a testament to our adaptivity that somehow, every year, those 1,300 become integral parts of a community which, for all its problems, has a remarkable sense of shared mission and historical continuity. The roles of so-called safe and unsafe spaces in collegiate discourse have been thoroughly discussed and mocked, with safe spaces variously regarded as either a critical component for a community filled with youthful, vulnerable minds, or as a damaging idea which allows escape from appropriately challenging discourse. Setting aside the hysteria which pops up on either side of this debate, the safe space/unsafe space distinction is overly simplistic — a particular distinction to this model is one we discuss in Outdoor Action when preparing to lead trips. This further divides safe spaces into two areas: comfort zones, in which we are not challenged and cannot grow, and the learning edge, where we can take new perspectives, consider uncomfortable ideas and grow as people. This spring, I lived in and beyond the learning edge. And I think this edge is a far broader area than we give it credit for. I was unequivocally out of my depth for a few months, and I still managed to learn and grow as a person. I grew closer to my friends, for I leaned on friends at home, and did eventually push myself to reach out to new friends in Brighton, as we revealed our vulnerabilities to each other. I grew in my understanding of my life’s goals, as I searched for what components of research and writing I did — or didn’t — find meaningful. And I grew in understanding myself, as I saw myself pushed to the edge and beyond. Safety nets matter. I would have been utterly lost without the help of friends to keep me grounded, family to remind me of who I am, spiritual communities to keep me seeking truth beyond myself, and counseling over the summer. But just as without these I would not have found myself again, without unmooring myself from Princeton’s comfort, I would never have bothered to search for myself in the first place. These 1,300 freshmen who are just now settling in will adjust to Princeton only because we can, and must, live on the learning edge. Those of them who change the world will do so only because they were challenged and grew. My senior year schedule is a Rubik’s Cube of conflicting requirements, and I got a late start on my thesis work. But studying abroad was never about building marketable or testable skills. However much my research or scholarship tied into my term abroad, I am not a researcher or a scholar first, but a human being — and it is as a human being that I grew most this spring. So leave your comfort zone. Study abroad, challenge your politics or religion, talk to strangers. College is about growing. Meaningful life is lived on the learning edge. Sometimes, it’s going to suck. It was the worst semester of my life. But I’m glad I did it, and I think everyone should. Because that’s okay; that’s normal. That’s life. Bennett McIntosh is a chemistry major from Littleton, Colo. He can be reached at bam2@princeton.edu.

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Shame on the University To the Editor: Shame on the University. The prestigious Ivy League university’s policy, found in the “Respect for Others” subsection of “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities,” states: “As an intellectual community, [the University] attaches great value to freedom of expression and vigorous debate, but it also attaches great importance to mutual respect, and it deplores expressions of hatred directed against any individual or group.” However, the University makes

an exception to this policy for one of its own: bioethics professor Peter Singer. Singer has outraged the disability community with his horrific attitude toward people with disabilities. In his book, “Unsanctifying Human Life: Essays on Ethics,” Singer writes that some members of our species, specifically the disabled, should not be classified as human. Singer also argues for the morality of non-voluntary euthanasia for human beings not capable of understanding the choice between life and death, including “severely disabled infants, and people who

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through accident, illness, or old age have permanently lost the capacity to the issue involved.” How can the University allow a member of its faculty to teach students that disabled people have less value than those without disabilities, or that babies with severe disabilities should be killed to save on health care costs? Why does the university allow hate speech, in direct violation of its policy on respect? Luke Koppisch Deputy Director Alliance Center for Independence

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The curse of chasing “well-rounded” Azza Cohen columnist

’m juggling, as we all are, the many different decisions one makes at the beginning of the school year. For those of us who are seniors, it feels even bigger: what to do with our last precious semesters here. The process is complex to say the least. However, the University makes it even harder with mandatory distribution requirements. As a liberal arts institution, Princeton prides itself on its interdisciplinary atmosphere where students can challenge their perceptions, go outside their academic comfort zone and form new ideas. The distribution requirements hinder the academic curiosity that the University seeks to encourage. Currently, there are seven distribution areas, ranging from epistemology and cognition to science and technology. To meet all of these requirements, A.B. students must use 10 of their class slots, or approximately 32 percent of their courses at the University. For B.S.E. students, this totals six class slots, or approximately 17 percent. While the intention may be to explore new and unfamiliar areas, one does not actually have to take classes in multiple disciplines to fulfill these distribution requirements. For example, the anthropology department offers several classes that fulfill the SA, LA, HA, STL and EM requirements. Even some engineering courses fulfill the HA and EM requirements.

In fact, the African-American studies, architecture, East Asian studies, English, German and history departments all include cross-listed courses, fulfilling four or more distribution requirements. Therefore, students concentrating in those departments could ostensibly take classes only in those departments and simultaneously fulfill nearly all of their distribution requirements. This specialization is only perpetuated by our freshman and sophomore academic advising system, which relies on professors who are largely unfamiliar with courses in other departments. Although academic advisers understand what the requirements are, they often cannot offer specific advice on what classes might suit a student best. My freshman year academic adviser taught Greek; it was impossible for him to offer advice on whether to take an introductory science or theater class, and it would be ridiculous to expect him to. Either the University should train and expect academic advisers to help students choose courses that fulfill the distribution requirements, or it should let students choose courses they want to take. Students at the University are both interesting and interested; they are Renaissance women and men. The University need not define our schedules. Of course, distribution requirements can push some students to take a class outside their academic comfort zones. For instance, an engineering friend of mine took a Hindi literature course that he loved,

and he might not have taken it had it not been for the distribution requirement. However, this seems to be the exception rather than the norm. The University should trust its students’ ability to choose a diverse and interdisciplinary set of courses, which even the distribution requirements might not fulfill. There is nothing wrong with replacing the current system. The University has changed multiple times throughout its history to answer the question of how to make students well-rounded, from the development of the preceptorial method in 1905, to the four-course plan which introduced the concept of junior independent work in 1925, to the introduction of the A.B. degree in 1947. In early 1946, then-University President Harold W. Dodds, GS Class of 1914, commissioned Donald Stauffer ’23, then a professor in the English department, to write “The Idea of a Princeton Education.” Stauffer raised — and answered — the following questions: What guiding ideas distinguish the University? What holds it firm? In education, what does the University stand for? Discussing the liberal arts in the May 1946 issue of Princeton Alumni Weekly, Stauffer concluded “ … that the study [a Princeton student] has devoted to his chosen field must be truly comprehensive. Again, he is taught through experience the unity of knowledge.” Although this debate is historic, it is timely today: according to the University’s Strategic Planning website, the University trustees recently created a

series of task forces which will address various campus issues, specifically including distribution requirements. The Task Force on General Education will review the general education course requirements, electives, concentrations and independent work. There will always be complaints. The curriculum should be more like Columbia’s (with a rigorous core curriculum) or Brown’s (without requirements). This debate has been, and will continue to be framed within the extremes of the curriculum spectrum: too many versus too few. To the task force: please consider that enrichment need not be strictly mandated. Maybe it’s just me, but the classes I have treasured the most have been the ones that I have chosen. Whether it’s a subject that I love or a subject that I’ve never heard of, the University offers plenty of inspiring courses; it is the job of the University to foster an atmosphere in which students choose to expand their academics, rather than dictate what is and what is not enriching. As a senior, I have a lot for which to be grateful – my class schedule is one of them. Perhaps it is my nostalgia that is fueling my contention with distribution requirements because I know I cannot take all the classes I want to before I graduate. Thank you, Princeton, for giving us this incredible menu: please, let me choose what to order. Azza Cohen is a history major from Highland Park, Ill. She can be reached at accohen@princeton.edu.

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Tigers kick into gear

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This weekend’s game against William & Mary will be the last of non-Ivy play for the women’s soccer team (4-3).

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No. 11 men’s water polo team (4-1) will head west this weekend on its annual trip to California.

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The football team’s season opener is on Saturday against Lafayette, giving the Tigers the longest wait in Division I to begin its 2015 season.

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Women’s volleyball (2-4) will have a tournament at Rutgers this weekend.

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Men’s soccer (1-2) will face off against Boston University this Saturday, hosting the Terriers in the home opener.

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No. 20 women’s field hockey team (1-3) will play American after falling to No. 18 Delaware.

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LIL DICKY

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Ready to have some fun — with just part of Fun.? Nate Ruess, the former lead singer of the band behind such high school party heart-stoppers “Some Nights” and “We Are Young” will be your Princeton headliner. Believe it or not, Ruess’ career started long before Fun., as part of the indie rock band The Format from 2001-08, so named because of its goal of bucking the standardized “formats” for making hit singles. Ironically, Ruess’ participation in Fun. led to some really big hit singles, which some might say follow a certain “format” — with “We Are Young” winning the 2013 Grammy for Song of the Year. In 2014, Ruess and his bandmates Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost parted ways as Fun. went on hiatus. The trio has been productive: Antonoff has worked on his indie rock band “Bleachers,” Dost has worked with his band “Anathello,” and Ruess has pursued a solo career with his new backup band YouTube it: the Romantics, who first performed as a group on May 31, 2015. Moreover, Ruess appeared “WE ARE YOUNG” as a guest adviser on “The Voice” and released in June his debut album “Grand Romantic,” “NOTHING WITHfeaturing a collaboration with Beck in “What This World Is Coming To.” In the past Ruess has OUT LOVE” also collaborated with P!nk in “Just Give Me a Reason” and Eminem in “Headlights.” In short: Be prepared for a fun time. We are young. Carry me home. Tonight.

HOLYCHILD

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Like rap? How about satirical rap? Dave Burd was just an aspiring comedian hailing from Philadelphia when he launched “So Hard”, his debut rap mixtape in 2013. Adopting the moniker “Lil Dicky,” Burd became one of the first proponents of satirical “anti-rap,” a meta-genre that recognizes the frequent excess and absurdity of hip hop culture. After the video for his song “Ex-Boyfriend” went viral, he went bonkers, releasing a new song every week for 32 weeks. He then ran out of money and launched a Kickstarter campaign that raised $113,000. What is Lil Dicky’s goal? Just refer to his song, “Professional Rapper,” featuring Snoop Dogg: “Well, I wanna to be the dude that came in and made the stand up rap with the random rap and the man like that for the people that was antirap.” Do with that what you will. Signed to same record label as Tyga and Chiddy Bang, Lil Dicky is YouTube it: heading places. His debut album, “Professional “PROFESSIONAL Rapper,” came out in 2010 and featured the likes RAPPER” of Snoop Dogg, T-Pain, Fetty Wap and Brandon Urie from Panic! at the Disco. See him at Colonial “EX-BOYFRIEND” before he gets to the arena-level.

You might be surprised by the diversity of sounds just one trumpeter and one drummer can make. Brasstracks, which describes its sound as “future bass,” proves that combiSoundcloud it: nation has a lot of range indeed — “R KELLY – IGNITION (REMIX)” the duo has remixed everyone from “DREAMING AT THE FUNCDrake to TNGHT. Its music may not be heavy on the words, but it’s TION (JNTHN STEIN X definitely heavy on the potential for BRASSTRACKS)” some major eyes-closed hands-inthe-air hip-swaying.

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The L.A.-based duo behind HOLYCHILD has at least two things in common with Princeton students: 1. They went to college (at George Washington University) and met when instrumentalist Louie Diller was the accompanist for songwriter and singer Liz Nistico’s dance class. 2. According to their Facebook page, they’re influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Class of 1917 — along with more contemporary artists like Thelonious Monk and St. Vincent. HOLYCHILD’s beats, which they’ve dubbed “brat pop,” are highly danceable and head-boppable. Just this past June, the group released their first full-length album, “The Shape of Brat Pop to Come,” with Glassnote Records, which is also home to Childish Gambino, Mumford & Sons, and Temper Trap. (Fun fact: Glassnote Records’ founder spoke at Princeton last October.) Of the band’s new album, Billboard wrote, “The L.A. group is fearlessly ambitious — and has written some of the best pop music you’ll hear all year.” You might recognize their latest single “Running Behind” from USG’s announcement video — and also from the global Apple Watch commercial.

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YOUNG RISING SONS

YouTube it: “HIGH” “TURNIN’” “FUCKER UP”

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You know those songs that get stuck in your head because it’s on every other soft drink commercial, car commercial, summer award show commercial and anythingrelated-to-fun commercial? Meet Young Rising Sons, the band behind the hit “High,” one of the unofficial summer jams of 2014 that has been featured in adverts for Hulu and Pepsi, among many others. It’s the type of song that makes you picture yourself in a swimsuit, tanning on an impeccably kept suburban lawn, with a Ray Ban-clad romantic interest and a spiked lemonade; in other words, it’s the perfect song for Lawnparties. The four-piece indie pop band, which is actually of New Jersey origin, formed in 2010, and has since toured with Weezer, The 1975, The Neighborhood and Bleachers, among numerous others Citing influences that range from Queen to Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Young Rising Sons is definitely rising fast. It will be releasing its first LP with a record label, so be sure to catch the band on the lawn of Tower before it becomes too big for our student budgets to see.

If you’re going to listen to jazz, you might as well get it straight from its motherland: join Big Sam’s Funky Nation, a jazz/funk/rock group with a big sound and a Spotify it: growing collection of tracks that will charm anyone look“NEW FUNK” ing for something groovy. The group was founded by Big “FUNKY DONKEY” Sam, the former trombonist of the Dirty Dozen Brass “KING OF THE PARTY” Band, a major influence in the New Orleans music scene responsible for innovating the fusion of funk and bebop into traditional New Orleans jazz. With their high energy and feel-good jams, Big Sam’s Funky Nation has become a favorite at major festivals, including the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits. In addition, the band has been featured on “LIVE! with Regis & Kelly” and the HBO original show “Treme,” among others. Make your way down to Charter for an alternative take on Lawnparties acts — one that will bring out your inner boogie instincts.

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Freshmen may know Charlie Baker ’17 as the funny guy from Tiger’s Roar; those who’ve been around for longer probably know him as 50 percent of Baker & Goods. Goods, also known as Lachlan Kermode, isn’t on campus this year, but just Baker is plenty talented as a singer and songwriter to more than hold his own opening for Young Rising Sons. Baker’s instrument of choice when singing is an acoustic guitar — though you will also catch him wielding his fearsome wit as a member of improv troupe Quipfire! and his showcasing acting chops as a regular actor in Theatre Intime productions.

YouTube it: “SATURDAY NIGHT” “OH”

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HOT DATE

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Where will you (possibly) be able to find “Crazy In Love,” “Sweet Child of Mine,” “Empire State,” and “Wagon Wheel” all in one place on Sunday? At Cannon, where Hot Date will be performing! This Fireball YouTube it: Whisky-sponsored five-member party cover band from Long “FUCK YOU BY Island, N.Y., boasts a repertoire that spans the ’60s to today CEE LO GREEN in genres from dance to rock to hip hop to country. And yes, all of those songs are on their song list — which is over 1,000 (COVER” songs long.

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MY HERO ZERO YouTube it: “GANGNAM STYLE MASHUP WITH SEXY AND I KNOW IT” “SUGAR WE’RE GOING DOWN COVER”

My Hero Zero, “State College PA’s most popular band,” is a five-piece band that covers and mashes up hits such as Flo Rida’s “Good Feeling” and The Proclaimers’ “I Would Walk 500 Miles.” Dreadlocked and harmonica-wielding Jason Olcese is the lead singer (who also occasionally raps); the other four men in the band — Greg Folsom, Michael Lee, Noah Connolly, and Donovan O’Rourke — play guitar, keyboard, sax, and drums, to name just a few instruments. Oh, and like Hot Date Band, they’re sponsored by Fireball Whisky.

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BELLATONIC

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Are you in the mood for some classy grooves to go along with your preppy attire? Then head on down to Cloister for Bellatonic for a modern trip to the Old Standards with modern indie influences. Marketed as “NYC’s ultimate millenial jazz-lounge group,” Bellatonic plays covers of classic jazz and rock for the 21st century, such as “I’ve Put a Spell On You” by Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Fly Me to Moon” by Frank Sinatra, and even Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black.” Performing songs from artists as varied as Radiohead, Oasis, Bjork, Dolly Parton, Louie Armstrong, Michael Jackson and “Gotye (not that one song),” Bellatonic is the perfect fuel to assume the ultimate Princetonian musical aesthetic while you listen to all the music you’ve heard on Spotify in your short time on Earth and on your grandparents’ radio with their lengthy time on Earth. Bellatonic appeals to literally everyone, whether you’re into Jack White or Johann Sebastian Bach. Embrace your YouTube it: inner contemporary F. Scott Fitzgerald attitude and make “BELLATONIC it to Cloister, ladies and gents, for a grand time this side DEMO REEL” of paradise.