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Michelle Obama ’85, Gross ’75 appear on The Late Show

first lady Michelle Obama ’85 and Julie Raynor Gross ’75 appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday night.

In addition to commenting on the challenges of being the first lady, Colbert read a letter written by former first lady Laura Bush that asked for advice for the first gentleman if a female president were elected.

Obama said that the first gentleman should just follow his passion and be himself. Colbert joked that her answer was in reference to Bill Clinton, but Obama said that was not her intention.

Obama had been promoting her Let Girls Learn campaign prior to making an appearance on The Late Show. The campaign is a government-wide effort that encourages adolescent girls to complete their education.

Gross is the Founder and President of Collegiate Gateway LLC and a Master Practitioner of the Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator.

She appeared on The Late Show to administer the Myers Briggs Test, which Colbert said he does not take seriously.

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LOCAL NEWS

Former student sentenced to 5 years on drug charges

By Do-Hyeong Myeong associate news editor

A former member of the Class of 2016 was sentenced to five years in jail for multiple drug possession and distribution charges, according to NJ.com.

Julian Edgren, 21, will begin serving his sentence on Nov. 13. The delay is due to a medical issue, NJ.com reported.

Edgren, who is free on $25,000 bail, is currently not enrolled in the University as a student, according to University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua. Mbugua declined to comment on whether Edgren voluntarily

withdrew from the University or was expelled.

Edgren and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office did not respond to requests for comment.

Edgren was arrested in January after attempting to retrieve a package from the Frist Campus Center mailroom that contained seven grams of ecstasy. At the time of his arrest, he was carrying a duffle bag containing five grams of hashish, 55 grams of marijuana, 60 Adderall pills and approximately half an ounce of liquid LSD. The arrest was the result of an operation that started in mid-December, when federal agents from U.S. Customs

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and Border Protection intercepted a package addressed to Edgren and contacted the University’s Department of Public Safety and the Mercer County Narcotics Task Force.

On the day of Edgren’s arrest, the police had been surveilling the building waiting for someone to retrieve the package.

The Narcotics Task Force also found psilocybin, drug paraphernalia and marijuana cookies in Edgren’s dormitory room and an additional amount of psilocybin in one of the other packages Edgren attempted to retrieve that See SENTENCE page 2

Undergraduate women experience the highest instance of inappropriate sexual behavior among students at the University, according to the summary report for the 2015 survey “We Speak: Attitudes on Sexual Misconduct at Princeton,” released by the University on Tuesday.

According to the results, approximately one in three undergraduate women have experienced inappropriate sexual behavior in comparison with an estimated one in five graduate women, one in seven undergraduate men and one in 18 graduate men.

Fifty-five percent of undergraduate women and 62 percent of undergraduate men indicated that they told someone about the incident of inappropriate sexual behavior, while 43 percent of graduate students told someone, according to the report.

The report explained that students not thinking what happened to them was “serious enough to talk about” was among the most frequently cited reasons that students did not tell anybody about their experiences of inappropriate sexual behavior. Other reasons included students’ viewing their experiences as a “private matter that they wanted to deal with it on their own” and students expressing that “they had other things they needed to focus on and were concerned about classes or work.”

The survey also found that nearly 80 percent of undergraduate students at the University know where to get help on

campus should they experience non-consensual sexual contact.

Fewer graduate students reported having knowledge of the process.

Vice Provost for Institutional Equity & Diversity Michele Minter said that though the results of the survey are not markedly different than those being reported nationally, the numbers are still very concerning for the University.

“We would like this campus to be as safe as possible,” Minter said. “We would like, over time, to see the prevalence numbers drop and the number of reports and awareness of the campus community in terms of how they [students] can access resources to go up.”

According to the recent American Association of Universities sexual assault survey, the results of which were released last week, 11.7 percent of student respondents across 27 universities reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force, threats of physical force, or incapacitation since they enrolled at their university. The rate among women was 23.1 percent. Rates of reporting to campus officials varied from five to 28 percent depending on the type of behavior.

Vice Provost for Institutional Research Jed Marsh said that he thinks of the survey in itself as a learning moment for the University, and noted that the survey data provides extensive insight to help move along the dialogue concerning issues of sexual misconduct at the University.

The confidential Web-based survey was administered over 28 See REPORT page 2

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Hedges lectures on fall of capitalism, corporate state

By Charles Min senior writer

The world is spiraling into a inverted totalitarian political system in which the anonymity and the assault by the corporate state will bring about the fall of capitalism, Chris Hedges, prominent socialist, best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize journalist, said at a lecture on Tuesday.

Inverted totalitarianism, Hedges explained, describes a form of social organization in which corporations have purported to pay fidelity to the common people but silently possess agendas that are against them. The fundamental pillars that make capitalism possible are pillaged by the wealthiest one percent of the world, who would own more than half of the world’s wealth by next year, he said.

He added that revolutionary socialist Karl Marx had foreseen this in his works, claiming that late stages of capitalism would involve corporate monopoly over the global market and the obliteration of free market competition.

Hedges referenced a May 22 New York Times editorial, titled “Banks as Felons, or Criminality Lite” to suggest that the two stock market crashes in the 21st century are living fulfillment of what socialist philosophers warned against years ago. The 2008 economic crisis was the enactment of a welfare state for the rich, Hedges said, and

the volatile cycle of boom and bust will result in “fictitious capital” and the “vaporization of money.”

“The banks occupying the commanding heights of the U.S. financial industry, with almost $9 trillion in assets and more than half the size of the U.S. economy, would just about break even in the absence of corporate welfare,” he said. “The idea of capitalism, free trade, free markets, individualism, innovation, self-development works only in the utopian mind of a true believer like Alan Greenspan, never in reality.”

He maintained that the poor and middle classes in the United States are subjected to destruction by corporate whim, as jobs are outsourced to countries like Bangladesh and China, where people or “serfs” earn 22 cents an hour.

Hedges drew several comparisons between Herman Melville’s masterwork “Moby Dick” and the U.S. capitalist state. The novel, which involves a crew’s self-destructive quest to capture a white whale, highlights murderous obsessions, violent impulses and moral weakness, which Hedges said are features of the corporate state.

“Those on the ship on some level knew they were doomed, just as many of us know that a consumer culture based on corporate profit, limitless exploitation and continued extraction of fossil fuels is doomed,” he said.

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Marina Rustow is the first University affiliate to receive the MacArthur Fellowship since 2013.

Rustow one of 24 people to receive MacArthur Fellowship this year

By Jessica Li staff writer

Marina Rustow, the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East at the University, is among the 24 scientists, artists, scholars and activists who received this year’s MacArthur Fellowship.

The distinction, sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, comes with $625,000 grants distributed in quarterly installments over a five-year period. The three criteria for selection include creativity,

potential for making future advances and potential to facilitate creative work, and the selection process places emphasis on nominees for whom the grant would help to relieve limitations that might prevent them from pursuing their work. The Selection Committee consists of 12 people who serve confidentially and rotate in and out after each review cycle.

There are no limits on age or area of activity, and individuals are anonymously nominated from a pool of external sources invited by the Foundation to nominate candidates.

Applications are not permitted, nor are nominations from an unsolicited source. The Foundation receives approximately 2,000 nominations per year.

Representatives from the MacArthur Foundation did not respond to a request for comment.

Rustow said that she is still considering plans for using the grant, but added that she wants to mentor other scholars.

Rustow joined the University faculty this past July and specializes in Jewish studies See MACARTHUR page 2

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of the medieval Middle East.

Rustow has analyzed Cairo Geniza, a collection of more than 300,000 folio pages of legal documents, letters and literary materials once preserved in an Egyptian synagogue.

These documents now reside in about 200 libraries and private collections.

Rustow explained that because of the complexity of their language, the Cairo Geniza texts are often difficult to understand and only a limited number of scholars have received sufficient training.

The texts mostly include legal transactions and other dayto-day records preserved in a range of languages, particularly Judeo-Arabic ones.

Studying those texts, she said, provides a more insightful understanding of the Me-

dieval Islamic state, especially the lifestyle of Jews, a minority in the empire that stretched from Egypt to Palestine.

“I am interested in the internal history of Jewish communities between the 11th and 13th centuries, a period that they documented so well,” she said.

“Reading these accounts allow me to get a sense about the lives of Jews living under Islamic rule on every level from breakfast to poetry to marriage choices.”

Though narratives of the oppressed are often lost, Rustow stated that the scale of preservation is remarkable.

“This is one of the rare historical cases where we have more evidence from the second class minorities of the time than we do from the ruling elites,” she said. “We have a lot of literature from the ruling elite, but in terms of documentation and snapshot of the cross section of life, the Jew-

ish accounts were much more concrete.”

Rustow holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale and completed her doctorate in history at Columbia. She also spent four years studying the textual history of the Babylonian Talmud.

She began her career in comparative literature and subsequently studied modern theology, during which she became curious about the lifestyle of Jews and the discrimination they faced.

The last year in which University affiliates were awarded MacArthur grants was in 2013, when the grant was awarded to Kyle Abraham, a guest instructor in the University’s dance program, and Tarell McCraney, a Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts in the 20082009 academic year.

This year, there were also two recipients from Harvard, one from Cornell University and one from Columbia.

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same day. The total street value of the drugs found in the packages and in his room was approximately $3,000.

Edgren was charged with 13 counts of possession and intent to distribute controlled substances and prescription drugs on Jan. 7. He pleaded guilty for all of the charges in July.

In a Jan. 7 interview with

The Daily Princetonian, Mbugua said that Edgren was still enrolled as a student at that point but was banned from the campus.

Edgren is from Princeton, N.J., and graduated from Princeton High School.

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days beginning March 24, 2015, and was ultimately completed by 4,115 of the 7,862 enrolled undergraduate and graduate students, or 52 percent, according to the report.

“We think [the survey] gave us a fairly representative sample of the campus,” Minter said.

Both Marsh and Minter noted that the response rate for the survey was very high in terms of the usual response rate for campus surveys and surveys concerning sexual misconduct.

Minter explained that the University is doing more outreach in academic departments about resources on campus since academic departments are where graduate students get most of their information. Additionally, she said, this is the first school year that incoming graduate students have been required to do online training around sexual misconduct.

“They have not had as much exposure to the resources or the reporting options in the past.

That has just changed starting this fall,” Minter said.

The the survey is part of the University’s ongoing efforts to provide a campus environment that is safe and supportive to all students and in compliance with Title IX, the report said.

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Harassment/Assault Advising, Resource and Education office, in place to train students to react to different moments and outcomes. How these existing efforts will be affected in light of the survey report, she explained, is not yet clear.

“We’re just digesting implications of the survey results now,” Minter said.

According to the summary report, the University intends to use the findings of the survey to inform campus programming to address and prevent these issues, as well as to take other proactive steps to improve our campus.

Minter said she expects much student interest in the report.

“I do think that there will be a lot of student interest,” Minter said of the report.

Minter noted that University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 has made a commitment to be transparent with the data concerning sexual misconduct and that making campus safer is important to every level of the University administration.

The Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct, which is co-chaired by Minter and Professor of English Deborah Nord, will be holding meetings Wednesday and Friday to hear from members of the University community about the report.

The report will also be discussed at the Council of the Princeton University Community meeting on Monday, Oct. 12.

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whether there is additional programming to be set, whether there are additional interventions that are more likely to be effective, and what kind of recommendations should be made to the campus,” Minter said.

According to Minter, the Faculty-Student Committee on Sexual Misconduct is already beginning to think about the many questions that need to be asked in analyzing the survey data.

This work will be going on over a number of months, Minter explained. Based on the survey’s findings, the Committee on Sexual Misconduct will then publish recommendations.

Minter noted that the Committee will look at potential modifications for the survey, which will be conducted again in the next two school years.

“We’d like to understand more about how we can help students,” Minter said.

The University has also launched a campus-wide bystander intervention initiative called UMatter to equip students with skills to become effective bystanders and make healthy choices for themselves and others. Minter said the UMatter initiative is a very interesting tool that focuses on self-care and care for others in the community.

Minter noted that the University has many programs and initiatives, like incoming freshman and junior sexual misconduct training and the Sexual

dangers of corporate control are subjected to corporate assault and ignored, accused of purporting oppressively apocalyptic rhetoric, he added.

In discussing climate

change, Hedges said he recognized the difficulty of accepting the truth behind the destruction of the ecosystem.

He explained that because addressing climate change requires both emotional and intellectual acceptance, the corporate rhetoric assuring people that everything is fine is more appealing and persuasive.

The lecture, titled “The Wages of Rebellion,” was sponsored by the Wilson College Signature Lecture Series, Council for the Humanities and the Wilson School and took place in McCormick Hall 101 at 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

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Pope Francis, Bernie Sanders and the value of ideological diversity Ryan Dukeman columnist

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fter Pope Francis’s speech to Congress last week, liberals and conservatives alike rushed to claim the mantle of the pontiff’s endorsement for their favorite causes.

A columnist for The Hill wrote that “if Pope Francis could endorse a candidate, he’d choose Bernie Sanders.” Both Sanders’s campaign and his Senate office have explicitly touted the similarities between his campaign rhetoric and the Pope’s messages on economic inequality and climate change. And for their part, conservatives praised the pontiff’s (implicit and glossedover) admonitions on same-sex marriage and abortion. In fact, just hours after the Pope left the Capitol, Republicans in the Senate held a vote to defund Planned Parenthood which fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance.

While the Pope certainly sounds like Bernie Sanders when it comes to immigration, inequality and climate change, to call him a liberal Democrat would surely be a mistake, as several columnists have noted over the past few days. And while as a liberal Democrat I’m thrilled the Pope has succeeded in loosening the “Religious Right’s” selfdeclared monopolistic claim over religion in American politics, the fact that neither party can claim the pontiff’s views as completely its own should in and of itself be cause for praise.

If there’s any single thing that’s destroying Congress’s ability to function, it’s ideological rigidity. As researchers have recently shown by analyzing congressional voting data from the last 60 years, Congress has gradually transformed from a place where members frequently crossed the aisle to vote for bills sponsored by the other party to a nearly-perfect us-versus-them fight between two voting blocks. This, of course, has led to the stunningly dysfunctional bipartisan system we have now; in previous decades, having a Congress of one party and a President of the other didn’t mean nearly as much as it does today.

Those of us who were born around or after the time of Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America” (which cemented the trend towards partisan voting in 1994) have been conditioned to see this system as normal, but historically, it is anything but. Today, it is rare to see more than five members vote against their party on a given motion or bill — in fact, in 2013, House Republicans and Senate Democrats broke records for voting along party lines (at 92% and 94%, respectively).

If anything, the legacy of the Pope’s speech to Congress should be that the pontiff can’t be easily placed into one column or the other. His liberal views on economics, the environment and immigration would clearly make him a Democrat, but his views on same-sex marriage and abortion obviously side with the Republican base. In a political system that’s gotten so used to putting people into neatly defined boxes, Pope Francis provided a refreshing reminder that it doesn’t have to be that way.

In fact, probably the least common political ideology among major American politicians today is “socially conservative, fiscally liberal.” While the opposite certainly exists (e.g. Governor Charlie Baker (R — Mass.) and Senator Susan Collins (R — Maine)), there simply aren’t any major politicians today who fit the label Pope Francis most closely aligns with. So regardless of the fight to claim the Pope’s endorsement on one issue or the other, it should be regarded as inherently valuable and even historic that a major figure holds such unorthodox views.

Especially coming after Speaker of the House John Boehner’s resignation, which has largely been attributed to the “ungovernable” nature of the Republican caucus (thanks to an intransigent and uncompromising far-right wing), it is refreshing to be reminded that ideological intra-party diversity isn’t something to be hated or shamed. Uncompromising rigidity, which the Pope himself chided during his address to Congress, however, should be. If there’s one thing we should hope for in the wake of the Pope’s speech, it’s that more legislators will cross party lines on the myriad no-brainer, should-be-bipartisan bills that reach the House and Senate floors but receive no news coverage. The Planned Parenthood vote, which obviously doesn’t qualify as such a bill, shows however that those hopes are largely unjustified and that unyielding partisanship is sadly here to stay.

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

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The importance of mentorship

Lavinia Liang columnist

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once knew a funny kid who had Friedrich Nietzsche as his Facebook profile picture. (He told me it was all for the mustache. He was all seriousness.) Once, we were asked who the first person we went to for help and life advice was. For me, it was my mom. For him, it was Google (much to the chagrin of the Sunday school teacher).

Although we all fell over laughing, it honestly wasn’t a bad answer.

Google does have all the answers one could ever want, or not. My knee problems from running this summer? I’m hitting up RunnersWorld. com. My right ear piercing feeling tender? About.com will surely tell me if I’m using my antibacterial solution right! Nowadays, I turn to Google if I face a problem I don’t have the immediate answer to.

But despite all of this desperate Googling, I still found myself messaging cross-country friends for advice; I still went back to the mall to have the lady at Claire’s take a look at my ear. There’s something unique about human connection — the humanness of giving and receiving advice — which is difficult, if not impossible, to replace.

In certain transactions or situations, it makes sense to have a robot or computer present for purposes of expediency and efficiency. However, recently, there has also been a push back against technology replacing human connections. In his recent column “The New Romantics in the Computer Age,” New York Times opinion writer David Brooks wrote, “You see a counterreaction setting in. You see, here and there, signs of a new romanticism … [We]

should ask, What are the activities that we humans, driven by our deepest nature or by the realities of daily life, will simply insist be performed by other humans? Those tasks are mostly relational. Being in a position of authority or accountability. Being a caregiver. Being part of a team.

Transactional jobs are declining but relational jobs are expanding.” Especially for young people, the importance of human connections is coming back.

But more than the desire to speak with a person at a help desk for say, technical assistance, I want to stress the importance for young people to have human mentors in our lives.

This past summer, during a training session, I was asked to “talk about a teacher who really mentored you.”

Mentored me?

This took some thought. I definitely had teachers who taught me.

Teachers who talked to me. Teachers who loved me. But mentorship? We’ve started to throw that word around.

Eventually I talked about my visual arts teacher in high school. The man talked a lot, and talked in circles, but I also considered him a true mentor.

To pinpoint exactly why, I was thinking about all the hours I spent in his classroom after school, coming out smelling like cheap acrylics and the pungent odor of paintbrush soap. I was thinking about how even after I graduated, I still messaged him for advice. How he was one of the few teachers I still wanted to see on break days, even though I knew I would be detained in room 417 for far too long.

Also this past summer, I would actually be mentored again. During my fellowship at a regional arts nonprofit, I assisted the organization’s Director of External Relations with most of her work. Furthermore, the woman who had linked me to the

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organization also acted as a mentor.

(I didn’t know resumes and lists were not the same thing until I met with her.) I didn’t fully realize it at the time, but I have had multiple mentors throughout my life.

Mentorship is teaching. Mentorship is advice. But it also means trust and truth. It is feeling like, and knowing that, someone has your back. Both of the women I worked with this summer taught me. They sat down with me and told me things I didn’t know before. And then they watched. They watched me take their advice and attempt to put it into action. All along the way, I felt their watchful eyes — not scrutinizing, nor contemptuous — and for that, I always strove to do my best.

I wanted to impress them; to make them proud. This constant feedback process is what I call mentorship.

There’s a return side on the part of the mentee, just as there is giving on the part of the mentor. Mentorship is legitimate care for the work and for the person.

Entering college — a job — any new stage in life, we always need to seek out mentors. These are not just people we want something from — in 2015, in places like our university — “networking” is a beautiful euphemism. Nor should we simply be trying to “connect” — another vague term. But mentorship shouldn’t be one of our vague words. It shouldn’t be used too easily. This new year at this place filled with remarkable people, let’s make it a mission to seek out people who will guide us toward places we want to go, with a reassuring hand on our back. Metaphorically, of course.

Lavinia Liang is a sophomore from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She can be reached at lavinial@princeton.edu.

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ou’ve probably been walking the past several weeks looking around at our spectacular campus — wonderful buildings and spaces that delineate endeavors and aspirations of a multitude of disciplines and communities — and no doubt have been pinching yourself. Yes, you earned being here, but being smart enough to get in means you’re smart enough to figure out that it is also an extraordinary privilege.

I believe that the most beautiful part of Princeton may be right under your feet. Walk up the stairs to McCosh 10 or 50 or go through the side doors of Nassau Hall and take a look at what has transpired to the pristine planarity of the steps you’re climbing — they’ve been scalloped by countless footsteps of those who have come before.

You are part of a long, long line of Princetonians, who have all made their indelible mark as members of our community. Now it’s your turn.

Princeton makes a concerted and intentional effort to push intellectual boundaries; it’s not only a purpose, but a responsibility to society overall. It seeks to push such boundaries while also preserving the best of the tried and true. Conservative or liberal?

You’d better believe it, and if that duality perplexes you, you need not worry — the point is to be able to comprehend and appreciate seemingly contradictory concepts.

There’s great truth to the old joke that it takes three Princetonians to change a lightbulb — one to replace it, one to mix the drinks and one to reminisce about how great the old bulb was (even if it was incandescent and being upgraded to an LED model). We love to work to gain the new and novel, we treasure the past and we also know how to throw a pretty decent party. It’s this amalgam that creates the experience that is Princeton.

Your newness brings zest and vigor to Princeton. Thank you for that. But don’t allow the temporal tyranny of your undergraduate pressures deprive you of an appreciation for the past.

You can wait years — even decades — to slowly gain familiarity with the historical base of your collegiate experience. But to wait so long to do so would be a shame.

Here’s a suggestion.

Go “shoot” some alums. Head home for fall break or Christmas armed with the contact info for a handful of alums in your area — the older, the better. Give them a call and ask if you could come meet them and put them in front of a camera. Take a video of them responding to your questions —

what their Princeton experiences were like, what and who the most memorable features and people of their time were, what they have treasured and what they wish they would do over. Come back to campus after New Year and share some of your edited video with classmates. Take a couple of hours after exams and compile the best of what you have all shot into a DVD (or two). Present your work to the Alumni Council. Put an ad in the Princeton Alumni Weekly and offer to sell the result to interested alums for shipping and handling.

Make contacts with interesting people and broaden your horizons.

Revel in an expanded appreciation for your new home. Go nuts, and have a blast.

Narcissus got in trouble by seeing his own image in the water.

Instead, you can dip into the well that is Princeton and see images of how someone similar to you has benefited and struggled with the same dynamics that will support and challenge you.

If you elect to do this, embrace the unexpected gains of randomness. Don’t just try to track down the biggest ‘names’ or someone whose background parallels your own. Trust that the same admissions process that resulted in the wealth that is you and your classmates was able to identify lots of other classes filled with interesting people with interesting sto-

ries.

It’s unlikely that you’ve heard of my classmate David Boggs ’72 (whom I’ve never met). Boggs took time off before his graduate studies to work at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and, as a 22-year-old straight out of Princeton, co-invented Ethernet. My class salutatorian, Jim O’Donnell ’72, became a classics professor at University of Pennsylvania — where he headed Penn’s “New Tools for Teaching” technology effort and ended up as Vice Provost of Information Systems and Computing, creating MOOC. O’Donnell became the provost at Georgetown; his biography of Augustine means that his mind spans Hippo to hypertext. A few years ago, former Director of Athletics Gary Walters ’67 introduced me to Ray Close ’51; Close spent 35 years with the CIA in the Middle East and has shared some remarkable and jaw-dropping stories.

Why wouldn’t you want to try to spend an hour with people like this — just three of thousands of such Tigers?

“And when these walls in dust are laid / With reverence and awe / Another throng shall breathe our song / In praise of Old Nassau.”

You are that throng, and all who came before are with you. Enjoy every step of your climb!

Tad LaFountain ’72

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basil on it. It’s got a little bit of everything.

DP: What’s the weirdest PG-rated story you have involving you and one of your teammates?

DP: What’s something you’ve always wanted to try on campus but never have?

CG: I’ve always wanted to help people sneak into an eating club at night when they couldn’t get in — that sounds like it’d be fun.

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CG : It has to be when I went with a teammate to a Darius Rucker concert. We were picked up from the train station by people he had just met. We sat in the concert in the front row.

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DP: What are you looking forward to most about your season?

CG: It’s just getting another chance after last year, which didn’t turn out so well. Just having five or six months before the season, a new attitude, a bunch of guys who are totally reenergized going out there. That refreshed mental attitude and a new energy is going to be really exciting, and I can’t wait to see how it plays out.

“I didn’t really know. I got released after spring training of 2000. When I came home, I was thinking about what I wanted to do for my next step,” Hazen said.

However, as seems to be a central theme in Hazen’s life, the sheer desire to be around the game won out.

It’s all the more a testament to Hazen’s love of the game that he decided to go for a front office career in itself.

Even as recently as 2000, major front offices weren’t nearly the robust or welldeveloped departments they are today.

“I always knew I loved baseball. I didn’t know where that path was going to lead me necessarily right away. At that point, the role definitions within front offices weren’t the same as it is now,” Hazen said. “There weren’t as many tasks. It wasn’t harder to get in, I’d say, than it is now, but there were less opportunities. It was more something that was a little under the radar back then.”

Hazen, of course, had to put in many years before being ready to take the helm of a name-brand organization like the Red Sox. He got his first start with the Cleveland Indians, coming on as an intern in their talent scouting department in 2001 and becoming a full-time employee soon after.

“I was fortunate to get involved with a good organization like the Indians and start it from there,” Hazen said.

The fact that front offices were smaller at the time

benefited Hazen’s development tremendously. He recalls how, as an intern, massive amounts of tasks were thrust upon him, allowing him to see the ins and outs of how a front office ticks.

“There was a lot to learn … the office I started in was a lot smaller than our offices today,” Hazen explained.

“With fewer people, you had a lot more responsibilities even as an intern … a lot of the support work you had handed to you.”

Despite Hazen’s insistence that the fundamentals of running a front office haven’t changed since his time working with the Indians, he understands that “the job volume is greater in a lot of ways.” In particular, advancements in data and medicine have changed front offices entirely. MLB front offices in particular have the reputation as some of the most data-driven organizations in major league sports. Hazen pointed out that, while certain tenets of the GM position remain the same, the ability to process all these new data streams to create informed decisions is more critical now than ever.

“The data streams that are available to you now are much greater,” Hazen said.

“So from that standpoint, technology has improved to the point that’s opened up a lot of avenues in decisionmaking. There are a lot more angles, more nuances to how you look at the game.”

However, no matter where Hazen goes, one institution remains a fixture in his life — Princeton. Hazen was hired into his first front office job (with the Indians) by fellow Princeton alum-

nus Mark Shapiro ’89, former general manager and president of the Indians and current president of the Toronto Blue Jays.

In addition, Hazen pointed out that the team-building and relationship-building skills he developed at Princeton have been critical as he (quite literally) tries to build as good a team as possible day-in and day-out.

“The exposure to such a diverse group of people from various backgrounds is something, especially on my team, from the teammates that I had, definitely helped me see the value in that kind of stuff moving forward,” Hazen said. “In this industry, it’s so crucial to develop those relationships with your staff. It’s a critical piece to the job.”

One figure from Princeton stands out above all others — baseball coach Scott Bradley. Bradley started his tenure at Princeton when Hazen was in his senior year.

The two hit it off there, and they have remained close since. Indeed, Hazen credits so much of his success to Bradley’s mentorship making connections for him.

“He’s always been an inf luence for me. He’s always been a big supporter, and I appreciate that,” Hazen said. “When he came in, we hit it off pretty well from a relationship standpoint, and those first few years, he helped push me both playing wise, to get an opportunity with the Padres, as well as the opportunity with the Indians. I’m indebted to him, helping me with that and mentoring me through that.

He’s done a great job there — he’s a great coach and a great person.”

same pairings as Friday.

Sunday proved less successful for three of Princeton’s four. Gamble, Yablon and Kaiser all dropped their matches, ending their tournaments. Day, however, continued to thrive, besting Cal’s Oskar Wikberg in three sets to win his group and advance to the playoff. While Day fell to Texas’ Harrison Scott 10-4 in the first round

of the eight-man shootout, his 3-0 record in full-length singles matches and 2-0 record alongside Gamble in doubles play provided plenty of highlights for the Tigers in California.

Men’s tennis will not compete next weekend. They will return to action on Oct. 9 to host the Farnsworth Invitational at the Lenz Tennis Center.

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to open the game, scoring the first three of the contest. The Tigers wouldn’t relinquish their advantage, holding to a 7-3 lead as they finished the

first half.

While the Colonials scored the first goal of the half, a 5-2 run then gave the Tigers a six-goal edge, effectively putting the game out of reach. The Tigers would cruise to a 14-9 victory, paced

by Nelson and freshman util-

ity Ryan Wilson, each with four goals. Sophomore goalie Vojislav Mitrovic put out a solid defensive effort with 13 saves.

The Tigers get a break this weekend before hitting the road once again, facing fellow CWPA team Bucknell.

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Gamble and Day both proved victorious.

Saturday saw Day and Kaiser win their singles matches in straight sets, while Gamble and Yablon fell in their matches. Once again, though, the Tigers won both of their doubles sets, featuring the

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Men’s and women’s tennis find success

By Mark Goldstein staff writer

Women’s Tennis Dominates Home Tournament Opening their fall campaign by playing within the familiar confines of Lenz Tennis Center, the Tigers won 11 of 14 doubles matches and 16 of 19 singles matches over the three-day Princeton Invitational, sweeping aside most challenges from the women of Penn, Syracuse and Temple.

On Friday, the Tigers split the four doubles sets with Syracuse before sweeping all four Penn doubles pairings.

The Orange and Black ended the day in stunning fashion, rattling off victories in all six singles matches against Temple.

Fans on Saturday witnessed much of the same from the Tigers, who took five of six doubles matches from Temple before winning six of seven singles matches to end the day — all in straight sets.

The Tigers squared off against Syracuse in singles on Sunday to wrap up the tournament, playing their fi-

nal competitive home matches of the fall before they embark on trips that will take them as far west as Los Angeles, Calif., as north as Hanover, N.H. and as south as Sarasota, Fla. during the rest of the fall season. The Tigers took four of six matches on Sunday, putting the finishing touches on what proved to be a dominant performance over the course of the tournament.

While it is hard to narrow down the most impressive Princeton players of the weekend, most notable were the performances of sophomore Katrine Steffensen and senior Amanda Muliawan, who each won all three singles contests they played during the Invitational. Additionally, freshman Amber Park, junior Dorothy Tang and sophomore Sara Goodwin all compiled 4-0 records in doubles play.

The Tigers will travel to Philadelphia, Pa. this weekend to compete in the Cissie Leary Invitational as they look to build upon a promising start to their season.

Day Shines in Sunny Cal-

ifornia as Tigers Impress Out West Four members of the Princeton men’s tennis team travelled to St. Helena, Calif. to compete in the Porsche Napa Valley Classic at Meadowood over the weekend against strong competition drawn from across the nation.

The tournament featured round-robin play within eight groups of four players each, with the eight group winners advancing to a playoff. The playoff — played on Sunday — consisted of single-elimination “first-to-ten” super tiebreaks. Juniors Alex Day and Joshua Yablon and sophomores Luke Gamble and Kial Kaiser represented Princeton in the tournament, holding their own against formidable opponents over the three-day competition.

On Friday, Day and Gamble each won their respective opening matches, with Day besting ITA No. 86 Elliot Orkin of Florida. While Yablon and Kaiser dropped their singles matches, they were successful in the day’s doubles portion, as the pairings of Kaiser and Yablon and of See TENNIS page 5

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Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams were successful in tournaments over the weekend.

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M E N ’ S W AT E R P O L O

The unorthodox MLB career of Mike Hazen `98

By Miles Hinson Sports editor

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The men’s waterpolo team swept this weekend’s games against UC Davis and George Washington.

Men’s water polo claws past UC Davis, George Washington over weekend

By Miles Hinson Sports Editor

A trip through the mid-Atlantic region held nothing but success for the men’s water polo team, as they went 2-0 in their weekend excursion. In Baltimore, they downed Johns Hopkins, and they defeated George Washington University in the nation’s capital.

The Tigers (9-3 overall, 2-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association), ranked no. 11 in the country as of Sept. 23, made a statement to the rest of their league with this pair of wins.

They also got the bad taste out of their mouths after finishing their California road trip with a 10-7 loss against University of California Davis.

The battle against the Johns

Hopkins Blue Jays (8-2 overall, 2-1 CWPA) went down to the wire, a large difference from when Princeton thumped this team 18-5 at their last meeting in the CWPA Championship tournament last season.

Indeed, Johns Hopkins held Princeton on the ropes, holding a 7-5 lead at halftime and a 12-10 lead heading into the final period.

Senior center Thomas Nelson, however, wouldn’t let his team go quietly. Nelson, who leads his team in goals on the season, netted two backto-back to bring the Tigers level. Another Blue Jays goal and a goal from Nelson would put the game at 13 all. Freshman driver Michael Swart seemed to have made the game-winner with just under

77 seconds to go, but Johns Hopkins’ Giovanni Cragnotti found the back of the net with just two seconds left to force overtime.

After a pair of goals was exchanged to force double overtime, the score was 15 apiece. The hero at this crucial juncture was sophomore attack Jordan Colina. Colina, second behind Nelson on the team in total goals scored, put in two goals in the second overtime, as the Tigers held the Blue Jays to none. The Tigers would head to their next stop exhausted but victorious with a 17-15 win.

The game against George Washington (2-9) was certainly a less close affair. Princeton hit the Colonials hard See WOPO page 5

It seems that, from early on, Mike Hazen ’98 heard the calling of greener pastures — the pastures of the baseball field. As it turns out, his greatest inf luence on the game will not be from on the field, but from on the phone.

Hazen, a Massachusetts native, was named the new general manager of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox on Sept. 24, after first joining the organization in 2006 as director of player development. He is being promoted from the position of assistant general manager, which he has held since 2012.

Of course, coming from Massachusetts, Hazen noted that his position as GM carried extra meaning since it is with the team he’s rooted

for since childhood.

“I’ve watched the Red Sox for my entire life. It’s something when you grow up in that area, when you pick up a baseball, all you think about is the Boston Red Sox,” Hazen said. “There’s a long history there, it’s a prestigious franchise with a long history of success, and I’m grateful to be a part of it.”

Hazen, a standout center fielder for Princeton, knew baseball was in his future.

Getting drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 1998 MLB draft confirmed his decision to move away from some of the more “typical” careers Princeton alumni pursue.

While Hazen’s professional career was short-lived — he spent two years in the minor leagues before retiring due to a shoulder injury

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— he credits this taste of professional baseball as being instrumental to pushing him toward pursuing an MLB-centric career.

“That first summer, I went pro ball with them, stayed with them for a couple of years, and when I got released, it turned me down a different path,” Hazen said.

“I had started a career, it was just a much more unorthodox career. At that point I realized how much I loved baseball and how much I wanted to stay in the game, and I was able to make some connections and ultimately get my first job as an internship with the Indians.”

Of course, after a life so invested in playing the game itself, it was a readjustment for Hazen to think about approaching the game from such a different perspective.

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Chris Giglio `17

By Miles Hinson

what’s your favorite part about home?

Sports Editor

Chris Giglio ’17, hails from the tiny town of Manhattan, New York, and is a pitcher for the Princeton baseball team. The Daily Princetonian sat down with him to talk about both his thoughts on the upcoming season and his pick for best “sleeper meal” on campus.

Daily Princetonian : Where are you from, and

Chris Giglio: I’m from New York City, and my favorite thing about home has to be that everything is in walking distance, and by everything, I mean literally everything.

DP: What’s your favorite meal in the dining hall that you think not many people know about?

CG: I think that my favorite

meal is chicken parmesan, but maybe on the low key is chicken pot pie. Actually, I change my mind. The meal people don’t know about is Forbes lunch. Particularly the french fries they have in there are off the charts.

DP: If you could be a type of pizza, which type of pizza would you be and why?

CG: There’s nothing quite like a pizza with a little prosciutto, mozzarella and See ON TAP page 5

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