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Announcement The Daily Princetonian will be hosting open houses at 48 University Place at 7 p.m. today and tomorrow.

In Opinion Ben Dinovelli questions Gov. Chris Christie’s motives behind a recent veto, and Barbara Zhan critiques popularized charity movements. PAGE 4

Today on Campus 7:00 p.m.: Google is hosting a panel titled, “Princeton Women in Computer Science.” The topic is career diversification, and the panel will focus on their experiences at Google and their plans afterward. Frist 302.

U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

U N I V E R S I T Y A F FA I R S

Faculty sets new standard A-grades on for sexual assault cases upward trend

By Anna Windemuth staff writer

University faculty members unanimously voted to approve a set of recommendations on the handling of sexual misconduct by the Faculty Advisory Committee on Policy this afternoon.

The four major changes inaugurated through the vote are to allow equal rights of appeal to both the accuser and those found guilty, to remove student presence from the adjudication panel, to reduce the burden of proof for sexual assault cases from “clear and persuasive” to “preponderance of evidence” and to allow both complainants

and respondents to appoint an adviser from outside the University community.

These changes take into account legislation from the Clery Act, the Violence Against Women Act and Title IX, a law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal funds. The University is currently one of the 55 institutions under investigation for violating Title IX. Although a motion to postpone the vote and allow additional discussion time received some support from faculty members, who filled the ranks of Nassau Hall on Monday afternoon, Dean of the Faculty Deborah Prentice

said that the University was under time pressure to comply with explicit legal demands made by the Office for Civil Rights over the summer.

“We truly believe that these are very good, positive and compliant changes to our procedures,” she explained, saying they were very carefully thought out by the FACP. Prentice also said, however, that these changes do not necessary need to be the last word.

Of these four major changes, altering the adjudication process so that no students are appointed to the disciplinary panel is the only policy that is not yet mandatory, an FACP member See STANDARDS page 2

TEXTBOOK CHARITY

The Archives

Sept. 16, 1976 A group of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory employees filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board as a first step to organizing a union, citing unfair salaries and poor benefits.

PRINCETON By the Numbers

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The number of students transported for alcohol poisoning this weekend.

News & Notes

Public Safety, Fire Department, PSE&G respond to gas leak at construction site

The University’s Department of Public Safety, the Princeton Fire Department and the Public Service Electric and Gas Company responded to a gas leak at the Lakeside Graduate Housing construction site Monday morning, according to Planet Princeton.

A backhoe, a type of construction vehicle, had struck a gas line at about 8:06 a.m.

Construction workers were then evacuated from the area, and the gas line was shut off at 8:24 a.m.

There were no injuries, according to officials present.

The Lakeside housing complex is located near Lake Carnegie and the Dinky station and will contain 329 rental units that will be able to house up to 715 graduate students.

A two-bedroom apartment at Lakeside will cost $1,546 per month, as opposed to $1,179 at the Butler Apartments that are slated for demolition.

Former Dean of the Graduate School William Russel said in a December 2013 letter to the editor to The Daily Princetonian that the Lakeside housing will have better living conditions and less frequent need for repairs than the housing at the Butler Apartments.

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Tropical Clinics Rural Health hosted a used textbook and novel sale in Frist Campus Center to raise money for a clinic in Kenya.

By Angela Wang

associate news editor

The fraction of A-range grades in the fall 2011 through spring 2014 three-year period increased to 43 percent from 40 percent in fall 2008 through spring 2011, the Faculty Committee on Grading announced at the first faculty meeting of the academic year on Monday.

The 43 percent of A-range grades in the most recent three-year period is still lower than the 47 percent of A-range grades reported in 2001-04, the period right before the current grade deflation policy was enacted.

These data were released in light of a separate grade deflation policy report that was released in August. In the report, a special committee concluded that A-range grades decreased most dramatically in the 2003-05 period, the two years before the current grading policy was implemented, and increased gradually thereafter.

This committee also recommended that the current grading policy be replaced with a policy that does not use numerical quotas for giving grades and emphasizes meaningful feedback to students.

The current policy was adopted in April 2004 by the faculty and created an across-the-board standard that all departments and programs should give out less than 35 percent of grades in the A-range in undergraduate courses and less than 55 percent for upperclassmen independent work.

According to a memo presented at the meeting on Monday regarding the grading results, A-grades given in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering and certificate programs all increased in the 2011-14 period.

The largest increase was in the humanities, at approximately 4.5 percent, from roughly 43 percent to 48.5 percent.

Comparing the newly released results to the grades from 10 years ago, the greatest drops in A-grades are in the engineering and humanities departments. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences gave about 50 percent A-range grades in the 2001-04 period, which decreased significantly to about 40 percent A-range grades in the 2008-11 period and rose slightly to approximately 42 percent in the most recent period.

Some departments gave out a slightly higher fraction of A-range grades than they did before the grading policy was enacted. The natural sciences See A-GRADES page 3

BEYOND THE BUBBLE

Wanitwat ’14 creates ‘Daddies Date Babies’ documentary

By Ruby Shao staff writer

Parinda Wanitwat ’14 is exploring the phenomenon of sugar babies through the eyes of five student-age women in New York City in a documentary called “Daddies Date Babies.”

A sugar baby is a young adult who exchanges sexual relations in return for financial support from an older sugar

daddy or sugar mama.

“The women want as much money as possible for as much stability as possible. The men want to pay as little as possible for as much novelty as possible,” one interviewee says in the film’s trailer.

According to its webpage, “Daddies Date Babies” examines the transactional elements of relationships, such as the trade of companionship and

LECTURE

McDowell discusses tenets of John Marshall

By Paul Phillips associate news editor

John Marshall, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court, was both an ardent advocate of judicial constructionism and supporter of central government, Gary McDowell said at a lecture on Monday.

McDowell, a professor at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, is the author of 11 books on topics like judicial power and the Constitution. He received his B.A. from the University of South Florida in 1972 and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1979.

McDowell explained in the lecture that, for Marshall, the purpose of the judicial branch is to give a construction to the words of the Constitution, reasoning that if no one were able to defend

the original intent of the Constitution, then the executive and legislative branches could simply ignore it.

Marshall was also clear that he wished to reduce the possibility of the judges’ own arbitrary will getting in the way; otherwise, judges would simply become legislators, McDowell said.

“Marshall is much closer to Justice [Antonin] Scalia than Justice Scalia knows or Marshall would have imagined,” McDowell said. “There is a textual element to Marshall that you don’t get with a lot of originalist arguments.”

However, despite his emphasis on the importance of words, Marshall also believed the Constitution to be a document of enumeration, not definition. The job of judges, in making a ruling on a See LECTURE page 3

intimacy for money. The documentary also aims to challenge stereotypes about sugar babies and sugar daddies, raise awareness about the risks involved in sugar dating and provoke public discussion about a stigmatized topic.

In her senior year, Wanitwat learned of sugar dating while searching for ways to support herself financially.

Although she ultimately decided that

sugar dating would not be a safe option for her, she explained that she found the phenomenon both interesting and heartbreaking. She drew on her experience in VIS 263: Documentary Filmmaking, which she took junior fall and called life-changing, to start developing “Daddies Date Babies.”

As graduation approached, Wanitwat heard about a 12-week incubator See DATING page 2

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The Keller Center hosted day one of its three day course teaching MATLAB and R in Friend 101 on Monday.

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program called Orbital New York, which helped her work on the documentary throughout the summer. The boot camp was founded by Gary Chou ’96. Chou declined to comment.

Wanitwat has so far funded the project out of her personal savings, as well as scholarship money from the incubator.

While she said she has enough footage to make a film, she would like to shoot more to fulfill her vision.

Her Kickstarter campaign asks for $30,000 for a production period of three months.

Ninety-two people have backed the project as of press time. Stephany Xu ’12, who appears as one of the film’s sugar babies, said she was working in New York the summer after her sophomore year when a friend suggested that she try a sugar dating website for fun.

“I was like, ‘Oh, you know, New York is really expensive, and there are a lot of things I wish I could be doing that I can’t, so maybe I’ll try it out,’ ” she said.

Xu, who said she exclusively dates affluent men and expects them to pay her expenses, said she did not see a difference between so-called sugar relationships and more conventional relationships.

“Almost all the relationships that I’ve found off of [Seekingarrangement.com] or otherwise have been rewarding, interesting, longlasting, and everything that I would look for in any other kind of relationship, whether

it be a friendship or my familial ties or anything else,” she said.

Xu said that while the University’s hook-up culture did not influence her decision to date sugar daddies, it did result in her seeking older men.

“Especially when you’re young and in college and everyone around you is like, this drunk frat boy, then you get to New York and you’re like, ‘Wow, these men are intelligent and focused and care about you, and actually listen.’ There is something really enticing about that,” she explained.

The documentary also includes Tess Wood ’11, along with three sugar babies who graduated from other schools.

Wood did not respond to a request for comment.

The non-University alumnae remain anonymous and appear with blurred faces in the film. Wanitwat said she found the women by reaching out to her existing social circles. While Wanitwat acts as both the cinematographer and producer of the project, she said she has been receiving help from professional filmmakers through her incubator program, as well as freelance technical assistance from students at New York University and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Wanitwat said she is thankful for the positive feedback she has received from the University community.

“A lot of people have very kindly reached out to me saying, ‘Hey, we’re with you. I think you are doing the right thing,’ “ she said. “But there must be someone, somewhere,

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out there that thinks that this project really sucks and that it’s going to bring shame to the whole institution.”

She said she thinks she has good intentions and is trying her best to make ethical decisions as a producer. Because of the potential for the project to be sensationalized, Wanitwat has deliberately included only certain kinds of footage in her film.

“...then you get to New York and you’re like, ‘Wow, these men are intelligent and focused and care about you, and actually listen.’

There’s something really enticing about that.” stephany xu ’12 interviewee

“Whatever I have decided to release so far, I would say it’s pretty tame compared to the rest of what I have. And that is intentional. I don’t want this project to be perceived as being like a tabloid,” she explained.

Wanitwat said she hopes the documentary makes viewers reconsider their beliefs. “I want you to question how you approach all kinds of relationships in your life,” she said.

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said. However, the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has strongly encouraged the change due to growing evidence that victims are less likely to come forward if they know that a fellow student will be on the disciplinary panel. Another complication of having students on the panel is that it may prevent cases from being handled over academic vacation periods.

A faculty member pointed out that allowing both parties in a sexual assault case to adopt an external adviser beyond the University community may tilt the process in favor of those students

with the financial means to hire expensive legal representation.

In response, an FCUP member said that the demand was placed by the Violence Against Women Act to expand representative possibilities for both parties to persons of any kind, including lawyers.

A faculty member noted that the given suggestions were devised both to handle legal compliance and to offer a more deliberative, reflective process through a committee on sexual misconduct appointed by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83. This would allow community members to further consider the values of the University community and potentially allow for changes that would still

comply with legal regulations.

“We’re constrained to follow statutory law,” classics professor Andrew Ford said in response to the vote. “This is not the place to debate the wisdom of those policies.”

A number of faculty members leaving the meeting commented that it was the longest faculty meeting they had ever attended and that the verve of the discussion resembled that of a town hall.

Eisgruber thanked the faculty committee for convening during the summer, and the Council of the Princeton University Community will now consider revisions to “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” in accordance with the committee’s recommendations.

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given law, is to determine the objective intention of the law-giver.

Marshall did not agree with the states’ rights doctrine invoked

by Thomas Jefferson and others, McDowell said. McDowell explained that since the Articles of Confederation were abandoned, there was a “continual paranoia” of diminution of states’ rights, and Marshall suspected Jefferson and his allies of trying to turn the Constitution back into the Ar-

ticles of Confederation. Marshall said the Constitution, which had been ratified by the people’s will, empowered the nation to bind its parts, and the parts cannot control the whole.

“At the heart of states’ rights,” McDowell said, “was the belief that the Constitution was to be considered not as emanating from the people but as an act of sovereign and independent states.”

McDowell also presented a moral component to Marshall’s doctrines, based on the tenets of Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke and William

News & Notes On day of fall Lawnparties, less alcohol transports than last spring’s Three students were transported for alcohol intoxication to either McCosh Health Center or the University Medical Center of Princeton between Sunday at 9 a.m. and Monday at 9 a.m., according to statistics provided by the University. This was a significant drop from the timeframe of spring Lawnparties, during which 10 students were transported for alcohol intoxication.

Additionally, two students were transported between Saturday at 5 p.m. and Sunday at 5 a.m., while four students were transported during the same period the night before for a total of nine transports this weekend.

This past weekend traditionally represents a spike in the number of students hospitalized for excessive alcohol intake, as does the weekend coinciding with Houseparties.

University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said the number of transports should not be linked to any specific campus event, because transports are not categorized by event or activity.

Hun School of Princeton teacher arrested for sexual assault Nolan Johnson, a former technical theater teacher at the Hun School of Princeton, was arrested and charged with three counts of second-degree sexual assault and one second-degree count of endangering the welfare of a child on Monday, according to the Princeton Police Department.

Johnson allegedly “engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior with [a 16-year-old] female victim on multiple occasions between June 2014 and July 2014, while Nolan was the victim’s Hun School teacher,” according to the release.

After school officials learned of the allegations, Johnson was placed on leave. Johnson thereafter allegedly confessed the crime to police and was immediately terminated, according to the Times of Trenton.

Johnson, a resident of Morristown, Pa., is also executive director of CSJ Productions, which provides children’s birthday party entertainment.

In 2008, a janitor at the Hun School, Erickson Isai Prentzintzin-Suchi, was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old female student at the school, according to Town Topics.

Blackstone. Marshall believed that liberty and freedom from control are not the same thing. In a ‘state of nature,’ man can govern and labor for himself, but without government intervention, conflicts will inevitably result. In Marshall’s view, McDowell said, men surrender their natural rights in exchange for social privileges and freedom from violence.

McDowell also discussed the defects of the Articles of Confederation, saying that Marshall believed that the Constitution had created a true government, rather than a league or confederation.

The Articles did not give the nation enough power to enforce its rules while also not providing a way for states to check their impulses. Marshall wanted the Constitution to be a way to correct the vices of the Articles and to preserve the general principles of liberty and democracy that the Founding Fathers had discussed.

The lecture, entitled “John Marshall and the Moral Foundations of Republican Conservatism,” was held at 4:30 p.m. in Lewis Library and was sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

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and certificate programs reported 38 and 48 percent A-range grades, respectively, an increase of less than one percent as compared to the 2001-04 period.

The department with the lowest percentage of A-range grades is the natural sciences, and the department with the highest is the humanities, according to the graph

distributed at the meeting.

The report is currently being reviewed by the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing and may come to a faculty vote as early as October, according to University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83.

The meeting was held in the Faculty Room of Nassau Hall at 4:30 pm.

Staff Writer Anna Windemuth contributed reporting.

Benjamin Dinovelli

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A politically motivated veto?

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nnually, an estimated 50,000 people die due to exposure to secondhand smoke, according to the American Lung Association.

Last week, Gov. Chris Christie had the opportunity to help reduce that number. New Jersey legislative bill S1772, recently placed on his desk, aimed to ban smoking in public parks and at beaches. Ranked 11th in population size nationally, New Jersey is both a home and a tourist destination for millions of Americans. Signing the bill would not only have demonstrated his dedication to public health but also made New Jersey safer for many.

Instead, Christie vetoed the bill. Despite overwhelming bipartisan support in both the state assembly and senate, Christie framed his veto on the basis of local rights, disagreeing with the idea that “the state should substitute its judgment for that of our local elected officials or upset the careful balancing of interests that informs the decision-making process at the local level.”

Granted, New Jerseyans have a right to smoke.

However, a closer look at the proposed law reveals that it would have intentionally included elements of local autonomy. S1772 included a compromise provision that would have allowed local officials to designate up to 20 percent of public parks and beaches as smoking-permitted zones. Despite this, he complained that the bill was a “one-size-fits-all” prescription.

In his Conservative Political Action Conference speech earlier in the year, Christie proclaimed, “It’s time for [the Republican Party] to get pragmatic,” arguing that Republicans should place productive pragmatic solutions before ideology. However, in the face of the health benefits, it is hard not to see this move as political maneuvering, rather than upholding small government ideals.

His main issue was one of central government imposing its will on local constituencies.

Christie highlights how local officials have “thoughtfully considered” such bans before and how they must balance “public health, safety, economics, individual liberties and other relevant factors” in their decision-making.

While economics definitely should not be flat-out ignored — nor am I accusing local officials of not considering issues thoughtfully — it seems that the state is much better positioned to address issues of public health involving smoking. The problem is that smoking is rarely an issue of immediacy. Lung damage often does not have consequences until months or years into the future, and the probability of indirect health risks often may seem much less of a concern than producing a strong town budget or increasing tourism.

In 2013 alone, New Jersey attracted 87.2 million tourists to the state; tourism is undoubtedly a huge way to vitalize a local economy.

However, many of the tourists who visit the state include families with children, who are often the most vulnerable to the toxic fumes created through smoking because children are in the middle of their physical development. Unfortunately, this might not always be addressed as pressingly on a local level. The state, however, is large enough to run a department of health.

Local municipalities are already too pressed on resources to dedicate the same attention.

Additionally, on a pragmatic level, this bill would not only have protected the health of New Jerseyans but also would have had economic benefits for the state as well. In 2006, the CDC found that $5.6 billion a year was lost in productivity because of the health effects of secondhand smoke. In a time of fragile economic growth nationally, it would seem that Christie, a results-minded governor, would want to do everything in his power to cut waste and increase economic output. Instead of nipping the problem in the bud, this just allows the problem to grow, kicking the can down the road. Often, medical issues addressed much later in life not only require much more treatment but also much higher health expenditures as well.

In light of all of these practical benefits and the bipartisan support that the bill had experienced prior to reaching Christie’s desk, it seems puzzling that Christie, who touted his bipartisan nature in his second race for the governorship, would veto such a bill. Although the bill was acceptable among most New Jersey Republicans, such a stance seems to go against the national Republican mindset, largely influenced by the small government Tea Party coalition, which has become prominent in the last five years. Additionally, promoting small government values would be helpful to any Republican candidate in 2016, especially one who might have an issue with being framed as too moderate.

Historically, other bills passed with large majorities in both houses and vetoed by Christie — such as a restriction on magazine capacities, a bill to subsidize family clinics and a ban on the locking of pregnant female pigs into cages — have not become law. While it is impossible to know the inner-workings of Christie’s mind, it seems to be valid to ask whether Christie is doing this out of true belief or for personal gain.

It would be truly sad if Christie decided to put his own political health before the health of the people he represents.

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

Opinion

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Will Rivitz

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efore I dive into this piece, let’s get one thing out of the way: I fully agree with the central tenet of ‘Prince’ columnist Shruthi Deivasigamani’s column, “Blaming Women.” The disconnect between the blithe “post-gender” attitude our society ostensibly embodies and the massive, hideous underbelly of an American society extremely conducive to sexual harassment and assault is frightening.

Op-eds like hers are absolutely necessary because despite the ever-growing U.S. population willing to confront such horrific norms as victim-blaming (especially if said victim is female, as Deivasigamani points out with her comparison between the Vanessa Anne Hudgens and Dylan Sprouse nude photo leaks), there are still countless Americans who obstinately refuse to confront their own bigotry and the toxicity of our country as a whole.

That being said, Deivasigamani begins her piece by calling social media aggregating website Reddit “home to … the darkest and slimiest grottos … [of] the Internet.” As someone who frequents its various subcommunities (or subreddits), I feel that this is an unhelpful indictment of the site. Of course, it’s indeed true that many of the site’s nastiest subreddits could only have had the impact that the Internet eventually felt due to much user support, and subreddits like /r/jailbait, /r/ creepshots, and most recently /r/thefappening are inexcusable examples of the horrors that the site can enable. What’s

more, thanks to the website’s predominantly teenage-male userbase, there’s a fair amount of misogyny that occurs daily, ranging from the obvious (most of the “general use” pornographic subreddits contain almost exclusively female images) to the insidious (using the term “bitch” as a general descriptor of women, for example).

However, blaming Reddit as the worst perpetrator of the horrors of the Internet is still unfair, even if a significant percentage of the site’s userbase is responsible, directly or otherwise, for perpetuating countless forms of sexism. The worst parts of the website are not the root cause of misogyny in this country, but symptoms of the problem.

At its most basic, the site exists to provide a largely unmoderated forum for users to share content and ideas via a simple upvote-downvote system. More popular opinions and images are upvoted; less popular ones are downvoted. As is clear from the website’s staunch support of net neutrality, Reddit believes in as little authoritative control as possible when it comes to Internet issues.

There are a number of problems with this approach — for example, posts fall off the front page if they are not upvoted enough within a few minutes, giving more traction to easy-to-digest click-bait headlines and images rather than in-depth, nuanced articles. But for the most part, this system means that the userbase at large, not the administrators, determine what is displayed prominently and what gets shoved under the rug.

This means that the problem is not

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the site itself, but rather the users who frequent it. Blaming this site specifically, then, is needlessly restrictive. For every horrifically offensive community like /r/ foreveralone, there generally is another community in which one might react accordingly against it — for example, /r/ twoxchromosomes. What’s more, much of the site’s best content exists as far away from issues of sex and gender as possible. Subreddits like /r/gamedeals, /r/longreads, /r/comicbooks and /r/electronicmusic exist mostly in their own realms, largely separate from the wrongdoings of other parts (which naturally receive more attention from non-Redditors because of their unpleasantness).

And what of blaming the site’s administrators and creators for an apology referencing only the illegality of /r/ thefappening instead of the creepiness within? The site’s apology is appropriate given its attitude toward user-createdand-vetted content. We wouldn’t have expected Facebook to apologize for the rampant homophobia it enabled around the time of the Duck Dynasty fiasco, and we wouldn’t have expected Twitter to apologize for the chilling xenophobia and racism many users expressed when an Indian-American woman won 2013’s Miss America competition. Reddit’s higher-ups exist to ensure the legality and legitimacy of the site, and nothing more. We expect a hands-off approach from almost all of the social-networking sites we frequent, so why should Reddit be any different?

Will Rivitz is a freshman from Brookline, Mass.

He can be reached at wrivitz@princeton.edu.

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The contradictions of service Barbara Zhan columnist

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he ALS “Ice Bucket Challenge,” one of the biggest social media trends to sweep across the nation this summer, was also a source of controversy. The “Ice Bucket Challenge” asked participants to film themselves dumping buckets of ice over themselves and post the videos on Facebook in order to encourage awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, and then nominate friends to do the same.

One of the objections people had to this trend was that it was primarily selfish — sometimes people didn’t donate money, and even if they did, it wasn’t because of interest in ALS, it was because the ice bucket video garnered social media attention for the participant. People also argued that the challenge spread through peer pressure — people who were nominated were pressured to complete the challenge by either creating another video or donating. Moreover, The New Yorker argued that people could have donated instead to a more worth-

while cause, such as malaria, since participants didn’t have any particular attachment to the ALS cause or knowledge about its impact. Because there was an aspect of selfishness about the ALS challenge, people questioned the ethics of the campaign.

Looking at charity from this perspective challenges the validity of a lot of other forms of giving or service. One example is ‘voluntourism,’ the act of traveling to another country to volunteer. Many Princeton programs exist that provide housing and funding to participate in international service trips and internships. However, these trips are arguably intended to mainly benefit the student, not the volunteer organization. Students benefit by having experience to put on a resume, learning a new language, gaining a new perspective or just plain having fun. It would be more efficient to use the money spent on buying plane tickets and funding housing to simply pay locals to do the service work.

This would have the twofold advantage of boosting the local employment rates while also doing work that benefits the community. Although Princeton students are educated and talented in many ways, they’re not

necessarily trained in the volunteer work some regions require, such as building construction or teaching. Like the ALS Challenge, the primary motivation for volunteering abroad is, most likely, not for the volunteering aspect, which introduces inefficiencies. The money will f low to the focus of the program, and the focus in most ‘voluntourism’ cases is not the charity.

Other examples of focus on the volunteer rather than the beneficiaries would be any charity event at all, whether it’s a charity ball or a 5K run. The money used to organize the event could easily go directly to the cause. Instead, money is used to promote the event and pay coordinators. However, without the selfish components to each form of charity, it is highly likely that people would not donate at all. That particular issue raises the question — is it better to selfishly volunteer than not to volunteer at all?

The same arguments against the ALS challenge also hold with ‘voluntourism’ and expensive charity events — namely that people won’t care about the particular cause because it isn’t the primary reason for their participation. Yet, these events and volunteer trips, like the “Ice Bucket Challenge,” still produce results

regardless of how dubious the initial intentions. From July 29 to Aug. 28, the ALS Association raised $98.2 million, compared to $2.7 million in the same period last year. The volunteer trips and volunteer events still raise money and awareness, even if the method is somewhat ineffective.

Perhaps making service a completely unselfish act is unreasonable because people need some benefit to themselves in exchange for the sacrifice in time, effort and money. But there may be ways of reducing the selfish aspect of giving. Starting at Princeton, we can offer more summer volunteer opportunities that emphasize service over travel and benefits to the student, perhaps by offering internships locally.

We can promote 5K runs and charity events with more focus on the cause so that students are more aware of what they’re giving to. Maybe by starting with our campus, by offering more information to students and promoting the cause over the benefits to the volunteer, students can start to move away from the selfishness of service.

Barbara Zhan is an Operations Research and Financial Engineering major from Plainsboro, N.J. She can be reached at barbaraz@princeton.edu.

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one that embraced it, a school that had no team into a national powerhouse.

The gaudy numbers laid out above are not misprints — Adrian’s rise was immediate and meteoric. Yet Fogarty’s hockey career was striking even before his time with the Bulldogs. A native of Sarnia, Ontario, Fogarty played his collegiate hockey at Colgate University, a fellow member of the Eastern

“It’s a process.

Everything is a process. You can’t just wish for something to be successful.”

Ron Fogarty Head Coach College Athletic Conference.

A four-year contributor for the squad from 1991-95, he tallied 141 points, good for

20th all-time for the Red Raiders. After a brief stint of professional hockey for the Memphis Riverkings of the Central Hockey League, he returned to Colgate as an assistant coach for three seasons. He would go on to work as an assistant coach at two more Division I programs, Bowling Green State University and Clarkson University, before arriving at Adrian.

This prior Division I experience and success, much of it within the ECAC, should prove invaluable as Fogarty takes over a Princeton team that routinely competes with many of the nation’s premier programs.

For many coaches, leading a team that had recently stumbled to a 6-26 record — as the Tigers did last season — would be daunting, but not for Fogarty. “We have six more wins [than we had at Adrian],” he quipped.

Though he joked about his previous challenges and successes, his disposition turned serious at the mention of rebuilding.

“It’s a process. Everything is a process,” Fogarty said.

“You just can’t wish for something to be successful.

It takes time. The players have to believe in the con-

cepts within the system and the coaching staff has to believe in the players’ execution. Once both parties come

“If we just focus and come together as a team, we’re going to do well right off the bat.”

Mike Ambrosia junior co-captain

together, then we’ll start to win.” Despite his assurance that returning the program to its former glory would be difficult, he did not shy away from the possibility of duplicating the speedy success he enjoyed at Adrian. “You can win immediately,” he said, “because the players want to, and they’re very focused in their mission.”

Junior co-captain Mike Ambrosia seconded this point. “[The league] is really up for grabs,” Ambrosia said. “If we just focus and come together as a team,

we’re going to do well right off the bat.”

Fogarty comes into his new position with a plan — one that seems to transcend traditional hockey rhetoric.

He stressed ownership of the program by the players as one of the most important aspects of achieving so much success at Adrian and will demand that his team at Princeton do the same.

“It’s [the players’] program,” he repeated. Ambrosia also backed this sentiment, stating that “every guy to a man in the locker room is a leader, [and] they’ve probably been leaders on their past teams. I think we have a bunch of guys who want to take ownership [of the program].”

Fogarty also prioritized intangibles over raw talent in the recruitment process, saying he wants to “recruit leaders and great people.

Then they’re going to care a lot for the program, for the tradition. They may not be the best players, but they’ll form the best team.”

While Fogarty will demand that his players take ownership of their program, he hopes that the community will do so as well.

“We want to be one with

Princeton University, with the community and with the fans. We’re going to be accessible,” he stressed. He already has plans to bring students out to Baker Rink this winter, planning a whiteout for the home opener against Cornell, as well as free pizza during the second intermission of games at the home rink.

Fogarty hopes that these ideas, and additional ideas surely to come, will help the Princeton community, especially its students, fully embrace its hockey team. This is especially important in the prestigious ECAC — home to

“The biggest thing that’s been consistent is the parity of the league.

Anybody can win on any given night.”

Ron Fogarty head coach the last two national champions — where parity is the

rule and home ice support is crucial. Speaking from over 10 years of ECAC experience, he said, “The biggest thing that’s been consistent is the parity of the league. Anybody can win on any given night.

You have to remain poised for the [full] 60-65 minutes.”

He has moved from Division III to Division I, from the MCHA to the ECAC, from Michigan to New Jersey. Yet Fogarty remains unfazed, with unmistakable determination in his eyes as he embarks on his mission to replicate his success on a different scale, enthusiastic at the very prospect of doing so. While acknowledging the differences between his new job and his old one, he affirmed, “At Adrian and Princeton, the nets are still 4×6 [feet], you use a puck and it’s [played] on ice. The game is the same. There’s no difference in that.”

When those nets are fixed onto their hinges and the familiar sounds of skates on ice and sticks on pucks echo through Baker Rink this winter, the men’s team will play for a coach resolved in his mission to restore the program to title contention. Under Fogarty, the Tigers seem poised for success.

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DP: What’s the worst part?

MC: Running. I hate running.

Run tests, hate all that.

DP: What’s the most noteworthy pregame ritual you go through before games?

MC: Well, I always do my hair the same way for games.

[Junior] Kate [Ferrara], she always does my hair for me.

And we always just listen to music in the locker room.

DP: Country music for you?

MC: Oh yeah.

DP: On that note, how hard do you find you have to defend your political views to your teammates?

MC: Actually, I’d say everyone feels pretty similarly to me. I don’t have to defend myself too much.

DP: How many times a week

do you use shampoo?

MC: Probably every day.

DP: Conditioner?

MC: Oh yeah, lots of it.

DP: Blonde or dirty blonde?

MC: Blonde. As blonde as possible — I just think it looks good.

DP: Who is your funniest teammate?

MC: Probably one of the freshman: Rachel [Park]. She has a really witty personality, and she’s good at quoting movies.

DP: Field hockey is quite popular, played at all the Ivy League schools, but it often seems to lose young athletes to other sports, such as lacrosse. What would you say to encourage young players to pick up a field hockey stick over a lacrosse stick or nothing?

MC: This is kind of bad, but I definitely think field hockey requires a lot more skill than girls’ lacrosse does. So I personally think that girls’ field

hockey players are a lot more skilled. It’s a really fun game.

It’s hard, but I think it’s a lot of fun.

ways looked up to Kat Sharkey ’12, and then I ended up being on the same team as her.

DP: Why do you wear the number 22?

MC: Well, all the other numbers were taken, and I liked repeating numbers.

DP: Did you ever tell her that?

MC: No.

DP: It’s a big lacrosse number.

MC: Yeah I didn’t know that until I came here. Tom Schreiber ’14.

DP: Do you have a hidden talent that most people don’t know about?

MC: No, not really. I can juggle three balls. That’s about it.

DP: What eating club are you a member of?

MC: Cottage.

DP: Do people there also have great personalities, or are they just beautiful?

MC: Both.

DP: Role model growing up?

MC: Before Princeton, I al-

DP: If you could be a fruit or a vegetable, which and why?

MC: I hate vegetables. I’d probably be a fruit and then an apple.

DP: What type of apple?

MC: I like Granny Smith apples.

DP: Do you have any sort of team nickname?

MC: Oh God, I have so many.

People call me “Mad Dog.” DP: Why is that?

MC: Just an alter ego. My Instagram name is “Maddie the Meatball,” so people always call me “Meatball” or “Meat” or whatever. I’m also always the one playing the music, so people call me “DJ Meatball.”

People call me so many variations of those.

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der to raise attendance and awareness as a primary objective.

She has attended every home athletic contest so far this year and is excited about the prospects of Princeton’s fall sports. She appears to be enjoying every minute in her new position.

“I’m optimistic about

our teams, and I’ve enjoyed watching them play. Water polo is undefeated, volleyball won their tournament, soccer is coming around. Field hockey has a great team; they’re just getting their legs under them.”

“I’m absolutely loving being back and being part of the Princeton community and athletic department. We have a lot of great things going, and I’m thrilled to be a part of it.”

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New AD Marcoux ’91 faces first fall season

By Eddie Owens staff writer

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Here photographed at a ceremony announcing her appointment to the position of Ford Family Director of Athletics, Mollie Marcoux ‘91 follows in the footsteps of 20-year director Gary Walters ‘67. Walters, always fiery, left behind a leagcy of “Education through Athletics.”

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On Aug. 4, Mollie Marcoux ’91 began her first official day as Princeton’s new athletic director. Her first order of business? One-onone meetings with each of Princeton’s 34 head coaches.

After spending at least an hour with each coach, she noticed a few things they all had in common.

“Our coaches have a lot of creativity, and they’re focused on performance in all areas of life, not just on the field. They’re teaching value systems and upholding our athletic department’s motto of ‘Education Through Athletics,’ ” Marcoux said. “Each coach has their own approach to their team. My job is to take the good from each program and pass it along to the others.”

Marcoux has used her first weeks on campus to meet as many people as possible and learn as much as she can.

“I’ve been doing a lot of speaking, not only within the athletic department, but throughout campus. I’ve met with people involved in campus life, administrators, human resources. I’ve worked with coaches, alumni, sup-

New men’s hockey head coach Ron Fogarty aims to perfect process

By Grant Keating Contributor

It’s unfamiliar territory for the members of Princeton field hockey, who have yet to earn a win through four contests this season. The Tigers, national champions in 2012 and a perennial powerhouse, haven’t lost an Ivy League game since 2011, so it’s certain that the victories will come. Junior forward Maddie Copeland sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss her desire to win as well as her hair-care technique.

By Mark Goldstein Contributor

Daily Princetonian: Where are you from, and what’s it like there?

Maddie Copeland: I’m from Miami. Well, just south of Miami — Key Largo. It’s nice, warm all year-round, good weather.

DP: What concentration are you?

MC: Psychology.

DP: How does that make you feel?

MC: Indifferent.

DP: Would you rather be salt, pepper or oregano, and why?

MC: Salt because I just think it always adds good flavor to food.

DP: Could you describe your team role on the field?

MC: I’m a forward, so I’m supposed to be a goal scorer. Pretty much my job to put the ball in the net.

DP: Off the field?

MC: Off the field, I feel like I’m the social coordinator for the team. I put together our social gatherings.

DP: Goals or assists, and why?

MC: Goals because I want to win the game. But I feel like the right answer should be assists because you’re not supposed to care. But I want to win. (laughing)

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DP: On that note, what’s the best part of playing field hockey?

MC: Our team is awesome. It’s a great group of girls, and they just make it that much more fun.

It’s obviously stressful sometimes, but they just make it better.

porters.”

Facilitating those relationships will be crucial to maintaining a smooth relationship between the athletic department and the rest of campus, something that predecessor Gary Walters ’67 struggled with in his early years. The issue of student-athlete admission is particularly vexing right now, as Harvard has overtaken Princeton as the premier athletic institution in the Ivy League amid allegations of lowered academic standards for its athletic recruits. Marcoux, however, stressed cooperation with the rest of campus and inward, rather than outward, focus.

“The admission officers are partners with us. It’s not a battle to fight. We need to work collectively to figure out how to get the best student-athletes here. We’re not necessarily focused on Harvard, but on us. We’re working on being the best we can be.”

Other issues Marcoux cited included retaining Princeton’s coaches and filling a couple new positions that opened up. She also stressed marketing in or-

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A native of Miami, Fla., junior forward Copeland has tallied one goal on four shots thus far this season.

The circumstances are staggeringly different. The game is the same.

When new head coach Ron Fogarty and his Princeton Tigers hockey team face off against Yale in the Liberty Hockey Invitational on Oct. 31, he will become a new part of the team’s illustrious 114-year history, one that is inescapable at Princeton. The home rink, Baker Rink, shares its name with the trophy awarded annually to the best player in college hockey, in honor of Hobey Baker, a member of Princeton’s Class of 1914. The campus that Fogarty has already started to explore brims with history, tradition and a constant desire for success. These high standards and prestigious past might overwhelm some, but after Fogarty’s last job, he will gladly welcome another challenge.

In 2006, Adrian College, located in the city of Adrian in southeastern Michigan, lacked an ice rink, not to mention uniforms, a team or a league in which to compete. Enter Fogarty, tasked not only with recruiting players and running practice but also building a program from the bottom up, starting with constructing a rink and designing uniforms.

A season later, the NCAA Division III team had amassed a 26-3 record while competing in the Midwest College Hockey Association.

In two more years, they became national runners-up, losing a tightly contested national championship to perennial power St. Norbert College. Upon Fogarty’s departure after seven seasons, the Adrian Bulldogs had compiled a 167-23-10 record, earning their coach the best win percentage in NCAA hockey over that span. He departed the program after obtaining six MCHA regular season titles, five postseason titles, four trips to the NCAA tournament and three MCHA Coach of the Year awards, among other records.

Moreover, Adrian’s success was not limited to the ice, as the team accumulated a GPA over 3.0 in each and every year of Fogarty’s tenure. Most impressive, the coach had transformed a community that lacked hockey into See HOCKEY page 5

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