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Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership, an initiative that forges collaborations between industry and University experts, and ExxonMobil entered into a five-year agreement to pursue transformational innovations in the fields of energy and environment, the University’s Office of Engineering Communications announced this summer.

ExxonMobil’s commitment to invest $5 million during the next five years is the largest financial commitment in the E-ffiliates Partnership.

Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership, founded in 2011, offers its corporate members an opportunity to explore research frontiers and engage faculty and students outside the company’s core expertise.

E-ffiliates is administered by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment in close collaboration with the Princeton Environmental Institute, the School of Architecture and the Wilson School.

“If you combine technologically and economically feasible with scientifically feasible, it means that you have to have interactions with the practitioners, which means with industry,” Pablo Debenedetti, the University’s dean for research, explained. “Interactions with the energy industry are a way of enriching the research that you do and enriching the teaching that you do.”

ExxonMobil’s recent investment continues the company’s collaboration with the best and brightest See EXXONMOBIL page 5

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The University Art Museum hosted the Nassau Street Sampler on Thursday, featuring performances and a silent DJ alongside artwork.

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NJ arts council gives $11M to local arts organizations

By Katherine Oh staff writer

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts awarded approximately $11 million total in grants to arts organizations in the Princeton community on July 21.

The McCarter Theatre Center, the University Art Museum and the Arts Council of Princeton were among local organizations to receive the NJSCA grant.

The NJSCA is financed in part by the National Endowment for Arts. The Council approved over $15.7 million in

grant funding statewide this year.

NJSCA Executive Director Nicholas Paleologos and Director of Communications Allison Tratner did not respond to requests for comment.

Executive Director of the Arts Council of Princeton Jeff Nathanson explained that the NJSCA has a number of different grant programs. Among those, the annual general operating support grants run in three-year cycles. After submitting a letter of intent around December, a local arts organization has to wait for the NJSCA’s confirmation of

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erating, it means [the money] is not specific to activities or projects.”

Honore noted that this is in contrast to grants from other foundations, which often designate where the funding will be allocated towards — education, for example.

According to Honore, a grant amount of approximately $626,000 will be allocated across all ongoing projects at the McCarter Theatre, which will be using the funding to provide for the salaries of staff across all projects and productions. She noted that See GRANTS page 4

STUDENT LIFE

U. updates smoking policy, prohibits smoking within 25 feet of workplaces

News & Notes U. ranks no. 18 on New York Times College Access Index

The University ranked 18th out of 179 colleges on The New York Times College Access Index, which was released on Sept. 16.

The College Access Index was developed to measure the effort colleges make on economic diversity and took into account factors such as the proportion of students on Pell grants, the likelihood of those students graduating, as well as the costs low and middle-income students incur after financial aid from their college.

According to the list, the University’s Pell grad share is 13 percent, and the net price after financial aid for middle-income students is approximately $7,000.

Although the index showed that the University has the largest endowment per student at $2.32 million, it also showed low-income students representing a relatively small part of the total student body at the University compared to some of the other universities on the list.

The index also indicated that the University of California is a clear leader in economic diversity among top colleges, with 6 of its campuses ranking among the top 7 schools on the list.

eligibility. They then have to submit a grant proposal in February, and the organizations to receive grants are announced at the annual NJSCA board meeting in July, Nathanson explained.

For accountability, arts organizations receiving any NJSCA grant are required to annually submit a midyear and final report, Nathanson said.

“Many arts organizations receive three-year operating state grants,” Andrea Honore, Director of Institutional Giving at the McCarter Theatre, said. “And because this is op-

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The University has updated the “Smoking” section of “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” in the past week to prohibit smoking within 25 feet of all workplaces and buildings of public access.

Section 1.5.3 had previously only prohibited smoking within workplaces and buildings of public access.

The prohibition continues

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to extend to e-cigarettes.

Greg Cantrell, associate director for Workplace Safety in the Office of Environmental Health and Safety, said that New Jersey law does not go as far as the University’s new policy.

“One of the challenges of New Jersey law is that it does not define a distance outside of a building in which smoking is permitted,” Cantrell said. “It has some vague language about See SMOKING page 2

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Yik Yak attracts attention on mental health issues

Student reportedly fondled outside Friend Center

By Durva Trivedi

A fondling incident was reported at about 8:37 p.m. on Thursday outside Friend Center, according to an email announcement by the Department of Public Safety.

According to the email, a female student reported being grabbed by her buttocks by an unidentified man while walking on Charlton Street. The suspect fled toward Nassau Street after the incident.

The suspect was described by the female student as a Hispanic man with black hair wearing a

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YikYak, a mobile app that lets users anonymously write and view posts called “Yaks” within a five-mile radius, has attracted some notice from the University and other schools as a medium for students struggling with mental health issues.

Students battling mental health-related issues were among those at the University who posted Yaks since it

became popular on campus last year. In some of these anonymous posts, they admitted to having feelings of depression, suicidal thoughts, or suicidal intent.

Students at other universities, such as the College of William and Mary and Villanova University, have also been posting anonymous thoughts asking for help on YikYak when they felt suicidal or depressed, NPR reported.

Students have also posted

similar anonymous messages to Tiger Admirers, a Facebook page within the University community usually used for posting anonymous notes of admiration.

“I fear am at risk of killing myself. I feel so alone. Its sucks to not be wanted by anyone, to not have someone you can call a best friend, to go for weeks without a phone call or text message. I want to be dead. I don’t want to exist,” an anonymous See YIKYAK page 3

By Do-Hyeong Myeong associate news editor

grey hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans, the email said. The suspect was estimated to be about 5 feet 5 inches tall and between 25 to 30 years old.

The student was not injured.

The DPS searched the area but could not locate the suspect.

“The safety of our students and members of the University community is a top priority, so we take any such report very seriously,” University spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.

He added that the DPS is working closely with the Princeton Police Department to investigate the incident. They have also enhanced patrols in the area.

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prohibiting smoking in areas where smoke might be

pulled back into a building.”

The Daily Princetonian reported on Nov. 24 that the University was considering updating its policy.

Cantrell said the Advisory Board to Healthier Princeton had initiated the idea for revising the University’s smoking policy.

Other students, faculty and staff affiliated with the board were not immediately available for comment or did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The board ultimately recommended adding a distance specification to the University’s policy, Cantrell added.

“There aren’t very many complaints, but those complaints that we do receive are frequently caused by smoking that takes place very near a building, particularly near an air intake or the main doors going in and out of the building,” Cantrell ex-

plained. “This should go a long way toward eliminating situations where smoke is pulled back into a building.”

The new policy also includes language about partially enclosed areas such as archways, Cantrell noted.

The working group on the board found that smoke in these areas can be pulled back into buildings and is similar in effect to smoke that lingers indoors, he explained.

“One of the complaints that we heard very loudly from the undergraduates was that there were concerns about going through these archways … where other students were smoking,” Cantrell said.

While some campuses around the country have adopted complete smoke-free policies, Cantrell said EHS was made the primary office for administering the

policy because the University is focused on preventing exposure to harmful substances and responding to violations and complaints with technical support rather than providing a punitive response.

The University also had to take into consideration how diverse the population using the campus is, he added.

“There are a number of institutions that have handled this in a variety of ways,” Cantrell said. “We felt the approach that we took … was an appropriate policy and response for Princeton University.”

The board’s working group also expressed concern about where community members were supposed to direct questions, concerns and complaints about smoking on campus, so the University created a website with contact information, he added.

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CPS director Chin: “It’s good to try to reply with an encouraging message if you can” YIKYAK

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Tiger Admirers post from last May said.

Undergraduate Student Government president Ella Cheng ’16, who has also previously expressed concern with YikYak, said she does not think YikYak is the ideal medium for posts dealing with mental health issues.

“If people aren’t ready to reach out to someone in person, it can be okay,” Cheng said. “But it’s not funny anymore when someone posts something like that on YikYak or Tiger Admirers.”

However, Cheng added that she loves seeing the replies that people post to Yaks expressing thoughts about

depression.

“People reply back with so many encouraging words, and there’s usually so much support instead of judgment,” Cheng said.

Calvin Chin, the Director of Counseling and Psychological Services, said he can appreciate the support students show one another on anonymous posts like these.

“I think a lot of it has to do with stigma,” he said. ”When people feel stigma acknowledging that they’re feeling depressed, that can lead them to want to share their feelings through more anonymous online platforms. If there were less stigma, they might feel more comfortable reaching out more directly.”

Chin said he thinks it’s good for students to reach

out to one another, and that the best way to get help is by talking directly with someone who cares about one.

“It’s good to try to reply with an encouraging message if you can,” Chin said. “Try to remind students that they are not alone and there are people who care about them, and try to encourage them to seek out help if they can.”

Amalya Megerman ’16, cochair of the Mental Health Initiative Board, said that she believes it takes a certain amount of courage and bravery for students to post about feelings of depression on YikYak. “Things aren’t always treated with so much respect in forums like [YikYak] or taken as seriously, but I do think it provides an outlet

that people might not otherwise have so it does really serve an important function in the Princeton community,” Megerman said.

“The replies show that our community is willing to reach out regarding mental health issues and help and show people that they’re not alone.”

Chin noted that although it is not possible to reach out directly to students who post anonymously about such struggles, students struggling with mental health issues should remember that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

“If you can try to get through what is causing you pain right now, things can get better and things will get better,” Chin said.

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the annual budget of the theatre is $12 million.

Honore also noted that the McCarter Theatre has received a Citation of Excellence in addition to being named a Major Arts Organization every year since the awards were first granted. The NJSCA announces both honors every year in addition to its regular grants.

Courtney Lacy, Manager of Foundation and Government Relations at the University Art Museum, said the NJSCA grant for general program support that the museum received is earmarked to support marketing, so that the widest possible audience can be reached.

Director of the University Arts Museum James Steward noted that this is the first time the museum has been awarded a state grant, perhaps because the state agency was skeptical about the degree to which the museum was committed to community engagement.

“It’s true that if you go back not many years, the museum was much more focused on academic engagement rather than on acting as a bridge be-

tween academia and the wider public,” Steward explained.

“For us, the grant was not only pragmatically helpful in enabling us to do more outreach work to the community and educate them on projects we were otherwise always presenting, but also symbolically it was a kind of recognition that this museum has grown and evolved to being a gateway to the Princeton campus for a lot of visitors.”

Lacy explained that the Museum applied for a grant in 2012, and the NJSCA extended the $30,000 per year funding for another year at this time.

She noted that as a museum with free admission, the Museum needs support to continue its program of exhibitions, collections and special programs targeting students and families. Steward also explained that although attendance at the Museum has grown by around fifty percent in recent years, there is still significant room for growth in engagement given how populous the greater New York/ Philadelphia area is.

The general operating support grant that the Arts Council of Princeton received again this year will be used for a wide

range of activities, Nathanson said. The smaller grant of $6,125 for projects serving artists, however, will specifically support the artist collective known as the Sage Coalition.

Based in Trenton, N.J., the coalition is working on a public art project in the city.

Whereas the University Art Museum is in its first year getting state support, the Arts Council of Princeton has been funded by the NJSCA for the 10th consecutive year this year, Nathanson noted. The organization’s overall budget is close to $1.8 million per year.

“The 57,000 or so from the NJSCA is a small percentage of our overall budget,” Nathanson said. “Half of our funding comes from various grants and contributions. Corporations, foundations, individuals, fundraising and memberships. The other half is earned revenue. That is tuition for classes, tickets for concerts and other ticketed events.”

Nathanson noted that the Arts Council of Princeton had received the Citation of Excellence every year that they have received funding.

“We’re really proud that our success is being recognized,” Nathanson said.

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ExxonMobil funds to contribute to U. research projects EXXONMOBIL Continued from page 1

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universities to research and discover energy solutions for the next generation, Vice President of Research and Development for ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co. Dr. Vijay Swarup, said in a press release. He added that the firm seeks meaningful and scalable solutions to meet global energy demand.

Swarup declined to comment beyond the release.

Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Emily Carter, founding director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, explained that of the $1 million ExxonMobil will give each year to the University, half will support the Princeton E-filliates Partnership, while the other half will help ExxonMobil researchers learn about ongoing research at the University and sponsor research projects.

Carter said there will be no

restrictions on whether the research will be concentrated in the graduate or undergraduate school. She explained that the ways of executing research projects will typically depend on who is in faculty members’ research groups.

“We have a lot of enthusiasm from the faculty to work jointly with ExxonMobil since [company employees] are privy to understanding the many different problems that exist in the energy sector that we believe that our expertise can really help with,” Carter said.

She listed bio-derived fuels and solar energy conversion as examples of the many areas of research that interest both ExxonMobil and University faculty.

According to Carter, many factors provide a strong framework for the current partnership, including ExxonMobil’s large research and development center in New Jersey and the relationships that have existed between the company and the University for many

decades.

Carter explained that the two other large companies in the E-ffiliates program, Southern Company and PSE&G, belong to utilities, which is a completely different sector.

“I think there will be a more active and engaged partnership with ExxonMobil just because they have a much larger research and development effort,” Carter said.

So far, the company has articulated its interest, and will come to the University to interact with faculty in October, she added. Carter said she observed a high amount of faculty interest.

Carter said that after initial education about opportunities for specific research projects and areas of interest at the University, she expects that research projects will begin.

Lynn Loo, the associate director of external partnerships at the Andlinger Center from 2011-15, explained that she and Carter first visited ExxonMobil to talk about a potential

partnership almost four years ago.

She explained that many faculty members had been consultants for ExxonMobil or worked on individual projects with the company, but that there had not been a collective way of looking at the partnership between the University and ExxonMobil.

“The Andlinger Center’s focus is on energy, so it makes sense to partner with big companies, including energy companies like ExxonMobil,” Loo said.

Loo explained that ExxonMobil has entered the E-ffiliates partnership at the highest level as a charter member, which means the company can station a visitor in residence on campus.

According to Loo, the visitor-in-residence for the partnership will be Dr. Eric Herbolzheimer of ExxonMobil, who will serve as the liaison between University researchers and ExxonMobil. Herbolzheimer did not respond to a request for comment.

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The conversation on transferring goes both ways Jessica N. Li columnist

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rinceton is unique among the Ivies for its current policy banning transferring. This policy has received significant attention: In 2013 the Editorial Board wrote on the benefits of accepting transfer students, and in 2014 The Daily Princetonian reported that the University under President Eisgruber is considering overturning the policy.

While the conversation about transferring in has been vocal, what about the conversation around transferring out? The discussion about transferring out of Princeton is critical to many students, but has been muted on campus. Princeton’s doors have been closed and locked to outsiders since 1990, but it often feels like these doors are locked on both sides. Of course, students are free to transfer out of the University, but the silence around the issue — the distinct absence of anecdotes and factual information — has essentially obscured transferring out as an option.

This past year as a freshman, I’ve had my share of doubts about Princeton. Many of us have periods when we question if Princeton was the best decision for us, if the “best damn place of all” is really the best for our future outcomes and present-day happiness. We’ve all experienced these doubts in some form at 3 a.m. in Firestone, jokingly or seriously.

During Preview Day on April 13, when my pre-frosh asked me if I felt like I had made the right decision, I gave an honest, nuanced response — Princeton, like all schools, has its pros and cons. She then asked me how often students transferred out of the University. I was unable to give a response, and that unnerved me since it was something I had wondered myself.

The information is hard to find. A cursory Google search turns up that Princeton has a four-year graduation rate of 88 percent and a six-year graduation of 96 percent, boasting one of the highest graduation rates among U.S. universities. However, as reflected in the statistics, there are clearly some (albeit a distinct minority) who choose to transfer or drop out for various reasons. I sifted through the Google results some more and plugged in different combinations of search words; beyond these two statistics, there was nothing. I could not find basic yet important information, like how many students transfer out each year, how to weigh the decision with a good framework, or how the University is involved in the process.

This is information that should not be hard to find. Of course, a University is not expected to actively encourage students to drop out, but it should still seek to provide the necessary information clearly. Students who desire more information about transferring should be able to equip themselves with the information privately and easily, without needing to make an appointment with the dean of a residential college or an academic advisor. While the purpose of these staff is to help us, transferring out is the kind of matter that requires time alone to process and reflect on, so the student can think about it in the beginning without being influenced by another person or feeling uncomfortable under the scrutiny. In fact, if an appointment is the only means of obtaining substantive information, some students may even be deterred from seeking the information simply because they may be uncomfortable broaching the conversation in the first place.

The purpose of the University is to improve the lives of students so that they don’t question their happiness here, and so that transferring out is less of a concern. But I think it is critical to put out essential, relevant information and to at least acknowledge that transferring out is an option. If a student is considering transferring out, they should not feel pressured to erase the option because it seems like an abnormal or extreme choice. Transferring out is a personal decision that should be made solely on personal factors, and students should not be deterred from considering it because the lack of conversation around it gives the illusion that it is rare.

Additionally, we should create a network of students who transfer out and voluntarily provide their names and contact information, similar to the Gap Year Network. It would be valuable for students who are considering transferring to be able to connect with students who were in a similar situation and hear their experiences and motivations. Being able to speak with peers would create an open community with the mentoring and resources to empower students to make the best decision.

The number one goal is to feel happy and satisfied here at Princeton. But the reality is that, sometimes, another university would better fulfill a student’s goals. In order to allow people to make the decision best for them, we need to unlock the doors from the inside through accessible information and destigmatized dialogue.

Jessica Li is a sophomore from Chandler, Ariz. She can be reached at jnli@princeton.edu.

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Reform start-of-school meal plans

ast Thursday, about 1,000 freshmen returned from Outdoor Action and Community Action and began to settle into their dorms, joining those who chose not to do a pre-orientation program. For freshmen, their mandatory University meal plans were effective immediately, ensuring they would have access to meals for the ensuing days of hectic orientation programming. Non-freshmen, however, have experienced firsthand key flaws and disparities in the meal plan system that the Editorial Board believes the University must address. Currently, non-freshman residential college meal plans begin on the Monday before classes start, three days after freshmen meal plans, creating a host of problems for many groups of students. This Board believes that the University should move back the start of general meal plans from Monday to Saturday, benefiting both students who would prefer to move into their dorms during the weekend and their families. Additionally, we propose similar reforms to benefit OA and CA leaders, as well as early arrival groups such as performing arts groups, the Honor Committee, student government, college councils and others.

As a matter of fairness and just compensation, the University should give pre-orientation volunteer leaders free meal plans during freshman week and before the trip. Every year, OA and CA leaders who must be on campus to lead freshman trips have to incur sig-

nificant expense and inconvenience in eating out, or else go hungry. For OA, this inconvenience also applies during before trip, when the OA program provides two small meals a day but leaders are on their own for any additional food. OA and CA are crucial parts of the freshman experience for many and serve a vital role in the wider scheme of University orientation. Furthermore, the upperclassmen who lead these trips are unpaid volunteers, and in the case of OA leaders, have already spent hundreds of dollars on the training to become qualified leaders.

That the University relies on the generosity of these leaders without providing meals is not only unfair, but also a harm to mentorship on campus.

Not providing meals reduces the possibility of continuing the guidance of pre-orientation programs in conversations between leaders and freshmen over dining hall meals during these crucial first days. Too often, these pre-orientation leaders disappear onto Nassau Street or the U-Store for their meals, and lose touch with freshmen.

These glaring flaws of the system are also easily fixable, especially given that athletes returning for pre-season have special athletic meal plans and at least one dining hall is already open.

Athletes serve a vital role in the life of the University, and are rightly given meals; pre-orientation leaders also play an immense role, and should be compensated, if only with the basic necessities. Addressing this issue will also become more important in the

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coming years as the University expands the OA program, as recruiting the necessary number of volunteer leaders will demand eliminating disincentives at the least, if not adding other incentives.

Besides OA and CA leaders, there are many students who have valid reasons to return to campus early, and should be given the option of purchasing an extension to their meal plan. These include organizations such as Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education peers, student technology consultants and performance art groups. Because so many students fall under this category, and because even those who don’t should be given the option of having extra time to settle in, this Board recommends moving meal plans back to move-in day for everyone and allowing extensions to be bought for even earlier returns. If the University finds it reasonable to grant early housing to certain students, a similar or even joint application process should be established for food.

The reforms presented here would present only a minor cost and inconvenience to the University, and will greatly benefit hundreds of students and ensure food to those who play an active role in University life.

The Editorial Board is an independent body and decides its opinions separately from the regular staff and editors of The Daily Princetonian. The Board answers only to its Chair, the Opinion Editor and the EditorIn-Chief.

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he real danger of Trump isn’t that he might win, it’s that — at least for now — he doesn’t have to.

It isn’t revolutionary to say that Congress isn’t working right now. Approval ratings are near their lowest in history, productivity (measured in number of bills passed) is less than half of what it was during the “Do Nothing Congress” of 90 years ago and it’s become the standard of campaigns to run on a platform of fixing the system and ending the gridlock. And yet, despite the looming possibility of a government shutdown this fall and bitter upcoming fights on education and highway bills, when Congress left for its summer recess it seemed as though there was still room for bipartisan achievement on a host of issues. Criminal justice reform, after being endorsed by the Koch brothers earlier this summer, has become as much a Republican talking point as it is a Democratic one. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, championed by the President but lampooned by the Democratic caucus, seemed a rare opportunity for Republicans to back Obama on a major legacy achievement, indeed the largest free trade agreement in world his-

tory. And prospects looked good for a reconciled version of the Senate’s bipartisan-passed No Child Left Behind rewrite law.

Donald Trump, however, as Michael Grunwald detailed earlier this month in Politico, has single-handedly created a legitimate risk by his brand of tougher-thanthou, nuance-free populism that affects action on all these possible achievements. His bombastic, made-for-reality-TV approach to campaigning — too often written off or laughed at — should instead be cause for legitimate fear among Republicans and Democrats alike.

To compete for airtime against a man who says he would lock up criminals “so fast your head would spin,” other Republicans, both running for President and in the Congress, are having to double down on the predictable “tough on crime” white identity politics of previous generations that seemed like they were going away.

This isn’t just an issue that could kill major criminal justice reform efforts that liberals have pursued for years. Conservatives, too, should be worried about the “Trump Effect” on Congress going into the fall. Because as long as he’s the Republican front-runner, their party’s anti-tax, pro-free trade platform will come under constant assault. Trump’s populism is formidable in that it isn’t constrained by ideology — a fierce

conservative on immigration, he is also playing to the crowd on taxing the rich, reforming Wall Street and killing the President’s TransPacific Partnership, all of which sound like pages ripped right from the Democratic Caucus’ talking points. The people who support Trump are as fed up with elite trickle-down Republicans like Jeb Bush just as much as they are with immigrants, China and others.

A climate in which the leading Republican says that a trade deal supported by most Republicans is “so weak and pathetic,” and is just another example of the President’s softness towards China, will back congressional Republicans into an extremely difficult corner. As Grunwald says, Trump is going “full populist,” no matter what Republican leaders want, which would likely force lawmakers to choose between “wealthy donors and an angry base,” a demographic which has propelled them into the leadership of both Houses.

Those of us who watched the debate last week saw first-hand just how cavalier — and often improvised — Trump’s positions are.

He somehow managed to avoid getting booed when talking about raising taxes on the rich, cutting Social Security benefits for billionaires, and being friends with Hillary Clinton. It’s surely hard to imagine another candidate who could pull that off. Trump has a

total disregard for Republican orthodoxy, and is guided only by self-confidence and ego. It was almost painful to watch the ensuing scramble that caused among the other candidates, trying to one-up him or (failingly, in the case of Jeb Bush) fighting back against incredible or sometimes factually nonsensical assertions.

The “can-you-top-this dynamic” that defines the Trump candidacy will inevitably bleed over into the House and Senate as it has already done into other campaigns (for instance, Ben Carson saying he would use drone strikes on the Mexican border and Jeb Bush saying he would go to Trump’s right on criminal justice), which could only spell disaster for what looked to be a (somewhat) productive fall on the Hill. The House Freedom Caucus — a group to the right of the Tea Party which is trying to unseat John Boehner as Speaker — for instance, is refusing to vote for any budget that funds Planned Parenthood, one-upping the Speaker and Senate Majority Leader in an obviously futile fight they’re sure to lose. But that’s OK, according to the new MO caused

by Trump’s campaign, because all that matters is the airtime and the braggadocio.

Ryan Dukeman is a Wilson School Major from Westwood, Mass. He can be reached at rdukeman@princeton.edu.

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ago.”

Sheridan very bluntly shows that he sees these women as objects only, saying “[Glen] Taylor already has his trophy wife. Edens will one day be somebody’s trophy GF.” Ironically, at the beginning of the article, he says he wants to focus more on basketball and not on the women, saying, “The lottery is not about trophy wives or trophy daughters.”

Trophy daughters. Trophy daughters. In coining this term, Sheridan seems to claim that a woman’s sole role, no matter what her age, is be the arm candy of a man, be it her husband or her father.

Remarkably, when speaking with Edens herself, one can see she doesn’t take what Sheridan wrote to heart.

“Obviously I found it offputting, [but] I’m comfortable enough with what I’m doing … that I’m putting myself in a position to pursue my own ambitions that don’t amount to ending up [as] the arm accessory of some older, wealthy man,” Edens said.

Despite her feelings toward the article, Edens didn’t just let the grossly inappropriate article slide. She called Sheridan out via Twitter, receiving much praise for highlighting his sexism and placed enough pressure on him that he had to remove the article from his website.

Edens said that, because of the egregious nature of the article itself, she felt required to speak out on it.

“At a certain point, language can become broadly destructive enough that you are responsible to say something about it,” Edens said.

“It’s wrong on so many levels.

[A trophy wife is] a status symbol.”

There is zero doubt Sheridan is in the wrong. But his comments are just a small part of a larger issue: how exactly do women fit into the world of athletics as a whole, if not as trophy wives (or trophy daughters)? Edens herself points out that Sheri-

“At a certain point, language can become braodly destructive enough that you are responsible to say something about it.”

Mallory Edens,

Princeton Class of 2018

dan’s article, while terrible in itself, “is symptomatic of a larger issue.”

As she recounted her own experiences as a Yankees fan, Edens indicated that the women’s status as secondclass citizens in the sports world begins at an early age. “[We create] gender precision in sports in a lot of ways. I was a huge Yankees fan growing up, and one of the things that always bothered me was that a lot of the girls’ merchandise is all baby powder pink and has nothing to do with the Yankees.”

Edens said. “I think about what we’re saying to girls if that’s the avenue of participation that we offer to them.

It’s more meaningful than is typically given credit for being.”

Edens also explained how gender issues are also prevalent when young girls try to compete in sports as well.

In particular, the notion of

a “tomboy” particularly affected her while growing up.

“It’s interesting to think about the word ‘tomboy’ because it’s an attribute we typically assign to girls that are interested in sports, and that’s the only thing that would mark them as a ‘boy,’ ” Edens said. “Gendering that belonging in a way creates barriers because it’s something you can’t own.”

Gender barriers are perhaps even more striking when one looks at the sports world from a front office level. Across all of the major U.S. professional sports leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL), there are only two women holding executive roles: Gillian Zucker, president of business operations for the NBA’s L.A. Clippers, and Jeanie Buss, president of the NBA’s L.A. Lakers. At Princeton as well, Mollie Marcoux ’91, is the first female athletic director and took her position only last year.

With this in mind, Edens noted that Sheridan’s article raised an interesting point.

Given the lack of family members at the NBA Draft Lottery, there are no women present in the event, and the male domination of NBA front offices becomes all the more apparent.

Edens herself says that one cannot simply attack Sheridan without losing sight of the fact that women in the sports world still have difficulties earning respect.

“In a larger context I think it’s really positive that it’s a discussion people are having, but I don’t think it really solves the issue. I don’t know it’s always constructive to correct piece by piece [or] person by person.” Edens said. “I think it’s positive, but at the same time there’s still a lot of room for improvement.”

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vision I team to kick off its 2015 season, Lafayette has already played two games. Even though these games featured 34-7 and 19-9 losses to William & Mary and Delaware, respectively, the Leopards charge into Saturday’s game having resolved many early-season issues. Inevitably for the Tigers, the first game of the season promises potential surprises and pitfalls. Surace has promised to “keep errors to a minimum.”

In terms of individual play-

ers to watch in Saturday’s game, senior linebacker Matt Arends and senior wide receiver Seth DeValve will make their season debuts as team co-captains. Arends enters his senior season with over two years of experience as a starter for the Tigers. DeValve, on the other hand, returns from a year of injury after taking last spring off from school to rebuild. In his long-awaited return, DeValve will attempt to record his 1000th career yard.

Turning to the quarterback position, the Tigers must deal with the void left by Epperly and Michelsen, who started 31

consecutive games for Princeton. In line to fill the gaping void are junior Chad Knoff, senior Kedric Bostic and sophomore John Lovett. However, these three have combined for only two touchdowns in the past three seasons, while Epplerly and Michelsen scored 89 in the same time period.

While Saturday’s game will not answer all of Princeton’s questions and uncertainties this season, it does mark a new page in the Princeton football history book. Saturday’s game promises history in the making, the only question is whether Princeton will be on the right side of history.

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bright moments for the team during the weekend, where the team’s only freshman Jimmy Wasserman crushed his opponent Alex Roszkowski of St. John’s 6-0, 6-0 or Mohamed El Tonbari, who dominated singles play and won all five of his singles matches in comfortable fashion.

Also, junior Tom Colautti just received news this week that he will be nationally ranked this fall, as the 118th best player in the nation. Colautti also received an automatic qualification berth in the ITA All-America qualifying singles and doubles, where he will pair up with sophomore Luke Gamble. This marks a first for Colautti as he receives his first ITA All-America berth and national ranking. This

means that Colautti will be playing in Tulsa, Okla., in early October to compete in the tournament.

This upcoming weekend, the Tigers will return home to the Lenz Tennis Center to host the Ivy Plus Tournament on Sept. 18-20. This will be an exciting chance for the Tigers to continue to gel as a team and improve on their performances as they begin to build on an impressive 2014-15 season.

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and freshman forward Mimi Asom. The Tigers’ next two goals would come from junior forward Tyler Lussi. Lussi, who led the team last year in scoring with 18 goals, has already gotten off to a fast start,

having scored five already on the season.

Strong continued offensive production will be necessary for the Tigers as they prepare for what could be one of the toughest matches of the season, as they host No. 23 William & Mary (6-1-1).

It’s obvious that a win over a high-ranked team could give

Tigers incredible momentum as they head into Ivy League play. With their season already in full swing, the Tigers host Yale on Sept. 26 to end their second three-game homestand. Moreover, it’s a shot to grab revenge after the Tigers were bested by William & Mary in Virginia to the tune of 4-1.

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Football opens year against Lafayette

By David Liu staff writer

This Saturday, Princeton football will travel to Lafayette’s Fisher Stadium to finally begin its 2015 season.

In their season opener, the Tigers hope to showcase a wealth of returning experience while also mitigating the graduation of star quarterbacks Quinn Epperly ‘15 and Connor Michelsen ‘15.

Fortunately for Princeton, Lafayette suffers from a sev-

en-game losing streak to the Tigers. In fact, three of those victories occurred in the past five years. Of all of this season’s opponents, Princeton maintains the longest winning streak over the Leopards.

Despite the records and statistics, the Tigers are anything but relaxed heading into the season opener against Lafayette. While it would be very easy to look ahead to the Lehigh and Columbia games, the Tigers emphasize tackling

each game as it comes. Princeton head coach Bob Surace ‘90 said the team hopes to “really focus and lock in”.

Providing extra motivation heading into Saturday’s game will be the fact that the Tigers haven’t won a season opener in eight years. Specifically, Surace has yet to begin a season with a victory.

Lafayette does maintain one advantage over the Tigers: familiarity. While Princeton will be the last DiSee FOOTBALL page 7

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After a glorious career, Quinn Epperly ’15 left many questions concerning the quarterback position.

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SOCCER

Trophy wives: reading women’s roles in male professional athletics

By Miles Hinson sporst editor

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A Tiger team looking to upset William and Mary will need continued offensive production from sophomore midfielder Vanessa Gregoire.

Soccer teams prep for home games

By Miles Hinson sports editor

Fans of Princeton soccer will get the weekend they’ve been waiting for. The men’s and women’s soccer teams will be hosting opponents on their home field this weekend — the men on Saturday against Boston University, and the women on Sunday against William & Mary.

In their home debut, the

men’s team (1-2-0) looks to right the ship after a tough trip through Florida, in which they went 0-2. If their game on Saturday is anything like their last match against BU (3-1-0), Princeton fans are in for a treat. Playing in Boston, the Tigers climbed back from a 0-2 hole last year to tie the game at two apiece.

It was certainly one of the more intense games for the Tigers, and a surprisingly

exciting one for teams that don’t have any history of rivalry. Last year’s showdown was just the first meeting for these two programs.

As for potential star performances from this weekend’s game, fans look to senior forward Tom Sanner, who currently leads the Tigers in scoring this season with two goals. It was also Sanner who made the first of Princeton’s goals in its last

match against BU to spark the aforementioned comeback.

As for the women’s soccer team, they now look to build on one of their best performances of the season so far.

The Tigers (4-3-0) clobbered La Salle 4-1, not letting up on the pressure once throughout the game. They went into the half already up 2-0 thanks to goals from sophomore midfielder Vanessa Gregoire See SOCCER page 7

A trophy wife.

It’s a notion both archaic and shockingly sexist. It reduces a woman from human being to a possession, a glittery object a man can tote around for all to see.

It’s a notion permeates our society — women married to men of much money or influence are often dubbed “trophy wives.”

Not many industries play up the idea of a trophy wife more than the world of professional sports. For example, Bleacher Report, one of the most popular sports websites, has an entire section devoted to ogling the wives and girlfriends of various athletes.

This issue has come to affect the Princeton community directly as well. Mallory Edens ’18 was the focus of such ogling in an article by venerated NBA writer Chris Sheridan. Edens briefly became an Internet sensation last May after attending the NBA Draft Lottery, the event that determines the order in which NBA teams pick players in the draft itself. Edens, there for the Milwaukee Bucks (the team owned by her father, Wesley Edens), received attention across Twitter and Instagram as many viewers were captivated by her looks.

Due to a change in NBA

rules, only team personnel (such as front office executives and players) are now allowed to represent the teams in the lottery. Sheridan, noting this, lamented the lack of attractive women in the draft, in particular focusing on Edens and the wife of the owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Becky Taylor (née Mulvihill).

In theory, Sheridan’s article was supposed to cover the difficult choices NBA teams had to make when determining which NCAA players to draft in June. However, his article seemed more of a testament to his disturbing obsession with Edens and Taylor. The opening says it all: “One year after Mallory Edens captivated us all at the NBA draft lottery, a new NBA rule deprived us of a close-up look at the trophy wife Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor. Her name is Becky, she is fantastic looking, and she was supposed to have been onstage instead of the 74-year-old Mr. Taylor as the T-Wolves won the top pick in the 2015 NBA draft.”

The comments he makes throughout the article just as disgusting. For example, he references Becky Taylor’s “sleeping alongside Glen Taylor, which is the price the former Mulvihill must pay for marrying into all that money ($1.8 billion is Taylor’s net worth) eight years See COLUMN page 7

MEN’S TENNIS

Men’s tennis experiences ups and downs during weekend at Penn Invitational

By Tom Pham associate sports editor

After a great season where the Princeton men’s tennis team qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 17 years before losing out to Minnesota in the Round of 64, the Tigers will look to repeat such success this season.

The Tigers opened their season in Philadelphia as they played in a three-day Penn Invitational against

players from many different schools, including St. John’s, Old Dominion, Penn, Buffalo, William & Mary and VCU. This tournament was considered a good way to gauge the players after a long summer, and there were some impressive performances over the three days in the tournament.

All in all, the Tigers played decently, winning nine of their 20 doubles matches and 25 of their 39 matches.

The Tigers will obviously

aim to do even better than that as they hope to match or even exceed their win total from last season and claim another Ivy League title and NCAA Tournament berth.

“I was a bit disappointed in our energy and execution in doubles,” men’s tennis coach Billy Pate said in a post-event statement. “I thought we performed well throughout the whole weekend.”

However, there were See M. TENNIS page 7

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The men’s tennis team looks to build off a fantastic, NCAA-berth earning performance from last spring.

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